Here is the next chapter. Please read and review thank you love Hermione xxx
Petunia sighed. Who knew that having two children who were both two would be so difficult? She started crying as it all became too much for her that day. Dudley had, had a tantrum and thrown himself on the floor refusing to move and this had made Damian cry and struggle as well. Sometimes it was just too tough to bear. It wasn't always bad though. She eventually managed to put Dudley in his high chair who started crying again. She watched in awe as he threw his hands out his dummy sailing into them from the counter. He had done magic and she knew he'd be just like Lily which only served to make her cry even more. She couldn't even do that herself and here he was her son able to do it. At least she could now be part of that world in a way. She brought over their food shocked at Damian as he said no and threw out his own hands a different jar of food he really liked coming into her hands. She marveled at both boys showing magic and then it clicked as she cuddled Damian closely. Clearly he'd displayed magic and his parents terrified of him had dumped the baby at the nearest house they could find. He was obviously from a muggleborn family. She remembered Lily telling her about the different blood types of her world one time when they were teenagers. She found it fascinating that even in the world of magic their was segregation and predjudice,
He would always get love for sure. Dudley started giggling and clapped as her dress changed into a gorgeous red fitted one. This one was a good one. She could get used to that. Damian and Dudley could both nod yes and no at this stage and could even count to twenty. They knew most of their letters too.
"Dudley did you do this?" she asked her son as he smiled brightly and nodded yes.
"Damian do you think you could do something like this?" she asked as Damian giggled. She couldn't see anything but screamed as she checked the mirror in the bathroom. Her hair was teal in colour. Not what I meant she mumbled to herself as Vernon arrived home and laughed at her.
"Well it does suit you Pet. You look absolutely gorgeous although I do wish you'd tell me you were planning on doing things like this first!" he said as she rounded on him looking furious before bursting out laughing at his amused face. She couldn't help it. It had looked funny after all.
"I didn't do this Vernon. Both of our sons did. Yes it would seem they are both magical. I know I hate Lily for what she is Vernon but she chose to marry a man who was dangerous and saw nothing wrong with using magic to hurt others such as yourself. I have never forgotten that either but just because our boys are magical does not mean I will hate them. They will have nothing to do with Lily and James and that's for sure. I don't know what happened to her but she was never the same after she married that vile bully of a man. I will insure both boys are more prepared because she never was and always resented it" she said in a huge breath as he looked at her as though she had ten heads.
"Considering Dudley this could come from my family and I may not even know about it. I was against magic because of that thug James Potter and all he ever did to me but I will not be against any of my sons and this I promise you. I will search in the attic later on. I have a family tree my mother had done up before and I will see about that. I know you know where to go from your childhood and we will go there and get any books and things which can help them out!" he said with a smile. He was honoured that someone in his family might have been magical and he was indeed right. He got out the ladder and entered the attic. He looked around for a few minutes until he found what he was looking for and exited again. He spread the tapestry out on the table and looked through it carefully. He discovered his great, great, great grandmother had been Lyra Cassiopeia Black who had married the knight sir William John Dudley of her royal majesties service. He had never known this about his family. Lyra Black was said to have come from power unknown which he had assumed was magic. He'd have to check that out. He told Petunia later on who had said Lily's friend was called Silly Black or something like that so maybe he'd know. In the morning with both children in buggies they all traveled to Charings Cross.
Petunia knew it was somewhere here. They exited the car and began walking around the street. They couldn't see it but then Petunia saw someone disappear from view and headed in that direction until she could see it. There it was the Leaky Cauldron. Thy wheeled both babies inside and asked for help getting on to the alley. Most people had never seen buggies like this so knew these babies were muggleborns. They parted for them as they headed down the magical alley and straight into the bank. The goblins were shocked as the buggies were wheeled into their bank and looked at the smiling and clapping children oddly. Most babies who came into their bank cried at the sight of them. What was that in their mouths? They approached a teller.
