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Harry looked like one big question mark by now, so she signaled that he could speak. "Animagus, Azkaban; what are those and who was Black"?
"An animagus is a wizard that can transform into an animal at will. Your father, Black and Pettigrew all were animagi. Azkaban is the wizard prison, where we keep all prisoners. Sirius Black was your father`s best friend, plus your godfather and he is still imprisoned there, I want to free him but we will have to find a way to get him a trial. Maybe we could get Lucius involved; as Black is a cousin of his wife it could be shown that this could benefit Lucius in a way.
Sorry Harry here I again begin sprouting names that mean nothing to you, I have to get back on track here. I suspect you want to know how I know all this".
Harry just nodded weakly. "I have two quite special abilities, one is the ability to see glimpses of past and future and the other is to see and interfere in people's dreams.
The glimpses of past and future have told me much of the story behind your current situation. In addition my ability to see and modify dreams have made me able to function as a dream guardian for some few people, keeping their nightmares away, and guiding their dreams. Two of those people are Severus and you, I found Severus" dreams many years ago learning his story and about your mother. I became so curious about your mother from those memories and dreams after a while so I searched for you until I found your dreams.
Through these I know how your relatives treat you, so one reason I came here is to give you the choice of leaving here for good" Gem held up a hand to forestall any comments, saying "I want you to have all information available before choosing anything. So you should know that the reason why you are here is a bit complicated too.
When the dark lord came to your house, your mother chose to fling herself between you and him. This created a blood protection that is keyed to your mother's blood, which means that as long as you reside here together with your aunt you are safe from the Death Eaters. This also means that you will be less safe away from here. What I propose is for you to be blood adopted by someone, this will give you a slightly different appearance as your coloring or maybe your body or face might change slightly to reflect that of your adoptive parent and your mothers' protection be transferred to this person. This will make it safer for you to live with this person, but you should be aware that this will bind you to your new adoptive parents for the rest of your childhood and maybe beyond that too.
Originally I wanted to offer to adopt you myself, because I grew to love you as a son from the years that I have been watching your dreams. But as I just married Severus here it would probably be difficult for you to consider becoming father and son. In addition it would probably be difficult for you to justify being adopted by somebody like us, Severus is not one of the popular teachers and he will probably never be either. If you chose to let us adopt you, you will face a lot of questions from others.
All I could promise is to be there for you, and try to keep you safe and sound. Now this is going much too fast probably, we will not expect for you to answer now or even at all if you don`t want to. If you want we will try to find someone else that could be interested in adopting you, not as the boy who lived, but as just Harry.
You may even stay here and in case you choose to stay I will modify your guardians and your cousin so that they are not able to abuse you in any way as precaution, I will also leave a means of communicating with us, so that you can contact us if something happens.
Severus now stood up and kneeled before Harry, looking earnestly at him, "I loved your mother very much and honoring that love, I am prepared to be a father to you if you wish it. I do not expect to be forgiven my misdeeds so readily, but know that you have two people here that would sacrifice everything for you if you needed that. Whatever you choose we will be in the shadows, keeping you safe as you can be. You have our word at that".
Harry held his face in his hands sniffing a bit, before he managed to look up at them, he gulped a bit before saying "I have dreamed all my life of someone coming to fetch me. Of a family, I would never give up this opportunity in a million years. I don`t care what anybody says, if you are willing to be my family, I will happily be adopted by you. I totally understand the wish to belong somewhere, and I forgive you Severus for being human and making mistakes. I hope that you two will not be disappointed in me and that I can get to know my birth parents through you".
Gem lightly touched his hair saying "darling boy, you must not be afraid. I will love you whatever you do, but it is normal for a child to try their parents` patience. You will not be different, don't hesitate to be yourself. We will support you, and protect you to the best of our abilities. But we will probably be strict parents, trying your patience in return too.
As for your birth parents, I am not afraid of your mother`s memory. I love Severus enough to share him. It doesn`t scare me that you still both love her and always will, I am here and she is not. I have a suspicion that she wouldn`t mind if you found place for me in your hearts. I am sure Harry that however much your father disliked Severus, he would want for you to be safe and loved. He would probably be surprised that Severus became your adopted father, but he would want for you to have loving adoptive parents whoever they were. I promise to give you the opportunity to get to know your parents` friends and I promise to talk about your birth parents to the best of my abilities even though I never knew them".
Severus then touched Harry`s shoulder lightly, saying "I cannot promise to be best friends with your fathers gang, but I will try to be civil. And I will try to not talk about your father; you will just get the wrong ideas about him as I have no positive memories of him. Your father`s friends will fill your ears with histories about his pranks and adventures. I just ask you to not take everything at face value, and try to not buy into everything they say."