Chapter 4
Monday, June 30th, 2014
(Somewhere in America, Agents of Shield new HQ)
Skye was on her computer when she received a message from her friend Skar, of four years, from the dark web. Though they never met nor had she been able to track him down, he had never let her down, and somehow for some reason, he always knew when she needed help.
Decrypting what was sent to her, her eyes went wide at what was sent, so she fled her room and ran towards the operating room, hoping that Fury hadn't gone and was still with Coulsen.
Running inside the room where Coulsen, Fury, May, and the rest of her team were despite the late time. The first thing she said as she plugged her computer to the big screen, “Good, you're still here, Fury. I've got the current location of all Hydra operatives that we neither haven't caught, fled from our grasp on the second attack of our new base, nor knew about.”
The files started to appear on the big screen as she was talking, before any of them could ask how she found them this fast or accuse her of anything, she explained, “In a month it would be exactly four years since I've met this guy Skar in the dark web, we talked a few time. Once in a while he helps me out when I'm having trouble with what I'm doing, exchanging info, and even helping me get out of a few troubles.”
She spent the next half an hour telling them everything she knew about him even if they never met face to face.
Coulson, being the way he is, asked her, “How do we trust what he sends us is legit?”
Skye simply told him, “Right now, I trust him more than I trust most at Shield. Even more than you. Plus, he sent us a gift as well.”
Looking at her with a narrowed eye, he told the team, “Double and triple check everything he sent.” Then he turned to Skye and told her, “If they check out, bring him for a chat and get him to join us. What kind of gift did he send us?”
When he finished, Skye told him, “That's not gonna happen. He works solo, but you should know, he left you a message.”
“Everyone ends up joining us with the right incentives, and how does the mother fucker knows I'm alive?” Fury asked her, well demanding actually.
“Because he's that good.” She told him as she put the message and the amount of money he left them on the screen, making everyone under both Fury and Coulson gape at the amount of money that he left in their care.
“Tell that mother fucker, not to try to hurt his brains trying to find how I know he's alive as it's my job to know everything. Use the money I sent you wisely. In a month, on the anniversary of when we first talked, Mr. One Eye will know where to find me and when to talk.”
“Who the fuck does that motherfucker think he is?”
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(Ministry of Magic, 9:45 am)
Amelia Bones was going through paperwork when her assistant knocked on the door, entered nervously and said, while giving her the letter, “The liaison with Gringotts said it was urgent and that it should be given to you immediately. It's from the Duke of Gagos.”
Confused as to why the Duke was writing to her, she took the letter, opened it, and started reading. As she read through it, she became even more confused. She may understand why he wants to meet with the minister, but why her? As a matter of fact, why in the hell does he want the trial transcript of none other than Sirius Black. Something wasn't adding up. For the Duke of Poland to try and interfere in their investigation, something must be up. She needed to go see the transcript before talking to Fudge and meet the Duke at Gringotts.
She wrote a response and gave it to her assistant and told her, “Give my reply to the liaison and send a note to the minister that I need to meet in a half an hour, I have to check something first.”
With that, she stood up and left her office.
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(Tonks Residence, 10:00 am)
Both Edward and Andromeda Tonks were cleaning the dishes after their breakfast when they saw an owl trying to make its way through their kitchen window. Opening the window to let it in, Edward grabbed the letter and read it through.
Both surprised and curious at the letter being addressed to them from the goblin king, Edward told his wife, “Honey, the goblin king is requesting our presence at the bank at eleven. Stating that it is both an emergency and a family matter concerning the new Lord Black.”
Confused at the Lord Black part, Andromeda snatched the letter from him as she said, “What Lord Black? Sirius isn't eligible for the Lordship since he was incriminated, and Narcissa's boy can't claim it before his 17th birthday.”
Looking thoughtful, he told her, “Well, we have to go. The letter says it's urgent. Maybe he's there and wishes to meet us.”
“Maybe. We have to rearrange and postpone some of our meetings today for another if we have to make it in time, and we don't know how long the meeting would take.” Andromeda told him as she wrote a reply and sent the owl on its way as she thought who the new Lord would be. At times like this, she wished that she wasn't disowned and the black family magic being removed or she would have used family magic to see if someone had taken the Black Lordship.
