Chapter 22

It was the day we'd leave for our first years at Hogwarts. A few major things took place in the past year, one was the fact that Iris had the Horcrux taken out of her scar and destroyed when she turned eleven. A relatively simple procedure as the Goblins put it, it was a ritual they used to transfer the soul piece into something else. And then dipped the item into a Furnace then blasted it with fiendfyre. Iris was also formally adopted into the black Family and was now named Iris Dorea Potter-Black. As Voldemort was already possessing Quirrel as evidenced by the fact that we met him at the leaky cauldron when we went to receive Iris's wand. There was the stutter and the turban there already. And considering the next day there was news of an attempted break in at gringotts I assumed that the plot for the philosopher's stone was underway.

Considering that mother brought the diary in to gringotts the very next day and did the ritual destroying all of voldemort's Horcruxes, when they realised that there was one in Bellatrix lestrange's vault, they confiscated all the lestrange vaults including the family vault which was covered by the contract all families had with Gringotts if you broke the few rules set forth by the goblins all vaults owned by your family would be seized. Considering they found out due to mother's information, they received a total of seventy five percent of the gold in the vaults, mother received the rest of the gold all the valuables and books except any and all goblin made items which would be returned to their maker. Which we agreed to.

I had spent all my savings and earnings I made from making potions for Severus's use and sale from nearly five years if work and made one hugely expensive purchase.

I had ordered a custom made ultra luxury Trunk made for my Hogwarts years. I went seriously overboard on that one thing, all my other Hogwarts things were pretty standard stuff, except for my potions set and ingredients which were similar to Iris's at master level.

The trunk itself was a marvel and set me Back 1400 galleons. Given that since I was seven I received only twenty five galleons month and most of my books and the like we're purchased with the money I made working for Severus.

The trunk had two of the usual twice as large compartments for storage of miscellaneous items. It had two small twelve by twelve bedrooms with a King-sized beds and closets that were as big as the bedrooms, a Potions laboratory as good as Severus's with stasis charmed ingredients and potions cupboards, a semi decent Alchemy laboratory, a huge library compartment that also had a couple of study tables for use. A rune carving station, average sized greenhouse of compartment to grow several ingredients in, a room to practice my spell work in with a dummy that would show the appropriate reactions to spells but couldn't move and a bathroom with an actual bathtub. All the compartments were only accessible from what could be called a living room compartment that was the third setting from outside the trunk. It had a couple of couches, loveseats and an incredible recliner. All other compartments had named doors around the living room compartments to be accessed. The closets Could be accessed from the bedrooms alone.

Over kill yes but I was doing my own studies in Alchemy, runes, enchanting, potions and even herbology and it was all necessary. Granted spending enough money to purchase a decent sized house in wizarding areas might be a bit much but still at the very least I would need the library, the rune carving station, the potions laboratory, the alchemy laboratory, and the greenhouse for the more expensive ingredients. The bedroom, living room, closet,and bathroom were all pure luxury items but well why the hell not. The trunk had several security measures and was warded against being used by anyone other than those I would grant permission. It had voice command shrinking, enlarging and a permanent feather light charm as well. Lined entirely with moleskin and made of mahogany wood. The trunk had been shrunk on my wand holster in the trunk socket.

Speaking of wands, Iris had gotten a wand made of ash wood and the heartstring of a horned serpent. Excellent for any and all branches of magic and incredibly loyal to its true master, and would literally be about as magical as a stick in any hands other than Iris's. Draco's wand was made of Elm, and had a unicorn tail hair core, would be great at charms and transfiguration. He was actually very good with his studies once I started being his role model. Though he stuck to the traditions more than I did, I too appreciated them. He had taken his OWL's in the same subjects me and Iris took our NEWT's in.

