Country Road
Summary: Learning that she wasn't a Potter by blood won't have happened if she had taken Divination. And in the end, Harry ended finding more than her biological family. FemHarry-is-FemTsuna.
Just a warning: FemHarry, FemHarry-is-FemTsuna, AU, Good!Dumbledore, RainFlames!Neville, LightningFlames!Hermione, CloudFlames!Luna, MistFlames!Twins, StormFlames!Sirius, SunFlames!Unknown (Guess! XD)
I don't own Harry Potter and KHR, J.K Rowling and Amano Akira does!
Chapter Two
Remus observed from his corner on the Hospital Wing as Sirius was checked over by Poppy. The Animagus was talking to Dumbledore and the werewolf couldn't even remember the last time he saw the man so relaxed and happy.
The trio either didn't notice his presence or they were simply pretending and decided to ignore him. As much as he wished he could join them, Remus knew that Sirius' reaction to him wouldn't be favorable. There was a reason to why Sirius had been called the 'Ongoing Storm' while they were at school.
Sirius had a temper and since Remus had turned his back on him and left him to root in Azkaban without even trying to get the man a trial, there was no doubt in the werewolf's mind that Sirius would lash out if he Remus acted too friendly with him. It would take a long time before he calmed down…
Actually, only after Lily and James introduced Harry to them that Sirius' temper finally stopped being so volatile. James sometimes said that it was like his daughter was a anchor that kept the Black wizard calm and grounded.
Speaking of Harry…
He also didn't have the opportunity to sit down and talk to her as a friend of her parents. She always found a way to not be alone with him. The girl, he heard from several teachers and even the ghosts and portraits, had a six sense to danger. To her, he was an unknown; she distrusted him and preferred to stay far away from him as much as she could until there was a chance to see if he was threat to her friends' safety and those on the castle. Severus took pleasure on this, knowing how much it hurt the werewolf to see that his cub feared him.
Harry was a mystery to him.
After he gave up in trying to talk to her when not in class, Remus noticed several things about the green eyed girl.
For one, she didn't smell like Lily and James. All children smelled like a mix of their parents, this was a basic knowledge that all werewolves knew. The smell of the parents never left the child, even if they died or left for a long time.
Also, her personality and appearance were nothing like either of her parents. Harry didn't have anything of James' arrogance nor did she have Lily's fiery temper and quietness. Ok – Harry was as curious as James and had Lily's intelligence, but she didn't judge others by the color of their robes like her father had done some times in their school years. And although she was kind like Lily, she wasn't as unforgiving as the red head who could hold a grudge like anyone else.
Harry looked Asian when neither James nor Lily had a single drop of Japanese blood in their veins. Her hair wasn't raven black but a very dark shade of brown, and her eyes were greener than Lily; the red head's eyes had small brown flecks on it. Harry's hair wasn't straight like Lily's or a rat nest as James', it was was actually wavy and a little spiky in certain parts.
He lowered his eyes, his mind racing over all the facts that he had collected and connecting invisible dots.
What if Harry wasn't James and Lily's biological daughter?
Hadn't Sirius and James been attacked by Severus in their fifth year? And hadn't James gotten depressed that same year because – What were his words? Ah, yes – because he would never be able to give Lily the family she deserved. At first, Remus had always thought that James meant that he wasn't mature enough or that he was afraid to one day get serious with Lily and get married…
But maybe…
Maybe he had been depressed because the attack had made James sterile.
The werewolf almost face palmed and groaned at his stupidity.
He had been so angry and jealous because Lily and James rarely, if ever, let him near Harry, while they were more than happy to hand her over to Sirius or even Peter (Although that stopped when the couple noticed how the child completely hated Peter and always cried when she saw him).
They hadn't done so because he was a werewolf, as he had thought. They had done so because they knew he would notice she wasn't their daughter since she didn't smell like them.
Remus wondered if they ever told anyone?
Did – Did Harry even know?
"– in? Mr. Lupin? Remus Lupin!"
He shook his head as he was snapped out of his thoughts by Minerva. The older Professor looked at him sternly and he blushed a little, feeling like he was a student once more and had been caught pranking a Slytherin with the others.
"Yes Professor?" He gave her a week grin.
