Chapter twenty one

'Fawkes has been the familiar to the Potter family for generations. When my father died, Fawkes was reborn and joined with me. I never thought dad would die so young so I never had to call Fawkes before.'

'Everyone believed Fawkes belonged to Albus, he would sit in his office.'

'Fawkes was supposed to stay close to Harry, but he would stay at Hogwarts when Harry started as a student. He was there when I was, but as I said, I never had to call him. Fawkes would not have listened to Albus, not if he was the reason for us being stuck or for Harry going through danger. Fawkes would have headed to Hogwarts to keep an eye on Harry, get him out of danger if it was needed. Fawkes went to you in the chamber as he knew you were in danger then healed you using his tears. But since my family is a descendant of Godric Gryffindor then Fawkes would go to Hogwarts whenever it was needed.'

'That wasn't the only time I was in danger, but I never saw Fawkes, not until the chamber had first been opened.'

'Then Albus somehow stopped Fawkes going to you,' James gave the large bird a pat, 'Can you conjure a stand for him.'

Sirius pulled out James' wand, held it out, 'We found it in the house, Harry told me to keep it. It actually feels like it's mine.'

'We did that in case anything went wrong. You were to be the father to Harry if it was needed and Amelia was to be the mother,' James took the wand, he smiled at the familiar feeling. He conjured a large stand with a water and food bowl at either end. Underneath was a golden tray, ready for when the phoenix needed to be reborn. Harry smiled as he held out his mother's wand to her, she took it with a smile.

'You mentioned Petunia and how Harry had a terrible life,' Lily looked down at her son who looked uncomfortable, 'Even though you should have been with Amelia or Sirius, Fawkes should have stayed beside you. Albus must have created powerful wards to keep a phoenix away from you.'

'He created blood wards, connected to Harry from you to Petunia. It was to make sure he remained safe from the one who murdered you,' Sirius said.

'Petunia is not my blood, I was adopted, so he lied about those wards. They must have been to keep Fawkes away along with wards to keep the Potter house elves from looking after Harry.'

'I never knew you were adopted,' Sirius said, 'Remus never mentioned anything either.'

'We never spoke about it, but it's the reason I never saw her after my…parent's died. Mum and dad were wonderful people, but Petunia was always nasty, a right bitch she was. I had begun to research who my parents were, then the goblins told me I had a vault at Gringotts. They say the vault was mine, but it was originally set up hundreds of years ago, then passed from one to another. They could not tell me the names of who left it to me as the information had been removed from all their files. The only name on it was mine. That told me I wasn't a muggleborn, so I had magical parents, or at least one. I stopped researching as it was becoming dangerous. I always planned to go back to that to see if I could figure out who my parents were.'

'Lily said she would explain when she had more information, so I kept it to myself. So Petunia was arrested.'

'Her and Vernon were, Amelia worked it all out. Dudley was originally sent to live with his aunt until the police found out how many kids he assaulted. They found out about the theft, drinking and drugs. He is now in a juvenile detention centre. Petunia and Vernon are both doing time in a muggle jail. Petunia will serve two years, Vernon will serve ten years,' Harry felt his mother tighten his hold, and it finally sunk in that his parents were here, holding him, 'Oh god, my parents are alive, my whole life has been a lie. That fucking bastard,' Harry growled as he clenched his fists, the air around him began to crackle.

'Calm down Harry, you're magic is reacting,' Lily said as she pulled Harry against her, James wrapped his arms around Harry as well.

'Calm down son before you hurt yourself or us.'

As Susan and Sirius watched James and Lily try to calm Harry.

Susan was curious, 'Um, I've never seen anyone do that when they were angry or upset,' she whispered to Sirius.

'It's because Harry is very powerful Susan. We found out not long after he was born. Whenever he was upset everything in his room would fly around until we could work out why he was upset. I had an unspeakable do some tests on Harry. She found out that he has the most powerful magical core ever recorded. We had no choice, but we had to cast the dampening spell on him just to stop the intense magic coming from him. All of us could have been serious hurt, but Harry was too young to learn how to control it,' Lily said but kept her arms around Harry until he calmed down.

