Harry Potter belongs to J. K. Rowling, I am just playing in her world

Wanted

Croaker and the team that had been on active coverage of Bones, waited disillusioned around Moody's property. He was getting his feed from the charms on Bones' clothing and boy was he getting a ton of information. Dumbledore evidently had been right in how critical Potter, or rather the witch Black now, was to removing Voldemort and the death eater problems from them. He wished he had a way across the lockdown wards.

The ideas that Potter or Granger dreamed up were more intriguing than the ones the research department thought to look into. They could add whole new fields of magic. Bypassing the trace where none had even thought that the trace might not actually be linked to the seventeenth birthday. Then there was to ability of managing to get him or rather herself two viable magic names. Would that enable a loop hole against the unbreakable vow? If he had agents use this along with a quadruple star's name could he create deep cover agents with multiple aliases?

Perhaps he could get himself added as part of the compromise contract agreement allowing Black the consort option. He wanted to test these three witches, train them even. He was confident his department would benefit from them. He knew that Potter hated attention. Well when, as it had to be 'when' for their world's survival and not 'if', they had beaten Voldemort they could let Potter take all the fame. Then Heather Black could live her life free from the fame and social circus that she despised. He had known he would not be able to get Potter into the unspeakables. Thanks to Heather he now could.


On the tapestry the date stabilized and the name changed. "Does this mean the marriage contract agreement is voided?" Heather hopefully asked. Thinking as hard as she could that they would let her know it was. I mean she wasn't Heather Jabbah Black any longer according to the tapestry so even if it did list her birthday as October thirty-first nineteen-eighty-four verses the hoped for eighty eight shouldn't the agreement not be valid as it didn't list her new full name nor the year eighty-five. Now her name was 'Heather 'Capella' Jabbah Black'. She was concerned that the 'Capella' was in quotes and italics though.

"It is almost definitely still active." Madam Bones replied. "The name 'Capella' is an added name, slightly more legal than a nickname but unnecessary for legal documents. The easiest way to explain this as you were muggle raised, yes that should work. I believe in the muggle world when a child finishes the religious training to be confirmed they often add a name. This name would have as much legal standing as a confirmation name."

Heather looked over to her mum and dad hoping they could say something helpful.

"If it is like a conformation name then it has no legal standing whatsoever." Mum unfortunately told her. "They are not required as part of any legal documentation. Why is the year eighty-four and not eighty-five as you expected?"

"Maybe the birthdays of the two, namely of Harry and Hermione had more weight than the date of the contract and date of drinking the polyjuice potion. Or possibly as our law requires the agreement in place for a minimum of ninety days prior to the wedding, magic actually requires the witch to be twelve when the agreement goes active not just be twelve on the day of the wedding. The other possibility is that magic is a complete stickler and has the time twenty-one-o-six on the thirty first as your birthday and as a marriage ceremony is done before the sun sets you would still be eleven at the time of the wedding. Even if the wedding was on your birthday if the year was eighty-five." Madam Bones replied trying to puzzle it out.

"There is good news though. I can force Augusta to allow several years until the marriage has to be consummated as the bride is only just thirteen on her wedding day. This would enable you after the year waiting period, to be able to have the spell cast that would return you to Harry.

"I am unsure with the quadruple if Heather would then be listed as having died. More likely just as both names now are viable, both would still be. Once Heather is Harry he could be in a relationship with the witches he desires. Neville would be happy with his wife Hannah. Even if there were bleed through back to Harry from Heather it would only prevent Harry from being with another wizard." Amelia informed them. She kept quite that if Augusta demanded a son with the consort contract and Heather was still considered an alternate identity of Harry that she might not have the option to avoid the contract completely. It was pointless to worry about what might or might not be. Especially to worry now as it would not become something needing immediate attention if she could delay it for a few years.

