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"There is a new boy here, Kreacher, doesn't recognize him," the slightly mad House Elf said seeming to notice Harry in the room with the others.

"This is Harry Potter, Kreacher," Hermione said.

"The Mudblood is speaking to Kreacher. Kreacher will just ignore her," the elf said.

"Don't you call her a Mudblood," Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George all growl at the elf.

"Don't worry about it, he doesn't know what he is saying," Hermione said placatingly.

"He knows more than you think," Sirius said coming into the room and glaring at the House Elf. "What are you doing in here Kreacher?"

"Kreacher is cleaning," Kreacher said holding up a solid cloth as if to prove his point. "After all Mistress would be mad if something were to happen to the family tapestry."

"I see, so she put a permanent sticking charm on it as well," Sirius said sending a glare at the tapestry of his family tree hung on one of the side walls of the drawing room.

As Sirius turned to glare at the tapestry Kreacher returned his attention to Harry. "Is it true that he is Harry Potter, Kreacure wonders how he..." Kreacher suddenly trailed off as his half-lidded eye shot open as he looked at Harry for the first time.

"Um, Kreacher is everything okay?" Hermione asked bending down and looking as if she wanted to place a hand on the Elf's body, but kept it away as if fearing his reaction.

Kreacher did not even seem to notice her as he stared at Harry. "Can't be Lulu, obviously. Draconis... no can't sense his magic. Can only be Apollo," Kreacher muttered to himself.

"NEVER SAY THAT NAME IN THIS HOUSE AGAIN!!!" Sirius thundered his face draining of every last bit of color while twisted in rage. "LEAVE US TO OUR CLEANING YOU MISERABLE LITTLE SHIT-BAG."

"Sirius Black," Molly cried in admonishment at the uncharacteristic level of anger in the man's voice even towards Kreacher.

"Back off Molly," Sirius shot at her. "Just focus on your damned cleaning of this place if you want. Harry, you have been kept with those Muggle assholes and while you have your hearing coming up, did you finish your summer homework?"

"Um, most of it," Harry said also startled by how angry his Godfather appeared to be.

"Well, since Molly had everyone finish theirs before they started cleaning you can do that now," Sirius said as he grabbed Harry by his arm and led him out of the room. Sirius basically frog-marched him to the bedroom he had stayed in with Ron to collect his stuff before taking Harry to the Master's Suite. "This room has no dark magic or items in it, so it should be safe for you to use to do your homework," Sirius said forcing Harry into an old desk in the room. "I shall be back later, and we can go over everything," Sirius said giving him what looked like a forced smile as he left the room and to Harry's surprise locked his Godson in.

Kreacher felt conflicted, he wanted to protect the treasures the Mudblood and the Blood Traitors were trying to destroy and throw out of his Mistress's house. Especially as the item representing Master Regulus's last mission to Kreacher had been in the room. He had been proud of himself for making the fake Lord Black think his interest lay in the tapestry and not the locket hidden in the cupboards the filth was cleaning. But all that changed when he looked into the new boy's eyes and felt the connection to the Black family.

Kreacher knew that with Master Regulus and his parents gone there could only be three who sparked such a connection to him. While he hated to leave the locket, he had to protect the boy so he took the fake Black Lord at his order.   Kreacher sent one last sidelong look at the locket before he left the group to their cleaning as he headed out of Grimmauld Place. The fake Lord had ordered him not to go to any other member of the Black family such as charming Narcissa and her family, but there was someone that Kreacher could go to for help in saving Apollo.

Harry was confused by the change that had come over his Godfather. Ever since he had met Kreacher, Sirius had sequestered Harry away from everyone else in the Master's Suite. At first, it was to finish his summer, but then Sirius had started to give him some one-on-one training in various studies such as tactics, potions, Muggle lockpicking, and even engine repair. Granted it was nice to spend so much time with his Godfather.  If only the man had not seemed to be possessed with a manic energy that somewhat frightened Harry. He just hoped that once he got off on the charges of Underage Magic, Sirius would back up a little so he could spend more than just breakfast and supper with the others.

Rather than the one-on-one meeting with the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement that Mr. Weasley had said was what was going to happen for his disciplinary hearing, Harry found himself in the Wizengamot in what felt like an actual trial. "Mr. Potter you stand accused of casting Underage Magic in front of a Muggle," Cornelius Fudge said looking down at Harry without the looks of a kind-hearted uncle that he had previously had on while dealing with Harry. "But since you and Albus are in this together.  This court, under the advice of an anonymous source, thought it would be best to prove you are who you say you are.  For all, we know Albus has replaced Harry with one of his supporters so that when we find him guilty and snap his wand it will not be Harry who we are dealing with," Fudge said as if explaining it to the others in attendance. "Mr. Potter, if that is who you really are, you will be required to take this test," Fudge said prompting Percy to rush forward holding a long black quill and a blank roll of parchment.

Harry held his hand out for the quill only to wince as Percy stabbed him with it as if using Harry's body as the inkwell for the quill. After holding the quill there for a couple of moments Percy removed it leaving a small bleeding cut on Harry's arm. Percy put the quill to the parchment which he held flat and carried it back to his seat. Harry held his bleeding arm as Madam Bones took the parchment from Percy and read it aloud to the whole court.

Birthname: Apollo Helios Black (L.M.)

Current name: Harry James Potter

Birth mother:

• Pandora Cassandra Lovegood nee Emrys

Fathers via Magical Fertility Ritual:

• Regulus Orion Black (Chosen parent)
• Xenophilus Arhicbob Lovegood
• Lucius Abraxus Malfoy

Parents by semi-legal Blood Adoption:

• James Felemont Potter
• Lily Rose Potter nee Evans

Siblings:

• Luna "Lulu" Selene Lovegood (older sister by two minutes-fraternal triplet)
• Draconis "Draco" Astraeus Malfoy (younger brother by three minutes- fraternal triplet)*

Children:

• Tom "Voldemort" Marvolo Gaunt (through Blood born rebirth ritual June 3, 1995)

Most of the courtroom fell silent after Madam Bones stopped reading surprised by the test. The only exception was a man in the very back row of seats who had come along to find out if Kreacher had been correct. Seeing the half-mad House Elf had not been mistaken, Xenophilus used his wand to send a quick and invisible Patronus out of the room to signal Lucius.

"Well, it seems that this is um, Harry Potter," Fudge said no longer sounding quite so sure of himself hearing the boy was connected to the Malfoy family and knowing how powerful the family was. "Mr. Potter as I said earlier you stand accused of using Magic in the presence of a Muggle knowing full well that such an act was illegal having received a notice on the subject three years ago. Do you admit to doing so?"

"Um," Harry said still distracted due to what Madam Bones had read to the court.

"It is a simple yes or no question, Mr. Potter," a woman half in shadows beside Fudge said in a very girlish voice.

"I did," Harry said.

"So you admit it," Fudge said slamming his fist into the bench before him as if he had just proved his point, but the rest of the room was still digesting the results so did not react to Fudge's display. "You did so knowing full well of the act being illegal?"

"Yes, but," Harry said but was cut off again.

"What spell did you cast Mr. Black?" Madam Bones cut in.

"A Patronus," Harry answered after realizing she meant him.

"What type of Patronus?" she asked before clarifying seeing his confusion. "Was it vaporous or caporal?"

"It was a stag, it has always been a stag," Harry answered.

"Always?" Madam Bones asked.

"I have been casting it since my Third Year," Harry explained.

"That is very impressive Mr. Black," Madam Bones said.

"it is not a matter of how impressive it is," Fudge cut in, "in fact the more impressive it is, the worse the punishment we should give him."

"Maybe you can let him get a word in edge-wise then to find out why he cast the spell in the first place," a voice said from the doors as Lucius Malfoy burst into the room.

"Lucius, what are you doing here?" Fudge asked.

"Where else do you expect me to be when the test you had Harry take revealed he is one of my kids?" Lucius asked as he moved to stand between Harry and the judge's bench. "Now Harry, why did you cast the Patronus Charm?" Lucius asked turning to look at Regulus's lost son with a far gentler look than Harry had ever received from the man.

"It was due to the Dementors," Harry said.

"Poppycock Dementors in Little Whinging," Fudge called out.

"Can you offer more proof than just your words, Harry?" Lucius asked bending down so he was looking right into Harry's eyes.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked the man.

"Did you prepare a memory of the event to share with Madam Bones for your Hearing?" Lucius asked.

"Prepare a memory?" Harry asked as he thought back to the Pensive from Dumbledore's office he had stumbled into last school year.

"Yes it is very simple," Lucius said as he pulled out his wand and put it to his temple to withdraw a silvery memory. "Just think of the event you want to share with me... us," Lucius directed as he placed the memory he had just extracted into a flask before putting a cork in it.

Harry thought back to the Dementors appearing in the alleyway Dudley and he was going down during the attack as he closed his eyes to not look at Draco's dad bringing his wand close to his temple. "Thank you, Harry, that will do," Lucius said in a gentle voice making Harry open his eyes to see the silvery memory thread hanging off of the man's wand. With a nod to Madam Bones a Pensive was brought out letting Lucius slip the memory into it and with a tap of his wand have it play above the surface of the basin. Fudge looked like he had dung under his nose as he watched the memory play out showing off a pair of Dementors attacking Harry and an overweight boy. "As Harry's memory showed Dementors did show up and go after him.  And as you all know there is a waiver in place to cast magic in front of Muggles if one's life is in immediate Danger. And from what I was told appeared on Harry's test, ie he somehow became the Dark Lord's parent it also shows he was not lying when he told of the man's return."

"All in favor of letting the charges drop?" Fudge asked through gritted teeth as the members of the Wizengamot raised their hands leaving only Fudge and the woman sitting in the shadows beside him not voting on the motion. "Very well Cleared of all charges."

"Good, good," Lucius said standing up and rubbing his hands together. "I shall take Harry the to discuss the results of his test.

"Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore," Dumbledore said sweeping into the room to find everyone starting to put their stuff away.

"You are not needed here Albus," Lucius said helping Harry to his feet.

"Lucius, what are you doing here?" Dumbledore asked.

"Representing my long-lost son," Lucius said, with a hand on Harry's shoulder, and led him out of the room. Harry was too shocked by both the results of his test but also getting off he did not even fight the motion though a part of him thought he should due to seeing the man in the graveyard two months ago. Lucius swept Harry out of the courtroom and past Mr. Weasley so fast that the red-headed man barely registered it before he started to follow them. Unfortunately, for him by the time he caught up to them Harry and Lucius had gotten into an elevator and started headed up to Lucius's law firm's office inside the Ministry.

As Harry took a seat in the office his mind finally caught up with his body as he sent Lucius a distrustful look. "What do you plan to do with me?" he asked.

"At the moment just get you something to drink while we wait for your other father to join us," Lucius said turning his back to Harry and beginning to work at a small tea service that was in the corner of the room. Not trusting this Harry silently got out of his chair and made his way to the door, hoping he could find Mr. Weasley's office again. But just as he opens the door someone starts to enter it.

"Hello, Apollo," the man said in a sort of dreamy voice giving him a large smile. "I am so glad to see you again."

"I got to get out of here," Harry said keeping his voice down to not draw Lucius's attention to him.

"Nonsense we have much to talk about," the man said gently turning Harry around and leading him back to the sitting area. "Some lemon tea for me Lucius, if you don't mind."

"As if I could forget," Lucius said without even looking over.

"Now I am sure you have some questions," the man said taking a seat beside Harry and smiling at him.

"Not really I just want to leave when I have the chance so I don't get killed," Harry said still speaking softly so that only the strange man could hear him.

"And why do you think we would kill you?" the man asked making Harry wince as the man kept speaking in a normal volume of voice.

"Well, for one he is a Death Eater and has already tried to kill me at least twice now," Harry said giving up the pretense and talking in his normal voice hoping the stranger would protect him. The man looked more akin to a hippie than anything with his one-piece yellow robe which looked more like a sundress than anything, no shoes, a wand tucked behind his ear, and a necklace with a strange symbol on it.

"I never was a Death Eater," Lucius said bringing over the drinks. "I am a spy for Amelia in the group."

"So why use the diary then?" Harry asked.

"I had to do it to keep my cover going, though I do admit I thought young Mrs. Weasley would have turned the thing over to her parents before she became enthralled to it. Arthur must have become lax since he left the Aurors to let his kids not know how to spot such a dark object," Lucius said mostly to himself further shocking Harry was some unexpected news.

"But the graveyard?" Harry asked.

"I was marked after getting approval from Amelia and Fudge's predecessor so I felt the call. I had to arrive or I would have been hunted down. Now, are there any questions concerning what was revealed in the trial, or do you have more about me?" Lucius asked handing over a couple of drink choices since he did not know what Harry liked.

"Fine," Harry said not reaching for any of the drinks. "How can you both be listed as my father along with Sirius's brother?"

"Well unfortunately due to Albus using his former position in the Wizengamot to outlaw many old rituals that helped strengthen magic, the birthrate of Magicals in Britain has plummeted. So sometimes groups of people who wish to have kids join together to perform a Fertility ritual in hopes of having kids. My wife Narcissa, unfortunately, had been hit by a curse shortly after she graduated making it impossible for her to have kids," Lucius began.

"So they turned to my wife Pandora who was an old friend of Narcissa to help them out. The thing is most Fertility rituals require three people's magic besides the birth mother to work so we turned to Regulus Black who had always wanted a child but was a Sexual-Repulsed Asexual. He eagerly agreed to take part," Xenophilius explained.

"Usually maybe one child at most is produced from the ritual, but for some reason, Pandora gave birth to triplets," Lucius said taking over the narrative. "Two of the babies had bright white puffs of hair while the third, you, had brown. It was decided that we would all take one child with Pandora and Xenophiles had wanted a girl so took your sister Luna naming her for the moon. Narcissa and I took your younger brother and called him Draco as was a Black family custom to name kids after the stars. Regulus took you and named you for the sun."

"So Draco is my brother? Who is Luna? Does she go to another Magical school?" Harry asked looking at Xenophilius.

"No she goes to Hogwarts but she is in the year below you," Xenophilius said.

"Why?" Harry asked.

"It has to do with what happened to you and Regulus," Lucius said with a sad look on his face.

"What happened?" Harry asked.

"We don't rightly know, actually," Lucius answered. "One day he just disappeared. After about a month Xeno and I searched the Ministry's Department of Magical Life and Death and found out he had died. The only good thing we could find was that you had not died with him, but as the records only show when someone is born and died we could not find you."

"It could be that since Regulus had died, you passed on to his brother Sirius who gave you to the Potters since they had Blood Adopted you. This would make sense since the test revealed that the procedure was only semi-legal. It would have only been fully legal if Lucius and I had permitted for it to take place," Xenophilius explained.

"Did Sirius know about Regulus taking part in this ritual?" Harry asked them.

"I don't know if he knew how you were born. But I know he must know you were his nephew," Lucius said making Harry think about how his Godfather had reacted when Kreacher had mentioned the name Apollo last week in the drawing room.

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"I still don't understand.   How does Regulus dying and me going missing mean Luna is in the grade below me," Harry said.

"It is due to Pandora and I taking over a year trying to find where you were, that we pushed back the announcement of Luna's birth," Xenophilus said.

"Is that significant?" Harry asked.

"In the Magical World, a child is always announced after only a certain amount of time has passed. To make sure the child will survive and get the proper rituals and vaults set up and what have you," Lucius said. "Usually it is anywhere from a month to three. So when Pandora and Xeno finally announced Luna a year after her birth, most thought she had recently been born."

"If Pandora is the mother of the three of us, wouldn't people have been aware of the fact she had been pregnant before then?" Harry asked.

"My wife and I ran a newspaper together from our home. The people who wrote articles for us all sent them in the post so no one had seen her as she was pregnant," Xenophilus explained.

"So why did you and Pandora not correct their mistake?" Harry asked.

"Safety," both Xenophilus and Lucius said.

"Safety," Harry repeated back, "what do you mean?"

"We did not know if Regulus and you had been targeted by some who had found out I was a spy," Lucius said.

"Or some Magicals who disliked the idea of the Fertility Ritual and were trying to make it look like children produced during it were destined to die young," Xenophilus added. "So our two families while searching for you, and morning Regulus kept away from each other so people would not find out Luna and Draco were siblings."

"We meet only sporadically over the years, at least until Pandora died when Narcissa and I joined Xeno in mourning her loss. By that time people just assumed Xeno and I were cousins letting us spend more time together," Lucius explained.

"Do Draco and Luna know?" Harry asked.

"About being siblings?" Lucius inquired and got a nod. The two men shared a look before Lucius continued, "We don't think so, but with those two it is possible."

"So what happens now?" Harry asked.

"That is the question," Xenophilus said. "As by magic both Luci and I are your father, you could come to live with us or go back to where you had been living." Harry wondered if he meant the Dursleys or Grimmauld Place not that either man would know Harry was staying there due to the Fidelus Charm on the townhouse. "You can take your time to decide where you wish to stay, as from what I have heard you and Draco don't get along that well and you hardly know Luna or myself."

"And as I decided? What? I stay in this office?" Harry asked making Lucius give a small chuckle.

"No, you could stay with your friends if you wish. I know you are close to those Weasleys," Lucius said his face scrunching up as he said the name as if it pained him to do so. "Other than that I will begin a junction against the Prophet for how it has run a smear campaign against you since your results also showed that The Dark Bastard is alive."

"And while Luci does that, I can take you to meet your sister, and we can go from there. If you decided to stay with the Weasleys it is quite easy from my house since I live just under three miles from the Burrow." Xenophilus suggested. Harry wanted to point out that the Weasleys were not at the Burrow but decided to hold his tongue. For he might like Luna and decide to stay there at least until the end of the summer, if not he could always use Hedwig to send them a message and arrange a meeting so he could be brought back to Grimmauld Place.

Grimmauld Place

There had been a half-hearted attempt to keep cleaning that day, but everyone had been distracted by thoughts on Harry's Hearing. Molly had expected Arthur to send an owl when he at least took Harry to see Madam Bones but the time came and went. The house finally received some news at three thirty as Dumbledore burst into the kitchen where everyone had gathered hoping that nothing had happened. Molly had never seen the Headmaster so angry before, and that included just a month ago when he had almost cursed Mundugus for leaving Harry along getting them into the current mess. "Cup of tea, Albus?" she asked.

Albus ignored her as he slammed something onto the table glaring at Sirius. "What did you do, Sirius?" Albus thundered

"You are going to have to give me some details," Sirius said a little flippantly in Molly's opinion.

"Harry is not your Godson he is your nephew," Albus said making everyone's mouths fall open in surprise while the color drained from Sirius's face.

"How did you find out?" Sirius asked in a low voice almost like the growl of his Animagus form.

"Before Harry was tried he got tested," Albus answered.

"Tried, but I thought it was a simple hearing," Molly asked a little hesitantly not wanting Albus to turn his anger on her.

"It was meant to be, but Fudge decided to try him in front of a good portion of the Wizengamot," Albus answered a little calmer as he turned to look at her. His anger returned when he looked back at Sirius, "For some reason, someone thought that we might have used Polyjuice Potion or some other means to send a fake Harry to the Ministry. So they performed a basic family line test," Albus said lifting his hand from the table revealing the copy of the results he had gotten at the Ministry. As Albus wiped his hand across his mouth everyone leaned forward to read the results. "Why did you never share that Harry was Apollo Black?" Albus asked making Kreacher who had been skulking outside the room perk up and make his way inside.

"For he was no longer Apollo.  He is only Harry," Sirius shot back.

