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Chapter 1: Born from the Ashes
The year 1981. The date, 31st October. The place, Godrics Hollow.
It was the potters' darkest day. A dark lord known as Voldemort had killed James Potter in a fairly obvious way and was now turning his attention upstairs where muffled footsteps could be heard.
Lily potter was frantically looking for a way for her children to get away but could see no way out and in any case, the dark lord was coming up the stairs. Looking towards her kids, she knelt gracefully so she was practically on head level with them. Turning towards the three eldest siblings, she said "you three need to take care of younger your siblings, no matter what." Turning her attention to harry momentarily "Harry, you're in charge now" then focusing on all of them "remember, your mother loves you, your father loves you, you are all so loved. It's just so devastating for me to know that you will never meet the siblings you should have. All because of someone's inadequacy over their bloodline and their thirst for immortality. Just remember you are all so loved."
Turning her attention towards the door that was opening, she braced herself for what she knew was her final confrontation with Voldermort. "Stand aside, you silly girl" he sneered. Lily responded with a plea of mercy for her children, "Kill me, not them" hoping against hope that he would spare them. He wouldn't. His business here was to kill everyone. Raising his wand, he said coldly "this is taking too long for me since you, Lily Potter, will not step out of the way. Avada Kedavra." Lily Potter fell to the floor, dead. He stated the words used to kill the mudblood with an anger almost unrivalled by anybody. Then he turned his attention to the children, the last of their line. The dark lord then started pondering out loud to himself about how he wanted to kill the children. This alone made sure that the devil himself wouldn't want him to come to hell.
"I think I'll start off with the youngest girls" Voldermort said, almost as if he thought this was like one of the best jokes ever made. Harry, because he was a toddler, clumsily adjusted his position in way to try and protect all of his siblings. The bad man noticed this and knelt briefly to look Harry right in the eyes and say "you know, I was going to leave you for last once I knew the rest of your pathetic family were dead. Now since you seem so keen on protecting them like your mother before you, I have one last thing to say and do to you." He stood back up, quickly laughed like a madman before calming himself and smiled. Voldermort raised his wand and yelled "Avada Kedavra." Suddenly a flash engulfed the house and the dark lord inside with that. All that was left were charred ruins, a few bits of fabric from the destroyed body of lord Voldermort, the dead bodies of James and Lily Potter and their seven kids who had now become orphans.
About half an hour later when it was thought safe to enter a giant sized man named Hagrid entered and was surprised to hear not one but several babies, somehow all still alive. He was still figuring out how to get them out of the area when Sirius Black and two other people showed up. "Sirius, did you know that Lily 'ad more than just little harry?"Hagrid asked out of curiosity. Sirius looked up and growled "yeah, although ask him" pointing to the taller, slightly more muscular one of the two men that he had brought with him "he's the one who knows best on this matter." The man stepped forward to introduce himself "nice to meet you, my name is Dr Samuel Vaso Jordon. Shame we had to first meet under these circumstances." Hagrid briefly turned his head to acknowledge the man "yeah, it is." He then turned back to the devastation that was the Potter's house in Godrics Hollow. "'ow come there's more than one of 'em?" the question directed at Samuel. "Harry is actually a triplet. The other two of the triplet are sisters, Rose and Holly. Being Triplets, they were born on the same day, obviously." He was about to continue when his friend interrupted him "well I heard of this set of triplets that were born on two different days." Samuel scowled at his friend. "Andy, is this really the time to have an argument? I mean there has just been a tragedy and you're starting an argument over what nature decides for the human body." Andy countered what his friend said, by pointing out facts that are meant to be subtle insults. "And you call yourself a doctor even though this sort of thing happens" which Samuel tried to ignore for the sake of the task they had at hand but dragged himself back into the argument regardless. "Yeah but they were hours apart, as is generally what happens with multiple babies."
They were quickly snapped out of their argument by both Hagrid and Sirius complaining that the argument was driving them insane. Both Andy and Samuel apologised with Andy saying to Hagrid, "I probably should've introduced myself first my name is Andy Inglis. I-N-G-L-I-S." Sam pointed out something as he and Sirius started moving towards the house, "that maybe is how you spell it now but every court you've gone to has rejected that spelling and so it remains Ingles. I-N-G-L-E-S." Sirius gained their attention, "come on, we need to sort this all out, get the bodies of James and Lily out and more importantly get the kids out."
