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Narcissa Malfoy frowned as she looked at the meeting room which they had been summoned to by the goblins. The missive had been from Gringotts detailing to arrive there two days later, the goblins had cryptically told them that they will have to arrive at the given time at the end of the week if they didn't want to face consequences.
Draco and Astoria too got the same message from goblins as Scorpius and Aquila too had arrived with them. Scorpius was a splitting image of Draco at his age and she felt rather proud to the man he was becoming, Aquila however was a dark haired girl who got the looks from her mother and the grey eyes of her father. Narcissa still disliked the fact that Scorpius was dating the Weasley girl but never voiced it, as she could see the happiness in her grandson's eyes when he was with the girl. Aquila had hardly shown any interest in anyone because Narcissa personally knew that her granddaughter was into females. Draco didn't knew it but Narcissa knew that he would nearly have a fit for it.
She looked around the room and frowned, Andi was here along with Teddy whom she had met during her visits to Andi. Their relationship had become a little better after the war as Lucius died some years ago leaving Narcissa to become more care free. She had cared for Lucius but the man had only saw it as a weakness.
The Potter boy was here along with that Weasley boy and the Granger girl who to everyone's surprise had became Minister of Magic. The Weasley family was there too along with Albus Potter who was chatting happily with her grandson. Headmistress McGonagall was here along with the Hogwarts professors who inturn were looking quite clueless too about the entire situation. Even the Greengrass family was present too and they looked pretty much confused like them as they all hardly traveled in the same circle.
A goblin arrived in the room carrying a scroll tucked in his arms. So this was a reading of Will, she concluded having experienced it before after the death of her uncles and relatives.
But the question remained in her mind who was the one who had included all of them in his will as nearly everyone she knew who could have connection to all of them were alive and well.
The goblin arrived at the dias and looked at everyone. Within a second everyone became silent, the war had changed the behaviour of goblins strongly. They were more stern and became more frightening with their rules, the Potter boy's stunt caused quite a rage which could not be settled so easily, afterall the goblins carried quite a grudge and they could carry it for generations.
"Today we all are here gathered to read the will of Lord Severus Prince. The goblins have been given the authority to properly distribute the contents and items in the will. Skullcrusher the Prince Family Account Manager will be responsible for dishing the items if the will" he said calmly as he pointed to another goblin carrying daggers with him. Narcissa's breath left her lungs for a moment at the words of goblin, it was impossible.
Granger spoke up "excuse me but shouldn't this will have been read much before, after the war?" she asked with a frown. Narcissa saw Andromeda eyes widening which meant that she too had reached the same conclusion as her.
"The will is read when the owner dies and I am sorry to inform you that Lord Severus Prince passed away two days ago, at which time the Will's seal activated. Lord Prince had never died at the Battle of Hogwarts, he had survived and kept his distance from the wizarding world and it's affairs" he said with a grunt and smirked no doubt enjoying it.
The room erupted in shocked whispers and loud swears and proclaimations and she could see that even Draco looked shocked. Narcissa herself was shocked too but schooled her features, if she will ever meet or get her hands on Severus Prince in the afterlife, he will quite be in a heavy trouble. He had been his friend and he had even decided to keep his surviving status secret from her. She knew that Severus was Lord Prince, she had always known but Severus was never excited about the Lordship only seeing it as a bother. This news brought a pang in her heart which always happened when she heard about him or his name. She may had been married to Lucius but her heart was never in the marriage. She would never admit it but she found the hooked nose and snarky boy more endearing because atleast he was always honest with her unlike her husband who was busy with his mistress and Ministry most of the time.
"Silence!" the goblin barked out and the entire room became quiet once again.
"This is the last testament and will of Lord Severus Prince written by his own hands.
I hereby declare that I am in sound will and body while writing this will, nobody has coerced or manipulated me into this" he paused as he read the formalities of the Will.
"The next part is Lord Severus own words to all of those present here" the goblin said as he took a breath and started to read, everyone waiting for him to start. Curiousity in everyone's heart as Severus Snape had been one of the most important heroes of the war, a misunderstood man by everyone till the last moment of his death. A man who was extremely complex but died for the light side.
