AN: Sorry for the wait and thanks to all the readers and reviewers. I do not own Harry Potter.
Chapter Four
Aurora was sitting in the Room of Requirement during her free period right before classes ended and thought about the conversation she'd had with her fathers at breakfast. Dumbledore wanted Harry and Riddle to kill each other, thus destroying a prophecy that they'd bring about good changes in the Magical world, changes that Dumbledore didn't want. "What did the old man have planned for this year that needs Harry to compete in this godforsaken Tournament?" she murmurs staring up at the ceiling as she twirled her wand between her fingers, the twelve-inch piece of Blood Oak sung as it passed through the air, getting louder the faster it moved between her fingers. She continued staring up at the ceiling, lost in thought until the door to the Room opened, Harry, Hermione and Luna walking in. Casting a Tempus, Aurora raised an eyebrow at the time and was kind of glad she'd changed into regular clothes at the start of her free period. "You guys all ready?" The three of them nodded, looking around the room and probably trying to figure out how we were going to leave. "Who's first?"
Luna stepped forward, holding her hand out to Aurora. "I've always wanted to know what it felt like to travel through an aspect of nature," she breathes and Aurora grasped her hand, pulling the girl into a hug.
Harry and Hermione were left gobsmacked as a flash of light engulfed them and they were suddenly gone, the faint smell of ozone lingering in the room. Just as suddenly, Aurora was back and holding out her hand for the next person. "You can travel through lightning?" Hermione asks as she took Aurora's hand and they were gone, leaving Harry standing in the room by himself.
As Aurora arrived back, he stepped towards her, holding out his hand, asking, "Does it feel as cool as it looks?"
"I'll let you decide that for yourself," she says taking his hand and pulling him into a hug as her magic swelled around them.
He'd closed his eyes in expectation for it to be as uncomfortable as portkeying but when that feeling didn't happen, he opened his eyes. Watching the world speed past, he compared it to flying on his broom but a whole lot faster. "This is so cool," he yells over the sound of rushing wind around them and Aurora laughs, zigzaging a little before flipping them to land on their feet.
Hermione and Luna were standing where she'd left them, standing in an alley between Flortescue's and a new restaurant. "It's even prettier to watch," Hermione breathes and Aurora motioned everyone out of the alley and towards Gringott's. Marcus appeared with a blast of cold air and took Aurora's hand in his as they walked towards the big, white marble bank.
"I'm so glad they changed into normal clothes," Marcus murmurs and Aurora chuckled, though her eyebrow twitched in irritation when her eyes landed on Harry's regular clothes.
Aurora glanced up at him, cuddling closer to his side as she looked around the alley. "Harry's regular clothes aren't very promising in the 'he's not abused' argument Dumbledore keeps giving the goblins," she growls and Marcus nods, eyes narrowing as he notices the crowd growing around the three younger students. When Aurora saw what was going on, she growled and let go of him, elbowing her way through the crowd until she was standing right behind Harry.
A red-headed couple were standing in front of Harry, Hermione and Luna, keeping them from continuing on to Gringott's. "Harry, why aren't you at Hogwarts, where you're safe?" the woman says with false concern coloring her words and Aurora had to fight the urge to growl at her.
Harry looked at her warily, having caught the same edge to her words that Aurora had and clung to Hermione and Luna's arms. "One of my friends had something to do at Gringott's, so sje got permission to bring us along with her so we could get some extra things that had been on the list this year that we forgot to get, Mrs. Weasley," he answers and her eyes narrow, looking over his shoulder at Aurora.
"And who might you be, dearie?" she asks loud enough to bring the attention of everyone in Diagon to them and Aurora fought the urge to snarl.
Aurora stepped in front of the other three and held out her hand, giving Mrs. Weasley a cold, pleasant smile. "I'm Aurora Jezebel Sinclair-Prince-Black, AJ for short" she says waiting for the Weasley woman to shake her hand. "Or, in your case, it'll be Lady Sinclair. Am I right to assume that you're Lady Weasley?"
Molly Weasley's face turned murderous as it took on a hideous shade of red and Aurora fought to keep a pleased smirk off her face. "Sorry for keeping you from your business, Lady Sinclair," Mr. Weasley says grabbing his wife's arm and pulling her away in the other direction, leaving a stunned group of teenagers.
"Well," Marcus breathes coming to a stop beside them, "that was odd."
Harry looked just as confused, looking at Hermione. "Was that the same woman who sent me and Ron that Howler in second year?"
Hermione smirked, "She looked about ready to explode until Mr. Weasley grabbed her and pulled her away from us," she snickers and Luna giggled, hiding it behind her hand as they walked up the stairs, into Gringott's.
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Fenrir Greyback stood in the shadows of Knockturn Alley and watched the group of teens disappear through the doors of Gringott's, barely suppressing a roar of laughter at the Weasley woman's attempt to control Harry Potter. "Did Selene ask you to watch her son?" Narcissa asks as her and Lucius stepped out of a shop just inside Diagon Alley and Fenrir raised an eyebrow.
