(A/N: This was actually written before the sixth book so it mostly ignores what went on in there but I might use a couple of ideas from it. What went on while Harry was a prisoner I will leave for you to decide for now, though I may tell later on but I haven't really decided. Hopefully this explains all of your queries but if not feel free to review. Oh and on an IMPORTANT note from now on I will not put a new chapter up until I get at least5 reviews for the chapter!)

This chapter is dedicated to Serena24 for being the first reviewer! Thanx, now on with the show…

Chapter 1

The New Arrival

Groaning Harry slowly opened his eyes listening to the familiar screams that echoed all around him, he didn't move he was in enough pain as it is without needing to trigger anymore. It was the day after the Aurors 'visited' and anyway it wasn't like he needed to move anyway. The chill that constantly came from the dementors bit through the rags that he wore, that though not recognizable anymore had once been robes, not that he noticed anymore it was always there, the chill, it froze him long ago that he know it would always be there at least while he was in his body; maybe when he died he would be warm again, warm and safe in the arms of his mother, maybe then he would feel the warm wind on his face as he flew with his father on a warm summers day, maybe then he would feel the warm suns rays as he lay on the green grass laughing and joking with Padfoot and Moony, maybe then he would feel the warmth of the fire as he Tonks Moody and Kingsely sat around it discussing new spells they had learnt and how to use them for different situations. These thoughts didn't last long as the affects of the dementors once again took over.

Harry closed his eyes once more, if he didn't he might of seen the golden light that lit up his battered and broken body, he did however fell as the affects of the dementors leave before he once again blacked out.

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Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry was rather peaceful at the moment as it was early in the year and school had yet to start, this was not to say that it was empty, oh no, its present occupants included the entire teaching staff as well as many of there families and it was about to receive another….

Dinner was the normal loud affair that it was when the Potters and the Blacks, not to mention the Lupins, eat together, which was nearly every night, day, morning; really they may actually own there own house but they spent most of there time either at the Potter manor or Hogwarts. With Lily Potter, Mellony Black, Remus and Amy Lupin all being Hogwarts Professors the Potter, Black and Lupin families were all at Hogwarts these three weeks before school started up again, much to the amusement and/or annoyance of the rest of the teaching staff. Anyway at the moment the entire occupants of Hogwarts were gathered in the great hall for dinner listening to Sirius tell an amusing story about one of the missions he had gone on as an Auror when a bright golden light filled the hall making everyone close there eyes lest they go blind. When the light had cleared Lily, Amy, Mellony and many of the adults stood and turned towards the suspected culprits.

"Mum it wasn't us, honest!" Leo butted in before his mother went into one of her infamous rants

"If it wasn't you and it wasn't us who was it?" James asked frowning

"Ah Prongs what's that?" Sirius said pointing to where the light seemed to have been the strongest

Approaching the spot Sirius was pointing to James couldn't help but gasp "Poppy!" James called as he dropped to his knees next to what he now saw was a child, a very, very injured child at that; in fact if not for the barely noticeable rise and fall of its chest James would have been sure it was dead. Gently James turned the child over trying not to hurt him, until it was lying on its back. By then Poppy the school nurse had arrived and after getting over her shock she began to check the child over to make sure he was stable enough to move to the infirmary.

"Alright James can you lift him gently and take him to the infirmary, I don't think it wise to use magic on him just yet?" Poppy asked

James nodded before lifting the child into his arms as gently as he could. James could hear the gasps coming from the others as he walked passed going slowly so as not to jolt the boy. As he reached the hospital wing he looked down at the boy just in time to see the boys eyes flutter open before they shut again.

"Lay him on the bed over here" Poppy said snapping James out of his shock long enough to lay the boy down before retreating over to the window.

Oh my god! What? How? Not possible! But his eyes…Lily's eyes…Harry's eyes…How? And look at him… Who could do that? Why? James was so lost in thought that he didn't notice everyone enter the hospital wing nor did he notice as they tried to get his attention, well not until Sirius whacked him on the back of his head.

