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Cordelia Potter had accomplished much since her rebirth into this world three centuries ago. She used to be a normal human in her previous life, she was born in 1996 moved to America at age two and had been raised in a middle class family, she graduated from medical school and practiced for ten years before becoming an expert in her field.
She had worked till she was in her mid sixties and had retired, she never had kids but she was married to a writer who died early in her seventies because of that she found herself living with her older sister's family who had loved her and took care of her like she was their own mother. She never suffered major health problems and had lived to nearly a hundred, she died in her ninety six years of age after getting into a car accident, her taxi driver died on impact but she had died on the operating table due to severe injuries.
After her death she was granted a boon because of having great merit so she asked to keep her memories if she was allowed to. What surprised her though was finding herself reincarnated into a fictional world and even in the family of the main character.
She was born to Sellena Fleamont and Arthur Potter as the younger sister to one Henry Potter in 1896, she was a witch.
She had grown up curious about everything about magic and she knew about the advantages of the timeline too so she had worked hard to get ahead since she had such an opportunity. Magic was really a great thing and she had always lamented how idiotic wizarding world was with such an advantage they possessed.
She hadn't actually been thinking about helping anyone at first but employing muggleborns and half-bloods who had difficulty getting a job was a great asset, she had created a real estate/construction company at first knowing the value of land in later years, she also had bought lands, farms and later moved to recycling and repair industry. She had taken over the most profitable industries very early, she had invested in many great projects that had advanced the magical world and she had made trillions from her business in the Muggle world and her industries in the magical world.
She had also spent billions in charities, building schools, hospitals, orphanages, wells, and roads. She had also invested in many pharmaceutical companies and lowered the price of medications so people could afford it. She had lived her life as a well known businesswoman and very beloved philanthropist. She had a very long life, nearly three hundred and ninety nine years old.
The wizarding world was also better for it, she had prevented the rise of the Dark Lord, killing him when he first tried to make his horcrux. She had also drained the coffers of many dark influential families, she had helped the wizarding world get ahead of the Muggle world so when she was near her death and the Muggles stupidly started a nuclear war, her people had already made shelters from the nuclear explosions and knew how to fix problems due to nuclear exposure.
Humanity would survive she knew for sure, so she had died content knowing she had saved her people with her efforts.
Cordelia Potter died and she found herself again in the afterlife.
Now she was conversing with her guide about her next adventure.
"You had outdone yourself this time, you earned so much merit in so little time. You know many would not accomplish this much in only two lifetimes." He said with a face that showed an unconcealed amusement, Nova knew where those merits come from.
"I had realised helping others would help me more, that's why I never shied away in using my wealth to help better the world and my people when an opportunity presents itself." Cordelia replied and mostly because she had lived her life as she wished.
"Well, you have earned three rewards in your next life. You have to be careful though about your wishes because if your wishes clash with the natural order of the world you are going to you will find yourself dead as soon as you enter that world and you will have no more rewards since you have already used it." He said while still looking amused.
"Ok, I still want to keep my memories, will there be magic in my next life?" Cordelia asked worried that he would refuse to give her answer but to her astonishment he answered her question.
"Correct, there will be magic in your next life." Nova replied. He wanted her to keep her magic so she would fix some problems for them in the world she was going to. He will even give her a gift, Nova had become fond of this little one. Which is why he had indulged her a lot, many of the things she was allowed to have were not possible for others in her position and she wouldn't have had it if she had she had another guide other than him.
"Good, so I also want to keep my magic too. What would you recommend for my next wish Nova, maybe a healing power to help others with?" Cordelia asked hoping he would give her a clue on what else would be beneficial in her next life.
"That is possible, but would you not also accomplish the same with your magic alone, how about simply enhancing your natural gifts in your next life so you will have all the gifts your bloodlines have to offer?" He didn't want to make his colleagues suspicious too, giving her the things she had were already a great advantage. When his little one solves many of their problems in this world he will get better reward and she will also get much more merit. The previous world was similar, The Dark Lord would have been much much worse than any of his many counterparts had he been allowed to grow into his power and if he had been allowed to live long even the Chosen One would have failed but his smart little one had kept an eye on him and had killed him at first chance of wrong doing. With the Dark Lord dead the problem in that world was fixed easily and he was rewarded so he had also rewarded his little one accordingly.
"Alright, that sounds amazing." Cordelia Potter replied.
With that Cordelia Potter found herself reborn in another fictional world she knew, she realized why her guide seemed amused before. She wouldn't freak out like she had done before at least.
