Author Note: I do not own Harry Potter or anything from the DC Universe. Also some of this story was inspired by the fanfiction Harry Isley. If you recognize something from my fanfic then I probably don't own it.
Summary: Harry Potter grew up abused with his relatives. But when he was on vacation in Gotham Harry once again became an orphan when his relatives were killed. Watch Harry growing up in Gotham under the care of Poison Ivy and during his time in and out of Hogwarts. (All Seven Years of Hogwarts and beyond. A Harry Potter/Barbara Gordon/Daphne Greengrass pairing.)
Harry's early years in Hogwarts and pre-Hogwarts years will be more of a summary with a lot of time skips until the story goes more in-depth when Harry is a bit older.
Warning: This story will be very AU so if you don't like the fact that I messed with the Harry Potter or DC Universe, you can read something else.
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Chapter 7
Once arriving back home, Harry and Ivy read the note that Professor McGonagall gave him which not only explained things to Harry such as Voldemort and 'the Boy-who-lived', but also told him that as a legal adult he was allowed to use magic outside of school. Thereby he should take the time to practice, because many Purebloods will expect 'the Boy-who-lived' to know just as much as them, even though many of them had been getting tutored before Hogwarts started. After reading the letter Harry and Ivy agreed to cut down on his academic studies over the next few months and focus on magic, while also cutting downing on some of their 'nightly activities'. Once they had came to this agreement Harry grabbed his bag, dawned his costume and put Hogwarts: A History inside his bag before porting out saying that he had to go meet Batgirl, only to receive a head shake and face in the palm by Ivy.
Once Harry ported to his and Batgirl's typical meeting spot on top of the Gotham City Public Library, Harry walked over to Batgirl who was sitting with his back to him.
"Hey Babs!" Harry called out before dropping down next to Barbara, which cause Barbara to jump before settling down.
"Don't do that!" Batgirl exclaimed before slapping his should. "Jerk!"
"So I got a question... do you believe in magic?"
"Is that some kind of opening for a cheesy pick-up line? Because I honestly thought better of you Harry?"
"No! Well, it could be... but not this time. You see that woman that came by looking for me invited me to join Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
"Yeah right, that is ridiculous."
"No, I'm serious. Wait, look at this book." With that comment Harry pulled out Hogwarts: A History and the two of them began to flip through the pages looking at the moving pictures and some of the different sections.
"Oh my God! I can't believe magic is real. Though, it would explain why you seem to have so many more powers then the typical meta-human," Batgirl stated while flipping through the book.
"Yeah, that was kind of what I figured, though I'm definitely a meta-human, because evidently shape changing is called Metamorphmagi, and I am evidently only one of two currently recorded and living, and both of us are related to the Black family, which can sometimes have Metamorphmagi as a genetic trait. Moreover, no one else besides me and Ivy have green-tinted skin in the magical community."
"Oh, that's kind of cool. I wish that I was magical." Batgirl stated.
"Oh! That reminds me, evidently you sort of are."
"What does that mean, can I cast spells?" Batgirl exclaimed quickly getting excited.
"Hold on; no unfortunately you can not cast spells." Seeing Batgirl pout he continued, "but you are a squib, which means that you have a small magical core. So while it is not big enough to use magical spells, it is big enough to use magical items such as flying broomsticks, magical potions, protective items, and even invisibility cloaks."
"Really? That's awesome! Do you think you could get me some books on all of this? I can't wait to read up on it, do you think that some of the potions would be useful for Batgirl? And don't even get me started on the use of an invisibility cloak, Batman would love to get his hands on this stuff. I can't wait to get started this is totally going to be awe..."
"Wait!" Harry yelled out. Jeez, I didn't realize Batgirl was such a nerd. "First off, you can't tell anyone else about this stuff, because there is a Statute of Secrecy. So while you can tell your parents since at least one of them must be a squib, you can't really tell Batman about the magical world... Unless of course you find out that he is a squib or a wizard, but I kind of doubt it because he uses way to many electronics to be a good wizard. As for the other stuff, I got you an extra cauldron, ingredients and a few books. If you want over the summer you can work on potions with me and I will leave most of them with you so that you can use them as Batgirl. The only real catch is that while you can stay in costume and work with me in the green house, you can't by any means try to capture any of my Aunts while working with me. Do we have a deal?"
"Deal!" Batgirl exclaimed before shaking hands with Harry and then quickly picking up the conversation about what they thought going to Hogwarts would be like over the next few years.
The month of July and August quickly sped by for both Harry and Barbara. During this time Harry learnt about half of the spells in his text books, but mainly focused on DADA, Potions and Herbology. Moreover, while he memorized the course material for all of first year for these three classes, he also started his work on the mind arts, but soon realized that it would probably take all of his first year to make any real progress. But even with that one downer both Harry and Barbara felt that they were making great strides in their studies and even managed a few more difficult potions, such as some healing potions and some blood-replenishing potions.
During this time Harry and Barbara became much closer friends and would often be found working together fighting crime at night or working on their studies in the greenhouse during the days. While Batman was not to happy about this new friendship, Barbara would not tell him who exactly Harry was, so there really wasn't much that he could do about it. Shockingly, Poison Ivy seemed to end up immensely pleased with the development.
Flashback
Poison Ivy was walking into her greenhouse when she almost had a heart attack by what she saw. Harry was out of costume reading a book in front of a cauldron and Batgirl was sneaking up behind him!
"Harry get down!" Ivy screamed before tackling Batgirl to the ground. She raised up her arm to knock her out when Harry grabbed her arm and said,
"Wait! What are you doing? Me and Batgirl were just about to go over some potions work. She agreed while coming here that she wouldn't try to investigate any of us."
"But she knows who you are now... and why did you tell her about magic?" Ivy all but shriek.
"Aunty... Batgirl already knew my name and I know her's, so it's ok... you know, mutually assured destruction. As for magic, it turns out that Pamela Isley isn't the only squib roaming around Gotham in a costume at night. You know, I wonder if all meta-humans are squibs or if you and me are just the exceptions. Either way, when she is here please try to play nice."
After that comment Ivy got off of Batgirl before huffing and walking away to her flowerbed.
Flashback End
Over the course of the two months Batgirl and Ivy got over the rocky introduction and slowly got to know each other. While Batgirl didn't really agree with many of Ivy's view points they did both come to respect each other as strong females in a male-costumed dominated world. Moreover, Ivy really started to appreciate that Harry finally had a friend around his own age, and also liked that he would often spend nights at Batgirl's parents house, because it gave her and Harley some more much needed alone time. Though, she truly did believe that the best part was how she could now easily rile up both Batman and Robin by talking about Snakeroot and Batgirl's 'slumber parties' and 'night-time activities'. While she knew it was all innocent, they didn't need to know that.
