James was surprised after reading the paper. As far as he was aware the Carrows didn't have any debt with the Potters. His father would have told him about the unclaimed assets of this magnitude. He was wondering what exactly Harry did in the bank. Goblins don't just give money away to the human with a reason.
James had a lot to think about suddenly. His life was simple before the events of the last few days. The only worry he had was of the stupid prophecy changing and putting his family in harm's way. Now he was worried about both his eldest sons being killers. Not to mention Bill's ability to bypass the strongest wards known. He still was pondering the conversation he had with the twin after they left Dumbledore's office.
Flashback
Lily had dragged Harry and Bill into an empty class room. James and Sirius had followed them into the room. Harold and Lisa left along with madam Bones to head to the ministry to sort out the mess created by the blood feud.
"I can't believe that one of my sons is a cold blooded killer while my other son fills no regret about his brother's actions. I thought we raised you two better than this." Lily scolded them.
"Mum I am not a cold blooded killer. I just did what had to be done to protect our family. Marius Mulciber was the one to declare the feud on our house. Not only that, he put the honor of all the females in our family on the line. This is something that I can't tolerate. His actions lead him to his death. I was just the instrument that delivered it. I know that killing is morally wrong but if it is necessary to protect my family I will do it again. It is the way a warrior lives. To protect my family I can either take a life or lay mine down. The only remorse I feel is because of an old man's stupidity a mother and a young girl had to die. And before you ask, those two had to die. Even though they would have become slaves to the Potter family they could have been dangerous to us as no one in our family would bind them." Bill said in an even voice looking in his mothers eyes.
Lily just hugged Bill and started to cry. Seeing his mother cry Harry went to comfort her. James and Sirius were completely speechless. James never knew this side of his son. He never expected Bill to take this warrior stuff so seriously. Harry wiped Lily's tears and said, "Mom don't cry. The tears mar your beautiful face."
Lily smiled at Harry, "now tell me about the family secret that you were talking about Harry." This piqued James and Sirius interest as well.
"Okay I tell you mum but first everybody has to promise that this secret doesn't leave the room." Harry said this looking at his father and Sirius. After getting a confirmatory nod from them he proceeded.
"Bill has invented a new way of magical transport. It is quite similar to apparition." Harry said and nodded to Bill. Bill teleported to the corner or the room and came back. James and Sirius just gaped at him.
"Mum as you know that a person can't apparate inside Hogwarts. We haven't decided on its name yet. I am thinking of calling it teleportation while Bill wants to call it instant transmission or instantaneous movement. This method of transportation can not only bypass anti-apparation ward but many other security ward put up in an area."
"How did you learn this Bill? It is quite brilliant I might add just like Harry's wandless magic" just as James said this he realized his mistake and looked at Sirius. "What wandless magic?" Sirius exclaimed.
"It is alright dad. I would have told Sirius sooner or later." Harry said and slyly added, "this is what I mean by you can't keep a secret." Harry waved is arm and float the nearby desk for Sirius to see. Seeing this Sirius eyes got big and round a saucer and his mouth dropped to the floor anime style. "How?" was all he could say after he managed to gather his wits.
"The first bout of accidental magic that I remember performing was at the age of seven. I don't remember if I did perform any accidental magic before that." Harry said looking at his mother with a questioning gaze.
"Sweetie you performed your first accidental magic when you were few days old. Actually both of you did. Bill changed his eye colour from green to brown when James was holding him. You floated and latched onto my breast when you were hungry." Lily cooed to Harry.
Harry blushed deeply after hearing this and looked at his mother's chest. He was about to lose himself in thought her breast and would it feel like to touch them again. Bill broke his chain of thoughts telepathically say, "Wake up!"
"As I was saying the remember performing accidental magic at the age of seven. I put a lot of thought it to it. Accidental magic is uncontrolled wandless magic. I tried to control my accidental magic. It wasn't easy but with the help of occlumency I managed to get some control over it." Harry said thinking that this was a good excuse to explain his occlumency. He added, "The mental shield is just a bonus. Plus they help in keeping to mind perverts out of our head."
James understood the reason for his two eldest sons to control or hide their emotions. Harry's wandless magic was just controlled accidental magic. And he knew that accidental magic was caused by strong emotions. Then something struck him even Bill had strong occlumency shields so it was possible even he had the ability to perform wandless magic. He remember the dinner when he was mysterious turn into a parrot could that have been Bill's wandless magic? "What mind perverts?"
"Dumbledore and Snape are to big mind perverts dad. They always try to take a sneak peek to see if our shields are down. They don't realize that we can feel their intrusions no matter how stealthy they try to be." Harry answered his father.
"Why that no good slime ball…" Sirius's rant was cut off by Lily. "How do we study occlumency Harry?" she asked not really liking the idea that Dumbledore or Snape could read her mind whenever they felt like it.
