Author's Note- Thanks to everyone for the reviews and all the alerts. Here's the next chapter I'm not particularly happy with it because it's so much like the book but it's needed because it's a vital point for the kids to know about why they are famous. So I hope you enjoy and remember just need to get Harry off to Hogwarts and then the real interesting stuff happens.

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Chapter 4 – Keeper of the Keys

Another loud bang sounded through the small shack causing Dudley to wake up and yelp loudly and he jumped off the couch and ran to a corner of the room. Harry quickly stood up and grabbed Korrine by the arm pulling her up as well and putting her behind in backing away from the door.

Vernon came down the rickety stairs with a shotgun obviously what was in the thin package earlier. Petunia came down the stairs as well hovering behind him. "Who's there! I'm warning you I'm armed!" Vernon yelled at the door his hands trembling slightly.

There was another loud bang and the door fell down onto the ground hinges and all. Kori's eyes widened as the thunder illuminated the person that took up allof the doorway. He was the tallest and biggest person she had ever seen. "Woah…" she said in awe of the man and Harry just nodded and moved himself and Kori a step backwards away from the man.

The giant walked into the shack, "Sorry about that." He said and easily lifted the door back up and set it into the door frame blocking out the rain. "Ah Harry! Korrine! You've gotten so big yeh have. Last time I saw yeh you was only babies." He said to the two Potters with a big smile hidden mostly by his large wild beard. "Spittin' images of yer parents yeh are. Korrine you look just like your mum and Harry just like yer dad though you got Lily's eyes."

Kori and Harry shared a look of confusion as the large man talked to them obviously knowing who they were. Harry was about to ask how the man knew them when Vernon made a spluttering noise and started to wave the gun at the giant. "I… I demand you leave at once. You're breaking and entering!" Vernon said not moving from his spot on the stairs.

"Ah shut up Dursely, yeh great prune." The giant said and reached for Vernon's gun he took it and easily tied it into a knot and handed it back to the man. Everyone's eyes in the room were wide as the man did so. He sat down on the couch causing it to sink down a little. The man turned to look at Harry and Korrine. "Anyway Harry a happy birthday to yeh. Got summat fer yah." He said and reached into his over sized jacket and pulled out a small package. "Mighta sat on it at some point, but I imagine it'll taste the same." He said and handed Harry the package.

Harry cautiously took the package from the man and opened it while Kori looked over his shoulder and said it was a cake with pink frosting and in green words spelled out 'Happy Birthday Harry.' Harry was completely stunned into silence he had never before ever received anything for his birthday except for a card made by Kori he was shocked. "I uh… thank you." He said with a smile to the giant man. "But uh who are you?" Harry asked curiously and set the open cake box on the old coffee table by the couch.

"Sorry haven't introduced me self yet. I'm Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts." He said and stuck his hand out to shake Harry's and Harry took it and it felt like his arm was being pulled out of its socket. "And nice to see yeh again as well Korrine." Hagrid said and shook her hand as well causing her whole are to move with the shake.

"Now how bout some tea eh?" Hagrid said and pointed the umbrella he had at the dying fire, a few sparks shot out the tip of the umbrella into the fireplace and the fire roared to life again.

"Ho-how did you do that?" Kori asked in barely above a whisper.

"Magic o course." Hagrid said with a light chuckle as he took out numerous things from his jacket and began cooking.

"Magic?" Both Kori and Harry chorused together confused.

"Yup good ole' magic you'll be learning how do it at Hogwarts, o course you both know all about Hogwarts." Hagrid said and handed both Kori and Harry a small plate full of sausages which they began to eat. Dudley let out a whimper as the room became filled with the smell of the food but Vernon snapped at him telling him not to eat anything that man had.

"Sorry Mr. Hagrid we do-don't know about Hogwarts… what is it?" Korrine said sheepishly as she took a bite of one of the sausages.

"Call me Hagrid everyone does" he said and then looked shocked as Korrine said they didn't know about Hogwarts.

"Sorry." Kori added noticing the shock on Hagrid's face, by the way the man was acting she was obviously suppose to know about it. She racked her brain trying to think if they'd gone over in school or not.

