Family matters

Chapter 5

[There is a poll in the end]

Decorate yourself as such Barteimus, and if by the end of the Wizengamot session in May, you have Dumbledore's support, you have mine."

"I am thankful for the insight and chance provided Lord Mendax, again congratulations on your Lordship." Crouch pulls back.

Adrian walks out of the British Ministry of Magic apparating out of the place to Mendax Manor.

The Manor is white marbled, with purple outlines at places such as roofs and gates, a work of art. 

"My Lordship." A small creature with big round eyes bows slightly to the new Lord, a house elf, wearing tattered rags.

"Are they all there?"

"Miss Leta is along with the others, My Lord. Lord Randyl came at once after the transfer of Lordship. Unfortunately, Lady Elizabeth and Drax have not responded to the call of arms."

Adrian enters the hallway, walking forward and then to his left.

It opened to a big hall with a table, housing the elders of the house present on their seats.

He walked up to the Lord's seat, glancing it to be just opposite the Lady's seat, which was taken by Leta as she was the Lady of the house until Adrian was to be wed.

Everyone stands up and bows to him, while he sits down, soon to be followed by others.

Out of all of them, only Adrian and Leta were the ones who wore leather armour that covered their whole bodies.

"Well, no time to waste, what is our state of finance?"

Winflick, A man, tall and burly called up the house elf, Tiffany who had papers for him.

"It is as it always was, we have less than a hundred thousand galleons in liquid assets, and that will dry up in a week by the number of expenses on our part. It's mostly our overseas operations and the new heir's training that will take the most of it."

"Well that's no different than ever, those are big but necessary expenses. I need money to be roaming around the whole of Asia for the thief that took the Book of Apparating from the family library." Randyl spoke up, anger and frustration oozing out of his voice.

"You don't have to look for them anymore; they are back in the family library." 

"How!?" Randyl asked, not getting the hint. While he was the shortest in build among all of the present Mendax, his feats were no less than any of the living Mendax, or Dead in recent history.

"Simple, they were never gone. It was a ruse to get you out of the blood war; Althan did not want you on either side of the conflict."

Randyl huffed, lying back with a fake angry expression.

"Onto other matters, why are Elizabeth and Drax not here?" Adrian asked Leta.

"They were not responding to any of the means to contact them. As far as we know there was some issue with our businesses in the States, which was not discussed among the others."

"That would be true, we are generating less and less than we used to from the United States. Considering our main source of income was the States, this remains a matter of concern. Winflick spoke up to agree with Leta.

"The finances won't be an issue for long, the overseas expedition will now be discontinued, while the heirs' new expenses are huge but a one-time thing. Plus the Lestrange- Voldemort blood feud will pay enough for us to continue our normal spending for decades."

"About that" This time, A lady from the end table spoke up, an elderly lady, but with a regal get up "The Lestrange brothers were just tried in the Wizengamot court, they are in for a lifetime in Azkaban."

"Bloody politics. They had them in custody while I wrote the blood feud. No matter, just have them killed in Azkaban, wouldn't be the first time we did that. What of the Cygnus's eldest?"

"At large. We will get her by tomorrow at the latest."

"Kill her too then, won't be a matter of inheritance if there is no one to inherit stuff. Any other matter that needs to be brought to my attention?"

A meek and weak hand was raised by the end of the table, earning everyone's stare. He was one of the three next-generation heir candidates, albeit the least probable one of the three.

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Mendax family members- 

Adrian Mendax, the Lord

Leta Mendax, the Lady of the house cousin to Lord Mendax, soon to be Black

Randyl Mendax, a man of short stature but impeccable record in fighting, fearsome and ruthless 

Winflick- A tall and burly Mendax, who takes up the financial affairs of the Mendax along with the hit wizards ones.

Unnamed Aunt Mendax, Aunt to the Lord, Previous Lady of the House, Widow, Wife of the previous Lord, Another fearsome Mendax witch

[Poll on what MC and Leta should look like. For MC, the figure of Cillian Murphy from Peaky Blinders is in my mind, but not quite a perfect match- almost a 40-60% match. So suggest someone. I want someone to fit the character in the scene of Wizengamot where he kills his uncle, the then Lord Mendax and just thinks "Do what you want to, I killed him, it was a personal matter, now who else do I need to kill to make this murder perfectly legal?" Keanu Reeves is also someone I had in my mind, but he resembled the face I had in mind for the character at most 30% ]

[For Leta soon to be Black- suggest someone badass. Also if someone did not quite understand this in the previous chapter, Adrian bluffed that he had Black regency in the Wizengamot to have Sirius impregnate Leta, a two-time thing (heir/heiress and a spare), which he later discusses with Leta, telling he will Ask Arcturus about this later on, and he was sure the Black with comply having no main line to speak of. Leta will be the regent in name, so after this, she will be moved from an on-ground soldier character to a Lady of Noble House, which makes me ask for a picture poll for her too. Don't say Scarlett Johannsson, I want someone to be a stuck-up politician Lady,  Emilia Blunt does come to my mind, matching about 70-80% of my character, but I am giving you a chance to put down the options. Please add a pic so that I don't have to look it up. Just to clear it, Sirius won't be brought out of prison except for the two-time coitus

This poll is active until after chapter 15 (exclusive on Webnovel)]

Goals that I have in mind

-100k views in the first week on Webnovel

- At least 600k views on Webnovel in the first month (I have had 2 fics which have achieved this)

- Top 20 Power Stones ranking in week 2 (My Batman one did this, but it was when I was posting 3-4 chapters a day, so this may be difficult)

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