Chapter 16! Radical Times! (I'm running out of exciting statements) It's Heir Ring Time! I hope you enjoy and don't forget to review!

Harry had had a strange morning. First he had seen the Dark Mark on Severus' arm. His scar had been tingling painfully so he woke up to come face to face with the Mark. He had been honest when he said he nearly had a panic attack. Logic came back into his mind eventually and he realized that maybe Snape had been forced to have the mark like Malfoy had. He had never really seen one of the marks up close and studied it for a moment. Out of curiosity he had decided to try and talk to the snake in the mark.

'Hello.'

'Hello, speaker.'

'What is your purpose on my father's arm?' There is no word for guardian in the Snake language so he could only call Snape his father.

'I connect him to my creator, the evil egg breaker. I cause pain to him if asked to by the evil egg breaker. I can also lead him to the egg breakers location. I also act as a conduit to drain the power of your father to the egg breaker.'

'Drain the power?'

'If my creator asks me to I can drain the magical core of the wizard I live upon until he dies.'

Harry had stiffened at that point at the implications. Voldemort had the power to kill any one of his followers with merely a thought. He could torture his followers or call them at will. Harry's mind came up with a few solutions to fix this problem. Firstly you could remove the arm but then Snape couldn't really be a potions master.

The next solution would to be remove the dark mark, which is supposedly impossible. The next option was far-fetched. He could try and change the snake's loyalties. The book on parselmagic had talked about the interaction between snakes and wizards.

A snake would give it loyalty to the most powerful snake speaker it met. If Harry could prove he was more powerful than Voldemort then he could force the snake from its servitude and keep it from harming Snape. Harry had sat up at that point and angrily stared at the snake.

'I am more powerful than the egg breaker. I have defeated him twice in the field of battle. He is merely a ghost who fears death and attacks nestlings. I am younger and more powerful you will follow me.'

After what seemed like an eternity of staring the snake down it had nodded and transferred its loyalties. First it severed its connection with Voldemort and then it had removed its power drain ability from Snape's core.

'I follow you now.'

'Good.'

After that Snape had woken up and demanded an explanation for his changed arm. After a satisfactory explanation about the mark's origins Harry had given a half explanation about the change in the mark and then changed its design. He had not expected the immense joy in the man's eyes.

Then after breakfast Harry spent 55 minutes transforming his features into something new. A prank idea came to him and decided to make himself look like Snape. He even practiced changing his age. When he came out he felt even better when he saw the look on Snape's face.

The entire trip to Gringotts was hilarious to Harry. Now they were seated inside one of their offices waiting for a goblin to test Harry's blood. One came in and introduced himself.

"Hello, I am Bluntfist. I have the lineage potion here. I merely need a few drops of blood."

Harry nodded and took the knife that was handed to him. He cut open his thumb and let the drops fall into the vial. Once the correct number dropped, three. He watched as the potion was dumped onto the parchment. The familiar list rose out of the parchment and Harry smiled at what was going to be a ridiculously long name.

Harry James Slytherin Potter

Heads to the families

Slytherin

Gryffindor

Potter

Peverell

Related to the families:

Hufflepuff

Black

(Heir apparent upon death of current head)

Flamel

(Heir apparent upon death of current head)

Malfoy

Prince

Bluntfist read the list out loud and ignored the sputtering of Snape. The goblin nodded at Harry.

"We shall get the necessary heir and house rings for you, Sir Potter. If you wait just a moment."

"I will be happy to wait Mr. Bluntfist."

The goblin left after handing Harry the parchment. Harry turned to see the stunned face of Severus Snape.

"So…" Harry began.

"Why does it say your name is Harry James Slytherin Potter?"

"Because that's my name. I am the head of the house of Slytherin, well I will be once I get the house ring and stuff."

"But how?"

"Ancient ritual, it's a long story I'm not quite able to tell you all about. I have many secrets that aren't all mine to tell. So what order do you think this is going to be in?"

Snape stared at him for a moment before snatching the parchment away from Harry. Snape stared at it for a moment as if he was taking in everything on the paper. Until he finally stuttered out.

"Harry James Peverell Gryffindor Slytherin Potter."

"Sounds auspicious and snobby enough to fit in anywhere."

"I suppose. Did you know about all of these?"

"Yep. Do you think they will give me the heir rings to the Flamel and Black house or just the head rings?"

"Harry if you had many more names you would run out of fingers."

"I suppose."

"Do you realize how much wealth this is? You will have enough to call the Malfoy's paupers"

"I hadn't really thought about the amount very much. The only thought I gave about it was the fact that I was due enough money in my life that growing up the way I did was ridiculous."

Harry enjoyed looked at his normally serious and put together professor look so flabbergasted. Snape glanced down again and then looked at the last name on the list.

"Prince?" He asked in barely a whisper.

"We really are cousins! Surprise!" Harry said splaying his hands out and waving them.

"But how? I thought I was the last of the Prince line."

"I don't know. All I know is that it is distant enough that your name wouldn't go to me if you died."

"Not necessarily. Unless I have children my godchild gets my name."

"Oh so Draco Malfoy is your heir? Cool. I hardly need any more names. I don't have a tapestry that shows how all of this connects or if we are related through my mother or father. I wouldn't even know how to go about finding out."

Snape leaned back into his chair and put his left hand onto his face while handing Harry back the parchment. A few moments later Bluntfist returned with 6 boxes and a stack of parchment. Each box was the size to comfortably fit a ring. Bluntfist laid the boxes down in front of Harry.

"Open them in this order and put them on one at a time." He commanded.

Harry grabbed the first box and opened it. It wasn't one he recognized, maybe the Peverell house. It was a silver ring with black inlay at the top. In the center of the ring it was a triangle with a line down the center and a circle inside. It was interesting to say the least. Harry slipped it onto the pinky finger of his left hand.

The magic swirled around him like it was tasting him. Suddenly the ring tightened around him and accepted him. The goblin nodded and pushed some parchment forward. They were legal documents to change his name and give him access to the Peverell vaults.

After those were signed and witnessed Harry opened the next box. This one was the familiar red and gold of the Gryffindor crest. Harry put that ring on the next finger on the left hand. This one accepted him easily and Harry smiled as the magic rushed him again. He signed the next stack of parchment and felt good about the day. The next ring was the Slytherin ring and Harry felt smug at this ring.

Out of all the houses Harry was claiming this one he deserved the most. Harry had defeated that monster twice and challenged the old magics for the title. He had won too. He slipped the ring onto his finger and it fit perfectly like it already knew how his hand was supposed to feel.

Papers signed and finally the Potter head ring. He removed the ring and his breath caught in his throat. It was a beautiful thing. It had a deep burgundy color, on top of it was a silver dragon with a tiny ruby in its eye. It was amazing and Harry tried to imagine his father wearing it. He tried to imagine something about his father. When nothing came he merely slipped the ring on and it fit onto him immediately.

He signed those papers too and then he tried on the heir rings. The Black ring went first and then the Flamel. Both were interesting rings but Harry was rather distracted at the ring his father had worn on his finger. After the two heir rings had accepted him he listened as Bluntfist went through what he could access. Apparently the Slytherin vaults were completely open to him but the others weren't open until he became a complete adult.

The vaults he could access were the trust fund his parents had set up and the Slytherin vaults they gave him a card that worked much like a muggle credit card. All a store owner had to do was wave his wand over his card and speak an incantation and his bank account would charge him for whatever he was buying. He took that card and the vault keys before leaving the private room. He went to a bathroom and changed back into his Lukas look. This took much less time than it had the first time