Chapter 15

It's been around fifteen minutes since I um strategically retreated from the seven year old girl. Mom came and told me to go with arcturus to black manor and that they were going to take Iris to st.mungos to meet a healer after they show her the wonders of diagon. She told me she'll be at black manor in an hour or so and that I was to go back to my potions practice. I head to Manor Black with Arcturus. On the way he asks me what I thought about Iris being the Heir Black after Sirius instead of me.

I told him, "In all honesty I care not for the title. If do indeed become lord black there will be far too many idiots who would solicit my help for this task or another as I would hold significant influence in the dark sect as a whole as I would be both Lord Black and Lord Malfoy, not to mention being head of house to Lord Parkinson as well. It's better this way. You'll have to ask mother to teach Iris all the customs and laws and the like. In the future there will be many who would seek to control her or manipulate her for her fame."

"That is true but if I know narcissa as well as I think I do she already has a lesson plan she will rope both you and Iris into in the comics months irrelevant of whether it is something you want or need. I do need to mention if narcissa has taken inspiration from her own etiquette teacher you have my pity." Arcturus ends solemnly as if sending off someone at a funeral.

"And who was this instructor grandfather?" I ask warily because I've felt her potions and occlumency training.

"That would be my elder sister Cassiopeia black, she passed away three years ago be thankfully otherwise you would have been trained under her as well. She trained me and my entire family including Sirius and your mother." He actually shivered as he remembered his training so I really hope mother doesn't feel the need to emulate her trainer. And in case she does I'll rope in Sirius to suffer as well something about his stay is azkaban being bad for his reputation and his need to improve it by being a perfect pureblood gentle man should do the trick. If I am going to suffer I shall prank a prankster to join in on my suffering.

It had been an hour and a half since mom went off with Sirius and Iris before she returned. Apparently Sirius took Iris to Gringotts to have her inheritances sorted. She'll be here soon. I was practicing my occlumency. I believed that I had finally completed my mindscape. The dungeon took some time to completes as I had to design each and every floor and each floor monster and the like. I took me nearly five months of constant working to complete the made the tower and the dungeon.

The other fittings like cameras and traps will be added next. I had to be absolutely certain that my mind would be protected from the literal god's in the next universes. Skyrim alone was chock full of them. Either way it seems that Sirius is back at the manor with Iris as a house elf asked me to head to Arcturus's study.

Once I got there I saw that Sirius, mother Arcturus and iris were there waiting for me. "I assume you and mother have explained things satisfactorily to Ms Potter, Sirius?"

" We have, son we called you here for Sirius to hear from yourself that you have no interest in contesting Little Iris for the Black Headship." Mom replies, I repeat what I said to arcturus earlier and mom gets a glint in her eye that I'm not entirely comfortable with.

"Don't worry about her training I shall be taking care of that" she says, entirely failing to stop me from my worries." For now why don't you and iris go to the living room and talk, we have some issues to clear out and I'm sure Iris will appreciate the our company."

I look over to Iris and hold out my arm and ask her "Ms potter if you will." She takes my hand and I'm happy to report that my reports about her being physically unharmed if a very underfed are true. She grasps my hand without any second thought or any flinching that would occur if a child was physically abused.

I maneuver our hands into the classic gentleman escorting a lady position and take her from the room. I must say that my whole mature thing seems to have abandoned me as I have no bloody glue how an actual seven year old boy would act towards a seven year old girl so I decide to stop trying to pretend being one and open up conversation with a, "Ms potter I am well aware that your have a singularly large amount of questions that you would like answer. So please go ahead, ask and I shall endeavour to answer."

To this she looks at me with a tilted head clearly in thought and finally asks me "why do you call me Ms Potter, everyone my age always call me Iris?"

"In the magical world Ms Potter it is considered impolite to use ones given name without leave from the individuals, as you have not yet given me leave to do so I shall address you as Ms Potter, or simply potter whilst speaking informally."

"Please call me iris then, so I shouldn't by I around calling wizard and witches by their first names even of they are my age."

We spoke for over and hour in the living room before the elders cane out. We covered topics from why Arcturus was called black and what it meant in the wizarding world to what Hogwarts was like and what subjects it thought. She also asked me what blood adoption was.

That took me nearly and hour more to explain as I had to tell her about voldemort, his deathmuchers, the pureblood movements, And all the crap that Sirius should have told her already. He only gave her the bare bones and told her that he would explain it to her once they were back at the manor and then left it to me. I have to say though she was an inquisitive and in all honesty what seems to me at least as mature as a twelve year old rather than a seven year old which all things considered was impressive. Turns out she used to knick books and the like from Dudley all the time and studied quite a lot.

After nearly two hours of discussions the others finally came out as me and Iris were locked in what would to a seven year old be a chess game of epic proportions mostly because I didn't know what seven year olds liked to play. So I thought her how to play chess, while not a grandmaster after two games she did learn decently enough. Mom came over to me goes "Alexander please escort Iris to her rooms. It is the room opposite to you. Lord Black has also decided that we shall begin educating iris in various magical subjects and etiquette soon. It has also been decided that you shall be a part of this education as well. From iris's seventh birthday on I shall begin to teach you both how to wield daggers. For now go rest. It shall be busy year for the two of you."

It's been three weeks since we got Iris to Black Manor. In that time I have been talking to iris a lot mostly teaching her stuff both magical and what little I remembered from my education in my previous life. Mother has already begun her occlumency training and says that magic training will only start when the memories start sorting themselves.

I aided Iris in designing a custom mindscape just as good as mine own. I advised her to make her mindscape something out of the fallout series a few mutants and the like a few magical animals a desolated landscape with a few prominent buildings. Her own memories would be sorted like mine on a laptop protected by a password. Possibly in parseltongue once we find out about that. A few standing guns anti aircraft batteries, a couple tanks. you know light stuff. That actually gave me a few ideas as well I decided to incorporate the guns as well. The wizarding stupidity affected me as well if I didn't think of guns. Also mines mines were a necessity for any proper trap.

I seem to have taken rather well to iris and in all honesty to no surprise of mine Draco's meeting with her wasn't nearly as pleasant. I might have suggested that if any boy annoys her she had the right to call him an idiot and possibly kick him in the nuts if he continued bothering her, So she did. The crack was painfully loud. I'm sorry to say if he does become lord Parkinson the line might go extinct.

Iris has taken the change from full fledged Muggle to full fledged witch rather well. I do take credit for like 56 percent of it though. Sirius seemed to let all the explaining duties fall to me and is already drawing up a five year apprenticeship in pranking for the two of us. Which I am indeed looking forward to. In the past three weeks I had managed to max out novice occlumens and had chosen the apprentice potioneer job which gave the same benefits as the novice job but with a stacked 20% improvement which meant they were 30% overall increase.

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Status

Name - Alexander corvus black-malfoy

Alias - Alexander Charles black,Abraxus arcturus malfoy

Rank - 1

Job - apprentice potioneer, lvl 13

Job history - novice potioneer, novice rune reader, novice occlumens

Skills-

Rune reading 4

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