"His eyes… Lily's eyes" James muttered

"What are you talking about dad?" his eldest son Harry asked

James looked at him then the others in the room "He has the same eyes as you and Lily" James said quietly

"What? How?" Harry spluttered

"I don't know… Albus do you know?" James asked all eyes turned to the elderly headmaster who's eyes where twinkling madly

"I have a theory but we will have to wait until the young man in question wakes to see if I'm right." The old wizard said looking at the boy on the bed "Poppy when do you think he will wake?"

"I have just sent the boy into a healing coma which judging by the state his in it will take him at least three weeks to wake" the medi-wich said

"Ah that will give me plenty of time to research my theory" the aged man said with a smile "Well goodnight all" and with a nod of his head he turned and left the room before anyone could ask any questions.

James stared after the man for a moment before looking back down at the boy now in hospital pajama's and covered in bandagers "We'll its been a long day" he said looking up at the others I think sleep would do us all some good. Goodnight everyone" he said before leaving everyone following him out wishing each other a good night before, after one last glance at the new comer, they headed to there respective rooms.

The next two weeks passed much too slowly in the Hogwarts occupants opinions, with Dumbledore refusing to tell anyone his theory until he was able to prove it which meant they still had at lest another week left to wait.

James and Sirius having nothing better to do decided to visit the new comer in the hospital wing, even though they still had at least another week to wait until the boy woke from the coma. As they entered the hospital wing James walked over to the boy sitting in a chair by the bed. Looking at the boy James frowned, the boys eyes where moving underneath his eye lids like he was dreaming; but you don't dream while your in a coma do you?

"Prongs what is it?" Sirius asked seeing his friend frowning

James was about to reply when he saw the boy's eyes slowly opening "I think he's waking up. Go get Poppy" James said not taking his eyes from the boy

The boy slowly opened his eyes blinking at the light before his eyes darted around the room finally resting on James. The boy stared at James for a moment before he quickly scrambled backwards ignoring his protesting body; he pulled his legs up and leaned against the wall eyeing James suspiciously.

James was shocked at how fast the boy moved despite his injuries, the boy must be in an incredible amount of pain from that movement but he certainly didn't show it. He watched as the boys eyes left him to look at the door in which Poppy and Sirius came through. Seeing the boy awake Poppy rushed over while Sirius left to get the others.

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Sirius rushed into the great hall in the middle of lunch, quickly he moved towards the headmaster.

"Headmaster," Sirius said "he's awake" That was all that needed to be said as everyone stood and rushed from the room towards the hospital wing.

When they entered the hospital wing they found one annoyed nurse, one amused man, and one awake guest who was eyeing everyone suspiciously.

"Ah, hello Poppy how is our guest doing?" Albus said his twinkling eyes in overdrive

"I don't know as he won't let me examine him!" Poppy cried exasperated before glaring at James who had snorted in amusement.

"Ah yes well he is probably very confused at the moment Poppy, I'm sure it's nothing to do with you" Albus said smiling at the nurse before turning to the new comer who was still watching everyone as though he thought they were going to attack him at any minuet, which he very well could be. There was a small frown on his head as he looked between everyone as if he was trying to figure something out.

"Well why don't we all take a seat while we try and figure out what's going on, hmm?" Albus said conjuring chairs for everyone. After everyone was seated Albus continued, "How about we start with introductions? I'll go first shell I? My name is Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry; which is where we are now; Order of Merlin, First class, Grand Sorcerer , Chief Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confederation of Wizards." Albus said smiling before turning to James.

"Oh right, my names James Potter, Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement"

"I'm Lily Potter and I'm the History of Magic Professor here at Hogwarts" said a medium sized witch with long thick wavy red hair and the same emerald eyes as the boy in front of her.

Slowly they all introduced themselves and it was the boys turn.

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Harry sat on the bed listening to everyone introducing themselves Occumancy(Sp?) the only thing stopping him from staring at them with his mouth open, it was also the only thing keeping him from crying out in pain. Then it was his turn, but how could he introduce himself if someone had already introduced themselves with his name? He decided to introduce himself with the name he had used during the war instead of his birth name.

