Chapter 9 Fantastic Beasts?

Going to my office and continuing my long work on looking through both Slytherin and Wyllt due to the centuries of time since the last claimant. I think to call my spies "Meyz (come)" and so appears my Harlequin. " You have called my lord?" Says the trooper " How goes the investigation into the world?" He stands " The wizarding world as you call it in most places is doing alright about 20 years behind the non magical population but in Britain it's well over 150 years behind and that is due to prejudice."

I figured as much but England is so broken it will need to be brought forward kicking and screaming. That means I need allies and to define thoughts I want as my enemies. I will probably get contacted by many minor houses but I should reach out to Bones, Greengrass and Longbottom. Black would help but I need to reach Sirius Black the Second and not his petulant children. Though his Grandson Sirius should be a hoot to meet.

" Dispatch some harlequins and shades to the houses Yaxley, Lestrange, Malfoy, Rosier, Nott, Travers and, Macnair. They are to be considered Enemies of House Dragos but do not engage and keep tabs on Grindelwald." The man bows " As you command." and he melds into the shadows.

As the year wears on many things are beginning. More interesting are the requests for meetings from many houses on all sides. Though to my enjoyment Sirius did contact me and we are setting up a meeting date and advised I would send someone to escort him to my home.

Gazel knocks and steps into my office " Sir Lord Sirius Black the Second has arrived." " Thank you where is he currently?" " He is in the Lounge with tea and some snacks." "Wonderful led the way." Gazel just turns and begins to walk and I follow. Reaching the lounge that was appointed with a Victorian flair and dragons effigies and art all around.

Seeing a middle aged man sitting on the sofa with the tea in hand gingerly taking sips he quickly notices and looks to stand. I wave my hand to dissuade him.

" No need to rise Lord Black. I hope the tea is to your liking. I have it sourced for Nepal." With a smile.

" Thank you Duke Dragos and it is wonderful thank you."

I move across the room to sit on the couch opposite from him

" So, Lord Black, what can I do for you." His face seems to gain a more serious tone immediately. " What are your thoughts on this Dark lord?"

I laugh and he looks surprised. " Sir, My family knows what true power is and how deep you must tread to become dark." Arcturus seemed taken back at this response so I continued.

" Do you want to know a secret that is out in the open? The old gods of Greece and even some from many pantheons were just powerful wizards." Sirius seems to recoil a bit

" That also means that the lord of the underworld Hades was a power mage and a dark wizard. He practiced a lost art of soul magic and necromancy meaning he was a black healer but my ancestors have seen both sides of him the Clam quite jovil man but if threatened he became truly a god of death with powers to level armies and probably even cites. Unfortunately with the destruction of the library of Alexandria the wizarding community lost thousands of years of information and many arts were lost."

Sirius seemed keen and responded " He was that powerful?"

" Yes to say he was a master of soul magic is an understatement. Evey one of the ancient cities used his arts to bring back victims of crimes so they could testify against their killer. Also he created Avada kadabra as a quick and painless end so that he could perform soul rituals to do many things. He is said to make a cure for a quite tenacious blood curse but using the killing curse and trapping the person's soul in a vessel and purging and healing the body. Then of course returning the soul of the person to their healed body."

Sirius sat back and sighed "To answer you question Sir, NO I find this blood purity thing ridiculous. Did you know that in the east they create a branch system so you have the main house but if you have more than one child then they all can still serve the main house and a branch family. That also allows you to collect talented people to your family instead of relying on and ever increasingly incestuous relation with other pure blooded families." Lord Blake seems to lose himself in thought for a few minutes.

Lord Black then stands " Many thanks for your time Duke Dragos and I will contact you again soon." " As you wish Sir." I wave at a house elf that was waiting in the wings and they approach " Give Lord black the sigil." the elf pops away and returns with a metal coin with the sigil of House Dragos. " Take this Lord Black as a sign of our current friendliness, It will allow you to pop here with any house elf." Lord Black takes it and thanks me.

Thalos apparates him outside our wards so he can return. Gazel arrives " That seemed to go well." "Yes it did." I say. " Gazel, send a house elf to look around 4 Privet drive and look for a Harry Potter. If possible, also record what if family is doing to him so we can move forward with removing him from said house. Do make it clear they are not to intervene or be seen at all." Gazel just snapped his fingers and an elf appeared. He tapped them on the head and off they went. Quite convenient.

The year passed and my nineteenth birthday is approaching. My physique is on par with Olympic athletes due to my combat training and physical training at home with Garavan. He is a slave driver, multi mile runs with at least 100lbs on your back sayings that is normal warm up, the sadistic bastard. Though his wife is funny when she says " My child will not be tortured like this, right Gav." More of a statement of fact than a request and he quickly acquiesced.

Also my magical training has allowed me to get a high level wandless magic. The best part is my occlumency, I can choose to turn off physical pain and mold my aura with magic. Needless to say I also have the mind palace or well universe with horrors and quite the awful array of nasties to get to a terminal at the inner core of a black hole.

Sunna and Nanna were excited to be going to another location though Nanna loved going to the soul world to fly and hunt. Oh yea creatures have stated to appear in their respective environment along with natural mana flowing across the universe.

The different Kingdoms have progressive to highly advanced but neutral foot print with the elves being great at building bio-mimicking structures. The Dwarves just carve out of stone and work on the more advanced side of tech like computes, power systems and the like. The Dark Elves like their magic and help advance the magical understating by creating the first quantum computer using a mix of Runes standard tech along with dwarves. It's in its infant stages but a quantum computer that can help with the sciences and also magic will be wonderful. I am in the office looking over the final documents and sale record of the ridiculous amount of land and homes that I have from the three ancient houses. 70 homes / villas and pairing them down was a massive endeavor for some are magical and others are not due to the riggers of time and of course they were around the world so multiple attorneys and agents and different taxes, it was a nightmare.

Did net me three quarters of a billion gallons to throw onto the pile that are my vaults. I did have a great find with the Wyllt vaults. Within were status wards and where dragon eggs form species from across the world over 1000 within. Even an ancient species that died out well over two thousand years ago. I quickly deposited the eggs with the Elves to deal with and raise.

June 6 1926 my nineteenth Birthday. I went home to be with my family in the soul world to celebrate and was there the entire day. When I have returned to the castle I call Seely and the other house elves along with Gazel and Thalos to have dinner and enjoy my birthday together. The house elves cried for about 10 minutes straight and the "blessings'' I was giving them. Gazel was smiling and seemed at ease also Thalos was happy she could have a drink and enjoy the day. I asked Carack and Mortin to join us but they denied and said that their blessing is the work they do to protect me and my home.

The next day sitting for breakfast reading a letter from the Wizengamot about the situation with Gellert Grindelwald and his followers. It's also a summons to state that a meeting will be held to deal with that situation. I doubt that many will openly do anything. This world is going to be turned upside down and then spun on its head due to this war.