See chapter one for full disclaimer. Disclaimer: I do not in any shape or form own Harry Potter, be it characters, spells, items, or anything else that's connected to the Harry Potter books/movies; they all belong to J. K. Rowling & the Warner Bros Pictures. I don't even earn any money from this. The only characters that I do own are the ones that you haven't read about in the books. Although, I wish I did, that way I could come up with a more believable way for Harry ending up with Ginny or someone who is better for him. Also I would made Hermione less trusting of people like Dumbledore and less bossy. I own nothing, get nothing but enjoyment. The story idea is mine, but the JK characters are not. Nor are any of the others, they belong to David Weber, Laurell K Hamilton, H Beam Piper, Disney, MGM, etc. etc. So I make nothing. Even Sergeant Schultz made things, but not me. As said my 1 & 2 story are same till about the end of the Portals, my 3rd has not portals. Because of how I started doing all three at the same time. I have 500K + more written, in years, ages, & situations. So after having to change the age he was beaten from before his 4th to his 7th B-Day, I have to throw in flashbacks, as I fix the age difference. example I had Harry hugging knees at almost 4, does not work at 7, so have to redo the scene. Added flashback after the main scene.
Not Quite Age Eight:
Snape asks the ladies of Hogwarts to come look at Harry. He & Petunia had seen the flash, when Emma & Denise had touched Harry at the same time. He had asked, an old friend of his Mothers to come please use a detection charm on the girls. The diagnostic lady; was this very old woman, she came over quickly. She was very thorough for all Six of them. Then without asking, she started on Dudley. Snape waited with more patience than he had; since Lily's death, he realized. When she started on him, he lost it. "Woman, stop that, I'm not damaged." "Grandson, yes you are!" She had a very worried & thoughtful look on her face. "I'm not your grandson!" "Yes you are, as your mother was my daughter. I gave her up to your Grandfather & his new wife as I was 14 years old." Snape collapses back into a chair. The nine others, studying him.
"So, is he your adopted son, Severus?" "What, no, this is Harry Potter." "Ahhh…That explains everything I detected! Your Loves, Lily's son." He started to shake his head yes; then suddenly said. "No, I've always loved Petunia. But Granddad twisted my mind, saying a Squib was not for me, but the powerful witch, Lily would be mine. It was not till his death, that his enchantments started wearing off. I then did something stupid, ruining Lily's friendship.
FLASHBACK: Harry before his seventh B-Day. It was not till I saw what happened to Petunia, that my mind cleared. Some one else had charmed me. I was & think am, still somewhat under it." "Yes, you all have quite a few enchantments, charms, hexes, curses, etc. on you." "What!" shouted the girls & Minerva. "Yes why don't we all sit down, so I can explain, what I know, what I think, & what I feel & believe has happened here."
He saw a young obese man with a bushy moustache hit his wife & knock her down the stairs. Snape stiffened. Petunia had had to put up with this? Severus felt something stir inside of him which he hadn't felt in a long, long time. Angrily, he fast-forwarded & saw Dumbledore leaving Harry on the doorstep with a note. Really? Just a note? At least Minerva seemed to know that was stupid. He watched her berate Dumbledore with some satisfaction. She was the only one who could make him feel guilty. The skinny baby in a basket was screaming by itself in a cupboard under the stairs in the middle of the night. The images of Harry began to flood into Severus's mind in a rush. A visit to the hospital for a broken nose caused by the back of Vernon's hand. Another visit for a broken rib. Yet another for what was clearly the result of strangulation. What sort of monster lived in this house?
Another image of a terrified Petunia insisting that Vernon punish her instead of Harry brought Severus to his knees. What had the Monster done to Lily's son? The Monster-Severus saw-had heaped abuse & torment on a boy who had suffered every bit as much as he had himself, at the hands of a brutal muggle father figure. He-Severus-had tormented Lily's son because all he could see when he looked at him was James Potter. But Harry was no longer James's son... Harry was Lily's son.
Severus broke. His carefully built walls collapsed into shards around him & a single tear rolled down one cheek as he gasped in agony. The room lit up in a flash of lightning as another loud clap of thunder rattled the windows of the house. He had raged through the night. Wandered through canyons of desolation. He had returned; slowly rebuilding his walls, piece by piece. But some of the pieces he discarded. He had no use for those anymore. & he would be even stronger for having removed the impediment of his hate for Lily Evans' son.
Severus went to work immediately, using magic to invade muggle computer networks & update information, to create electronic trails & fingerprints which would lead right back to Vernon Dursley's desktop computer, his laptops, & his mobile devices. He found what was to happen, the sacrifices of the three worshippers of Death. He investigated their financial records & determined that Petunia & Dudley would still have a sizable monthly income from the Evans' Estate Trust. Severus determined that if Harry would have to spend even one week in this house a year that he could be asked to contribute some of his funds from the Potter vaults too.
