Word soon spread fast about the condition of the boy who lived. Their savor was infertile due to a backlash of the elder wand that Michael Potter now Lord Potter won from Voldemort. It was also said that James and Lily couldn't bear anymore children due to the attack on Halloween 1981. Now the Potter family was about to face extinction a fear that every pureblood feared above all else. However during a conference hosted by Albus Dumbledore revealed some information about a relative that was living in the muggle world. Thousands of reporters for the Daily Prophet demanded answers about this relative's existence.
"One at a time" Albus said.
"Albus Dumbledore, Arianna Drake for the Daily Prophet, you said that the Potter family had a relative living in the muggle world. Why is that?"
"That relative of ours was a Squib, and Michael's little brother Harry James Potter." James answered her.
"Why didn't you reveal your youngest's existence before?"
"Were you ashamed that you birthed a squib?"
"What will become of the Potter family now?"
Albus silenced the crowd with a blast into the sky from his wand. He told them that James and Lily will answer all of their questions as best they can. He then gave James the sign to speak.
"We weren't ashamed of our son, no we love him" James stated. "It would have been wrong for us to let him live in a world that he couldn't be a part of. Which was why my wife and I sent him to the Muggle world to live with relatives of Lily."
"Mr Potter what can you tell us about what the Dark lord said about Michael using stolen magic that was taken from his own brother? Did Albus truely transfer your youngest son's magic to Michael to boost his own magical core?"
"After the attack on Halloween and the defeat of Voldemort Lily and I were enjoying the limelight from Michaels fame. The three of us were basking in it so much we never realized we were neglecting Harry. When the boys turned five years old Michael was not showing as much accidental magic as he used to when he was young. We called Albus and a Medi wizard and they told us that Michaels magical core was barely above a squib. We panicked and asked if there was anything we could do to help Michael. Albus told us of an old ritual that would transfer the magic of one person into another if they were the right age and had a connection. Albus suggested using Harry since we saw Harry wasn't performing any accidental magic at all since the attack so we thought he was a Squib. After all that the ritual was performed to transfer what ever amount of magic Harry barely had into his brother and Michael was fully magical once again." James explained.
"But why perform a dark and illegal ritual?" A reporter asked.
"Due to the large number of death eaters still roaming around it was best to have Michael at full strength in case any decided to attack the Potters." said Sirius.
"After the ritual was completed Harry told us that he couldn't feel his magic anymore and asked us what we did" said Lily. "We then explained to him about the magical drainage of his brother and how we had to give his magic to Michael. I'll never forget the horrific expression on his face. Harry was silent for a while and blew up in our faces with a temper that rivaled my own. He demanded that we return his magic which enraged me and I hit him. After that moment Harry faced us again and then he...he called me a Mudblood!"
The reporters gasped at what they were told. The Potters were the iconic light family and to hear that Lily's own son called her the most degrading word brought a chill down their spines. Lily sniffled and wiped her tears as James put a hand on her shoulder. Another reporter asked what happened after the confrontation.
"Harry grew distant and cold to us, he never apologized to Lily. At first we pushed it off as rebellion but soon it got worse. He never joined us in family outings when we asked for him to join us. Every time we went to visit a friend like Sirius, the Weasleys, or the Longbottoms Harry would always stay home and stay in his room all day. Every trip we planned like Quidditch Games, musical concerts, or going out to dinner Harry would always refuse or just come along and not show a single expression of having fun." James explained about his youngest cold distant son.
"We became so worried that we called Albus and he suggested that it was time to send Harry to the Muggle world where he wouldn't be bothered by us ever again." Lily explained speaking up again. "Albus told us that the longer Harry stayed in the magical world the more dangerous he would become if his hatred for us taking his magic will foster and grow."
"Did you ever go to visit him?" Risa Veil asked.
"Yes we visited him at my sister Petunia's house on his birthday every year. We would stay for an hour or two and give him our gifts. But the sad truth was he would never smile and kept that cold look on his face whenever he came into contact with us. The next day we found the gifts we gave him back in the manor unopened. We thought Harry asked Mrs Figgs his magical guardian to send them back. It broke our hearts that Harry would reject the gifts we bought him. I bought him a muggle bike and James bought him a stuffed animal deer to resemble Prongs. But they laid in the manor on the table unopened. Seeing there was no way to please or make Harry happy we cut our ties with him and James disowned him."
"I think Lily has had enough talking about Harry any other questions?" Sirius said coldly.
"What will be done to preserve the Potter family line since none of you are able to reproduce the next generation?"