They kicked and pushed rubble out of their way until they first found the body of James Potter. Sirius started to sob before regaining control himself. In fact almost everyone in the room had shed at least some tears. Only Samuel hadn't shed any tears which caused Hagrid to ask, "'ow come you are not sheddin' any tears?" Samuel who was kneeling at some pictures, whose frames had cracked and fallen on the floor with dust and ashes covering the photos that were exposed, didn't look up as he responded, "I've shed too many tears for the dead, I'm saving the ones I have left for myself and the living." He then picked up the photos and put them all in one pile. "Andy" Samuel called to as they moved through the house, "I think we're going to need some help here. Call up some of our friends; tell them they're needed for something important. We'll let them know they get here." Andy responded in the affirmative "I'll do that outside. Also if I'm outside, they'll know where we are." Sirius agreed with the plan "go ahead, we'll get to Harry and the other little guys" After Andy left the crumbling yet somehow safe building, the remaining three made their way through the ruins of the Potter's cottage at Godrics Hollow. Hagrid, Samuel and Sirius finally found the babies in the nursery then Sirius and Samuel started revealing their names "Harry, Holly Rose" who then looked up at their names being said "the triplets". Samuel then continued "Then there's Michael and Beth the first set of twins. Speaking of which, even though that James and Lily are the father and mother, they were actually born by a surrogate. A coincidence then they were born on the same day as the twins that Lily herself gave birth to." Sirius' voice was hoarse for a moment "31st of August, James Evans and Emma Lily" before calming down and regaining his composure, "7 kids now orphans. Some people now need to do some answering." Samuel interrupted before Sirius could continue whatever he was saying, something beginning with P. "Sirius, sorry to interrupt you but I think we need to start moving the babies outside and we need to get Lily's body outside, right away." Hagrid looked up perplexed and Sirius looked confused which caused Hagrid to ask "why's so important?" Sam responded rather urgently "because I've just scanned Lily's body and although she's dead, the kids she is carrying are still alive. I'll explain outside but now we need to move her body."
A few minutes later, Hagrid, Sirius and a man called Harry were coming out with the babies followed by Samuel and Andy carrying the body of Lily Potter and gently putting her down. "We can get James' body in a bit but first we need to sort out this" referencing to the fact they needed to sort out the extraordinary situation they were faced with. Samuel then quickly rushed to what seemed to be an empty stretch of road and almost all there were surprised when out of nowhere a car turned up. Samuel came back from the car with a medical bag and seeing the surprise on most people's faces just got on with what he had to do. "We need to do an emergency caesarean otherwise the kids will die" Samuel said hurriedly "Andy, need your help here, everyone else I need you to keep back and just watch out and make sure people don't come near. I must not be disturbed." Sirius and everyone else slightly confused decided to agree.
A few minutes later, Samuel had completed the procedure and he moved to address the Sirius, Hagrid and company. "Well I've successfully done the procedure, its triplets and they're perfectly healthy" said Samuel in a professional manner. Everyone one was relieved at the news until they realised more questions needed to be asked. There was an uncomfortable silence until Hagrid broke the tension by asking the question what almost everyone had on their minds "'ow come Lily was pregnant with triplets when she still 'adn't given birth to James and Emma?" The question although not directed at anyone in particular, everyone had sensed that only one person could answer that question since he seemed to know a lot about what was going on better than anyone and he knew it.
Samuel responded to the question looking at none of the adults, only at the babies where he shed a solitary tear for them, "They were first in a surrogate, like Michael and Beth, but after seven months Lily decided that she wanted to bear them and give birth to them. I carried out a procedure to transfer them from the surrogate to Lily and there are some technicalities." Sirius chose to ask the rather obvious follow up question, "what technicalities?" Samuel being the doctor that he was, tried to explain as best he could how all this worked out. "Well being an experimental procedure, in fact the first of its kind carried out, the date of the transfer operation just so happened to be the 31st of august. Shortly after she had given birth to James and Emma; the result of which is that even though they were and still are unnamed, their births are officially recognised by the Ministry of magic as the 31st of august not tonight." Samuel pondered for a moment before continuing, "I think that when Lily sacrificed herself to save her children, and I think we all agree that was a miracle in itself, that despite her expectation that the children she was carrying would die with her, not unrealistic on her part but her sacrifice for the seven meant that the three unborn babies likewise were saved."