"Mom, there is a book in our library which can help to develop occlumency shield. The basic step is to meditate and clear our minds of any stray thoughts." Harry told her and told Bill to answer the first part of their dad's question.
"Dad I just don't keep on reading all the time. I observe the things around me. Bookish knowledge is completely useless if you don't know how to apply it in real life. I always try to use the knowledge I acquired to improve myself. I had read about the different forms of magical travel and ways to block them before coming to Hogwarts. When I came here I noticed that house elves could apparate even when the anti-apparation wards stop the humans. With some more research I found out that a separate ward is required to stop their movements. Observing them lead me to the discovery of instant transmission. This mode of transportation is different for the way house elves move because our magic and their magic are different. The wards to prevent their movements can't stop me." Bill explained.
"So can you teach us this instant transmission?" James asked. "Sure dad during the holidays I can try to teach you and mum. But there is no guarantee that you would be able to move like this." Bill replied.
"Are you two working on any more projects like these that we should know about?" Lily asked. "Yes mom but they are all top secret." Harry replied cheekily.
Lily was proud of her sons. They were inventing new stuff and doing things thought to be impossible at the age of 12. She was also a little worried that they might meddle with things they shouldn't. But so far both of them have showed that they have a level head.
End of Flashback
James decided the best thing he could do right now was to work on the rape case see to it that the other perpetrator were also brought to justice.
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Amelia Bones never liked the toad face hag Umbridge. She was responsible for cutting down the funding to her department. She also liked to use her aurors as her personal errand boys. She had been untouchable so far due to the fool Fudge protecting her. After reading the paper she was very happy because Fudge couldn't protect her from this. He was already busy trying to get the charges against the three remaining children of death eaters reduced or completely dropped.
She thought with Umbridge being charged with such a serious crime that Fudge's credibility with Wizengamot should drop. If she played her cards right she could not only take done the families of escaped Death eaters but also make things better for her department.
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Albus Dumbledore was a very worried man. The elder set of Potter twins have began to show their true power. They were starting to kill anyone how came in their way. The Mulciber family was needlessly wiped out by Bill Potter. Last year Harry Potter had killed the DADA teacher and now he had gone onto kill goblin bank manager. He couldn't all these two to go down to the dark side. For now these two were the only hope the light side had against Voldemort. He needed to do something to get them under his control.
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Amycus Carrow was surprised by the news he read. What is this nonsense about the house of Carrow being bankrupt? How the daily prophet did realized that he paid to get the Potter Twins arrested. He would have a word with the editor for printing such nonsense about his house.
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How Umbridge could have been this stupid? How can I saver her from this mess. Bones and some members of the Wizengamot would want to have her head on a platter for trying to interfere in a blood feud. She should have show better judgment and not gone after some extra Galleons.
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Harry was very happy with the article in the daily prophet. It turned out to be better than he had expected. Now people will know that they can't mess with the Potter and get away with it. Now all he had to do was to locate the blasted dairy.
He did realize that Dumbledore might keep a close eye on him and Bill from now on. He really hoped that the old man didn't go against them. Not that they couldn't take him on; it is just that he had great respect for the old man. He could understand the reasons behind some of the decision that Albus had taken in his old dimension as well as the current.
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By night fall life had return back to normal at Hogwarts. Bill had returned back to his life in the shadows. His actions were like a distant memory in almost everyone's minds. He did let a handful of people remember what he was capable off.
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Next morning Harry got a surprise. He heard everyone down stairs talking loudly about Collin Creevey being attacked and petrified. He had thought that his chat with Serpantina would have delayed the attacks. He thought at least no one would die.
The air was suddenly thick with rumors and suspicion. The first years were now moving around the castle in tight-knit groups, as though scared they would be attacked if they ventured out in the halls alone. Everyone was shaken up in Gryffindor. Rosa and Sakura were sitting on the couch by the fire. They were simply staring into the fire. The attack on their fellow Gryffindor first year had worried them greatly.
Harry could not bear to see the worried expression on their face. He told them not to worry about anything and that he would protect them from any monsters that try to harm them. Rosa and Sakura gave their brother a tight hugs. Harry could feel their budding breast press onto his chest from either side.
"Harry what about me?" Yuna asked. "Of course Yuna I will protect you too." Harry replied to her with a smile.
"Do you think that you are a big shot hero? Huh? Do you think that you are capable of single handle taking on the big bad monsters and defeating them?" Neville sneered at Harry. "I am the Boy who lived. If there is slaying to be done then I would do it."
"Nobody can expect someone as pathetic as you Neville to slay a monster. You keep throwing around the title of you being the boy who lived around like it means something. It is just a stupid moniker give to you." Harry snapped at Neville.
Neville pulled out his wand, "Why you arrogant…." The rest of his words were cut off by the four wands pointing at him. Harry's wand was very close to his throat.
