NOTE- I've been doing my family tree and one of Dan's siblings is based on my Great Grandmother as A) I needed a name and figured I'd use her name before she married my Great Grandfather and B) it ties in nicely to the storyline.
"Well then Mr Dumbledore it looks as though we've finally found out where Daniel ended up" Griphook exclaimed once he saw the results of the test.
"W, what do you mean? How can Harry's inheritance test show you where my Son disappeared to?" Albus stumbled. Daniel Evan Dumbledore had disappeared on his 17th birthday with no note and no sign of kidnapping, Albus and his wife had been searching for him ever since, never giving up on Dan. Albus could remember that day as though it was yesterday.
"If you'd like to take a look at this list Harry and read out your Mother's family please, It's against the law for anyone other than a Goblin to take a look at an Inheritance Test, however I think you'll be very surprised at this result" Griphook informed the pair as he passed the parchment over to Harry.
"Lily Dumbledore- 30th January 1960/ 31st October 1981
Aunts: Petunia Dursley (Adopted)
Poppy Pierre
Uncles: Gabriel Dumbledore
Xavier Dumbledore
Maternal Grandparents: Daniel Evan Dumbledore & Calla Phillips
Maternal Great Grandparents: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore & Isabella Johnston.
You're my Great Grandfather? How is that possible? Plus Petunia was adopted so I definitely won't be able to use the Dursley's as Donors." Harry spluttered, at first he thought that the Dumbledore attached to Lily's name was a mistake until he saw the name Albus.
Albus couldn't talk; his little Daniel had left because of Lily! It all fit, Daniel had left on his 17th birthday- 6th June 1959 which meant that he and Calla had to have had intercourse between Sunday, May 3rd, 1959 and Saturday, May 9th, 1959 which meant that Lily must have been a month old foetus, why couldn't Daniel have just told them about Lily rather than running away? Why had he also not noticed that Lily looked like Daniel with what must have been her Mother's eyes? "Oh Harry, Dan was my son youngest child and he disappeared on his 17th birthday, I've been looking for him ever since and you've found him for me. Calla must have already been pregnant with Lily and he must have been far too scared to tell his Mum and I so thought it was best to run away, I guess I'll never find out the truth now" Albus whispered sadly.
"Why not? He's still alive, it says so here. It even has a location for him, look here.
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Wife: Isabella Johnston
Children: Minerva Isabella McGonagoll, location- Hogwarts School (Transfiguration Professor)
Twin Sebastian Albus Dumbledore, location- Dandum School of Arts (Headmaster & Founder)
Twin Isadora Lillian Azure, location- London Ministry of Magic (Auror Department)
Florence Mavis Burton, location- York Cemetery (Victim of Stomach Cancer)
William Wulfric Dumbledore, location- St Mungo's Hospital (Children's Healer)
Daniel Evan Dumbledore
Age: 50, 6th June 1959
Wife:
Calla Phillips- Deceased (Little Winging Cemetery)
Location- 10 Privet Drive, Little Winging, Surrey
Children: Lily- Deceased (Godric's Hollow Cemetery)
Petunia- 4 Privet Drive
Poppy- France (Art teacher)
Gabriel- Royal Navy (Currently in America)
Xavier- Army (Note, has a son Mark who is currently living with Daniel)
See he's still alive! Not only that but I know him, Petunia tries to keep me away from him but he worked as a caretaker at my old School and he was always ever so nice to me, making sure that I was fed and that I wasn't hurt too badly by Dudley's Gang and I know Mark, were actually friends, sure it's a little odd due to the age difference but Daniel always encouraged us to be friends" Harry shouted in excitement. "Can we go and visit him? Tell him that we know who he is? Please Sir, I want to tell him that I know who he is and that I don't hate him for not telling me the truth, we all know what Petunia was like and he does care for me in his own odd way, please Sir?"
Albus was ecstatic himself but he couldn't in good conscience do this to his own Son, how could he just turn up out of the blue like that? He voiced these feelings to Harry who suddenly deflated like a balloon before growing excited. "Sir, I need to collect my belongings from Petunia's house anyway and I have my cloak in there, what if you wore that whilst I say goodbye to Daniel? Explain that I'm moving somewhere else? That is if I'm moving, after all we don't want to let the Dursley's stop my treatment and let me die do we?" Harry asked with a sly grin, he knew what the answer would be.
Albus laughed before pulling Harry into a hug, "Of course you're moving! You only lived with the Dursley's due to the law, otherwise your Grandmother and I would have adopted you if we could."
"Well what are we waiting for? There's an Alleyway near the Dursley house that doesn't get used much, there's only Mrs Figg who lives on Wisteria Walk or Daniel as he goes to the shops that use it" Harry explained.
After thanking Griphook for his time and asking permission to use Fawkes to transport them out of the room, both wizards made their way to Privet Drive.