"Hello Goblin I am Mrs Petunia Dursley and this is my husband Vernon Dursley. Both of our boys are magical and Vernon here thinks someone in his family tree may have been magical. We wondered if someone could please look at it for us and tell us?" she asked politely as he looked shocked.
"We do things differently in this bank ma'am so I will need to ask for a blood sample from both of you and your children. The fact that you are here at all proves that they are magical together. Were they not only one of you could enter with one child not both" he instructed as a vial was pressed against the palms of both boys taking some blood in a painless way. Vernon and Petunia also gave their blood that way and it was immediately scanned as they were taken into a side office where some refreshments were waiting along with comfortable chairs. This was usually done so new clients would feel inclined to open accounts there with them. If they entered a room which felt cold they never would you see.
He entered the office then and ran to the desk pressing a button on top of it and looking highly panicked confusing them greatly. Another goblin rushed in and looked at him.
"Please verify that this is indeed correct. I am almost certain it is but need another opinion in case it isn't!" he said glancing at Vernon when the other goblin shocked them all and laughed.
"Oh yes it's true and I daresay the wizarding world is in for a huge shock indeed. Oh this is priceless and what have we here. Oh I see!" he said looking at the other parchment in shock and leaving again.
"Ok Mr and Mrs Dursley let's go through the results because they are and this is putting it mildly life changing. Your son Damian believe it or not is actually related to you and does indeed have an extreme fortune here you will now have access to. His parents perished in the last war but even though now your adopted son he is in fact your nephew. How did you become his parents?" he asked as Petunia looked very faint indeed.
"Well someone left him on our doorstep in the middle of the night presumably. We found him the next day almost dead. We rushed him to hospital and when they checked his records they said they couldn't find a record of his parents and he would have been sent to an orphanage only I couldn't take it so we adopted him making him our son. How in the hell did my sister die huh? Did that reckless fool she married do one prank too far and blow them up or something?" she questioned now furious.
"Well actually they did indeed blow up but it was not James Potters fault. I can see why you would think so though as he and his pranking ways caused many problems for this bank back in the day. Some of us still shudder at the memory of it. An evil wizard called Lord Voldemort or Tom Riddle as he was actually known to normal people blew them up. It was believed that young Damian here survived the killing curse but as he ended up at your home on your doorstep no less I can see that's not true. Now let's have a look at his accounts and see what's been happening with them. Mr Dursley we will get to you in a moment because as far as your concerned this world is about to be turned on it's head" he said chuckling in such a way that made Vernon think he'd be asked to do something bad which confused him. He hoped that wasn't the case. Dudley and Damian dozed in their buggies forgetting where they were and slept peacefully as he looked at the account in rage.
"Well this is not on at all. It would seem that Albus Dumbledore the head of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the one responsible for leaving young Damian on your doorstep although I do not think he intended to kill the boy he was just being extremely foolish in forgetting that magic does not work the same in the muggle or non magical world. He has appointed himself the magical guardian of Damian Harold Dursley formerly Potter. This means that he gets to decide everything for Damian which happens in the magical world and can if he chooses to do so keep things from you about his condition should he be accidentally injured at school or such" he said flicking through the large stack of parchment pieces before him.
"Well please change that now and that goes for Dudley too. I want to be their magical guardian. While we're on the subject is there a way to teach our boys some magic at home without them being caught and punished for it. I really don't like the idea of them going to this magical school with no knowledge at all. They would be at an extreme disadvantage and I don't like that. Obviously I'm not in a position to teach them anything myself but maybe something could be arranged?" she asked him as he looked at her in surprise.
"You are the first muggleborn parent to ask me something so sensible and I thank you for it. Those who are mannerly to us Goblins will find that things come easier then they would to those who use no manners as you are learning. Yes that can be arranged. We will put magical wards around your home and give them permission to use to magic. Also everyone says you should only get your wand at age eleven but that is a mere guideline. In the old days toddlers like these would get wands and I see no reason they shouldn't get them now too. They will not actually be able to use them until they are five years old. When is Damian's birthday?" he asked as she looked at him in awe.
