Harry and the group went into the house that appeared out of nowhere.
"Harry how have you been?" asked Sirius as he hugged his godson.
"Harry, I will meet with you in an half an hour. I have a few thing to tell
you that you need to know. However, right now I have to attend a meeting. Your
friends are waiting for you upstairs."
"Ok, Sirius. See you then," Harry said as he released Sirius.
"Go right up Harry I will call for you when supper is ready." said Mrs.
Weasley shooing Harry upstairs.
Harry walked upstairs and was run over by bushy hair missile.
"HARRY!" Hermione said with tears in her voice.
"Hermione I am fine. I made it all right," Harry replied as he hugged his best
friend.
"Harry I was so worried when I heard about the Dementor attack. Come I need to
talk to you in private," said Hermione pulling Harry into an empty room,
"Harry I tried to send you several owls since I got here. I even tried to send
them to my parents and have them send them to you, but every time I would send
them Mrs. Weasley would have them and I would get a telling off by her. I
think the headmaster put a ward up to stop people from writing you. Mrs.
Weasley put me in a room with Ginny even though Sirius told her he had enough
room for everyone to have a room to themselves. She even went as far as to
tell Sirius that you will be sharing a room with Ron. Harry I don't think Ron
is a true friend because when Dumbledore told us not to write you Ron and
Ginny just agreed with him."
As Harry listened to Hermione he was getting angry again.
"Hermione, it's okay. I have been thinking the same thing on the Weasley being
in the Headmaster's pocket as well. When I got here, Sirius told me that he
needed to talk to me in thirty minutes. So I will find out from him what is
going on."
Hermione nodded her head as she replied, "Okay Sirius is one of the few I
trust in this house."
"Harry. Harry we are you. We know you are here." shouted Ron and Ginny at the
top of their voices.
Harry shook his head and opened the door and replied, "I am right here why are
you shouting. Hermione was just telling me about her trip with her parents.
Right Hermione?"
"Yes Harry. It was to Italy like I already told you guys." said Hermione.
"So what have you guys been you to?"
"Mum has had us cleaning this house. Which was Sirius's parent's house. They
have a house-elf who hasn't been doing his job. He is a right nutter." said
Ron.
"He is just misunderstood Ronald. If Sirius would just treat him better then
he could help us work on this house, but we should do most of the work." said
Hermione as Sirius opened the door.
"Hermione Kreature is in his right mind. He has just been taking orders from
my mother's portrait for to long. What he needs is a new young powerful master
to draw his magic from. My father pick a powerful heir to be his heir if I
couldn't take the mantel. Now Ron, Ginny your mother wants you in the kitchen.
Harry, please follow me and Hermione I grant you permission for you to explore
the Black Family library."
Harry followed Sirius into the Black Family study while behind him, Hermione
was beaming and ran to the library which she had been forbidden to be in.
Sirius closed the door behind them and said, "Harry many years ago my
grandfather signed a contract between House Black and House Potter. It was for
the daughter Bella Black to marry Charles Potter your grandfather. Now Henry
Potter, Charles father and Regulas Black my great grandfather also agreed in
case a Black ever became the godfather of a Potter or a Potter became the
godfather of a Black then each family would have a great crest in the case of
that member would be the last scorn of the a great family they would be able
to help that heir claim what is rightfully his or hers. Now do you have your
wand on you?"
Harry nodded as he replied, "Yes I do. I am never going anywhere without it."
"Okay. I am going to uncover the crest so you can see it. You'll need to put
your left hand on the shield and put the tip of your wand on the crest right
above your left ring finger. Your head of house ring will appear on your
finger. While the head of house betrothal ring will go to the one who has your
heart. After we do this I need you to claim the Black head of house ring. See
my father was friends with a seer and he saw that after him that the head of
house Black would fall to the grandson of his elder twin sister. Which is you
Harry."
Harry did what Sirius told him to do, and there was a flash of light and a
gold ring with the same crest engraved onto it. In the girls room of the manor
a flash of light and a black box appeared and landed on Hermione's bed.
"Now what?" asked Harry as he looked at the ring.
"Well Harry. Three things happened. You became emancipated, and head of two
houses. I can also tell you that the betrothal ring for the house of Potter
went to one of the unmarried young ladies in this house. Now when you claim
the Black ring the betrothal ring will go to the eldest heiress of the house
of Greengrass. I know she is in your year. But that is all I know about her.
You will have to have two wives. Now to claim the Black ring you have to do
the same as for the Potter ring, but on this crest."
Harry repeated the same process over and the same flash of light happened in
the Greengrass Manor.
"Harry, I'll be right back," Sirius said and left the room very quickly.
Back at Grimmauld Place in Hermione and Ginny's bedroom.
Ginny had just opened her bedroom door when a flash caught her eye. Running
over to the bed she picked up the box that had appeared and shouted, "Mum come
quickly."
Molly rushed into the room as her daughter held up the box. "Mum, this was on
Hermione's bed. I tried to open it but it wouldn't open." said Ginny as she
handed her mother the box.
