Edited 1/2/20 not much done just trying to make it easier to read and fix any errors.

Chapter 4

As Harry and the others were nearing the gates of Rivendell when Harry heard his mother "He's been gone for three days James I have to find him, what if he has been hurt?"

Harry heard his father trying to calm down his panicking mother "Lilly listen to me Harry can take care of himself. I am worried about him too but I know he will be alright. He is a hardened warrior just like I am and no matter how I wish he was not, he is. Harry has seen and endured much more than any other his age should have, I think that is why he is fully grown here instead of being a child like we were at his age. He will be safe and he will come home."

Harry stepped up then "You know dad is right mum, I can take care of myself, he also has the correct assumption that my past experiences and life before I was brought home have aged me farther than my true age. But it is nice to know that even though you know I can take care of myself you still worry about me." Lilly screamed her sons name as she ran at him pulling him into a bone crushing hug, Harry just smiled and hugged her back just a tightly. He revealed in the fact that he had his mother now and that she was able to hold him like this just like he had always wanted.

Lilly finally released Harry and checked him over for injuries which made Harry chuckle "I'm fine mum." "I don't care if you say you're fine I am going to make sure. I'm your mother I can worry all I want, so get used to it." Harry just shook his head and let his mother fuss knowing he was not going to get out of it.

Once his mother was done making sure he was ok he said "I have to take this hobbit to the house of healing. His wound is healed completely but I want him to be watched until he wakes, just to make sure."

"I'll take him son." James said but Harry stopped him saying "No, it is my duty to see this through and I plan to."

James nodded but said "At least let me show you the way." Harry nodded his assent then followed his father to the house of healing.

When Harry and James made it to the house of healing Harry asked his father to wait outside James reluctantly agreed. Harry walked into the house of healing on his own and set Frodo on the bed closest to the door, but just as he did he felt that someone was watching him. Harry spun around to see a man that looked at lot like his deceased headmaster that he had killed. Harry went into battle mode ready to attack if the old man across from his should attack.

"You have no need to fear me Harry Erendil master of death and guardian of life. I know I look much like my little brother Dumbledore but I am nothing like him. I tried to thwart his schemes at every turn. It was I who gave your parents their memories back after my brother had taken them as well as gave them the means to protect you to the best of their ability. I have also done what I can to help you. So you have nothing to fear from me."

Harry did not quite understand what was going on but something was telling him that he could trust this man so he asked not relaxing his stance but he was less hostile to the man in front of him "What is your name?"

The man smiled and said "My name is Gandalf the grey a servant of the Valar the very ones who gave you your powers." Gandalf paused looking at the hobbit laying in the bed before saying "I must thank you though this hobbit means a lot to me he is a good friend and I swore to protect him. I thank you for taking the poison that would have eventually forced his to leave middle earth just to survive. He did not deserve that fate so I thank you for sparing him it."

Harry bowed his head and said "Your welcome Gandalf, I must also thank you for doing what you could to help me." Gandalf only nodded his head then Harry left meeting his dad outside the house of healing.

"I see you met Gandalf." James said to his son "Yes, at first I thought he was Dumbledore come back to haunt me." Harry replied.

James laughed at his son then said "I would have thought that too they both have similar appearances." James paused then smiled saying "The others have all gathered in you gand-ada's study, they are waiting for us there."

Harry smiled as well before saying uncertainly "What if they don't like me Ada?"

James looked at his son sadly knowing that he had a low self esteem when it came to others liking him because of the way he grew up and the people who used him. "Harry, look at me." James said as he stopped making Harry stop with him, Harry looked at his father with uncertainty and fear in his eyes that he could not hide. James sighed seeing the fear in his sons eyes, he pulled Harry into his arms holding him close as he said "They will love you Harry, you are not only family but you have an uncanny ability to draw people to you like a moth to the flame. The people who you grew up with and those who used you knew nothing about the wonderful, caring, amazing person you are. It will not be that way here. You have family, a true family here and we look after our own. So don't worry, ok they will love you just like you Naneth, Remus, Sirius, and I do." Harry just nodded a small smile forming on his lips.

Soon Harry and his dad stood outside Lord Elrond's Study, Harry looked at his dad and nodded indicating he was ready. James opened the door and went inside followed by Harry. Harry sat down in between his mother and father before looking at those assembled in the room. There was Remus and Sirius, his mother and father, then there was his Aunt Arwen who sat next to Aragorn, then he noticed to twin elves that after looking at them he knew were his father's younger twin brothers, then in the center of the circle was his grand-Ada Lord Elrond himself. Harry swallowed hard and looked back at the floor waiting.

