Unlikely Heroes: Redemption

Title: Unlikely Heroes: Redemption

Pairing: Pre-slash DracoxHarry, LuciusxSeverusxRemus, CharliexBlaise, ViktorxGeorge, etc

Fandom: Harry Potter

Summary: With Harry, Draco and Dora in comas; it's up to Lucius, Remus, Severus and Harry's ancestor Sirius to put the Wizarding World on a path to a world they would be safe in. Without Draco to hold Slytherin together, will it destabilize the tentative unity that Hogwarts hasn't achieved in over 100 years? CreatureFic Sub!Harry MPREG

Notes: Is compatible to the Selection of Triwizard Champions.

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Chapter 8- Questions and choices

After reviewing the Veela Mind Healer and Healer reports as well as his own son’s report delivered daily by his son’s mate Merope Fairchild; Sirius I; King of the Chuvash decided that now was the best time to talk to Andromeda…

He summoned her to his study and she arrived promptly with her bonded.

“Yes your Highness?” Andromeda curtseyed.

“Hey Dragon Lord.” Ted chuckled.

Sirius I smirked, “Morning Ted.”

“What do you want to talk to us about?”

“I know that you only have the one child but Blacks are usually renowned for their fertility.” Sirius began.

“That was before forced births let madness in.” Andromeda snorted.

“Or your sisters tried to curse you into losing Dora.” Ted grumbled.

“I almost lost her, hence I spent much of my pregnancy in St. Mungos’ because it was difficult to keep her in my womb.” Andromeda said twisting her green healer’s robes in her hands.

“So you didn’t try for children?” Sirius frowned.

“Was advised not to, I’ve been using a variety of contraception to prevent it.” Andromeda said quietly. “When we did try we lost them both: Edward Pollux and Alkyone Eirene. Ted calls them Teddy and Ally…”

 

“What if I offered you the chance at a son as well as a team of healers to ensure that it was brought to deliver healthy?” Sirius asked.

Ted squeezed his Bonded’s hand, “Don’t tease us.”

“I have someone who deserves a second chance, they’ll be reverted to an egg and implanted into your womb. After their birth you can blood adopt them to ensure that they are entirely yours. They will need to be raised in a loving home; they will be a submissive Chuvash like Harry, but there is no guarantee that he will be fertile. Which might be devastating but I will try to find kind widowed dominants with children to bring around when he gets close to being of age.”

“Is it who I think it is Uncle Sirius?” Andromeda frowned.

“If you mean the troubled young man in my custody awaiting judgement then yes, between you both I believe is the proper parenting and with your training I think you can handle it. You’re also the only ones I could trust with his raising.”

“Over your own children?” Ted asked thoughtfully.

“Yes, I think that he needs someone who has a more open-mind when it comes to darker magicks as well as counselling. He will be born with no memories as to his previous life and I want him to be raised with no idea that he was ever Tom Riddle. It would be best if he just disappeared from memory." Sirius I mused.

Andromeda said nothing.

Ted sighed, "Do we need to decide now?"

Sirius I shook his head, "Of course not, just soon."

Ted smiled weakly, "Thank you for, thinking of us sir."

The King of the Chuvash shrugged, "No problem, I prefer you to my namesake after all."

Andromeda roused enough to snort, "He is hard to like sir." She winced, “He used to call me his favourite cousin. He looked up to me after I eloped, said it gave him to courage to stand up to his mother and run away. I kept in touch with him but the one time we let him watch Dora in an emergency he let her get a hold of his broom and Ted came home to her screaming because she hit her head and broke her arm. Trust me I have yet to forgive him for that…”

“Annie, that’s because you thought you should have called anyone else. It’s really yourself you haven’t forgive.” Ted chided.

Andromeda glared, “Ted I love you but do not use your Mind Healer skills on me.”

“You do have the Black temper and spirit.” Sirius I chuckled.

