Carkitt Market, Diagon Alley, 4th August 1992
Today Matthew had a meeting in Diagon Alley, he was currently on the Carkitt Market in a side street of Diagon Alley in the Wizarding district. It was centered around a Victorian wrought iron arcade similar to those seen around the United Kingdom, such as Leadenhall Market. The shop facades, along with the wrought iron, were Victorian facades painted over in a bright technicolor palette. A small Gothic building sat in the center of the Market.
His goal was a Victorian-looking office building with multiple signs one of them saying Tonks Solicitor firm. He entered the building and headed to the second floor, and knocked on the Door of their Office. A few moments later the door opened and a fair-haired, big-bellied man opened the door and looked at Matthew, "Yes, how may I help you?" he asked with a mellow and pleasant voice.
"Good Morning, I have a meeting at 10 am with Solicitor Edward Tonks." Greeted Matthew.
"Ah, you are my 10 am appointment. Come in. Nice to meet you, I am Edward Tonks the Solicitor and Owner of this Law firm." Greeted Edward 'Ted' Tonks as he energetically shook Matthew's hand.
"Nice to meet you, sir." Replied Matthew.
"Come sit down young man. Do you want anything to drink? I have Coffee, Tea or Water?" offered Edward as he led Matthew to a desk with chairs from both sides.
"No thank you. I just had breakfast."
"Ok. So how can I help you? Under-aged Magic? Or Something else?" asked Edward.
"Well first of all. I would like to know if there is anything like a solicitor-client privilege in the magical world?" asked Matthew.
Edward blinked for a few moments before replying, "Yes there is. I am required to keep silent about anything you tell me. The Wizarding World had this kind of Law even before the non-magical world since they are vastly beneficial to Pure-bloods and their interests. So anything we discuss will be kept confidential. My Office is under privacy charms so nobody can eavesdrop." He explained.
"I see that's perfect. The reason I need legal help is quite risky and needs to be handled carefully. It's not even for me. I choose your law firm because you are related to the person who needs legal help by marriage." Explained Matthew.
"What? Who?" asked Edward with bafflement.
"Sirius Black!" dropped Matthew the bomb, coming directly to the point.
"WHAT!? Do you know who he is? What he did?" asked Edward with anger in his voice.
"Please calm down sir. Let me start at the beginning. Do you know any Curse or Spell that leaves nothing behind but a finger?" asked Matthew.
Edward began to hesitate and think for a while, "I can't think of any. Even during the war, it was the only time that all that left was a finger." He replied thoughtfully.
"Yes this kind of curse would have been specifically designed that way, and the effort is too much for that. Creating a curse leaving a specific body part intact is very complex. So Complex that it isn't worth the effort." Explained Matthew, "That made me suspicious that something was wrong, so I began to dig deeper. Why would someone betray his own brother who he dearly loved? Sirius and James Potter basically grew up as brothers, there is no way that Sirius could have faked this the whole time. A close friend, yes. But a brotherly bond would have been obvious. You should know Sirius better than me since he was the closest family your wife had. I only have my pieces of information from other people. This was the second sign that something fishy is going on."
"Yes, you are right. My wife also didn't believe that Sirius back then did it, but then he was convicted and brought to be Azkaban. His Trial must have proved that he has done it."
"Well, that's the core problem. Sirius never had a Trial."
"That's not possible. How do you know that? His records are sealed and can be only accessed with the permission of the Minister." Asked Edward with shock on his face.
"Ehm, that's why I asked about the solicitor-client privilege." Began Matthew sheepishly, "I kinda broke into Azkaban and asked Sirius personally, since I couldn't find more information this was my only option."
Edwards Mouth was now wide open and he stared at Matthew as if he grew a second head, "You did what? How is that possible? You couldn't be older than a fourth or fifth year and broke into one of the safest places of Magical Britain?"
"Yeah, I am quite the capable Wizard. With a few tricks and Original Spells, it isn't hard to bypass the Wards. After all the Ministry is quite incompetent and their Auror force is understaffed. Tricking the Dementors isn't that hard. And nobody would expect someone breaking into Azkaban." Joked Matthew.
"So you spoke to Sirius and he said he didn't have a Trial. Are you sure he didn't lie?"