Hagrid then noticed something about the recently born triplets, namely the two boys, which he found curious. "Samuel, 'ow come the boys of this set of triplets 'ave blue eyes instead of green or brown?" Samuel then moved and saw what he was talking about, "I think just enough of the surrogates DNA has affected the DNA of the kids so that the pigmentation of their eyes is different to that of their siblings. This does not mean that it only affects the eyes; it can also affect the hair colour. The surrogate's hair colour was blond so that could show through eventually even if not an outright change in colour." Samuel quickly had a quiet word with Hagrid before turning to Sirius and saying, "since you are the Godfather to these kids (referencing the fact he is godfather to all ten including those just recently born) we felt you should name them although feel free to ask any of us for suggestions." Sirius pondered for a moment before stating "I've thought of a name for the girl, Lily Alice however I'm still stuck on the boys."
Andy then noticed something that was happening to one of the boys. He gestured to Samuel who took a quick look at the boys and saw that the pigmentation of the eyes of one of the boys was changing slightly but noticeable enough to tell. Samuel said to Sirius "well I think some delayed reactions to the birth have just occurred, namely the pigmentation of his eyes have changed slightly to blue with flecks of green." Then Samuel's tone changed slightly, "Well at least we can tell them apart now." Sirius' laughed sombrely, "yeah. I think that, for him, I will call him Jack. The other one though, I'm still having trouble on. Maybe you'd like to suggest some names?" Samuel pondered for a moment, "I did have a few names in mind but I think it should be Peter Kazuhira." Hagrid and Sirius both looked confused at the choice of names and Sirius did openly question the names. "Ok why Peter and why Kazuhira?" Samuel looked slightly shocked but nevertheless answered "Peter I picked because I had a friend called Peter who was killed by death eaters a few years ago. As for Kazuhira, it's Japanese and it means peace. Something that this kid should be a symbol of and how we got our peace." Sirius seemed placated by this but still didn't want the suggested first name.
"Fantastic middle name but Peter Potter just does not roll off the tongue for me" Sirius said. Samuel felt there was another reason which no one else had picked up on but left it alone and had another suggestion. "How about Harry? Harry Kazuhira Potter. Yeah I know it seems like I'm cheating but the way I see it, if Harry James Potter and his scar is a symbol bringing this long and bloody war to an end." Sirius and Hagrid looked at each other before looking at Samuel wanting him to continue his reasoning which Samuel promptly did. "Then Harry Kazuhira Potter as well as Jack and Lily should be symbols of the peace, no matter how long it lasts, that we and everyone have won." Sirius then thought of something, "I want to change Jack's name a bit. Now it's James Jack..." Samuel interrupted "How about Paz, it's Spanish for peace." Sirius agreed, "James Jack Paz Potter it is then." Hagrid spoke with some sense urgency "I need to get goin' so I can get the kids to Dumbledore but I don't know 'ow to get 'em all there at once?" Sirius offered up his motorbike as transport, "You can take the motorbike although..." looking in Samuel's direction which Samuel took as a cue to continue the sentence. "Although you can only take two of them. Harry and Andy have agreed to help in any way they can and they did bring their cars along so if you just give a five minute head start you can get to wherever you're going nearly simultaneously." Hagrid beckoned them over then and talked, about which they were given the address and directions of where they needed to go. Harry then gestured to Samuel to indicate that had gotten what they needed from Hagrid so they could help out and to indicate that were about to leave. "Right, I'll see you tomorrow and good luck. Oh and Andy, for the love of god be careful, I know what you're like at the moment with and cars" Samuel said. Andy only responded with a rude gesture before leaving with 4 of the babies.
