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Lily sat cradling her baby who wouldn't stop crying until Peter left the room. She was amazed as he'd be fine but cry violently each time Peter was near. What was wrong with Peter she wondered idly? Maybe he was sick and this was Harry's way of warning everyone. She shrieked aloud as Harry froze as did Sirius who was in the front garden. Going through the house everyone was frozen. She came back to check on Harry to see a man hovering above his crib. "Yes may I help you?" she said tentatively. "My name is Francesco Antonio Merlin although to be honest I am known mainly everywhere as Merlin. You know it totally amuses me that people always say Merlin's beard as I don't actually have one. When you were six you fell out of a tree and broke your arm. Your parents didn't want anyone to know about it so they kept it quiet as a girl climbing a tree in those days was unheard of. The same as when Petunia contracted TB that one time. Thankfully they had the right kind of medicine to help with curing it. Your parents sure had to come up with some elaborate lie in order to explain you going away to Hogwarts didn't they?" he said.

The things he had mentioned no one but her parents knew. This was of course his way of proving that he was indeed who he said he was. "Merlin it's an honour beyond measure. To what do I owe this visit?" she asked him warily. "As you can tell I've frozen the house. People don't know this but my job is never over. I view the futures of everyone before they occur so I may be able to guide people towards a better life and I have seen yours. What happens to your son is most displeasing and to be honest I'd like to help put a stop to it so it doesn't happen at all. I cannot stop what happens to you from happening but I can however change your sons life so he never has to go through what I saw him going through in the future. I need you to step over to this pensive and view a few select memories from the first few years or so of his life as an orphan as this is all I can show you at present. I do warn you things are not pleasant!" he said. She looked at the memories, at how Dumbledore simply disregarded her will placing him with the Dursleys where he was put into a box in the cupboard under the stairs. She saw how he vied to get magical custody of Harry using his status and took his money from him without his knowledge. She saw how abused he was at the hands of Petunia and Vernon and emerged from the pensive in floods of tears.

"Please Merlin help me. I can't have Harry put through this as it's not right. I trusted Dumbledore and this is how he treated my son. I will not stand for this. I don't get on with Petunia anymore but I never thought she'd be as heartless and vile as that. She has a son herself but her lack of empathy or love towards mine is devastating and outraging. Tell me what to do please. I'll do anything!" she said desperately. "Ok When Voldermort comes to the house as he is coming up the stairs you are to summon a pig and leave it in the corner. Think nothing of this weird request as it will save Harry's life and don't worry about the pig as I will deal with it myself later on. Voldermort will be so focused on the task at hand that he will scarcely notice the pig in the corner of the room. besides which if he does he will think you are just weird people and think nothing of it. Now tell me how protected is Potter Manor?" he asked her to which she snickered at the thought of the pig confusing Voldermort. "Potter Manor's protections have fallen recently because Lord and Lady Potter made someone who couldn't be trusted their secret keeper. If it is placed under the fidelious once again it can of course be the most secure!" she said eyes shining with hope.

"Yes alright and have you got house elves?" he asked. "Yes we have seven bonded to us right now but they remain at the manor for safety reasons. They are called Sooty, Lolly, Jinx, Minnie, Bibly and Tippy. Our head of house elves is called Marnie" she responded curiously. "Okay then please summon them all here now as I have a task for them and a confession to make for which I can only apologise and then rectify immediately!" he said looking guilty.

"What have you done? I'll summon them after you tell me this!" she said looking stern with her angry mummy face on which was if truth be told slightly frightening. "Well as you know I see the future and Harry's was terrible. However I thought if I changed him to Harry his future might be brighter which it wasn't. Harry was born female but I changed him in the last minute hoping he'd have a better future then Hannah Potter did however as I checked again after the change I saw he didn't. I need to change him back to Hannah and don't worry as all your documents including her birth cert will have her name on it. Her clothes and accessories will all change to that of a girl and only you will ever know she was a boy in your family. Others of the public may think she is a boy but when they see she is not a boy they will be fine about it just thinking they have been mistaken. You did name her Hannah Marie Potter but then I erased it from your minds. Now I will change her back to how she should have always been. Please call your house elves now!" he said changing Hannah back with a flick of his wrist.

