Chapter 1 – Godric's Hollow.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. The Potter universe belongs to JK Rowling and this is a simple fanfic I'm writing for fun.
Voldemort looked straight upon the house in Godric's hollow belonging to James and Lilly potter. His eyes a blood red and filled with fury as he caught the eye of James Potter through the window, the man's face went white with panic and Voldemort could see him scream something incoherent to the woman in the other room who bolted up the stairs. Voldemort strode towards the house using a quick reducto to blast the door open. He saw a male figure running up the stairs, coward Voldemort thought in disgust. He glided up the stairs and towards the bedroom of young Zeke and Harry Potter.
"Please no!" cried Lily, "don't kill my babies!" she begged, jumping in front of the crib with her wand out.
"Shut up, you filthy mud blood" he spat in disgust. "Crucio"
Lily's eyes rolled to the back of her head, her knees beneath her buckled and her body fell to the ground, she let out a piercing scream as her body went through a series of spams. "No!" she wailed "Please!"
"Lily!" James potter cried. Enraged he lifted his wand towards Voldemort opening his mouth to utter a spell. Voldemort took his focus off of Lily, stopping the painful cruciatus curse, a mad grin formed on his face, pointing his wand at James he uttered "Imperio". James face went from furious to a mask of indifference.
"Torture your wife," he ordered.
Voldemort turned his back to the screams of the pleading woman towards her husband and looked down at the children. He was mildly impressed with the both of them. Despite their mother's desperate cries they both seemed to be calm, one he recognised as Harry was even grinning up at him.
He looked down curiously at the smiling child and his eyes became fixed on child's emerald green eyes, which nostalgically reminded him of the Avada Kedavra curse. He reached down towards the baby and held him in his arms.
"Gangero Doppler" he muttered and a boy identical to the one he held appeared, the only difference was that this one did not appear to be alive. It didn't breathe, it didn't move, it didn't smile, and it was lifeless. He smiled proudly at the copy, he had spent many years developing this spell, not even Dumbledore knew of it. He placed the copy next to the crying child.
'My lord!' A voice cried behind him, 'we haven't time, the aurors have been alerted, they'll be here any second". The man was cowering, awaiting instructions to retreat. He knew that even if his lord could defeat the aurors but he would be defeated and even killed in an instant.
'I understand Wormtail, leave now, and tell Lucius I'm coming.' He ordered, the man nodded furiously and disapperated. Voldemort was no coward and it angered him that he had to flee before the aurors reached him but he had worked far to hard for his plan to abandon it now.
Voldemort looked at James and Lily a final time, normally he would have killed them however one of his most loyal death eaters had pleaded for him to spare Lily. He could tell he loved her. As a reward for his service to him, he had agreed to allow her to live but as his punishment for his show of weakness he would also let her husband live as well. The man Severus hated the most.
Voldemort heard the sound of what seemed to be the footsteps and shouting of what seemed like twenty aurors, he held on to the baby tightly and disapperated back to Malfoy Manor.
"My Lord!" a voice cried.
"Lucius" he acknowledged.
Lucius saw the baby in his lord's arms.
"This is… Harry Potter?" he asked in a shaky voice.
"I see Wormtail has filled you in on who I was bringing" he nodded at Wormtail allowing him to leave, the fat man hurriedly scurried off.
"My lord, are you sure, after all this is the boy of the prophecy…the boy with the power to vanquish y-".
The man was cut off by a deafening scream -his own-. He had been hit squarely in the chest by the cruciatus curse.
"How dare you, you think a mere child has the power to vanquish me!" he spat, "no Lucius, this is an insult against me!" He screamed.
"Yes my Lord, of course my lord, please forgive me my Lord, the man breathed trying to overcome the pain the curse had brought him.
"For now Lucius, they believe young Harry to be dead and it is vital they continue thinking that, therefore I have a special task for you.
The death eater bowed his head, "Anything my Lord"
He lifted Harry and handed him to Lucius, the man looked back in shock, "m-my lord?
"The wizarding world will know Harry as your son"
"B-b-but my Lord!"
"Silence! You will obey. Narcissa gave birth to your firstborn son Draco two weeks ago and I instructed you both not to tell anyone of the birth, the reason for that is in front of you, Draco and Harry shall become known as fraternal twins". Voldemort had considered this very carefully, if the boy suddenly appeared in the Malfoy family without any explanation two weeks after Draco was born Dumbledore would get suspicious so had ordered Narcissa to stay in her bedroom so no one would know when her baby had come but his inner circle and not any lowly common death eater.
"Of course my lord but the boy looks nothing like myself and my wife, people will talk, rumors will arise … Dumbledore would get suspicious"
"Fool!" roared Voldemort "Are you a wizard or muggle filth!"
Lucius flinched.
"It is not like you will be making public appearances with him" he hissed, "one day the boy will be sent to Hogwarts as a spy and I refuse to let him go under the guise of a filthy mudblood. As for his appearance" Voldemort continued a bit more calmly, "there are spells that can take care of that".
Voldemort lifted his wand and pointed it at Lucius. A jolt of fear went down the man's spine, what was his Lord about to do. His heart was beating fast in his chest. Before he could ask, Voldemort uttered "Colario" and the tip of his want flashed before he pointed his wand at Harry and uttered the same spell. The result was instantaneous. The boy's hair was no longer raven black but a white-blonde and his complexion was a tad fairer.
"My Lord, may I inquire as to what spell you used? The man asked in surprise, he had never heard of a spell like that or what it did.
"It is a spell I constructed, one of a few I created in anticipation of this moment. The change is permanent, I considered glamour charms but in the long term this will prove most beneficial. Choose a name for the boy, a name he will one day use at Hogwarts. Do you understand?"
