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Wind of change
31 October 1981 Godric's Hollow
Lily and James Potter sat on their couch talking about the war. Lily was a muggleborn or first generation witch, she preferred the later. She was 5 feet and 6 inches tall and was rather slim, some would call it athletic. Her hair was red perfectly mirroring her fiery temper and she had emerald green eyes.
Her Husband James was a pureblood wizard. He had the typical black messy Potter hair and brown hazel eyes covered by black thin framed glasses. With his 6 feet 3 inches he was quite big.
The discussed how long they will have to keep hiding. Since the birth of their little Harry they are in hiding under the Fidelius Charm, a charm that will make the property it is cast on disappear and only the Secret Keeper knows where it is and only he will be able to tell others about it so they can find it.
Harry was almost a perfect copy of James, he looked exactly like James did when he was Harrys age. Harry had the famous Potter hair but his eyes were the emerald green of his mother. He did not wear glasses like his father but they could not know if he would need them until he got older and could talk.
When Harry was born on 31 July 1980, the headmaster of Hogwarts, and so called "Leader of the Light", Albus Dumbledore told the Potters the prophecy about the Dark Lord Voldemort. Either Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom, the son of their friends Alice and Frank, would be able to vanquish the Dark Lord. Because of this prophecy both couples are in the hiding under the Fidelius with different Secret Keepers, Peter Pettigrew for the Potters and Sirius Black for the Longbottoms.
Suddenly James felt the Wards and the Fidelius around the house break down.
"Lily take Harry and run, I will try to stop them." whispered James and kissed Lily on her forehead, while he took his wand and started to transfigure the furniture into animals to defend the house and his family.
Lily sprinted upstairs to the nursery, where little Harry was sleeping. She took him out of his crib and tried to apparate but she failed, that was the moment she realised the attackers set up anti-apparation and anti-portkey wards. She could only fight there was no escape. Harry woke up and started to cry when he hear loud sounds downstairs from spells impacting on the walls and the war cry of the animals his father transfigured when they started to charge the attackers.
Lily set Harry back down into his crib and tried to calm him. She managed to stop his cries, but he was still rather upset about the noise downstairs. Not minding the annoyed little child she barricaded the door to the nursery with the furniture in the room.
When she was finished she heard the sound of someone walking up the stairs, deep inside her she hoped it was James coming to tell her everything is okay and the attackers are gone, but she knew that they will most likely be able to overwhelm James easily.
She knew she was right when a familiar female voice shouted " Lily where are you ? Come out, we only want the child. Just give him to us and we will let you live!" It was the voice of Bellatrix Lestrange, one of Voldemorts most loyal Death Eaters. Lily knew her from Hogwarts where she was famous for hexing people only becaused they looked at her. Overall many would agree if you called her crazy.
Lily did not a make a sound, she was terrified what this crazy Death Eater would do if she found her. But little Harry did not realise what was happening and started to cry again because of the shouting.
"You have 3 seconds to open that door and give us the brat, if not … well you will see what happens" yelled Bellatrix from the other side of the door.
"3"
'This is it' thought Lily 'I am going to die and they will take my little Harry and kill him only because of this damned prophecy, I have to save him somehow '
"2"
Lily bowed over Harry in his crib and kissed him on the forehead and his cheeks.
"1"
She moved her wand around his belly button and drew 2 runes, one on each side, on his stomach. The runes were symbols for Love and Power. Harry giggled while she did that, he thought she wanted to tickle him with this stick.
"BOOM" with this sound the Death Eaters blew the door and all the furniture Lily used to block the door into the wall on the other side of the room.
"Please take me, don't kill Harry, please let him live, kill me instead please" Lily begged on her knees.
"Well we just have to kill you both I guess, you could have lived Potter" spat Bellatrix and spoke the 2 words that meant death. "Avada Kedavra" green light erupted from her wand and hit Lily on the chest.
Harry saw his mother talking and crying on the floor. Then he looked at the other women in the room, he didn't like her, she made his mummy cry and shouted earlier making him cry. He got angry with her. When he saw this weird green light coming out of this bad womans stick he felt that something was wrong. His mother suddenly stopped to cry and fell to the floor when the light hit her. He knew that was bad and started to cry and get really angry. Suddenly his stomach where his mother tickled him with her stick started to hurt horrible. The little kid got overwhelmed by all the emotions and pain, he cried and shouted as loud as he could and stared to faint. But shortly before he fainted he heard a loud grumble outside and the whole house started to shake.
The Death Eaters laughed at the sight of the stupid child crying about the death of his mother, but they knew something was wrong when the house started to shake and the child fainted. "Hurry, take the brat so we can leave. I don't know what happens outside but it can't be good" said one of the masked Death Eaters that went along Bellatrix on this mission.
She just wanted to agree with him when there was another loud grumble and the windows imploded, she got hit by some small shards but it was not too bad. The Death Eater next to her got impaled by a large shard in his shoulder and cried out from the pain. But at this moment the roof started to come down on them. All 3 man that accompanied her where hit by large parts of the roof and died instantly. Bellatrix was able to establish a shield and save her life … for now.
The moment she wanted to grab the child and get the hell out of there, she saw the reason why half of the house collapsed on them. A huge tornado was demolishing half of Godric's Hollow and was right next to the Potter Cottage. She was not able to make a sound or speak a last sentence. When her eyes focused on the tornado she was lifted from the ground into it and flung with speed she didn't knew was possible against the wall of the neighbouring house.
