Leaving Gringotts with a money bag and his House rings Harry made a point of snapping his holly and phoenix feather wand. Under the Pureblood laws a wizard or witch coming from an Ancient or older House had two wands they could possess. The first was their student wand while they attended Hogwarts, their first wand with the ministry trace attached to it. When one became the head and Lord or Lady of the house the student wand was broken and their second wand was gotten, this one free of the ministry trace and was to serve as their primary wand for the rest of their lives, accidents or external circumstances withstanding. Even as people in the crowd cringed at the near ear splitting phoenix cry as the wand broke Harry banished the wand pieces into oblivion wandlessly. An application of Notice-Me-Not charms and memory alteration spells followed as he turned into Knockturn Alley. He was certain Hermoine and the Weasleyyl brood were looking frantically for him but he could care less, they would pay for their crimes in time.
Stepping in a non-descript building Harry smiled slightly. "I seek the master crafter to make me my wands" he called out after entering the building, shutting door and dropping the spells.
A middle aged man with a multitude of scars appeared from the back. With hair like ink and eyes as cold as the artic tundra combined with his scars and physique it was obvious the man was a force to be reckoned with. A switch of his gaze landed on the boy making him scoff. "And what do you need wands for boy? You already possess one."
Harrys smile turned slightly venomous as he raised his left hand showing the signet rings for the Houses of Potter and Slytherin. "I am here under the old laws to get my lordship wands" he said with a look in his eyes. "I do not trust those fools in Diagon Alleys to 'assure' me that the wands do not have a ministry trace or squeal to the authorities. Unless you wish me, the Lord of the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Slytherin, to get my wand elsewhere I would stop asking questions and get to work." He saw the mans eyes widen seeing signet rings.
"This way my lord Potter-Slytherin. My sincerest apologies for not recognizi-"
Harry glared at the man for grovelling like a yes man. "Stop your pathetic cowing and do your job before I burn your shop to the ground for the slight against my Houses." He passed the wand maker and walked into the back. 'Same as it was the first time around. Shame' he thought rolling his eyes. The process was quick and within the hour he was presented with two wand boxes.
The first wand box held a thirteen and a third inch yew wand with the core of demiguise hair and basilisk venom. When he had picked it up he felt the family magic for his Slytherin blood sing making the emerald stone shine. Setting it back in the box for a moment he lifted the second one and felt a heat crash over him as the ruby of the Potter ring shone like an inferno and the Potter family magic connected with the wand. Made of ancient white oak and made with the core of powdered hydra fang and nundu heart blood the wand oozed power like its companion. "I'll be needing two wand holsters also, the highest quality and most spell resistant you have" Harry said after a long moment sending the man scurrying once more. 'Good survival instincts on him. He might be physically stronger but being an illegal wand maker in Knockturn ally & slighting the Houses of Slytherin and Potter with his comment he knows I could bury him under the law' he thought to himself.
"That'll be thirty gal-"
"Obliviate." The man had no idea what him as Harry lowered the white oak wand seeing the dazed and lost look on the mans face. "You were just given the money for my wands and holsters. You will not remember my being here or making my wands. If anyone asks you gave service a member of the Weasley family, Arthur Weasley to be precise. Am I understood?" he asked. Seeing the nod Harry reapplied the Notice-Me Not charm and left exiting the shop. A few trips to some other shops for neccesary items later, items stored in a special shrunken trunk charmed to be bigger on the inside and locked behind a security spell that was dual layered blood & magic recognition protected, he returned to Diagon Alley acting like nothing was wrong. He subtly obliviated the Weasleys and Hermoine of his disappearance & went about grabbing the materials they would need for the upcoming school year. His quietness went unmissed as they passed a pair of people that made his heart clench in his chest. Luna passed laughing at something her father said and Xenophilius seemed please to hear the bell-like laughter escape his daughter.
"Harry, you alright mate? You look you swallowed a troll booger" Ron said noticing the look on his friends face.
Harry grimaced at the image put into his head and shuddered. "Just thinking about something. Its not relevant to you or Hermoine, don't worry about it" he said shaking his head. He could find Luna on the train and begin to woo her then. "Is anyone hungry besides me? I thought I saw Floreans flashing a sign about a new flavor, romanian dark chocolate something.
"Oh yeah, I noticed that too. Romanian dark chocolate dragon" Ron said completely oblivious to slight Harry shot at him. "Seamus said it was something like three kinds of chocolate all in one animated to be shaped like a dragon that roars at you before you start eating it."
Hermoines eyes narrowed slightly at Harry trying to redirect the conversation. Whatever or whoever had brought such a distraught look to her friends face, no matter how minute or how quickly that it vanished, she had seen it. Despite being nosy and bossy, something her friends & housemates had said more than once, she cared a lot for Harry that seeing that momentary distress made her want blood. "Why don't you go ahead Ron? Harry and I will be right behind you" she said hearing the others Weasleys agree thatHarrys idea to pop into Floreans for icecream was a good idea considering the heat. "You alright Harry? For a moment you had a distressed look-"
Harry turned on Hermoine with glacially cold eyes. "Unless you want me to call on the life debt and make you utterly degrade yourself in public you'll keep your concerns and opinions to yourself" he said sharp sneer. "A summer gives a guy a lot of time to think and I realized something Granger. I DON'T need a know it all like you to harp over my shoulder at every moment." Seeing her about to rant he snapped his fingers and voice was silenced as a collar, a completely unbroken black collar appeared around her throat."I told you to keep your opinions to yourself and I didn't give you permission to speak slave "
Hermoine tried to speak and demand answers about why Harry was acting such a way but she found herself practically paralyzed on the spot unable to move a muscle or speak.