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Daella Targaryen had been a simple girl in her early life that was easily frightened. She had almost refused her marriage to Royce Blackwood when she found out about his religion but she had fallen in love with Royce and for once in her life she wanted to be brave for herself so she would live with the man she had fallen madly in love with.
Daella didn't regret marrying Royce, he was so sweet and accommodating for her and she had found herself brave for his sake.
She had gotten pregnant very quickly which frightened her and as her pregnancy progressed she found herself wanting her mother more, her mother had arrived and stayed with her during her labour. It was her most painful and difficult labour but in the end of her labours she had two healthy daughters Aemma Blackwood and Alysanne Blackwood in 81 AC.
She nearly died too but her fever broke and she had gotten better as the weeks passed and she spent more time with her daughters, she had also gotten more healthy. During 83 AC she had given birth to her firstborn son Rickard Blackwood and in 85 AC she gave birth to another daughter Daena Blackwood and in 87 AC she had another daughter Shaena Blackwood, she had Rodrik Blackwood in 89 AC and her last child arrived in 92 AC Robert Blackwood. Her eldest daughters were more like her they looked more Targaryens than Blackwoods but her sons and younger daughters had black hair but her family's eyes.
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Alysanne Blackwood was getting used to her life here, she was glad she still had her magic.
When she was three years old, she found her school trunk in her wardrobe. She was overjoyed, her wand was in there. So was her personal jewellery, clothes, books, potion lab and even even her money pouch filled with galleons. There were only seven million galleons in it but it was enough in this world. A single galleon was worth three gold dragons and with her magic she can convert it to gold dragons, it was really an overkill but she knew how dangerous this world was and that had made her calm down from her excitement and evaluate her situation carefully.
This world was still a book cannon than the show and despite her mother's marriage into House Blackwood rather than into House Arryn as it was in cannon, her sister was still born a year earlier and with her but she was still born and would probably marry Viserys Targaryen.
Her mother was alive here but she wasn't very smart or courageous enough to refuse her father and her own father was a minor lord. She could claim that her magic had more to do with her mother's survival but it was the experienced midwives of House Blackwood that had done their job amazingly and as she grew up she had convinced her parents to train more midwives and maids for their use when they married out so they would not suffer from childbed complications and the incompetence of Maesters.
Her father had no confidence in the Measters as well since her mother could have died if the Maester had his way. Her mother's later pregnancies were all handled by her own midwives and she had never suffered a similar experience like her first one. Her mom had given birth to seven children, four girls and three boys.
She knew the Dance of Dragons would arrive if she didn't do anything about it so she had looked for an alliance early on. She will strengthen her sister political power so she will have more allies, the Vale wouldn't be her sister's family this life so she had looked there, Rhae Royce was a candidate for her little uncle Edric Blackwood.
Rhae Royce was the daughter of Elys Arryn the eldest child of Rodrik Arryn and was born in 80 AC, she was only three years younger than their uncle. Her aunt Amanda had married into House Tyrell and her uncle Jasper the heir of House Arryn had married a Tully wife.
Alysanne's aunt Melissa Blackwood had also married into House Tully after her father's marriage to her mom so she had no worries about the river lands other than House Bracken but their feud with that House would never end.
House Stark had been her favourite house while she was reading the books or watching the shows, not Sansa but not many liked that bint. House Stark had also married into or from their House too so it wouldn't be a surprise to marry into that House but even with her desire of ruling the North the heir of that House was the same age as her sister Shaena so she had decided to marry her sister there. Shaena was bold and very clever and she was also a devout follower of the Old Gods unlike her and Aemma.
She had found herself in front of her father's solar, she opened the door peering inside her father was sitting in his desk reading a letter "Daddy can I come in now?" She asked knowing he wouldn't refuse her.
"Yes darling, come in. How is your day?" Her father was always smiling when he was with his children or his wife.
"It was good Daddy. Daddy I heard you are sending away sister Aemma, Daddy are you sending sister Aemma away? Mommy also said she will have to go to Kingslanding soon." Her sister was only twelve but their horrible grandfather wanted her to marry Viserys soon, he was mostly responsible for his children's death but instead of learning from his mistakes he wanted to make many more mistakes.
Her father frowned not wanting to tell his daughter that he had no choice about it, he wished to keep his daughter too but she had already flowered and he couldn't keep her here more than a year without offending his good father anymore than he already had. There was already a preparation for her wedding to Viserys, after nine moons she will marry Viserys Targaryen. "Your sister is getting married yes but you will be able to see each other whenever you want. You'll be one of her ladies in waiting darling."
