Oh my god, I am so sorry I haven't uploaded in so long, things have been crazy around here for the last year or so. But I'm back now and ready to go. . . Kind of, I need to get a new Beta-reader since my other one is so busy with school and I don't want to bother them with something like this. So if anyone has any suggestions for a good beta reader then that would be great.
Now onto the reviews that have piled up in my absence.
N. A. Wennerholm chapter 9. Aug 14, 2019:
It has been four months since you last updated looking forward to more.
I wish that Harry/Adriane had all the Money reclaimed that was stolen and based on how it read added up quite a bit. Plus Since Adrian is a shareholder in the Daily Prophet She should arrange to have her Inheritance and Abilities Test Published along with a full physical history published showing all the Abuse and Neglect she suffered over the years. That includes publishing everything about the Dursleys when it came to their share in her abuse and neglect Including receiving money every month for her care but not spending any of it on her but on Dudley and themselves. which is a mid appropriation of funds. They should have been forced to file regular reports with receipts to the Goblin who manages the Potter Family accounts. Plus it also showed that Adriana/Harry owns Number 4 Privet Drive. For which it should be checked to make sure they actually paid the rent. If not force them to pay it back. I remember some stories I read where Vernon was stealing from Grunnings Drills and in some were Harry even owned Grunnings and as a result, Harry had Vernon Fired and The Dursleys evicted from Privet Drive. The Dursleys like to view themselves as normal and yet they mistreat and Abuse Harry and mistreat and abuse others along with bullying too.
Me:
Thank you for your ideas. Some of them are in this chapter but regarding Adriane revealing what has been done to her, she will most likely wait until the summer when she is out from under Dumbledor's thumb so she doesn't tip him off on her being free from her bindings.
PappyOldGuy chapter 9. Jun 7, 2019:
Intriguing and (well enough written in my opinion) a very good story. I like it, I like it a lot! It seems to be meshing the realities quite well, and I can hardly wait (but I will) to see where it all goes. I do know this, when someone who is not the creator of a character, writes about them, it is to have them do something that the creator doesn't want to or didn't think of. I know that I always think of my favorite characters doing things, I have never read of in books or seen them doing in movies. I think it is fantastic that others (here in "FanFiction") are actually writing their stories of what they want them to do in a "What If" world. For those who complain that the characters would not do this or that, forget them. You need to write this first for yourself, and then for the rest of us who do enjoy your take on what just might, could, should, would and probability (if a frog had wings, his ass wouldn't bump the ground nearly so often) can happen. I do know this as well, I am enjoying it and will follow it as long as you will write it. Also, do NOT feel pushed to post, sometimes the words and thoughts just flow and sometimes you have to cogitate for a bit. Just learn to let them grow at their own pace and those of us who appreciate them will be here to read them when they are posted.
Me:
Thank you so much for your kind words, it's reviews like this that always bring a smile to my face and make my day. They make me want to write more when I see that people really enjoy my stories and understand that writer's block is a thing that happens and you never really know when it will leave.
Thank you so much.
Beth5572 chapter 9. May 17, 2019:
I can't want to see everyone's face when the secrets get out soon. Keep up your great work.
Thank you and Please,
Terri
Me:
Thanks, I can't wait for that to happen either but we still have a LONG way to go until we get to that part.
That's it for the reviews, for now, I wish I could respond to everyone but I know I can't even if I try to. By the way, if I wrote a story for the web series "Sanders Sides" who would like to read it? There will be a note at the end of the chapter about this, please let me know if you might like to read it.
Now on with the story at last!
Adriane woke up the next day sore all over and she groaned as she pulled herself out of bed and into the shower and sighed in relief when she felt the hot water against her body, soothing her aching muscles. She got out of the shower a little while later and she put on a simple yellow daisy sundress with thin straps to hold it up with a black twist crop top on top of it, she wrapped her tail around her dress to act as a furry belt and silently hoped that no one would notice it. She put on a pair of white low heeled pumps that wrapped around her ankle to give her that little bit of extra hight because honestly, she was too short even first years were taller than her most of the time.
She put in some star-studded earrings that she had been told were for men but she didn't really care about that, she had lived as a guy for the first thirteen some years of her life so she didn't care about the normal gender rules that people say everyone had to live by.
She then put on a neckless that was mostly just a plain golden chain but it had a charm on it that looked like a black hole in space with stars that she thought went with her earrings nicely.
