Hello all this is a new story I am working on along with my other works. All Harry potters worlds and characters belong to J K Rowling. I hope people will enjoy this story as much as my other one. please read and review and tell me if you liked it.
The year 1981 the day, or rather night was October 31st. There was a little cottage on the edge of Godric Hollow that no one in the town had ever seen before that and when they saw it the roof was blown off. When the police went to check it out all they found was an empty partially destroyed building, with a couple of bodies that had no marks on them. The oddest thing was there was a cot and baby stuff all around the house, but no sign of the child anywhere. If they had arrived early they would have seen a giant of a man picking through the rubble and collecting a small bundle of blankets and leaving on a flying motorbike. That very same man and motorbike would touch down on Privet drive in Surrey. Where the man and bike would never fit in, but they weren't there to stay they were just there to drop off the child wrapped in blankets to two people. One was a man with half-moon glasses and wearing purple robes covered in stars. The other was a woman where dark green robes and a pair of square rim glass.
These two looked so out of place on the normal cookie cutter street of Surrey that one had to wonder as to why they were there. The reason was that the little bundle was a child that's only living relatives lived here. So, Harry Potter, for that was the child's name, was to be left to a life of not knowing where he came from or that there is magic in the world.
9 Years later
In number 4 Privet Drive looked like any other house on the block, but the family that lived there had a secret a rather big secret that if you walked into the house you would only see evidence of there being only one child in the house. There was a second boy who lived in the house. The Family that lived there was called the Dursley's, there was the mother Petunia, the father Vernon and finally their son Dudley. The for resident of the house was there cousin Harry Potter, his parents had died when he was a year old and had been left on the door step of his aunt and uncles house in the middle of the night with a letter for his aunt that he had never known about it. He had lived with them for years and they had basically treated a servant since he was about six years old. H was forced to mow the lawn and cook all the meals and if he burned anything he was punished, but that all changed one fateful day.
It was the end of July, July thirty first to be exact. Which meant it was Harry's birthday, not that it mattered because it would be like any other day at the Dursley's. He would get up cook their breakfast, wash the dishes and then do whatever jobs his aunt and uncle gave him for the day. His uncle had taken the day off from work to spend 'with his family' but, it is to watch the finals of the summer professional cricket league. The day began normal enough Harry awoken and sent to cook breakfast, and after breakfast wash the dishes. Just as he was finishing the dishes, the doorbell rang.
"Get the door boy" Uncle Vernon thundered at him as it rang the second time because no one had moved to answer it.
Harry opened the door to find a very stern looking woman in a floor length emerald green dress wearing glasses looking down at him. "Hello ma'am can I help you?" Harry asked a little nervously.
"Yes, you can young man. My name is Professor Minerva McGonagall and I am here to deliver a letter from Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry to one Mr. Harry James Potter." Said the Professor, as she looked down at the child that resembled one of the best transfiguration students she ever had.
He looked shocked at what she had just said but when he looked like he was about answer there was a shout from somewhere deeper in the house "Boy who is at the door?" his uncle bellowed.
"It is a professor here from a school I can attend this year." Harry replied but before he could do anything else his uncle was at the door right in Professor McGonagall face.
"He will only be going to Stonewall academy and that is final. He will never have anything to do with you freaks." As soon as the words left Vernon's mouth there was a massive tiger of shifting dirt. It settled on Vernon's chest as Harry looked at it in awe.
"Will I be able to control one of those if I go to your school?" Harry asked with some fear as well some awe. No, it was the awe of the fact that this woman was controlling such a powerful creature with just her will power nothing more.
"I honestly can't tell you if will have a companion like mine. Let's move somewhere more comfortable and I will explain." She steps around uncle Vernon and the tiger. The tiger jumped off uncle Vernon and followed his mistress into the sitting room. As Professor McGonagall entered the sitting room and drew her wand. She waved it causing the tv to shut off and making Dudley move out of the way since he was sitting in the center of the room and people could barely walk by him. When Dudley stopped moving, he ran out of the room yelling for his mom.
Professor McGonagall walked over to the couch and settled on one end of it gesturing for Harry to sit at the other end. As he begins to move toward it his aunt comes barreling into the room and grabs him by the ear and starts dragging him toward the hall. "What did you do to my little Dudley-kins, you freak. How dare you touch him with your freakishness. You will be stuck in your cupboard until term starts with no food and only enough water to survive." She says all this still dragging a protesting Harry toward the hall when she hears a sharp intake of breath and a growl from the other side of the sitting room. as she looks up for the source of the noise she unintentionally loosens her grip on Harry's ear and he slips from her grasp and runs over to were Professor McGonagall and her tiger are. Aunt Petunia see the source of the noise and is stunned because she had only every seen this person once before and that was right before her sister Lily went off to the school for freaks of nature, as she called it, and she never thought she would see this person sitting in her sitting room.
