Title – The Lord of Lords.
Author – Artemis Potter-Snape
Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter or any of the associated characters, they belong to the one and only JK Rowling.
Warning – SLASH ya know man on man action (Hot or What!). Mention of abuse (no actual rape in this story, but there will be a mention)
AN – My other stories are temporarily on hold for personal reasons to do with non-con/rape and both Last Curse and Founders contain both, so sorry you have to wait. May add more warnings at a later chapter depending on where the story leads me.
Summary – During the summer between 6th and 7th year Harry receives some letters, which strengthen his beliefs, he finds out some strange facts too.
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Chapter 1 – History Lessons from the Dead
If anyone had bothered to look they would have seen a badly beaten and bloody young man laid out in the rear garden of the house that he lived in for two and a half months of the year…no one cared though. The year before there would have been a man or a woman constantly watching the young man and the house to make sure that he was safe, not this year though, he had told them that as he could now defend himself he didn't need them, what a laugh…he was beaten badly before he could even pull his wand.
Yes, that's right…a wand, this was no normal young man…this was The Harry Potter, the Light's greatest hope to save the wizarding world from a madman bent of killing all muggles, muggle-borns and half-bloods, the only ones safe were those born of two magical parents, Harry was what they were calling a neo-pureblood as his father was from an old pure-blooded family and his mother was a very powerful muggle-born.
Harry had known things would not go well with his family this year and frankly he didn't care, his school year had overall gone well, no attacks from Voldemort…he had pretty much remained quiet when it came to Harry, he just made attacks on anyone that wasn't either a neo-pureblood or an old-line pureblood, he wasn't even attacking those that were known to fight against him.
It was as he was thinking about his school year and pulling his trunk backwards towards the house that his uncle struck…the first blow was to the head knocking Harry to the ground confused…the second blow landed on his hands, possibly breaking a few of the bones…the third was aimed to his head which knocked him unconscious, he awoke hours later to find that his leg was broken and at an odd angle, his ribs were bruised maybe broken, he was bruised all over, he was also naked and sore and bleeding from his back indicating that he had lashes, the only thing he could think of before he passed out once more was that he was grateful that his uncle would never lower himself to rape.
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That though was the beginning of the holidays, today was the 16th July, he had been 'home' for a month and he had had more beatings than he could remember ever suffering in one month before. At this moment in time he was laying in the rear garden of number four Privet Drive bloody and beaten and out of sight of the neighbours. This was the first day that he had been allowed to leave the house, his Aunt, Uncle and Cousin had gone away for a few days, knowing that they couldn't leave him locked up or send him to Mrs Figgs they left him 'home' alone with a small loaf of bread, bar of cheap soap and a roll of toilet roll, every thing else was gone, his trunk was locked in the attic with his wand, no clothes except what he was wearing and nothing else, he was alone, and felt it too, Hedwig had been killed while trying to stop Vernon from lashing him which caused Harry's heart to break, Hedwig was his friend, his companion when 'home' for the holidays…now he didn't even have that.
It was while he was thinking about past happenings that two birds, messengers owls flew towards him, Harry thanked every deity that he knew that the Dursleys were gone away, if they had seen them he would have had another beating. Both owls landed and held out their legs for Harry to untie their loads…one a brown fluffy thing had a letter in a yellowed parchment, wax sealed envelope, the other a white majestic looking bird had a small box which had a label which said 'Harry tap twice with your finger.' Which he did, the box grew in size to that of a shoebox.
"Bloody hell" he said when he saw the senders name, it read 'Lily Evans-Potter' he thanked the birds who promptly flew off before he retreated into the house to look in the box.
Taking a slice of bread with him he walked up to his room careful not to jar his ribs, limping as he went, his leg being wrapped with rags and wood to keep the break still, it was slow going but he made it eventually, sitting on his bed he opened the box and picked up the first letter that was in it and read.
My darling son, I know that this must be a bit of a shock to you…I mean it isn't everyday that you get a letter from your dead mother. I need to tell you so much, I have written everything in this box over the last year, it may not seem like it but trust me, I had to take out irrelevant things and then add important things that I missed the first time…anyway I'm procrastinating, I tend to do that a lot when I am nervous…oh dear this isn't going well.