"Sorry?" Hagrid barked loudly and stood up and turned to face the Dursley's. Causing Kori to jump at his booming voice cower and hide behind Harry thinking she'd made him mad. While Petunia and Dudley tried to hide behind Vernon. "It's them that should be sorry not you! I knew yeh weren't getting yer letters Harry but I never thought yeh wouldn't even know about Hogwarts fer cryin' out loud! Did yeh never wonder where your mum and dad learned it all?" Hagrid said his tone going back to it's normal volume as he talked to Harry.

"All what?" Harry asked confused.

"ALL WHAT?" Hagrid boomed again anger clearly evident in his voice and eyes. "Now wait jus' one second." He said turning to face the Dursley's again. "You mean to ter tell me that these kids knows nothing about ANYTHING?" he questions loudly.

"Hey we some things, we can do math and stuff." Harry said defending himself and Kori.

Hagrid turned back to Harry and Korrine. About our world. I mean your world, my world, your parents world.

"What world?" Korrine asked completely confused by the whole entire situation involving the man before her. He seemed nice enough although scary when angered and he kept going on and on about Hogwarts and things she didn't know but he had yet to explain them. She wanted to know what Hogwarts was and the world he was talking about.

"DURSLEY!" He roared outraged to Vernon who let out a squeak and was becoming increasingly pale. Hagrid was beyond shock he had no idea that neither Potter child had no idea of magic or the wizarding world he was beginning to feel in over his head but decided he'd try and explain as best her could.

"Surely yeh must know about your mum and dad. I mean there famous. You're famous!" he said hoping the two children at least knew that much, but from the puzzled looks on their faces he guessed they didn't know.

"Wha-what do you mean are parents were famous? They weren't whe-where they? But we aren't famous either." Kori said to Hagrid.

Hagrid was way in over his head and began to mutter to himself. "Yeh don' know… yeh don' know." He ran one of his large hands through his tangled hair then turned back to the two confused kids. "Yeh don't know what yeh are?"

Vernon finally seemed to find his voice and some courage. "Stop! Stop right there, sir! I forbid you to tell them anything!" he snapped.

Hagrid gave him a furious look his dark eyes glaring angrily at the man before him. "You never told them? Never told them what was in the letter Dumbledore left for them? I was there! I saw Dumbledore leave it Dursley! An' you've kept it from them all these years?" Harry growled out.

"Keep what from us?" Harry asked hoping to finally get some answers.

"STOP! I FORBID YOU!" Vernon yelled in panic and Petunia let out a gasp of horror.

Hagrid made a comment at the pair before looking at Kori and Harry. "Harry yer a wizard!" he said then turned to Korrine. "and you Korrine are a witch. Both of yeh probably very good ones once you've been trained up a bit." Hagrid sat to them as he sat back down on the couch.

Silence filled the small shack after Hagrid's declaration. Kori's eyes were wide and she turned to look at her brother who was just as shocked. "I'm a what?" They both asked at the same time.

"A witch and a wizard." Hagrid said again.

"Tha-that's impossible magic can't be real… can it?" Kori said softly. A large part of her wanted badly to believe Hagrid to believe magic was real and there was more out there than what she thought possible but other part that had been beaten for believing in such 'nonsense' as her uncle put it was making her hesitant to believe it.

"It's real alright… have you ever done anything on accident when your angry or scared?" he asked them and Harry though of the glass disappearing at the zoo and somehow ending up on the roof of the school while Kori thought of the window's breaking in the classroom when she was being picked on and Susie Sanders hair turning pink.

Hagrid smiled knowingly at them. "Harry I think it's time yeh read your letter." He said and reached into his overcoat and pulled out the letter.

Harry with a slightly shaking hand to the letter, opened it and began to read with Kori reading over his shoulder.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

Dear Mr. Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find the enclosed list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Your sincerely,

Minvera McGongall

Deputy Headmistress

"They await my owl?" was the first thing Harry said after reading the letter.

"Oh that reminds me." Hagrid said and shuffled through his coat and pulled out a rather ruffled looking owl. He quickly wrote a message to Dumbledore saying Harry got his letter and he'd be taking him to get his school supplies the next day and sent it off into the storm

"He will not be going!" Vernon said and stamped his foot down on the ground like a small child.

"Oh and I suppose a great muggle like you is gonna stop him." Hagrid said looking mildly amused.

"A muggle?" Kori asked him.

"Oh uh none magical folk." Hagrid replied. "And it's your bad luck you grew up in a family o' the biggest muggles I ever laid eyes on." He added.

