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Chapter 2: Getting everything sorted.

Harry entered the mansion and looked around the room noticing several ancient looking artifacts. As he took a closer look at some of them he noticed a few were dark arts detectors such as a sneakscope, a mini foe glass, he wondered why users of the dark arts would need such things but he would save that question for another time.

The woman at the head of the group turned her attention on and spoke is the hypnotizing voice again. "Were are going to take you to the council chambers, But before you go in we will first as members of the council which I currently lead. They will judge you and see if you are worthy of our help but I wouldn't worry to much about that if I were you. Oh, there might have been something I forgot to mention that if you are proven worthy as the chosen one you will have to be turned into one of us." With that said she left him outside the doors to the chambers.

As Harry stood outside waiting to be called he though about what she had just told him. He wasn't entirely to sure that he would want to become a night walker though it did have its benefits such as not needing to sleep, a more advance reading and comprehension capability, super strength, super speed, he would be immortal. Though it had its downsides as well, he would have to live on blood of others, and he would no longer be able to see daylight without the possibility of being burned to death.

He knew if he did it he would have to find a way to get abit of extra time as well as training in potions. He vowed that if he did become one he would find a permanent cure to sunlight for vampire, as well as find a way to make a cure to silver for werewolves for Remus if he was still on Harry's side.

While harry was outside thinking over these various things inside the chamber the council was gathering and taking the seats. As the took there places and raised their hoods the leader of the council beckoned a guard to open the door to let him in.

As Harry stood there the doors opened up and guards stepped out and beckoned him forwards into the chamber. Once in he looked around the room noticing there were only six counselors on the council. He then noticed a chair in the center of the room and moved towards it watching them the whole time. They motioned for him to take a seat before they began the questioning.

"You are here today to be judge to see if you are indeed the chose one. We will ask you a serious of questions then we will need a sample of you blood to see if you are indeed him. It will take a couple of days for the blood test to come back so I would suggest you get comfortable. In the mean time we will commence with the questioning." he stated plan and simple.

"So you truly are Harry James Potter?"

"Yes."

"First of all we must know know how you truly feel about all of this?" The man half stated half asked.

He pondered on the question for a few moments before answering. " Well it is slightly overwhelming, But I feel that in the long run this will benefit me as well as get me out of the evil bastards clutches." he answered un sure of what they would think of his reply.

A few grunts could be heard from the council before a another spoke up. "Sounds fair. Now if you do rise amongst our ranks what are some of the things you would like to accomplish?"

'Well for one I would like to become a master of the arts you plan on teaching me. Though I have one request ." he waited for them to motion for him to go on. "If you are able to I would like to request to have a potions master train me in the art of potions brewing." He asked.

Low murmurs could be heard amongst the room as if the were debating on it. "If we grant you this request what would be the reasoning for it? If we do grant this we will have a residential potions master teach you." He truly wondered why he would want to learn something as trivial as potions brewing.

"Well seeing as vampires are allergic to sunlight, I want to see if I can find a permanent cure to that with a potion if it is possible." He decided to keep his other experiments to himself.

"Very well we will grant this request seeing as it would benefit us all. Now onto other matters, If you are made leader of this clan what would be your plans for it?" He inquired.

Now this was a question he really wasn't expecting to come up. As he sat there contemplating the question the council watched him intently as if reading his every movement for a possible sign of him lying. "Well I wouldn't rule it with a iron fist, but I wouldn't be a push over either. I would try to lead fairly and not let all my judgments on matters to become impartial. I will press towards the better of the clan as well as the treatment of vampire in general." He thought this would be a adequate answer.

The council seem to erupt in low murmuring as they turned to each other speaking in low voices. As the talking calmed down. "Well that is a very acceptable answer. So now that the questioning is out of the way we are going to give you abit of information on the clan and how a few things are run here. Well for one certain parts of the mansion are off limits, we also ask that you respect others right to privacy unless they say otherwise. Now once your training begins you will have free rain of the training grounds as well as the library."

He nodded his head as the leader spoke up. "Now contrary to popular belief there are two different types of vampires. Our race is the elite form. We are able to reproduce so if you take a mate you won't have to worry about that factor. Our strength is greater then normal, so is our speed. Now the main difference is in our ability to use magic. Normal vampires can't. We appear as though we are human accept the only factor that we can't walk amongst the daytime. Though that will change with time if you can truly make this cure. Now We should tell you that should master these things before you leave if not you will have to continue your training in private. Now if you are accepted and proven you will be turned into one of us." She waited until he nodded to continue. "Now when you are turned you will gain several enhanced skills including your ability to understand and learn faster then a normal person. Now the more you train your abilities the greater the will become, along with the enhanced abilities your power will grow possibly on par with that of Dumbledore and Voldemort. Now if you continue to train evan after you could possibly grow stronger then them, but the one true advantage you will have over them is your speed, power, and the all round fact that your a vampire." She finished the short speech to let another pick up where she left off.