The older woman narrowed her eyes a little. She stayed in silence for a second, probably wondering if she should repeat whatever she had said before. In the end, Minerva sighed. She knew Remus Lupin very well, he had always been one of her favorite lions after all, so there was no doubt in her mind that if she asked – demanded – to know why he had been staring at a wall for the last ten minutes, he wouldn't answer.
"I will be leaving with Miss Potter and her little group to Japan for Christmas," Sirius' head snapped in their direction, but they didn't notice. "so I would like to know if you could take care of some of my duties while I am away? If not, Mr. Lupin, I can ask Sinistra."
Remus shook his head, "Of course I don't, Professor. But if you don't mind, can I know why Harry is going to Japan?"
Before the woman could answer, Sirius spoke,
"She decided to go to Japan? Why would she do such thing?"
Professor Dumbledore smiled gently. "You know why, Sirius."
It took only a second for him to understand. The dog Animagus held back a sneer.
"What happened with waiting until she was older, huh?"
Dumbledore raised both of his hands in surrender.
They all tensed, recognizing the look on Sirius' face and the way his hands gained a faint red glow. The last male Black may have retained his sanity and may not have been broken beyond repair in Azkaban, but thirteen years in that place clearly left the man filled with emotional scars. He was in a frail state at the moment and no one would blame him if he lashed out for the smallest things or if he had mood swings.
"I had to tell her, especially after she summoned the spirit of one of her ancestors in Divination." Dumbledore said.
Having heard the rumor about his cub being a necromancer, Remus found himself gaping in disbelief at the proof that at least part of the rumor was wasn't too far fetched. He, however, couldn't understand what summoning spirits had to do with Divination. Remus had taken Muggle Studies and Ancient Runes a his electives when he had still been school. Thankfully.
Minerva made a face at the mention of Divination while Sirius blinked several times, processing what the Headmaster just heard.
"Are you serious?" He asked.
Apparently, while Remus had no idea of what Dumbledore was talking about, his old friend knew.
Dumbledore's eyes were twinkling in amusement. "No my boy, you're Sirius."
The Black snort before he started crackling.
When he calmed, Sirius sighed, "I remember little Emilié Sanders being able to summon her Grandfather when we were in Fourth Year. The poor Hufflepuff almost had a panic attack. He had been a Squib and wanted her to claim his family fortune and title. It was either her or her cousin Daniel..."
Remus blinked.
If he wasn't wrong, Emilié had come back to school after Christmas with the surname Bones, no one had ever said why, but Sirius' words explained what happened.
"Ah, little Miss Sanders." Dumbledore smiled sadly. "She and her husband died two years after the end of the war. Susan, their daughter, is being raised by Miss Sanders' little sister Amelia."
Sirius winced at the name.
There was a story there.
The Black took a deep breath. "So she is going to Japan to look for them because, apparently, a noisy ghost said so."
Dumbledore hummed.
Sirius huffed. "I am going too then."
"You will not, my boy."
"Absolutely not, Mr Black!"
"Sirius!"
He glared, growling a little. "My Goddaughter will not be going there alone!"
Before Minerva or Dumbledore could to speak, Remus cleared his throat, making the trio to look at him,
"Why exactly Harry would be going to Japan? None of you explained the situation."
Sirius looked like he wanted to make a snarky comment but Dumbledore didn't give him time to.
"I think you already know my boy." Remus avoided those blue eyes but nodded. The Headmaster smiled a little. "We can talk about it later. However," he turned his attention to Sirius who was glaring at nothing in particular. "Sirius, Minerva will be going with Miss Potter and her friends to Japan. You, my boy, will be going to a mind healer."
Remus saw his old friend's furious expression but one stern look from Dumbledore was enough to keep him quiet.
"This is not up to discussion. If you want Miss Potter' guardianship as James and Lily had wanted, then you will see the Healer." Sirius huffed but nodded a little in acceptance.
He was far from happy though.
Remus watched them in silence. Minerva started explain how and when the trip would happen, Dumbledore adding a few things here and there. Soon enough, Poppy walked in to inform Sirius about everything he needed to know about the Mind Healer.
The werewolf took a deep breath, turning his attention to the window. Leaning forward a little, he saw Harry and two of her friends following Hagrid.
He hoped that now that Sirius was here, Remus thought a little wishful, he will be able to get to know his cub.
