unconstrained

Part 54

harry looked around the dingy room, blacks home was depressing shrunken heads of dead elves musty smells, dust, ew.

the women in the portrait looked like she we debating whether to throw him out of the house, that was until she saw the lord ship ring on his finger.

"oh my lord, welcome to my humble home"

harry inclined his head respectfully to the portrait.

"my lazy disgracefully son has the let place deteriorate, this was once a grand property"

she was clearly boasting but harry decided he liked the women if only for not liking sirius.

"it is a shame my lady it would have been a sight to behold more's the pity"

the crazy woman preened.

"the little muggle lover doesn't have access to most of the property, say if i help you will you as they say scratch my back?"

harry felt his eyes slightly narrow but upon seeing the sly look on her face he smirked.

"do tell what are you planning?"

he cast a silencing charm to keep any ears droppers away.

"simple, i let you into the rest of the house with the valuables and you take them, then using the knowledge found there rest everything from the blood traitor, better a Malfoy who shares my blood then that muggle loving disappointment!"

she was spitting by the end of it, harry was glad that it stayed in the portrait.

is was however a interesting proposition, if he took all of the blacks things and money he could use them for the war effort and not exhaust his own funds, harry wasn't into the idea of having nothing after all of his hard work, not counting property of Corse.

"you good lady have a deal"

he knew that she was mistaking him for a black by Malfoy, he was in fact a Black via potter, his great grandmother to be exact, not that he would tell her, he was already surprised that she could tell that he had black blood in him, this painting might have a type of blood magic woven into it, a disturbing thought given blood magic had some seriously bad uses and even the 'good' spells can lead to bad things, not always but you always would have to gamble and decide if it was worth it.

with a grin she pushed  a gem through the rim of the painting the what looked like onyx landed with a muted thud, he picked up the round cut brilliant black diamond, this was a super rare item.

"diamond?"

he muttered.

"yes, at first glance of an untrained eye it looks like onyx but this is no cheap gem, this is the most expensive diamond ever created, so much so that we kept its shavings from when it was cut"

harry nodded looking up.

"so how may this help me lady?"

the mad glint was in her eye as she spoke, she was starting to deteriorate back into madness.

"you draw blood with it and you will enter the time room, there you will find the family secrets take it with you"

harry blanched, the stone would have his DNA meaning it could be used to track him if anyone knew, he would have to keep this a secret he then forced the point into his thumb and winced as it punctured, no blood welled but he did see red flecks in the gem for a moment then the wound was closed and the world started to turn grey and slow, suddenly he was standing in a monochromatic world,  he walked around and saw the order in the kitchen, all frozen he walked up to his ex family, they looked happy enough it seems Godrick wasn't been outright neglected once harry had shot through harry tied his ex brothers shoes together kicked James in the privates and put some cinnamon in lily's mouth, then harry went back to looking, what for he didnt know, he stepped out to the library floor and paused, the door was just as greyed out as everything else, no it was the door floating in the middle of the hallway, the time room harry supposed.