Sins of the Father III

by samjordon08

It all started a long time ago when two worlds collided and when two people from those fought, one of them would create a universe to create the ultimate weapon. Then events took place which caused one to flee to the created universe. Now millions of lives are at stake and it will be up to a family to stop him.

6. Chapter 5- A Family split

Chapter 5 – A Family Split

August 29th. 2 days before the birthdays of seven Potter children. 1 day before the departure of Holly and Rose.

"Well, sorry you lot that we've got to go before your birthday but we got you presents. Anyway you'll still have Harry for a couple of days and you'll still have each other for the year." The three girls and four boys looked upset that the time with their siblings had flown by. However the two girls had a plan for the day, Holly spoke up first, "Well we decided to throw a small party and since it is a hot day and that Uncle Vernon decided to install another bathroom down here. We thought that we could pretend that we were at a beach." They all had thought about what a beach was like from seeing images of them at school, on magazines and on the TV in the Dursleys living room whenever they were out of the house. The Potters all smiled at the idea but thought twice when most of them thought about how getting at least four people into one bathroom. Those doubts were quickly brushed aside by Rose, "I think Uncle Vernon decided he didn't want to spend so much money on hot water and also us taking too long in the upstairs one which will be left to Harry and Emma. So yeah the bath down here can take four people which means that we can go in there four at a time. It also means that we can pretend to be in the sea while we're in there." There were a lot of cheers in the pretty crowded room. "Only four at a time, remember that." Holly's shout was followed by Rose shouting, "We're also pretending that the beds are deck chairs so everyone enjoy this day and remember it for the year. Now let's go and do some partying." Harry, Holly, Emma and James went for the Bathroom that was acting as the sea while the rest either lay on the beds or the blankets pretending they were at the beach.

Harry, Holly, Emma and James were sitting together in the water, just splashing each other with the water when Holly decided to dare Emma, "Okay Emma, I dare you to ride on James' shoulders." "Okay. Well that's easy enough" said Emma, smirking at her sister. Holly however was shaking her head, "Facing him and nothing on." Emma was shocked by this but immediately saw a chance to turn the tables, "I dare you to do the same but with Harry." "You're on" said Holly and they played around for a while like that before they stopped for the afternoon.

Rose was lying on her front, reading a book that she had got in Diagon alley. More specifically a story made up about her brother, by her teacher. It was in fact the second of his series of books as this book was called 'The Adventures of Harry Potter, The Quest for Vengeance' and she found it to be very enjoyable. Once she had finished reading it, she immediately felt an ache in her body and she called over Harry Kaz, "Kaz can you massage me. I'm aching all over." Harry Kaz complied and rubbed her back for a while before she flipped over, "Could you do my front? The back's alright but my front still aches." Harry Kaz nodded and enthusiastically got into giving the massage before a question popped up in his mind, "How come you ache so much?" Rose had to think about the answer, "I think stress thanks to me worrying about you lot and... I don't know. I guess I'll miss you all and even though I've been there already, it's still a strange place to me. It's like if we met up in about fifty or sixty years from now, we would hardly recognise each other even though we knew each other. Do you get what I mean?" Harry Kaz gulped and nodded "What you're saying, I'm guessing, is that even though you prefer wizarding society, you just know this place like the back of your hand." "Yeah", said Rose feeling very tired. The massage continued for sometime before Rose looked at the clock and saw the time showing that the Dursleys were due back shortly. "Right everyone. We need to start moving. The two fatso's and Mrs Grumpy are due back shortly. I'm going to get James, Holly, Emma and Harry from the sea" she said very loudly and in nothing but her underwear went to the adjacent bathroom. She opened the door and the sight that greeted her surprised her but nevertheless repeated what she had said in the bedroom. The four in the room like a bolt of lightning had got out, got dry and got dressed. They all stayed or departed to respective rooms. After a lacklustre dinner, cooked by Aunt Petunia, which for the Potters consisted of a couple of slices of toast, a couple of slices of ham and a boiled egg which in some cases, she had somehow managed to burn them. "Why am I guessing that while you lot are away, I'll be doing the cooking again?" asked Emma, having gotten one of the burnt boiled eggs. "Well, we always did do the best cooking in the house. Even Kaz agrees and he's a bloody good cook" said Harry feeling frustrated at the amount of food given to them and the somehow shoddy quality of the boiled eggs. "Well considering we've still got some food stashed away, we can make a decent meal tomorrow" Harry continued.

August 30th. Departure day for Rose and Holly.

"Well so long everyone. See you next year" Holly and Rose said as one and they moved towards the car that was waiting for them. "Remember Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia that you will have to pick us up at the end of the school year" called Holly. "OF COURSE" called back Vernon, really grumpily. "Farewell guys" shouted Rose, not including the Dursleys in her farewell. The feeling was entirely mutual. The car they had got into had tinted windows and the window on the driver's door had only gone down slightly for an arm to come out and show a thumbs up. Harry knew who the person in the driving seat raised his right arm and raised his thumb in return also flashing a smile. Once Holly and Rose had got all their belongings in the boot, they got in the car and waving their arms, they left. The rest of the Potters returned inside their house.

"Well, how have you two been since we last met?" asked Mr Jordon looking in the rear view mirror at the two girls. "We've been doing alright. Not much more than usual" commented Rose non-commitally, just looking at the view outside. "Anyway I want to show you both what I do during my summers. Although I guess I might be doing it a lot more often at some point in the future" said their ex-primary school teacher. "Why is that, Mr Jordon?" asked Holly curiously. "Well, I'm just not feeling the same pleasure I was getting from teaching a bunch of kids as I was a few years ago. It's not that I don't enjoy it but I just want to do other things and what I want to show you is something I want to spend more time on." Before long, they reached his house. He helped take their trunks and various other bits of baggage into the house. They set down the various belongings before Samuel started showing them round the house properly considering they had been shown only a couple of rooms the last time they had been there and the Potter girls were impressed by the scale of the house. There was at least 2 floors above the ground floor and from what he had told the girls, there were at least 2 more floors below ground level. "This level is where your bedroom will be. Go ahead and treat it like your own even though it is only for a couple of days. Anyway breakfast will be ready in a couple of minutes if you want to get downstairs. It's a buffet, so yeah go nuts."

The Potter girls rushed downstairs to have breakfast which was a lot bigger than anything they had ever had for breakfast. "Dig in" they heard a voice from behind. It was their former teacher standing behind them. "I would try the chorizo sausages if I were you" said Mr Jordon smiling. They had a few sausages, a couple of fried eggs, some slices of bacon and toast. They all added hash browns and Samuel added black pudding to his along with squid and baked beans while the two girls of the Potter triplets had added Mushrooms and Tomatoes to theirs. They finished their first plates with ease, Mr Jordon because he had a big appetite and Holly and Rose because they had been given meagre amounts of food throughout their entire lives even when assisted by their former teachers' help which postponed periods of starvation for days but was offset when the starvation lasted for weeks. When they were done, Mr Jordon said, "If you two want to get ready part one of what I want to show you is awaiting us in an hour's time." They all proceeded to get changed and within half an hour the two girls had got ready and were looking around the library when about fifteen minutes later, Mr Jordon had come down. "We're not going to using the car today. Today we're going to be using the floo network" he said to the confusion of the two girls. He led them to a fireplace and picked up a bag. "This bag contains floo powder" picking some of the stuff out of bag, "You use this stuff to get to destinations. However you need to be connected to the floo network in order to get to places otherwise it is absolutely useless." Holly then asked about the other methods of travel, "Mr Jordon, what are the other methods of travel in the wizarding world?" Samuel thought for a moment before responding "Well there are portkeys which are better than Floo but can be blocked by powerful spells which block areas in which they can be used. In other words once blocked, portkeys are effectively useless until the spell is removed or has worn out. My people are working on those problems however with some success. The main other one is actually something you have experienced before. Apparition was not something I was actually supposed to do with you until you're a lot older but I wanted to see if it could be done and I have. Those in the ministry are idiots if they believe children are incapable of being able to do it. Point is, you have to think of a destination and visualise it in your head and concentrate really hard. Then you turn slightly and you will be at your destination. Understand?" he asked the two girls. They nodded, "Good, there are other methods to travel but I'll let you discover them for yourselves." They each took a pinch of the powder and left to explore their new surroundings and methods of travel.

The 8 remaining Potters day.

"Well Harry, what have you decided to conjure up for what is going to be the best meal of the day." Harry smiled at his younger sister's way of getting to the point. "I'm leaving that one a surprise for later. Now I need to help the twins, Mr family tree and the engineer in the garden" Harry said, taking the mick out of his four younger brothers. He walked into the back garden to find the four brothers just doing the gardening. He went to work and this continued into the evening when dinner was called but unfortunately for them, dinner was lacklustre. In fact such was it that they only had it when the only alternative was starvation. They eventually went to bed with all of them close to consuming the last of their stashed supplies.

Harry and Emma were lying on their beds when James and Lily Alice came through the door of their bedroom. "James, what's up? Anything wrong?" asked Harry who had his eyes closed. James gulped, "Well I'm not liking the look that Uncle Vernon has been giving us for the past month" and he turned his head towards Lily Alice who was nodding. "I agree. It's not been pleasant to feel his gaze upon us. I think he's going to do something and we're not going to like it, whatever it is." Harry nodded with a frown on his face, "I'm guessing that with Holly and Rose no longer around, he's going to take as much out on us as possible and I'm going to take the brunt of the anger." They just sat there in silence until Harry spoke up, "Anyway let's not worry about him now, let's just look forward to your birthdays tomorrow." Everyone else in the room nodded and eventually James and Lily Alice left the room. "Harry, could you just keep hugging me until I fall asleep?" Emma asked with a hint of fear in her voice although she couldn't understand why that was, "I want to feel comforted when I wake up." Harry nodded, "Sure" and lay with her in her bed until she fell asleep. Inexplicably, he also fell asleep on the bed still holding her in his arms.

