By Polaris Aries Black

To Be Always Pure

Prologue

I promised myself I would not post this story until I reached Chapter 10 of The Black Secret. So here is what would have happened if the secret would have been found out earlier than it did in TBS.

You do not need to read The Black Secret in order to read this story.

Summary: On the night Voldemort attacked the Potters, an Auror was the first to appear at their home. He takes Harry to St. Mungo's. His healer discovers that he is under a blood adoption potion disguising his parentage. It turns out Harry is the son of Sirius Black and Iphigenia Malfoy. Orion comes up with a plan to protect Harry from any who seek to use him. AU Story of The Black Secret

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October 31st, 1981

Auror Bell arrived at Godric's Hollow with a loud crack of apparation. He had been with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement ever since the year of 1978 when he had freshly graduated. Even though he had been a Ravenclaw he felt like he wanted to prove he could be just as brave as any of those lions. Not to mention the fact he was a halfblood and Voldemort's ideals would be going after people like his Dad who was a muggleborn. He had to fight against the madman to try to save the victims that were targeted because of their blood.

The moment he arrived his attention was on the broken home of where the Potters had resided when they try to hide from the Dark Lord. All was unnaturally still and it caused a shiver to go down his spine. The reason he was informed of the attack was because of the rune carved stone he had at his home to let him know if the Potters were no longer among the living. Lily made it very clear he was not to come to try to help fight off the insane Dark Lord. That was what the Order of the Phoenix was for, a group he had not joined. His sole reason for being there was to take any survivors, she made it sound like there would be at least one, to Healer Baybridge right away. He was not to tell anyone that he had been there or if anyone survived. Auror Bell did not know how Lily knew there would be survivors, but he would follow his good friend's last request.

He took a deep breath and walked into the house that would give him nightmares of the tragic story of what happened to Lily and James Potter. The war left scars on him from everything he witnessed but to see his fellow auror and his friend dead would leave a hollow feeling in his chest for a long time.

Healer Baybridge was in his office late at night filling out countless paperwork that had been building on his desk for some time now. With the war going on there had been no break for any of the workers at St. Mungo's. It had been a constant on the go pace for most healers and since he was a senior healer it was his job to not only supervise but to come up with treatment for survivors who had been hit with terrible curses. The Death Eaters were vicious and he had seen many witches and wizards who had been injured at the hands of the sadistic people. The only thing he could do was heal them and do his best to care for them. He was a pacifist by heart and could not fight against them even if he had wanted too. His healer oath was just another reason he chose to heal and not fight. In his profession they were all neutral and did not fight unless they were trying to save their own lives.

He was filling out a form for an Alexander McKinsey who had been brutally turned into a werewolf at the age of seven by Fenrir Greyback. There was a knock on his office door that interrupted him from his work. He stood up stretching his sore muscles before going to answer the door. His brown eyes widened with surprise when Auror Bell stood there his golden hair in disarray and in his arms a sniffling bundle.

"Please come in Auror Bell," he said allowing him into the office before opening the door that connected to a examine room that was in his office. "What can I do for you?" He asked once he had shut the door behind the shaken auror.

"I was told to Lily Potter to bring her only child here tonight," the man uncovered the child's face. The senior healer felt his heart clench painfully at the watery green eyes blinking up at him. What caught his attention after seeing those haunting eyes was the still slowly bleeding scar on the forehead of the little boy. "They were attacked tonight by You-Know-Who and he was the only survivor."

While Bell was talking Healer Baybridge was setting up the examine table to put the little one on. The auror continued speaking. "I need your healer's oath that what you find out will be kept secret."

"I will not reveal anything unless whatever it is, is against the law or endangers the child." He swore.

The auror nodded in acceptance. "Lily came to me just before her and her family went into hiding. She told me that if anything were to happen to them and Harry were to survive then I must follow the plan she set out for me."

Healer Baybridge motioned for Bell to put Harry down on the seat that was meant to hold babies and toddlers when they were being examined. He ran a diagnostic spell on the child which revealed his magical core was very low and that there was dark magic in his scar.

"She told me that Harry was not her biological child and if something happened to both her and James that I was to take him to you so you can reveal who his biological parents were. Lily told me that she was worried people would try to use him if he wasn't taken by me. I still don't understand but I couldn't not follow her last wish."

"Blood adoption potion?"

"I think so sir," Auror Bell said.

The older man nodded his head before taking out his wand to perform the Paternis Charm on Harry. Two blue lines appeared over his head. The one on the right where the mother's name went said Iphigenia Alcmene Malfoy and the one on the right revealed the father's name Sirius Orion Black.

