Betrayal & Revenge

Chapter 1

Harry laid the letter that had just arrived via a time lapse delivery. He hadn't even known that was possible till he'd opened it and read what it was. Picking it up he looks over it again...

Dearest Son,

Yes I call you son even though you weren't born of my loins. I don't know what my wife was thinking trying to hide your paternity from me but laws and things being what they are in the Wizarding world the delivery nurse and Mid-Wife made sure I knew the truth.

I was heart broken to learn you weren't born my child but I made sure before the night was out that You WERE mine. Blood Adoption use to be common orphans often adopted by blood ritual so they were a true part of the family uncontested by any test given. I performed it with only one witness Harry and that was your Godfather Sirius.

Your Mother knows nothing about this adoption on my part she thinks her glamor charm is keeping your true paternity from me. I have no intention of ever letting her know that I know the truth or that I've taken you as my own. Now your birth father was not completely over written by the adoption because between you and me son people that cheat and try to hide it need to have the truth slap them in the face again at a later date. He and Lily knew they were cheating and knew they should disclose the truth of your conception they chose to hide and sneak as a Marauder we can't just let that slide. Now the man's name is Devon Andover. Now I really have nothing against the man, he's a pure blood from an old traditional family much like myself. He's going to be head of his family if he meets all the criteria when the time comes. I don't know what all his family has set as each family requires different things for their head but if he doesn't get it then it will sit waiting for someone that does meet the criteria to claim it. Now Andover, he's something of a know it all the type that once he's read it, will constantly throw his knowledge back in your face as some sort of gospel. He and Lily studied a lot during 5^th year after she fought with Snape.

When you turn 15 you need to go to Gringotts and have them perform a heritage test on you and claim everything you are entitled to. Pay the full amount and get the involved one Harry that's important because there may be family vaults and titles on my side you can get that no one has qualified for in centuries as well. I love you son. I have since the moment she told me she was pregnant even knowing then that you weren't blood of my blood. I love you even more now that you are.

Now Sirius as sworn as a wizard and as your godfather that if something happens to me and I can't be there for you that he will see you raised as proper pure-blood should be. I have always been open minded about Muggleborns when they try to fit into our world, learn our customs and traditions and basically become true Magical Brethren. Your mother was like this when we got together, she absorbed knowledge and customs like they were necessary for her existence but recently she's changed and keeps trying to shove her Muggle customs and beliefs on me. I don't care if we celebrate Christmas and Yule but she's refusing to compromise and it's causing problems because she's only wanting her way. Don't let our way of life become watered down by Muggle beliefs Son. Learn our traditions and holidays and rituals, serve them so they can in exchange serve you.

Finally son you are going to have some kind of creature inheritance unfortunately we were not able to determine what kind. In the Potter line alone I know there are Veela, Fae and Darkosh. The Black line (My Mother Dorothea was a Black) includes Vampyre, Veela and Dragonkine. These are just the one's I know off the top of my head so be prepared for just about anything. Live Long Son have fun, make money find the love of your life but most of all make your enemies pay in the most humiliating way possible.

Shaking his head he still couldn't believe the information his father had shared with him, it was surrealistic but after everything else that had happened in his life he was beyond thinking it a big possibility. Tomorrow he was going to Gringotts and doing what his father had told him to do and after a full accounting he'd start taking back his life.

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Sirius staring across the kitchen table deep in thought didn't even notice when Molly Weasley barreled into the room and started preparing the morning meal in her usual domineering fashion Harry had sent him a note by way of a rather demented house elf to prevent it being intercepted now he had to figure a way to escape Grimmauld Place to meet up with him at Gringotts.

Harry was adamant that he not involve anyone if he decided to meet up with him. His mistrust of everyone involved in the Order wasn't totally misplaced either. He wasn't too sure about most of them himself and unfortunately that did include Remus.

Remus was just indebted to Dumbledore for being allowed to attend Hogwarts that he wouldn't cross him for any reason. He'd come close to breaking away once or twice; those time always about Harry but there's no guarantee how he'd react given a situation that Dumbledore wouldn't approve of. So right now today he was a party of one arranging to break out and not be discovered. It's a good thing that he'd already laid ground work for disappearing for long periods of time without any explanation.