Harry walked into the library, there were very few people who were there. Most of them were groups of ravenclaws.
'They can be more crazy than Hermione in finishing homework' he thought, amused.
Harry walked towards the creature section of the library,
'Bird of prey, what do they look like? By Jameson Turrel
'Magical birds and their properties. By Charlotte Helms'
'Mythical creatures, Half creatures, Fictional creatures. Who are they? By Richard Turner'
Harry looked at the one made by Richard Turner and picked it up. He looked for more with similar titles, he has even sat and read different blurbs. Unfortunately there was nothing similar to what he wanted.
He sat down on a table that was hidden in the corner, and looked at the contents.
' - mythical creatures
•Dragons
•Fae
•Elves
•Hydra
•Griffin'
He had to read a little while down on the contents to find the half creatures section.
'- half breed creatures
•Wyverns
•Werewolves
•Centaur
•Harpy's
•Vampires
•Cyclops
•Giants'
Harry read all the subheadings under 'half breed creatures' he saw none in the book that described having feathers on their shoulder especially greenish black ones. Harry huffed and put his head in his hands, his stomach started gurgling painfully as he was reminded about lunch.
Harry lifted his hand subconsciously it started tingling and having a familiar warmth surrounding it as "1:30" hovered in the air.
'I never took out my wand' Harry thought as his eyes widened. He looked at his hand and thought of the sparkles he had made in Ollivanders, his palm tingled as small sparkles floated in the air like miniature fireworks.
He took a deep breath, stood up and put his book away and walked towards the great hall as dinner had started.
He walked towards the large door and opened it, many of the younger years paused on what they were saying and stared at him like he was an animal in a zoo and funnily enough Harry did feel caged. He felt scared.
He glided towards Hermionie and Ron and sat next to Hermione. They both looked at him and he just sighed and picked up some sausages and other random pieces of food.
As he was starting to eat, a brown owl landed on his shoulder with a letter. Harry raised an eyebrow and swallowed the food in his mouth.
"Thank you" he said to the owl as he unwrapped the letter from his leg, it had the Gringotts crest stamped on the fold. 'What do they want?' he thought.
The owl flew away as he was opening his letter.
' Dear Heir Potter,
We are happy to congratulate you on your creature inheritance.
You have been summoned for multiple reasons:
- Creature inheritance test
- Lordship/Heir Rings
- Bank statements with your vault manager
As you are currently residing in 'Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry' we have made this letter a port key to the main hall of Gringotts.
When you are ready to respond to your summons please say "Main Hall" while holding this letter.
We hope to see you soon.
Gringotts,
Signed: Griphook.'
Harry stared at the letter for a little while and sighed. Harry stood up and walked out the great hall.
Ron and Hermionie watched Harry get up and leave. "W's th' matta wiv h'm" Ron tried to say, his mouth full of food.
"Oh for god sake Ron you're supposed to swallow your food, not spray it all over the table" Hermionie groaned, "and I'm not sure why Harry is in such a mood, we haven't seen him all day.." she added worriedly.
Ron swallowed his food and put a hand on Hermione's shoulder, "it will be okay, he'll tell us what is going on when he is ready. That's what he has always done"
She nodded her head, "I know.. but you can't help but wonder what is bothering him, he's like a little brother you know? Got to always look out for him"
Ron laughed "Little brother don't be silly, we might as well he honorary parents to him at this point"
Hermionie chuckled at this "I know, it's why I worry so much…"
- - - -
Harry walked out of the great hall with the letter in his hand, when he was out of sight of the population of Hogwarts he muttered,
"Main hall"
He felt a sharp pull at his navel, he felt very ill while being transported from Scotland to London.
As he landed in Gringotts he had fallen flat on his arse. He paused for a second to register where he was, Harry then stood up and rubbed his backbone.
He then glanced around as he saw a few wizards staring. 'I swear this community has a staring problem' he thought with a glare painting his face.
Harry walked towards one of the unattended goblins, "good evening" Harry said politely.
