A/N: So this chapter may be a bit longer than the previous one, but that should be a good thing for you all… LOL… Here is the next chapter of this story… There will be some prompts in this chapter from Gringotts Wizarding Prompt Bank Prompts Galore forum! Enjoy!
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Word/Phrase Prompts: Alliterating Phrases: 125: Turn the Tables
Word/Phrase Prompts: Alliterating Phrases: 101: Shape Up or Ship Out
Word/Phrase Prompts: Alliterating Phrases: 104: Sink or Swim
Word/Phrase Prompts: Alliterating Phrases: 95: Rant and Rave
Word/Phrase Prompts: Alliterating Phrases: 51: Hard Headed
Word count: 2,575 words
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Harry blinked several times before he finally opened his eyes up. He couldn't help, but smile because of the fact that he could feel Sirius lying beside him still. He knew then that everything had truly happened and that it hadn't been a dream. He couldn't contain a sigh of relief. When he felt Sirius run a hand through his hair he knew that the older man was awake. "You really are here."
Sirius smiled as he ran his right hand through Harry's hair again. "I really am here, Harry. How do you feel after getting some much needed sleep?"
Harry turned around so that he could look at Sirius. "I feel more refreshed than I have in a long while. There is a lot that I need to tell you, but I'm not exactly sure where to start. There has been so much going on in the last two days that my head feels like it is spinning."
Sirius nodded. "I can understand that, pup. Why don't you start with how you knew to do an inheritance test to begin with?"
Harry shrugged. "I was sitting in my bedroom at Privet Drive and was thinking about the last three years at Hogwarts and I wished that I wouldn't be in danger again when I returned to Hogwarts for my fourth year. Shortly after I thought that Fawkes flamed in and shook his tail at me so I grabbed it and he flamed me to Gringotts where I first talked to Master Silverblade and then Director Ragnok himself. Director Ragnok or Ragnok as he told me to call him had me do an inheritance test, a creature inheritance test, and a test to check for potions and spells on me."
Sirius chuckled. "Well that explains how you knew about doing an inheritance test then. I could kill Dumbledore for not telling you about your heritage. So what happened next?"
Harry pushed himself into a sitting position and then leaned against the headboard of his bed. He shot a smile at Sirius when his Godfather sat up also. "Ragnok asked me if I knew anything about my parents' wishes which of course I didn't and could see what he was subtly hinting at so I asked to see mom and dad's wills. Since I asked Ragnok was able to unseal them and I read them. Tomorrow we will be having the wills read to everyone who was named in the will. Anyways, I read the will and then did all the tests. I found out my inheritance and also found out that my magic is bound."
Sirius swore. "Dear Merlin! Harry, you need to get your magic unbound and soon because if you don't it can kill you."
Harry nodded. "The Goblins are going to unbind it for me probably tomorrow when Daphne and the Goblins do a complete check-up on me. Now let me tell you what else I have found out, Siri. I also found out that the Dursley's were receiving money for me, but yet they never spent more than maybe a knut on me. Oh and get this I own the house that they live in and I own Grunnings where Vernon works. I asked Ragnok to have the Dursley's evicted from the house and charged back rent for the thirteen years that I have lived there. I also asked Ragnok to have a complete audit done at Grunnings to see if there have been any problems and that if Vernon as has stepped out of line once I want him fired."
Sirius smirked. "Good then they will pay for what they have done to you. I'll tell you now, pup, if Amelia Bones even has an inclining of what the Dursley's have done to you she will go after them."
Harry shrugged and smirked. "Right now I could care less. They deserve everything that they get for what they have done to me. The whole founders heir thing came to light when I asked Ragnok if it was normal for someone to have a dream about someone long dead and he then told me about the other three founders heirs and what he thought was going on. So today I met up with Luna Lovegood, Susan Bones, and Daphne Greengrass. Well you know the rest because it appeared in the newspaper. Oh I did have a horcrux in my head, but the Goblins did a ritual which got rid of it. Tomorrow will be the will reading and then Daphne and the Goblin Healers will do a full check-up of me followed by getting my magic unbound. Ragnok told me when he first discovered that my magic was bound that they would unbind it, but I didn't think to ask to have him do it today while they took the horcrux out of my head."
