Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter, though I do wish I did.
Sorry it has taken so long to get something out, severe writers block. This is not as long as the others but it will have to do for now.
It may take me a while to update things as we had a fire in out flat yesterday and we need to get everything sorted and cleaned up. hopefully it wont take to long.
On with the chapter
Hidden LegacyChapter Ten
It was time to go back to Hogwarts. He had owled his friends telling them that he had been adopted by Poppy and that he was getting to know his new family. His friends were pleased and happy to know that their friend now had a family by his side, one that loved him. he hadn't told them that he was also related to Draco Malfoy, he was waiting to surprise that on the blond when he insulted them next.
Harry stood at Kings Cross with Poppy, on the muggle side, they were waiting for Quinn to come with Maria. Harry had told Poppy that he would watch out for his niece. It was half ten when the two final appeared. Quinn was carting Maria's trunk with him as Maria darted forwards and hugged her grandmother.
"Hello Maria dear. How was the rest of your summer?" the Medi-witch asked.
"It was wonderful Nana we went to the beach at St Ives in Cornwall. It was fun, we made sandcastles and me and Zaria flew a kite. It almost pulled us off our feet, dad had to help us with it." The young eleven year old answered excitedly about the small family holiday that she had taken after the family gathering.
The four walked through the barrier, with Harry and Maria going first. Maria couldn't wait until she got to Hogwarts, she would be going to school with her uncle. Not many could say that to their friends. Harry put the trunks onto the train and went over to say goodbye to Quinn, as he would be seeing Poppy when he reached the school.
"Well Maria make sure you behave yourself, if you have any problems go to your Grandmother or your Uncle Harry, okay sweet heart." Quinn told his young daughter. Poppy smiled at the two and then walked over to Mrs Longbottom to talk with her, the two were old school friends.
"I will dad. I'll write as much as I can." She smiled as she hugged her father.
"I wish your mother could be here as well." He said as he held her tightly.
"Hee hee. I know."
"Yes well someone had to look after the others, and if we had brought Kari along, she would have sneaked onto the train with you." He laughed.
Maria let go of her father and started towards the train with Harry. Poppy had finished talking with Mrs Longbottom and had gone to stand by Quinn.
"Well Potter, looks like you have picked up another stray this year." Came the arrogant voice of Draco Malfoy.
"Actually Draco, they are your cousins." Poppy said as she came up behind the young blond.
"My what? Great Aunt Poppy, how can Potter be my cousin?" Malfoy asked as he turned around to look at the Medi-witch.
Poppy wished once again that she could do something to get the young man away from her nephew Lucius. "If your mother and father ever bothered to read the messages that I sent to them about the family gathering, they would have known that there was a new family member, and that your cousin Maria would be attending Hogwarts this year." she told him. She knew that he would tell Lucius and that it would work its way back to Voldemort. But that would be a good idea for it to be known that Harry now had family protection, true family protection.
"Nice to meet you cousin." Harry smirked over at the blond.
"I don't believe it." Malfoy huffed as he stormed onto the train.
"Harry!" Ron Weasley called as the rest of the Weasley family and Hermione and her parents followed the red headed teen.
"Ron, how was your summer?" Harry asked as he walked over to his best friend.
"It was brilliant, we went to the Wizarding Quarter, it's in America, Hermione and her family came with us, we had a lot of fun, it was so different from Diagon Alley I just wish that you could have come with us. Would have been even better." He answered as Hermione stood beside him.
"Yeah well something better happened to me, I got a family. I still don't believe that Poppy adopted me. I have three brothers and a sister, and a few nieces and nephews. Which include Fleur Delacour. And Maria over there." He told them both as he gestured to Maria who was talking to another first year.
"Cool." The red head grinned as he looped an arm around Hermione's waist.
Harry grinned back as he brushed his left hand through his hair, "Harry?" came the questioning voice of Molly Weasley.
"Hello Mrs Weasley how was your summer?" Harry asked her as he saw her slightly pale face behind Ron and Hermione.
"Harry come here child, I want to talk to you about something important." She said as she held out her hand. He put his right hand in hers, she looked at the symbol and her face paled even more. She pulled him out of the way to an almost deserted part of the platform. She quickly put up a privacy ward around the two of them.
"Mrs Weasley?"