"To the Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardy, I donate my own rewritten books which contain the changed and improved formulas for the potions for all the seven years. Moreover I donate One Million Galleons to the fund of school which helps in funding the orphans who are magical on nature. I ask Skullcrusher who is my account manager too oversee this task and write a stipulation that even an economically weaker student may also be eligible for the funds should they meet the conditions I had drafted and given him, a amount of 100 thousand galleons will be kept in hold as it will be used to gather interest via profitable ventures to fund the profits gained by it to Hogwarts" the goblin spoke up and everyone's eyes widened including Narcissa's own. Never had a donation of such large amount been made to Hogwarts and a donation with a stipulation for economically weaker children. She smiled, Severus certainly knew how to trouble people beyond graves, she was probably one of the few who knew why he did this. He too had been poor and came in second hand clothes till he proved himself to the Dark Lord and got the Prince Lordship. It was like Severus to do this helping people like him discreetly, she gave a small smile fondly.
The goblin didn't waited and spoke up "to Harry Potter, I give you a property, No. 18 Bakers Colony at Spinners End which belonged to your maternal grandfather and grandmother, Rose and Hank, a finer and kinder couple whom I never met. Skullcrusher will provide you the papers of the property" the goblin finished as the fierce looking goblin who was sitting at the corner stood up and brought some papers and gave them to him. The boy took the papers with trembling hands and there were slight tears in his eyes.
"To Arthur Weasley and family, I give you a sum of hundred thousand galleons for your kind help to me" the goblin said and the goblin Skullcrusher who gave the property papers to Potter also brought a vault key and gave them. Arthur Weasley murmured a quiet "thank you" whereas Molly Weasley sobbed at the gift.
"To Draco Malfoy, I have seen you grow from a little kid to an arrogant brat. I have witnessed the journey and hardships you faced and I am happy to say that my hopes were not unfounded, my Godson" the goblin spoke and the entire room stilled for a moment as everyone looked at the Malfoy family. It was not common knowledge that Severus was Draco's godfather, even Potter look stunned by the news not that Narcissa cared for anyone's reactions. Lucius had been not to eager to name him as his godfather but it was Narcissa who had pressurized the issue as her husband hardly spent his time home and it was Severus who was there when Draco was born. Lucius was busy at a raid and was sent outside of the country by the Dark Lord.
"I am sorry but I don't have much to give to you which would interest you" the goblin continued and some chuckles from the Weasley family were heard throughout the room at that, Narcissa frowned that was not like Severus to do.
However the goblin continued "as I believe that you have already received my gift" the entire room started to whisper in confusion and even Draco look confused.
"I suppose you will not know but I shall explain for you. I was sorry that I couldn't be a part of your life like before but when I heard that you were marrying Miss Greengrass, I decided to relieve some of your problems. I had Tilly, the Malfoy house elf snuck a potion into Astoria's food which would cure the blood curse on her completely even preventing it from being transferred to the next generation" the goblin spoke and even his voice was filled with wonder. She couldn't fault him, knowledge of blood curses were extremely rare and a cure to them had never been found.
Draco look stunned along with Astoria and the entire Greengrass family. Narcissa herself was too, the Greengrass family was cursed for generations and Astoria had inherited the curse yet one day after the birth of Scorpius she was no longer a patient of the curse, even the healers were shocked by what they had seen as it was miraculous. Looking back she should have suspected something, Narcissa thought amusedly. Astoria's recovery from the curse was the reason why Aquila was born.
"I have placed the recipe and some of the batches of preserved potion which is in a vault and whose key will be given to you. Read the instructions and share it with the Greengrass family who would be there too with you. I have placed some journals which contains my research in Alchemy which had helped me immensely in making the cures, I hope you like the notes and journals along with a personal journal of my invented spells which I think that you are now ready and mature to learn and handle, there are books on certain subjects should they interest Scorpius or Aquila" the goblin finished. Draco nodded calmly but Narcissa knew how excited her son was and she could see that even the Granger girl was anxious and jealous at the mention of Alchemy notes as the subject and it's notes were very rare. Not to mention Severus personal books and journals which were filled with his spell creations.
"To the Minister of Magic, it still seems unreal to me that a know it all like you became the Minister but it seems life is really unpredictable" the goblin spoke again and there were amused chuckles even from the girl herself who just smiled.
"I may have done many morally questionable things in my life both for the light and dark side, you all can't fault me for leaving the magical world to get an escape. Besides leaving behind annoying children did wonders for my brain and inspired me much. One of such inspirations is a potion whose recipe is in a journal which will be given to you by Skullcrusher. The journal carries the potion recipe for the permanent cure of Lycanthropy which I had made and has been successfully tested by me" the goblin said reading the words and Narcissa could see that his own fingers were trembling at the proclamation. Narcissa couldn't fault him, her friend was dropping bombs after bombs on everyone. She knew Severus's calliber but it seemed even she had misjudged his talents vastly, she doubted that anyone could protest the incoming posthumous Order of Merlin coming towards him due to this discovery.