August 31st. Seven Potter's birthdays.

Harry was fast asleep when a soft voice whispered in his ear, "Wakey, Wakey Harry. Somebody needs to say happy birthday to all his brother's and sister's." Upon hearing this, Harry woke up like a bolt of energy being used to revive a clinically dead person, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on a moment let me get up before I have to do something, okay?" He got up from the bed to find Emma giggling at him. He shot his tongue out at her. "BOY" Vernon shouted from downstairs. "I'm guessing that he's calling me to do breakfast." Emma stiffened at this, "Yeah. You had better be moving or I'd hate to see what he would do to you." Harry went out of the door and went downstairs. He went into the kitchen and found Petunia looking not very interested at all, Dudley just looked interested in the latest thing his parents had got him and as for Uncle Vernon, he looked like he needed to hit something and by the way he was looking at Harry, it seemed Harry would be the thing that needed to be hit. But that would not concern Harry at the moment; all he was concerned with was making their breakfast and getting them out of his hair for the day since they were going into Guildford and they didn't want to go to London due to the fact they had to take Harry there tomorrow. As Petunia and Dudley left the room, Harry made to follow them out of the room, he was grabbed by the neck from behind and it felt painful. He was turned to face Uncle Vernon who looked absolutely furious and Harry understood why; he did not want to be told by freaks how to treat people in his own house. "NOW LISTEN HERE FREAK, I WILL NOT BE TOLD HOW TO TREAT FREAKS LIKE YOU. ESPECIALLY IN MY OWN HOUSE" and with that he spun Harry round and struck him on his back and on the back of his head. Harry fell unconscious and was shoved into the cupboard under the stairs.

It felt to him like a long time before he woke up. He looked up to see Emma and James Jack looking down at him with concern. They showed even more concern when he shot up suddenly think he might still have injuries and tried to restrain him and sit him down. He was having none of that however, "I'm fine. Nothing serious." "Harry, you were knocked unconscious. How could you be ok?" "Just leave it ok, I'm fine" Emma likewise was having none of his attitude, "SHUT UP HARRY. James Jack took some flak for you. He was getting you out of the cupboard and Vernon saw him and dislocated his elbow for it but then he realised he would have run late so he left him there. I had to put his arm back into place and help him drag you up here because none of us here can pick you up by ourselves. So when you start saying that you're ok, just think about what's just happened to you and consider what we go through whenever you or Holly or Rose are attacked by the fat piece of lard we call our Uncle." He was stung by these words and took a moment to think about them. "Yeah you're right, sorry" he said as a tear fell down his cheek and hugged both of them tightly. "As much as we forgive you, could you please stop hugging us? It's just that we can't breathe." Harry stepped back and gestured sorry with his hand in silence.

Before long the Dursley's had returned and had entered the house. "BOY, get down here NOW" and Harry groaned. He had hoped to be let off but he knew he should've known better; even when injured, Uncle Vernon expected them to make dinner no matter what condition they were in but Harry wasn't too badly injured, "I'll see you two later after the punishment." And he departed leaving the room with two concerned siblings looking at his back. "I want dinner cooked now boy so hurry up and get on with it" Vernon said with a rage and Harry sighed. He cooked dinner and was sent off to deliver the meagre portions that the siblings were to have. When he returned to the kitchen, he noticed another two plates but one of them had even less food on it, Vernon said "The one with less is yours, you freak as since as you're going to that freak school I felt that they're going to give you so much food that you wouldn't need it." He had a smirk on his face and once dinner had been done and cleared, Harry went up the stairs. He was outside his and Emma's bedroom when he was grabbed by Vernon forcefully by the neck, "Don't try anything funny or else there will be trouble" and Harry audibly gulped. Vernon opened the door and threw him into the room and promptly closed the door behind him. "Harry, are you alright?" Harry sat up as Emma spoke to him, "Not sure, I think got some bruises on my neck thanks to where he held me" and Emma looked at his neck and saw a hand shaped bruise that covered his entire neck, "Yeah, it looks really bad." Harry rubbed his head because of the impact of how hard his head connected to the floor, "you know what, it feels bad but I do not think there is major damage to my body. Just a splitting headache, that's all." He recovered from it remarkably quickly and James Jack eventually left having had his meagre dinner. "Here" Harry said to Emma giving her pretty much all of his dinner except for half a slice of burnt toast. Emma started protesting, "Harry, you shouldn't" but Harry was ready for this protest, "Emma you're going to need it. There's going to be plenty for me at Hogwarts, I'm sure of it" and then he had a thought looking at his owl companion, who then looked in his direction and nodded, "Em, how about from time to time, I try to send back some food? Wait bad idea, I won't be able to do it for all of you." "Yeah I was just thinking that even with Holly and Rose's help, you wouldn't be able to send back much food at all" said Emma thoughtfully. "Oh well. I'll still send letters." They just sat there for a while before either of them spoke again.

"They're going to hate us forever, aren't they?" Emma sniffled as she asked the question. Then she went to Harry and snuggled into his side. "Probably" said Harry remembering an event from when he was six which no one else saw but chose not to tell the other siblings. Eventually Emma fell asleep and Harry gently laid her on her bed. Quietly he got out of the room and made his way to his other siblings' rooms. Once down there, he found that the other six were already waiting for him. "Happy birthday everyone. Sorry I couldn't come along earlier" he said apologetically. "No problem Harry, we were informed of what happened. How are you?" said Michael looking at his older brother with some concern. "Just a big headache is all I've had but that's recovered. Also the bruises are annoying but they aren't actually hurting. I think they look bad though." Then Harry silently called them over for a group hug which they all participated in. They talked about how Harry's Wand was the brother wand to Voldemort's. They then just talked and did various dares as they had decided to do that as a mini birthday party considering the events that had happened a couple of days earlier. Harry then left the room and returned to his and Emma's room, "Shame he has to leave tomorrow because we look up to him and he, Holly and Rose protect us from him. Now because they've either gone already or is about to go, we've got to look after each other now than ever" said James keeping his voice from cracking. They all eventually went to their own rooms and fell asleep.

Harry re-entered his own room which he shared with Emma. He was about to get into his bed when he heard a soft voice that belonged to his sister, "I don't want you to go tomorrow." "I know you don't Em but I'll still be here in spirit." "Could you just lie in here for tonight? I want to feel safe and secure for tonight." Harry didn't even think for a whole second, "Sure" and he hoped into her bed holding her tight before both of them fell asleep.

August 31st. Holly and Rose's day with their pretend dad.

"So, how many facilities have you got now Mr Jordon" asked Rose looking on the edge of a platform. Samuel smiled and wiped a brow at this question, "Erm, you know what, that's a good question. I think I've lost count by now, there's all this, the clinics. Then there's also shop security, transportation, banking, manufacturing and we've even starting a retail business. So yeah quite a lot going on." Holly then called out to them from the opposite side of the platform, "I'm seeing something over there from here." She pointed out something that vaguely resembled a manor at the distance she was looking at and Rose and Mr Jordon joined her very quickly. "What you're seeing over there is in fact your new school and it's a castle, so let me flick this switch" the flicked switch raised a set of powerful binoculars, "and look through those. Oh and by the way, you can call me Sam or Samuel, whatever you prefer because since we're no longer students and teacher." Holly and Rose both looked uncertain at this but made an effort nevertheless, "Ok, SS- Samuel" "Okay, Sam" they said simultaneously but as soon as they said it they immediately felt a lot more comfortable. "Wow I don't know why I was nervous. I mean we've known you for several years but we've never said your name before. It seems kind of cool."They finished looking through the binoculars, looking at Hogwarts, and then they walked round looking at the various platforms on the facility before seeing lots of parked vehicles. "What are those?" asked Holly. "They're tanks, armoured vehicles and lots of other stuff. I'll go in depth another time, though" said Samuel.

They returned to his house later in the evening. "If we had the time, I would show you more but we don't but oh well, not everything can be done in the space of a few days. Anyway I've got things for you." He picked up a couple of parcels which contained several objects. "There's a diary, cassette with tapes and some good chocolates just for the hell of it." The two sister's eyed up a third envelope on a nearby table, "Sam, what about the envelope on there" asked Rose. Samuel looked to the nearby table, "That would be for your brother, Harry. I'll give it to him, tomorrow at platform 9¾." "9¾, Mr Jordon?" "You know what? I'm going to make it a surprise until tomorrow." The two sisters just looked at each other thinking he was mad but then realised that this would be like Diagon alley, hidden by magic yet so close to the world of muggles. "Let's eat then get an early night for tomorrow" declared Samuel.

"Hi, it's me." Barely audible voice. "Yes, they're alright. Well as much as they can be." More barely audible talking. "Where's Sirius? In Azkaban, I thought I told you this many times before." Talking. "I'm guessing you two are still in denial then? No matter, we need to wait for the right time and in any case, Sirius doesn't know you exist." Brief silence before more talking, "And no we're not going to tell anyone yet about the drug I inadvertently created all about ten years ago now." Brief amount of chatting. "Yes I am concerned about it but you know what my position is on this subject." Brief pause before signal to continue. "Yes I do think they should be naive and learn it for themselves although I do appreciate your position -." Angry shouts before calming voice coming from the phone. "If it happens, it happens. Anyway I wanted to talk about a job I need you to do. I'll send you the paper work but needless to say you cannot reveal your identities yet." Grumbling. "Don't worry; I'll keep an eye on them. Anyway, how are the kids?" Brief talking. "Good. Anyway it's getting late and we've all got stuff to do tomorrow." Farewells said. "Alright, see you soon. Goodbye."

