Chapter 5: Forgotten past

"Oh Albus…" Minerva whispered, a tear escaping her eye.

Struggling to not allow himself to cry, Albus stood and said, "I apologize for having to bother you… You will most likely never hear from us again…" Then he touched a small key ring attached to his wrist, Minerva touching it with him, and they both vanished in a crack.

"Wait!" Harry called, reaching out to them, "Can you tell me about my-"But they had already vanished, "parents…"

J'onn put his hand on Harry's slouched shoulder, "It's okay Harry, now that we know who knew your parents, we can find out more about them."

"But we don't even know where they came from dad…" Whispered Harry, upset at the loss of a source of information of his parents.

"No," J'onn admitted, "but we know somebody whom does." He concluded with a smirk.

"We do?" Asked Harry before remembering Zatanna, "We do!"

J'onn watched the joy on Harry's face with a mixture of happiness that his adopted son would learn about his past, and apprehension towards the idea of his son no longer considering him his father…

Harry was oblivious to J'onn's internal conflict, overjoyed by the hope of finding out more about his parents. All he ever had known was they died protecting him, they were magical, and their names. This was a chance to know who they were as people, his other family. Maybe he even had more family alive today! The thought of a larger family always excited Harry, for reasons he could not figure out.

"When can we go Dad?!", Harry excitedly burst out to J'onn.

"We will go next week Harry, Zatanna faced some conflict with Circe several days ago, and I'd like to give her time to relax.", J'onn answered, ignoring his son's protests.

"Ugh" Harry groaned out, flopping onto the couch. "|Fiiiine..." Harry conceded seeing his father's reasoning.

"Don't be too down Harry, you begin school on Monday." J'onn smirked while saying this, knowing how much Harry had been looking forward to his first day at the academy.

"Oh my gosh! I completely forgot" Harry had completely forgotten his forlorn and impatient mood from before, now simply excited.

J'onn chuckled at Harry's enthusiasm before ruffling his hair, much to Harry's protest, and saying, "Off to bed now, it's getting late and Hal is having you go running earlier than usual tomorrow."

"What for?" Harry questioned.

"He has a breakfast date with a woman." J'onn replied.

"Anyone we know?" asked Harry.

"Carol, his old boss if I remember correctly." J'onn said after a moment of thinking. "Now, no more stalling, off to bed."

Harry walked up the stairs grumbling slightly to himself.

J'onn took a moment to stress about Harry going to school for a moment before grabbing a Choco for himself and Harry and going up to Harry's room.

"What story would you like tonight?" J'onn asked Harry.

"Tell me about..." Harry took several moments to deliberate before deciding. "Tell me about the battle against Apokolips."

J'onn took a breath before beginning, "We'd been having altercations with strange, batlike creatures who were intent with placing what we believed to be bombs all around the world..."

At Hogwarts...

Albus sat in his office, a glass lay forgotten on the side of his desk while he swigged heavily from a bottle of Ogden's finest. He was ¾'s through it when Minerva entered the room, looking as exhausted as he felt.

"Albus-", she took a moment to stare at his bottle before continuing on, "what will we do? How will we tell the world Harry Potter is a squib?"

"We will do no such thing!", Albus proclaimed animatedly, "This would destroy the public's faith in the ministry if they learned a mere squib were able to destroy Voldemort!" Albus contemplated for a moment before declaring, "Harry Potter was left critically injured by his confrontation with Voldemort, and died years later from health diminished by the after effects of the killing curse."

"I will do no such thi-"

"Obliviate", Albus cried out, stopping Minerva from continuing. He modified her memories of the day before, the released her from her trance.

Minerva seemed dazed for a moment before beginning, "Oh Albus, how will we tell the public of young Mister Potter's death? There will be chaos!"

"In times like this my dear, the truth is gong to be more beneficial than a lie in the end." Albus answered wisely.

"I suppose so...", Minerva lamented, "I'll inform the Prophet of the details tomorrow."

"Very good Minerva, thank you."

When Minerva left his office, Albus smiled to himself and began to write out a letter to Augusta Longbottom. Some information had come to light about her son...

At the Justice Academy of America...

"C'mon dad!" Harry shouted while flying in the direction of the academy.

The academy was an institution founded by Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, The Flash, Cyborg, and Superman. They founded it when they saw the growing number of meta-humans and enhanced humans, and the lack of formal training for them to learn to control their abilities. They knew they couldn't just allow these people to run amok, lacking control over their abilities and outcasted from society, so they created an institute to house and teach these people. And now young Harry potter, a Green Lantern, was flying towards it at Mach 2.

"I'm coming son, calm down." He found his son's enthusiasm endearing, if a bit amusing.

Harry looked forward and saw the dome of the Academy's building glinting in the sunshine, which prompted him to fly even faster towards the school, and to promptly get knocked out of the sky by an invisible barrier.

J'onn saw his son hit the ground and took a moment to chuckle at his mistake before floating down to him.

"You need to go through the security gates." J'onn scolded his son before picking him up and walking towards the gate with him, which was several dozen meters to the left of where they landed.

"Yeah yeah yeah..." Harry mumbled, blushing slightly from his blunder. Harry's mistake was quickly forgotten once he had made it to the front gate, bouncing excitedly on the balls of his feet and playing with his ring.

"All right, go on through." The guard said, waving them through.

"Son," J'onn began, "I'm gong to leave you now under the care of your professors. If there is an emergency or any issues at all, contact me immediately. Do you understand?" J'onn stressed the last word and put his hands on Harry's shoulders.

"Got it dad, I understand. If anything happens that a whole campus of students with abilities beyond understanding can't handle, I'll call." Harry sarcastically responded.

J'onn smiled slightly before gathering his son in a hug, "I love you."

"I love you too Dad."

A/N

I am so so incredibly sorry for not updating... My computer completely died and I didn't have the ability to go purchase a new one at the time. I promise to put out updates more frequently now for anyone still going to read this after so long... So sorry again.