With an almost silent pop and a flash of light both wizards ended up in the Alleyway near to the Dursley home, and after Harry had urged Albus to change his clothes into Muggle ones they set of for number 4 Privet Drive, thankfully the Dursley's were out and so Harry was able to use the key hidden underneath the doormat and turn off the alarm as they walked through the door, it's not as if the Dursley's made an effort to secure the house- the number for the alarm was written on a scrap of paper and attacked to the wall using blue tack.
Albus was really not happy when he found out where Harry had to keep his trunk or where he used to sleep and so whilst Harry was upstairs gathering some more belongings Albus created a howler that would go off whenever someone tried to open the fridge.
"I'm finished Sir" Harry shouted as he walked down the stairs carrying his cloak, photo album and homework.
"There's no need to shout dear child, I'm only here" Albus noted as he walked towards the stairs. "Now I'm going to shrink that trunk and put the cloak on before we go and visit Daniel, I sincerely hope you know what you're doing here, and Daniel may end up being angry with you even though you're doing this for the best of intentions" Albus warned his young Grandson.
"I know Sir but I have an excuse now" Harry gave another of his cheeky grins. As he walked towards the gate and turned right, he could feel Albus' hand on his shoulder and knew that he was scared but Harry needed this to happen, his life depended on it.
If Harry thought that he was scared it was nothing to how Albus was feeling, so many emotions were going through his body and he didn't know which one to settle on, elation, anger, sadness or ecstatically happy? Harry carried on walked a few houses away from the Dursley's and turned left into another house, one knock away and Albus would set his eyes upon little Daniel once again. Harry knocked upon the door and Albus body froze when the little boy opened the door, Mark was truly his Grandfather's child and that's when he saw him.
Blue eyed, auburn hair and a lean body, Daniel Dumbledore barely looked older than 30 years old and when he spoke a soft and soothing voice came out, "Ahh Harry child, what can we do for you today? Please do come in."
Harry pretended to take a good look outside as he came through the door, enough time for Albus to come inside after him. "I, well, it" Harry couldn't do it, he ran into Daniel's arms sobbing his little heart out as the day's events caught up with him and he realized the magnitude of what had actually happened. "Oh child, whatever is the matter hmm?" Daniel asked in his soothing voice.
"I, I'm going to die!" Harry blurted out.
Shocked silence filled the air before Daniel turned Harry's face so that blue met green eyes. "W, what makes you say that Harry? This isn't one of your practical jokes gone wrong is it?"
"No, it's not a joke, I have Leukaemia. I passed out at Mrs Figg's house and I managed to get an emergency Hospital Appointment, Doctor Ellen Cray saw to me, she's actually my best girlfriend's Aunt. You remember when I told you about Hermione? It's her Aunt, anyway I called for Fawkes and it worked!" Harry exclaimed as he told his Grandpa what happened. "So Fawkes then brought Professor Dumbledore to me as my Guardian and he suggested that we go to Gringotts for an Inheritance Test and guess what? I have a living family!"
Daniel Dumbledore went pale when Harry told him about the Leukaemia but when he mentioned the name Dumbledore and told him about having more family he almost passed out in shock. "D, Dumbledore?"
"Yup, Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is the Headmaster of Hogwarts, he'll be Mark's Headmaster as well when he goes to the School, I thought I'd told you about his name before?" Harry asked in mock puzzlement.
"No child, you only ever said Headmaster, so you said that you've found more family? Who are they child?" Daniel was definitely sweating now, what if Harry never forgave him?
Harry was definitely having fun with this, "Well Grandpa my Mum wasn't an Evan's, it turns out that she was the child of someone named Daniel Evan Dumbledore, you wouldn't happen to know anything about him would you? I wonder who he is. I know he's alive because of the Test and I have his location as well, oh you should have seen Professor Dumbledore's face when he realized that his Son was still alive, it was so full of joy and happiness that we both forgot the original reason why we were at the bank."
"He wasn't angry?" Daniel whispered in hope.
This was the moment that Albus had been waiting for, "Oh Danny, your Mother and I were never angry with you; sure we were upset but never angry. We have been searching for you ever since that day and we knew that it must have been something important that caused you to run and now I know why, it was Lily, I'm sad that I never knew her as a Granddaughter but I knew her as a student and that's more than enough for me, did she know who I was?"
As soon as Albus started to talk Daniel whipped his head round to face him so fast that he almost dropped Harry. "I'm sorry Dad but I was scared, what if you made Calla abort Lily? We never told Lily about you, we never told any of the children about you at all as we knew that they'd be magical and we were right, the only one that never went to Hogwarts was Petunia and that was because she was adopted. Can you not remember Poppy, Gabriel & Xavier Phillips? We had all the children go in different names to avoid suspicion, Lily went as an Evan's because she had been introduced to that dratted Severus Snape before joining Hogwarts and it would have been odd for a sudden name change and the other 3 were never seen by Snape, it was only ever Petunia so we were safe in that respect" Daniel stammered.
"Oh I remember them all right, they looked like a mix of Lily and you, I always thought that it was just wishful thinking and besides they introduced themselves as a cousin of Lily Evans through their Mother, I guess they were right in a way" Albus laughed as he walked over to the Son he lost all those years ago.