Chapter 5

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Once Harry is settled down with his ice cream, Minerva calls for Tilly, "Tilly, can you come here please?"

"Hi miss kitty, Tilly has the memory of bearded fool reading your letter, when do you want to see it? Tilly asks.

"I will view it when we get home, but can you pop home and in my office in the bottom right hand drawer is the budgets from the past 15 years for Hogwarts, can you bring them to me with a timed notice-me-not charm on them? You only need to set the timer for 30 minutes; I will hand them over to Rockgrinder when I go back to Gringotts."

"Tilly will do so Kitty, do you want me to bring clean shirt for Harry? He sees to like wearing food rather than eating it." Tilly replies.

Minerva looks over and sure enough, Harry has chocolate chip ice cream all over his front. "Yes please Tilly, and also we will have 2 more house elves joining our small family, they belong to Harry and their names are Doc and Bashful, when they arrive I hope you will treat them with respect and show them the ropes." With that, Tilly pops away while Minerva tries to clean Harry up. "Harry, you are supposed to eat the ice cream, not wear it."

"I hot, ice cold, I cooled down." Harry explains, while Minerva smiles and shakes her head at her soon to be son. Once Tilly comes back, she brings Harry to the restroom and puts him in a clean T-shirt and realizes that Tilly also brought some soft picture books for Harry to play with.

"Thank you, Tilly, now can you please pop Harry and me back to Gringotts? Our half hour break is almost up, and I do not want the goblins waiting. They don't take kindly to lollygaggers."

With that, Tilly happily popped the two back to Gringotts, once they are safely in Axewielder's office, Minerva sees Doc and Bashful waiting with Axewielder.

"Axegut called them shortly after you two left, since I had a feeling you would get Tilly to bring you back here, I asked if they wouldn't mind waiting here until Tilly could bring them to their new home." Axewielder says.

"Thank you Axewielder, and Rockgrinder, I brought the budgets from home, the notice-me-not should be wearing off in the next few minutes." No sooner did she say those words, Rockgrinder sees the documents in her hand. "Excellent, I have the approved budgets that Albus has sent over the past 15 years. Since you only took up the deputyship 15 years ago, I can only compare those budgets. I can only hope that they are not as bad as you think it is, can you give me any more reasons as to why you think Albus is skimming off the budget?" Rockgrinder asks.

"The only other reason I can think about is keeping Binns on the payroll. I have repeatedly tried to use his salary to replace the old ghost, but every year it's the same thing; there's no new History of Magic teacher, and Binns is still on the payroll. I have asked Tilly to sneak into Albus' office occasionally to take a glance at the budget, but she was always unable to copy the budget before Albus came back. I guess we all get hit with Murphy's Law on occasion."

"Cuthbert Binns?! He died back in the 50s! Why would the old bearded fool keep a ghost on the payroll for 30 years?!" Rockgrinder all but shrieks. Harry winces at his harsh voice but quickly goes back to his toys. "Leave the bearded fool to me. I know the loopholes in the Hogwarts charter and I can get a new History of Magic teacher without Albus knowing, but I will give the other professors a notice to redirect the students to a different classroom. Do you know anyone who is well versed in History?" Rockgrinder asks, his voice now at a normal volume in hopes not to spook Harry again.

"Actually, I do, not only was Sirius Black good at Potions, and apparently Transfiguration, he also scored an Outstanding on his History of Magic NEWT. I know he was a huge prankster in his school days, but with this war he had to grow up. If you can get a hold of him I think he would make an excellent teacher." Minerva replies.

"That may be difficult, I just got word that Sirius has been arrested for blowing up a street in muggle London. From what I heard he went after Peter Pettigrew earlier this morning, and after the blast Pettigrew was nowhere to be seen and he was laughing like a hyena when the aurors showed up." Axewielder chimes in.

"With the evidence from the will, can I call a meeting with the wizengamont to get Sirius out of the holding cell before they send him to Azkaban?"