"Yes, he also told me that Peter Pettigrew is alive. Sirius and Peter are both Animagi. If Sirius wanted he could actually break out any time. The problem is that he feels that the Potter's dead was their fault. It was his Idea to secretly exchange the Secret Keeper, Pettigrew was the Secret Keeper while everyone believed it was Sirius and they would come after him. But Pettigrew was a Spy for Voldemort and sold the Potter's to him. Later Sirius hunted him down because he wasn't thinking correctly. As he confronted Peter he cut off his finger, blew the street up and turned into his rat animagus form, and fled in the confusion, while Sirius was captured by Aurors and imprisoned." Explained Matthew.
"That's a lot to take in. But to even accomplish something we will need to find Pettigrew. We will also need to move fast and quickly proving his Innocents since the Malfoy's have a real interest that Sirius never gets free. So they can inherit the Black estate." Began Edward now in his Solicitor mode.
"Well, I already know where Pettigrew is. I can capture him as soon we are ready. He is quite slippery so let's not alarm him."
"Where is he?"
"Let's keep that a secret for now. I really don't want to alarm him!"
"Okay. I can contact Madame Bones, she is the Head of the DMLE and impartial on the side of Justice. She would make sure that Pettigrew doesn't disappear. I will need to find the eye Witnesses from back then and get their Statements. To collect all the proof we can I need some time." Murmured Edward.
"What about the Malfoy's? They are quite wealthy, which is a problem here in Britain." Asked Matthew.
"Once we are ready to make our move, I will contact the Goblins and freeze their Accounts temporarily. The Goblins are responsible for Inheritance, they take Line-theft very seriously. Our proof should be enough to freeze their Accounts before the Trial. As for Fudge, we will release a Statement to the Prophet and the Quibbler. He won't be able to move against public opinion. But our moves need to happen in a short time before the Trial so our Opponents are unable to Counter us."
"I completely agree. Okay, I will also inform Professor Dumbledore the day before so we will have his assistance. How much will your payment be?"
"Good Idea. Having the Chief Warlock on our side will be a great help. Don't worry about the Payment. The Black Account will pay for it once we are Successful. I am doing my Wife a Favor here. After all, Sirius was her favorite Cousin and Member of her family."
It took a while to plan the details, but now they had a real strategy to get Sirius out of Prison. If they succeeded Matthew would gain access to the Black Library and the Horcrux in Kreacher's possession. And the political power of the blacks wouldn't hurt either.
While Matthew was in his meeting with Edward Tonks, he felt through the tracker on Harry's Glasses that he gifted him to Christmas, that he got picked up by the Weasley s and traveled to the Burrow with them. If Matthew remembered right, they would visit Diagon Alley on the same day that Lockhart the fraud was signing books. Matthew would also visit the Alley to buy his School things that day just to make sure that the events followed Canon and nothing unexpected happens, like Lockhart gaining the Diary.
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A few days after his meeting with Edward Tonks, Matthew used a Portkey to Travel to the Scottish Highlands. To be precise to the mountain Range close to Hogwarts where Sirius would have hidden himself in the Original Timeline. He needed a wide and open space where he could practice without alarming anybody. Beforehand he repaired his Magitech Drones since he needed its assistance for his training.
Once he arrived he explored the Mountains a bit until he found a small valley where he would be hidden from sight and other Humans. After placing privacy and notice-me-not Wards around the Valley he was ready to begin his training.
There were two pieces of magic he wanted to learn since they would be very handy, the first one was the art of apparition, the most common travailing Method of Adult Wizards. Who wouldn't want to learn a form of teleportation?
Apparition was a magical form of transportation, in which the user traveled instantly from one location to another, without traversing the space in-between. This was accomplished by having the user focus on the desired location in their mind and then purposely disappearing from where they were, to reappear at the desired location. Apparition was by far the fastest way to get to the desired destination but was tricky to pull off correctly and disastrous if botched. If the Wizard screwed up it would result in splinching or even Death.
That was also the reason why needed his Magitech Drone to practice Apparition, he just felt that the risk of splinching himself was too dangerous, since he valued his life and all his body parts but didn't dare or rather could ask another Wizard to help him learn it. He didn't want to share his true capabilities at the moment. So he designed his Drones modular with the ability to exchange their arm tools. One of these tools was imbued with rune formations for healing and another the splinching reverse Charm.