"I sort of prefer being Heather." Heather quietly stated. Inside she still didn't believe magic could force this on her. She had enjoyed escaping the whole boy-who-lived, but suddenly the grass was not looking greener. Her half-kneazle side made it hard to not just enjoy the fun of the moment. However, the half of her that was girl was worried. Could her amazing girlfriends help her or was this beyond them? The gnawing worry made her withdraw into herself.

"Well you will have to decide if you prefer Heather enough to be Neville's consort. I will only be able to get a delay of a few years from the required consummation of the marriage." Amelia stated.

"Seven years." Luna declared. "It is a nice magical number and would ensure the witch was completed with schooling. It will give Heather plenty of time to decide what she wants to do. Plus time for us to hopefully find a loophole to get out of everything. Also the Abbots and Neville's grandmother are not to know that Heather was Harry. They should truly believe that Heather Black is twelve but took the polyjuice to avoid the trace and accidently got one of Hermione's hairs too."

"They will wonder where Harry is." Amelia told Luna. "What of Hannah and Susan, they will feel hurt if you keep this secret from them? Even if they don't know what the secret is they will know you are keeping something from them, especially as they never see Harry with you."

"We will get the Black wards to only allow the three of us access to the attic. We will state he is busy fighting and operating out of the attic where he has his own exit. Harry always was rather anti-social and if we only allow Hannah and Susan access to our fourth floor and keep everyone else on the lower three floors then it should work without forming suspicion." Luna said.

Hermione had been unable to talk and let Luna take the lead. It wasn't fair. Heather finally escaped all the garbage associated with Harry's life only for this to occur. Why hadn't she remembered about the Black naming convention. She had even mentioned it as important to magical names. Would Heather forgive her. Trying to appease Madam Bones so she could start researching a solution she offered a compromise. "As we get to know Hannah and Susan we can decide if we want to include them and if we do then they, Neville, my parents and you should be able to keep down the suspicion of the others. In fact we might not even need to include the girls." Hermione stated.

"I hope you do include them, they will know they are being left out other wise and feel imprisoned as they have to be in this house but you are keeping something secret from them." Amelia almost begged. "I think with them you could keep the others in the dark without any suspicion."

"Talking about suspicious where are all the portraits? There are now none in the hallways except Sirius's Mother. With my eye I see all the rooms are without them and they had them last time I was here." Professor Moody inquired.

"You've taken down the wizard portraits? They're a line of defense. They alert you to trouble in another area of the house." Madam Bones incredulously declared. "What have you done with them?"

"They're all in the attic except Sirius's mum that is in the entry foyer with a curtain covering her. Even though Kreacher fully accepts me as mistress of the house none of us can take down her portrait. I was thinking of having the wall knocked down." Heather guiltily told her.

"They are not really there. It is an impression of the person that is good for advice and helps with grieving a loved one lost and provides warnings. Do you think you are being watched, spied on?" Amelia tried to understand their aversion to wizard portraits.

"No until last night I only wanted to get rid of Sirius's mum. Unfortunately after last night's attack on Hogwarts we inherited a lot of portraits and stuff from Hogwarts. I had been sleeping apparently with a prior Headmaster, Phineas Black, in my bedroom and he wanted to get everything he could out of Hogwarts and behind the lockdown wards. The new residents are a bit pushy especially the ones that lost their portrait in Hogwarts and had to piggyback off a friend. Those blame me for not getting their picture out." She failed to mention it was actually Dumbledore that requested the aid from Phineas's portrait and left out that all seemed to allow Dumbledore into their frames, who tried to force her to listen to him. In fact the only portrait she had that refused Dumbledore to enter her frame was Sirius's mum.

"So you have the sleeping portrait of Dumbledore, can you let me know when he wakes up? I need to talk to him." Moody asked.

"I will let you know when he is finally awake the first time that I next see him and he is." Heather stated, she wasn't technically lying, but she definitely wanted all contracts finalized before anyone spoke to Dumbledore. She didn't put it past the wizard to get her married to Ron or he managed to force her to be Harry or both. The magical world seemed to do whatever Dumbledore told them to do and she wasn't going to risk it. She would take being a consort to Neville and having to provide him a son before she would let Dumbledore dictate anything more in her life.