Severus knew now, that Harry would have no compunctions about sharing what he had once things were explained to him. Finally, late Sunday afternoon, Severus had completed the necessary preparations. When the Dursley's arrived home in the morning, they would find a swarm of muggle authorities invading their home & confiscating all of Vernon Dursley's computers & child pornography-images of small children being molested & beaten by adults. Among them they would find all of the surreptitious images Vernon had taken of Harry in various stages of undress over the years after Vernon had given him a beating. They would also find all the names & IP addresses of people he had shared Harry's pictures with.
END FLASHBACK:
School: Dudley or Big D has a gang of hoods, most 2-5 years older than Dudley. While Chasing Harry, he runs into Honor & starts to drag her with him, telling her to run. It stops in the alley. Both turn around, Dudley & Piere start pounding on Harry. This was the first time, many of the older boys have seen Honor. The oldest, age 11 says get her. The fight is on. Honor takes out four, before being knocked semi-unconscious.
Harry is on the ground being kicked. Something changes in him. He sees the boy get up from between Honors legs, with his pee pee bleeding. "Well, she was a virgin." Dudley stops, Piere does not hear. Dudley looks at Harry & runs. Piere did not understand why he hurt. A major concussion, broken arm & leg, imbedded into the waste can. The aluminum surrounding his body. The older boy shouts at Dudley. "Hey Big D, why you running, come try this bint!" He then notices Harry floating in the air, with crackling energy. Then just extreme pain as he becomes a eunuch with no parts. An Auror appears seeing the blood, the boys, & the girl. "F**k, this is a mess." She gets 3 other female Aurors. They clean up, fix the obvious attackers up, memory charm them & leave them in a different alley. The first one there, made sure; the one missing parts, would never get it up again. The higher racking one, Amelia, soon to be promoted to head of DMLE, says exactly what the first one said, as she exams the boy; that obviously tried to protect the girl.
"You three go, I'll finish up here. I know these two. There was some grumbling, but they left. She fixed up Harry Potter & his sister. She was pissed. The petromus brought Albus, quickly. They fix Honor as best they could, not knowing she will never forget, anything. Dumbledore finds the other threes names, then obliviates Amelia's memory. Then goes & does the same for the other three. Honor "wakes" first. She is like a wounded animal, as she never lost full consciousness. She saw the boys parts get blasted, saw others fix him. Saw the old man do something to the chief woman & to Harry. Whatever he tried on her, did not work. After waking Harry, she croaks, "do you remember." He cries, hugs her, & whispers in a deadly voice. "Yes!" She relaxes into his hug, crying. He whispers to her, "never again; I'm not sure how I did what I did, but you will be protected, as will Lilly. This will never happen again, to you my mates, my Luvs." She cries, while being hugged for almost an hour. "No one will have me like that again. Lilly will agree, you will only be the one we are with."
Flashback & info to Year 1-2.
If you do not know yet, Harry is unique. He is even more unique than Merlin was. James had bound Harry's magic, before they heard the prophecy, & he started on the Ring. Harry had been doing Metamorphmagus magic, which until puberty, was dangerous for a male heir. He could change to look like mother, & not change back. James had told Albus about Harry being a Metamorphmagus, so when he came to tell them about the prophecy, he bound Harry's magic also, for the greater good. Albus did not know what Lily, James, Godric (Circi), & Salazar (Salazara) were doing. If he had, he would have had the Ring of Harry, the Goddess's Avatar, becoming bound, with everything else. The three became almost double their current cores; which since Harry's was double bound, actually more than tripled his core to the second power.
The reason was the girls, Lilly, Honor, & the Avatar. So a medium type witch or wizard baby at 1 1/2 is around 75 on the 1,000 scale. By the time they are eleven it is usually around 150 to 200. By the time their second maturity/puberty hits, it gains another 100 points. When their third & usually final maturity hits at 17 to 21 years old, it is 400 to 500. Harry is unique, his core was 198 at his age, the binding, James put on him, dropped it to above normal, 99. Albus dropped him to 49. I.E. a very low wizard. James not knowing, Dumbledore the greatest Wizard, had also bound Harry, was happy, then worried. So started on the Ring, & told Lily to make sure his bound magic, would wear off, in an emergency. Lily used that in the Ritual & Wards, that she changed from, what her friend Selene Lovegood, had given her. The open contract, that if Harry & Luna did not find anyone else by their ages 25, must marry to carry on the line(s).