00
Harry walked beside Hagrid, smiling fondly at the half-giant as he spoke about Buckpeack the Hippogriff.
The poor creature had to be relocate to a more isolated part of the Forbidden Forest after Draco Malfoy got himself killed by insulting the proud beast. Thankfully, Hermione was there to save him and Poppy made it clear to the whole school, after the boy spread around that he had broken his arm at the attack, that Malfoy was fine and uninjured.
Good thing Poppy said those things and showed proof because Malfoy Senior had wanted to execute Buckpeak.
"He is all fine now!" Hagrid smiled widely.
"That is good," Hermione said. "it is even better that Malfoy won't be returning to your class."
Harry let out a long suffering sigh.
"He is taking Arithmancy now."
Luna patted her shoulder. "There, there."
Hagrid turned to Harry. "Are you going to stay for Christmas, Harry?"
She shook her head. "Not this time, no."
Normally, she would stay, even if her friends invited her to go home with them since she didn't want to impose on them (Christmas was a time for family after all). But this time, she would be going to Japan with her friends to find her biological parents.
All though she wasn't all that comfortable with the possibility of meeting them, she was really looking forward to the trip itself. Her relatives had never taken her with them when decided to travel, so that would be the first time she left the country.
"I will make sure to send a great present to you." She promised.
Hagrid laughed while Hermione and Luna said they would do the same. The Half-Giant bid them goodbye and walked away to see how Buckbeak was doing at the moment.
"Hey, Harrykins!"
Harry tuned to see Fred walking in her direction, waving a pamphlet in the air.
"You need to see this."
Grabbing the pamphlet, she looked around for George. It was really strange to see the twins separated.
Turning her attention to the pamphlet, she raised an eyebrow.
"Dueling Championship for Kids." Hermione read out loud, looking over her shoulder along Luna. "Accepting youngsters from thirteen to seventeen years old."
Luna tilted her head.
"It is in Japan this year." She pointed at the bottom of the paper.
"That is not important. Look at the prizes!" Fred exclaimed. "First place will get 6000 G plus a mystery egg." He wiggled his fingers.
Harry snorted in amusement along Hermione.
"What is that?" The bookworm muttered. "Pokemon?"
Harry looked closer, narrowing her eyes at the picture of the egg.
"You want to participate?" Hermione asked.
He nodded. "I was thinking that, maybe, we could all participate. More chances of winning!"
Harry chocked making them look at her with wide eyes.
"That – That is a Occamy egg." The green eyed girl said, her voice holding a hint of disbelief. "Are they stupid? 6000 G plus a Occamy eeg? Just the egg can give you a small fortune."
Luna, the expert in magical creatures of their group, nodded. "Occamy's eggs are made of pure and soft silver. It is very valuable and rare because the Occamy are very zealous and protective of their eggs." She said. "I wonder how they got one."
Harry looked a little disturbed, "I don't want to know." She shook her head, deciding to change the subject of their talk. "Where is George anyway?"
Fred blinked before scratching the back of his head. Hermione muttered something like So that's Fred while Luna took the pamphlet from her hands so she could get a better look.
"He is with Neville in one of the Greenhouses." He said, "Nev wanted help with something."
Harry nodded.
The group talked a little more. They walked around the grounds until dinner where Professor McGonagall called them for a moment to talk about their trip. They would be leaving before all the students left the castle the next day.
Harry almost couldn't sleep at night. She was too nervous and kept moving in her bed. Thankfully she did fall sleep at some point that night and woke up early in the morning, before even Hermione. She packed her truck and changed her clothes and immediately took the familiar path to the Owlery to visit Hedwig. She stayed with her owl for half an hour before visiting the kitchens to grab a sandwich and then walked to the Hospital Wing. She wanted to talk to Sirius before leaving to Japan.
The man was laying awake in his bed, looking bored out of his mind as he flipped the pages of the newest edition of the Daily Prophet.
Harry stood awkwardly before clearing her throat and calling his attention to her.
Her Godfather jumped before his head snapped in his direction. She had never seen someone look so happy to see her. It was a little strange but still made her smile a little.
"Hullo." She shifted her weight from one foot to another.
Sirius smiled widely, "Harry! You came!" He moved to free a chair for her, throwing the magazines and candy warping aside. "Come on – Sit!"
