Welcome to my new story, Oracle. I hope you will love it as much as I did when the idea first came to me!
Here is an extended version of the summary-
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives..."
This was the prophecy given from Professor Trelawney. What if this prophecy referred to the other wizard family with a one year old boy born in late July? What if Voldemort chose to murder the Longbottom's instead of the Potter's? Here is the story of which Harry's life would have been if Voldemort never murdered his parents.
Since Harry's parents' lives go on, Harry ends up with a larger family. When Harry's younger siblings, Alex and Max, attend Hogwarts, things change dramatically. Alex gets into trouble when she gets to friendly with Harry's arch-rival, Max befriends the squid in the lake, and Harry, Ron and Hermione discover dark magic lurking in Harper Finkle. There's lot to do this year at Hogwarts, and much to learn.
The Potter's life was perfectly normal. Or at least as normal as a wizard's family could get. James and Lily Potter were happily married with three children, Harry, Alex and Max. Harry was their eldest son, who was now 13 and in his third year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.
Alexandra Margarita Potter, or better known as Alex Russo, (she invented her own last name so people wouldn't think she was related to Harry and Max) the middle child, was 12 and about to start her second year at Hogwarts. She is very mischievous and likes to trick the very gullible Max Justin Potter, her younger brother. Max is 11 and very excited to be in his first year at the wizard`s boarding school.
All three siblings are in Godric Griffindor house at school. Alex`s best friend, Ginny Weasley, was also in Griffindor and they spent most classes together paying no attention to the Professors.
A very exciting gossip topic was one of Neville Longbottom. When he (and Harry) was only a year old, Voldemort had killed his parents. Voldemort turned to kill Neville, but when he tried to kill him, he was unable. Instead Voldemort was blown apart. He vanished from sight and no one knew if he was even alive, to this day. Neville now lives with his only living family, his grandmother.
When James and Lily Potter heard of this horrible incident, they got scared and moved away to Godric`s hollow, where they met the Weasley family. Alex immediately became best friends with Ginny Weasley and Harry became friends with Ron. Max spent a lot of his time in his bedroom inventing things.
The story starts on September the first, at King`s Cross station.
"Neville, I`m going to have to leave you here, I have an appointment across town and I`m going to be late." His grandmother told him. She handed him his toad and warned him not to lose it. Have a good first term at Hogwarts and don`t forget to send me lots of owls!" She said giving him a hug. She left her grandson standing next to platform nine and ten.
Right after Neville made his way onto platform nine and three quarters, a large group of wizards showed up at the same place.
"Alright Harry, you and your father go first." Lily Potter told her eldest son. Harry pushed his trunk and snowy owl through the barrier with his father at his side. Shortly after, Max and his mother appeared through the barrier. The family waited on the other side for Alex to come through the wall.
They waited and waited, but only saw a large group of redheads come through. They counted seven redheaded Weasley's all come through the barrier, but no Alex.
"Should I go back and find her?" James asked Lily nervously.
"Alex is probably waiting for you to come back and find her so she can prank you." Harry warns his dad.
"She better not! We're in the middle of a muggle train station; she will be in big trouble if she exposes us!" Lily said. James walked back through the barrier to find his only daughter.
Meanwhile, Lily helped Harry and Max onto the train with their luggage.
"Bye mom! I'm going to go find Ron and Hermione!" Harry said waving to Lily. He ran off down the train with his owl cage and luggage. Max waited with his mom on the platform.
Harper Finkle walked onto the platform with her older brother, Justin. Max overheard their brief conversation.
"I have to go find the prefect compartment. You'll be okay from here, right? Go find some other first years and make friends with them." Justin said to Harper before running onto the train. Harper walked slowly onto the train and glanced nervously around.
"I'm going to go sit with that girl Harper. She seems really lost." Max said nodding to the other first year in front of him.
"Alright, dear, but don't forget to say goodbye when the train leaves!" Lily said giving him a hug. He ran off after Harper to show her to a compartment.
Just then, Alex and her dad walked through the barrier. They both looked furious. Alex took her luggage and her black owl in its cage onto the train without saying a word to either parent.
"What happened?" Lily asked James at once.
"Alex hung back to spy on that Longbottom kid." James said with a frown.
"That poor boy has enough troubles of his own without having people staring at him everywhere he goes!" Lily said loudly.
"That's not the worst of it." James said. "The Malfoy's showed up and their son started taunting Longbottom. The kid looked terrified. Alex stood up to Malfoy and was about to jinx him by the looks of it, but I stopped her and pulled her back here before anything went really bad."
"Alex tried to do magic in the middle of muggle place? Is she crazy?" Lily burst.
"Don't worry, I stopped her. Although I wouldn't mind seeing Malfoy's son get hexed. Filthy death eater." James smirked.
"Death eater or not, Alex could get in serious trouble! She isn't even at Hogwarts yet and already she's being irresponsible."
"Oh you worry too much. Sirius and I did tons of magic outside school when we were younger." James yawned.