When Professor McGonagall heard what Mrs. Dursley had said she was shocked beyond belief. Harry had been forced to live in a cupboard and was starved by the sounds of it, but why? "What is this about forcing Mr. Potter into a cupboard he didn't even do anything to his cousin. I was the one to move that land whale you call a son with magic because there was no room for anyone to even walk through the room. Also, what's this about the boy getting no food, I know for a fact you get a stipend of 14,760£ per year since 1982 to take care of Harry. So, tell me why he isn't dressed in proper clothes and feed regularly or got a proper room?" As Professor McGonagall said all this, she didn't raise her voice. No, she spoke in a calm even tone that was even more frightening the when Uncle Vernon would go into one of his liquor induced rages and yell at Harry for being a burden upon his good little family.
When Petunia didn't answer, McGonagall huffed turned to Harry and said kindly to him. "Gather your things we are leaving and you are never coming back here no matter what anyone says. I know a loving woman who just adore to have you come stay with her. she knew your parents and would probably would love to tell you about them. Now hurry along dear while I deal with your aunt." While McGonagall was speaking aunt Petunia had been trying to slip out of the room but as she said the last part Professor McGonagall basically pinned her to the wall with her glare.
Harry quickly got up and hurried from the room he couldn't believe that he was going to be leaving privet drive forever. He quickly grabbed what little he had in his cupboard and waited by the front door. When McGonagall came to join him she was carrying a small slip of paper with her when Harry asked her what it was she told him it was a check for the amount payed over the last nine years to the Dursleys to take care of him and since the did an abysmal job of that they didn't deserve that money, which it turned out Petunia and Vernon had been setting it aside as a retirement fund for when they were old so they wouldn't have to save any of their money and take away from spoiling there little Dudley-kins.
Professor McGonagall lead Harry to the corner of privet drive and pulled out her wand and held it straight out in front of her. With a loud bang, a purple triple decker bus appeared right in front of them. "All aboard the knight bus." Called a young man with pimples all over his face. When he noticed the slight frown on Professor McGonagall's face he lowered his volume. "How many and where are you heading?
"My grandson and I are heading for Aberdeen in northern Scotland." Replied McGonagall, "Also we want a secluded section toward the rear of the top most deck we have much to discuss and don't want to be disturbed till it is our stop. How much will it be? She said as she pulled out a little coin purse.
"It will be 1 galleon for the ride for both of you, since you want the secluded area." The conductor said as he leads them up to the top deck. When they got there, he gestured to a couple of chairs separated from the other. For the first time Harry took a good look at the seats on the knight bus and realized that they were all very comfortable looking recliners. He hurried over to the one closest to the window and climbed into it, while Professor McGonagall payed and thanked the conductor. Once he left she quickly recast privacy charms around the area, because these public places that offered privacy warded areas tend to leave a back door through them so they can hear what people say and have something to gossip about.
Once she finished she settled into the chair next to Harry and gets his attention before starting to talk to him. "So, do you know anything about your parents or their world?" she asked slightly hesitantly she was nervous about the answer.
"All I know is that they died in a car crash, nothing more. How did you know them can you tell me about them?" He said with such hope shining in his eyes that it nearly broke her heart to tell him what truly happened to his parents.
"Harry, I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but your parents didn't die in a car crash. you see before you were born there was a dark wizard in our world who was terrorizing not only the wizarding world but the muggle world as well. Muggles are the nonmagical people in the world and this dark lord believed that wizards with only 'pureblood' should be allowed to use magic. So, like a couple months before you were born your parents got information that sent them into hiding, and by my understanding they went into hiding to protect you." Professor McGonagall told him.
"Seeing as they are dead I am guessing it didn't work?" Harry said with a bit of sadness in his tone.
"No, Harry, that isn't what happened. You see when a wizard goes into hiding we have a charm called the fidelius charm. You see the way this charm works it places the secret of the location inside a person's mind and makes it so that the secret can only be given willingly." She told him.
"So, who was the person keeping the secret of my parent's location?" Harry asked wondering who had betrayed his parents.
"Your parent's secret keeper was your fathers best friend. His name is Sirius Black he has been in prison ever since he blew up another one their friends when he confronted him. The saddest thing out of all of this he was your godfather, and when your parents died you should have gone to him to be taken care." As Professor McGonagall said this she gave harry a sympathetic look.