She cooed happily at her and summoned all of the house elves who all bowed extra low at the sight of Merlin before them. "Now Lily I need you to come with me to the manor for a moment and don't worry as no one will know you have been out of the house at all. Oh the wonders of magic. Let's go!" he said as they all left. They arrived in a swirl of magic Hannah in her arms snoozing soundly.

"Okay so now I will recast the fidelious myself and the secret keeper will be Marnie. Marnie when I cast this you must quickly tell everyone present where the house can be located before they are ejected" he said casting the spell as Marnie told Lily and everyone present the location of the house. "Now I realise Lily that Dumbledore will want to know the address of where Hannah lives full time so I will have it placed in the records so he can't see it or should he see it he won't ever be able to remember it which happens with the fidelious charm anyway. As it is there and they know it's there they won't be able to ask him where he lives even if they can't remember it. It will anger him that he simply can't remember it. Hannah may tell friends where it is but will need the assistance of Marnie for this. Now I need you to give me a drop of your blood. Now place it here onto this baby bracelet. This will act as an emergency portkey which will activate after two minutes upon your death bringing baby Hannah here. You elves are to raise baby Hannah to the best of their abilities and teach her all about magic and so on. She is to know Elven magic and wandless magic in full before going to school. Please tell her about wandless being non traceable so she should use it most when not in school and even while at school in moderation. This will ensure Hannah does not have the life I saw in her future beforehand" he said as Lily did all he asked of her.

She fastened the bracelet to Hannah's wrist and the elves made it invisible on her. This bracelet would grow with her as she did transporting her home while outside school or back to her common room while in school in the event of a life or death situation always. she would never feel it on her nor would it be detectable however she would know of i's existence and magic would insure she could never tell anyone about it being there. "Have you any instructions to give the elves on who Hannah may see or not see and where she may go or not go and so on when she gets older?" Merlin asked her.

"Yes indeed I do. Marnie Hannah is to go to Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade Village either with or without you. Generally at age thirteen she can go to these places alone but you are to always accompany her until then. Should she ask you to accompany her after that point you are to join her. It does not matter whether she asks her personal elf to go with her not as long as one of you does. When she goes to these places she is to go always in disguise and as I don't trust Dumbledore at all now she is to be invisible to all people wearing magic eyes as we all know to what lengths Dumbledore would go to try and find her. The only people who can see her properly are to be the goblins and a list of people she can see which I give you in a minute and they are to never be allowed to tell anyone who she really is. Her name is to be Hannah Mirkwood and I will be instructing the Goblins to have her wizarding debit card for payments appear in that name when she wants it to or to appear in her own name when she wants it to." Here she paused to see that they had understood her instructions so far before continuing any further.

"Ok so you are to call her Madam Mirkwood or my Lady outside the house in public. At home you may call her Hannah or Mistress whichever you prefer. Hannah is to be allowed to spend time with the Bones, Longbottom, Lovegood, Thomas and Abbot families. Each family is to be charmed to tell no one except each other of the fact that they know Hannah or spend time with her. They are to think nothing of the fact that they don't talk of it to anyone else outside their group of friends. As I have seen how Dumbledore manipulates his position to get what he wants Merlin you need to reinforce these spells so that they cannot tell anyone about seeing her under torture or Veritas Serum. At age fourteen she is to inherit the family ring and title and at age seventeen she will take her place in the Wizengamot for which she is to be prepared. She is not to associate with the Weasley family in any way at all as I have seen how they attempt to abuse her financially and so on. Until she is eleven she is to have no contact with the Malfoy, Nott, Parkinson, Crabbe or Goyle families. She is to be allowed to befriend these children once at school if it is her choice to do so but you must all beware of this as these families all have death eaters in them. The Zabini family are neutral but you should still watch out for them slightly as they could change their minds and pick a side at any time they feel like it" she said finishing her long list of instructions which the elves all agreed to carry out.