"Marvolo asked me to keep an eye on Harry," he murmurs and Narcissa nodded, flicking her wand at him. Fenrir's nose twitched as his scary glamour melted away, leaving him looking like his normal, handsome self. "He somehow knew that he'd be here with his friends and Marcus.
Narcissa nodded, motioning for him to come along with them and he rolled his eyes before stepping out of the shadows of Knockturn to walk beside them down Diagon. "Can you believe how much Aurora has changed, Lucius?" Narcissa murmurs leaning into her husband and glancing over the shop windows they passed. "Her and Marcus make a very striking couple, or they would, if Marcus would take that blasted glamour off."
Fenrir raised an eyebrow, glancing at Lucius because the only Aurora he knew of was Severus' kidnapped daughter and as fas as he knew, she hadn't been found. "Sev's daughter transferred to Hogwarts afer she became emancipated from the family Dumbledore had given her to," Lucius answers to the unasked question and Fenrir glanced towards the doors of Gringott's. "She was the burgundy-haired teen wrapped around Marcus' arm."
"Ah," Fenrir murmurs as Narcissa pulls Lucius into a shop and Fenrir follows, shaking his head at the Dragon-woman's child-like behavior. "That actually explains how she was able to piss off Molly Weasley in less than two point five seconds."
Lucius and Narcissa glance at him over their shoulders and seeing the serious look on his face, turned to face him. "She had a run-in with the Weasley woman?" Narcissa asks eyes glimmering in curiosity and Fenrir nodded.
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Aurora skipped down the long hallway, leading the others in the direction of Ragnok's office and whistling an American rock song that none of the others knew. Coming to a stop outside the door, she knocked and waited for the big goblin to answer the door. A gruff, "Come in," was uttered from inside the room and Aurora pushed the door opened, motioning the others into the room before stepping in and closing the door behind her. "I thought you were only bringing, Mr. Potter?"
She lifted her eyebrow at the goblin before smirking, "I may have thought Miss Granger would need a Heritage Test as well." Ragnok gave her a brief nod before sitting down in his seat, looking at the others and turning his attention back to Aurora.
"You don't have to do that," Hermione murmurs and Aurora glances at her, "but Heritage Tests are expensive."
"So, I have enough gold that I could pay for all of Hogwarts to get a Heritage Test and it wouldn't put a dent in it," she snickers and everyone but Marcus and Ragnok looked at her with wide eyes. "I want to see if there's anything interesting in your families."
The two of them stared at her incredulously and Luna giggled, hiding it behind her hand as she coughed to cover when the other two looked at her, eyes narrowed. "I'll do it if you and Luna do, as well," Harry murmurs and Luna pursed her lips, looking at the big goblin sitting behind the desk.
"Okay then," Aurora chuckles, "that's settled." Glancing to Ragnok, the goblin smirked, revealing wicked-sharp teeth and pulled open several drawers in his desk. Placing four polished, white quartz bowls in front of each of them as he pulled four vials of a grey potion from the top-left drawer, emptying each vial into each one of the bowls as he stood up. He opened the cabinets behind his desk, pulling four pieces of parchment and four, plain white quills before turning back to the desk, castting one of each next to the bowl of potion.
"Please put four drops of blood into your potion and wait for it to finish changing color," Ragnok says and the four of them each pricked a fingertip with the Ragnok had handed to Aurora before he started speaking. Aurora watched as her potion turned a shiny crimson. "Once that's done, I need you to dip the quill in the potion and leave it in for five minutes." As everyone followed his instructions, Ragnok retook his seat as he kept his eye on the clock sitting on his desk. "It's done, now, take the quill out of the bowl and place it on the parchment, if the four of you have done it right, the quill should begin to move over the parchment by itself."
Harry's and Aurora's quills had barely touched the parchment when they took off, flying across and down the parchment, Hermione and Luna's moved a little slower. "Why are AJ's and Harry's moving so fast?" Hermione asks glancing away from her own quill and parchment to look how everyone else's was doing.
Ragnok glanced at the bushy-haired witch for a couple of moments, "The faster it moves means the spells, blocks or potions that were once or still are in a Witch's or Wizard's system," hr answers and Hermione's eyes widened as she glanced back at her two friends.
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Once Molly and Arthur Weasley arrived back at the Burrow, Arthur walked out to the shed were all of Muggle technology was and began to tinker. Molly glared at her husband's back until she could no longer see him before running to the fireplace and throwing a handful of floo powder in, called Albus. "Hello, Molly-dear, what did you need?" he asks and Molly gave him a small smile before a murderous look was back on her face.
"I just saw Harry, Hermione and that Lovegood girl in Diagon Alley with someone named Aurora and Marcus Flint," she snarls and a dark look passed over Albus' face before he hid it.
"Thank you, Molly," he murmurs, "I'll take care of it."
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Marcus watched as all four quills came to a stop at relatively the same time, noting that Aurora's and Harry's were about even in length and Luna's was the shortest. "Who wants to go first?" Ragnok asks and Luna held hers up in front of her, giving the other three a small smile as her blue eyes swirled dreamily. Luna was about to start reading when there was a knock on Ragnok's door and the big goblin stood, eyebrows furrowed in annoyance. "William, I'm in a meeting, what did you need?"
