Harry Potter walked into the kitchen from fetching the mail. He walked to his cousin and gave him two letters, went to his aunt and gave her three, the rest went to his uncle and one for Harry. He climbed into a chair and stared at it.
"Fweak got mail." Dudley pointed.
They all looked at Harry. Petunia reached for the letter.
"It mine." Harry said, "See? H-A-R-R-Y that is Harry that is me."
vernon and Petunia were beyond shocked. When had the boy learned to spell or read he wasn't even 5 yet. Petunia took the letter and turned it over.
"No it cannot be." she gasped. "They don't start school until 11..." she noted Dudley had one and quickly took it. "Dudley too?"
"Pet?" Vernon asked and Petunia showed him the letter. "Both of them?"
Petunia opened Dudley's and quickly read through it.
"Both of them." she confirmed. "and they are starting school at age 5 now." She looked at Dudley then Harry.
"What do we do?" Vernon grunted. "We don't anything about this..."
"No, " Petunia agreed, "But I know someone who does."
Harry's fifth birthday finally arrived. He'd just come out of his cupboard when someone knocked at the door. He ran to answer it and stared up at a man in all black who looked right over his head. He reached out and pulled on the man pants. The man looked down at him.
"Potter." The man said, bitterly. Harry nodded. "Go get your aunt."
Harry ran off leaving the door open he quickly returned with Petunia who showed him into the kitchen.
"Vernon, this was the man I was telling you about." Petunia said, "Severus Snape." She pulled the letters out of the drawer and turned to face Severus. "I got these in the mail. One for each of them." Her voice shook. "Why was I not told that it could turn up in my child?"
"You did not ask and you did not want to know." Severus drawled, his eyes were on Harry. The boy was covered in bruises and seemed to have a hard time holding his fork as he tried to eat pancakes. "Have you told either of them?"
Petunia shook her head.
So Severus told the boys about magic.
"Prove it." Dudley demanded.
Severus flicked his wand and Harry's face lit up his pancake had cut itself so he could eat it. He happily did so even if it was burnt to him it tasted great and he was happy to have food. He wasn't about to let it go to waste.
"Whoa." Dudley said, "I can do that?"
"With training." Severus said, "We'll be getting your supplies today."
Vernon grunted and jerked his head at Harry.
"I've been sent to take care of that as well." Severus drawled. "You see I'm actually a teacher at Hogwarts. I teach Potions."
"Poisons?" Dudley asked.
"No, Potions." Severus corrected. "Normally, as Petunia knows, a teacher is sent to Muggleborn students like your son. Another teacher was slotted to come to Potter but when Tuny's letter arrived the Headmaster deemed me to be the perfect person for the job. I've got everything."
Petunia nodded.
"We'll be getting their by car." Vernon grunted leaving no room for argument.
Severus was annoyed as he was forced to sit in the back seat with the obese boy and the overly skinny and small Potter. He noted the contrast. He noted the bruises. He noted that the Potter boy had not said a single word and was instead looking at his letter like he could read it. He watched the boy close until they got to London by then every sense he had was screaming abuse.
"Go to Charring Cross Road." Severus ordered.
When they were there and had found a parking spot Severus lead them to the Leakey Cauldron then out back. He opened the wall into Diagon Alley and lead them to Gringotts. He told the Dursley's how to get money exchanged and exactly how much they would need then took Harry to another Goblin.
"Your family must never know about this." Severus told the boy. Then looked at the Goblin. "Harry Potter wishes to withdraw money but not go down to his vault." He set a small key on the counter.
The Goblin raised an eyebrow then looked down at the small boy.
"Griphook!" he called then spoke in Gobblygook.
It didn't take long for the Goblin to return with a money purse for Harry.
"I will carry this for you, alright, Potter?"
Harry nodded up at the man and they returned to his family.
"Vernon, you exchanged too much." Petunia was crying as she held Dudley's hand. She looked at Harry. "Well, come along."
Harry nodded dutifully and followed not even seeming to care that Dudley got to hold Petunia's hand and he didn't.
Once out in the Alley again they began shopping for everything on the lists. Dudley was soon complaining that he wasn't having fun, that he was hungry, he was thirsty, he wanted this, he wanted that.
Harry was silent the whole time looking at everything around him.
"Ah, Severus." Severus turned to see the other Professors at the Ice Cream parlor and lead the family over. It seemed all the Mugglborns, and halfboods raised in the Muggle world were here today. "Oh, this must be Harry." Minerva McGonagall smiled down at Harry. Harry blinked up at her then up at Severus. "My name is Minerva McGonagall and I'll be teaching you Transfigurations."
Harry slid behind the man in black trying to hide from this woman and all the people suddenly looking at him and whispering.
"Severus? Tuney?"
Severus and Petunia turned to see Lily Potter nee Evans, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Jamie Potter.
Severus noted the hurt look in Harry's eyes as he stared hard at the boy who looked just like him only better kept. Harry then stared at the ground.
Lily, James, Sirius and Remus noticed and exchanged looks.
"If you were coming back for this you could have taken the boy back!" Petunia spat, shoving Harry into Lily. Harry quickly jumped away. "In fact we refuse to take care of him any longer."
"It appears you haven't been taking care of Potter at all, Tuny." Severus drawled.
"We've done what we were told to do!" Petunia shrilled. Then smiled as Dudley and Vernon came wobbling over with ice creams. "Did you get the biggest, Dudders?"
Dudley nodded happily and had to be helped into a chair by both his parents so that he could eat the sugary treat.