"Here is how things are going to work from now on Granger so listen up and listen well. When I order you to do something, you will do it no matter what it is and never tell a single soul about it nor will you tell anyone about being my slave. Not that you'll have a choice in the matter, magic itself will make you obey my commands since I have decided to take your servitude in service of me saving your life last year when I nearly got killed by the bloody fucking troll becuase you are an oversenstive know-it-all ittle twat who nobody like yet insists on trying to prove your intellectual superiority when no one gives two shits about you." Harry wasn't phased in the least by the shock and monumental sense of betrayl making her brown eyes brighter. "The first time you try to disobey you will be punished and left with a mark to remind yourself of the consequences. The second time I will inflict a permanent injury not even the most qualified healer in the world will be unable to fix. Try my patience three times..." he drew out the yew wand made a motion mimicking a knife slicing across his throat "and your LIFE is forefeit."
Hermoines mouth was bone dry and whatever kept her paralyzed in place sent a severe shock down her spine at the threat.
"Am I understood?" Harry asked with a sharp tone.
"Yes Harry." Hermoines tone was almost robotic as she spoke.
"In public its Harry, if we are in private you will address me as Master or My Lord. Now act normal and don't give them a reason to suspect anything or that'll be strike one." Harry tapped the collar making it invisible to all but him. "Move."
"Harry mate, whats the hold up?! Mums not gonna order til you and Hermoine get in here" Ron called out poking his head out of Floreans door.
"Sorry bout that that Ron, Hermoine was just telling me about this Charms book she found utterly fascinating and thought there were a few spells we could try. They seem a bit beyond us right now though unfortunately" Harry said with a disarming fake smile.
"Figures as much. Learn to live in the real world Hermoine and not in a book" Ron said with a roll of his eyes. "Get in here already so we can order and finish shopping for school."
Hermoine glared at Ron wishing she could tell him just how much of the real world she was living in. Yet as her lips opened to speak a violent shock reminded that her autonomy was more or less gone and from now on she walked on eggshells with Harty holding her leash. "The real world is far from fair Ronald. Why am I the only thinking about preparing for it?" she asked with a borderline scathing tone.
As the two began to quarrel Harry clasped a wrist behind his back to hide the dark glee filling his veins. Yes, this was only step 0.01 towards his ultimate revenge. Even if the responsible parties were still children, as was he technically but chose to ignore that fact, he would not forgive the deadly destruction death and chaos they could sow if allowed to reach their potential likenthey once had. Before he graduated they would all die tragic circumstantial deaths, wholly unfortunate but accidents nonetheless. No Weasleys save Fred and George who stood behind him as brothers in arms, no Longbottoms, no Malfoys- all his enemies would die and his beloved plus their friends would live to shape the world for the better. "As it should have been" he said to himself.
"You say something Harry dear?" Molly asked looking over at the raven haired boy. Something was off about him but just what she couldn't tell.
"Nothing important Mrs. Weasley, thinking out loud to myself about the flavor thst sounds good right now" Harry said with an innocent head tilt.
"Of course dear, with so many options its hard to choose" Molly said with a nod of her head. There was nothing wrong with Harry, she was just over-reacting. Too many nights with too little rest she decided taking her cup of Blueberry Bliss and taking a bite immediately.
"I think I'll try the new flavor in a cup" Harry said ordering last. He paid for his icecream alone before the Weasleys inevitably looked to him to help pay. "Not bad, needs more pure dark chocolate if you ask me but not bad." Breaking a 'wing' off the chocolate dragon he walked out whistling to himself as he toyed with the animated icecream creature. Oh yes, things were already going to be quite eventful and the academic year had yet to begin.
By the time Septermber 1st came around Harry had quite the outline prepared for the next few years. With the knowledge he had of the years to come he planned to cut the head off the snakes before they became problems. Regrettably the one snake he had to let live for the time being was Malfoy himself and that did dangerous things to his anger. Still he knew that the ponce had to give him a plausible reason to kill him and with the years to come he would be forced fo wait til fourth year and the Tri-Wizard Tournament.
"Hello Harry Potter."
Harry looked up and almost smiled at the angelic vision look at him from the cabin doorway. Even back as an eleven year old Luna was still bloody gorgeous in his eyes. "You have me at the disadvantage here, you know who I am but not who you are" he said with a friendly gesture for her to sit across from him.
Luna smiled sweetly and waved her hand at the door behind her not only locking it, leaving them alone in the compartment with their trunks and Hedwig. "Really now? Is that any way to address your lunar rose?" she asked with a twinkle in her eye.