"Only because you gave him to Lily and James after your brother was killed," Albus shot back. "Did your brother really die on an assignment?"

"He did," Sirius said.

"How?" Albus thundered making everyone around the table jump and Kreacher creeping in closer to listen.

"He learned about a possible weakness of Voldy, and having gotten cold feet, he had me trail him and Kreacher to a dark lake hidden inside a cave," Sirius said seeming unable to lie to Albus or at least now since the results of Harry's test was just sitting on the table in front over everyone.

"Yes," Albus prompted.

"I tailed my brother and Kreacher to a small man-made island in the middle of the lake and watched as Regulus drank some sort of potion," Sirius said licking his lips as if they had suddenly become dry. "I don't know what the potion was but when it was half gone Kreacher had to basically force-feed it to him." Kreacher shuddered at the memory of it as his poor Master begged for release with each mouth of that nasty brew. "When the potion was gone my brother pulled something from the basin and passed it to Kreacher ordering him to destroy it. Regulus after giving the item to the elf crawled to the edge of the lake and began to drink. I watched Kreacher Apparate away as hands came out of the water to pull Regulus under. He fought off the hands as best he could but due to his weakened state he was no match for them so he began to cry out to me so I would help him."

"What did you do Sirius?" Albus asked his voice dropping several octaves as he guessed what happened.

"I went over to him and pushed him into the lake," Sirius said.

"Your own brother?" Molly could not help but ask.

"Yes, my own brother. He believed everything my parents told him and thought that being a Pureblood made him practically royal. Who decided to raise a child on his own. A child, he would most likely twist into the same evil as the rest of my miserable family."

"How did your nephew come to be with James and Lily?" Mad-Eye asked glaring at Sirius with both eyes.

"Before we left on the mission, Regulus had me place my nephew in their care," Sirius answered.

"Why not Malfoy or Mr. Lovegood?" Fred asked.

"He told me he wanted to raise Harry by himself without the others' help. I can only guess he thought we would be back soon, so had me leave Harry at someone I trusted.  I gave him to James," Sirius said not looking away from Albus as he answered Fred's question. "And when I got back from getting rid of him, I told James and Lily that Harry's parents had died and asked if they wanted to adopt him. Since they recently found that like his parents James had been cursed only to be able to produce an offspring later in life, they had agreed to take him in and under my suggestion even Blood Adopted him."

"His name is Apollo and you killed Master Regulus you are worse than Kreacher thought," Kreacher said unable to stay silent anymore.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP KREACHER, DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW YOU ARE SOMEHOW RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TEST BEING ADMINISTERED!" Sirius shouted at the Elf.

"Kreacher must protect Master Apollo and the real future Head of the family," Kreacher said as he stood up straighter than most had ever seen him do so before.

"I was told, I could not free you with clothing Kreacher, but I think enough is enough," Sirius said no longer shouting but pitching his voice low sending a shiver down several people's backs. Then without warning, Sirus shot a Severing Charm at the old Elf cutting Kreacher's head clean off his body. Due to the imprecise casting of the spell, it also caught the tips of the Elf's ears which were sent flying causing Hermione to scream in terror. But what was worse the spell also caught George's elbow of his wand hand making him cry out in pain as he dropped to his knees clutching his arm. Sirius was hit by five stunners cast by Albus, Fred, Remus, Mad-Eye, and Molly blasting him into the wall behind him. Thankful the spell on George did not sever anything but just left a deep cut on his elbow, and while it was deep Molly was easily able to heal it.

As Molly healed her son, Remus went over to check on Sirius with a look of disgust on his face. While he understood Sirius' hatred of his family more than everyone else present, Remus was surprised at what the man had done. Remus wondered if his old friend regretted his action to give his nephew to James and Lily after hearing the stories of Harry's home life growing up with Lily's sister. Based on what he had heard of Sirius's reaction to Kracher meeting Harry, Remus did not think so. Had Sirius even cared for his nephew at all? Remus could not tell for after Kreacher had said Harry's birthname, Sirius had locked Harry away from everyone. Even refusing Remus to go and see him when he was here. "Where is Harry," Remus asked looking away from Sirius's body.

"Lucius took him out of the courtroom," Albus said.

"And you did not try to rescue him?" Ron asked in shock.

"I was a little bit busy, Ronald," Albus snapped. "I arrived just as Harry was sentenced and Lucius took him out of the room, but before I could follow Amelia stopped me."

"What did she want?" Mad-Eye asked.

Albus pointed to the last line of Harry's test as he answered, "Due to that line it showed Voldemort is back, so she took me and several others to the Department of Magical Life and Death to get further evidence of it. When she had her team going over everything, she pulled me aside seeing how anxious I was to go get Harry to inform me that Lucius was her spy in the Death Eaters."

"Bullshit," Ginny said.

"Ginny, language," Molly said absentmindedly as she had George flex his fingers and arm to make sure there was no nerve damage from Sirius's spell.

"I take it you are thinking about the diary?" Albus asked. "She explained that he had been forced to use it to remain undercover. He had slipped it to you in hopes you would have mentioned it to your parents. Evidently when he started hearing about the attacks, thus showing you had not turned the diary in he fell into a deep depression," Albus said shocking the girl who blushed at the reminder of how she failed in regards to Riddle's diary.

"So he is not a Death Eater he is still a slimy bastard," Ron said.

"Ron, language," Molly said again as rout still working on George.

"As he is a member of Harry's family, there was nothing I could do," Albus said the fight seeming to leave him as he sunk into one of the chairs around the table.

"I don't get it," Hermione said crouching beside Kreacher's dead body.

"What don't you get, Granger?" Mad-Eye asked.

"This whole Fertility Ritual," she said. "So Harry has three dads and one mom?"

"Not really," Remus said moving away from Sirius after taking the man's wand. "You will see at the top of the page it listed Harry's surname as being Black followed by the L.M. that signals their relationship but not as close family. Maybe if Harry was the only child from the union it would be different for then he would have been raised by the whole group. But as it lists his siblings as a Lovegood and a Malfoy, Harry's only father, before being Blood Adopted, is Regulus. Lucius and Xenophilus would be akin to his uncles and Narcissa his aunt.  Or they would be if Regulus was still alive, since he is dead Lucius and Xenophilus are Harry's fathers and Narcissa is his Mother until he is of age," Remus explained.

"But he is still the brother of Draco and this Luna?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, their relationship does not change no matter who took them in," Remus said.

Ron got a look on his face as if he could not decide if his best friend being Draco's brother was something to be angry about or not. Before he could make a decision Molly finished fixing George's arm and stood up. "Albus you know I and Arthur support you and what you are doing here, but I don't think I can stay here for the time being," she said sending a dark look at Sirius still knocked out on the floor.

"I understand Molly," Albus said giving her a small smile. "Do you want to go now and have us send your belongings to you, or do you want to pack them yourselves?"

"You know I hate to leave it for others to do, but I can't stay here any longer," Molly said helping George to his feet and heading right to the fireplace to Floo back to the Burrow. Maybe if she was lucky Harry would be at the Lovegoods so she could make sure he was alright. Even though she had not told her kids to follow her they all got up and went after her back to the Burrow before Hermione, with Kreacher's form in her arms, joined them.

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Arriving back at the Burrow, Molly flicked her wand to start magically cleaning the dust that had accumulated since they had moved into Grimmauld Place. "George make sure your arm is alright and your ability with magic has not been affected please De-Gnome the garden for me," Molly bade her second oldest child of the group.

"Sure thing Mum," George said still flexing his fingers for a bit.

"Not you Fred," Molly said as the teen started to follow his brother.

"What's up, Mum?" Fred asked turning to look at her.

"I am going to start making some food so we can use it as an excuse to visit the Lovegoods and see if Harry is there, but I plan on making your dad a little something. I want you to take it to him and tell him that we are not at the place now.* Don't tell him the reason," she ordered.

"Why not?" Fred asked sending her a dark look.

"I want to discuss it with him here, plus he can go pick up all our belongings after work, and see if he can grab Harry and Hermione's stuff as well," she explained.

"Will do, Mum," Fred said getting back a little of his old swagger as he gave her a sloppy salute and clicked his heels together making her chuckle at him thankful for his and George's natures more than ever at the moment.

Having not been given tasks by Mrs. Weasley to do Hermione, Ron, and Ginny went out into the backyard after George. Ron and Ginny threw looks over at their older brother to make sure he was not having any problems while Hermione gently laid Kreacher's body in the dirt. When she started to dig a hole Ginny asked, "What are you doing, Hermione?"

"Giving Kreacher a proper burial," Hermione said wishing she could either use magic or a shover as she dug at the ground with her bare hands.

"You do know that is not a normal practice for Black Family House Elves right?" Ron asked only for Hermione to glare at him. "Alright just asking. I just wanted to point it out since Kreacher's family had their heads mounted after their deaths to be displayed at his home."

"Well, I can leave his head out then, but I am still going to bury his body," Hermione said defiantly.

"Alright keep your hair on," Ron said knowing that he had no chance of getting her to change her mind on the subject.

As Hermione worked on the hole to put the House Elf's body in she began to ask Ron and Ginny all that the pair knew about Fertility Rituals since she had never read about them before in any of her books on the magical world. While the Fertility Ritual was somewhat common knowledge in the Magical World, due to some in Britain hating all forms of Rituals that involved blood magic even if they were not dark, Ron and his sister were unable to tell her everything about it.

They shared that the ritual required at least four participants the Bearer, which was normally a woman but could be a man who was under a special potion or due to being a creature-blooded magical was a natural Bearer. The other three participants would use their magic somehow to help the Bearer get pregnant with a child. Ginny reclarified something that was mentioned at Grimmauld Place about how such rituals normally produced a single child who would then be raised by all four participants and their families in a somewhat Family Cluster.

They went over the fact that it was quite rare for multiple births to happen during the ritual, but like Remus said Harry's only full parent from the ritual was considered to be Regulus Black. This brought the test into their discussion as Hermione asked why neither Draco nor Luna had the added letters behind their names like Harry did at the top of the test.

"It could be for multiple reasons," Ginny said. "It could be that due to the test focusing only on Harry the other two were not fully written out."

"It could be that for safety Mr. Lovegood and Malfoy blocked them on their kid's results," Ron said gritting his teeth when he mentioned Malfoy.

"Or it could be," George said coming over having finished De-Gnoming the garden, "that since the names are usually in alphabetical order neither of Harry's uncles wanted their kids saddled with such embarrassment."

"Embarrassment?" Hermione said giving him a thankful look as he used his wand to finish making her hole for Kreacher's body.

"Just think of it Hermione," George said with a small chuckle. "We have young Draco who thanks to the ritual has BL after his surname. This might not be noticeable here but his family does a lot of business with people all over the world where they might see BL standing for Boy Love or a gay relationship. But poor old Luna gets the short end of the wand since she gets BM or Bowel Movement."

"I get your point," Hermione said in understanding.

Back in the kitchens, Molly had already sent Fred to the Ministry with a couple of sandwiches for her husband as she worked with the few ingredients left in the kitchen, she would have to either go shopping soon or get the food they bought for use at the Order back to restock her pantry. Thankfully she had enough supplies to make a small treacle tart, which according to Ron was Harry's favorite dessert up at Hogwarts.

She knew she would also need some food for the Lovegoods as well, so she cast a spell to summon some eggs from the Weasely family chicken coop. She almost got pelted by the incoming eggs, since they did not have a rooster none of the eggs would produce any chicks and with the family not being at the Burrow since the start of summer there were so many of them. Seeing all the eggs that had come to her as well as her low stock of supplies in her pantry Molly decided to make some omelets not only to bring over to the Lovegoods but also as her family and Hermione's supper.

Rook's Landing

Harry stumbled out of the fireplace into a cluttered room filled with what looked like an old printing press and magazine lying about. "Sorry about that I should have asked if you had any trouble using Floo Travel," Xenophilius said catching Harry before he fell onto the floor.

"It's okay," Harry mumbled as he looked around the place.

"Daddy is that you?" a dreamy voice called from upstairs.

"Yes, and I brought someone home," Xenophilius called back.

"One of your writers?" the voice called again.

"No, so you can come down sweetie," Xenophilius said wiggling the fingers on his right hand as if wanting to place the hand on Harry's shoulder.

The first look Harry got of his older sister was her bare feet as she came down the stairs dressed in what looked like a Muggle sundress of a pure white material though there appeared to be splotches of pain on it. Having never met the girl before but hearing that he was related to her and Draco, Harry expected her to have a similar swagger in her step as Draco did. But the girl's movements seemed to flow as if she was walking on air as she came down the spiral staircase. She did have the same shade of hair as Draco though hers was long and flowing so that it reached the middle of her back. The next thing Harry noticed was that her large protruding eyes which seemed to make it look like she was surprised.

As Luna noticed Harry standing beside her father, her eyes widened a little more giving her an even more startling look. "Harry Potter," she said her voice still sounding dreamy rather than confused at why he was there. "Did you come to have an interview with Daddy on what the Prophet has been posting about you?"

"He is not here for an interview, but to meet you," Xenophilius said as he finally gave in to what he wanted and placed a hand on his long-lost child's shoulder.

"Me?" Luna asked looking between her father and Harry for a moment before a large smile came to her face. "I get to interview him?"

"I did not come for an interview," Harry said slightly annoyed having bad experiences with interviews thanks to last year and Rita.

"Ah, so he talks," Luna said taking some hasty steps forward so that she was almost nose-to-nose with him. Harry involuntarily took a step back while at the same time noticing that the pair of them shared the same small button noses. This made him wonder if he and Draco had any common traits that he might not have noticed before due to his rivalry with the other boy.

"Calm down Sweetie," Xenophilius said placing his other hand on her shoulder and getting her to take a few steps back. "I think we need some tea for this discussion."

"Tea?" Luna asked sending a confused look at her Daddy for she had only ever seen him drink tea when Uncle Lucius and Aunt Narcissa came over. But she knew from what she had seen at school that Harry Potter was not on good terms with the Malfoys.

"Yes, Sweetie, some tea," Xenophilus said as he used his hand on her shoulder to direct her to the small kitchen area that was partially filled with his printing press. Xenophilius then guided Harry over to the cramped and cluttered sitting area clearing off one of the seats so Harry could sit.

"What sort of magazine do you make?" Harry asked taking a look at all the random items and drafts of articles lying in stacks sometimes twenty to thirty deep around the room.

"My Magazine, The Quibbler, posts articles of the truth that the Prophet refused to print," Xenophilius explained. "Such as the corruption that runs rampant in the Ministry since "Goblin Crusher" Fudge took over," Xenophilius said pulling the latest issue from a stack by the printing press. Harry took in the cover of the publication seeing something that reminded him of the Muggle tabloids found near the register at a shop. His eyebrows shot up as he saw one article saying something about Sirius.  Making him recall Kingsley giving Mr. Weasley a copy of this on the way to Ron's dad's office before his "hearing."  Before he could open it and check out the article, Xenophilius continued. "I would probably have to do a reprint if I posted about what happened today. Not that I am going to," the man said quickly.

"Why what happened, Daddy?" Luna said coming back with three cups of tea in mix-matched mugs.

"Harry was called in for a case of simple use of Underage Magic, but rather than having the normal hearing with a member of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, he was put on trial," Xenophilius said.

"And you are not going to let everyone know about that level of corruption, Daddy?" Luna asked once more shocked at her father's uncharacteristic behavior.

"I have my reasons," Xenophilius said.

"It was sort of lucky that someone suggested I get tested," Harry said.

"Tested?" Luna asked turning to look at him in confusion.

"That was no luck, Kreacher came to see us about you possibly being Apollo, so Luci and I both sent anonymous letters to Fudge to bring up the testing," Xenophilius said.

"Apollo?" Luna said having a memory of that name from her youth but was not able to recall much else.

"Yes, Sweetie," Xenophilius said taking a sip of his tea and draining it in one go. Placing his now empty cup on top of a leaning tower of old issues of The Quibbler. "Lucius and I kept this from you and Draco but you are not cousins. You are in fact brother and sister born from your mother during a Fertility Ritual. Your mother was our group's Bearer and by chance, she gave birth to triplets. You were the oldest Draco was the youngest and Apollo was the middle child. During the test, it revealed that Harry is Apollo so I let Luci know. And he came in to defend Harry, and even thanks to the test proved Lord Voldyshorts is still alive like we always suspected."

"I should thank Kreacher when I see him next," Harry said for even if he found he got along with Luna as he did Draco he would no longer have to go back to the Dursleys ever again.

"You can do so, in a bit. He promised he would stop by once he heard the hearing was over to check to see if the plan worked," Xenophilius said.

Suddenly a chime sounded making Harry look around. "It is just our Wards going off announcing a visitor," Xenophilius explained knowing that Harry had been brought up in a Muggle household thanks to the trial. "I will go see who it is," he said getting out of his armchair and maneuvering around the clutter to reach the door. "Ah, Molly what a pleasant surprise."

"Greetings Xenophilius," Molly said making Harry perk up at hearing her voice. "Albus came and shared with us the news about what happened, and we just wanted to make sure Harry is alright."

"He is just fine, Molly," Xenophilus said getting out of the way to let the Weasley family and Hermione into the room."

"Harry," Molly said expertly weaving through the room and pulling him into a tight hug. "Congratulations on being cleared of your charges."

"Thanks, Mrs. Weasley," he said hugging her back.

"Are you doing okay, Harry?" she asked him hugging him higher than normal as she thought about what Sirius had revealed at Grimmauld Place.

"I think I am doing okay," Harry said before asking "Is Kreacher with you?" Harry felt Mrs. Weasley's body tense up but he could not figure out why. Maybe the Elf had done something that she disproved of when he had been locked in Sirius's room.

Before Mrs. Weasley could answer Luna asked, "Did you guys make another mistake on one of your products?" Looking over Mrs. Weasley's shoulder to see who the girl was talking to, Harry saw her staring at George. Harry could not tell what Luna was asking about though he felt Mrs. Weasley become if anything tenser.

"Not, exactly," George said using his non-dominant hand to scratch the back of his neck.

"Then how did you get the new scar?" Luna pressed.

"It is complicated," both twins said at once. Mrs. Weasley, fearing that she was giving something away through her body tensing up ended the hug letting Harry move over to see his friends again. He did spot a scar that had not been there last night on George's inner elbow, but what was stranger was that he saw some dirt under Hermione's fingertips. Hermione while not an overly clean person was more prone to have ink stains on her hands, not dirt or mud from working outdoors, and would often scrub her hands spotless the first chance she got after Herbology class.

"Why are your hands so dirty, Mione?" he asked her. The color drained from his friend's face as she looked down at her nails.

"I was digging," she said hastily.

"There is no place to dig there," Harry said shocked he could not say Grimmauld Place.

"We are no longer staying there, but are back at the Burrow," Mrs. Weasley explained.

"Why," Harry asked knowing that just cause Voldemort had been proven to back did not mean the Order had to disband.

"When Albus came to share with us the news of your trial, we found out some things that made living there impossible," Molly said not wanting to bring up Sirius while in Xenophilius' presence even if Sirus was Harry's Uncle, not his Godfather, due to him still being wanted by the population of Magical Brittian. And after hearing what the man did to his own brother and nephew, as well as to Kreacher, even if Molly had not liked the House Elf, she thought they may have a point.

"Okay," Harry said a little confused.

"Xenophilius I recognize that you just found out that Harry is Luna's brother but could we have a moment alone with him?" Molly asked Xeno.

"I guess that is fine Molly," Xenophilius said understanding that something had happened that the Weasleys could not or would not share with him and Luna in the room. "Come along Sweetie, let's see if we can find a place for Harry to sleep if he decides to stay with us."

