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regular talking
Familiar talking
Hedwig talking
Three months have passed since the heirs have arrived in the trunk and began training for the inevitable prophecy.
The work Andrea forced them to do during physical fitness was slowly starting to pay off. Neville and Harry are beginning to form six packs. Neville lost the last bit of the baby fat he had before. Luna and Hermione became more lean and fit as the days past.
The metamorphmagus has been gentler when doing their healing lessons. She has been teaching them how to find and identify certain healing herbs and plants, much to Neville's pleasure, and the basic healing spells that will clean up most scrapes and cuts.
When they first met Professor Ashcroft, they had an instant respect for the man. He had the presence about him that when he spoke everyone listened and did as they were told. Ashcroft's name was Nicolas and told them to call him by that or Ashcroft. He looked very fit and battle worn. His raven hair was tied back in a short ponytail and his sapphire eyes were hardened and yet still soft at the same time. He stood tall at 6'2'' and his skin very tanned. A few scars flawed his skin throughout his body. He taught both Occlumency and Warding Basics.
Ashcroft was patient and helped teach them at their own pace. Neville took a particular liking to him instantly because of his mainly quiet nature, reminding him of how he is.
Master Ziggs wasn't a witch, wizard or even a freakin' vampire! He was a goblin, one of the most respected ones in the goblin nation. He taught the heirs Sword and weapon training. His method of teaching was very unique. Ziggs had them try every weapon on the first day to see who had a particular talent for which.
Hermione took an instant connection to archery; Luna took to the staff for battle but also liked dagger throwing. Neville loved his broadsword, Harry preferred the Sword of Gryffindor. It appeared a few days after their arrival by simply popping onto the table while they were eating lunch. To say they were shocked is an understatement.
At the nearing end of three months into their time in the trunk, Harry thought it would be time to look over the file Ragnok gave him. He did it on a Saturday that everyone agreed to something by themselves.
He felt as if everything was up to what was in the folder currently sitting in his hand. As he stared at the folder while sitting on his bed, a wolf cub padded its way to Harry and placed its head on his knee. A boyish voice spoke in Harry's head, "Want me to get the others? They'll want to know what the old man is doing to your accounts."
Harry tore his gaze away from the folder and looked at the cub, "I know they'll want to know, Lyall. But what's worrying me is how they're going to react. I don't want the old man dead just yet."
Lyall barked and replied, "That, my dear Harry is why you have us familiars. We'll keep you calm enough for now. And if we go and get angry Hedwig will take charge, who knew an owl could be so bloody frightening?"
"I believe it's a trait she picked up from Hermione, Luna and Andrea. Those death glares would frighten Voldemort himself if he ever saw one of them." Lord Gryffindor relied with a shudder; he had been on the end of those for a few times. As well as Ashcroft and Neville.
Lyall shrugged as much as a wolf could. Harry looked at Lyall amusedly, taking in his appearance. His fur was a reddish-brown, though his eyes were the exact same shade of green as Harry's. He came up to about Harry's knee in height.
The wolf cub started to walk out of the room, saying over his shoulder, "I'll get Nala, Shaylee and Arthur. But if I don't come back alive from waking up Nala, say something nice at my funeral."
Harry smirked as his familiar walked out the door. When the wolf left, he called out, "Hedwig!"
The snowy owl came in after a few moments and landed on his shoulder, looking at his with her wise amber eyes. Harry stroked her head, "Listen girl, I need you to watch over everyone's temper, especially the other familiars." She hooted and ruffled her feathers in a motherly fashion; she loved the familiars and watched over them like an actual mother.
Harry smiled, "Alright go to the lounge, and I'll be over there in a second. Please make sure Lyall is still alive, Nala isn't a very friendly animal when she's woken up. Just like Hermione, but there's no need to let her know that."
Her hoot sounded a lot like a laugh as she flew out of the room. He stood slowly and fixed his green t-shirt and dark blue jeans, so he didn't look like he just rolled out of bed.
He walked down the hall, past Hermione's, Neville's and Luna's bedrooms as he made it way down to the lounge. It was their meeting place, besides the kitchen table.
The room was large, could fit a regular house in there. Its walls were a dark blue and it's floors were made bamboo wood.
Luna and Hermione managed to convince Andrea and Nick to visit them from time to time. They loved hearing the storied from both mentors, entranced by everything they said. Neville and Harry gravitated towards Nick while the girls went to Andrea, mainly to connect with them. The six of them watched many movies, played hundreds of games and just had fun in the lounge.
As he walked in the lounge, Harry saw everyone sitting on the dark brown leather L- shaped couch that faced the 85''flat screen television. The one sitting closest to the TV was Nick and next to him were Andrea and Hedwig sitting on her shoulder. From there, there was Luna, a brown bear cub with a red shouldered hawk that was about the size of a baseball sitting on the bear's shoulder, Neville, a lioness cub and finally Hermione.
