Harry felt a deep, soul crushing tiredness that had increasingly become a part of him since he turned fifteen. Year after year since he was eleven, he was somehow put into mortal peril that should have been impossible to escape from, let alone win.
Harry was barely an adult and Voldemort had decades of magical experience but he preserved. He learned and focused on things he did know and took them to the highest level he possibly could.
Apparition, Transfiguration, Charms, Occlumency, Potions, and Defense Against the Dark Arts. It also helped that one of his friends was a literal genius and he was no dunderhead.
It also helped that when he turned seventeen, he received two journals; one from his mother Lily about the subjects she was most interested in such as Charms, Potions, Runes and later in life, Blood magic and another from his father, James about Transfiguration and pro tips about Dueling at the higher level. Take all that with his own interests, and knowledge, along with his title as the Master of Death and you get a wizard that was Voldemort's equal.
It was, still is, a tough road. And 'now' he was in an alternate dimension looking fourteen with Voldemort running around somewhere.
If Harry was lucky, Tom was stuck in the same position as he was but considering he was dead and buried in an unmarked grave, most likely the Dark tosser in this life managed to separate him from his parents before killing him.
His Tom Riddle had probably combined with this reality's counterpart and now has the power of two fully realized Dark wizards with absolutely nothing standing in his way.
'Why, why I'm I Fate's bitch? Was I a bad person in another life? Did I hurt someone?' Harry thought as he walked through Diagonally with the moon's light beating down on him, transfigured clothes keeping what little dignity he had left. He wore blue jeans, a dark green shirt, and black boots.
He walked towards the Daily Prophet ready to spend hours, days, weeks learning all he could about this world right up until he saw the headline of today's paper, "Quidditch World Cup 1994: Who Will Win?!" It took only a moment before the ravenette's mind was filled with memories of that horrific day and if his theory was true then it would become a thousand times worse.
Without hesitation and without thought, Harry did what he always does in these situations and leapt with both feet towards the unknown.
The teen Apparated towards Dartmoor national park where the campsite should be stationed, hoping he would get lucky and land near where the World Cup was located.
...
Two twin boys with silky smooth dark brown, almost black, hair held onto their parents hands, their amber brown eyes filled with curiosity and wonder.
"Ma!" "Dad!"
The two cried out at the same time, "This place is amazing!" One twin exclaimed while the other nodded in agreement.
Their father, James Potter, who stood at an even six foot with black hair, laughed and ruffled both his son's heads, getting them to giggle, "Good! I'm glad your guys are enjoying yourselves." The man pushed his glasses back against his nose and turned towards his teenage daughter, an almost perfect mix between him and his wife.
She had long, messy red hair, with slightly tanned skin, a small button nose, and a narrow face with hazel brown eyes, "Rose! How did you like the game?'' The girl put on a thinking pose for a moment and gave a two thumbs up with a cheesy smile.
Lily Potter, a petite woman who stood at five foot and six inches with pale skin, rolled her bright green eyes and laughed.
"You get more and more like Sirius everyday, my little rosebud." The mother told the girl.
"Thank you, Mama." Rose said with a smile as she hugged the woman from behind.
"Well Sirius is hardly the worst person to emulate my Lilypad." James spoke with wiggling fingers.
"Yes, yes James." Lily waved him off and hugged her oldest child, "Sometimes I wonder why you never married him." James shrugged in reply.
"I probably would have if your sexy self didn't walk into my life." The man wiggled his eyebrows at the woman who slapped his arm, trying and failing to keep the smile off her face.
" "Ewww!" " The twins gagged at their father who chuckled and lifted his two eleven year old sons off the ground onto both of his shoulders, "Why is Papa such a sap!?" The boy on the right asked with his twin nodding in agreement.
"Now, now boys, trust me, when you find yourself a woman like your mother, you'll understand why Papa is such a Casanova." Lily rolled her eyes at her husband.
"That's not what they said." She told the man who scrunched up his face in thought.
"Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that's what they said." LIly shook her head.
"Nope." James nodded his head in disagreement, knowing what his ears had told him.
"Yep." Lilly and Rose shook their heads together.
" " " "Nope." " " "
James let his neck lose strength at his entire family's words, causing said family to laugh together at his defeat.