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(Hogwarts, McGonagall office, 10:15 am)
Sitting at her desk going through paperwork, when an owl arrived through her opened window. McGonagall scratched the owl's head as she took the letter from Pandora to read it. When she started reading the letter McGonagall became confused the more she read, especially when she was asked to come for a meeting at eleven and that it was urgent. Right here and there it hit her. The boy must have been in such a severe situation that a meeting is being held there instead of just sending her a copy of the boy's health history or bringing him with her to Hogwarts.
McGonagall checked the time and saw there were still forty minutes for the meeting. She just hoped that Albus would come back by then to brief him before going to Gringotts.
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(Ministry of Magic, 10:30 am)
Amelia stormed out of the evidence room, both furious and afraid of the Duke's reaction. She instantly started marching towards the minister's office to tell him about both the meeting and what she found.
Arriving at where his office was, with the assistant giving her the head go, Amelia knocked and entered before receiving any response.
When she entered, Fudge was quick to ask, “What's so urgent that you wanted to see me immediately?”
She directly went to the point, “Two things. First, the Duke of Gagos sent me a note that he wants to meet us both in half an hour. Second, he's requesting to bring with us the transcript of the Sirius Black trial.”
Fudge was both surprised and confused by what was said, so he asked, “Why does he want to meet us? And it's none of his business. We're dealing with Black ourselves, and if they have them, then we'll demand to return him back to give him the dementor's kiss.”
Raising an eyebrow, she told him, “If he was caught in their territory, they can ask for his transcript of his trial and do their own investigations since he was caught in another country.”
“Then give him a copy to show him Black's guilt so he can hand Black over.” Fudge told her dismissively.
So in return, she told him casually like it wasn’t a big deal, “So what do you think he'll say when we tell him that Sirius Black never got a trial and that he was directly sent to Azkaban by Crouch Sr. without any process, and barely taking statements from the few muggles that were present.”
Fudge went pale, with a nearly shriek voice he demanded, “What in Merlin's name do you mean there was no trial?”
“Like I just bloody hell told you. The ministry sent an heir to the most noble and most ancient house of Black to Azkaban without even giving him a proper trial.” Amelia nearly yelled in return.
Afraid of how it would make him look, when it hits him, he informs her, “We tell him that we're not at fault and we would rectify it. After all, it was during the previous administration and Crouch was dealing with the death eaters. Yes, yes, this could work. Give me five minutes before we go and see what he wants and why he's interested in the Sirius Black trial.”
As for Amelia, she highly doubts it could be that simple. Antony Gagos is well known to be ruthless and he has the capabilities and power to destroy and ruin someone's life if they were being unfair, or unjust.
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(Hogwarts, headmaster's office, 10:30 am)
Sitting in his office after arriving not so long ago, the headmaster was humming in pure joy doing nothing as usual. Thus far, his plans are working perfectly, and the idiot Black was on the run again ensuring that the Potter boy would remain with those muggles treating him as a slave just like he planned for him when Minerva arrived.
“Good morning Albus, glad you are back. Something happened while you were away.” Minerva said in her worried voice.
Knowing nothing would ruin his day, he asked her, “What happened, my girl?”
She took a deep breath and she explained to him about how the name appeared and that since he wasn't reachable, she couldn't leave the castle at the time, so she sent for Pandora who went to where the boy was living and escort him to our world, giving him a medical checkup by a healer, and an inheritance test to see whether he has any family here. If not she and Xenophilius would take him in as the boy's guardians. Then she told him that the boy has several living relatives, one of them being present with them at Gringotts right now, and they are requesting from her to meet them at the bank in half an hour to talk about his medical checkup, stating it was important.
As for Albus, the more he listened, the more he became nervous. It can't be him. When the boy's name never showed up in the book, he went to check on him in the muggle world and was told that the father from the foster family had killed the wife and three of the kids. He assumed that Oskar was among the kids that had died so he left and now he's regretting not asking about the names of the kids that died. However, when he saw the name on the parchment that Minerva gave him, he almost lost his temper in front of her. How is the bastard still alive? He needs to do something really quickly. He needed to put the boy under his thumbs as soon as he reached him. The only close living relatives that the boy had were Narcissa and her sister Andromeda if you exclude Bellatrix. With the right words in the idiot Fudge's ear and the boy is all his. It's time to bring back the plans he had for the boy and adjust them.
With his fake twinkling eyes, he thanked her and told her they'll leave via floo to Diagon Alley before the meeting. He's sure they would allow him to the meeting since he is the headmaster. Giving him a hesitant nod, she left his office. Standing up, he extended his arm to grab his wand to trash his office for not having the boy under his thumb all these years. Instead, he froze. He looked to where he put his wand when he saw it was gone.
