Harry Potter & the Return to Honeychurch Institute of Magic
By Darkmoore
"The boy is Voldemort."
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Chapter Four: A Decision is Reached
"WHAT!" Vesta bellowed.
"I said that the boy is Voldemort." Harry repeated.
"What's going to happen to the boy?" Remus asked.
"Tonight he's staying at the Facility, where he has been all week, but Ginny told me that tomorrow he had to go or she would."
"I don't blame her Harry, what are you gonna do with him?" asked Tonks , as it was now her turn to speak, or at least she thought so.
"I have no idea, Dumbledore wants me to bring him here and raise him like he was my own son." Harry sighed.
The room was silent for a moment before …
"NO WAY!"
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!"
"I don't think that would be the best thing for you Harry."
"Doesn't you's worry Harry Potter, we's can be taking care of a little boy. You's is needing children in you's life."
Harry was stunned, first because Vesta removed herself from his lap and began to pace the room and then second due to Dobby launching himself across the room and hugging him.
"I half way expected Tonks' reaction to the news, but the rest of you have me stunned. I didn't say I was going to take him in. That's what Dumbledore wants me to do." Harry said to the group.
"You'll do what he wants, you always do." Tonks said bitterly.
"Do you see him here?" Harry countered snappishly.
"No, but you'll have him here tomorrow." Tonks said equally snappish. "Do you even know what that man is capable of Harry?"
"No Nymphadora, why don't you tell me exactly? Give me a minute to bring my parents into the room so you can explain it to all of us." Harry said back to the Auror as he stood from the couch and stared into her eyes.
"Sorry Harry," she said sheepishly, "but you can't bring him into this house."
"I know that. Do you think I want him in my life at all?"
"What are you going to do with him Harry?" Remus asked calmly, the only one in the room who seemed to be at the moment.
"I'll get some out of the way cottage and put him there with one of the nannies from the facility. Nanny Zinnia Talmadge said she would take him on for the summer."
"Not our holiday cottage? Harry you promised me a private holiday with just the two of us. I do not want that CHILD, there at all." Vesta said angrily.
Harry was shocked; he had never seen her act this way in the time he knew her. Not even during the Draco/ Blaise/ Veela thing a couple of months ago.
"Don't worry Vesta, that cottage is not what I had in mind for him. I was thinking something in the mists of Wales perhaps. Somewhere far enough from London so I don't have to deal with him on a daily basis, but not too far for me to get to him if I needed to." Harry explained.
This seemed to satisfy the two witches and the werewolf, but a certain house elf still had something to say in the matter.
"Harry Potter, you's can't be sending a little boy away likes that." Dobby scolded. "He is needing you to take care of him and no one's else."
Harry was stunned by Dobby's reaction, having known that all house elves were happy when Voldemort fell. Then he remembered something from when he was in the infirmary right after Voldemort fell.
"Dobby, did you know about Voldemort being turned into a baby?"
"Eh, er, well, Harry Potter …" Dobby said before popping away.
"DOBBY?" all four said at once.
Expecting the elf to return they waited a moment, but instead they found Ron and Hermione entering the sitting room looking flushed.
"Harry!" Hermione screamed, "I'm so glad your home."
Harry was happy to see his two best friends, but didn't want to have this conversation all over again.
"What's wrong, mate?" Ron asked.
"Yeah Harry tell him what's wrong." Tonks said.
"Have either of you spoken to Ginny today?" Harry asked.
They both responded, "No."
"Then you better sit down and I'll explain it all to you." Harry then spent the next few minutes doing just that. From the stunned and panicked looked on their faces, he was expecting another explosion.
"WHAT?" they exploded together.
"Harry you can't take him in, he's evil for Merlin's sake." Ron bellowed.
"What was Dumbledore thinking?" Hermione asked out load clearly her mind was racing thinking about this problem as she had a habit of doing.
"I think the board is right, send him straight off to Azkaban." Ron stated clearly and Tonks agreed.
