Foreign Entity: A Harry Potter Fanfiction
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter universe or anything that you recognize.
Author's Notes: Well ladies, gents and folks, this is response by DZ2's challenge "Foreign Policy" (details at the end of the chapter). The story starts off just before the Fidelius Charm was put up over the Potters' Cottage. I will try to explain all that I can but feel free to DM if you still have questions or left reviews.
This is an unbeta'ed work. I blame all mistakes on me being high on antibiotics and painkillers after my tooth extraction. Also, I'm American, so I don't know British format or talk so please forgive me.
Warning: The Harry in this will be stronger than canon and it will be explained in the following chapters. There will be a lot of characters changes and bashing so get ready. If you don't like that, hit the back button and left.
If you don't like same-sex relationships, you are also wasting your time here. There will be quite a few. If you don't like this story, then leave and don't waste your time because there will be people out there who might like it.
Triggers: This is a sort of dark fic so beware. A lot of cussing, lots of sexual themes, maybe even sex scenes (don't know yet), character torture, fighting, etc. Some homophobia, so beware. This will have very little canon things outside of following the plot.
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The Prologue, Part 1
Saturday, 20 September 1981
Potters' Cottage, Godric's Hollow, England, Great Britain
Lady Lily Jasmine Potter, formerly Evans, Duchess of Berkshire, was laying peacefully in the arms of her husband Lord James Charles Potter, Duke of Berkshire. The autumn night was crisp and cool as the night creatures appeared and conversated, filling the quiet night with chirps, hoots, meows and howls. As the night wore on, the Duchess' dreams grew more and more disturbing. Eventually, the Duchess' eyes snapped open, frantically taking in the dark room, the arms that wrapped around her and the sudden eerie quiet as if even the world knew something was wrong.
Lady Potter gently unwrapped herself from the arms of her husband. She made her way down to the small kitchen in their cottage. Pouring herself a glass of water, the Duchess reflected on the dreams that had woke her, trying to make sense of them.
The quiet was disturbed as the creaking of the stairs startled her. Quickly, she turned only to find her husband tiredly rubbing his eyes behind his glasses, walking down toward her. Her husband's shirt was tangled and off center, his right pants leg was rolled up halfway to his knee. He raised his arms as he yawned while crossing the threshold.
"Lily-flower? Are you okay?"
Guilt flowed through her. "I'm fine, darling. Just a bad dream. I didn't mean to wake you."
He smiled and leaned down to kiss her. "I can't sleep without you. It doesn't matter. Do you want to talk about it?" His hazel eyes curious and loving.
Lily sat at the kitchen table, staring at her drink, trying to find words for her thoughts. James sat down next to her, running a hair through his messy hair. After what seemed a long time, she turned to her husband, finding him already looking at her.
Grabbing her husband's hand, she entwined their hands together. She clenched her jaw as she reasoned with herself.
"Hey now, you're thinking too hard. Talk to me." James squeezed her hand as he turned his body completely toward her.
With a sigh, Lily spoke. "I just have a bad feeling whenever I think about Harry and his future. The prophecy and the words that we heard doesn't really help at all. I just feel like something isn't right."
"Like what?"
"I don't just trust anyone to look after Harry."
"Lils, you know Sirius—"
"Will never grow up. We are in the middle of war and he is still going through girls like you go through shirts." She interrupted. "I just feel like he isn't ready to care for Harry if anything happens."
"Lily." He said, clear exhausted in his voice over the revisited topic.
"No, James! You know it too. We haven't seen Remus since February and don't even get me started on Peter. I just don't like not having a solid plan that won't change."
"What do you mean?"
"Let's be realistic here." At his nod, she continued. "The charm that will go up next week if something happens to it and we are killed. What happens to Harry?"
"He goes to his godfather or godmother."
"Sirius and Alice, I know. But think of it this way, who do you have as remaining family?"
"Just Sirius and Frank."
"Exactly, who will protect Harry if anything happens? Sirius at the first sign of trouble with jump before thinking about more than himself and Frank has a family who has a similar target on his back like us. I don't feel good just leaving Harry on his own when anyone can take advantage of him. Harry has no one else but us and we can't leave it up to others to care for him."
He rubbed his face and slumped in his chair, not faulting his wife's reasoning. He was the last of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter, a family that once ran the Magical Great Britain and its neighboring allies. The House of Potter was once a powerhouse along with the Houses of Black, Longbottom and Bones but between the wars of Grindelwald and Voldemort, the houses were reduced to be on the verge of extinction. Frank, Sirius, Amelia and himself were what was left of the once called the "Great Alliance".
He sighed and turned to his wife. "What do you have in mind?"
"My sister—."
"Petunia! Lily, you can't be ser—."
"No, listen!" She grabbed one of his wildly gesturing arms and interrupted him. "No, I have another one. She was older than both of us. She enrolled in the Army just before I started Hogwarts. She reached out to me when I was a second year and I never bothered to mention it to anyone."
"Is she a muggle?"
"Surprisingly enough, no, she's a witch. She surprised me one day by coming home during the summer before sixth year. When I mentioned that I went to a boarding in Scotland and I was being vague on the details as to what we learn, she remarked saying that 'by all the secrecy, it's like you're learning magic.'"
"Really?" He said, raising his eyebrows in interest.
She nodded. "Yeah, when I couldn't come up with a reasonable lie. She told me not to worry and that she can wave a stick around too. When I realized she was a witch, I bombarded her with questions. She said that she chose not to go to Hogwarts, preferring to home school herself. Plus, she said that by the time the letter arrived, she was already enrolled in Military prep school. It was not worth it."
"Where is she now?"