Skullcrusher got up again and handed the journal carefully to the anxiousness and trepidation of The Minister of Magic. She took the journal with trembling hands infront of the eyes of everyone. This was huge afterall and would completely revolutionize the magical world.
"And last but not least, Narcissa Black Malfoy. You have been one of the most constant persons in my life when I needed help. From this day onwards all the Prince properties and wealth belong to you, throw away balls, do whatever you want to do, I don't care. These are my last words to everyone" the Goblin finished and even Narcissa was stunned by the proclamation.
She had never expected him to hand over all the Prince properties to her, she felt lonely again but didn't allowed the tears form in her eyes like everytime she thought of him and how much she missed the old days of both being careless.
She simply nodded to the goblin who gestured her to remain among the whisperings and words directed at her and remained there sitting in the seat waiting for everyone to go out, Severus still gave headaches to her even from the otherside of the world. She smiled inwardly at her friend's words and couldn't help but chuckle bitterly. If only life was a little bit more fair to him and her.m
Narcissa looked at the gates of The Prince Manor along with a silvery haired girl accompanying her. The girl was in her twenties and had dark eyes with a slender figure. Behind them were three house elves who were waiting for their command.
"So this is Prince Manor" Delphini said as she looked at the large manor which looked well kept.
"Hmm" Narcissa replied looking at the manor for the first time in many years as she had last seen it only when Draco was not born.
"Riley, lead the way" Narcissa said as she looked at the house elf who was wearing pants and short t-shirt. The elf nodded and they both followed as he opened the gates and lead them inside.
Narcissa looked at the gardens and the rows of shrubs, Severus had left a letter for her with Skullcrusher. Apparently he knew somehow that she was raising the Dark Lord's and Bellatrix child alone. He had commended that she was doing good with her and that his house elf Riley was hers to command. Narcissa had been stunned as she had thought that only she knew about Delphini and had kept her existence a secret. How Severus know, she didn't had an idea but she had doubts that he knew about Delphini's birth. Even Draco or any member of the Malfoy family didn't knew about the existence of Delphini with the amount of protection and security she had placed over her niece. She could have left Delphini to someone but she didn't had the heart to do that, Bellatrix may had been mad but she had been her sister and her child was family nonetheless.
Delphini was a smart child from the beginning and Narcissa had tried her best to raise her without bigotries or prejudice. She had let him for her own opinions and when she was seventeen, told her the truth about her parents.
Delphini had been shocked but accepted the bitter fact when Narcissa said that she could forge a path for her own. But it was easier said than done for her, she had decided to visit the muggle world over the years as she had doubts that she would ever be welcomed warmly in the wizarding world due to her father's actions. She had been homeschooled by teachers who were tied by unbreakable vows and she had excelled in them.
They entered the Hall as Riley started to show the Prince Manor to them.
Riley started to show them the parts of the Manor and Delphini spotted her aunt having a sad smile as they toured it.
Delphini had her doubts that her aunt was perhaps in love or had some feelings for the late Lord Prince but they both had never acted on it. It was the most plausible idea as her aunt's behaviour had changed slightly after she came back from the will reading. The newspapers had been in uproar about the revelation and how the Spy had created cures for werewolves and blood curses.
They reached a room which looked like a workshop judging by the table and the parchments littered around.
"Lady Malfoy" the portrait of a person with sword greeted her.
"Sir Armand" her aunt greeted with a bow.
"I hope you are in good health, you look a little older than the last time I had seen you though" he said looking at her aunt with a smirk.
"As good as I can be Sir Armand" her aunt replied back waving off his taunt.
"You are no fun like my idiot of descendant" he said with a huff.
"I am sorry for your loss though" her aunt spoke with a formal courtesy.
"What loss, what happened to Severus. I thought he invited you here after he apparated with the strange light thing" he said confused with his brows scrunched up.
Narcissa's lips thinned as she asked instantly "what strange light?"
Armand Prince looked at them if they were a fool and started to explain about Severus Prince's research about runes being the predecessor to wands and how he achieved the proof by getting a set of runes which could actually be able to use magic by arranging them in a particular sequence. He told how Severus had perfected the sequence and how the small black box had opened and a white light emerged from it after which he hadn't seen Severus.
Narcissa hurried over to the table instantly and looked throught the journals and the parchments covered with runes and their rules which Severus had managed to discern after the various trials and errors in a year's time. Delphini just stood there along with the other house elves as she looked at her aunt who had a sudden energy within her.