She sat next to his bed. They shared a look. Harry almost grimaced at how awkward this whole situation was. She should have thought about something to say before coming to see Sirius.
Thankfully, the Animagus broke the silence between them,
"I hope you are alright," Seeing the look in her face, he elaborated, "About your parents, I mean. Lily and James wanted to wait before telling you about it…But well…"
"Professor Dumbledore explained everything to me…" She said, looking down at her hands. "I am not alright with it. But I think that it is better for me to learn the truth now rather than later. I don't know how I would have reacted."
Sirius took a deep breath and looked up at the ceiling with a thoughtful expression,
"Will you," He hesitated, "Will you move in with your biological parents after you find them?" Harry looked at him with wide eyes but he didn't notice. "You don't even know me… So if you want to live with them, I will understand. They are your blood family."
She shook her head, "And that doesn't mean anything! Until now, Aunt Petunia and Dudley were related to me by blood but that still didn't mean I loved them nor did it mean that they loved me. They were just – Just there." Harry huffed. She didn't know how to voice her thoughts properly.
Sirius smiled gently, his eyes filled with understanding although Harry thought she saw something else there. Something that she really didn't like.
He reached out and ruffled her head, "I get it, kiddo. I was like that with my Monster of a Mother and Ice Sculpture of a Father."
Harry relaxed.
"I will be waiting for you to come back from this trip then." Sirius said with a smile. "We can get to know each other again and then, if you want, we can go house hunting."
Harry smiled back. "I would like that."
00
Namimori Town was… It was boring.
Her birthplace wasn't as bad as Privet Drive but the muggle town made Harry and her friends who were magical-raised to twitch in annoyance. The moment Harry saw it, she wished to have been born in Tokyo or any other town/city in this country because Namimori was so normal and unassuming that it pained her.
She already missed Hogwarts.
Harry sighed as she followed Professor McGonagall inside their hotel room. It was really luxurious and looked like a apartment but she just couldn't feel comfortable inside it. She also had no intention of learning how much Professor Dumbledore paid for their stay in the most expensive Hotel of Namimori.
With a promise that they won't go out, Professor McGonagall left them in the hotel to look for information about her biological parents or at least talk with people who could find this information. Harry was betting on the latter along with a not so unexpectedly help from the Goblins. They were really good in finding blackmail material and long lost relatives.
They waited all day for the Transfiguration Professor to come back. Hermione started her homework while Neville took a nap, Luna buried her face in own of her father's magazines and Harry played Mario Kart with Fred and George.
They had just called for the room service (Thank you Merlin, Harry wasn't afraid of trying knew things even though eating uncooked fish sounded really disgusting and unhealthy) and were almost finished eating when Professor McGonagall came back looking exhausted but satisfied with whatever information she found.
The older witch took a sit beside Harry, grabbing a fork to eat some salmon (She didn't even try to use the Hashi). She handed a file to Harry who took it hesitantly and almost fearfully.
"There was only one couple who had a child born on July 31 of 1993 and whose child disappeared weeks later." Harry listened, leaving her dumplings aside at the moment to see what was inside the file. "The husband works in Italy while the wife still lives here in Namimori."
Professor McGonagall narrowed her eyes. She looked disgusted.
"Sawada Iemitsu has not visited his wife since his child disappeared from her room. Almost fourteen years and there not even a single visit." She pursued her lips. "Sawada Nana acts like your typical house wife and acts as if she never lost her child. Most of her neighbors find her to be absent minded and not all there. She makes them feel uncomfortable so to speak."
Harry looked at the pictures in the file. Her Japanese blood come from as well as her hair and skin color but the green eyes seemed to come from Iemitsu' side of the family. There was nothing else. She didn't have Nana's nose or the shape of Iemitsu's eyes. None of them had a heart shaped face nor did they have high cheekbones.
This...
Harry relaxed. She felt like a weight had been lifted from her shoulders.
She was her own person. She didn't look like the daughter of those strangers. She could actually pass for a distant relative and nothing else.
She actually looked more similar to James and Lily.
Harry almost cried at this.
"We can see Nana tomorrow if you wish, Miss Potter."
Potter. She was still a Potter no matter what happened from now on.
"Ok." Harry nodded.
