Betrayal, Secrets, and Time
By Lyz135
Title: Betrayal, Secrets, and Time
Author: Lyz135
Type: Time-travel! fic/ Super! Harry/ Dumbledore/Weasley (minus twins)! Bashing, Lurry!ship
Relationships: Harry/Luna/Neville, Sirius/OC, Blaise/Daphne, Fred/Hermione/George, others TBA...
Summary: A few hours after the Battle of Hogwarts (book version just a bit more intense, the movie version is very anticlimactic and boring) Harry receives a letter from Gringotts, summoning him immediately. During the meeting, many things are brought to the forefront leaving Harry feeling broken and betrayed. "Savior of the Wizarding World...Hah! Nothing more than a naïve boy."
Disclaimer: I have not, and will not, ever own any rights to the characters that JK Rowling has created and used her own plot, anything you may recognize goes to the infamous author. However, I do have a few of my own characters joining the fray and a new plot. THIS IS MY DISCAIMER FOR THE ENTIRE STORY.
"regular speak"
'thoughts'
"parseltongue"
(dedication to the books in which they came from)
Lists
"Foreign Languages"
Devine Entity/Deity Speaking
A/N: Review Response below.
Beth5527: I appreciate your approval of this story, and I hope that my works continue to grow better. I hope that this story manages to keep your attention.
mckertis: I simply did not want all four chapters to be one long chapter altogether. I prefer smaller chapters, because they maintain a schedule and way of writing. It takes a certain amount of precision and thought process, when it comes to me planning my stories. I make my chapters between 3,000 and 6,000 words long for that purpose.
Guest: It took quite a bit of time to think of something original, but with a few basic cliches, you know? The Wizarding World Rumor Mill must be going crazy, with the bonded triad of The 'Crown Prince Vox Dracones' arriving as they had. Anyways, I'm grateful that you like it. I hope you like this chapter, I had to think long and hard how to set it up just right.
Silvermane1: Thank you, very much.
A/N: My thoughts(:
Hello Readers, I hope you all have gotten ensnared by my recent writing. I sincerely hope that you never bore of this story; but alas, sometimes people just get bored of reading sometimes. I take no offense! I hope that you all review at the end of the chapters, so that I know how you all feel about the story. I also ask that you give your own opinions of the going ons in this story. Yes, I have a somewhat formed plan on how to write this, but this story is purely for the readers. If you have an idea, and you want to see if I have the ability to incorporate it into the story, I will try my very best. I also want you all to know, I will allow any form of criticism, so long as it is not cruel and you explain why you are criticizing my works-it will definitely help to make my writing better. Besides those points, I think I'm done talking...well typing. Have a good day, and enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 5) Bloody, Travelling, Surprise!
As soon as the mockbattle was finished, they all looked like they had just had the most intense battle of their lives. The two Goblins were shocked at the amount of power, speed, and agility the three humans had. They were even shocked that almost every single spell that Luna cast had hit them, as well as her ability to keep the child asleep and safe in her arms as she dueled fiercely. The two men had been hit by quite a few curses and spells, due to them watching Luna. But they were equally as fierce, and even at points better than the Goblins. Which left all of them, bleeding and tired. The three humans were producing an aura of a confident warrior, and the goblins decided to send them off now.
Before the warriors could do anything, they were watching their world spin before their eyes. They watched in rewind; Each others childhoods, each others highs and lows. Then they watched their births, each a bit disturbed at that image. Finally, they felt like they were dropped out of the air. Which was most accurate because suddenly Harry's feet hit the ground while Luna landed unsteadily and leaned against him, as she tried to gain her equilibrium back; meanwhile Neville, who had been holding onto a sword and cleaning it off, slammed into the ground and rolled to his knees in front them. Teddy was still peacefully asleep in Luna's arms, a few scratches littering his body.
Harry was emitting an aura, even though he didn't realize it, that made it aware that they had just fought a battle and survived. His arm automatically surrounded the blonde leaning against him and then used his free hand to grip the kneeling man, pulling him into the embrace. Everyone watching saw his shoulders start to shake, and assumed that it was because he was crying with tears of relief, but two goblins who were watching their entrance knew it was because he was laughing.