Then an argument broke out in the room, each person having a different idea of what to do with the boy.
Finally Hermione had enough and screamed, "I want to meet him!"
"Are you mental?" Ron asked his girlfriend.
"Think about it Ron, Dumbledore says he's perfectly safe, he's been in the facility for a week and no one is worse off for it and its' obvious to me, that we can't force our opinions down Harry's throat like this without knowing all of the facts. Therefore I want to meet Tom Riddle."
"But Hermione …" Ron began.
"There are no buts about it Ron. I'm meeting him!" Hermione said and stamped her foot to drive the point home. Ron didn't bother to reply as he didn't want to be spending the night on the couch on their first night together in their new flat.
"Now why don't we go and eat? Ron and I have some exciting news to tell everyone."
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Later that night after Ron and Hermione had revealed the big news that they were now living together which brought the reaction of "It's about time" from Tonks. Harry managed to get Dobby alone to ask him a couple of questions.
"Dobby, I'm not mad with you or anything, but did you know about Voldemort being turned into a baby?"
Dobby wrung the hem of his maroon jumper and stalled for a few minutes, but finally gave an answer, "Yes Harry Potter, I's was knowing the truth."
"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Harry.
"Dumbledore was saying not to. You's had a long time in the infirmary and miss's out on you's graduation. He's not wanting to burden you with it. I's took care of the baby until I quits to work for you's Harry Potter." Dobby explained.
"Did Dumbledore tell you to come work for me?"
"No sir, Harry Potter, after the baby was taken away, I's telling him I's is working only for you's for now on."
Harry smiled, "I'm glad you did Dobby. No one has ever looked after me like you have."
The house elf beamed.
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Sometime later Harry enters his bedroom to find Vesta already in bed.
"Vesta, are you asleep?" he asked gently in case she was.
She rolls over and says, "No, I'm not, I was waiting for you to come to bed."
Harry sit on his side of the bed and begins to take his shoes off and without facing her, he asks, "Are you going to break up with me?"
She sits up and wraps her arms around him and says, "I'm not planning on it, but I guess I could if you wanted me to." Then she bites his ear playfully.
"Even if I end up being stuck with the boy?" he asks, hoping he isn't losing her forever.
"You won't be stuck with him Harry. No one in their right mind would think of doing that to you."
"We'll see. I was told of a magical boarding school in Switzerland that takes children as young as six years old. He should be six by the time school starts; do you think they would take him?"
"You could always write and find out." Vesta cooed in his ear making his eyes flutter from excitement.
"I'll do that tomorrow." He said as he pulled off his robes and began to climb into bed with her.
"No-no, you won't need these tonight." she said with an exotic influx in her voice and then she pulls his boxers off of him and throws them onto the floor.
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The next morning, bright and early, well this is Harry after all, so its not that early, Harry waked up and extracts himself from the beautiful woman that has her arms and legs tangled up with his own and makes his way down to the kitchen for his morning cup of coffee.
"Morning Winky"
"Good morning Master Harry. What would you's like for breakfast?" Winky asked.
"Lots of coffee until I wake up, I need to write a letter this morning before I do anything else. Also, I want to wait for Vesta to wake up so we can eat together."
"Master Harry's sweetie is a nice missy."
"Yeah she is." Harry responded before taking his cup of coffee up to the library to write a letter concerning Tommy to the Headmaster of the De Zauberei Akademie of Switzerland.
One way or another he would have options about the boy.
To Be Continued…
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Author's Note: To everyone who reviewed, thanks again...
tigerlily98 wrote This is truly a creative story. I'd love to see where you go with this! I swear I'm becoming addicted to this story... Keep it up!
Answer - Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
athenakitty wrote Will Harry find out about the young Tom? Will Harry find out what Dumbledore's trying to hide? A charm of making? Will this Tommy grow up with love? Will there be another wand for him?
