AN 3/19/2017: More editing and grammar fixes.

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MP7 BOSS: As far as pairings go, I don't know if there will be any right now. Wait until Harry grows up a bit and we'll see. As to why Slender is being so caring rather then the usual aggressive nature. We have only seen/heard about his interactions with adults. We really don't know how he'd react to a child outside of kidnapping them, which again we do not know his reasoning for it nor any info about the children he kidnaps. For this story I'd like to show something more benevolent light towards children, especially abused children. He still will be the usual slender we all know and love towards adults and non proxy creatures.

dmc fanboy: God I needed your review honestly. You gave me some stuff to get past my writer's block for this chapter. Sadly to say Harry won't ever learn dark magics from the creepypastas, at least the ones that are not magically inclined already. That said, Harry WILL get some abilities from them but it will be with a more logical reason as to why and how he got them. If you read this chapter you may see where I'm going with it at the end.


John Dawlish has been known to be a fearless man and a very skilled Auror but as he sat on that bench waiting, he wondered what the real point of this was. The Potter kid was dead, he had to be. Whatever killed the boy's family and over ten muggles had to be as crazed as a werewolf but there had been no bodies left behind so there was a slight chance that maybe the boy was alive. Dumbledore wanted him here looking for the missing child. As if the kid could get back to the small town even if he lived anyway, other aurors had searched the forest and found nothing. John was currently disguised as a muggle and under a strong Disillusionment Charm so no one would pay him any mind as he watched and waited. He had been long ready to leave as he spotted a kid and a young man. The boy had black hair and wore a odd mix of black red and white. The young man wore all white and seemed normal as far as he could tell. John stared at them and he gained a look of surprise as he managed to catch sight of Harry Potter's famous lightning bolt scar on the boy's forehead.

John was glad he choose this bench to sit on while he was on watch for the kid. The bench let him just catch sight of the boy's scar. Dumbledore and the Minister were going to be so pleased with him after he grabs the kid and takes him to safety. He didn't know how the kid was still alive though or why that brown haired man was with him. John noticed the kid was holding something with his left hand while he held his ice cream with his right. 'There's nothing in his hand? Why is he holding it like that?' Dawlish wondered within his mind until he blinked and suddenly saw what the boy was holding onto. As first John thought it was a muggle but then he noticed how unbelievable tall it was. It was taller then Rubeus Hagrid and so much thinner. It's whole body was so slender that it frightened him. No dark wizard ever gave him such a sense of dread and sheer death as that human like creature did, not even the Dementors. As first John hoped he was seeing things but he blinked again and again and it was still there. John couldn't breath as the thing moved with such slowness that it didn't seem to be moving until John blinked again. It stared at him with an empty head, no face not a single thing on it's pure white head.

Never in John's life had he felt so much fear as the creature stared right into his soul and through it. John noticed a horrible sound start all around him that added onto the sheer fear that seemed to fill him. John Dawlish was a fearless man but in that moment he learned true fear and he did what any sane person would do. He disapparated as if the grim reaper itself was on his heels.

At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

John gasped as he reappeared at Hogwarts in Dumbledore's office. He made it just in time, Dumbledore was having a meeting with the school staff and the Minster Of Magic Cornelius Fudge. Everyone stopped talking as John apparated inside the office with a look of extreme panic and fear. "What is the meaning of this Auror Dawlish?" Fudge asked stiffly, looking annoyed at being interrupted "I-I found Harry Potter." John panted out. Minerva McGonagall looked relived by the news along with the rest of the teachers. All except Severus Snape who looked as though he didn't care whatsoever but there was a hidden glint of worry for Lily's child in his dark eyes. "Are you alright Auror Dawlish? What happened? Is Harry Ok?" McGonagall asked not noticing how Dumbledore's eyes twinkled at the news. John ran a hand through his hair. "F-fine but the boy.. Can I have a c-calming potion please?" Dawlish never stuttered but now he was. Dawlish kept looking around as if something was going to grab him at any moment. Madam Pomfrey looked worried but handed Dawlish one from her bag. The man downed it before siting down in an empty chair Professor McGonagall transfigured for him.

