AN: I know some people won't like that I had him tell everything so soon. I understand I really do, however the only other option in which I see, that I would write but would prefer not to, is Harry deceives all of them, slowly becomes their friend and then after a log time of lying he ends up having to tell them the truth. That is just self created angst and you have to understand he is alone right now, no one knows the truth outside of Ragnok, he needs human comfort. Not saying that he is going to immediately be able to just say I love you to any one of them and jump into bed. Its more along the lines that he is telling them what is coming and he wants to help them. As you will see in this chapter.
Also I had a review that did not like the whole good Goblin angle, and normally I would agree, however; goblins had to get their land from someone, that some one just happened to be an ancestor of Harry's. Some of these things are very much deux ex machina and I get that, but to me the character interaction, relationships and fighting are more important. I have however gone back and extrapolated more on the fealty agreement with Ragnok as well. Specifically on the aspect of Dumbledore having access to the Philosopher's Stone, if he had the ability to use it, do you not think he would. Look I'm not saying canon Dumbledore is evil, but much like the abuse Harry had at home, read between the lines and he is very much a manipulative dick. And People who vaunt that greater good shit, rarely do the good themselves.
Two Minor updates to chapter 4 and 6, to help clear some things up.
Totally forgot to have Harry show off his signet right and I can see how that would be confusing as to why people were just going along with things. Kinda dumb to have confusion over one missing sentence yea?
Thanks folks, I will try and answer as many reviews as I can.
Beta'd by Real Swede and updated 12/20/2015
Chapter 7
As the girls came back into the compartment looking a little bit better and trying to figure out who their mystery guest really was, four people appeared in the doorway. Harry, already sensing them, cringed because he knew exactly who was there.
"Hey scarhead, drop the weasel for this trip, well that's a bit better than normal but really picking up this half breed and adding another mudblood to your collection, you really need to stop choosing your friends for yourself. You have bad taste." Draco Malfoy sneered as Crabbe and Goyle laughed and Pansy giggled. Then as one they felt the power radiating from the boy with his head turned away, looking out the window. Harry stood and looked directly in the eyes of Draco Malfoy and Malfoy flinched first. Harry smirked to himself, some times it's just too easy.
"Bleach blonde hair, pathetic figure, nose too high in the air. You must be related to that Lucius chap I spoke to in Diagon Alley. He had this need to insult his betters as well." The girls were snickering on their bench as Malfoy's face turn red and then paled faster than was probably healthy as the ring of his finger became clear. He immediately tried to fix the situation using every once of brain cell.
"Lord Gryffindor, pleasure to meet you, I'm Heir Malfoy if you wish I could show you around and maybe introduce you to some proper wizards."
'How pompous can you get?' Harry thought.
"Heir Malfoy, leave my presence I have no need of it. I recommend you take a good, long, hard look at what you want in life, because acting like that will not make it happen. Now leave." Harry ordered. And as Malfoy retreated you could hear "when my father hears of this..." and the doors shut. The glass was once again obscured and the wards back in place.
"Ah, the obligatory Malfoy visit, wouldn't feel right without one." Harry said with a chuckle as Rose and Tonks broke down laughing. Hermione looked like she wanted to correct him but really couldn't think of a valid reason why.
"Ah where were we then I believe sixth year yes?"
"Harry, Harrison, or what ever your name is...why are you here...why are you telling us, me these things?" Tonks asked voicing everyone's questions.
"Rose is me and I am Rose. My one true goal is to save my family, outside of that I am going to save hers. I lost everything and I mean everything. I want her to avoid that fate if I can. She has suffered enough. I understand she must fulfill the prophecy but if, after finishing this story, she will allow me to help her through the entire journey, I will. If she doesn't, well I guess I better become really good at helping from afar. I hope when I have you will have some idea what I have gone through and maybe, just maybe, it will be for the better." Harry said with such conviction that no one doubted it. Rose felt this odd connection to him that told her that he was telling the truth and the fact he had yet to miss a detail of how her life so far had been, well all the more reason to trust him.
