Chapter 3
After the vows Severus began to explain, “This morning I received a distressed message from Petunia.” He began. “She asked for aid as she barely knew how to raise the magical child she knew about let alone the fact that her son started showing signs of magic as well.” He says before looking at Dudley who had come over and tugged at his robes.
“Can I go sit with Harry?” He asked.
“Ragnok, could you escort him to Harry?” Severus asked and the goblin nodded, opening the door. After they both left Severus turned back to the group. “Dudley, is my son as well. I only found out today when we came to the bank so I could confirm that Petunia actually had Harry Potter as Dumbledore had assured me he had gone to a loving family.”
“That was not the case,” Petunia cuts in. “In fact, Harry had been left on my doorstep November 1st. I found him when I went to put out the milk crate. He was swaddled with a note in his basket, I’m assuming a warming charm had been placed on him as he was warm.” She says. “The note had told us to treat him however just to make sure he stayed alive. My husband hated magic as much as I had been jealous of Lily for having it. I kept trying to keep Harry from showing any signs of magic but to some degree it didn’t work. This morning I had gone to wake up Dudley and his toys had been floating around him as he was asleep. I feared that I would need more help, especially knowing that Dudley was not my husband's son.” Petunia says.
“How?” Narcissa asked.
“Petunia and I had a dalliance at Lily’s wedding. I was hurt knowing I’d never have Lily for myself and Petunia was upset at losing her sister to our world.” Severus says.
“Vernon and I had been trying to have a child for a while but it just wasn’t possible. I found out I was pregnant a month after the wedding. I knew it had to be Severus’ but I also knew that if Dudley had no magic I could pass him off as Vernon’s.” Petunia explains. “As soon as he started showing magic I knew I needed to tell Severus about his son. I still had the special magic box from when my sister was in school. She had charmed two boxes to send letters back and forth.”
“Petunia also knew that Lily had given me one as well.” Severus says. “You just have to think of who you want to send it to and it’ll connect to them.”
“I knew it would still work and grabbed what I could of the pictures I had of Lily. I began to explain what I could to boh boys.” Petunia says. “I showed Harry the pictures I had of Lily until Severus arrived.”
“So, Harry Potter didn’t go on cool adventures while he was being trained in all sorts of magic?” Draco asks sadly.
“I’m afraid not. He was being raised in the muggle world.” Severus says and Draco frowns.
“Once I arrived Petunia went to pack bags for the boys and herself. We then headed to Gringotts where we found that Harry is quite a bit more powerful than most, richer too.” Severus says. “While at Gringotts, I found out that I am Lord Prince.”
“The last Lord Prince died a few years ago. I know they had a daughter but they disowned her, didn’t they?” Lucius asks, looking at the goblin in the room.
“Indeed they did, however when they found out she was pregnant they did not remove the child. They just couldn’t find the child.” Ragnok says with a nod.
“My mother was Eileen Prince. I had no idea until I came into the bank this morning.” Severus says. “Back to the rest of the story though, this is the result of an inheritance test done this morning.” Severus says placing Harry’s inheritance test copies before the Malfoy’s and Lupin making all three adults choke as they read it.
“Emrys?” Lupin whispers.
“Le Fay?” Lucius questions.
“How is he the Black heir if Regulus is dead and Sirius is in Azkaban?” Narcissa asks.
“We will hopefully be finding the answer to that later, Narcissa.” Severus says.
“Dad, isn’t Merlin’s Family line Emrys?” Draco asks, quietly as he looks up at his father who nods.
“Wait, so between both of the boys they hold the most ancient magicks?” Narcissa asks.
“What? Dudley has ancient magic?” Petunia asks, confused.
“He does. The Prince line is related to Arthur Pendragon. While Emrys and Le Fay are Merlin and Lady Morgana’s lines.” Severus nods and Petunia looks at him wide eyed.
“The King of Camelot, King Arthur?” She asks and Severus nods slowly. “So Dudley is a natural healer and from a powerful bloodline.”
“Two powerful bloodline’s.” Severus says and Lucius looks at him surprised.
“How many more surprises are we in store for?” Lucius asks.
“A few. Dudley is also the holder of the hufflepuff line through you, Petunia.” Severus sighs and Petunia looks up.
“He is?” She asks.
“Yes Hufflepuff showed up on your test and the account manager bowed twice to acknowledge both of you as the line owners.” Severus explains.
“A squib has brought back the Hufflepuff line?” Lucius smirks. “Pity for the wizengamot.”
“I know they will be so confused when all these chairs show up with no one to sit in them.” Narcissa chuckles.
“We’re back.” Dudley skips into the room with Harry trailing behind before he pauses at the new people in the room who stare at him.
“Hullo.” He whispers, giving a shy wave as he steps behind Severus’ leg and peeks at everyone.
“He sure hasn’t changed much.” Remus sniffles looking at Harry with tear filled eyes.
“Uncle Moony?” Harry whispers before his eyes light up and he runs over to him. “Is Padfoot here? Did you hear about the horcrux? I had a piece of the Dark Lord in my head!” He begins spewing information before Severus has a chance to stop him and Remus has to bite back the immediate growls of the thought his cub was being hurt.
“Horcrux…” Lucius whispers before his eyes widen. “Excuse me, I do believe I have something I need to grab and bring here.” He says before rushing out the door.
“Oh dear, if only the Black heir could approve of a search through my sister Bellatrix’s vault to find another possible horcrux.” Narcissa says and the guards who brought the boys to the room look at Harry.
“Search all the Black vaults in case we missed one.” Harry says.