"Well thank you so much for that. Yes that would be wonderful. Well Dudley's birthday is June 23rd and we got young Damian here on November first so I will say that his birthday is on November first although we don't really know!" she said as he looked through their files.
"Yes it says here it is actually July 31st but considering what that date means to people here I would not advise using it as it would only garner him unwanted attention. I would suggest recording his birthday as July and then whichever date you prefer. It won't truly matter" he said as she thought for a while before answering.
"Actually now that you mention it they are brothers' well technically cousins but obviously brothers if you get me so is there anything we could do so they could share a birthday like twins? I mean they don't look like twins or anything but could we do something like that?" she asked as Vernon nodded. This would be an easy solution and would solve all of their problems.
"Yes I didn't think of that actually. People would ask too many questions we couldn't answer so it would be better if they were twins really!" said Vernon seriously as he stroked Damian's head affectionately.
"Well there is a potion that we could give them for this but it would have to contain some blood from all of you combined. It would alter their looks to make them similar if not identical. They could either be fraternal or identical twins. All magical twis however have a twin bond usually meaning that they communicate telepathically. The potion decides which type of twin they will become. Would you agree to that?" he asked as they nodded. In all honesty they were terrified of using a blood potion ritual but even more terrified of what might happen to him if they didn't do that. They all took blood again both boys waking up and crying as they were shaken awake slightly to feed to the potion to. They had both been sleeping peacefully and were saddened to be awake again. Petunia and Vernon removed their dummies and fed them the potion which made them feel very sleepy afterwards. They replaced the dummies and both boys fell back to sleep glowing golden in their buggies for a short while.
The glow finally faded away as both boys now had deep brunette hair and blue eyes and both could now see and hear with twenty twenty accuracy. Dudley had, had slight hearing problems and Damian had, had sight problems but both were fine now. They looked very similar but definitely not identical. Their jaw and face shapes were the same even if their individual features looked different. Having said that though they did look very related and you couldn't dispute that.
"Ok very good. Now moving on here I can see that Albus Dumbledore has taken money from Damian's account and transferred some of it to your account Vernon in pounds as we have the record of him doing that here. This does mean that if you got any large sum of money this will be why" he was about to continue when Vernon cut in.
"But we thought it was a raise I was due from work due to being promoted to head office. Work had told me it would be a large one and so we used that money to buy a new home! We do still have plenty of it left though but if we had known it was for Damian we might not have bought the house. We will use the rest of it for his care and we are sorry we didn't realise!" he said sounding highly panicked.
"Vernon, Mr Dursley please relax. You obviously needed a new home if you purchased one and it is one in which Damian lives with you so obviously it was for him. We don't worry about things like that here and neither should you. So long as it has gone on his care, living situation included it's all good. No one could claim you don't love that boy and we think what you did with that money to be a wise investment in his future. After all he'll need someowhere stable to live as he grows up won't he!'' he said as Vernon visibly relaxed. This was something he'd needed to hear for sure. Picking up the parchment to read further the goblin continued.
'''Albus Dumbledore however used more money from this boys account to pay Mrs Molly Anne Weasley. He stole that money and we cannot tell why he gave this random woman money. It is clear that Damian is too young to have known her and neither did Lily or James. We have investigted it thoroughly and we're sure neither of them knew Molly Anne Weasley. Her family is a well known light family as well so we have no idea what Dumbledore was thinking when he did this. We're not sure she even knew where he was getting the money he was giving her from because he may have elected not to tell her that. It was in young Damian's trust vault as he couldn't access the main vaults. Essentially Damian is worth many billions of pounds ma'am, sir. His parents left a will stating he was under no circumstances to go and live with you both but it would seem that Albus Dumbledore sealed it off and placed him with you anyway. It is likely he thought he might suffer with you but we cannot be truly sure of what his motives were. We will deal with this via a lawyer later however Albus Dumbledore is one of our most important citizens so getting him for line theft or attempted line theft will be hard!" he said as Petunia scowled heavily.