"Now let's move on to sixth year and beyond." And Harry began the tale of what Diagon Alley was like and heading to school. He talked about getting to do Potions and picking up the book from the Half-Blood Prince. He told them Snape had wrote notes that improved many potions and had several spells in it, some were quite ingenious. He spoke of the fight that he had with Hermione. She blushed and Rose kind of smirked thinking about third year and how easy that could happen.
He continues with his lessons with Dumbledore and Scrimgeour trying to get Harry to support the Ministry. More lessons with Dumbledore and how he got the memory from Slughorn. He talks about nearly killing Draco and what he learned from it. Then he talks about the trip to try and find the locket that Voldemort had hidden away and how Snape then kills Dumbledore. He talks about Dumbledore's funeral and he explained what the Horcruxes were and the mission to retrieve them all.
He gets pensive before he tells them the story of that year's escape from Privet Drive and how he lost Hedwig and Mad-Eye. He tells Hermione about how she obliviated her parents' memories of her and moved them to Australia. Told them they attended a wedding at the Burrow but didn't mention any names. How they find the true horcrux with the help of Kreacher.
Next he starts with what should have been their seventh year. How they were on the run trying to end Voldemort and how they had to break into the ministry to retrieve the Horcrux that Kreacher once had. How they ran off to the Forest of Dean, how Ron betrayed them again, how they found the Sword of Gryffindor and destroyed the locket. He told them of the trip to Godric's Hollow and being attacked and the loss of his wand.
He is almost in physical pain as he tells them of being found and picked up by snatchers only to be tortured at Malfoy Manor to then escape. Their subsequent recovery at Bill's house. The break-in at Gringotts, which had all three girls looking at him like he was daft. He chuckled and told them how it had worked out. Then the trip to Hogwarts and how they managed to get into the castle and finding the Horcrux there. He described how How the Battle of Hogwarts started and the losses had all of them in tears.
How he learned of the last Horcrux in his head behind his scar and went out to the forest to die. He gave a gentle smile to Rose as she now understood why she would have these visions with Voldemort. How he used the Stone to talked to his parents, Sirius, and Remus. The meeting at King's Cross and what Narcissia Malfoy did for him.
He explained in detail the final portion of the fight who else was lost and the out come of the battle. They were all well and truly relieved that this portion of the story was over and in a way he was too.
"Now I know you have questions and I don't blame you but there is still another sixteen years to cover, but it will mostly be highlights okay. He told them how, after the burial of all of the fallen, they began rebuilding. Hermione and Ron went to retrieve her parents and never tried to date again after that. They had been just too different to take it any further. He spoke of having a few random but insignificant relationships and finishing his NEWTs.
"This will be hard to hear and I understand that so bear with me." He then told them how he was summoned to Gringotts with Ron and Hermione for their break-in. He met High King Ragnok for the first time and was forced to take a lineage test so they could seize any funds to repair the damage they had caused. When they took his, he became the head for four different families and was given the four separate signet rings. The goblins upon learning his full heritage said all debt would be voided if he traded them his Gryffindor debt contract. Not knowing any better he did. But then he learned of Dumbledore, Snape, and Molly's theft from his vaults.
Apparently for Molly's was to help pay for her family to go to Hogwarts and it was her price to be allowed to try and push Ginny towards him so her family could become wealthy again. Not long after finding that out all three of us confronted her and she broke down in shame. She really was only trying to help her family. In the end he never recalled the debt. Snape was just a greedy dick and thought of it as a way to get one over on the Potter family. However, the hard one was Dumbledore. He used the money for bribes and to fund the Order. To say the girls were shocked was an understatement. He was when he found out as well, so he could understand. Dumbledore had felt that no one but him could lead the wizarding world in to the future. His goal was to lead it and groom Harry as his successor after he defeated Voldemort. None of them were stealing money for truly evil reasons if you don't count Snape. But they were bad reasons none the less.