Unsurprisingly Iris and I had scored outstandings in all NEWT's Iris did get an outstanding plus in Potions while I received one in runes. And since we had five newts each We were officially exempted from the whole underage magic usage and had our traces removed. We weren't emancipated or something just exempted from the underage restriction. I had put off on learning practical magic till Iris and Draco turned Eleven each so that we would be thought and learn everything that mom, Sirius and arcturus had to teach us simultaneously. In all honesty I've enjoyed the last year and did not study any new subjects or cast spells at all simply because I will be at Hogwarts for a few years and I wanted to enjoy my time there and not spend all of it bored out of my mind. I have worked my ass off for nearly four years since I awoke in this world and it's high time I got some rest.

Iris had actually taken an interest in Alchemy and Rituals as they were the natural progression of her studies in Potions. She had studied all my alchemy with me and had actually taken an interest in Enchanting and charms as well now that she could actually do it we had received dispensation from Headmaster Dumbledore to skip all classes we had newts in. We had already spoken to Severus and he had offered us a potions apprenticeship for the time we were at Hogwarts if we performed well and created at least one new Masters level potion by the time we left Hogwarts we would be certified as potions masters. Similarly we planned on speaking to the Runes professor Bathsheba babbling who was a recognized master of Runes to grant us a Runes mastery if we could impress her enough. If we did we would be the youngest dual masters in British history at the age of seventeen and eighteen each. Dumbledore did tell us that any apprentices of Hogwarts professors were obliged to be assisting professors to their masters. Which we planned on doing if Severus and Babbling did indeed want us to.

Hell if possible we wished to add Arithmancy to the list of masteries we'd have by the time we left Hogwarts. Perhaps even a dueling mastery which would help us get on the professional dueling circuits. Especially given that Filius Flitwick is a Dueling master.

Sure our timetables will be super fucked up but Hogwarts was a Resource we planned on milking for all its worth. It's not like we had much of social lives outside the small circle of friends we had, and there would be no adventures to distract us from studies so to speak. Also in all honesty we were workaholics. I mean we were near constantly studying, practising with our daggers, swords, thinking on our enchantments for our eleventh birthday gifts. Iris also received two daggers on her eleventh birthday to do with as she pleased with the promise of a pair of daggers being commissioned for her seventeenth birthday like mine. Draco sadly passed on that not having more than a passing interest in swordsmanship.

I was packing up my stuff. I had virtually emptied my own book shelves, all my potions ingredients were in the trunks. Various things needed for the study of alchemy, various tools for etching runes, a shitload of clothes, books and anything else I could think of seeing as I had one amazing trunk. Actually speaking of Iris decided one bedroom and closet were here and all her clothes were in it, all the options stiff and the like we're also in mine she literally had only a few knick knacks in her plain unexpanded trunk and that was simply for show, especially given that all Slytherin's had their own rooms to do with as they pleased it was highly likely most of our nights will be spent in the trunk. Not that either of us cared much about rules, but we would probably get dispensation to do as we please if we said we were researching or something especially given that Severus Was fond of us and wouldn't really care about stupid things like that. We also had a training sword and two training daggers each to keep up practising with each other.

Since Iris has had access to the job system and received half the bonuses I did for every job she did she had nearly as many jobs as I did even if her boosts were significantly lower. Still decent and better than nearly every wizard on this planet though.

It was time to go to the station and board the train.

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Status

Name - Alexander corvus black-malfoy

Alias - Alexander Charles black, Abraxus arcturus malfoy

Rank - 7

Job - Novice transfiguration Caster, lvl 14

Job history -Master Rune carver, Master Arithmancer, Master HP Historian, Master Potioneer, Master Rune reader, Master Occlumens, Master Dagger User, Master sword User, Noble charmer, Master French User, Master German User, Master Italian User, Master Latin User, Master Japanese User, Master Ancient Greek User.

Number of jobs completed :- 71

Skills-

Rune Scripting 10

Charisma 10

Dagger mastery 10

Sword mastery 10

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Iris's status

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Status

Name - Iris Dorea Potter-Black

Rank - 7

Job - Novice Charmcaster lvl 13

Number of jobs completed :- 71

Skills-

Rune Scripting 10

Charisma 10

Dagger mastery 10

Sword mastery 10

Serpent Speech 10 (innate talent)

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