~Prologue~
Disclaimer: Red roses are red, Violets are blue, I don't own Harry Potter and neither do you.
Summary: AU, Orphaned, Harry Potter was raised up by a family friend after his parents' deaths in the practices of Blood Magic. He enters a world where Voldermort has control over Britain and brings with him a power that hasn't been seen since Merlin's time. Gray Harry.
Authoress Note: This fanfiction was inspired by Mizuni-sama's Prince of the Dark Kingdom. It's obviously going to be different but you might see some similarities but the rest are all my ideas.
Speaking/ Thoughts
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The moonless sky bared down on the quiet streets of Santorini, Grecce, an island located in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland Athens. A violent gust of wind which swept up the streets, rattling along the house-tops and fiercely agitating the street lamps that struggled against the darkness and gusts of wind. It was a night that no one was out. Except two black hooded people racing through the night and acting very surreptitiously.
"Lily, Are we nearly there?" Whispered one of the hooded figure who had a tired baritone voice of a man.
"Yes James, just around the bend of this street and her house should be there.. I hope." Whispered the second hooded figure who had a tender soft voice of a woman. She was clutching a small bundle in her arms tightly but gently as well.
"You hope? Lily please tell me your not just guessing how to get there just by the crude map that she made for us," Said the man agitatedly that was identified as James.
"Of course not!"
"Shh! Lily." James said in a soft harsh voice. He looked back behind them but saw no one around that hear them but that didn't stop him from feeling safe.
The small bundle in Lily's arms started to whimpered softly from the agitated voices around it.
"Shh lil' Harry. We are almost there Baby." Lily cooed quietly to the small bundle. The small baby bundled in the blankets quiet down from hearing it's mother's voice and shifted uncomfortable in it's mother's arms.
The two figures turned around the bend of the street and came to a slightly broken down house at the end of the street. The only light on in the house was on the top floor which indicated that someone was inside.
"This is it. Right Lily?" James spoke as he glanced left and right looking for any suspicious movements with a sturdy wooden stick poking slightly out of his sleeve that both of them were wearing.
"Yes." Lily breathed out as she stalked closer to the house and holding the baby close to her chest while James was hovering closely to his small family.
They came to the front of the house and Lily knocked softly on the door. Both of them waited hoping the person inside the house will be able to help them.
The door opened revealing a young woman with a oval shaped face with skin with a healthy golden-brown tint and the classic olive tint skin of Grecce women. Her ebony black wavy hair fell past her shoulders and bright blue almond shaped eyes pierced and mesmerizing James and Lily with her lips pressed in a thin line. She was casually dressed in a long light blue night gown and had a sturdy but longer wooden stick like James pointed at them.
Her eyes widened slightly in recognition when they fell upon Lily and James.
"Come inside quickly," She said urgently in a light accent. She ushered them in with quick hand gestures when both of them were inside the woman poked her head outside the door frame, glancing back and forth checking for unseen enemies and closed the door, she then ushered Lily and James from the door way and down the hall toward a room.
James and Lily were met with sudden wave of heat from heater when they entered the living room; warming their bodies and unfreezing them.
The baronial room they were in had walls with auburn peeling wall paper and black flowers speckled around. A coffee table was surrounded by a brown battered couch and a matching in colour arm chair. The woman who showed them to the living room went off to a different room.
Lily fell in to the couch, completely exhausted and still holding the small baby called Harry close to her chest. She looked down at her beautiful baby boy and found that he had fallen asleep some time when they had entered.
"We're safe now Lily." James said as he sat down on the couch and placed his arms around Lily and looking down at Harry, his tired frowning face slacked in to a gentle look when his eyes laid upon his son.
"I didn't think you would be here so late," The young woman said re-entering the living room again. She had returned with a tray of hot steaming tea that filled the room with the scent of mint. She set the tray down on the coffee table and seated herself down in the brown arm chair.
"We had a little trouble getting out of Britain and had to make sure Sirius and Remus were Ok." James replied.
"Do you have any place for Harry to sleep, Adelpha?" Lily asked her best friend.
Adelpha glanced at the small child in Lily's arms and her face adored a soft smile. "Yes, I prepared a Nursery room for him upstairs. It's on the right when you go upstairs left from the bathroom."
Lily nodded and got up from the couch and taking Harry up stairs to the Nursery.
Silence fell upon the room when Lily left only broken by the creaking of the window from the gusts of wind outside.
"Thank you." James said softly, breaking the silence. " I don't know where we would have gone if you didn't allow as to stay since the so-called Ministry now has confiscated the Potter vaults and all our houses."
Adelpha merely waved off his thanks.
"Lily is my best friend and she gave me so much when she befriend me back in Hogwarts and since she married you and had my Godson, my protection extends to you as well. This is the less I can do." Adelpha said sincerely.
James smiled back at Adelpha. "Still though thank you."
Silence resumed again in the living room.
The sound of someone coming down the stairs echoed throughout the house as Lily returned and sat down back on the couch and picking up one of the cup with the mint tea; sipping it.
"How's Harry?" James asked Lily as he took her other hand and rubbed comfortable circles around the back of her hand.
"His fine. A little cold and really tired but otherwise he is fine."
James nodded and kissed her cheek. "We will be fine now Lily. I might not know how to act like a muggle but I'll learn and no one will find us." James said gently.
"You guys should get some sleep and we'll worry about everything tomorrow." Adelpha said as she took up the tray from the table, seeing that no one was in the mood for more tea. "Your room is right next to Harry's. I thought you might want the comfort of being near your son."
Lily turned from James's eyes and looked at Adelpha. " Thank you Adelpha."
Adelpha laughed smoothly. "Just like how I told James it's alright Lily. When you befriended me, you brought me out of a dark place and showed me more to this world that I didn't know or understand of."
Lily smiled a full blown smile at Adelpha. "After constantly badgering you."
Adelpha giggled. "Yes, I was pretty stubborn wasn't I? But enough reminiscing. Both of you need sleep so you up you get." She said using shooing gestures at them to get moving up stairs.
James and Lily bide their good nights to Adelpha and headed upstairs to their bedroom looking forward to a good night sleep.
Adelpha walked back to the kitchen and placed the tray of tea on the kitchen table beside a newspaper. She was getting ready to turn off the kitchen light and head up to her bedroom when she saw the head line of the newspaper that held the information of the lost of the war.
Tom Riddle, The New Senior Undersecretary of Britain's Ministry. A New Start for Britain!
She smiled wistfully and turned off the light and heading up stairs. "I am just glad that I don't live in that country anymore with Dark Lord controlling everything now." She thought as she climbed in to her bed and turned off her bed side lamp.
She didn't know that in some years time that her best friend and husband would be brutally killed and that she would be teaching her Godson her family's magic art and her Godson would be returning to that exact country she swore she wouldn't want him to return to.
Authoress Note: Well there you have it. The prologue of my first Harry Potter story. I hope you like it so far.
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