Equinox II

"I am not the guardian of young Harry Potter." He pointed his finger above "He is" 

Everyone looked at Dumbledore. 

"As I am the Lord, naturally I retain guardianship of Harry Potter." Eren closed his statement. He started walking towards his seat in the front, now which had been empty for centuries. Misa also, now was sitting in one of the frontmost seats instead of the Dumbledore's.

There were murmurs in the Wizengamot. Naturally, someone had to be the guardian of Harry Potter, they just did not expect Dumbledore to be the one.

But it was not very surprising, everyone knew the last Potters, unlike the previous generation of Fleamont and Dorea, were Dumbledore's people. So making him the godfather was not out of their imagination.

The surprising thing was why had Dumbledore not claimed the regency of all those the new upstart Lord Dumbledore had undertaken.

More so, Potter Lordship was naturally for Harry Potter the last Potter, but Black and Slytherin?

'The Dark Lord was celebrated as the Heir of Slytherin in the times of war.' Lucius thought in silence 'Unlike the blood traitors, who know nothing of the customs of the magical world, I think I can make sense of that' 

Lucius had come to the conclusion that in one of the warrior Houses such as Slytherin, it was not impossible to become the Lord by conquest if the last heir of blood was defied and vanquished.

Unlike the propaganda most liked to sell, the Slytherin did not hold importance in blood, but in name. 

'But Black?' That was the biggest thorn in Malfoy's eyes.

Unlike those who had nothing to lose in the revelation, he had everything to lose.

The Malfoys were French Lords, exiled when they had betrayed the French King, in the Arthurian wars.

King Arthur had rewarded them with the Lordship of a small estate, and they started from zero in the magical Britain. Over the centuries they managed to erase their mark of betrayal by Gold, eventually becoming one of the premier Lords in Britain, with only Olde families knowing their cursed history.

In the last wizarding war, Abraxas Malfoy had come by another chance to elevate his house to the forefront of the magical world, so he supported the last Heir of Slytherin and forced Lucuius to follow his steps.

The movement garnered much attention, and it was by pure luck that the last of the Blacks turned out to be a sort of Blood traitor.

Not the Blood traitor of the kind Wesleys were, forgetting their origin and history, but traitor of their own House ideology.

The Blacks was a House with Light thinking and Dark actions.

Their motto, Toujours Pur meant Always pure, pure in mind, in body and intention. History was witness to their actions and intentions but the last generation of Blacks took their House motto, unlike their ancestors.

Arcturus Black was the last Lord Black who knew for what House Black stood for. Lord Orion Black didn't.

He sold his cousin's daughters to the highest bidders, or for an inch of political ground. Poisoning his own heir and the spare for pureblood agenda.

Blacks were the last British royalty in all but in name, and they married their daughters to Lestranages Malfoys. 

Even Lucius had scoffed at how the mighty had fallen, thinking how the king married the princess to beggars.

How Blacks were wailing their tails at the Heir of Slytherin.

'Heir... of Slytherin... not Lord?' His brows furrowed.

Come to think of it...

"How does Lord Dumbledore claim the Black regency? The house is all but extinct!" The same old man who had shouted before repeated his ill actions.

"Are you accusing my ward of line theft?" Eren retorted. Shouting gibberish and actually pressing charges were two different things, one Misa had taught Eren how to respond.

The elderly man stood silently, unsure as to whether his actions would garner him some weight in Wizengamot or would be a political suicide there.

"But I am happy you asked that question. It is one I will answer" Eren stood up on his seat and looked at the minister to address him.

"My ward happens to be the Heir Black, due to him being named heir to Lord Sirius Orion Black." Dumbledore, the elder one paled to what was coming. Being silent while most of the hearing of the Wizengamot was not going as he had planned.

"Murderer Sirius Orion Black is not Lord Black, Mister Dumbledore, he can not recognised by the house due to his criminal status, as explained in the by-laws of the Ministry and the accursed Goblin treaty." Madame Undersecretary stood up to retort to Eren of his statement. 

"But that's the thing Madame Undersecretary, Lord Sirius Orion Black is not a criminal in the eye of magical Britain. One cannot be a criminal if he is not convicted in the court of Law." 

Lucious looked at the Carrows beside him in wide eyes. There was an eerie silence after Eren's statement, as no one could believe what he had said. The consequences of such a revelation would be catastrophic.

"I am sorry, dear, but to question the practices of the DMLE is to question the Ministry, and by extension, the Minister himself. I am a tolerant woman, but the one thing I will not stand for is disloyalty."

"Are you this arrogant to not check my claims when you have the power and the obligation to do so, but instead talk down to abstain from questioning and checking the authority of the Ministry when it is my right and responsibility to do such?" Misa puffed her chest when Eren recited the whole sentence of the script she had written without missing a single word out of it. The smile on her face was one dark smile, which she deserved for controlling the flow of the Wizengamot as if they were puppets dancing on her whims.

The Ministry officials looked at each other with doubt, uncertainty and fear.

While the Wizengamot looked as united as it could be, in reality, it was a tug of war between the Lords and Ladies of Wizengamot against the Ministry official. The Ministry officials were the enforcers of the law, while the Lord and ladies were almost foreign to the procedures and had no power over the ongoings in the Ministry.

The Ministry could not act out of the interest of the Lords of Wizengamots and the Lords could not openly defy the Ministry, hence it was always a tug of war over power and independence.

The revelation, that Lord Sirius Orion Black did not receive a trial was catastrophic for the Ministry, and by any chance, the accursed right hand of the Dark Lord came out to be innocent, which would seal the fate of the current Minister of Magic and much of its officials into one that cannot be imagined.