“Where the hell is it? I just put it here.” Dumbledore said loudly as he started to trash his office, trying to look for his wand when he suddenly noticed that the book shelves were missing some books. When he got closer to see which ones his magic exploded when he saw that everything he took from the Black and Peverell family vaults were missing.
“Who in the bloody hell did this? Who would dare steal from me? Don't they know who I am? They will suffer for this. It can't be the Potter boy. My people just checked on him this morning and he was locked up in his room. As for Black, he's still hiding outside the country, so it can't be him, while the boy can't claim anything back since he's a minor and neither a lord nor acknowledged as an heir.” Dumbledore started muttering and trashing his office before he went to his bedroom to grab the wand he got from Ollivander to go to Gringotts, and came back to his office to fix the damage that he had made. He barely had time to come up with a plan for when it was for him to go with McGonagall to meet the boy and said relative. Afterall, who are those bastard creatures to try and deny his request? When he left to join McGonagall on their trip to Gringotts, he didn't notice how the portraits were laughing at what was happening to him.
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(Diagon Alley, Gringotts, 10:45 am)
When Amelia and Fudge entered the bank, they were surprised not only by the arrival of the Tonks couple with them, but also they were there for the same meeting that they had, that was requested by Ragnok, the goblin king. When Fudge half demanded to be taken to the meeting immediately, Gornuk who was the one that would be escorting them there told him that they are expecting one more person. Before Gornuk finished his statement, both McGonagall and Dumbledore arrived, making Gornuk smirk.
“Deputy headmistress, glad you could join us, but I don't see any reasons why the headmaster would see it fit to join us. Our letter stated that your presence was the only one needed as it is because of you that this meeting is occuring.”
Albus was internally fuming thinking, “Who the hell does he think he is to speak to him like that?” As for McGonagall, she thought, “I knew it! The boy must've been in a severe situation. But why not allow Albus to be present?”
So McGonagall asked him, “If it's about the boy, shouldn't the headmaster be allowed to attend the meeting as well? He is the headmaster of the school afterall.”
Trying not to laugh at the pure anger that Dumbeldor is in, Gornuk told her, “I apologize, but I'm just following orders. Mr. Dumbledore, sorry for the inconvenience, but you shouldn't have bothered with coming when we explicitly invited just the deputy headmistress.”
Both Amelia and Fudge wanted to laugh, neither of them actually liked the headmaster that much even if Fudge sometimes consults him. To them, Dumbledore outlived his usefulness, and he's still grabbing at the last straws of what he held in the past.
Trying his best to remain calm and not use his temper, Dumbledore told him in a forced calmed voice, “If it's in regard of one of my future students, I must be present to make sure that the child is healthy and ready to join our society, or if he has been fooling us all those years and is a danger to us all.”
Amelia, and Fudge were confused at this. As for Gornuk, he didn't like where this was going, so he told Dumbledore, “You're politely being asked to leave or we have no other choice but to throw you out of the bank and cease your vaults. If I were you I would leave immediately or face consequences for trying to force yourself to a meeting being held by our king.”
At the last part, the present companions became more confused as to why they were actually here. In the meantime, the customers that were there turned to watch them now, including Rita Skeeter who was watching in glee for the new masterpiece that she will be writing and releasing that day.
So a fuming Dumbledore asked to see his account manager Bogrod, but he was told, “He is indisposed.”
When Dumbledore saw the goblin guards walking towards him to surround him and throw him out. Dumbbells stormed out by himself fuming, thinking “Who the hell does those bastards think to throw me out. I will show them who I am or my name isn't Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.”
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Seeing that Dumbledore had finally left the bank, Gornuk escorted them to a private room and handed them the written vow that was given to them by Oskar for them to take. When they eyed the vow, he added that both his King and his Grace Gagos requested it because of the sensitivity of what would partake in said meeting.
Hesitantly, one by one started taking the said vow which forbade them to talk about anything they would talk about in the meeting without the consent of all parties present in that room.
When they finished with their vows, they were escorted to the meeting room. They entered the room when the door was opened for them. When their eyes landed on the boy, Fudge and Amelia paled, McGonagall and Andromeda Tonks (née black) were gaping like a fish. As for Edward Tonks, when he noticed what's on the boy's fingers, well…
“Bloody fucking hell.”
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Antony stood up and said, “Hello ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for coming this fast, I see you already figured who Oskar is related to. Shall we sit down and have a chat. There is a lot that we need to talk about today, starting with deputy headmistress McGonagall, who because of her we are all here today.”