"Hey, you're supposed to be on my side Evan, Derek!" The man whined at his sons who simply patted his back in comfort.
Several explosions went around the campsite, "Aghhh!" "Death Eaters!" Run! Run for your lives!" "Dear GODS! He's back!" James immediately set his sons down and drew his wand.
"Lily, take the kids and run!" The red head nodded and took the twin in her arms and turned towards Rose in fright.
"You have to keep up with me Rose! No matter what happens, no matter what you see, Do. Not. Stop. Running." The young witch nodded and they took off in the opposite direction of the chaos.
James felt his breath hitch looking at the form of the greatest monster the Wizarding world has ever known, "James, how good to see you! I was hoping to run into you here!" James's eyes widened at the Dark wizard before narrowing.
The Wizard quickly shot off several spells in quick succession at Voldemort who quickly swept them away with the tip of his wand, "I don't care what happens to me Voldemort but I won't let you hurt my family again!" The Dark Lord didn't so much as twitch at the younger wizard's tone.
"Oh James, I'm not here for your family," the red eyed ravenette paused for a moment and shook his head, "Actually, yes I am but not for the reasons you think." Voldemort explained and snapped his fingers.
Two of his Death Eater Disapparated, a few seconds later they reappeared with his entire family held at wand point.
"Fuck!" James raged at the man who simply smiled, "Ava.." He was quickly struck in the chest with a paralyzing spell, snapping his limbs tightly together.
"Don't worry James, I'm not going to kill them." Voldemort rolled his eyes back and forth, "Well I won't kill them right now. You see, your family is going to be used as a bargaining chip to defeat my true enemy, my only equal." James' eyes narrowed and tried moving.
"Albus will never be defeated by the likes of you! He will never stop fighting you!" Lily screamed, trying to rip herself from one of her capture's hands and Voldemort snorted.
"Him? No I'm not talking about Albus fucking Dumbledore, I out stripped him in power and skill in my fourties." Lily went still at his statement, "No, I'm talking about a man who has fought me his entire life and despite being completely out of his league, kept stopping all my plans right in their tracks. I'm talking about a man who at this very moment is desperately trying to locate me across Dartmoor. Who, if I'm right, has lost all his advantages against me and will finally, finally die tonight leaving the entire world to me." Voldemort crackled with an inhuman grin.
The Potter children whimper at the sight.
"Yes." The handsome Dark wizard whispered, opening his mind and forcing the image of the Potter family through his metal connection to Harry, "Victory is so close, I can taste it." He licked his lips at the thought of defeating the man.
"CRACK!"
"TOM!" A young voice roared in fury, the very air becoming distorted by his magic.
"Harry! I'm glad you could make it." Voldemort clapped in slight excitement,
"This must be an unfamiliar sight to you isn't it? Your family alive," The man narrowed his eyes before widening in fake realization. "but then again maybe not, as they are only moments away from death."
Lily looked at the young boy across the field in disbelief, "Har..Harry." She whispered, feeling tears gathering at the corner of her eyes. "That's, that's not possible." Tears flowed from her face.
"Mama, who, who is he? Why did... why did Volde..mort say we're family?" Rose asked the older woman with confusion and fear clear in her voice.
"That's... I think that's your older brother." Rose blinked along with the twins who took a closer look at the teen and saw an uncanny resemblance to their father but with their mother's eyes.
"Merlin's beard." The young red head whispered as Harry stood tall and with confidence that she only saw in her father and Uncles, he strutted towards the man the entire world feared.
"Take another step and I'll slaughter them again." Voldemort stated in a cold, lifeless voice stopping the boy in his tracks and Rose felt the bile in her throat rise.
"What did he mean again?" Rose asked with fear and Lily simply shrugged, lost as her daughter.
"You've been a thorn in my side for too long Potter!" The Dark wizard spat at the boy who kept an indifferent expression, "So you will stand there and die and if you do, your parents and siblings can walk away." Lily shook her head and felt tears fall from her face.
The Witch just got her son back. Somehow, some way her son was safe, she couldn't lose him again!
"Not again, not again! Please don't hurt him! Don't take him away again." Harry momentarily made eye contact with the woman and she felt her breath hitch.
