Summary: Harry Potter died in his final battle against Voldemort, but did he really die?
Pairings: DM/HP, SS/HG, LM/OC, LP/JP, RW/PP, RL/NB for now.
Forget about HBP, there is no traitor Snape in this fic.
AN: I know, I know, I should have updated years ago, but then things got a bit complicated. Also, the D/H part should be in this chapter, but it was getting way too long so I decided to make two chapters out of one, but don't worry fellas, you'll have the second part of this chapter, I'm almost done typing the pages my computer ate. Hope you enjoy this chapter.
Warning: If you got here and don't know that this fic is slash, I'm going to warn you again: This fic is slash. Don't like? You know where the back button is, for the rest, enjoy.
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Alyanah: Don't worry, Draco will ask all of this next chapter. And about the other questions, they will be placed in the right chapter, I have all of them written here with me. (Smiling face)
Sheree: Next chapter, you will see them together, don't worry. And he is not the only one with amazing powers, you still have to see what I have planned for the others and for the cave. ;-) (try a wicked face here). Also, some of the questions you did, are being answered in this chapter, believe me, I write down every questions all of you ask me, so, don't worry, they will be all answered.
Lady-Laffs-a-Lot: Next chapter will be full of Draco, our favorite blond and for Sirius, no, he doesn't. (Smiling face)
Phyllida: I hope you like this chapter too and I hope that some questions were answered, I did my best.
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10. Reunions and mended relationships
When Lucius arrived at the Monitor Room, Harry started bombarding him with question about Draco.
"How is Draco? Where is he? What happened..."
"Lucius Damien Malfoy! Where the fuck have you been?" Said a very angry looking Tom Riddle, interrupting Harry.
"Saving my son and preventing that the kids got killed. Where is Nil?" Lucius answered coldly.
"The Potters and her parents are bringing her back." Tom replied almost in a whisper.
"What! Bringing her back? What the hell happened?" Lucius demanded.
"Excuse me, but I'm still here and I'm still in the dark, so could you two, please, enlighten me?" Harry said between his teeth.
"Draco is fine but you can't see him now. Surely you accompanied the attack from here, so you know about the energy blast he had. He is now recovering from it, when he wakes up you'll be able to see him and have some time with him before your training begins. I believe you know everything about the 'Great Powers', don't you Mr. Potter?" Lucius answered looking at Harry.
"Yes I do but no one explained to me that 'training thing' nor I saw the attack as the monitor exploded." Harry replied.
"The monitor what!" asked Lucius unbelievably.
"Exactly, so I still don't know what happened so could you, please, tell me what the hell is going on?" Asked Harry getting angry, he didn't notice but Tom and Lucius realized that Harry's powers were being fuelled by his anger and the entire room could start shaking soon but the monitor room wasn't the place to tell him this sort of thing.
"Very well, I'll tell you everything later as we still have nine hours until Draco wakes up. Now, Tom, what did you mean when you said that Lily, James, Anthony and Kamilly are bringing Nil Back?" Asked Lucius turning his attention to Tom.
"During the attack, the house came down, we sent them to bring the Snapes and Nil back and another squad to do the 'dirt job'." Replied Tom, now a bit calmer.
"Dirt job?" asked Harry confused.
"Check for survivors from both sides, bring the survivors of the other side here, interrogate them, erase their memory and give them a new life, away from hate" answered Lucius.
Harry just nodded.
"Well, I need to talk to Aberforth. Lucius, could you explain about the training to Potter?" Asked Tom politely.
"Sure, come Mr. Potter, I'll show you where is Draco's room and then I'll explain about the training." Answered Lucius going out of the room and being followed by a confused and somewhat angry Harry, who was thinking what the hell was going on.
They got back to the corridor where Harry's chambers were.
"There is Draco's room, right across your own" Lucius said pointing the rooms. "Right beside yours is your parents' room, across theirs is Christa's room and on the next corridor are Nil's, Tom's and the Snapes' rooms, come I'll show you them." Lucius started walking and Harry had no other choice that to follow him to the next corridor, where Lucius showed him the other rooms.