He had been negotiating with House Royce and had secured a betrothal for his younger brother the youngest of his siblings, His sisters had already married, Melissa to House Tully, Daphne to House Darklyn, Larissa to House Darry, Astoria to House Glover, Diana to House Redford, Thalia to House Umber and Samantha to House Tarth.
He was glad that Lord Yorbert had accepted his brother as the future consort to his granddaughter. Her father had died a year ago and as his only daughter and heir she was been groomed as the future Lady of Runestone. Her grandfather would have never allowed it had her father lived but with Yohan's death he had no choice but to accept his granddaughter as the future ruler of Runestone.
"Ok, Daddy." Acting as a silly little girl had been another of her advantage people thought she was like her mother, her siblings were different from her personality wise they acted more mature like her twin. Aemma was very smart and gentle even if didn't share similarity in personality they were an uncanny physically, she and her siblings were all very tall, her brothers had taken more after her father but even her sisters were growing up to be taller than average people, even now they were taller than their peers. Her father was very tall more than seven feet tall and very strong, she and her sister looked like they were fifteen when they were only twelve nearly thirteen.
Her grandfather Allen had said it was the First Men blood in them, most First Men other than the Crannogmen were very tall some like Houses Umber and Mormont were even bigger. She was nearly 5'4 at only twelve aside from their height her parents loved them genuinely which is the reason why even with her grandfather's urging they had stalled her sister's wedding to Viserys so long. In cannon her sister was already married to Viserys at age ten and was bedded at age twelve but because of her father's deal with the King her sister would only marry Viserys when she flowered and would not be bedded until the age of four and ten.
She had no trust in Viserys so she will accompany her sister and make sure that she doesn't suffer her original fate.
She left her father's solar to prepare for her sister's future, she was restricted in many ways here since she was a woman in a medieval time period.
She would love to explore this world but she knew it wouldn't be possible for a long while.
Her family had made an advantageous marriage for her aunts, she had influenced her father and grandfather Allen about those matches. Her grandmother Cerella was a very beautiful woman and her aunts had inherited much of that beauty, she was also the most intelligent woman she had met too. So all she had to do was make sure her grandfather didn't interfere with much of the decisions of her many aunts marriages. If it were up to her grandfather he would already squander all of the precious opportunity to marry his daughters into good families for his ambitions.
Her sister had more support because of their aunts and would have even more with her uncle Edric's marriage. She had also managed to vet all of her sister's maids, she even hired a good cook for her sister.
She checked her trunk, it was obviously larger than her original school trunk. There were a lot of potion ingredients in the trunk, she already made many health potions and had mixed it with the food they used to eat. Boosting their immune systems and fixing minor health issues. She made antibiotics for various diseases, vitamins and pregnancy related potions. She went to her other rooms in the trunk, the jewellery room was ridiculous really she had collected all these jewelry in her previous life because she loved shiny things not to actually wear it, she also had a feeling this trunk would not accompany her again in another life so she would have to find a payors for many of her useless jewellery. She could if she wanted scam others with her magic, when she travels to Essos she will try to scam those slavers out of their fortune and see if it could work. Standard transfiguration can last only while the caster is alive, so transfiguring fake gold was ok since there was no ministry here that would arrest her if she was caught so if she wanted she could even buy many things with fake gold.
She will have to master her disguise too, she doesn't want anyone to know she had magic and she doesn't want anyone to trace it back to her if anyone ever suspects her.
Now, she has to prepare a few jewellery sets for her sister and fix up some of her clothes in here for her sister. Most clothes in here she had never worn, she was surprised how much clothes she has but then again she had many properties and most of their wardrobes were full in case she needed it.
Every thing she ever owned as her personal possession was here, only the things she gave away or willed it in the end were missing. And since she gave away most of her money to charity there were only a few million galleons. It doesn't matter anyway since she has enough fortune to last her forever, she had discreetly given away many jewellery sets to her aunts when they married away or had sent it as a gift.
There was a beautiful ruby set and another sapphire set for her sister. Nineteen sets of jewellery should be enough otherwise there will be questions she didn't want to answer. Even these few sets of jewellery would cost a fortune to make with its beautiful designs without the cost of precious gemstone on it.
A few dozen scented oil bottles since her sister likes it. Making scented oils and perfumes were easier than making most potions and it only requires normal ingredients so she had perfected it. She really hopes to prevent this Dance so she can travel and make a fortune if she was even alive at that point, she already has so many ideas in her head.
She left her trunk later than she intended and went to visit her sister.
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In the tenth moon of 93 AC, was the wedding of Prince Viserys Targaryen to his cousin Aemma Blackwood.
Viserys had been smitten with his wife Aemma, it was love at first sight for him, she was beautiful and smart even though she was four years younger than himself.