"Um, sure thing, Daddy," Luna said sending a quick look at the Weasleys, Hermione, and Harry as she followed her father upstairs.

"What's going on?" Harry asked when the sound of a door was heard overhead.

"There is a reason why we left headquarters," Mrs. Weasley said in a low whisper forcing Harry to lean in close to hear her.

"What?" Harry asked again.

"Albus asked Sirius about his relationship with you and how you ended up with the Potters. Harry," she said reaching forward and placing a hand on his arm, "he admitted to killing his brother."

"WHAT?!?" Harry asked in shock.

"Sirius never liked his family so fearing that Regulus would have corrupted you or something followed your dad on a mission and when Regulus called for his help escaping a threat." She stopped talking to take a deep breath to gather herself as well as remain calm for his sake. "Sirius came over and kicked him, literally, to his end. Kreacher called him out on it and..." Once more she paused tightening her grip a little on his arm, "Sirius killed him with Severing Charm not to mention nicking George with it which is why he now has a scar on his arm."

Harry wanted to protest saying Sirius would never do anything like that but he thought about his Godfather's reaction when Kreacher had mentioned the name Apollo on his first day at Grimmauld Place. He felt conflicted and did not know what to do, or even who to trust at the moment. He felt himself starting to spiral out of control pulling away from Mrs. Weasley and sinking into a chair wrapping his arms tightly around his head. "HARRY!" several voices cried out, but it was the one unfamiliar voice that his mind focused on. Suddenly there were sounds of gunts as Luna rushed into the room pushing aside the Weasleys and Hermione to reach Harry. She wrapped her arms around him and began to hum a tune she recalled her mother singing to her when she was younger. The tune or maybe just her touch started to calm Harry down as he began to relax in her hug.

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Draco's Perspective

After coming home from his summer job as he helped Master Jax-Dax in his Wand shop for his future career, Draco planned to spend the late afternoon with one of his friends. Yet as soon as he returned to Malfoy Manor his mom told him to change into something casual for they were heading out to celebrate something. She refused to answer his questions about what they were celebrating or where they were going but just smiled at him. Having heard his father discussing Potter being on trial as he approached the dining room that morning, Draco could only assume that Potter had been found guilty and expelled. Now that was worth celebrating in Draco's opinion.

But having no idea where his parents were taking him to celebrate Potter being removed from Hogwarts made it hard to decide what to wear. He did know that when his dad told him to dress casually, they were going out into the Muggle World, so he decided to pick one of his normal outfits. Changing out of his work clothing, Draco pulled out a pair of black pants with edges so sharp they could cut parchment. His black Hippogriff leather belt, which he had started to wear after that whole incident with Buckbeak a few years ago. He pulled on a white button-down shirt before throwing on a black vest. Not knowing how casual he was meant to go, Draco threw on a black necktie but left the knot a little loose. He finished his outfit with a black suit jacket which he buttoned only the bottom two buttons of. Checking himself out in his mirror, Draco made sure not a single hair was out of place before he went to join his parents in the Floo Receiving Room.

Seeing his father roll his eyes a little at him, Draco wondered if he was too casual or not casual enough for wherever they were going. "Draco, I want you to be on your best behavior," his father said coming over and placing both his hands on Draco's shoulders and looking his son right in the eyes.

"When am I ever not on my best behavior?" Draco asked.

"I want you to promise me you will be on your best behavior," Lucius Malfoy said in a tone that broke no argument.

"Got it, I promise," Draco said wondering if the celebration had less to do with Potter's arrest but something to do with a deal his Dad's firm had made and there would be some other people there with them.

His father gave him a sharp nod as he let go of Draco's shoulders. Moving to their supply of Family Passage Floo Powder, Lucius grabbed some and tossed it into the fire. Unlike single-passenger Floo Powder, the Family Passage variety turned the flames bright pink. Draco arched an eyebrow in confusion as he heard his father call out Rook's Landing. Their destination ruled out them going to celebrate, whatever it was they were celebrating, with his father's business partners. It also meant Draco had not dressed casually enough, for his cousin Luna and Uncle Xeno dressed casually even when they "dressed up" for anything.

His father sent him a smile over his shoulder before going through the Floo passage. His Mum motioned for Draco to precede her as the blonde followed his father through the Floo, right into the man's back. While he was fifteen years old now, his father still was a bit taller than him leading Draco to peer around his father's back. Draco struggled to keep a sneer off his face. It seems they had come to pick up his cousin and Uncle when the Weasels were visiting them. Wondering if this was why his father had known the Weasels were going to be there, hence why he stressed Draco be on his best behavior, Draco looked to gauge his father's expression. Yet based on the look on his father's face, Lucius Malfoy had not expected the Weasesl to be there at all. This begged the question of why had his father stressed him being on his best behavior if not for the Weasels?

As Draco tried to figure out what was going on as his father and the banshee exchanged tense greetings, Draco's ears honed in on something. Cutting through the conversation in the cramped room, Draco heard his cousin Luna softly singing the old lullaby that both Aunt Pandora and his mom used to sing when Luna and him were younger. Draco could not help but smile at the old song, something he had never done around any Weasel before, unless they were getting hurt. As Luna reached the lullaby's chorus, Draco could not help but sing along. Draco quickly stopped singing, as he realized that despite his singing the chorus so low that only he should be able to hear it, someone else was singing along with Luna. This wiped the smile off Draco's face. That song was precious to him and his cousin she should never have shared it with the likes of the Weasels.

But no, something was wrong, and not just because someone else was singing the lullaby but the words were not all correct. Looking around the room again, Draco sought his cousin out. His mouth fell open in shock to see she was curled up with Potter and rocking him a little as the pair sang the lullaby together. Draco had not even been aware the pair had known each other, so how did Potter know most of the words to the lullaby? Draco was also a little upset, to see Potter had once again gotten off, he had expected with the way the Minister and the Prophet had been treating the famous idiot all summer, they would have thrown the book at them. Draco sent his father an annoyed look only to see his father had seen Luna and Potter curled up in the chair together. What was stranger his father had a look of concern on his face.

Normal perspective.

Lucius had been shocked, though not really surprised to find members of the Weasley family at Rook's Landing. Though he had seen them showing up, he had hoped that he and Xeno would have had a chance to explain to Luna and Draco about their real relationship as they had done with Harry/Apollo back in Lucius's Ministry office. The Weasleys being here did mess up his plans a little but he was sure he could convince them to leave just so Draco could focus. Greeting Molly a little tersley, Lucius had scanned the room to find Harry/Apollo. It took him a moment to locate his missing son due to how cramped and crowded not only with Xeno's stuff but the Weasley clan. When he spotted Harry/Apollo, Lucius's breath hitched a little seeing the young teen curled up seeming to be having a panic or emotional attack. Thankfully Luna was right beside him cradling her long-lost brother in her arms and singing to him.

Lucius no longer paid attention to playing nice to Molly or the rest of the Weasleys seeing Harry/Apollo rocking back and forth in obvious discomfort. Moving forward Lucisus pushed the Weasleys out of the way to reach the kids. He heard some muttering as he got down on his knees before the chair that Luna and Harry/Apollo were in. "What happened?" Lucius asked gently placing a hand on Harry/Apollo's knee.

"Father?" Lucius heard from Draco who had not moved from where he had come out of the Floo.

"Just a moment, Draco," Lucius said waving the boy silent. "Harry, is everything alright?"

All Lucius could make out were some muttered words "Killed," "brother" and "Kreacher."

"What about Kreacher, Harry?" Lucius asked wishing nothing more than to take the teenager into his arms and give him a tight hug to help him both calm down and focus.

"Um, I can answer that," Molly said.

"How could you answer that?" Lucius asked turning to look at her.

"Albus told us about Harry's hearing and what happened as well as your job," Molly said as her youngest son muttered something about not believing it. Molly and Lucius both ignored the boy, as Molly took a deep breath. "Since Albus said you were working against him, you should know my family had joined Albus in doing the same."

"What does this have to do with Kreacher?" Lucius asked still kneeling before Luna and Harry/Apollo.

"One of the members of the group is or possibly was, I don't know if what he did will change that is Sirius. We had been staying at his house so we met Kreacher," Molly said before taking another deep breath. "When Albus returned from the hearing, he confronted Sirius with Harry's results. Sirius admitted well...um...."

"He killed him," Harry said in a small voice almost a sob.

"The Headmaster?" Lucius asked.

"No Kreacher," Molly said.

"But before that he killed Regulus," Harry said looking up and letting Lucius see two lines of tears running down the teen's face.

"Why do you care about Sirius' brother?" Draco asked.

"Draco come over here," Lucius said motioning his son forward as he stood up. "There is something both Luna and you need to hear."

"I think we will leave you for a moment," Molly said shocking Lucius who gave her a thankful look as she ushered her kids out of the room. Draco walked over to Lucius still sending Harry/Apollo mistrustful, almost hateful looks. Xeno came down from the floor above closing the door behind the Weasleys before he came to stand beside Lucius.

"We should have told you both this a while back, but it never felt right," Xeno said using his wand to expand the seat Harry and Luna were in before gently pushing Draco to join them.

"What never felt right, Daddy?" Luna asked who did not seem disturbed by Draco's presence in the chair with her and Harry.

"You and Draco are not cousins, but siblings. Triplets to be exact," Xeno told the two teens not revealing to Draco or Lucius that he had revealed this to Luna already before the Weasleys had arrived

"You don't mean?" Draco asked sending a disgusted look around Luna to look at Harry.

"Your mother and I wanted to have kids but due to her getting attacked in the last war which led me to become a Ministry Spy within the Death Eaters, she could not bear children," Lucius said.

"Pandora and I had tried for a few months but were told by Healers and some Muggle Doctors that while she could get pregnant there was some issue with my seed," Xeno added making the three teens wince a little.

"Since we all had a similar desire to have kids yet trouble doing so we took part in a Fertility Ritual. Regulus Black was our third. It seems the Healers and Doctors had been correct for not only did Pandora get pregnant but unlike most Fertility Rituals, she had the three of you. Since you and Luna both had blonde hair, Xeno and I took you, while Harry was born with dark hair so became Regulus's son," Lucius explained.

"Why hide this from us?" Draco asked testily.

"We did not mean to, but after Regulus went missing and we had no idea what had happened to Harry before getting a message from Kreacehr a week ago, we feared that someone who opposed Fertility Rituals had targeted Regulus and Harry. Someone who might come after you as well, so we kept your relationship a secret even from you. I don't know about Xeno, but I planned on telling you everything when you came of age, son," Lucius said.

"Griffin Shit. There is no way, I am related to Harry Bloody Potter," Draco said with a sneer making Harry glare at him which at least helped him stop crying for a moment.

"You are related to both Harry and Luna, son," Lucius said placing a hand on the blonde male's arm. "Thanks to Kreacher's information, we made sure Harry got tested during his hearing... if one can call it that, when Fudge turned it into a trial," Lucius said pulling out a copy of the test results. "As you can see, Harry is your brother, and Luna is your sister." As Lucius held out the documents Luna and Draco looked down at them for a moment before Draco's scowl became more pronounced as he found out he was the youngest of the three teens.

"Does this mean, I can start fifth-year classes?" Luna asked seeing she was actually older than the two boys.

"Not unless you can pass the fourth-year test given at the Ministry before school starts up again," Xeno answered with a chuckle.

"So I am not only related to Potter, but I am the uncle of You-Know-Who?" Draco asked glaring at the results of the test. He had no issue being Luna's brother. Luna and he actually got on quite well, but to be Potter's younger brother was just... he did not even want to think about it.

"In a way you are," Xeno said patting the boy's knee.

"And you are not one of his followers but are secretly working against him for the Ministry?" Draco asked his father.

"That is correct," Lucius confirmed.

"Then you don't want him in power?" Draco asked.

"That is the idea," Lucius said not sure where his son was going with this.

"Correct me if I am wrong, but since the test reveals Potter is his father or whatever could Potter not just perform the ritual to remove him from his family lines?" Draco asked.

"I don't know," Lucius admitted.

"Is that even possible?" Harry asked thinking that if he could do something to stop Voldemort he should.

"It might be possible. If you have the Family Rings from his lines to use as a focal point in the ritual," Xeno said making everyone look down at Harry's bare fingers.

"How does one get a Family Ring?" Harry asked.

"It can only be done at Gringotts," Lucius said tapping his chin in thought. Draco's plan could work, plus just in case Sirius had cast any spells on Harry/Apollo after taking him from Regulus they could get the boy cleansed.

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Albus Dumbledore.

After leaving Remus and Alastor to look after the stunned Sirius, Albus headed to Gringott Bank. He finally had some business to take care of as Harry's Magical Guardian. Which due to what had been found out, might be the last action he took in the role. Albus had always hated what the Dursleys had done to Harry as the boy grew up, but he had also been paying for them to care for him. Not wanting to interfere too much with Harry's childhood, Albus had placed a Mail Ward around the boy so that only the Ministry, Gringotts, and Hogwarts could reach him.

Albus added the Weasleys and Hermione to the approved people's list after Harry's First Year. He would also add Sirius and Remus after Harry's Third Year, a decision he now wondered about due to what Sirius had revealed. To also maintain his role as Harry's Magical Guardian at least once a month Albus had placed a Glamor on himself to check in on the lad. He never liked what he saw, but he also knew that for Harry's safety from Tom and his forces, Harry had to consider the Dursleys' place his home.

After seeing how small Harry was to normal children his own age, Albus began to approach Harry as random Magicals to shake his hand. Before shaking Harry's hands, Albus would put on a contact-based Healing Potion to help Harry deal with the abuse the Dursleys seemed to be doing to him. But now that Harry had other places to stay when he was not at Hogwarts, Albus was going to stop all payments being paid to the Dursleys. He had not wanted to stop them earlier in case the Dursleys threw Harry out once the money stopped coming. Knowing that Tom was still out there and at one point might target him, Albus had even placed orders in his Will that as soon as Harry no longer lived with the Dursleys the banks were to stop paying the family. Albus also had some more orders in his Wills which he was going to take care of today along with stopping the payments.

Using his position as Harry's Magical Guardian, Albus asked for a meeting with Bonecrusher, the Potter Family Account Manager. Not liking to use his authority unless he had to, Albus had only met with Bonecrusher one time where he had set up the payments to the Dursleys. Albus was unprepared for the diatribe Bonecrusher had for him as the Account Manager got on his case for a mistake Albus had made in the Mail Wards he had cast on Harry. According to Bonecrusher, Albus had not let letters from the bank reach Harry at all, and thanks to Albus sending Hagrid to go with Harry during his first trip to Gringotts, and the next couple of times arriving with the Weasleys. This lead to Harry having always left the bank before Bonecrusher had been able to reach him. It took Albus making a Vow on his life and Magic that the action had been a mistake and not some plot to take advantage of Harry and his vaults to get Bonecrusher to calm down.

"So what did you want to talk with me about today?" Bonecrusher said still snarling at Albus for his costly mistake.

"Earlier today your client attended a hearing at the Ministry. For some reason, someone thought that he might come himself so they tested him. It has been revealed that Harry James Potter was born Apollo Helios Black (Lovegood Malfoy. Since this reveal shows that your client no longer has to return to the Dursleys, I would to end all payments we have been sending to their accounts. Also if at all possible find out what the Dursleys were using the money we sent them on, since I suspect they were not using any of it to care for Harry," Albus explained.

"If they didn't they will face Goblin Justice," Bonecrusher said as he brought up the Magical Parchment that contained all information about his client's various vaults. With one stroke of his enchanted quill, he stopped all payments heading to the Durslys while on the return stroke made the records of anything they had bought with the money that had been given to them printed out on a separate form. Bonecrusher ignored any items dealing with the money used to pay standard bills like housing and electricity and focused on other uses of the money. Albus and Bonecusher read through the records both getting angrier and angrier seeing that if the Dursleys spent any of the money on Harry it was only as a pehrifally such as using it to buy food for the family. Yet since both had seen how skinny and almost malnourished Harry was before the school year started, they could only guess the Muggles were not giving the young boy enough food.

"Start on the list, we can pass it on to one of Harry's parents," Albus told Bonecrusher.

"They will have nothing to do these Muggles will face Goblin Justice," Bonecrusher growled back.

"They still have the right to know what the Dursleys did to Harry, but also know that they will not have to do anything to punish them since they are being charged by your kind," Albus pointed out.

"That is fair, as long as they don't try to take judgment away from us," Bonecrusher said. "Now what will you be doing while I make this list?"

"I have to update my Wills," Albus said bowing low to expose his neck as he left Bonecrusher's office to go see Dirkclaw his family's Account Manager.

Harry/Apollo and his family.

Arriving at the bank so Harry can claim his Family Rings and possibly remove Voldemort from them weakening the Bastard. Since Harry was considered Regulus's son rather than try to get in contact with the Potter Family Account Manager, Narcissa led them to Downax the Black Manager. Lucius once more used the copy of Harry's test before the Wizengamot to reveal his identity to Downax. The Black Family Account Manager let out a growl of anger to learn that Sirius had killed his brother and kidnapped Apollo as he gave Harry a full Inheritance Test. Due to Narcissa being a Healer, she requested a full test so they could see any health issues that Harry might have due to him being smaller and skinnier than both Draco and Luna. All but Harry was horrified as the health scan part of the test was over six pages long dealing with all Magical and Muggle injuries Harry had ever sustained in his short life.

When Lucius read over the results of the enchantments that had been placed on Harry/Apollo he wanted to find out where Sirius was and beat the shit out of the man without using his wand. Besides stealing Harry/Apollo from them and killing his own brother, Sirius had placed spells on his nephew that blocked the sibling bond between Harry/Apollo and his two siblings. This might also explain the issues Draco had with Harry. For even not pure magical multi-birth siblings, all siblings in the Magical World shared a small bond due to their family magic. Since the sibling bond had been blocked on Harry/Apollo yet not on Draco it increased the anger and resentment from the youngest triplet. Draco would have felt a connection with Harry that he would want to increase, yet any snub Harry gave him would make it seem all the worse to Draco. It also might not help that Harry/Apollo had become friends with the Wealseys which had bad blood with the Malfoy family for at least four generations.

Sirius while blocking Harry/Apollo's sibling bond had cast an enchantment on his nephew to pervert the family bond and later the Godfather Bond he had with the boy. The perverted bond would make Harry loyal to Sirius and want to please him and make Sirius Proud of him. The spell was not on the same level of a loyalty or slavery compulsion but it was too damn close in Lusicus's mind.

There were also records of two other enchantments on Harry/Apollo that had not been placed there by Sirius. The first one and the more alarming, even more than what Sirus had done was that Voldemort had inadvertently attached a Horcrux to Harry's soul. Lucius, Narcissa, and Xeno had never heard of such a thing but according to Downax a Horcrux was a class SSS-Dangerous Magical Artifact by every nation and creature apart from Dementors. The other spell on Harry/Apollo was a Mail Ward that Dumbledore had put in place to make sure only certain people or organizations could reach Harry.

Downax would not let them leave his office until they agreed to have Harry/Apollo get Cleansed. Not that anyone argued with Downax's suggestion. Knowing that the Goblins sometimes used special magic to help relax a person getting Cleansed, Lucius talked to Downax to provide something for Harry/Apollo. Hearing that it was nothing that could harm the young human, not that Downax expected it to come from one of the boy's parents, the Goblin agreed to it. Lucius accompanied Harry/Apollo to the Cleansing room and helped him change into the specially treated robed for the ritual. The blonde Lord then pulled out the bottle of memories he had pulled out of his head during Harry's "Hearing" to show the boy how it was done.