"Wow! How does everything fit here?" Harry asked amazed.
"Let's say it is... well... magic" answered Lucius chuckling.
"Yeah, right." Harry replied snorting.
Lucius opened the door to another library and entered after Harry, closing the door. The click seemed to startle Harry.
"Don't worry Potter, although every room in this place has a Silencing charm on it, you don't have to worry about anything, no one is going to hurt you here." Lucius said motioning to the chairs around a small coffee table on the middle of the room.
"How many libraries there are here?" Harry wondered aloud while sitting in one of the chairs.
"A couple, for every subject in the world, no more that three subjects for library." Answered Lucius making his way to the chair opposite to Harry.
"And we are in which one?" he asked curiously.
"The one about History of Magic, this just happened to be the closest one for a talk." Replied Lucius sitting down facing Harry. "Well, Mr. Potter, I apologize for the delay of the answers to your questions but we weren't counting on the recent events, but I believe that now you will receive them."
Harry just nodded and then asked:
"You said that my parents are alive, how come?"
"Well, surely you remember that everyone told you that Voldemort tried to kill you himself, don't you? And, when he arrived at Godric's Hollow, your parents tried to stop him and were killed because of that, isn't it?" Lucius asked, starting his explanation.
Harry nodded, paying attention to every movement the man did. He wasn't very trusting yet. Well, who would be? He had found out not even two days ago that Voldemort was a good guy, that Lucius Malfoy was trying to protect Draco and he...it was a wonder he was sitting calmly there.
"What truly happened there" Lucius began, "was that Voldemort was in fact trying to save you and your family because one of the members of the Brotherhood asked, Kamilly Riddle Bluenile, Nil's mother. Of course, your parents didn't know what was truly happening, so, they, naturally, fought back. The thing is that, when you say the word 'parecis' before performing any charm, any charm at all, you get the exact effect of the charm but for a certain period; in the case of the killing curse, it is fourteen hours and no matter what charms one performs to find out what happened, it will only show the killing curse, also, it can only be lifted before the time by the caster, and the caster only, with a simple 'Enervate'. It worked with your father but when it came to your mother, things got a little complicated; she, of course, tried to protect you, so, she stood on the way of the faked killing curse, and, with that, she gave you the most powerful protection of all, the power of unconditional love, that very few can have. If everything had worked, Tom would use the same thing on Lily, fake the killing curse. Someone would find your bodies, then, someone from here would dig your caves before the spell wore off, then you would be brought here, where you would live until all the Great powers were found. Of course, when your mother stepped on the way and got hit, the spell worked for her, she would wake up in fourteen hours, but when Tom tried to do the same thing to you, the protection you had just got made the spell backfire, so, he was the one who woke up fourteen hours later, but he had time to activate the portkey back here. The Brotherhood continued with the plan without you, as you were safe with your relatives. "
At this, Harry snorted.
"I said safe, Potter, not living happily. It was then that they knew that you were the heir of Gryffindor. You remember that part about blood of lovers stepping on the way when opposites face each other blah blah blah... well, it meant that it was fate that Tom would try to kill you, but, by doing that he would reveal you as the heir of Godric Gryffindor and you would be brought here and everyone would think you were killed and your name would be erased from Hogwarts's list, what would add veracity to the tale that you were killed. When Tom woke up, the situation was discussed and Tom agreed that it would be better that everyone thought that he had vanished, after that, the situation was discussed with your parents. At first Lily refused to stay here without you, but then James convinced her that it was for the best, although it was breaking his heart not to have you near them, so they became Brotherhood members, training all the new members. When Voldemort was 'defeated', they went to the cemetery, to their graves by muggle ways and just apparated near Godric's Hollow, then, near Hogwarts." Lucius then, chuckled a bit. "They said that Dumbledore almost had a heart attack when he saw them. They told him that they had somehow found themselves inside a box, so, they apparated to Godric's Hollow and found the house destroyed and abandoned for a long time then they decided to apparate near Hogwarts and find Dumbledore in hope that he might have the answer to what had happened. Of course they knew what had happened, but they needed to pretend that they didn't. Dumbledore then, explained to them what had happened, and I must say that it seemed that they were perfect with their act of faking surprise and sadness for what happened to you. Of course this was just in front of the headmaster, they were really sad for what happened to you, don't think the opposite. Minister Anthony was called to determine if that was true that they were really alive or if that was a trick from Voldemort's followers. Already knowing the whole scheme, Anthony suggested that their magic were traced to know from where they had come from, so it was done, from Hogwarts gates back to Godric's Hollow back to the cemetery. Of course, just the fact that they had come from Godric's Hollow was enough to make Dumbledore believe them as just themselves or someone who was told by Pettigrew could enter there and there would be pointless to have Death Eaters pretending to be your parents, and the fact that they had come from their graves only seemed to add veracity to the tale, but Anthony still insisted that some other tests were done, of course, none that would reveal for how long they had been alive."
