Authors note: I've had a few reviews about Tonks' age and I should have done this before but so that everyone knows, I want her older than she is in the books/films.

Also I am re-writing this fanfic and it will be being published soon, I'd still appreciate if you read this story and gave a review so I know if there are any serious problems that I need to address.

Thank you, I hope you like my story.

Thunder stuck in the night, outside the Potter house a dark figure emerged. In the living room Lily and James Potter were unaware of the strange presence. By the time they realised someone was in the house, they were sent flying into the wall, and fell unconscious.

Upstairs Harry tried to reach his younger brother Daniel. Harry ran to the top of the stairs where the figure was ascending. Harry was knocked back unable to get to his brother's room. Harry has unique and powerful magic, and it sensed his strong intentions to save his younger brother, and so cast a magical shield around Daniel.

The figure revealed itself to be Lord Voldemort. He used the killing curse on Daniel but because of the shield by Harry, the spell rebounded killing him. Daniel was unharmed, but now had a scar on his forehead. Harry fainted due to his use of magical energy.

Sensing dark magic Dumbledore and a group of aurors, including; Alastor Moody, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Nimphadora Tonks, came to the potter house. They made sure everyone was safe and left when they were sure that Voldemort was gone.

From then onwards Daniel was known as the boy who lived.

9 years later…

Harry rolled over in his bed and fell onto the floor. The floor boards groaned under his weight. Harry lifted himself up and got changed ready for his day.

Harry trudged down the stairs of his home and heard a distant laughter. He headed towards the kitchen and on his way he passed his family sat at the large oak dining table in the dining room. They were already having breakfast and having fun, acting how a family should. Daniel was sat between his parents Lily and James Potter. In the distant there was a slight noise.

"Ah that must be the mail, go fetch it will you Harry" James said, looking towards Harry. Harry nodded and headed for the front door.

Meanwhile, in the living room of the Potter household, green flames crackled in the fireplace and someone emerged. The person went to greet the Potter family. Harry came back into the dining room holding a handful of letters. When he saw his godfather he dropped the letter and ran into his arms.

"Sirius, what are you doing here?" Harry asked smiling, and releasing his grip and stepped back.

"Just came to say hello" Sirius replied with a chuckle. He strolled over to where Harry had dropped the letters and bent down to pick them up. He handed them to James, slipping one letter back into his hand and turning towards Harry with a big gleam on his face. Harry takes the letter from Sirius, a smile growing on his face. He flipped the letter and spotted the Hogwarts crest. He jumped for joy and ripped open the letter. Harry was so happy. He beamed at his family.

"Well done Harry, I'll take you down to Diagen alley" Sirius said patting Harrys back appraisingly.

"Mum, dad I'm going to Hogwarts" said harry to his parents.

"Oh it will be great wont it James" said lily, turning Daniel "imagine when Daniel goes it'll be fantastic, we'll buy all his books, his new school robes, a pet, his wand, we'll see him of at the train station. Oh I miss him already."

"Calm down sweetheart he's still got two years" James said. They continued to talk about Daniel going to Hogwarts, dismissing Harry. Harry turned away, losing his smile. Resting his hand on Harry's shoulder Sirius said, "Don't worry pup, and let's go." Harry and Sirius left the dining room and headed to the living room fireplace.

Moments later Harry and Sirius were walking down the cobbled streets of Diagon Ally, passing by all the bright and colourful shops. Harry stopped outside one store, Sirius turned to look, it was the store with the broomsticks.

"Wow" Harry gaped at the shop window.

"Don't worry pup you'll get a broom one day and you'll be the best quidditch player ever," Sirius said. Harry smiled up at his godfather.

The first shop they went to was Flourish and Blots so Harry could get his first set of school robes. Whilst he was getting his robes fitted, he saw another young boy his age enter the shop. The boy stood next to Harry as he also got some robes fitted. The boy had black hair which was tied back into a short ponytail. When the boy turned to look at Harry, Harry noticed that he had brown eyes. Then Harry took in that the boy was looking at him and recomposed himself.

"Hi…Hi, I'm Harry, Harry Potter," Harry stuttered out in a rush. The boy was momentarily taken aback, but then greeted Harry. "My name is John Crace, I'm a pure blood wizard, are you attending Hogwarts this year? I am." He sounded quite snobby, or that's what Harry thought. And all the time Harry had spent out, he had met a many pure blooded wizards and witches, who in his experience were all quite snobby people.

Harry heard Sirius coming back from talking to the shop owner. Harry half smile at John before going over to Sirius. He greeted the shop owner, like an old friend, as they had met before on one of Harry's previous trips to Diagon Ally with Sirius.

A few moments later and Harry and Sirius were leaving Flourish and Blots with a new set of robes. They wandered over to Olivander's Wand Shop. Harry was very excited to be getting his very own wand. He had seen many other perform magic and soon Harry would be able to as well.