Aemma was also very happy that Viserys was not forceful of her and was very kind and respectful. She had learned much here and had even asked Viserys to teach her more Valyrian since her mother only taught them a few things. Her father and grandmother Cerella had been adamant about her health and not bedding her husband until she was deemed ready by the healers.
Another thing she was glad about was that she had brought her own healers with her, the Grandmaester was someone she couldn't stomach to be around much.
Her bedding only happened in 95 AC, she was already nearly fourteen and her healer had deemed it safe. So it wasn't a surprise when she found herself pregnant, she had wanted to announce it to her husband but her sister had bid her to wait until her third month. Her sister said it was easy to lose babes in the early months of pregnancy, so when she had reached her third month she had informed her husband.
Her sister had been with her through it all, she didn't have much trouble with her babe and she hoped her next pregnancies would be similar.
She also didn't have difficulty giving birth too, it had only taken four hours to deliver her twins, Aenar and Aenys Targaryen born twelfth moon of 95 AC.
Her sons had also hatched their dragons in the cradle. She had rested for seven moons before getting with a child again, this time she had suffered severe morning sickness and had the hardest labour but she was glad to hold her precious daughter at the end of it. Rhaenyra Targaryen joined them in 97 AC, her sister had helped her a lot this time too. She had to drink many nasty potions but she was declared healthy again to carry another child.
It was during the year 98 AC that her grandfather Jaehaerys declared the betrothal of her twin sister Alysanne and her good brother Daemon Targaryen. Her grandmother had wanted to betroth him to a Lannister but her good brother vehemently refused saying he only wanted to marry a bride with Valyrian descent. So her grandfather had chosen her sister since she was the only one other than her who looked more Valyrian amongst her siblings and was of similar age to Daemon.
Her sister seemed off-put about it but had to swallow her dislike since it would mean she will stay near her. She knew her sister was anything but simple as her grandmother Alysanne believed. She acts naive so people would easily underestimate her, her sister was also very protective of her so Aemma goes out of her way to also makes sure to guard her too, after all they were twins they have to look out for eachother.
Her sister had manoeuvred many things to go their way in the Redkeep or in Dragonstone, she doesn't know how but she knows it's her sister's doing. Her grandmother likes her sister the most too out of all their siblings.
Gael was another issue, her grandmother didn't want to marry off her youngest daughter before but suddenly she had decided to marry Gael to her other good brother Aegon Targaryen, the youngest brother of Viserys.
The three of them spend much together these days since they will become good sisters soon, she had gone on labour in the second moon of 99 AC and had birthed her third son and fourth child Jaehaerys Targaryen.
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Alysanne could confirm the Maester Conspiracy theory now or at least someone had it out for her sister, because during the pregnancies and birth of her sister she had caught so many different types of poisons that if Aemma ever touched it would have made her not only lose the babes but might even kill her.
Her second pregnancy was a close call since the bastards had found out about it very early and tried to make her lose the child, she nearly died during the child birth when an acolyte gave her something that would have killed her sister or would have made her nearly barren.
She had found him later and had mind raped him herself before killing him. She had put her sister on a potion regimen and had managed to undo most of the damage before healing her slowly over the many weeks. She had a clean bill of health and had taken to another pregnancy, she would have liked if her sister stopped for a few years really.
Her problem arose when her grandmother refused to marry off her bint of a daughter and had instead used me as a replacement. She didn't want her precious daughter to marry Daemon so she wanted to sell off her grandson and when he threw a tantrum she decided to appease everyone by selling me off to a reckless fool who makes a habit to sleep with dirty women.
She was aiming for Aegon since he seemed better than his idiot older brother or the other reckless brother. But no, Aegon is also quite unhinged too in his own way, these brothers were obsessed with Valyria. One builds a Lego Valyria and would never stop talking about Valyria, the other is Valyrian racist and the last one was a geek who has an unhealthy obsession with magic, she was glad she escaped that one at least but she didn't want to let her grandmother go.
So, she had manufactured the most vivid and close to the truth tragedy for her precious daughter and made her believe she was having dragon dreams.
It also helped that Gael's crush who in cannon would have left her pregnant was there. When the old hag saw how her daughter was enamoured with the knight she saw in her dreams, she had panicked and had hastily arranged her to be married off to the most available male in the family.
Now she was having a double wedding with her cousin and her aunt, God this family was horrible. At least she will be around her sister and they are going to live in Dragonstone until the wedding so her sister will be away from the viper nest that is Kingslanding.
The only thing in this situation to make her happy was she had new nephew to spoil, her sister makes the most beautiful babies she can't deny it really.