"So that is how the Minister knows so much about the Dark Arts and how to defend one from it. He is a member of this Brotherhood thing." Harry wondered aloud.
"Anthony is not just 'a member of this Brotherhood thing' he is a descendant of Rapsehs himself, the heir of the Bluenile family, one of the founders of the Brotherhood. He grew up running around this place, reading every book in this building."
"I can't believe. My parents alive all this time, a minister that is also member of a secret society. This seems so...unreal." breathed Harry looking down.
Lucius leaned closer to the young man, smiling a small, understanding smile.
"Please, Harry, I understand that everything is still a great shock to you, but you need to understand that there are things going on that called for those secrets. If your parents had showed up and taken you to live with them, there would be questions, Tom's true allegiances would probably be found, your life would be in danger, possibly you would never have the chance to know everyone you know as you would have to hide here. But now you can help change that. Everyone here lives or lived a double life for too long. We all need your help."
"I still don't understand why me. I mean, if I'm the heir of Gryffindor so I descend from Godric Gryffindor and if my mom is the heir of Morgan LeFay, so the blood of Godric Gryffindor can only come from my dad, so why isn't he a heir as well?" Harry asked looking at Lucius eyes
"The thing is that, apart from Morgan LeFay, it takes twenty generations for the powers of the Great Powers to kick in. Your father is the nineteenth descendant of the last heir, just like I am the nineteenth descendant of Merlin. You are the twentieth descendant of the last heir of Gryffindor."
"Why twenty generations, why not eleven or, I don't know, three?" Harry had a certain disbelief and... desperation? in his voice.
"Have you already read or do you know anything about genetic?"
"A bit." Harry answered not knowing where that would take him.
" Well, have you ever heard of recessive genes?"
"Yeah, genes that only show their characteristics when in equal pairs, like the color of the eyes." Harry answered still confused, then realization hit him, it took twenty generations for the heir's magic to be powerful enough for one to be considered an heir.
"How powerful are the heirs?" Harry asked tiredly. #Merlin, this is serious, if they are really telling the truth, it is up to me and some others to save the world and no one else can do that.#
"Well, they are as powerful as the wizards that they are heirs from, so naturally, you are as powerful as Godric Gryffindor himself, but it is not how powerful the heirs are that is important, it is that they have the same magical pattern as the ones they are heir from; some places only recognize their pattern of magic, so, can be only opened by those wizards themselves or their heirs." Lucius answered calmly. He saw that there was a certain acceptance by Harry's part.
"Now, Harry, I need to tell you something but, to do so, I must reveal something that I don't have the right to, so, I would like you to understand that I... I'm just doing this because I must, for you to understand why everyone here is urging you to start your training" There was a certain urgency in his voice.
Harry nodded apprehensively. Now that there were answers it was much easier to keep calm and wait for them as it seemed that the answers were being given straight away.
"Well" Lucius cleared his throat, clearly uncomfortable with whatever it was that he was going to say. "The thing is that... well... Draco is pregnant, with your child."