"We'll have to inform Lord Black about this since Harry belongs to his family." Healer Baybridge informed the shocked auror firmly.

"Yes, of course."

Orion Black flooed into St. Mungo's which was surprisingly full with people because of accidents when the partying got too hard. Yes the Dark Lord was dead, but the Statue of Secrecy was being threatened to be broken by the actions of the witches and wizards all over the United Kingdom. It was infuriating and all the Lord Black wanted to do was sit in his study at home and drink away his problems. Regulus his youngest son was dead and he had no clue where his other son was.

His eldest son was disowned by Arcturus for not joining the Dark and Orion could do nothing at the time except talk to the terminally ill Alphard into giving his money to Sirius. That way he knew his eldest was taken care of until Orion was able to take over the lordship. Last year he was able to become the Lord of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Black. With the war going on and his grief at Regulus' death he still had not been able to reinstate his disowned son.

When he got to Healer Baybridge's office he knocked on the door sharply. He had been told they had found out there was a child that had been born into his house, but was adopted by a family before Orion could find out that one of his sons fathered a baby. He wasn't sure if he believed this tale however he knew of the reputation on Healer Michael Baybridge and knew he would not waste his time. The door opened to reveal the brown haired man who welcomed him into the medium sized office.

In the office there was an auror holding the sleeping toddler who looked just like a Potter. He knew this was the child in question yet he had no clue how a child of his house had not appeared on the family tapestry. It must have something to do with whoever decided they could give away an heir to his prestigious line.

"Lord Black, I will perform the Paternis Charm on Harry so that you can see the proof of what I wrote to you about."

Orion nodded motioning for the healer to do the spell. His stormy gray eyes tracked the wand movements of the silently cast spell before his attention to the two lines appearing above the slumbering child's head. Clear as day it proclaimed Harry Potter as the son of Sirius Black and Iphigenia Malfoy. Although blood adoption potions could change a child's appearance they could not stand up against any paternity charms. He felt anger overwhelm for a moment as his Black temper tried to lash out against the fact that he knew the Malfoy girl had taken his grandson away from him. He knew the son he raised would never give away a child of his so it all fell to Iphigenia. She should be glad she was dead because Orion could no longer get his revenge for line theft against her.

"Give the antidote to the child," the angry Lord Black demanded. "I want the full story of how this happened." The auror began his tale of what he knew of the story and what the muggleborn had told him. He cooled his anger as he felt he should be grateful they had discovered this so early. Orion did not want to imagine what would have happened if he had found out years later rather than about a year after the toddler's birth.

"I am not going to report this to anyone since the Potters never formally adopted Harry." Healer Baybridge finally spoke as he began to feed the potion to the child through a bottle of formula. "Only if that's what you want, Lord Black."

"The Death Eaters will be after him if they knew he was alive." Auror Bell stated his opinion even though he felt a little uncomfortable at the fact there were known Death Eaters in the Black family. He could only hope that by the fierce determination on Lord Black's face that he would protect the little one.

Orion nodded his head in agreement. "Yes it would be better if the world thought Harry had disappeared. I will need to come up with a back story."

"I can fill out a birth certificate for him and send it to the proper channels."

The sound of suckling stopped and all three men turned their attention to the child who was slowly transforming in front of their very eyes. Messy black hair became an even deeper black that fell silky straight down his head. Slightly tan skin turned a pale cream that was definitely a feature of a Malfoy. Sapphire blue eyes blinked tiredly up at the three staring at him. His facial features changed as well and Orion could not help but think he was looking at mini Sirius. Father and son looked so similar when Sirius had been that age. Except for the blue eyes and creamy pale skin he could almost pass as his eldest child when he was small.

"Hadar Sirius Black," Orion spoke when the changes seemed to be finished. "That will be his new name."

Healer Baybridge nodded carefully handing the newly named Hadar over to Lord Black. The powerful man held the child close to him as if it was just yesterday he was holding his own sons. The healer began to fill out some forms that he had taken from his desk.

"What will you say when people ask where he came from, Lord Black?" The blonde man asked as he stood from where he had been sitting on a stool in the corner of the room.

Orion hummed thoughtfully. "I will tell them a partial truth. The Malfoy girl gave my grandson away and the adoptive mother came to me after finding out she had a terminal illness. I took in Hadar, but decided not to press line theft charges to a dying woman. I know many people would want to take control over Hadar if they knew the truth, but I will make sure no one can manipulate him or use him for their own desires."

He vowed he would protect his grandson from those who would harm him. He would not make the same mistakes he had made with his own sons.

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To continue or not to continue? That is the question.