A/N: I know, another Harry Potter fanfic on top of the ones I have written, especially one that's Twins-Who-Lived, but I decided to write a Triplets-Who-Lived or Children-Who-Lived, but this time, they all live with a good family instead of putting Harry with the Dursleys, and whisking his twin/twins off to live with someone else. So I wrote this, just to get a feel for it. The original one I had was where they lived with the Dursleys, but decided to try something different where the Children-Who-Lived live with a different family who would actually love them, instead of being dropped off on the Dursleys' doorstep.
Since the kids' name is Phalen and Amber, I figured that the dad should have a Irish name, so I went with Eoin. I mean you have Amber and then you have…Phalen. I figured that it would make sense if there was a theme name going on in the Noel family.
The Noel Family is made of parents: Ashlynn, who's face-claim is Aislinn Derbez and the father, Eoin, who's face-claim is Ryan Guzman.
"Welcome to a world where dreams become nightmares."
Been to Hell - Hollywood Undead
Prologue
November 1st, 1981
Number 7
Wisteria Walk
Little Whinging, Surrey
3:00 a.m.
There was a knock on the door when Ashlynn was roused out of her sleep. She hurried to the door, while pulling on a light-blue sleeping robe on, when the knock came again, because her one-year-old son, Phalen, was still asleep.
Ashlynn was a Irish-Mexican woman with thick black hair and was on the short side being 5'4.
When she threw the door open, she was surprised by the sight in front of her. A large man, with bushy hair and matching beard was standing behind the thin, old man with silver hair and a matching silver beard. He wore a purple cloak.
Next to the man was a severe-looking old woman with glasses, wearing an emerald cloak.
Perhaps the oddest thing was that all three of them were holding bundles of blankets. One bundle of blankets was brown, while one was pink with yellow floral patterns, and the other was purple with yellow floral patterns.
Ashlynn blinked at the sight before her and smiled, "Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall, what can I do for you?" She looked at the giant of a man, "Hello, Hagrid."
Hagrid gave a grim smile, "'Ello Lynn."
"May we come in?" asked Dumbledore.
Ashlynn nodded, "Sure. But please be quiet, you don't want to wake the kids and my husband up."
Ashlynn stepped aside and waved her wand, allowing lights to come on. "What is going on?" The three stepped inside and gathered around the family room.
"We have come to ask you and Eoin a very important question," Dumbledore said.
"Let me get him," Ashlynn said, holding up a finger, before she hurried up the stairs to rouse her sleeping husband. "Eoin, get up."
Eoin grumbled something and opened his eyes, "What is it?" At least, that's what Ashlynn assumed he said. "Does Phalen need his nappy changed?"
Ashlynn shook her head, "No. Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall need to ask us something important."
That got Eoin moving and the married couple went downstairs.
"What is it?" Eoin asked.
"You may have heard what had happened to the Potters," McGonagall started.
"We had heard some rumours, yes," Ashlynn said. She had worked as a Healer at St Mungo's while Eoin worked in the Department of International Magical Cooperation.
"Are the kids all right?" Eoin asked, thinking of his two little ones upstairs sleeping. He had the sudden urge to run up the stairs and check in on his kids.
"Yes, that's why we came here," said Dumbledore.
Hagrid held out his bundle and the married couple gathered around to look. There was a baby boy, sleeping away. There was a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead, peeking out from beneath a tuft of jet black hair.
Eoin started, "Is that where—?"
"Yes," McGonagall said grimly.
Ashlynn went to look at McGonagall's bundle to see a sleeping girl, who had a lock of black hair in her mouth. She almost cooed at the sight. It strangely reminded her of her daughter Amber, who had brown hair instead of black hair, and was Mexican instead of white.
"We have come to ask you if you want to look after Jessamy, Harry, and Abelia," said Dumbledore.
Eoin sputtered, "Don't they have other family to look after them?"
"I have given them the Bond of blood protection charm," said Dumbledore. "As long as they live with a blood relative and call that place home, they will be protected from Voldemort. Since they're triplets, it will be fuelled better than it can when living with their other relatives. They will be safe, as long as they this place home."
"What's wrong with their other relatives?" asked Ashlynn.
McGonagall said, "I had watched them all day and it was awful. I saw her kid kicking her up the street, demanding for sweets."