As his first target, he transfigured a wooden Ring where he would fit in and placed it on the ground a few meters before him. According to his knowledge, the further the distance a Wizard apparated the harder it gets. It had a theoretical range limit based on the power of a Wizard and his concentration. It was advised that inter-continental Apparition should only be attempted by the most highly skilled of wizards. But in theory, if a Wizard had enough power, he could even apparate to other planets, but the power cost was immense and even someone like Dumbledore could at most apparate from Britain to the United States. That's why Matthew choose as beginner distance only a few meters.
"Are you ready Drone 1?" asked Matthew making sure his safety net was in place.
"All Systems ready and operational!" replied the Drone in its mechanical voice.
"Okay, then I will begin." Murmured Matthew as he closed his eyes and began to concentrate. He imagined himself standing in the middle of the wooden Ring and channeled his magic, and after a few minutes… nothing happened.
"Are you thinking about the three D's sir? Destination, Determination, Deliberation!" asked the Drone after a while quoting Wilkie Twycross the Ministry instructor from the Department of Magical Transportation that guided Harry's batch of Hogwarts Students in the books.
"Wow, now I already get mocked by a supposedly emotionless AI." Joked Matthew as he tried to guess what he was missing. After all, Apparition was a relatively difficult and advanced form of magic only learned by Students at their end of education and only used once they reached adulthood.
"Just trying to assist you with your goal, sir." Replied the Drone in its monotone voice.
Matthew knew that Apparition was not really teleportation but a form of Wormhole travel. Teleportation was the instant transportation of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. While Apparition according to his analysis created a small Wormhole between two places and squeezes the Wizard through it similar to his portal creation magic just faster. Maybe his mental image was wrong, since he imagined himself to instantly appear in the ring, he should try to imagine the whole wormhole creation process between to two places while focusing on the target location. His focus on Determination and Destination should be perfect, he was a master of Occlumency after all. The Problem should be the Deliberation, the image of the whole process.
"Be ready Drone 1. I will try it again." Said Matthew with new determination ready to try his new Theory.
"Affirmative!" replied the Drone still focusing on its creator.
Matthew once again closed his eyes and focused on his target the space inside the wooden Ring. But this time he imagined himself squeezing through a hole in space leading to his target location. And suddenly felt his whole body twist, the next thing he knew everything went black, he was pressed very hard from all directions, he could not breathe, there were iron bands tightening around his chest, his eyeballs were being forced back into his head, his ear-drums were being pushed deeper into his skull. With a loud crack, he arrived inside the wooden Ring. He just apparated for the first time.
"Are you ok, sir?" asked the Drone after seeing no damage or harm on Matthew's body.
"Yes, I am perfectly fine. No splinching or anything." Replied Matthew while thinking that it was not bad for his first apparition attempt, yes it felt kinda sloppy and weird, while the noise that accompanied his apparition was very loud, while masters of the art were able to do it with only a simple plob, for his second attempt it was not bad.
Now that he understood the principle he began to practice from a further distance. In the end, he spent the rest of the day practicing apparition and managed to improve significantly. At the end of the day although it was still kinda loud he managed to do it without needing to concentrate for a long time. He even apparated home all the way from the Scottish Highlands to his family garden in London.
He would spend the next few days practicing to master the art and push the other magic he did want to practice to the back of his Schedule since less than perfection was unacceptable for him. Especially for life-saving and practical magic like Apparition.
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A few days later at breakfast with his Parents, an Owl from Hogwarts with his Shopping list arrived. After reading its contents and confirming what he needed for his Fourth year in Hogwarts, his Mother began to ask him, "When are you visiting Diagon Alley?", already accepting the fact that he could do his School Shopping alone.
"I will go on the 19th of August. There will be a book signing event at Flourish and Blott's the Bookstore where we got my books. The Author a person named Gilderoy Lockhart is rumored to be our teacher this year. And I would like to take a look at him before the year starts." Explained Matthew while also wanting to see the Canon events in order to make sure that everything goes according to his plans.
"Oh, did you read his books?" Asked his mother with interest.
"I read one of them and they are absolutely a fantasy novel. And I don't mean because of magic. No, all the things he wrote about were exaggerated and sometimes impossible. He even claimed to have cured Lycantrophy which isn't true. But he sells his books as truth." Ranted Matthew.
"And such a person will be your teacher?" asked his Father.
"Probably. I guess that most people are scared of the Position of the DADA Teacher since it is apparently cursed. So the Headmaster at this point hires anyone available. Maybe next year you should try to apply for the position dad." Joked Matthew with his family.
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