1st September. Starting at Hogwarts.

"Come along you two, you said you wanted to be at the train well before Harry gets there" shouted Mr Jordon, only barely hearing himself amongst the busy crowd. Eventually they got Kings Cross and by extension platform 9 and three quarters and found it relatively quiet. "Well, here you go kiddos. The Hogwarts Express; it goes to Hogwarts which just happens to have its own train station. Also first years have to take boats but it's meant to be a very spectacular view, from what I've heard." Holly asked a question, "You never went to Hogwarts then?" to which Samuel replied, "Nope. Learnt from my parents and private tutors but never at Hogwarts." They just sorted everything out just to make sure they hadn't forgotten anything before they left the house. Then Mr Jordon made a seemingly random comment, "All Potter's are cursed to marry redheads." The two girls turned their heads in his direction, "What's that, Sam?" Mr Jordon turned his head towards them, "Oh, just remembering what your Dad said when I first met him, all Potter's are cursed to marry redheads, he said. Your mum was a redhead. Although I think he was referring Potter men not the women. Two good people, they were. Your Dad was a really good prankster and your Mum was on her way to becoming a potions and charms master or as I should be saying, mistress. Are any of your brothers interested in redheads?" Holly responded, "I think Harry definitely is; I also think that James and possibly Michael as well are interested in them. I don't think the other two are as bothered about red hair as those three are." Before long it started to get incredibly busy and all of them noticed, "Samuel, do you think it's time for us to get on the train?" Mr Jordon replied very promptly, "Yes, don't worry I'll look out for your brother" smiling reassuringly at them. They got on the train and found an empty compartment where they were joined by a bushy haired girl who was very interested in books and they were all fascinated by each other and so began a legendary friendship.

Earlier. Private Drive.

"Harry, you should probably wake up" said Emma softly in his ear and Harry just groaned and turned in the bed. Deciding to try and push boundaries, she pushed Harry off the bed, "Oof, Emma what the hell" Harry said glaring at her while she was giggling. "Sorry Harry I wanted to get you up before they got up." They just sat there quietly before Emma repeated her question from the previous night, "They're going to hate us forever, aren't they?" and Harry altered his answer slightly from yesterday evening, "They probably will." "Why" was Emma's follow up question, which caught Harry by surprise but he didn't show it. Instead he answered the answer which even Emma knew but didn't want to acknowledge, "Because we're wizards and witches and that makes us freaks."

Then the Dursleys woke up and wanted to get ready as soon as possible. When all of them were ready, they were waiting impatiently for Harry to get ready. Harry kissed Emma softly on the temple and hugged her tightly. He found that even though he was protective of all his siblings, he was more protective of Emma than the rest and this was probably due to the fact that Emma was more into books rather than doing exercising. Not that she didn't do any exercising; she just preferred her books to running around all the time, when she had a choice. More often than not, she, Harry and their siblings were all chased by Dudley's gang in a game he liked to call freak hunt, a game where they would chase after the Potter's and if they caught one of them then they beat up the one they caught. This instance however became increasingly rare due to the fact that all the Potter's became good at running very quickly, the C.Q.C. lessons and Dudley's weight; James Jack could outrun all of Dudley's gang at jogging speed and only Harry was able to keep up with him. Emma however was the most likely to get caught and Harry often helped her escape that. All of them were very stealthy and when not being chased by Dudley's gang, they would launch pranks on each other using whatever they could find, with Holly and Rose most often quite being the instigators. "I'll write constantly. To all of you" Harry said with some emotion in his voice. Emma responded very quietly, "I know you will. Just let us know what Holly and Rose are up to." "Will do" replied Harry. As they walked out of their room and down the stairs, they were greeted by the remaining brothers and sisters. "Well, see you in June. I'm going to miss you all and remember that when your time comes, you're going to be welcomed into the wizarding world even though they're completely ignorant about you." The sincere moment was then interrupted by an impatient Vernon Dursley, "BOY. Get out here now." They all shared a sharp look with each other before one of them said "Group hug?" to which they all participated in. Then Harry left the building and all cheered Harry before a call from Petunia silenced them, "Shut up you freaks and don't do anything funny." "Well see you all later" Harry said shedding a few tears as he walked away and got into the car.

The Dursley's got to Kings cross and callously left Harry in a place full of strangers, "Listen up freak, they told us to bring you here. They never said anything about accompanying you, so we're leaving it to you to find your way to this platform that you're supposed to go to. Don't come back anytime soon." Harry also remembered that they were taking Dudley to hospital to get the pigs tail removed. And just like that, they drove off. Harry walked around a bit, receiving a few stares from people looking at his strange luggage, before he heard voices. Listening closely he found it to be a family of redheads, "-packed with muggles of course-" and decided to follow them. His thoughts were still on his siblings...Err scratch that, his thoughts then drifted towards the red headed girl who appeared to be the youngest of the family and quietly whispered to himself, "Is it me or am I in love?" Such a feeling was foreign for him because apart from his siblings, he had never known it anywhere else. But he pushed those thoughts aside going back to getting on the platform. He saw the oldest looking one go through an invisible doorway, which shocked him, before moving a bit closer towards the red headed family where he heard the mother speak. "Fred, why don't you go next?" "I'm George, not Fred. Honestly, you're our mother and you've forgotten that I'm George" said the tall boy. "Sorry George. Anyway go through then" said the mother. The tall boy then lined up to run through the wall, "Only Joking, I am Fred" and ran through the barrier followed by the other twin. Harry had a quick thought smiling, 'they're going to love Holly and Rose maybe even Beth when they meet' and walked up to the remaining red heads on this side of the barrier.

"Excuse me" said Harry to the plump woman who appeared to be a mother to all those kids including the pretty girl who seemed to be younger than him. "Hello dear. First time at Hogwarts?" she asked before continuing, "Don't worry, it's Ron's first time as well." "Yes. The thing is- the thing is, I don't know how to-" he said before she finished for him. "How to get onto the platform?" She said kindly and Harry with a slight smile, nodded. "Not to worry," she began, "Don't stop and don't be scared you'll crash into it, that's very important. Best to do it with a bit of a run if you're nervous. Go on, go now before Ron." "Er – ok" and he lined up with the barrier. He started to walk towards it before gaining a bit of pace but thinking he would hit the barrier and crash. He found himself on the other side of the barrier and the sight before him was simply incredible; a scarlet coloured train and behind him a iron archway. And above him was a sign that said Platform 9 and ¾ and he realised he was on the other side and that none of the unfolding moments or those of the past month were dreams of his. As he slowly walked around, he failed to notice a familiar figure stroll behind him, as he was listening to a boy who had lost his toad. "You know Harry, you should be more careful in places like these. Can get very dangerous in places like these" Harry turned to face the person behind him which thankfully was his old primary school teacher. "Mr Jordon" he relaxed further, "How is Holly and Rose, Mr Jordon?" Mr Jordon smiled "Yes, they're alright. In fact, they've been enjoying themselves especially yesterday. "What did you do yesterday?" "We went and looked at some of my pet projects." Harry wanted to know more but before he could ask more, his former teacher spoke up in a rather hurried manner as they reached the rear end of the train, "Harry, I'm going to have to leave you for a moment, why don't you find an empty compartment and I'll chat to you by the window." Harry then saw why; he had to go to the toilet. Harry then proceeded to find an empty compartment which was somehow easy to find but then had trouble getting his trunk into the said compartment after having put Hedwig. It landed on his foot twice, painfully but he still found it better than whenever Uncle Vernon hit him. "Want a hand?" said a older boys voice, which turned out to be one of the red haired twins and Harry was grateful for the help, "Yes, please" he panted. "Oy, Fred! C'mere and help out here!" the red headed boy called to his twin. "Thank you" Harry said before swiping at his forehead preventing sweat from entering his eyes but also unwittingly exposing his scar, which was shaped like a lightning bolt. One of the twins noticed, "What's that?" he asked suddenly, pointing at his scar. "Blimey. Are you-?" asked the other twin. "He is," said the first twin although still a little doubtful, turned to Harry, "Aren't you Harry Potter?"with the final two words being said by both twins simultaneously before getting his answer a moment later. "Yes I am" Harry said before another voice came in, "So you've finally met Harry Potter then?" asked Mr Jordon. "You know him then" asked the second twin as the two twins turned to the former teacher of Harry Potter. "Yes" replied Mr Jordon simply. "Who are you then?" asked the first twin. "His former primary school teacher but other than that you do not need to know who I am yet" was the slightly cryptic response from Harry's former teacher. "Well are you a muggle who's got a kid wizard or witch then?" asked the second twin. "No but I hate talking about blood status because it just leads all kinds of trouble. That and I prefer to live in that world anyway. Sound reasonable to you?" he responded. The twins nodded before their mum called them over to her, "Fred, George, where are you?" and they responded "Coming Mum" before Mr Jordon went "Fred and George eh? Nice to meet you" and then they left leaving just Mr Jordon and Harry there. "Harry, I've got some stuff for you" handing Harry a package with the exact same contents as what he put into Holly and Rose's packages; a diary, cassette with tapes and some excellent chocolate.

"There is one other thing" continued Mr Jordon after a moment, "I've already said to Rose and Holly," in quiet tone, "but you can now call me, Sam or Samuel." Harry became surprised at this, "Are you sure, S-Sam?" Samuel smiled at his nervousness, "Yes I'm sure. Your sisters have already got used to it." At this statement, Harry relaxed a bit, "I think I can get used to it if they did" then Sam spoke, "Good. Your remaining siblings will also be able to call me by my first name but only after leaving primary school. Speaking of which after this year, I'm not going to be there and I already explained it to Holly and Rose. They'll be able to tell you why."