"I had wanted to show this to you after we learned who you were. Xeno and I would have loved to accompany you, but I think the memories I removed will help as the Goblins perform your Cleansing," Lucius told him as he passed the bottle of memories to one of the Healers in charge.

"What are they?" Harry asked.

"The memories of your birth, or at least being given to your father as well as some get-togathers we had as a group before he died and you were taken from us," Lucius explained. Harry was not sure if seeing the memories would have a calming effect on him since he had already had a small freak-out just learning Sirius had killed Regulus. How was he going to take it seeing memories of his father and him?

Harry could not protest the memories being used as he was instructed to lay on a rune-covered slab as the Goblin's team started the ritual. As soon as the first word was spoken, Harry was out like a light. He suddenly found himself looking on the sight of a man who looked like a cleaner and younger Sirius being handed a baby in yellow swaddling. Harry assumed the baby was him and the young man was Regulus for despite how much he looked like Sirius, Regulus's eyes were bright blue rather than Siriu's brown. Harry also saw when his younger self looked up in wonder at his new father, Harry had been born with Silver eyes just like Draco had. Harry saw Regulus wiggle his fingers before his younger self, and showing motor skills more advanced than should be possible, baby Harry reached up and took hold of one of Regulus's fingers. "Look, Lucius, he knows me," Regulus said his voice breaking in joy as baby Harry held tightly onto his finger.

There seemed to be a scene jump as Harry found himself looking at three babies lying on a playmate together playing games of pati-cake, peek-a-boo, and tickle monster with Regulus, Xeno, and Narcissa. As Harry looked on the sight of his younger self along with his two siblings, he got a first look at the woman who had given birth to them. Pandora Lovegood came into the room with three bottles and handed one each to the three playing with the babies. Harry had to laugh to see Draco being a fussy baby who refused to open his mouth for the bottle while Luna and Baby Harry accepted them right away. To help calm Draco down, Pandora began to sing the lullaby that Harry had ended up singling, incorrectly, alongside Luna at Rook's Landing.

The next scene shows what looked like Harry, Luna, and Draco's first Yule/Christmas. This time Harry was the fussy one as he kept trying to pull off a hat that had been placed on his head. Meanwhile, Baby Draco seemed to preen a little with the hat making it perch perfectly on the top of his head as everyone cooed at him. The memory did not include any gift exchange but it did have Baby Harry saying what was most likely his first word. Harry did not know if this event was the first time he had spoken or just Mr. Malfoy's memory of his first time speaking. According to the memory, Harry's first word turned out to be "Kwetcher." It was actually really cute to see his younger self call the House Elf and for him to keep popping up beaming at the young boy.

Those three memories seemed to be the only ones that Lucius had taken out to show Harry for after the Yule/Christmas scene ended they began to play over again in a loop over and over. Sort of like having a video stuck on replay. Harry did not know how long he watched the three memories, for just like when one had a dream, time seemed meaningless. With each repetition he watched of the memories, Harry would focus on something else trying to memorize what Regulus looked like as well as the correct words from the lullaby.

Harry had tears in his eyes as he woke up from his Cleansing from the memories of his father and a family he had been taken from. A family he could now feel a little thanks to the sibling bond no longer being blocked. As Harry wiped away his tears, he found sitting at his bedside were Draco and Luna. Unlike previous meetings with Draco, Harry felt very little animosity towards the blonde. "You alright Potter?" Draco asked having watched Harry cry as he and Luna had waited for Harry to regain consciousness.

"Your Dad gave me memories of my dad and our youth to see during my Cleansing," Harry said.

"Oh, Harry, or do you want to go by Apollo now?" Luna said climbing into bed with him and hugging him tightly again.

"I don't care either way," Harry said before turning to Draco. "Except you call me by my first name, at the very least."

"I guess I can try that, Harry," Draco said.

"Good now, I have a question for you Draco," Harry said the newly awakened bond making him want to tease his school rival.

"What?" Draco asked.

"Did you plan for us to come to the bank?" Harry asked.

"Not really, why?" Draco said confused by the question.

"Then why did you dress up as if you were about to stage a hostile takeover of a company or are playing the rich boyfriend in a KDrama?" Harry asked plucking at Draco's black suit jacket sleeve.

"Hey, don't knock it just because you don't have my style," Draco teased back shocking Harry as the blonde ran a hand through his hair. "Also this is causal."

"No casual is jeans and a tee-shirt," Harry said making Luna roll her eyes a little seeing the rivals acting just like brothers having a small fight over something using their tones and barbs to fight rather than fists and wands.

Draco and Harry's fight came to an abrupt end as the three long-lost siblings heard raised voices outside Harry's room. "I can't believe you removed the Horcrux from Harry he needed that to help stop Voldemort," Albus's raised voice came through the door.

"Our Account Manager would not have let us leave until we agreed to it. And we were not going to leave it in place after they told us it was a triple S dangerous artifact," Lucius responded in the same higher tones.

"There could have been another way." Albus shot back.

"We think we have one, to help stop him. But we needed Apollo to be Cleansed first. And bring up things we need or don't need to do. He needs to see the Prophcy the Dark Lord is after," Lucius said making the siblings share a look wonder what Prophecy as Albus sputtered for a couple of moments.

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As Lucius brought up the Prophecy, Albus could only sputter while sending concerned looks to the other side of the waiting room at the four Weasley kids who suddenly perked up. Albus wished that it had been them rather than Harry's siblings who were in the room with Harry rather than out here and learning about the Prophecy. Albus wanted to punch Lucius for mentioning it knowing the man could only be aware of it because of his supposed job as a Ministry Spy within Tom's forces. If it was not bad enough that the blonde had brought up the Prophecy in front of the four Weasley kids and Hermione, but Xenophilius was there as well. Albus was sure that if the Prophecy did not concern his missing child, the man would be taking notes for an article in his paper. Considering how most of the nation saw The Quibbler, Albus did not think anyone would believe it if the Prophecy was mentioned, apart from any of Tom's supporters who would report to their master and ruin Albus's plan to use the Prophecy to trap Tom.

"What is going on in here?" a gruff voice asked making everyone turn to the door of the private waiting room outside of Harry's healing room. "This is a Hall of Healing, not some arena," Bonecrusher said glaring at both Albus and Lucius.

"Prince Bonecrusher?" Lucius asked confused only knowing the Goblin due to the year meetings with the Goblin leadership to make sure the treaty between Goblins and Humans did not break down. He could not figure out why the Heir to the European Goblin thrown was there.

Albus knowing that the Goblin was Harry's Account Manager from his Blood Adoption asked, "Has there been any further issues with the list?"

"I had just finished compiling a copy to share with my client's fathers and remaining mother when I was notified that they had him tested," Bonecrusher said turning to look at Lucius, Narcissa, and Xeno in turn. "Your test included a Health Check correct?"

"It did," Narcissa answered since she had been the one to suggest that level of testing done on Harry/Apollo.

"While my client's Muggle relatives are already on the block to get arrested and face Goblin Justice, I would like any details you have regarding any treatment that he experienced at their hands.

"Why are you making a list about Apollo's Muggle relatives?" Xeno asked.

"After Headmaster Dumbledore told me to stop payments we discussed making a list of all the ways the Dursley family spent the money that had been earmarked for the use in taking care of my client," Bonecrusher said.

"They never spent a knut on them if they could help it," Ron groused from where he was seated with Hermione and his family waiting for Harry to wake up.

"Unfortunately you are correct, young Hume," Bonecrusher said. "Hence why they are facing Goblin Justice for the misuse of funds. But the health scans you took on my client could make sure that they receive the harshes charge we can deliver."

"There is something worse than serving in the Mines?" Lucius asked knowing what Goblin Justice used against a human would entail.

"Well there are the Mines, the Deep Mines, and the worst punishment my people have is the ritual of Kandaso-kaas." Bonecrusher said.

"What is that?" Albus asked having never heard of Kandaso-kass before.

"The Dursleys could not be subjected to the Kandaso-kaas since that is the Goblin version of your kinds' Karmic Retribution Curse, however, unlike your curse it locks the person undergoing the punishment inside their own mind as they live out every crime they had committed against a selected person or group.  This would happen during set times while the rest of their day would be spent working in the Mines," Bonecrusher explained.

"Why can't Harry's family get this punishment?" Ginny asked wanted to hurt anyone who had dared hurt Harry.

"For a Kandaso-kaas ritual to take hold a person needs to have a certain level of Magic in their body, even if Lady Potter's sister and nephew were Squibs they would lack the power for the ritual to take hold," Bonecrusher further explained.

"But we are getting off track here," Bonecrusher said as he held out his hand to receive a copy of the test results Harry had gotten from Downax's Inheritance Test.  "I am sure this will be most useful in punishing my client's abusive relatives.  Now I have also been told to bring his Family Rings," Bonecrusher said as he slipped Harry's test into his breast pocket while pulling out an ornate box from his pants pocket.

"Fantastic.  I will see if he is awake," Lucius said turning to the door and nearly knocking Harry, Luna, and Draco over who had snuck close to the closed door to hear what everyone was talking about.  Lucius could only arch an eyebrow as the three teens hurried back over to the bed.  He could not see Draco doing this normally putting down his son's actions as the sibling bond between the triplets had been reset.  Which must have led to Harry and Luna talking Draco into listening in.

"Why did you call for his Family Rings?" Albus asked as everyone filled into the room seeing Harry was awake.  Fred and George shared a look seeing the three younger teens trying to act nonchalantly as everyone entered making them guess what Lucius had seen when he opened the door.

"My son, after we used Harry's test from his hearing pointed out that since it lists Harry as You-Know-Who's parent, Harry could possibly use that position to remove him from his family magic weakening that monster," Lucius explained making Albus, the Weasleys and Hermione all look at Draco rather impressed.

"Well... that is a marvelous idea, young Mr. Malfoy.  You truly show that you earned the right to the Prefect Badge," Albus said.

"I what?" Draco asked slightly confused since the Hogwarts letters, and the announcement for the new Prefects had not yet been sent out.

"Ah, sorry.  I guess since we still have not found a Defense Teacher the letters have not been mailed out yet.  But you as well as young Miss Granger and Mr. Weasley have all been made Prefects," Albus explained.

There was a moment of silence at Dumbledore's pronouncement on the three Fifth Years becoming Prefects which was broken as Mrs. Wealsey gave a cheer and pulled Ron into a tight hug.  "A Prefect, Ron I am so proud of you.  That is everyone in the family."

"And what are Fred and I?  Next door neighbors?" George asked sounding affronted at his mother's statement.

Anything else Fred, George or any of the Weasleys might have done next was put out of Harry's mind as the Potter Family Account Manager moved to his bedside and presented Harry with the box he was holding.  Bonecrusher had Draco and Luna hold the box for him as he opened it up and gave each Family Ring that was inside it to Harry for the young lad to put it on and get tested to see if he had gained the power of the line.  Thanks to Harry having been forced to take part in the Triwizard Tournament last year he was seen as being of age and thus Lord of all his family lines.  As per protocol, Bonecrusher started with the Family Rings that Harry had gained Lordship of first as he passed over the Slytherin Ring, which Harry had gained through Rite of Conquest.  Harry slipped on the emerald ring that was just like the stones in the Slytherin Hourglass at Hogwarts and found the ring felt like it was a snake curling around his finger as it tested him.  Sensing his gaining the line through a Rite of Conquest as well as Harry's ability with Parseletongue, Slytherin's Ring accepted him.

Bonecrusher apologized saying he had been unable to secure the Gaunt Family Ring since there was a powerful enchantment on the item preventing it from being summoned from wherever it was located.  Bonecrusher pointed out, however, that after Harry had gained the power of both SLytherins' Ring as he had done so but also the Peverell Family since both families had led into the Gaunt line they might be able to track the Gaunt Ring.  Each Ring test was slightly different the Peverell Family Ring felt as if it was stabbing Harry over and over again like an overeager or possibly opportunistic Doctor or Healer running numerous tests on a patient just to be paid for each procedure before it finally accepted Harry to become Lord of the Family.  The Gryffindor Ring which was made of ruby like the stones in the Gryffindor Hourglass looked into Harry's memory of all the "brave and heroic" deads Harry had performed in his life before it finally accepted him.

The Potter ring took longer than the three previous rings combined.  It was almost as if the Ring knew that Harry had become a Potter semi-illegally and was trying to decide if it should accept him or show some form of remorse for Sirius tricking James and Lily into nearly breaking the laws of Man and Magic.  In the end, the Potter Family Ring accepted him as well letting it slip onto his finger. 

Albus, Lucius, Xeno, and Molly were horrified seeing that the next Ring that Bonecrusher had given to Harry was the Black Family Ring.  As the Rings were being done not by the power of the line but by how old Harry's claim on the family was this showed that Sirius had lied.  He had handed Harry over to James and Lily and told them to blood-adopt him before Regulus died.  This could mean Sirius had told them to take Harry right after Regulus had given Apollo to him before going on the mission.  Or Sirus might not have known how long Regulus would have lived after being thrown into the dark lake.  Where he had returned from kicking Regulus into the lake to tell James and Lily to adopt his nephew.

Unlike the other rings, the Black Family Ring accepted Harry right away.  As he slipped on the ring, Harry felt as if his entire body was enveloped in a loving hug as if he was back in the memory Draco's dad had shared with himself as the baby in Regulus's arms.  Feeling the love emanating from the Black Family Ring Harry started crying a little as Bonecrusher gave him a few moments before presenting Harry's two Heir Rings.  While he had gained Lordship of the rest of the families he was part of since Lucius and Xeno were still alive and were considered his parents, Harry held the position of Heir to the Lovegood and Malfoy families.  However, unless Luna and Draco respectively chose not to take up the Lady/Lordship when it was their time to do so, Harry would always be the Heir until his siblings had kids of their own.

Having gotten all his Family Rings and having been accepted by them, Bonecrusher led Harry through a ritual to see if he could locate or summon the Gaunt Family Ring.  Yet even with the combined powers of the Peverell and Slytherin Rings, Harry could not find where the missing Family Ring was.  This meant that after Harry was shown how to use his Family Rings, placing a finger of his opposite hand on the ring he wished to use and saying the vow, rather than Voldemort becoming a No'Name the man was cut off but the Gaunt Family Magic.  While this did weaken Voldermort significantly the monster was still powerful.  "If the Gaunt Family Ring is what I think it is, I have been looking for it for a while," Albus admitted.  "I have tracked down several locations where it might be held."

"Why have you been tracking down the Gaunt Ring?" Bonecrusher asked once more suspecting the Headmaster of attempting to use the right to take some of his client's power.

"After Harry presented me with Riddle's Diary," Albus began making Ginny wince a little and send a look at Lucius, "I believe that the man had created multiple Horcruxes."

"Like the one just removed from Apollo?" Xeno asked.

"Quite right," Albus said nodding a little still a little upset that they had removed the Horcrux from Harry.

"We might be able to track it that way then," Bonecrusher said tapping his chin in thought.

"You can do that?" Albus asked startled.

"Depending on how much of Riddle's soul was in the Horcrux he placed in Harry.  We might be able to use it to find other such items, if you are correct there are more of them," Bonecrusher said making Albus wish he had known that he could have had the Horcrux removed from Harry right after the attack and used it to find any others Tom had made.

"If it has such high protections on it that prevent you from summoning or locating it, there might be some powerful magic and dark curses involved," Albus said.  "I would like to accompany any Curse Breaker team you might send to receive it."

"That can be arranged as long as Lord Black and his family agree to it," Bonecrusher said looking over to his client.

Harry not sure about it looked to Lucius and Xeno.  Thinking it would get Albus out of his hair for a bit, Lucius said.  "It is fine with me if Albus accompanies your team.  So long as he just removes any spells or enchantments but only the Curse Breaker or Goblins handle the ring."

"Very well, we shall perform a testing on the Horcrux magic signature we removed and destroyed from Lord Black and get back to you on its location," Bonecrusher said.

"Very good," Albus said though a little disappointed that he would be unable to handle one of the possible Deathly Hallows which he believed the Gaunt Ring was.  The Headmaster then turned to the others in the room.  "Just so will not have to make a return trip, let me give you the book list for this year for each of you.  Minus, of course, the Defense book since we don't have a teacher yet to pick one," Albus said passing out the school list to Narcissa, Molly, and Xeno to use for each of their kids.

Before leaving the bank each family got out some money for school supplies before they decided to head their separate ways.  That way the staff at Flourish and Blotts would not expect another fight to break out with both the Weasleys and Malfoy in their store at the same time.  The group broke off again as Narcissa took care of potion ingredients and non-book items leaving Xeno and Lucius with the reunited triplets.  Finding out that Harry only had school robes and no other Magical World clothing as well as his Muggle attire being hand-me-downs from Dudley who was over twice Harry's side, Lucius decides to have them go to Radagast's Saloon to get Harry some new clothing.

(AN:  Removal of a thirty-minute montage of Harry, Draco, and Luna trying out new clothing.  Harry and Luna team up to get Draco into what they both consider casual clothing and the blonde youngest sibling looks uncomfortable.  Meanwhile, he tries to get them to wear his idea of casual clothing which they feel is too stuffy)

After being in Radagast's Saloon to pick up some new clothing for Harry/Apollo, Lucius was glad he came up with the idea after Narcissa had gone to pick up other items or they still might be in the clothing boutique.  Don't get him wrong, Lucius was happy Harry got some new clothing as well as Luna and Draco.  He just found it sort of trying with the triplets trying to get each other clothing.  Both Xeno and him were rather pleased that the triplets had at least one outfit picked out by each other that they ended up buying.  Luna besides getting some new school robes had added a very formal dress of pure lilac picked out for her by Draco.  Harry had picked for her something he called painter cover-alls which he said looked good on her and reminded him of the paint-covered smock he had first seen her wearing earlier that day. 

Harry had the most clothing bought at the store as he had almost two complete wardrobes of both Muggle-type and Magical World robes.  The clothing he selected that his siblings had chosen from him included a light robe which due to the material it was made from resembled the sundress-style robes that Xeno used as chosen by Luna.  Harry had fought Draco to pick an outfit from his new younger brother, getting a pinstripe suit in his favorite colors, yellow and black, since it was the only way he and Luna could get Draco to buy some casual clothing.

Draco got a new school robe as well as a new casual suit this one dark blue but in the same cut and style as the pure black one he was currently wearing.  From Luna's suggestion Draco now had a pair of tight hip hugger blue jeans and a tye-dye tee-shirt.  Harry wanted to go the extra mile and got the blonde boy a pair of baggy jeans and an overlarge shirt emblazoned with the Muggle Peace Symbol with the colors of a rainbow.  Harry had chosen the clothing since it had been the closest he could get Draco to look like a "surfer dude."

Unknown to the triplets, Xeno and Lucius had managed to snap a Magical Photo of all three of the teens dressed in the other's idea of a formal outfit that they planned to share with Narcissa the first chance they got before they framed the picture.  That is if none of the triplets found the shot of Luna in the lilac dress, Harry in his pinstriped suit, and Draco wearing the baggy jeans and tye-dye shirt and ended up ripping it to shreds.

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As all but Albus leaves the bank to do their school shopping, Bonecrusher leads the Hogwarts Headmaster to one of Gringott's Ritual rooms. Bonecrusher called for the branch's Chief Artifactor, Slashrat, the Head Ritualist Stonetstalker, not to mention having one of his assistants retrieve the vessel the Healers had stored the Horcrux in after they removed it from Harry Potter/Apollo Black L.M. Bonecrusher hoped the Artifactors and Loremasters had not destroyed the vessel yet but would study it first. They would be unable to perform the ritual if they just destroyed it like was required for finding a normal Horcrux. He hoped that since there was no record of a Horcruz being attached to a human, they would want to study it first to see how it had not killed its host.