Lord Elrond noticed the fear and anxiety in his grandchild but he did not understand why his grandchild would be scared of being in the same room with his family. His eldest son James had said it was not his place to tell him anything it was his son's because he had explained it to them. Elrond knew he had to get his grandson passed his fears of being in the same room as his family first so he spoke "Child why do fear being in the same room as your family, do you think we will hurt you?" He heard his grandsons breathing spike and wondered why that was but waited for him to answer.

"The easiest way to tell you everything would be to show you if you would allow it. It is magic from the world I was born in but it is not dangerous. In addition, I can ask Ada and Naneth to add their memories of what happened the day they disappeared to the time that my memories would take their place. If you agree that is." Elrond noticed that his grandson's voice shook with fear and many other emotions but he knew he needed to know what happened so he agreed to his grandson's request.

Harry removed a small bag that was around his neck and put his hand inside, the bag had a bottomless spell and a expanding spell so that the inside was bigger than the outside. Harry pulled out his pensive that he had gotten before he had gone on the Horcruxe hunt and put in on the table he had conjured in front of him he then turned to his parents "Would both put your memories in first." James and Lilly nodded and did just that while the other looked on in wonder and confusion. Once James and Lilly had put in both of their memories from the day they were taken to the day they died Harry then took all his memories from the day he was one and a half till the moment he had woken up in the glad with Remus and Sirius and put them into the pensive.

After all the memories were in the pensive Harry flicked his wrist and the Elder wand came directly out of the skin of his wrist into his hand startling everyone there. He then put the tip of the wand into the pensive and wordlessly did the spell to let everyone view the memories as if they were on a projector.

The first memory they saw was the day that Lilly and James were taken and when they arrived who else was there with them that had been taken as well.

(flashback of Memory)

Lilly and James were riding through the forest not four hours from Rivendell just talking about James's coming of age and how when James got Lilly home that James was going to formally ask Lilly's father Ashland if he could formally court his daughter and soon after they just rode in quiet companionship. After nightfall when they were about to stop and set up camp they heard a voice on the air "Stay close to me Lilly I don't like this." James said drawing his Elvin Dagger, Lilly just nodded. Right after James had stopped talking a white light enveloped both of them and threw them off their horses, they felt like they were falling into nothingness.

Soon the sensation stopped and they were sitting bound to two chairs and in the third was someone they recognized Lilly spoke this time, "Severus, what's going on where are we, and how did you get here?"

"I do not know where we are, but I got here when a white light engulfed me just moments ago you arrived second after I did." Severus replied

"All we can do is wait since we are all bound, and hope we can find a way to escape. I am glad you are alright Severus." James said trying to keep a cool head. Severus just nodded knowing James would understand they were good friends because of Lilly, they did not always need words to understand one another.

The three of them did not have to wait long before an old man came in they thought at first that it was their old friend Gandalf, but then they realized that this man was younger though he had a great resemblance to their friend.

"Ah the ones who will help me create the world the way it should be have arrived. I am happy my spell worked."

James was the first to speak "Who are you and what do you want with us?"

The old man laughed "I am Albus Dumbledore and all I want from you is the child I know will end my problems but that won't be for many years until then I need to keep you all here in this world." After saying this Dumbledore petrified Lilly first, then he forced her mouth open and poured a potion down her throat forcing her to swallow it. Then before their eyes as Lilly screamed in pain Lilly was deaged to the age of a one year old infant. Dumbledore then glamoured her ears to look human, then blocked her true memories from being able to return. He then repeated the process with James. All Severus could do was watch as his two best friends were taken from him in a way that was worse than if they had died. Severus waited his turn knowing the same was going to be done to him.

Only Dumbledore had a slightly different plan for Severus, when he finally turned to him he said "You will be the only one who remembers but you will be deaged also. I need you to remember so when the time comes you will spy for me. You will be my tool to know what my enemy is thinking and doing." The Dumbledore forced the same potion down Severus's throat and did the same glamour on him but did not block his memories.

After all three of the elves had been deaged and glamoured Dumbledore took each of them to separate families. James went to the Potter's a Pureblood wizarding family, while Lilly went to a muggle family who already had one daughter but wanted another, and Severus went to an abusive father who had married a muggle born witch who had just told him about her powers. Now all Dumbledore had to do was wait for the right time to get the child as well as the spy he wanted from the three.