"The boy.. He's fine. I was siting in the muggle park I was assigned to when I saw him. He was dressed oddly in muggle clothes and he was with a young man who wore all white. He looked fine, no wounds that I could see and he even looked happy." John told them as Dumbledore frowned. "Why didn't you bring him here? He can only be safe if he is with us now." Dumbledore asked. John went pale again and looked around frightfully as he ran a hand through his hair. "I couldn't get him.. Some thing was with him.." Everyone looked worried and confused by that. "What thing Mr Dawlish?" Flitwick asked with a curious but wary look. "Merlin I have no idea what it was. It.. it was tall, taller then Rubeus Hagrid." Shocked looks echoed through the room by all but Snape. The Potions professor however paid full attention to the conversation now.

"It was slender, thinner then any man and so much taller then one. It wore a muggle suit but.. it's skin was white, chalk white. And it's head.. oh Merlin it had no face! It turned and looked at me, stared at me but it had no face or eyes!" Almost everyone in the room looked frightened by that. John held his face. "It.. made this horrible static sound.. like a broken muggle radio but so much louder.. It was so loud it hurt ." He forced himself to calm down with a few deep breathes. "It held the boy's hand, I didn't see it somehow at first like it was under powerful Disillusionment Charm. I saw the boy smiling at it and holding it's hand like it wasn't a monster. The creature made me leave before I could even stand." Fudge finally got his brains back together and huffed. "You are a trained Auror Dawlish you could have handled it but instead you ran like coward, you should be ashamed boy."

Snape glared at Fudge. "You have no idea what he was up against. He was smart to flee." Dumbledore looked over at Snape "Severus my boy, you know what creature was?" He glared at everyone else as they snapped their heads to him and stared. He released a deep sigh. "I know the creature. I've only seen it once before and that had been a horrible day."

It had been when he was a child with lily. Just a few months after they had grown to be friends and before they went to Hogwarts. Lily had just turned ten and they were playing the park they'd taken as their own. Lily was a bright girl, always able to see the best in others even as a child so young. Lily had taken to hanging around the forest behind her family's home and nor Snape or her sister knew why. Lily would always come back hours later with the flower of her namesake and she'd just smile when asked about it. "I made a friend Sev, it likes to live in the forest but maybe you'll meet it one day." She said as they sat on the swing set chatting together. They chatted for hours until it was growing dark. Lily was about to return home for dinner but before she could a muggle man came and grabbed her. Snape tried to protect her but it was a grown man and he pushed him causing the boy to fall and hit his head against the metal of the swing set. Severus had been knocked out by the hit but he woke up seconds later watching Lily struggling to get away from the sick muggle man.

She was going to be taken away and Snape could do nothing.

"I watched as Lily tried to fight against that sick muggle but she was only a young child. I couldn't move to help her, my body was frozen in fear and pain but then the creature came. The lights around the park flashed and popped, once the park was almost bathed in darkness. It appeared. Out of no where the very creature you described, appeared right in front of the man as he tried to carry Lily away. I could hear static so loud and.. angry. I couldn't see it's face but I saw Lily look unafraid at the sight of the creature." Snape remembered her look of happiness and how she went limp as if she didn't care what happened now that the creature was there. "A tendril shot from it's back and speared the muggle man through the shoulder causing the muggle to drop Lily. She ran to the creature and it grabbed her." Even Dumbledore looked shocked and nearly sickened at Snape's tale.

"It picked her up and.. cradled her. I saw her head hiding in it's shoulder. I remember hearing whispers from the shadows but I still to this day cannot figure out what was said. It moved within a blink and set Lily down next to me. I knew then that creature.. cared for Lily, the static died away and it seemed like it didn't want to let her go." A twitch of a smile hit Snape's lips. "But Lily, she started to fuss over me, I had a small head wound from hitting the swing set. I couldn't stop watching the creature and I watched it as it devoured that muggle whole. I heard it crush the muggle's bones."

Snape looked calm as he told the tale but everyone could see his hands shaking. He looked at Dumbledore and Fudge."It was the same friend Lily told me about, and if that is the same being protecting her child now. Her son is safer then if the boy was locked and hidden in Azkaban." Snape finished before he stood. He looked at Dumbledore with a glare. "Any attempts to remove Harry from the Slender Man will only end in death. I am sure of that." The Potions Professor then walked out of Dumbledore's office, leaving the stunned professors, the headmaster and the minister of magic behind.

