I don't own Harry Potter. duh.
I'm sorry this has taken so long I've been busy. I haven't had a chance to have this Beta read yet so please bare with me and feel free to correct me when I'm wrong. thanks.
2Chapter
Aurora headed first to France mostly because she wanted time to breathe and figure herself out. She had no idea who she was as a person. What clothes did she like? How should she style her hair, or makeup? She spent three weeks in France's high end fashion district (muggle and magical) just trying on clothes and finding her own style. In time she figured out how to discretely check the Student registrar for Beaubottons. No Slytherins, Gaunts, or Black's, in attendance for the years her brothers would have been students. Realizing her brothers would likely have been entered into a darker school, she headed for Bulgaria. Along the way she tried as many new things as she could find. Cooking classes, Wine tasting, Martial arts, beauty courses that taught her how to do her hair and make up, and coordinate her clothes, shoes, purses, and jewelry. Her brothers weren't in Durmstrang. At a loss as to how to find her brothers without going to Narcissa Malfoy and therefore her father, Aurora decided she needed a new plan and more time. After looking up newspapers and journals for the past year; Aurora used her 'borrowed' time turner, went back a full year.
Listless and unsure what She should do with herself she started researching other schools with her own education and future in mind. While looking for a job to keep her busy and pull in some extra income was a bust, she did however find an advertisement for a broom racing competition. It made her wonder if she would still be a good flyer, and she entered herself and loved the results. She loved flying and was good at it she won by a fifth of a second. It had been exhilarating and freeing and reassuring all at once. She looked up and entered other races traveling from Bulgaria back toward France.
She had emptied "Harry's" trust before leaving England and her racing winnings helped keep her from spending it all. While Aurora didn't win every race she was good enough that she won far more than she lost and had started making a name for herself. To make more money Aurora accepted a Job advertising for a French broom racing company, she posed for photos gave a mischievous wink at the camera while sitting on the broom. She made good money getting royalty's for every poster sold. Winning races meant getting endorsements and more money. By chance she met her new best friend Magenta "Maggie" Brown a shop assistant at the store that sold clothes including those uniform designs needed for professional racing. Maggie was interesting fun to talk to and had a wicked sense of humor. As well as entertaining her Maggie pointed Aurora in the direction of her dream school. Athena school of the Arcane accepted everyone regardless of blood status you just had to be able to pay for it. Which few could. The price per year just for schooling was astronomical. Boarders were given one small room the size of your standard cell and were expected to expand and furnish as their own means and abilities allowed.
Each Student; was required to have there own personal steed, breed was up to student, were responsible for there own pets (no limit to amount or species given) and servants (students were allowed two each). All of which needed to be collared and have clearly marked owners. The book list was huge. Each class had one main book and at least three reference books in their required column that said they also had several listed under 'recommended'. Students from Arcane could get jobs just about anywhere regardless of blood status or species. They had courses in healing, enchanting, alchemy, necromancy, the arts light and dark, world history, warding, curse breaking, and that was just some offered in addition to the normal classes offered at Hogwarts.
She could not afford Arcane with her current means. No matter how many jobs she took. But past potters and Blacks had gone there, so one or both of the family's had to have more money somewhere. She just needed to see what she could find. First a steed, according the future newspapers, a group of poachers had been found after killing each other in a fight over how to split the money. All the animals appeared to have either escaped their cages or been let out before authorities had arrived.
Aurora disguised her scent, disillusioned herself climbed a tree and waited. The poachers arrived three hours later, got into fight, and as the last one was bleeding to death Aurora got moving letting animals out of cages the unicorns, threstles, and most of the pegasi left immediately, as did most of the others. Finally all that was left for some odd looking maybe kittens with several tails, three cases of them nine in total too young to look after themselves and a large black pegases with red feathers on his underwings. He was hurting, and hungry but proud and willing to stay with her. She took him and the kittens home with her to figure out their species and to start healing them. The Kits were Nine-tailed Kneazles. Wild adults would fight to the death rather than be captured and no one had figured out how to bread them in captivity yet. They were worth a small fortune unfortunately she couldn't sell them. Not because she didn't have black market contacts to do so, but because she felt bad and wrong at the very thought. She had gotten just a smidgeon attached to them.
To get money Aurora traveled back to England waited until she knew Moody would be out for the day snuck into the house and befriended Kreacher who was more than happy to help a "proper" Black and to pull one over on the nasty brat and his band of blood traitors trampling all over his poor mistresses house. Everything being thrown away was bagged up and then Kreacher sent it to the attic instead of letting it be thrown away he had been doing this for months with no one noticing already. So Aurora sent Kreacher to fetch Winky from Hogwarts. Asked Winky if she wanted to be a proper elf and have a mistress, Winky agreed immediately. With the elves help she went threw the attic which was covered in junk. Trunks and bags and shelves and broken furniture and portraits in gaudy frames. She took all the pictures out of their frames and rolled them into protector cases set the gold and silver frames to melt down or just sell whatever would fetch her the most. In the end she a set of trunks for herself nice and high end just needed cleaned up a bit. Two sets of Vanishing cabinets. Enough furniture to fill a house it just needed refurbished a bit. Two flying carpets. Three huge wizard's tents. Jewelry, forgotten by the family because the previous owners had been kicked out the family stuff belonging to Isla, and Andromeda Black especially. And a small library of books. In a stroke of genius she sent Winky to Hogwarts to copy anything the headmaster had on herself or Harry potter, including bank vaults. The potter family vault was technically closed off but Dumbledore as Harry's guardian had still been charging expense's to it. And Harry had a secondary vault to hold the stuff people had given him as the boy who lived. Dumbledore was in charge of it too. The potters had a adopted her which meant adding a bit of James genetics her own giving her a third parent. That meant It was all technically hers while winky couldn't remove anything from the vaults that Aurora herself hadn't put there nothing was stopping Aurora from adding something and then sending Winky to retrieve it. Normally that wouldn't mean much but normal people didn't have access to working vanishing cabinets. While rare and pricey the Goblins had still bought up and destroyed as many the could because they bypassed wards. All wards, even those Goblin made. She put them in a raggedy old chest each sent them to Gringots with the vault number on each chest. The next day the chest where in the right vaults and she visited one after the other emptying the vaults of all that was there and then leaving the way she had come. Winky then went and retrieved the cabinets.
The old house elf that took care of the greenhouses on the roof Grimauld place had never met Sirius black, used to belong to Melania Black whom had Hated Walburga with everything she had and whom Walburga had been hated right back. He had been sentenced to the greenhouse as soon as Melania had died and had been watching these happenings the whole time finally approached Aurora just before she had left. He wanted to know who her parents were and when she told him he informed her that the Greenhouses were portable no one but him had used them in years and that enough food and wine to feed and army for a few years were being stored in stasis in the basement. He retrieved it all for her and announced that 'Wonderful lady Mel is being wanted her shinny's to go to her daughter but you is her daughters daughter and that is good enough do you's wants them too?' She'd said yes and the poor old thing had then brought her a jewelry box twice his size. He'd then asked to come with her and to continue looking after the greenhouses. She'd said yes and that had been that. All in all she'd spent a week in Grimauld and had come out with enough in actual money to pay to two years of schooling and still have a ten thousand galleon cushion. That was before selling what didn't want in junk and stuff from either the house or the vaults.