Before they could continue their discussion, they saw and overheard the twins return to their mother and their other siblings. The mother had just taken a handkerchief out and turned towards the youngest boy, "Ron, you've got something on your nose." The young boy tried to get away from it but failed to and she grabbed him and began rubbing the end of his nose, "Mum, geroff" he said to no avail. The twins decided to tease him, "Aaah, has ickle Ronnie got somefink on his nosie?" said the first twin and unbeknownst to them, Harry and Sam sniggering in the background. "Shut up" replied Ron before the topic turned to the oldest brother. "Where's Percy" the mother asked. "He's coming now." The oldest boy had already changed into his Hogwarts uniform as he strode into sight and Harry noticed a shiny red and gold badge with the letter P on it, displayed on his chest. He spoke, "Can't stay long Mother. I'm up front as Prefects have got two compartments to themselves-" and he then got interrupted. "Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" asked one of the twins before continuing, "You should have said something, we had no idea." "Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin with a look that said 'I'm going to prank you later', "Once-" "Or twice" "A minute-" "All summer-" the twins said back and forth to the oldest brother and to each other. The back and forth was stopped when Percy calmly said "Shut up" to the annoying twins although Harry found them hilarious. "How come Percy gets new robes, anyway?" asked one of the twins to their mother. "Because he's a prefect said the mother of all those kids fondly before addressing Percy, "All right, dear, well, have a good term- send me an owl when you get there and keep an eye on them two" indicating the twins. She then kissed Percy on the cheek and let him go so he could get on the train before turning to the twins. "Now, you two- behave yourselves this year. I don't want to get another owl telling me you've- you've blown up a toilet." "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Although thanks" "For" "The idea." "It's not funny. And look after Ron. Although why I'm asking you two I have no idea." "Don't worry, ickle Ronniekins is safe with us." "That's exactly what I'm worried about" said their mother. "Don't worry, he'll be safe with us." "Shut up" Ron said again. Harry noticed the height of the youngest boy was almost that of the twins while also noticing the pink on his nose from where it had rubbed by the mother of all those redheads. Then the topic he realised was moving to him.

"Hey Mum, guess what?" asked one of the twins, "Guess who we just met on the train?" Harry could see the pretty red headed girl wanting to find out who he was but keeping quiet. "You know that black-haired boy who was near us in the station? Know who he is?" asked the other twin. "Who?" asked one of the others. "Harry Potter!" said both the twins together. "What? Really?" asked the girl. The twins nodded and the girl turned towards her mother. "Oh Mum, can I go on the train and see him. Mum, oh please..." "You've already seen him Ginny and the poor boy isn't something you goggle at in a zoo." Harry had somehow managed to hear this bit of talking a bit more clearly than the rest due to thinning crowds at the back of the train, "she can goggle at me all she wants" talking to himself about the beautiful red headed girl. Mr Jordon had heard this and briefly forgot his own position on matters such as these, knowing, that Harry had unwittingly implied something that should've been said when he was a lot older, "HARRY" he said with shock. "What?" Samuel then remembered his viewpoint and just said, "Oh never mind" and the matter was forgotten for several years until Harry's sixth year. They then continued to listen in on the conversation, "Is he really Fred? How do you know?" asked the red heads mother. "Asked him and we saw the scar. It's really there- like lightning." "Poor dear- no wonder he was alone. I wondered why. He was ever so polite when he asked how to get onto the platform" their mother said. "Although it didn't really matter once he got onto it" said the other twin. "Why's that?" asked the little girl. "Well apparently his old primary school teacher is a wizard. He's not a muggle but he chose to be around muggles." "Anything else?" asked the mother of the red heads. "Just hates talking about blood status" said the first twin. "Really that's all?" asked the youngest brother sceptically. "Yeah, although something tells me when we see him again he'll tell us more." "Maybe we should meet him but we won't be able to today due to the fact that this train is about leave" said the mother. "Harry, want a Mars bar?" asked Samuel taking out a couple of Mars bars and Harry nodded. Sam then gave a bar to Harry and they both ate up the chocolate bars very quickly and then Samuel decided to give Harry something else. "Harry, tell you what you can have the remaining Mars bars and I did bring lunch with me but I've changed my mind about it so I'm going to get lunch elsewhere, so yeah, you can have this. It is a breakfast sandwich using bits that were left over from our breakfast earlier." "Thanks Mr Jordon. May I ask what's in it?" "Sausages, fried eggs, bacon, hash browns and ketchup and mayo, trust me, it will taste nice. Don't forget that I made so I could have it for my lunch so no complaining." "I wasn't going to complain. I was merely going to ask why don't you add vegetables and fruits to your meals?" asked the boy with the lightning bolt scar. "Harry, I've explained before, it's my life choice. You don't have to agree with it, just accept it. And in any case, I do have them but I like to have them in particular ways. For example I'll have strawberries if they're in a milkshake. Anyway shall we continue to listen in on their conversation?" asked the former teacher of Harry Potter. "Anyway I want to know if he remembers what you know who looks like?" asked one of the twins. Harry and Samuel both suddenly went sombre at the thought and Samuel decided to ask a question, "Do you remember what he looks like?" Harry was startled by the question and needed confirm what his former teacher had asked, "Who? Voldemort?" Samuel nodded and Harry continued, "Maybe. Not the face but I remember someone cloaked bellowing some words with a green light coming out of the wand. And just like..." Harry started to choke up a little but nevertheless continued describing his dreams and the venomous man who was the cause of it. "And just like that... she fell dead. He then turned it on me and the last thing I see is a green light and a flicker of flame and all I see is her body." "Very brave, what you're describing Harry. Not many people would be able to say what they've experienced at all, things like that. Is that all?" Harry wiped his forehead, "There was one other man in my dreams. Always came at the end of my nightmares but he was always blurred in them, all I could say was that he was mostly in black and he would cradle our mum's body before swiftly disappearing" he finished then putting his head in hands and sobbing quietly. "Come here" said Samuel offering Harry a hug, which was accepted. At the same time, the conversation the red heads were continued their conversation, "NO. I forbid you from asking him that question. Don't dare ask him that question because I can think of good ways of punishing you two. As though he needs reminding of that on his first day." Ginny and George then turned in the black haired boy's direction and saw him crying while hugging the former teacher and George went to say, "Whatever objections to that question seems a bit, irrelevant." "What do you mean?" Ginny spoke up, "It seems that despite the noise, they can still hear us fairly well" pointing at their direction. They all looked at the two before George said something, "I think he knew his parents. That and he sees him as some kind of father figure." They all looked in sympathy at the black haired boy then the whistle blew indicating the train was about to leave and the three boys hurried aboard the train. They then leant out the window so that their mother could give them a kiss goodbye and their sister began to cry. Harry and Mr Jordon had in the meantime continued talking once Harry had recovered and when the whistle went Samuel began speaking, "Well Harry, look after yourself. I have to be off now but Holly and Rose should be around." "I will. Where are they anyway?" asked Harry. "Somewhere in the middle of the train but if you don't see them before you'll see them there." "Okay, thanks for the reassurance" Harry said before saying one last thing, "See you around" getting the feeling that their paths would meet again. "See you later. We will meet again" Sam said getting the same feeling and he departed. Harry overheard the last bits of the redhead family's conversation, "Don't cry Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls." "We'll also send you Hogwarts toilet seat." "George!" screamed the red headed mother but bringing a smile in the young girl's face, which made Harry's insides flutter. "I think I want to marry that girl when I'm older" Harry said to himself, feeling like the kid he should've been at the Dursley's. Then the boy replied to his mother, "Only joking." The train began to move, the mother waved her boys goodbye and the little girl ran with the train, half crying, half laughing, trying to keep up but it gathered too much speed for her and she fell back and waved goodbye. Harry just sat peacefully looking out the window, looking at the mother and the pretty girl and all the surroundings. Then the youngest red headed boy entered the compartment, met the arrogant, prejudiced ponce from Diagon Alley and he and the red headed boy formed a friendship that would become legend. A legendary friendship that began with a simple question, "Excuse me, do you mind? Everywhere else is full."

Emma was thinking about how her siblings were doing today and then decided to put it out of her mind. She went downstairs to where the rest of her siblings were. When she got there, she found Lily Alice reading a short book that had lots of quotes from famous figures in muggle history. "I've just found that quote Mr Jordon liked. SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM." Emma didn't know what that meant and had to ask, "Lily, what does that mean?" "It translates as 'If you seek peace, prepare for war.' I don't know the exact meaning but I think it means that if you want peace, be prepared to fight for it." "Hmmm. Thinking about it, the wizarding world never really fought to get its peace, Harry inadvertently did it for them. It was mainly always them responding but never really fighting and then this dark lord decides a kid's got to die and then somehow kills himself in the attack by attacking the kid." "I know what you mean, that bastard Voldemort attacks our brother and bizarrely kills himself in the process. Somehow though I don't think he's dead from what I've read and what little we know about him. He just doesn't seem the kind of person to accept death and would go to any lengths to avoid it" replied Lily Alice to Emma when James and Harry Kaz came in. "What are you two talking about?" asked Harry Kaz. "Voldemort" replied Emma with bitterness in her voice. "You know what, let's change the subject. Who wants to be the one who writes to and gets the letters from Harry?" asked James. After a moment, everyone nominated Emma and later got the first letter from Harry who had arrived at Hogwarts.