"What! This is... wonderful" Harry leaned on the chair, laughing, tears coming down from his eyes, tears of happiness. " My child, my own child! I'm gonna be papa" He said happily. Merlin, happily was one of the understatements of the century. He was ecstatic.
"Harry, this is not what I want to tell you. I need to tell you something much more serious than that, something concerning your child's life."
"What is it, Malfoy? What can be so serious?"
"Your child can't be born before the defeat of the Bringers of Purification" #Okay, saying it this way was cruel but I have to make him understand the seriousness of the situation
Harry immediately stopped daydreaming about his child and looked at Lucius, fully concentrated on what he had to say. What did he mean by saying his child couldn't be born? Surely he was overreacting.
"That is better. Look, Harry, I don't mean that your child can't be born, it is just that if he or she is born before the defeat of the Bringers, everyone here would have to wait seventeen years to have a real life again, away from spying, away from pretending to be crazy or dead, away from everything they love." There was a growing urgency in Lucius' voice.
"Why?" He asked puzzled.
"Because you and Draco are a special case. You are both Great Powers, so your child would inherit the power of one of you and both your powers would be blocked and wouldn't be unblocked until the child's seventeen birthday, that is when the magical pattern of the heirs magic gets clear to know which powers the child has. And a lot could happen in seventeen years."
"Why both our powers would be blocked if the child will have only the power of one of us?"
"Because the child would have both the powers inside him or her, the powers wouldn't be a matter of blood, like what happens normally with the heirs, they would be a matter of two patterns getting intertwined with each other, so, only the choices the child would make along the life could determine which power would prevail. Besides, a child so powerful couldn't be out in the world where the Bringers could get a hold on this child, and believe me, they have a lot of ways to do so without anyone noticing until it is too late, the safest place would be locked inside four walls, and it is not fair to any child." Lucius said urgently.
"How do you know that they would succeed in taking my child away? How do you know Draco and I won't be able to protect her?" Harry asked doubtfully.
"Did you know that Nil was a member of a secret society and a spy for that society?" Lucius asked calmly, although the urgency was still clear in his voice.
That was right. He never paid attention to Bluenile, never thought she could be involved in something like spying and secret societies. He always thought her to be the quiet type, that would never be involved in something like that, and surely Draco didn't know either or he would have told him. He hated to admit it but, boy, they were good. And if the good guys were that good, he didn't even want to think about the bad guys. Malfoy was right, the Bringers would be defeated this time, his child deserved, needed to live in a world without fear.
"Okay, tell me what I have to do." Harry asked determined.
"Well, it is not that much. Your training consists in learning how to control your powers over fire, but that is Nil's territory, I don't know much about that. To defeat the Bringers, we need to destroy the energy that controls their minds and it can be only done from the inside of a cave in the Bluenile Estate." Lucius answered, relieved that Harry had finally accepted to help them.
"If that is all, why wasn't it done before?" He asked curiously, it seemed so simple.
"Well, because the Bringers always succeeded in killing one or two heirs and all the heirs are needed to open the doors of the cave and get inside there." Came the calm reply.
"But how do they know when to strike?" He was more curious now. How did they manage to know what to do to prevent the Brotherhood from winning?
"The question is more like who. As you were told, prophecies big like this are made usually all around the world and the Brotherhood is not the only one on the run to get those prophecies and to find out about who they are. Sometimes, they get the lead and kill an heir before we know who are the heirs, so, we have to wait another five hundred years, just because of the heir of Morgan. Some times they find a way inside the Bluenile Estate and manage to kill one of the heirs in the battle. Sometimes they even manage to put a spy inside here. That is why they weren't stopped yet." Lucius finished the explanation with a sigh.
"So, basically I have to learn how to control my powers, open a door in a cave and not get killed if there is a battle. Seems easy."
"You are right Harry, seems, but during your training you'll see how a Bringer battles, and then, you can tell me if it is easy or not." Lucius answered chuckling a bit.