It took them a moment before they moved and slowly took their seats as Andromeda tried to ask, “How…”
Shaking his head, Oskar told her, “My mom told me once that they hooked up a few times before he disappeared, but from what I've been told today it turned out that he was in prison and now an escapee.”
Antony put a hand on his shoulder as he said, “We'll talk about this in a bit. But first, let's start with the deputy headmistress, after all, you did just get accepted into Hogwarts.”
With everyone giving them a confused look, Antony gave Pandora a nod who in return started explaining her part, “This morning Minerva called me to Hogwarts to tell me about a boy who just got accepted to school. The problem was that not only was he nearing his fourteenth birthday, but also he was living in an abandoned building in the muggle world.”
Fudge quickly interrupted by saying, “This is preposterous, all magical children's magic appears when they're very young, we would have known if that's to be true and would have been visited by a ministry employee, and a member of Hogwarts staff.”
Oskar couldn't help himself but retorted with, “Well, I've been doing magic for the last two years, and if it wasn't for Lady Lovegood, I wouldn't have known that your world even existed.”
All five newcomers snapped their heads towards Oskar, who added, “I've been able to do magic since two weeks after my twelfth birthday.”
While Pandora added, “He can perform magic on a N.E.W.T.S level. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it with my own eyes.
To prove his points, Oskar snapped his fingers, and from the cups that were in the middle of the table, five flew from their place and landed in front of each of the newcomers. Then, Oskar made a small gesture with his left hand, and six balls of water came out of the water vase, flew towards each cup, and filled the cups making the newly attendees give him a gaping look.
“Now that he showed you a glimpse of his magic, can we start explaining what was found, why his magic appeared late, and why no one was able to find him until now?” Antony asked in his serious tone that dared them to interrupt them.
When no one dared to interrupt them, Pandora continued with telling them how she went to find him living in a room at an abandoned building alone, working on some of his projects. When she explained to him about their magical world, he magically put his things in his bags and she apparated him here to Gringotts to give him an inheritance test first because he looked very familiar to Sirius Black, and what they found were very shocking and surprising.
As she finished, Ragnok snapped his fingers, and five copies of his family lineage appeared, showing him that he was currently lord to nine families and Antony Gagos heir.
Three of them paled while the Tonks nearly fainted. The boy is currently holding nice Wizengamot seats, including three of the four Hogwarts founders, a future seat for Gagos in both Polish and ICW, and an ICW Shafiq family seat. That was all because of the Shafiq and Gamp inheritance law that makes their last living heir if a minor and above the age of thirteen to be emancipated to be able to take his Lordships making him eligible to take the remaining Lordships.
Both Fudge and Amelia knew they were screwed the moment they were asked for the trial transcript. As for Oskar, he wanted to laugh at their looks and couldn't wait to hear what they had to say.
“But, why did his magic come late? It should've appeared like everyone else's.” Amelia asked, slightly confused with that part.
Handing them the healers report, Antony explained, “From what they've found after doing magical checkup and some testing, the only explanation that both the goblins, my own healers, and the healers I've brought from the ICW, was with Oskar waking up to seeing his mother had died on his eighth birthday, six weeks after he was put with a foster family. The father of said family murdered his wife and three children with him barely escaping with his life, and with him being the last heir to nine of those families and to mine, his magic took a while to start to appear, and it was protecting him because of the emotional shock until he was ready. As for Hogwarts, we believe that since he is the Lord of three of the four founders, somehow the school knew he wasn't ready to start attending the school at eleven. That's the only logical explanation.”
Shocked at what the boy went through, McGonagall beat Amelia by asking, “But how did you learn to do efficient magic without even the use of a wand? And where have you been living the past six years?”
Knowing it was his turn to explain, Oskar started telling them how he lived on the streets after he ran off from that foster family. Then in early March of 2012, six months before his birthday, a woman that worked at a church convinced him to go with her and stay with them. As they were teaching him everything before starting school again the next fall, they saw how smart and fast a learner he was, so they got him to do an IQ test where he scored 240. This led them to have him taking the IGCSE. As he showed them copies of that as he continued with his explanation. He told them seeing that he past the IGCSE, the lady and her family started planning his future without taking his input, wants or needs by telling him they knew best, and with the weird things that started to happen around him two weeks after his birthday, he decided to take copies of his scores and took off, As he would rather make decisions about his life by his own than being forced to do something he didn't want. A few weeks later, the strange things started to happen more and more until he started to see what it was, which led him to the conclusion that he was doing some sort of magic, so he started experimenting and used it to see what he could actually do.
