The three men spent the rest of the night going over some of those ideas and refining them. Sirius was actually excited to be doing something, as much as he loved gaming it was boring to play all the time, plus, new games wouldn't be coming for years. Now, though, he could work on what they had been fighting for, and he wouldn't even have to get his hands dirty, much. The wonderful thing about it was he didn't need to use his own money.
First they needed the cup, so Sirius went to the bank the next day with a few goblin made artifacts, not waiting to go through the lawyer, and came back with it. The same ritual was performed and the cup cleansed.
Hydrus called upon the vengeful spirits to see if there was any sign of Voldemort. To their great displeasure he was still around, though very weakened. They didn't know if it was because he made a new horcrux or if it was because that bit of soul needed to be reborn to die. The Master of Death left the spirits to haunt and spy for him. He would figure it out and do his best to keep Harry out of it. Maybe he could get one of the guys to kill him and go talk to Death, yeah, that'll be easy.
Hydrus gave Remus startup money for the book store. Remus demanded that they get to a non-magical lawyer and get a loan agreement signed before he did anything else. The immortal agreed readily.
The full moon came and went without fanfare. Hydrus and Harry went to a moderate hotel for the night and the cellar was found to be adequate. They would still leave the house until Moony got over his fear, but all in all it was satisfactory. Remus was now a fulltime resident.
The weeks went by in a flurry of paperwork, phone calls, letters, storefront buying, casing out large abandoned mansions, driving lessons, therapy sessions, contracts and setting up Harry for daycare. That last one was delicate, because they wouldn't give an address. The center finally settled with the P.O. Box that Hydrus set up and phone numbers, with the help of a small Confundus Charm.
At first Harry didn't want to go, too much had changed in his young life, but he was soon playing with the other kids and happy at the center. They all hoped he didn't start his accidental magic early, usually that manifested around the age of four. That is when they planned on homeschooling him and setting up play dates with magical children. They needed to get further established in the magical world before they approached parents.
The phone calls to Marius were stilted until they made him realize that they were only trying to help. The man was bitter, there was no doubt about that, he didn't trust wizards, even knowing the story behind Hydrus's future. It took more calls and a few vows to make him see that they were on the up and up. It was Marius's suggestion that got Sirius and Hydrus to open an orphanage for the squib children, hence the need for a mansion.
One day after a call with Marius Hydrus set Sirius down and they planned.
"Well, we've got a site setup and are just waiting for the mansion to be overhauled. Now, what we need is employees and to go to the Department of Family Services and see if we can get the records of the squibs that went through there for the last five years," Hydrus said from his place on the sofa. It had been a long two weeks and there was more that needed to be done, mostly getting workers that knew about the magical world for the orphanage and bookstore. Marius was helping, although there wasn't an underground movement, per se, the man did have some contacts.
"It's about time we use some of that dirty money you have stashed away," his cousin agreed. He too was exhausted, but keeping busy had actually helped a lot. He didn't have time to dwell on his feelings, though his therapist told him that he needed to open up to them on occasion so they didn't get bottled up and blow up in his face later. With a child in the house that would be a bad thing. So he used his journal and Occlumency sessions, in the privacy of his room, for those emotional outbursts.
Looking at his watch and seeing it was only one in the afternoon the immortal said, "Let's go see what that money can buy."
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