Harry sat next to Hermione; she gave his hand a quick squeeze as Lyall walked in and sat near the other animals. Lyall said to everyone who could hear him (Neville, Hermione, Luna, the lioness cub, the baby hawk and the brown bear) "Hiya everyone. Ready for some reasons to tear apart weasels and Dumbles?" He grinned as much a wolf could. His emerald eyes shining as the other animals, besides Hedwig, bobbed their heads up and down.
Hedwig hooted angrily and glared at the small animals, who shrank in fear. Andrea smirked, her hair still her normal dark brown but now highlighted with midnight blue, "Come on, whatever Lyall said will and shall be ignored. Do you honestly want Hedwig to come after you?"
Nick chuckled in his deep voice, "I still can't believe this beautiful snowy owl has so much power over them." If owls could look smug, Hedwig would've at that very moment.
The lioness chuckled, which came off as a tiny roars to Nick and Andrea, as she leaned against Hermione, "And yet whenever I make a comment about them I'm rewarded not threatened. Oh the irony."
Lyall grumbled, "Shut it Nala. I want to hear this." The heirs chuckled at their bickering before everyone turned to Harry.
He opened at folder and took out the first piece of paper, he read it aloud, "This is a marriage contract…. between me and Ginerva!" Harry began to glow the same red and gold he had in Ragnok's office. Andrea's hair slowly turned a dark red as she glared at the harmless piece of paper. Hermione and Nala growled. Hermione began to be surrounded by a silver and green glow. Luna looked down right murderous and got surrounded by a blue and bronze glow; the hawk hopped from the bear's shoulder and went onto Luna's thigh to calm her down. Neville usually didn't look deadly, but that's exactly what he looked like at that moment in time as he got surrounded by a yellow and black glow, the bear growled. Nick narrowed his eyes dangerously at the piece of paper in Harry's hand.
Everyone broke from their rage when Hedwig hooted loudly and glared at everyone. Andrea forgot for a moment about the arranged marriage and took out her wand, "I forgot, I found a spell in the library that allows animals to communicate with humans unless their familiars."
The metamorphmagus pointed her wand at the snowy owl and said, "Disputatio nobiscum". (Talk with us) She put her wand away and looked at Hedwig expectantly.
Hedwig said in an irritable, yet motherly tone, "Thank you Pendragon. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to find that spell. I honestly thought Hermione or Luna would've found it, but oh well. "
She turned her head to the animals and the heirs, "Stop and control your emotions before I have Nicolas restrain you. Yes there is going to be very shocking things in here, but remember who's life we're a part of. We have all faced dangerous beings, but right now all we have to face is the moves of manipulation the old man made in Harry's life."
All heirs stopped glowing as they looked at the snowy owl, shocked.
Hermione and Neville still seemed shell shocked that Hedwig could now talk, but unsurprisingly Luna seemed perfectly at ease with this new turn of events as she replied, "Of course Hedwig."
The hawk looked from Hedwig to Luna and said, "Well this is a twisted turn of events, isn't it Arthur?"
The bear cub nodded as the bounced back onto his back, "I know it is, Shaylee. But Hedwig's right, we need to control ourselves so we can help Neville, Luna, Hermione and Harry."
Nala growled, "Alright, but I swear if I see Molly, Ronald or Ginerva I will make them my lunch."
Shaylee scoffed and hopped her way over to Nala. She landed on the lioness' head and pecked her sharply on the head, "Enough Nala, let's just listen to the rest of the evidence before we start attacking." She bounced her way back on to Arthur's head with a huff.
Nala simply growled, causing all humans and Hedwig to chuckle at. Harry continued to read, "'This marriage contract will be enforced at when both participants reach the age of sixteen. Signed by Molly Alexis Weasley-nee Prewett and Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.'"
He shook his head in disgust before pulling out another piece of paper, more like a packet consisting of at least twenty paged. Harry read the summary of the packet, "'Withdrawals from Potter family vault, not including school fund. Disposals begin from September 21, 1979 for Albus Dumbledore, who has removed over 1,547,924 galleons, 84,813 sickles and 12,325 knuts. Totaling in the loss of 1,552,938 galleons'." Harry took a shaky breath before continuing, his voice shaking with pure rage. Hermione put a calming hand on his knee and gave him a reassuring smile that instantly calmed him down, everyone in the room besides the two grinned knowingly.
"'Transactions are also from Molly Weasley, Ronald Weasley and Ginerva Weasley. 200 galleons are given to Molly Weasley per month since October 1, 1981. 50 galleons have been given to Ronald Weasley per month since September 1, 1991. 45 galleons haven been given to Ginerva Weasley per month since September 1, 1993.'" He finished reading the summary and quickly gathered Hermione into a hug that she gladly returned.