Aurora glanced over her shoulder to see the redhead from the day before standing outside the door and waved when he glanced behind Ragnok to appease his curiosity on who was in Ragnok's office.
He nodded to her before turning his attention back to Ragnok. "Dumbledore's here," he says and Ragnok froze before straightening up to his full height, staring down at Bill. "Apparently, my mother ran into some Hogwarts students in Diagon and told him that they'd been heading into Gringott's when my father had pulled her away from them."
Ragnok moved so Bill could come into the room and closed the door behind them, moving back around the desk to take his seat. "Lady Sinclair, did you by any chance have a run-in with Arthur and Molly Weasley on your way here?" he asks and the five teens sitting in front of him began to giggle, hiding them as coughs before the goblin could get annoyed. "I'll take that as a yes. She has informed Dumbledore that you are here and, unfortunate for him, I'm busy at the moment so I can't meet with him."
Aurora sat back in her chair and tapped her fingers on her thighs. "I don't even know why he's here," she murmurs glancing at the other three. "We all informed our Heads of House that we had business at Gringott's today after class."
Ragnok nodded, glancing over his shoulder at Bill who was leaning against the wall behind his chair. "He will just have to wait until I have a free moment during your appointment to deal with him," he murmurs and Bill snickered, rollig his eyes as he crossed his arms over his stomach. "William, if you wouldn't mind fetching Bloodshield, he needs to be here, in case that something unsavory is discovered in the Heritage Tests just performed."
Bill nods, pushing away from the wall and disappearing out the door, brushing arms with Marcus who'd stood to stretch and pop his back. Aurora felt a small zing of magic pass through both her and Marcus at the contact, Bill barely paused before slipping out of the room. Marcus glanced at Aurora who had slid farther down into her chair and seemed to be lost in thought for a couple of seconds before looking back at Marcus, a small, secretive smile pulling up the corners of her mouth. A small, black-haired goblin walked in at that moment to stand beside Ragnok's desk. "Hello, I'm Bloodshield, Head Lawyer for Gringott's Bank," the small goblin says and the others in the room dipped their heads at him. "You may continue with reading your Heritage Tests."
Luna nodded and coughed, bringing everyone's attention back to her before she began speaking. "Mine says, 'Luna Lovegood, daughter of Xenophilius Lovegood and Katarina Lovegood nee Grey. Heir to the Grey, Aisling and Ravenclaw Families.' That's the first I've heard of that," she murmurs glancing at Harry and Hermione before looking back at the words on her piece of parchment. "'Mates: Cedric Diggory (Alive) and Neville Longbottom (Alive). Under Inheritance and Creature Blocks cast by Albus Dumbledore. Inheritance: Seer (Full Block cast by Albus Dumbledore) (Block damaged by Luna Lovegood). Creature Inheritance: Moon Elf (Full Block cast by Albus Dumbledore). Under a 40% Magic Block cast by Albus Dumbledore.'" Luna's eyes had cleared of their dreamy look and were narrowed in anger.
"Oh no," Hermione murmurs as Luna's long, blonde hair began floating in the air around her and Aurora started to feel a chill crawl up her back as the magic in the room became heavy. "Luna, calm down, we can get angry once we're all done here and buy feel-good outfits that put a huge dent in one of AJ's vaults." Bloodshield had moved around the desk to collect Luna's bit of parchment, placing it in an empty folder that he'd conjured with a snap of his fingers.
"Love you, too, Hermione," AJ murmurs and Hermione sends her an apologetic look as she continues to try to calm Luna with the help of Harry. "I was kidding, 'Mione." Once Luna was as calm as they could get her, Hermione glanced down at her own parchment and Aurora saw her face go pale. "I'll go next." Picking her parchment up from the desk and rolled it so she could read from the top. "'Aurora Jezebel Sinclair-Prince-Black, daughter of Severus Prince-Black and Sirius Black. Lady of the Sinclair family and Heir to the Prince family. Mates: William Weasley (Alive), Marcus Flint (Alive), Unknown (Alive) and Unknown (Alive). Creature Inheritances: Dragon (Hungarian Horntail) (Active) and Demon (Blood) (Active). Under broken Mental Blocks cast by Johnathon and Valencia Jackson (Broken by Aurora Black). Under a broken Magical Block cast by Valencia Jackson (Broken by Aurora Black). Under a broken Starvation Hex cast by Johnathon Jackson (Broken by Aurora Black). Under a broken Wasting Curse cast by Valencia Jackson (Broken by Aurora Black).'"
Everyone in the office stared at Aurora as she placed her parchment back down on the desk as she was just casttling back into her chair when Marcus stood up, pulled her up into his arms and casttling back into his chair, a growl vibrating in his chest. "Are Marcus' eyes supposed to be that color?" Harry murmurs causing Aurora to look up at Marcus.
Ragnok coughed as Bloodshield gathered Aurora's parchment and added it to the same folder as Luna's, both goblins looked furious beneath their masks of calm. "Marcus' Creature is very protective and realizing what his mate's gone through is troubling him," Ragnok sats in answer to Harry's question. "Maybe you should go next, Miss Granger."