Lily looked like she would argue, but James was spared speaking when the train whistle went off. The train started moving slowly and kid's heads started popping out of the windows to say their last goodbyes. James quickly spotted Harry's head with Ron and Hermione close to the back. They waved happily at their eldest son leaving for his third time. They also saw Max sitting a few rows up, also waving and winking at his parents. They couldn't see Alex anywhere.
"Wait here." James called to Lily. James pushed his way through the crowd and caught up with Harry.
"Tell your sister we say goodbye and that I don't blame her for trying to hex Malfoy!" He said quickly. The train sped up and turned the corner, and just like that, their kids were gone until Christmas.
James and Lily walked away, hand in hand, back to their house in Godric's hollow.
Meanwhile, on the train,
"So Ron, are you planning on trying out for quittich this year? Harry asked.
"I wasn't planning on it, but now that you mention it, sure why not?" Ron said.
"Sirius said he wanted to come meet us on our first Hogsmeade trip." Harry said.
"Sirius? You mean your father's best man?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah that's the one. He's an old family friend. He and my dad made a bet that I was going to be better at quittich than my dad was when he was at Hogwarts." Harry smirked.
"Well I've never met anyone better than you, so your dad must have been pretty awesome." Ron said.
"We'll have to see. Sirius and my dad are coming to watch my first game this season."
"But parents aren't allowed to just show up at Hogwarts, are they?" Hermione said.
"Not usually, but considering the only people showing up is a stag and a dog, I don't think anyone will complain."
Just then, the compartment door slid open.
"Well look who it is, Potty, Weasel and Mudblood!" Malfoy said strolling in.
"Levicorpus!" Harry said firmly pointing his wand at Malfoy. Malfoy was hoisted into the air by his ankle, hitting his head on the door as he went.
"Who wants to see me take off his pants?" Harry called loudly. All the compartment doors crashed open at Harry's yell. Everyone laughed when they saw Malfoy hanging upside down in the hallway with his pants hanging by his knees.
Alex pointed her wand at Malfoy and muttered some words. Malfoy flipped right-side up and his pants shot up around his waist again. Humiliated, he ran into the nearest compartment.
"Serves him right, the little scum that he is." Neville said following Harry back into their compartment.
"Hi Neville." Hermione, Ron and Harry chorused.
"Hi guys, you haven't seen that stupid toad around here, have you?" They all shook their heads. "That's alright, I never liked Trevor anyways. I'd much rather have an owl." He muttered.
Hermione gave a meaningful look at Ron. Neville was a very high gossip subject around here.
Ron cleared his throat. "Err, Neville, is it true that over summer holidays a big group of death eaters tried to break into your house?"
"Are they still on about that? You could say it's true, but as usual the daily prophet is exadurating everything. I'm not sure you can call two imperiused guys coming to our door a large group of death eaters."
"But it's true? They came and tried to break down your door?" Hermione pressed.
"Well, yeah that part's true. Gran had a pretty good brawl with them. They weren't much of a fight for the two of us though." Neville said casually. He rubbed the lightning bolt scar on his forehead with the back of his hand. All three people quickly glanced at his scar as he did so.
"Um, I have to go talk to my sister. My dad wanted me to tell her something, but she went on the train right away." Harry said getting up.
Harry walked down the aisle and looked in each compartment that he passed. A bunch of Slytherins cracking their knuckles at him, three small second year girls, the prefects, then Max. He walked all the way to the front, finally reaching the last compartment he hadn't looked in. The curtains were shut across the window, so he opened the door quietly.
"Alex?" Harry gasped. Harry caught a brief glimpse of Malfoy and Alex glued together by the lips before they jumped apart.
"Ever heard of knocking?" Alex yelled furiously.
"What do you think you're doing with that scum?" Harry yelled back.
"It's my business who I can and can't hang out with!" Alex screamed. Malfoy said nothing. He just glared at Harry the entire time.
"This is so typical of you! You always end up with the worst boyfriend and then I have to deal with the angry guy after you dump them!" Harry screamed.
"What do you want anyways? Did you come here just to yell at me, or did you actually want something?" Alex glared at Harry.
"I wanted to talk to you, um, alone." Harry said looking pointedly at Malfoy. Malfoy turned to Alex.
"You might as well go, Draco. We're almost at Hogwarts." Alex murmured. Without a word, Malfoy got up and left, slamming the compartment door behind him. Harry sat down.
"What?" Alex said with her arms crossed.
"Dad wanted to tell you goodbye and he doesn't blame you for trying to hex Lucius Malfoy's son." Harry said in a robotic voice.
"What are you, dad's little messenger boy?" Alex smirked.
"And I want to add," Harry said getting up, "that if you plan on trying out for quittich this year, I'm captain so I say who can and can't play."
"I already knew that." Alex said, still grumpy. "Now get out, because I still have to change." She said slamming the door in his face.
Harry wandered back to Ron and Hermione's compartment just in time for the train to come to a screeching halt.
"Hogsmeade station." The intercom voice said.
"Cheer up, Harry! We're finally back at Hogwarts! And your brother Max is in the house sorting this year, I believe." Hermione said, dragging her luggage out of the train.
Please tell me if you like this new story idea. Also, the sequel to Mind Over Matter is coming out soon!