(Flashback ends)

They watched as the memories of James and Lilly's lives passed through the pensive until the moment they had died protecting Harry. Then Harry paused them saying "I know you don't understand how they died and are now here but all this will be explained with my memories. Please just wait to ask any questions until then end even Ada, Naneth, Sirius, and Remus do not know everything that happened in my life." Harry said his voice was shaking with fear and suppressed saddens and anger. He then started up the memories again but this time they were his own. They all watched as Harry was taken by Dumbledore and left on the doorstep of Number Four Privet Dive then woken by Petunia Dursley's loud screaming the next morning. They watched the abuse heaped upon Harry. How at the age of two Harry was living in a cupboard under the stairs. How by the age of four he was cooking and cleaning the entire house and yard. By the time he was six not a bone in his body had not been broken and/or dislocated at least once with no medical treatment whatsoever. They watched as every year the abuse just seemed to get worse until the day he turned eleven, when the letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry came and Vernon and Petunia had tried to keep them from him to the point of moving to an island in the middle of the ocean.

Then it fast forwarded to the first year at Hogwarts where Harry was manipulated into finding the sorcerer's stone and fighting Voldemort the first time. They watched as his first kill was made at the age of eleven. Then it went through the abuse of that summer. His second year then played all the petrified students then him fighting the basilisk and killing the soul container that was the diary of Voldemort. Then the summer abuse again, His third year was that of meeting Sirius and going back in time to save him, his summer then showed the abuse tempered down out of fear of what Sirius would do to them. His fourth year was so far by far the worst with the Triwizard Tournament, then his blood being used to bring back Voldemort. The fifth year was the dreams, then the trap and losing Sirius to the Vail in the Department of Mysteries. Sixth year was learning what the Horcruxes were and then Dumbledore faking his own death. Seventh year was hunting down the Horcruxes that needed destroyed. It showed what six of them were by verbal use in the memories. Then the final battle came and Harry found out through Severus that Harry was the final Horcruxe and Harry let himself be killed by Voldemort only to find out that it did not kill him only the Horcruxe inside of him. Harry saw when Dumbledore entered the battle and then it turned to when Harry had fought Voldemort and won. Finally it showed him killing Dumbledore and his death at the man's hands, as well as his time in the underworld with Hades or as his real name is Mandose. How he was given the give of having four people whether living or dead to go with him to whichever world he went to. Finally, it showed him waking in the glade with Remus and Sirius then his parents coming back into the glade.

When the memories finally ended Harry was looking at the floor ashamed about so many things in his past, he heard his mother crying, and knew everyone else was most likely disgusted but he thought it would be at him. He could not look up in fear that he would see the disgust and shame directed his way. "Now you know everything, I understand if you want nothing to do with me now that you know how much of a burden I am." Harry said his voice breaking with unshed tears.

Harry was shocked when his mother pulled him into a hug holding him tight, while his father rubbed his back consolingly, Harry had expected scorn and hatred not this. He heard his father speak and he waited to hear the hated directed at him but was shocked at what happened next "Harry, what happened to you was not your fault. You are not a burden or anything like what those two idiots who raised you said you were, Nor are you what the people who used you as a means to end said you were. Harry you are our son, and we love you, you are a strong, courageous, and the most selfless person I will ever meant. We could not be more proud of you. Even after knowing what the people of that world did to you, you still chose to become a Guardian of life when most would have chose to become a destroyer or worlds. You are so strong son, you never have to fear that we will leave you none of us in this room will. We are your family and we look after our own and we will never abandon you." James told his son. Harry could hear the truth in his father's voice and finally broke down in tears letting out all the hurt and anger that had built up since he was eleven while being held in his mother's arms.

After calming down Harry let go of his mother and extracted himself from her embrace before turning to the others in the room saying "I'm sorry I broke down, I should have waited till I was alone at least." To Harry surprise it was his Grand-Ada who spoke.

"You have nothing to be sorry for Harry. I understand why you broke down as do we all, but you Ada is right now of us will abandon you just like we would not abandon each other. I now understand why you were so afraid, but have nothing to fear." Lord Elrond sighed at what his grandchild had gone through in short life he knew then that his Grandson would not sit back and let a war be fought if he could help.

"If you would like there will be a council that will be held to decide the fate of the ring, you are welcome to attend I can tell from your past that you will not sit ideally by when there is a war to be fought if you can help. Your Ada and two friends are going to be there as well. Now how about we all get some rest the council will be in two days."