Adriane fed Usagi and hugged her before running out of the room with her bags to go to the first thing on her list, talking to Garnett. She sighed, she really didn't want to talk to anyone about her life as a guy before she found out about everything but she knew that it was to help her get over what had been done to her, well not get over but help her be able to not fly into a rage when she wound up seeing the traitors again.
Running into the room she was surprised that she was early but as Garnett said it just gave them more time to talk about everything, The first thing Adriane did was awkwardly ask her how she was supposed to clean her new parts getting a laugh out of Garnett who then explained. The two of them talked about how Adriane was feeling about this and how she was taking everything.
Adriane was hesitant to share things with Garnett but was glad that she had someone to talk to at all and that Garnett understood that she had to work to earn Adriane's trust.
Next, it was time for breakfast where Adriane ate more than she did yesterday to the approval of the others, having been told that she had been starved by her relatives had made them all mad, especially Clara because in her words "No one should harm a kit, they're gifts to this world and to starve one and treat them so bad is a crime they are lucky that I am not allowed to go after them"
Adriane almost pitied her relatives because if they met Clara or anyone in this room, to be honest then, they would be in for a big, unpleasant surprise. Wait, could she even call them her relatives anymore? That was a question for another day, now she had to get to class.
Picking up her bag she rushed off to the first class she had that day, Transfiguration with Gorgor she spends the class doing the same thing as yesterday trying out spells and seeing which ones worked and which ones decided to go all wonky on her.
After that, it was time for her to head to Arithmancy with Luggit. She had never taken Arithmancy before and she found that she should have taken this class before when she had the chance in last year, but it's not like the teachers sat down with every second-year student and explained what classes you could choose, what you would need them for, and what they could do. . . Right?
Wait, knowing her luck and the things people tried to keep from her it was fairly likely that the teachers or Dumbledor, most likely both, decided to keep it from her so she didn't understand what jobs needed what and so she would follow Ron's lean in choosing two of the easiest classes there was.
That did sound like something they would do and she didn't want to know anyway, she would prefer to ignore it but sadly she knew that she couldn't ignore this forever but goddamnit she could try!
After Arithmancy she had Law with Anthony, she was learning about the magical law for now and after she got a good enough idea on what the laws for magicals were she would be learning the Mundane laws.
She learned a lot in that class and wondered why Hogwarts didn't have something similar, she hadn't known that some of those laws even existed but she was only happy with a few of the laws, most of them she wanted to see if she could change them or not.
One law she was really happy with was the one that said that people could marry more than one person since it wasn't a thing in the mundane world, she didn't care about dating and if she did she would most likely only date one person anyways but she was happy since it meant that Fred, George, and Neville could date and get married someday when they all finally wised up to their feelings for each other.
Though the twins didn't like each other, just Neville.
After law class, it was time for lunch before she moved onto History with Kragrak. He was appalled when he learned that Hogwarts' history teacher was a ghost that only taught the goblin rebellions and put most of the people in the class to sleep. The only ones able to stay awake were Hermione and a handful of Ravenclaws with maybe one or two Slytherins.
There was also the little fact that they repeated what the book said, word for word, so most people just read the book and used the class as nap time, the other teachers knew this and yet they didn't do a thing to put a stop to it. Some teachers they were.
Next, she learned Etiquette with Ericka and she finally learned why Malfoy had made such a big deal in her not shaking his hand on the train in first year. It was considered rude and a snub if someone rejected shaking someone's hand if they offered it to you. She put down on her mental to-do list that kept growing by the day to apologize to Malfoy and explain that she hadn't meant to snub him when refusing his hand.
So far that Mental To-Do list looked like this with a few things crossed out that she had finished.
Go to Gringotts and check on her accounts. She had already done that one.
Get out from under Dumbledore's thumb. She was working on that one.
Find out about her uncle Jack.
Find out about her cousin Bruce.
Find out about her birth parents. She had done that one too.
Get teachers to help her learn more about what she needed/wanted too. That was underway.
Find out if Sirius and Remus were on her side.
Find out if the twins, Neville, Luna, and Fleur still accept her for her.
Fine Malfoy and apologize and explain.
It would get much bigger but right now it seemed manageable.
After that she had Chemistry with Anthony, she learned basic lab safety since they didn't teach it until middle school. They wouldn't be doing anything until Anthony was 100% sure that she knew all the safety measures to stay safe in the lab.