"As we have discovered that it was easy for Heather to be tied to a marriage by contract. Do we need to worry about Hermione and Luna?" Mum asked, not happy that her baby seemed stuck being a consort at minimum and worried for the other two girls. The magical world seemed barbaric. Luna had suggested they search for a loop hole. She hoped they could find one in those seven years.

"As long as they don't sign and agree to anything like accepting gifts accompanying legal documentation they don't have to worry. They don't have the partial creature problem that removes legal rights." Amelia stated and then saw two Siamese half-kneazle girls where Luna and Hermione had been before.

"Why? Luna your trace was recorded inactive last December and Hermione yours was recorded inactive before that. Why did you take the polyjuice potion too?"

As Luna replied "Best fish dinner ever." A comment that made absolutely no sense, Hermione replied. "Solidarity," her answer really was not that much better. It seemed to inspire Heather to drop her glamour though so all three were in their current half cat true forms.

"Augusta owes you for what she has done I will see if I can get a seven year consort option engagement with Neville that either side can chose to opt out of so you are protected from a more demanding contract and after becoming fully human can have it cancelled.

"Could we have the agreement let us take the last name Black? Then we could think of ourselves as married to each other." Hermione asked.

Madam Bones looked at Luna who nodded that she liked the idea then looked at the Grangers. "Do you agree with that? I could have the options on both cancelling being a consort and cancelling the name change to Black be separate options so they could chose to opt in or out of either or both during the seven year engagement. Once it is filed no later filed contract could be forced on either girl. If you do accept the name Black do not drop the consort option until you are fully human. Because as Black's you are worth more as you provide access to the lockdown wards so you must be fully human or under another contract to a wizard so you are not forced into a contract like Heather was."

The doctors looked at each other and then at the girls. "I think it is a good idea." Dan stated with his wife agreeing. It would protect the other two so they could concentrate on getting Heather out of trouble.

"So we're like half identical twin kneazle sisters and each other's' wife, yes?" Luna asked and after getting confirmation she tackled the other two into a pile on the drawing room floor. Her energetic force in addition to the other two's surprise enabling her to bring down both the taller girls at the same time. A ball of orange white and black rolled around the feet of the adults. Luna then started tickling both of them which might not have been a good idea. Hermione between gasps looked at Heather and they came to an agreement and ganged up on the smaller girl.

"Right, well you want to restrict access of the fourth floor to the girls and your parents, and the attic to just you three, correct?" Madam Bones asked after the rambunctious teenagers finally stopped for a breather and waiting for the nods as they stood up straightening their respective clothing. "So do you know the spells to key parts of the house to specific signatures?" having got three negatives she said. "Well let me show on this door frame as it is easiest. Note where you start and stop is the keyhole so on a door frame I recommend starting where the latch will be when the door is closed.

"There are three words to the incantation and you want to say them evenly and time it so that you are finishing the third word as you are returning to the starting point. Of course a circle is easiest but most of the times the openings like a doorway are rectangular. When rectangular you should try to imagine your spell going into the walls or wood railings so the opening is within your imagined larger circle though you traced the rectangular opening with your wand.

"The larger the opening the more magic you want to push into the spell. Now my spell will limit all magicals except Heather as this house is hers and she can trump any area that was limited by another. Now as Hermione's parents are muggles they will not even notice the spell and can cross it with no problem. If you want to restrict them from the attic then you are going to need a muggle repelling ward and I will teach you that later as it is harder." She didn't add she was going to talk to the Grangers' first to see if they wanted to allow the girls to create an area that excluded them.

Madam Bones took out her wand and pointing at the open door frame where the handle of the door would be when closed she traced the rectangular opening saying, "Praecano veneficium magus". The door frame glowed blue for a few seconds before dimming.

