Prologue

Harry's P.O.V

Muggle scientists say that if you isolate yourself, you'll go crazy. I don't mind the quiet; plus, everyone already thought I was crazy. Ever since I was a baby, I wasn't normal. Even after my eleventh birthday when I found out I was a wizard, I was still weird in some ways.

Then, as time went on, the war was coming closer each year. And that's when I realized that I would never have a childhood. Well, a normal one anyway. I would just get thrown out into the big world and never get to be a child without having to do something else for others.

That's why I adopted a magical child and moved out into the country. We also adopted a three legged dog and a cat with one eye.

Jonathan, my adopted son, loved being with me. He has big, brown eyes, mousy-brown hair and a scar running down the right side of his forehead, over his nose and it finishes on his left cheek. He was only seven years old and he had been abused by his dad over the last few years before he was put in foster care.

Jonathan is a sweet kid. He likes reading, animals and music. He always wants to help me with things around the house and helping to keep all the farm animals healthy. He takes Jessy(the dog) on a jog each morning with me after we eat breakfast and when he's not doing anything, which is rare, he keeps Nat (the cat) entertained.

I take him into the magic world at least three times a month. We normally go to Diagon Alley, but sometimes we go to Hogwarts so I can grab a potion only Severus knows to make for me.

See, the thing is, during the last moments of the war, I got hit with a nasty spell.

*Flashback*

"Please stay with me," I said to the four ghosts in front of me.

"Always Harry, darling," Mum whispered back.

I gave the four one last smile before I dropped the third Deathly Hallows.

They faded away and I walked on – with renewed courage now.

I heard voices over the hill and walked a bit faster.

When I got there, Voldemort turned to face me with an evil grin on his face.

"Harry Potter," he said softly but with venom laced through his voice, raised his wand and took a few steps forward. "The Boy-Who-Lived," Voldemort raised his voice, arm fully outstretched and pointing at my heart. "Come to die."

We were staring into each other's eyes – green meet red.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Voldemort shouted into the silent air.

As a green beam of light was seemly coming slowly towards me, out of the corner of my eye I saw a Death Eater point his wand at me and whispered something out of the corner of his mouth. It too, slowly came towards me. Well, apart from the fact that the curse was invisible.

I screamed in pain as both of the curses hit me. Then there was a pain going through my forehead, chest and my left leg. Then the blackness consumed me as I fell towards the leaf covered ground.

*END OF FLASHBACK*

You know the rest of the story. I thought I saw Dumbledore in my head, Narcissa saved me blah, blah, blah. Neville killed Nagini and I killed Voldemort.

I recall not knowing what to do with my life and hardly anyone contacting me when I went back to the Dursley's place. I had lost a lot of weight since the war and locked myself in the spare bedroom, barely coming out of that room to speak to anyone.I only had six people that constantly checked up on me. They were: Sirius, Remus, Severus and the Dursley's. Yes that's right, Sirius, Remus and Severus all survived the war. Severus sent a patronus to Sirius asking if he was all right the night I thought he was at the ministry and Severus stopped as just before we went off to save him. Remus changed into his wolf form and ran away to stop Greyback and he won against him. Severus had a blood replacement potion and an anti-venom one as well.

Exactly a month after the war was won, my left leg started playing up. I let Severus have a look at it a few days later and he said I might not ever use it again. That's when he started to make the potion to help my leg; tried to save it so it wasn't completely gone.

Than two months after the war and a month after my leg started to play up, I moved out to the country. Within that month, I adopted Jonathan, Jessy and Nat.

At first, on the farm, I was a bit lonely with just the farm animals. So that's why I adopted Jonathan and the other two. Nat is always by my side all the time. Unlike Jessy whom is with Jonathan most of the time.

Life settled down pretty well for us. We had occasional visits from Andromeda Tonks, Sirius, Severus and Remus with Teddy, my god son. Sometimes they came all at once or one or two at a time.

Teddy likes Jonathan a lot. Jonathan is one of the only ones, along with me, that can make Teddy laugh any time. I think it's because Jonathan and Teddy both lost their mother's to the war and they can sense the pain from each other. The only difference is that Jonathan's dad doesn't want him.

Anyway, it has been a whole year since the war was won and Jonathan and I have been invited to go to Hogwarts for the war ceremony.

There's going to be a big event to mourn the dead were me and other people have been invited to speak in front of everyone, then a dinner/social event. And for the rest of the night there was going to be music, games and dancing.

Also while we are there, I'm getting the potion from Severus. The potions helps takes the pain away and makes my limp less… limpy? I normally get sharp pains in my hip when I walk if I don't have the potion once every month. It doesn't hurt as much as before though.