Harry sat there for a while just processing all this information and different emotions flickered through him from sadness to hot blazing anger. Once he calmed down and reined in his emotions he asked Professor McGonagall. "So, who was this dark wizard that killed my parents?"
McGonagall gave a shutter and replied, "everyone calls him either he who must not be named or you know who, because of the fear we felt. Yes, I am nervous to say the name so I will only say it this one time then don't ask again for I will not repeat. His name was Lord Voldemort." As she said the name she shuddered and then continued talking. "The only person not afraid to say you know whose name was Albus Dumbledore, and that was because you know who feared him. Now that is all I know on the subject, but there may be others who know more on what happened."
Harry sat quietly thinking over what he had been told. From what he understood his dads best friend had betrayed his parents to some madman named Voldemort, who had killed his parents for no really apparent other than they didn't share his belief. As he was mulling this over the conductor came up and said that they were nearing their stop. Professor McGonagall stood and gestured for Harry to follow her. As they left the bus Harry thanked them for the ride and followed the Professor up the street to the far edge of the town where there was a small cottage that they approached. McGonagall walked up to the door and knocked on it. After a few minutes of waiting a rather lovely young lady, looking to be in her early to mid-thirties with strawberry blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes that looked like they were made from sapphires. "Auntie you know there is no need for you to knock." She says with a smile at her aunt, Professor McGonagall. She then spots the small boy behind her aunt and gasp looking at her aunt she says. "Auntie is that little Harry, but I thought he was staying with his muggle relatives."
Minerva McGonagall harrmpffed and said, "those muggles didn't treat him much better than most pureblood families treat house elves, but we can talk to more inside if you don't mind."
Her niece smiled at her aunt and said, "of course auntie. Oh, by the way Harry my name is Maddalena McGonagall, I was a couple of years ahead of your parents at Hogwarts. I became a good friend of your mother."
"Really you were a friend of my parents? You're a witch also do you have a creature like Professor McGonagall? If so can I see it? Please Ms. McGonagall?" Harry spouted these questions off rapid fire, but then he suddenly turned bright red and cringed away from the two women like he feared being either yelled at or be beaten for asking a couple simple question.
"Harry, it is okay there is nothing wrong with asking question don't worry about it. First, call me aunt Maddie, if your parents had survived and I had been around you as you grew up that is what you would have known me as. To answer your questions yes, I knew your parents I grew close to your mother in her second year even though I was two years ahead of her. I have a companion, that is what we truly call them they are based of the six elements of the universe. Mine is a wind wolf. She is a beautiful companion made of fast blowing swirls of wind. I won't call her now because she tends to make a mess upon arrival." As she started talking she pulled Harry into a comforting hug and then led him deeper into the house. "come on let's go sit down and I will answer any question you have. Would you like something to eat?" After getting a nod in the affirmative from Harry, she steered him into the kitchen and settled him at the table with her aunt. Then she went to the cold box and pulled out the fixing for sandwiches.
As she did she asked, "So, auntie what have you told him, and what are your plans for preparing for school?" as she finished talking she brought a plate of sandwiches over to the table and set them down between everyone. She had expected Harry to go after the food like any pre-teen or teenage boy but he just sat there till both she and Minerva had taken theirs. 'that is something I will have to work on, his self-confidence' she thought to herself.
"Well, I told Harry about what happened to his parents and who is thought to help with that but I wanted to wait on the rest." Said Professor McGonagall looking at her niece, while Harry looked on confused.
"What more could there be for me to know? My parents were killed by a lunatic who called himself 'Lord Voldemort', and I was left an orphan with an aunt and uncle who hated me because I was different. So, what more is there left for me to know." Harry let out the anger that had been building for over ten years as he lived with his aunt and uncle; because he now learned that there were people that knew his parents and seemed to act like they cared for him. Before either of the women in the room could answer he continued. "All I really want to know is why no one ever came to check on me and make sure I was well and taken care of."
