Gringotts - Part6 - Luna
Luna Lovegood - Lupin
Sire: Remus John Lupin
Bearer: Xenophilius Lovegood, né Malfoy
“I still can’t believe men can get pregnant,” Tony said.
“I would be careful if I were you,” Sirius said with a grin. “You are a wizard, you can get pregnant too.”
Tony started to sputter and mumble about condom company.
“She was named Lupin?” Remus asked.
“Lady Pandora came a few weeks ago to arrange it,” Ragnok told them. “Though it is only legal with us, she didn’t change it with the ministry.”
“They don’t take too kindly to werewolves having children, I am grateful she didn’t.”
Blood Adoption: Pandora Hela Lovegood - Mother
“I don’t get it,” Remus said looking at his little cubs. “If she adopted her and it took, it means she accepted her,” Ragnok nodded. “Then why did she gave her up?”
“We might never know Remus, don’t torture yourself with it,” Sirius told him gently. “According to our laws giving her to Strange means she lost her parental rights unless something happens to you, she can’t take her back, and I think it’s what you should focus on.”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
Title:
Lovegood - Underage Lady - Regency Sirius Orion Black under Remus John Lupin guidance
“That doesn’t sound right,” Clint said, “or fair.”
“I am a werewolf, Clint, what you need to understand is, for the Lords and Ladies of our world…” Sirius coughed loudly, “Most of them at least, I am little more than an animal, to some I am worth even less.”
“You have all this power now, maybe you can change that,” Phil said.
“We can change the laws, not the way people look at part-creature,” Remus sighed. “Veelas are the most accepted, they are light creatures, and beautiful, possess what is called an allure that enthralls men and women, and can create balls of fire when they are angry, but they are considered less dangerous than me, even though they can change at will and I only change on the full moon,” Remus explained. “They have a queen and a government with the support of the French Ministry behind them, and they can’t contaminate people, though they are allowed to have kids and get married so their population is always expanding.”
“I stand by my statement,” Clint said, “it’s unfair.”
“How did I become involved in this?” Sirius asked when no one answered Clint.
“Quit whining, will you?” Severus told him.
“Easy for you to say, while I am glad we got the pups away from Dumbledore, I didn’t know I would have to be responsible for anything more than making sure they eat, sleep and stay happy. Now, I’ll have to deal with the Wizengamot, the MACUSA, the ICW, all that while trying to hide that the pups aren’t where they are supposed to be.”
“We are all here to help though,” Phil assured him when Sirius started to panic.
“We’ll make sure you get time to play with the cubs, Sirius, even if it means something will take weeks instead of days, they are the priorities,” Remus told him.
“Of course,” The rest of them said.
“I will assign my best managers to the accounts and I will personally help you with everything else,” Ragnok told him.
“See, you don’t have to do this alone,” Phil told him.
“Okay,” Sirius said calming down slowly. “I am calm,” He said and turned toward Ragnok, “Please tell me there are no more surprises.”
“You aren’t responsible for any of it,” Ragnok compromised.
“Read on, please,” Remus told him.
Ravenclaw - Lady
“Which as I explained for Lord Gryffindor-Hufflepuff-Slytherin, no proxy’s protocols exist for the founder seats at Hogwarts , they will have to stay empty until Young Harry and Young Luna are of age,” Ragnok told them.
“What I don’t get is how come Luna is the Lady and not her mother?” Severus asked.
“Good question Severus,” Sirius said and looked at Ragnok expectantly.
“It was part of the guardianship agreement she signed a few weeks back,” Ragnok said and handed Remus a brown parchment.
I, Lady Pandora Hela Lovegood, daughter of Athena Helena Lovegood, sane of mind and body, do declare:
On the night of October 31st, of this year, I relinquish the guardianship of my daughter Luna Lovegood - Lupin to her sire Remus John Lupin, with the understanding that letters and pictures will be sent to myself and/or my husband, her bearer, Xenophilius Lovegood, né Malfoy.
In the event, this letter of intent was to be used, I relinquish my birthright to my daughter Luna Lovegood - Lupin. She is to be known as Lady Lovegood - Ravenclaw at the age of 15.
The Lovegood seats will be held in her name by Lady Magic’s trustee, Sirius Orion Black, until her 21st birthday, all bonding and contracts are to be approved by the trustee, with the reservation that Remus John Lupin agrees with him.
The Ravenclaw seats fall to Luna Lovegood - Ravenclaw on the day of her 17th birthday, as part of her magical inheritance.
If laws are changed according to Werewolves the same rights as wizards and witches at any time between this day and Luna Lovegood - Lupin, 15th birthday, trustee of the seats is to be given in full to Remus John Lupin.
So mote it be,
Lady Pandora Hela Lovegood.
