To their charging, the London port happened to be quite large. Over 120 different ports large. Even with Ezekiel's car to take them from one to the next, by the time that the sun started to set they hadn't checked half of them.

They arrived at Andi's house quite late, much to her surprise and sat around for dinner. Surprisingly Ted had yet to appear, as Andi said that he had left the house in the morning.

"You spent an entire day looking for a single logo of a dock?" She asked surprised.

"That's investigation for you." Ezekiel answered exhausted.

"And we'll have to do the same tomorrow." Dora groaned.

"We finished the big ones, now is just the small private ones." Ezekiel finished. " It's going to take forever and a day. Anyway, how was your day?"

"Why don't you tell them, Harry?"Andi said proudly.

"Well..." Harry started rather embarrassed.

"It's everything alright?" Dora asked.

"The teacher said that if I keep going like this, I'll be ready to catch up with the rest of the kids next year." He finally said.

The new was received with congratulations and joy form all family around, to which Harry's face reddened. It was clear to them that he wasn't accustomed to praises. Something else for therapy to work with. The began eating when they hear the noise from the chimney, signaling Ted's return. The man that appeared on the threshold was an exhausted wreck, something that alarmed everyone.

"We've got a problem." He tried to assure them, before speaking to Ezekiel. "There's trouble at the potion store, we've been shut down." By whom? was the question on everyone's minds. "The Malfoy's sued us, they said that we're using their recipes for the potions. The Aurors came with a warrant and had the place shut down in no time."

"But...but you said that those were my family's potions?" Harry asked confounded. Everyone awaited for Ted's response.

"They are...were. Somebody sold them to the Malfoys." He sighted.

"Someone?" Ezekiel asked, his face as cold as stone. The Black Magic dying his voice.

"Ezekiel, calm down." Andi commanded with a steel voice. "Who sold them?"

"Dumbledore, when he was Harry's" A quick look at Ezekiel's face made him "When he stole your position."

The everyone's eyes dashed towards Ezekiel's figure as he rose from his chair and started walking towards the front door. He walked rather slowly, hindered by the ice that was forming around his feet every time they touched the round, shattering each time his feet rose only to form again when they touched the ground. Harry attempted to go after him but Ted and Andi stopped him.

"No, Harry." Andi whispered. "You can't stop him. Not when he's like this."

"But what's he gonna do?"

"Whatever he wants." Ted replied aghast. "When he lets that thing loose, not even the Queen can order him to stop."

"Oi!" A loud shout shook everyone of their fearful state. Looking at the source of it, they found that Dora had dashed in front of her cousin and was currently blocking his way. "Cut this shit out! Right. Now.! You're not going around killing Dumbledore, you hear me?"

"Move." Ezekiel commanded.

"I'm not going anywhere and neither are you." Dora stood in front of him, trying not to show that she was shacking.

"Move." He repeated himself, this time his voice had changed. It was deeper, as if it belonged to something far bigger and older that the man in front of her.

"And then what, you'll kill him?"

"Yes.." He seethed.

"And then what? What do you think will happen after that? You think that people would let it slide? They'll come after you, you won't be able to leave the house without an army looking for you." She lowered her voice so only he could hear her. "You'll be fighting for the rest of your life."

Ezekiel approached Dora until they were face to face. "I'll win." He replied in the same tone as her, he was as certain of that as the sun rise once again in the morning. "I am Lord Black"

"No, you're not." Dora whispered back at him, looking at the sunglasses that he still had on. "You just using him. I know him, better than anyone. Ezekiel would never do something like this. He'd known how much it would sadden Mum and Dad. You are just using his rage to make him think he's in control. Now, I don't know what you are, but I bloody know that you aren't my cousin. So go back to wherever the fuck you came from and bring him back. You aren't welcome in this house."

Ezekiel stared at her for a moment, towering over her small figure. He studied the face of the woman in front of him, looking at her unwavering gaze. Finally, he relented. His posture relaxed as if he'd been carrying an enormous weight on his shoulders only to now let it go. Dora for her part had finally exhaled the breath that she didn't knew was holding.

"You okay?" She finally asked. He didn't respond right away, but after she put her hand on his shoulder nod after a few moments. "Good, now that your brain decided to work again, I want you to go back there and apologize. You scared them."

"I'm sorry." He whispered.

"Not to me, you twat." Dora said angrily, as she hugged him tightly. "You didn't scare me." She finally released him and they both walked back to the dinning room, dodging the ice that he had left just a few moments ago.

Ezekiel was quite embarrassed of facing his uncles, least of all Harry after his display but Dora managed to make him talk. She elbowed him so hard on the ribs that he was certain that one or two were broken.