Answer - Well, young children are not allowed wands until they go off to school at age 11. So we won't find out for another 6 years. The charm of Making is a very old and powerful spell that we learn about in the prequel.
athenakitty wrote (again) Will Harry decide on the issue of Tommy? Will Harry's feelings get changed? How will Remus, Vesta and Tonks take the news? Will Harry adopt Tommie? Do you have an e-mail address that I can send you and e-mail?
Answer - There will be no adoptions, final. You'll have to read to know whats going on with Harry & Tommy. Hotbearcub69@yahoo.com is my email address, feel free to email away.
Mikee wrote Maybe Harry should talk to Molly Weasley -- aside from maybe Harry's girlfriend -- I can't think of anyone else who would be able to give a child, any child, the unconditional love that this particular child ("Tommy") needs.
Answer - Are you insane? Molly Weasley take in this child? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. If Ginny won't let him stay at the Facility, then there is no way Molly will take it into her home.
Nemati wrote This chapter looks great, Tommy certainly was a surprise to all of us. Seems to me like you hit a bit of an anti-Dumbledore spot there. This includes your veela story, lol. Way to go, I never liked the manipulating coot anyway.
Answer - I'm not having an anti-Dumbledore moment, just having a holy shit moment and Dumbledore is in the middle of it, both of them actually.
RossWrock wrote Hey there. Just wanted to say that I'm really liking your stories. I just discovered the original a few days ago, and luckily finished before this one and the prequel came out. And while you didn't have much of a plot in the original (as you admited), I still very much like your writing style and the OC's you've created. This one looks to be very promising, and I can't recall another fic that has a baby T.V. in Harry's custody, or anything like it. Very interesting.
Answer - Tommy's not a baby, a bit of a cry baby perhaps, but he's 5. As for plots, I'm no Slytherin, I'm more a Hufflepuff, hard work. :D
TuxedoMac wrote well it seams like its a stressful and hard decison for harry in this chapter but the cards might play out espcialy after where tommy told him about his time with his aunt. after al if we remember back about what was told to wils mom when shoping in digon ally about he would help others like that.
Answer - Very few things in Harry's life have been easy for him. I'm glad you picked up on a few things from the first story and the side story. :D
ARGGGG wrote Pack the kid off to askaban, let the dementors fest on his tiny pint sized mind! If you need angst write about Harrys quickly passing guilt for sending the child to his death. But kill him before he makes me gag!
Answer - Obviously not a Tom Riddle fan. Not that I blame you, I am not a fan of Voldemorts either.
kensai2 wrote I think Harry should raise Tommy. Otherwise Tommy will not be loved, and then we have a unhappy whiney dark lord. I love everyone's reaction to baby Tom.
Answer - Yes, everyone seems to be reacting to that more than I thought that they would. Hmmmmmm.
Treska SilverFlame wrote Wonderful. I'm loving this story so far. I'm glad to see you employing the nature vs. nurture idea/theory. Personally I believe it's a little of both (thinking of own sister) but that nurture can actually tip the balance. Seeing the way Harry is I believe that Tommy would grow up to be a rather nice person if Harry does adopt him. However that is totally your call. Although if you do a growing up story on Tommy it would be interesting to see if his past life comes up and how he deals with it. I also can't wait to see how the other will react (more of Vesta actually) and what advice they might give him. Although I don't think that Harry will let Tommy go to prison, it's just not in his personality. But, like I said, it's your call.
Answer - If I do any grown up stories, it'll be about Will and Xander, not Tommy. We're not done with the boy yet, it's a long summer and we still have two conferences to go through. :D
Tanydwr wrote This is a great idea. Harry's got to remember that Voldemort was raised in a Muggle orphanage by people who hated him. It was nurture, not nature, that made him lean towards the Dark Arts. And Harry can say all that to the others, but he's so sweet to Tommy. He's just a little boy. I don't think Harry has it in his heart to just turn him away. Maybe they can modify memories? Mind you, there's lots of them. Maybe not. Hmm...
Answer - They're not entirely sure he has any of Voldemort's memories or if the slate has been totally wiped clean either.