Harry was being led in a crowd of fellow students heading for their first year, waiting to be sorted, when a voice called to him, "Harry? Is that you?" Harry of course knew who the voice belonged to: his sister, Holly. However, he had been told to pretend that she was an old school friend: her and Rose. Thankfully, their sister Beth was really into acting and had given the three of them lessons although they had to improvise due to a lack of props. Harry then turned to face his triplet sisters, "Hi Holly, Rose. Long time, no see." Ron looked surprised, "You know these two, Harry?" "Yeah, I went to primary school with them" Harry said and Ron turned to them, "I'm guessing you're muggleborns then?" Rose decided to respond to the red headed boy, "No, we're half bloods. Our family does prefer the muggle world though, more modern, more sports and more things to do." The blond haired ponce known as Draco Malfoy decided to speak, "What are you talking about? We're superior to muggles in every way." "It would be very presumptuous to think that you know. Muggles have weapons that could destroy the magical world and they're more imaginative than the wizarding world" Holly shot back. Before the argument could spiral out of control, they were called to their sorting.

"Well, well, well. This is difficult; I see lots of courage in that head of yours. That would suit Gryffindor very nicely indeed. Oh but it seems Harry Potter has secret brothers and sisters. I do look forward to meeting them next year but I also see that you're keeping this from everybody. Also hiding the two sisters who I can tell are here from your head. Such mistrust, definitely a Slytherin trait, a very Slytherin trait." Harry grimaced in his head, "Well I want to trust someone, I really do but it's important. Hagrid said and..." "Yes, you want to protect those siblings of yours still at your home" replied the sorting hat. Harry then grumbled, "Well, I would consider that I lived there but I wouldn't call it a true home" not realising he had interrupted the hat. "If I can continue, I was saying, very loyal to your friends and siblings so Hufflepuff would be good for you, especially as they value trust. I also sense a strong drive to learn about defence, very strong drive at that. The Ravenclaws could help with that. You could belong to any of the houses, you know." "Well I'd rather not go to Slytherin if that's ok. I don't like the type of people they attract." "Yes I can see that, you're not afraid to challenge people but you only do so to aid and protect those you care about, especially those siblings of yours still at your residence. You might have been good for Slytherin but Slytherin would not be good for you. On a separate note, not all Slytherin's are like the Malfoy boy, some are merely ambitious but they are not into the arguments about blood. While your loyalty to your sister is admirable, it is far outweighed by your drive for knowledge and your courage, so Hufflepuff is out. However the loyalty you show to the people close to you is astonishing, perhaps due to your teacher from that muggle primary school." "I want to learn to protect my brothers and sisters, that is the extent of my drive although my teacher helped nurture that drive. He also showed us loyalty." "It is indeed quite a drive that you've got there. It won't be easy but you have more than enough courage to persevere, Harry Potter." Speaking the last word simultaneously out loud to the crowds and inside Harry's head, it told Harry, "Enjoy the house of GRYFINNDOR!". Harry sat down at the Gryffindor table alongside the older Weasley's and Holly and Rose who were talking to Hermione Granger. She had thoroughly annoyed Harry and Ron on the train but got on with Holly and Rose who were fascinated by the girl, namely the fact she was a walking library and yet was unable to acknowledge that fact. They were also astounded by she was able to grasp magic very quickly, although they later found out that she had known about it for nearly a year and as it turned out she would in fact be having her twelfth birthday in over a week. The opening day impressions between Harry and Ron and Hermione would not change for nearly two months.

Later that evening, Harry would write his first letter home while no one was looking and once it was completed, it was given to Hedwig and sent to Emma.

Emma was lying on her bed when Hedwig came through the window, exhausted. Hedwig held her leg out to show the letter sent by Harry, which Emma collected. Hedwig then flew up to the owl perch where she fell asleep for a short while. Emma then unrolled the letter retrieved from Hedwig's leg and began to read.

01/09/91

Dear Emma, Lily, Beth, James, Michael, James Jack and Harry Kaz

I'm at the school now. I've reunited with Rose and Holly who are definitely looking a lot better than me. Samuel has really taken care of them over the past couple of days and apparently they've been having really good fun although they didn't tell me what they did. I'm guessing they'll tell me at some point.

So yeah, where was I, oh yeah, I'm at the school now although I'm pretty sure you knew that. Turns out the train left from a secret magical platform. I did find that surprising although I still am new to the wizarding world. Luckily, I did find a wizarding family who showed me how to pass through a magical barrier, which hid the platform. The family were all redheads and there was a young girl about your age Emma because I'll assume that you're reading this first ahead of the others. I thought she was the most beautiful girl ever and I hope this is not just a crush because I would want to go out with her. Anyway, the family has a boy my age, Ron Weasley, he doesn't have a lot of money so when the trolley came so I got us a ton of sweets. Next year, when you get something from the trolley, don't ask for Mars bars or in fact any other muggle sweet as the woman who does not know about them so probably better get some beforehand. But talking about the sweets, it's amazing what we can do now due to the money that we have, they're not ordinary sweet either although you probably gathered that by the sentence before. Bertie Bott's every flavour beans (they really mean every flavour, some were unpleasant which is probably an understatement, and one was definitely tripe, yuk!) Chocolate Frogs (They aren't real frogs although they act as though they are, even jumped out the window) they come with cards of famous witches and wizards.

I don't if you remember me telling you all about the utterly arrogant blonde boy I met in Diagon alley. He showed up and acted all self important (I'm probably going to get quite a lot of him for a few years yet), he insulted Ron and then one of his goons (I call them goons, not friends as friends would be interested in what their friends thought even though I'm guessing that they think along similar lines) tried to nick one of our sweets but Ron's pet rat bit his finger. After that, they all ran off. The self important git who believes he is superior to everyone else is named Draco Malfoy, Ron said that family supported Voldemort but came back to our side. But Ron's says his Dad reckons it was all a farce ( And I'm just saying on record that I wouldn't blame him for thinking that). Anyway, Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle (the two goons) all ended up in Slytherin House (not surprised at all given their attitude). Me and Ron ended up in Gryffindor, there is more on the houses in Hogwarts a History if you want to know more about the character traits for those houses.

All of Ron's family were or are in Gryffindor, he's got 5 older brothers and a younger sister, who I think I've already talked about (I think she's about your ages and will be going to Hogwarts next year although I have no idea, I'm literally just guessing. Besides I didn't want to ask too personal a question, especially since everyone thinks I'm an only child. Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise too early, would I?) But yeah all of them sound really cool in their own ways. Ron's elder twin brothers are in their third year now and apparently, they are jokesters notorious throughout school apparently, and Percy is a prefect and is in his 5th year, and unlike Ron or the Twins, he's not as... well... fun. I do think he is a good person though, maybe stubborn and overly rule conscious but well... (Definitely a person you would want to hang out with then Emma ;)

I'm in my Dormitory now, I'm sharing it with the other Gryffindor first years, there are five of us: me, Ron, Neville Longbottom, Seamus Finnegan and Dean Thomas. I haven't gotten to know anyone apart Ron yet but Neville and I have actually exchanged words though we first spoke on the train and had lost his toad for I think was the second time today. He is a bit shy but he seems to be a good person (he actually reminds me a bit of you, Emma, I almost told that to his face, this secrecy will take time to get used to, I'm really not liking it at all, neither are Holly or Rose), Dean and Seamus I don't know much about yet. I don't really know the girls in our year that well either yet, SERIOUSLY, I know even less about them than I do about the boys in my year and I know Holly and Rose incredibly well. Though I did meet this girl called Hermione (I hope I spelt it right otherwise she'd lynch me and then hang me, not that she'll ever see this letter) Granger. She's a bit of book worm (Definitely your kind of person then, both of you, Emma and Lily), when I introduced myself, she named every book she's read with my name in it. Believe me, she's read a lot. I think she's the sort of person you need to get used to in order to like, which Ron doesn't seem to be able to do. At least she's not the kind of person you would want to punch within 2 minutes of your first meeting.

By the way, something strange happened at dinner. I told Holly and Rose and they were both disturbed by this especially as what happened to me also subtlety happened to them. One of the teachers gave me a funny look and the scar on my forehead twinged in pain. I did ask Holly and Rose later and they said they felt something in a scar that wasn't there. I don't know what happened but I asked Ron's brothers. The guy's name is Snape, apparently he doesn't like anyone other than the Slytherins, he's their head of house. I have a suspicion he's the cause of the pain in my scar but for some reason Holly and Rose disagree with my suspicion and suspect professor Quirrell but let's see, shall we? But unfortunately, Snape is the potions teacher and since I gave you those potions books, Emma, so yeah if any of you end up in any other house other than Slytherin, then that book will be your best friend in that class. Thinking about it, I probably should have all got you the same books for your birthdays but it then would have been suspicious even not for the reason that would make people think I would be mad. Still maybe he won't be that bad, I hope. I'll find out on Friday and let you know.

Also if you're wondering who Samuel is it's our teacher.

I love you and I miss you.

Harry

XXXX

Emma smiled as she read her brother's letter; she had woken up to Hedwig tapping on the windowsill, the poor girl looked exhausted and must have flown extra hard to here so quickly. However she looked like she was in high spirits.

"Thank you Hedwig. I'll get you some water and an owl treat" said Emma and while Lily Alice kept Hedwig company while she was resting, Emma got a bowl and filled it with water and got a couple of crumbs of bread before returning upstairs to her room. She then gave Hedwig the water and bread before attempting to find one of the packets of owl treats that Harry, Holly and Rose had left.

Hedwig then had post-delivery her feast before falling asleep on the owl perch. "So Lily what do you think about the letter? I'm going to respond shortly so I'd like to hear what you all have to say" Emma said after Lily Alice read the letter. "Well before we do that, what about that owl over there?" she said, gesturing to the strange looking bird. Emma noticed that it was carrying a letter and went to retrieve it. They both read it once Emma had opened it and it read;

To the Potters

I'm going to guess Harry has told you my name, so please tell him that I forgot to say not to say my name to you until he returned from Hogwarts. Also tell him to expect a pranking at some point when he returns from Hogwarts. But enough of that, the bird that has appeared in your room, it is a fire phoenix.

I will see you next week. Be ready for your last year of primary.

