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"talking"

"Russian"

Chapter 2 – Potter Manor

It had been 5 month since the Potter came back to England. They were busy with the bureaucratic mess in the ministry and the hostilities from the Goblins, but they managed to get everything back after involved old alliances with the right people in the ministry, they vault were reopened and they redeemed all the shares they had sold before leaving for Russia. James was in the living room of Potter Manor, with Sirius Black, his best friends. They talked about the things they missed, the war that abruptly stopped for unknown reason after their disappearance in 1981. Sirius had come in the house with his son, Daedalus Sirius Black. Daedalus was a little shorter than Harry, but both were quick to befriend each other. Daisy was there as the third wheel of the group, she didn't like being a part of Harry.

"So any news about Dumbledore and the order?" asked James

"Well, of course. Dumbledore is still the headmaster of Hogwarts and doesn't leave the castle that much now. Something about empowering the wards. You-know-boo had tried to take the castle a few times after your disappearance. Last time we repelled them with heavy losses, more than when we were still attending school. The Longbottom are gone, we know that Neville is a ward of the ministry now and sent to an orphanage. Thanks to Dumbledore who made sure that Augusta was sent to St-Mungo's for dementia"

"How dare he! That's my godmother!" said James in angry tone.

"We were against his decision as well. You know what he told us? 'it is for the greater good'" sneered Sirius. "I left the order after that and Peter was found dead a few days later. With the dark mark on his right arm"

"He was the spy?" said James who couldn't believe it and they almost had let the man be the secret keeper of Potter Cottage. He sighed in relief that they had not followed the plan of the old man.

"How… How did Frank and Alice died?"

"They fought bravely, they managed to kill the Lestranges brothers, but failed to kill Bellatrix, she escaped. But they didn't count on Greyback who was waiting in the shadow, they were killed by the werewolf"

"And where were you?"

"Busy fighting Giants, Mountain trolls and Voldemort mercenaries. Egyptian Scorpion riders"

"Foreigners?" said James in Disbelief.

"Well the war was about to escalate into a global wizarding war just like with Grindelwald, but something happened. Voldemort… He just vanished. The death eater surrendered, they claimed to have been under the imperius curse and the old man just accepted their reasoning, something about second chance crap. They formed a bloc in the ministry now, they are under the rule of Lucius Malfoy, traditionalist party they call themselves"

"A fitting name for inbred pureblood" he said, Sirius laughed, he was glad that James still had his sharp tongue. While James was thinking about what Gorbachev had told him, things were getting worse now. He sighed, now he only had to try to make things less hard for his son.

"After retiring of the Order, I joined the Enforce initiative. An armed branch of Aurors with authorization to use lethal curse. Dumbledore had fought hard to stop its creation. But Minister Bagnold just dismissed him, for once i was glad to join her cause. I was among the first who volunteered. Chief Enforcer Class 5 – Sirius Orion Black at your services my lord"

"Fancy title"

"Thanks. By the way, where were you all this time?"

"I was in Russia, we were warned by a friend about something involving Harry. If we had followed Dumbledore plan, we would not be here"

"What do you mean?"

"Let's just say, that Harry was involved in a prophecy. I suspect Dumbledore to have attempted to end our lives by abandoning Potter Manor for Potter Cottage. We fled into the only country where the ICW had no jurisdiction"

"The Soviet Union" Said Sirius, James nodded.

"And… it's turn out that I have Romanov blood. I'm a prince of Russia in the Russian wizarding Society" mumbled James, annoyed by all the political crap he had to go when he was made a Prince of Imperial Russia.

"Merlin Knutsack! You're a Tsar!" exclaimed Sirius Loudly and bowed before him. James just rolled his eyes with his friend antics.

"Knock it off Sirius. It's not like I wanted to be royalty… or a tsar"

"You never acted like a lord to begin with" chuckled Sirius remembering their school times. James Smiled, he remembered as well.

Their conversation was interrupted when the fireplace flared green and Amelia Bones came out of it.

"Amelia Bones" greeted James

"Black now" said the woman adjusting her robes and brushed the dust off her shoulders.

"Excuse me… Amelia Black" he said before turning back to Sirius "When did you marry?"

"5 years ago, I would have liked for you to be my best man"

"I'm sorry to have missed that"

"It's okay, you are here now" smiled Sirius, the door was opened, it was Harry.

"Hey Son, come here. I'd like you to meet your godfather" Harry went to them and inspected Sirius. He remembered about some dog who was always next to him when he was a baby.

"Padfoot?" Sirius Nodded, the young boy dashed to him, Sirius opened his arm and caught his godson.

"How is my little prongslet" asked Sirius.

"Fine, I didn't recognize you without your fancy black fur trench coat" said Harry, James had a belly laugh.

"I know, everyone told me that. But I like this uniform. I think its suit me" he said as Harry pulled back from him and stared at him.

"Nope, you look silly in that" Sirius growled but sighed before ruffling Harry messy hairs. He inspected his godson, he had the messy black hairs of James, green eyes like Lily and fancy noble clothes like his grandfather Charlus. Both of them talked a lot. Daedalus was there watching his father talk to his god-brother. After a few minutes, Sirius was back to James, while Harry went back to his bedroom with Daedalus and Daisy. The kids were startled when an owl started to peck the window.

"That's scared me!" said Daedalus, Rosie laughed at him, while Harry just ignored his little sister antics. She could be mean to other sometimes. The owl had a letter with him, he grabbed the letter, and the owl was waiting for something. He remembered that here they need to pay or feed them. He grabbed 2 sickle from his pocket and paid the owl who flew away after the money was inside his pouch. It was a letter for his Dad. He went downstairs to the main hall and opened the door again. Sirius and James were drinking some old fashioned Rum, while Amelia was in the kitchen helping Lily prepare supper.

