At the end of the shopping trip with Hagrid when he put her on a train headed back to the Dursleys, Vera had gotten off at the next stop and went back the Diagon Alley.
On arrival she had immediately wen to Gringotts where she had spoken to her family accountant, who had told her that because she was the last of the Potters, that on her 11th birthday she had become Lady Potter, and Lady Peverell, was an emancipated minor and the trace was removed from her wand. She had asked for healing from Gringotts as she didn’t know where else to turn, who while healing her had completely removed all physical signs of her poor health curtesy of the Dursleys. The goblins had used a purging ritual during the healing and had removed the horcrux hidden in her scar at the same time. Vera didn’t know it at the time but that horcrux had been the only thing keeping Voldemort tied to the living world.
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Vera had gotten a lot of attention when she didn’t look anything like either of her parents, but Vera had shown that although she had no love for attention, she wasn’t going to shrink before the masses, nor get overwhelmed.
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At the end of second year Vera took apart the basilisk corpse turning it into potion ingredients, reams of skin to be used later and the teeth into weapons. The Gryffindor sword started turning up in her rooms when ever she tried to return it to the sorting hat.
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After third year, Vera had invited Sirius to stay at her apartment, sent him to Gringotts for healing (where he also transferred all of the Black possessions into the Potter and Peverell vaults) and given him a makeover so no one would recognise him as Sirius Black, instead taking on the name Sirius Peverell. Soon after the two were joined by Remus Lupin who also decided to go by a different name Remus Peverell. As a side project Vera had started creating a ward stone with a multitude of different wards attached, from fire protection and prevention, weather control, anti-theft, anti-aggression, keeping people out or in depending on need, and much more.
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During fourth year Vera had found that she could talk to dragons, Charlie Weasley upon finding out had invited her to visit the Romanian dragon reserve. Which Vera, Sirius and Remus did that summer holidays. The three spent the entire holidays travelling around the world being joined by Luna and her father as they searched for magical animals
Also during that summer Vera had been stating to get this weird feeling that something was going to happen soon that she needed to be prepared for. This included removed everything she and Sirius had owned from Gringotts placing it all into an expanded pocket. Also, into the pocket went a wizarding tent, a copy of every book in Hogwarts and Grimmauld place, a shrunken wizarding home (fully furnished), a flock of farm animals in statis, huge stocks of potion ingredients and hundreds of different types of seeds. Another thing she had set up was a magical animal reserve in a little pocket of the bag. Vera had been collecting magical animals that had needed somewhere to hide from poachers. She had herds of unicorn, griffin, hippogriff, nifflers, acromantula, ashwinder, augury, bowtruckle, crup, demiguise, hippocampus, horned serpant, kelpie, kneazle, manticore, mooncalf, murtlap, nundu, occamy, a phoenix egg, puffskein, thunderbird, Pegasus, sea serpent, centaurs, house elves and more.
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Remus was rushing around their home shrinking everything as he went and storing it in a coin purse he kept in his breast pocket. When they had gotten the call to arms to protect Vera at the Ministry he had gotten a feeling they wouldn’t be back here anytime soon, so he was insuring they wouldn’t leave anything they owned behind.
As Sirius fell through the arch in the department of Mysteries, Vera and Remus grabbed a hold of Sirius to try and pull him back, but with dead weight and momentum the three fell through, never to be seen in that world again.
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Sirius, Vera and Remus landed with a thump to find themselves in trouble once again. The ground was dust ad sand, the air was thick and foggy, they could hear beasts in the distance and the land felt both poisonous and full of dark magic. Vera, after the first healing at Gringotts had decided to learn the purging ritual as it dealt not just in illness, but with curses as well. So while Sirius and Remus watched her back, killing any beasts that attacked Vera set up the ritual not drawing a circle as she wanted it to spread outwards over the entire area. She started chanting, Sirius and Remus still defending her, grabbed one of the beasts, killed it and passed her the body and blood, as the ritual demanded a sacrifice, and as she spoke the final word she slammed her hands covered in the blood of the beast on the runes of the ritual. The magic pushed outwards, draining the poison death out of the entire area, until Vera felt the ritual end, in the same breath Vera started a new chant, this one of protection, which spread to the newly purged area in what had been old Valyria.