Once the Ring & Goddess Magic activated, Harry's, Lilly's, & Honors cores went to triple normal. Lilly & Honor's cores, actually shrank, due to their ages. But, because of the Ring, they went to 352. They were 700 before as adults. Now as adults, they would be in the 900's. Harry will break the charts. Merlin & Morgana were believed to be 1000, but in reality were 1193 & 1297. The spell will actually tell you the correct number, as it says 1000 + the rest. Harry's bound magic went to 197. His unbound core was 723, by the time; the time dilation & Tom was done. Lord Voldemort was 859, before the Ring absorbed & redirected the spell. Dumbledore was 857, but had 50 more years of experience on Tom. Mister Riddle, heir of Slytherin, died that night. The magic moved the now extinct line, to the next line, that of his brother Salazar Slytherin. The Ring absorbed 10% of the death magic; as the Ring had slightly changed Harry, without ANYONE realising. The Ritual/Ward with Ring activating, changed Selene's gift. Which in her vision said, Lily would need, the difference changed in the Ritual. The Ritual, gave Harry an absorb type, ability. He also had a very special ability. It would not activate till Puberty. The Ward, became a Bloodward*, that never existed before. Hagrid showed Minerva & Dumbledore, both girls & Harry, having a Ring. The rings on the girls were gold. Harry's (Merlins) Ring was a strange metal alloy with the five most magical gems. After they were gone, Albus tried to take the Ring. He was blasted across the road. Albus was fucked, but did not recognise it. He tried a spell, to get the Ring off, as he could feel Harry's magic was higher again. The Ring absorbed 10% of his magic. He decided to wait & see.
End Flashback.
Flashback & info to Year 3-4.
* The Bloodward was a DNA syphon ward. The Nargles were the first creature added. Since Honor & Lilly, were permanently soul bound to Harry, the Bloodward gave all three, the Nargle powers to a small degree. From then on, for them, when thinking about Harry, Honor, or Lilly; the person would become mildly confused, & underestimate them, in whatever way they were thinking about. The various Fae creatures made them more powerful & immune to them. Because of Merlin's Ring was fully activated; Harry & anyone fully bound to him, would never need to fear blood borne diseases, venoms, & poisons, also many potions. They would absorb the properties, gaining health, strength, speed, durability, etc.! Vampire & Werewolf virus. Phffft! What does not kill them, makes them stronger, better! All four children were playing on a Saturday, when Dudley yelled. Vernon stomped into the playroom, having come up the stairs to use the loo.
Dudley was backing out of the room, so he pushed him aside & went in. It took his mind a few seconds to see, what he was looking at. He started beating both Lillys' with his belt. "What the fuck. Which of you is the freak!" Slap! Slap! It took Harry falling by the mirror, for him to realise that he looked, just like Lilly. After they both had 6 or 7 whippings, Harry said: "I'm Harry!" Vernon went to town on Harry. The girls could feel some of it, Lilly was unconscious & crying. A backhand had sent Honor crashing into the open door. She could not move from the concussion & pain.
Meanwhile in Dummy's office; Fawkes sees the Harry charmed instruments going wild. She teleports to Albus & shifts him to Harry's house, pulling him toward the door. She was mainly bound to Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore; but not all the way, as he bound her as a male Phoenix. She, a creature of the light, had bonded to Harry; When Albus had bound Harry's magic. He wandlessly opened the door, still being pulled by "Fawkes". Up the stairs, to see blood everywhere & to hear a belt on flesh. "Totalus Petrificus! Hmmm, I better change the ward a bit. Now that is interesting. Two bloody Lillys'; Harry, you cannot be a girl! Well you could, but all plans would be ruined & your sisters would become slaves to some very evil men, as well as Dudley. Harry did not really understand till he was almost 7 what that meant. Albus told "Fawkes" to heal Harry & the girls, while he took care of everything else. The tears heal, strengthen, strength/speed/healing are absorbed into all three. They feel her sadness & Love!
She also realised that all three were hers in some way. "Obliviate!" To Harry , Honor, & Lilly. "Legilmus!" To all three changing their memories. The Rings power affected all three, so those spells would not work on them ever again! Stupid Albus lost 6% of his power to the three. But the Ring bound her to Harry as a mate bond would be. He then bound Harry's magic again, losing 1% more to Harry, & making all 3, be unable to be bound again. The Legilmancy gave them the beginnings of a mind bond. They knew they loved each other; Harry knew they were his "mates"; all 3 of them, forever. Though he did not yet know what a mate was. His mate Fawkes was a pretty birdy.
Each Triad added to Harry's core, but each was not a mating bond. The Triad formed from Piers Polkiss & Dudley had made them both feel great & weird. This resulted in "Harry Hunting"; to asage their weird feelings. They both were stronger, faster, healthier (taller & wider). Piers's younger sister had heard them talking about it. So she made touching Harry a priority. But nothing happened. She finally blackmailed her brother into telling her every detail. So she planned for the next weekend & called his aunt Petunia to come over. Harry was a bit frightened, but she kissed his cheek, whispering, everything will be fine, my lovely Harry.
Petunia went to see what Harry had done, Honor & Lily started going that way also. When she grabbed his arm, Cassiopeia grabbed Petunia & Harry's arm. The flash went off, almost no one knowing what happened. Both felt fantastic & weird, Petunia more weird; Cassiopeia more fantastic, so that she was hugging & kissing Harry! Petunia stumbled away, not paying much attention. Piers & Dudley see this, reason later that day Vernon soundly beats Harry. But all 3 Heal him overnight. The reason Dumbles never checked again & Amie does not know.
End Flashback.