Adventure after the War Chapter 2, a harry potter fanfic

The next morning after breakfast she turned her eyes to the simple plan she had made yesterday after her complicated talk with Walburga.

1. Read Letters

2. Write Letters to Andromeda, The Ministry to hear about the OWLS and NEWT's

3. Read Portfolios – Potter, Black, Lestrange, Peverell, Slytherin and Grindelwald.

4. A Complete Shopping Spree. Including getting some elves, as her properties are completed. Retire Kreacher?

5. Finding Delphi Riddle?

Sitting in the office that had previously belonged to Orion Black, she had fixed it up as well as she could manage it, but she knew that she wouldn't live here longer than necessary. Placing every portfolio onto her desk, then she took up the letters from everyone that should have been important in her life if they had survived.

First, she opened the letter from Sirius, her godfather.

Hi Love.

My dear goddaughter if you are reading this then I'm sorry for not being there for you throughout your life. I regret 'so' much going after Peter Pettigrew after your parents' deaths, I should have been there as you grew up.

You grew up so much those three years I knew you, it's clear that you don't know anything about your family, I've tried to tell you, but I've always been blocked. It was either your friends, the Weasley matriarch or old Dumbles.

I know that they too wrote letters for you to read. I will keep it short. By now I hope you have defeated the old wanker or else this will just complicate everything for you further than maybe you have any idea off.

You are the new Lady Black something I know I would be proud, to be calling the head of our family, we are an old family and have our traditions, but I knew things and I needed to become friends with Potter for those plans and future to happen. I had to pretend that I turned my back on family, and I hated it.

James Potter, your other adopted father, became my best friend and brother – I want you to learn everything you can about the wizarding world because a lot is being kept hidden from you. James and I became thick as thieves, he was the only one in our group of friends at school who knew of the future I could see.

I'm sorry in everything, everywhere I could see only you would survive to adulthood, parenthood and of our family.

In secret we also became good friends to Rabastan Lestrange, not many knew that, and we kept it like that because if it was known that we knew each other things would become dangerous for him. It would make his life hard, and his life was hard enough before we started to talk to him.

Rebastan didn't believe in all the pureblood nonsense but wanted the traditions back and we understood that. When we graduated in 1977, we kept in contact with him, through mirrors that we charmed, much like the mirror I gave you. As he was going into his last year at Hogwarts, he told us that he had secretly met someone in the muggle world. A squib. Even knowing that his father would never approve of them being together, they fell in love.

While James and I became Aurors, Lily Jean Evans became close to us and soon got read into our world. James and Lily married in 1978, a year after Hogwarts.

After Rabastan graduated from Hogwarts, we spent days talking with one another in Godric's Hollow. Rabastan came when he could get away, and when The Dark Lord was bothered by something.

When I met the woman Rabastan was seeing, I didn't know what to think especially when it showed that she was pregnant and that they knew that she wouldn't live through birthing you. The five of us hatched a plan, aided by what I could see.

Lily and James had found out quietly that they never could become pregnant, so, she pretended to be pregnant with a couple of charms. While we all tried to make Aurora as comfortable as possible.

Rabastan was devastated, but tried and knew it was impossible for them to stay together and they were completely on different sides of the war. Then it became too dangerous for him to continue to come to us.

You were born secretly in our small cottage at Godric's Hollow, I know she wrote something to you that Lily left in her own vault. You will have to read their own letters to you to hear their version of events.

You are now a part of The Potter, Black and Lestrange family, three families with a rich history.

I'm writing this in my captivity at Grimmould, and sooner or later I will do something stupid – I exchanged one prison for another when I let them use this place for the order, but I had to because I wanted to at least see you a couple of times. It was clear for me, the last couple of months that we are being led down a certain path by the headmaster.

Enough about this, but you must know that I love you and I wish that I had chosen another path back then.

I love you, and I hope some of your questions have been answered in this letter.