By Darkmoore
"The boy is Voldemort."
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Chapter Four: A Decision is Reached
"WHAT!" Vesta bellowed.
"I said that the boy is Voldemort." Harry repeated.
"What's going to happen to the boy?" Remus asked.
"Tonight he's staying at the Facility, where he has been all week, but Ginny told me that tomorrow he had to go or she would."
"I don't blame her Harry, what are you gonna do with him?" asked Tonks , as it was now her turn to speak, or at least she thought so.
"I have no idea, Dumbledore wants me to bring him here and raise him like he was my own son." Harry sighed.
The room was silent for a moment before …
"NO WAY!"
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!"
"I don't think that would be the best thing for you Harry."
"Doesn't you's worry Harry Potter, we's can be taking care of a little boy. You's is needing children in you's life."
Harry was stunned, first because Vesta removed herself from his lap and began to pace the room and then second due to Dobby launching himself across the room and hugging him.
"I half way expected Tonks' reaction to the news, but the rest of you have me stunned. I didn't say I was going to take him in. That's what Dumbledore wants me to do." Harry said to the group.
"You'll do what he wants, you always do." Tonks said bitterly.
"Do you see him here?" Harry countered snappishly.
"No, but you'll have him here tomorrow." Tonks said equally snappish. "Do you even know what that man is capable of Harry?"
"No Nymphadora, why don't you tell me exactly? Give me a minute to bring my parents into the room so you can explain it to all of us." Harry said back to the Auror as he stood from the couch and stared into her eyes.
"Sorry Harry," she said sheepishly, "but you can't bring him into this house."
"I know that. Do you think I want him in my life at all?"
"What are you going to do with him Harry?" Remus asked calmly, the only one in the room who seemed to be at the moment.
"I'll get some out of the way cottage and put him there with one of the nannies from the facility. Nanny Zinnia Talmadge said she would take him on for the summer."
"Not our holiday cottage? Harry you promised me a private holiday with just the two of us. I do not want that CHILD, there at all." Vesta said angrily.
Harry was shocked; he had never seen her act this way in the time he knew her. Not even during the Draco/ Blaise/ Veela thing a couple of months ago.
"Don't worry Vesta, that cottage is not what I had in mind for him. I was thinking something in the mists of Wales perhaps. Somewhere far enough from London so I don't have to deal with him on a daily basis, but not too far for me to get to him if I needed to." Harry explained.
This seemed to satisfy the two witches and the werewolf, but a certain house elf still had something to say in the matter.
"Harry Potter, you's can't be sending a little boy away likes that." Dobby scolded. "He is needing you to take care of him and no one's else."
Harry was stunned by Dobby's reaction, having known that all house elves were happy when Voldemort fell. Then he remembered something from when he was in the infirmary right after Voldemort fell.
"Dobby, did you know about Voldemort being turned into a baby?"
"Eh, er, well, Harry Potter …" Dobby said before popping away.
"DOBBY?" all four said at once.
Expecting the elf to return they waited a moment, but instead they found Ron and Hermione entering the sitting room looking flushed.
"Harry!" Hermione screamed, "I'm so glad your home."
Harry was happy to see his two best friends, but didn't want to have this conversation all over again.
"What's wrong, mate?" Ron asked.
"Yeah Harry tell him what's wrong." Tonks said.
"Have either of you spoken to Ginny today?" Harry asked.
They both responded, "No."
"Then you better sit down and I'll explain it all to you." Harry then spent the next few minutes doing just that. From the stunned and panicked looked on their faces, he was expecting another explosion.
"WHAT?" they exploded together.
"Harry you can't take him in, he's evil for Merlin's sake." Ron bellowed.
"What was Dumbledore thinking?" Hermione asked out load clearly her mind was racing thinking about this problem as she had a habit of doing.
"I think the board is right, send him straight off to Azkaban." Ron stated clearly and Tonks agreed.
Then an argument broke out in the room, each person having a different idea of what to do with the boy.