The next two years, nothing of note really happened aside from Harry, somewhat, disappearing from the world. He had more than enough money to never have to work and with some much publicity going on after his victory he wanted to get away. Hermione was the one who suggested he travel and maybe live life just for himself for once. He said goodbye to those closest to him and promised them he would be back. He travelled to the continent, then to Russia, to India and the rest of Asia. He touched upon some of the magic he'd learned in his travels. Rose looked interested at the mention of Parsel magic and Hermione was near salivating. Tonks on the other hand was wondering where this was going.
Some time in early 2001 Hermione joined him on his trip while he was in South America, she had apparently worked herself into the ground and needed a break. It was some time in late 2001 that they figured out their feelings towards one another. Hermione blushed at being mentioned while Rose looked on curiously. "You married her didn't you. That's why she is here, isn't it?" Rose interrupted him. He shot her a coy smile and continued while Hermione's jaw hit the ground.
"Yes, I married Hermione on March 15, 2002. Our first son was born almost 9 months later." He said, his voice was full of emotion.
Not long after his marriage to Hermione they moved back to England. They moved into Peverell Manor seeing as how the Potter's cottage was now a national landmark and neither wanted to live in Grimmauld Place. Tonks then joined them with her son, Teddy, as she was still having some trouble after the final battle both physically and mentally. "Tonks I know you are probably the only one in this carriage besides me that knows Pureblood customs. What were my titles and what does that mean for me?"
"You said Potter, Black, Peverell, and Gryffindor right?" He just nods in response. "Then you are the head of four different families. Why are you… ohhh."
"Oh is right. You can see how that would be hard for some one like me to understand after the fact, yes?" He states.
"I'm confused, what does that mean?" Rose asked.
"It means that he is almost like four different people. He must have one child for each line, however the lines when they come together like they did with him, he must attempt to separate them." Tonks responds.
"Wait wait wait, just like Lords of old, your talking about polygamy." Hermione shrieked. "How barbaric, you're a sick man, why would you do that. Do you know how wrong that is? I would never do something like that! It is just so wrong."
"Hermione believe me when I say I didn't want to; I mean really didn't want to. However, in our efforts to make the wizarding world a better place, something we couldn't change were the inheritance laws. Something we both hated but never realized affected us." Harry pleaded with her for understanding.
"At the time while most of the bigotry had left the world, greed had not. Since I was still unmarried for my other three titles people were trying to force issue. The Wizengamot were trying to get my headship revoked in order to claim the vaults to add to the ministry coffers. Part of the solution was fairly easy after we both reluctantly agreed for me to marry for the other titles." He looked pointedly at Tonks now and her entire body blushed.
"I was already living there with you, wasn't I, and I can assume our families grew close?"
"Right in one Dora, sorry Tonks. We married May 22, 2003 and had a daughter of our own the next summer, the first person born purely to the Peverell family in nearly a thousand years."
"That is so wrong, you're a pig you know that right!" Hermione yelled. While Rose sat there looking sad thinking of family.
"I will give you the pertinent legal books later Hermione, I understand why you think that and for a long time I agreed as well. But let me continue."
The actions of marring Tonks had quelled all but the most vocal of voices in the ministry. Showing that he was trying to find suitable brides for each family name made them back down, which was nice for them since they didn't want to rush into finding two more wives. He spoke of what his family life was like with a smile on his face but everyone could see the wetness in his eyes as he spoke about them. Rose was probably the only one who saw that look and understood something bad happened.
Then, out of the blue, a tragedy struck the Weasley family as Bill was killed while working on a tomb in South America for Gringotts in late 2003. His wife and daughter, who were regular guests at the manor, moved in late the next spring. He explained how she eventually overcame her grief and was a wonderful person. She eventually became the Lady Black in the summer of 2005. The girls looked confused as they had no idea who she was since she obviously didn't go to Hogwarts.
"Fleur was, is, the French champion this year in the Triwizard Tournament. She is Veela and very beautiful however while confident in that beauty, she despises it. Much how Rose and I are famous for not really doing anything, she is sought after for her beauty and family name. Understand that when you meet her because she had a rough time going through school much like us at Hogwarts. Not nearly as dangerous as us but similar in the attitudes of the student population." He told them in hopes they would understand her when they met her.