"Oh not this!" she heard her aunt speak in a horrified tone as she went and looked at the table with a wand which was half burnt completely leaving only the 7 inches base part. The wand was strange because there were bumps and symbols on it.
"Aunt Cissa, what is it?" Delphini asked concerned as she looked at her aunt cautiously.
"This wand, it should not be here" she spoke up as if something about the wand horrified her. She immediately turned back and looked sternly at Riley "Riley, do you know anything?" she asked as she looked at him.
The poor elf gulped slightly but immediately started to spill the secrets of how he had stole it from there on the orders from Master Severus.
Delphini meanwhile looked at the small box whose lid was opened. She took a peak and saw a folded parchment and a huge ruby which was present there.
She took the letter carefully out as she saw that the ruby looked pretty much dim. She opened the parchment and frowned slightly.
"Aunt Cissa, perhaps you should see this" she said as she called her aunt who looked practically mad at the Lord Prince's actions.
Narcissa frowned but went to look at the box and the parchment which Delphini was holding with a frown.
She took a look at the parchment and understood why Delphini called her. This was written in old celtic which was pretty much a headache to translate.
"This is old celtic, Delphi bring me a quill and some parchment" she said as she looked at the parchment intently.
Delphini nodded and brought the parchment and quill from the table while Tilly her house elf brought her a chair from the corner of the room.
Narcissa sat as she started to translate the language to modern english while Delphini helped herself in the room while taking a look at the journals and the books. One journal particularly caught her eye as she took out the thick diary and started to read while her aunt helped herself.
She read through the incantation of spells and their effects, she couldn't help but marvel at the numbers of spells Lord Prince had created. It made sense now why her father chose and trusted him as his most faithful because the sheer written effects of some of these spells were not to scoff at. She turned the pages and found some potions recipes, one recipe caught her attention which was near the last of the pages. It was about awakening the qualities of magical blood, she already could speak Parseltongue but her mother had been a Black. Aunt Cissa had told her that the Blacks had metamorphmagus in their families. Could the potion help her in awakening the trait, of this was something which she would surely show her aunt.
She looked at the figure of her aunt who was writing with concentration.
Three hours later...
Delphini looked at the figure of her aunt who exclaimed suddenly "finally!"
"You finished translating?" she asked as she walked over to her aunt.
Her aunt looked happy and scoffed "ofcourse, it is not much hard if you had been trained in languages since childhood. The Black family members were taught various languages. among those were many languages which were in no longer use" she said amusedly as she recalled her childhood memories of being taught by her mother and father. It was a pain to deal but it proved helpful today as she knew there were very few people who knew enough about Celtic language apart from the old traditional families, even that was dwindling.
She looked at the paper, besides her Delphini too stared at it as both if them read what was written in it.
"Our tribe's ritual had failed and all the people of the village near the shore has transformed into ungodly demons who bring sadness everywhere and sucked out souls from nearby person. Was it not enough that the Ollivanders and the other tribes had started to use those wands instead of the runes which we have used from long ago since we know about our gifts. They have discarded the usage of runes completely instead relying on the sticks which they use as a conductor nowadays fulfilling the words long spoken by The Oracle. I am the last of my tribe holding the knowledge of our precious history and art, the leader of our tribe had brought a ruby crystal which was placed at the centre of ritual. While the ritual may have failed and turn the people who did not have the gift to those demons, the Ruby had been imbibed with the power to tear a gap and transport through the fabrics of reality and space which we have been trying to do. But alas the Ruby needs a sacrifice to operate and the sacrifice must be heavy along with a large amount of magical energy. Beware because The Ruby will automatically react when a powerful source is nearby, I had stilled the leaching done by it for the moment. The charms on the box will not last long but it will be enough for centuries to hold the power of Ruby, the moment they fell off, The Ruby will latch itself into the nearest powerful magical source and activate itself. The effects are unknown but the leader thought that there was a chance that we could lose our magic completely in the process though it had been a vague guess by him as noone knew what would happen. I hope you could keep the ruby carefully as it is the last treasure of our tribe. I have left the runes needed to be drawn if one wants to perform or use the crystal after its initial use but enough power is needed which would need power even higher collective of our tribe."
"This is.." Delphini couldn't say about what she had read, if what she was reading was true than they had just learnt about the history of Dementors which was not known by anyone.
"I understand, though it explains everything now. The sudden disappearance of Severus and the half destroyed Elder wand" Narcissa spoke up with a pensive face.
"Elder wand, you mean the wand which is lying half destroyed on the table is the legendary Elder Wand" Delphini said in disbelief, as she looked at the half remaining wand.