Bonecrusher also called for Downax, since his client was also a member of the Black Family. Downax had also witnessed the young Hume's Cleansing so could confirm that the vessel was the same one that had been removed from Heir Potter/Black L.M. Bonecrusher was a little surprised to see that Master Cracknector the bank's Loremaster had accompanied Griphook when Bonecrusher's assistance arrived with the protective case the Horcrux vessel had been placed into when it was removed from Heir Potter/Black L.M. Downax confirmed it was the same case and Horcrux, not that Bonecrusher had any doubt but it had been known for opportunistic Humes and Goblins to try to steal from the bank no matter how dangerous the artifact was. Hence why Gringotts not only employed Cursebreaker teams to find gold and treasures but also a specialty group known as Hunter/Seekers to track down any artifact that someone tried to steal from the bank. The more dangerous the artifact was the harder and more ruthless the Hunter/Seekers were in tracking it down and bringing the theft to justice or saving them depending on what they found.

"Why have you called for the Horcrux, I was just about to run my test on it?" Cracknector asked sounding more belligerent than normal.

"We believe this piece can lead us to another Horcrux that has been tied to a family ring," Bonecrsuher explained nodding to Albus as if to say it had been the old Hume's idea. If nothing else it would keep the Loremaster off his case if he focused on Albus, who Bonecrusher still had some doubts about regarding his client.
"Are you saying that this Horcrux was not only tied to a living being but it has brothers as it were?" Cracknector asked nearly shoving Griphook aside so he could run some test on the Horcrux before the ritual took place which might damage it.

"I believe that Lord Voldemort created seven Horcruxes in all. Besides the one removed from young Harry," Albus said nodding to the protective case Griphook was trying to prevent Cracknector from reaching, "another Horcrux has already been destroyed. I also believe that one of the Horcruxes is bonded to the Gaunt Family Ring, hence why Master Bonrcrusher could not summon it when he presented Harry with his family rings earlier."

"His name is Apollo Helios Black L.M." Downax cut in. "I am sorry Prince Bonecrusher but I refuse to call him any other name until such a time he tells me otherwise for he is the next leader of the Black family and it is only due to his uncle that he became your client."

"I understand," Bonecrusher said.

"I have some news on that," Albus said.

"What do you mean?" the four Goblins asked turning to look at him.

"Master Bonecrusher you saw that Harry... sorry Apollo got the Black Family Ring last when you presented them to him. Before coming to see you earlier I confronted Sirius about his nephew and what happened to his brother. Sirius shared that Regulus had asked him to follow him on a mission and provide help if he needed it. Yet when Regulus did call for him, Sirius shoved him into a dark lake where it sounded like Voldemort had set up some Inferious as guards for another possible Horxrux. Sirius claimed it was only after he pushed his brother into the lake that he told Lily and James to adopt Apollo, but thanks to the order of the rings, even I can not be sure," Albus admitted.

"HE WHAT!?!?" Downax thundered wanting nothing more than to grab his personal weapon, a chain & sickle, to flay Sirius alive. He did not even care that the man was part of the family Downax and his ancestors had forged a bond/alliance with ages ago.

"Not that I approve of his actions, I will point out that if Sirius did shove Regulus into the lake first he could not have known how long he would have lived," Albus said.

"I don't care if he knew or not his actions are disgusting and unforgivable," Downax said as to everyone's amazement he moved to the center of the ritual room and cut his palm. Placing his bleeding palm in the very center of the room's ritual circle, Downax began speaking in a dialect of Gobbledgook which Albus had never heard before.

While Albus had seen rituals performed by Goblins before, he did not recognize this one. Downax moved his bleeding hand in a counter-clockwise circle around the center of the ritual space still speaking in the ancient Gobbledgook dialect that Albus did not recognize for about ten minutes. As Downax performed whatever ritual he was doing Slashrat and Stonestalker arrived. Both Goblins arched an eyebrow at what Downax was doing but did not say anything as they came to stand by Albus and the other Goblins in the room.

After ten minutes, Downax lifted his palm from the floor letting them all see a circle had been made with the blood leaking out of his palm. Downax was not done as he stepped into the circle of blood and ran his still-bleeding hand down the length of his face, before using one bloody finger to crossing the first mark at his eyes. Once his face had been marked by his own blood, Downax clenched his bleeding hand and spoke more ancient Gobbledgook his voice raising in anger as he did so. Albus who had no idea what this ritual was gasped in shock as the blood on the floor seemed to float into the air and form a solid chain. When the blood chain was a little above Downax's waist, the Goblin brought his hands down and severed the chain with a single blow. Rather than revert to blood, the chains just faded away.

There was a moment of silence before Stonestalker asked, "I thought we had been called to perform a ritual to seek out similar Magical Wavelengths from a dangerous artifact."

"You were," Bonecrusher said pulling out a silken handkerchief and using it to wipe his brow.

"Then why was Downax performing a bond-breaking ritual?" Stonestalker asked.

"A what?" Albus asked.

"Albus just informed us why our shared client might have received his Birth Family Ring last behind the family he was adopted into. Hearing that the uncle of our client was responsible for his brother's death evidently made Downax decide to remove Sirus from the Black family," Boecrusher explained.

"I was unaware that your kind could do that," Albus asked in shock.

"It is only to be done under certain circumstances," Stonestalker said. "Such as the next head of the family being underage and we find evidence that a relative who is serving as the future head's guardian is abusing them or trying to commit Line Theft. It is also done if said guardian placed enchantments on the Heir/Heiress or as Bonecrusher stated it is found that the member of the family killed off the Lord/Lady of the House so they could gain control of the Heir/Heiress."

"All of which Sirius did," Downax said coming over looking a little weak as most beings did after performing a powerful ritual on their own.

"He enchanted Harry?" Albus asked in shock.

"He blocked Apollo's sibling bond with his brother and sister not to mention placed spells on him so Apollo would be utterly loyal and want to please him" Downax explained.

This caused Bonecrusher to take a closer look at the results Downax had collected by performing an Inheritance Test on the young Hume. "Downax is correct, Sirus performed
the necessary crimes to allow him to be removed from the family," Bonecrusher explained as he showed the list to the others.

"Are we still doing the ritual you ordered?" Stonestalker asked.

"Yes, I will call for a team to come in and clean the room so we can begin," Bonecrusher said knowing what Downax had done was correct but wishing his fellow Account Manager had waited until the original ritual they had planned had been performed.

Grimmauld Place

Remus and Alastor had locked Sirius in a makeshift cell which had once been a broom closet placing some spells to deafen the noise so Sirus could not cause so much racket that it would set his mother's picture off leading to one of them going to silence it and possible allow him to get out. Neither man knew what to do with Sirius or even what to think since both had known him for a long time with Remus being his friend in school and Alastor being one of the Aurors who had helped train the man.

Besides locking Sirius in the closet, Remus had also summoned all of the Weasley's, Hermione's, and Harry's belongings and placed them nearby for when someone came to collect them. When Sirius finally regained consciousness the pair of reluctant jailers heard him moan a little, but made no move to check on him, despite the fact he could be in incredible pain for taking five stunners at once. Both thought he slightly deserved it for killing his own brother not to mention what he had done to his nephew. It seems that while he had taken multiple stunners, Sirius was not that hurt as after a few moments he began to pound on the door telling them to let him out. Neither Remus or Alastor made a noise standing on either side of the door like living statues. They hoped Albus would come back soon and let them know what they were going to do with Sirius, for just like the Weasleys after they learned what the man had done, neither thought that any of the Order would want to work with Sirius anymore. Especially Tonks and her folks since they were related to Sirius.

Rather than Albus showing up, Arthur came in looking a little confused. "So can either of you tell me why Molly and my family moved out? Surely it can not be that Harry was revealed to be related to Lucius Malfoy of all people," Arthur asked them arching an eyebrow as he heard Sirius pounding on the door telling them to let him out. "What is going on?"

"I think it is best if your wife explains it, Arthur," Alastor said.

"My wife can explain why you are keeping Sirius locked up in a closet?" Arthur asked slowly reaching for his wand as his first thought was the order had somehow been infiltrated.

"You don't want to do that, Arthur," Remus said holding out his hands to show he did not have his wand in them. "Let's just say some things were revealed when Albus came back with the results of Harry/Apollo's trial.

As if he heard them speaking outside his makeshift prison cell, Sirius called out, "HIS NAME IS HARRY, APOLLO DIED WITH MY BROTHER."

"Best if you leave now, Arthur. I am sure Molly will tell you everything you need to know. And if I know your wife she might be checking in with Apollo now," Remus said making sure to call the boy he still saw as his cub, by his birthname just to annoy Sirius.

Yet rather than Sirus yelling out that his nephew's name was Harry, the imprisoned man let out a blood-curdling shout of pain. Remus and Alastor prevented Arthur from opening the door in case this was a trick to get them to let him out. Yet when the cry of pain was cut off by a small pop and a wave of magic, all three men rushed to the door. Alastor and Remus held their wands at the ready as Arthur opened it only to reveal the closet was empty. "He escapled?" Alastor growled as he used a spell to track someone by their magical signature if the person was close enough and had not been gone for too long. Mad-eye and Arthur's confusion grew as they saw the spell indicated Sirius had somehow left the house. "He's outside," Alastor said as he lad the other two down the short entry hall and out the front door of the Magical Townhouse. Leaving the dwelling they stumbled onto a scene of pure chaos as the Muggles were reacting to Sirus's appearance in the small park across from Grimmauld Place.

As Sirius did not have a wand on him he started to run away shoving the Muggles out of his way if they tried to impede him. "After him," Remus called unnecessarily as Arthur, Mad-eye and he left the stoop of the Order's Headquarters after Sirius not only to get him back but to find out how he had freed himself. Sirius looked over his shoulder at them as before he had let out a bust of speed and turned into an alley. Arthur and Moody quickly pulled out their Ministry IDs and flashed them as if they were police badges at the Muggles to make sure none of the crowd called the cops on Sirius. As Remus had not id to flash, he rushed after Sirius into the alleyway. "Come out Sirius," he called out looking around the place but not spotting his old friend. There was no answer as Remus moved further into the alley turning this way and that to find where Sirius was hiding. Unfortunately, the smell of the trash and debris inside the alley prevented his enhanced senses from detecting where the other man was.

Having to rely on sight and hearing alone, Remus crept down the alley hoping that Sirius would not try to ambush him to get his wand. When Remus reached the center of the alley he turned around quickly as the sound of a trash bin being disturbed came from behind him. He had just turned to the bin and saw it rolling on its side when he realized his mistake. Turning back around and expecting Sirius to jump him, Remus saw the tail of Sirius' Animagus form leave the alley. Cursing himself for falling for such an obvious trick, Remus ran after him once more, yet when he reached the other end of the alley there was no sign of Sirius in human or his Padfoot form. Remus could not help but let out a wolfish howl of anger just as Arthur and Moody caught up as he explained he had lost Sirius.

Having lost track of Sirus, the three men returned to Grimmauld Place. Arthur and Remus collect the gathered belongs of the Weasley family, Hermione, and Harry to take them to the Burrow as Alastor decides to stay behind and report their failure to Albus as well as to send any order members who might arrive before the Headmaster out looking for Sirius. Once he was alone in the townhouse, Alastor also decided to check out the closet-turned-jail cell to see if he could find a clue on how Sirius had managed to escape from the cell and somehow Apparate without a wand.

Gringotts

After Downax's blood had been cleaned from the ritual circle, Slashrat and Stonestalker got to work preparing the ritual to find the other Horcruxes that Voldemort had created. Albus thought one might be in the Gaunt's old shack but he had no time to check it out yet. As for the other, unless Harry/Apollo removing Voldemort from the Slytherin family line had somehow affected the man's Horcruxes, he would learn where the others were at last. He had his suspicions that each place was connected with a significant place in Voldemort's past but he had not found one at the bombed-out ruins of Wool orphanage, nor did he think that there would be one at Borgan and Berks. Other than that, Albus had been unable to think of where else Voldemort might store the bits of his soul.

Albus watched in fascination as Slashrat removed the Horcrux vessel from inside its protective container and placed it in the center of the ritual circle as Stonestalker mixed a potion using a rather eclectic collection of ingredients. The Goblin had gathered some thyme, aconite, one red berry, three blueberries, fairy scale wings, a powered unicorn horn, troll boogers, a pink dragon scale, a basilisk fang, and even half a cup of milk. There had to be some method to the madness of the items the Goblin Ritualist was literally throwing into his cauldron, but Albus could not see it. When the items were mixed in a basic potion stock, the liquid which appeared to be bright peach was poured over the Horcrux vessel. The vessel began to pulse a little in alternating fast and slow flashes of light for about five minutes. When the pusling came to an end the potion, now a deep crimson slid off the vessel into groves in the floor. Despite the floor being completely level the potion separated and headed to the rings set out around the main ritual circle where after a flash of light a roll of parchment appeared.

"By the stone," Cracknector said clutching his chest.

"What's wrong?" Albus asked.

"You were not mistaken, the Morjet really did make several Horcruxes," Cracknector said. "Each roll or parchemt will give us the current location of each Horcrux the fool created."

"We can use this to find him?" Albus said now cursing himself more than ever not having the Goblins remove the Horcrux from Harry sooner.

"Unfortunately not," the Goblin Loremaster said shaking his head sadly. "I believe that if a Horcrux is placed into a living thing it would just be like an added soul to the being which is playing host to it. And just like a normal soul, it would not be detected. So the part of Riddle's soul that inhabits his body would be blocked from us, as would any Horcrux inside another living thing. Though I doubt the Morjet did that twice."

As the Loremaster and Albus were discussing the parchment that had appeared, Slashrat gathered them up and took them to the pair of Account Managers. Bonecrusher and Downax went through the scrolls their faces draining of color as they saw one Horcrux was inside the bank, and to Downax's horror, another was inside one of the Black family properties. The only problem the pair of Account Managers saw was though the scrolls listed where one of the Horcruxes was it did not say what the Horcrux was. "Albus you say you believed that the Gaunt Family Ring was made into a Horcrux would you happen to know what else he had used?" Bonecrusher asked.

"During my research into the matter since Ha.. Apollo brought them to my attention, I believe he tried to use artifacts associated with Hogwarts. I know that Helga Hufflepuff's Goblet and Salazar Slytherin's locket disappeared shortly before he left his birthname behind and started to go by Voldemort," Albus explained making the Goblins make some notes.

"So we have the possibilities of Helga's Goblet, Salazar's Locket, and the Gaunt Family ring as Horcurxes, yet four locations," Downax said.

"I believe the Gaunt Family Ring was actually returned to the Gaunt family shack, if that helps," Albus volunteered.

"It might," Bonecrusher said as he summoned a combined team of Cursebrakers and Hunter/Seekers to go to the locations listed on the scrolls to find one of the Horcruxes.

Bonecrusher did not reveal to Albus that one team would be heading to Hogwarts to look inside Rowena Ravenclaw's old Magical Lab for one of the Horcruxes since the Hume had wanted to find the Gaunt Ring and had only asked to be a part of the group to collect it. Each team of Cursebreaker and Hunter/Seekers would be led by one of the Goblins with Stonestalker taking a team down to the Lestrange Vault to search for the Horcrux. Bonecrusher leading the team to the Gaunt Shack accompanied by Albus, Downax, and his team were checking out Grimmauld Place. And finally, Slashrat would lead a team to Hogwarts. Each Goblin hoped that they would not be on the team that did not have one of the possible items as the Horcrux they were looking for which would have made their job of finding it harder. The only way to be sure they could find the Horcrux would be for each of them to have the vessel with them, but since they were not sure which item was where they could not just choose who got the vessel to help their search. If worse came to worse they all knew that the team that did not have the cup, locket, or ring could always come back to gather the vessel and look through the location again.

While all the teams realized they might have trouble finding the Horcrux in their chosen location, Downax received a large surprise as only he and one of his team arrived at his destination.  He could not figure out why only he and Cursebreaker Weasley were there but none of their team had been with them.  "Albus is that you?" a voice called from the darkened entry hall before the form of Alastor Moody stomped into the light.  "Weasley?  What... never mind," the man said seeming to gather his thoughts.  "We have a problem, Sirius left the place and did a runner.  We tried to track him down but Remus said he shifted and got further away..." Moody said only to notice the Goblin standing beside Bill.  "Something tells me you are not here to collect something we missed sending to the Burrow."

"That is correct, Mad-Eye.  We actually came on bank business," Bill told the ex-Auror.

"As I said Sirius is no longer here," Alastor said.

"I know he isn't I removed him from the family and made it impossible for him to use any Black property or artifacts ever again," Downax explained.

"Ah, so that is how it happened," Mad-eye said in dawning comprehension.  "So why are you here then?"

"Bank business," Downax said gruffly.

"Sir, maybe he can help since it appears the rest of our team could not get past the Fidealus Charm," Bill said.

"You raise a point, Cursebreaker Weasley.  Alright, consider yourself a temporary employee of Gringotts Lord Moody.  Or job is to find a dark artifact known as a Horcrux.  It can possibly be a Goblet with the symbol of Helga Hufflepuff on it, an old family ring, or a locket with Slytherin's mark," Downax said.

"Any idea which one?" Alastor asked.

"That is all we know of, however, there is a chance that it could be something else that might have once belonged to one of the Hogwarts Founders as well," Downax explained.

"Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack then," Moody muttered as the three began to search the townhouse.

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Sirius' Perspective.

Sirius had always done his best to not to act like a canine as much as he could while he was in his Animagus form. Yet he could not help but pant with his tongue out. He felt he had been lucky to get away from Remus and the others after he had been cast out of Grimmuld Place. While he had been happy not to be trapped in the makeshift cell, he felt the pain from the five stunners that everyone had cast on him after he accidentally nicked George's arm when he had gotten rid of Kreacher. He felt everyone had acted too hastily, after all, he did finally give the little shitbag his wish to have his nasty little head hanging on the wall with his ancestors. Sirius's aim had just been a little off, it had not been his fault.

His pain had increased half an hour later when it felt like every cell in his body had been set on fire right before he was expelled from his childhood home. It had not been the most graceful Sirius had ever been as his body was chucked out of the door with such force that he made it across the street and landed in the small park on the other side. By the time he regained his balance the Muggles in the park had noticed who he was and began to scream. Sirius had not been worried about it, at least until he recalled he did not have his wand. What was worse he heard the door to Grimmauld Place open again and looking back saw Arthur, Mad-Eye, and Remus exit the place. If it had been anyone else, Sirius might have been able to take them. Still, with Remus' enhanced senses and power thanks to being a werewolf, Alastor and Arthur both being Aurors he had trained under after leaving Hogwarts. Sirius knew his best and only chance was to flee.

Sirius hoped that the trio would be distracted by preventing the Muggles from calling the authorities as he left the park and headed down an alleyway. He had been mostly right, Arthur and Mad-Eye had gone to placate the Muggles, but Remus had kept after him. It was only thanks to some old Auror training that Remus lacked, the Sirius managed to get away from his old friend. Sirius had changed into his Animagus form and after leaving the alley had run as fast as he could in a random direction hoping he had managed to shake his perusers. It was only after he had slowed down to catch his breath that Sirius thought it was strange the Muggles had not cried out to see a large Grimm-like dog rushing through the streets of London. Slowing to a walk, Sirius found out why none of the Muggles had reacted to his Animagus form as he saw himself reflected in a shop window. He had to stop as he saw his Animagus form was no longer a great black dog, but a scrawny black mutt.