"I'm not their son." Lily felt her heart break at his words, felt the hope in chest vanish, "You know that, my parents died for me when I was child, these people mean nothing to me." Rose looked at the boy in hurt before her face twisted in a scowl.
"Come off it Harry!" Voldemort laughed as if he heard the funniest joke in the world, "I can feel your emotions! No matter how strong your shields are, when we're this close to one another I will always know what you feel and you feel nothing but love for these people. The moment you laid eyes on your siblings I literally felt your heart swell, it's disgusting really." The young witch's scowl dropped and her confusion increased while Lily's eyes gained their light again.
"You and I both know that despite them not being the actual people who made you, these are the people they could have been, these are the siblings you could have had and that's enough for you to immediately place them into your heart. If you have any weakness, it's no matter what you've been through, your heart is always big enough for another person and that's what's going to make you stand right there as I kill you." Evan and Derek felt so lost right now, apparently they have an older brother who was Voldemort's greatest enemy but as they saw Harry sigh and close his eyes exactly like their father when he was about to give in to they're demands they knew they shouldn't keep quiet anymore.
"Don't do it Big brother!" Evan screamed, trying to get his new sibling's attention.
"We want to get to know you, and pull pranks on… with you!" Derek started with a blush, after tripping over his words.
" "So please don't die! Please!" " They begged together and Rose nodded along.
Harry blinked at his family and smiled at them, they felt their hearts slowly down thinking they convinced their new brother not to sacrifice himself, "Swear to me on your magic, you'll release all of them and make sure your followers won't harm them in any shape or form if I let you kill me." He stated and the three sibling faces fell as their mother screamed, trying to escape the hold the Death Eater had on her.
Voldemort laughed and turned towards the shocked children, "If there's one thing you should know about Harry Potter kids, is that when he loves you, he will do absolutely anything for you, the moment you called him your brother, you sealed his fate." The man twirled his wand in his hand before raising it in front of him.
"I, Lord Voldemort swear on my magic that neither I nor those who bear my Mark will harm James or Lily Potter nor their three children if Harry James Potter dies by my hand tonight. So mote it be." Harry nodded and closed his eyes ready for his fate.
Voldemort's wand began glowing green with pure power but as he was about to cast the killing curse a red light struck the wizard's hand. The wand flew towards who he knew to be Sirius Black, a tall man standing an inch or so shorter than James with messy black hair and gray colored eyes.
Several loud cracks were heard and Harry's eyes snapped open, he saw several Aurors surrounding the Death Eaters with wands pointed at their heads and others escorting the Potters away from the battle zone.
"Took you long enough Pads!" James called and Sirius patted the man's shoulder in comradery, tossing the now broken wand of Voldemort away.
"Sorry Prongs, trying to find the right moment to intervene." Sirius replied before his eyes twisted behind him for a moment onto the James look alike, "So what are we going to do with... um.. Harry?" The other man shrugged, looking lost as his best friend, his wife and their children.
Voldemort sighed causing most of the people to tense, "This is what happens when I try the easy way, I knew you were weaken but despite that knowledge I tired to take the safer route and now I'm surrounded by Aurors.'' The dark lord shook his head in disappointment. "I'm guessing our deal is off?" He asked and Harry nodded.
"Yeah." The teen simply said, Voldemort rubbed his temples before raising his hand and releasing a green bolt of energy full of hate and malice which Harry blocked with a beam of power full of peace and love.
"Shit!" James cursed in surprise along with several Aurors who flinched at the amount of magic they could feel in the air and before long, a full on battle began.
Harry forced the killing curse back and broke the stream of power the Dark lord had. Both Wizards reach out their hands and summon wands from down Death Eaters the Magical Law Enforcement took out.
The younger wizard released yellow lightning from the tip of his new wand as Voldemort raised the ground to block the spell before transfiguring the wall into spikes and shooting them out towards the man trapped in a teen's body.
Harry, with pure skill and precision, dodged the spikes while obliterating them to dust.
A moment later, Voldemort waved his newly acquired wand and a snake made of fire flew towards the boy who created a shield to block the elemental animal before manipulating the magical barrier into a bubble, containing the Dark fire magic.
