Chapter 5: Meeting the Blacks and Potters
Lord and Lady Black enter Gringott's and tells the teller that they would have to reschedule their meeting to another day as they were heading home after a near fatal attack outside the bank. They then apparate to their townhouse at 24 Cheshire Dr in Chelsea.
As they appear a house elf named Binks is waiting and is asked to bring some wine for Lady Black and some of Ogden's finest for Lord Black, cause he is still fuming! A simple gong is heard as the wards let those inside know that someone is at the door. Binks answers the door and he looks at the man standing there and says, "I oughts to knows yous but I's not right now. Please enter and I will take yous to Lord Black."
The man in black enters and follows Binks to the parlor and there comes face to face with his Aunt and Uncle. He knows that this can go sideways in a hurry so he Griffyndor's up and takes Lady Black's right hand and gently brushes his lips across her knuckles and introduces himself. "Hello Aunt Melania and Lord Black!" Boom! The look of shock on her face and the look of wariness on Lord Black's makes him nervous but he says can we all have a sit and let me tell you about myself and why I did what I did in Diagon Alley. The man in black then says Lord Black before I start would it be possible to contact Charlus and Dorea Potter as this will also impact them, I would like to only go over this once and it will likely takes the rest of the day if not longer.
Lord Black walks over to the fireplace and throws some powder in and yells Charlus we need to talk.
A minute or so later the fire turns green and the head of Charlus Potter is seen and asks if he and Dorea can come through. As Charlus and Dorea come through the floo, Harry just stares and drinks in the sight of his Grandparents.
Lord Black offers refreshments to his guests and tells Charlus and Dorea what happened earlier that day in Diagon Alley. How they were going to Gringott's when this young man appeared out of nowhere and told them to get down, he then put a shield around them just as seven DeathEaters attacked them. Lord Black tells of the unbreakable shield that was placed around them and then the anti-apparition and portkey spells he silently cast. Then he described how this young man totally wiped the floor with the attackers, knocking them all out and unmasking them.
Lady Black then tells the Potters who the attackers were. Dorea, we were attacked by 6 sitting Lords of the Wizengamot, Lord's Vincent Crabbe, Sr, Thomas Mulciber, Sr, Avery Goyle, Amycus Carrow, Theodore Nott, Sr,, Evan Rosier, and Carrow's sister Alecto, if they will attack us in broad daylight then no one is safe.
Lord Potter, always the one to see big picture, says first we find out who your savior is, then we decide how to settle the debts those seven bought today! They all look at the man in black and tell him we appreciate your intervention, but just who are you and why did you do what you did?
The man in black stands and says, I am going to remove the glamour from my face and while you don't know me you will recognize the similarities we share.
First I will give a vow to show you I speak truly and then I need a vow from you to not reveal what I tell you to anyone until I give you the go ahead. This has to happen because what I am about to tell and show you is gonna be hard enough for you to believe but others will never believe and will band together to destroy our families.
Lord Black asks why should we vow anything to you when we do not know not who you are, where you come from, or what your agenda is?
It is Dorea who interjects that since they know who this is and since he saved their lives a vow of secrecy should be the least they could give as repayment for saving her brother and sister-in-law.
Harry then pulls his wand and says, I, Harry James Potter, swear on my life and magic that what I say today is the truth, so I say so mote it be! He then lit the tip of his wand with a lumos spell. They all then state the vow that, "I (name) swear on my life and magic that I will not repeat what is said here today to anyone unless given permission. So I say, so mote it be!" The man in black drops the glamour and says I am Harry James Potter, Charlus and Dorea's grandson and Lord and Lady Black's great-nephew! I am from the future and I have come back in time to save my family from the Dark Lord Voldemort and his goons! Of course this doesn't go over well as Harry figured.
Charlus states since I have only one son, James, and he just finished at Hogwarts and is only 20 and has been married less than a year, there is no way he could have a son much less one older than he is!
Lord Black takes it even further and says while you do have a few of the Black traits, I know every Black for at least three generations and I don't know you!
Lady Black ever the voice of kindness and reason says, he did say he was from the future and that he had come back to save his family which evidently we are, we at least need to hear him out.
Harry states like I told you I am the grandson of Charlus and Dorea Potter, I am the son from the future of James and Lily Potter, nee Evans. Lord and Lady Black, I came back to the time right before you were assassinated so that I could save you. Both of you have been such a great help to me and I could not but come back far enough to save you.
Lord Black says we don't know you so how could we have been any help to you?
Harry smiles and says, let me open my trunk and show you! Harry opens his trunk and pulls out two small wooden squares and without his wand silent enlarges the portraits. At first there is nothing but a blank canvas and Harry feels a little nervous before the color starts to come in the portrait and then both Lord and Lady Black and Lord and Lady Potter appear. The four living people looking at themselves in the portraits are stunned.