"Sorry about what just happened." He managed to say between the coughs.

"I-It's alright, son." Ted assured him nervously. "But that's not all..."

"There's more?" Dora asked annoyed as they both sat at the table.

"I couldn't raise the complaint." Ted confessed. "Apparently one Law-Wizard can't act as a representative of two different Lords. I know that Harry isn't a Lord, but they managed to convince the judge."

Ezekiel took a deep breath before asking. "What do we do now?"

"That's simple, you need to get Harry a proxy." Andi replied, looking worried for her nephew. "A reliable one."

"One that isn't Dark or answers to Dumbledore?" Ezekiel asked sarcastically. "And with enough power to repel both? Sure, there's tons of those." He rubbed his face as he thought for a moment. "I think I know someone that might be interested, don't know if I could convince him though."

"You do?..." Ted asked surprised. "Who?"

"It's...complicated. I don't really remember his name besides, I'll have to ask you to check his background. He really doesn't like me."

"You two can take care of that tomorrow." Andromeda interrupted them. "The food is getting cold and if things keep going this way, I don't think we'll get many more chances of having dinner like this for a while."

"Harry, I'm sorry for scaring you like that." He apologized to the boy, but Harry simply shrugged.

"You didn't scare me." He replied calmly,

"I didn't?" "He didn't?" Everyone at the table asked at the same time.

"No." Harry shook his head. "You weren't angry at me, or her." He pointed at Dora. "You only wanted to hurt one, the old man that screamed at me. They" He nodded at Ted and Andi. " said that you wouldn't stop, but you did. Because you care. It didn't matter if Dora ordered you or asked you, you'd have stopped. Family matters to you. We matter to you, not the rest. The rest you can hurt. You don't like it, but it doesn't bother you that much either."

"Well, " A surprised Ted told Ezekiel. " you did say that he was a clever one."

"And it doesn't matter to you? Makes you uncomfortable?" Ezekiel asked to the boy, not all to happy that someone had catch up with a part of himself without him noticing.

"That man put me in a room and screamed at me while waving a stick at my head. I don't want to hurt him, but I don't care if he gets hurt otherwise." Harry answered honestly, as he started eating. The rest of the family was impressed enough that they too started eating shortly afterwards. Soon enough the room was filling with conversations and jokes, just a normal family dinner.

Ezekiel and Harry had called it a day, leaving Dora alone with her parents. Ted didn't stay much longer, as Ezekiel would send him the name of Harry's proxy candidate first thing in the morning, leaving the two woman alone. Something that Andromeda knew was what her daughter wanted.

They both sat across each other, examining each other in silence.

"Something on your mind, Nymphadora?" Andi finally asked. She was getting a tad too old beat around the bush.

Dora didn't spoke right away. She clearly wanted to ask something, but she seemed to be scared. Perhaps it was the possibility of getting answers.

"I...I-I swore to myself that I wouldn't ask, that I'd wait until he was ready to tell me about it, but I'm done waiting. Just what is the Black Magic?"

"I don't know." She answered. "Honestly. I know what it does, you've seen that too. I know he doesn't use it when he's around you. He's afraid that since you're more connected to your magic than other people, being a Metamorphmagus and what that might do to you. That's all."

"I don't believe it." Dora said calmly. "You were born a Black, someone must've said something. Can't imagine Granny not boasting about it."

"It would surprise you how little that was discussed." Andi said amused, knowing that her own mother would've hated the nickname. "For the House of Black, power is its own purpose. To share it is to dilute it. Or at least that was before everything went to hell. The Family Magic and all of it's secrets were passed from one Head of the House to the next. Nobody else knew about it and if they did, they weren't chatty about it."

"Where they all like Zeke?"

"Depends on what you mean. Dark? Sure." Andi shrugged.

"You know what I mean. Was his father like him?" Dora asked slightly annoyed.

"Regulus?" Andi laughed at the thought of it. "Heaven's no. I don't think he was even granted that Magic. Those two had nothing in common. The pride, maybe."

"Then his father, Orion." Dora was getting exasperated, but hearing her uncle's name had an effect on Andromeda. She became paler and her breath became shallow. "He scares you? He's been dead for years now."

