Chapter 3

"You can get me out of here and send me somewhere else with magic?", asked Harry, and groaned. That sounded dumb even to himself. Obviously, they could, it's magic after all! They laughed, looking at their little child affectionately, as he turned red. James responded, "Well, not we technically, but a house elf can if that's what you want". "Of course, I want to go somewhere else but what is a house elf?", asked Harry.

Lily could feel anger bubbling up inside her again, it was clear how Harry was treated by her 'darling' sister by how easily he had agreed to go anywhere else without knowing anything about the place, but controlled it as James described what a house elf is, to Harry.

"A house elf is a magical creature who is, most of the time, bound to wizard or a wizarding family", he explained, "and they derive magical strength from them while serving them in return. They love to serve people, but many of them treat them poorly. The Potters have never done that, we have always treated them properly and they have a day off in month and get paid as much accept to be paid, but most of the time they are too happy to accept payment or take the day off. You can call the Potter elf who took care of you as a child, before we had to go into hiding, and she'll have all that you want to take with you, packed in a jiffy, and apparate you to your real home".

Harry beamed at the prospect of an actual HOME. "Wow!" he exclaimed, "but what does it mean to apparate?". Lily took up the explanation, "It's a way of moving directly from one place to another, over a very short distance to a very large distance, with the help of magic."

"Oh…so that's what I did!", Harry exclaimed. "What did you do Harry?", Lily asked. "One day, when Dudley was chasing me with his gang, I wished to escape to somewhere I'd be safe from them and somehow I ended up on the school roof", he explained. Both his parents' jaws dropped open and they stared at him in shock. He started getting nervous and thoughts like, 'What if it's something bad?', 'What if his parents too, thought that he was a freak?', 'What if they didn't want him anymore?', started running in his head.

Feeling a prickling in his eyes he asked nervously, "Is that something bad? I'm sorry". Their mouths immediately snapped shut and James said, excitedly, "You didn't do anything wrong Harry. In fact, what you did was brilliant! You apparated before you were even six! Not many graduated wizards can do that properly. I told you my son is one of the most powerful wizards, Lily. See, he's amazing!", he was practically jumping up and down by the end of his speech.

Lily's face was hurting with how wide her smile was, but she didn't care. "We are so proud of you Harry", she said while James nodded his assent, furiously. Harry blushed and beamed at the same time. He was so happy! His parents had said they were proud of him and that he was powerful, both being firsts for him.

All his doubts flew out of his mind. They loved him and would accept him for whatever he was. He said, "I love you both", softly, this was also a first. A lot of those were happening since he got the present, all were good ones though. They smiled and Lily replied, "We love you too, son".

James realised the time and asked him, "When are the Dursleys going to return, Harry?". He looked at the time, it was already 5 in the evening. When had that much time passed? Normally, he would have been bored like anything by now and would have been counting seconds, he didn't want the Dursleys to come back but wanted to get out of the cupboard. He felt now, that he also needed to pee.

"They will return within half an hour to an hour", Harry replied. "Why don't you call the elf, Mipsy and have her pack everything up", suggested Lily. "How do I call her?", he asked. "Just call her name, she'll know it's a Potter calling her", James told him. Harry called, "Mipsy?".

He heard a pop beside him and before he could turn to see, a small blur had jumped on him, and wrapping it's arms around him, cried in a squeaky voice, "Young master Harry be calling Mipsy! Mipsy be missing him so much! When the bad wizard killed Master James and Mistress Lily Mipsy thought Young Master be coming to live in his home but the other bad wizard did not let him. All us elves were so sad and were waiting for when we'd finally get to be serving Young Master Harry, again". She started sobbing.

Harry gently detached the excited happy creature from him and looked at her. He was shocked at hearing someone call him Young Master. He had never heard someone call even Dudley that. Mipsy had amber coloured tennis ball sized eyes, long ears and was wearing a clean white tea-towel and a black robe both proudly displaying the Potter crest.

Harry said to her, gently, "It's okay Mipsy, I'll be going home with you now. Look behind you, there're mum and dad". She turned around at such a speed Harry was afraid she'd break her neck.

She threw herself at the portrait and started crying, but, before she could start speaking Harry interrupted, "Erm…Mipsy can you open the door please, I really need to go to the washroom, then you can talk to them". "Of course, Young Master Harry", Mipsy chirped. Harry flew out of the cupboard as soon as it was opened, leaving them behind with amused expressions on their faces.

Mipsy turned towards the portrait of 'Great Master James' and 'Kind Mistress Lily' and started apologising profusely for not being able to take care of Harry and him having to live in such a small place 'where no great Masters Potters should ever be living' in her words.

When she tried to punish herself, they stopped her and told her that none of what happened was her fault. It was only the fault of Voldemort, who killed them and Dumbledore who sent Harry to live with the Dursleys.

They also assured her, that now Harry will live at his home and she could take care of him there. They also asked her to keep where he'd be going to live a secret from Harry so they could surprise him.

They had just finished telling her this when Harry came back. Mipsy asked him about what he wanted to take with him. Harry refused to take anything given by the Dursleys, except for the clothes he was wearing, with him. He only wanted to take his parents' letter and of course, their portrait, with him.

Lily asked Mipsy to place their portrait in the living room of the Dursleys so her sister could see it as soon she came back and she could have her 'talk', she'd been waiting for the whole day, with her. She asked her to take Harry with her and show him around the house; after sending the elf, Tricky to take the portrait away when she was done giving Petunia an earful.

Mipsy bowed low to them and Harry smiled, he didn't want to go without them but seeing the glint in his mother's eyes he swallowed and felt pity for his aunt, that wasn't going to be pleasant for her. He had to supress a chuckle when he thought what she'd have done to his aunt if she could use a wand as a portrait.

He said, "See you later mum, dad", and picked up the letter. They smiled and replied, "See you soon, Harry". Harry turned towards Mipsy and asked, "Where, exactly, are we going Mipsy?". "You'll see soon Young Master", she replied, held his hand and popped away, leaving a smirking Potter couple behind.

/tbc/

Jacob Phantom-Thank You

Ruk- Thank you

DemetriLover28- I'm evil right? XD Thank you

Ivan Ong- You got me!

LadyPhoenix68- That's correct. Right now, I 'm not sure myself. I'm trying to go with the flow.

Sippinnthetea- Thank you so much 3

Please do review. Thanks for the support.