The letter that should have been delivered separately is a letter from James and you must and I mean must read that last, everything in the box is in order of how I want you to read them, it may be confusing but I will explain it all eventually in these letters, trust me my beloved child.
Your loving mother, Lily.
Harry sighed and picked up the next letter; or rather bundle of parchments tied with a ribbon and placed the first one that he read on the lid of the box out of the way.
Harry first I have to say that I am not muggle-born, I was taken from my home and placed for adoption in a muggle orphanage, this though is not relevant to this bundle of parchments. This bundle is to explain our history, well that of the wizarding world. Our own personal history will come in a few letters time. Read on my darling child and learn our history.
Millennia's of years ago the space was just that, a blank space of nothing…there were deities that lived here though. Both had been here for millennia and were growing bored so they decided that they had to do more than exist so they mated and bonded and produced the solar systems, this made them happy as each planet was born of the Great Goddess, in part each Planet was a sentient being, able to communicate with the Great Goddess and her husband The Father as he was known as.
Another Millennia passed and the Planets and Deities were growing restless, the planets because they wished to have families of their own and the Great Goddess and The Father who wanted something to nurture. There began the great plan of life, the Great Goddess changed her form into that of Luna the Moon that existed with the Planets, her children, she was a bright beam in the dark of night, soothing and calming to her children. The Father turned himself into a bright ball of light which he called himself as Apollo the Sun lighting the day and warming his children.
Each Planet decided to name themselves and changed what they looked like to suit themselves, there was Pluto she remained mysterious and dark wanting only the company of herself as she governed Time and didn't want any ties. Then came Uranus, Neptune and Saturn they were the closest of sisters, Uranus liked to go fast so she had beings of Flight and fast air speeds so they could race. Neptune liked the colour blue, every shade was to mark her and she liked the feel of water so the entirety of her body was water, she nurtured animals and plants that lived underneath it. Saturn the baby of the three liked the darkness, yet she also appreciated the complexity of life and death, she separated parts of herself to form a place of evil and a place of good where the souls of dead animals and beings could go to rest before being reborn as were her wants and ideals.
I know that this sounds weird my son…well reads weird but this is our history…a tale passed on through the Caretakers, I will tell you about them later.
Lastly comes the closest Planets to the Sun and Moon, Venus was vain and wanted beauty and love, she came in a mix of colours, reds, oranges, hints of blue and green too a truly beautiful sight to behold, she was empty of life but she created beings she called cupids to watch over any and all sentient beings on the other Planets that had the ability to feel emotions. Mars was volatile to say the least, he wanted to fight all the time…nothing deadly just as sport, he also appreciated the beauty of fire so made himself burn in the dark sky, he was inhabited by a bird of flames which burned and renewed itself when it was needed. Mercury was smart he wanted to learn all there was about every brother and sister that he had, but he was cool and independent and kept himself to himself and wrote down everything that he knew, he contained the very first Library. Jupiter was not as close to any one of his siblings or either of his parents he felt equal emotions towards all of them, he felt like the protector and loved storms of arguments, he felt that they cleared the air, so he produced loud and beautiful storms to make himself feel…Earth she was different, she gave herself two names…Earth was to be used by everyone her parents, siblings and her own children, but there would be a few worthy of using her real name, those children of hers that she deemed worthy, no one would be able to pass that name on…she would tell it herself to the worthy. Earth was a mixture of all her siblings, she wanted everything, the planet was half land and half water, the land was one area, each part of the land consisted of different plants and animals, there were also humans. She decided to allow transport between a representative of the creatures on her Planet and that of her siblings to keep the bond safe between her and her siblings, which had and still does work well…Do Not Mention That To Anyone.
We all lived in harmony, as according to her wishes there was four ruling families, for the humans, there were no last names, but at the beginning there were Leader Merlan, Leader Souxian, Leader Jamon and Leader Lekan, each knew Earth's real name to keep Earth safe from destruction of herself. For the creatures of Earth there were the Great White Dragons who ruled the flyers, Unicorns ruled all of the four legged land animals and the Basilisk who ruled all types of lizards and snakes then there were also the Eagles who were the leaders of all small flying animals. In the water there were the Great Killer Whales, they didn't really kill anything it was just a name because of their sheer size.