Ashlynn gasped at that.
"And I think it will be unfair to separate them," said Dumbledore.
"Wouldn't it be best to keep them in the dark about what happened to their parents?" asked Eoin. "I mean, who knows what will happen in ten years time. They will be famous, legends even. Everyone will know their names over something that they won't even remember."
"Yes, but I think you two will keep them grounded and keep them humble," Dumbledore said. "Have them grow up in both worlds, sort of away from all the fame, before they're ready. That's why we picked you. You both live in the Muggle world."
Ashlynn had taken the bundle from Dumbledore and she smiled down at the baby girl, who was waking up and looking at her with wide hazel eyes, "Hello, baby."
"That's Jessamy," said Dumbledore. "She has her father's eyes and hair." He looked a little proud.
Eoin was already feeling his strength crumple. The poor triplets, growing up without parents, it was heartbreaking. And he was seeing his wife already growing attached to the triplets. However, they already had two kids, one who was probably the Potters' age.
"Wouldn't their relatives would like to know what happened to Lily and James?" Ashlynn asked.
"I have written them a letter explaining what had happened and where the triplets have been taken to, if you allow them to live with you," Dumbledore said. "I had also picked you because you in fact live in the same area where the Dursleys' live. If they or you want to set up a meeting to introduce them to their son, you can. After all, it would be nice to meet their last relatives."
"That sounds reasonable," said Ashlynn. "Where do they live?"
"Ashlynn and I have to discuss this," Eoin cut in before Dumbledore can continue.
"We'll take them," said Ashlynn talking over Eoin.
Eoin forced a chuckle and grabbed his wife's arm. He dragged her away from the other adults. "Ashlynn, we need to discuss this," Eoin whispered to her.
"I can't let them grow up without knowing love from parents," Ashlynn said. "I have to help them. That's why I work at St Mungo's. I love helping people."
Eoin looked at Harry in Hagrid's arms and at Abelia in McGonagall's arms. All he could picture was Amber and Phalen. What if it was his kids that were orphaned? Who would take care of his kids if he and Ashlynn were killed? Would those people take good care of his kids or treat them like servants? Would they be senselessly separated? But five kids in total?
Ashlynn always wanted another kid, but after a near death experience when she gave birth to Phalen and they both decided not to have another kid after that.
Eoin felt his resolve breaking. "All right. They could live with us."
Dumbledore smiled, "I see that you have made the right choice."
Together, the Noel parents gathered the three kids, with a little difficulty.
Dumbledore set down a key on the coffee table. "Here's the Potter Gringotts Key, for when the Potters come of age."
"Okay," Ashlynn said.
Hagrid started howling as he broke down in tears and asked, "Can I—can I say goodbye to them?"
Ashlynn and Eoin looked at each other, before allowed Hagrid to give each of the Potter kids a whiskery and probably ticklish kiss on the head, before the two professors and Hagrid left.
They took the three newcomers up to the nursery where Phalen was still sleeping.
"Welcome home Jessamy, Harry, and Abelia," Ashlynn cooed to the two girls that she held. "Don't worry. We'll love you like you're our own children."
Eoin put Harry opposite of Phalen in the crib and then used a Duplicating Spell to create another crib for the two girls, where Ashlynn put them in, opposite of each other. Jessamy had fallen asleep again.
When morning came, Ashlynn and Eoin had introduced the Potters has the Noels' new siblings, and watched, with smiles on their faces, as Phalen and Amber poked and prodded the strange newcomers, before conceding that, yes, these strangers are their new siblings. Amber, who was a bit of a selfish two-year-old, had even given the two new girls her dolls to play with.
A/N: I finished the chapter, before I remembered that Petunia would need to know what had happened to Lily and her kids if the Potter triplets were taken somewhere else. And I figured that it would be nice if the Dursleys and the Potters have some sort of communication with each other, or way of knowing that each other exists in some way. That is why I had the Noels live in the same area with the Dursleys, where the Potters will go to the same school with Dudley.
Jessamy means jasmine flower, but I didn't want to use Jasmine as a name, so I went with Jessamy because it was different. Her original name was Magnolia, but I wasn't really feeling it, because I wanted a 5-6-7 triplet theme name to have and, again, I didn't want Jasmine as a name.