After Chemistry was Science with Calvin and while most people would think that she should be taught science in chemistry since chemistry was science, Chemistry was already complicated and in mundane schools, she believed they had chemistry and science classes at different times.
After science, it was time for dinner where she ate her fill before she went to go do a small workout. After her workout, she went and took a shower before going to bed.
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Adriane was sitting in the air meditating, it was almost time for her to leave the time chamber and start her changes but she didn't know if she was ready just yet which was why she was meditating. Meditating helped calm her when she was nervous or needed some time by herself.
Thanks to her teachers' help she learned how to use her occlumency abilities because even if she was a Natural at it she still had to learn the basics and make her walls and shields by herself which she did by using both mundane and magical means to protect her mind.
To get into her mind you first had to have a sample of her magical signature or else the first door wouldn't open. The second door needed to be opened with a bit of her DNA, either her blood, a bit of hair or even a tear or spit anything would do but anyone trying to get into her mind needed to know about DNA to even think of that.
Then there was the fingerprint scanner, she would scan her fingerprints, all ten of them before she would be allowed to the next room where she would have to say a password.
She made the password be "Kenna Dive" her two new middle names but because people could guess that she made the password be in the goblin language that her goblin teachers had so kindly taught her for some reason.
And if someone somehow managed to get through all of those they would be met by an army of house-elves, goblins, and fairies all of which were armed with wands and mundane guns. She had added the fairies only because next to the house-elves and goblins they looked the most innocent and harmless, but they were secretly the most harmful and dangerous of her army.
The only way to call them off was for her to flair her magic before walking into the room. After that, there were no more big traps.
While working on her mind she had found the piece of Voldemorts soul that the goblins had warned her about. When she had realized just what the ugly baby looking thing was she immediately built a wall around it made of the most durable material in the known universe that she knew of.
She was brought out of her mind by someone tapping her on the shoulder and opened her eyes to see Garnet and smiled softly, Garnet had somehow become a second mother to her, even if she would never tell her that.
"Ready to go Adriane?"
"Ready as I'll ever be"
Adriane hopped up and stretched before nodding at Garnet.
"I'll keep in touch"
"You had better"
This caused both of them to laugh before they hugged goodbye and Adriane walked out of the time chamber for the first time in seven years, she had a soul to get out of her head and a goblin to talk to.
Time skip
After leaving the time chamber Adrain had been rushed to the ritual chambers where she once again got naked, this time not minding all that much.
Hey, when you had Clara as a teacher you learned pretty early how to fight in some pretty strange conditions, one of which was being naked as the day you were born. Man had Adriane been embarrassed when they first did that fight.
But anyway when the goblins started chanting Adriane felt a pain in her forehead and suddenly she was sucked into her mind and was now staring at what had once been an ugly baby.
In its place was something Adriane had wished she would never see, there standing before her was a man with blood-red eyes and a snake-like face, grey and paper-like.
"So Harry Potter, or should I say, Adrian Potter, did you honestly think this pathetic ritual will be able to get rid of me? The greatest dark lord there ever was?"
"You? The greatest dark lord, ha don't make me laugh! There are people out there much worse than you, people, who can destroy a single planet with only a finger and let me tell you, you are nowhere close to being able to do that!"
"What lies are these? No matter I will just have to make you submit to me and my power."
With this, the monster threw a dark orange-colored spell at her causing her to doge and shoot her laser eyes at him. She managed to hit him in the shoulder, causing him to yell out and grit his teeth before sending the killing curse her way.
Adriane jumped into the air and flew at him, dodging all the spells he threw at her and landed behind him and kicked him in the back knocking him down.
"Maybe you think that I'm lying but why would I when I have no reason to? You're going to be gone soon enough and won't be telling anyone, not if I can help it."
She glared down at him and stepped lightly on his wand that had fallen out of their hand when she had kicked him and watched as shock, anger, and horror showed up on his face before she stepped down harder, snapping the wand in two causing the distorted cry of a phoenix to echo throughout her head causing her to wince.
It seems that Voldemort using the dark arts with a phoenix feather as their wand core caused the feather to turn black as night thanks to all the dark energy. This meant that when the wand was broken, instead of a normal phoenix cry it became distorted and warped like the wand's owner.