And on a separated piece of parchment:
Remus, I know I was rude and angry at you the last I saw you but I didn’t expect to find my husband pregnant, I am sure you understand. I trust you with our daughter, make sure she will be happy and safe from the Headmaster. He has been back, in the past few months, tried to put myself and Xenophilius under the Imperius Curse again, first for us to retract the adoption, then to force us to have a child I would bear. He seems to forget in his hast the further his plan that I am a potion mistress and I know he put Lust and Fertility Potion in our well. Do not worry, Luna was never exposed to it, we hadn’t used that well in years, but the bunnies and gnomes population around the Rookery have expanded as I am sure you noticed.
You were always a good friend Remus, I hope one day I’ll get to see my little girl again, but do not bring her back here until she is safe, and if I have passed do not feel guilty, the Fates have a plan for all of us.
“That was really nice of her,” Natasha said before adding, “also out of curiosity, you wouldn’t have the exact coordinates of the Headmaster at the moment, would you?” She asked the table her eyes hard and her body stiff.
“You’re not going without me,” Clint told her.
“Of course not,” Natasha smiled sweetly, “I need someone to fly the jet.”
“As pleasant as this idea is,” Phil told them, “we don’t have time now.”
“That’s not a no,” Tony told them in passing.
Malfoy - 3rd in Line.
“I thought Xeno was cast out?” Sirius asked.
“He was, and technically women cannot inherit the Malfoy line, but she is allowed to hold it in trust until the birth of a son,” Severus explained. “While there are many more Malfoys on the continent, Lucius doesn’t trust them, Xenophilius was his brother, Luna is to be trained for the Lovegood line anyway, he trusts she will know how to handle it if something happened to himself and Draco.”
“I am guessing my mother never heard about this,” Sirius said, “or she would have forced Abraxas to make it part of Lucius and Narcissa’s contract that in the event of the Lord and the provided heir’s death without a descendant of his own, the title would fall back to the Black family.”
“Which is why, Lucius filled for Luna to be Draco’s heir the minute her birth was announced,” Severus told him.
Seats:
Under Regency:
Wizengamot - 10 seats (Lovegood 2 - Ravenclaw 8)
On Hold:
Hogwarts - 2 seats
“That explains the missing seats,” Tony said.
“Missing seats?”
“Yeah, Ragnok said Sirius was holding 128 seats under a regency, but Harry ‘only’ had 118.”
“Okay, so that’s more power for us,” Severus said and Phil agreed with him. “What’s next?”
Magical Familiar:
Pygmy Puff - Pandora
Crumple-Horned Snorkack - Unknown
“I sincerely hope this Crumple-Horned Snorkack is tiny, Pygmy Puffs too for that matter, as it looks like my tower is about to become a zoo,” Tony complained about.
“I just hope it’s cute some magical beasts aren’t that nice to look at,” Remus said making a face.
Magical Core:
Level 37 - Blocked 31%
(Luna’s adult level - Level 55 - Blocked 50%)
Ragnok read Luna’s adult results without being asked.
“I guess, since we are getting rid of the block, her core will grow more,” Remus said.
“It can,” Ragnok agreed. “At the moment, she doesn’t have any potion in her system. But in the future, she had potions to make her follow Dumbledore’s lead, keep her away from Harry, and the elder Weasley’s sons, while forcing her to make friend with Hermione Granger, Ronald and Ginevra Weasley. She also had compulsions placed on her to influence others to do anything from disregarding her completely, to bullying her. A specific compulsion was set for you, Remus, to ignore her.”
“Which would explain why you never told Harry about her,” Sirius said, not that it made Remus any happier. Dumbledore had a lot to answer for, keeping him from his cubs was at the top of that list.
“Obviously, the potions didn’t work,” Severus said and Remus looked at him confused about what he meant. “We already know they were friends in the future, they were living with the Prewett brothers, and Ronald, Hermione, and Ginevra were following Dumbledore.”
Magical Contracts:
Marvelers - Seer
“What?” Remus asked.
“Let me see,” Ragnok told him and read further, “Yes, Lady Luna is a Natural Seer.”
“Bill told us about it, but he said it was just a theory,” Clint reminded them. “It’s weird to think the man who was writing about sacrificing his life is the boy we saw earlier.”
“It would be easier if you thought of the people from the future as totally different persons,” Severus told him.
“I guess,” Clint shrugged.
Bonding Contract - to Ronald Bilius Weasley to be released on her 17th birthday unless he makes it publicly known before. Signed by Lord Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Molly Weasley, née Prewett, Lady Dowager Muriel Prewett, Dedalus Diggle. Countersigned under influence by Filius Flitwick.
Remus started to growl and grabbed Harry and Luna before going to pace on the other side of the room holding them tight against his chest. Who did that man think he was, trying to bond his cubs to his children?
Oh, Remus wasn’t stupid, he knew why with Ron and Ginevra bonded to the Lord and Lady of the Hogwarts’ houses he would be in total control of the school. But wanting something didn’t give him the right to manipulate and trap his cubs, to give them potions.