Harry took a deep breath, ignoring some blood that was leaking from his mouth as he shrunk the bubble as small as he could and froze it through, letting it fall to the ground and shatter.
The boy coughed several times, wiping his now bloody nose before taking a step to cast an offensive spell but as he did, the strength in his legs left him and he dropped to his knees in exhaustion.
Despite how weak he looked Harry continued to swipe away several magical beams from his enemy and several of his followers.
"Haha! Look at you Potter, on your knees like you were always meant to be." The older wizard laughed at the pathetic sight as several Aurors shot different colored spells at him, Voldemort froze in midair before sending back, "I know this isn't your original body which means it's filled to the brim with the magic of at least an Archmagus. That much magic forcibly squeezed inside an ill equipped container? Frankly, I'm surprised you didn't immediately explode after your first high level spell." Harry tried to retort but vomited a good amount of blood onto the ground.
Lily shook off one of the Aurors that were keeping guard and ran towards her son who looked towards her and quickly sent her back with a push of his magic, finally burning out the wand he took.
"AGH!" The Potter Scion yelled as the wand fell from his fingertips, his right forearm burned at the magical feedback.
"You must be ashamed Harry! No wand," The Dark lord's eyes looked towards the burnt wood that was barely holding together, " No title," Harry fell to his elbows. "A body that can barely hold your magic." Harry tried to take a deep breath only to fall into a coughing fit. "You are no longer my equal." He shook his head with a smirk.
"I really was too cautious wasn't I? I could have killed you immediately and been done with it." Voldemort tossed the broken wand away from his own grip and summoned another one from a paralyzed Auror, "After I'm done with you, I'll kill everyone here, then Dumbledore and the world Will. Be. Mine!" He screamed and sent the killing curse towards the exhausted teen.
"No!" Lily screamed and tried escaping Sirius renewed hold on her. Harry himself didn't even raise his head but smiled when a familiar wave of magic met his senses, "Squeak!" Fawkes fell to the ground, dead and the young wizard let out a sigh of relief.
'Two buckets of mint.' The boy thought to himself.
"Tom, it was a mistake for you to come here." A pale old man with wrinkles on every corner of his face with long, dazzling white hair and a beard reaching his chest spoke, his bright blue robes fluttering in the air.
Voldemort snarled at the ancient wizard as Harry struggled onto his feet, summoning another wand to his hand.
"Round two, Tommy." Harry slurred his words and pointed the new wand towards the ground and made a large spike that zoomed towards the Dark wizard, Voldemort Apparated out of the way before shattering the spike.
The Dark lord then began to teleport across the grounds, trying to enter Harry's blindspots.
The teen let his magical senses tell him where to Apparate and waved off a spell the Voldemort sent out before Transfiguring the spikes into hundreds of hummingbirds, Charming them into attacking and then exploding when making contact at or around Voldemort.
"BOOM!" "BAM!" "BOOM!"
Harry fell to his knees again before passing out, overwhelming his ill prepared body.
James rushed over and pulled the boy far away from the second half of the battle towards several Aurors who were waiting along with Lily and their three children.
Voldemort clenched his teeth and with a wave of his wand every hummingbird disintegrated, "You truly are no match for me Dumbledore, and without my fear holding me back you're as good as dead." He raised his wand Transfiguring pebbles into a dozen ravansish lions that leaped towards the ancient wizard.
Albus banished the lions before Charming the grass to elongate, binding the Death Eaters and Voldemort.
It quickly rotted against Voldemort's skin and several dozen ice crystals formed in the air, flying towards his enemies. Albus created a shield of fire with little difficulty, melting the crystals away.
Lily held her son's body in her arms as James waved his wand across his prone body, "Ubi iniurias." a blue glow encompassed Harry and a list of injuries entered the brown haired man's head. "Several of his organs are bleeding and his Magical Core is severely burnt. He also has magical burns across his entire right arm." Lily held in a whimper as she held the teen's head close to her chest.
Sirius and several Auror's surrounded Harry's body and with only slight hesitation Sirius ordered the Auror's, "Let's perform organum restituet and then Auror Potter will perform the magically core restoration before the boy suffers permanent injury and magical loss.'' Everyone nodded and pointed their wands at the unconscious teen.