"You didn't knew him." Dora said sharply. "Even for our family, for all the things we've done... He was a monster, Dora. If you think that what you just saw with Ezekiel was scary... Once he decided that someone had to die, he destroyed everything. His target, their family, their friends, their enemies... Anyone who ever knew them. He didn't just kill people, he erased them. "Andi almost panicked as she gasped for air, scaring her daughter, but managed to pull herself together. "Don't get me wrong, he loved his family. That was the only proof that he had some humanity in him. You'll never find a more devoted husband and father, as long as his children followed his rules. The rest of the family would've ended Sirius on the spot just for being a Gryffindor, but not him. He though that it was amusing, that a Black would elevate that house to a respectable status. I still think that it was a miracle that he didn't kill him on the spot when Sirius decided to leave."

"And was he always like that? Did the Magic changed him?" Dora asked anxiously.

"No, from what my father told me, he was always like that. The truth is that nobody ever really knew just how twisted he was. There's a point, even for us - Thank God - when enough is enough."

"But not for him..." Dora finished her sentence. Andi shook her head in silence.

"People said that the reason we cannot understand the Dark is that is just too much. Too evil. That it goes beyond what our minds are able to comprehend. That the reason that Dark Wizards go insane is the exposure to it twists them, but he? He was as comfortable as a fish in the water. It was like flying to a bird. He was a natural." Andi finished.

"And he's the one that raised Ezekiel..."

"Well, he didn't had much of a choice given the circumstances." Andi replied. "That's not to say that he didn't do it gladly. "She shook her head again." When I saw him...it was like looking a small version of him but worst because he had even more time to learn from his mistakes. After all that time, all those years and now he had molded another child. I almost kill him where he stood."

"You're joking, Mom. I know you." Dora tried to calm her.

"Then you know that I'd do anything to keep you and your father safe."

"Mom..." Dora was speechless.

"I was terrified of him. He had a letter when he came, did you knew that?" Andi asked.

"Yes, he told me the story after some years. Was it..."

"It was from Regulus. He begged me, implored me even, to try to undo what Orion had done to his son."

"Did something happen?" Dora asked curiously.

"Whatever it was, he was too scared to even put it in writing. I remember the letter, his handwriting was a mess, like he couldn't stop himself from shacking. I never got along with him, Sirius was the one that I liked the most. Figured that if things had gotten that bad, then at least I should give him a try. Regulus even said on the letter that he wasn't going to make it. He was right." Andi sighted."In the end we managed to show Ezekiel the true. You remember how well he took that one."

"He didn't leave his room for months." Dora remembered.

"Until you got him out." Andi smiled as she grabbed his daughter's hands. "He's a good man, very, very deep down. He could've bought his way back to the top, bribed every newspaper and politician in Britain and it would've been just pocket change for him. Instead he tried to help people, even if this was the only way that they gave him. His mother must've been an angel."

"You know that he doesn't like to talk about her." Dora reminded her mother.

"He's not here, is he?"

"That doesn't mean that it's okay to talk about her behind his back."

"You'll find that's usually the best time to do so." Andi replied smiling.

"Merlin's bear, now you're sounding like him."

"More like he sounds like me." Her mother replied jokingly, as both started laughing. The laughter was short lived, as Dora approached the subject that scared her the most.

"So... none has ever gotten those..." She gestured her eyes. That made her mother serious again.

"No, Ezekiel is a special case. In more ways than one." She admitted. "Can't imagine that it's been easy for him. Using the sunglasses it's fine, I guess but he must be so lonely."

"I don't think he's lonely." Dora replied seriously.

"Well, of course he isn't. He's got you, me and Ted."

"That's not what I meant." Dora clarified. "Have you ever seen his eyes? When he isn't looking at you?"

"Well, no. "Andi admitted. "They scare me, honestly."

"I did." Dora replied. " Do you know what I've noticed?"

"What?" This time it was Andi who was curious.

"They don't reflect light as they should. The brightness in his eyes sometimes goes against where it should be."

"Why were you looking at his eyes?"

"Because they scare me." Dora admitted. "He was like a brother to me all those years and then, I couldn't even look at him in the eyes. Then it hit me."

"What?"

"The reason for his eyes to be so bizarre. I saw the light in his eyes move on it's own."

"What on earth are you saying, Nymphadora?"

"Haven't you noticed how sometimes he tilts his head? Like he's listening to someone. Or how he frowns out of nowhere? He mutters sometimes, like he's arguing with someone, something."

"Are you saying, what I think you're sa"

"He's possessed." Dora interrupted her. "But not the usual way, I think he's the one that literally controls the Black Magic. You said it yourself, he's an exception. Nobody in the House of black has ever done some of the things that he has, and that's because he's more connected to the Black Magic than others."

"I think that's quite a logic leap, Nymphadora, just from looking at his eyes." Andromeda started, but Dora hadn't finished yet.

