Helena woke up the next morning with a feeling of .. she didn't really know. She would have said it wasn't right except that everything else except this felt right.
She opened her eyes and looked around. She was in a large room, as big as Ryan's. And it was decorate in silver and green as well - her favourite colours. The bedspread was yellow and black though. She shrugged as she sat up and tried to think.
The pretty lady and nice man had come and said that they wanted to be her mummy and daddy because James and Lily weren't doing their job right. And they had brought another nice man and lady who they said could be her uncle and aunt. But not like the other ones, and they didn't have a loud obnoxious cousin.
The door creaked open and she began scrambling out of the large, soft warm bed. The pretty lady, the one who said she could call her Mummy, came in. "Helena, why are you in such a hurry?" Helena froze. She must be late. "I...I'm sorry. It won't happen again." The lady frowned, anger pooling in her eyes. What had she done wrong? Helena shrank back and the pretty lady gasped. "No Helena, I don't want you to have to be like that." "Like what?" The lady sighed and a tear streaked down her cheek. "Scared darling, scared and worked half to death. We have seen too many children in your situation. We used to work in a school and some of the children had a home life much like yours. Look at me Helena. Your parents and then those horrible Muggles neglected and abused you. It was not right and you should not feel ashamed of it. " Helena didn't understand. James and Lily had told her that she was an attention seeking bitch and the Dursleys had told her she was a freak. They were grown ups so they must be right. She explained this carefully to the pretty lady. "No Helena. You aren't any of the horrible things that anyone has ever called you. You are special and talented and beautiful. We haven't known you for very long but we love you darling. The Potters and the Dursleys were horrible to you. They were not speaking the truth, they were trying to hurt you." Helena's five year old brain tried to comprehend what the lady was saying. It finally dawned. The people who had been so horrible to her were wrong! She wasn't a freak or an attention seeking bitch! And this lovely lady had yesterday said that he would be her Mummy. She burst into tears and flung herself at the lady.
She was caught and held in warm, safe arms, surrounded by a comforting smell that she would later learn was earth and sun dried hay. Footsteps came into the room and the man came in. His eyes looked sad when he saw her and he came and sat down next to the pretty lady. They talked to her and comforted until she didn't feel like crying anymore. She felt safer and happier than she could ever remember feeling. She trusted these people like Uncle Sirius and Uncle Sev and her few other friends. So she gathered her five year old courage."Can I call you Mummy and Daddy? I've never had a Mummy and Daddy just a James and Lily." The lady, Mummy, burst into tears and the man whispered to her that this meant yes.
Then time seemed to fly. They were having breakfast with the other nice people who she had been told were Uncle Godric and Auntie Rowena. Her clothes were being sorted through by her new Mummy and Auntie 'This won't do at all, Helena will need a whole new wardrobe and she can't just have Hufflepuff and Slytherin colours Helga.'. Uncle Godric and her new Daddy were teaching her Wizarding chess. They were explaining to her that they were actually the Founders, which made her squeal and pelt them with questions like a hailstorm, and that Fate and Magic had brought them back to look after her because she , not Ryan, was the Girl Who Lived.Then they were going by Floo, she liked Flooing because it was warm and tickly, to the Leaky Cauldron.
Mummy held her hand and led her into Diagon Alley. "Mummy," Helena whispered, enjoying the sound of the word in her mouth, " where are we going?" Her new Daddy came next to her and took her other hand. "We are going to have to endure the torture that is clothes shopping. It was very easy when we were first alive - you made it all by yourself. But now you have to spend Galleons and Galleons on clothes. Rowena and Helga love it though.Weve only been on one trip and they've spent about 30,000 Galleons already because they had to get wardrobes for everyone. It was horrible." Helena giggled and Salazar beamed down at her. She had been abused to most of her life and had to study an live through stealth and deceit, but a little love and care and she was already blooming.
Then he sneaked a look across at his wife and sister and groaned. They were already debating clothes. Women. He sincerely regretted his choice not to join a monastery several times over the course of the shopping trip.
Helena loved it. It was bright colours and soft fabrics and trying things on. Her Uncle Godric and Daddy went to a place called Flourish and Blotts and got her loads and loads of books. Auntie Rowena and her Mummy went with her to Twilfit and Tattings to get a whole wardrobe. When they came out, she had discovered an interest in clothes and that she loves wearing pretty, girly things.
She protested at the amount that they were spending, but they just laughed and said that they hadn't had a little girl to spoil for a long time and she needed it. She had never felt so pretty as when they left. She was wearing a white dress with sprays of red flowers over it and little red pumps with white stockings.
Then they went into Gringotts. The goblins didn't scare her because she didn't know she was supposed to be. They arranged for a Blood Adoption and then an Inheritance test.