Hermione looked up from her piece of parchment and looked around at everyone in the room before dropping her gaze back to the piece of paper held in her hands. "'Gemini Ophelia Lestrange, daughter of Rudolphus Lestrange and Bellatrix Lestrange nee Black. Heir to the Lestrange Family. Mates: Fred Weasley (Alive) and George Wealsey (Alive). Magical Guardian: Albus Dumbledore. Under Creature Inheritance Blocks cast by Albus Dumbledore. Creature Inheritances: Shadow Elf (Should have been active since September 19th, 1994) (Full Block cast by Albus Dumbledore), Vampire (Should have been active since September 19th, 1994) (Full Block cast by Albus Dumbledore) and Dragon (Unknown Hungarian Horntail; Inactive) (Full Block cast by Albus Dumbledore). Under a Loyalty Compulsion cast by Albus Dumbledore, keyed to Albus Dumbledore and Ronald Weasley. Under a Love Potion (Inactive) keyed to Ronald Weasley. Under a Blood Adoption to David Granger (Muggle) and Aria Granger nee Santierick (Squib). Under a 40% Magic Block cast by Albus Dumbledore.'" Hermione was furious by the time she was done reading, her knuckles white from clenching around the edges of her parchment and she seemed to be biting her lip to keep from doing something. "Why would Dumbledore do something like this?" No one in the room could answer her question for certain so no one said anything and she handed her parchment to Bloodshield who added it to the folder he was holding.
Once Hermione had managed to calm herself, everyone looked towards Harry who had been looking anywhere but his own parchment and he glanced at everyone else in the room before looking down at his page. "I..." he breathes looking up at Hermione and Luna before taking a deep breath. "'Hadrian James Potter-Black, son of Lily Potter nee Evans, James Charlus Potter and Regulus Black. Heir to the Sinclair, Potter, Black, Gryffindor and LeFey Families. Mate: Tom Marvolo Riddle (Alive). Magical Guardian: Albus Dumbledore. Under Creature Blocks cast by Albus Dumbledore. Creature Inheritances: Metamorphmagus (Will become active on July 31st, 1995) (Full Block cast by Albus Dumbledore), Dragon (Hungarian Horntail) (Will become avtive on July 31st, 1995) (Full Block cast by Albus Dumbledore), Demon (Species Unknown) (Inactive) (Full Block cast by Albus Dumbledore). Under a Loyalty Compulsion cast by Albus Dumbledore, keyed to Albus Dumbledore and the members of the Order of the Phoenix. Under a Love Potion (Inactive) keyed to Genevra Weasley. Under a Nightmare Hex cast by Albus Dumbledore and keyed to Tom Marvolo Riddle. Under a Servitude Compulsion cast by Albus Dumbledore and keyed to the Dursleys. Under a 70% Magic Block cast by Albus Dumbledore. Under a Blood Glamour cast by Lily Potter.'" Harry's magic exploded outward, destroying several glass pieces in Ragnok's office and Aurora stood up, walking over to stand by his chair.
"Harry," she murmurs touching his shoulder and he flinches at the contact as year start falling from the corners of his eyes. "Everything will be okay, I promise."
He looked up at her, green eyes shining with more unshed tears and he wrapped his arms around her waist, burying his face against her stomach. "Thank you, AJ," he breathes and she motions for Hermione and Luna to come over to help comfort him. "I never would've known, Dumbledore never would've said anything and I would've gone through life, married Ginny and probably would've died sometime after, leaving everything to her."
Aurora's eyes narrowed and suddenly a pair of silver wings were wrapped around Harry, Hermione and Luna as Aurora's Dragon and Demon natures combined to protect the younger children. 'I swear, Dumbledore, if that was your plan,' she thinks tightening her wings around them and glancing at Marcus over their heads. "I think we should get them cleansed as soon as possible," Aurora growls and Marcus nods, glancing at Ragnok.
"The Ritual Room is kept prepared for cases such as these, we can head down immediately," the big goblin says before Marcus could say anything and stood, pressing a brick in the wall behind his desk. A piece of the wall slid open and Ragnok motioned them ahead of him through the tunnel leading to the Ritual Room.
Marcus stood and walked around the desk, leading the group down the short tunnel as Aurora, Ragnok and Bloodshield bringing up the rear. "The cleansings should only take about an hour," Bloodshield says as they arrive in the huge, cavernous Ritual Room.
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Albus glared at the small goblin sitting behind the desk in the private waiting area and sneered when the goblin would glance away to scratch something onto the parchment in front of him. "How long will it be until Ragnok is ready to see me?" he asks the small goblin behind the desk.
The goblin looked up from the scrap of parchment in front of him. "Head Goblin Ragnok is in a meeting with some of his personal clients," the goblin says returning to what he was doing before Albus began speaking, "he will meet with you when he's available." Feeling dismissed, Albus' eyes narrowed and he returned to his seat, silently fuming. About ten to fifteen minutes later, Albus began to feel a pull at his magic before three strands of different-colored magic, ranging from medium to large ripped free of his magical core and disappeared. "Are you alright, Mister Dumbledore?"