After Andy and Harry had left, Samuel turned to Hagrid and said, "Wherever you're going with them and whatever Dumbledore is going to do with them, I just hope it's for the best. Just letting you I don't trust Dumbledore." Hagrid and Sirius both looked incredibly shocked and Hagrid asked, still shocked, why. "Why don't you trust 'im? He's one of the greatest wizards who 'ave lived and you doubt that?" Samuel set out to explain why he thought what he thought. "I don't doubt that he is a great wizard. I also don't doubt that he is a powerful wizard but what I do doubt is his Judgement. You know he suggested this place" pointing to the ruined college at Godrics Hollow. "James and Lily told me that. Potter manor is unplottable and they would still be alive." Sirius was slightly persuaded by this, "hmmm, that's a good point. I can't believe that I didn't think of that earlier. All I'm going to say is that for now is I'm keeping mind open." Samuel agreed, "fair enough, I always keep an open mind for anything." Soon it was time for Hagrid to leave and everyone said their goodbyes. "See you soon Hagrid", said Sirius. Samuel also said his goodbyes, "so long Hagrid, we'll see each other again. Don't know how soon, I'm just saying we will meet again." Hagrid left with Harry James Potter and Emma Lily Potter on Sirius' magically enhanced motorbike and after he was gone, Samuel turned to Sirius. "What are you going to do now?" Sirius replied simply "unfinished business."
They both turned seeing Hagrid in the distance, then Sirius asked Samuel a unexpected question. "Anything you want to tell me that I also didn't know about before I go to do what I've got to do?" Samuel then told him about what James and Lily wanted. "Normally I wouldn't say any of this, patient confidentiality and all that but given that they have become recently deceased, I would say that can be thrown out the window. Now that you've become the legal guardian, there is one thing there is another Potter. Once again, she was born to a surrogate but this time she was given away so she could be protected a bit more. She was born on the 31st of July exactly a year after Harry and the two girls. Also in order for her protection to be increased, I deliberately put some of the DNA of the adoptive parents so it will alter whatever happens to the body namely her appearance and unlike with Lily's last three, there will be a significant change in appearance." Samuel pondered for a moment before continuing, "The DNA ratio is about 36/36/14/14. That's the percentages at least. One last thing, the family that adopted her are muggles so there may be a chance that they meet in future but I see absolutely no risk at any point." Sirius somehow looked both appeased and horrified. "How the hell do you know it's going to work well at all?"
Samuel turned slightly so that he was facing the burnt shell of the cottage. "I don't know everything that's going happen but that's life, I suppose. Anyway don't you have unfinished business to attend to?" Sirius looked concerned about what would happen to the bodies of two of his best friends. "What about them though?"Sirius asked the doctor. Samuel replied "don't worry, I'll sort them out. You can say goodbye to them properly in a few days, maybe weeks." Sirius placated by this, hugged Samuel, "thanks for everything you've done for all of us tonight." Samuel replied sympathetically, "no need to thank me, after all, all us doctors are always on hand and our job never stops at the end of our shifts. Jamie" he called to the remaining friend. "Jamie, I need your help moving these two." Sirius content to let them do what had to done started running down the street, "See you soon, Samuel." Samuel called back "see you around." Because Sirius was not paying attention, he never noticed the bodies of James and Lily potter twitching.
Later at Privet Drive, Surrey, an old man and an old woman who was just a cat were waiting around. A few moments later Hagrid had arrived with Harry James Potter and Emma Lily Potter. Dumbledore asked Hagrid a pretty stupid question about something which was completely obvious. "Hagrid, How come there's two of them here?" Hagrid explained as best he could, "James an' Lily 'ad more than one kid. Also there's more coming." Dumbledore and McGonagall were open mouthed at the statement. McGonagall then asked how many were in fact coming, "Well, how many will be coming exactly then. I mean there can't be more two of them, can there?" Hagrid shifted slightly, "well if you don't count Harry one and Emma Lily Potter, there is 'bout eight of 'em. Something 'appened which meant there is ten rather than seven. The doctor that came along, his name is Samuel; he's the one who helped us out. Thought he was a muggle at first and even used muggle terms. Turns out 'e was another wizard and knew Lily an' James fairly well. Oh 'ere comes the rest of 'em".