"Emrys Black" Harry said shortly his voice hoarse from disuse and from screaming

"Well Emrys do you know how you got here?" Albus asked and watched as the boy shook his head though he noticed the boy didn't take his eyes away from them "No? Hmm, have you ever been here before?" Harry nodded "Do you notice anything different?"

'Do I notice anything different? Well for one thing my parents, Padfoot, Poppy, Moony, and Minerva are all standing here ALIVE! Not to mention there's another me over there who doesn't have a scar on his head and is older then me! I have brothers and sisters! Padfoot and Moony are both married and have kids! Oh and lets not forget the fact that last time I saw Hogwarts it was a crumbling ruin! So is anything different? YES GOD DAMN IT NOW TELL ME WHATS GOING ON!' Harry thought to himself, well more ranted and screamed to himself.

The others watched Emrys as Albus asked him that, confused as to what Albus was hinting at, they saw as the boy rolled his eyes and muttered to himself.

Albus chuckled at the boy "I'll take that as a yes" he said and the boys eyes snapped back at him "Well my boy I have a theory as to what happened and you have me thinking that it is right"

Harry rolled his eyes again "Get on with it old man!" Harry said hoarsely

Everyone gasped at the lack of respect this young man showed one of the greatest wizards in History, but Albus just chuckled "Yes well have you ever heard of Alternative universes?" Albus asked

Harry nodded then froze as what Albus was getting at sunk in, shacking his head while saying "No, no, not possible…"

"I'm afraid that it may just be" Albus said

"But…but its…" Harry begun but after looking around the room he hung his head in defeat, it was the only thing that made sense; it really was the only possibility. But it wasn't fair! He was suppose to die in that cell so he could be with his loved ones, not sent to some other world… but wasn't his loved ones alive here? Head snapping up once again he looked at the people in the room, the people he had longed for… But they where different, they didn't know him and they obviously had never been through what the ones on his world had been through… No these weren't the same as the ones he had loved; he would have to separate these people from those he had known before.

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While Harry was thinking this through Albus was explaining to the others about Alternative Dimensions (Putting it simply: An event happens in one world that can have more then one out come so another universe is created for each possibility). Once he was finished everyone turned to look at the boy on the bed.

"Oh the poor thing, separated from his family and friends" Lily cried "Albus isn't there anyway to send him back?"

"No, Lily I'm afraid not" Albus said the twinkle in his eye leaving "My dear boy I know this must be hard for you but there are a few things we need to sort out. We can leave them for a bit if you wish but they really do need to be decided within the week."

"Now will be fine" Harry said wanting to get whatever it was over and done with

"If you're sure…? Well the first thing is where and who you'll stay with until you come of age…"

"Who says I'm not of age?" Harry asked

"Well you certainly don't look nineteen" Sirius said

"Nineteen?" Harry asked blinking "You don't come of age until your nineteen?"

"Yes, what age is it in your world?" James asked interested

"Seventeen," Harry said "the same year you graduate"

"Ah, that's how it used to be, but the age limit changed around the same time as Hogwarts extended its years to nine." James explained

"Oh" Harry said thinking this through

"How old are you if you don't mind me asking?" this dimensions Harry asked

(A/N: I'll be using Emrys from now on instead of Harry)

"Seventeen" Emrys said to busy thinking about what else could be different to notice the shocked looks on everyone's faces at that statement.

Seventeen? The boy looked fourteen or fifteen certainly not seventeen.

"Yes, well back to the question on hand" Albus said trying to get over his shock "If you could tell us your parents names and weather there muggles or not, we can get in touch with them?"

"Well then I suppose you'll be needing my birth name as well?"

"Ah, yes that might help" Albus said frowning slightly wondering why he hadn't used his real name

Emrys lowered his head thinking hard if he really wanted them to know who he was 'what if they don't want another child? Would it just make it awkward?'

"Emrys?" Lily asked concerned

Looking up into his mother's concerned eyes he searched them for any reason not to tell them but instead found a reason to do it.