Albus Dumbledore was sitting in his office watching the devices that showed him the condition of the wards around the houses of the Potters and Longbottoms. He was considered one of the strongest wizards since Merlin. His long white beard and long white hear together with his half moon glasses and his famous twinkle in his eyes gave him the image of a very wise old man that people could ask for help. He was famous for defeating the Dark Lord Gellert Grindelwald in 1945 and had since then several important titles in the wizarding world. He was just about to pop another lemon drop into his mouth when a device showing the Longbottom wards exploded.
He knew what this meant. Voldemort decided to attack the children of the prophecy and decided for Neville as his so called "Vanquisher".
Albus immediately went to his Floo and called for the his friend and second in command in the school, Professor Minerva McGonagall.
"Why you need me this late in the evening Albus, is something wrong?" she asked the moment she came out of the fireplace. Minerva was a regal looking woman. She always held her chin high and walked with grace. She had black hair that started to grey. Overall she made the perfect image of the strict teacher she was.
"The wards around the Longbottom House collapsed a minute ago, I need you to stay here and take control of the school while I floo to the Longbottoms looking for survivors" He didn't wait for an answer and went to the fireplace calling out "Longbottom Manor!" the moment he threw some floo powder into it and walked into the free flames.
Minerva was shocked about the information she just got. She asked a house-elf for some tea, helping her to digest some of the information. Alice and Frank Longbottom, 2 of her dearest ex-students were probably killed, and with them their little child Neville.
She was so focused on her tea and her thoughts that she didn't saw another device on Albus shelf starting to smoke and break, it was the condition device for the Potter wards that just collapsed. Because she didn't notice it no one was send to look for survivors or after the condition of the house.
While no one from Hogwarts was send to look for survivors in Godric's Hollow many aurors came. The little village was mostly magical, so when a huge tornado destroyed half the village the aurors where called. But no one imagined the scene they were about to find at the Potter Cottage. From the destruction of the house it was obvious that the tornado started there. But not the fact that the epicentre of the tornado was in the house surprised the aurors. But the amount of dead people and especially who the dead people were.
They found James Potter killed by a killing curse in his living room. In the nursery they found Lily Potter also killed from the unforgivable, furthermore they found the bodies of 3 Death Eaters, namely Rabastan Lestrange, Rodolpus Lestrange and Peter Pettigrew. In the backyard they found Bellatrix Lestrange. But most surprisingly one person survived the attack on the house, they found little Harry Potter lying in his crib fainted form magical exhaustion.
They took the child and brought him to St. Mungo's so he could recover there. He was also to stay there until the will of his parents was read and new guardians could be found.
When the aurors returned to their headquarters they got the information that the Longbottoms where attacked as well. And also only one person survived this attack, Neville Longbottom. But they got a reason to stop work for the day and head out into the pubs of the wizarding world and celebrate. Because on the scene of the attack they found cloak and wand of the Dark Lord, there was no body but only a heap of ash under the cloak.
That was why the whole wizarding world was celebrating, the war was over, the Dark Lord was vanquished and Neville Longbottom would go down in history as the Boy-Who-Lived.
While Harry was waiting in St. Mungo's for the reading of his parents wills Neville never got to the hospital. Dumbledore was the first to arrive at Longbottom Manor and took the little boy with him to Hogwarts. There he got checked by Madam Pomfrey and given to his grandmother, she was the only living relative and a heavy supporter of the light side, so Dumbledore had no problem giving the boy to her. He only found out days later that the Potters were also attacked, but they didn't matter, now that he had his saviour that he could train and guide like wanted, so he let Harry Potter be. He had no reason to meddle in his life.
The public will reading was 3 days after the Potters had died. Harry was healthy again and would be able to go to the family his parents chose for him.
Harry was to inherit the Potter family gold vault when he turned 17 or was emancipated. The vault had about 150 000 Galleons. ( AN: 1 Galleon = 5 GPB )
When he turned 11 he was to inherit the Potter trust vault with 5000 Galleons in it and the Potter family storage vault.
The will also told that Peter Pettigrew was the Secret Keeper, but he was dead anyway.
The Guardians for Harry where in the following order:
Sirius Black
Remus Lupin
Alice and Frank Longbottom
Sophie and Nathaniel Davis
Minerva McGonagall
And under no circumstances should he go to the Dursleys
Sirius Black could not be the guardian cause he was thrown through the veil in the aftermath of the attack on the Longbottoms for betraying their secret.
Remus Lupin could not be considered, because he was classified as a dark creature for having Lycanthropy.
Alice and Frank Longbottom were dead.
The Davis family were the lawyers of the Potters and became good friends with time. When asked if they would accept guardianship of Harry they almost instantly agreed.
So after all Harry had a new family and did not have to go to the Dursleys because no one manipulated the will reading. He also got a new sister and a new brother. His new sister was Tracey Davis, she was born 14 August 1980, so he was 14 days older. His new brother was Roger Davis, he was born 8 February 1977, so he was over 3 years older.
Thanks for reading I hoped you enjoyed it. The next chapter will be about Harry growing up with his new family and new people will be introduced. Also some of his powers will be shown in small.