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"What in the blue blazes is that? Who is there? They told me no one was living here! Are they liars now too?" he snapped jumping as he rounded the corner and saw the angry painting and gasped.
"Wow I haven't seen one of these toys in years! My grandmother had one and she said her grandmother introduced her to the toy and even left it to her. These are talking pictures and depending on which kind you buy some can be happy and some can be angry. This one was clearly made to hurl insults at people. I dunno maybe this one has a sick sense of humour. I know, Kreacher could you please take that picture there and give it to my sister Marge in Shropshire. She has a very dark sense of humour and would love it for sure" he asked chuckling as Kreacher looked very torn indeed. Having said that Vernon had helped him to fulfil his master's last and dying wish.
"Yes master. I would not touch anything here master because I have not cleaned it yet and there are dark items here!" he advised.
"Thank you Kreacher. We will look around but not touch anything ok? Before you go to Marge what are your jobs here?" Petunia asked him sweetly with a smile on her face. He was shocked as no one had ever spoken to him like that with such kindness before. He would do right by this happy family for sure.
"Well I serve the Black family ma'am. I cook, clean, buy things from the magical world, take you places you need to go in a flash and anything else you may need. Do you need anything now before I go?" he asked as Petunia bent down and hugged him gently. She guessed showing him kindness would be the correct thing to do after the nasty way that toy painting spoke to him earlier.
"Thank you Kreacher for all you have done. I would like it please if you could either call me Petunia or Miss if you cannot do that. Also call the children Damian and Dudley by their names or anything you can. The same applies to Vernon. I don't like this whole master thing. It just doesn't sit right with me. Also we have our own home in Brixton so we won't be needing to live here but I would like this house to be cleansed of all dark items and designed in a way I decide later on. We may not live here but I will need somewhere to conduct magical related things and this will be the house for that!" she said as he smiled at her genuinely happy she was so caring. Damian who had woken up clapped his little hands and giggled as Kreachers robe turned royal blue and very clean. Clearly he wanted the clothing of Kreacher to change which Kreacher didn't mind one bit.
Highly protesting and claiming she'd kill everyone Walburga's portrait was delivered to a delighted Marge with a note saying it was a gift from Vernon to remember their childhoods by. The note also explained that this toy gave out threats. Marge laughed as the portrait threatened to kill the mudblood before her.
"Wow you are a violent one aren't you? I love it. Nothing beats an angry bastard and you're perfect. Oh I'll put you in the spare bedroom. You will be so entertaining!" she chuckled darkly at the now red Walburga who was sputtering with rage as she was placed in the spare bedroom. It was very modern with a double bed and a television in it. She had never seen anything like it in her life and was disgusted. Why did this woman get off on the insults she was hurling at her? Was she mentally unstabe or something? She called for Kreacher but he would not answer her. Vernon had warned him not to answer the call of anyone who wasn't now in the house no matter who they were. He told Kreacher to tell him if he was being called who it was and what they wanted. Then he would see about allowing him to go which Kreacher thought was only fair.
This house much like their own had what initially appeared to be three floors but was in fact five floors. Two of the floors could only be accessed by the current Lord Black Vernon himself and those he gave permission to enter them of course. They looked around the house quickly leaving the babies in their buggies in the hall. There were seven bedrooms, two offices, a potions lab, a library, a duelling room, a Herbology lab, kitchen, four living rooms, one drawing room and ten bathrooms. Vernon was in awe when they came back to the babies. He hadn't expected this kind of luxury at all. Mind you he had only looked inside each room without touching anything as per the request of Kreacher. They returned to the bank with him again and were once more in the office of the goblin who had seen them previously.
"Welcome back. I trust everything was to your standards. Now here with me I have some wood blocks which I will pass to Dudley. When one reacts with him we will know about it. I will pass jars with different things in them to Damian and when one reacts with him we will know it. We will then transfer the items between the two!" he said as the woods were handed to Dudley one by one. They went through all the woods until sparks shot out of a block of ebony wood. Damian had sparks shoot out from a jar containing a phoenix feather which had been imbibed with phoenix tears. Dudley then chose the same phoenix feather only his was green in colour and imbibed with basilisk venom. Damian also chose an ebony wood. The handle of Damians wand had a pearlescent handle which resembled that of a sword and Dudley's wand was much the same except his handle was silver and twisted around like the shape of the serpent in the medical symbol. They were both beautiful and Petunia let both boys hold their wands for a little while to bond with them as they talked with the goblin.