The goblin looked at him and sneered "What is your reason for visiting Gringotts today"
Harry handed his letter to the unnamed Goblin and watched him put on his glasses and read the parchment.
"This way Heir Potter" the goblin muttered as he stepped off his chair. They walked towards a door that had a golden outline.
When the goblin opened the door it led to another corridor that had doors on either side with name plates screwed onto them, it looked like a dark academia workplace Harry noted.
As he and the other goblin reached a door that had "Griphook" etched on the plaque the small creature said.
"Here is your vaults manager Heir Potter" he grinned at him with many teeth, "may your vaults overflow with gold" he said.
Harry raised an eyebrow and remembered the goblin traditions shown in Richard's book, "uhm, may all your enemies fall to your feet sir" he bowed his head a little bit.
The goblins eyes opened a little in shock but he fixed his expression quickly and spluttered "you should open the door now Heir Potter, you should remember your way back to the main hall" he tilted his head towards Harry and walked away.
'Right okay..' Harry thought, he turned towards the door and took a deep breath, 'here we go then.'
Harry pressed his palm against the door and pushed it open.
Griphook was reading through files, he had a normal looking office with file draws near his side of the room and a few shelves with books dotted around.
"Good evening Heir Potter, it's nice for you to finally respond to your Gringotts letters" Griphook sent Harry a nasty grin full of very sharp teeth.
Harry squinted his eyes a bit "I have never gotten letters from Gringotts."
"Oh but you did Heir Potter." Griphook replied snarky.
"No I have never, I have only gotten letters from close friends or Hogwarts the past seven years. I have never been given a Gringotts letter or any summons except for the one from the ministry. I swear on my magic" Harry replied, his brow furrowing at the accusations the other is throwing around.
"Hm… if you are sure Heir potter. Please take a seat, this will be a fairly long meeting." Griphook said gesturing with his hand and long fingers.
Harry looked at the leather seat that is positioned in front of the goblin. He straightened his back a little and tried to summon his inner Mr.Dursley.
'I have heard him talk with business partners over the phone' he thought.
Harry walked over to the chair and sat down, he folded his hands into his lap, "what will we be going through first Mr Griphook" he asked.
"Well the most important will be your Lordship's and creature inheritance Heir Potter. I will have you pierce your pointer finger first to have a blood test done, this is so we can see exactly what lordships you need and exactly what creature blood you have and what parent gave it to you."
Harry nodded his head, when Griphook handed him a golden dagger he waited for the other to bring out a pale blue potion and a piece of parchment.
"This potion is called 'Ut ostenderet quid intus' this roughly translates to, 'To show what is within' it does exactly what the potion says, shows what is within your blood Heir potter."
Harry hummed "thank you for telling me, most of the time people just chuck me a potion and tell me to get on with it" he chuckled as he tried to make light of a rough situation.
Griphook grinned "Now, I will just need a few drops, around 3-4, of your blood in the potion and I will drip it over the parchment."
Harry held his pointer finger over the potion, he then pressed the golden dagger from before onto it and sliced the tip of his finger, he then counted three drops and his finger instantly healed back up.
"We added a healing factor to the dagger," Griphook commented, seeing Harry's curiosity.
Griphook then swished the potion a little to mix it and then proceeded to carefully drip the potion onto the parchment.
After a few seconds bloodied writing, similar to Professor Umbridge's quill started to appear on the paper
'Hadrian (Harry) James Sirius Potter-Black.
Mother: Lilly Jasmine Potter, nee Evans
Father: James Fleamont Potter
Blood-Adopted Father (Inactive, not completed) : Sirius Orion Black
Godfather(s): Sirius Black, Frank Longbottom
Godmother(s): Alice Longbottom, Andromeda Tonks
Lordships:
Lord Potter (last direct lord) - Father
Lord Black (last direct lord) - Given by last Lord Black
Lord Peverell (last direct lord) - Father
Lord Gryffindor (last direct lord) - Father
Lord Emrys (last direct lord) - Mother
Lord Slytherin - By conquest
Creature Blood:
Phoenix (Earth, from phoenix tears) : 23% Unlocked, Active- Main creature inheritance
Basilisk Venom : Active, Passive, Affects phoenix type and Parselmagic
Master of Death : Active, Passive.