Voldemort was glaring at her now and slowly stood up. "How dare you! HOW DARE YOU BRAKE MY WAND YOU MUDBLOOD BITCH!" Now that caused Adriane to get angry, who was he to call her a bitch or a mudblood? He was just a hypocrite that she would enjoy pushing out of her head.
So with all of her power she started shoving him out, feeling a pain in her forehead as she did so that caused her to wince slightly. The more she pushed the more pain she felt but she didn't give up, She kept pushing with all her might until finally, she heard him cry out before he was gone, leaving her alone.
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Waking up Adriane's first thought was that someone had hit her with the night bus before she remembered what happened and groaned.
"Ah, I see you have awoken young Adriane. It is a sight for sore eyes to see you awake and stronger than ever."
Grinlast, that was his voice does this mean it worked? Stronger than ever huh? She didn't think she needed to be stronger but she probably could be if she wanted to help save people.
Slowly sitting up she gave Grinlast a small smile. "And you're a sight that causes those sore eyes" She smirked at his shocked look that slowly turned into a grin that turned into laughter.
"I see you have come out of your shell and changed from a tiny week caterpiller and into a beautiful strong cheeky little butterfly"
Adriane huffed and crossed her arms and pouted, she wasn't that tiny thank you very much! She did blush a little at being called beautiful because even with Garnet, Ericka, and even Clara telling her so she still wasn't used to it and doubted she ever would be.
"Now it is time to decide what you wish to do about your finances"
That was right, she still had to do that didn't she?
"Very well let us go take another look at my family ledgers and see what needs to be done." She giggled slightly not able to keep up the formal talking she had been trying to do and stood up before she got dressed in skinny jeans and a crop top.
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Adriane decided to start with her properties before doing anything else and hummed.
"Grinlast what would it cost to turn the Slytherin manner into an orphanage for magical children? While the castle might cost less I think having a manor would be better since it would be easier to update, correct?"
Grinlast hummed before he spoke. "I have never heard of a magical orphanage before but I can see why you would like to make one. Very well you realize that you will have to fund it for now correct?"
"Of course I do, but considering I have so much money and it's just sitting there Ii figured I would take the money from the Slytherin vault and move it into a new one and move some money from my other vaults into the new one and make that the new funds for the orphanage."
"And just how much money do you plan to be moving?"
Adriane hummed and thought about it, "Maybe 12 thousand from Ravenclaw, 18 thousand from Gryffindor, 20 thousand from the blacks, 26 thousand from Merlin, and 34 thousand from Potter along with my trust vault that should give them about hmm"
She quickly did the math in her head, 29 knuts to a sickle and 17 sickles into a gallon, she would have about three sickles from the knuts and 59 gallons from the sickles and adding the 59 gallons to the ones from the other vaults minus the Slytherin one, for now, she would have 169 thousand gallons and add that to the rest of her trust it was around, 1,169,000 gallons and 3 knuts and that was before she even added the money from Slytherin to it.
Now if she added the money from Slythering she had 1,169,101 Gallons and 15 sickles and 13 knuts.
Wow, that was a lot but she decided that since she didn't know how many kids would be at the orphanage or how much they would need to pay for upkeep, food, clothes, toys, furniture, and pay for the people working there that it was a good amount to start with.
"We should wind up with about 1,169,101 gallons, 15 sickles, and 13 knuts in the vault, every month we will add around 5 thousand to it to help keep the place going and to pay for food and clothes for the children."
Grinlast nodded and marked it down on a piece of paper "It shall be done and may I say that I am impressed that you calculated the exact number of gallons you would be putting into the vault. If I had not known better I would have thought you were secretly a goblin with how fast you did so."
Adriane felt proud at the compliment, it was nice to have someone other than her teachers compliment her.
"Now what do you wish to do about the rest of your properties?"
Adriane took a look at her parchment and hummed.
"I would like to turn the Slytherin castle into a home for werewolves so they always have a home and a place to stay whenever they need it. So they always have a place to have a nice hot meal and a nice bath and bed."
"Very admirable young Adriane, most people wouldn't think of doing something like this."
"Thank you Grinlast, now as you might have figured out we need to open another new vault and move hmm 20 thousand gallons from the merlin vault so we can pay for all of this."
"Very well," He wrote down another note
"I would like to tear down the gaunt shack, it's of no use or value to me. And I would like to fix up the Ravenclaw Cottage, The Gotham family mason and if it's possible please see to fixing up Godric's hollow?"
Grinlast was nodding and writing down what she was saying.
