Chapter 16

It has been a month overall from the day that Sirius's trial occured. We had indeed received all of crouches property and wealth even the house elf winky. I did recommend that the elf be questioned by the aurora to find out if crouch had similarly put other innocent individuals into jail. Of course that led to the information that crouch senior broke out crouch junior. Senior was arrested and thrown in azkaban for ten years while junior as he had a life sentence broke out of azkaban was given the dementia kiss.

Arcturus actually gave me and mother all the crouch property and wealth saying that it wouldn't make that big of a difference to the Black wealth and that we would use it better. This added three properties including Crouch manor l, and around 6.3 million galleons and a few hundred in sickles and knuts. The votes that crouch held as and ancient and noble family came to four votes so they were decided equally between Arcturus and Mother for the Black and Malfoy houses. I now had access to the crouch family magic as well. The Crouches specialized in translation magic. They were capable of producing some sort of crystal that would use a very specific kind of legilmency to copy any language based knowledge one had and could impart it to another over the Time of two weeks. It was very simple to use, you placed a crystal on the head of the one you wanted to learn the languages from. Leave it overnight, take it of the next morning and place it on your head for the next night. You could take it off the next day and the knowledge would settle in over a Period of two weeks.

We had actually been working to integrate the Black, Malfoy and Crouch libraries together. Any books that we had extra copies of were sold off. I had actually asked a Black elf to search the libraries for any anti copyright spells. If I had them before going to Hogwarts I'd have seven years to copy every single book in the castle by the time I am done.

It was now time for the daily etiquette lessons which in all honesty was quite simple, it was simply being polite with a shit load of bells and whistles attached to it. I do have to say though in any future world's dealing with royalty and nobility will be a hell of a lot more easier.

I entered the hall as mother called the room in which we had our lessons. Today we were going over the various pureblood families and the wizengamot makeup.

Mother starts s soon as I enter as Iris was already there. "The wizengamot was created right after the statute of secrecy was put in place. It was preceded by the Wizards council and the council of lords before that. The votes in the current wizengamot are based on the membership of the precious councils. Families who were part of both the Wizards council and the council of lords were given the title of Ancient and most noble with seven votes in the wisengamot. The families who were only part of the council of the lord's were given the title of ancient and noble with four votes. And the ones that were only part of the wizengamot after the statute of secrecy was put in were given the title of noble families and granted two votes on the wizengamot.any questions so far?"

"Not really, do the potters fall into one of these classifications, aunt narcissa?" Iris asks she now calls mother Aunt narcissa.

"No child, the potters were unlike nearly any pureblood families of old. The potters when the wizengamot was created refused to swear fealty to the Muggle kings which all other members of the current wizengamot did. The potters exact words back then are written into history books right now. Hardwin potter said this in front of the wizengamot, ' I will not kneel, especially to some fool who thinks he holds the right to rule over me because his family a few generations ago conquered Muggle Britannia. This is magical Britain and I refuse his right to rule it as he has failed to conquer this lands people. My family has been here since the Roman occupation of Britain and were druids before that and I refuse some whingy bastards demand of fealty.'"

Iris actually looked happy seeing that she had such badass ancestors. I have to say that was slightly impressive I probably would have done the same if I was there.

"The potters have their own words, like the black words are toujours pur. The potters however have different methods they have their family words and at the time of their seventeenth birthday they choose their own personal words.

The family words have been as such 'temet ipsum ad Esse veru' it quite literally translates to 'to thine own self stay true.' while each potter family member either by blood or by marriage or adoption chose their own words once they turned seventeen or were married."

"Does anyone know my parents words?" iris asked with a cute wrinkle thing in her brow as a Result of a seven year old frown.

"Your father's was very well known, It read as 'Natus Vincere' translates to 'born to conquer'. Your mother's well you would have to ask the goblins at gringotts for that information. They have always liked the potters as it was a family made entirely of warriors and above all the goblins respect warriors.

Your grandparents words on the other hand were well known to Arcturus. Charlus Potter choose the words ' Invictus maneo' translates to 'I remain unconquered' and Dorea Potters words were 'honour thy blood' you will have to think about your own words for the future child."

"I must say mother I do like this tradition of the potters I might adopt it myself, mostly because the malfoy words of 'We bow to no one' seems false from the actions of the past two generations I will need to choose new words for us." I intercede into the conversation.

The lesson goes on for another hour or so before we are dismissed. I have bee teaching Iris the beginings of potions. Such as the properties of various ingredients and the like. I must confess it seems she has inherited her mother's most esteemed talent for potions. I must introduce her to sevvy sometime she'd make and excellent apprentice to him if he could keep the snarkiness to a minimum.

I had actually managed to increase my apprentice potioneer level to 47 in a week of simply instructing Iris and making several dozen batches of low level healing potions as Snape needed for the hospital wing at Hogwarts. She was actually quite good at potions I assume from muscle memory of cooking for the dursleys. Speaking of Arcturus and Sirius had started trials proceeding for them as in any rational world putting a child under the stairs for five years and feeding her the bare minimum would be and was considered child abuse. Since it was never physical they would get away with light punishments like a fine or a couple months in prison at most but they are irrelevant to the story.

Iris had been settling in really well, she spends a lot of time either with me or mother or Sirius who tells her everything he knew about her parents the good and the bad.

Iris when not having anything to do took to following me around like a lost lamb which if you think of it was true. I sorta took advantage of her and started teaching her stuff simply because I was getting bored with no new events. She became a brewing assistant of sorts when I brewed for Severus, I explained things to her ,gave her one third of the loot and in all honesty hoped really hard that's he would be willing to stay on as an assistant student for the next four or so years. I must say that I liked the kid though. It seems she has attached herself to me like I was her role model of some sorts since that day we played chess, Which I was actually happy about.

The cute redhead seems to have decided that Arcturus was her grandfather and insisted on calling him grandpa which everyone thought was too cute and didn't try to stop her. Apparently Sirius was uncle Siri and mother was Aunt cissa as well. And I was termed Alex simply Alex which I found out I didn't totally hate. Sirius had gotten in touch with his childhood friend Remus lupin known otherwise as moony to meet up with him sometime next week.

I had gotten mother to get back into contact with my Aunt Andromeda, there was some drama When she met arcturus because she had been disowned from the family. Arcturus explained that it wasn't because she married a muggleborn but because she did do without informing the head of house that was him. He was in the middle of negotiations with the Selwyn's for an acceptable marriage contract for her when she suddenly left and got married. If she had informed him he would have spoke to the Selwyn's and stopped the negotiations before she got married instead she got married right when the negotiations were young on and was an insult to the Selwyn's and as such they needed to disown her as recompense.

He told her that since her child had the black family gift of metamorphing he could now reinstate her without issue if she so wished. Her husband as well if he was willing to take the name of Black especially given his own success at the law offices of Ogden, Rand and Lowthers. She would come to a decision of that soon.

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Status

Name - Alexander corvus black-malfoy

Alias - Alexander Charles black,Abraxus arcturus malfoy

Rank - 1

Job - apprentice potioneer, lvl 47

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

Skills-

Rune reading 5

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