The Blood Adoption was first so that she would not have to do the inheritance test twice. The ritual was easy on Helena and she only felt more protected.
When they were in the meeting room, her father put his hands on shoulders. "Helena, this will involve having to cut yourself deeply enough to bleed. You do not have to and no one is forcing you to." She nodded and decided to anyway.
There was was no reason not to do it and many reasons to do it. She dug the knife into her little finger and squeezed seven drops into the parchment. Her Mummy then healed the fingers. Bright green words, Salazar elbowed Helga at his colours,began to scrawl themselves across the page:
Helena Isobel Slytherin-Hufflepuff (formerly Helena Isobel Potter, removed due to abuse)
Parents:
Mother(blood-adoptive) - Helga Slytherin-Hufflepuff
Father (blood adoptive) Salazar Slytherin-Hufflepuff
Mother(biological, no claim due to abuse) - Lily Marguerite Potter neé Evans
Father(biological, no claim due to abuse) - James Charlus Potter
Godfather -Sirius Orion Black
Godmothe- Narcissa Druella Malfoy neè Black
Godfather- Theodore Tonks (deceased)
Godmother - Alice Lucy Longbottom neé Prewett (permanent resident of Saint Mungo's owing to insanity from overexposure to the Cruciatud curse)
Siblings:
Ryan James Potter(no claim) - false Boy-Who-Lived
Titles-
Heir to the Most Ancient and Noble House of Black (owing Sirius Black's status as godfather and a strong relation to the Black's through paternal grandmother Dorea Black)
Heir to the Ancient and Noble House of Potter (eldest child of James and Lily Potter)
Heir to the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Hufflepuff (through Lady Helga Slytherin Hufflepuff, blood adoption)
Heir to the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Slytherin (through Lord Salazar Slytherin-Hufflepuff, blood adoption)
Heir Apparent to the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Ravenclaw (through Lord Slytherin-Hufflepuff, brother to Lady Ravenclaw-Gryffindor, only descendant of both siblings, blood adoption)
Heir Apparent to the most Ancient and Most Noble House of Gryffindor (through Lady Slytherin-Hufflepuff, sister to Lord Ravenclaw-Gryffindor, only descendant of both siblings, blood adopted)
Lady of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Emerys (Magic's choice)
Lady of the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Le Fay (through Lady Potter, unclaimed)
Lady of the Most Ancient and Modt Noble House of Pendragon (through Lady Potter, unclaimed)
Lady of the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Peverell (through Lord Potter, unclaimed)
The Girl-Who-Lived (wrongfully claimed by Ryan Potter)
total - 20 votes on the Wizengamot, when other Houses are inherited, 46
Abilities and Family Magics-
House of Black - Metamorphmagus
House of Potter - Occlumens
House of Hufflepuff - Elemental Magic
House of Slytherin- Parselmagic and Parseltongue
House of Ravenclaw - Legilimency
House of Gryffindor- Battle Mage
House of Emrys- All-speak
House of LeFay- Animagus
House of Pendragon- Mage Sight
House of Peverell- Death Magic, the Deathly Hallows
Core Type- Pure Neutral- all magic practiced with impunity
Blocks and Potions:
General Abilities Block- administered by Albus Dumbledore
Compulsion to be obedient and submissive - Albus Dumbledore
Occlumency Block- Albus Dumbledore
Legilimency Block- Albus Dumbledore
Animagus Block - Albus Dumbledore
Intelligence Block- failed, Albus Dumbledore
Family Magic Block- Albus Dumbledore
Marriage Contract- to Ronald Weasley, initiated by Albus Dumbledore, signed by Lord and Lady Potter.
The Founders exchanged horrified glances. "Griphook," said Salazar," Gringotts is still able to remove such blocks surely." Griphook grinned and said "of course we can, for a price". The price ended up being around 400 Galleons. The blocks were soon stripped and Helena felt really free.
Until she remembered the marriage contract. "Mummy, why do I have to marry Ronald. He hates me and always hits me and makes me cry." Helga and Salazar exchanged horrified glances, again. "No darling, you don't. We'll cancel the contract and you can marry whoever out would like. It's invalid anyway as it was signed by people who abused you." Helena sighed in relief.
They also changed Helena's dead and mad godparents to Rowena and Godric.
Once everything was sorted and the vaults had been visited, they had discovered that the Elder Wand did not carry the Trace so they decided to take it to train Helena in spellcasting. they left the underground and went up into the foyer.
There was a large knot of people there and Helena hesitatated for a second before running to them with a shriek of joy. "Auntie Cissa! Uncle Luci! Draco! Uncle Siri! Nym!Auntie Andi! I'm here everyone!" They started and turned. "Helena!"