The people inside the shop looked at me in awe, fear, and disbelief barely believing that they just got defeated by an eight-year-old boy.
"Who are you guys anyway?" I said while wiping the blood off my wand casually.
Snapping out of their shock, the seven wizards, or should I say seven sins, kneeled in front of me yet again.
"My lord, we are the seven shadows of Knockturn." said the leader, now known as Lucifer. "We own 35% of Knockturn collectively with each of us owning 5%."
Lucifer|
Mammon|
(A/n: This is what he's like in private/with close friends^)
Asmodeous|
Leviathan/Levia|
Beelzebub/Zel|
Satan/Sate|
Belphegor/Bell|
I hummed lightly, checking my watch and seeing that I had about one more hour of shopping before I was due back at Gringotts.
"Where's the best place to get a familiar and a familiar tattoo?" I asked. For a while, I've wanted a companion so a familiar was something on my list. It was too bad that there was nothing good in the other stores I'd gone to.
"If you want to get the best animals in Britain then The White Wyvern pub is the best place to go," said Belphagor still kneeling.
"Let's leave now then since we don't have much time to waste."
I rushed over to the White Wyvern with the Seven shadows in tow. As I walked in I let my dark aura ooze out of my body once again and was led to the cellars of the pub. There, the real pub was shown with several animals in cages. There were also several weapons, pieces of jewelry, and outfits off for display.
As I walked past several cages a black, blue, and silver snake caught my eye.
"~Come nearer and I'll bight you~," said the snake eyeing me wearily.
"~And here I was about to take you from that dreadful cage.~" I said in parseltongue, earning wide eyes from all the humans nearby.
" ~ It's a speaker! It's a speaker! ~" said all the animals nearby that spoke parseltongue. Parsletongue isn't only the language of snakes. Several other 'dark' animals also speak the language.
All the animals bowed their heads toward me and made their weird animal noises as I looked on at the snake in front of me.
"~I apologize, I didn't know you were a speaker~"
"~I suppose I understand,~," I said in response. "~Humans can be dreadful. Regardless, would you like to be a familiar of mine~"
"~Yes speaker, I would be delighted~" the snake replied in what seemed to be glee.
"~You shall now be known as Mara(A/n: Couldn't help myself)~"
I let Mara out of her cage and she wrapped around my arm hiding in my sleeves.
As I walked through the cellar, none of the other animals interested me, so I stretched out my magic and found three animals hidden in the corner of the room.
There was a dark Pheonix, a screech owl, and a Kneazle all in cages.
Unfortunately, none of the three animals spoke parseltongue, but as I spoke in English it seemed like they could understand me and as I let them out of their cages the two birds flew onto my shoulders and the cat got into my grasp.
I would be lying if I said I didn't feel Mara's grip on my arm tighten.
I also picked out a cross earring which was made out of black gold, a rare and beautiful substance that was great for enchantments
"How much?" I asked the store owner, forcing Mara out from under my sleeve. "117 Galleons 16 sickles." the man said, his eyes wide.
I swear I saw him drool when I gave him the money. At Markus Scarr's Indelible Tattoos I got tattoos for all four animals.
A snake on my left arm, a Pheonix along the top of my back, and a screech owl on my right hand.
"Since I have about 30 more minutes, I might as well get a wand."
The seven shadows looked at me in surprise and I couldn't hide my amusement. "My lord, You don't have a wand?" said Sate, his eyes wide. In retrospect, I may have given them some weird names, but I was in the zone, what can I do?
"Never needed nor had the chance to buy one," I said, barely containing my smile when they gasped.
"My lord, Gregorovitch, is the best wand maker out there, he should be in his shop just around the corner."
"I suppose we should pay him a visit then,"
When we got to Gregorovitch's store the first thing that I noticed was that the walls didn't have anything on them, and boxes of wands like in Ollivanders(I checked the place out earlier). Instead, what lay before me at the store's front desk was an assortment of woods and wand cores.
"My store is different from Ollivander's," Gregorovitch started, sneering Ollivander's name out like it was poison. "Instead of having pre-made wands that may just be second best, we customize the wands, making sure that the wand is the best fit for the wizard. Now, choose any wood that draws you."
I looked at all the woods and felt slight pulls from a few of them but it wasn't as strong as I would've liked. So, I used my magic once again and evenly spread it over the woods. Instantly I felt a pull from Yew, Cedar, Elm, Hornbeam, Pine, and Vine woods and I picked them all.
"Interesting," said the store owner looking at me in shock while mumbling under his breath. "I can already tell this wand will be very powerful,"
As I put my magic around the cores the Basilisk poison vile, the white river monster spine and the piece of dementor's cloak played tug-a-war with me. As I picked them off the table the wand maker's eyes bulged and his face turned a pale white.
"Remind me never to piss you off," Gregorovitch said quietly, looking as though he was contemplating his entire life. "The wand should be done in fifteen minutes. "
"Don't put the trace on it," I said as he stood up to leave.
"That'd be an additional 5 Galleons."
"Of course," I said handing the money over.
As we waited Lucifer and the other six wizards came up to me.
"My lord..." Lucifer started looking at the ground
"Yes?" I said intrigued
"Forgive us for asking," said Asmodeus, "but who exactly are you?"
I looked at them with dead eyes as I realized that I hadn't told them who I was.