"Organum restituet!" "Organum restituet!" "Organum restituet!" "Organum restituet!" "Organum restituet." " "Organum restituet." "Organum restituet!" Every Auror chanted the spell as James bit his lip, the man was so distracted that a stray dark spell almost hit him.
"James now!" The Head of the Potter House nodded, pointing his wand towards his supposed son and Lily quickly followed his lead.
" "Restituere magicae, magicae Noli enim mori!" "
" "Restituere magicae, magicae Noli enim mori!" "
A bright green glow encompassed Harry's body and both parents felt a deep exhaustion as their magic depleted to dangerous low levels.
Harry's eyes snapped open and Lily released a sob before a giant flame dragon flew from Voldemort's wand and tried to kill his reawakened opposition.
Harry quickly raised his hand, "Rigescunt Indutae!" The dragon turned to pure ice and shattered across the grounds.
"Don't use your magic!" Sirius bellowed to the boy who struggled to his feet, "We don't have another magical donner to help you if you over-tax your Core again!" Lily tried to keep the boy from standing on his feet but he simply shook her off.
Harry took a breath and Apparated next to Dumbledore who looked towards the boy in surprise as Voldemort sighed at his enemy, "Accio lost wand." An abandoned magical focus flew to his hand.
"I see your chanting spells, so sad." Voldemort faked concern and Harry snarled in reply.
All the Aurors that helped heal Harry stood up and ran at the backs of Dumbledore and the teen, prepared to properly back up the two wizards, "Looks like the table has turned Tommy." The Potter Scion smirked at the older, more experienced man. "Now you can handle Dumbledore or me on your own but together with eight highly skilled Aurors at our backs, I think even you know you're outmatched right now." The Dark wizard's face dropped into a scowl.
The man looked at his Death Eaters either dead, trapped or unconscious before looking back at his enemies he now had to face alone with half his reserves gone.
A wave of intense magic encompassed the entire area and he, along with all his followers, Disapparated.
Harry sighed in relief before collapsing on his ass, he took a moment to calm his breathing but after a second he heard a cough and looked up towards several eyes that wanted answers.
Without a drop of hestaintion, the Disapparated from the area.
"Fuck!" James bellowed and Rose's eyes widened with hurt and disbelief that was mirrored by her mother and brothers.
"Don't worry James, we'll find him." Sirius told his friend who rubbed his forehead.
Albus cleared his throat and with a smile pointed his wand where Harry Disapparated from, "Redi." A large crack was heard and the clone of James stared wide eyed at the group of Aurors and his 'family.'
Harry soon sighed and looked towards Dumbledore with a slight glare, "You're going to keep doing that until my magical reserves run dry, aren't you?" The grand wizard simply smiled.
Harry rolled his eyes and threw his second-hand wand away before dropping to his knees with his hands behind his back, the boy then laid his forehead against the grass, "What are you doing?" the Head of the Black House asked with confusion.
"I know protocol." Sirius looked at James who once again bit his lip and looked towards his silently begging wife before rubbing his eyes from beneath his glasses.
"Arrest him and prepare Veritaserum." Lily felt her heart break as magical rope was tied around her son's hands and he was hauled to his feet without any resistance.
A moment later Sirius and two Aurors Disapparated, most likely back to the Ministry.
"I'm coming too." Lily announced to her husband and James seemed ready to argue before she glared at him with her fericest, nastiest and coldest glare he had ever seen and simply nodded.
" "We want to come too!" " The twins exclaimed together with Rose nodding along with a resolute frown.
" "No." " Both parents refused their children.
...
Harry was thrown into an interrogation room by an unfamiliar Auror and was left there for several long minutes. A moment later the man who could have been his father in another life stepped in with his dead Godfather.
Sirius stepped beside Harry and fished out a bottle of Veritaserum, the once Potter Scion opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue without arguing and the silky haired ravenette squeezed out three drops of the liquid.
After a moment Harry felt his sense of self fade away leaving behind someone who only knew of Harry Potter, "What's your name?" James asked with a hard yet hopeful tone.
"I have many names, many titles." Harry responded with a blank tone and both men looked at one another with confusion.