Those who lived closest to Old Valyria tried not to look at the results of the Doom, whenever they did look at it, they always felt a shiver slither down their spine. On the particular day when Old Valyria got 3 new citizens, the people outside had been ignoring it, as usual when suddenly they heard a whooshing noise and the fog and death that always lingered dissipated, which was then replaced by a shimmering wall going up on the border of Old Valyria. For the moment nobody was going to approach it, but in the future. Maybe?
Vera left the ward stone and with Sirius and Remus’ help located the centre of their new land, when they found it they placed the ward stone deep underground. Over that same location, they cleared an area and Vera pulled out the shrunken wizarding home locking the ward stone to the house, so that the ward stone could be accessed from inside the basement in the house before with the other two backed up and removing the shrinking charm. The house expanded into a beautiful roman style villa.
Using the racing brooms Vera had packed the three started flying around to get an idea of the land, the place wall full of old ruins, so in different spots left those ruins alone allowing the place to keep its history, but removed the rest, next they seeded the now clear land using a quick grow spell. Within a couple of hours the entire land was green and lush with plains, gardens, forested areas, farm land and empty plots for later use. Vera pulled the little pocket containing the magical and non- magical animals out of the bag and expanded the entrance with a siren spell to guide them out. The animals following their instincts all made their way towards areas they felt more comfortable.
The three finished their home just as the sun was setting and on entering their villa they all smiled at each other at the job well done.
Within a week of finishing preparations people started asking to move to their newly created country, and after much talk the three agreed and started putting up houses for those people to live in. When the new people moved in they were given the rules, no killing of any of the magical animals as they were part of a husbandry project. Apart of from that the rules were pretty normal, no murder, no theft, and fulfil agreements so as to maintain your honour.
All of the households had indoor plumbing magical lights so no need for candles or chamber pots. People travelled from near and far to become part of the new country.
Sirius was named King of Old Valyria with Remus as his main advisor and Vera heir to the throne as the first born inherited the position, man or woman it didn’t matter. There had been some people unhappy with this but Sirius had just said “If you don’t like it, leave.” People quickly realised that Sirius was being very serious and wouldn’t let Vera be bad mouthed.
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6 months after the three arrived they got their first visiting royals. The Targaryen family.
As the ship pulled up to the deep-sea wharf holding a lighthouse directing ships, with carriages waiting to bring them to New Valyria, Rhaenyra, Daemon and all their children on their dragons kept to themselves and away from the other dragons which carried Aegon, Aemond and Helaena as they all followed the royal ship carrying King Viserys and Queen Alicent along with a retinue of servants, guards and advisors including Otto Hightower.
While Viserys, Alicent and their advisors were transferred to the carriages, the dragons and their riders were directed to the other side of the palace and down the cliff to the dragon caves. In the caves they were met by a strange small being who introduced themselves as house elves of the royal family, the dragons were secured in caves and they were directed to a room with chairs in them.
“Take a set and do up the belts, you will meat the rest of your party in a couple of minutes. Once everyone was seated the room started to move up and around for 5 minutes. When the room stopped the doors were opened to show they were in a completely different place, walking out they met up with Viserys, Alicent and their advisors who had just arrived themselves. They were showed into a sitting room “Ah! Our guest have arrived! How wonderful! Welcome, welcome, please join us” Sirius said as he stood up from his chair. “I am King Sirius Black of the house Peverell, and this is my daughter and heir Vera Potter of house Peverell and my advisor Remus Lupin of house Peverell. Now we are not ones to stand on ceremony so please sit well get some refreshments for everyone, Mipsy refreshments” as they sat their preferred drinks appeared on the table next to where they were sitting. Causing a lot of them to look shocked and in Alicent’s case worried at the magic occurring around her. All of the introductions followed then Sirius said “Now I’m sure the youngsters may not want to listen to all this politics crap so Vera, would you like to take everyone on a tour. So the 8 younger people followed Vera, even Aegon (18) as he didn’t want to sit through that crap.
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Vera led them through the palace pointing out things of interest and asked if everyone can ride a horse (everyone nodded as they could obviously) vera took a moment to whisper to a servant then continued on towards the back of the palace that looked over a cliff into the bay where the dragons had been landed. As they stepped out they saw hug e horses with wings.
