A/N

Love the reception to this

1) I received a few questions about Tonks's dad, I'm not sure what to make of his backstory yet, but I'm open to suggestions.

2) several people asked about the 'us' in the last chapter regarding Metamorphs. In my story, Metamorphmagi is a Black family magic, every Black, bar Draco(due to inbreeding that the Malfoys would probably be part of.) Has the ability, it's why Narcissa has two colors of hair in my story. Though it varies between people, The Black sisters can only really shift their hairs, eyes, and faces. Tonks and Harry can shift anything.

3) Hedwig...I'm thinking about having her be something other than an owl again, but I don't want the typical Pheonix. I am open to suggestions about what she is, looking forward to suggestions, especially any original ideas that I get.

Don't own Harry Potter

Betad by RegalGiant


Bellatrix stared at the locket Kreacher had given her, the Cup she had been given when she was under the dark lord's influence, and even the black sludge she had confiscated when she ripped the soul shard out of Harry. "Tom Riddle… how many times did you destroy your soul." She knew that Lucius had one and that the dark lord had taken a keen interest in the room of requirement she had found in her school years. "Kreacher, do you know of anything else that matches this magic?"

Kreacher wrung his hands, "master Regulus said he had found one in the old Gaunt shack Mistress, but he didn't dare go there when it was so close to the dark lord's filthy muggle father's mansion."

Bellatrix frowned, she could destroy these things easily… fiendfyre did that, but these were precious artifacts of history, she wasn't stupid. She knew that the way purebloods were going, they wouldn't exist much longer. Inbreeding was taking its toll and each successive generation was becoming stupider and weaker with magic. One needs to look no further than her nephew. Draco was arrogant, but had nothing to be arrogant about. His magic was only sub-par.

So she changed her beliefs from blood purity to preserving their history and traditions. Finding out why certain abilities were tied to blood like the Black family Metamorph ability, or the illusionist ability that the Greengrass family possessed. It was why she became a healer, to see if she could find why, or how, the abilities were tied to families, and see if she could revive old abilities that had long since faded in pureblood circles.

Standing up, she raised her Occlumency shields, her aunt always took so much out of her. "auntie."

Walburga Black opened her eyes, "Ah...you look good Bellatrix. What can I do for you?"

"Do you know how to destroy a Horcrux without destroying the object?"

Walburga blinked in surprise, "why would you wish to preserve the container?"

Bellatrix sighed, "well...it's Slytherin's Locket and Hufflepuff's Cup. They're precious objects of history." Walburga was staring at her suspiciously. "And Regulus gave his life to steal the locket from Tom Riddle."

That seemed to have broken the insane painting. She closed her eyes in sorrow at the mention of her lost treasured son. "Kreacher, give Bella my notes on Horcruxes. Thank you, Bellatrix." She said disappearing into the back of her painting.

"Here mistress. Everything mistress Walburga found about those awful things is in here." Kreacher held out a thick binder.

"Thank you, Kreacher."

Harry groaned as they appeared with a pop into a large entrance hall "Ugh… what was that?"

Tonks giggled, "that was apparition Harry. You're doing better than me. The first time mum took me I blew chunks everywhere."

Andromeda sighed, "that dress was never the same again…" she turned as Harry's face changed back to a human color rather than green. Her daughter had been helping Harry with his powers, so now he could shift on cue instead of just out of desperation like he did to hide from his cousin. It amused her that Harry seemed to resort to his female form as a sort of safety net when he was startled enough. They discussed it and decided that when Harry was in his female form, they would follow his mother's family tradition and would go by Rose instead. Since Daisy Evans had named her children Lily and Petunia, they thought a flower-based name was appropriate.

"So, where are we?" Harry asked looking around.

"You's be home master Harry!" The wind was knocked out of his body as a tiny creature slammed into his stomach and gave him a bear hug.

Andromeda smiled at the boy getting hugged to death by the elf, "this is Potter manor, where your ancestors have lived for generations. Come along, let us see if any portraits can teach you."

Harry pried the elf off and nodded happily. "yes! Comes this way, master Charlus and Missus Dorea have a portrait over here. They are the only ones to have a painting still working. Headmaster whiskers came and broke the others, so we've locked the library down and stopped him from taking anything."

Andromeda frowned and sighed, "well, first things first, take us to the ward book so Harry can fix it."

The elf nodded, "yes Missus Tonksie."

They came to a fireplace that was blocked off by a table, "master Harry needs to be placing his hand on that brick to get the ward book. After Headmaster Whiskers came and tampered with it, we've hidden it from him."