This confused, Sirius for he had caught sight of himself in his Animagus form right after his escape from Azkaban, and while he had been nothing but skin and bones he had still been a large dog. He could not figure out why he was so much smaller than he normally was. But then again he had other things to worry about. Cheif among them was what to do now. He knew that both the Muggles and most Magicals were still on the lookout for him thinking he was an escaped madman. He had allies in the members of the Order, but he was not sure if they would react the same way as Molly and the others had done for hurting George.

Besides that, Sirius also had to deal with Harry. It never entered his mind that the reason the others had stunned him and locked him up was only partially due to nicking George, while the rest was down to what he had confessed about killing his brother. In Sirius's mind, he knew he had done the right thing for his brother had drunk the Kool-Aid and would have corrupted Harry to be just as bad as the rest of the Black family. Except for his cousin Andromeda, which made it sad that thanks to Andy's daughter being a Member of the Order, Sirius could not turn to her for help.

Sirius knew that even with his brother killed, Harry's other birth parents would just be as bad for the boy. After all one of Harry's fathers was Lucius Malfoy who was Voldemort's right-hand man no matter what anyone said. Then there was Xenophilus Lovegood, and while he was not a Death Eater, the man was nuttier than a dicky birdy and should not have been permitted to raise a child on his one, let alone one such as Harry. Who thanks to Sirius had the noble blood of the Potter family running through his veins. Alright, Sirius could admit it to himself, that he had a slight man-crush on James not only due to how popular his old friend was but also thanks to the Potters being some of the best and brightest family with Light Cores that Sirius knew.

He had been glad that his brother had told him to give Harry to someone to watch over when they went on their mission. Sirius had thought that no one could do a better job in looking after Harry than James and Lily Potter. So Sirius had no problem handing over his nephew to the pair before he explained that the boy's birth family had died. Sirius told them to get to know the boy a little as he gathered the items they would need to perform a Blood Adoption. Truth be told, Sirius had everything ready for James to adopt Harry right away but had gone along with his brother, to make sure Regulus died on whatever mission he had wanted Sirius to help him with. Since he had not known what his brother had wanted his help with, Sirius had been prepared to kill Regulus himself, but seeing the arms coming out of the lake, Sirius decided to use them instead as he shoved the brat to his death at their, well, hands.

Thinking of Harry, Sirius got an idea of where to go for a bit. Getting his bearings, Sirius turned towards Surry thinking he could hide out with either Figgy or bully his way into the Dursley's home to recover his strength as he figured out what to do next.

Volemort's Perspective.

Voldemort was in a foul mood. Granted he was normally in a foul mood when he was forced to wait for his plans to conquer the local Magical world, but this time it was a little different. Cause for some unknown reason he was feeling weak, something Voldemort absolutely hated. Voldemort had sequestered himself inside his room and ran a barrage of tests on himself to find out what was causing his weakness. If it was a curse by one of his Death Eaters, he might approve of their actions right before he punished them for the audacity to target him. Yet he found nothing wrong with him and that was using all the lost magic spells he had come across during his travels.

Still feeling like punishing someone as a way to hide how weak he felt, Voldemort left his room and went to his throne in the main hall. He planned on cursing the next person to enter the room as he sunk into the throne. His ass had barley settled into place when the doors to the room opened up and McNair hurried into the room holding something aloft. Voldemort did not let him say a single word as he hit the man with a curse followed by a blasting hex. He had not wanted to use the Crutiatus CUrse in case the man discovered it did not feel the same way and discovered his Master was feeling weak.

"Why have you interrupted my meditations?" Voldemort asked in a growl.

"I am sorry, my Lord. Please forgive me but I have news," McNair cried as he got back to his feet and grabbed the item he had dropped when he had been cursed.

"NEWS!? You come to me with simple news?" Voldemort said putting as much anger into his voice as he could.

"Yes, my Lord. It has to do with the boy," McNair said gulping a little showing Voldemort the man was still afraid of him.

"Tell me," Voldemort ordered.

"This morning the boy was summoned to the Ministry for a hearing for underage magic. Fudge decided to turn it into a trial. For some reason, they ran a scan on the boy and it was discovered that thanks to the ritual you used to get your body back. Well, My Lord, the test revealed you are sort of classified as the Potter boy's offspring. They used this to discover that you were back my Lord," McNair reported only getting his information second-hand from the gossip within the Ministry unaware that Madam Bones had placed a Magical Gag order to prevent anyone learning that Harry was Apollo Black and the son from a Fatility Rityal to Lucius and Xenophilius.

"Well, that is unfortunate," Voldemort said steepling his fingers for a moment. "Though I dare say there is an upside for I hated all this skulking around. Since they knew I am back might as well show them that after all this time I am a force to be reckoned with," Voldemort said as he lifted McNair's sleeve to press a finger into the man's Dark Mark to summon his servants so they could begin planning an attack to show he was back.

Gringotts Lestrange Vault

Stonestalker, looked around the vault where the Horcrux the Goblin Healers had removed from the Black-Potter Lord had led them to. Somewhere in this vault, there was another Horcrux. However, there was a problem,well a couple of problems. The first issue was the Horcrux in the vault might be the one that was not one of the items Lord Dumbledore had known about. The second one was while they were searching the vault for the Triple-S Dangerous artifact they could not even take down the protections on the vault. Meaning that if they tried to handle anything the item would make copies of itself which would burn as if they had just been removed from a forge. Stonestalker and his team had the counter charm but they could not use it on anything other than the vessel holding the Horcrux. The last issue was that the Lestrange Vault was near to bursting with various treasures and artifacts making it hard to move around without producing copies of items.

On the upside, since his team was searching Gringotts, Stonestalker had been permitted to use the Horcrux removed from Lord Black-Potter to help his team locate the Horcrux within the vault. Due to how little room there was in the vault, Stonestalker had the smallest Goblin and the thinnest human Cursebreaker to collect the Horcrux. The pair were given the best protection Gringotts could offer. The human was given the Horcrux they had as well as the counter protection to apply to the Horcrux in the vault. It would be up to the Goblin to collect the Horcrux itself before the pair made their way out again. The rest of the team was keeping the door to the Lestrange Vault Open thus preventing the vault from becoming an oven if too many copies were created.

Thankfully the pair only created four copies of treasures from the vault which multiplied greatly but made their job still manageable before they located the Horcrux. The Goblin, an apprentice named Philip who had yet to earn his Bank name gave a cheer as he collected the Horcrux and held it aloft. Seeing it was Helga Huffelpuff's Goblet, Stonestalker used a magic notepad the teams had been given to let the others know what Horcrux they had collected.

Gaunt Shack

Unlike the other teams, the one containing Bonecrusher and Albus had no trouble locating the Horcrux they had been sent to collect. Since it was one of the few items within the Gaunt Shack. However, getting the Gaunt Family Ring was harder than it appeared for there were numerous spells and enchantments in place to protect it. The first thing the team faced was an Infeir of Marvolo Gaunt, which it seemed Voldemort had unburied and left to watch the ring. Once the living corps of Voldemort's Maternal Grandfather had been hacked and burnt to a crisp, the team had to deal with a poisonous miasma being unleashed from the ruins of the stove in the corner. The stove resisted most spells the Hunter/Seekers and Goblins sent its way. Thankfully the Elder Wand was able to work as Ablus blasted the stove into tiny hunks of metal.

The next protection on the ring consisted of a Core Blocker. Reminiscent of the Age Line Albus had put in place around the Goblet of Fire during the last school year, the Core Blocker would prevent anyone who did not have a Dark Core from approaching the Ring. Luckily several Hunter/Seekers had Dark Cores who were able to get through the Blocker and shut it down rather than just destroy it as Albus had wanted to do. Finally, there was the ring itself, on which Voldemort had placed a Nercrosis Contact Curse which would have almost instantly killed a person by causing all the cells in their body to die starting with whatever first touched the ring. For once the Elder Wand alone was not able to get rid of the curse on the ring requiring the full team of Goblin Cursebreakers to perform a ritual along with Albus casting a spell to cleanse the ring.

Seeing the look on Albus's face at the now cleansed ring, Bonecrusher quickly moved forward and collected it. He put it in his pocket where he had one of the banks' Ritualsit place a transport spell on which sent the ring right back to the bank so the Horcrux could be removed from the ring before he gave it to his client to claim at last.

Grimaluld Place

Downax, Bill Weasley, and Mad-Eye Moody did not have the foggiest idea of where to start looking for the Horcrux that was somewhere within the house. Both Bill and Moody hoped that whatever the Horcrux turned out to be it was not one of the dark artifacts Molly had been in the process of cleaning out of the Order's Headquarters. Though if she had one of Bill's younger siblings and Hermione clean it out, it had not been disposed of yet since the location of the Horcrux still listed the item as being in the house.

"According to Sirius' confession Regulus gave the Horcrux he collected to Kreacher, maybe we should check out his nest," Moody said being the only one of the three who had been there to hear about Kreacher taking the Horcrux from Regulus before Sirius killed him.  

"Did you hear what was given to the Elf?" Downax asked.

"Sirius did not see it, and unfortunately, he killed Kreacher so we can't ask him what he did with it," Moody said.

"We might as well check it out then," Bill said as the three headed to the kitchen and Kreacher's nest.

However, when they looked inside all they found besides an old family robe that Kreacher used as his bed were several old photos that Molly or someone had tried to throw away.  Downax actually crawled into the small area and tossed it to make sure that whatever the Horcrux vessel was it had not been crammed into a corner.  "Cursebreaker Weasley you told me that your mother and several others were cleaning some of the dark artifacts from this place.  Not that I approve of it mind you," Downax said speaking as the Black Family Account Manager and not having received anything that Molly had decided to get rid of.  "Do you know if Kreacher hung around any particular place as they were cleaning?"

"I was not here that often myself during the cleaning," Bill admitted.

"I did help out a couple of times, but I never saw the Elf," Moody added.

"So he could have hidden it anywhere," Downax said wondering if he should contact the bank to see if he could get the Horcrux they removed from Apollo.  "Was there anywhere recently that the Elf showed up at, maybe while they were cleaning?" Downax asked grabbing at straws.

"I think I heard he showed up when they were doing the drawing room, when Potter arrived," Moody said.

"Apollo," Downax corrected.  "And did he do anything?

"From what I heard, he said he was there for the Black Family Tapestry before he looked at Potter," Moody said refusing to change his name for the boy.  "But he called him by his birthname setting Sirus off who ordered the Elf out.  I think that was the last time anyone saw him until Sirius killed him."

"He must have gone to one of Apollo's other parents to let them know he had been found," Bill said knowing better than to call Harry anything other than his birthname until the Black Family Account Manager had been told what Harry/Apollo preferred to be called.

"Do either of you know how often he came to "help" clean?" Downax asked.

"No clue," Moody answered.

"Mom never said," Bill admitted.

"As we have no other leads we might as well start in the drawing room," Downax suggested.  While he was the Black Family Account Manager he had last visited Grimmauld Place nearly two hundred years ago, so he let the humans show him the current room that was serving as the drawing room.  Going inside, Downax looked at the Black Family Tree and saw that someone, possibly Sirius had moved a large chair in front of it to block the names under Regulus thus showing Apollo with connecting lines to Draco Malfoy and Luna Lovegood.

"Do either of you know what was being cleaned in here when the Elf showed up?" Downax asked seeing there were no enchantments on the family tree that could be used to hide the Horcrux.

"I know Molly mentioned something about a Boggart in the desk," Moody said pointing at the desk where his magic eye showed the creature in its natural form, a bulbous dark mass with a single blood-stained eye.

"So not the tapestry or the desk," Downax said working it out.  Seeing that only some things had been cleaned in the room.  One of which was a cabinet that looked to have been started yet for some reason not finished.  The Goblin thought that the Humes must have been working on it when Apollo's identity had been revealed and Sirius had reacted which distracted them from finishing the job.  

Downax suddenly came up with an idea, as he pulled out his bag.  Using a special spell that only worked for Account Managers within a client's property, Downax summoned a list of all the Black Family Treasures within the home.  Though he hated to do it, Downax handed the list to Lord Moody so the man could use his magic eye to see if there were any items within the cabinet.  After all, Downax had made the man a temporary employee of the bank, which meant that he was bound by a secrecy spell when it came to the vaults or possession of any other hume that they would deal with.  After the job was done and Lord Moody's services were no longer required the man would forget anything he saw on the list.

It took the ex-Auror seven minutes before he was able to go through all the items on the list and found one item in the cabinet which had not been on it.  Handing the list back to Downac, Moody placed a specialized ward around his hand before he reached in and grabbed a dark green locket.  Noting the snake on it in the shape of an "s," Downax guessed this was Slytherin's Locket which Lord Dumbledore said might be a Horcrux.  "Lord Moody, I and Gringotts would like to thank you for your help, but now Cursebreaker Weasley and I need to get this back to the bank," Downax said as he took the locket from the scarred Hume and for better protection placed the locket on the list of Black Family Treasures which had been kept at Grimmauld Place.

Hogwarts Come'n'Go Room Trash/Storage Configuration

Slashrat gave a growl of frustration as he and his team entered the Come'n'Go Room at Hogwarts.  He thought it would be easy to find the Horcrux in the room since the information on it had told his team the exact configuration of the room for them to find the item in.  But as they walked into the room they found the room filled with junk, trash, and other bric-a-brac.  Even if the room was filled with junk their task of finding the Horcrux could take hours, especially if it was the one that Lord Dumbledore had been unaware of its vessel.  Before leaving the bank all the teams had been shown that the presence of the Horcrux in something prevented any type of Summoning spell to work in collecting it.  This means his team would have to do this the hard way.

"Alright group this might take longer than we thought, but we do know that whatever this Horcrux is from what Lord Dumbledore shared with the bank it will not be trash.  So we must look through everything.  We can rule out anything broken or damaged for the Horcrux being inside would make its vessel near invulnerable," Slashrat told his team.

"What if whatever it is we are looking for was broken before it became a Horcrux and was stored here so that it would blend in with the rest of the junk?' a Hunter/Seeker named Bandit asked.

"The only type of damage that would not be fixed when the Horcrux was bonded with its vessel is any type of rust the vessel had," Slashrat explained.  "I think it would be quicker if we all search on our own, for according to the records of this room it can be twice the size of the Hogwarts Great Hall.  If anyone finds something that might be the Horcrux, don't touch it.  Send up some sparks so we can check it.  If one of the other teams lets us know about finding their Horcrux I will forward it to everyone so we can cross out certain items from the short list of possible vessels we are searching for," Slashrat said handing out some magic contact parchment to the team as everyone started to search for possible vessels for the Horcrux.

Since they could not be sure that the Horcrux, whatever it was, would be out in the open or not each team member during their search opened up any chest, wardrobe, broken desk, or door they could find just in case.  After about thirty minutes of searching Slashrat let out another growl of frustration as he received messages from the other teams saying they had found their Horcruxes.  Unfortunately, it seemed that the other teams all had the Horcruxes Lord Dumbledore had told them about meaning his team was searching for something without knowing what it even was.  Though based on the other Horcruxes, Slashrat told his team to search for anything unbroken thing in the room that had the symbol of any of the Founders of Hogwarts on it.  As his team renewed their search for possible Horcrux vessels, Slashrat wrote a request for one of the found Horcruxes to be sent to his team so they could use it to find the unknown vessel.

Harry's Perspective

After the shopping trip to get his Fifth Year supplies, minus his Defense Against the Dark Art class book, but with the addition of a full wardrobe, Harry and the others went to a restaurant that could seat them all.  Their group earned some strange looks considering the Weasleys and the Malfoys were in the party and were doing their best to be at least civil to each other.  Harry knew it was for his sake, but he did not care as Draco and Luna showed him how eating at a restaurant in the Magical Word worked.  Unlike the times he had heated at the Leaky Cauldron when he had stayed there before his Third Year, the menus of the restaurant would only show food that was not only available but he was not allergic to.    Harry had not been aware he was allergic to anything, but according to a small note at the bottom of his menu, he was allergic to sauerkraut and haggis.  It made sense he was unaware of any allergies he had to them since he had never eaten either thing before. 

Besides the small talk as they waited for their food, the topic that the group was discussing was where Harry was to stay.  Harry wanted to try a single night to sleep in the same place as his long-lost siblings, a feeling shared by Draco and Luna.  Yet Rook's Landing was almost as cramped as the Burrow and none of the triplets wanted to share the same bed, even with their Sibling Bond back in its proper place.  And since shortly before they reached the restaurant, Lucius had been called away by the Mark he had taken as the Ministry Spy within Voldemort's ranks, Harry could not really stay at Malfoy Manor either.  Draco and Luna would be unable to reach Grimmauld Place, and Harry had no desire to go back there after hearing what had happened with Sirius that had caused the Weasleys to move back to the Burrow.

"What about Tonks?" Hermione suggested as the desserts were brought out.

"Who?" Draco asked.

"She is Sirius's second cousin, so she should be related to Harry as well.  We should also tell her and her parents what we learned about Sirus," Hermione explained.

"That's it," Narcissa said.

"What's up, Mother?" Draco asked.

"A place for Harry to stay that you all might be able to as well, my elder sister's place," Narcissa said.

"Aunt Bellatrix is in Azkaban though," Draco said confused.

"My eldest sister was kicked out of the family by Sirius' Mother.  But with Harry being the current Lord of the House of Black he could bring her back along with her daughter," Narcissa explained.

"Why was she kicked out?" Harry asked having never heard of anything about Tonks and Sirius's relationship guessing Hermione knew from either before he had come to Grimmauld Place or when he had been locked up in Sirius' room before his hearing.

"She fell in love and married a Muggleborn by the name of Ted Tonks rather than go through with a Marriage Contract that your grandmother set up for her," Narcissa said.

"Who was the contract with?" Molly asked knowing that by breaking the contract the Blacks could have become Blood Traitors like the Weasleys were thanks to one of her husband's ancestors.

"To Lucius,  I was made to go through with it.  And to be honest, I am glad my elder sister backed out since I had a crush on Lucius back when he was a Fifth Year when I started at Hogwarts," Narcissa admitted with a hint of a blush coming to her cheeks.

Chapter Text

As Narcissa's blush faded, having admitted that she had been glad her eldest sister had left the family, leaving her to marry her old schoolgirl crush, Lucius, she asked, "So where do Andy and her family live at the moment?"

"I don't know actually," Moll said, having never approved of Tonks' attitud,e so had not bothered to get to know the young woman that well when she would come by for meals at Headquarters.

"All I know is that Tonks still lives with her folks due to her only recently being made a junior-grade Auror," Hermione said, looking towards Ginny for confirmation since the pair of girls often chatted with the older woman during meals at the Order.

"Yeah, she said she can't afford her own place yet, so is bunking at her parents' place for the moment," Ginny agreed.

"But she never gave you the address?" Xeno asked.

"We did not share stuff like that ... you know for secrecy reasons and what have you," Molly said lowering her voice a little so the other patrons at the restaurant would not overhear her. Especially since their group was getting a lot of attention since the Malfoys and Weasleys were eating together and their well-known animosity towards each other.

"Does Tonks show up every mealtime?" Narcissa asked thinking they would have to wait until at least supper and the girl headed to wherever the Weasley's Anti-Voldy group met to find out. This was doable but if the girl only came once every couple of days they would have to figure out where the reunited triplets would stay until they could get in contact with Narcissa's estranged niece and her family.