Eventually they separated from the hug but not from the blonde. The man who had been kneeling had his arm wrapped around the girl's shoulders, as the man exuding the aura had his hand wrapped around her waist. The child, thankfully not badly injured, was still peacefully sleeping in the woman's arms. Harry's eyes flickered across the faces of those staring at the people who were watching their procession move deeper into the bank. "Prince Vox Dracones!" Came from a younger Ragnok, who wasn't the king yet. With a small smirk on his face, he asked, "What happened to you, Young Prince?"
Harry fought the smirk that wanted to slide onto his face; with his face remaining stoic, he replied. "Just a group of people, they attacked my home. They are no more, of course. You don't get to attack my mates, and child, and get away with it." He bowed to the Goblin. "A pleasure as always, Master Goblin Ragnok. May we proceed to your office? This crowd is much to close for my liking." His arm tightened around Luna, and he felt the tension running through his other Mate's arm.
Returning the bow, he gestured for them to follow him. They did so quickly, knowing that if they took their time, they would be hounded by the people and possibly the press. "Ragnok, you are definitely a cruel Goblin. Calling out the Big Title, like that." Luna said, in her whimsical tone. Earning a chuckle from the Goblin and a glare from Harry.
"Oh, do stop the glaring. It doesn't look good on you." Neville said, patting Harry's shoulder. Harry sighed, and let a laugh out, as his body started to relax. Neville looked to Ragnok. "That was cruel, to send us completely unprepared. But I enjoyed it."
They stepped into the office and awaited Ripscale to enter, because they all needed to be there to discuss the next few steps in the plan to implement. Ripscale entered, with trays of food and drinks. As well as empty folders, that they would place all the signed papers into. And putting a Goblin-made 'Notice-Me-Not' on certain papers, until they made the decision to meet with their respective families. Preferably all on the same day, if they decide to bring them into the secret. There were only so many times they could let the memories of the War be played out in front of them, before they went crazy.
"My Little Moon, what path shall we take?" Harry asked as soon as they were all seated and relaxed into their seats.
He noticed her shiver again at the purr of her nickname. A little breathless, she replied, "We shall call forth a meeting with our families. At the Vox Dracones Castle, and we will only show them the memories once. Ragnok, and Ripscale, shall join us. Shall we call Teddy's grandma and her family, Tonks and Ted?" She looked down at the peaceful baby, with relaxed and happy smile on her face.
Harry watched her as she stared down at his godson, and was eternally grateful that she was one of his chosen mates. He looked at Neville, and saw him nod his head to Luna's question. "Of course we will, Little Moon. My Warrior, you and Little Moon will have to take on a new name in this time. What will it be?"
"Guinevere Vox Dracones, for me, of course. Teddy's will be, Edward Vox Dracones. Nev?" Luna answered, for her and the baby. Harry's heart swelled, with the fact that she was taking on his last name. As he turned to Neville, and saw the young man staring at him intently.
"I'll be...Markus Vox Dracones. You already announced we were mated. Best to keep your last name, Hadrian. That's a nice ring to it. Hadrian Vox Dracones." Neville nodded his head in acceptance, and Harry felt an overwhelming need to claim his mates. But he stamped it down. Now was definitely not the time.
"Ragnok...I'd like for you to take care of the Vox Dracones wealth and Estate." Harry said instantly. "My other accounts can be handled by Ripscale." Harry looked at Neville, and asked for the bag. "Nev, which ones are the Library Chests and Familiars Chests? Those ones will stay in our bags, along with the Armor, Wardrobe, and Weapons Chests."
"Color-coded Harry. Light brown is money, Black is the Families Libraries, Red is Armor, Dark brown is Weapons, Tan is Familiars, White is wardrobe, Teddy's trunk is Blue, Orange w/ family crests are filled with Heirlooms, Yellow with family crests are filled with Wands." Neville spoke, fluidly but quickly.