"Hmm give me a second to write down what I want to do with my investments."
"Take all the time you need, this has been quite profitable for both of us"
Adriane nodded and took out a pen and some paper having realized it was easier to write with a long time ago. It took her some time to get all of what she wanted down but finally, half an hour later she was done and handed the sheet to Grinlast showing him what changes she would like and in the end, her investments looked like this.
Potter
Gunnings 60%
Daily Prophet 20%
Quality Quidditch Supplies 30%
The Quibbler 25%
Zonko's Joke Shop 20%
Junk store 20%
Wayne enterprises 15%
Capsule Corp 10%
Nintendo 10%
Google 20%
Black
Daily Prophet 20%
Borgin and Burkes 30%
Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions 30%
Zonko's Joke Shop 5%
Capsule Corp 5%
Nintendo 10%
Merlin
Daily Prophet 15%
Quality Quidditch Supplies 15%
Flourish & Blotts 5%
Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions 10%
The Quibbler 10%
Zonko's Joke Shop 5%
Junk store 20%
Nintendo 10%
10% in Gringotts Wizarding Bank for helping start-up the Bank
Gryffindor
Daily Prophet `10%
Quality Quidditch Supplies 20%
Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions 5%
Junk store 20%
Nintendo 10%
5% in Gringotts Wizarding Bank for helping start-up the Bank
Ravenclaw
Daily Prophet 10%
Flourish & Blotts 50%
Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions 5%
Junk store 20%
Capsule Corp 15%
Nintendo 10%
5% in Gringotts Wizarding Bank for helping start-up the Bank
Slytherin
Borgin and Burkes 25%
Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions 10%
Wayne enterprises 5%
Nintendo 10%
Grinlast raised his eyebrow at the investments she wanted to make but nodded since the only real risk she was taking was with the Junkshop.
"I must ask why are you buying out so much of the Junkshop?"
"It's a risky maneuver I know but in my eyes, it can be very profitable if we do this right."
"How so?"
"Mundanes have so many old antiques that they are not able to refurbish or fix-up by themselves but if we were to buy them and use magic to fix them up we could perhaps change the half of the Junkshop into an antique store that would draw in more customers and they might be interested in the other part of the shop as well."
Grinlast nodded with a thoughtful look on his face, he had never really thought of it like that before but it made sense, buy out the shop and turn half of it into something else to draw in more customers that were interested in those kinds of things.
"I would like to call in the loans that belong to the Slytherin family."
"Are you sure?"
Adriane nodded. "Positive Grinlast."
"Very well young Adriane it shall be done."
"Thank you"
Adriane smiled at Grinlast, she didn't know what she would do without him, he had helped her so much when he hadn't needed too.
"Now I would like to see about collecting the rent that I know is due from the people living in 4# Privet Drive" Adriane's eyes were dark just thinking about Petunia and Vernon Dursley, all this time she had been living in the boot cupboard and she owned the place. Took her in out of the goodness of their heart her ass. those bastards were being paid to care for her!
"I would also like to stop the money leaving my account that is going to them reclaim all the money they got for the reason that they never spent a bit of it on me if they could help it."
"That can be done very easily"
"Good, I would also like to do the same for the rest of the money that has left my account considering that I never gave anyone permission to take it. Please see if you can get it back plus interest, but please wait to do this until the summer months as that is when I will be ditching the magical world"
Adriane took one more look at the parchment, "Now the last thing I would like to do is to get rid of those illegal marriage contracts, that shouldn't be too hard correct?"
"No, it should not. What would you have me tell the thieves if they ask why they are no longer getting the money?"
"Tell them that since my name came out of the goblet that made me of age in the eyes of the law and magic and as such you need me to come in person to give my permission or else you will not be able to continue, please have them know discreetly that you would have to do a blood test to prove that the one claiming to be "Harry Potter" is who they say they are"
Adriane and Grinlast shared a smirk since that little fact was the entire reason this started in the first place. Adriane sometimes wondered what would have happened if she did have her key with her but she shrugged it off, it was no use wondering over the what-ifs.
Hey, it's me again please tell me what you thought of the new chapter and if it was any good? I tried to make this one longer than most of the other chapters are and I think I succeeded.
Anyway, I mentioned I might write a sanders sides story but I'm not sure. It would be about Deceit and would most likely be angst since I'm into those sorts of stories at the moment. But yeah just wanted to ask and see what people thought of this.