Lily asked Severus what Harry had left on his list to buy and thanked him for his time. Severus refused to leave saying he would be taking Harry back to Hogwarts with him as he was clearly abused and his birth parents didn't want him. He hadn't expected Harry to understand his words but the boy had flinched when he, Severus, had said Harry's birth parents didn't want him.
"That isn't true at all, Severus." Lily cried, "We would like both boys but Jamie needs our attention he's the Boy-Who-Lived after all..."
"and you can not take of both of them?"
"She just told you Jamie needs our undivided attention!" James snapped, though his eyes strayed to his eldest son who was now sitting under the table the Dursley's were eating at. "Hey, Jamie lets get you an ice cream." Jamie beamed and nodded. "Harry, come on, ice cream."
Harry blinked and pointed at himself the man who looked like him, his daddy, nodded. Harry crawled out from where he was but flinched away when the man tried taking his hand. The man just gave him a sad smile and gently took it in his own anyway and lead him to the counter.
James sighed to himself Harry had refused to talk so he'd just ordered the boy what Jamie had ordered. Jamie had tried to get the biggest but James made a show of scolding him about ruining his lunch and made him and Harry get the smallest Mint Brownie Blast that they had. He could tell Harry was relieved to get the small amount and he knew Jamie would be happy as well. Jamie always got the small one and had only wanted the big one because Petunia's spawn had wanted it. He got them to a table and let them eat. Harry seemed reluctant to do so at first but when he didn't get yelled at or hit for eating the first bite he eagerly ate more until it was gone. He then held the cup up to James.
James blinked.
"Good job, Harry." James said, awkwardly. He knew that was what Harry wanted when the boy gave a sharp nod of his head. He felt a tug on his shirt and looked at Jamie who held his up. "Good job, Jamie."
He got the same sharp nod and hoped they would not be in competition with each other.
Harry threw his own cup away Jamie frowned, looked at his cup, then Harry, then the trash.
Lily, James, SIrius and Remus waited with bated breath.
Jamie threw his in the trash and took Harry's hand. He then marched up to Lily and held his hand up.
Lily chuckled and took it.
Harry was shocked. The boy who looked like him, Jamie was holding his hand, he'd gotten ice cream, and now he was being fitted for clothes. He didn't like it but didn't throw a fit like Dudley was doing. Hogwarts Academy as the school was now called had also changed the uniform into Japanese school uniforms.
Harry got black slacks, black shorts; for warmer months, a white short sleeve shirt, with a blue and white sailor collar, a black overcoat that fell to his knees, white socks, black shoes, and a black hat.
He blinked up at his parents he really liked this outfit. He wondered if he'd get more.
The answer was he was getting a lot of clothes because his daddy didn't like the ones he was wearing.
Jamie decided he wanted to help play dress up his brother too. So when no one was looking at him he drug Harry off and got him changed into a blue sailor skirt instead of the black slacks and drug Harry back over. When everyone saw they sweat dropped.
"Harry is a boy like you, Jamie." Lily said, "Not a girl. Boys don't wear skirts."
"But Hawwy wook cuter in a skirt." Jamie declared. "He look like a girl so he wear skirt!"
Harry didn't point out that if he looked like a girl then Jamie did too and by Jamie's logic Jamie should be wearing a skirt too. He just stood there and held the other boys hand like a good boy. But Jamie wasn't done oh, no. Jamie wanted Harry to have all girls clothes so he picked out girls clothes and wouldn't take no for an answer when his parents said that Harry was a boy and needed boys clothes, he just tossed in shorts to go under the dresses and skirts, and leggings. Harry for his part didn't complain he didn't care what he wore. because his new family was being so nice to him.
When they went to the bookstore Harry was in awe he quickly located the kids section and began looking at all the books. He noticed that whatever book he or Jamie touched went into the basket their Uncle Padfoot or Uncle Moony was holding. He was shocked did that mean they were going to buy the books for them. Jamie settled on touching almost every book in the sections that had kids riding on brooms tossing a red ball back and forth.
Harry on the other hand held up a book with a kid stirring a cauldron. Moony smiled and picked up one of each book in that section then took the book in Harry's hand. When they were done James was anime crying over Harry's selection while Severus was smirking and Lily looked torn between laughing and moaning.
The last thing they did was go get their wands. They had to wait in a long line of kids going to Hogwarts but they finally got in and were the last ones too.
Ollivander looked frazzled. He did the measurement thing and Dudley smashed the measuring tape when it was done with all three of them. Vernon chuckled and patted his son's head lovingly.
Dudley threw a fit so that he got to go first and it took him two hours to find his wand Hazelnut and Threastral Hair 10 inches. Ollivander said it was 'Unremarkable' but the Dursley's didn't seem to care. They bought him a wand sheath and a care kit because it was on the list.
Jamie went next because Harry had refused.
He got Holly and Phoenix feather 12 inches or would have had Harry not knocked it out of his hand.
"BAD!" Harry yelled pointing at it and looking up at the adults. "Feels bad!"
James and Sirius shrugged and began casting detection charms on the wand.
"You were going to sell MY son a cursed wand, Ollivander!" James roared and Harry tried to flee the shop. Lily scooped him into her arms and held him. "MY son of all people. I will pull my shares from this shop faster than you can blink!"
Ollivander swallowed roughly and tried to talk his way out of the situation but James wouldn't hear it he gathered his family, and Snape, and headed for the new Wand shop that was between Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley.
Jamie got Holly, Unicorn Horn 12 inches.
Harry got Acacia and Basilisk Fang, 12 1/2 inches.