HP : TRIUMPH

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Then with a whoosh all the cold and pain seemed to suck down his right arm and into his ring. He was left gasping and shuddering. He reeled as he realized that the experience had been eerily familiar. He looked to the ring and narrowed his eyes. His fingernails slipped under the dog face to rip it off.

He started to swear the air blue. The dog was a bloody sticker! He snarled down at the real ring. Instead of a dog head there was a polished black stone with the Black arms; a silver raven taking flight. Swirling behind it was some star constellation. Harry had a suspicion of what it was.

He grabbed at the note again to see if anything was on the back and saw the letters start to swirl and change.

Bet you fell for it! The ring was actually the Black family ring. Unless you're not reading this… Congratulations! You're now legally the lord of the ancient and noble house of Black. Those papers I stuffed in the box are a few instructions on how to reach our town house Grimmauld place. You should already have the knowledge of the Black family manor as the wards around it are connected to the ring. Same with the Potter ones. If you don't want anyone else to know where they are you activate the dormant Fidelius Charms. Most old manors have those tied in.

Anyways, I'd go speak to the goblins to see what vaults you got. I already withdrew a bunch of money and stuck it in a trunk for myself, so don't worry about me squirt. Do what you want with the rest. Oh and the booklet I thought you would find interesting. There should also be a small book on how to become an animagus in there.

Harry felt his eyebrow twitch. Bloody Godfather. Should disown him.

Harry finally sighed and pulled the papers out looking over them. Just instructions on how to reach this Grimmauld place and advice on why not to go there. He set aside the animagus book for later. The booklet however, was quite… informing. Inside it was a list of business names or names of people and their skills. Each name or store name had beside it either an address or a floo address. All were in magical England, Scotland, and Ireland. Sirius had scratched a few notes at the bottom of the first page.

These are like muggle phone book things. Most high class business and people are not in Diagon or the surrounding alleys. Most are spread throughout magical Britani, standing alone or with a small clump of other magical businesses. This is where you actually get useful things or find things you need.

-Snuffles

Harry flipped through it in interest and smiled softly. He pinned it to the bulletin board above his new filing cabinet and slid the papers in said filing cabinet. He glanced up at Hedwig and the bird to find them dozing on the owl's perch, together and each with their heads under their wings. Harry shrugged and cast a quick spell around the room to dull any shine. Didn't want the bird ripping anything apart for a bead or button.

Harry then stretched decided to go check the mail and eat something before returning to his training. Five minutes later he was leaning over a spread out Daily Prophet and eating a slice of toast. He'd gotten a subscription to the Daily Prophet, something called the Quibbler because he'd heard someone say they had good crosswords, and something called British Times along with a muggle paper. Daily Prophet was on ministry approved subjects and with ministry friendly propaganda, the Quibbler was just weird, and the British Times were informative of hard, real magical news.

Harry scowled at some section of the Daily prophet and folded it up setting it aside. He glanced to the muggle citizen paper and pushed it aside for later. There were no letters but there was a rolled up paper booklet. He pulled it towards himself and unrolled it. 'Activities Happening In Your Community'. Harry shrugged and flipped through it eyeing each activity. Some actually looked interesting. In the end he circled quite a few of them including a football team for teen, a book club at the library, and something called Food Safe.

He was most interested in the last. It said it was a course that took one to two days depending on what level you wanted. It was used to help you get a job in the food industry and looked good on a resume. It also said you would need it if you wanted to do more then sell fast food. He'd sign up for it as it couldn't be a waste and he had the money. He also decided to sign up for the football (soccer) team. It would help him get exercise and might be fun. The library club though he finally crossed out. He had too much to read as it was.

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Harry tsked pushing the curious Alice out of the way as he poured water over his plants. She was too curious for her own good. He glanced to the murky grey cat Hatter and the orange scruffy cat March Hare who both sat on either side of his feet and watched Alice with almost smirks.

A loud trill caught his attention as Hedwig landed on his shoulder and the exotic bird dove under the water coming from it hose where it landed on the flower bed and flapped its wings under the current of water.

"So you like water." Harry said amused as the bird took a shower. "And it appears you're here to stay. I'll have to rig something up for you to bath in. Maybe a fountain."

It trilled as if agreement. He noticed its trill was deep unlike a phoenix, and made no emotions rise in Harry. It was just a normal bird trill. Harry moved his hose end to another part of the garden. Alice continued to chase after the water curiously, Hedwig sat on Harry's shoulder silently, Hatter and March Hare stayed by his feet and the colourful bird took to flying in big circles with always ended up going through his stream of water.

He was worried someone would notice the bird but even George next door looked up only to wave at Harry not appearing to see the bird at all, though giving Hedwig an odd look. Harry just chuckled and continued to try and water his gardens even though the animals were crowding about him.

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July 11th

Monday

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Harry rolled his eyes as he stepped into Gringotts. The exotic bird on his shoulder had insisted on coming and was making trilling noises at the odd person which Harry could almost hear were rude. Everyone was giving him and the odd bird odd looks, most likely never having seen such a creature.

"Keirium." He admonished softly. "I will leave you at home next time if you aren't quiet."

The bird pulled its head closer to it's body and puffed up all it's feathers to make a rather funny picture of a ball of feathers with only a few tail and head feathers peaking out along with it's small round head. It stayed like that until he saw a familiar goblin and waved him down. The goblin adjusted the wire frame glasses on his face and sneered.

"Of course you would tame a Colored Thief."

"Um…what?"

"That bird on your shoulder," Griphook said raising a brow, "Is called a Colored Thief. They're a magical breed of bird that like to make nests and store them full of shiny colourful objects. Any shiny colourful objects. They've been known to even peck out people's eyes if they're a pretty color and glisten with tears or the light. They attract people and prey towards them with their bright feathers and then steal their things. Their beaks and talons can tear through even metal. They rarely allow humans to touch them but enjoy the company of owls and need frequent dives in pools of water. They're very intelligent and understand human speech most of the time."

"Oh." Harry said dumbfounded.

He looked to the bird on his shoulder from the corner of his eye.

"If you try to hurt me I will hurt you back, got that Keirium."

The bird seemed to roll its eyes but nodded all the same.

"Good. As long as you understand that you can stay as long as you wish."

It gave a happy squawk and settled again.

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