He then told them a little of what their lives were like together. The trips the family took together, their children, and it truly sounded wonderful. He spoke of him learning pureblood customs and his role in the Wizengamot. It was almost a perfect as you could get he told them. Sure they had their problems every now and then but what family didn't.
It wasn't until a new pureblood movement started up again around 2013 that things started to get bad again. Overall nothing overt really had happened but some of the bigotry they had fought so hard to erase was coming back. So laws, similar to the ones they had managed to change, started to be brought back to the table. None had been approved as of yet but the sentiments were there. Problems truly began in the late spring and early summer of 2014. Instances of muggles being killed randomly, muggle-born and half-bloods being found, tortured and killed. Families that used to be considered blood traitors were slowly and randomly being attacked by late summer. Then the real problems began, this group attacked muggle political targets all over England. They tried to kill the Queen and Prime Minister, then they attacked Catterick Garrison with several casualties on both sides. Of the many attackers, nine were captured and interrogated officially breaking the statute of secrecy. Populations around the world began to panic while governments were trying to figure out how to deal with the news being out in the open.
Then China, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia did the unthinkable. Now these nations were known in the wizarding world as no go areas because the muggle government actively hunted and killed any known or suspected wizards. They began using the intelligence they had gathered on magical communities around the world and bombed them regardless of what sovereign territory they resided in. September 1st 2014 World War 3 began and ended. Harry was in Geneva speaking with the ICW while his children were headed to platform 9 and 3/4. Nuclear warheads launched for countries all over the world hit their designated targets within 30 minutes of one another. His entire family was killed in one of the bombs that hit the Greater London area. In that one instant his family disappeared in a bright flash of light.
The girls looked like they were going to be sick hearing what happened to his world in the not so distant future. All three girls knew what these weapons were and just how destructive they could be. They were horrified and reasonably so; it was a terrible future that no one wants to see. Life around the world had pretty much ended that day. He spoke of how the Manor which was located on the coast in Pembrokeshire, Wales survived the initial blasts however, within three days, the sun was blotted out. Storms of acid ran and lightning, clouds of dust and other natural disasters began plague every inch of the globe. He buried his family and waited by their graves to join them. He was openly crying by this point, describing the horrors that happened. By the fourth day of sitting at their graves he realized his magic must be keeping him alive. He figured eventually he would just fade, so he just camped out by their graves awaiting the sweet release of death.
The pains of hunger had long since left him by October 31 and he couldn't figure out why he was still alive. He remembered when he visited Japan and the arch in Nagasaki that survived and he began to wonder if the Veil of Death had as well. That day he spent saying goodbye to his family before apparating to where the ministry used to be. It took nearly four hours to get to where the Veil was before stepping through it.
Rose looked at him with tears in her eyes and understood where he was coming from. There were many times over the years where she just wished to die, to join her parents, to take the pain away. Hermione, on the other hand, was reeling that leaders and adults would make such awful decisions that had ended the world; she could not fathom them making such wrong choices. Tonks, however, didn't know what to say, it seemed so surreal.
"I arrived here on this plane not long after the attack at the world cup. I have since been trying to correct some things such as right now, Rose, I am currently the Potter Head of House which means I am now your guardian. Depending on how this year goes, we will figure out how we are going to get you away from those people." He told her.
"Now as to why I am here telling you all of this. My original plan was to come to Hogwarts befriend you all and over time after helping you. That plan went right out the window when I saw you at Florean's a few days ago. I'm not sure if you can understand how hard it was for me to see you, Hermione. I had loved you since my third year here, I cannot lie to you, nor could I deceive you for that long. Dora, sorry Tonks, I would never have had the chance to even really talk to you for most of the year and that would break my heart. And Rose, I know what you go through, and I could offer her help but how would I do that without telling you some of the things I know. What would have happened if I'd slipped up and given myself away? What about if you used the Map and saw my real name? Do you three understand how this could have blown up in my face? Not to mention Fleur who will be here next month.
