Chapter 9: Brother Meets Brother
As the Hogwarts Express hummed silently passed a mountain and
toward a dense forest Harry Potter was still in shock of the
news he had received only hours before.
Harry awoke to the normal sound of his Aunt Petunia calling
him for breakfast. After quickly eating his grapefruit wedge
he hurried back to his room for his real breakfast, he was half
way done with prying open the loose floorboard when he noticed
Hedwig had retuned from Hogwarts. Harry had written Dumbledore
to see if he would be able to visit the Weasleys over the last
days of vacation. Harry knew that it was now too late to go to
the Weasleys because their was only a 2 days left until he returned to Hogwarts.
Harry noticed that their was a letter bound to Hedwig's leg though,
he took it off her and thanked her and began to read:
Dear Harry,
I am sorry to inform you that you cannot stay with your friends this summer.
I hope you can understand this is a very dangerous time especially for you.
I have some information to tell you. Something you should have found out long ago.
You have a brother. He is one year older then yourself and he had been missing
since he was a baby. His name is Steven and I am inviting you to come to hogwarts
a day early to meet him and to make him feel comfortable.
If he wishes he will tell you the story of what happened to him, it is not
my place to say. Enclosed is 1 ticket for the hogwarts express leaving 11:00 PM tonight.
I have already contacted your friends and they know that they won't see you on
the hogwarts express. I also had your school books delivered here for extra safety.
Dumbledore
So now here he was on the hogwarts express speeding toward hogwarts and
within his mind he thought "I have family."
**********
Steven was sitting on a bench at Hogsmeade Station waiting for
Harry's train to arrive. He was full of excitement.
Dumbledore whom was sitting next to him could tell that he was.
It was a very warm sunny day and Steven had a bag of gold to spend that day with Harry.
**********
Harry had gotten off the train and saw Dumbledore sitting on a
bench he immediately ran over to see him. "Harry" Dumbledore said
with a grin "I am glad to see you. But I want you to meet someone
who has waited all summer to meet you." Just then Steven appeared out of
thin air "Harry, I would like you to meet your brother Steven." For the
next minute or so there was complete silence and then Harry spoke
"I am glad to meet you" and Dumbledore said "I will leave you two alone,
Steven you know what time to be back at the castle right?" Steven replied
"Yes Professor." Although Harry didn't show it he was very shocked that
his brother had an American accent.
Ten minutes later Harry and Steven were off exploring Hogsmeade together.
They stopped at the Three Broomsticks for some Butterbeer first.
"So where have you been living the past 16 years Steven?" Harry asked with
great interest. "I have been living in New York City. It is really nice there.
So where have you lived?" After Steven asked that question Harry had explained
everything about their parents death and the dursleys and even the events he
went though the last 4 years at hogwarts. After Harry explained all this to
Steven, Steven explained all he could remember about disappearing "Dumbledore
told me that I was the reason they made it impossible to apperate at hogwarts."
Soon Steven started talking about his summer "Madame Hooch says I am a natural
flyer and is going to recommend me to the quiddich team for keeper." "So Steven"
Harry asked "So what is your best subject?"
"Well," Steven began "My favorite subject is charms because it
was a lot of fun turning peeves into a ghost version of a mop for 3 weeks.
but my best class is potions." "You like potions!" Harry gasped. Steven said calmly
"Yeah because at my old school I was good in science and potions is
just like science. Also Snape has been trying to stump me on something
all summer but so far he hasn't been able to do it." Harry was amazed at
how much his brother had learned in only two months he thought to himself
that Steven would make a perfect match with his friend Hermione who like
Steven was very good with classes.
*********
As the day came to a close Harry and Steven walked up to Hogwarts.
Both having had a really great time.
Later that night Steven and Harry were in gryffindor common room
and Steven was explaining everything he could about enlarging potions,
Harry understood him but he pretended that he didn't understand anyway
he thought that it was nice to have someone around explaining things to
him that didn't turn out to be Hermione.
Dumbledore whom was under an invisibility cloak was watching them
and grinned to himself happily thinking "Harry finally has his family back."