Sirius smiled softly at his Godson. "You really have made sure that Dumbledore can no longer control you, Harry. I am proud of what you have done, but I am also worried. You just turned fourteen years old and now you have the weight of the world on your shoulders, pup. I understand why you have done what you have done, but you need to make sure that you let us adults help you so that you don't run yourself into the ground. I will be damned if you grow up completely without behaving like the teen that you are."
Harry blushed. "I just thought it was about time that someone should turn the tables on Dumbledore and I was in a position to do just that. For far too long he has used people for his own use and it is time that it stops. I am NOT a fucking pawn and I won't let him use me like one any longer. I know that Ragnok did a quick look through on transactions on my trust vault, but he was going to do a complete audit. I do wonder if he has found anything else. I know that Lady Greengrass was going to do some shopping for me, but I wonder if she got it done or not. I'm not sure if she did because I just wanted to get back here so that I could write you. Well that and I was just drained from what I had to go through to get that soul piece out of my scar."
Sirius shook his head. "You do look much better than when I first saw you a couple of hours ago. So you are the true heir of Salazar Slytherin. I bet that is going to piss Voldemort off when he finds out. Now you do realize that since you are the Pendragon, Emrys, and Le Fey heir well now Lord that you will need to go through all the laws that have been passed and make sure that they are fair and just."
Harry ran a hand down his face. "I know, Sirius, and I have no doubt that it is going to take me forever to do that. I am actually hoping that you, Remus, Hermione, Madam Bones, Lord and Lady Greengrass, and Madam Longbottom will help me with that. I know that the werewolf laws will need to be repealed and stricken off the books which I will take great pleasure in doing. I will not have anyone discriminated because of their blood or anything else. Things need to change or we are just going to keep having Dark Lords pop up. Luna, Susan, Daphne, and I will have to go through the charter of Hogwarts and rules and regulations. We won't stand for the bullying that has been happening and Ravenclaw house will find themselves on probation except for the first years and some of the other students."
Sirius frowned. "What is Ravenclaw house doing, Harry?"
Harry scowled. "They have been bullying, Luna! They take her things and hide them so that she can't find them. She walked around with no shoes last year during winter and nobody did a damn thing about it. That is going to stop and those that did it and those that knew about it, but didn't even try to stop it will feel our wrath. I won't allow Luna to be bullied any longer. I wasn't strong enough last year to stop it, but I am this year and they will learn just why they shouldn't mess with Luna. They will shape up or ship out, Sirius, because I'm not going to see her hurt this year when I can stop it."
Sirius' eyes hardened. "It sounds like it is time for them to learn a hard lesson, Harry. When you guys get to Hogwarts you need to make sure that Filius knows that it is time for his house to either sink or swim. I'm going to teach Luna a couple of spells that will make it hard for people to steal her things. I'm also going to teach all of you a few tricks so you can easily tell who is bullying who even if nobody comes forward to tell on the ones doing the bullying. Are you ready to go downstairs?"
Harry took in a deep breath and let it out. "I'm ready, Siri. Sorry that I laid that all on you, but I needed to let it out before I blew up. I didn't want to let it out in front of Luna because I didn't want her to think I was mad at her."
Sirius stood up and pulled Harry off of the bed and into his arms. "Anytime you want to rant and rave just come to me, Harry. I don't mind at all being your sounding board. I don't want you to think that you can't come to me about something because I will ALWAYS be here for you no matter what. You are not alone, Harry, and that is something that you need to remember. One of the traits you got from both your mother and father is that you are hard headed, so more than likely we will have to remind you of that several times before you start to really believe it. Now, we really should join everyone downstairs. Oh and you do realize that you accepted the Black Lordship so you are the head of the Black Family now including me."