"That bastard! That conniving little bastard! Well we have him now and he won't be able to control him or Dudley. I will be the magical guardian for them both!" she said defiantly as the document needed to make that a possibility was passed to her to sign which she gladly did. It was filed in the ministry records office automatically while a copy of it went to the Gringotts files.
"Ok now here is a card for you to access Damian's money in the muggle world. You would just use one of their bank machines with the code 2146. In the magical world you can have the shop owners tap with their wands on the card to take that amount directly from his accounts so you wouldn't need to be withdrawing any cash if not needed. He has so much money that he could afford to pay for all of his and Dudley's school supplies for all seven years of their schooling and it wouldn't even put a dent in his funds. Now in a moment we will ask for your address so that our people can secure your home and that. Also we will have their wands ready made in just a short while" he said as he tapped on Vernon's family tree with a wand a ring appearing from out of nowhere.
"Mr Dursley, Vernon please put this ring on the ring finger of your right hand. It will resize to fit you. If it does nothing it means it is not meant for you!" he said as Vernon took the ring and put it on. It pulsed for a while and a blue flash blinded them all for a moment.
"What the hell is going on? Why am I here!?" asked Kreacher looking around in anger and wondering who in the hell had compelled him to be here.
The goblin looked at him and screamed scaring both Petunia and Vernon. He looked genuinely disgusted and terrified.
"Kreacher you are here because you have a new master. Please give me that foul object right now and be thankful that I am not killing you where you stand for bringing something so dangerous into our bank! I will check just now and make sure it did not resonate with anything else in here. What the blazes it does! That vault will be shut down now and given to Mr Vernon Dursley once it has been made safe of course!" he said as Kreacher wailed.
"But old master Regulus ordered Kreacher to destroy it and no matter what I did I could not do it. I kept it on me always in the hopes that I would find out what to do to destroy it. I'm so sorry master I'm sorry I failed!" he said falling to his knees and crying as the shocked goblin looked at him in awe.
"Your old master asked you to destroy this? You would not have been able to even had you tried and he was a fool to endanger you like that. I will be back when this item and the one which resonated with it are destroyed!" he snapped as he left the room. Kreacher turned around and saw the Lordship ring glinting on Vernon's finger and all but passed out.
"You filthy little muggle. My new master is a muggle. The disgrace of the Black line that it's new Lord should be a muggle. Oh what will my old mistress say!" he wailed as Vernon looked shocked. There was a wailing sound in the distance as the goblin returned looking slightly green around the gills and returned the now broken locket to Kreacher who cried tears of joy at his task being completed even if he needed to do it with help. Kreacher gasped as with a flash of bright light he now looked younger and healthier than he ever had before because of bonding with the new Lord Black.
"Vernon Dursley Black you are the new Lord of house Black and you have unlocked a residence number twelve Grimmauld Place. It is in central London and was under the fidelius charm hiding it from everyone. We will need you to visit the home today quickly and then tell us what to do with it. The both of you should go there with Kreacher now and he will bring the children with him. Once you are done he will bring you back to this office to discuss things further. He is your servant and he will live symbiotically off a small percentage of your children's magic and the magic of the house!" he said as Kreacher clicked his fingers with them all suddenly landing in the hallway of number twelve.
"MUGGLE SCUMBAGS IN MY HOUSE. MY PUREBLOOD HOUSE. GET OUT NOW BEFORE I KILL YOU ALL. KREACHER WHY ARE YOU JUST STANDING THERE. KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL YOU USELESS BASTARD" they heard whirling around to see where the commotion was coming from. This would be a long day.