Chapter 5

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Harry was early for his appointment with the muggle secret service. Kingsley had reassured him originally that the people he was meeting knew all about the wizarding world and both the Voldemort wars so he could talk freely. He also said they did not know that the applicant was the same Harry Potter that defeated Voldemort. He had been allocated the interview based on his training scores and his record as an Auror since. He'd enjoyed the extra training they'd given him and the illusion of anonymity of working with a mostly muggle and squib organization and was eager to do more work for them.

"Ah Potter. I'm surprised Kingsley recommended you. Aren't you about to get married? Surely your wife doesn't want her husband posted overseas for an indefinite period of time. Would she be prepared to go with you?" Sir Geoffrey asked curiously.

"Actually Sir I've called off the wedding and this would be a very good time for me to disappear for a while" Harry replied.

"Is the problem irreconcilable?" the officer asked searchingly.

"Yes sir, it is. I don't know how much you know about love potions but it now appears the whole relationship was a fabrication. She and her family are very upset about the cancellation of the wedding and are likely to make things difficult" Harry admitted. "I'd like to be away from the fall out."

"You're aware there really isn't enough work for you to be a full time liaison?" Sir Geoffrey asked. "And that this posting would be for a minimum of five years."

"Yes Sir. I've trained to fight a war since I was fourteen. I enjoy the investigation side of my work with the Aurors but my fame here in England often interferes with that. I want to take some time to decide what I really want to do next. The income from my trust fund will support me" Harry said calmly.

"Very well then this is the dossier of all the American agencies and the agents in them that we know are aware of the wizarding world" Sir Geoffrey said handing over a fat file envelope. "And this is the American interpretation of the statute of secrecy and their laws. You'll find several laws differ greatly to your world here in Britain."

"Thank you sir" I'll read them carefully" Harry said.

"Will you use your own name in America or do you want us to establish an identity for you?" Sir Geoffrey asked.

"Wouldn't it be better to use my own name? Some of these agencies have the resources to see through the best false identities" Harry said.

"Yes it probably would from that point of view. However, we're still not entirely sure we got all of the bastards that supported that dark lord you offed, and I wouldn't want to expose you. One of the advantages to leaving England for the time being would be increased personal freedom."

An idea struck Harry. "I could use my official name" he said enthusiastically. "Nobody calls me that, even my school records listed me as Harry James Potter."

"And what is your birth name?" Sir Geoffrey asked amused.

"My legal name and titles are Lord Hadrian James Potter-Black- Evander-Peverell-Gryffindor-Slytherin, the 10th Baron Evander, 24th Viscount Peverell, 17th Duke of Gryffindor and the 20th Earl of Slytherin" Harry said rolling his eyes.

Sir Geoffrey Hobbs had spent his entire life working in the intelligence service and prided himself that after more than forty years experience nothing could surprise him anymore. "How many of those titles are valid in the real world?" he asked after several minutes to adjust his impressions of the agent in front of him.

"Baron Evander certainly is. The Dukedom and Earldom were once but I inherited the Earldom through right of magic not blood so your world wouldn't recognise me as the rightful heir even if the title is still valid.

"When was the title Duke of Gryffindor appointed?"

"The first Duke was ennobled by King Athelstan in the year 936" Harry replied "which is why I think it may no longer be valid, it's so long ago."

"You're probably right but I can find out, if you want to use the title" Sir Geoffrey offered.

"No the name Gryffindor is famous in the wizarding world. I had thought to use the name Hadrian Black or Hadrian Evander."

"I will have comprehensive ID and background history established for both those names, and a totally separate ID for you to leave the country with" Sir Geoffrey said smiling.

"When am I leaving?" Harry asked.

"I will book the flights today and let you know. International flight to New York under the name John Browning where you will clear customs and then catch a domestic flight to Washington in a different name. You do have appropriate clothing for the mundane world?"

"No not really. I do have some muggle clothes but they're not appropriate for my liaison position. They are all very old and worn, all my recent shopping has been in the wizarding world" Harry said apologetically.

"That would be fine to travel in. You would look like another tourist backpacker" Sir Geoffrey reassured him.

"Good because I think I might be being followed, going muggle shopping would alert them there's something going on" Harry said.

"Were you followed here?" Sir Geoffrey asked.