From Mr Samuel Jordon

P.S. the fire phoenix will disappear once all of you have read this letter so stick around if you all want a show.

Emma went down and got the remaining siblings from their basement living space, if you could call it living space. Space for only two people was instead being used by 4 when all the potters were there. Emma and the remaining sibling's returned to her room and after they had all finished reading it and talking about it for the moment, they witnessed a spectacular scene involving fire, flashes, smoke and what seemed to be virtual fireworks.

"Well, that was amazing" James Jack said and the others nodded. After talking about the letter again, the six siblings left the room so Emma could write her response. She then spent most of the day reading her potions book when she decided that the response didn't need to be written until a bit later. None of them were excited about this Snape character but they decided that even if he wasn't a help that they would find potions books a real help. This would become a recurring group talk subject over the coming weeks only to be interrupted by the incident at the end of October, at the same time of the formation of what would be first called 'the golden five'. Emma also decided to look up on the four houses in the Hogwarts book, 'Hogwarts, A History'.

It was only after that she wrote a response, she knew it would not be as exciting but continued regardless and put her heart and soul into it. The Potter brothers and Sisters had dinner in their downstairs hideaway when Emma came down to join them. "What's up Em? Is the response nearly ready?" asked Harry Kaz. Michael nodded as if to reaffirm the question. "Don't worry. It's nearly there, just a few details and the letter should be done" Emma responded. "We don't want to keep Harry waiting do we?" said Beth with a cheeky glint in her eye. This was not noticed by any of the others because the response from Emma was, "No, we don't." James added immediately, "Plus we probably should ask him to see if he can get food for us," he continued in a loud whisper, "I don't expect our relatives to continue giving us the amount of food they do." "I agree. This won't last at all, so we need... insurance" said James Jack in agreement. They continued eating their dinner with them talking to each other in hushed whispers, talking about how they would cope without their older brother and sisters.

In the corner of his eye, James noticed a bag underneath one of the beds and went to get it and saw that Holly had left it behind. He saw a note written by her which said, 'Here's a few days worth of Muggle money for each of you, should a crisis ever happen. Love from your older sister Holly' and James had to laugh internally. "The sneaky bitch has managed to this one right under our noses" said James to himself, a huge grin on his face, making the declaration to the others as he repeated himself to them. Not a prank, just being really sneaky about it. Little did they know that starvation would be the least of their problems.

Emma finished writing her letter to Harry, once she returned to her room and cleaned up her plate. "Hedwig, when you feel up to it, could you take this letter to our brother?" asked Emma. As soon as she finished asking, the snowy white owl came down from her perch and landed on the desk, held out her leg waiting for Emma to attach the Letter to her leg. Emma giggled, "You're a credit to your race. Please give Harry all our love." Emma watched as Hedwig gracefully flew away into the night.

"Ah, mail's here" said Ron before resuming digging into his breakfast.

Harry saw Hedwig approach him from amongst the different owls approaching the various house tables and this was witnessed by Holly and Rose. They had come to an agreement which meant Harry got all the letters and he pass on the messages to them. They had only been at Hogwarts for 2 nights and there had already been a reply from their family back at privet drive. Well not the Dursleys anyhow.

02/09/91

Dear Harry

Hogwarts sound great, we were all talking about it earlier and we're all sure that if you tried describing how great it was, you would run out of parchment. I'll see it for myself next year as will the others. Things with the Dursleys are working out fine for now although all of us agree that this ceasefire will not work forever but forever for now, they seem to be ignoring us which is the nicest they've ever been but considering what Uncle Vernon did to you the other day, well... and it's still a little lonely even with brothers and sisters. Also it seems that the school finished refurbishment earlier than expected so technically we start tomorrow but fully start the day after tomorrow. It should be a lot easier than last year now that Dudley is out of the way and any parties we have at school now should have a lot of food. Me and Lily looked up the houses in the book you gave us and we all think you three are in the right house, namely down to your personalities which despite some significant differences in the three of you would all make good fits for that house. We've all agreed that we want to be in Gryffindor even if it was just so we could be near you but we've also agreed that there's no one more brave than you. I, myself, am hoping that I'm good enough to enter that house. Even if this Snape turns out to be a bad teacher, the book you gave me should be a very good teacher for me and the others. I would even recommend you go to the library at Hogwarts, which is meant to be quite expansive, and get it.

Also I got a note from Mr Jordon saying he knows about the letter you sent to us and you mentioning his first name and even he freely admitted that he forgot to tell you not to tell us, he still does plan on pranking you.

I hope your classes go well, I really, really miss you. We all do.

With Love from

Emma

P.S. all your letters will come to me regardless of the name as I was selected by the others to get them.

XXXX

Harry smiled as he read his first letter from his sister. He was drinking some pumpkin juice from a goblet and was folding up his letter when a voice came from behind him, "With love from... Who is sending love in a letter to Harry Potter?" asked Hermione with Holly and Rose doing a little bit of acting, schooling their expressions to show curiosity rather than worry. They were worried that some information that did not need to be revealed would get revealed. They got lucky as their names were not mentioned nor the fact they were two of the sisters of Harry Potter.

"Hey, it's rude to read over peoples shoulders, you know" snapped Harry and Holly and Rose didn't like where this was heading. Harry was tense, they observed, but not for the reasons Hermione was thinking of.

"Ooh, is it a girl from back home?" asked Hermione. She was facing an increasingly hostile reception, especially from Ron.

"Sheesh, and you call us rude and childish. Leave him alone, it's his letter, his business. Go bother someone who likes you" Ron said rather harshly. Hermione went off in a huff and Holly and Rose decided not to get involved with the spat that involved Harry, Ron and Hermione and Ron didn't know that the last thing he said there had stung. Hermione went to Holly and Rose and asked, "Are those two jerks always like that?" although it was more of a question to herself really. "We're not getting involved" said Rose and just like that Hermione went off in a huff again, frustrated.

If Ron wasn't so annoyed with Hermione, he might have asked Harry about the letter himself, but by the time Hermione was out of his system, Harry had put the letter in his pocket and Ron himself had forgotten all about it until after Halloween.

From then on, Harry opened all his letters from Emma in private and showed them to Rose and Holly whenever there were no prying eyes around.

06/09/91

Dear Emma

Hermione tried to read the letter you sent us but all she managed to get was the "with love from" bit but thankfully she didn't see your name. Bad news is she now thinks I have a girlfriend, feel free to laugh at that. Before you ask, no she doesn't know about Rose or Holly being my or by extension our sisters.

Anyway We had our first potions lesson today and I can tell you he is more foul than the vast majority of our primary school teachers excluding obviously you know who, who happens to still be my favourite. He really seems to hate me in particular, Snape that is not Samuel, I think that me and him have some sort of connection which I'm not aware of yet. Hagrid has denied any knowledge of such a connection, or any other kind of connection for that matter, but I think he was holding back something so...

In other news, apparently Gringotts was broken into the day me, Hagrid, Mr Jordon, his girlfriend, Holly and Rose were there. Once again, I believe Hagrid knows something about it and Holly and Rose concur. Simply, let me put it this way, things aren't boring around here, that I can assure you. How has school been, any improvements?

We've decided to read your letters in private.

Love

Harry

xxx

Emma and Lily Alice read the letter and went downstairs to show the letter their other siblings. Harry Kaz showed lots of concern about this Professor Snape, "I don't like the sound of him. What could he possibly have against us?" and James Jack nodded his head slowly, his face wearing a frown. "I can only guess some past encounter with either one or both our parents. Does Harry know how old he is because in one of Mr Jordon's books, there is a section about notable people involved in the war and the last three pages in the book all relate to our family and mentions their birthdays in it. I'm wondering whether he was a student or teacher because, let's face it, we have no idea how old he is or who he fought for in that last wizarding war" he finished saying his piece and there was a few seconds silence before someone spoke. "How do you know this? And I don't recall either of got a book on the history of the war that ended" asked Lily Alice. "Michael lent us a book to read because we were tired of reading about defence all the time. Besides we found it to be quite informative especially some hints about Professor Dumbledore's past and I read a quote from it that stated that Dumbledore had some history with the dark lord Grindelwald before Dumbledore defeated him" replied Harry Kaz. "And what does it say?" asked Michael sceptically but not entirely sceptical. "Let's just say they used to be very friendly, even shared some of the ideology" James Jack said in response. Harry Kaz continued, "This did include thoughts about excluding muggleborns and in light of this information, I am more willing to follow Mr Jordon's point of view. However until we know someone that lived in that period, we should keep our minds open." They just had their dinners and then Emma went to sleep for a little while before having to woken up so she could write her response to Harry but before she went back upstairs, Beth, Michael and Lily Alice complimented Emma on her actions that day. "Nice work earlier" "Yeah, the way you handled Peri Polkiss earlier was just fucking fantastic" "Shame that you got in trouble with the teachers when the bitch told a teacher." Emma just smiled, "Yeah, I got in trouble for something she started. Still at least it looks like Mr Jordon believes me although I do believe he was trying to restrain many of the teachers' demands as well as those of the parents of the bitch and our own uncle."

"I wonder why Aunt Petunia didn't speak up though?" asked Beth. Michael scoffed at this, "Probably because she agrees with the fat bastard" saying the last part in a voice no louder than a whisper. Little did they know that an incident occurred several years ago which was really traumatic for at least two people involved. "Anyway, it doesn't matter now and I have to put up the consequences. Besides I've got a reply to send" and with that she went upstairs. "Mr Jordon does seem to be going out of his way to make this year the most important yet. I wonder why?" asked Lily Alice before a voice from outside the room entered the discussion. "Well I don't know why but I'm getting the feeling that we'll find out in the next few weeks although it is possible that Harry, Holly and Rose know what we want to know. Anyway I just came in here for a book." As it turned out the voice was James' and he immediately found what he was looking for, a book titled 'Dark wizarding groups and their history' and found another one that he decided to read up on as well called 'Wizarding conflicts from 1066- the present day and other events' and turned to leave but had one last thing to say before he left the room. "Whatever happens in the coming months, I don't think we're not going to like it" and just like that he left. Nothing could have prepared them for what would come in the future.