Lily looked into the child's eyes and felt as though he was searching her soul for something she became suddenly nervous until she saw him smile at her she returned it before he turned away to look at everyone else with a cheeky smile.

"Well" Emrys said, oh he was going to enjoy there looks as he reviled who he was "I suppose your all wondering why I didn't use my 'real' name before…" here he paused looking at everyone for a moment before continuing on "Well that was partly because of something taught to me by one of my dear mentors, and partly because it would become confusing" here he stopped again waiting for the questions he know were coming, and he wasn't disappointed.

"Mentor? Who...?"

"Why…?"

"Taught what?"

"Confusing? Why would your name be confusing?"

Questions such as these where shot at him and he sat back leaning against the wall a small smirk on his face at the chaos he had created. Lily was the only one who noticed the small smirk, frowning slightly she asked him "Your not related to Sirius are you?"

This stopped everyone as they looked at Lily then Emrys.

Emrys tilted his head slightly "Kind of, why?"

This made everyone blink before once again bursting out in questions

"How can you be kind of?"

"Sirius…?"

"Me…?"

"How…?"

This made Emrys smirk again, he wondered how long he could put of telling them his real name. He also noticed that his voice wasn't as hoarse as it was before.

"You wanted to know who my mentor was and what the taught me?" Emrys asked as they started to calm down

"Yes!"

"Well I'll tell you the lesson he taught me and will see if you can guess who they were. Ok the lesson was this" Emrys paused took a deep breath and said as loud as he could, which wasn't very loud but with everyone else silent and the expecting a much quieter reply it got the message across "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!"

"Damn Moody!" Sirius yelled "why do you have to teach people that even in other Universes!" James nodded in agreement while Harry and Emrys smirked at them

"Well I guess you guessed who it was" Emrys said smirk gone replaced by an innocent smile

"Yes!" Sirius and James said at the same time

"Why don't we go back to the question on hand, your name, hmm?" Albus said his twinkle back and in overdrive.

'Damn' Emrys thought 'just like the old man to ruin my fun' "Ok well this will also answer why telling you my name before would have been confusing, you see I think that I have not only traveled to an Alternative universe but also into the future as the other me that is this universes me is older." Emrys said looking at them all "Well anyway my name is Harry James Potter." The silence was nearly deafening, everyone was staring at him, and there mouths open.

"You'd all better close your mouths before something fly's in there and nests" Emrys said smirking

"You're me?" Harry asked shocked

"DNA wise yes"

"What's DNA?"

"Blood, basically"

"H…Harry?" Lily said looking between the Harry's

"Why don't we keep calling me Emrys to stave off the confusion I was talking about earlier, hmm?"

"Yes I think that would be a good idea" Albus said

"Well Headmaster you said you would need to talk to my alternative parents, here they are" Emrys said motioning to Lily and James "so what now?"

Albus chuckled "Yes I did, and now that I know who they are we will have to figure out if they are willing to take you in and if you will be attending Hogwarts this year"

"Of coarse will take him in!" Lily exclaimed, "Wont we darling?" she half ask half threatened James

"Yes, he is our blood after all!" James said, not really noticing Lily's tone "And he will be attending Hogwarts this year"

Emrys blinked at that… 'They wanted him? How? What? Why? Emrys didn't understand why they were willing to agree to take care of him when they didn't even know him. Sure they may shear the same blood but so did Aunt Petunia, so what made them agree to this? It's not like his famous here, and it's not like they knew he was rich, so what was it? It couldn't be love, could it? No, they didn't know him, how could they love him?' Emrys didn't really know much about love, sure he loved and was loved by Ginny, Sirius, Moony, and the others but they had all known him 'Sirius didn't when he first asked you if you wanted to live with him' a voice in the back of his mind said 'Yes but he was my godfather, and I was his best friends son' Emrys argued back 'And they are your parents Alternative universe ones yes but still your parents' the voice said 'Hmm, maybe…' Emrys said still not quite sure.