On the other Planets there were a mixture of what we know of as Magical creatures, the Phoenixes of Mars, the Mer-people of Neptune, Dragons unlike the ones on Earth were on Uranus, those were larger by five times. Saturn had Demons such as vampires and were's on the side of Evil, yet they were not evil themselves, they were there to physically restrain anything that may try to escape punishment, on the side of Good were beings similar to that of Humans, yet these had wings and were physically strong, they were called Angels and would also protect and guide the souls from any of the sibling Planets, Saturn sent a handful to each Planet as guides they were to live disguised as beings from those Planets.
Over time as happens things changed, it was discovered that the clans lead by Leaders Merlan and Lekan had abilities that no one in the other two clans had, magical abilities. This caused problems, a split occurred, the two magical clans left to the other side of the land away from everyone non-magical, they took to calling them Muggles, no one knew where the word came from, it was believed that it just came to the Wizards and Witches as their new name came to them, possibly from Mother Earth.
After the original Leaders passed from this realm to the next the Clans named themselves after the original leaders as a sign of Great respect, after a few hundred years magical abilities appeared and disappeared to the families within the clans all four of them. They once more began to trade and inter-marry combining the Clans once more, this worked well for thousands of years then came another split, this time the Clans moved as the land separated, first it split into four separate lands and later into the World that we know. When it first split to four lands there were no longer four leaders of four Clans…there were four separate islands with a Clan on each and the leaders were the Rulers…What was the area ruled by the Clan Merlan became what we know of as England. Ireland and the surrounding smaller islands were attached to England at that time. When it became England it continued to be ruled by that family, last names were still not around, you were announced as for example Lily wife of James Mother of Harry long way of doing it I know but hey it was a start. Anyway…the ice age happened, meteorites happened, the crusades, dark ages it all happened as is written. It was during the birth of 'Christ' where the last great split happened, those with magical powers in all countries gathered together and set up separate communities away from those without magic, spending their time learning and building on their knowledge of their powers, wands were made which for some enhanced that ability, but for those few extremely powerful humans wands lowered the efficient use of their abilities, yet to remain with their own they used wands to fit in, The strongest were those of born of Clan Leader Ancestry, no one knew why and the Great Mother would not tell those that knew her true name, stubborn Deity that one. With that split things were peaceful once more, yet all the Clans managed to trade still, even though they were all different.
Merlin came a few thousand years ago, he was of the line of Merlan and took over the Council of Magic as the Leader, for the muggles he set up Arthur, his best friend as King. Merlin's aim was to lead all peoples, magical and non-magical to a World of peace. He fought against the first Dark-Lord and the second Dark Lord, after a time things settled down once more. There were many Dark Lords between Merlin's time and this time that we live in. You know the most important parts of our Modern History and the unimportant parts of our history follows closely to muggle history, so I won't bore you with it, I needed you to read and know this part of our history.
The Council of Magic is the Olde name for the Ministry of Magic, the Leaders rights go down the male line, unfortunately the line of Merlan was cursed by one Dark Lord to have daughters only on the direct line, the only way for a member of the Merlan line who is not a direct descendant to take over is for the line to die, if that was to happen then the nearest family member to the direct line would take over.
The Caretakers that I mentioned before who carried the information of our history are like Librarians they retain memories and pass them on to the next holder in the family, the Caretakers are always female this passes on from mother to daughter or grand-daughter etc, the Caretakers are essentially a gift to Mother Earth from her brother Mercury, they are human with a touch of Mercury in them making them 1.85 non-human, not that anyone would notice. This is a lot to take in my son, so that is all I will write in this letter, I will tell you more in the next letters. Go to sleep my son, you will need it to heal those wounds.
I love you my dearest son, as for how I know things all will be explained tomorrow. Goodnight child.
"Odder and odder." Harry thought as he got up and walked around to stretch his good leg and go to the bathroom. Once he was finished he looked into his Aunts room at the clock, it was ten pm, time to pack up the letters before he went for a bath before bed. Harry went and carefully had a long soak in the bath to ease his wounds before finally going to his bed and succumbing to exhaustion.
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