Sure enough, Harry and Andy turned up with the other eight babies and once they sighted Hagrid, Harry called out to him. "Hagrid, that you? We brought them here. What now?" Dumbledore queried as whether either the two people who had just shown up were whom Hagrid had spoken of: Dr Samuel Vaso Jordon. "Hagrid, are either of them this Samuel person?" Hagrid responded with a sad smile on his face, "No, those two are his friends. They 'elped at Godrics Hollow and volunteered to bring 'em 'ere. Andy was there from the beginning when we were going through the house. Harry was called in because we needed 'elp or so Samuel thought." Harry and Andy came up to Hagrid looking a bit frustrated. "Err, could we have some help with the kiddies? They've been very quiet for the trip so that's something at least." Hagrid helped out with getting the kids out the car and once they were put down, Dumbledore and McGonagall noticed the same things about some of the kids that everyone else had earlier. Seeing that this was going to require explaining, Harry quickly told the two experienced wizards a simplified version of what Samuel had said earlier. "From how Sam explained it, the DNA from the surrogate mothers can affect appearance. Anything from eye colour to hair and how it turns out, for example, curly or straight." Dumbledore noticed his use of Sam rather than Samuel to which Harry very quickly replied "Friend of Samuel privileges. Hagrid, you might be to do after meeting him a few times since he's met you tonight." Dumbledore cleared his throat to ask him something. "Do you know where I can find him?" Harry rebuffed him as politely as he could, "sorry Mr Dumbledore but he does not like giving his address to strangers, people he does not like or simply people he'd rather stay away from."
Dumbledore accepted this answer but tried legilemancy on both Harry and Andy to find out where this Samuel person lived. He was surprised to find he couldn't get at even a scrap of information. He knew that they might have detected his failed penetration of their minds, which they did, but they did not comment on it. Soon they were saying their goodbyes and they had a very firm handshake with Hagrid which might have been a bit of a mistake and invited him to have drinks with them sometime. They then waved goodbye to McGonagall who they found out was that her first name was Minerva and they simply gave a slight nod to Dumbledore. They then left in their cars to do some illegal street racing, especially Andy, just to make some quick money before informing Samuel of what had happened.
"Well considering now there is ten, not just the one; I believe that some adjustments are in order." Albus Dumbledore set about making the necessary changes, for starters changes to the letter he had written. These changes also included a summoning portkey so he could explain the situation himself once the letter had been opened and added rooms to 4 privet drive. Hagrid wiped away a tear which Dumbledore noticed. "Do not cry, Hagrid. This is not goodbye, merely a temporary farewell." McGonagall also had a sniffle and Dumbledore turned and changed the letter but apart from Harry whom he had already been aware of and Emma Lily having been told by Hagrid, he hadn't been told the other kids names so he quickly asked Hagrid what their names were. He was confused by some of the names namely those of the two boys of the last triplets whose eyes were blue. "Hagrid, what are the names of the other little ones? Also I'm confused by the middle names of the two boys." Hagrid decided to just go through all ten of them, "there is Harry James Potter, Holly and Rose, then Michael an' Beth. They were followed by James an' Emma Lily an' finally tonight we 'ad Harry Kazuhira, James Jack Paz an' Lily Alice. The Kazuhira an' Paz names mean peace in Japanese an' Spanish." They then left the little kids on the door step and began to leave. "Good luck Potter's" said Dumbledore. "Samuel did say that 'cause of complications, despite the last triplets being born tonight, fer some reason, they count as being born tonight." Hagrid said. McGonagall answered for Dumbledore as he seemed in his own little world, "Let's get some sleep and we'll talk about it first thing in the morning" By Dawn in the morning, Harry James Potter would be a hero to the wizarding world, lots of former supporters of the dark lord succeeded in getting off the hook. The wizarding world was beginning its peace, the Potter's had got a new home and Sirius Black was sent to Azkaban for a crime he did not commit. Within a week, the wizarding world had become incredibly corrupt and the Potter's lives had already become living hell.
July 31st 1985. Azkaban.