"That's simple I have sent word to Harry explaining the situation. I recently found out my son married a squib from the Parkinson line and is now the father of four children, three sons and one daughter."
"But you said you disowned him!"
"Yes I did" said James. "But when I found out Michael couldn't bare any children our hope turned to Harry, I reinstated him and asked that one of his sons carry on the name of Potter to ensure the name doesn't die out."
"But will Harry Potter agree?"
"You said the boy despises you"
"He will agree since his brother is Lord Potter" Sirius said smugly. "Besides he has no magic so he won't be a problem"
"Harry Potter will come to understand that all of this was for the greater good. It was thanks to the magic transfer that Michael had the power to fully and utterly destroy lord Voldemort. If we hadn't done it then Voldemort would still be walking around." Albus responded.
"So what will happen with Michael Potter now?" Another reporter asked.
"Michael will be married to Ginny Weasley even if he can't reproduce. Many wizards live happy lives without children so this will be no different." James smiled. "With Harry's son's carrying on the Potter family lineage and the Black Family lineage due to Sirius making Harry his heir when he was only a year old Michael won't have to worry about the family dying out."
"Besides after twelve long years I'm sure Harry has gotten over his petty hatred for his parents and will come to reconcile with them. Especially since Harry now has a wife and children of his own. I know that Harry will not keep James and Lily from being part of their grandchildren's life." Albus smiled with that twinkle in his eye.
Michael soon took the stand at the podium as reporters asked him questions about what he thinks of all this. Michael gave a few answers to some of the really personal questions.
"Well as Lord Potter it's my job to ensure the continuation and well being of the family. Do I want to force this upon Harry? No! But I have to ensure our families survival. As father said I'm infertile and my wife to be Ginny knows that but doesn't care about that." Michael responded.
"Lord Potter do you believe this will hurt your relationship with your brother?"
"I haven't seen my brother since he was five years old, so I can't really answer that. However it might destroy any chance of me getting to know him but I'm willing to live with that if it means keeping the family line alive. I love my brother! Even if he hates me."
"Will anyone be involved in this drastic situation?"
"The ministry of magic and the minister Cornelius Fudge has agreed to help. It was decided that either Harry let's one of his sons become heir to the Potter family or he will donate sperm to be used to get my Ginny pregnant so the Potter line will continue."
Michael was making a tough decision but that came with being Lord Potter. Sometimes you have to do what's right for your family and sometimes you must make sacrifices to ensure the family survives. He could only pray and hope that his brother where ever he is will forgive him for the decision that he was about to make. The rest of the reporters asked more questions before Cornelius stepped up and announced that a new law was passed.
"A new law was just passed to ensure the survival of dying families and that it is any fertile member of the family must produce at least one of two children to ensure the continuation of their family. Harry Potter from what I was told had bore four children to continue the lines of four pureblood families that he became head of. However by the law of the Ministry of magic Harry Potter and his wife Lady Peverell nee Parkinson must bore one or two children to continue the Potter and Black Family. Failure to do so will result in the Black Family fortune being turned over to Draco Malfoy who is the next in line if Harry fails to bear a child for the Black family within a year. Half of the Peverell family vaults will be handed over to the Potters if he fails to provide an heir for the Potter line." Cornelius stated firmly.
The conference ended with all the reporters leaving to get their stories ready to be put in tomorrow's edition of the Daily Prophet. The Potters and Albus Dumbledore regrouped and were planning on how to find Harry and have perform his duty of family preservation. The only problem was that no one knew where Harry lived or the location of any of the Peverell properties. But they believed once Harry recieved the prophet and read the article then he will have no choice but to comply with their wishes.
Peverell castle, Wiltshire Ritual Room
The house elves finished performing the runic circle with a star in the middle. Four carvings were on each end of the star, a sun, moon, the runic symbol for life and death and the runic symbol of magic itself. This was an ancient ritual that was performed in the third century by a woman named Hoshi Nishimuru a priestess of the first queen of Japan Himiko the sun queen. It was first performed to give Himiko the power of the elements and the ability to perform spiritual magic like soul and blood magic. It was also performed to share ones power with another. It was then declared illegal by Japan's first minister of magic for he saw it as an abomination believing that it could give Muggles the ability to wield magic which was unacceptable in his eyes. The ritual was kept secret in the Peverell family, a direct bloodline of Queen Himiko and was never used until today.
Harry took his wife's hand as he led her into the center of the star. He was feeling uneasy about this as he asked his wife if she truely wanted to go through with this. Catherine informed him that she would follow him anywhere. She could sense her husband's uneasiness about the situation but she assured him that everything was going to be fine. After all she was excited about finally being able to use magic.