"You're a Moon Child. I've been having dreams for over fifteen years. Since that Halloween. They never made much sense, all they showed me was that I would meet someone with a crescent moon on their left hand and a pentagram with the elements on their right. The dreams told me that they would be a Water Elemental like me and that I would have to guide them and show them how to use that ability." She told him, her voice excited but with a hint of fear in it.
"You dreamed about me?"
Molly smiled, "Yes I did. I never saw the face, all I heard was a woman's voice telling me that you would become a large part of my life and that you would be one of the family. I thought that it might be you but the images never appeared on your hands, so I thought it would be someone Charlie or Bill brought home."
"Well at least I know what the voice meant when she said that the one who would teach me would be close to my heart. You have been a mother to me since I met you."
"Well you have a mother now, and I have known Poppy since I was eleven and went to Hogwarts myself. I know she will take good care of you. But if you ever need me I am here for you. Now we will meet in Hogsmeade and I will take you to a place where I learnt how to control my Water Element. Owl me with the date of the first Hogsmeade weekend alight Harry." She told him gently, as she pulled him into a motherly hug.
"I will Mrs Weasley." Harry smiled back, embracing the woman as tight as he could.
"Molly, Harry, Molly." She said as she let him go and then let the privacy spell fall around them.
"Okay, Molly."
"On to the train with you. It will be leaving in a little bit. Go and find a place to sit. I remember always having to search for a place to sit." She reminisced.
Harry smiled and nodded to her, and ran off to Ron and Hermione who were waiting to get on the train. Maria was standing nearby with the first year she was talking to a little while ago. Harry motioned for the two older ones to find a place for them all to sit and Harry approached to the younger ones with a smile.
"Hey Maria, who is your new friend?" he asked, smiling trying to put the new comer at ease.
"Hi Uncle Harry, this is Janice, she has a brother coming here as well. This is my Uncle Harry, my Grandma adopted him in the summer. He's in Gryfindor, and plays Seeker on the Quidditch team." Maria said as she introduced the two to each other.
"Hi Janice. It's nice to meet you. Would you both like join me and my friends in our compartment?" he asked them.
"That's okay, I'm going to take Maria and introduce her to some of my friends." Janice smiled as she took Maria's hand and pulled her towards the train.
"Bye Uncle Harry, I'll see you later!" she called as the two girls disappeared onto the train.
Harry laughed as he walked onto the train and found an empty compartment. Hermione was headgirl this year, and Terry Boot was headboy. Ron was a prefect and so Harry was on his own for a little while until the two came back. Though Neville and Ginny would be joining him in a while, they were just catching up with some other friends.
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Everyone was sat in the Great Hall waiting for the first years to be brought in and sorted. He had told Ginny and Neville about Poppy, and that she was related to the Malfoy family, though he did not have chance to tell Ron and Hermione as a fight had broken out on the train and they had to sort it all out.
The Hall silenced as Professor McGonagall brought the first years in. She stepped up and stood by the old wooden stool. She unrolled the scroll and started to read the names letting the young eleven year olds.
"Janice Crabbe" she called, as the slender young girl walked up, her blond hair bouncing as the sat on the stool.
"Gryfindor!" the hat shouted, Janice smiled and went over to the Gryfindor table. Harry looked over towards the Slytherin table and noticed the shocked look on Crabbe's face at his sister's placement.
'So that's her older brother.' Harry thought to himself with a smile as he greeted Janice.
Ron had his mouth open, was the young girl related to Vincent Crabbe. She sat down at the Gryfindor table and Ron asked quietly, "Are you related to Vincent Crabbe?"
She smiled at him and answered, "Yes, he's my older brother."
A little while later McGonagall called out "Maria Malfoy."
The young girl sat on the stool, the hat took almost ten minutes for it to finally shout out "Gryfindor!"
Harry clapped and cheered as his new niece was placed into his house. "Hey Uncle Harry." She smiled happily as she came over to the table and sat down next to her uncle.
"Congratulations Maria." He said giving her a hug.
Ron gaped and asked, "How are you related to Malfoy?"
"Cousin." She replied simple.
"Hmmmm." Ron hummed as he looked at Harry.
The feast began and Harry filled Hermione and Ron in on everything that had happened that summer, since Voldemort had taken him. He had left out the fact that eh was an elemental and that Ron's mother would be teaching him how to use his powers. He still needed to figure out what his other element was.
Sorry it is not as long as the other chapters. This has been sitting like this now four almost a month and I have not been able to add anything else to it so I am going to leave it as it is and hope for the best.