"Give me a moment," Molly said getting up and heading further into the restaurant as if she was heading towards the bathroom. Yet rather than use the facilities she used a special way for members of the Order to send messages to each other by calling for one of Albus's House Elves and asking them to check with the Headmaster to find out where the Tonks family lived. A few minutes later the Elf returned with Albus's short response since the man was still dealing with the Horcrux collections with the Goblins. Rather than try to memorize it, Molly wrote down the address on some paper she printed out of her wand before she headed back to the table.

"I got the address," she reported as she took her seat again. "But it is not a place I am familiar with so unless one of you knows it, I believe after we are done here we should look at the map in the Post office."

After Xeno, and Narcissa looked at the address to see if they knew the location better than Molly did.  Since neither of them knew it, the group decided to go to the local Owl Post Office so they could get a full map and know where the best place to Apparate to that would not be seen by any Muggles. "Since we have the address, why not summon the Knight Bus and ride to it?" Ron asked, having always wanted to ride on the Magical Bus.

"Cause it is impossible to know who might be working on the bus or using it that might be connected to Tall-Dark-and-Slythery," Narcissa said,, making the twins laugh at her husband's nickname for the Dark Lord, at least in public. In truth, she knew Lucius would not want them to risk the Knight Bus since he knew from his work as a spy within the Death Eaters that one of the conductors who worked for the bus line, Stan Shunpike, was a secret member of the Death Eaters who passed on information to the Dark Lord. Ron was slightly disappointed that he would be unable to ride on the bus, at least today. Maybe if things worked out and Harry stayed with Tonks's family, his mother would allow Hermione and him to use the bus to visit their friend since they would be less conspicuous as a pair than their whole party was at the moment.

After the group finished their meal, which Narcissa gracefully paid for, they headed over to the Diagon Alley Post Office. To not fill the place up too much, Harry and the others who could not Apparate headed next door to the Magical Menagerie to buy some normal food and treats for the kids' various pets, while the others went to study the map in the Post office. It did not take the older group long to study the map, seeing that the address that Albus had given them led to a country home with not that many neighbors, just like Rook's Landing and the Burrow. Since their group was made up of five people who could Apparate and six who could not, it was quite simple to head to the Tonks's family home after they found an Apparition spot that they could all use. Narcissa took Draco, along with Harry/Apollo, Luna went with her dad, Molly helped Hermione, while the twins took their younger siblings along.

Once again to not crowd the doorstep with their entire party, most of their group stayed at the inner edge of the Wards while Narcissa and Molly accompanied Harry to the front door. Both women knew they would not have to wait long after knocking since the members who were currently home would have felt their group entering the Wards around the place. Harry unaware of this part of the Magical World, was shocked when the door to the small three-story ranch home was opened mere moments after Molly had knocked on the door. "Molly this is a surprise," a woman said as she opened the door only to turn to Narcissa hearing the slight gasp of shock that had come from the woman when she had opened the door. "Narcissa," the woman said all emotion leaving her voice as she looked at her estranged younger sister. "What are you doing here and with Molly Weasley of all people?"

"I think it might be best if we talk about this inside," Narcissa said her voice filled with emotion.

"If Bella died why did the Ministry send Molly to accompany you to give me the news?" the woman asked not moving out of the way.

"As far as I know, Bella is still kicking and screaming like the madwoman she is safely in Azkaban," Narcissa shot back.

"So why are you here?" the woman asked still not moving.

"As Narcissa said it might be better if we go inside, we have much to discuss," Molly said trying to break up the tension.

"If you are not here for Ministry business I am not sure, I should..." Andy said only for Molly to interject.

"It is Order business... sort of," Molly said.

"Can't be, not with her involved nor them," Andy said nodding to Draco, Luna, and Xeno back at the edge of the Wards.

"It is both your Order business and a family matter," Narcissa said, patting Harry's shoulder, making Andy look at the teen for the first time.

"So your family turned against Voldyshorts to protect this boy, and you want my family to house him?" Andy asked not recognizing Harry due to the change in his appearance after he got Cleansed.

"We have been against that bastard and his supporters since an attack caused me to be unable to have kids," Narcissa said getting frustrated with her eldest sister as only a sibling could.

"You need a better story, I know all about your son from Nymphadora's stories," Andy scoffed. "What is it?" she asked turning on Harry when he snickered at Tonks's birthname.

"I have not spent much time with your daughter, but I do recall her hair turning red as she got angry when someone called her that saying she disliked that name," Harry explained.

"You know my daughter?" Andy asked confused since the boy did not look old enough to have been at Hogwarts with her nor had to call upon Ministry services which would require an Auror-in-training and their supervisor to help him.

"As I said it would be better if we had this discussion inside," Narcissa said.

Andy chewed her bottom lip for a moment but her curiosity had been piqued. "Fine but only in the entryway, and only the three of you for the moment," she said moving aside to let the trio at her doorstep in. Narcissa turned back to the group and motioned them to stay where they were for the moment as she followed Molly and Apollo into the entryway. "Alright you have five minutes," Andy said before showing she was not joking around by setting a timer on her Wand.

"Okay, your daughter was correct, I do have a son, but I was not lying about why Lucius turned spy on the bastard. When we found out that we could not have kids we turned to the Lovegoods who were also having trouble convincing a child to join us in a fertility ritual," Narcissa explained.

"Fascinating," Andy said, though it did not sound like she meant it due to her tone of voice. "You have a little over three minutes left, sister dear."

"Our third family in the Ritual was cousin Regulus," Narcissa said, trying not to hurry and trip over herself to explain all this within the time limit. "The ritual not only worked but Pandora gave birth to triplets, the Lovegoods took one child, Lucius and I took the other, while Cousin Regulus took the third."

"So, what does this have to do with anything?  Surely the kid died around the same time he did," Andy said.

"He did not die, Regulus went on a dangerous mission, and since he had wanted to raise his son alone, did not leave him with the Lovegoods or us, but took him to Sirius," Narcissa said, biting out the name as if it was a curse. "Yet Sirius, after he dropped Regulus's son off with some allies and went to "help" during the mission, used the opportunity to kill his brother."

"I will not let you besmirch the only good member of the family," Andy said canceling the timer on her wand as she took it up to force the trio out of her house.

"She is not lying, the Headmaster questioned Sirius about it and he confessed to killing Regulus," Molly said placing herself between Harry and the wand which also put her before Narcissa.

"Why would Albus be interested in anything like that?" Andy asked, lowering her wand a little while still pointing it towards her guest.

"Sirius took your cousin's son and passed him over to the Potters," Molly explained. "He might have already been planning on getting rid of Regulus when he did so."

"Molly," Narcissa said warningly.

"What do you mean?" both Harry and Andy asked.

Looking away from Andy, Molly turned fully towards Harry and took his hand. "It is down to the order of your rings as they were given to you at the bank. Since you were given the Potter ring before the Black ring. Despite you being Regulus's son by birth, not Blood Adoption, this meant you gained the Potter ring earlier since you would still have been just the Heir to the Black Family before you joined the Potter Family."

"Wait, that is Harry Potter, he looks nothing like the photos in the Prophet nor like Nymphadora describes," Andy said, her shock at the identity of the boy causing her to lower her wand fully to her side.

"Did your daughter tell you about Harry's hearing?" Molly asked, turning back to the other woman.

"She might have mentioned it, and Albus brought it up as well, looking for any legal advice Ted or I could offer him so he could help mount a defense if the Ministry decided to turn the matter into a full trial," Andy said.

"He was right on that account," Narcissa said. "But he never got a chance to come to Apollo's defense since they were staying somewhere where Kreacher was and he had recognized Apollo as Regulus's son."

"Sirius freaked out when he did so," Molly chimed in.

"Kreacher got in contact with Xenophilous, who came to us with a plan. Xeno and my husband wrote some anonymous letters to Fudge that convinced the Morjet to test Apollo before the trial, if one was held," Narcissa said, ignoring Molly's addition.

"Morjet?" Molly chimed in agai,n having never heard of the word before, and wondering if it was some sort of Death Eater insult.

With a sigh, Narcissa explained, "Evidently, it is a word Xeno either created or has been called in some of the mail against his paper, which he introduced Lucius and me to. He said it is a combination of Moron and Idiot. Can you think of a better insult of Fudge than that?"

"I guess not," Molly said while Harry chuckled at the definition of the stage word. Andy, meanwhile, was still silent as she digested all the information she was receiving.

"Anyway, the trial did happen and Harry was tested letting everyone find out that he was born Apollo Black L.M. not to mention due to a ritual that as you called him Voldyshorts did last June Apollo was listed as the bastard's father," Narcissa continued.

This bit of news seemed to shock Andy back to herself. "Alright, I get why this conversation needs to be held inside. Have the others come in, and we can move to a sitting room so I can collapse into a chair as you finish this. Hopefully with a stiff drink," Andy said waving them back to the front door as she headed deeper into her home.

Soon everyone was seated or at least perched on something in the closest sitting room to the front door as Xeno took over the story. "I had been seated in the Wizengamot chamber and sent Lucius a message when the test results had been given allowing him to come in and clear Harry's name. After the trial, we took Harry back to Lucius's Ministry office so we could talk to him about what he had just learned about being our child through the fertility ritual."

"Wait, while I have not done any of those things, wouldn't he just be considered your nephew since Narcissa said Cousin Regulus took him as his son?" Andy asked.

"Normally that would be considered true, but since Regulus had died as well as his semi-illegal Blood Adopted parents, Harry can be counted as our child due to his sibling bond with Luna and Draco," Xeno explained. "Anyway, after the meeting in Lucius' office, I took Harry to my place to meet his sister, Luna," Xeno said, indicating the girl, so Andy, who might not know who was who of the young guest to her home would know who he was talking about.

"Meanwhile, Albus returned from the hearing-turned-trial and confronted Sirius. He did not deny it and seemed happy that he killed his brother," Molly said, not wanting to go too far into it lest Harry have another small breakdown as he did when she told him about it at Rook's Landing. Looking over at the young lad, she did smile a little, seeing his siblings holding his arms and hands in both comfort and possibly grounding him.

"While this is fascinating, I don't see what it has to do with why you showed up here or telling me all this. Unless Albus is disbanding the Order?" Andy asked, looking toward Molly.

"As far as I am aware, he does not plan to, though he might be looking for another place to gather," Molly said.

"The reason we have come to see you is that our kids now know of their connection, and some spells that Sirius had put in place on Apollo have been cleansed to deepen that bond, they do not want to be separated if they can help it," Xeno said. "Unfortunately, my place lacks room for them to sleep, and we don't want to take a risk that one of the Death Eaters will stop by Luci's place."

"He would get on your case for calling him that," Narcissa chimed in, Aware that her husband only permitted her to use that nickname.. She had no way to know that Xeno had used the nickname for her husband back at the Ministry without issue, but that had only been due to Lucius not wanting to frighten Harry/Apollo.  Or make the boy believe that he was the Death Eater, her husband acted like for his job as a Ministry spy.

Xeno just stuck his tongue out at her before he continued, "As we thought about a place where the triplets could stay, Miss Granger brought up your daughter possibly taking them in."

"Nymphadora lives here," Andy said almost absentmindedly.

"So we also discussed," Narcissa said. "However, there is the slight business of convincing you to take the three in."

"I would be okay with it, but would it stop Sirius if he tried to come over? I did permit him to stop by if he ever got tired of... Headquarters," Andy said.

"We did not even think about that," Molly admitted. "Though we also wanted to talk to your daughter to explain what we learned about Sirius and what happened after his confession."

"Why, what happened after he confessed?" Andy asked.

"I will tell you later," Molly said, sending a look at Harry seated at one end of a small couch alongside his siblings, this time with Draco in the center of the trio.

"We are not asking you to do this for free, just because Apollo is your cousin's son," Xeno chimed in.

"Okay, first off, I assume Apollo is his birthname, and secondly, I can not turn down a youngster in need; that is why Ted and I became Barristers," Andy said. "I will take them in even if they are not considered my family anymore."

"We do have a payment that Xeno was alluding to if you took them in," Narcissa cut in.

"And I said, you don't need to do so," Andy protested.

"We are not talking about money or anything," Nariccsa shot back. "But it seems that by having to take part in the tournament last year, Apollo was recognized by Magic as being a full adult in our World. When we went to the bank, he did not receive Heir rings from his family, apart from his rank as Secondary Heir in the Malofy and Lovegood families. He collected Lordship rings, including the Black family Ring."

"Not every family's Lordship ring," Hermione chimed in, unable to stop herself, "the Goblin said they did not have the Gaunt Lordship ring."

"The who?" Andy asked, shooting a look at the girl who, based on her daughter's description, had to be Hermione Granger.

"An old family connected to the Slytherin Line that Apollo gained control of as a baby through Rite of Conquest," Narcissa explained. "The bank said they were handling the collection of the ring. But the important part is that since Apollo has control of the Black Lordship ring he can bring you back into the family." There was a slightly awkward pause before Narcissa finished, "That is if you want him to."

"It never really bothered me," Andy said with a shrug.

"Why not do a family member exchange?" Draco asked from his seat between his rediscovered siblings.

"A what?" the Weasley twins asked together.

"Well, the memories I had of Aunt Bella before she was arrested were not good ones. So why not kick her out of the family and bring Mrs. Tonks in?" Draco asked, looking at Harry.

"Would that be okay?" Harry asked Andy.

"You don't have to do it," Andy said.

"That is neither a yes nor a no," Harry said.

"Come on si,s nothing needs to change either wa,y but I would love to have you back," Narcissa said, reaching over and patting her eldest sister's knee.

"Alright, fine," Andy sai,d smiling up at her baby sister. "On one condition."

"What?" Narcissa asked, thinking her sister was goingto try to use some legalize to confuse Harry/Apollo, making her wish her husband was there to counteract it. if it could harm the three kids.

"It is simple, every once and a while, you are to call my daughter by her birthname and annoy her like any good cousin should," Andy answered, looking to the triplets seated on her couch.

"Can we do it as well?" Fred asked.

"She might get you back, but she would just get annoyed if it came from family," Andy pointed out.

"I can agree to it," Harry aske,d looking to his older sister and young brother for their thoughts on the matter.

"Since I don't think apart from staying over here, I would meet her that often, it is fine with me," Luna said airily.

"If I must, anything is better than still being related to Aunt Bella," Draco said with a shudder after some thought. He could recall his dad reporting that the Dark Asshole was planning a breakout of Azkaban, and if Bella got ou,t she would possibly stay at the Manor unless the mad woman convinced the Dark Asshole to allow her to stay with him. Which were not odds Draco wanted to place bets on in either scenario.

"Then it is agreed," Andy said, shaking Harry's hand to seal the deal with a Magical Bond as he stood up to remove Bellatrix Lestrange from the Black family before someone taught him how to bring Andy and her family back into the line.

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Lucius's Perspective

Lucius was glad for the mask they were all forced to wear when attending a Death Eater meeting as he glanced around at his "allies." He knew, given the change, any one of them would turn on him for a better position within the group. Knowing that Severus worked for Albus and was Draco's Godfather did not make Lucius trust him any more than the others thought he acted like it for his role as a Ministry Spy.

When he was not looking at his 'fellow' Death Eaters, Lucius would also look towards Tall-Dark-and-Slythery to see if the man appeared weaker now that Harry/Apollo had removed the asshole from the Slytherin Family Magic. The monster was either not feeling the effects or was a greater actor than Lucius would have expected him to be, since Tall-Dark-and-Slythery was acting just like his normal self. Yet rather than have Lucius and the others give their reports on the jobs he had assigned them, the asshole spoke first. "A little while ago, McNair shared with me some interesting news that happened earlier today," Voldy said, making most of the group shift their gazes from the bastard to McNair, who most were startled to see was sitting not at his normal location but at Voldy's left. "It seems that Potter had used magic before some Muggle. Unfortunately, he was not found guilty, which would have led to his wand being snapped and getting expelled from Hogwarts, making it easier to kill the brat," Voldy said.

As the gathered crowd jeered at the news that Harry/Apollo had not been expelled, Lucius balled his hands into fists. He forced himself to pound them into the table like several others, as if he was also annoyed his Son had gotten off. "Yes, I know, but we can't have everything handed to us on a silver platter that would make life too boring," Voldy said to some laughter from the group. "Unfortunately, something else came out during Potter's trial. It seemed that for some reason they tested the brat, and due to the ritual I had gone through to get my body back, I was listed as Potter's offspring."

"Wha?" several Death Eaters asked, confused. Lucius also chimed in, though thankful for Amelia for placing the Magical Gag Order on everyone in the room so that the news that he and Xeno were Harry/Apollo's fathers could not be discussed.

"It is no big deal, besides making me have to speed up my plans. After all, I already killed my birth father, I can't wait to kill my new Magical one," Voldy said, making most of the group laugh at him. Lucius had to chime in with a fake work laugh, though he noticed that Severus paled slightly at the news.

"That being said, I want us to focus on breaking our allies out of Azkaban," Voldy said.

"But what about the Prophecy, M'Lord?" Lucius asked.

"Since the fools at the Ministry now know I am back, they will start to heighten security at places we could attack or Azkaban to prevent us from getting our people free. As far as I know, only Albus and whoever might believe him could guess I am after the Prophecy. So we will focus on freeing the others first before we find a way to get the Prophecy," Voldy said.

"But I had managed to place a tracking charm on one of the Unspeakables," Lucius lied, since he had been seen near the entrance to the DOM that morning as he waited for Xeno's signal.

"We should be able to use it later," Voldy said placatingly.

"Maybe not, according to what Rookwood told us before he had been captured, thanks to Igor," Seveurs cut in. "His reports said the robes worn by the Unspeakables could throw off most spells cast on them, and even tracking spells. Which I assumed Lucius used?" he asked, turning to Lucius.

"A low-powered one to reduce the chance of them detecting it," Lucius lied.

"Well, the robes would or maybe it would be clearer to say, could throw it off in about twenty-four hours," Severus said.

"We will just have to place a spell on one of them later," Voldy said, grumbling a little as he fingers his wand as if to say to drop the matter or he would curse them.

"Yes, M'Lord," both Sevuers and Lucious said, bowing towards the bastard.

"Wha?" the crowd cried out, as the pair of men responded to Voldy, the man's head rolled back, and he nearly tipped backwards out of his chair as he lost consciousness.

Normal Perspective

As Harry went to get his belongings from Mr. Weasley, he received a letter from the bank asking him to return. As that was a good enough place as any to meet Mr. Weasley, the group headed to the bank to see what the Goblins wanted as they went to pick up Harry's stuff before he moved into Tonk's place. Unlike last time, since Narcissa was helping Draco pack, and Xeno was doing the same with Luna, Harry was the only one allowed to attend the meeting with the Goblins. "Lord Black-Potter, we have some good news," the Goblins who had given Harry his Lordship Rings earlier said.

"We do indeed," the Goblin Harry had met when he had come to the bank to get tested said, sending a small glare at the other Goblin. "But before that, I think it is time for proper introductions. I am Downax, the Goblin Account Manager for the Black Family, and since you are the Son of the last leader, not to mention the current leader of the family itself, I am your primary contact."

"I am Prince Bonecrusher the VIII, and I am the account Manager of the accounts that you gained through the Blood Adoption to the Potters," Bonecrusher said giving Downax an apologetic look since due to his potiion in the Goblin Nation as well as the Potter/Gryffindor/Peverall standing in the Magical World he would normally be the one in charnge of contact with Apollo if not for the fact that the Hume had been born as a Member of the Black Family.