Albus glanced up at the goblin as he clutched the arms of the chair he was sitting in and grit his teeth. "Perfectly fine," he answers and the goblin raised an eyebrow before shrugging, returning to his work.
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The Ritual Room was bustling with activity as the goblins in the room readied Harry, Hermione and Luna for their cleansing. Aurora was standing a little away from their Ritual Circles and tried to remain calm at the sight of Harry's too-thin, scar-riddled body. The worst, in Aurora's opinion, were the words that had been carved into his skin and Marcus' hand in hers kept her from leaving the room to search for Dumbedore to rip his face off for placing Harry with those damn Muggles. The words shone dully in the light from above and Aurora tried to block out her rage at their existence. 'Whore,' shone on his arm, carved so big that it took up the whole expanse from wrist to elbow, 'Freak,' was carved into his right shoulder blade, 'Bitch,' above the waistline of his boxers in the small of his back and 'Monster,' down the left side of his chest. Marcus, feeling her emotions begin to swirl angrily, wrapped an arm around her waist as Ragnok moved to stand beside them. "Alright," he begins turning his attention to Harry, "Mister Potter, Miss Lestrange and Miss Lovegood, the cleansing ritual will remove every block, compulsion, spell and potion on you, as well as any glamours or Blood Adoptions."
"I want Albus Dumbledore and the Dursley family charged with abuse," Aurora hisses between her teeth and Ragnok nods as Harry's gaze is pulled to her before she walked over to stand at the edge of his Ritual Circle. "Is there something wrong, Harry?"
He stared at her for a moment before his eyes filled with tears. "Where am I supposed to go, I can't go back to the Dursley's if what you just said is going to happen and I don't want Dumbledore as my Magical Guardian, it gives him too much power over me," he whispers and Aurora wanted to hug him but knew that she couldn't step into the Ritual Circle, it would contaminate the Purifying Magic inside the circle.
Aurora glanced over her shoulder, motioning for Marcus and Ragnok to come over to the two of them. "Who all can become Harry's Magical Guardian?" she asks once they both were close enough to hear her.
Ragnok glanced at her before snapping his fingers, summoning a folder from his office. "Those eligible for guardianship over Harry are yourself, both your fathers, Augusta Longbottom and Narcissa Malfoy," he answers and Harry glances at Aurora.
"How are you eligible to become my Guardian?" he asks looking from Aurora to Ragnok and back again.
Bloodshield stepped forward to stand beside Ragnok, "As Lady Sinclair is emancipated and, technically of legal age, she can become your Magical Guardian," he says looking over the other goblins as they busied themselves preparing for the cleansings. "And she is Grey, Neutral, in any war that may come, as lomg as her family is left out of it."
Harry's eyes fell on Aurora again as the other goblins signaled Ragnok that the cleansings could begin. "I'll think sbout it and make a decision once we're done," he murmurs and everyone nods, moving back from the Ritual Circles as Ragnok gave the signal to begin.
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Tom was sitting in his office at Slytherin Manor, looking over the laws his people were trying to get passed in the Wizengamot, laws that would reverse the mess Dumbledore had made of the Magical World since he gained influence. Setting down the stack of parchmenparchment, he rubbed at his forehead and mentally reached out for Harry's mind, hoping to catch just a glimpse of what he was doing. A strong wave of pain hit him as he made contact with Harry's mind and he slumped back in his chair, breathung hard as he pushed through the pain Harry was projecting onto him. "What are you doing, Harry?" he murmurs as he pushed up a block between Harry's pain and his mind. "Let's think, you're in Diagon, Aurora needed to go to Gringott's and right now, you're in immeasurable pain. Is my little mate being cleansed?" There was a knock at his office door that snapped him out of his thoughts and caused him to straighten up, lifting the pile of parchments off his desk. "Come in."
Barty sauntered into the room, an overjoyed smirk on his face as he took the seat across from him. "How are things going here, Marvolo?" he asks and Tom raised an eyebrow before passing the documents across the desk to Barty, who whistled as his eyes passed over the first few. "You might want to start off with some of the smaller issues before taking on the Rights of Magical Creatures just yet, Dumbledore will shut you out if you immediately go for those."
The blue-eyed man nodded as Barty handed back the documents. "You aren't the first person to tell me that," Tom snickers setting the pages down on his desk. "How is Dumbles doing at the moment?"
"He's been nothing but angry since Snape's daughter showed up at Hogwarts at the beginning of the year," Barty chuckles leaning back in his seat as he watched Tom's reacrion to the news.
Tom froze, raising an eyebrow at Barty and leaning forward when he realized that Barty wasn't kidding. "Aurora is at Hogwarts?" he asks and Barty smirked, nodding. "I'm surprised that the old fool didn't have a heart attack at the sight of her."