When they gave him a disbelieving look, Oskar casually opened his side bag, grabbed his laptop, turned it on, and put on some videos where he recorded himself doing, making everyone shocked as to how it was working without being destroyed by magic. So Oskar started to explain to them that he started with fictional books and stories on the Internet, which led to him explaining what the Internet was. It took him a while to figure it out that magic was the thing that kept ruining all the electronics. So he kept thinking of how to integrate them together until he remembered runes from a fictional book that he had read. After a few weeks he was able to create one that would make both magic and electronics work around each other without the laptop being destroyed. When he finished his explanation, he started the videos he took of himself while being self taught in magic for them to watch. As for the wand, he told them that it was going to be brought to him later after it was finished since Antony brought a wand maker with him from Poland to make him a custom made wand.
Let's just say that after two dozen videos, they were stunned and speechless.
After everything they were told, McGonagall had one question left, which was, “How were you able to live or afford to buy those electronics?”
So Oskar explained that there were anonymous websites where you get paid to help students with their assignments, projects, etc. So he would help and in return he would be paid back with goods, services, or money sent by mail to an address he would give them.
All five have no idea what to say. As for Fudge, he was thinking about how to do damage control. If it was leaked that they weren't able to catch a minor who has been practicing magic around muggles they could be ruined.
Now was the time to turn things up a notch to their side, so Antony calmly requested, “Now that everything is on the table, we would like to talk about three things regarding everyone present. First, as you can see, Oskar is Sirius Black’s son, and he would like to see the trial transcript of his father’s trial to see with his own eyes that he is guilty and deserves the dementor's kiss.”
Both Bones and Fudge paled a little, as Fudge started to stutter, “Well… you see… uhm…”
“Better get it out in the open now and be done with it.” Amelia thought before she said, “We just learned that there was no trial. According to the transcript that we have, Crouch Sr. who was the head of the DMLE at the time, and the former Minister of Magic sent him to Azkaban from the scene of the crime after taking statements from the muggles who were there, alleging that Sirius confessed that it was his fault.”
Everyone stared at them in disbelief, as for Andromeda, she was fuming. They sent her only family member who never turned his back on her to Azkaban without a damn fair trial.
So in anger, Andromeda demanded while Edward was trying to hold her from actually jumping them, “Are you telling me that you sent my cousin, the heir to the most noble and most ancient house of Black to Azkaban without even a damn trial?”
Not knowing how to get away with this, Fudge started stuttering, “It… was… before I took….”
Antony turned into his serious mode and took charge of their talk, “Minister Fudge, I know it was before either of your or Madame Bones time, and I don't think it is quite fair to blame you for something that you couldn't be at fault for.”
Andromeda tried to interrupt, but Antony beat her to it by continuing, “Mrs Tonks I know how you feel, let me handle it.” He then turned towards both the Minister and head of the DMLE and went on, “So, here what's going to happen. After we bring heir Potter and listen to what has happened earlier this month with Sirius Black before fleeing Hogwarts, you will rescind the dementor's kiss and make a statement about what you have just found, apologize for not finding the mistake earlier, and request from Mr. Black to turn himself in to the ministry or the nearest ICW building to receive his rightful and fair trial.”
Antony grabbed official papers from his bag and continued, “Here is the second thing we are talking about right now. You will sign those papers to let the ICW do a full investigation with the help of Madame Bones and selected aurors about the case, starting with Crouch sr. and after my meeting with other ICW members including Oskar here tonight, one Albus Dumbledore would be secretly investigated as well.”
Stuck at processing what they were told, McGonagall snapped out of it and said, “I know Albus must've made a mistake, but if you allowed himself to be present in this meeting he would have explained himself.”
Then she turned to the minister and told him in an angry voice, “You should have listened to the kids and at least seen their memories when they told you that Mr. Black was innocent earlier this month. We would have gotten our answers if he was completely innocent or guilty.”
Fudge tried to defend himself by stating, “But Dumbledore told us that they had concussions and couldn't think straight as Black attacked them trying to kill them. Both Snape, and Lupin confirmed what he said.”
With that, the five started arguing, with Bones telling him that she should've been brought in to investigate the allegations herself, as Andromeda tried to defend her own cousin.