Emrys shifted slightly on the bed and winced slightly in pain as his body screamed at him for moving. Looking around to make sure know one noticed the wince he found Poppy glaring at him 'Damn of all the people to catch me it had to be her!'

"Will you let me check your injuries now?" Poppy asked, well more like demanded as she bustled over to the bed drawing everyone's attention.

Emrys looked skyward and started muttering to him self again, but didn't make any move to stop her. She preformed a couple of spells some to tell her how his energy and magic reserves where, some to tell here how far along his internal wounds where in healing and many others before she started removing bandages and checking the wounds beneath. There where many gasps around the room when they saw some of his in injures especially when they saw the large deep gash on his chest that had reopened.

"Poppy, why haven't you used magic to heal it?" Lily asked gesturing to the gash on Emrys' chest.

But before Poppy could answer Emrys spoke up "I assume because my magic reserves where low she didn't want to over load my body with foreign magic, as it could result in my magic never recovering leaving me as a squib or it may even kill me. So she would have only used magic for the most deadly injures like internal bleeding and things." Emrys said calmly and everyone stared at him "Am I right?" He asked Poppy

"Y…yes." Poppy said confused as to how the boy knew all that

Seeing the looks everyone was giving him Emrys shrugged, then wished he didn't as he was barely able to suppress a wince as pain spread through him again "So I spent a lot of time in hospital wings"

Lily frowned at that after getting over the shock of how badly injured Emrys had been "Oh what were you doing to get into the hospital wing a lot?" Lily asked dangerously shooting James a look

"Oh you know the usual" Emrys said slightly uncomfortable under her look

"What would the usual be?" Lily asked her voice still dangerous

"Quidditch injures, Dueling accidents, incompetent teachers, that kind of thing" Emrys said as Poppy finished up

Lily glared at Emrys she could tell he wasn't telling her everything and she vowed to her self that once he was better she'd get the whole story from him. "Ok, well you need to rest and I've still got lesson plans to finished so I'll see you later ok?" she said giving him a smile. Emrys nodded and smiled at her. Most of the others stood and wished him a speedy recovery before also leaving.

Emrys looked at the remaining people who consisted of all of the Potter, Black, and Lupin children James, and Sirius as well as Poppy who glared at the remaining people.

"You have one hour before I want you all gone the boy needs his rest!" She said before turning and walking into her office.

"So Emrys, see even you can't stand up to Lily" Oliver said (Emrys remembered from the introductions earlier, that Oliver was the Potters second child and was now twenty years old and had just got a job as a dragon handler).

Emrys glared at him "Yeah, well at least I didn't tell her that I went against a dragon when I was fourteen"

"YOU WHAT!" was the general response to that

"Yeah in my fourth year, didn't have to fight it of course just get passed her and steal the egg she was guarding." Emrys said noncommittally

"That's even worse!" Oliver exclaimed then explained why to the others who didn't know why it was worse "A female dragon is very, very protective of its eggs and young it's almost suicidal to go after one of her eggs alone, even in groups its dangerous"

"What type of dragon was it?" Dominic asked excitedly (Dominic was the Blacks eldest son at the age of twenty and he too had just become a dragon handler).

"A young Hungarian Horntail" Emrys said

"Wow! Wouldn't have wanted to be you mate!" Dominic said then explained to the others that "The Hungarian Horntail is one of the meanest, though not the biggest dragons especially when it comes to protecting there young/eggs"

"What equipment did you have?" William asked curiously (William was the eldest of the Lupin children at twenty and the last one in the dragon handling trio).

"My wand" Emrys said

"That's it?"

"To start with but then I summoned my boom" Emrys said

And before anyone could say anything Poppy entered "Out! Out now!" she ordered no one bothered arguing as it was clear from the look on her face that see wouldn't be swayed. Everyone said goodbye and promised to come see him again before leaving, though before he was pushed out the door by the nurse James managed to send Emrys a look that clearly said 'We're not through with this yet'.

After everyone had left Emrys laid back and quickly fell asleep…

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