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The condition of Malfoy junior, Knott junior and Severus Snape spread throughout the school. Lily Evans was having her lunch in the great hall when she heard about it. She quickly got up and ran to the hospital wing to see her friend Severus. All she knew a that moment was that her best friend had been cursed and was in the hospital wing where the nurse was trying everything she could to undo the damage but it was not working. By the time she left she was furious. Her best friend ad told her that the Potter boy in Hufflepuff had done it unprovoked and he was not even punished for it. She had had enough from the Potter in her house constantly pulling pranks and getting away without being punished she was going to give them both a piece of her mind and the Hufflepuff was going to undo what he did if she had to curse him herself.
She waited outside the doors of the great hall for him to arrive for dinner. She saw him saying goodbye to two adults who went the opposite of where he was going. It looked like the parents had been called at least but that did not calm her anger as she saw he was being coddled by the woman and not being told off. She waited till he got close enough to hear he then she spoke.
"Potter, how dare you curse Severus, What did he ever do to you? Don't think that just because your parents are rich that you will get away with this I..."
Harry cut her off. He was now furious. Not only did he have to face prejudice from the Malfoys and knotts as well as the headmaster now she was judging him without all the facts.
"I would stop right there, miss Evans if I were you. The only only reason I'm not retaliating for your little outburst and accusation is because I'm assuming you don't know all the facts and if you got the story from the sycophants in the hospital wing they probably lied."
By then a crowd was forming but Harry ignored them and continued "Why don't you wait hear the rest of the story when we get to court, your friend is under arrest for attempted murder. He is a baboon at the moment due to my magic's reaction to the spells him and his friends cast at me when I was leaving the toilet. Their excuse was it was a case of mistaken identity. I have never spoken to any of them or even met them and yet they attacked me. The spells they cast if they had hit would have killed me. So forgive me for not caring what kind of condition your friend is in right now especially if his intent was to murder my cousin."
Lily's face paled with every word the boy spoke. Severus had made it sound like the boy had cast a spell most likely a family spell so that the magic could only be undone by the caster or his immediate family just to be mean as Severus would most likely have no way to retaliate with similar magic as his mother was cast out of her family and his father was a muggle meaning he didn't have his own family magic to fall back on. If what the boy said was true she wondered what else her best friend had lied to her about.
She stammered a bit as she apologized. "I.I I'm sorry, he didn't tell me all that, he only told me what you did to him."
Harry calmed a little bit, there was no point in being angry with her and if the timeline continued the way it did last time between her James he would be seeing a lot of her later. Better not create problems for then.
"Look it's fine. You were defending a friend and that's admirable but next time check your facts before attacking someone like that."
Lily looked down on the floor and nodded her agreement. She was humiliated and felt embarrassed. When Harry walked away she felt the first stirrings of anger. As she made her way back to the hospital wing that anger grew. By the time she arrived she was furious. She didn't even say anything before she slapped Severus who was sat on the bed and said to him
"You deserve what you got you lying manipulative asshole. I can't believe I trusted you all this time. What else have you lied to me about Severus?"
Severus seeing that Lily had found out about his lie began to scramble about for an excuse. "Lily I don't know what he said but he is making it up and ..." three owls flew in through the window all with official looking letters from the ministry. They all thought it was their confirmation from their parents that they had sorted everything out. Severus smirked and said to Lily. I bet these are the letters from the ministry to confirm we have done nothing wrong."
Severus opened his first and his face paled, because the letter clearly stated that they were now under guard until their court date in two days where they would need to answer for their crimes under veriterserum. The letter was the final proof for Lily who said "Don't you ever come near me again Severus Snape. I want nothing to do with you ever again."
She didn't see the pain cross his face at the loss of his best friend, but even he knew he had no-one to blame but himself. He was facing down as eh whispered 'I'm sorry.' But she didn't hear him. She had already left, the only friend he had ever had was gone. All because he believed Malfoy when he said he would protect him and they would not get caught. He had been promised position and power when he got out of school. Severus knew what the world of politics in the wizarding world was like. His mother had told him as a halfblood he would have very little chance of getting anywhere and Lily would have no chance at all. He had done it for both of them. He lied to her to protect her from any backlashes that might occur. He also knew she would not approve of some of the things he was learning and doing and now he had lost her. Severus wept and for the first time since he became allies with Malfoy and knott he felt regret for the things he had done while learning from them. The had tortured and wiped the minds of several first years in order to learn the dark arts and now he might be going to prison.
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Harry walked into his dorm headed for the trunk at his bedside. It was not very often that he sent a message to his dad but he needed some reassurance that the changes he had made would not affect too much of the future or done something that would make the future he came from change in worse ways than what he remembered. Opening the trunk he climbed down the ladder into the world created by his dad for him to find one of the house elves who could contact Chaos. What he did not expect to find was Chaos himself wandering through trunk as if seeing it for the first time.