Merlin agreed to do what she had asked of him and dropped them all home where Lily thanked him immensely for all he'd done for them so far. "Before I go please feed Hannah the contents in this bottle as it will prevent anyone from placing tracking charms on her or her things and will counteract any potions she is fed without her knowledge. It will correct her eyesight as well. It is a complex potion which can determine which potions she is being fed without her knowledge and neutralise them all before they can take effect within her system. I've also added in something rather special so that she cannot be fed potions or charmed by Dumbledore because believe me he will try that numerous times. See you later on dear one!" he said kissing her forehead tenderly. As he had left everything remained frozen much to her shock. She fed Hannah the large bottle and burped her a few times. Eventually as the bottle was finished it disappeared and everything began moving again.

(Time skip to October 31st)

As they all celebrated Halloween Lily came upstairs to put Hannah to bed. She heard the wards go and heard Voldermort killing James and she locked the door of the nursery summoning a pig quickly and placing it in the corner. The hinges were blown off the door by Voldermort who barreled in. "Step aside Lily Harry must die you however do not need to!" he said callously. Clearly with whatever Merlin had done only Remus, Sirius, herself, James and the house elves knew that she was a girl and not a boy. "Never you will never have my baby you monster!" she called out flinging herself in front of the cot. She dropped dead as he aimed at Hannah and fired the spell backfiring and killing him. A piece of his soul came undone and latched itself to a pig in the corner of the room leaving Hannah scar less. The pig was then transferred by Merlin to a butchering farm where it was consequently killed killing that part of Voldermort's soul for good. Merlin made sure to add in some basilisk venom to be extra sure the soul fragment died. Thankfully the farmer had been too busy to notice what had happened. Hannah was transferred to the manor just before Dumbledore arrived. He searched the house high and low and simply couldn't find her much to his annoyance. He could tell that Voldermort was dead but his hero Harry was gone. He figured Voldermort's death eaters must have sent him away somewhere and vowed to find him and bring him to his aunt's house before his well laid plans for control failed him.

Hannah arrived in the foyer crying and was met by Marnie who lifted the crying tot into the pre-prepared nursery. Her nappy was changed and she was fed a milk bottle with a mild sleeping charm in it and placed in her cot. A dummy was placed her mouth as she drifted off to sleep. "Sleep well little one you have been through so much today!" she said kissing her little forehead. She called all of her charges to her as all the house elves who followed her orders came to her side.

"Minnie you are to teach Hannah about Wizarding customs and etiquette as well as how to comport herself as a lady. Sooty you are to teach Hannah of our various laws and all about the Wizengamot/Ministry of Magic answering any questions she may have on these matters as they arise. It is your job to be sure she knows as much going into that school about our world as she can which includes Wizengamot etiquette. Lolly you are to be Hannah's personal house elf getting her anything she may need, cleaning her, helping her to dress, taking her shopping and so on. I will be running everything else here such as maintaining the house and gardens so I won't be free to be her personal elf. Each night in rotation one of the seven of us will put her to bed. Jinx you are to teach her wandless magic and all about the four Hogwarts houses and their four founders. Bibly you are to cook Hannah anything she wants and teach her Elven magic. I will be doing this as well so you will not be alone here. She will need to know how to get around like us if necessary and undetected at times should the need for this arise. Lastly Tippy you are to teach young Hannah Transfigurations, potions, all about flying and Quidditch and Magical methods of transport" she said giving each and everyone their task before they all went to bed.

She assured them all that honesty was the best policy when telling her how her parents died. They all fell asleep content that Hannah was safe. After hours of searching and having Snape tell him that none of the death eaters knew where he was either he gave up feeling severe anger and resentment that he couldn't hide so well. He would find him one day and by hook or by crook he would send him to his Aunt's house whether or which. With the assistance of the Weasley family in stealing his money from him to fund whatever he felt like he would ensure that they all lived and dined like kings whilst keeping absolute control over Harry. No one gets the better of Albus Dumbledore that's one sure thing and he would have order whether anyone liked it or not.