11. The Black Family Linkage.
The war is escalating. Death Eaters are doing rituals to enhance their strenght and increase their magical power so that they become more and more powerful. Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix aren't doing much but reacting to the attacks. Harry disagrees with this. Dumbledore dies in an attack or is assassinated (Harry can also lose faith in Dumbledore but that is more difficult to write because of certain people that would be great in Harry's 'family' but would not go around Dumbledore). The wizarding world is in panic and people are being killed (Hagrid, Hermione's parents, Neville's grandmother (and parents?), the Creevey brothers' parents, most of the Weasleys, (Draco's parents), Luna's father, Susan's aunt Amelia Bones, etc.)
Harry claims lordship over the Potter and Black family lines after he finds out that his godfather did a ritual, binding him to the Black family, gets training with (some of the) DA and/or others and comes into his own.
Harry finds in an book about the Black family a ritual to link all members of the Black family to the head of the family and so, in turn each other so that, in time of need, members of the family could call upon the connection and use each others magic.
Harry knows that this could be very useful to perform with Nymphadora and her mother (?) (maybe Narcissa, Bellatrix and Draco?). Harry tells his friends about it and they are very enthousiastic about it. Very sneaky Hermione (who is an orphan?) asks how Sirius adopted Harry and when he says that it involves a bloodritual that binds a person to the line so that they the person becomes part of the family and gets a second last name (Harry Potter-Black) Hermione asks Harry if he would adopt her into the family because the connection and because she wants to have a family again.
More people learn about the connection and decide to ask Harry to bind them to his family. Harry of course is overjoyed that he finally has a family. But when he performs the ritual it goes a bit awry (this can also be a part of the connection, but this is just like Harry haha) and every member of his new family now shares a telepathic link (and a weak empathic link) with each other. It is also possible that every time someone calls on the link the link evolves (a bit with just contacting eachother but much more when a lot of magic is channeled and maybe the more Harry cares for them) and since the connection links the Black's magical core (and maybe because members of the Black family are and were always pretty powerful), their magical core expances, latent magical abilities come to light, they can sense where the others are, etc.
They become the most powerful family in the wizarding world (especially if you consider the induvidual talents the people of harry family have/could have) and become the hope of the wizarding world.
Since Harry is the Lord/Head of the family they owe him their loyalty. This could result in very amusing scenes, no?
Possible members of the Black family:
Head of the Black Family: Harry Potter-Black
Hermione Granger
Neville Longbottom
Luna Lovegood
Susan Bones
Blaise Zabini
Fred Weasley
George Weasley
Ginny Weasley
Ron Weasley (I'm more for he dies in the attack on his parents approach)
Bill Weasley
Charlie Weasley
Remus Lupin
Minerva McGonagall (the strict aunt)
Severus Snape (the snarky uncle)
Colin Creevey (Harry's little irratating brother...)
Dennis Creevey (Harry's little irratating brother...)
Su Li (Ravenclaw, could have a lot of potential, you can make everything you want of this character, i really like how LT2000 portrays this character in Dakaath: Prince of Darkness)
Possible Members or Deaths that can be inserted:
Filius Flitwick
Pomona Sprout
Poppy Pomfrey
Dean Thomas
Seamus Finnigan
Katie Bell
Lavender Brown
Angelina Johnson
Lee Jordan
Andrew Kirke (Gryffindor beater, also when Harry is captain)
Jack Sloper (Gryffindor beater, also when Harry is captain)
Parvati Patil
Padma Patil
Alicia Spinnet
Oliver Wood
Terry Boot
Cho Chang
Hannah Abbot
Ernie Macmillan
Justin Finch-Fletchley
Zacharias Smith
Daphne Greengrass
And what would happen to the most famous and prestegeous family when the war is over?
Sniggers