As Ted walked out of the fire place heard his wife's voice, "Is that you Ted?"
"Yes, Andy" he replied back as he started walking into the kitchen with the two boys in his arms. When he got into the kitchen his wife looked up from her cup of tea and almost knocked it over when she recognized one of the boys in her husband's arms.
"Ted, is that Harry?" she asked jumping up and taking the dark haired boy from her husband and giving him a gentle hug as not to squish the boy.
"Sure is" Ted answered sitting down while still holding Dudley.
"How did you find him? Where was he? Who is the other boy?" Andy asked her husband in a rush as she rocked little Harry in her arms.
"Well it is a bit of a story, so how about we put these two to bed and I we can come back down here to talk? Is Nymphadora asleep yet?" Ted said walking up to one of the spare bedrooms in the house where there were already two cribs because the family often watched Harry and their friend's son Neville when the Potter's and Longbottom's were on missions for the order or just wanted a night out.
"She was when I checked on her ten minutes ago, but she did not want to go to bed tonight" Andy said while putting Harry in his normal crib before kissing him on the head and turning on the baby monitor they had.
When the Tonks had put the two young cousins to bed they went down to the kitchen and Andy got Ted a cup of tea before moving to the living room to talk.
"There was a muggle automobile accident tonight and Max and Dylan went to the scene. No one was wearing a seatbelt and the driver and two passengers all died. When Max looked into the driver's wallet for ID he saw a bunch of pictures of a young boy, the other boy that I brought home tonight. Max and Dylan decided to go to the driver's house and see if the boy was with a babysitter. When he got there the babysitter asked if they were there because of the other boy. Well Max and Dylan did not know what she was talking about so they questioned her. The other boy's parent's apparently died and he was left with his aunt and uncle."
"Please don't tell me that Harry was left with Lily's vile sister and her husband" Andy spat angrily.
"Max and Dylan went upstairs and Dylan noticed the one boy was Harry and called Max over. They both knew what happened to the Longbottoms and knew we were close to the Potters so they called me in. Well to sum up once I got there the muggle social services were there and Amelia Bones was called in as well. Amelia got it so Harry could come home with us and we now have full guardianship over him and since Harry is ours the lady from social services said we could take Dudley, Harry's cousin for the night and then arrangements would be made for Dudley tomorrow."
"How did Harry get there? I know Lily said that is the absolute last place in the world she wanted her son if something happened to her and James." Andy said to her husband.
"Well, when Max was looking around he found that out. Dumbledore sent him there with a note saying that there were blood wards tied to Petunia that would protect Harry." Ted said rubbing his temple after the long night.
"The harm would probably come from them" Andy said angrily.
"Yes, I do believe you are right, according to the babysitter, Harry has been sleeping in a basket."
"What?" Andy yelled.
"Shhh, you will wake the kids" Ted said rubbing his wife's back trying to calm her down.
"How could Dumbledore? We need to do something to protect Harry!" Andy said.
"Well I have been thinking about that, and well it would be a little more work for us but it would help Harry and his cousin." Ted said wondering if his wife would go for his idea.
"A little more work would be nothing if we could keep Harry safe." Andy said wondering what her husband was thinking.
"Well the wards fell when Petunia died, and Dudley has his mother's blood, therefore he also has Lily's blood. We could do the wards for Harry tying them to Dudley and adopt Dudley and raise them together as brothers. The wards are stronger when there is love between the relatives and it would save Dudley from going to an orphanage and could protect Harry from Dumbledore's meddling." Ted said trying to read his wife's expression.
"I think that is a wonderful idea. I will call Amelia in the morning to help get paperwork through quickly and quietly and then we will adopt Dudley. I think we should do some training for all of the kids to help protect them when they have to leave home though. Both muggle and magical training because we don't know if Dudley will be a wizard or not." Andy said getting a huge smile from her husband.
"That sounds like a splendid idea. For now though let's get some sleep because I don't know about Dudley, but Harry has always been an early riser."
"Alright sounds good to me" Andy said yawning, "Perhaps we should get Neville in on the training as well, however not for a couple of years for any of the boys."
"Yes, that does sounds good" Ted said before going to bed for a few hours of sleep before another busy day.
The next morning Harry was up by five thirty and Andy got up and fed him, and just as he finished eating Dudley woke up. She brought Dudley down and fed him while Harry played in his high chair smiling brightly. After the two boys were fed Andy brought them into the living room to play for a little bit while she called Amelia.
After the phone rang for a few seconds Amelia picked up. "Hello Amelia Bones speaking"
"Hi Amelia, it's Andy. I was wondering if you could help me."
"I will try my best. What do you need help with?" Amelia asked.
"It might be best if you could floo over or if I could floo to you. It is rather a private matter." Andy told Amelia.
"I have Susan with me today but I can come over if you don't mind that she comes with me."
