Chapter twenty five

Harry and Evan arrive in the waiting room of Witch Weekly and within seconds reporters were surrounding them.

'I need to speak with Edward Gallagher first,' Harry called out but kept Evan close to him, then they were shown into an office of an older man.

'Mr. Potter, it's nice to see you again.' he shook Harry's hand, 'We heard rumours that you had a son and it seems to be true. What can we do for you at Witch Weekly this time?'

'Since it's going to get out, I thought I could give your magazine the story of how I only just found out about Evan. You've always done right by me, so I think you deserve the story.'

'Thank you and we always will Mr. Potter. So the name Evan, is that after your mother?'

'Yes, her maiden name was Evans as everyone knows.'

'Then we'd love to do your story Mr. Potter, will we be allowed to have a picture of you and your son, together?'

'Yes, that's fine and I expected you to ask.'

'Then let me get Shaun, get the story then we'll get the picture. Please take a seat, I'll be right back.'

Harry nodded then pointed to a sofa for Evan to sit then he sat beside his son who was looking around at lots of copies of the magazine, with Harry's face on most of them.

'You really do have a lot of attention, don't you dad, and people seem to do what you want.'

'Not always Evan, but like any newspaper or magazine, the more impressive the story, the more they sell and anything to do with me seems to sell. But this story will be big and will sell a lot of copies. So they like it because it makes them money.'

'But this is about us, why do they get the money?'

'They pay us Evan, I don't keep it, I usually give the money to Hogwarts.'

'You said you were rich.'

'Yes, I am, my parents left me everything and they had a lot, but my godfather left me his family's money who were extremely wealthy. To this day I have never needed to go into my godfather's vault for money. I use my parents or what I earn. But now you're rich too Evan and I will be setting you up with your own vault, with just enough to live on for now. When you're older I will set you up another one. Now when we go there, I will change a lot to muggle money so you can use it at home. But our money you will have as well, you can't use that except in the magical world. I'll explain more later, there here,' Harry smiled then stood to greet the man who walked in with the editor.

'This will be a big story Mr. Potter.'

'Yes, I realise that. As we've discussed before, the money for the story is to go to Hogwarts.'

'Yes, I remember Mr. Potter. So let's sit down and you can tell your story and your son's story.'

Harry sat back next to his son, 'This actually goes back to when I was fourteen. Well, it starts back then.'

'Then just say what you wish Mr. Potter and I'll take it down,' Shaun said.

'Okay, well as you all know my godfather was in hiding at the time, I did spend a lot of time with him and the order of the phoenix. At the age of fourteen is when I worked out I was gay, and I had started to develop feelings for my godfather. I never said anything to him, not until I was fifteen. We talked a lot, he had feelings for me, but we worked out nothing would happen because of my age. Well, not long after I turned fifteen I talked Sirius around, he literally had no choice. I would sneak into his room of a night, into his shower, we kept it secret mainly because I was underage and Sirius could get into trouble, so saying that, yes there was sex, all my doing though, Sirius didn't want to until I was older, but as I said, I made that difficult then impossible for him to say no. I loved Sirius very much, he loved me, when he died I was devastated, but because of Voldemort I didn't have time to dwell on the loss or grieve. I dated Ginny Weasley even though I was gay, this was for a few reasons. First I figured I would die before the end of the war, I thought since Ginny had liked me for a long time she could have some nice memories of our time together. I also never wanted to love again, I was scared to love again and even though I hate admitting this, she was a good distraction from what was going on, what I knew I had to do. After the war, I finally started to feel the loss, grieve for Sirius and since I didn't have anything to focus on, I changed. I was quiet, my friends said I was cold, hard in a lot of ways, not cruel in any way, just not the way I was and that all came down to the way I felt about Sirius, I couldn't stop thinking about him. Anyway, Ginny and I started dating again, I broke up with her right after Albus Dumbledore died. I was worried that Voldemort would go after her if he found out. So we were dating, yes sex was involved, but I couldn't give her what she wanted, feelings, touching, emotions, I wouldn't hold her hand, I wouldn't put my arm around her, I just couldn't feel anything and I didn't really want to, I was still mourning Sirius. One night after dragging me into the room of requirement and after sex, she realised nothing had changed between us, she broke up with me, which was for the best, best for her, because I could never give her what she wanted. I felt lost, alone and having no family I felt like I didn't have anyone to turn to, someone that would understand what I was feeling. Anyway, we never saw each other at all over the next month or so. Then one day Ron Weasley came to tell me she'd left and no one knew where she was or why she left. He wanted to know what happened between us. The Weasley family had no idea where she was and they only received one letter asking her father for money. Months later she returned but was quiet, she never told anyone anything. Not much happened over the years only what you already know. I married Charlie, Ginny married Lee Jordon and she plays for the Holyhead Harpies. One day Minerva McGonagall came to see me, this was a few days ago. She explained that Poppy Pomfrey retired and knew that my patient file should be kept confidential, she thought there might be others, so she decided to check. She found out that Ginny had been pregnant when we were at Hogwarts, she came to tell me, I went to confront Ginny. She refused to talk, I asked if she terminated the baby, she still refused to talk, so I decided to take her to court. During the court case she told me she never terminated, but gave our son up for adoption. She wrote down all the information and Kingsley Shacklebolt went to Hogwarts to get a list of all boys who were starting Hogwarts this year. The next day I went with Minerva McGonagall and Charlie to see Evan, meet his family. I needed to make sure he was loved and looked after before I decided to take custody of him. Evan is loved and looked after, so he will be staying with his adoptive parents. We are talking tonight about visitation, Hogwarts and everything that I will need to help Evan with, they are muggles. Minerva explained about Hogwarts and how he will be starting in September. His adoptive mother let me take Evan home with me last night so he could meet the rest of his family, which he did. The minister told me there was a small story in the Daily Prophet about my son. As you know I hate the Daily Prophet and won't give them the time of day that's when I thought I should tell my story. I spoke with Ginny last night and she said let's get it all out in the open and hopefully we can put that behind us and get to know our son, so she gave me permission to explain her part in this.'

