Potter manner
After Molly and Arthur had gone home to the burrow, James had decided to bring Harry, (Marie) Rouge, Bobby (Iceman), (Remy) gambit, Jean, Logan (Wolverine), (Ororo) Storm, Kurt (Nightcrawler), kitty (Shaddowcat), Peter (colossus) and the Professor to Potter manner.
It was not the first time he and Jean were in the house. They used it for their wedding and honeymoon. And the occasional vacation and safe house.
And Remus had brung Harry here the Christmas before so Harry could see his ancestors portraits. All the potters that came before him. It helped him with the Potter side of the family tree. A project he had to do in his muggle history class he was taking online.
See in the summer before his first year, Harry had gotten an charmed laptop with built in internet and a battery that never died as a birthday present from his uncle Franklin. He had secretly exchanged some money for the gift. So when Harry came to Hogwarts he signed up for online school. A muggle born student had placed an antenna on the school grounds when laptops were invented and came out. It was under a lot of charms, but everyone knew it was there.
And with the laptop Harry had talked to his aunt Mary-lavender before she died and great uncle John about the Evans and the Grey families. Harry was living with Mary-lavender before she died and he got shipped to Petunia.
And that is why he ran. Petunia wanted him to do everything in the house and she and her family do nothing. It wasn't like Mary-lavender's home where they took turns on the chore list. Like one week it would be Harry. The next week it would be Jonny's turn. The week after that was Sue's turn. Then it's the parents. See where I'm going with this?
Harry and his cousin Susan were really close and would helped out with each other's chore weeks so it would go faster. And it wasn't like Mary-lavender and Franklin even cared. They just wanted the chores done. And when Harry went off to Hogwarts Sue demanded that he get her a set of his books too. She got everything except the potions ingredients and the wand.
And that Halloween she went as a witch and used the cauldron as a candy bag. But she did have to make her own wand. Now this year, Sue will have to find her own way to get the books from him.
It wasn't like the summer before second and third year where they took the knight bus with Jonny because Mary-lavender and Franklin were too busy with work.
And because of Sue, Harry and Hermione were competing for the top spot in their year. Hermione knew Harry was really smart. They went to the same school before Hogwarts but in different classes. So Hermione heard rumors from the students and staff about his own intelligence.
Harry wasn't like her though. He had friends he played with. Even if one of them was his cousin. He had traditions. He had more friends then her. He had love. And he had happiness.
Okay, okay, back to the manner. Harry went off to the library (Harry wrote down book titles he thought Sue would like and give them to her on Christmas) and Jean went to the kitchens to get something to eat. James stayed with the group and gives them the grand tour. And after the tour everyone went exploring and Charles went to the library.
Charles was shocked to see Harry engrossed in a book called the mysterious island when he entered the library. Charles also noticed that Guliver's travels and treasure island on the young wizard's lap under the open Jules Vern book.
But as he thought about it. James was a smart man, he had a goofy side and loved pranks, even going as far as helping Bobby with one of his pranks, but James was a smart man.
And from what Jean said, her cousin Lily, Harry's mother, was a genius. Lily had a medical PhD and a hospice license and was working towards working at London's finest hospital. The one where rich people and the royal family go too.
This made Charles to believe that Harry had gotten his mother's brains and his father's personality.
Harry looked up and saw the Professor in the doorway.
"Hello professor. Can I help you find a book?" Harry asked
"Does this library have 20,000 leagues under the sea?" Charles asked
Harry waved his hand a certain way and the book Charles asked for floated down into his hand. This was a trick that only people with the Potter name could do. Remus taught Harry the trick after seeing Charlus, Dorea and James doing it thousands of times. Harry wondered if Hermione could do it if she was taught.
"Here you go Professor." Harry said handing Charles the book
Charles went to a table and began to read the book. Harry noticed that Professor Xavier had that grandfather you can trust me vibe he noticed on Professor Dumbledore.
(With James)
James was waiting by the fireplace. He had sent a message to Remus for him to come. The two men had kept in contact over the years. So James knew of Sirius getting chucked into Azkaban, then him escaping the summer before and now his trial next week.
And Remus knew of James marrying Jean. Knowing this information practically killed Remus inside. He had visited Harry often when the boy lived was with Mary-lavender. Remus only visited because Mary-lavender was a good friend of his.