Harry nodded. He kept two light brown chests, the blue trunk, all twelve black trunks in the bag, all the tan, white, red and dark brown chests remained in the mokeskin bag. That still left about 78 trunks to be deposited. Harry chuckled. "Anyway you can put all of this into the Vox Dracones? And the amount that's in there now spilt into 3 personal accounts? One each for Edward Vox Drocones, Guinevere Vox Dracones, and Markus Vox Dracones. And deposit a chest into each of your own personal accounts." He was getting incredulous looks from each of the rooms occupants. "What? We've got a long time ahead of us, and I say we live it to our best abilities. We will do everything we possibly can, together. Even our two Goblin...friends."
"I'll get that all taken care off, Young Prince." Ragnok said, still looking shocked, and then nodded in agreement. "We shall all take comfort in the fact that we have our memories, and people who care for us." He turned to Ripscale, and smirked, "King Clinknut, shall be getting anxious as to why you have remained in my office Ripscale. We shall endeavor to send off our guests and return to work. Prince Hadrian, Lady Guinevere and Sir Markus, I hope you all have a wonderful day. If you stop at Working Elves, you shall be able to "adopt" your elves. You'll need a lot. Good day, and enjoy Diagon Alley."
Luna bounced out of her seat, gave a curtsy and stepped towards the door. Neville, and Harry, both followed her actions-bowing instead of curtsying, of course. Luna looked them over, and smirked, "Hadrian we're still a mess, we shall have to wait until we get home to clean up."
"Guinevere, I think we should do our shopping after we get the elves. That way they can take it back and set the rooms up." He looked down to her, and smiled. He was excited, and he could tell his two mates were as well.
Neville, still feeling the grief of a war, had yet to crack a full smile; but his eyes glittered with amusement and mirth. "Hadrian, we have a castle. That means a lot of furniture and elves are needed. Thank Merlin you kept two of the bigger Tan chests." He chuckled slightly. "Let's go!" He grabbed Luna's hand and started walking towards the Elf Shop, while Harry walked behind them. Harry admired there walking frames, and was most content to walk behind them.
"Markus, slow down, lest she drop Edward." It felt weird being so formal, but harry was resolute to sound like the Prince he was supposed to be raised as. He wuickly walked up to them both, as they entered the shop.
"Hello, may I help you?" A young woman asked, she was tending to a baby elf that was trying to climb a shelf.
"Yes, I have need of 16 of your best adult elves. We need a few good in certain areas. Such as Kitchen, Cleaning, Gardens/Grounds, Personal/Medical, Nanny, Security, Librarian, and Magical Creatures. I would also like to have 8 of the training elves, as well as 7 infant elves. Mates are allowed." He looked at Luna and smirked. That should definitely be enough for the castle.
'Perhaps I'll give a full wing to the Elves. Have them study proper english, etiquette, and have a place for themselves and their young. Hmm...Yes!'
The woman looked at him in shock, wondering why such a young man would need so many elves, but not questioning him. She had called for the elves and collected the young, and infantile, elves. "Your total, sir, is 330 Galleons.." She glanced up at him, and watched as he counted out the last few coins. "Thank you, sir."
Harry nodded as he turned to the elves, immediately putting up a privacy barrier. "I need three elves, two mature and one training, to go back a clean the castle." He pauses for a second to find the information about the Castle, "Vox Dracones Castle is located on Drake's Island." He watches as three elves leave and starts talking again, "I need three elves, all mature, to go to the castle and study the defences. You three will be the Security Group. Another 3, two mature and one training, to care for the gardens and the grounds. I need two elves, one mature and one training, for the kitchens. Then, I need a trained elf and a training elf to maintain watch over the Library. I'll need three mature elves to be personal elves. To watch over the young elves, and the baby, we need two mature elves and two training elves. And finally, we need two mature elves and two training elves to take care of and watch over the magical creatures on our lands."
Harry's throat hurt from all the talking, so he took a break and looked at his mates. "Well, Hadrian, we definitely will have a fantastic home now. It shouldn't be too quiet." Neville said with a chuckle, before clapping a hand to Hadrian's shoulder. Whilst guiding them out of the store, Markus tore down the barrier.