'So are you and Mrs. Jordon friends again, we know you haven't talked in years?'

'Yes, we decided it was time to forget about that for Evan's sake. We both want to get to know him and he wants to know us.'

'Since I can see how much your son looks like you, is that the reason you decided to tell him?'

'The main reason, as you know more than most, anything to do with me ends up in the papers or magazines. Evan would have a lot of attention once he started Hogwarts. So we thought he deserved to know and it would be better if I explained than for him to hear from others.'

'You said he's staying with his adoptive parents. Did you consider taking custody of your son since you have legal rights?'

'I did until I realised I might be taking him from a loving home. If he was raised like me, then yes, I would have taken Evan into my custody. But his mother is a very nice woman, she loves Evan, Evan loves her.'

'But I love my dad too, my real dad,' Evan smiled up at Harry.

'I'm sure you do Evan. How are you getting on with your father? Sorry Mr. Potter, is it alright to ask your son some questions?'

'Yes, it's fine, within reason of course.'

'Of course, so Evan?'

'Great, dad's been telling me all about the magical world, he levitated Uncle Charlie, that was funny, then he showed me how to fly on brooms, Uncle Charlie, my mum and Uncle Ron was with me. I borrowed my cousin Hugo's broom, it was fun. Dad and Uncle Charlie showed me a lot of magic, things I will learn at Hogwarts.'

'What about your uncles, aunts and grandparents, how did you get on with them? There's a lot of them, I'm sure it was very daunting meeting them.'

'No, I'm not the shy type, but they were all great. I'd never seen anyone snog before, dad and Charlie snogged, then granddad explained that all of them snog even with people around.'

Harry laughed, 'Not too much information son.'

'Sorry dad, it's all so fascinating. I met the other aurors this morning, dad explained what they do.'

'Do you think you'd like to be an auror when you finish Hogwarts?'

'I don't know, I don't know that much yet, maybe in a few years when I learn more about all this then I'll decide. Before I heard all this, I did think of being a doctor, do you have those here since dad said he needed potions to heal him.'

'We do, but they are healers, not doctors. There a lot different from what you know Evan and things in our world can be healed that can't be in the muggle world. I'm sure you father will explain all that in time. Mr. Potter, we heard rumours that you stormed out of the courtroom after calling Mrs. Jordon something, can you confirm that?'

'Yes, I called her a bitch,' Harry shrugged, 'It was right after she told me she gave our son up for adoption. I was angry, upset, which anyone could understand. Normally when that happens, I train in the auror training room, but Charlie wouldn't let me. He wanted me to talk about everything and I admit I broke down, cried into his arms.'

'This is surprising to hear Mr. Potter, from what we know, you don't show your emotions.'

'The last time I cried was over Albus Dumbledore's body. Even with Sirius I couldn't cry, I was in shock for a long time and again because of Voldemort I couldn't take the time to really think about him. I think that's why I was so closed off after I killed Voldemort, I just seemed to shut down.'

'Until that day Charlie Weasley carried you out of the ministry, over his shoulder.'

Harry laughed, 'Yes, we'd been seeing each other for a while. But one morning when I arrived home to get ready for work, my picture of Sirius was on my bed. It always stayed in my photo album, I was convinced he was telling me to stop seeing Charlie, so I did. I avoided going anywhere that Charlie would find me and my home is under the fidelius charm, so he couldn't get in. That's when he turned up at the ministry and confronted me. But I think I've given you enough for a few stories.'

'Yes, you have, so if we organise the picture of you and your son, you can be on your way and your story will be out from tomorrow.'

Harry nodded, then with Evan followed the men from the office and stood for some pictures with his son before leaving to show Evan more of their world.