Finally Hermione had enough and screamed, "I want to meet him!"
"Are you mental?" Ron asked his girlfriend.
"Think about it Ron, Dumbledore says he's perfectly safe, he's been in the facility for a week and no one is worse off for it and its' obvious to me, that we can't force our opinions down Harry's throat like this without knowing all of the facts. Therefore I want to meet Tom Riddle."
"But Hermione …" Ron began.
"There are no buts about it Ron. I'm meeting him!" Hermione said and stamped her foot to drive the point home. Ron didn't bother to reply as he didn't want to be spending the night on the couch on their first night together in their new flat.
"Now why don't we go and eat? Ron and I have some exciting news to tell everyone."
* * * * *
Later that night after Ron and Hermione had revealed the big news that they were now living together which brought the reaction of "It's about time" from Tonks. Harry managed to get Dobby alone to ask him a couple of questions.
"Dobby, I'm not mad with you or anything, but did you know about Voldemort being turned into a baby?"
Dobby wrung the hem of his maroon jumper and stalled for a few minutes, but finally gave an answer, "Yes Harry Potter, I's was knowing the truth."
"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Harry.
"Dumbledore was saying not to. You's had a long time in the infirmary and miss's out on you's graduation. He's not wanting to burden you with it. I's took care of the baby until I quits to work for you's Harry Potter." Dobby explained.
"Did Dumbledore tell you to come work for me?"
"No sir, Harry Potter, after the baby was taken away, I's telling him I's is working only for you's for now on."
Harry smiled, "I'm glad you did Dobby. No one has ever looked after me like you have."
The house elf beamed.
* * * * *
Sometime later Harry enters his bedroom to find Vesta already in bed.
"Vesta, are you asleep?" he asked gently in case she was.
She rolls over and says, "No, I'm not, I was waiting for you to come to bed."
Harry sit on his side of the bed and begins to take his shoes off and without facing her, he asks, "Are you going to break up with me?"
She sits up and wraps her arms around him and says, "I'm not planning on it, but I guess I could if you wanted me to." Then she bites his ear playfully.
"Even if I end up being stuck with the boy?" he asks, hoping he isn't losing her forever.
"You won't be stuck with him Harry. No one in their right mind would think of doing that to you."
"We'll see. I was told of a magical boarding school in Switzerland that takes children as young as six years old. He should be six by the time school starts; do you think they would take him?"
"You could always write and find out." Vesta cooed in his ear making his eyes flutter from excitement.
"I'll do that tomorrow." He said as he pulled off his robes and began to climb into bed with her.
"No-no, you won't need these tonight." she said with an exotic influx in her voice and then she pulls his boxers off of him and throws them onto the floor.
* * * * *
The next morning, bright and early, well this is Harry after all, so its not that early, Harry waked up and extracts himself from the beautiful woman that has her arms and legs tangled up with his own and makes his way down to the kitchen for his morning cup of coffee.
"Morning Winky"
"Good morning Master Harry. What would you's like for breakfast?" Winky asked.
"Lots of coffee until I wake up, I need to write a letter this morning before I do anything else. Also, I want to wait for Vesta to wake up so we can eat together."
"Master Harry's sweetie is a nice missy."
"Yeah she is." Harry responded before taking his cup of coffee up to the library to write a letter concerning Tommy to the Headmaster of the De Zauberei Akademie of Switzerland.
One way or another he would have options about the boy.
To Be Continued…
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Author's Note: To everyone who reviewed, thanks again...
tigerlily98 wrote This is truly a creative story. I'd love to see where you go with this! I swear I'm becoming addicted to this story... Keep it up!
Answer - Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
athenakitty wrote Will Harry find out about the young Tom? Will Harry find out what Dumbledore's trying to hide? A charm of making? Will this Tommy grow up with love? Will there be another wand for him?