Hermione patted her shoulder. "We are here for you, Harry."
The others nodded, Professor McGonagall smiling at their loyalty.
Harry smiled. "Thank you guys."
She could do this.
00
"I can't do this." Harry turned away only to have her arms caught by Fred and George.
"We are already here –" Fred said.
George nodded, "– there is no going back now."
Harry glared as she was shoved in front of the door of Sawada Nana's house. Hermione knocked on the door. Professor McGonagall wasn't there with them. Harry had asked for her to stay in the hotel but the green eyed girl was really regretting her decision. Maybe this would be easier if the stern witch was there.
She was pondering if knocking her friends out and run away would be better when the door opened to reveal a thirty something year old Japanese woman with short brown hair and wide brown eyes.
Harry immediately recognized Sawada Nana from the picture she saw on the file.
But…
There is something really wrong with this woman, she thought with narrowed eyes. Harry shared a look with Luna who was frowning, looking extremely bothered about something.
"Good Afternoon, Madam." Neville said politely. No hint of accent in his voice because of the use of the Translation Charm Professor McGonagall placed on them. "Are you Sawada Nana?"
Nana smiled and tilted her head, "Yes, dear. How can I help you?"
Harry didn't pay attention to what was going on, her eyes were focused on the a wall inside the house and one of the pictures hanging there.
If she concentrated enough, the picture of three individuals changed to one.
"What the…" She muttered.
Luna grabbed her hand with a horrified expression.
"We wanted to talk about your daughter." Neville tried to be as gentle as possible, but there was no other way to say it.
Instead of looking sad or any other form of negative emotion, Nana merely blinked and smiled.
"Ara? Did something happen at school?" She asked, placing a hand over her cheek. "Tsuna-chan is such a good girl. There was never a problem before."
Hermione, the twins and Neville looked at her weirdly. Harry and Luna were the only ones to see how her eyes seemed unfocused for a moment and that was just because they were already expecting to see something strange to happen.
Harry moved before any of them knew what was happening.
"Stupefy."
"Harry!" Hermione screeched. Harry shot her a look that immediately silenced the bushy haired girl. Looking around carefully, she pushed Hermione inside the house, being followed by Luna and Neville as well as the twins who caught Nana before the woman fell against the floor.
Luna closed the door behind them. Harry walked to the wall where she saw the picture, Hermione following her. The twins and Neville laid Nana in the couch and didn't waste time to join them.
"Harry you can't use magic out of school! You will be expelled!" Hermione fumed.
Harry didn't even blink as she look from one picture to another.
"I won't. The trace on our wands is a European one. We are in Asia right now so it doesn't work." She held out a finger. They waited. And waited. "See? No letter."
Hermione shook her head, "You can't go around using magic on muggles!" Harry grabbed her arm and brought Hermione close to the wall. "Harry, are you liste –"
"Look. Look!"
Hermione glared at her friend but did so. She folded her arms, staring at the picture, "I see nothing –"
She stopped, gaping when she saw the picture change. One moment, it was possible to see Nana and her husband along a young girl who looked remarkably like the Japanese woman but smiled like Iemitsu and had his eyes. The next moment, only Nana was in the picture.
The bushy haired girl blinked her eyes and it was back to normal.
"Wow, what was that?" Fred asked, blinking his eyes to check if what he saw was right. "It changed again!"
"Notice-Me-Not Charm? Confundus Charm?" George muttered, "I only saw it after Harry said to look at it. If it wasn't that, I would have just overlooked this picture."
Neville looked around them with growing horror, "It isn't just this picture. It is all of them."
"It is a Illusion…" Luna said quietly.
Harry looked around the house, her mind drifting back to Professor McGonagall's words.
"Sawada Nana acts like your typical house wife and acts as if she never lost her child. Most of her neighbors find her to be absent minded and not all there."
Turning around, she stared at the unconscious form of her biological mother – the woman was also being affected by those Illusions and who, more likely than not, have been living in a lie for almost fourteen years.
"What is going on here?" Harry asked, not expecting a answer.
They had been in this country for only a day and a half and she had already found herself in some kind of trouble.
Why? Why it was always her?
Hope you liked it and please, don't forget to:
Review, Favorite or Follow and if you have questions/suggestions, just send me a PM.
-Cissnei.