"We need furniture. Let's go stop at all the available furniture stores. I'm sure we have a lotto pick up." Luna stated and bounced off towards the first furniture store she saw. The boys following behind her quickly. When they got to the store, Luna placed the sleeping baby boy in Hadrian's arms and dragged Neville off to start selecting all of the necessary furniture. as well as grabbing enough to make an entire elf community out of an unused wing of the castle.
-Time Skip-
After a rather long day of shopping, with all three alternating between tending to the newly awoken child and carrying plenty of shrunken bags, inside of shrunken. It was so much that even the shrunken bags were heavy! But, at last, all of the furniture was finished being bought and they could finally step foot onto the grounds of their new home.
Luna, who was completely exhausted, still managed a bouncing squeal of delight as she looked aorund the grounds. Teddy, was pulling her hair, and clapping. While Harry and Neville pulled themselves up off the ground and started setting the bags down.
Almost instantly every elf, except the infants, was surrounding them. Eagerly awaiting their new orders. They had spent hours cleaning, and prepping the castle as much as they could. Harry smiled, and looked around. "I need the Library Elves, to come to me." Instantly the two moved, and stood as they watched their Master pull out all of the black chests. "These are all Books. I need them classified by magical inclination, then by genre, then in alphabetical order. It matters not, if you combine the different family books together. The only thing I ask is that all Family Grimoires be left on pedestals." The elves nodded and popped away with the trunks.
Luna looked at Teddy and smiled. "I need a Nanny to take Little Teddy here to a safe play area. Preferably, in the gardens." An elf pooped next to Luna and took Teddy, who looked at the elf and tapped its cheek, giggling. Satisfied that the baby wouldn't cry the elf popped away. "Next I need the three personal elves to step forward. Take all the white trunks and place them in the appropriate spaces. These are our Wardrobes. I need another Nanny elf, to take this blue trunk and set up Teddy's Nursery, it needs to be close by the Master Bedroom."
Neville grabbed the trunks that contained the Wands, Armor, and Weapons. "I need the Security Elves to take these to a training room. You'll need to ward the room. Please make sure it is a big room." As those elves popped off with the previous trunks Neville summoned the Heirloom Trunks. "These are specifically family-oriented Heirlooms. We need them to remain seperated, but on display. Please place them in a safe room. And ward it so nobody but the three of us can get in." A singular elf stepped forward and popped away with the Family Heirlooms.
"Take these trunks and empty the money out in the smallest room, in the Elf Wing, and ward it as well. Think of it as the elves income to get what the castle needs. I will add to it, once a month." Harry said, and saw an elf come forward and pop away immediately. "The rest of you, take these bags and prepare the house. I look forward to seeing it decorated. One elf remain behind please?"
Luna was looking around the grounds and started walking away from the area; meanwhile Neville was running towards the very noticable Greenhouses. Harry turned back to the lone elf, and stared at it for a moment. "Master wanted elf, Tipsy stay behind. What's can Tipsy do for you?"
Harry sighed. "Tipsy, I want you to spread the word that I want all my elves to speak proper english. That means a lot of study and practice. Second, I want you all in proper uniforms. Not these pillow cases. Third, I want you all to have the furthest wing from the busy life of a human, and make it your home, your community. You are allowed to Mate and reproduce offspring. When you are done informing the elves who need to know, I need you to place Family Portraits on the wall. But they need to be warded, so that visitors don't see what they really are. Can you do that?" The elf was nodding so fast that it's head seemed like it was bobbling. The little elf was excited. And popped off with the three trunks Harry gave her.
'Now to find his godson and play with him for a little while. Luna and Neville are sur to be distracted until further notice.'
-Time Skip-
Some hours later found Harry laying under an Oak Tree, with Teddy craddled in his arms. Little did he know his two mates had bought a camera in Diagon Alley, and had just taken a picture of the two. The picture, showed Harry in several lights. He was a fighter, he was a lover, he could handle pain, and he had an aura around him that radiated even in a photo. He looked delicate, yet dangerous, wrapped around the infant who was curled against his chest.
