September 1991
The Potters arrived at the Platform 20 minutes before it leaves, Lily was talking to the boys, asking if they had everything in them and that if they had not forgotten anything. James then told them to always stay safe and not look for troubles. Harry and Scott looked down to say goodbye to Rose and saw that she had tears running down her cheeks, Harry picked her up and tried to soothe her.
"Don't cry Rose, we're going to be back at Christmas, we're also going to write to you tons and send you lots of gifts." Scott said, but Rose didn't react to that and still cried silently. "Yeah we'll keep sending you gifts and toys we promise." Harry continued, and Rose just nodded and hugged Harry, after a while "Why don't you say goodbye to Scott too, he needs your hug" Harry said, then gave Rose to Scott who pick her up and hugged her, which she reciprocated.
"Okay, the two of you need to get on board or you'll be left." James said, Scott then put Rose down and Lily hold her tiny hand and lead her to her side. "Goodbye you two, try to keep out of trouble and always stay safe" James said patting a shoulder to Harry and Scott, Lily continued "Also, always keep up with your studies and do try to enjoy your time at Hogwarts" she said, Scott then hugged the two of them, "Yeah, I'll do my best to do everything you said and you don't have to worry Neville, Susan and Hannah will make sure I won't do something stupid." He said, then he pulled back and said one last good bye to Rose.
After the hug, James and Lily looked at Harry and were unsure what to do, they wanted to hug him like they did with Scott but was unsure if Harry wanted to hug them too. Seeing the awkward feeling between them Harry decided to break the silence "I'll also make sure to keep Scott safe and out of trouble" he said. "Also, keep yourself out of danger and trouble too, and do your best at your studies and have fun." James said, he then mustered his courage and walked forward to hug him, Harry was taken aback by his gesture, but easily composed himself and awkwardly returned the hug. After James hugged him, Lily walked forward and hugged him too, she was trying to catch up all the hugs she didn't gave her son before with this one hug, she pulled back and said "if you ever need something, or having some trouble or just want to talk you know we're just one letter away." Lily said
"Don't worry, I'll send the two of you letters." Harry replied. James then interjected, "thank you Harry, for giving us a chance to be part of your life." he said, Harry look at him and nodded with a smile, "I should go before all compartments are taken." Harry replied and he went to Rose to say his goodbye and hug one more time. Scott and Harry then boarded the train and looked at them to wave goodbye. After the train had left, Scott and Harry separated to be with their friends.
Harry, Hermione and Luna were sitting at the Ravenclaw table for the opening feast, they were awaiting for the arrivals of the first years, the hall was buzzing, they were curious and excited about seeing the boy-who-lived and where he would be sorted. Harry had even participated on a bet on where Scott was going to be sorted. Harry gambled 2 galleons on him being sorted to Gryffindor. After betting, he went to his quidditch team to catch up with them, Hermione and Luna talk to their fellow classmates and their study group about their summers and about the boy-who-lived.
The talking stopped, when the doors opened and Professor McGonagall escorted the first years, this batch of first years were the last war babies, it also had the names of many prominent of families, the most in a year, Harry guessed, the only classmate that Harry had that were one of the prominent families was Cedric Diggory, but this first years had a Potter, Longbottom, Bones, Macmillan, Smith, Boot, Turpin, Corner, Greengrass, Parkinson, Zabini and Malfoy, Weasley would also be part of it, even though their father was respected in the Ministry and their mother was a Prewett which was also a prominent name in Britain, their status as being poor really hindered their social status. When the sorting had begun Bones and Abbott went to Huflepuff, Boot, Corner and Turpin went to Ravenclaw, Greengrass, Malfoy and Parkinson went to Slytherin, while the only Gryffindor was Longbottom.
"POTTER, SCOTT" McGonagall called out, the hall went eerily quiet to watch, he could see his little brother was nervous as hell, amid the sorting, their eyes met and Harry gave him an encouraging nod and Scott was able to compose himself by breathing slowly he anxiously sat at the stool, his sorting went longer than the usual, it was quiet for a long moment till "GRYFFINDOR" the hat called out, Scott let out a relieved sigh then went to the Gryffindor table and sat beside Neville. The sorting continued with Macmillan and Smith going to Hufflepuff, Turpin went to Ravenclaw, Weasley going to Gryffindor and Zabini to Slytherin.