Neville just turned around and left muttering curses under his breath. He swore that he would utterly destroy the Potters. He would have his revenge for the humiliation.
Bill just laughed at Neville's thought process and thought you can try Neville but you won't be able to harm a single hair on any Potter especially if you don't remember about it.
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Couple of days later as Harry was entering the common room he heard people talking, "It has to be a Slytherin. I think we should sneak into the Slytherin common room and find out who the heir is before he does some real damage." It was unmistakably Ron voice.
"What we need," said Hermione briskly to Ron and Padma, who had gotten special permission to enter the common room by their head of house. "Is to ask Harry about the issue."
Harry smiled at Hermione and said as he walked in the door, "You won't find anything if you go in the Slytherin's common room. I think we need to do our homework and figure out what petrifies people."
All three of their heads snapped up and Harry was surprised when he did not hear a crack. "Harry..." Ron started nervously. Harry rolled his eyes and said, "Don't worry Ron; I know you think it was a good idea but it's a pain in the ass to get the ingredients for the potion that would be needed to do that assignment."
Hermione was curious, "What potion would have been needed?" Harry turned to her and said simply, "Polyjuice." Hermione's eyes widened and she said, "Oh yes, that is a very complicated potion to brew. I read all about it in Most Potente Potions. You would need leeches, powdered bicorn horn, knotgrass, fluxweed picked at full moon, shredded boomslang skin and lastly-"
"A bit of whom one the person wants to turn into. And it only lasts for one hour." Harry finished for her. Ron looked disgusted and shrieked, "Like toe nails?" The loud yell drew odd looks from other people. Harry shook his head with a chuckle, "No mate, and a few hairs." Ron shuddered, "Disgusting."
"You all should learn the virtue of minding your own business. Sometimes you should lay low and do nothing." Bill told them from his seat in the common room. Bill was the only one who sat on that chair. The other students would refrain themselves from going near it.
Harry just blew a raspberry at him. "That's very mature of you harry." Hermione chided him playfully.
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At last the term ended, and a silence deep as the snow on the grounds descended on the castle. Harry found it peaceful, rather than gloomy, and enjoyed the fact that he would be coming home for Christmas to spend time with his family. When the group was walking through the hallways, the armored knights were enchanted to sing Christmas carols and dance. It scared Ron so bad one time that he jumped a foot high in the air and jumped into Harry's arms drawing wolf-whistles from the Weasley Twins.
"Ron you should know that I don't swing that way." Harry told him. Ron was confused by Harry's statement. He was about to ask Harry what he meant by that when his twin brothers told him, "You will understand it little bro…" "…when you grow up." In their patented twin speech.
As the large group walked into the great hall they saw that it really looked wonderful. There were a dozen frost-covered Christmas trees and thick streamers of holly and mistletoe crisscrossing the ceiling, enchanted snow was falling from the ceiling.
After a wonderful feast, Harry and Hermione decided to finish their homework assignment. They decided to head to the library. When they got to the doors leading outside, Hermione looked up at the ceiling and smiled.
"Mistletoe!" exclaimed Hermione, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed over Harry's head. Harry looked up at the plant and also smiled. Harry remembered the conversation he had with Ginny in his previous dimension about Hermione having feeling for him.
Hermione couldn't believe her luck. She caught Harry her prince charming under mistletoe. Not only that but he was also going to kiss her. Harry leaned down and their lips softly grazed each others'. After few moments of soft kissing just as Harry was about to deepen it he saw the look that every female in the hall was giving him. He decided to end the kiss. Hermione was in complete heaven. Her brain had stopped functioning when her lips met Harry's. She was completely oblivious to her surroundings. She didn't notice that most of the girls in the great hall were eyeing her jealously. After she got back to her senses she hopped to the library as if floating on cloud nine.
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Later that night Harry was sitting alone in the common room staring at the fireplace, he could not sleep. He was thinking to himself, not about the future, not about war or Voldemort. No, it was about something far scarier...girls.
Harry felt that his plate was getting fuller and fuller pretty quickly. He didn't mind being hounded by girls. His main problem was that his body was of a 12 year old and a mind of a 20 year old. He might have acted ignorant around the girls but he knew how they looked at him. He was too afraid to think what they might do to him after puberty hits them.
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Finally the day to go home for break had arrived. Harry had a rather good wake up call, his sisters Rosa and Sakura actually ran through the boy's dormitory to wake him up to get ready to go home by jumping on his bed and yelling. They were excited to go back home for the holidays.
Neville started to get mad; he thought he needed his beauty sleep. "Potter, control your brat sisters or I will deal with them." Harry looked over his shoulder and said, "Shut up Fagbottom if you even try to harm them..." harry left the threat hanging. This shut Neville up.
End of chapter 21.
A/N: 1) Sorry of the delay. Real life had become too hectic.
2) Next chapter will be updated shortly.
3) I need a new beta reader. My old one has just disappeared.