A/N Hey guys, The Moderator here! I'm Still Alive! This time here with another story! This time we shall be exploring the Harry Potter World! I know this is a relatively common fan-fiction, but this is my spin on the forgotten twin story. I noticed that most of these stories were made in 2004-2009, so let us return to this epic genre! My story should have a very unique twist in which Harry is primarily raised by the house elves.

Now onto the story….

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter. Nor do I own any other franchises that I might bring while writing this story. This disclaimer applies for the entire story. Start to Finish.

Summary: What would happen if Harry was neglected by everyone for his younger twin brother, the BWL. With no one to take care for the Potter heir, the house elves take it upon themselves to raise him! At age 6 Harry runs away with the help of his elf-ly friends! Follow along as this ambitious-green eyed wizard takes the wizarding world by storm! Pairing: Undecided, Slytherin Harry!, Powerful Harry!

In the Darkest of Shadows

A Harry Potter Fan-Fiction

Chapter 1: A Mistake Not So Easily Forgiven

The wind rustled across the small village that was Godric's Hallow. Soft sounds of laughter and cheering as kids went about from door to door trick or treating. Yet there was one house that every kid and chaperoning adult seemed to pass, they acted as if it wasn't even there. No one would be stopping by at this house tonight to say "Trick or Treat". For this house was under the Fidelius Charm. One casted by none other than Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, leader of the Order of the Phoenix, defeater of Gellert Grindelwald.

Only two souls were currently in this humble abode that was the current Potter residence. Those two being the twin sons of James C. Potter and Lily J. Potter-nee Evans. Their names... Harry James Potter and Adam Richard Potter. In normal circumstances, these one year old twins would probably have a babysitter watching them while their parents where away; however, these were not normal circumstances. Due the Potters going into hiding, to escape Voldemort, they couldn't trust anyone new to watch over their sons. Surely they could've had a friend watch over their son's right? Well it just so happened to be that nearly all their trust worthy friends were part of Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix. The same Order of the Phoenix in which the Potter parents were currently attending a very important meeting. One about the lack of response from the Potter's secret keeper and his mysterious disappearances.

Back at the Potter's residence in Godric's Hallow, a cloaked man opened the front gate with a creak. Briskly the man walked toward the front door of the house, nearly breaking into a running with joy at the thought that the Potters were no longer hidden. Years of searching have finally brought him the location of the Potters and finally on this very night Lord Voldemort had decided to personally ensure the prophecy he heard would never come to fruition.

Casting a quick Alohomora, the front door opened. The Dark Lord sneered as he ascended up the staircase, thinking of the foolishness of protecting a door with a simple locking charm. Finally he came to his destination, the nursery in which the two Potter brats were being held. No longer would he have to delay his plans for world domination he thought. His pace getting faster as he approached the door. Walking into the room he laid his eyes on the two sleeping children.

Both of the children had unruly black hair known to be a distinguished trait of the Potters. One of the twins closer to the door woke up at the sound of the Dark Lord approaching up the stairs. Bright Green-Emerald eyes that stared up at He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Green emerald eyes that glowed with a subtle power that seemed to unnerve the Dark Lord.

Humming to himself the Dark Lord murmured "At least one of you brats have the audacity to face your deaths. You should feel honored that Lord Voldemort himself came to deliver your deaths."

In a flash the Dark Lord had his wand out pointing at the green eyed twin. And then he spoke the incantation for the killing curse. "AVADA-KEDAVRA!" A green pulse of light erupted at the end of the Voldemorts wand and sailed toward a wide-eyed one year old. Rebounding off his forehead leaving a lightning shaped scar and back at Voldemort. Voldemort's look of triumph quickly contorted in shock and anger before he was quickly struck down by his own curse. The green-eyed child promptly fell asleep to the magical exhaustion from the giant bout of accidental magic he had just casted.

Around the house, the wards instantly collapsed to the aftershock of the rebounded killing curse. Protection Wards, Structure and Stability Wards used to keep the house together all came crashing down slowly tearing the house down with it. A piece of falling debris that was entwined in the magical wards hit the other twin promptly waking him up letting brown eyes open to cry away the pain that came from a recently made scar on his forehead in the shape of a upside down V. The shape of the scar that the entire Wizarding World would come to be known as the symbol of The-Boy-Who-Lived, Adam Richard Potter.

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As soon as the wards around the Potter residence drop did James Charlus Potter knew something was wrong. He immediately brought this to everyone at the Order of the Phoenix's attention. Immediately Lily, James, Sirius, Remus and Dumbledore rushed out of the Longbottoms home (Current Order of the Phoenix headquarters) and apparated to Godric's Hollow. Being that those 5 at the meeting were the only ones that knew the location of the Potter residence when it was under the Fidelius. Shrieks of panic sounded as the 5 arrived at the nearly destroyed home of the Potter residence.

"Lily! We have to get up stairs to Harry and Adam!" Came the frantic voice of James Potter.

"I know James, help me move some of this debrief from the roof so we can clear a path to the children!"

Soon the debris was cleared and the adults made a sprint for the nursery in which Harry and Adam were located. James quickly snatched up a crying Adam from his crib trying to calm him down. Meanwhile Lily picked up a softy sleeping Harry, waking him up in the process with dreary eyes. Dumbledore then came into the room to deliver the news of the Dark Lord's demise.