"Yeah. I'll tell you." Harry didn't know when it happened, but, somewhere along that conversation, they started a friendship, and it was nice, not to be worried if your father-in-law would throw you a curse if you let your guard down. Father-in-law. It was weird to see Lucius in this new light. Whatever had happened to him since he first met the man, he liked it, to se a human Lucius. "Well, I hate to break this conversation but, well... may I see Draco? You know, just a part of me is paying attention to this conversation." Harry asked chuckling too.
Lucius smiled and sighed again.
"Harry, this must be hard for you, considering that you surely are desperate to see my son, but I would like to ask you to let me see him first. There are some things that I must tell him, things that I must clarify."
"Sure, I understand that you two have a lot to talk about" Harry answered smiling.
"Thanks Harry." Lucius paused for a moment and then, added: "Would you like to finally meet your parents?"
"I'd love to."
Lucius got up, snapped his fingers and led the way to the door, when he opened a female house elf was standing there.
"Star, please, take Mr. Potter to where his parents are."
"Yes, sir." Answered the house elf bowing.
Lucius walked to his son's chambers and entered. He conjured a comfortable chair by the side of the (huge) bed and sat there, waiting for his son to wake up.
When Harry reached another double doors, he expected another library but it seemed to be a simple common room, like the ones in Hogwarts, except this one had many comfortable-looking armchairs and sofas. The doors opened silently and the two people there didn't notice it, so they kept talking.
"I'm not going to wait anymore, I've already waited too long! To the hell with Lucius, Tom, or anyone else. I don't care what they said, I'm going to see him right now." Said a very exasperated-looking red haired woman.
"Lil, calm down, his questions need to be answered first and Lucius was the one who they chose to do that." Said a man. Harry couldn't see how he looked like as he had his back to him and the back of the chair was higher than him.
"You know what Jim? I'm going to that library now, I'm going to see him and if Malfoy even move his finger to stop me, I'm going to shove his wand so up his arse that to retrieve it he will have to reach his throat." Answered the woman.
It was then that the house elf cleared her throat.
"If madam and sir are busy we can come back later."
Harry didn't know how but one moment he was looking into emerald green eyes and the next he was enveloped in a warm bear hug. Hagrid would be very proud of that hug.
"Thanks Star, you can leave now." He heard the man say.
"Harry, oh, Harry, my dear sonny. I missed you so much. Please, forgive me for not taking you to live with us. My little son."
"It is okay, mum." Everything just rolled out of his tongue. He had only seen this woman in pictures, never met her, after that night at Godric's Hollow he thought she was dead, but after that warm hug, he knew that they had only done that to protect him from bigger suffering, he knew that his parents loved him; he didn't even need to look at his father to know that.
When his mother let go of him he saw that his father had moved closer to him.
"Look James, it is our little baby, out little Harry." Lily stepped aside so James could see his son clearly.
They really looked like each other. If it wasn't for the eyes, it would be extremely hard for anyone to tell which was who, as Harry, apart from the eyes, had Lily's chin and nose.
James didn't say anything, he just hugged his son, letting tears of happiness flow.
"My son. My baby." James hugged his son harder as he cried. "You sure has grown into a nice young man. I'm so proud of you."
Harry hugged his father tight. He was with his family. Well, a part of it.
Finally James let go of Harry.
"So, how about we catch up these years, son? Why don't you tell us what you've been doing?" James asked lightly, leading Harry to one of the chairs. He surely was just like Sirius had described him to be, joyful, humorous. He somehow had come back in Harry's seventh year, but no one found out how.
He sat between his parents, both of them with one arm around him. He told them about the Dursleys, Hogwarts, Quidditch, Draco, his life as an Auror, everything and his parents told him everything about themselves and the Brotherhood.
AN: Yeah guys, finally another update! Yay! Well, you know, keep sending your questions! Who you want to ask what, who you want to say what... that stuff. And Lucius will tell Draco that he wasn't a bad guy next chapter. It was supposed to be in this but this chapter was getting too long and I don't want to risk the update, I already had problems with another fic, so, I'm still a bit wary. Anyway, reviews! And you get a chocolate bar and a weekend with our characters. I already got Sirius for this weekend. Anyway, bye, love y'all.