"I'm lord Slytherin-Black-Gryffindor-Ravenclaw-Hogwarts-Peverell-Merlin-Lestrange-Lupin-Selwyn-Grim-Death, also known as Hadrian Slytherin Potter Black Pervell, most commonly known as Harry James Potter, Charles Potter's older brother."
The gobsmacked look on their faces was incredibly entertaining as I had that weird desire to have popcorn. That's what people do when something entertaining like this happens.
I put my hand under Asmodeous's mouth and closed it. "You're going to swallow a fly," I said amused.
"Y-your Charles Potter's older brother," he said, barely believing what he just heard. "Unfortunately, yes," I said in reply.
As the seven shadows looked at me in wonder and thought about the implications of what I just said, Gregorovitch called to go into the wand-making room.
"As I walked into the room dark black sparks emitted from the wand and an ominous aura surrounded us."
"That must be the vine wood aspect," The wand maker said. "It must recognize you as its owner already."
"Truly a sentient being..." I said, smiling like a mad man. "We shall do great things together, great things indeed."
I used my magic to suppress the wand's aura and after about a minute it caved in and the wand sucked its aura back in.
As I reached for my wand a wave of magic flowed through my body and it gave a happy buzz.
"I almost feel bad for my future enemies," I said under my breath, staring at it in adoration and wonder.
"Almost."
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Before I walked into Gringotts once again I gave the seven shadows another command. "Remove your presence," I said simply.
I looked behind me and saw the seven still there, looking at me confused. "Don't you know any invisibility spells or ways to remove your presence," I said, looking at them as if they were idiots.
"T-those are highly advanced, only a few people in magical Britain can do that, let alone find an item to do that for them," said Leviathan tilting her head.
"Levia, you surely can't be saying you can't do this," I said turning invisible.
Once again the seven shadows gaped at me and I turned invisible again while rolling my eyes. "How far behind is magical Britain? Invisibility is child's play." as I scoffed I handed the seven simple black robes with a few basic enchantments.
"Just wear these then. Don't talk while we're in there unless needed."
When everyone was changed, I walked in with the seven trailing behind me. As I walked over to Griphook, looking like a nineteen-year-old again, I saw him talking to a tall wizard/witch with long white hair and pale skin. The wizard/witch looked nothing like the people at the potter's parties so I supposed they were more of a Slytherin or a Ravenclaw.
The wizard/witch was with another wizard/witch a child and yet another wizard/witch who looked like they lived in a dungeon but on purpose. I assumed one of the wizards/witches was their partner and the child was theirs as well, but the other person there was anyone's guess.
"Hello Griphook," I said, looking at him with squinted eyes.
"Hadrian, you're just in time. Meet Lucuius Malfoy, Severeus Snape and Nercissa Malfoy. Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Snape are two of your Godfathers and Ms. Malfoy is one of your Godmothers," said Griphook smiling sadistically.
"Splendid to meet you," I said looking at them uninterested. But then gears started turning in my head and I remembered where I'd heard their names.
"I'm a fan of both of your works Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Snape."
They looked at me surprised and I just looked at them smiling.
"Anyways Griphook, If this is why you wanted me to leave for three hours then I'm not impressed," I said to Griphook disregarding my Godfathers' gobsmacked faces. "You of all people should know that I'm not in the mood to meet my Godfathers/Godmothers today."
"You need to live somewhere Hadrian," he said still smiling.
"I already live somewhere, where do you think I sleep in the sewers?" I said 'kindly', resisting the urge to strangle him.
"I'm sure all of us would love to catch up with you, so we can set up a meeting date to have a cup of tea."
"Of course," I said already dreading that day.
"Also may I ask who are they?" said Severus looking at the seven wizards behind me wearily.
"Men in black cloaks. Who else?" I said looking him dead in the eye.
A heavy silence filled the room and none of us spoke for a good 3 minutes. Oh, how happy I was that I didn't have to converse with them, but then Griphook just had to ruin it. He should know by now how much I hate humans.
"Hadrian please introduce us," said Griphook trying to get rid of the heavy atmosphere.
"I would rather they introduce themselves."
"My name is Lucifer"
"My name is Asmodeus."
"My name is Mammon"
"My name is Levithian but my lord calls me Levia"
"My name is Beelzebub but my lord calls me Zel"
"My name is Satan but my lord calls me Sate"
"My name is Belphegor but my lord calls me Bell"
They said in perfect order not saying any more afterward. "My lord?" Lucius questioned looking at me suspiciously.
I just shrugged, turning the atmosphere back to how it was before.
"~Master can I bite them?~," said mara pocking her head out from my cloak's neck hole' or whatever people call it.
"~ Unfortunately no~" I replied in parseltongue surprising the guests in front of me. "~but if they annoy me too much I'll let you know, and you can scare them.~"
Mara did the closest thing a snake can do to a hum and draped herself along my neck.
The dark phoenix, which I later named Yonina, the screech owl, and which I named Wren, were currently at the black house, or at least they were supposed to be. I don't know how they know where everything and everyone is, but I suppose it should be some type of instinct.
"Griphook, I shall be leaving now," I said with a vein in my forehead bulging just from thinking about the pain and favors he'd done for me today. "Can I use the teleportation rune?"
"Sure," he said looking at me wearily. "You know where it is"
As I walked into the room I got ready to go to the black manor( Not number 12 Grimmauld place), oh how I just wanted to nap on a nice sweet bed.