"Now we have some good news to report," Downax said with the Goblin equivalent of a smile. "Thanks to the Horcrux we removed from your system, we were able to track down several of them. One of which was attached to the Gaunt Family Ring," Downax reported as he slid the ring over to Harry.

"This means you will be able to take your place as a member of that family, if it accepts you," Bonecrusher said.

"Which would mean I could remove Voldyshorts from that line as well," Harry said, taking the ring from the table and sliding it onto his left ring finger. Just like the other rings had done, the Gaunt Family Ring tested Harry, but it was short-lived as his combined Lordship ring flashed between the Peverell and Slytherin Rings it settled down and changed its size to better fit his finger. Harry slipped the ring off his ring finger to slide it into place on his left middle finger, where his combined Lordship Ring rested, but for some reason, the Gaunt Ring did not combine with the others.

"Why did it not combine with the others?" Harry asked the pair of Goblins.

"When the team collected the ring from where the man known as Voldemort had stored it, we found that the ring itself is a powerful Magical Artifact. This might be why it is not joining with your other Lordship Rings," Bonecrusher said, not revealing to the young Hume that he had been part of the team to collect the artifact in the first place.

"I see," Harry said, looking down at the simple black ring with a strange crystal inlaid in it, which he could not identify. "What does it do?" he asked.

"We did not look into it," Bonecrusher reported. "But we can if you pass it back after you perform the ritual."

"I think I might try to discover what it does for myself," Harry said.

"Speaking of rituals," Downax cut in. "Before we used the ritual to locate the various Horcrux Voldemort had created, I was informed what Sirius had done to your father. Using my position as your Account Manager, based on what he had done to you, I removed him from your family's lines."

"What does that mean?" Harry asked.

"Just as you have removed Voldemort from the Slytherin and Peverell families, and are about to do for the Gaunt Family, your former Uncle Sirius is now considered a No-Name with no connection to any family nor ability to tap into the Black Family Magic. The only difference between the two is that I have made Sirius a No'Name he can still rely on magic from his mother's side of the family. Yet once you cut off Voldemort from the Gaunt Magic, he will, for a time, only be able to use the magic in his own body. Which will be reduced greatly."

"How long?" Harry asked.

"It all depends on whether he can convince someone to allow him to enter their family, or he dies," Bonecrusher said.

"Death is more than likely since we are tracking down to destroy his various Horcruxes," Downax said, knowing that the team at Hogwarts was still looking for the random Hogwarts Founder's artifact the Hume monster had defiled when he turned them into a Horcrux.

"What are the chances that someone allows him to share their family's magic?" Harry asked.

"It all depends on how much fear or control he has over those fools who call themselves Death Eaters," Downax answered.

"Well, then, here's hoping they hesitate to do so right away, making him weaker," Harry said with a small smile as he brought his left hand up and wrapped the fingers of his other hand around the Gaunt Family Ring.

"As the Lord of the Gaunt Family, I call upon the family magic to answer my call. By my judgment, Tom Marvollo Riddle, who goes by the name of Voldemort, is to be removed from this family and its magics. This action is due to him going against the leader of the family not to mention a person listed as his parent according to Magic," Harry said unable to stop a small smirk coming to his lips as he thought about doing this ealier with the Slytherin and Peverell rings and magic and how Fred, George, Ginny, Ron, Draco, and Luna had reacted to the line about him being Voldy's parent. "I strip Tom Marvollo 'Voldemort' Riddle of not only his access to the Gaunt Family magic but also any property or vaults that the line holds."

As the wave of magic moved away from him as he performed the ritual to follow his orders, it sought out Voldy as he was meeting with his Death Eaters. Rather than making the man cry out in pain as the Gaunt Family's magic was stripped from him, due to his weakened state, the man passed out, alarming his followers. Lucious, on the other hand, smiled under his mask, assuming the man had finally collapsed after Harry/Apollo had removed Tall-Dark-and-Slythery from the Peverell and Slytherin families.

"Before you leave the bank, we would like to ask what you prefer to be called, for our records, of course," Downax inquired.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked.

"Do you plan to go by your birhtname Apollo, or the one you are more familiar with?" Bonecrusher clarified.

"Um, either. I don't have a preference," Harry admitted as he was used to being called random names thanks to all the things the Dursleys called him, while some of his classmates alternated between just calling him The-Boy-Who-Lived, Harry, or even just Potter.

"Very well," Downax said, making the note in his client's bank records.

When Harry rejoined the others, Mr. Weasley took a moment to marvel at Harry's new look before he passed over Harry's shrunken belongings. Rather than everyone going back to the Tonks' family home, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley took Harry with them as they had Fred and George take the others back to the Burrow by way of Minuet Street to pick up some groceries. As Harry and the Weasleys Apparated to the edge of the Tonk's Wards, Mr. Weasley shared what had happened when he had gone to collect his family's stuff along with Hermione and Harry's. Thanks to what Downax had told him, Harry was able to answer how Sirius had escaped when he revealed that his Uncle had been removed from the Black line and kicked out of the family magic and all the properties. Arthur was still confused about everything since Molly was waiting until they got back to the Burrow to explain exactly what Sirius had done to her husband.

Due to the meeting with Downax and Bonecrusher, Harry and the Weasleys were the last to arrive to set up a room within the Tonks' family home. Harry's room within the place was in the same hall as Luna and Draco, up on the second floor, while Andromeda and her Husband, Ted, were up on the third. Nymphadora, who was not home yet, but according to her mom, had turned the basement of the home into a small apartment for herself. Harry's new room was almost twice the size of Dudley's second bedroom, which he used back at the Dursleys, but thankfully did not seem too large with all his belongings and recent purchases.

The same could not be said of Draco, whom Harry was able to hear complaining every once and a while about how small the room was compared to his one back home. Mostly due to how cramped the room was with some of the stuff he had brought over. Draco did want to stay and repair the bond with his siblings; he had just overpacked a little due to the size difference between his bedroom back at Malfoy Manor and the Tonks Townhouse.

Harry, Draco, and Luna did not see their new cousin until supper that night after Narcissa, Xeno, and the Weasleys had left for their own homes. Xeno had wanted to stay since it was just him and Luna at their place, but he also did not want to crowd the Tonks family or the reunited triplets. "Mum, Dad, I'm home," Tonks said as the sound of the door slamming shut told them she was on their way. Andromeda gave the triplets a pointed look as they listened to the Auror-in-training coming towards the dining room. "What a day. The Ministry tried to stage a full trial against Harry as Albus feared, but it at least proved that You-Know-Who is ba... Who are you?" she asked as she entered the room and saw Harry, Draco, and Luna seated at the table.

"Hello, cousin Nympahdora," Harry and Luna said excitedly while Draco said it with a little less gusto than his older siblings.

"Mum? Dad?" Nymphadora asked her hair half red due to being called her birthname and half blue due to her confusion.

"Dora, I would like you to meet your three young Cousins due to a Fertility Ritual, Luna Lovegood, her youngest brother, Draco Malfoy, and the middle triplet, Apollo, who also goes by the name Harry Potter," Andy said, smirking as her daughter's hair turned literally white with shock.

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Death Eater Meeting: currently located in the Goyle Family Château

Despite their concern that Vody had fallen unconscious randomly, none of the Death Eaters wanted to touch the man. Many were worried this was some test, and the first person to touch Voldemort would be cursed, if not downright killed by the man. After thirty minutes, however, someone finally scanned Voldy. Lucius kept his distance, thankful that he had the pretense to use the line that his wife was better with healing magic than he was. After all, it was one thing to prostrate himself to the monster; it was another thing altogether to actively help the bastard out.

It also did not surprise Lucius that the person who finally worked up the nerve and scanned Tall-Dark-and-Slythery was Severus, knowing that the Potions Master was considered Voldy's left-hand man, just as many believed Lucius was the assholes right-hand man. The whole group of Death Eaters watched on with bated breath as the results of Severus's test printed from his wand. "It seems someone from the Ministry finally had a good idea on how to try to hurt our Lord," Severus reported in his normal drawling voice.

"What do you mean?" the voice of Grant Goyle asked from behind his mask.

"According to my results, Our Lord has been made into a No'Name. Since he has just informed us that, according to Potter's Trial this morning, the brat has been discovered to be his 'parent', someone from the Ministry convinced the brat to kick our Lord from his family lines," Severus reported. Lucisuis was grateful for the mask since it prevented the others from seeing the look of anger flash across his face based on how Severus was talking about one of his kids. The blonde was also doing his best not to laugh since it had not been a Ministry worker who had talked Harry/Apollo into removing Tall-Dark-and-Slythery from his family lines, but Severus's Godson, Draco, who had suggested it.

The only thing Lucius could not figure out was why it had taken so long for the process since Harry/Apollo had removed Tall-Dark-and-Slythery from his lines before Lucius had been summoned to this meeting. If he had to hazard a guess, his Middle child had gained the missing Gaunt Family ring and finished removing the asshole from all his lines, thus cutting him off from all Peverell, Slytherin, and Gaunt family magic. This meant the monster only had the magic he had remaining in his own body to use. While from a certain point of view this was a good thing, Lucius could not get excited about it since some of the Death Eaters were just as bad, if not worse than Voldy was. Voldy at least made plans and followed through with them, unlike Fenrir Grayback and Cropin Crabbe, who just love to cause death, destruction, and mayhem for its own sake.

"This shows that they really fear or Lord," Lucius said. "They think that by having Potter removed, Our Lord from his family lines and magic, they can stop his victory over them. We shall have to prove them wrong." A loud cheer followed his words as the Death Eaters began to pound the table in agreement. "The best way to do this and bring our Master back to consciousness is that one of us will have to bring him into their family." At this, the room fell silent as no one wanted to make the Dark Lord a part of their family even if it would lead them to the victory that they knew he would give them all. "Don't worry, I know exactly who should be the one to welcome him into their family. As there is one among us whom the Ministry can not scan anyone in their line thus finding out their plan failed."

"Who?" many of the Death Eaters asked, looking among themselves.

With a smirk under his mask, Lucius performed a grand sweeping gesture as he pointed his finger at Peter Pettigrew, who was easily recognizable thanks to his solid silver arm. "Why, Wormtail, of course. After all, he found out he was the Lord of his family when he escaped from Black a few years ago before finding our Master. He can easily bring our Lord into his family, thus awaking him," Lucius said, not even having to pretend not to spit out the name Black as he thought about what Sirius had done to Harry/Apollo as well as the man's own brother.*

"Yes," the Death Eaters called in a cheer and agreement to his idea, leaving Pettigrew no choice but to make Voldy into a member of his family. Lucius could not help but smile under his mask, since no matter how powerful Tall-Dark-and-Slythery had been, due to how weak the Pettigrew family magic was, the man would be as powerful as he had been previously. Lucius saw his guess that the bastard's magical abilities were getting reduced was correct as Vody was brought back to consciousness only to fly into a rage after finding out he had first become a No'Name before becoming a member of Pettigrew's family. Lucius watched Voldy cast a spell on some of the surrounding Death Eaters, making him glad that McNair had been given his normal seat beside the man, as rather than getting blasted into a wall or with a Crutartus Curse, McNair just was knocked over his chair, twitching a little.

Tonks' Family Townhouse.

Harry could not help but laugh at his new cousin's reaction to hearing the story about Luna. Draco, and he being related to her. As he had only spent time with the woman randomly during meal times. Most of which she spent talking with Hermione and Ginny, Harry got to know Nymphadora, who insisted they call her Dora, since they were going to be staying at the townhouse. Thus, he learned that she had been a member of Hufflepuff house and her best subjects had been Charms and Potions. She had recently passed her Auror exams after failing several times due to how clumsy she was, which Harry recalled from her being a member of his 'Horor Guard' as well as tripping over the Troll-leg umbrella stand once they arrived at Grimmauld Place.

Harry liked the fact that with him in Gryffindor, his older sister, even if she was in the grade below him, being from Ravenclaw, and Draco as a Slytherin, they had a member of each Hogwarts House from the last decade at the table. However, it was not a completely happy meal, as Harry and the others explained what had happened after Harry's parantage had been discovered. Dora was happy, along with the rest of the Order, when they were informed that the Ministry knew Voldy was back. Her hair turned volcanic red as she got out of her seat and paced around the room to learn what Sirius had done to his younger brother. The news had been a major blow to her, since from the time she had been little, she had heard great tales about Sirius, before his arrest, which had led her to decide to become an Auror to follow his footsteps. To find out the man she had admired, more so after she had joined the Order and discovered he had been innocent of the crimes he was said to have committed, had killed his own brother in cold blood before stealing his nephew from Harry/Apollo's remaining family and giving him to others. She wanted nothing more than to track the bastard down and send him right back to Azkaban, without getting kissed.

The only issue was that, as Sirius had proven, due to his state of mind, the Magical Prison and the Dementors did not work on them like the other prisoners. She wondered if any other magical prisons would be better for him. Possibly one controlled by the various Creature Blooded species. She had heard that the Drak Magical Prison did not use Dementors, yet still kept their prisoners under control. If nothing else, they could send Sirius to serve out his punishment with the Goblins. Which, based on what Harry had stated, the Black Account Manager had done to Sirius, did not seem that hard to picture them allowing the bastard to be sent to the minds. And unlike Harry's 'Muggle Relatives', Sirius would have enough magic to be given the Kandaso-kaas punishment that they had informed Lucius Malfoy and the Headmaster about that Harry and his siblings had overheard while listening through a door.

Harry, Draco, and Luna fell into an easy rhythm during their stay with the Tonks family. The triplets would have breakfast and supper along with sleeping at the Tonks' Family Townhouse, but during the rest of the day, they would go out with Xeno, Narcissa, or Lucius. Sometimes all three, depending on their parents' schedules, just to hang out or do some activities to make them see each other as a complete family. One day, Xeno even showed that with Narcissa's and Lucius's help, he had added a basement room to his house. The room had been made into a memorial for Pandora, as the triplets' Bearer, but also Regulus and even Kreature. Magical Photos of the three had been put up, and a small Pensive had been set along with memory vials concerning the three that the family could visit whenever they visited the room. Luna and Draco explained the room would be useful during Samhain celebrations, even ones done at Hogwarts, to help focus on the three deceased members of their family.

A week after the triplets had started staying at the Tonks' Family Townhouse, and a week before their next year at Hogwarts began, the three received their official letters from Hogwarts. Having been informed about it already, no one was shocked when Draco's letter contained the Slytherin Prefect Badge. But what was shocking was that there was a secondary letter within Harry's envelope. The letter had been written by Headmaster Dumbledore inviting him, and all three of his parents, to a meeting at the Hogwarts Governer's Manor. As only Harry had been invited, Andromeda took Draco and Luna to get the new defense book, as well as Harry's, since they did not know how long the meeting would last.

The Hogwarts Governer's Manor: Unplotable, and Unreacheable unless invited to or were a current member of the Governors.

Lucius found it strange to be back inside the Governor's Manor after he had been removed from the board back in Draco's Second Year. He had not imagined he would have been invited back, even if he had come up with an issue regarding his son or possibly Luna if their relationship had become known before now. Yet, he also knew it made perfect sense to be meeting the Headmaster here since they were unlikely to be interrupted. As only the current Governors could come to the Manor, and the Governors' first meeting of a school year took place the first weekend of the term, no one else would stumble across them for whatever this meeting was about.

He was therefore surprised to find that besides Albus, Severus was waiting for them. "Are we waiting for the other Heads of House?" Lucius asked, wondering if the meeting was down to the reveal of Harry/Apollo's paratnatge.

"No, we are not," Albus said as he pulled out a Pensive. "Since I have been informed that the Goblins have finished collecting and removing the Horcruxes from the various Hogwarts Treasures, I thought I would give you your request from when we met at Gringotts."

"Which one?" Lucius asked.

"That your middle child deserved to learn about the Prophecy concerning him. And since I was the one to whom the Prophecy was given, rather than taking it from the Department of Mysteries, which would allow our newly named Tom Pettigrew less to worry about. I thought I would just show you the full memory from when the Prophecy was given to me," Albus said.

"How do you know about that?" Lucius said, gulping a little, having not shared that aspect of the Death Eater meeting with any of the triplets.

"Why do you think Professor Snape is here? He is also a spy within the ranks, though rather than answering to the Ministry like you do, he is a member of the Order," Albus said. "He also heard part of the Prophecy, which is how, as I heard you call him, Tall-Dark-and-Slythery learned about it."

"I am aware of that," Lucius said, reaching down and placing a hand on Harry/Apollo's shoulder since this was another thing he had kept from his son, not wanting to burden him, Draco, or Luna with it, knowing what he knew now.

"What you might not be aware of is that due to Tall-Dark-and-Slythery deciding that the Prophecy was about the Potters making him target them, Professor Snape changed sides and became a member of the Order. But we can get into that later," Albus said, seeing mistrustful looks on Harry, Xeno, and the Malfoys' faces

Albus extracted some memories from his head, adding them to the Pensive before tapping it to have the memory play out above the surface of the magical artifact.

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."

As Harry watched what looked like Professor Trelawney giving the Prophecy, which made him wonder if that was what the Headmaster was referring to when he said Trelawney had earned a raise for giving another one, Harry could not help but subconsciously spin one of his rings around his finger. "But how can it even apply to me? I mean, since my parents took part in the Fertility ritual, they were not really the Potters who might have defied him three times?" Harry asked.

"That is true, but that does not mean that your birth parents did not do the same thing. After all, Regulus defied him by going after one of his Horcruxes, and Lucius turned spy against him for his actions during the war, leading to Narcissa being unable to have kids. And Xenophilius... Um," Albus said, drawing a blank at how the man had defied the man.

"We took part in the Fertility Ritual," Lucius supplied. "While we had to do so because some of your actions in weakening Magical Blood and birthrates, Tall-Dark-and-Slythery forbid any of his supporters from taking part in them. Since it could make alliances that he did not approve of when kids were born or mix the blood of those whom he despised."

"I see," Albus said, wondering if he should start to look into ways that both protected the nation while repairing its inhabitants' Magical Powers, bloodlines, and birthrates.

"But what about being born as the seventh month dies? According to the Gringotts test, Luna, Draco, and I were born in June, not July, and it was near the start of the month, not the end of it?" Harry asked, still spinning one of his rings around his finger, not even realizing he was doing so.

"The only thing I can think of is when the Potters' Blood Adopted you. You were revealed to the Magical World as their son at the start of August, so the procedure had to be done at the end of July. While this was not a natural birth but a Blood Adoption which is akin to Magical Birth into a new family," Albus said wth a shrug.

"It still makes no sense that he would target me or that I would somehow be protected, thanks to Mum's sacrifice," Harry said, showing that just cause he accepted Narcissa as a mother, along with Pandora, he still saw the Potters as parents. Which made Lucisus, Narcissa, and Xeno share a look as they wondered if they should add a section for the Potters in the memorial room at Rooks Landing.

Due to Harry's heightened emotions, he unknowingly activated the powers of the Resurrection Ring, which he had been subconsciously turning during the meeting so far. Much to everyone's surprise, the forms of Regulus Black and Kreacher appeared, moving forward as if to hug Harry, only to stop before making any physical contact due to their spiritual bodies. "My Son," Regulus said, tears falling from his ghostly eyes.

"Kreacher is glad Kreacher's plan worked and Apollo is back with his family," Kreacher said.

"Papa?" Harry said, turning to Regulus's form before he started crying as well, and he was not the only one as both Malfoys and Xeno cried seeing the third family of their Fertility ritual again along side his beloved House Elf.