Neville eventually sat down beside them, and ran his fingers through Harry's hair. "Hadrian, come, wake up. It's soon to be dinner. We should all go and clean up." He said as Harry stirred, and started to wake.
Harry groaned in appreciation, feeling Neville's hands running through his hair. "I'm up, Nev. Let's go check out the house, yeah? I've got to stop in the Master Office, anyway. Need to accept the wards, and put them at full capacity. Especially if we are going to have our plentiful amount of familiars running around freely." Harry finally sat up, holding Teddy close to his chest. He rocked to a standing position and carried him all the way up to the Castle; only passing the child to Neville when they entered the Greeting Hall.
"Tipsy," Harry waited for her to come, "Please take me to the Master office. And send my personal elf, please?" He was immediately transported to the newly decorated office, and turned to the stone wall that was covered in runes and gems. He heard the tell-tale noise of a elf pop into the room, "Master Hadrian, Marty bes your personal elf. Wes haven't done our studies yet, master." Harry chuckled and nodded his head in understanding.
"I just needed to know who my personal elf was, Marty. Hurry along and get all the elves trained up. And make sure to get uniforms." Harry said, as he stared at the wall. He lifted his hands in front of himself, one held his wand and the other about to be cut. He cast the silent cutting curse and placed the bleeding hand on the wall. The wards immediately attached themselves to their new master, and sprang to the defense of his home; Protecting all those in his dwelling. After the basic wards were in place, Harry immediately added wards specifically meant to keep people branded with Dark Mark out and many other wards that were made in the years to come.
After making sure his Ancestral Home was back up to par, Harry walked the halls trying to find his way back to the Master Bedroom. Agitated, and slightly annoyed, Harry called for Marty and asked to be taken to the Master Bedroom. Upon entering his room, he noticed that it was huge. The outside wall was made completely of glass and overlooked the West Grounds. It was a beauty. On the opposite wall of the Glass one, sat a huge bed-big enough to fit him and his mates. The bed was covered in Silver and Light Golden blankets and pillows; the bed frame, dresser, and nightstands were all black, and there was an intricate carpet on the ground that had swirling shades of Royal Blue and Emerald Green. The walls were done in a deep Mohagony color, that had a red border along the ceiling and floor. There were three doors leading off the main room; One for the Master Bath, one for the Walk-in Closet, and the final one leading into Teddy's Nursery. Harry didn't spend anymore time observing the rooms, due to him needing to shower and prepare for the evening meal.
Soon, the entire family was seated at a table in the kitchen. Harry considered this the close-family eating arrangements, seeing as they had a large table in the center of a large Dining Room that could hold up to 30 people and multiple ten-people tables bordering the Ball Room. It was a rather lavished home, but that was the style they had to live by with their new Title.
The elves had cooked a rather large four-course meal, that had just begun. And it was silent before Luna let out a giggle. "Hadrian, we will have to get used to using our chosen names in this time. Even when not around those who aren't in the know." She had spoken in between the few bites of food she had taken, looking as elegant as a Queen.
"Very well, Guinevere. What shall we do next? I'm thinking we study as much as we can from the the books we have here, before we begin sending Meeting Invites to all those needing to attend." Hadrian replied, his undertones sounding amused.
Neville couldn't hold in the snort of amusement before replying, "I think that would be best, Hadrian and Guinevere, seeing as we all have had our minds messed with. We might as well get to the point where we could all become Masters, or a Mistress, in certain forms of Arts."
With a nod, they all returned to eating their foods. The food was delicious; For the first course, they had Garlic Bread and Marinara Sauce. The second course was a called Bubbling Cabbage, it taste better than it sounds. The third course was the lamb-steaks and Kidney pudding; it was so mouthwatering they all had seconds. And finally was the desserts, they had treacle tarts, chocolate pudding, and cauldron cakes.
All in all, it was a very tasty dinner with a very amusing conversation. Throughout the meal jokes were made, laughter was heard, and bonding happened. The only thought on all of their brains, at the end of the night, was:
'Even though Voldemort is at large, we will live a full life.'