Harrys heart skipped a beat hearing that. "It can't.."
"It is very true and very real my dark king" Luna said as she took Harrys hands into her own lacing their fingers together. "I saw the pain you endured with my death. The lengths to which you got revenge for me and our unborn daughter." She squeezed his hands gently seeing him tense up.
"And what am I after all I did?" Harry asked with an uncertainty in his voice.
A softness entered Lunas gaze as she leaned forward kissing Harry gently for but only a moment. "Still my bestfriend, my king, my darkness and the man whom I dueled Death for the right to return to you instead of being ferried off to the next great adventure whatever that be. We are young again but our souls are older. If I thought less of you for becoming just shy of a true Dark Lord to avenge me and our child, I wouldn't have done something so..."
"Gryffindorkish?" Harry supplied with a near whisper.
"Yes but don't let our daughter hear you say that when shes born down the road. She has your same Gryffindork heart and courage with our combined intelligence" Luna said with a smile tugging at the edge of her lips. "And your fears she might think you a monster are ill founded. As she grew up with me and we both watched your campaign of vengance against those who took us from you she had questions. Hard questions."
Harry shivered slightly at that. "Questions like what?" he asked barely feeling the first rock of the train as it began leaving the station.
"Why you were killing so many people, what they do to deserve it- the standard who what why when" Luna said pulling back and moved to sit next to Harry and cuddled into his side. A soft happy sigh escaped her lips as he wrapped her in his arms and nuzzled the top of her head. "I told the age appropriate truth and when she was in her twenties I told her the full story without the childish embellishments. She wasn't happy I fudged the truth a little to her as a kid but understood why" she said tilting her head up to look him in the eye. "In her own words she told me after learning the whole truth, and I quote her exactly here, 'I don't care if dad butchered an entire continent. He was getting due justice for having us ripped away from him. What child could resent or think less of their parent who went to war to get justice for losing his wife and child to meaningless violence? Hes my dad and I love him no matter what'. I like to think she got her eloquent speech making smarts from m-"
Harry missed the last part of the sentence as his heart was beating a million miles in his ears. His daughter didn't think he was a monster... His daughter think he was a monster! Pulling Luna into another kiss he felt his eyes getting misty and he could care less about that. The woman he loved was back with him and his child hadn't thought he was a monster for avenging them, his heart was singing in joy. "Did you name her?" he asked between pants when he pulled back, his eyes the softest shade of green as his hands grasped her arms rubbing absent circles into her shoulder blades.
"No, we did." Luna giggled softly at the confused look on Harrys face. "I called her our Baby Bird" she said with a teasing grin.
"Raven, her name is Raven?" Harry asked with a soft chuckle.
"I know we were joking about that particular one but it just fit so well. She had your jet black hair, my eyes and her mind was always trying to figure out what you were going to do next before you made your next move. It was the only one that did any justice. When I told her that you and I thought the name up together she embraced it whole heartedly. I can't begin to tell you how much she loves you Harry" Luna said resting her hands on his chest.
"Instead of telling me you can show me later. Theres a pensieve hidden in the chamber of secrets that belonged to Salazar Slytherin himself. But for now just.. Just stay right here in arms and let me hold you to know I'm not in a dream."
Luna snuggles up flush to Harry and buried her face in his throat. "I am here, I am real and there is no way in heaven or hell I nor Raven will be torn away from you a second time. I promise "
"You know I'm going to do away with the responsible parties either way right?" Harry asked rhetorically as he rested his chin on top of head.
"I know and I'm not about to stop you. But like Ponocchio had Jimney Cricket as a sort of external conscious I am yours love. No one more than the ones who orchestrated mine and Ravens deaths shall fall at your wand. You will be humane about it or I swear the only loving you will get from me until our wedding night is getting kisses and getting to hold me" Luna mumbled against his skin.
"I only went after the guilty parties to begins with" Harry said rolling his eyes as he adjust the placement of his hands so one was carding through her hair while the other rested on the small of her back.
"January 2002, that small village in Asia that you burned to the ground using fiendfyre" Luna retorted with a scoff.
"They were all Death Eater trainees hand picked by Malfoy himself to be a meatshield. They deserved their deaths for hiding that bastard" Harry returned with a scoff of his own. "If they had self preservation instincts they would have figured out that they were being used as a shield between Malfoy and my wrath."
"Ugh, you are impossible Harry James Potter-Black-Slytherin" Luna said with a sigh.
"Correction, its just Harry James Potter-Slytherin right now. I took those two as Rites of The Last Son. If I can stop the events from happening then Sirirus will be freed, his name cleared and he will hopefully settle down with a good witch to produce his own Heir Black instead of me inheriting the Lord Black mantle because of his death" Harry said with a cheeky smirk, his tone tinged with amusement. "Or knowing Sirius he might be a lucky sod to land a pair of sisters wjth that charm of his."
"If I didn't know better Mr. Potter I would accuse you of sounding jealous" Luna said with a mock dangerous tone.
"Why should I be jealous? You are all I ever dreamed of and I could want til our daughter is born & I got to hold her for the first time."
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