“These are Abraxas pegasai, winged horses, they will be carrying us around on the tour. Don’t worry about falling off, as you won’t be able to, there is a spell on the saddled that prevent you from leaving while the Abraxas are flying.” Everyone nodded and went to clamber onto their horses, “All of them will follow the head stallion, which is mine, so don’t worry about steering” She turned the abraxas towards the cliff, and took off at a gallop, everyone found their abraxas following without their say so. There was some panicked yelling as we went over the cliff and soared into the sky.
Aemond found himself fascinated by princess Vera who was laughing at all of their panicking, her raven black hair shone red in the sun and her green eyes flashed with laughter. Well it seemed he found someone afterall.
They all spent the next few hours flying over Valyria, meeting some of the other magical animals, Jace, luce and Joffrey loved the crups and bowtruckle, Rhaena and Baela liked the unicorns and puffskeins, Aemond liked the thunderbird and Aegon thought the horned serpent was cool, while Helaena loved the acromantula and spent a lot of time chatting with them. When one of the kids asked if they could them, Vera had shook her head, they are part of the husbandry project so they can’t be taken away.
On their arrival back at the palace for dinner the adults got informed about everything they had seen and how much they liked it. Alicent had been watching Aemond who had been sneaking looks at Vera and blushing. Well, it seemed she might of found a wife for Aemond afterall.
That night Vera had told Sirius that she liked Aemond, which Sirius found an odd comment coming out of left field, until Alicent and Viserys had approached him about a betrothal between Vera and Aemond. Sirius had looked at them seriously (tee hee) and asked that they understand that if they marry Vera will become Queen and Aemond will be her consort, that any children they have will have the Peverell name. We are the last of our family. Vera will also be taking over from me when she turns 17, no waiting for me to die.” “17” Viserys stated, “yes, our species can live up to 200-250 years, I do not want to be ruling for that long. For the first born, we are raised from birth getting ready to rule, by the time we are 17 we would be married and trying to have a child so that we don’t have to rule for too long. Being the King or Queen is not a reward, nor is it a choice, it is a responsibility, one that we pass on to our oldest at their 17th birthday, with the other children as they reach 17 becoming the advisors. That way our later years can be free and we can do what we like. Plus it also prevents illness coming from old age affecting our kingdom’s stability.” Viserys blinked, it was an interesting idea, certainly not something he was interested in, but certainly interesting. Alicent stared at King Sirius, they had odd ideas but it worked to handle any issues before they occurred. But it was against her beliefs that it was the men who should lead and women follow, but I guess in there situations, with only the three of them they had to make do. Vera was certainly a polite and biddable heir, not allowing rumour or scandal to occur. She would be a good wife and ruler.
They spent the next few days working out the betrothal agreement, “Aemond should spend the 6 months leading up to the wedding here in Valyria so that he can get used to his new role as after the two week honeymoon Vera will be turning 17 and ready to become Queen, so Aemond needs to be ready to become Prince Consort.” Viserys and Alicent agreed, the other children when they found out that Aemond would be staying in Valyria for 6 months before his wedding asked if they could also stay in Valyria. Alicent and Rhaenyra weren’t sure, but Viserys agreed.
Two days later Alicent, Viserys, Rhaenyra, Daemon and their retinue set off for home. The trip was long and worse going back. The day after they arrived back Viserys died in his sleep, Rhaenyra being the only heir in Westeros at the time was able to easily take the throne and surprisingly to Alicent, Rhaenyra didn’t in fact kill or threaten Alicent’s children. Otto was immediately removed as hand of the King and replaced with Rhaenys Targaryen. By the time all of the kids returned Rhaenyra was Queen and the realm was at peace.
Aemond and Vera’s wedding was beautiful, afterwards Alicent in fact decided to stay in Valyria, not wanting to live under Rhaenyra’s rule, Aegon and Helaena (and their kids) followed. Otto was not happy that his plans had not panned out the way he wanted them to but he was happy that his grandson was on the Valyria throne and that his great grandchild would sit the throne themselves.
And so dance of the dragons did not occur and nobody died (except Viserys who sucks)