Answer - Well, young children are not allowed wands until they go off to school at age 11. So we won't find out for another 6 years. The charm of Making is a very old and powerful spell that we learn about in the prequel.
athenakitty wrote (again) Will Harry decide on the issue of Tommy? Will Harry's feelings get changed? How will Remus, Vesta and Tonks take the news? Will Harry adopt Tommie? Do you have an e-mail address that I can send you and e-mail?
Answer - There will be no adoptions, final. You'll have to read to know whats going on with Harry & Tommy. Hotbearcub69@yahoo.com is my email address, feel free to email away.
Mikee wrote Maybe Harry should talk to Molly Weasley -- aside from maybe Harry's girlfriend -- I can't think of anyone else who would be able to give a child, any child, the unconditional love that this particular child ("Tommy") needs.
Answer - Are you insane? Molly Weasley take in this child? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. If Ginny won't let him stay at the Facility, then there is no way Molly will take it into her home.
Nemati wrote This chapter looks great, Tommy certainly was a surprise to all of us. Seems to me like you hit a bit of an anti-Dumbledore spot there. This includes your veela story, lol. Way to go, I never liked the manipulating coot anyway.
Answer - I'm not having an anti-Dumbledore moment, just having a holy shit moment and Dumbledore is in the middle of it, both of them actually.
RossWrock wrote Hey there. Just wanted to say that I'm really liking your stories. I just discovered the original a few days ago, and luckily finished before this one and the prequel came out. And while you didn't have much of a plot in the original (as you admited), I still very much like your writing style and the OC's you've created. This one looks to be very promising, and I can't recall another fic that has a baby T.V. in Harry's custody, or anything like it. Very interesting.
Answer - Tommy's not a baby, a bit of a cry baby perhaps, but he's 5. As for plots, I'm no Slytherin, I'm more a Hufflepuff, hard work. :D
TuxedoMac wrote well it seams like its a stressful and hard decison for harry in this chapter but the cards might play out espcialy after where tommy told him about his time with his aunt. after al if we remember back about what was told to wils mom when shoping in digon ally about he would help others like that.
Answer - Very few things in Harry's life have been easy for him. I'm glad you picked up on a few things from the first story and the side story. :D
ARGGGG wrote Pack the kid off to askaban, let the dementors fest on his tiny pint sized mind! If you need angst write about Harrys quickly passing guilt for sending the child to his death. But kill him before he makes me gag!
Answer - Obviously not a Tom Riddle fan. Not that I blame you, I am not a fan of Voldemorts either.
kensai2 wrote I think Harry should raise Tommy. Otherwise Tommy will not be loved, and then we have a unhappy whiney dark lord. I love everyone's reaction to baby Tom.
Answer - Yes, everyone seems to be reacting to that more than I thought that they would. Hmmmmmm.
Treska SilverFlame wrote Wonderful. I'm loving this story so far. I'm glad to see you employing the nature vs. nurture idea/theory. Personally I believe it's a little of both (thinking of own sister) but that nurture can actually tip the balance. Seeing the way Harry is I believe that Tommy would grow up to be a rather nice person if Harry does adopt him. However that is totally your call. Although if you do a growing up story on Tommy it would be interesting to see if his past life comes up and how he deals with it. I also can't wait to see how the other will react (more of Vesta actually) and what advice they might give him. Although I don't think that Harry will let Tommy go to prison, it's just not in his personality. But, like I said, it's your call.
Answer - If I do any grown up stories, it'll be about Will and Xander, not Tommy. We're not done with the boy yet, it's a long summer and we still have two conferences to go through. :D
Tanydwr wrote This is a great idea. Harry's got to remember that Voldemort was raised in a Muggle orphanage by people who hated him. It was nurture, not nature, that made him lean towards the Dark Arts. And Harry can say all that to the others, but he's so sweet to Tommy. He's just a little boy. I don't think Harry has it in his heart to just turn him away. Maybe they can modify memories? Mind you, there's lots of them. Maybe not. Hmm...
Answer - They're not entirely sure he has any of Voldemort's memories or if the slate has been totally wiped clean either.