Your Godfather

Sirius Orion Black

This made her a little bit more confused as to why Sirius didn't do anything to change the future, but who know how that ability of his worked? It was great that at least something was good about the fact that she had different parents and who she had been born to.

Hearing that he loved her was the best thing that she could have heard, and it made her a lot more determined to find where Delphi was so that she could grow up with someone who would love her.

Then she began to read Rabastan's letter.

Daughter.

I still can't believe that I am going to be a father soon, but if the world goes on as it does, I will never be able to watch you grow up to become a wonderful woman.

By now you should know which side of the war I was on, but what you don't know is that I couldn't care less about the blood purity shit that goes around in my circle. I know also that I would die if there were even a little doubt of my loyalty, so I kept my friendships with Sirius and James on the down low.

I think, if it hadn't been for their friendship with Lily Evans later in life, I would never have gone out to the muggle world. It happened in the summer between my sixth and seventh year, I was curious and then I met the most stunning woman. Aurora Andromeda Malfoy, I was quite surprised over the last name but understood quickly that she was thrown out of the family because she was a squib.

You have to understand there was a bunch of feelings and confusion involved, and we ended up sleeping together. Aurora was also quite a few years older than me, for me that didn't bother me because of how wizards and witches could live.

When she told me that she was expecting, the war had fully blown out of the ditch. I told her that I had some friends that could help, I met James, Lily and Sirius in secret explaining myself and that I wanted Aurora and you to be safe. We came to a plan; you would be born in secret at their house. They would be protected.

While I tried to figure out how to get away from the Death Eaters, how I hated my father for dragging me into it.

I managed to somehow sneak away on the day you were born, the first time I held you in my arms surrounded by the four people I trusted in the whole wide world was the most special day in the world. Your mother only managed to kiss your forehead and name you, Hadriana Rosalyn Lestrange before succumbing to her injuries. Don't feel guilty for being born, you were the most precious thing in your mother's life!

I knew that I wanted you to grow up outside of the war and not become associated with me until the day you understood or had the capacity to understand why we were doing the thing we did in the war.

We had decided a long time ago to make James, Lily and Sirius blood adopt you, and they did. The most stunning change you got from them was your jade-green eyes that glowed with power. It was clear at once that you would be powerful and grow into a powerful young witch. We were so proud of you.

I was also relieved that you would grow up outside of my family and be loved by the best people I knew.

Now that you understand, I hope you can forgive me for everything I did or indirectly did to you or your friends. Remember I love you and want you to live your life and try to be as happy as you can be!

Sincerely your father
Rabastan Lestrange

Coming out of the trance of reading the letter from her father made her realise that she was crying. It was hard reading the sincere words of the man who should have watched her grow up if the war had never happened, but then again maybe if there hadn't been a war she would never have been born.

Hearing that she was loved and that she ended up with Lily and James because they were friends, and the fact that he wanted her to live her life outside of the war. It was a relief.

Dear daughter

Hello, daughter of mine. Every one of your parents had the task to write a letter to you when we felt it right to do so, and if we knew that something was going to go wrong. I know already that your father had written one, and even your birthmother had written one.

The day we heard from your father and your mother what had happened, we immediately knew that we had to help them. To keep their secrets, I had to pretend to be pregnant for all of the people closest to me.

Nevertheless, we didn't love you any less because of that. We find you the most remarkable young girl ever to be held in my hand. I may not have given birth to you Hadriana, but I love you so much.

Rabastan and Aurora, I can say worked for them. There was love between them, or obsession but that was another conversation. When they came to us, we were surprised but we wanted to help them go through with it and make sure that no one knew, though I knew of James and Sirius's friendship with the Lestrange boy for years, they together were something else and they were happy for him. It made me happy that they had at least one friend who didn't have the same beliefs as them, that made me sure that James had changed from that arrogant boy I had met in our first year.

You know I hated your father for the first few years of our education until he manned up and changed, whish made me fall in love with him. You are now lying comfortably in his arms as we bury your mother.