Andromeda bowed, “I’m sure it would be crass for Slytherins to say but I suspect we have similar motives for leaving our family to bond to the person of our choice.”

Sirius smirked, “Perhaps, that’s why you’re my favourite descendant of my brother.”

Andromeda snorted, “With two mad dangerous sisters, a dead cousin and a narrow-minded jerk; I’d say I was the only sane one but Aunt Walpurga would have issues with that statement. I’m not really going to include Uncle Alphard’s kids or Aunt Lucida’s because they weren’t Blacks.”

“Walpurga’s dead and her nonsense has left me to clean up her mess.” Sirius I grumbled, “I do have more pressing matters to attend to but I wanted the Riddle problem dealt with. Do let me know as soon as you have a decision.”

The Tonks nodded and left together.

XoooooX

Remus had spoken to Hermione yesterday and had informed her of the adjusted punishment.

She had turned red and closed her eyes when she was told that she would be escorted home to her parents’ home outside London.

She hadn’t begged to stay but she seemed very unhappy about it.

Remus picked her up in the Gryffindor Tower Common room just before breakfast and they walked silently out of the castle together heading for Hogsmeade.

They had no sooner crossed the edge of the Anti-Apparition wards when he held his arm out to Hermione.

The woe-be-gone witch dutifully held out her arm but looked for all the world like she was heading for her own funeral.

Remus had a hard time feeling sorry for her, even if he’d had the misfortune to have met her parents.

Hermione clung to his arm but said nothing when they Apparated to a Public Apparition Point near her house to walk there in silence.

Hermione let go as soon as possible and Remus unshrunk her trunk before they headed towards her house.

Crookshanks was enclosed in his basket, which was stuck to her trunk.

He was doing his normal hissing in irritation but neither paid him any mind.

Hermione hung back while Remus rapped on the door.

Her father who was frowning in a manner, which seemed razor sharp, opened it …

“Thank you for delivering our daughter so promptly. I’m sure you have more important duties being a professor at a boarding school. Hermione leave your belongings in the hall closet, your mother is waiting in the living room.”

Despite a sense of foreboding, Remus left Hermione with her family merely hoping for the best.

XoooooX

With the Dark Lord out of the way and his puppet Fudge gone, Lucius had yet to negotiate the extent of his ‘power behind the throne’ that the Malfoys preferred.

He had arranged for a meeting with Emelia Bones that would take place the same time as Remus was delivering the Granger turncoat witch home.

He flooed from Severus’ office to the Ministry Atrium and made his way via the elevator to the Minister for Magic’s office.

“Emelia.”

“Lucius.”

“How is the change in power coming?”

“We’ve lost Undersecretary Umbridge and the office was falling apart but Madam Greengrass sent her own junior secretary Verity King who has tried to whip this place into shape.”

“How is Madam Greengrass? She is bonded to a cousin of mine, Sancus and they have three daughters.”

“She’s still on the Education committee though she works as Head of the Magical Children’s Department.” Emelia shrugged. “If Percy Prewett-Weasley is interested, Crouch’s position is open. He’s been doing Crouch’s job for a while anyway. We’ll need to find someone to take over for that irresponsible prat.”

“I’ll discuss it with him, right now he is dealing with some family issues but I’m sure he will consider it. If he’s doing the work then he might as well get paid for it.” Lucius smirked.

“Indeed.” Amelia chuckled.

 “Is there anything I can do to remain loyal to the Office of the Minister?” Lucius asked pompously.

“I know that you are on the International Relations Committee but I would like it if you would handle the debriefing of the current ambassadors and you can advise me about whether any of them are suited to their assignments.”

Lucius bowed, “It would be my pleasure.”

Amelia waved him off, “You can retrieve the list from Miss King and I’ll trust you to have the first report shortly.