Harry touched the brick and was amazed as the wall seemingly vanished, picking up the book he opened it frowning when not only was Dumbledore's name was in it, Molly Prewitt was also in it. "What do I do now? And how did we get in if my name isn't in the book?"

"You own the place, Harry. You're probably the only person who doesn't need to be logged into the wards, and anyone with you is safe." Andromeda said.

Harry nodded and grabbed the quill that was sitting next to the book and crossed out the names, while adding the Tonks family and Bellatrix underneath it.

The door opened, startling them out of their sleep. The elves never used the door anymore for fear of the wards breaking. "Charlus." Dorea grabbed onto her husband's hand as a boy who looked remarkably like their son came in nervously, his hair shifting in color rapidly.

Charlus grinned, "that's a Black trait, but he bears the Potter features."

Harry looked around and gulped at the older couple standing above the fireplace, both looking down on him curiously. "Those are Lillian's eyes alright." The woman said.

Harry smiled nervously at his grandparents. "I'm Harry…"

Both elder Potters smiled down kindly, "we know who you are… before you had to go into hiding, your parents came to us and showed you to us… why did they take so long to come back?"

"They were betrayed and murdered that night, along with my cousin Sirius…" Andromeda said as she came in with Tonks.

"Andi!" Dorea smiled kindly, but that smile faded quickly. "Then… why haven't you brought us our grandchild?"

Andromeda sighed, "Dumbledore sealed James, Sirius, and Lilly's wills away. Then threw Harry to his muggle aunt. I've only just had him for close to 24 hours now. The only other person who knows is Bellatrix."

Charlus scowled, he had met Petunia once. She was not a good person, probably made an even worse mother from the look of Harrison. "I knew that the old man was up to something going through our house."

Dorea sighed sadly, "the Potters are down to one, and the Blacks seem to be down to two then…"

Andromeda smiled sadly, "Narcissa is still alive but she married a Malfoy… she's a trophy wife, and her son is an arrogant brat with no talent."

Dorea shook her head, "that doesn't surprise me one bit. I never saw dear Narcissa as a good mother. She probably spoiled her child rotten, and that's not counting the things Malfoy adds on. That child's skull is probably filled with delusions of grandeur that are entirely unjustified."

Andromeda nodded, "yes… little Draco is already strutting around like he owns the world." She smirked at her aunt, "my little Nymmie here is gonna put him in his place. Harry too once we can teach him how to control his powers better." Tonks whined at the Nymmie bit. "Draco doesn't have the metamorph trait though…"

Charlus laughed, "of course not. When that family first moved to England, they immediately began several blood feuds with us English purebloods. It's how they got so rich, but when they came after my great grandfather… well, father placed a blood curse on the bastards. One child per generation, the Malfoys would never be able to take other families' unique magic from them."

"Come on Harry, have a seat. I wanna know when your ability first manifested, and if anything else has been happening to you." Dorea turned back to her grandson.

Harry frowned, "like what?"

Charlus smiled kindly, "allow me to tell you a story my father once told me, and one your father was going to tell you when you were old enough."


Harry looked around confused, he was standing in a backyard… he didn't know where though. The house was badly damaged, a giant hole in the roof tended to do that.

Walking forward, he entered the house. It had been out of use for a long while. Wandering the place he came to a door near the fireplace. Inside Harry looked around amazed as the room wasn't damaged at all, a slight purr attracted his attention and Harry stared at the glowing golden eyes in the corner.


Harry sat up with a gasp and looked around, he was in his bed in the Tonks' house. Bellatrix opened the door looking confused, "Harry? What's wrong?"

Harry shook his head and ran a hand through his hair. "I saw a house, the roof looked blown out, a room hidden and undamaged, golden eyes inside waiting for me…"

Bellatrix frowned and met his eyes, the house flashing in his mind. "That's your parents' cottage in Godric's Hollow. The ministry and the death eaters searched that house top to bottom… what could've been missed?" She saw the door. Closing her eyes she sighed, it would be just like Lily to have a Fidelius in a room, inside of a house that was already under the Fidelius, and most magicals wouldn't even bother checking forwards in that house. "Get dressed Harry, let's go check it out, and remind me to begin you on your Occlumency… should've done that when you first came along. I know Snivellus and Dumbledore would read your mind like an open book."

Harry smiled as he pulled on his hoodie, after Bellatrix had taken him to Gringotts they had the Wills unsealed and found Padfoot's final prank in life.