I had become quite close to Aurora in these couple of months she lived with us, we could talk about everything and how we wanted you to grow up. We wanted you to have a happy childhood, free from expectations of being the heiress of a couple of houses. We moved here because we wanted to live a little bit outside of the centre of Diagon Alley, in the non-magical world.

Then a couple of months later, as we watched you levitate your favourite toy plushie we knew that you would be powerful. It's right before we must go into hiding and we are spending our last day together everyone in our small family.

Remember we all love you, and if you are reading this first now when you are over seventeen just live your life no matter what others would want for you. We all want you to be happy.

Sincerely
Lily and James Potter

Reading the letter from Lily and James was the same as reading it from Sirius, with a lot less personal information because she did have information from the other two letters, and she was beginning to feel more familiar with Rabastan than what Lily and James had been to her growing up.

The last letter she had was from her mom, Aurora Malfoy. It was the same thing as the other letters, where she wrote how much she loved her and what made her fall in love with her father in the first place. It was soundly okay-ish to read a letter from her, and it was wonderful to hear everything that made having her good in the world for her.

It was clear as night and day that she was 'really' that much older than Rabastan, that it wasn't quite love but that they had made a life out of it to the best of their ability. In the end, it sounded like she got an incredible friend in Lily, as they talked about the life they wanted for her.

It made her decision to just say 'f-you' to everyone and do what she wanted to do no matter what any of her previous friends would say.

Everything that was written was making more and more sense the more she thought about it, now having lived she thought back on how Remus had reacted to her and why he had completely ignored her. To him, it looked like she wasn't his cub, but at the same, they had gotten closer in later years and after all, he had allowed her to become his son's godmother.

With a smile, she looked up from the letters, and out of the window that was clear from dirty and grim of time, and then went back to her letters and laid them in a beautiful, engraved box that she had found where she now would keep important or sentimental letters from the people that loved her.

Then she took fresh parchment and began to craft a letter to Andromeda Tonks, asking if they could meet up and talk about what they would do and if she could have a relationship with her godson. After all, she wanted to be in his life, and she wanted him to get to know his parents and her. Asking to meet and talk.

When that was sealed, she began to craft a letter to the ministry asking about the OWLS and NEWTs, to see if I could take some over again, see what subjects were possible to take at the ministry that Hogwarts wasn't offering and how she could take them and what needed to be done to make it happen.

With two of her letters signed and ready to send, she placed them in her box that was to Diagon Alley, and for them to be sent to their respective representatives.

-HP-

After having eaten a wonderful dinner that Kreacher had made for her, she had managed to digest the letters to understand them and appreciate that they had even written letters to her at all.

Hadriana liked Rabastan's letter more than anyone else because it was great to hear from him. Then there was the letter from Sirius that made her smile and love because she had more of a friendship with him than any of the others so he was better than the others. It made her miss him, his craziness, and the wonder in his glances.

Now sitting at her desk, she turned to a new parchment because she wanted to write down everything she wanted in a house or a manor, before looking through her portfolios so that she could have that in mind.

A master bedroom, and a bathroom.

A nursery. A room she could turn into Delphi's room until old enough to have a larger room.

5 family Bedrooms Bathrooms

2 Guestrooms Bathrooms

Livingroom/Kitchen

Office (Warded)

Enormous Library, when she can begin to get all her books away from the vaults and other properties as this house should and will become the main seat for her family.

A garden, a small Herbology Shed, Flowers, and just enough isolated that it is just a few or one apparitions jump away.

Now that she knew what to look for, she began to unprevail what she owned.

The Potter Family

A family that can trace their roots back to the beginning of Hogwarts* Their speciality is Potions and Battle Magics.
Through time they have been married into quite many wizarding families and the most famous one is Peverell.

Vault NR. 634 – Hadriana Potters Trust Vault
300,000Gallons 21,000Gallons Annually on her birthday from the main Potter Vault.

Vault Nr. 267 – Potter's Main Family Vault
3, 250, 360, 875Gallons, 1, 000,320Sickls, 300Knuts 220, 200Gallons from Investments Annually.