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Marcus' arm around Aurora's waist was the only thing keeping her from tearing apart the goblins working on cleansing the three younger teens and she knew that the screams echoing through the room weren't exactly the goblins' faults. Hermione's screams became louder as the effects of the Blood Adoption disappeared and her body changed to how it should've been if there hadn't been a Blood Adoption in the first place. Bushy, brown hair became tamer-curled, black hair that fell down to her thighs and she grew taller. Aurora watched as her face began to change, cheekbones and nose becoming aristocratic, lips filling out into a fuller pout. When she opened her eyes, Aurora gaped and cocked her head to the side, staring at her. Hermione's eyes had turned the famous Rosier burgundy, a credit to the Vampire heritage in that family and she nodded in Aurora's direction before turning her attention to Harry in the circle next to her. Harry had grown taller, his shoulders a little broader and he'd filled in so that he didn't look quite so thin, his short, black, messy hair becoming long, slightly wavey and auburn, the same color as his mother's. Most of his scars disappeared, absorbed as the Blood Glamour, Aurora was quite happy to see the words and his famous lightning bolt fade away.
A blood-curdling scream filled the cavernous room and Aurora turned to look at Luna, who was now floating in her Ritual Circle. "What's happening?" she asks as Marcus' arm tightened around her waist when her emotions began swirling out of control again.
Ragnok's face hardened as he stepped forward to stand at the edge of Luna's Ritual Circle and touched the magic swirling around her, adding his magic to the mix. "Her Elf attributes weren't an Inheritance, she was born with them," he murmurs as she stops screaming and began float back down to the floor. Her blonde hair became even lighter, lengthening past her ankles as her ears changed shape, becoming pointed at the top and she opened eyes the color of snow with no pupil.
"That means Dumbledore tried to push her Creature back," Marcus murmurs glancing at Luna before going back to Ragnok. "He could've killed her."
Luna giggled as the magic in the room dispersed and she skipped around the room, coming to a stop next to Hermione. They linked hands and danced around for a moment before looking towards Harry who hadn't moved yet or opened his eyes. Aurora pulled free of Marcus' arm and walked over to check on Harry, coming to a stop in front of him, she reached out, grasping his shoulder. His eyes snapped open at the touch and gasped in surprise when she saw them, one still as green as the Avada curse while the pther was the same dark, stormy grey as the rest of the Black family. "Did I change that much?" he asks and his eyes widened at the change in his voice, he no longer sounded like himself. "My voice sounds kind of hot."
Hermione and Luna giggled, staring at him for a couple of seconds and he raised an eyebrow. "You also look hot, Harry," Hermione giggles causing a blush to rise up in his cheeks and both girls fell into a fit of giggles.
"Careful, keep looking at him like that and your mates are going to be jealous," Aurora snickers and the two girls blushed, looking away from Harry. "Just joking." They both glared at her and she chuckles, skipping over to Marcus, hiding behind him and wrapping her arms around his waist.
Bill stuck his head into the Ritual Room, glancing over Aurora and Marcus before turning his attention to Ragnok. "Lord Lestrange is waiting in your office," he says and Ragnok glanced at Hermione before looking back to Bill. "Apparently, he recieved a letter notifying him that his granddaughter, Gemini, has been found."
Hermione looked at Ragnok, who nodded again and motioned for everyone to head back through the tunnel to his office. "Let's not keep him waiting then," he says as everyone nodded, disappearing into the tunnel.
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Bellatrix Lestrange sat in the corner of her cell in Azkaban, staring blankly up at the ceiling and wringing her hands in the tattered fabric of her dress. There was a screech-like noise that sounded vaguely familiar to her and she glanced in the direction of where the noise had come from. A black, horned owl with the Gringott's seal on the chest was sitting on the ledge of the small window in her cell. "Come here, pretty owl, do you have something for me?" she asks and the owl leapt down from the window ledge, gliding down to stand in front of her, holding out it's leg with a letter attached. Untying the letter, she shooed the owl out the window and hid the letter under her as an Auror walked down the hall outside her cell. Once she knew the Auror wasn't coming back, she slid the letter out from under her leg and opened it as quietly as she could. 'Misses Lestrange, it is our honor to inform you that at precisely 1:36 pm today, your daughter was found. Sincerely, Head Goblin Ragnok.' Bellatrix stared at the letter grasped between her hands and felt tears prickling at the corners of her eyes. Folding the letter, small enough to hide in the palm of her hand and slid it into the arm of her dress before crawling towards the door of her cell. "Rudolphus," she whispers staring across the hallway into her husband's cell, "Rudolphus."
There was a shuffling noise from the cell across from hers before her husband shuffled into view and knelt down so he was on the same level with Bellatrix. "What is it, Bella, your leg still hurting?" he murmurs and she gave him a small, soft smile for his concern before reaching her arm through the bars, towards him as she plucked the letter from her dress with two fingers. "What is that?"
Bellatrix raised an eyebrow at him, beckoning for him to take the letter and he reached out, fingers brushing hers as he took the folded up letter. "Hide it," she murmurs as she moves away from the bars when she hears an Auror about to turn down their hallway. Rudolphus slipped back into the sgadows of his cell and they waited for the Auror to pass by, but he didn't continue passed, like other Aurors would've, he came to a stop outside Bellatrix's cell.