After the sorting, the feast begun and when it ended Harry was curious as to why Dumbledore would tell Hogwarts students to avoid the 3rd floor corridor if they didn't want to die a painful death. I mean it was usual about the forbidden forest and the banned items, he thought about it for a while until he shrugged it off, passing it as a weird joke by Dumbledore or a business that he shouldn't pry into.
It was now three weeks that classes started, Harry, Hermione and Luna had sold 40 out of 45 notes in Binns' class that earned them 2 galleons and a 22/30 of their maps, 12 were sold in the summer while 10 were sold within 3 weeks that earned them 102 galleons. It was all done underground, they didn't know if what they were doing was illegal or not, but they decided not to risk it. They didn't try to produce more products like the map or create more notes to control the demand and supply of the market.
The three were at the room of requirement, Hermione and Luna were scouring books in there about alchemy and enchanting, Harry was fixing a cheap junk motorcycle he bought with the galleons from his vault, he smuggled it using expanded trunk that he shrunk and put in his normal trunk. Harry had also studied warding and curse breaking when he was tired of fixing the motorcycle. The three of them were adjusting nicely even though Harry and Hermione were a couple. Luna had tried to make new friends out of their circle. She joined one study group with her other year mates and she joined a school club that gathers every Friday and because she wouldn't join Harry and Hermione every Friday at the Room of Requirement because of her club, the couple decided that it would be a day to either for studying lightly, relaxing and having their alone time. Every morning and night since Scott arrived, Harry had checked the map to see if he was in the place where he was supposed to be.
-October 1991
Harry and Scott were writing a letter to their parents updating them the events that had transpired in Hogwarts. Scott was writing them a letter every week while this was the first letter that Harry sent to his parents, it was just an update on what had happened on the month of September. After they were done the two sent it using Hedwig so it would be faster. An idea popped in Harry's mind while walking with Scott towards the great hall. "I'm going to the tower. I forgot something I needed. Bye" Harry said, "See you" Harry nodded to Scott's reply and rushed towards Ravenclaw tower. He needed to write down his idea before it scramble in his head and many points will get lost. When he reached his room in the tower he immediately looked and found his idea notebook. It only had a few incomplete ideas in it.
He took out a pen and wrote his idea which was to create a magical mobile phone. In his head the mobile phone wasn't bulky like the muggles had, it was thin, flat, will have clear communication and will be much more advance and better than the muggles had. After writing his idea he went out to find Luna and Hermione.
He found the two of them talking with Natalie Clarke, their classmate and also the few who had become their friend. Deciding that it would be better to tell them tomorrow which was Wednesday, a day in the RoR. The three of them kept strengthening their Occlumency shields and Legillimency attacks, they had also kept improving their healing ability and the three of them were about to start on their animagus training. He approached them and sat beside Hermione "hey guys, good evening" Harry said, he then hold her hand which she reciprocated. "What are you guys talking about?" Harry asked and the four were hanging out in the common room together with the other Ravenclaws. His classmates decided to stop studying for a while since it was not a hectic and busy week and just hang out for one day. The Ravenclaw 4th years were talking about quidditch, playing a couple of games, Harry had even introduced the lot of them some muggle games her mother had enchanted, they also talked about the subjects, teachers and how they will treat Scott Potter they were doing this until it was curfew and all of them dispersed to go to their own rooms.
The day after, the three were sitting together in the RoR. Harry had pitched them his idea about the phones and was anxious to what their reactions are going to be. "I think it's a great idea. I think we can help you improve the magical phone, but Hermione and I need the full complete design so we can add some stuffs that would improve it" Luna replied after Harry was done pitching his idea. Harry nodded and said "I can do that, it would take some time though for me to finish the design." The three were in a moment of silence to think then Hermione asked "Are we going to sell it when we're done creating it?" she asked and Harry nodded at her question as a reply "I think we should just sell an incomplete version, while we had a better and complete version of the phone and we keep adding features to the incomplete version and release it separately to exponentially increase our earnings." Hermione continued. "That's a great idea Hermione." Harry replied and the three stayed in the RoR to train and learn until 30 minutes before curfew to leave.