"What are they?" Sirius asked.
"The Boy-Who-Lived, The Man-Who-Conquered, The Master of Death, The Rival, The Liar, The Chosen One, The Golden Boy, Boy, Freak, The Champion, Harry James Potter." Both Aurors blinked at the many names he seemed to have but both held their breath at the last one.
"So you are my son?" James asked with dread, anger and above all, hope. Aware that wife and most likely Dumbledore were on the other side of the window watching this.
"No." The teen told the man who seemed to deflate but Sirius quickly asked another question.
"Then who are your parents?" He asked with curiosity.
"James Potter and Lily Potter neé Evans." James' head shot up with a look of confusion.
"If you are James Potter's son, and he is James Potter," Sirius pointed at his friend, "Then how are you not his son?" Harry remained quiet for a few seconds.
"I come from a different world where my parents; James Potter and Lily Potter neé Evans, died. They are my parents, you and her are just the people who could have been them in another life." James and Sirius didn't look shocked at the information as they should be, of course they both made their own ideas as they heard the conversation the boy and Voldemort had.
"So you're really not 'my' son?" James asked with a heartbreaking tone, feeling like his world was falling apart again.
"No, not really." Sirius cleared his throat.
"I'm assuming that since He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named knows who you are, he's not our version of him?" He asked, putting together the clues he was given.
"Depends." James sighed at the answer.
"What does it depend on?"
"Well when I arrived I was seven feet under the ground trapped in a baby's rotting corpse, It took me months to make a ritual to age the body and bring it back to life and once I did, I realized it was the body of my counterpart, so that means Tom most likely merged with his counterpart. So if the counterpart was dead then, yes he was my version but if he was alive then an argument could be made that he is neither my version or your version but a mixture of the two." James was about two seconds away from vomiting as his not son explanation,
'He was stuck in my son's rotting corpse?!' James thought in horror and disgust.
"Is, is that bad?" Sirius asked with clear fear, "Will he be more powerful than before?"
"Maybe, my magical core is still intact despite this body being dead for fourteen years, so that means when I traveled here my magic traveled with me, if your Tom was alive when the merge happened then this new version could be twice as powerful." Both men felt a chill travel through them at the thought.
"How are you and He- Tom," The shorter man began asking, "know each other?"
"There was a Prophecy saying that either I or Neville Longbottom would one day defeat him, he chose me and has been a thorn in my side since." James' eyes widened and he began to wonder how similar their two realities were.
"We had a prophecy like that too. Do, do you know who leaked the prophecy to Tom?" Sirius laid a hand on James' shoulder trying to calm him down.
"Severus Snape.'' Auror Potter teeth grinded together at the name and anger busted from his body.
"Snivellus?! Of course it was that greasy haired bastard! I'm going to kill him!" James roared with fury at the person responsible for sending his son to his death.
"We don't know if that's true here James! You need to calm down." Sirius tried to calm the other man, "We need to see how much our two worlds match, for all we know his could be nothing like ours." James looked away and nodded after a moment.
"When were you born?"
"July thirty first, nineteen-eighty."
"Who was your Godfather?"
"Sirius Black."
"Did you have any siblings?"
"No, I was an only child." The two men looked at each other in confusion once again.
"Lily and I always talked about having several children; Why would we stop?"
"They didn't have a choice, they died after my first birthday." James eyes widen at that nugget of information.
"On October thirty first, nineteen-eighty one right?" Harry nodded in confirmation and James felt something break, so in one reality his son died leaving him and Lily broken and in another they died leaving their son to fend for himself?
"What is England's Magical school called?"
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
"What are Hogwarts' Four houses?"
"Gryffindor, Hufflpuff, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw."
"Who is the Headmaster of Hogwarts?"
"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore."
"Head of each house in the order you gave before." Sirius asked.
"Minerva McGonagall, Pomona Sprout, Severus Snape, and Filius Flitwick."
"Who is the Head of the Ministry of Magic?"
"Cornelius Oswald Fudge who was then cast out after his disastrous handling of Tom's return and was replaced by Rufus Scrimgeour who was murdered and replaced by one of Tom's followers by the name Pius Thicknesse." James' eyes widened at the familiar name.