Sirius and Harry opened the door and stepped inside the shop, as the bell rang. There was a moments silence before an old man with wispy white hair rounded one of the oak shelves. The shop looked similar to a library in Harry's opinion. A wooden desk at the front with rows of dusty shelves behind. Only the shelves weren't filled with books, but wands.

Mr Olivander smiled a joyous smile, "Mr Potter how lovely to see you again and my, you have grown," he said and then began retrieving some wands. He took them from their boxes and laid them out in front of Harry, on the desk. He smiled again inviting Harry to take one, gesturing with his hand. Harry liked Mr Olivander, he had also met him a few times before when Harry previously visited Diagon Ally. Harry smiled back before reaching out to pick up a wand. Mr Olivander gestured again for Harry to give it a try. However, as soon as he made to do so the wand exploded in his hand leaving him, Sirius and Mr Olivander stunned.

"Nope, Nope definitely not" Mr Olivander said reeling back from the explosion.

"Ahh well, better luck next time pup, just try a different one maybe…" Sirius said getting cut off.

"Absolutely not, I'm afraid these wands are too dear to have destroyed left right and centre, sorry Mr Potter" interrupted Olivander.

"But what? I still need a wand." Said Harry confused.

"Oh don't worry, sorry for the fright, we'll be making you a custom wand, as I've never seen a reaction like that and I believe that you will do great things in your time."

"How do you make a custom wand?" Harry asked inquisitively.

"Come with me and I'll show you." Mr Olivander replied, leading the way to a back office.

The room was small and was coated in even ore dust than on the shelves outside. Mr Olivander turned to get some items out of a locked drawer. After a few moments multiple items were laid out onto a small wooden table in the middle of the room. The table was crooked but managed to balance everything easily.

Mr Olivander told Harry to stand in front of the table, close his eyes and focus soulfully on his magic. He told Harry that what would happen is his magic will choose the components of the wand so it would always be true to him.

First the wood was chosen, then the core, then Mr Olivander used his magic to create the wand. After everything was done Harry finally had a wand. It was eleven inches, a mix of red and elder wood and the core was a phoenix feather, basilisk venom and phoenix tears.

"Amazing, that is one of the strongest combinations I have ever seen. You'll be a great wizard someday" Mr Olivander said proudly. He led them back to the front of the shop. Harry and Sirius said their farewells before once again returning to the streets of Diagon Ally.

Later that day Harry had everything he needed, his robes, a wand, all his school books and even a surprise pet from Sirius. It was a gorgeous snowy owl, which Harry named Hedwig. They quickly stopped off at Gringotts to get Harry some money. Harry marvelled at all the goblins, watching them hard at work. As soon as they had what they needed they were off again.

Harry had spent the rest of that day at twelve Grimmauld place with Sirius. It began to get dark so Harry went to the old fireplace and within seconds green flames danced around him.

It was around nine o'clock when Harry got home and he was greeted surprisingly by his brother Daniel.

"Hi Harry, where have you been?" Daniel asked surprised to see Harry, as Harry was to see him.

"With Sirius, but it's not like you care anyway. I'm off to bed," and with that Harry left the youngest Potter to himself. Retreating to his room Harry felt happy. He was glad to be going to Hogwarts. He would miss Sirius a lot but they could still write each other. Harry wasn't sure if he should even bother trying to write his parents they didn't take much notice of him and may not even realise he's gone when he leaves for Hogwarts. Harry continued to dwell over his parents until he fell asleep.

A few weeks later…

Harry woke up after a restless night of sleep. Today he was going to Hogwarts. He hastily got dressed, and ran down the stairs nearly bumping into Sirius. Harry stopped in time to avoid clashing into him. They went into the kitchen as Harry made himself some breakfast. The morning seemed to go by quickly and soon enough Harry was heading off to Kings cross station.

When they arrived, they had ten minutes to spare before Harry needed to get on the train. Harry was with his parents, Sirius and Daniel. They went through the wall to get to platform nine and three-quarters. Whilst standing around Harry watched all the other young wizards and witches around him say their goodbyes to their families before they got on the train. He saw two redheaded twins messing around being prats. They appeared to be in Harry's year and Harry wondered if they would become friends. Harry's stomach churned at the thought of making friends. He wasn't a very sociable person, he didn't really have many friends, he considered his only and best friend to be Sirius.

As Harry went to say goodbye to his parents they were too busy fussing over Daniel. He tried to get their attention, but in the end gave up. He went over to Sirius and gave him a hug.

"I'm going to miss you" Harry said.

"You too pup, but the year will be over before you know it and we'll see each other very soon" Sirius said smiling. Harry tried to smile as well but Sirius could see that it didn't reach his eyes and that Harry was going to miss him a lot.

Harry left Sirius and went to board the Hogwarts epress.