As for Oskar, he gave them a few minutes before he casually said, “Why do we need to take the word of a thief into consideration?”
Everyone snapped their heads towards him as Amelia told Oskar, “That's a serious allegation. Is there any proof that backs your accusations?”
Ragnok snapped his finger and five copies of what Dumbledore took from both the Black and Peverell vaults illegally appeared in front of them, then he explained, “When Lord Peverel-Gagos-Black saw the withdrawals from both his accounts, he requested who authorized the withdrawals. When we brought the account manager, it was soon discovered that he was working illegally, taking bribes and stealing from certain accounts for the likes of Dumbledore and a few others through illegal documents which some of them were brought by Mr. Dumbledore. Haven't you ever wondered why the Potters' wills were sealed and never heard.”
Taking his cue, Antony added, “Which brings us to our third request. Since Oskar's father's blood adopted Harry, legally, that makes him Oskar's brother. So I'm requesting his address to go and bring him, give him an inheritance test and a checkup by a healer, because let's be honest. I don't trust him, plus…’
Ragnok continued, “Among the accounts that the goblin and Dumbledore were siphoning money, and other materials from, were the Potter vaults, and we cannot make a formal audit without his approval or him being present.”
Oskar added, “And before you refuse, with me being recognised as an adult and my father blood adopting him, obviously I can't be his guardian as no one would let me at this age to do it, I have the right to put him under a guardian I personally know and trust. Such as my cousin Antony, Lady Lovegood, or even my other cousin Andromeda Tonks if I have to.”
All five looked between the papers that were given and what they were being told. They couldn't believe their own eyes that to some of them, like McGonagall, the great Albus Dumbledore would snoop this low. McGonagall did not know how to process what she was hearing or seeing. She worked with Albus for so many years, how will it appear to the rest of them that she did not know what was going on. Or worse, did they all think that she too was involved?
Turning to the goblin king, Amelia asked, “Can we see the goblin that helped Dumbledore?”
“After our investigations, you can see him briefly before being handled internally. By the end of the day his head would be on display to show everyone what would happen when they break one of our sacred laws. Especially the ones we consider friends to our nation, such as the young Lord.” Ragnok declared, making the attendees shocked that the King considers Oskar a friend to the goblins. There's only a few that are considered a goblin friend in Britain, and they could be counted on one hand, so to consider Oskar a friend, let's say they were stunned.
McGonagall, feeling betrayed by Albus, told them that she knew the address of the horrible muggle family where Dumbledore had insisted that Harry be placed with all those years, and against her better judgment, after some convincing from him, she let him. This caused everyone to become outraged as to why the boy was placed with muggles instead of a wizarding family. At this, Ragnok informed them that the same day that James and Lily Potter had died, Dumbledore sealed their wills and gave the goblin traitor documents stating that he was heir Potter's true guardian making everyone more outraged. This led both Fudge and Bones to sign the papers that Antony had gave them before Antony demanded that they leave immediately to retrieve Harry from where he was placed, with added request that until the next Wizengamot session which was on the first monday of each month, Oskar's identity, and where would heir Potter be placed remain secret until the session is held and Oskar makes his appearance there.
At what Antony told them, Fudge told him first, “Lord Peverel-Gagos-Black needs to name a proxy for his seats, our laws state that any Lord or Lady needs to have taken their Owls exams to at least to be able to take their own seats.”
At that, Antony told him, “Don't worry minister, from what we all saw, Oskar is extremely smart. I'm going to register to do his OWL'S at the ICW and see if he can do them by Friday maximum using one of the ICW time dilation rooms, and I'm going to hire tutors to teach him anything he doesn't know at the time dilation room that are present at some of the Gagos estates. That way the results should be back on Monday morning before the Wizengamot session, and according to his scores, Oskar would decide on what to take for his N.E.W.T.S in August.”
Hesitantly, as he agreed, McGonagall asked what about Hogwarts if he took and passed everything in both. Oskar told her that either way, he would still enter his age year to meet people his own age and make friends making her feel touched, and liking him even more as she wanted him to be a kid for a bit longer before leaving the school. That's when one of Antony's men was escorted to the room with a box in his hand and put it in front of Oskar. Thanking the man, Oskar gave him 50 G for his trouble, as the man left the room while the others watched him expectantly.
Seeing that all eyes were on him, Oskar opened the box and removed his new wand and stared at it for a moment before asking, “Uhm, how do I use the stick?”
