Pollux simply trembled under the young man's glare from his glowing green eyes and whimpered slightly.
Harry gave him a final look of disgust before allowing the man to slide to the floor in a heap. Arcturus gave him a nod of approval before sighing.
"Dolohov is a world champion duelist" he informed the teen.
"I know" Harry returned.
Arcturus nodded and then shook his head despairingly. "Are you sure you can handle it?" he asked worriedly.
Harry nodded. It would certainly be a real test of his abilities but if the prophecy was true then Dolohov could not kill him and he would have to if he wanted to win.
Arcturus sighed once more.
"You really are full of surprises" he stated. "A parselmouth?" he questioned.
"I am" Harry confirmed.
"And what is it that Gaunt said to you?" the older man inquired.
Harry dragged his hand through his hair. "Gaunt is not his name, did none of you recognise him?" he asked.
When no one spoke he sighed before explaining. "His name is Tom Marvolo Riddle, there's a picture of him in the trophy room at Hogwarts, he got an award for special services to the school" he informed them.
"I don't understand" Arcturus responded confusedly.
"That is why I had to do what I did, your granddaughters would have been in his service whether or not they wanted to be if they were to marry into those families" Harry replied.
"What does Riddle have to do with it?" Cassie broke in, clearly just as confused as everyone in the room seemed to be.
Harry drew his wand and wrote the name Tom Marvolo Riddle in the air in flaming orange letters before flicking his wand and rearranging the way Riddle had in the chamber of secrets.
Everybody in the room gasped loudly at the revelation. "That was him?" Arcturus questioned frantically.
"It was" Harry confirmed. "He himself is a half blood".
"Bastard" Arcturus whispered. "And you bought him into our house" he roared at Pollux who was still on the floor trying to steady his breathing.
"I didn't know" the man wheezed breathlessly.
Arcturus shook his head at his son.
"Mr. Potter" Pollux's wife broke in nervously. "What are you going to do with those contracts, you do technically own them after all" she explained.
Harry approached the table where the contracts were laid and picked the three unsigned ones up and glanced over them, feeling a sense of nausea overcome him as he did so. He turned to face the three sisters in which the documents pertained to and saw the apprehensive looks on their faces.
He flicked his wand at the stack of parchment he held and it burst into flames, disintegrating into nothing but a fine ash.
"You should all get the chance to marry whomever you like" he stated flatly. "No one should decide that for you".
Narcissa flung herself into his arms and hugged him tightly.
"Why would you fight for us?" she whispered. "It's not like you are getting anything out of it".
"Because that's what friends do for each other" Harry answered simply.
"You will of course get your money back" Arcturus promised.
Harry just nodded. "Thank you Mr. Potter" Druella stated sincerely. "My girls mean the world to me" she added. "But would you mind destroying the other contract also, it would put my mind at ease" she requested.
Harry approached the table once more and picked up the final piece of parchment, frowning as he did so.
"What the hell is this?" he mumbled, feeling a lot of magic coming from the document.
"What do you mean?" Arcturus inquired.
"Can you not feel it?" Harry asked, handing the man the sheet.
Arcturus frowned and shook his head.
"It feels very heavy and wrong" Harry mused aloud.
"May I?" Cassie asked. "I'm an enchantress, so I can identify the different types of magic on it" she explained. Arcturus handed it to her and Harry noticed that Pollux was now looking very nervous indeed.
Cassie withdrew her wand and began casting detection spells over the parchment, frowning when she had finished.
"Oh Pollux you didn't" Cassie whispered, clearly horrified by her findings.
"What is it?" Arcturus demanded impatiently.
Cassie swallowed deeply.
"He imbued blood magic into the contract and placed some awful charms on it" She informed them.
"What charms?" Arcturus growled, shooting his son a death glare.
"Ones that would make the girls more receptive to their would be spouses advances and more compliant to their will" Cassie explained disgustedly. Harry frowned and then his eyebrows shot up in realisation as he looked towards a confused looking Bellatrix.
"So if for example, the boy who Bellatrix was supposed to marry put her under the Imperius curse" he inquired thoughtfully.
"Then she would not be able to defend herself against it, not a damn chance" Cassie concluded firmly, completely saddened by the thought.
"Bastard" Harry hissed.
He was seething inside and wanted nothing more than to kill Rudolphus for what he had done.
"And I bet he knew it" he whispered.
"Knew what?" Cassie asked confusedly.
"You don't remember attacking me do you?" he questioned Bellatrix.
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