"Now I can walk through this opening." Amelia stepped into the hallway and back into the room. "Your parents can too." She indicated to the two Doctors and both walked out and re-entered. "Hermione want to try." Hermione found herself stopped a few feet away from the door way. "Now having cast the spell you add the people that you want to allow by pointing at the keyhole and casting the next spell and holding it to allow the one you are adding to approach and cast the same spell on the keyhole.

"Heather, guess what?" Luna suddenly said interrupting Madam Bone's lesson as she had just thought something interesting.

"You're the youngest so you need to listen to your older and smarter wives. I am three years eight and half months older than you. I am not the youngest any more you are." Luna continued before getting any response from Heather. To show her maturity she proceeded to stick her tongue out at Heather.

"I am sorry Madam Bones. Luna you are behaving as the youngest and rudely interrupting Madam Bones. So behave while we are learning this ward." Hermione scolded Luna.

"Thank you Hermione. So if Hermione you have your wand ready there is no wand movement you are just going to approach after I unlock the entry so you can point your wand also at the keyhole so its tip is about two to eight inches away. And say the same thing that I say. "Patitur." A pale yellow light went from the wand to the keyhole and Hermione found she could now approach and cast the same spell. "Now Hermione should be able to enter and exit." Hermione happily found she could.

"As Heather is the owner of the house she can push against the feeling that tells her she needs to stop and will cancel my spell. I recommend either Luna or Hermione practice casting the spell to ensure it is where you want it. If it is exactly in the right place then add Heather to it. If it is incorrectly placed you can have Heather approach and she will be able to cancel the incorrectly placed spell. This way you don't need to hire a ward breaker to bring down your mistaken sealed entry points. Well unless you have already added Heather before you realize it isn't where you want it.

"You should also note this spell tends to want to follow wood or stone. So on a stair well you are best to start from the top of the newel post of the banister, follow it down to the floor, along the floor in front of the stairs to the wall, and up the wall to the ceiling, along the ceiling until back above the newel then finally through the air to the top of the newel. The top of the newel is a fairly obvious keyhole, and the section through the air was done last. The section through the air is the weakest and will tend to flap a bit. You can also instead of doing the vertical barrier at the foot of the stairs do a horizontal one around the hole the stairs cut through to get to the next floor. Just remember to do the sections of air last and try to have an obvious keyhole to enable the ability to add more people later."

"So while you are practicing that and setting up the barriers can I be allowed to leave the lockdown wards so I can talk to everyone and get all the contracts formalized. Also is your floo connected?" Amelia asked.

"Yes my floo is connected for outbound traffic only. Kreacher," Heather called. "I need you to listen for Amelia. When she calls your name I need you to bring me to her."

"Yes Mistress, should I start preparing rooms?"

"Thank you Kreacher, please do that. Have the Hogwarts house elves help you get all the rooms fixed up. Is Dobby still taking care of Winky?"

"Dobby is; Winky will need a few more days to get better." Kreacher replied before leaving.

"You are providing the magic for all of the Hogwarts house elves, Heather?" Amelia asked stunned.

"No apparently the lockdown wards provide them more magic than Hogwarts gave them. I only have one or possibly two house elves drawing from me." Heather answered, then seeing the confusion. "I've never got a straight answer from Dobby on whether he is bonded to me or truly can survive as a free elf where none of the others seem to be able too. As Heather I am not his favorite person so I haven't asked recently."

"Well I need to get going and get the additional agreements put together. Heather if you would force yourself out of the drawing room it will pull down the ward I placed on the door. Then if you show me to the floo I will leave."

Heather forced her way through the door, and confirmed it was gone as there was no longer a pressure to move against and Luna who hadn't been keyed in was able to now freely leave too. They headed downstairs to the kitchen and floo exit.

Amelia threw a pinch of floo powder onto the flames after casting a spell to light the fire in the fireplace. However, the flames did not turn green. "I thought you said the floo was turned on for outbound traffic?" Amelia asked.

"It was working yesterday." Moody told her.

Kreacher suddenly popped in. "Mistress Black, Fang-eared-Wheezy states death eaters are attacking the Ministry."