Veela : Inactive
Other magical properties:
Parseltongue : Active, Passive
Parselmagic : Active, Passive
Shadow Walking (MoD) : Active, Passive
Realm Walking (MoD) : Active, Passive
Phoenix Healing : will show at 50%, Passive, heals body and can heal others with tears.
Wandless magic : Active, 67% Blocked by APWBD
Wordless magic : Active, 87% Blocked by APWBD
Other magical properties are unable to be identified, due to blocks or other magical means.'
Harry stared at the parchment. His hands shook. He was in a state of shock, and not because of the predicament on the bottom of the paper.
'Blood-Adopted Father' ran through Harry's mind. Sirius could've been his father, he wasn't just his godfather or some prison escapee, he would have been his flesh and bone. His last relative.
Harry took a deep breath and wiped his eye.
Harry looked at Griphook with a cold mask on this face and pointed towards Sirius' name. "What does this mean for me" he said
Griphook's lips grimaced into a straight line, "this is where the late Lord Black tried to blood adopt you, but for some reason it was not completed and this could be because of many reasons like your age of when they started, because it was not completed Sirius is not your other barer it is why he had to give the Lord Black title instead of you being the last Lord Black."
Harry nodded his head, "can we please continue with the lordships now Mr Griphook"
Griphook hummed and took out a book, he looked like he was writing letters. When he was finished, Griphook took out three boxes.
"These are the Black, Potter and Peverell lordship rings. When you put them on your ring finger one by one you will have a very limited meeting from past Lords. When all rings are on your finger they will merge together."
"Do I have to put them in a certain order?" Griphook shook his head "no Heir Potter you do not."
Harry nodded his head and grabbed the box that has the similar Black family crest on it. He opened the box and there laid a ring that was made of some sort of black stone, it also had an onyx in the middle. When he flipped over the ring "Toujours Pur" was etched into the inside. Harry then slipped it on his finger and his world went dark.
"Harry?…" someone said
Harry opened his eyes to see familiar black hair in his vision.
"Sirius…" Harry's eyes swelled up with tears as he looked at the man.
Sirius hugged him, "I haven't got long. But I just want you to know that I will always be here for you.." he put a hand on Harry's heart "Harry, I don't regret giving you the lordship, I don't regret having you in my life. What I do regret is leaving you so soon, and not being able to complete the blood adoption." Sirius looked him in the eyes "Harry I will and have always loved you like a son no matter what you have done. Now do what I couldn't do and live, live your life to the fullest prongslet."
When Sirius was finished, he kissed Harry's hairline and smiled as the real world started to fade into Harry's sight.
Harry finally looked at the ring on his finger with tears silently streaming down his cheeks. Griphook then came into his view as he handed him a handkerchief.
"Thank you Mr Griphook" Harry said as he wiped his face. He folded the handkerchief onto his lap as he picked up the second box.
The second box had a Gryffindor coloured crest, but instead of lions it had a weird looking animal on it.
"That is the potter's crest. As you can see they were very prideful in being Gryffindors. The animal that is shown in the crest is a gryphon, it originated from mediaeval heraldry and is the Christian symbol for courage and divine power. The creature was depicted in "coats of arms" of many European noble families in the muggle world. This is because they were attributed to many virtues; especially courage and freedom from any defects. Although your family was the only magical noble family to have them on their crest." Griphook explained as Harry smoothed his finger across the crest.
Harry opened the box and inside there was a piercing gold ring, it was thick yet elegant and held a large polished garnet in the middle.
Harry slipped the ring onto his finger again and the world slipped away from him.