"His eyes doesn't reflect light at all. There's no light in his eyes, they generate it. That's what makes them so terrifying. Do you know how I noticed the light moved?"

"...No, but," Andromeda tried to speak but her daughter answered her own question.

"The moved to see me. I was trying to look at him without him noticing me and the light moved before he noticed me. IT told Ezekiel." She finished her theory.

Andromeda thought long and hard about what she heard before making any comment.

"So what WE need to do, is get someone that can destroy spirits. I'm sure Gringotts would help us." Dora continued, but was stopped by her mother's laughter. "What? Why are you laughing?"

"You." Andi pointed at her. "Even if, IF, this is true, which given the things my family has done could be true, do you really think that the Goblins would help us with this? They'll drop Ezekiel as if he were radioactive, to hell with the Black fortune. What's more, if you do find someone crazy enough to try and touch something so evil, would it be such a good idea? For all we know Ezekiel is what's keeping the Black Magic at bay."

"Then we destroy it!" Dora got up angry.

"Dora, the only thing that can destroy spirits IS the Black Magic. That's it's deal, it destroys everything." Andi pointed out.

"Then what am I supposed to do? Leave my brother to deal with that for the rest of his life until he passes that cursed thing to his children?" Dora was almost screaming now, but found that her mother had fallen silent. "What is it? You're hiding something, still?"

"I just assumed that he had told you, clearly that wasn't the case..."

"What is it?"

"Dora, Ezekiel won't have children, or his own family. He declared it to the Crown years ago. He'll be the last Black." Andi replied.

"So... he's going to shut down his life, work until retirement in the Archive and then kick the bucket?" Dora was surprised. "What about aunt Narcissa's son? Dago..Blago...Drago."

"Draco" Andi corrected her.

"Right, him." Dora snapped her fingers at the name. "Couldn't he inherit the Magic once Ezekiel dies?"

Again Dora had to see how her mother remained silent, as if she were ashamed of the answer.

"Mother, what will happen to Draco Malfoy?

"Nothing!" She finally relented. " At least not until his coming of age."

"And then?" Dora pressured.

"Ezekiel will talk to him, he'll offer the bo-man" Andi corrected herself" the chance of give up his rights of succession. He might have to give up the fortune and some, well, all the properties but the Heir of Malfoy will be a very happy and rich man."

"And if he doesn't?"

"You know what he'll do."

"No, not him. No" Dora shook her head. "Ezekiel wouldn't do that, not to an innocent boy."

"He'd no longer be a boy under the eyes of society and the Magic, he'd be considered a man. A man that could very well inherit the darkest and most dangerous magic ever created. A man raised by a known Death-Eater" Andi countered.

"And that makes it alright?"

"Yes." Andi replied to a horrified Dora." You need to understand, Nymphadora. It has to end, for everyone."

Dora was so shocked that she simply left the room but her mother followed.

"It won't come to that, Dora. The Malfoys are prideful cowards, once Ezekiel mentions that the Black Magic will destroy their Family Magic they'll fold." Andi explained.

"And how do you know that?" Dora turned around furious. "If you know so fucking much, then how do you know that the Black magic won't just team up with the Malfoy's?"

"Something that Dark won't accept anything else." Dora assured her. "It's made to destroy, it cannot coexist with anything else."

"So that's it!? My brother has to leave the rest of his life exiled from happiness, from life so that every-fucking-else can go around as usual? He has to be alone" Dora tried to continue but found it hard, as the tears started to pour and the more she tried to clear them the more poured from her eyes.

"He won't be alone." Andromeda comforted her daughter as she hugged her. "He has us, and Harry."

"It-hic-it's not fair." Dora cried on her mother's shoulder. "We were fine, everything was great. We were a family and then that fucking thing had to appear on his finger and then he left, and " She couldn't end her rant as her mother hugged her with all the love she could.

"I know, we can't do anything about that." She said as she rocked her daughter softly. "But we can be for him, we can be a family. It's his choice, Dora. He's made his peace with it, and when the time comes you and Harry will have plenty of good memories to remember him. It's the way he wants it." She tried to hear what her daughter was saying but she simply collapsed on the floor along with her mother, who didn't let her go as she fell. Dora would fall sleep and Andromeda would move her to her old room. Lucky for both of them Ted had a deep sleeper and wouldn't woke up until the next day. Andi laid on the same bed hugging her daughter, hoping that her presence would drive away any bad dream. And maybe, she hoped, she'd wake up and she'd be back in those day when they were happy.

When they were a normal family.

I don't own Harry Potter, all characters except OC belong to J. K. Rowling.