"That is no problem at all. She can play with the boys while we talk." Andy said before the two said their good-byes and Amelia said she would be over in about ten minutes.
Amelia arrived with her niece Susan and set her down with the two young boys to play while Andy and she talked.
"How has Susan been doing?" Andy asked Amelia.
"She is doing good but she misses her father some but she spent so much time with me over the past year that it won't be as hard of an adjustment as it will be for those two boys" Amelia replied looking at the three children playing on the floor. Susan's mother died because of complications during birth, and her father had been depressed so Amelia raised Susan for much of her early life and then her father died a few weeks ago in a Death Eater raid.
"Well at least she has you. Poor Dudley has no one, which is why I asked you to come over." Andy said before going into the plan her and Ted had come up with.
"I think that sounds like a great idea and if you wouldn't mind I would like to do some of the training with the boys and Susan as well." Amelia said after hearing the plan and Andy quickly agreed to the help with the training. "If you could just watch Susan for a couple of minutes I will just go grab the paperwork so that Dudley can be yours by the end of the day."
"Thank you" Andy said as Amelia flooed to the Ministry and Nymphadora walked down the stairs rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. When she saw the three children she let out a little squeal before running the rest of the way down the stairs.
"When did Harry get here?" Nymphadora asked her mum as she squatted down to play with the three children.
"He was found last night and brought over here a little while after you went to sleep." Andy replied smiling at her daughter and how good she was with all three kids.
"Who is the other little boy and why is Susan here today?" Nymphadora asked.
"Susan is here while Amelia is picking up some paperwork and the other boy is Harry's cousin Dudley."
"I didn't know Harry had a cousin" Nymphadora replied tilting her head sideways a bit looking at the other boy to try and see a resemblance between the two boys.
"He is Aunt Lily's sister's son" Andy said before asking Nymphadora to come sit on the couch with her because she wanted to talk to her. Nymphadora climbed up onto the couch while her mum explained that Harry was going to stay with them since Aunt Lily and Uncle James were killed and that they wanted to adopt Dudley to protect Harry and to give him a loving home. Nymphadora loved the idea of having two brothers and entertained all three kids while her mom and Aunt Amelia filled out paperwork.
After the paperwork was done and everything was made official, Amelia did the ritual to tie the blood ward between Harry and Dudley. Once that was done Amelia also suggested that she have Nymphadora learns occulmacy because they don't want Dumbledore or anyone else to try to get past the girls mind and find Harry. The elder Tonks along with Amelia were very sufficient in occulmacy and thought that teaching all the children young would help them a lot especially after finding out just how manipulative Dumbledore really was.
Amelia went to work after sorting out the paperwork for the Tonks to adopt Dudley and setting up the wards because her assistant called her saying Albus Dumbledore was waiting for her in her office and wouldn't leave until he talked to her. Leaving Susan at the Tonk's house to play with Dudley and Harry Amelia went to the Ministry of Magic and walked into her office where Dumbledore had made himself comfortable.
"Hello Albus, what can I do for you?" Amelia asked walking around her desk and sitting down in her chair.
"I heard that there was an accident at the Dursley's household last night that you were called in for. What has become of the children?" Albus asked while taking out a lemon drop and putting one in his mouth.
"I'm sorry Albus, but I can't tell you."
"As Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot I am privy to such information" Albus responded.
"Since the reason I was there has nothing to do with the Wizengamot, it in no way concerns you." Amelia said giving the headmaster of Hogwarts a hard look.
"Yes but the boy Harry Potter does. We need to protect him, so you need to tell me where he is" Albus said getting to the point.
"The boy is in the protection of his guardians and that is all I am able to tell you as he is a minor and his information is classified" Amelia said while picking up a quill and starting to work on some of the paperwork on her desk. Since she came into work she thought she mind and well get some of her work done and maybe Albus Dumbledore would get the hint that she was done discussing the case and would leave.
"It is for the greater good that I put the boy in a safe environment" Albus said rising to his feet.
"Greater good?" Amelia said raising her voice and standing as well. She would not give Dumbledore the opportunity to look down on her and try to assert any power.
"Yes the greater good. You understand - " Dumbledore said before getting interrupted by a very angry Amelia Bones.
"Greater good my arse. The boy is safe and where he belongs. You will not disrespect Lily and James Potter's will anymore then you already have. Now I have work to do so this discussion is over" Amelia practically shouted walking to the door and opening it for Albus who after trying to calm Amelia down to no avail finally left.
After calming down by doing several hours of paperwork Amelia left her office and went to Andy's house to pick up her niece.
"Hi Amelia. What did Dumbledore want?" Andy asked once Amelia stepped out of the fireplace.
"Bloody greater good and that I have to tell him what happened to Harry" Amelia said as she walked over to the three youngsters playing in the living room where Nymphadora was changing her hair color and nose to the glee of the three giggling tykes.