"No I couldn't have been, I came via the Minister's private floo" Harry reassured him.

"Well I'll let you know via the minister of your flight arrangements. Will you be able to get to the airport undetected."

"Yes I'll have to leave my wand behind and get a new one in America to ensure I won't be tracked" Harry said with a pang It would feel like leaving part of himself behind. He realised he would also need to leave his beloved invisibility cloak behind and was grateful that he hadn't bonded with the post owl he'd reluctantly bought to replace Hedwig who would also need to be released from their bond.

"Very well aim to leave in Friday. One of my people will get the address of a wand shop in Washington DC to you later today. I don't need to warn you to take every precaution to hide your preparations" Sir Geoffrey said dismissively.

Harry got to his feet. "Thank you Sir" he said exiting the office. He thought it was a little sad how excited he was to be leaving the country. England was his home, the home he'd fought and died for but he couldn't wait to get away from the fame, the Weasleys and everyone's expectations of him. America was much more open minded about sexuality according to the Healer he'd seen when he was cursed and the fact that they published books on sexual spells for gay wizards seemed proof of that. Maybe he would find somewhere that he could be himself, or somewhere to find out who being himself really meant.

-o0o-

Harry started packing by pulling everything out of his trunk and checking the trunk itself for tracking charms. Cursing he found several. Casting again to identify the castors he found the magical signatures of Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore, Molly Weasley, Ginny Weasley and Hermione Granger. He also found an alerting spell weaved through many of the charms which would alert the castors if the spells were removed. Quickly cancelling his detection spells he carried the trunk into the room he used to share with Ron as a teenager and left it there. Luckily they'd never replaced the portrait of Phineus Black after the war. Harry searched through the attic finding an old trunk with strong locking wards. It took quite some time for Harry to remove the wards and replace them with his own, but he eventually managed it. He emptied out the trunk finding that it had last been used by a Hogwarts student. A seventh year with an interest in potions from the contents. Harry wondered why the trunk had never been unpacked until he opened one of the books to find the name Regulus Black. Sirius' brother had been killed within weeks of completing his final year. He tested it thoroughly for curses and tracking charms, cast the identification spell to make sure none of them had been cast by the Weasleys and once they'd all been removed, dragged it down to his room and started sorting through his clothes and books testing each object for charms before storing it either in his new trunk or throwing it in his old trunk if it tested positive.

Feeling tired and grubby he went to have a shower forgetting to remove the charms he'd placed on his glasses to see magic. Yawning he stripped off only to gasp in horror when his glasses alerted him to multiple tracking charms placed on his hair, and not only the hair on the back of his head he realised but also the hairs on his legs, chest and groin area. Cursing he applied the magical signature detection charm and found Albus' and Molly's signatures on his head and Ginny's on his chest and pubic hair. Which frightened him because he could not remember ever being naked in her presence. Groaning he turned off the water and quickly cast three different chastity revealing charms relieved when they all came up positive for magical and biological virginity. He pulled his clothes back on and searched his potion books for the hair growth potion sighing in relief when he found it in his fourth year text. It was a relatively easy potion to make and one which he already had all of the ingredients in stasis for left over from the days Snape used the potions lab to brew potions for the order. Snape had warded the room of course but the house wards made it impossible to ward any room against the head of house Black.

He carefully made the potion and bottled it before returning to the bathroom. He showered and fell into bed exhausted knowing that it would be safer to wait until the night before he left to remove the tracking charms from his body otherwise someone might notice and apply a fresh lot without him noticing. His whole body itched from the knowledge of the tracking charms on his person though he knew realistically that it was just psychological, some of them must have been there for years.

-o0o-

He headed in to work the next morning like nothing had changed waiting until his regular catch up with Auror Robbards to let him know he was being reassigned and would be finishing Thursday.

"That's not much notice" Robbards grumbled.

"Orders from MI7 and the Minister. They want it kept as quiet as possible. There was an attempt on my life last month and the Weasleys are creating too much interference for me to do my job effectively or live a normal life" Harry explained. "I was considering resigning. I just want to get away from it all and this sounds like the perfect opportunity."

"So the order to keep your leaving under wraps has come down from Kingsley. I'll report that you've called in sick on Friday and wait to reassign your cases on the Monday. What have you got open at the moment?"