"Lily, James, Sirius and Remus. It appears that Voldemort has finally met his demise at the hands of one of your twins!" expressed a pleased Dumbledore.

"B-but h-how?!" came the shocked voice of everyone else.

Dumbledore then proceeded to study both the children closely. Remembering the prophecy he thought back to the line "Born as the seventh month dies...". He asked the others around them about who was born last as he knew that they were born the night of July 31st. They responded that Adam was the second born. Dumbledore was ignorant to the fact that they had been born in a muggle hospital via C-section (on request of Lily) and that the time of birth was determined by whenever the nurse had the time to look at a muggle clock. For when in all actuality, Adam was born August 1st at 12:01 AM.

Nonetheless, already assuming that Adam was the BWL, analyzed Adam's upside down V scar first. He discovered that Adam's magic somehow formed protection enchantments(wards) that rebounded Voldemort's Killing Curse. Never realizing that the debris entangled with the house wards were the cause of Adam's scar and the traces of protection magic. Though to be sure he also did a quick half-hearted check of Harry's Lightning Bolt shaped scar and sensed no magic, dark or protective at all. If he only studied Harry's scar as deeply as he studied Adam's he would have realized that a dark magic lay deep in slumber due to pain the Dark Lord was facing not having a body. From that night forward, since being proclaimed by Dumbledore, everyone knew Adam Richard Potter as savior of the wizarding world. Never knowing until too late how big of a mistake he made that night.

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Ever since the destruction of Godric's Hallow, the Potters moved back to Potter Manor. Though moving to a bigger house was not all that changed. From that fateful Halloween onward, the Potters forgot the fact they had an older son. It happened slowly at first. Starting with spending more time with Adam rather than Harry, from there it only got worse. That Christmas, lots of people far and wide attended the Yule Ball that the Potters were holding to celebrate a Voldemort-Free Christmas in Adam's honor. 1 and a half year old Harry was downcast when the Potters left Harry in a side room all Christmas with a house elf in charge of Harry. That house elf's name was Hopsy.

By the time that the twin's 2nd birthday went around Hopsy realized that Master James and Mistress Lily had completely forgotten about Little Master Harry. From that day Hopsy took it upon herself to raise Master Harry.

"Mistress Lily and Master James have forgotten about Little Master Harry. Mistress Lily told Hopsy to take care of Little Master Harry. Mistress Lily never said to give Harry back. Hopsy will raise Little Master Harry as mines own!" Were the thoughts of a distraught house elf as she stared at 2 year old Harry reading a book about magical creatures.

She was internally thinking about how she was going to raise the green-eyed boy when she was interrupted by said boy.

"Hop-sy, why does ma-ma and pa-pa not wove me?" sighed a very sad Harry as he finished the book he was reading.

"Little Master Harry sir!..." she was about to defend Master and Mistress Potter when she realized that she had nothing to say that they did love Harry. "...I don't know Master Harry sirs... " mumbled Hosley.

"Will Hop-sy twake care of me?" Harry desperately asked his favorite house elf. Staring intently at her with startling green eyes filled with the sorrow of knowing that his parents would never care for him.

"Hopsy will always be there for Little Master Harrys sirs." squeaked Hopsy as she was engulfed with a hug from a two year old Harry Potter.

And from that night Hopsy knew that she would do everything she could to raise Little Master Harry. She would have to teach him, care for him and see him become successful in the wizarding world. Best part was, Harry made it sound like he was giving and order. That meant she could all her powers as long as she deemed them beneficial to taking care of Harry.

As she tucked Harry in for the night, she realized she wouldn't be able to teach him wizard's magic. House Elves weren't allowed wands by the Ministry, but she soon as that thought popped up it disappeared. She thought of an even better solution.

She would teach Little Master Harry house elf magic.

A/N And that's a wrap for this chapter folks!

Question for you all:

Would you rather have shorter chapters (600-1500) words with more frequent updates or longer chapters (2000-3000) words but less frequent updates. Leave me a review or PM your answer.

Second Question:

I have noticed that Percy Jackson Writers are really good at making very clear at whose point of view the story is currently from. Stating Percy POV and what not. Unlike Harry Potter writers who sometimes either do a full out 3rd person type of style or fail to label when the POV changes.

So my question for you is…: Do you want me to keep the POV indicators like I do in PJO stories.

FOR MY PERCY JACKSON FANS:

Now I probably have a lot to answer for now. I have been quite for a few months due to robotics and I'm recovering now from all the backtracked school work. Though do not fear, I'm all caught up now. I only have to worry about an AP test this week. I will still be updating the Guardian Professor and relatively soon, the fifth chapter is almost done.

Note: The Spartans of Olympus is being put on Hiatus for now. I shall try to resume it during the Summer when I have more free time. I'm just not having the inspiration currently to continue that story.

FOR THIS STORY:

So I recently have been in a Harry Potter phase, reading a lot of HP fan fiction, that is why I thought about writing this story. Reading a ton of stories I realized that a lot were really similar so I hope to make things extremely different and fresh in the way Harry will learn magic and how his adventures play out. If you have any question on how this story is going to progress feel free to leave a review and I'll do my best to respond.

The Moderator Signing Out.