-November 1991
It was early in the morning, Harry, Hermione and Luna was walking towards the Great Hall to eat breakfast, the three of them would always eat their meals together but this time Harry would eat with his brother. "Guys, can I go eat with Scott?" Harry asked, "Sure" "Okay" Luna and Hermione replied at the same time. After their replies, Harry went to Scott who was eating and talking with Neville Longbottom. Upon his arrival at the Gryffindor table "Can I sit and eat with you guys?" Harry asked, "Sure thing Harry" Scott replied and Harry sat down.
"So, how are you guys "Harry asked the two of them. "It's really great, Ron, Seamus and I are really excited about Quidditch. It's a great bummer though that first years can't join the team." Scott answered.
"Well, maybe next year, you could try-out for the team as a seeker? Gryffindor got great players but they could never won the cup because they didn't have a seeker." Harry suggested. "Do you think I'm good enough to be a seeker Harry" Scott asked towards Harry with excitement in his eyes, Harry smiled amusingly to his brother and replied "You're probably good enough to be their seeker now Scott." Scott's eyes that were filled excitement turned to happiness "Anyways, how's your subjects" Got any problems?" Harry asked. Neville and Scott then told him, about how the teachers had been treating them, how they were treated by the whole Gryffindor, and how their favorite subjects , Neville's was Herbology while Scott's was Charms but his favorite was DADA but Professor Quirrell made the subject disappointing.
"On the other hand, can you tell me what happened last night about you going after the troll?" Harry asked. Scott and Neville glanced at each other and shared a look as if to decide if they will tell him the truth or not. "Well after Professor Quirrell fainted the two of us looked for Merry since we heard that she was terribly pranked by Flint and his goons because of their family's feud and that she was in one of the girl's bathroom in the dungeons. So while we were going to the tower together with the other Gryffindor. We realized that Merry didn't know about the Troll in the dungeon, so we looked for her to tell her about the troll, then that's when we encountered the troll in one of the corridors. It attacked us and we ran but it was faster. We were really lucky when its club was stuck and that's when we levitated it above his head and dropped it which made the troll unconscious. Then the teachers arrived we told them the truth and we got a week's detention." Scott told the story, Neville was nodding along while Scott was telling the story.
"Who is Merry?" Harry asked. "Oh, she is our classmate. She is a half-blood with both parents as muggle-born and we befriended her when we asked her to study with us." Neville replied.
"So you're not hurt?" Harry asked, Scott shook his head "And all you got was a detention?" he asked and Scott nodded. "And will you send mum and dad a letter telling them about this incident?" after that question, Scott hesitated to answer his question. "I am, but will you help me in writing it?" Scott replied with a question but seeing that Harry was about to say no "Please? Please? Mum will give me a howler if you won't help me, Please Harry. I did helped you on selling the notes. Please Harry" he pleaded.
"Okay, I'll help you, just, when something worries you or you need some help, you can always come to me. Okay" Harry said, and Scott nodded as a reply, the expression on his face shows appreciation. "And stay out of trouble." Harry then left to go to Luna and Hermione to go to their classes. "Thank You" Scott said loudly when his brother was walking.
Harry, Hermione and Luna were sitting together at the Ravenclaw stand, it was the first match of the Quidditch season. It was Gryffindor and Slytherin. The three were supporting Gryffindor specifically their seeker Scott Potter. Harry was truly amazed at how he was able to obtain the position. He was watching the game so he can watch why Scott is the youngest seeker in a century. Other students were saying that he was only in the team because of the favoritism of Professor McGonagall but Harry knew otherwise. His brother was a prodigy on a broom and he deserved to be a seeker even though he is a first year.
He was watching the game until Scott's broom suddenly stopped, he narrowed his eyes to get a better vision of what is happening but it was unclear. He looked more closely and realized that his broom was jerking around. Someone was cursing his broom, he looked around to see if someone was looking at him without breaking eye contact. First he looked at the Staff's section of the field and saw that Snape was looking at the direction and was muttering words under his breath and Quirrell was just looking at Scott with intense focus. He tapped both Hermione's and Luna's shoulder.
"Look at Professors Snape and Quirrell. I think they're jinxing Scott's broom." Harry said, the two of them look at their direction and Luna said "Maybe it's just one of them, and the other is probably applying a counter-jinx. " she said, then Hermione pointed her finger to one of the stands and they saw that Neville and Merry were running towards Snape and knocked over Quirell they looked up and saw that Scott was no longer in danger and when they looked at Neville and Merry and saw that there was a commotion between the staffs. With that they had come to the conclusion that Quirell is trying to kill his brother and that they would have to be careful around him and watch him all the time.
