Chapter 3: The House of Davis
"Tracey Davis was my best friend from the second week of my first year at Hogwarts on. We were good for each other. I had the pureblood pedigree and sharp tongue, and she could snap off hexes with speed and accuracy that put the rest of the house in our year to shame. People learned quickly to leave us alone.
"Both of Tracey's parents were half-bloods from lines that didn't turn any heads. Both were innocent bystanders killed by stray spells in an attack on Diagon Alley before our seventh year started. She was fairly independent anyway, but I know the loss hit her hard. She was one of the hundreds of people to get blood tested after the Wizengamot announced the resurrection of seats and she got some horrifying news. Tracey was the heiress to the House of Wenlock.
"The Wenlocks were a respected wizarding family for some time, but a little less than two hundred years ago Cyrus Wenlock destroyed their reputation for good. By the time Cyrus graduated from Hogwarts there were six people ahead of him to be head of House Wenlock. A few years later and they had all miraculously died. Cyrus had achieved his goal and so he set about to have his trophy wife rebuild the house. They had six children, four sons and two daughters. By the time they were all of age, Cyrus was lusting for power again and he decided to take it by force. His wife and eldest daughter disagreed and conveniently disappeared.
"For ten months Cyrus Wenlock and his Knights attacked Southeastern England. After gaining nominal control, he set his eyes on the West Country. By then, people had started paying attention. Cyrus Wenlock was known throughout Britain as a rising Dark Lord and the Knights of Walpurgis were feared by most. Most, but not all. The Potters feared nothing and nobody, and so it was Patton Potter who led the forces of the light when the sides met at Godric's Hollow. There were skirmishes throughout the town but the main battle was a five on five showdown that was clearly to the death. Cyrus and his sons Uriah, Gamaliel, Mordecai, and Cyprian squared off against Patton Potter, Shadrach Longbottom, Holland Prewett, Clement Bones, and Crispin Shafer. Shafer was the last of his line and clearly not on the same level as the others, but nobody could deny his right to vengeance after the Wenlocks killed his wife and unborn child.
"When the dust settled Shafer, Longbottom, and all five Wenlocks lay dead. Bones lost his left arm, and, though he didn't lose it, Prewett was never able to use his right leg again. Potter's back was covered in terrible burns that he never fully recovered from. The Shafer line was gone, though Crispin got his revenge, and eventually the Abbotts had to bring it back through their second daughter. The Wenlock line was gone as well, at least that's what everybody thought.
"Before the battle, Roslin Wenlock, the youngest of the siblings, was able to escape to Birmingham where she joined the muggle world. She married a muggle and had one daughter named Winona Talbert. Winona married a muggle and had one daughter named Stephanie Chambers. Stephanie married a muggleborn and had one daughter named Cecilia Tennyson. Cecilia married a half-blood and had one daughter named Tracey Davis.
"We found out in August and hatched a plan. Harry and I were going to hold a marriage ceremony in December shortly before Christmas. The law said that Houses not claimed by December 31st were forfeit, so Harry and I had our ceremony on the 23rd, and on the 30th Tracey went to Gringott's and claimed her ring. She then immediately went to the Ministry and had the House name changed from Wenlock to Davis, something only allowed for resurrected Houses, and filed to be under the protection of House Black.
"Normally that's not a big deal, but if an unmarried wizard puts a single young woman under house protection, it's common that he marries her. We didn't want to give people the idea that they could just show up and get to marry him by pleading for protection, although it did happen, and since Tracey was the last of her line, we were able to execute a rarely used law and name her a consort to House Black. Tracey kept her last name and didn't take on any of Harry's titles, but she was the equivalent to his wife all the same, Tracey Grace Davis, Consort to Lord Black.
"We immediately asked Augusta Longbottom to proxy the seat for a few reasons. It was primarily because Tracey had a budding career as an Auror and she didn't want any distractions. It also sent a clear message that the House of Davis was firmly accepted on our side and we wouldn't be tolerating any slandering of her name."
"Tracey was an Auror for about ten years, she left after learning that she was pregnant with her second child. Now she does security consulting, private defense tutoring, and has an active International Hit Witch license. Like Harry, she keeps the license active even though it's hardly used because it will allow her to use extreme force to protect the family if necessary.
"Her daughter, Ava Delilah, is a Potions professor at Hogwarts teaching the first through third years. It's crazy to think how much of a population boom we had after the war ended, now all the core classes need a second teacher just because of the sheer numbers. Her son, Emory Maxwell, owns The Poison Pen, a bookstore that Hogwarts students love to visit on Hogsmeade weekends."