The five gave him a ridiculous look, as for Pandora, Antony, and the two goblin's burst into a historical laughter at what he said. Giving them a confused look, Oskar innocently told them, “What? It's a genuine question. Until today, I never knew I needed one to do magic. So, how do I use it?”
Knowing that the boy was technically right as he can do both wordless and wandless magic effortlessly, McGonagall told him, “As you've been told, I'm the deputy headmistress at Hogwarts, but I'm also the Transfiguration professor. Transfiguration is the art of changing the form or appearance of an object. It requires not only precision but also a clear understanding of the object you wish to transform. Each transformation is governed by its own rules and complexities.”
Quickly butting in, Oskar asked, “Oooh, I've done that before. I used to turn a chair into a bed, and sometimes water into soda when I didn't have enough money to buy soda.”
Her heart breaking at what he said about the conditions he was living in, Oskar saw that and told her, “Hey, don't feel bad. None of you could have known that I was around, or his kid. Let alone Sirius.” Then, while shaking his wand, Oskar added in excitement, “Now, can you please tell me how to do them with the wand?”
Seeing the excited look on his face, McGonagall couldn't help herself but give him a soft smile as she showed him how to do the wand movement and told him both spells. In return, Oskar pointed his wand at the vase that contains the water and wordlessly casted a spell turning the water into a red liquid that to Antony's eyes looked suspicious, while the others gave a surprise look at how fast it took him to do it with the wand on the first try.
Innocently, Oskar summoned one of the empty cups and magically poured some of it into his cup, and right before he could drink it, Antony snatched the cup from his hand to smell the drink before tasting it himself then emptying the cup in one gulp, making the others look at them confused.
Snorting, Antony told Oskar who was giving him a sheepish look, “Emancipated or not, you're still too young to drink red wine.”
Everyone's eyes bulged at that, with Pandora and the goblins laughing even more. As for Oskar who was pouting, told him with his adorable puppy eyes, “Please cousin Antony, just one sip. Pretty please.”
If it was anyone else, they would've fallen for it, but for Antony, he snorted again and told him, “Hell no. Ask me that again on your birthday in a month, and I might allow you a glass.”
His pout turned into a glare as Oskar told him, “You know what? Fuck you cousin, I'm legally an adult and I want a sip.”
Glaring at each other for what felt like a lifetime, Antony poured him another cup from the vase that Oskar had made, handed the cup to Oskar and said, “Just a sip. I'm only allowing it because I know you can do it behind my back. So just this once. Understood?”
Nodding furiously, and with a smile on his face, Oskar took the cup and had a sip. Antony and Pandora chuckled at the look of disgust that Oskar made afterwards.
“Holy fucking shit! What is this?” Oskar lamented as he immediately spit the content out of his mouth and onto the floor.
The Tonks, Griphook, and Ragnok were watching in amusement, while the remaining three, were between disbelief, and McGonagall wanting to reprimand him for letting Oskar try alcohol at this age. After all, she knew of the muggle alcohol, since she has a family in the muggle world.
Wrinkling his nose, Oskar said in disgust, “This is disgusting. I know for sure that I'm not trying this again.”
Laughing again at what he said, McGonagall told him, “If I ever find you trying alcohol at Hogwarts, you can find yourself having detention for your entire school year. Understood, young man?”
Giving her a pointed look that reminded her of his father, Oskar told her, “I'm not stupid to drink or sell alcohol on school grounds.”
“But that’s the thing my dear deputy headmistress.” Antony interrupted McGonagall before she could comment. With a smirk on his face he continued. “What I gave cousin Oskar here was the worst tasting Kool-Aid flavor known in the human world.” They gasped at this revelation and McGonagall, not believing him, grabbed the cup and took a sip of it herself, only to quickly spit the content to the floor as well.
“Oh dear, that is disgusting indeed.” She took a glass, poured some water and took a long drink in an attempt to get the foul tasting beverage off her tongue. “How did you do that?”
“A little trick of my own, I turned Oskar’s wine into Kool-Aid.” The group looked at him with admiration as none of them even saw when he performed that trick.
Antony continued, “I like how little you think of me to believe that I, a responsible adult, would give alcohol to a minor to drink.” Antony scoffed at her.
Giving him a firm nod, and not admitting or confirming her opinion of him, she turned to Oskar and said, “Before we go bring Mr. Potter, are there any more surprises we need to know first?”