Filius Flitwick bit his lip and look at the others. "I had heard stories and tales about the being called Slender Man. If what Snape says to be true and the Slender Man is around. We best hope we don't anger him." Minerva looked over at Filius. "What else did you hear about it."
Flitwick didn't enjoy all the stares that were suddenly on him. "From Professor Snape and Auror Dawlish's tales we have heard only faint details about the Slender Man's powers. It can for example teleport soundlessly and has the ability to become invisible at will." He licked his lips, looking nervous. "I've heard of this Slender Man before and it is said that it can grow to heights well taller then a normal person and can grow tendrils from it's body."

"Tendrils?" McGonagall questioned looking a bit sick as Flitwick nodded. "As many as it wants or needs at the time." Fudge looked annoyed and filled with disbelief. "How do we know if that dark creature is even real? Auror Dawlish could have been tricked by the remaining death eaters and Snape was only a boy. It could have all been a dream!" Fudge didn't like issues in his plans and he knew Dumbledore didn't either. Dumbledore however was a smart man and he knew when he was beaten, for now. "No Minister, I am afraid that creature is very likely real but perhaps we can communicate with it. Professor Flitwick can you find out where the Slender Man might live? It seems to be staying near where the Durley's lived so there must be a connection." Flitwick nodded "Of course I'll go looking right now."


It has been a week since Harry came to live in Slender Man's old mansion, and odd things has started to happen with Harry. It was small things at first. Like he was able to notice the Crawler a lot easier then before and he didn't feel as scared in the dark as he had. It was weird but Harry felt good. He is happy with Slender and Crawler and now Masky. Things only grew more odd though when he had woken up one morning with a creepy nude man-dog guy staring at him. The scream Harry made was by no means girly and didn't have everyone plus the cats running into his room. Harry couldn't stop staring back at the Rake as Harry had been told by Masky that the Rake was it's name.

"Remember Harry when I told you I'm a proxy for Slender?" Harry nodded at Masky while he kept staring back at the Rake. "Yeah you work for him, like an employee." Masky smiled and ruffled Harry's hair. "Good. The Rake is a proxy too, a very old proxy. He's been with Slender so long he turned into what he is now because of the Sigma Radiation that Slender gives off over time." Harry finally broke off the unofficial staring contest with the Rake to look at Masky with confusion. "Sigma Radiation?" Harry asked.

"Sigma Radiation is a type of radiation Slender Man and certain beings like him give off. For Slender is causes Slender Sickness and the partial creation of proxies. Slender Sickness drives people off the deep end when Slender follows them around. It as well starts changing them mentality and physically. Usually a normal person wouldn't be able to handle it unless Slender stayed near them all the time." Masky explained as The Rake just kept staring at Harry until Masky threw one of the burnt pancakes Slender had made earlier at the creature. It blinked, ate the burnt pancake and then went back to staring. "Often times it turns the person into a mutant that can handle and even use the radiation to live. The Rake has been with Slender for a 100 years, or at least to cause the mutation the level the Rake has." The Rake moved over and grabbed Harry's hand, staring even more intensely at him.

Harry looked kind of freaked out at the touch. "And why is he staring so much?" Masky shrugged. "I think it's because you like one of the fallen proxies." The Rake turned it's head and stared at Masky while Harry looked confused again. "Proxies can die?" Masky looked over at Harry while he ignored the Rake's odd behavior. "Of course, everyone can die Harry. I never knew the last proxies but I found old photos of them. Slender always has his proxies in pairs." Masky said while he ate his thankfully not burnt pancakes as the Rake moved right in front of his face/mask. Harry gained a sad look. "So Rake lost his partner.. what happened to him? Masky sighed. "Some psycho called Voldemort killed him. I don't think he even knew the person he was killing when it happened but the old proxy did look like you Harry." Harry frowned at the name and stabbed at his pancakes.

Harry, Masky and the Rake were sitting in the dinning room eating breakfast. Or at least Harry and Masky were, the rake was just staring into their souls repeatedly. Harry snapped his head to the window suddenly and a faint static sound began. The sound had Masky and The Rake looking around for an annoyed Slender but they found none. Masky knew Slender wasn't here but he didn't know what was creating that sound. He noticed the Rake staring at Harry and then he realized. Harry, he was making the sound. "Harry..?" Masky whispered as he reached out and touched the kid's shoulder. "Someone is in the forest Masky.. Someone bad."