"Unfortunately, it may be too late for that. Andy Queen was the arresting auror, and I know he's in Crouch's pocket, so he told everyone that he was guilty and to send him to Azkaban, no ifs, ands, or buts." Axwielder states. "We will send a copy of the will to the head of the Department of the Magical Law Enforcement and see how quickly we can get him out of there."

While all this is going on, Elanor was patiently waiting for the discussion to end, so that Harry and Minerva could walk out as mother and son. Once the blood adoption potion was done brewing, she quickly penned a letter to Remus and sent it out with an eagle. Eagles were used by Gringotts so that the person receiving the notice knew it was important and should not be ignored. Elanor is hopeful that Remus can come in within the next week since the new moon appears. During her years of research, she discovered that while lycanthropy may turn you into a wolf during the full moon, but the curse also makes their cores reach its full potential during the new moon. Once she's sure that their discussion's over, she gently clears her throat to get everyone's attention.

"Thank you for your attention, I would have spoken up sooner, but I didn't want to interrupt your discussion, it seemed important. Now Minerva, shall we get down to business?" Elanor then looks down at Harry, "Harry, do you want Minerva to be your new mama?"

"She is mama, she told me she mama. But where dada?" Harry replies.

"Dada went to heaven, and so did your real mama, but Minerva will be a great mother to you, do you understand?" Elanor replies, seeing the hurt in Minerva's eyes.

"So she mama Minnie?" Harry replies, the curiosity in his eyes shining through, not seeing Minnie cringe at the unfortunate nickname, but she understands that Harry can't really say Minerva, so she decides to let it slide, mainly because Jayne also calls her Minnie, but if anyone else tries to call her that, she will hex them into next year.

"Yes, she will be mama Minnie Harry, all you must do is drink this juice, and Minerva will drink her juice as well, and in 5 minutes, you will have a new family. Now Minerva, have you thought of what Harry's new legal name will be? Since you are blood adopting him, not only will he have your DNA, but also the Potters and Evans DNA. He will have to have Potter in his name somewhere for all legal matters later in life and for any business here in Gringotts." Elanor explains to Harry and Minerva.

Minerva gives Elanor a stern glare that she normally reserves for students for calling her Minnie, but then replies, "His full legal name shall be Hendrick James Potter-McGonagall. Outside of these halls if anyone asks who he is I will tell them that he is my son Hendrick McGonagall, as much as I dislike changing his first name, I will keep Harry as a nickname since he knows that name and responds to it, but once he gets older, I will let him know what his real name is and the reason for me adopting him. I just hope he understands."

"That is a wonderful name, now Harry and Minerva, please drink your 'juice' and we will have you off on your merry way." Elanor replies. Once Minerva and Harry drink their potions, Minerva feels her heart explode with the love only one can experience when they have a child. She looks at Harry and silently chuckles at Harry's face, "Yucky juice! No more please." Harry exclaims after he finishes his portion of the potion. Meanwhile Minerva sees some subtle changes happening to Harry, his large, emerald-green eyes become spotted with flecks of brown, his hair gains some natural auburn highlights, and his chubby little fingers gain a half inch of length. 'Harry may want to learn piano in the future, he will have gorgeous hands and may love to tickle the ivory, but that can wait a few years.' Minerva thinks. Once the potion completes the adoption, Minerva signs the adoption paperwork and signs Harry's new name. With this completed, Minerva turns towards Axegrinder, Elanor, and Rockgrinder, and says, "Thank you ladies and gentlemen, I believe I have taken enough of your time today. Rockgrinder, please owl me or send me a letter via Tilly once you have word about the Hogwarts budget. Elanor, once you hear from Remus, either send me an owl or call for Doc or Bashful with an appointment for the ritual. Until then, may your enemies cower before your sword."

"Have a good day Harry and Minerva, may your hearts be full of love and happiness." Axewielder replies.

With that, Minerva calls for Tippy to bring her and Harry home. Once they get home, Minerva puts Harry down for a quick nap so that Tilly can show her the memory of Albus finally being thrown for a loop for once.

End Author's Note: Thank you for all the reviews. I am so glad everyone is enjoying the story so far.