“Actually, yes. Do any of you by any chance know who William Weasley, Seamus Finnigan, and Dean Thomas are?” Oskar asked, trying not to make it sound that he already knew who they were. Even though he knew they were his soul mates, he didn't use his powers to look into his relationship with the three as he wanted it to grow on its own without the use of his own powers, which he was in favor of until what he has learned today which started making him reconsider that choice.
Narrowing her eyes at him, McGonagall enquired, “Yes, all three of them are in my house. Mr. Weasley is going to be a year above you, as for the other two, they are going to be in the same year as you are at Hogwarts. Why?”
Showing them a piece of paper, Oskar told her, “According to my inheritance test, all three of them are my destined soul mates and soon to be my husbands.”
All five of them stared at the piece of paper they were given with an intensity as if they were trying to transfer the words physically to their brains. Soulmates aren't rare, but they aren't common. Only one or two soul mates were heard of every five to ten years or so. Having one soul mate is the most common, having two is rare, but having three was nearly unheard of. The last person to have more than two soul mates, and destined nevertheless, was nearly ten centuries ago, and it was Merlin himself. And they knew Oskar’s statement was right. Soul mates, or in his case, destined soulmates usually end up getting married within months of meeting each other.
Rubbing her eyes, McGonagall said sarcastically, “There's no halfway with you, Black's. It's either all the way or nothing.”
Snorting at that, Andromeda told her, “It's one of our secret mottos. I know the Weasley's are good people, what about the other two boys?”
McGonagall told both her and Oskar who perked at that, “They are good boys, Mr. Finnigan sometimes has a habit of unintentionally blowing up things with his spells, but they're smart and hard working when it comes to their school work.”
“My type of boys. Is there a way to set-up a meeting with them or something before the Wizengamot meeting on Monday? I'd like to meet them and I don't want them blindsided if it has to come out that they're my destined soulmates that day, just in case.” Oskar asked in a both happy and excited look on his face.
She could, but first she had to warn him, so she told Oskar, “I could in the next few days, but you should take into consideration first that with who your father is, there might be a backlash or the parents not wanting you to be near their boys.”
Knowing that, Oskar told her in return, “It's ok professor. I know it's a possibility.”
Giving her opinion, Pandora added, “The Weasleys are our neighbors, I could go and bring Bill and get him to meet Oskar earlier by then, too.” She paused for a moment then she said again, “Minerva and I could go talk to them and bring them here. We both know that the Weasley's parents are complete followers of the headmaster. We can then do a test to see if they're under the headmaster's control and act accordingly to that. Maybe at noon tomorrow? The sooner the better. Oskar is already going to be here tomorrow morning to check the rest of all his vaults before checking on his estates in the magical world then he’ll be moving to what he owns in the muggle world.”
To what she said, Ragnok added, “After you go to retrieve heir Potter, I will send a letter to Mr. Weasley to arrive at our bank at ten in the morning tomorrow regarding his Lordship, since he never took his Lordship, and to bring with him both his wife and children. It is better to have them checked by our healers to be certain whether they are following him willingly or against their will. So I think it is better for the other boys to arrive at noon. It would give us enough time to check on everything regarding the Weasley family.”
‘Why me?’ McGonagall couldn't stop the thought before replying, “After we bring Mr. Potter and finish here today, we'll visit the Finnigan's as his mother is on the board of governors and see if she'd talk to the Thomas family and to meet you here tomorrow at noon.”
Receiving a firm nod from Ragnok, McGonagall turned towards Oskar and asked again, “Please tell me there's no other surprises that I need to know off?”
Giving her a thoughtful look before Oskar shrugged and said, “Not that I know off. That's it for now, I think. We won't know anything more before we bring Harry and learn what Dumblefuck did to him.”
Giving him a disapproving look, McGonagall told him, “Language young man. I'm letting it slide for now as you never had etiquette lessons, but I expect you to be on your best behavior when you start school. We'll talk more when we're back from bringing Mr. Potter, including your sorting and if I could be present during your tutoring before your testing.”
Giving her a nod before leaving, Antony gave Edward Tonks some legal papers to submit them in the muggle world the following morning since half his solicitor job is in that world, before they (including Andromeda who works as a solicitor in the magical community) all left to the Dursley home to bring Harry. With the exception of Edward who left to his home to go through the paper he was given, and Oskar and Pandora following Griphook to his vault. The latter two were going to add the last security measures that Oskar requested before having lunch and touring Diagon Alley. If they had time until the others brought Harry as it was a top priority for them to learn the depth of Dumbledore's betrayal and move forward from there.