"America. She started off in the Royal Air Force base in Suffolk which housed American Air Force units. She liked their style better and moved to the States, 7 years ago. Eventually, she made her way to Magical America and now serves as the Admiral to their Military Branch that was once a part of their Law Enforcement Department."
He cocked his head. "Admiral?"
"Technically she is Head Auror but she only answers to the President while a Head Auror has to answer to the Head of the Department. She is the most decorated soldier there."
Before he could reply, they heard the cries of Harry from upstairs. James rose and darted upstairs, taking them two at a time and reached his son's nursery at the end of the hallway. Gently pushing the door, James made his way to his son who was sitting in his cot and stopped crying when he saw his Dada.
"Hey there, my little man. You okay?" James picked Harry up, checking his diaper, finding it wet. "Oh, you don't like that now, do you?"
Walking over to the changing table, James expertly replaced the diaper and pulled a new one and a red and gold new onesie on his son that featured flying golden snitches. Picking up Harry, he found that Harry was too awake to fall back asleep, so he carried him downstairs to Lily. James handed Harry over to Lily who has already adjusted her shirt to breastfeed him.
"Oh, there is Mama's little angel! I bet you're hungry." Lily cradled Harry as he started to feed. The Potters watched their son as he feed and started to slow down his feeding before falling asleep in his mother's arms. The couple stayed silent as they watched his chest slowly rise and fall in the quiet of their cottage.
"Your sister?" James prompted.
"Yeah, like I said, she's very high in the American Government and could easily take of Harry if anything were to happen to us."
He nodded and sat, thinking of the all different options. A very persistent question soon entered his mind and slowly asked his wife. "Lily-flower, may I ask why this is the first time of hearing that you have another sister besides Petunia?"
Sighing, she readjusted the hold on her son, waving off when her husband raised his hands to take him. "Because of the reactions people had when they hear about her were never pleasant."
Cocking his head again, he tried to make eye contact, but she stayed focused on Harry, lightly stroking his cheek as he slept. "Why?"
Sighing again, she raised her head to look at her husband, who instantly recognized her face as one that meant you better tread carefully. "She was gay. It never bothered my mother but bothered my father for the longest time. He always said that it was unnatural and wrong. It was something that my parents fought about all the time. He tried to make her go to conversion therapy but the moment my mum heard about it, she almost lost her head. It nearly caused a divorce and the only thing that calmed my father down was that she didn't live with the family. Petunia was even worse, she took my dad's hatred and made it so bad. Constantly crowing about how I was a freak and our sister was going to Hell."
James sat with his wide eyes. In the Wizarding World, being a homosexual was normal. The problems only came about when the couple didn't have children. Blood adoptions were fairly easy through a bit expensive. The continuation of family was the thing that was universal across the Wizarding World especially with the back-to-back wars that happened. Of course, the bigots were never accepting but in the scheme of things, it meant very little. In the Wizarding World, the only thing that mattered was being powerful.
Lily sat, slowly running her fingers across Harry's head as he slept on, unaware of the very life changing conversation that is happening above him.
"Okay, okay." James nodded, locking eyes with his soulmate. "Contact your sister. Ask her to come here as soon as she can so we can start planning."
Lily grinned in relief, allowing the sense of dread that woke to reduce slightly. She grasped the back of his head and passionately kissed him in thanks.
Both move away from the kitchen counter. One toward to the stairs and the other toward the living room. Both focused on their task for it can determine the future of their child should anything happen to them. The Duchess of Berkshire smiled a bit easier as the knowledge that her son will a good life should anything happen to her or her husband.
DZ2's 'Foreign Policy' Challenge
Plot: The Potter/Evans families were larger than people thought: when the Dursleys got custody of Harry, they immediately handed him to this other family, but there's one snag: they live in another country. And now, Harry has been forced back to Britain: uh oh, this will cause a stink.
Rules: All affinities are welcome
The story MUST either start with a rundown of Harry's life up to the event in question OR start with him living his life with his new family
In either scenario, Harry MUST attend a magical school in the country of his extended family (OC schools welcome)
EITHER the QWC, TWT, the return of Voldemort OR some chance encounter MUST be the reason for Harry being strongarmed back to Britain
In his 'native' country - the one his family lives in - Harry MUST have a family friend in high authority (it doesn't have to be the Minister/President etc.)
Obviously, Harry's family are outraged that he's been forced back
To ease the waves, Harry agrees to go to Hogwarts for a MINIMUM of one year
At Hogwarts, Harry displays a skill/power not normally seen in his year/Magical Britain (e.g. Parselmagic, Elemental Magic, Rituals etc.)
If the TWT is Harry's reason for coming back, he MUST represent his school
All pairings are welcome
Guidelines: Crossovers (Rejected)
Powerful/Super/OP Harry (Accepted-Powerful Harry)
Dark-Family (Rejected)
Dark-Lord-Harry (Rejected)
Harry was at Durmstrang before Hogwarts (imagine the chaos) (Rejected)
Harry/OMC or OFC pairing (Rejected)
Slash (Accepted- Focusing more on Femslash)
Harems (Rejected)
Harry/M/F-pairing (Rejected)
Harry has friends who are different from normal wizards (e.g. Creatures) (Accepted)
By his own choice, Harry decides to stay in Britain (Accepted- for a certain reason.)
Forbidden: Harry being raised by the Dursleys
Harry living in Britain at the time of his Hogwarts sorting/going to Hogwarts at 11
The country Harry lives in being the same as Magical Britain in terms of beliefs, prejudice etc.
Weak-Harry
Harry's family abandoning him to his forced return
If TWT: Harry NOT representing his school
Harry's magic being on the same 'level' as Magical Britain's students
Others getting Harry to STAY in Britain
Harry siding with Dumbledore OR Voldemort
Other than that, it's up to you...
Published: 1/25/19
Edited: 2/27/19