"He's not going when we took them in we swore we'd put an end to this nonsense. We swore we'd stamp it out of them, Wizard indeed."

"You knew?" Harry asked loudly outraged that they had known the whole time." You knew I was a… a wizard and Korrine was a witch. You knew this whole time."

"Of course we knew!" Petunia said and started walking down the stairs, "We knew you'd both be just as strange and abnormal as your mother was. When Lily got her Hogwarts letter my parents were so proud. We had a witch in the family. But I knew what she really was she was a freak! And then she met your father and went and got herself blown up and we got landed with you two!" Petunia ranted.

"Blown up? You said they died in a car crash!" Harry yelled.

"A CAR CRASH?" Hagrid yelled loudly. "A car crash kill Lily and James Potter impossible it's an outrage! It's a scandal! Harry and Korrine Potter not knowin' their own story when every child in our knows their names.

"What happened to them? Our parents?" Kori asked Hagrid.

Hagrid's anger left him and he suddenly looked anxious he didn't want to be the one to tell them the story. "I knew there would be some problems getting' a hold of yeh but I never suspected this. And to be perfectly honest I don' think I'm the best person to be tellin' yeh what happened." Hagrid ranted to them. "But you can't go off to Hogwarts without knownin'. A very dark and very powerful wizard by the name… gah I can't say it…" he started.

"Please Hagrid." Korrine said softly wanting to know the truth about her parents.

"Oh alright his name was … Voldemort. There I said it once don't make me say it again, please are still afraid to utter his name. Anyway this wizard about 20 years ago started lookin' fer followers. Got 'em to some were afraid, some just wanted a bit o' his power. And he was powerful alright let me tell yeh dark days they were. He was taking over. Anyone that stood up to him wound up dead. One of the safest places was Hogwarts. Reckon Dumbledore is the only person you-know-who was afraid of. Anyway all anyone knows is that he turned up in the village where you was all living, on Halloween 10 years ago. He came into the house an.. an…" He said and suddenly pulled out a large handkerchief and loudly blew his nose before continuing. "You-know-who killed them and then an' this is the real mystery of it all he tried to kill you both as well. Wanted to make a clean job of it but he could do it. You wonder about those scars you've got those are no ordinary scars that what you get when a powerful evil touchs yeh. He took care of yer mum and dad and even the house but he couldn't take out two small children and that's why your both famous you survived the killing curse." Hagrid finished. "Took yeh both from the rumble of the house myself I did and brought you here to live with this lot."

After Hagrid finished his story Vernon said it was rubbish and that he wouldn't pay for Harry to be taught by some old fool. Which resulted in a heated argument between Hagrid and Vernon,iIn the end it was decided that Harry would go to Hogwarts and the 3 Dursley's retreated up the stairs for the rest of the night.

"Well Harry I'll be takin' yeh to get your things for school tomorrow. Best get a good nights sleep busy day tomorrow." Hagrid said and was getting ready to sleep on the couch.

"Hagrid can Kori come to? To Hogwarts I mean if she's a witch she should get to come to Hogwarts too." Harry said.

"Uh I'm 'fraid not Harry Korrine is still to young to attend Hogwarts at the moment when she turns 11 she will be able to go but not until then." Hagrid explained.

Harry face became set in determination. "I'm not leaving without Korrine." He said to Hagrid leaving the man flabbergasted.

"Harry don't be a fool!" Korrine said and touched her brother on the shoulder, "Th-this is our chance out you have to take and it will only be a year and we can see each other on the hol-holidays. Then next year I'll be with you. You have to go Harry James Potter and no is-isn't an option." She said sternly to her brother.

Harry sighed he was torn between wanting to protect his sister like he promised and having a chance at something amazing. He knew he wouldn't be able to change his sister's mind and he figured he could learn magic and during the summer he'd be able to help him and Kori by using it, unaware he wasn't allowed to do magic outside of school. "Alright." He said softly and turned to Hagrid. "I'll go… but can Kori come with us to get my supplies?" he asked.

Hagrid nodded, "Well I suppose that'd be fine." He said. "Now get to sleep busy day ahead." He said.

Kori and Harry nodded both realizing how tired they really were and laid back down on the floor and quickly fell asleep.


Author's Note - Well i hope you enjoyed the next chapter will be Diagon Alley and i have some really interesting twists for it so please review.