Lucius nodded, “Yes Minister.” Before exiting with a smug expression, an official advisor to the Minister how stimulating…

XooooooX

Severus normally didn’t rely on anyone aside from himself but he was not going to agree to Slughorn taking over his Potions class even if he was pregnant and he had a sinking feeling that Andromeda wasn’t going to be able to help him for very long.

He remembered reading that Lady Helga was bonded to a half-Sidhe…

So he planned to speak with her…

However he wasn’t really alright with conversing with a portrait copy provided by the Room of Requirement…

He made his way to the Great Hall not stopping until he reached the Founders’ portraits and immediately bowed in front of Lady Helga, “My Lady…”

“Dear me…” the famed charms mistress stammered, “How can I help you professor?”

“I was wondering if you had another portrait…” Severus coughed.

“Oh?” Helga asked with frown, “We had three smaller portraits…I can tell you where they are now that my soul portrait was been placed where it belongs…”

“I would be interested in locating all of your portraits but I would content with one of yours at present…”

“OH?” Salazar snorted, “And why would the Head of my House be content with Helga’s portrait?”

Severus coughed, “Well it is a delicate question…

Helga peered at him and then clapped her fleshy hands, “Congratulations! Your line continues what joyous news! Hogwarts dear you should have informed us earlier! How remiss of you!”

The castle pulsed gently as if shrugging.

Severus muttered, “I didn’t want to make a big deal of it, I know that you have some knowledge that I hoped we could discuss privately. While you could visit a portrait in my chambers I do not have any because I had wished to minimize Albus’ ability to eavesdrop as he has done to the staff on many occasions.”

“Unless Ric was remiss and removed my wards then magical eavesdropping should be impossible for someone to do in our rooms.” Salazar snorted. “Hogwarts simply wouldn’t allow such doing even by a seated Headmaster, those were apartments belonging to Founders and at least one was concerned about privacy.”

Godric coughed, “Sal I never was the safety-obsessed person that you were.”

Salazar sniffed, “For a genius Defence master and a Dominant Chuvash you were rather lax on that aspect always leaving me to pick up the slack.”

“If it will appease you all, I will place one of each of your portraits in my quarters.” Severus said exasperated, “Now if you would give me the location of your favourite portrait…”

Immediately, the founders spoke on top of one another…

Luckily, Severus was a professor and was able to separate it out.

“Salazar’s in the library’s restricted section hidden between two bookshelves. Rowena’s is in a closet in the Tapestry Corridor in a student apartment behind the tapestry of a girl and a unicorn. Helga’s is warded in the kitchen storage cellars? Godric’s is…in a broom cupboard?” Severus frowned.

Helga sighed, “He couldn’t remove that one from the kitchen domain so he moved it out of sight, my elves will gladly tell you where it is. They can’t undo his wards though they have tried. I still have a portrait in the Hufflepuff Basement in the corridor leading to my old quarters but he couldn’t remove it either so he warded it to be unseen, silent and trapped that painted me in the portrait so I couldn’t speak to anyone. The third used to hang in the Headmaster’s Office, I can’t sense it but it maybe in the Room of Hidden Things.”

“Apparently learning of my true relationship with Sal was so insulting that he thought that stuffing me in a broom cupboard was appropriate.” Godric snorted.

Salazar sneered, “Apparently I belonged in the Restricted Section because I couldn’t be trusted. I may have distrusted Muggles and Muggleborns but I had my reasons, sure I went home in a tiff but Godric dragged me back after I calmed down and we discussed it rationally. I agreed that it was safer to have them instructed rather then left to expose us to Muggles however that they shouldn’t be trusted with the reigns of power. Something that my student Merlin took into consideration when he formed the first true Wizard’s Council. Various other countries such as Scotland and Ireland took notice and formed their own.”

Severus nodded thoughtfuly, “I see. I will retrieve those portraits and we can discuss my situations privately. I’m sure once Salazar is on my walls he can check the wards of the apartment.”

Salazar snored, “Of course I can.”

Severus bowed and went to fetch those portraits…

 

 

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