When Remus looked to the raven haired boy, a small part of him died not telling people around him that James was alive and married to Jean.
James was eating a large bowl of fruit salad and reading Shakespeare's hamlet when Remus came through the Floo.
"Prongs, what's up?" Remus asked
James heard this and put down the fork and book. He looked to his friend and stood to his feet.
"Harry found me." James said
Remus was gobsmacked.
"Really?" Remus asked
"Yeah. He took a inheritance test and found me. He also found out that I married Jean." James said
This truly shocked the werewolf.
"All those time I went to his house." Remus said
"Who was he living with? You never did tell me that." James asked
"Mary-lavender and her family before she died. Now Dumbledore has him with Petunia. But Harry ran as soon as he could." Remus said
This got James mad. Why didn't Harry not go to Remus? And James voiced this.
"I don't know why. I was able to convince Dumbledore to do Mary-lavender when Lily died and you were believed to be dead." Remus said
James sighed. He sat down with Remus and continued to eat his fruit salad as the two talked. People past the two. And what they saw was true friendship. And when Jean walked past she saw two friends reuniting.
She smiled as she saw this. Jean had met Remus a few times over the years. Even when she went to visit family with her parents and siblings.
Granger home
Hermione was sitting outside sunbathing in her back yard with her best friend Dianna Fox. They two girls had been in the same classes in elementary (primary) school. It was late afternoon. And Dianna's parents went to have a dinner party at a friends house.
They were enjoying one of the few sunny day's in their area. Dianna knew of the wizarding world as she was a halfblood going to that magical school in Dublin.
Dianna was the first person Hermione told about her adoption. The next person was Harry after he saved her from the troll. She could never tell Ron. He'll probably just laugh in her face because of that.
Hermione knew Joan was her birth father's first cousin so they had some blood relation. That's why she called Joan and Henry Aunt and Uncle and not mum and dad.
Earlier Joan gave Hermione a letter from her birth father. She hadn't read the letter yet. She was scared about what was in it.
"Hey Hermione let's open that letter from your father." Dianna said
"Okay." Hermione said timidly
She opens it and Dianna sits next to her reading over her shoulder. Literally.
But before Hermione could read the letter a picture fell out. It had Harry James Scott Hermione Lilian Jean Potter, July 31, 1981 on the back.
Dear Hermione,
First of all my name is James Scott Potter. James Scott is my first name so don't go confusing Scott as my middle name. That area of my name is Charlus.
And I know you had heard stories that say I'm dead, but I'm not. I'm alive and kicking.
By now your twin brother Harry would have found me with the inheritance test he took at Gringotts. Go to him and he will take off the charms and spells I've placed on you as only a blood relative will be able to release them. If Joan had magic she would be able to take them off as she my squib cousin.
(And you also should know the Potter family does not cast away squibs like other families. We encourage them to marry muggle borns. But Joan decided not to marry a muggle born and just marry a muggle.)
You should look like your mother Lily but with my blue eyes. That's why you will have a temper too. That's your redhead showing through.
Hermione you should know that separating you and Harry was the hardest decision I had to make. It almost killed me doing that. I wanted the two of you to know each other. I also wanted the both of you with me. But the wizarding world would have gone crazy if Harry had disappeared. I was told by your mother that Petunia loved you.
You should know that Halloween night You-Know-Who came to our house, you were at the Longbottom's home because Harry was sick and your mother didn't want you sick too and I was out with Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. The only people who knew that I was even out that night were Frank and Alice Longbottom, your mother, Remus, Sirius and maybe Professor dumbledore.
I've put a spell on this letter so I would know if you opened this. Hermione I love you. When I looked into your eyes I knew you were my little baby girl.
Love your father
James Scott Potter
Hermione was shocked. She was Harry's twin, a Potter and her father was still alive. Hermione started to get panicked. She was starting to understand why she was always in trouble. Her blood couldn't stay away from it. It was like a hereditarily addiction.
Hermione decided to use Dianna's floo and go to the burrow. But Dianna had one condition before Hermione left. She had to go too.
But when the girls got there something out of the ordinary happened. She found out that Harry was convinced to go to Potter manner by their father and was not at the burrow.