With a shout of "Dad!" Harry ran then jumped into his arms in happiness. He missed the look of confusion on Chaos' face despite hugging him back before putting him down and saying "Okay, obviously I have missed something here. I can only assume it has to do with Order as I have just returned from his prison where he seemed to have found a way to get himself out."
Harry looked up at Chaos and realised this was his dad in the past not the one he knew. His shoulders sagged briefly before he decided it didn't matter he was still his Dad whether he knew him or not. So he said "Yes your brother is the reason I am here. You sent me back from the future to make changes and stop him from escaping his prison by persuading my aunt to do a blood ritual that he could manipulate and escape."
Chaos nodded, this explanation coincided with what he found out when he went to Order's prison. He looked at the boy who actually looked like him and was surprised that he had a child in the future especially after he swore to himself that he would not have any more children after all of his previous children either became evil. disappeared or died. It was too painful losing them like that.
As if knowing what was going through Chaos' mind Harry said "You adopted me, you told me we are related by blood, I am a descendant of your children through my parents. You decided to take me in when you found out I was abused my relatives, it turned out Order was controlling my aunt and uncle through the ritual I mentioned earlier."
Chaos' eyes widened at that he could sense the connection to Harry and knew he had done a thorough job of adopting him. Harry was no longer human. He was a smaller version of him. He already loved the child and it made him happy knowing that he would not be alone in the future. With a wide smile he picked up Harry who squealed at the sudden move and swung him around eliciting laughter from Harry as he twirled him.
Chaos and Harry sat down after a while and Harry told him about the circumstances of his life the training, what happened to the Dursleys and what happened since he came back to the past. Chaos was furious at the headmaster for trying to brush off the attack on Harry. He was considering taking Harry with him and leaving. Harry had accomplished what he came back for and the future would be different to what he knew it to be. There would be a different Harry Potter born and will have a different future to the one that his Harry had. The only other change he would need to make would be to make sure that the traitor was never a part of the lives of James Potter and his friends and that Petunia Evans never meets Vernon Dursley and utilises her magic.
He could rearrange their memories of those that had met Harry so he would not be missed. He turned to Harry and asked him if that was what he wanted "Harry, do you wish to stay here or go somewhere else. You have done what you came back to the past for and if you wish to stay and get to know your parents that's fine but you will be in danger of those in power wanting to control you. You could have a life of you own choosing anywhere you like."
Harry could hardly believe his ears. He had resigned himself to staying in the past with his parents and growing up with them but it was difficult for him knowing they would never see him as their son. He no longer felt that need for parents ever since Chaos adopted him but he had spent years in different kind of life given the one thing he longed for when he lived with the Dursleys. Oh he had grown to care for his family but he did dread the thought of spending so many years to return where he came from originally and even then he would be a completely different person to the one who left.
The most difficult thing he did not look forward to was leaving James. In the short time they had come to know each other they had formed a bond of brothers. It was the reason he was ruthless when he dealt with the families of those who had attacked him thinking he was James. He turned to Chaos and said "Yes I wish to leave. I know that it will be difficult for me going through this life and starting again when I return to the future considering I will not age like everyone else."
Chaos felt relief for Harry's choice. He had fore seen the wizards take advantage of Harry's love for his family and twist it to use him for their own gain. He would not have been happy there and the changes made from future knowledge created new problems that could have been avoided. With Harry's permission Chaos dulled everyone's memories of Harry making everyone kind of think of him as not important like a visitor passing through. He also made sure that the culprits who had attacked Harry were locked up in Azkaban for their crimes, then sent Harry back to the future.
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Harry found himself in front of his dad who was smiling at him as he hugged him and said "Welcome back kiddo, you did a good job. Order is in his prison and your aunt never married Dursley instead she married a muggle born wizard she met when she was learning at a school of magic in Ireland. They take late bloomers. Your parents are still alive and have raised you or the other you and there is no favoritism happening. Your cousin Dudley was born a little bit earlier and the pure blood families whose sons were imprisoned for attacking you were released today."
Harry was not sure how to feel about all that he did raise his head when Chaos changed the subject and said "I was thinking since you do not need to go to Hogwarts to take your exams that maybe you would want to go to a normal non magical school."
Harry replied "Actually I think I would like that. Just regular school where I don't have to worry about magic, my previous life or anything."
Nodding Chaos replied "Yes and I will be staying with you to ensure you behave. After all you will need an adult living with you."
Laughing Harry tried to imagine his dad living like a muggle. He would have to make some serious changes, and Harry felt warmth spread in his chest at the gesture Chaos was making just allow him to have a taste of a normal life. Living in the cosmos was all well and good but it was isolated. This way he would be able to make friends and he would not need to worry about getting too attached to anyone as they would all be gone in a few decades.
Harry conjured a map and a dart, closed his eyes and threw the dart on the map then opened them to see where it landed. The dart was on a place called Forks. Harry giggled and said "Forks?Whose infinite wisdom was it to call it that?"
Chaos laughed too and said "Don't look at me, I just created the place I didn't name it. That honor lies with the humans."