Lucius simply nodded
To the wizarding world, he shall be known as young Draco's older brother but to the inner circle he shall be known as my son, Harry Riddle. A blood adoption will take place in the full moon. Lucius gasped, a blood adoption was a very serious matter, a contract between souls that only few could perform.
Voldemort ignored the gasp and continued, "As he grows, you shall teach him proper etiquette and manners befitting a pureblood. When he grows old enough you and Narcissa shall teach him Astronomy, history of magic and transfiguration. Snape shall teach him potions as well as ancient runes and arithmancy. Bellatrix and I will teach him the dark arts and charms and you shall teach him defence against the dark arts". I will acquire a wand for him before he becomes eleven for all of this to be possible of course.
Lucius raised his head in confusion, why did his lord want to teach him defence against the dark arts?
Voldemort saw his servant's confusion and irritably explained, "You are only hurting yourself if you choose to limit your knowledge. I am training him to be my warrior, something far above the death eaters, and a warrior must know how defend himself as well as how to fight. The boy will one day lead the missions I given to you and the others, he shall become my second in command, and I shall not allow him to be ignorant in such important matters.
Lucius nodded in understanding and his chest puffed proudly at his responsibility and role that was given to him by his master. "Yes my lord!"
"Good, now take Harry to Narcissa and tell her my orders".
The blonde man firmly held Harry and nodded before leaving to find his wife.
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"Oh great Merlin, Lily!" James shouted as the imperius curse wore off. "I'm so sorry" he cried.
He ignored the loud footsteps approaching him and cried with Lily in his arms.
"James, it was not your fault, he made you!" she said with the loudest voice she could muster but James could hear the pain in her voice.
A wave of realisation swept the two as they remembered what Voldemort was here to do.
"The children!" they both cried in union. Neither of them had seen what happened due to the unforgivable curses used on them.
"What happened here!" a new voice asked. It was the auror he recognised as Kingsley Shacklebolt, before James had the time to react; Lily limped up and ran to the crib. She let out a scream of pain as she saw the dead body of her child. "He's dead James, he's dead…dead…dead" she kept repeating as her eyes filled with more and more tears.
Kingsley's face fell they had been too late. He decided to summon Dumbledore, he knew what was best now".
It took only several moments for the old man to appear after he sent his Lynx Patronus containing the message – 'Harry Dead. Potter's in pain.' – A pained look crossed his tired old face; his eyes did not twinkle like they usually did. Instead they were dim and hopeless. Kingsley nodded at the aged wizard before turning around to show him to James and Lily.
"My son…this is my fault," sobbed James. "I couldn't protect him"
Lily was clutching the dead body of baby Harry in her arms in a protective manner while crying and shouting for him to wake up. She also held Zeke, refusing to allow him to leave her site in case Voldemort returned. Neither of them had noticed Dumbledore walk in.
"James…Lily" he begun but was cut off by another shout that came from the front lawn. "JAMES!" a voice cried, "LILY!"
"Sirius" James mouthed.
Sirius bolted up the stairs. 'What had happened?' He thought, in the five seconds it took to get upstairs his mind had been filled with images of his friend's dead bodies lying across the floor. These thoughts were shaken out of his head as Kingsley and several other aurors tackled him on to the ground. "What are you doing!" he shouted in frustration.
"You were their secret keeper! How dare you show your face after telling your Lord where they were hiding!" a young auror spat.
Sirius's body shook in anger, he clenched his hands and attempted to ignore the part of him that wanted to strangle this idiot for ever stating such a thing"
"Stop!" James shouted. He had gotten up after hearing his friend.
Everyone including Dumbledore looked at James in confusion.
"James, I understand you two have been friends for a long time but he was your secret keeper, he betrayed you, he is the reason that…young Harry was murdered". Dumbledore added with regret.
"HA!" Sirius laughed insanely as he broke into tears, "Harry's dead!" he screamed, "this is my fault, my fault, oh I'm so sorry James," he cried.
Dumbledore bowed his head in sadness, "Alas, he has confessed".
James shook his head in fury. "No, listen to me!" James cried in frustration, "Peter was my secret keeper, I switched at the last minute!
Dumbledore's eyes opened in surprise, they switched without telling him. Perhaps they thought that no one would suspect little Peter Pettigrew, he certainly did not until tonight, it made sense. "I apologise Sirius, I was mistaken," he confessed. Sirius simply continued to chant "my fault, my fault"
"This is not your fault Sirius; you had no way of knowing. It's Pettigrew's who I'm going to kill" James said with a look of loathing and determination in his eyes, "along with you kn- …Voldemort" he corrected. Dumbledore was right, fear of a name inspired fear of the thing itself.
"I'm right behind you brother" Sirius said snapping out of his mantra. He pushed off the shocked aurors. "I won't rest until Voldemort is in the grave"
"I'm afraid boy's," Dumbledore begun regretfully "that is easier spoken than done."
"Perhaps" Lily said with sadness, shocking everyone in the room, "but as long as it takes, we will work with the order and we will take Voldemort down". She said with growing determination and bravery worthy of a Gryffindor.
A/N So this was my first ever fanfiction, I've always wanted to write one but I was worried how it would turn out. I hope you like it, please review and tell me how it was. Tell me my flaws and what you enjoyed most ^_^ I'm doing this to improve my writing for my English class.
Also some of you might see spelling 'mistakes' if you're American that aren't really mistakes. I live in Australia and we spell some words differently like colour and color, grey and gray, realise and realize etc.
Grammar is a weak point of mine sadly so, sorry if there are some grammatical errors.