Sirius had never thought Bellatrix willingly became a death eater, so in his will, he had named Bella his new 'godfather'. Even though she had been pissed at first, she had since become a dedicated 'godfather' and has been teaching Harry stuff that she had either learned as a child, or had learned since she got away from the death eaters and began studying healing. She even taught Harry ancient spells that have long been forgotten.

A crack sounded and Bellatrix stared at the place that had led to her freedom. Following the kid into the house, it was picked clean. Not a surprise. Pulling out a spare piece of parchment, she wrote down a reminder to get Harry to have the Goblins use the heirloom ritual to recall every item not already in the vaults that belonged to the family collection. It made her slightly eager to see what would turn up since Sirius had named Harry his heir, so naturally, some Black heirlooms long lost should be returned as well.

"Over here aunty Bella…" her heart skipped a beat at the title. She smiled as Harry seemed to push on a solid wall, and the thing seemed to split and open like a door.

Inside was a veritable library, "your mother was so much more than anyone thought…" Bellatrix said impressed as she pulled out some ancient books, books that not even the Black family had. Waving her wand, she conjured a trunk and shrunk every book before packing them away.

Harry meanwhile was looking around in wonder, his mother had been here. He blinked in surprise at the few boxes on the table. Picking up the notes he frowned, "Aunty Bella mum was getting into making wands." He held up a pure black wand, "it has your name on the box." He pulled out a piece of parchment from the bottom of the box.

Bellatrix frowned and took the note, she and Lily had been the best of friends despite the rift between the houses due to the rising dark lord, but after she had been forcefully made a death eater, she figured that Lily had cut ties with her.

Bells,

I write this now in hope that the Bellatrix I was best friends with is back, not this psycho running around with the dark lord. I made you a wand, this room is heavily warded and only Harry will ever be able to find it. If you have found this room, it means my best friend has returned and I know that between you and Andi, my Harry will be safe. Don't trust Dumbledore, his actions lately have been… suspicious to say the least.

Lillian.

Bella gripped the wand in her hand and instantly felt the connection. With a smile, she ran a finger down the length of her new wand, "always one to look ahead Lily…" sparks caught her eyes and she stared stunned as Harry was holding a strange wand that seemed to be wriggling around and changing colors. In the box she found another note.

Dear Harry,

I pray that I am the one to offer you this wand, but even sitting here watching you and little Nymphadora play with each other I know I won't be able to. Lately, I have been curious about your abilities, two young metamorphs able to shift better than both Bellatrix and Andi… I began to wonder what would happen if I used metamorph hair as a wand core, so I nicked a few pieces of hair from both of you. This is my greatest creation, eleven and a quarter inches, made from the wood of a changeling tree, the core is little Nymphadora's hair. I also made another one with your hair in it, and if I had to guess, that one will probably react to Nymphadora like her hair is reacting to you right now. Being created from two objects so magically based in transfiguration, this wand will be a complete natural at the subject, but it shouldn't be too bad in Charms as well.

Know that I will always love you my baby boy.

Lily, your mother

Looking up, she smiled sadly as Harry held the wand close, "this was my mum's creation… just for me."

Looking over the other wands she figured the white wand was Andi's. It had always been the joke that Andi and Sirius were the white sheep of the Black family. Picking up the boxes, she put them in her expanded pocket and looked around, "anything else around here Harry?" She turned and grabbed the two wand holsters from the now empty shelf. Couldn't have Nymphadora and Harry keeping them in their pockets.

As expected, the wand with Harry's hair as its core reacted rather strongly to Nymphadora, so for the next few years, they had begun teaching the two wand based magic in the dueling room of Potter manor and Grimmauld place. Not something strictly legal but Bella had been a death eater, forced or not so she didn't care much so long as Harry and Nymphadora were capable of defending themselves. Andromeda, while a little more hesitant, eventually decided to teach the kids non-wand magic, such as potions, herbology, runes, and Arithmancy.

Now Harry was standing next to Bellatrix as Andromeda smothered her daughter, "I can't believe you're already going off to Hogwarts! Oh, I'll miss you!"

Harry chuckled slightly, even after all these years he still disliked being touched. Only Dora was capable of doing so without warning and him not freaking out.

Bellatrix just wasn't one for public displays of affection.

Andromeda turned to Harry and laid a kiss on his cheek, "have you got everything? Where's Hedwig?"

Harry smiled, "she decided to go to Hogwarts by herself. More comfortable than being stuck in a cage in a train."

Andromeda smiled, "of course, now off you go." She pushed them towards the train.

Finding an empty compartment was easy, so they put their trunks up above and waved out the window. While wondering how their lives at Hogwarts would be like.