Vault Nr. 268 – Potter's Treasury
Furniture, Jewellery, Wands, Jewels, Swords, Books, Picture frames –
Monetary Value: Ca. 2, 200, 000, 000Gallons

Vault Nr. 625 – Lily Evans Vault
Lily Potters School Trunk. 2, 000G 100S. Wedding Dress.

Investments

25% Daily Prophet
50% Quality Quidditch Equipment
75% Slug and Jiggers Apothecary
10% Apple
5% Microsoft
3% Ford

Properties

Potter Manor – Cranborne, Eastern Dorset, Great Britain
Godric's Hollow – West County, Great Britain
Evan's Cottage – Cokeworth, Midlands, Great Britain
Brave Cateau – Somewhere between Marseille and Toulon, France
Parisian Apartment – Paris, France
Niche Cottage - …, Easter Europe
Potter Cottage – Canada

The Black Family

…

Properties

Grimmould Place – London, Great Britain
Black Manor – Denbigh, Wales, Great Britain
Pure of Heart – Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
Villa Mari – Marseille, France
De La Sol – Valencia, Spain
Mercure Villa – Flagstaff, Arizona, US

The Lestrange Family

…

Properties

Lestrange Manor – Wellingtonbridge, Ireland
Manor Iris – Prussia Cove, Penzance, Great Britain
Chateau France – Toulouse, France
Chateau Italy – Vienna, Italy

The Peverell Family

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Properties

Morte Villa – Fort Wiliam, Scotland, Great Britain
Peverell Manor – Gdansk, Polen
Death's Castle – Unknown
Temple Of Doom – Alexandria, Egypt & Kyoto, Japan

The Slytherin Family

…

Properties

25% of Hogwarts
Chamber of Secrets
Slytherin Castle – Little Hangleton, Great Britain

The Grindelwald Family

…

Properties

Numengard Prison – Austria
Grindelwald Manor – Linz, Austria
Chateau Hollow – Larnaka, Cyprus
Chateau Athen – Athen, Greece

…

Hadriana couldn't help but read her portfolio feeling a little helpless there was so much of this she hadn't known about, but she now knew that she wouldn't need to work one day in her life. Not even her grandchildren will need to work if they choose to do so.

Nevertheless, she knew that she would do her best to make it work and teach them that there is nothing better than having something to do, you just had to love it with all your heart.

There seemed to be only two places she could see herself staying, and living full time, the others she could use as a vacation home or if she wanted to rent them out. That was something for the future, but she knew who she would choose when she would see them with the help of a goblin.

It was either Pure of Heart, the cottage in Scotland or Manor Iris, Prussia Cove. They were also the places that didn't look like castles. They looked normal from the outside and looked like someplace she could see herself and her future in.

After finding out this she spent a couple of days reading up on some spells – household charms, colour-changing charms, how to paint motives on walls, after all, she would need some whenever she takes on a family of her own. Then a couple of shield charms. How to strengthen walls, build walls and weave wards around bookcases, and what kind of system she would use as she was going to organize her library.

Days spent researching and learning was the best thing she had ever done, and she found herself loving it. Loving that she could learn everything she wanted without having Hermione and Ron hovering over her criticizing her and hindering her from reading in peace.

With everything happening it was great to finally hear from the ministry, the goblins and Andromeda.

The ministry wrote to her how she could take her exams, and the exams were in December though she had to write to them about what she wanted to take. That is what she did, and she knew what she wanted. NEWTS – Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, Enchanting, Warding, DADA, Ancient Runes (OWLS), Arithmancy (OWLS), History of Magic, Astronomy and Care of magical creatures.

Knowing that she had until December to study helped a lot, and when she got when it was she would do her best to get O's in everything.

The Goblins had finished updating the wards to Potter, Black & Lestrange and asked when she had the time to take a tour. Setting a time was easy after she had read Andromeda's letter.

There will be a tour of her properties in two days, 10 o'clock and she could not wait to wander through it.