“Dad, is your arm okay?” Dudley asks, startling Severus at him already calling him dad.
“Nothing you need to worry about.” Severus says looking down, surprised to find Dudley’s eyes on the area where the Dark Lord’s mark lays.
“But it looks bad.” Dudley frowns.
“It looks bad?” Narcissa asks, walking over. “Could you try to tell me what it looks like?” She asks and Severus raises an eyebrow at her.
“It’s like a big black mass feeding off the colors around it.” Dudley says and Narcissa’s eyes widen as she glances between his arm and Dudley.
“I think Petunia and I have to take a quick trip to St. Mungo’s with Dudley, come along Draco.” Narcissa says and Draco follows his mother as Petunia picks Dudley up looking worriedly at Severus.
“It’ll be fine Tunie, Narcissa was a healer before she had Draco.” Severus says and Petunia nods before following Narcissa out.
“The horcrux isn’t still in your head is it?” Remus asks Harry who shakes his head.
“Nope, Onyx and McAvoy took it out and put it into a different object.” Harry grins pointing at the Unspeakable seated in the corner by the wall.
“I had a horcrux in my study. The Dark Lord had left it in my fathers possession to keep safe.” Lucius says as he comes in. “I’m thinking of hiring the goblins to redo the Manor’s wards in case there’s others I don’t know about.” Lucius huffs as he sits back down only to look around confused. “Where on Earth did my wife go?” He asks
“She brought Dudley and Petunia to St. Mungo’s and had Draco with her.” Severus says and Lucius nods.
“She must be very excited.” Lucius smiles.
“I fear what will happen if Dudley took up an apprenticeship this young, especially from the top healer St. Mungo’s had.” Severus shudders.
“We could use more healers.” Poppy huffs before smirking, “if he waited until he was going to start at Hogwarts, then Narcissa would be able to be at the castle with me.” Poppy says and Lucius grins.
“That would do well to keep the children away from Dumbledore.” Lucius nods.
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“Why exactly are we at the hospital?” Petunia asks nervously.
“We’re having Dudley tested to see which abilities he has as a natural healer.” Narcissa says. “They way he described Severus’ injury. It sounds like he may have aura sight which hasn’t been around for centuries.”
“Oh, that sounds good.” Petunia says.
“It is, he’d be able to see what's wrong with the injury as well as how it’s affecting the patient.” Narcissa says as she leads Petunia into a private office area and knocks on the door to one of the office’s
“Hello, Cissa.” Andromeda says, confused at what her sister was doing here. Her eyes catch on the child in the arms of another woman who stood just behind Narcissa. “What have you brought to me, sister?”
“A natural healer who needs an abilities test and someone I can trust to keep it secret.” Narcissa whispers. “I know I have no right to ask, but you may be able to be brought back into the family and I’d rather have you than Bella who has devolved too far into the black family madness.”
“It’s not possible for me to be brought back into the family though. It would take a Lord or Heir to the House of Black.” Andromeda says as she holds her door open wider to wave everyone into the private office.
“I wouldn’t bring it up if I didn’t think it was possible.” Narcissa says and Petunia takes a seat in one of the chairs.
“It’s possible. He’s been cut off from family for too long. He’ll want all the family he can get.” Petunia smirks at Narcissa who smiles.
“Alright, I’m not going to ask since secrecy seems important.” Andromeda says as she puts up several secrecy and privacy wards on the room. “Now, the standard test I have to perform first just confirms whether or not he is a natural healer.” Andromeda says and Dudley gets off Petunia’s lap to stand in front of Andromeda. As she performed the first wand motion Dudley began to glow brightly. “Oh.” She breathes. “It seems he is a natural healer, quite the powerful one at that.” Andromeda confirms before cutting that spell off to stop the glow. “Now I’ll do the spell that shows us which abilities he has as a natural healer.” She says as a quill flies over beside her with some parchment as she begins the wand motion. The quill begins writing down each ability that they test for.
Empathic sense
Aura Sense
Healing sense
Neural Sense
Whisperer
Reverie
Necromancy
As each ability showed up Andromeda’s eyes widened. “All of the healing abilities. He has all of them.”
“All?” Narcissa asks, walking over to read the sheet of paper with his abilities on it. “Such a strong natural healer.” She smiles.
“Who was the last natural healer?” Petunia asks curiously.
“I do believe it was Poppy, who has the abilities of Empathic sense and Healing sense.” Andromeda says.
“Yes, and of course Myrtle was as well.” Narcissa says.
“Poor dear died before being able to use any of the abilities she held though.” Andromeda nods.
“How long has it been since Aura Sense was last seen?” Petunia asks curiously.
“It hasn’t been around since the days of Hogwarts being founded.” Narcissa responds.
“My sister could hear whispers.” Petunia says.
“Who is your sister?” Andromeda asks, realizing she knows nothing about these people that her sister brought to her.
“Lily Potter nee Evans.” Petunia says.
“You’re the magic hating muggle sister?” Andromeda asks, confused.
“It turns out Petunia was actually a squib the whole time and holds the Hufflepuff family bloodline in her blood.” Narcissa giggles at the stunned look on her sister’s face.
“Cissa, I think I have need of a few days to process this.” Andromeda says making a copy of the abilities and handing it to Narcissa.
“Of course, feel free to write, I’m sure you’ll feel the Black family magic returning to you and your daughter, Nymphadora?” Narcissa smiles as Draco returns to her side and Petunia stands from her chair before heading over to pick Dudley back up as they walk to the door.
“I will send a letter as soon as I process this.” Andromeda nods, still skeptical of her sister saying she could be inherited into the Black family tree.