"I understand that you are all terribly apprehensive of me and everything I just shared. You are the first people I have told and there will only be a few people outside of my wives who I may ever tell. I did not tell you these things to motivate a relationship with any of you, either. Not saying I would say no in the future but I don't expect you to love me now that I've told you the story, if ever."
"Wait so you aren't here to just get with us, why not we were your wives, didn't you love them?" Hermione spat in anger over the whole marriage situation again.
He smiled trying to mask the hurt the statement just caused him, he spoke evenly, "Of course I loved them and while you wear my Mione's face, Tonks wears one of my Dora's faces, and Fleur wears my flower's you are not them. As much as I wish it were the case, you are not my wives. I know that your personalities are the same, how you act is the same, and who you are as a person is the same, but you don't have the memories they had of our time together." He broke down again and sobbed, "God how I wish you were, but you are not them." Both girls gave Hermione a sour look at how insensitive she just was.
He sobered himself up some and wiped the tears away trying to push the thoughts of his family away from the front of his mind. "I understand why you asked Hermione, but please never question the love for my family again." She sheepishly said she was sorry.
"Now I know you have questions so please ask them," and they did for the few hours to find out details from school, to their personal lives, and everything in between. He answered as much as he could and to the best of his ability. Some questions he knew were asked continuing to check for the validity of his claims of being from and alternate universe but her couldn't begrudge them that. He probably would do that same. About thirty minutes before they would reach the station in Hogsmeade he stopped them and dropped the wards before stepping outside to allow them the change into their robes.
They told him they were done changing and he came back in as he had already been dressed in in his robes when he came to the station. He smirked seeing that Rose's tie wasn't on straight remembering how he could never keep his straight either.
"Now I told you about occlumency when this all began and the converse of it, legilimency, if you all wish I will gladly teach you occlumency, however until such time that you have the ability to keep others out of your mind. I have to request that I perform a spell I learned in the Americas."
"What does it do?" Hermione questioned while Tonks asked "do I need it since I have decent occlumency?"
"What it does is it hides the information almost like a Fidelius charm in combination with an Obliviate but within your own mind, it also has the added benefit of being hidden even from questions asked with Veritaserum. It does not hurt and would take someone who is very skilled in legilimency a long time to try and find even a hint of a memory being hidden. This will allow you all the remember this conversation and think about the information I told you. If you so choose, I will train all of you throughout the year in every form of magic I can. Rose, this is mostly for you as it will help you greatly through the tournament. I do not want you to answer right now. The past few hours have been an emotional roller coaster and information dump. You are all confused and need time to think this over. I obviously will be around a few of you and interact with you as a student, but I do not with to know your answer till this coming Sunday. That should give all of you enough time to understand all of the information."
"Also understand that many people think I am some pureblood Lord. I will have to act accordingly when in public, which means Malfoy might look tame, for that I apologize."
They all gave their acceptance for the spell and he pulled out his wand and enchanted "Habitu Memoriae En Loco Tuto Se." As the grey-white spell hit each of them they had the feeling of the conversations from the last few hours kind of disappear from the forefront of their minds. As the spell ended and he put his wand away the train began slowing to a stop since they apparently had reached Hogsmeade Station. Gathering themselves, they headed out of the train.
Harry looked in the distance and could see parts of the lake and the castle in the distance.
'Home sweet home,' he thought. No matter how long it had been since he had been there; whenever he visited it always felt like home. He could hear Hagrid trying to round up all of the first years to take them to the boats, he smiled as he thought of his old friend.
They all solemnly walked towards the carriage to begin what was already proving to be an interesting year.
AN
The Sanno Shrine survived the bomb dropped in Nagasaki so its reasonable to believe a magically enchanted object such as the Veil would survive for him to walk through it.
Dumbledore is not evil, just a dick who things he is smarter than everyone. IMO that's canon.
Molly is not a potions queen, just a mom who got caught up in a way she thought to take care of the family regardless of the fact it is illegal.
Snape fuck him.