"Hi Aunt Amelia! Guess what I did after lunch today. I worked on shielding my mind with mum!" Nymphadora told Amelia gaining the first smile out Amelia since her talk with Dumbledore.
"That's good sweetie, before long you will be a master" Amelia said smiling and picking up a giggling Susan and getting a great big smile out of Nymphadora.
"Are you going to bring Susan over tomorrow when you go to work?" Andy asked as Amelia was getting together some of Susan's stuff.
"If it is not too much trouble" Amelia said grateful her friend was so willing to help her with Susan. Amelia hadn't planned on having children, at least not until she settled down and got here career to calm down. Unfortunately that plan went even further down the drain when he fiancé was killed during the war. Susan was born days after her fiancé died and Amelia thought she would just have to spoil her rotten as a make-up for not having any children, but then Susan's parents had died as well and it left Amelia with a one year old girl. Amelia trusted her house elf but she also didn't want her niece raised by an elf, and she didn't want to give the elf even more work to do especially since her elf was pregnant as well. Andy had been the lifesaver to allow Amelia to be both a mom to Susan and keep her job which she loved.
"It's no problem at all. I was even thinking of seeing if Neville could come over as well." Andy said smiling and cleaning up some of the mess that the kids had made during the day.
"Four one year olds. I don't know how you do it" Amelia said laughing.
"Well it's nice to see them happy. Although I might need to invest in a couple more cribs." Andy said thinking of how she would arrange four one year olds down for a nap with only two cribs.
"Well I had one for Susan and she had one at my brother's house, so I can bring one over tomorrow when I drop Susan off" Amelia said bouncing the little girl up into the air and making her squeal with joy.
Later that as Andy was feeding the two boys their dinner with the help of Nymphadora, since Ted was working late, Dudley looked up at Andy with a sad look and in a questioning voice asked "ere ma? da?" which almost broke Andy's heart. She knew Harry would have a hard time but since he often spent a few days at a time at the Tonk's house he didn't really know anything was different.
Andy picked up Dudley and started rocking him as the boy started crying. Andy knew that no words were needed to tell Dudley where his parents were, at least not at the time, because the young boy seemed to know they weren't coming back. As she rocked him back and forth and whispered soothing words to the boy, he ended up crying himself to sleep. Holding him a bit longer, Andy walked up the room the boy's were sharing and put Dudley in what was now his crib.
When Andy had gotten back down stairs she saw a clean Harry being cuddled by Ted as Ted watched the evening news.
"How was your day?" Andy asked sitting down besides her husband.
"There was a lot of paperwork to fill out after the accident last night and a robbery at a local store. The robbery looked to have been a magical one so it was transferred over to the Aurors. How was your day? Did you get everything sorted out with Amelia?"
"Dudley is officially ours. Dumbledore tried to get Amelia to tell him where Harry was though" Andy said resting her head on her husband's shoulder.
"Do you think the wards will be strong enough or should we go under Fidelius as well?" Ted asked his wife.
"I don't know and I haven't really thought about it before, but that might be a good idea. Perhaps we should do that, I will talk to Amelia about it tomorrow, if we do I would want her to be secret keeper." Andy told her husband.
"Same here" Ted said before moving to bring Harry up to his room as he had fallen asleep in his arms. When he came back downstairs he saw Andy had put out some food for him and he sat at the table where his daughter was coloring, while Andy was tidying up the kitchen.
After eating and putting their daughter to bed, the Andy and Ted got ready for bed themselves, both wanting to go to bed early after the tiring day and knowing there was a good chance one or both of the young boys would need them during the night.
Just as they turned off the light they heard Harry start to scream. They both got up and rushed to the boys room, thankful the noise hadn't woken up Dudley, Andy went to Harry's crib where they heard him yelling "Noooo ma, ma! bah man bah man!"
Andy woke the sobbing Harry up as she tried to sooth his crying and brought him to the living room with Andy trailing behind her. "Do you think he was dreaming about what happened?" Ted asked his wife is a quiet almost scared voice.
Andy just nodded her head yes as she continued to calm the crying boy. After finally rocking him back to sleep she put him back to bed and went to her own bed where Ted had gone after Andy headed to put Harry to bed.
"The poor boy" Andy said as she sat heavily onto the bed. Ted agreed with his wife but was thinking how Harry hadn't done any magic when he was crying.
"Andy, I think we should bring the boys to the doctors tomorrow."
"You are right, after what Harry went through he should be checked up. I will make an appointment first thing." Andy said.
"Not only that but Harry didn't do any accidental magic when he had his nightmare" Ted said reminding Andy of all the previous times Harry had done magic, even in his sleep if he was afraid.
"Something isn't right" Andy said scared that Voldomort or Dumbledore did something to the boy.
"There is not much we can do tonight, but I will call in and take a personal day tomorrow and we can bring the boy's to the doctor's and maybe then we can go out to the park or something." Ted said before kissing Andy goodnight for the second time and going to sleep.