Emma returned upstairs to write her letter to Harry and attached it to Hedwig before falling asleep on her bed, forgetting to change into her pyjamas. Hedwig stayed for a moment, watching over her master's sister before departing for Hogwarts to deliver the letter to her master.

It was in the Gryffindor boy's dormitory the next day when Harry received Emma's letter. He summed up the contents of it quickly and put the letter into a pocket in his robes, intending to read it in full later when it would just be Holly, Rose and himself around.

It was late at night in the Gryffindor common room when the triplets met up to read their sister's letter. They smiled at some of it, frowned at other bits of it but just read on, soaking up all that it said.

07/09/91

Dear Brother of mine (and the two pranksters if they're reading this with you)

You would be extremely proud of me after what happened on the first day back at school. The school bitch Peri Polkiss came to me during lunchtime and went on at me for crying, which I guess she overheard Dudley and Piers talking about me crying one day (Well for excuse me for missing my brother and sisters) and she was giving me grief over it. Well as it turns out anger is a very good motivator and that being upset is a good fuel for anger. We both know that she is over a foot taller than me, us Potters and the short gene or lack of food whatever it is, well it took less than ten seconds and I didn't receive a mark. Peri Polkiss on the other hand...

Revenge doesn't solve anything, I know that but it bloody felt good. She called me a cry baby but by the way she was crying after I had finished with her, it was just pathetic. All that squealing, pathetic. Unfortunately, the school told Vernon and although Mr Jordon tried to intervene on my behalf, he had to do something about it. I have some punishments at school such as only one serving of lunch and no deserts but it seems he found some loopholes i.e. letting me have a bigger plate. I do also have to spend an hour after school with him in detention but hey it at least needs to look like I'm getting punished for something she started. She didn't get out of it either and was made to do a lot more detentions and she has a lot more reduced lunches. Anyway Vernon gave me a right talking to, well yelling more like it but it was more restrained than before you left. Good news is that I think he is scared of us at the moment especially since he doesn't know we can't do magic at home but he just sent me to my room until dinner because he is still cautious. I'm just thinking it's best to avoid him for a while, he's still scary we've all agreed but while we know you three have got our backs, we don't want to play the Hagrid card just yet even though we all want to see more transfiguration. When we need to play the Hagrid card, we'll play it.

We still hate it here but at least we're still getting three proper sized meals and things aren't as bad as they used to be. We just don't know how long this state of affairs will last though.

Lots of Love

Emma, the actress, the historian, the fighting ninjas, little miss quiet and family historian

(Or if you want, me, Beth, James, Harry Kaz, James Jack Paz, Lily Alice and Michael)

XXX

The three siblings smiled at the letter then frowned for a moment before smiling again. They were just finding that fun, just like their siblings. Fun when they have no worries which was paradoxical to what was in the letter. The three Potters decided to just keep sending letters to make sure that the rest of their siblings were alright where they were until they got back to Private drive.

It was several weeks later when the next significant conversation by letter took place. In the meantime Harry had received a letter from his former teacher at the end of September. It was given to him by Holly and Rose whom had already read the letter. It said:

Dear Harry, Holly and Rose

How are you three? Just letting you know that your other brothers and sisters are doing well although they've probably told you this themselves. The other bit of news to tell you is that I'm already working on your birthday presents for next year, you'll be shocked by them, that I guarantee.

Your former teacher etc

Samuel Jordon

Then in the second half of October, Malfoy challenged Harry to a duel before tipping off the school caretaker to the said duel. Harry and Ron were followed by Hermione even though they had all been warned by Holly and Rose who later said, "I'm surprised that those two"referring to Harry and Ron, "don't get along with her. They're as stubborn as mules." Clearly both of them thought that they would become very good friends.

The following day Harry wrote his letter to Emma which was received by her later that day.

20/10/91

Dear Emma

You won't believe what's happened to me. Malfoy challenged me to a duel at midnight in the trophy room. Can you guess what happens next? The git tipped off filch to the duel which he challenged me to and me, Ron and Hermione, who tagged along trying to stop us from going to the duel, and Neville, who was stuck outside the fat lady portrait because he forgot the password. Anyway we ran for it and ended up in the forbidden third floor corridor, did I tell you about that? Because I've forgotten if I did but anyway, the point is it's forbidden, restricted and so on and now we know why. There was a huge three headed dog. I am not joking. We then had to run for it again, and thankfully no one saw us. Apart from Holly once we got into the common room, and was looking at me, Ron and Hermione (not Neville) with a look that said, 'told you three so'.

Anyway Neville is still terrified and Hermione is not talking to us. That's fine with us though, she may not be trying to invade my privacy so much anymore but she is a bossy girl, drives me and Ron crazy. Holly and Rose get on with her though.

Anyway I've got some great news for you all. We were having a flying lesson, the day before we faced the Cerberus, and Neville got injured in the lesson. He was taken to the hospital wing and then Malfoy took Neville's rememberall, flew up and I followed him, don't ask me why. Holly followed after us, trying to calm the situation but that failed and Malfoy threw the thing god knows how far and I chased after it, yes I know that was stupid of me. This leads onto what I'm about to say, we were told not to but some funny things happened while I was chasing the useless object, Holly got really angry at Malfoy and seemed to have thrown both him, and the broom he was on, into the ground. Let's just say the broom was pretty much fine, him on the hand...

A few broken bones and those injuries made worse by Holly kicking those injured areas.

Next thing that happened McGonagall took me to see the quidditch captain. His name is Oliver Wood and when I first heard the name 'wood', I thought that it was some kind of cane, turns out it was a person. Anyway I'm Gryfinndor's new seeker and it turns out Holly and Rose are just as good, if not better. Holly and Rose as it turns out are good at nearly everything especially at the chaser and beater positions but yeah they're good all round players from what Wood says. They're the reserves for at least three of the positions as all the other positions were filled a couple of weeks ago. Turns out that George and Fred (They're Ron's older brothers, who also happen to be twins) and Holly and Rose share a fair bit in common, including quidditch and pulling pranks although the methods differ. In this world of ours, Holly and Rose are more subtle in comparison and they attribute it to Mr Jordon. Seems he knew a bunch of very good prankers a fair few years ago, whoever they are, I wonder if they knew our Dad or even if they're still alive themselves. Anyway, back to the topic, yeah I didn't get into trouble and I have effectively been given the starring role for the quidditch team. It seems Dad was a star quidditch player when he was here apparently. Said that I seem to have inherited his talent, so I'm guessing that he was either a seeker or a chaser but McGonagall seems to have forgotten the fact that contrary to everyone's beliefs that I am not an only child, therefore I'm guessing it's been a while since she saw us all together. I might have to ask her about that when I think about it. Trust me, there is no greater thrill than flying so when I finally get the opportunity to teach you lot, I'm going to teach you. The sense of freedom when flying is just amazing, the joy is unbelievable, I've never felt anything like it in my whole life.

Anyway Holly and Rose miss you all as do I, We can't believe it's been over a month already as it feels a lot longer. Anyway, I have to go now, Ron and I have been neglecting our homework and we have to get some stuff done or we'll get ourselves a detention.

Love from

Harry

XXXX

Emma sighed and showed James the letter. For the remaining seven Potters still at privet drive, things had adjusted around them. The Dursleys were still apprehensive around them but things had returned to a system roughly like that before Harry's birthday. The Potter's were once again expected to multiple chores while Dudley lazed about in front of the T.V. and was still treated like a prince when he should have been treated like a slob.

Emma was now expected to do handle all the cooking along with Lily Alice, except when they were at school, the Potter boys were to do various chores including garden work and heavy lifting that would have been impossible for normal boys but then the Potter boys were never normal boys. As for Beth she was made to clean the kitchen and bathroom although she would assist the others if she had completed her tasks, not because she had to but because she wanted to assist the others when she felt that they needed the assistance. This didn't bother them too much because as in their spare time. They read their books or thanks to Harry, Holly and Rose, well, Holly and Rose as Harry was not aware of the fact that they could get muggle money from Gringotts until after they had got back to private drive, they could go off and get some food from local fast food places, especially since that they didn't trust Aunt Petunia's cooking and the portions of food they got out were much bigger than what they received at home... and nicer.

When Emma started cooking again, she and Aunt Petunia had a mild face off although the argument seemed forced on Petunia's end.

"What makes you think you deserve so much food?" she asked when Emma did the job she always did: divide the portions of food onto the plates.

Beth was watching the scene before her with some concern. She had only come up because Lily Alice was rubbing some tension out of her system and Beth was reminded of times when she had come across Harry doing a similar action. Beth had only wanted to see if Emma needed any help.

Emma turned and glared at her aunt, her eyes like her father's and a smirk like his but looking at her aunt like her mother, "You know, I've always wanted to see what a wild boar looks like, I wonder if Mr. Hagrid would mind practising on Dudley."

Petunia reluctantly glared at Emma and walked out of the room to summon her husband and son. She didn't try challenging her niece anytime soon.