Harry paled. "Oh my God, Sirius, I'm so sorry. I will relinquish the Black Lordship to you."
Sirius waved a hand. "I never wanted to be Lord Black, Harry, and my grandfather knew that. He did however make you the heir since you were my heir. He wanted to keep the Black Lordship out of the hands of the other family members because of how they acted. Before my Grandfather died he came to visit me in Azkaban and told me what he was going to do because he knew that I was innocent. He asked me for my opinion and I told him to make you the heir with me as secondary heir. That is why it showed up on your inheritance test. Do not think for one second that you took something from me because you didn't. Harry, I spent twelve years in Azkaban and I'm still healing from my time there. You being Lord Black is much better than if I was Lord Black because I'm not sure I could make the choices that need to be made until I am one hundred percent better. Understand?"
Harry thought about it for a minute and then nodded. "I see what you mean, Siri. I just didn't want to take your rightful place."
Sirius ruffled Harry's hair. "I want you to take it. I know that you will make sure that the House of Black is once again a respectable house. Besides with you being the Head of the Black family then nobody can claim that House Black is a dark family because anyone who knows you even just a little bit knows that you aren't dark. You will need to look into seeing if you have anyone in the families that you are head of because if you do then you are in charge of them."
Harry closed his eyes and groaned. He then opened them and wandlessly cast the tempus charm to see what time it was. His eyes widened when he saw that it was after eight in the evening. "Bloody hell I didn't mean to sleep that long. As to what you just told me, Sirius, I will look into it in the coming days and weeks. Also tomorrow mom and dad's wills will be read publicly and you will be there at my side. If anyone dares try to do anything to you they will face the business end of my wand. I will NOT stand by and let some idiotic imbecile hurt you just because they think they know the truth. Although I would think there should be a Special Edition coming out announcing that you are innocent because Amelia told me before she left that she would get Fudge to sign the papers."
Sirius chuckled as he ruffled Harry's hair. "Harry, I am the adult. If anyone is going to hex anybody it is going to be me. I know that you are legally emancipated, but that does not mean that you have to do everything on your own without an adult firmly behind you like the other three have. We will get through tomorrow, Harry, and then afterwards we will do whatever we need to do in order to right all the wrongs that have been done. You are as stubborn as your mother and as your father so I have no doubt that you will bring the Wizarding World kicking and screaming into the twenty first century. I also have no doubt that you, Luna, Daphne, and Susan will make Hogwarts a premier school once more. You can do this, Harry. I have faith in you and so does everyone else who knows you. If you remember that then you will do just fine."
Harry grinned and threw his arms around Sirius. "I love you, Padfoot. Now we should go join the others. I do believe I have stalled long enough."
Sirius snickered. "You have stalled long enough, but you also needed to talk everything through, Harry. There is nothing wrong with wanting to talk to just me and spending time with just me. I am damn sure that everyone else understands, Harry. On the off chance that they don't understand one of us will then explain it to them. However, I am hungry now and I know that you must be so we should get downstairs."
Harry blushed as his stomach rumbled letting both him and Sirius know that he was indeed hungry. He held onto Sirius as he made his way out of his bedroom and down several flights of stairs to where everyone else was. He was excited yet nervous for them all to see and meet Sirius without him being cleared yet. Then again he did know that nobody that was in Potter Manor would turn Sirius in because they wouldn't want to face his wrath if they dared to do so. Well that and because he knew that they knew that Sirius was innocent of anything he had been accused of.
A/N 2: *smiles* This chapter could have been longer, but I didn't want to detract from the Harry and Sirius bonding at all... Next chapter will have several letters arriving, a second Special Edition Daily Prophet Newspaper, and plans for what Harry and the others want to accomplish... Hope that you all liked this chapter... Click the button and let me know what you think!
