A/N's: I do not own, lay claim to, or make any profit off of anything Harry Potter! JKR owns Harry Potter and all that entails, I just play in a very small sandbox!
Chapter 2:
Preparation for Ritual
Oct. 15, 2000
Harry knows he needs a good night sleep before he locks down Potter Castle, and moves on to the ancestral home of the Blacks, BlackMoor Castle. Claymore, Harry calls and the little elf pops right beside her lord, Lord Potter be callings Claymore, "what can Claymore be doing for the great Master Potter"?
Claymore, Harry says, "I need you to lay out some fresh clothes for the morrow, have breakfast at 6 AM and wake me at quarter 6AM. We have lots to do, I want you to lock down the castle when I leave tomorrow and take care of my ancestral home till I come home with your mistresses again!
Claymore looks at Harry in awe and says, Master, Claymore's mistresses have gone on, what do you mean, new mistress?
Harry pats his beloved elf on his head and says no Claymore, I am either gonna bring them all back with me or you will have to wait on the next Lord Potter to claim the castle, but I will promise you now that I will be back!
Claymore smiles and says Master Harry will bees bringing them all home!
Master Harry, Claymore bez waking you up, breakfast is ready and your clothes are here!
Harry goes to the bathroom and takes care of his morning rituals and heads to breakfast. He then tells Claymore if what I plan to do works I will bring them all back and you will have a nursery full of children to look after and Mistresses a plenty to fuss over. Harry then silently apparates into Blackmoor Castle! Harry walks toward the Lord Black office and presses his Lord's ring to the signet and feels the wards accept his presence and enters. Harry walks to the wall behind his very ornate and expensive desk and places his hand against the top of the picture of his great Uncle Arcturus Black. He feels the slight prick of a pin that takes a drop of his blood and opens a hidden wall which reveals a pedestal with a old, thick, black grimoire that holds all the Black Family magics. Harry walks to the pedestal and there is a sealed envelope on the grimoire with Lord Black in old Celtic print laying on top! Harry opens the letter and it states:
Lord Harry James Potter-Black-Peverell:
You have the chance to change the past and right the wrongs that were never supposed to happen. Life and death were tampered with and you have been given the chance to repair this travesty and injustice. Use all your cunning, intelligence, the assets at your disposal wisely. Know that not only will you physically be able to travel backwards but your soul will be in the same place in two different bodies until they merge. Read and understand the ritual completely. Prepare not only your current body but your future self for the recombining of your soul. You will lose neither strength, power, knowledge or abilities at the merger on your 17th birthday. Look at page 376 for the Aman Cara Sein ritual, follow it to the letter, plan for everything you might need, carry all the knowledge you can, all the weapons you will need and the hopes and dreams of those who are present, those to come and more importantly those you have lost with you and don't waver, falter or fail!
May Morrigan be with you!
Lora
Harry reads over the ritual and finds that it is one that will take patience to draw the runes and the perfect 5-star pentagram, knowing he can make it work. He places the note between the pages of the grimoire and closes the hidden wall. Harry takes a seat in his office chair and leans back, he has some thinking, planning and notes to put down on parchment. He calls the BlackMoor Castle head elf Binks and tells him to get parchment, ink and quills which Binks snaps his fingers and they appear on the desk. Then Harry tells Binks to bring some sandwiches and tea, they have lots of work to do. Binks is all to happy to serve his master and he is back in minutes and asks "Master Harry what he will do now." Harry begins to tell Binks his plans and how if it works he will be back with all his mistresses, family and friends. But they had work to do before anything could begin to happen. Harry starts to write of the things he will take with him as he travels back to before he won the war but lost all that mattered to him.
Weapons:
Holly and Phoenix Feather Wand
Elder Wand
Invisibility cloak
Resurrection Stone
Sword of the Godrick Gryffindor
Head of House rings
Copies of both his parents and Sirius's wills
Specialty made Wand holster
It was at this point that Binks spoke up and said Master Harry, yous will need help of others when yous goes back there. Yous needs to takes friends with yous.
Harry looks kindly at his elf and says Binks I wish I could take you with me but I need you to stay here and guard Black Manor.
Binks looks so happy that his Master needs him to protect the castle but Binks says nos Master Harry as he looks up to the portraits of his Uncle and Aunt, Arcturus and Melania, they cans bes advising yous on things. Harry looks at Binks like he has grown two heads and says "Binks you are brilliant! We need to stop here while I speak with Arcturus because he is a master of planning, deceit, cunning and distributing vengeance while Aunt Melania is the voice of sanity and reason." Harry leaves the Lords Office and asks Binks to bring the portraits to the great room on the first floor. Harry asks Binks to bring some tea and snacks.