Back when it first stopped working properly, it was so painful that I didn't want to move at all on it. Hence Severus suggesting running a little distance each day and getting bigger the next day. Not only did it help my leg, it made me more hungry, so I ate more and gained weight which lead me to become healthy again in that department.

Anyway, I made Jonathan take a shower and I laid out what he was to wear which was exactly the same as mine. It included: black trousers and a long, white sleeved t-shirt with cuffs and a black vest on top which had short sleeves. All of the three items had green lining. I also laid out a dark green robe with an open front. Sort of like a cape. He's been in the shower for around 20 minutes now so I better get him out before we are running late.

I got up out of my seat and limped my way upstairs, Nat following me close behind. I reached the second level and walked to the third door down on the right. I knocked on the door and said to Jonathan.

"Come on buddy. We have half an hour until we have to leave and you still need to have something to eat before we go."

The taps turned off and a reply was spoken from the other side of the door.

"Yes Harry. Are my clothe ready? Oh, I also need a towel because I may or may not have forgotten to grab one again,' Jonathan said, opening the door a bit, popping his head out and looking up at me.

I chuckled to myself because he normally forgets a towel and went and fetched one for him from the linen cupboard.

"Here you go. Let me know if you need help getting anything on," Jonathan rolled his eyes as he grabbed the towel, closed the door and wrapped the towel around his waist before he emerged from the bathroom with a cloud of hot air right behind him. It was my turn to roll my eyes at that.

"Come on. Get ready," I ruffled his wet hair and lead him to his room. "I'll be right in the kitchen making a sandwich for you and me."

I closed his door and went down to the kitchen to make ham and cheese sandwiches. Nat sat at my feet as I laid out the bread, butter, cheese and ham on the table.

A minute later, I heard a bang from upstairs. I got up and want to Jonathan's room, pausing outside before I knocked on the door.

"Jono, are you alright in there?" I opened the door slowly and looked at Jonathan who was on the floor, tangled in his robe and t-shirt.

"Ah, I think I need some help please, Harry," he said looking up with his brown eyes, trying to escape from his encasement but failing and making it worse.

I walked up to him and helped him up off the floor, sitting him on his bed. I pulled his robe off with ease and put it on the bed. I buttoned his shirt up and pulled the green cuffs back. I then put his robe on and clipped it up. For the final touch, I waved my hand over his chest area and the Potter symbol appeared on his shirt, black vest and robe.

I made sure that he was presentable before we walked out his door and down to the kitchen to finish making the sandwiches for us. Both Nat and Jessy followed us down as well.

Soon we had finished our sandwiches and I was cleaning up the dishes manually while Jonathan gave Jessy food for the night. After I had finished my quick chore, I checked that Jonathan had put the correct amount of food into the dog bowl before I quickly ushered Jonathan to the front of the house to put our shoes on.

I was taking Nat with me. I almost always took her wherever I went. See, Nat's a special cat. Not just because she lost an eye, but she can sense danger and lets me know with a special technique I have grown familiar with. If she hisses and then meows once, the person she goes to has done something bad in the last year on their free will. If she hisses once and then meows twice, the person she goes to has done something bad in the last six months and done it on their free will. If she hisses once and then meows three times, that person she goes to has done something bad in the last three months on their free will. So I know I'm safe with Nat around and who knows what sort of danger will happen while I'm at this Hogwarts memorial.

"Harry, how are we getting there?" Jonathan asks as he goes out the door.

"By portkey," I answer as I close the door behind Nat. I turned to the small, rusty shoe-rack that had old stinky shoes on it and grabbed one. "This is going to be our portkey for today," I set the necessary spells on it but didn't activate any of them just yet.

"Do you have everything, Jonathan? You know once this leaves that I am not coming back home," I said as I bent down and placed the shoe on the ground and looked at a nervous looking Jonathan. "Remember what happened last time? I had to come back home and grab something to entertain you and that will not be happening this time."

Jonathan pulled out a shrunken book before putting it back in his pocket and smiling nervously at me. "I'm ready, Harry."

"Good. Now this leaves ten seconds after I activate it. Grab hold of my hand and do not let go, okay?" I said picking up Nat and adjusting her so she sat in the crook of my arm, grabbing the shoe with same arm that had Nat and pointing my right hand at it.

I looked at Jonathan, who nodded and I lowered my hand over the old shoe, activate the spells that will turn it into a portkey.

Jonathan grabbed onto my right hand straight away and I held out the shoe for him which he quickly grabbed onto.

A few seconds later, we both started experiencing the feeling of a hook grabbing us around the navel and pulled us off into darkness, spinning around and around.

'Here we go.' Was my last thought before Jonathan and I were portkeyed away.