Andromeda wanted to meet tomorrow, and she couldn't wait to meet with her godson – to see him and hear what Andromeda had to say.

-HP-

Knowing that she would meet with Andromeda tomorrow, and as it was still early, she decided to go out and have a day for herself.

Saying goodbye to Walburga, she couldn't believe she was saying this, but that woman had been a lifesaver the last couple of days. Helping her with how to conduct herself meeting her equals, especially when soon there would be a ball commemorating the losses of the war. That will be interesting to have to socialise with everyone, and that is also why she is doing a little bit of shopping right now.

Walburga had made her study the ritual to summon lost family members, and to see if she would never get it wrong when the time came to her take care of her daughter. After all, she would blood adopt her, at least that is what she wanted to do.

Seeing that she had everything she needed to go shopping, she appeared close enough to the leaky cauldron.

The first place she went to was a luggage store getting herself a leather bag to carry everything she may buy. One with unlimited space and room to carry everything and chose a dark green bag with a couple of different rooms, for books, things for children, clothes, and other knickknacks.

Then she just browsed anonymously because of how different she had become after taking the glamour off.

Then she spent a little time just walking around something she had never allowed herself to do before, seeing where everything was, the different ally ways – like a music store, a toy store for children, and a couple of bookstores.

The first store she felt the need to go to was a hair salon, to see about her hair. To see what she could do about it to keep it healthy. She loved her curly hair but wanted to find something that would fit her. It stayed the same, but glossier and more refined, as it fell down her back stylishly woven down her back. Buying a couple of books about hairstyles, beads and other cool hair accessories that she would come to love.

Then she stepped into a high-quality robe store named 'Twilfitt and Tattings', where she had to spend a couple of hours talking about styles and what she wanted. Needing everything as she had to buy a whole new wardrobe and found herself appreciating the matron's bluntness and helpfulness in finding clothes that would fit her. Just talking to someone completely outside of those that she knew from Hogwarts was a new experience, and she found herself liking the unbiased view of the world from people who didn't care about the need to label people in one category or another.

Needing everything they had the time to see through every style possible since there wasn't much foot traffic. Like matching colours, and she found out that green, blue, and purple were the best possible match with her skin tone, together with neutral colours like black and white. Everything from formal wear, everyday robes, and quite normal clothes she could use on a normal day she wouldn't be out and about. For her Wizagmont Robes, there was a little complication with because she was a part of too many wizarding houses to come out of it comfortingly right then. Choosing to get one done in the Potter-Black insignia and one in Peverell.

However, she knew that the rumours would fly around that someone knew was coming into power.

After this and knowing that she had to pick up her clothes in a couple of days, but she dressed up in fine new clothes the matron had made for her at the spot. It was gorgeous, dark green with silver outlines that looked like it was shimmering in the lights of the shop, even knowing that she would stand out she couldn't help but be proud of the fact that it would be for something else than her moniker.

Then she began to explore, going into the Quill store, buying interesting quills and a bunch of parchment for her coming projects. Then she walked into an equipment store, buying a couple of charmed Journals, a couple for her coming library, then a couple of others for her trip and some just for fun.

Then she hit all the bookstores.

Buying everything she felt like she didn't have and everything she wanted to learn more of. Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Transfiguration, Charms, Healing, Warding, Spell Crafting, The Wizarding World, Dark Arts, Potions and Herbology. Everything that she found exciting would help her build things and to see what she could do with magic and her imagination.

Then after raiding the bookstores, she leisurely browsed a couple of children's stores buying everything she needed to take care of a child. From blankets to some toys. Not buying a lot, at least not until she could have her in her own arms and see what she liked. The same for clothes, she just bought a few pieces in neutral colours, nothing more.

After that, she browsed some stores buying a little bit of everything, some blankets, and pillows.

For the ritual she would do she bought some crystals, candles, and a few different things though she had to buy most of it in Diagon Alley, but other things she needed to walk through Knockturn Alley to get.

After visiting the ally, she popped back home.