He felt arms wrapped around him "Oh my prongslet how you have grown…"
A man with a husky but fluid voice spoke to him.
Harry opened his eyes to see a clone of him, only he had brown eyes and his features were sharper than his. He smiled at him and hugged him back "Hi again Dad"
"Hello prongslet it's nice to see you again. You need to call me and your mother more, you make us worried sick sometimes." His father looked at him and smiled
"But I can't. I threw away and hid all the hallows. I'm so sorry.."
James shook his head, "no, the hallows are not the only reason you are Master Of Death, you know this. You are his master, you can call upon him whenever you like. You can use his powers, including the hallows powers like your own mijo. I don't have any time left but make sure you put on the Peverell ring. I love you prongslet"
"I love you too Dad" Harry smiled as tears freely fell down his cheeks.
As Harry woke back up, he saw two other goblins next to Griphook. He quickly wiped his tears away. He looked at his finger and watched the two rings merge, the band became a dark gold as the two stones were split in two next to each other.
"Uhm.. hello?" He said as he interrupted their talk in Goobledegook.
"Ah welcome back Lord Potter-Black" Griphook said. "This is Silvertooth and Thrangor. Silvertooth is the manager of the Gryffindor and Slytherin vaults, Thangor is the manager of the Emrys vaults; they both hold the lordship rings."
Harry nodded his head "So I will have to go to you guys when I need help with the other vaults?"
"You could, but you can also make one of us your main vault manager, this means that one will oversee every vault and you can go to them for questions about your audits and general things whereas the others will manage the minor things like the bills for your properties."
Harry hummed. "We can do that if you want? Will it be okay if Griphook becomes my main manager?" All three goblins nodded their heads.
Silvertooth and Thrangor then placed the lordship rings they were holding. "Here you go Lord Potter-Black."
"Please just call me Lord Potter, by the time this meeting ends I will have a very long Lord name" he joked.
"We do have pride in being professional. But if you are sure Lord Potter we can do that"
Harry nodded his head. He then watched the two other goblins leave, he felt relieved he didn't want to cry in front of even more goblins.
He then looked at the box Thangor had placed on the table, his mother was Lady Emrys. He did not know who they were.
The Emrys Crest was a deep royal blue with a deep purple secondary tone, it had a dragon sleeping, it looked like an old Fire-Drake. The crest itself looked royal, it looked powerful.
Griphook pointed towards the crest, "The most ancient and noble house of the Royal Emrys. These wixen ruled British and European wixens, their word was law. You are very lucky to be born in many powerful houses, Lord Potter."
Harry stared at the box, "Royal? My mother was royal blood?"
"You will find out when you put on the ring Lord Potter"
Harry carefully opened the box, in there laid a ring the rose gold shimmered in the light as a Labradorite innocently looked at him.
Harry lifted the expensive looking ring and placed it on his ring finger. His world swam as it became black again.
Harry opened his eyes, he saw his mother, he had the same shaped nose as her, same shaped eyes, jaw. His soft features come from her. He felt his green eyes fill with tears as he watched hers do the same.
"Oh my child, you have gone through so much without me, I'm so sorry" his mother said as she hugged him.
"Mum… it's okay it was not your fault none of this was" he reassured her his voice cracking while he did so.
She placed a hand on his cheek as she wiped away his tears, "my little prince" she smiled warmly at him.
"Prince?" He whispered.
"Yes, you will be a fine king. You will set our world right. I love you Hadrian. I never knew about my lineage until I came close to my death. But you need to know that we came from a separate branch that started as squibs, but I had enough magic in me to become a witch. I wish I could've helped you earlier, my prince. You need to find your cousin, accept all of the family magics, our names will become great again…" She explained to him, her face looked upset as he watched her almond eyes start to drip with tears, just like his.
"It's okay mama, I love you."
"I love you too, remember what your father said. Talk to death for us."
"I will, I promise."
Harry closed his eyes, when he opened them he was back in Griphook's office.
"Welcome back your majesty."