"Let him pass, he's got an unrestricted visitor day pass" Dementors backed away. Thud, Thud, Thud. "Okay, you next." Sounds of Ruffling pockets before they stop and another pass is pulled out. "This one's good to go as well. Be careful you two." "We will. Come on, this place is already giving me the creeps" Thud, thud, thud. Sounds of feet spinning on spot, overshadowed by the screams of insanity from most of the prisoners. Very loud cackling laughter from a nearby cell. "Bellatrix Lestrange. That's what the sign on the door says. Looked like she was a beauty at one point but being insane along with this place well..." Sound of finger tapping on metal bar "I know where you're going with that, pity; powerful witch like her could've done so much good in the world. She won't even look at the fact that the "pureblood" she worships is in fact half blood, who would drain her of her money"
Sounds of walking before mutterings are heard. A Sirius Black sign was swinging precariously. "I do believe we're here." Feet on dusty, grainy floor swing round. "Sirius Black, kept you waiting, huh?" "Well, well, you're the first and only visitors outside of ministry officials I've had" "I did want to come earlier but organising a trip here is hassle. Trust me, I'd much rather do the muggle jail. It's still a hassle but at least people can go constantly." "Did you come to do small talk Samuel or was there something you wanted to tell me?" "A lot of things have happened ever since you were imprisoned. Cornelius Fudge is now minister of magic; the 11th Potter is progressing very well and..." "Oh yeah, how are they by the way? Are they with their Godmother? How are Alice and Frank Longbottom by the way?" "If I keep getting interrupted, I won't be able to say. But unfortunately there is no good news what I'm about to tell you. Alice and Frank were tortured into insanity by your relatives and some others. Bellatrix Lestrange, Rudolphus Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. Maybe some others, I can't remember who else." "Bloody Hell, don't tell me Harry or any of the others were caught by those bastards I call my relatives." "Sirius they didn't make it to the Longbottom house because they were never taken there. Heard of a family called the Dursleys?" "Them! Petunia Dursley was Lily's sister, they fell out once Lily found out she was a witch and Petunia wasn't." "Harry and the others are with them. I know this because I happen to both live relatively near him and I happen to teach at the school he's at. Holly and Rose as well. The other seven are due in September. I am keeping an eye on them but they don't as healthy as they should be." Silence. Silence. "Switching topics for a moment, what have you two been up to?" "Well I've joined Andy and Harry doing their street racing and I've also joined Sam as a T.A. and as his assistant, just in general." "Me as you already know am teaching kids but I still continue to be a doctor. I did help out a PMC last year; they got word of my expertise and were short of skilled medical staff. They were in the oceans surrounding the Seychelles and yeah they had to get rid of some staff simply because there was no room. Got my own private medical company now and the guys who had to leave the PMC now work for me. Serves anyone, muggles, wizards, it doesn't matter to me. Probably breaking lots of wizarding laws but fuck them, the wizarding world is old fashioned and I think it will be the muggleborns those wizards raised in muggle environments that will define the future of the wizarding world as we know it."
"Oh yeah got some things for you here Sirius. I brought you some nice food as I do believe the stuff they serve here is revolting and probably doesn't help anyone's sanity." "Got that right. Where is it because I didn't see you bring anything with you?" "I flicked it inside, shrunk the hamper, levitation and weight reduction charm on all the food and the outside is invisible. Let me expand and unlock it for you." shuffling around in a pocket before it stops followed by click. "Should be about 4 months worth in there and before I forget to mention yes there is a food preservation charm on all of it. There are other bits for you as well." "What is it then?" "A magically modified walkman pretty much limitless power for it now. It can be powered by whatever, whether it is the strongest range of emotions in set distance from it, kinetic energy from moving or solar power or batteries although batteries is unrealistic for here. Got some tapes for you to listen to as well as a box which acts as a kind of teleport or apparition for non living objects." "What are these songs? Are they wizarding songs?" "No, these are muggle songs and I'd say they're better than wizarding music. They've got me through some tough times or I just like to enjoy the sound." "The songs are Africa, The Man Who Sold The World, Calling To The Night, Maneater and Here's To You. Some others as well." "The second tape is stuff I've recorded from Harry, Rose and Holly's school life so far, you'll probably want to listen to that later." "The third is what we found once we looked at Godrics Hollow in more depth." "Okay. Sam, what is Here's To You about?" "It's about two immigrants in America, years ago. Nicola, Bart wrongly executed but their deaths served as a message to others." "What message would that be?" "That our society or any with any form of death penalty murders the innocent. Do you believe that sacrifices can change the world? Think about it. Sorry we've got to go; I'll try and arrange another visit sometime." "No worries. I'll survive. Keep an eye on the kiddo's will you?" "Don't worry Sirius; besides from that small box, you'll get regular updates from tapes I send to you." "Bye Sam, see you again sometime" "Goodbye Sirius. Until the next time." Click. Music plays with walking sounds faint in the background.