"Ok now that this has been done we need to talk Mr Dursley. This is the first time we have ever had a squib being the Lord of an Ancient and Most Noble house. A squib of course being someone who cannot practice magic but has those in his family who can. In our government we have an organisation called the Wizengamot which is similar to your House of Lords. Each house such as the Blacks are represented by their lord or a representative he or she chooses. These people vote on all kinds of laws and criminal cases of all kinds. I would suggest hiring a lawyer to go through every vote which has been made by Lord Malfoy in the absence of a new Lord Black until you arrived of course!" he instructed gathering together the documents.
"Who appointed this Lord Malfoy fellow? Who did he need to ask for the role?" he asked pointedly.
"Well you see until you arrived here his son was in the position to be the new Lord Black so he had that going for him. Of course with you as the new Lord now he will no longer be able to do so. However you could choose to have him remain there but vote as you tell him to. Alternatively you can get a representative which you trust to do all your voting for you. Everyone always knows what laws will be voted on beforehand as that's compulsory so someone can explain it to you and then you can instruct them on how to vote. The Black family I should hasten to add holds the majority of the votes so any votes you make can sway a law one way or the other. I will have all the votes made in your name sent to you for you to review. With them I will include translations of what that particular law was for and what the particular cast vote did" he instructed as Vernon smiled a smile which made the goblin very nervous for once. He was now in full on business mode. He was a business man after all and was determined to make an absolute fool of Malfoy had he done anything stupid which he likely had. Even the name Malfoy sounded pretentious as all hell and gave Vernon the ick.
"Yes well this Lord Malfoy dude has yet to meet the new Lord Black. Does he think he's cool with a pretentious name like that? I suppose he does. I do not do things by half. I will learn and study your laws and if he has voted in a way which at all goes against my being he will pay for it. I will make sure of that. He'll be publicly embarrassed for being a fool for sure'' he snapped as the goblin looked at him in admiration. Clearly Vernon meant business and that was just how the Goblins liked things to be.
''Now you must tell me is it possible to make Damian or Dudley the new Lord Black if I were to choose that option? It's just without much magic I doubt I could do much in that role no matter the power of said role. I mean I am not foolish enough to think I could thrive there without magic obviously as that would not work out and I do know that for sure. I mean they could do and act as I tell them to and so on" he asked genuinely curious as the goblin laughed a hearty laugh.
"Oh yes indeed. I like you very much Mr Dursley. Very cunning indeed. Make a new Lord Black, no one can see and touch and then boom when they are eleven they can take up the role. This is great. I mean no one needs to see Lord Black anyhow to know he's there. We will obviously need to prepare them in etiquette and such but a tutor can be brought in for that. Trust me when those boys are eleven and start at Hogwarts no one will quite know what hit them. Dudley is the right choice for Lord Black so you should choose him for this role. Damian here is actually the Lord of Slytherin and Peverell so he will receive extra training indeed. We had his blood thoroughly tested while you were away. Lord Slytherin does not vote in the Wizengamot nor does Lord Peverell but they do hold very high positions in society still. Also he will own one quarter of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You will find that once there he will know all of it's secrets!" he responded as they smiled at their plan.
Yes Dudley would be the perfect choice for Lord Black. Vernon could see it now nd he would delight in everyone learning their lessons in the future from Dudley. He'd make sure everyone towed the line voting wise and it would surely shake up the entire Wizengamot. He knew Dudley would be perfect for the role and as he would not be what anyone was expecting they'd probably do and say all kinds of things in front of him they would do if they knew he was Lord Black. He intended to use this to his advantage. If people asked him why he didn't tell anyone he was Lord Black he would just tell them that they never asked him that which is why they didn't know about it.
They left to go to the Leaky Cauldron for fish and chips before heading home again. It had been an interesting day for sure. The Wizarding world was in for a shock when two young Lords who had been well trained in how to behave arrived at the age of eleven. They would not draw unnecessary attention to themselves and would not have any great power more so then those in their year except the natural wandless magic abilities which came with their lordships. Other then this they would be two well trained normal twins. They were still muggleborn anyhow and would have unique traits and personalities for this reason. Actually it was a known thing that those who got into Slytherin house couldn't do so unless they had a special ability which was usually discovered during their first year at school. Slytherin had made up the lie that not everyone was welcome in his house in order to hide this fact and it worked well for him. As of now no one knew that each Slytherin student had a special ability not all of which were physical. Some of them were intellectual a good example of that being Professor Snape becoming the youngest potions master in a centuary. This would surely be useful in the future for sure.