"What? No! I know Pius, he's a good man." James exclaimed in shock and anger before he was calmed down by a gentle hand of his friend.
"Can you tell us any differences you've seen between our two worlds?" Sirius questioned.
"You're an Auror, this world's timeline is seven years behind my own." Sirius looked confused.
"I've always wanted to be an Auror, what was I in your world?" he asked with some hesitation.
"You were imprisoned for twelve years in Azkaban before breaking out." Both men's eyes widened at the information.
"Why was I imprisoned?!" Auror Black asked with anger, wondering how different his counterpart was to himself.
"Peter Pettigrew framed you for the murder of fourteen muggles and his own death after betraying my parents." Sirius looked both relieved that he wasn't some evil Death Eater in another reality but also sick to his stomachs of what actually happened.
"But there's no way that would hold up in a trial!? They could check my wand, my memories?! Put me under Veritaserum! How was I imprisoned?" The man asked with rage dripping from his tongue.
"You had a mental breakdown after realizing your best friend died because of your other best friend. You went to confront Pettigrew and he started yelling about how you betrayed my parents, he then cast some curse that killed fourteen muggles and cut his finger off before transforming into a rat and escaping. After realizing what had happened you started laughing and cackled at how you killed my parents. That was as a good as a confession for the head of Magical Law Enforcement at the time, Barty Crouch Sr. who snapped your wand on site and tossed you in Azkaban without a trail.'' The two men sat stunned at the information given to them.
"And everybody just believed it?! No one thought anything wrong of me not having a trail? What, what about Mooney?! He couldn't have believed it?!" Harry stared blankly ahead.
"Rita Skeeter caught your emotional breakdown." Sirius groaned at that nugget of info, "And Corch Sr. was under pressure to capture as many Death Eaters as possible, So he falsified trial records to speed up the process thinking he knew who was guilty and who wasn't." The two Aurors couldn't believe their ears. "Also everybody thought you were the secret keeper when my parents went into hiding since you were James's best and closest friend, when they died, blame was immediately set on your shoulders."
After a moment the older Potter turned to the Black, "Merlin's hairy nutsack! We need to re-trial every Death Eater don't we?" James questioned his friend who shrugged in reply before something clicked in his head.
"Wait!" Sirius exclaimed, "I was your Godfather and since I was in Azkaban, who took you in?" James' eyes widened and stared at his son from another Universe.
"My mother's sister and her husband, Vernon Dursley and Petunia Dursley neé Evans." James gagged at the thought.
" "Whose brilliant Idea was that?! Petunia hates magic!" " both men snarled together.
"Dumbledore didn't want me to become arrogant from being the only person to have survived the Killing Curse, my mother also studied blood magic that protected me from said curse, so in exchanged for her life, a blood relative could take me in and I would be protected from all dangers until I reached Magical Maturity." James looked at the window where he knew his wife was standing behind.
The Potter lord knew of Petunia's toxic jealousy and if his son was sent there then, he had to ask, he had too just to be sure.
"I think we got all we need, why don't we give him the antidote?" Sirius asked and James in his cowardness nodded after a moment.
Auror Black stood up and walked around to the teen and was seconds away from reversing the effects, "Wait." Sirius stilled his hand, "Do you really not consider me your dad, or Lily your mom?" James asked with a soft tone.
"No." James looked down, before asking another question.
"Then why did you protect us, why did you almost sacrifice yourself for us?"
"Because you're still Harry James Potter's father and I am Harry James Potter." James looked confused and looked towards his best friend who seemed to be in thought before snapping his fingers.
"You're talking about intellectually! The fact is the Potter family isn't really yours since you come from another universe but emotionally, despite knowing they aren't your real family you still love them?" The shorter man asked and James looked hopeful for a moment.
"Yes." James looked ready to cry, a moment later the door swung open revealing a crying Lily who walked over to the teen and hugged him tightly.
"I love you too, Harry." She whimpered on his shoulder. A moment later James stood up and walked beside his wife before wrapping his arms around the boy.
Sirius, seeing the touching moment, decided to quickly pour the antidote for the Veritaserum down the teen's throat and leave, allowing the family to have a moment.
A few moments later the teen blinked and a large sigh broke from his mouth.