"Harry, you have to understand I was there when you were dropped off and told Professor Dumbledore it was a bad idea to leave you there. I tried to return but I could never remember where you were until I came to bring you your Hogwarts letter. The only reason it worked then was I kept looking at the address on the envelope. As for what there is to still tell you it has to do with the night your parents die. You see after you know who killed your parents he turned his wand on you and by what we could tell he cast the killing curse at you but for some reason it rebounded. You are the only know person to have ever survived the killing curse and in doing so you killed the worst dark wizard since Morgana in the time of Merlin." Professor McGonagall looked Harry in the eye as she continued. "Harry, you are the most famous person in the wizarding world. Since that night you name is a household name, all children know you name and there are stories written about you."Harry sat there thinking of what had just been said. 'I am famous for surviving a dangerous spell. I will just see what comes from this I doubt anyone will care at all after all it has been ten years.' He then said, "so what will happen with me now am I going to an orphanage?" Harry asked wondering why he was at this house.
Maddie gasped and looked at her aunt and then said, "if you want Harry you can stay with me when you're not at Hogwarts. Your mother told me that if anything happened to them and Sirius I should take care of you but Dumbledore got a hold of you and I couldn't find." When she said this Harry brightened considerably.
"Really I could come and live with you?" when she nodded Harry let out a shout of joy realizing for the first time he truly wouldn't be going back to the Dursleys.
"Well, Maddie why don't you take and show Harry to the room he will be staying in and then let him look around the house. That way we can plan what to do about getting him ready for school." Professor McGonagall said giving her niece a meaningful look. Maddie understood the look to say that she wanted to discuss something important to be told harry later.
Maddie took Harry and led him to a room on the second floor that was about the size of both Dudley's first and, second bedrooms put together. As he looked around her realized that the back quarter of the room was a walk-in closet, and on the right wall there was a door that lead to a bathroom. Once he was done looking around he turned to Maddie and said. "Is this all for me?" When she nodded assent, he went into the room and set what he had with him on the bed.
"I need to be getting back to auntie Minerva in the kitchen. So, you can look around the house, just don't get into much trouble." She said with a smile and after his nod she took her leave of him. as she entered the kitchen she found her aunt had made a fresh pot of tea while she was gone. "So, what did you want to discuss without Harry here?"
"I think we should take the boy to see the Goblins tomorrow and have a blood inheritance test done. Not because I don't think he is Lily and James son but because I think there might be some older family tights that have Vaults that he could claim, and it well show if there has been any tampering with his magic." Said Professor McGonagall and she could see the concern in her niece's face. "Don't worry the only thing to his power I think that have been done is a small block. Also, if we can arrange it for him I want to see if the goblins will let us go to the Potter Family vault." She said with a small smile. "it would be nice for the boy to have something with him that belonged to his parents."
"I think that is a great idea and if it doesn't take too long we can get his Hogwarts things after. As well as some new clothes did you see what he was wearing. It looked like they were made to be four sizes too big for him. Maddie said with a sad look on her face.
"they were his cousins before they got to him. His aunt and uncle didn't give him anything other than what was absolutely necessary to survive." She could see the anger in her niece's face and she raised a hand to for stall it. "Don't worry I took retribution from the Dursleys in the form of the of the money they were receiving to take 'care' of Harry."
Maddie nodded and she in Minerva continued talking planning out how the next day would go. Before they knew it Harry was knocking to ask about dinner, he stuttered and stammered the whole time he was asking. Maddie just smiled and beckoned him into the room and had him sit down at the table. She went to the stove summoning some ingredients and pots and started making dinner. As she worked on that they explained and worked out the details for the next day going to Hogwarts.
"After we finish in Diagon Alley we will go to muggle London to get you some better clothes." Maddie said setting dinner on the table.
"I don't want you to spend any money on me I am not worth it." Harry said in a very quiet voice.
Professor McGonagall stared at the dejected looking boy for a moment then said. "Harry, you don't have to worry about it you won't be a burden. You see in our world, the wizarding world, your dad's family had a lot of money from different potion and things they have made."
"Oh really? I didn't know my aunt and uncle just said they were just a couple of drunks. When you told me about them I didn't believe it but I had no clue I had any money at all." Harry said in a small voice.
"it is ok Harry we will go over this with the goblins tomorrow when were at Gringotts, the wizarding bank. Now eat your dinner, then we will get you settled for bed we will have a long busy day tomorrow." With that they settled in and finished their dinner quickly.
Once dinner was done Minerva took her leave of Harry and Maddie saying she would be back around seven the following morning so that they can get an early start to the day. After she left, Maddie took Harry up to his room and helped him get the bed made up. When they finished she wished Harry a good night and head to her own room. After she left, he lay in bed just think over how his life had changed that day and as he thought of this happy change of events in his he drifted off to sleep with a smile on his face.
Well here you are at the end of chapter one i hope you liked it. Again I ask for reviews tell me your thoughts and keep your eyes open for chapter two hopefully it won't take to long to post it.
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