They spent the next twenty minutes discussing cases and who's skills would be most useful on each before being interrupted by the front receptionists. "Excuse me Sir but Auror Potter's fiancé is here, she says there's a family emergency."

"I don't have a fiancé" Harry said irritated.

"Yes Sir we know, the other receptionist tried to tell her that but she just started sobbing and wailing. Her brother insists she needs to see you"

"If this is another attempt to manipulate me I want you to have them arrested" Harry muttered to his boss.

"I found tracking charms cast by that witch and her mother on nearly everything I own, including my Auror robes."

"Let's hear what they've got to say" Robbards said frowning.

"Harry" Ginny threw herself at him sobbing hysterically.

"Ginny calm down and tell me what's wrong" Harry said rolling his eyes. He looked around the room and was surprised to see Ron.

Ginny was still mumbling incoherently between sobs. "Can you tell me what she's so upset about Ron?" Harry asked.

Instead of answering Ron walked towards him and punched him in the face. Harry was unable to defend himself with Ginny's arms wrapped around his arms.

"Security" Robbards yelled taking the redhead young man into custody. "You're under arrest for assaulting an Auror" he snapped forcing Ron to his knees and applying magic suppressing cuffs.

Auror's poured into the entrance hall. Robbards gestured to two of the juniors, "take this man down to the holding cells" he ordered. He turned to where Ginny was still holding onto Harry as if her life depended on it. "Miss I need you to let my Auror go" he said firmly.

Ginny gave no sign of having heard him.

"Miss my Auror needs medical attention you need to let him go now" he barked.

She still ignored him.

"Ginevra Weasley if you do not let Harry go NOW. I will have you arrested" he yelled before stepping in to pull her away from Harry.

"Auror Potter present to the infirmary" he ordered. "And stay there."

"Yes Sir" Harry replied walking out of the room.

That alerted Ginny and she began yelling for him to come back.

The healer had quickly mended Harry's face and he had been given clearance to leave when Robbards entered the infirmary.

"Mr Ronald Weasley stated that he hit you because you called off your engagement and refused to reinstate it even after being told that your fiancé Ginevra Weasley was expecting your baby" Robbards told him.

"I am prepared to swear on my magic that I never had sex with Ginevra Weasley" Harry replied.

"Please don't" Robbards said panicking. "After what you told me of the potions used against you, there is the possibility that you could have been potioned into it and obliviated of the fact afterwards."

"So what can I do? I could swear on my magic that I had no knowledge of a child prior to him hitting me and no memory of having had sex with Ginevra Weasley" Harry offered.

"Ginevra was still in custody. We had a healer examine her and no pregnancy was detected but it may not be in the first twenty four hours after conception. Is it possible that you are missing any time in the last twenty four hours, that they could have obliviated you?"

"No I was in the office or at MI7 all day and floo'd directly from MI7 to my home which is warded against all Weasleys" Harry said thoughtfully.

"Is there anyone who does have access to the house who could be working with them? Your friend Miss Granger or a member of the order of the phoenix?"

"Hermione has access to my wards but I'm sure she wouldn't do such a thing" Harry said.

"I hope you are right. Is there any way to check?" Robbards asked.

"Kreacher" Harry called.

"Yes Master Harry" Kreacher popped in and said.

"Can you verify for me that nobody other than me entered my home in the last forty-eight hours and that I was never removed from the house without my knowledge?" Harry requested.

"No one has come to the house" Kreacher confirmed. "Miss Granger called you on the floo just after eight, but was told you were at work and did not come through."

Harry sighed in relief.

"Kreacher, have you ever collected blood or semen from Harry for anyone, or seen anyone else collecting blood or semen?" Robbards asked.

"No Sir's I'se not let anyone steal blood or magic from Harry Potters" Kreacher replied.

"What do you want done with the Weasleys?" Robbards asked.

"I don't want Ron charged. Can you make sure he knows the truth before letting him go?" Harry asked.

"Of course" Robbards agreed. "Unfortunately we have only Ron's word that Ginny was claiming to be pregnant, she never said it herself so we can't hold her on making false claims to trick you into reinstating the betrothal contract. Unless you're ready to press charges for the potions use we're going to have to let her go."

"Is there a way to hold her until after Friday?" Harry asked.