"Alohomora." said Molly as she tried to use magic to open the box and it
wouldn't open. "We have to keep it from Hermione this is an old family
betrothal ring box."
Sirius stepped into the room as he heard Molly's last comment, "Actually Molly
it is a head of house betrothal ring box to a very old family. Whose bed was
it found on?"
"As it is not of your family I don't have to say."
"But it is of the Potter family and I am the godfather of the last scion of
the Potters. Now tell me. Whose bed was it found on?"
"Hermione. Harry already has a betroth. So he can't have another betrothal."
"One Molly Ginny wasn't picked by one of Potter's blood to be the betrothal of
Harry. The magic of the Potter bloodlines picked Hermione as the next Lady
Potter. I will take the ring to Hermione."
"Where is Hermione? I told you send them all down and you only send my kids
down."
"Harry is not yours to command and neither is Hermione. Kreature please go and
tell Miss Granger that Lord Potter wishes to speak to her in the Black
study."
"Yes Master Sirius."
Kreature went off to the library to collect Hermione.
"Miss Granger my new master would like to talk to you in the master study. He
is going to be a kind powerful master. I can already feel my magic to be like
it was once when I was a young elf."
"Thank you Kreature. Can you please show me the way to the Black study."
"Yes Mistress Granger."
Kreature led Hermione to the study and opened the door for her.
/At Greengrass Manor\\
"Mum Dad I got this today by a flash of light." said Daphne showing her
parents the ring box.
"Daphne this is the head of house betrothal ring. I know the last blood male
heir can't claim it because of his status with the Ministry so the new Lord
Black must be a blood heir through another line but of the same line that
Sirius Black could claim through. And there is only one person alive, but he
must tell you who he is. I will tell you this the only other person that could
have claimed Lord Black is Draco Malfoy and he only could because his mother
is a daughter of house of Black. If you look at the ring it doesn't have any
changes a cadet line would make to it. So this person is share at least a
great grandfather with Sirius."
/At Grimmauld Place\\
"Harry what is this about you being Kreature's new master?"
"Sirius had me claim the Lordship for the House of Black right after I claimed
the Lordship for the house of Potter." said Harry as Sirius walked in and
handed Hermione the ring box.
"Ginny found this on your bed. She and Molly were going to keep it from you
because it means that Molly's plans for one big happy family are not to be.
Now you do understand that Harry, as Lord over two Most Ancient and Most Noble
house, has to have two wives. I know who got the betrothal ring for the house
of Black. We have only one open betrothal contract that says that any time
that there is an unmarried Lord Black and an unmarried Lady Greengrass unless
there is another contract then they are to be married. You will be Lady
Potter. She will be Lady Black." said Sirius as they heard the front door bang
open. "I will be right back."
Sirius walked downstairs to see who had entered the house. Albus Dumbledore
was angry.
"Where is he?" said Dumbledore to Sirius. "I know somehow Harry was told how
to claim his birth-rite. What do you know of this?"
"I told him. Headmaster I know you passed a law about seventy years ago that
someone can't claim their headship until they are seventeen but no law can
counter and past law. And I know this law hasn't been taken off of our law
books. There is an old law dating pre seventeen hundred that if a sole heir to
a Ancient and Noble house can claim their headship as early as thirteen years
old." said Sirius with a grin, "Oh Headmaster the ring won't come off his
finger until he dies or passes the title away to his son. I know the
Dumbledore's family never had a goblin made family ring, and there are magic
involved that you don't know of."
"Where is Harry, Sirius?"
"In the Black head study. Not that it will do any good."
Albus Dumbledore stormed up the stairs and to the study.
"Harry there is magic in the ring that can be more harmful than good. I
haven't had a chance to check it out." said Professor Dumbledore in a
grandfatherly way. "Please take the ring off and give it to me, and I will
have Professors Flitwick and Snape check it out."
"No I don't think so. For one, Snape hates me because of my father picking on
him in school. If you can request Professor Flitwick to come here I will allow
him to check both rings out. Now headmaster is that the only reason you came
here. I was actually in the middle of preparing my defense for my trial."
"You will need my help in it Harry."
"Actually, headmaster, in our third year Harry was emancipated under the
Merlin Code. The Merlin Code states that a teenage Witch or Wizard can be
deemed of age if they can perform the most powerful light defense spell known
to wizard kind in that age in front of a senior Ministry member. It was
enacted by the first wizarding council of two hundred A.D. Harry performed the
Patronus Charm in front of the most Senior member of the Ministry the Minister
for Magic and several senior members of the committee for the disposal of
dangerous magical creatures." said Hermione.
"Be that as it may he never got a letter from the Ministry telling him he was
emancipated." said Professor Dumbledore in a smug tone.
"Ah but when Harry put the Potter family ring on it destroyed a owl
redirection ward that was on him. So who would have put something like that on
him Headmaster?" Sirius asked.