“Remus?” He heard behind him, and he knew it was Sirius, the idiot was the only one who would approach him when the wolf was this close to the surface. “Come on, Remus, we can ask for another judgment,” Sirius offered. “I am not sure what Lady Magic can add to their sentences, but I am sure she can be creative.”
“My cubs,” He whined but walked closer to Sirius, even the wolf in him, recognized them as his cubs too, and they were safe around Sirius.
“No one is denying it,” Sirius assured him.
“He wants to control them, and all the others,” Remus told him.
“I know, we won’t let him.”
“Sirius is right, we can ask for another judgment,” Severus told him. “What I would like to know is, why have Flitwick sign the contract?”
“I don’t understand, he filed Harry’s contract thinking he would become his guardian, but what about Luna’s?” Phil asked.
“I think those were both done with the same reasoning,” Sirius told them. “While a guardian needs to sign for a contract to be valid, Luna is Lady Ravenclaw, and Lovegood’s ladies are always sorted into Ravenclaw. Filius Flitwick is Ravenclaw’s head of the house, as such, he has the power to sign a contract for his students, as long as it was approved by two parents”
“Why do you know so much about bonding contract?” Clint asked.
“Because James and I tried to find a way out of mine before Andromeda bailed and my parents broke it of their own volition,” Sirius explained. “What you have to understand is that in the law it says signed ‘by both guardians’, where it should say ‘the guardians of both’ or at least add an apostrophe after both, meaning Dumbledore and Molly as Ron’s parents, and as such both his guardians, could sign it in Luna’s name without asking Pandora or Xenophilius. In this, it is Filius’ corruption that will help us.”
“I want to cancel it now,” Remus announced, coming back toward the table with the cubs, as Phil said, “We have to change that law, and comb through the others, who knows how many are misspelled.”
“I encourage you to wait for Mr. Weasley to make his choice,” Ragnok told them, when they looked at him he explained. “If he decides to take guardianship over his youngest children, then the contract isn’t valid, if he decides not to take them in, you can ask for the judgment based on Master Duelist Flitwick signature.”
“Why wait, it will be judge anyway?” Severus asked.
“Plausible deniability,” Clint told him. “It will be the third judgment in a day, which could attract attention to the bank, but if Mr. Weasley is the one calling for it, it could be perceived as a next logical consequence. If not, then we can take a few days before asking the judgment on it, it’s not like he had plans to bond them this week.”
“No, if they are still underage, and didn’t take their NEWT, Pandora, Xenophilius, and Remus would need to countersign it,” Sirius told them.
“But you just said…” Clint started but Sirius sighed interrupting him.
“They can sign the contract and make it legal, it is why it says they will only bond after her 17th birthday, it is our legal adult age. But at that age, we still have one year before we graduate from Hogwarts. If Ron was to come to her on her 17th birthday and tell her they have a contract and should marry, if Luna’s parents disagree it would give them until she graduates to find a way out of it, which only happens if it wasn’t legal, If they agree though, they can bond anytime starting on the exact time of her birth. We rarely see bonded couples at Hogwarts but it is only because the contract becomes binding on the youngest one coming of age, meaning the eldest is often out of Hogwart already, or until recently, the bride was taken out of Hogwarts for private tutoring with the husband coming home on weekends to facilitate the conception of an heir,” Sirius explained.
“I think I get it, if he was to try it now, as it is for us he would need her guardians or parents permission seen they are both underage,” Phil said.
“Exactly, and he knows Remus would never agree.”
“He could use the Imperius, as he did on Pandora,” Natasha reminded them.
“Werewolves are naturally immune,” Remus told her. “Having the wolf’s mind constantly in mine would require for him to take control of both of us.”
“Then we move on and wait,” Severus said, and everyone agreed.
Special Magical Abilities:
Nature Seer.
Animagus - White Raven
Patronus - Hare
“The animagus and Patronus are obviously from her older-self tests, and while, as for Harry, her Patronus may change based on what her happiest moment is, her animagus won’t as it is a magical family inheritance from her Ravenclaw blood,” Ragnok informed them.
“I never took Divination, what is the difference between a Seer and a Natural Seer?” Severus asked, looking at Sirius.
“Don’t look at me, my mother signed me up for that class, I never understood the appeal,” Sirius protested.
“Bill said something about her seeing and speaking to animals that no one else can see, maybe it means Nature, and not Natural,” Clint suggested. “Like she talks to the bees or whatever, and they tell her what is going to happen.”
“Are you serious?” Tony said looking gobsmacked.
“Well, Harry can speak to snakes, so why not?”
“Because it’s not possible,” Tony argued.
“I think we went right past ‘Possible’ and took a hard turn toward ‘The world is upside down’ right after Strange delivered a letter from the future,” Clint told him.
“I’ll find an answer,” Tony told him petulantly.
“Suit yourself,” Clint agreed with a shrug.
“No experimenting on the cubs,” Remus growled at Tony.
“Of course not,” Tony said flippantly, “I have you three for that,” He added with a smirk, while Severus rolled his eyes.