"Only if we hold her brother too. We could charge her as an accessory to the assault but if you let him go you have to drop charges on both of them" Robbards replied.

Harry sighed. "I get off at five, can you hold them until five fifteen then let them both go making sure they both know that Ginny is not and never was pregnant with my child. I'll write to Arthur, letting him know that this is their final warning. That you have the potioning evidence and are only holding off on it at my request but that if they try anything else you will prosecute them to the full extent of the law including charging Ginevra for attempted line theft. I doubt we could get a conviction for that but the whole family's reputation would be ruined."

"I'll call in and talk to Arthur myself. Put the fear of God into him in the hope he can control his family" Robbards offered.

-o0o-

After the ruckus at the office on Wednesday Kingsley and Robbards could see the extent the Weasleys were prepared to go to force Harry into marrying Ginevra they decided it would be in his best interest to use a time turner to allow him time to get out of the country before he was missed. So Harry spent his first version of Friday investigating a minor case in full view of most of Diagon Alley under the watchful eyes of several trusted Aurors.

Fred approached him while he was on the Alley, stopping beyond reaching distance and holding his empty hands out so he wouldn't be perceived a threat.

"Fred" Harry acknowledged.

"Harry, partner, I have to ask is there any way Ginny can make amends? She really loves you and she's torn up about the fight you had" Fred asked.

"Is that what she told you?" Harry asked cynically. "Finding out she was potioning me and that she didn't want to have children is more than a simple disagreement. So no there is no way on earth I would willingly marry your sister. I want a wife I can trust."

Fred nodded. "I'm sorry to hear that" he said.

"I'll understand if you wanted to end our partnership. I'll have the goblins draw up the papers" Harry offered.

"No mate we've been friends long before you started dating Ginny. Your money's good with us" Fred replied. "Just, for your own good, I wouldn't come around for a while."

Harry nodded. "The Aurors have orders to arrest any Weasley that attacks me" he told his old quidditch teammate.

Harry returned home emotionally exhausted. It was hard to leave all his friends without being able to say goodbye. He explained the situation to Kreacher and ensured that he would not come upstairs then retreated to the seldom used third floor and turned back a whole day to relive Thursday night.

Bracing himself after casting the strongest numbing charms he knew, Harry cast depilatory charms over his entire body removing every single strand of hair. He checked himself carefully to make sure he'd removed all of the charmed hair then got into the shower and scrubbed himself raw with the scrubbing brush to remove any trace of skin which may have been affected by the charms. He cursed to himself when he realised that his nails were also considered dead cells and could hold tracking charms. Luckily they were clear as he hadn't been looking forward to pulling them all off and trying to heal his right hand with his wand in the wrong hand. He swallowed the hair growth potion and prepared himself for several hours of itching as his hair grew back.

The rub of his clothes was horrible so thankful that he had ordered Kreacher to stay down in the kitchen and that nobody could get through the wards, he cast his strongest warming charms on the room and stripped off roaming around naked as he finished closing up the house to leave the next day. Before going to bed he cast the magic sight charm on his glasses again and checked that all the tracking charms had all been successfully removed.

Remembering his decision to use his real name from now on he practised calling himself Hadrian, wondering if his parents had ever used that name and which of them had nicknamed him Harry. Sirius hadn't called him Hadrian but then he rarely called him Harry either calling him mostly Pup or occasionally James so that was no indication. Remus had called him Harry but Hadrian rather thought that was because that's what he'd heard his friends calling him when they met.

He woke early and shaved off the bushy beard and trimmed his hair a little before using his limited metamorph ability to experiment with styles until he found something he liked, taking advantage of the fading of his scar to have it shorter than it had ever been before. He tried to transfigure Dudley's cast offs into something respectable but the fabric was too worn to hold the magic for long enough so he resigned himself to looking like a vagabond until he could go shopping in America. He apparated to Kings Cross and caught the underground to Paddington then the Heathrow Express arriving far too early as he hadn't been sure how long it would take. He went through check in as soon as he could feeling safer once he was in of the part of the airport that required a passport and ticket, having heard from Kingsley that this part of the airport had been warded against apparition. He took a seat but couldn't help looking around anxiously, he was nearly away and he couldn't bear it if he was caught now.

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