'I would say Albus found out. So even though he knew Harry had a piece of Voldemort's soul he also felt threatened by Harry's power,' Sirius said.

'That's why I had a lot of trouble in my classes during my first year.'

'Yes, but the spell we did would slowly disappear once you began your magical education. Your father and I planned to teach you from the age of five so you could get a handle on your power before you went to Hogwarts. Since you did not live with anyone magical the spell would not begin to break down until you started at Hogwarts.'

Everyone looked up when Amelia, two aurors, Augusta and an unspeakable entered the room. Lily stood up and hugged the unspeakable before anyone could say a word.

'If I had known I would have found Harry and taken him to the house.'

'I know Aurelia, we left letters, they were stolen.'

'Albus stole them, I questioned him before returning. He did not want anyone to influence Harry apart from him. Now Aurelia will examine both of you then I will question you. I brought two aurors with me to act as witnesses, along with Augusta.'

'So the old man knew my parent's souls were trapped in the dagger?'

'Yes, he could not have your parent's, Sirius or me to have control over you.'

Lily smiled down at Harry, 'This is Aurelia, my sister, my real blood sister.'

'Blimey,' Harry gapped up at the unspeakable.

'My father found out they were sisters, but he never found out who their parents are,' James said smiling at Lily and Aurelia, 'They were separated at birth, adopted, Lily was taken to the muggle world, Aurelia was adopted by a friend of my father's.'

'I believe it's time I remove my hood,' Aurelia smiled then waved her hand in front of her face.

Everyone apart from Lily and James stared in shock. Aurelia and Lily were identical twins.

'Oh merlin,' Susan whispered.

'Right back at you Susan,' Amelia said, she shook her head then got down to business, 'Let's get this examination and questions out of the way.'

'I have organised for Harry, and Susan if she wishes, to have the next few days away from Hogwarts. The moment this news gets out, Harry would not get any peace from the press. Since it's known that Susan is Harry's girlfriend, she will also be harassed the moment she is seen.'

'Thank you Professor. Could you let Neville and Hannah know about all this, but in private?'

'Of course Harry, I'm sure they are already concerned since they knew you were entering that house.'

Harry and Susan sat together while Aurelia began her examination of James and Lily. Amelia, Augusta and the two aurors recorded everything and watched everything. When Aurelia finished she smiled.

'I magically declare that these two individuals are James Charlus Potter, born 27th March 1960. Son of Fleamont Potter and Euphemia Potter. And Lily Corrin Potter born 30th January 1960, paternal parent's, unknown. Parent's of Harry James Potter, born 31st July 1980. James and Lily's medical and official age is twenty one as they have not aged since their souls were encased in a protective magical item.'

'So I'm thirty five which would be the same age as James and Lily but they are going to be classed as twenty one,' Sirius stared at his friend, 'You're twenty one with a fourteen year old son.'

'Immaculate conception,' Harry grinned then began to laugh, 'This is so trippy.'

'I'm with you there love,' Susan said then began to laugh as well, 'Your parents are only just older than you. This could mean you will have a lot in common, especially being close in age.'

'Hey, I can fly with dad, he was a chaser, I'm a seeker, cool.'

'You made seeker,' James grinned.

'You're looking at the youngest seeker in a century Prongs. He made the Gryffindor team in his first year. As of now he's not playing for Hufflepuff since they have a great seeker,' Sirius said.

'Cedric leaves at the end of the year, they have all said I will have the position next year.'

'They weren't going to let Harry's talent get away. He holds the record for most snitches caught in a season as well as fastest snitch caught in any game,' Susan grinned.

'You can fill your parent's in on your achievements soon. We must get to the official questions so I can release a statement to the Daily Prophet,' Amelia said

'I will be going with you Amelia, to remind them just who owns their arses,' James said winking at Harry whose eyes had gone wide. Another thing Harry had no idea about, he or his father own the Daily Prophet. Now they might be able to stop the paper printing lies.