Arcturus, Harry says, please wake up we need to talk. I need advice and we need to plan for the return of House Black to its former glory, Arcturus pictures groans and says "who is waking me and it better not be that no good nephew of mine Sirius"!
Harry smiles at the mention of his godfather and says no Uncle it is me, Harry James Potter, Charlus and Dorothea's (Dorea as she was called) grandson, James and Lily's boy, the current Lord Black and the last remaining male of the Black line that hasn't been killed or kicked out of the family. I need your help. For the next two hours Harry tells Arcturus of all that has happened, how Andromeda was the last of his nieces that were still in the family and the death of her daughter during the last battle at Hogwarts. Of how Bellatrix had accepted the Dark Lord's brand and was a slave to a half blood. Of how Narcissa hadn't been marked but followed obediently for the sake of her piece of shit son, Draco, who currently resided in Azkaban, and her DeathEater husband, the deceased Lucius Malfoy! Harry wondered if she could be saved and reinstated to the family, that would have to take a back seat to the other things that to Harry were more important. He tells him of his defeating the Dark Lord Voldemort, of losing his wives to deceit and murder, of Bellatrix killing Sirius, of how Regulus wasn't a traitor he was made out to be and how he now intended to perform the Anam Cara Sein ritual and go back to right the wrongs done to their family.
Arcturus frowned for a few seconds and then asks Harry did he truly believe in what he had just outlined and did he think that one as broken mentally as Harry was would be strong enough to pull it off?
At this point Arcturus' wife Melania looked upon her great nephew with kindness in her face and said Harry, this is a extremely dire ritual that you are talking about using and the chances of you being able to do it is very slim. If it fails your soul will be lost forever.
Harry tells her he is sure he can do it and that he will not worry about the consequences of failure because without Hermione, Susan, Daphne, Tracey and Luna he was lost anyway! Harry states that Potter's are known for their stubbornness, Blacks were known for their cunning and deadly temper and he would use both to return his houses to glory once again!
It was at this point that Arcturus gave a devious and scary smile and said go get Charlus and Dorea's portrait and let us get started!
Later that afternoon after Harry had went to Potter Castle and retrieved his grandparents portraits and they all had a reunion of sorts since Arcturus, Melania, Charlus and Dorea as she was called were best friends.
Arcturus tells Harry to start at the beginning and leave nothing out as Charlus was a deadly fighter and Dorea was great at financial planning and also could be very devious and cunning at getting even at those that have wronged her family, she was a Black after all!
Harry tells them of how Voldemort had all but wiped out both the Black and Potter lines. He tells them how after killing Voldemort at the last battle of Hogwarts, the remaining supporters had ambushed and killed his wives. How he had hunted them all down and killed them and how he was ready to die but he had had a dream and met a Robed figure called Lora and was given a chance to go back and change what happened and save his loved ones.
They were talking late into the night when Dorea says Harry, what are your restrictions on this task? What can you take with you, how far back can you go, what are you allowed to change and can you eliminate them before this takes place?
Harry says he will see if he can gets answers when he goes to sleep. They talk for a little while longer and Harry decides to turn in and tells his family he will see them in the morning.
Harry goes to his bedroom and does his nightly ritual and climbs into bed. He calls Binks and asks him to bring him a sleeping potion which Binks does in a snap of his fingers. Harry downs it and settles in for a few hours sleep. Harry finds himself standing in his Lord's chambers and can tell he is in a dream standing before him is Lora.
Lora asks Harry if he has made up his mind and Harry says can I ask a few questions?
Harry asks what can I take with me, what am I allowed to change, how far am I allowed to go back, will I be strong enough to accomplish the task, and can I eliminate the Death Eaters before the commit any more atrocities?
Lora doesn't hesitate and tells Harry, you can take anything you have to help you complete this task, you can go back no farther than 2 years before your parents were killed. You can have your weapons and all your knowledge, any books or family items that will help you.
Harry tells Lora that he accepts the offer and that he will accomplish this or he will at least be with his family in the next life.
Lora tells Harry that he has more help than he realizes, he has more resources than he knows and he is overlooking some thing that will be clearer as he starts this journey.
A/N; Remember this is my first time writing so review and like, comment or ignore just let me know what you think!
A/N's: I do not own, lay claim to, or make any profit off of anything Harry Potter! JKR owns Harry Potter and all that entails, I just play in a very small sandbox! Also, this is my first try at writing anything other than a small sports column!