As the Hogwarts Express hummed silently passed a mountain and
toward a dense forest Harry Potter was still in shock of the
news he had received only hours before.
Harry awoke to the normal sound of his Aunt Petunia calling
him for breakfast. After quickly eating his grapefruit wedge
he hurried back to his room for his real breakfast, he was half
way done with prying open the loose floorboard when he noticed
Hedwig had retuned from Hogwarts. Harry had written Dumbledore
to see if he would be able to visit the Weasleys over the last
days of vacation. Harry knew that it was now too late to go to
the Weasleys because their was only a 2 days left until he returned to Hogwarts.
Harry noticed that their was a letter bound to Hedwig's leg though,
he took it off her and thanked her and began to read:
Dear Harry,
I am sorry to inform you that you cannot stay with your friends this summer.
I hope you can understand this is a very dangerous time especially for you.
I have some information to tell you. Something you should have found out long ago.
You have a brother. He is one year older then yourself and he had been missing
since he was a baby. His name is Steven and I am inviting you to come to hogwarts
a day early to meet him and to make him feel comfortable.
If he wishes he will tell you the story of what happened to him, it is not
my place to say. Enclosed is 1 ticket for the hogwarts express leaving 11:00 PM tonight.
I have already contacted your friends and they know that they won't see you on
the hogwarts express. I also had your school books delivered here for extra safety.
Dumbledore
So now here he was on the hogwarts express speeding toward hogwarts and
within his mind he thought "I have family."
**********
Steven was sitting on a bench at Hogsmeade Station waiting for
Harry's train to arrive. He was full of excitement.
Dumbledore whom was sitting next to him could tell that he was.
It was a very warm sunny day and Steven had a bag of gold to spend that day with Harry.
**********
Harry had gotten off the train and saw Dumbledore sitting on a
bench he immediately ran over to see him. "Harry" Dumbledore said
with a grin "I am glad to see you. But I want you to meet someone
who has waited all summer to meet you." Just then Steven appeared out of
thin air "Harry, I would like you to meet your brother Steven." For the
next minute or so there was complete silence and then Harry spoke
"I am glad to meet you" and Dumbledore said "I will leave you two alone,
Steven you know what time to be back at the castle right?" Steven replied
"Yes Professor." Although Harry didn't show it he was very shocked that
his brother had an American accent.
Ten minutes later Harry and Steven were off exploring Hogsmeade together.
They stopped at the Three Broomsticks for some Butterbeer first.
"So where have you been living the past 16 years Steven?" Harry asked with
great interest. "I have been living in New York City. It is really nice there.
So where have you lived?" After Steven asked that question Harry had explained
everything about their parents death and the dursleys and even the events he
went though the last 4 years at hogwarts. After Harry explained all this to
Steven, Steven explained all he could remember about disappearing "Dumbledore
told me that I was the reason they made it impossible to apperate at hogwarts."
Soon Steven started talking about his summer "Madame Hooch says I am a natural
flyer and is going to recommend me to the quiddich team for keeper." "So Steven"
Harry asked "So what is your best subject?"
"Well," Steven began "My favorite subject is charms because it
was a lot of fun turning peeves into a ghost version of a mop for 3 weeks.
but my best class is potions." "You like potions!" Harry gasped. Steven said calmly
"Yeah because at my old school I was good in science and potions is
just like science. Also Snape has been trying to stump me on something
all summer but so far he hasn't been able to do it." Harry was amazed at
how much his brother had learned in only two months he thought to himself
that Steven would make a perfect match with his friend Hermione who like
Steven was very good with classes.
*********
As the day came to a close Harry and Steven walked up to Hogwarts.
Both having had a really great time.
Later that night Steven and Harry were in gryffindor common room
and Steven was explaining everything he could about enlarging potions,
Harry understood him but he pretended that he didn't understand anyway
he thought that it was nice to have someone around explaining things to
him that didn't turn out to be Hermione.
Dumbledore whom was under an invisibility cloak was watching them
and grinned to himself happily thinking "Harry finally has his family back."