Harry stared, shocked at the results of his inheritance test. Time seemed to slow, it could have been minutes, hours, days and even years. How could this happen, Ron and Hermione were never really his friends were they. Ron was always jealous and Hermione was always telling him what to do. They always seemed to be there to push him toward danger.

In first year if he had just done nothing Voldemort never would have been able to get the stone.

Then second year, why didn't Dumbledor close the school.

Once again the whole thing with Sirius and Peter could have been avoided if Dumbledor just said something.

The only good thing to come out of the triwizard tournament was the fact that he was emancipated and found out about all of this. And having to marry Ginny, yech until now he had thought of her as a sister, and he didn't even like girls.

Distantly he became aware of the sound of sobbing. Was someone crying?

As he became more aware he realized he was the one crying. Turning his head to the side he saw that Elizabeth was kneeling next to him rubbing his back.

"Are you alright Harry? It will be alright, I know it's a lot but we'll take it one thing at a time and I'll be right here to help you through it. Alright?" Harry took a big breath and whispered "alright, what do we do first?"

With this question the both turned to Ironclaw for the answer. "Well Lord Potter" grunted Ironclaw "the first thing that needs to be taken care of are the blocks, potions and spells in your system. Gringotts will take care of this for a small fee. Is this alright with you, Lord Potter?"

Harry smiled in relief and nodded yes. Ironclaw reached into his desk and rang a small bell. Another goblin appeared at the door. "Ah, Bograd, please take Lord Potter to the ritual chamber for a cleansing."

Bograd bowed "right this way Lord Potter, I'm afraid that your companion will need to wait here as her presence could disrupt the ritual."

Harry got up, said "goodbye" to Elizabeth and followed Bograd to the ritual chamber. In the ritual chamber there were several goblins in green robes that Harry presumed were healers.

One of the goblins approached him with a potion "Lord Potter please take this potion it will assure that you sleep through the cleansing ritual."

Harry took the potion, gave it a whiff before swallowing it with a grimace. "Can't they make those taste any better?" Harry complained before everything went black.

When Harry woke up both Elizabeth and Ironclaw were in the room with him.

Elizabeth leaned forward and patted his hand "how are you feeling Harry?" she asked.

"Fine" Harry replied "better, Do you think you could call me Hadrian?"

"I would be happy to call you Hadrian," laughed Elizabeth.

"Ahem, Lord Potter, if you wouldn't mind returning to my office we have much to discuss," said Ironclaw.

"Alright" Hadrian nodded before getting up and following Elizabeth and Ironclaw on the return trip to the office.

Once seated in the office Hadrian noticed 8 boxes on the desk in front of him plus one larger one.

"Lord Potter, the next thing that you will need to do is claim your lordship rings. Please start with the Potter ring on the left and move left down the line ending with the Pendragon ring. Unfortunately the Gaunt ring has been lost, if you ever come across it please let us know. Now the rings should all be placed on your right middle finger, as you place them they will merge together."

Hadrian slowly began placing the rings on his finger starting with the Potter ring and watching as they merged together. With each ring placed he felt the magic wash over him as if wrapping him in a blanket. As the last ring was placed Hadrian felt a rush of power that made him gasp. When he was finished he asked what was in the larger box.

"That is a very good question, Lord Potter." replied Ironclaw "this box contains protkeys to each of your properties. Now that you have claimed your lordship rings you will be able to use these. As your cleansing and healing session took longer than expected I took the liberty of providing them. After such a long healing session you should take the time to go home and rest. We can schedule to meet tomorrow after lunch if that is alright with you Lord Potter."

Hadrian nodded tiredly "that would be great. I could really use a nap." Looking back at his inheritance test Hadrian searched for a property that was close to diagon alley. Spying Grimmauld place Hadrian pointed it out and said "can I stay here, it's close to the alley."

Elizabeth patted him on the shoulder "I think that's a wonderful idea Hadrian. Do you need help using the portkey?"

Hadrian thought for a moment before replying "I'm not really sure how to use a protkey, I've only used the one before and that was with loads of other people."

At this Ironclaw interjected "Simply choose the portkey with the name of the property you need and say the family motto, for example you would take the grimmauld place portkey and say Toujours Pur. Do you have any other questions, Lord Potter?"

Hadrian thought for a moment I left my things at the leaky. Do you think someone would be able to send them to me if I leave here?"

At this Elizabeth jumped in. I can see to your things Hadrian, do you need me to accompany you to Grimmauld Place?"

Hadrian yawned, "no I'm just going to lie down for a nap as soon as I can. My owl is at the leaky so if you could just send my things with her that would be great."

"Very well Lord Potter" Ironclaw said as he rang the bell to summon Bograd again "if that everything is settled I can have Bograd show you to the portkey room."

At this Bograd stepped into the room, "right this way Lord Potter will your companion be joining you?"

Hadrian looked to Elizabeth who nodded "I'll see you off and then see to your things, lets go."

Once they reached the portkey room Hadrian searched his protkey box and found the one for Grimmauld Place. Before saying the activation phrase on impulse Hadrian hugged Elizabeth and exclaimed "thank you so much Miss Elizabeth, I'll see you tomorrow, goodbye." Hadrian stepped away and after uttering "Toujours Pur" the last thing he saw was Elizabeth smiling and waving goodbye."

The next thing he saw was a shabby attic he was just looking around when he jumped at hearing a loud pop. Turning to the location of the sound he saw a very old house elf.

The house elf blinked up at him before shrinking "Master Black has returned. What can Kreacher do for Master Black?"