"Now with you becoming a vampire there are some other things besides that. By looking at you we can tell that you are malnourished and abused. By becoming a vampire the wrongs done to you will be corrected, I'd say you will probably grow abit and gain muscle though you will have to exercise properly anyway. Don't expect everything to come to you easily you will have to work for you power though our gifts make it abit easier but still have to put your share of work in." What appeared to be one of the larger males he met earlier said. "Now what you do in your free time will be entirely up to you though I would suggest you train more ,but in the core subject taught in your home school with abit of physical as well." He finished for another to pick up.

"Now if you become leader you will have t find a mate within a year of becoming leader. If you take a mate within you own kind she will have to be turned because we don't accept anyone outside this race other then those who are our familiars who handle the daytime bisness as we obviouly can't do so ourselves. You will be expected to up hold our laws and set an example for others. You will have to be trained in our ways, and proper etiquette to name the least. " He look around at the others for their approval of his words. "This clan is operated usually on the need to know bases. We use stealth to get what we need, we do what we need to survive and get by. Some of the things that go on here might not be things that you approve of ,but we ask that you understand that we have to do this to live." It followed the pattern as before where some one else picked up.

"There maybe people in the clan who may not agree with this ,but that will be your job to earn there respect by proving that you are worthy of being a member of this clan, every person here plays a specific role except for some of the women and children. To earn respect you must play a some sort role that will be of significance that will benefit everyone in the clan. But you must also prove that you are a fierce warrior and a force to be trifled with if pushed." He took a break to contemplate his next words. "Most here respect us but also fear us because of the power we command and wield. But with our power comes the responsibility of taking care of the clan. We see to the daily running of things which will become part your job if you rise to the position of leader. Do not take the responsibility if you don't think you can handle it, otherwise you might as well as turn around now." It moved on to the next person.

"Seeing as they have covered the major points of what you will need to know I suppose I should tell you that before you leave we will require some of your blood. Oh, and before I forget tomorrow you will be escorted to gringotts to settle this dispute of your money as well possibly sue those who have stolen from you. You will be led by one of the best solicitors we can afford so you should have little to no problem to getting a settlement and getting it done fast. Feel free to take abit of time to shop around we will give you a guard to follow you around should there be any problem, but if things should go our way we shouldn't have much of a problem because you will become an emancipated minor. With that side please see the guard at the door he will draw the blood. After that one of the maids should be outside the door waiting to escort you to your room, with that said I bid you a goodnight." With that said the council members said there good-byes and got up to leave.

Harry sat in his seat slightly dazed at the amount of information he had just been given for the second or third time that night. After he snapped out of his trance like state he got up moving towards the guard stationed at the door holding a switchblade with a tube waiting to filled with his blood. The guard didn't speak a word a he took a hold of Harry's arm a pressed the point of the blade into his skin splitting it open. The man pocketed the knife and pressed the tube to the oozing blood until it was full. He then took the the tube and corked it sticking in back on the test rack next to the door for whom ever to pick it up. He then stepped back and opened the door to allow him to exit.

Once outside the room he looked to his right to see nothing but a empty corridor, then turning to his left he spotted what appeared to be a young woman around the age of twenty-three or twenty-five at the most. She was in the lack of better words a beautiful woman. She stood at 5'6 with a petite body build, she had long slender legs without so much as blemish on her skin, she had full red lips that stood out with her pale skin, her eyes were a beautiful deep blue which stood out beautifully with her long blonde hair. When she spoke he notice she had a soft musical voice, "Please follow me to your room." With that said she led him to what seem like the other end of the mansion..

She led him to a pair of double doors and opened them wide. "This is your room, if you are in need of anything please let a member of the staff know. Have a good night." She gave him a sly smile and wink as she turned and left.

Harry enter the room and looked about noticing that the room had to easily be the size of a apartment if not larger. The room was fully furnished. The was a big king size bed at the head of the room covered with silk sheets and thick black mink blanket. He had a big plasma screen tv with a dvd player and sound system attached. There was a collection of cd's and what he was assuming were dvds next to the wall unit all this was held in. the were bean bags scattered around the room he also notice a dark cherry wood desk in a corner with a computer for a workstation. He smiled and moved towards the bathroom to look around.

His jaw damn near hit the floor as he took his first look at the bathroom. The room was down in black with white marble tiling, to say the room was beautiful would be an understatement. He had a sink in Jacuzzi tub, to the side of that there was a shower and bathroom facility. He walked out the bathroom though he wanted to take a nice hot shower but he didn't have any of his clothes, now that he thought about it he didn't have any of his belongings.

As he neared the edge of the bed he spotted a dresser and wandered over to it. On top of the dresser there was a short note left by who he was assuming was the staff:

If you are reading this we have taken the liberty to confiscate you belonging from your previous place of living and placed within the dresser and the rest in there proper places. Oh, if your looking for your darling owl she is in the owlery located in the attic.

That's all there was written. He shifted thought he clothes and pulled out something clean to wear for bed. After he got out the shower he sat on the bed and looked around reflection on the nights events thinking about all the things he had learned and found out. Though he knew there was a lot of shit wrong with his life he knew it would only get better from this day forwards, with that comforting though he got into the bed and fell into a peaceful nights sleep.