"Don't you look happy, Lestrange?" he chuckles before glancing over his shoulder at something. "The Dementors will get a really good meal out of this hallway."
"Right," another Auror somewhere,farther down the hallway says and Bellatrix began to feel the chill of the Dementors drawing near.
The Aurors laughed as they left, leaving the halls of the prison at the mercy of the Dementors. "They've found her," Rudolphus says, voice cracking from being louder than a whisper and he grasped the bars of his cell, staring at Bellatrix who gave him another small smile.
"They found our baby, Rudolphus," she murmurs as a tear fell down her cheek.
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Ronin was shocked by what Ragnok and all of the other occupants of the office had just explained before he glanced at the burgundy-haired teen that was standing behind his granddaughter's chair. "We thought you were dead," he breathes staring straight into Gemini's burgundy-red eyes. "Taken by one of Dumbledore's followers and left somewhere to freeze to death. Thinking you were dead caused your parents to go mad with grief."
Hermione looked down at her lap, hands twisting together as she tried to think of how to word her question. "What did they do?" she breathes and Ronin lifted an eyebrow. "To end up in Azkaban?"
Ronin scoffed and ran a hand through his grey-streaked brown hair. "Supposedly, they tortured Frank and Alice Longbottom, was never proven and they didn't get a trial," he says and the three younger teens looked at each other.
"Why didn't they get a trial?" Harry asks and Ronin glances at him.
"Death Eaters," he answers playing with the rings on his fingers. "Although, they aren't really called that, they never really had an official name."
Hermione looked at her grandfather for a second and Aurora felt her lips twitch in a small, secretive smile. "Would you like to become my Guardian?" Hermione asks and Ronin stared at her for a second before nodding.
Ronin glanced at Aurora before looking at Harry. "So, who are you going to choose as your new Magical Guardian?" he asks and Harry glanced at Aurora. "Good choice."
Hermione nods, running a hand through her now-black hair before both of them stood up, wrapping their arms around Aurora in a hug. "Thank you," Hermione breathes pulling away and Aurora saw the happiness shining in her eyes.
"Don't worry about it," Aurora breathes moving everyone towards the desk. "Let's get the paperwork done and over with so we can go shopping." The three younger ones nodded and Ronin motioned Harry, Hermione and Aurora to come up to the desk close to where he was standing.
Harry looked at the documents sitting on the desk in front of Ragnok. "The two of you, Lady Sinclair and Lord Lestrange just need to sign these and your Magical Guardian will change," the goblin says standing from his seat. "Bloodshield will file them with the Ministry and you won't have to worry about Dumbledore being able to reverse it. Now, if you will excuse me, I'm going to go deal with Dumbledore."
Aurora chuckled, an evil glint filling her eyes and Ragnok glanced at her. "Bloodshield, would you mind building a case against Dumbledore?" she asks and the smaller goblin raised an eyebrow before smirking evilly. "It'll take awhile, but four of the people in this room have suffered because of his 'greater good' and I'm sure the other three would agree with me when I say that the suffering in our lives lies at his feet."
Harry looked over his shoulder at her and must've seen something in her eyes because he walked over to her. "Lady Sinclair, are you sure?" Bloodshield asks watching as shadows filled the fifteen year olds eyes. "Your memories would be needed, medical records and there are some in this room whom I don't believe would be able to deal with the Wizengamot knowing certain details of their lives before now."
That caused Harry to freeze as he reached out to touch Aurora's arm and she glanced at him as his hands clenched into fists. She raised her hand up to place it against his cheek and projected her memories into his mind.
Harry felt like he was falling for a second before he was suddenly in a small living room. A small girl sat huddled in the corner of the m, seemingly trying to blend into the area around her as a man reached towards her. The man snarled something in a langiage he didn't know and slapped her across the face, letting her go so she slammed into the wall behind her. He went to grab her again and electricity arced from the girl's body, hitting the man. It didn't seem to have any noticeable effect on him as the man grabbed her and threw her across the room into the opposite wall, then proceeded to kick her until the memory went black, Harry figured the girl had lost consciousness. The memory shifted to the same living room, a scrawny, black and blue seven-year old sitting on the floor, looking out the window above her. She was cradling her left arm which looked to be broken in several places and her face was almost unrecognizeable as human with as badly bruised, cut and swollen it was. 'I want to disappear,' she breathes staring at the sky until the sound of the door opening behind her caused her to whirl around. The memory changed but not before he saw a woman, her face twisted into an angry scowl asshe began walking into the room. Harry flinched at the next jumble of images and feelings, the sounds of bones breaking as someone laughed from the top of the stairs, the young girl small and unmoving at the bottom of the stairs, head bent at an unnatural angle.
Aurora flinched, pulling away from Harry as her memories began jumbling together and trying to take over her thoughts. She pushed them back, locking them back in the darkest part of her mind and looking at Harry who was staring at her with sad eyes. "I have no problem with my life being on display for the Wizengamot but they have a choice," she breathes and Bloodshield nods, mumbling in Gobbledygook to himself as he began summoning what he'd need.