"Yes and it had been in the hands of your father and the reason why your father decided to kill Severus as he thought he was the master of the Elder Wand but alas that wasn't true" Narcissa spoke up slowly, Delphini looked at the wand slowly and sighed.
"It makes sense as the charms would have been broken suddenly and The Ruby would have absorbed half of Elder Wand combined with Severus's magical power to transport a surprised Severus who wouldn't have known anything. The Ruby actually would have leached magic from him and something else" she continued with a pensive face.
"Ohh, what are we going to do Aunt Cissa?" she asked curiously as she wanted to know what her aunt was thinking with a concentration.
"If we could create enough magical power or sacrificial power then we could replicate what happened with Severus and maybe follow him to where he is. The idea is ludicrous but I am going to do it, besides I have already lived and seen so much. It would be a nice adventure for me" Narcissa spoke slowly and there was a tone in her voice that she was not going to back off.
Delphini looked at her aunt but didn't said anything, instead decided to follow her aunt words even though she had an idea what she too wanted to do.
"Delphi, if you want to back out then now is the time for it as for all of you" Narcissa warned her niece even though she knew that Delhini was as stubborn as her mother when it came to certain situations.
"I am not going to back down Aunt Cissa, besides you and I both know that I could never never get a happy life here, so I am going to try my luck in another world besides I won't leave you when you have been there for most of my life" she said with a sad and determined look aimed at her aunt.
"We be following Mistress and younger Miss Delphi" the house elves chorused behind her. Tilly and Riley as Narcissa was their mistress and same for Bessy who was Delphini's house elf given by her aunt to her.
It had been two months and they had started to pack for the rituals, her aunt and she had fought for the first time when she had told her that she was going to accompany her to the new world. After Delphini explained her reasons that she would be discriminated for her parents and that she wanted a new start somewhere had Narcissa finally relented. They had placed all the necessary things in pouches which were charmed with undetectable extension charms.
Money, jewellery and clothes which they had taken by emptying the Black, Lestrange and Prince accounts, the former two had a meagre amount as most of them were used for funding the Dark Lord in the first war. Narcissa had a claim to the Lestrange accounts as she was the sister of Bellatrix. The Prince Manor already had a room filled with gold and gems as it's vaults were mostly empty, Armand Prince had explained that how Severus had used alchemy to create them as he was reseaching to create the Philosopher's stone and how he stored the fortune in his magical pouch which was blood tied to him. He also explained the distrust the Prince's had upon the goblins and how they stored their wealth on heavily warded rooms which had blood wards placed on them. Delphini had taken the unfinished Stone as a possible source to sacrifice as the stone possessed high magical energy.
Delphini had taken books on medicines and herbs and various important plants both medicinal, some used in potions and some edible as seeds and some in cuttings which could be grown back and kept it preserved. Delphini had also kept some seeds of various fruits and placed them in different bags each labelled. Narcissa had been confused but Delphini had proclaimed that they could use it as they might end in a world which could be prehistoric or medeival with no growth in the sectors of medicine. They had also kept some necessary potions which they could use in an emergency. They had also kept some of the important potions with them which could be used in the cases of emergency such as the Blood Replenishing potions as well as some bezoars.
On a better note she had shown her aunt the potion she had found in Lord Prince's journals and after a day of thinking and mulling over, her aunt had finally agreed. Now both of them were metamorphmagus and Delphini very much liked changing her hair colour to various shades all day to suit herself.
She looked at the elf's and her aunt who were looking determined afterall the timing for which they had been doing two months preparation had arrived.
"You all ready" she asked as she looked at the elves.
Everyone nodded and Narcissa asked to Armand Prince portrait "you sure this compass works?"
"Indeed Lady Malfoy, the compass is imbibed with blood magic and point the location of anyone carrying the Prince blood" the portrait said as he explained more about the compass which he had said to take from the Lord's shelf.
"I hope it works the way you said" her aunt said simply as she placed the compass inside her pouch.
Delphini looked at her aunt and she couldn't help but marvel at the changes in the last two months. Her aunt had been pretty much excited and it confirmed her doubts about some unrelieved sexual or love tension between her and Lord Prince. She had a new light in her eyes nowadays which was never seen in her eyes before. All in all she looked like a carefree woman who was going for an adventure which they certainly were going to go. Besides her eyes lit up at the mention of the ultimate spy or Lord Prince's name as she finally knew that he was not dead and perhaps alive in another world.
"Now let's start" Delphini said as everyone braced themselves as she pushed her magic inside the runic circle and a white light emerged out of the ruby which fall upon them and they knew no more.