Drarry One Shots

Jersey Cream, Pt. 1.

A/N This could be a speed run of enemies-to-lovers or a twelve-year slow burn. I'm never sure with these two...

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Sirius Black naming Harry James Potter as his heir had been a contentious move as far as the remaining Black family was concerned. Not that it was unusual for there to be considerable infighting between the living relatives of any deceased Black generation. Such behaviour had gone on for centuries as they argued over claims of who actually owned what. And there were always outspoken opinions of who they thought deserved to possess the relics of their past and who definitely didn't deserve anything at all. The situation had been exasperated because of the family's history of being one of the wealthiest magical bloodlines and that sort of untold wealth has a habit of breeding greed and entitlement and bitterness, even when it's gone—especially when it's gone. It wasn't unknown for serious attempts at deceit and even parricide to occur within the Black ranks in the bids to claim what they thought was justly theirs and should remain within the family.

After the war, Harry had found out that Bellatrix Lestrange had tried to challenge his inheritance, claiming that as the oldest living Black, she should have rights to the estate, especially over an outsider. Besides, Sirius had been disowned and Harry Potter was a Half Blood. And that was before they got to 'sides' (excluding, of course, Sirius III... and Andromeda... and Dorethea... and Sirius II and Phineas II...). She said, at the very least, Regulus should be named the heir to Orion's fortune and Grimmauld Place but that was before anyone knew what had happened to Regulus and before he was added to the list of Blacks who'd turned his back on family's darker traditions. Either way, the Goblins had less than politely told Bellatrix where to stick her challenge and she had fumed, a lot, apparently, and continued to fight it until her end. The only thing she came away with was the knowledge that if she hexed a goblin, she shouldn't do it in front of other goblins.

Even Andromeda had muttered incoherently a few times about Harry's inheritance. Not so much about Grimmauld Place, she had no interest in the house but after initially meeting Harry, her focus had been the 'estate' itself. Harry wasn't sure why, there wasn't exactly anything in 12, Grimmauld Place worth keeping as a precious antiquity and there was no mention of anything beyond Sirius's and Orion's vaults and the house. Andromeda's explanations weren't clear but explained away vaguely from behind teary eyes. In fact, Harry was less worried about Andromeda's ramblings about the supposed Black fortune and more concerned about her incoherent state of mind. He had been worried from the moment he first met her and baby Teddy in the Great Hall when she came to officially identify the bodies of Tonks and Remus Lupin. It was clear she wasn't coping as she battled with her grief.

With regards to the estate, aside from a dusty and mouldy house filled with dusty and mouldy dark artefacts, Sirius's personal vault and Orion Black's vaults weren't particularly overflowing. In fact, they were relatively sparse, considering the fortune that was hinted at by Andromeda and the fight put up by Bellatrix. Still, Harry set everything up so the galleons were put into a trust for Teddy, which mollified Andromeda to a degree, but only after she had witnessed the contents herself, expressing surprise and disappointment about there being so little. She kept muttering something about a jersey but he didn't understand what she meant. Still, the goblins confirmed Harry's story that that was all there was according to Walburga's Last Will and Testament and Andromeda dropped the subject, despite never quite being convinced that she was being told the whole truth. Harry wasn't fussed about giving up Orion's and Sirius's galleons, he had more than enough in his own vault and then there was the rest of the Potter estate which had been passed to him on his seventeenth birthday, though he didn't discover that until after the war. Anyway, Harry was determined to do right by Teddy and he adored his little godson, spending as much time a possible with him and Andromeda in those early days. For Harry, Teddy was proving a beacon of light amongst the darkness of the war's aftermath.