"Your memories need to go into these vials, Lady Sinclair," he says sliding a box of vials across the desk to her and she nods, stepping past Harry to stand on front of the desk.
Harry moved to stand next to her as she began to extract her memories. "Would you need all of the memories?" Harry asks looking over to the goblin, thinking over what Aurora had said and wondering if Dumbledore could actually be convicted if enough of his victims came forward.
Bloodshield looked over at the Potter Heir and nodded. "It works out better for all involved if we leave nothing out," he says and Harry's eyes go blank, warning Hermione and Luna that he was thinking about it, about letting everyone at the trial know what his 'family' had done to him.
"Is there any way to make sure what is revealed to the Wizengamot stays private?" Hermione asks as her mind drifts to her own home life and how her adoptive parents had wanted nothing to do with her after her Hogwarts letter came when she turned eleven. How they didn't care once they'd found out she had gotten her magic, even after someone had assured that she wouldn't and their treatment became borderline neglect.
Bloodshield looked pensive for a moment, obviously thinking about what Hermione had asked and looked around at the young people in the room. "If there was evidence that something worse than physical abuse had happened to one of the witnesses, the Wizengamot would be sworn to secrecy," he answers and Harry choked, wrapping his arms around himself and dropping to his knees.
Luna was the first at his side, followed closely by Aurora and Hermione. All of them kneeling with him to hug him, Aurora's magic wrapping around Harry's to stop it from hurting anything as it exploded from his body. "Shh, Harry," Hermione breathes rubbing soothing circles on his back.
Aurora's magic was suddenly alone in the room as Harry's disappeared back into him and he lifted his head from their embrace. "You might want to get some of those vials for me as well, Bloodshield," he breathes and the goblin's black eyes widened, "and plan for a Wizengamot session that's sworn to secrecy." Bloodshield's eyes immediately became murderous and he placed another box of vials on the desk before storming out of the office.
Luna's eyes glinted dangerously as the dreamy look cleared. "The crazy, old codger is so screwed," she breathes and Ronin glanced over the children huddled together before glancing at Marcus Flint who was paying close attention to his mate.
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Bloodshield stalked through the halls of Gringott's, heading towards the room the Hogwarts Board of Governors uses and, once reaching it, summoned them. Lord Malfoy was the first to arrive and took in the sight of the furious goblin with something akin to interest in his silver eyes before moving to take his seat. Augusta Longbottom, Gabrielle Zabini, Howard Greengrass, Renard Bones and Selene Flint arrived, took note of the very pissed off goblin and took their seats.
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Narcissa and Fenrir stared at the seat where Lucius had been just moments ago and glanced at each other. "Did he have a meeting that he forgot about?" Fenrir asks and Narcissa frowned before shaking her head.
"I don't believe so," she breathes in answer and Fenrir nodded, looking towards Gringott's to see if the children had come back out yet. "I'm kind of curious about what they're doing."
Fenrir nodded, "Me, as well," he breathes before going back to eating his chocolate and blood-flavored ice cream.
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Bloodshield stood, facing the Lords and Ladies that made up the Board of Governors and took a hissing breath through his teeth. "I summoned you here to give you fair warning that the Gringott's lawyers will be investigating and building a case against Albus Dumbledore for Criminal Negligence of a Child," he says barely keeping the anger from his voice. "It has come to the attention of Head Goblin Ragnok that several Hogwarts children were taken from their homes and placed by Albus Dumbledore with abusive families."
"Do you have proof, Bloodshield?" Lady Longbottom asks in a quiet voice, seeming very interested in what Bloodshield had to say.
Malfoy's silver eyes moved to Augusta for a second before he looked back to Bloodshield. "Three Hogwarts students with Inheritance blocks, Creature Inheritance blocks and a number of Compulsion spells, one with a block put on her Creature side that was already awakened when she was younger and the other two were under such heavy blood adoptions that it took a lot of magic to reverse them."
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Ragnok fought the urge to sneer at the wizard sitting across the desk from him. Albus Dumbledore sat staring at the big goblin with an unamused twinkle in his eyes and Ragnok felt a twinge of joy at being able to break Dumbledore's mask, if only just a little. "Ragnok," he begins and the goblin sat up straighter in his chair, wanting to pound the old wizard into the floor for annoying him. "I was already told that five of my students were in Diagon Alley today so I would appreciate if you wouldn't lie to me."
Ragnok raised a bushy eyebrow, an angry sneer raising the right side of his mouth. "And as I've told you, Dumbledore, your students are allowed to leave the grounds if they have appointments here at the bank or at St. Mungo's," Ragnok says gripping the arms of the chair he was sitting in. "They're not breaking any rules by being here."
"They have to tell a teacher before they are to leave the school grounds," Albus hisses and Ragnok raised an eyebrow.
"I believe they did," he growls standing from his seat. "Miss Lovegood told Flitwick she had an appointment here today, as Mr. Flint, Miss Snape, Miss Granger and Mr. Potter all told Snape." Ragnok turned to look at the Headmaster as he pulled the door open, "Have a good day, Mr. Dumbledore."
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