Harry buried his head into Hermione's now tamed curls and took a deep breath. He found that she calmed him down, a lot by just hugging her. Only if I knew that before my temper wouldn't have been that bad. Harry thought amusedly as Hermione rubbed circles into his back. He hid a smile, thankful that she was even in his life.
Neville and Luna were doing the same thing as Lady Slytherin and Lord Gryffindor. They were in shock that their friends were so greedy and fake. Neville said as he buried his head in Luna's silvery blonde hair, "How could we have not noticed before, Luna? How did we not notice the greed in the Weasels?"
Luna replied sadly, "We were blinded, blinded by our trust for them and sense of security that having everyone around us gave."
Harry calmed down enough to look over some of the other papers in the folder. He got to the papers to reveal Hermione's heritage, the others didn't need them since they already knew their family trees. He smirked, and said in a sing song voice, "Oh Hermione! I am going to need a few drops of your blood please." She gave him an incredulous look before conjuring up a needle to prick her finger with.
She squeezed her finger until three drops of blood were spread on the sheet. Words wrote themselves on the page. His emerald eyes grew wide as he looked at the paper.
Lyall looked at him and nudged him with his nose, "Well come on then, tell us what her family tree's like."
He wordlessly handed the paper to her, still in shock. Hermione cautiously read the paper and read aloud, "Hermione Rowena Artemis Granger. Blood Status: Half-blood/ demigod, raised by squib and muggle. Families from Mother's side: Morgana Le Fay. Birth father: Apollo while step father remains muggle. Vaults 351, 602 and 10 available access"
All jaws dropped, including Hedwig's. The snowy owl spoke up, sounding amused, "Well I didn't see that one coming."
Nala blinked her amber eyes that matched Hermione's, "I don't think anyone saw that coming."
Andrea grinned as she looked at Hermione, "This means we're related, Mia. Morgana was the half-sister of Arthur Pendragon, this is brilliant!"
She leaned against Harry for support, who didn't mind what so ever and wrapped his arms around her, as she faintly said, "Did anyone else pick up on the fact I'm a daughter of Apollo? And am now related to one of the most powerful yet horrid witches in history?"
Luna's eyes widened as she leaned against Neville the same way and he repeated the actions of Harry as the blonde in her dreamy voice that she doesn't use that much anymore, "Yeah, I caught on to the fact. I knew that you had very powerful magic because of the nargles surrounding you, but I didn't think it would be this."
Nick just grinned, "This just makes life a whole lot more interesting."
Shaylee mused as she ruffled her feathers that were starting to change to normal ones, "That does explain her pull towards archery." The other animals nodded in agreement as Arthur responded, "It could also explain the golden color in her eyes, you know for the sun."
Nala moved so she sat in her familiar's lap, "Don't worry, Mia. In eight years we'll be able to talk to your parents about this, rationally and calmly. Then I'm sure that we'll get the truth from them."
Hedwig relayed what Nala said to Andrea and Nick. Everyone looked shocked and Nala grew uncomfortable, "What?"
Neville laughed, "What do mean what? You just showed your bit of Mione, being all wise and thoughtful and trust me you don't show it that often."
The lioness growled playfully at him waiting for Harry to continue. Harry chuckled and continued searching through the folder and found a piece of paper that had the goblin's handwriting, he read aloud,
"'Now that you have gone through most of the important information. It should come to your attention that the marriage contract between Ginerva Weasley and Harry Potter is now currently null and void due to its illegal nature. All money that has been taken without your consent is being returned at this very moment. I'm sorry we at Gringotts weren't able to catch this sooner. Onto further matters, I believe on the last Sunday of the third month a gift will be coming into the lounge where you reside. Once you come back to the surface world, the heirs have to go into a test room for the founders to actually be able to claim them as their heirs. These are spiritual representations of the four that will judge you. Also during your time in the surface world that approaches the wills of Sirius Black and the Potters will be read in the appropriate time frame. Best of wishes with the training of the young heirs.
Chief Ragnok,
Director of Gringotts
Nick made some calculations in his head, "Wouldn't that Sunday be tomorrow, correct?"
Hedwig nodded, "Yes, it would be tomorrow. So looks like we're getting a gift, I wonder what it would be like."
Luna shrugged, "Oh well. No point in worrying over it, is that all the papers you needed to go over, Harry?"
The Lord Gryffindor nodded, "Yes that's all done at the moment, now who's up for watching a movie?" Everyone agreed, none knowing that three red heads and an old man were currently plotting how to gain access to the money of a certain boy-who-lived.
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