Lord Black in the portrait speaks and says shut you damn mouth before you catch flies and listen to the boy, what he has got to say and do will save our families and end the devil who calls himself Lord Voldemort. He will need your and our help (wait he looks at Charlus's Potrait and snarks can we really help ourselves at the same time)?
Portrait Dorea tells him to shut it they have important things to talk about! To prove he is who he says he is ask him a question that only you would know the answer to?
The living Lord Black asks his wife to step across the room and they whisper to each other about what they could ask that no one could know.
The live version of Charlus walks over and whispers, just ask him where and when me and Dorea asked for permission to court. They all agree that is a good question and they walk back over to the portraits, and
Lord Potter asks Harry, if these portraits are real, and you are who you say you are then tells us where and when me and Dorea starting courting.
Harry smiles and says Arcturus, Charles and Dorea were in the Slytherin common room when Charlus asked permission to court Dorothea Black, during their 7th year at Hogwarts and that Dorothea threatened Arcturus's life if he refused! Charlus grinned and Arcturus frowned and said "she didn't really threaten to kill me, but he laughed at the end".
Lady Black(Melania) speaks and says ok, now we know some of this we need to put these thoughts and doubts to rest.
Harry says to them all, I think it would be best if we went to Gringott's and had an inheritance test done to prove who I am and where I fit into the family, it will also give you confidence in knowing I am here to do what I have stated! Lord Black, Lord Potter and Harry agree to go to Gringott's and get the tests done while Melania and Dorea talk with the portrait to get more information for themselves from themselves!
Gringott's December 1, 1979 afternoon
Harry under his glamour again with Lord Black's and Potter in front of him enter Gringott's Bank. They walk up to the open queue and Lord Black asks to speak to the account manager of the Black's account. The goblin slips out of his chair and disappears behind a door only to reappear a minute later and says follow me. They are lead down a long hallway and down a long flight of stairs to a room with a golden encrusted door that had a sign on it that says Sharpeye, Black Account Manager! They are shown inside and offered seats and refreshments.
As Sharpeye enters the room they all stand and Lord Black says, good afternoon Sharpeye may your enemies die on your blade and their gold line you vault! Sharpeye replies, well met Lord Black may your enemies quake at your name and their women serve you at your leisure as he grinned at the three men. How may I be of service to you today?
Lord Black speaks and says we need a lineage test, inheritance test, and age test for this young man here.
Sharpeye looks at Harry and says it seems I should know you but with these tests it will prove whether you are truthful or whether you face goblin steel today, Harry just smiles. Sharpeye starts to gather some parchemnt out of his desk and the reaches for an ornate silver bowl and a short wicked goblin dagger.
Before he can tell Harry what to do Lord Potter speaks up and asks if Griphold, the Potter Account Manager could also watch this? Sharpeye tells them that time is money but since this could affect the Potter accounts he would call Griphold! Sharpeye tells his attendant something in goblin(Harry smiles cause he speaks goblin fluently) and soon Griphold enters the room and sits to the left of Sharpeye. Sharpeye then speaks to Harry and says you will need to put 20 drops of blood in this bowl and then I will add this lineage potion and we will see who and what you are.
Harry takes the blade and slices it across his palm just deep enough to draw blood and lets the required number of drops fall in the bowl and he then makes a fist and his palm is healed.
Sharpeye mixes in the potion and then he asks Harry to take the red quill (Harry knows what this is, especially after Umbridge) and signs his name across the top of the parchment that Sharpeye had slid across the table. The page starts to fill in and Lord Black, Lord Potter, Sharpeye and Griphold all stare in astonishment:
Name: Harry James Potter-Black
Father: James Charlus Potter
Mother: Lily Jade Potter: Nee Evans
Grandfather: Charlus James Potter
Grandmother: Dorothea Alsa Potter: Nee Black
Godfather: Sirius Orion Black thru Godfather ritual
Godmother: Alice Marie Longbottom, Nee: Davis thru Godmother ritual
Official titles:
Lord Peverell of Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Peverell
Lord Slytherin by right of Conquest
Lord to be of Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter
Heir to be of Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Black
Future Lord of Unnamed Houses by Right of Conquest
To say that Lord's Potter and Black were surprised would be an understatement.
Lord Potter looks at Harry and then Griphold and says can this be true? My son doesn't have a child yet?
Sharpeye interjects that blood is never wrong and isn't magic a wonderful thing!
Lord Black asks Sharpeye for a copy of the tests and tells him they are through for the day as time was money and they had other places and things to do!
A/N's In this story Alice Longbottom is a Davis, the Aunt of Tracey and Lily's middle name is Jade, my choice!Remember this is my first time writing so review and like, comment or ignore just let me know what you think!
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!