"Dad there is a letter for you" said Harry approaching the fireplace where the adults were.

"Well, give it to me" said James, he handed the letter to his dad before going back to his bedroom.

James broke the seal of the letter, unfolded the parchment and began reading.

Dear Lord Potter
Our Survey Book had added your son name: Harry Potter in the next batch of Hogwarts students for 1991. Let me be the first to tell you, Welcome Back James. Here is the list for Harry schools supplies. The departure will happen at 2 September and the ceremony of entrance will happen at night at 5PM in the same date.
Sincerely – Headmistress Minerva McGonagall

"At least, I don't have to see the old man right away" said James.

27 July - Diagon Alley

It was a hot day in July, Harry and his parents went to Diagon Alley to get Harry's school supplies. The daily prophet didn't wait that long to get them into the front page. This Skeeter lady had quite the imagination about their disappearance and many theory came about them being dark wizard, while other were about them being traitors. The good thing is, Rita Skeeter didn't know that the Potter had 67% of the Daily prophet the remaining being to the ministry. Lily had sent a letter to the prophet couldn't ignore, either they sacked Skeeter or they would be forced to close, she had a knack with wizarding laws. Many witches and Wizards whispered when they saw the Potter walking in the street in Diagon Alley. Rosie just pulled her middle finger to them, Harry laughed while Lily tried to discipline her about her manners but failed. James just chuckled when he heard many old wizards and witches gasp at her daughter. They were walking in front of an animal store, Harry stopped when his gaze meet the form of a peregrine Falcon. The animal was beautiful, the falcon feeling Harry's stare, returned the gazes. Harry tilted his head on the left, the falcon imitated him and then Harry smirked.

"Dad, I want this one" pointing at the falcon who gaze on him now.

James smiled and went to the vendor to buy the bird, he was surprised by the price, 350 Galleon for the bird.

"What is his name?" asked Harry

"Well, he doesn't answer to anyone. You're the first who he reacted to" said the vendor.

"How about Horus?" said Harry to the Bird who emitted a noise in approval. Harry opened the birdcage and the bird flew to his shoulder. Lily and Rosie went to Flourish and blotts to get Harry's books, while James and his son went to Ollivander for the boy first wand.

The venerable old man was startled when he heard the bells of his door ring, he was busy getting the wands back to their shelves, the last boy was a difficult customer. He went to the counter after he put the last box on its place.

"Ah! I didn't expect you to come early Mr. Potter" said Ollivander.

"Who do you think we are? The Weasley?" said James in a mocking tone.

"Ah! Good to see you still have that way with words. Lord Potter" said Ollivander smiling at James. "Now let's see what would be good for Young Harry Potter"

Ollivander pulled a measurement ruler with him as he measured Harry length, wand arm length, size and his wrist measures. He then went to the back of his store and came with several boxes. He tried all of them, only one had more or less an affinity with him. It was a Holly wand with a Phoenix feather core. But before they could continue, James pulled a red wand from his pocket and told the old man see it. Ollivander eyes widened upon recognizing the wand.

"Could it be… The cursed wand?" he said grabbing the blood wood wand. "Fascinating… I feel war, blood shed, disturbing past… I never expected to see the cursed wand after Grindelwald first rise to power. It was presumed lost forever. Blood pine… Fascinating. The core… What a fool substance, who in their right mind would use that for a core? Wait… I sense a metallic liquid inside…That stabilized that foul blood. Dangerous but powerful"

"What can you tell me about the wand" asked James.

"The wand only react to the imperial bloodline. This wand is ancient like the famed Elder wand of the Peverell brothers' tales. This wand was involved everytime the European land had changed, both world were always involved the magical and the mundanes"

"You mean the muggles"

"Muggles, Mundanes, no-maj. Same thing." Dismissed the old man. "It's fascinating to see Napoleon Bonaparte Wand here"

"The French Emperor had Russian blood?"

"No, of course not! But his mistress did, she was the one who helped him rise to power and seize control of the French republic." He said it like it was common knowledge.

"How did you know that?"

"Simple, the wand told me" he said as he handed the wand to Harry who grabbed it. Something strange happened, a black mist came out from the ground and started to envelope Harry, James paled and he remembered that damn new prophecy and the the mist vanished. Ollivander was staring at Harry, his mouth wide open. Could the legend be true? Was this boy the one fated to unite all the wizarding community? No it couldn't be.

"Fascinating…"

"What do you mean?" asked Harry

"You see, Mr. Potter, this wand is special. Despise being cursed, he had accepted you as his master. You are destined to great things, greater than what you-know-who is capable of. Your destiny might have been something like the Boy-who-lived, but with this. You are now the boy-who-will-conquer" he said winking at them.

"So you knew?" Said James

"Or course I knew, I might not look like it, but I've seen empires and kingdoms rises then fall. Your boy could be our mercy or our doom. I'll let fate decide that. And don't worry, I won't tell a thing about you. It's not like they would listen to me to begin with" he said chuckling.

After paying the wand maker their due with the holly wand, they went back to Potter Manor, Lily and Rosie had also brought everything. Harry had now a complete set of wizard robes, muggles clothes and everyday wizard clothes for Hogwarts. James was thinking about getting back to Russia to visit some old friends and contacts. With the Potter printed in the prophet, it wouldn't take long before Voldemort would target them again. He had to take some step ahead in order to counter the dark wanker.