December 1991
Harry, Hermione and Luna were in Harry's room at the tower. It was Friday and they decided that even though they should be working at RoR they were going to have a rest day today. Harry had set up a television and a VHS player for movies. Harry and Hermione were cuddling in the bed while Luna was sitting lazily in a lazy chair Harry had fixed. They had silenced the room so people won't suspect that they were smuggling items. They were watching a movie when a tapping noise of a glass was heard, when they looked at it, they saw that Hedwig was perched outside the window tapping it with his beak. With a wave from Hermione's wand the window opened and Hedwig came in. She landed on Harry's shoulder and presented her leg to him which contained a letter. Harry took the letter and unrolled the parchment and read the letter. Luna and Hermione were waiting for him to finish the letter.
After reading the letter, Harry let out a sigh and ran through his hair with his finger. "Who is it from?" Hermione asked, Harry snapped away from his musings and looked at her. "Oh, it's from my parents" Harry answered and looked back to the letter.
"What does it say?" Luna asked
"Just the usual you know. Asking me how I've been and also the letter from Rose." Harry answered, his face was frowning from receiving the letter.
"What's wrong?" Hermione asked, she was confused why his face was frowning, he was usually happy when receiving the letter though he never showed it.
"It's just that, it's like the past 8 years never happened. It's like they never neglected me. Am I doing the right thing? You know in forgiving them and giving them a chance?" Harry asked, he was truly confused to what he was feeling right now. It was just a normal letter from his parents he normally got. But why was he feeling this emotions right now? What makes this so different?
"Yes, I mean, you shouldn't forgive them right away and act like it never happened. But you are doing the right thing by giving them a chance. A chance to forgive them and a chance to have a family. Because if you don't you are always going to wonder what it feels like to be loved by your own parents." Luna answered and Harry nodded to what she said.
"What she said is right Harry. Plus, it's healthier for you emotionally to do it. You never showed it but the two of us knew that you were happy when your parents send you letters and it's better for you to be happy than to be bitter, jealous and angry." Hermione added to Luna's point while Luna was nodding along to what she was saying.
"Then why am I feeling this. I don't know what I'm feeling right now and I'm so confused. It's like all those feelings that I felt before this is starting to surface and I don't know what to do." Harry said, he was now breathing harder and faster, his chest was rising and falling at a rapid rate. Hermione and Luna went to his sides and soothe his back to comfort him.
"The first thing you need to do is to calm down and breathe slowly." Luna said followed by Hermione "What you're feeling is fear. Fear that maybe they will abandon you again. I also felt that way when my parents and I reconciled while you were trying to avoid me. I was so afraid that they were going to leave me and that you would leave me too. But you started to be like your old self again and always assure me that our friendship will always come stronger to any challenges. And that's what you need to know. That Luna and I won't leave you and will always love you no matter what and that's a promise." Hermione said and Luna nodded and said
"Yeah I promise that I won't leave you two. Yes, I had a different childhood but you save me from a life of loneliness and sorrow. Everyone was avoiding me and was making my life hell and my dad was no help ever since my mum died and then the two of you came to me, offer friendship and accepted me for who I am and I'm thankful every day that you two befriended me and I promise that I won't leave the two of you no matter what." Luna said with intensity in her eyes.
"So what should I do?" harry asked, his breathing was calmer now and he was more composed than before.
"I think you should confront your parents and be mad at them. When they first talked to you, you've suppressed many emotions that you were feeling and talked to them with a calm demeanor. Maybe you should confront them." Hermione suggested, she too didn't know what to do.
"Also, be honest with them when you are going to confront them. Tell them what you really feel. I think they'll understand what you are going to do." Luna added.
Harry nodded slowly at their answers, maybe they were right, maybe he needed to get angry at his parents for what they've done to him and that he should express all those pent up anger and bitterness he had accumulated all those years towards. After a moment of thinking, Harry took both of their hands and said "I'm so glad that the two of you are in my life. I 'don't know what I would have done if it weren't for you two. Also, I promise that I will never leave you and will always love you two no matter what." he said and the three of them smiled and engaged in a group hug.