"Harry my love you have nothing to worry about. This ritual will give us the ability to perform magic at any given time. Well me mostly considering that you managed to regain your magic after seventeen years. I'll be able to protect my children from any magical threat despite the fact the Peverell castle has the greatest wards next to Hogwarts." Catherine said.
"But this ritual can kill us if anything goes wrong and you know as well as I do that if anything happens to us then our children would have to go to James and Lily due to them being their grandchildren despite the blood disownment i performed on myself when I was sixteen." Harry answered her with worry in his voice as he didn't want to risk her life.
"I'll stick by you regardless of the danger and besides I already wrote my will before the ritual was set up. I wrote it so that my boss and his wife would have custody of the children."
"You didn't tell me you wrote a will"
"Its always good to have a backup plan if anything goes wrong besides he's a Muggleborn wizard so he will be perfect for the children since I told him our history."
"Master" Twinkle interuppted. "The ritual is ready all master and mistress have to do is speak the incantation and the magic will pull and split masters magic and place one of it into mistress Catherine. Now join hands."
Harry let out a small breathe as he took his wife's hands into his and faced her. It was time and he hoped that it worked. Catherine was the light of his life and he would share anything with her including his magic. Seeing that his wife was ready he spoke the incantation.
May mother magic come and bless us this night
To share divine power in her holy sight
I ask thy mother of magic to split my power
That I may share it with my lover
The runes glew with rays of gold and silver as magical strands connected and took the form of tree branches. The branches wrapped around the two bodies as magic coursed through the wood like a raging river and into the bodies of the humans it contained. Harry was not afraid and neither was Catherine as she felt her magical core filled with the potent magic from her husband. It caused her magical core to expand and open the pathways through out her whole system filling them with magic.
I Harry Peverell formerly Harry Potter ask this of thee
That my magic shared with my wife be wild and free
May you bless her and fill her with light
Let her bear my magic with hope shining bright
Catherine felt so warm as Harry's magic was filling her. The warm sensation told her that everything was going to be fine and that she will be blessed by mother magic. She felt the mother of magics presence and still she showed no fear.
The split is finished with this power as a cure
May she use it forever as magic most pure!
They were engulfed in a white light as Harry sealed the ritual with a kiss. The magical energy from both of them combined and tied their souls and very life energy together. When the light died down and the runes faded Harry asked Catherine how she felt. Lady Peverell felt strangley powerful but a little sore as the magic would have to get use to her body. Harry was happy that the ritual worked and that half of his magic was coursing through his wife's body. This will symbolize how deep their love for eachother goes. They gazed into each others eyes for a bit before a sound of crying broke the silence. They chuckled as they knew their children were awake from their nap.
"Well looks like the kids are wide awake dear" Harry chuckled.
"Indeed my love you go get them and I'll get their milk ready." Catherine chuckled.
Harry nodded as they left the ritual chamber to go tend to their children. However they didn't realize what would come to fruition when performing the ritual. For on the other side of the world deep in the magical sector of Japan an ancient magic was about to be awoken. But what could it be? No one knows for sure. But if anyone could sense it then they would see that it was potent magic never seen for many many centuries.
Gringotts Branch: Japan
Deep in the lowest parts of the Gringotts bank a strange light emitted from Vault number 8496 which some of the goblins noticed. The vault belonged to the Sun Queen Himiko of Yamatai. Her vault was sealed after her death and it was blood sealed and would only unlock itself when a worthy heir of her lineage would come and claim it. It also contained some of the most darkest and most dangerous works of magic that not even Himiko herself would dare touch. The very sight and the eerie feeling from the magic inside of the vault creeped out anyone or anything that even went close to it. All creatures goblin and human alike stay clear of it and for good reason. A group of goblins were guarding the nearby vaults when they felt the magic from the vault unlock itself.
"Himiko's vault it's finally been opened?" Goldtooth spoke.
"Yes indeed it has but who could the heir be?" Axeblade asked.
"Maybe the goblin king Ragnok might now" Silvertongue replied. "After all he was the one who did business with the Queen."
"Let's just hope the heir doesn't fall to temptation. Mother Magic only knows what kind of magic Queen Himiko stored in her vault. She was known as the death queen for a reason." Goldtooth shivered.
"You worry to much" Axeblade scoffed.
"Maybe I am." The goblin retorted. "But I have good reason to."
"Your just being paranoid" silvertongue laughed.
"I hope so" Goldtooth groaned. "I really really hope so"
Well there you go everyone the second chapter. I hope you all like it, it took me all day to think of what should happen in the chapter. Enjoy the chapter everyone hope you like it.