Beth walked up to Emma, who was still unaware of Beth's presence, and asked, "How are things?" Emma jumped, "Jesus Christ Beth, don't do that. I was just about to pick up a knife." "Sorry, I have just seen that, Right?" "Yeah. I think we can send a letter to Harry just letting him know the situation." Beth just nodded in agreement before switching topics, "I've just been thinking about the other day." Emma had also thought about it in the past few days, "That was an interesting day. At first I thought it was one of us thinking very protectively of her but I quickly thought that it was Julia herself who was doing all that." "No non-magical person should've been able to demolish parts of buildings that easily. We should see if Mr Jordon knows that she is a witch. He knew we were witches and wizards, although he was there at our births so he would be able to identify magical and non-magical people" concluded Beth. After the Potters had finished dinner, they all left for their respective rooms. Emma went to hers whilst Beth was heading to her room and past Lily Alice who was now helping James rub off some tension. Emma had finished writing her letter to Harry and had sent it to him.

25/10/91

Dear Harry

Our Aunt has put me on cooking duty again, I would say it was nice to have a break from cooking for a few months but after eating the food she's been cooking, it is such an improvement. They still don't like the fact that we have a lot a more food than we used to but they're still scared about magic so they aren't doing anything about it yet. However, we have started eating our dinners in our respective rooms as we're sick of Uncle Vernon sneering at us. I am thinking of cooking only healthy meals from now on out of spite but it's a pity Aunt Petunia does all the shopping.

We can't believe you faced a Cerberus and please, DO NOT go near it again. We do want to see you again and we all want to hug you when you get back. We definitely can't do so if you're dead. As for the Quidditch, well done all three of you. We can't wait to get the chance to ride brooms for the first time. Then we'll all be real witches and wizards. Also, on a side note, me and James went to the nearest library and read up on the legend of the basilisk. Just thought you'd like to know.

The other thing is about your letters it sounds like Hermione is concerned about you. It also sounds like she gets on better with Holly and Rose. Please try and make some kind of peace with her, both you and Ron. I know you probably won't make her a future Mrs. Potter but at least try and be civil with each other. It seems from your letters that not everyone is like that (you know what I mean, most people are civil but some aren't) and if you continue like this then you'll be a massive hypocrite. And be kind to this Neville person too, he sounds like he could do with a hug, although he could probably use a friend at the moment.

Our scolding over, we love you but we think you know that by now.

Emma

XXXX

Harry looked at the letter, which he planned on showing Holly and Rose later. Today was Halloween and he and Ron were looking forward to the feast later that night. He was thinking about Hermione, Emma and the others were right, she may be irritating but she was only trying to help. He was in his four poster bed reading the letter from Emma. "Hey Harry" called Ron from the other side of the bed curtains, "If you're done napping, come on or we'll be late for charms."

Later there was a charms lesson which ended with Ron commenting about Hermione having no friends to the other first years. Hermione Granger had in fact made a couple of friends but there was a misunderstanding between them. Holly and Rose assumed that Hermione was their friend while Hermione thought that Holly and Rose weren't her friends because they hadn't said they were friends. Harry felt really guilty at that point and when he went to the Halloween feast later he really could not enjoy it: First, because he was still feeling guilty about the Hermione situation and second because of the fact he and his siblings lost their parents ten years ago. He was feeling extremely depressed and some of his thoughts were turning towards things he had read in a class trip to the local library. He had snuck into a section which Mr Jordon had prohibited the class from looking at. He had read a book about suicide and even back then when he was unaware of his wizarding heritage. He had sometimes considered doing this just so he could be with his parents but every time he thought that, he remembered that he had brothers and sisters. What he didn't know was that he had survivors guilt, none of them read up on it. He always felt responsible for his and his sibling's parent's deaths regardless of what he had been told. In fact they all had survivor's guilt. It was just Harry that suffered worst from it. He was just getting into the spirit of things when Professor Quirrell ran in yelling about a troll in the dungeons.

Ron and Harry ran off to save Hermione and it was only a moment later when Holly and Rose realised that Harry, Ron and Hermione were nowhere to be seen. "God dammit, I swear those three are made to be the perfect friends for each other" said Holly. Rose responded by saying, "We won't be helping them by getting ourselves into trouble. Hopefully they won't get themselves killed" and they continued following their fellow house mates.

Harry and Ron found where Hermione was by following the troll, which found Hermione and they defeated it, albeit neither tidily nor with grace. Then Professors McGonagall, Snape and Quirrell turned up. Two of them looked like they were going to reprimand the three, the other, well, a nervous mess as per usual. "What on Earth were you thinking? You're lucky you weren't killed. Why aren't you in your dormitory?" screamed McGonagall at the three pupils.

"Please Professor, they were looking for me" said Hermione.

"Miss Granger?"

"I went looking for the troll..." Hermione said thinking that if she took the blame for the two boys who saved her life, she would become their friend. As it would turn out, she would be their friend but not because of her taking the fall.

Harry summoned up his courage and cut her off, Emma nor any of his other siblings would forgive him and let Hermione take the fall like this, "That's not true, Hermione." He would never admit it until a few years later, but he wanted the troll to kill him as he could join his parents. This desire would turn out to be less than desirable for Harry in later years for a number of reasons.

McGonagall rounded on Harry, "Mr Potter, what do you mean?"

The three students started apologising to each other.

"Hermione didn't know about the troll" said Ron, "It's my fault."

"Ron you didn't know that a troll would come here" said Hermione.

"It's still my fault" Ron said, disagreeing with Hermione.

"I'm not entirely blameless either" said Harry, "We probably should've apologised when we left class earlier."

"Would you three kindly explain what you're talking about?" said McGonagall, confused by the three student's conversation.

Harry turned to Ron, who nodded back with some shame on his face, and starting answering their head of house, "Hermione and I had a fall out in charms and she came out of it better. I then commented that she had no friends... sorry about that" finishing with the last part directed at Hermione. Then Harry remembered something, "Hermione, I thought you, Holly and Rose were friends? You three have been hanging around together since we started."

"No they're not. Wouldn't they have said that they were my friends" Hermione said hiccupping and sort of crying. Then Harry realised that Hermione thought that just because Holly and Rose said anything that Hermione thought she didn't have any friends. He decided to leave that issue for another day and back to the issue at hand.

"Anyway where were we?" said Harry. Hermione explained the reason she was there in the first place, "I was so upset by the comments earlier, I've been here since Professor. I haven't left the bathroom."

"We realised that Hermione didn't know about the troll when we were part way up to the tower. We then ran to go and get her but we found that the troll had found her first and... well..."

Professor McGonagall sighed in frustration, students could be troublesome at times, although she didn't expect first years when she first saw the three. "I am disappointed that you would make a remark like that Mr Weasley but considering what has happened... Mr Weasley, 5 points shall be taken from Gryffindor for spiteful remarks against a fellow student and the three of you shall each receive 10 points for... sheer dumb luck. Now I suggest you three reflect on your actions. But first, I think you should return to your dormitory before you get in any more trouble."

The trio made their way to the Gryffindor common room in silence. When they got there, Hermione turned round and said "Thanks", hugged the pair and left for the girls' dormitory. Ron let out a big yawn, "Harry, you coming?" "I'll be up in a moment" said Harry. Once Harry knew everyone was not around to overhear, "Holly, Rose I know you're around here somewhere." From out of the shadows, Holly and Rose appeared, "Do you have a death wish or something?" Holly shout whispered. "No" replied Harry although he was thinking yes. His two sisters were not sure what he was thinking but they weren't convinced by his answer but let it go. "Anyway I'm going to ask the rest of us something important and I want you two to consider it as well because I want to tell two of our friends and I think you two know whom I'm talking about" said Harry and his sister's nodded. "Well, hadn't you better write that letter then?" and Harry smiled then took off to his dorm. "Did you believe him when he said 'No' to our question?" "No. Did You?" "No" "Well let's go up and get some rest, shall we?" and the two sisters went off to bed.

The following day, Emma received the letter from Harry and wrote a simple reply on the back after asking the siblings who were there what Harry had asked her. They all agreed with her.

Harry was eating breakfast, well, attempting to eat breakfast. It was before he was due to go out for his first ever quidditch match and his quidditch teammates tried to get him to eat more of his breakfast than he was eating when Hedwig arrived with the reply. She looked at him with a look of exhaustion due to how often she was being used to send letters back and forth. Harry quickly noticed that the letter sent by Emma was in fact the same one written and sent by him a couple of nights previously with six words written on the back: We say Yes, I love you. Harry smiled and asked Hedwig if she wanted some bacon which she gobbled up. "Aw, that's so sweet. So who's the lucky girl? Or Boy?" asked Hermione. She was looking over his shoulder without asking him if it was okay to first, however, to her surprise, Harry was not angry. Indeed, he was smiling and Hermione was curious and perplexed. He signalled to Holly and Rose telling them to follow him when he got up. He smiled and drunk his orange juice in such a manner that Hermione thought that he might choke. He picked up a few napkins with bits of toast and bacon and sausage being put into the napkin while wolfing down the remaining food on the plate in a way that made Ron proud. He then stood up, he knew he would be needed on the quidditch pitch but that wasn't for an hour. "Ron, Hermione, I need to talk to you now." The two followed Harry out of the great hall though they were unaware they were being trailed by Holly and Rose although Harry knew this of course. They found an empty classroom and Harry, Ron and Hermione entered the room although Harry deferred on closing it until Holly and Rose had entered. "What are they doing here, Harry?" Ron asked a bit more rudely than he meant to be. "I was wondering that Harry?" commented Hermione. "They're here because of what I have to tell you two." There was a momentary pause as Harry collected his thoughts. "There is something I need... No... I want to tell you both something. But you two can't tell anyone because it's a secret." Ron and Hermione looked at him as if he was a bit insane but kept silent then looked at each and because they both wanted to know what was going on, nodded to each other and turned back to Harry.

"Sure Harry" said Hermione. "No problem Harry. Is this about all the letters you keep getting because for someone who has no one he cares about back home, you sure do receive a lot of letters" said Ron, still perplexed by the contradiction that was what was happening and what Harry had said.

"Yes Ron, this is about my letters, or rather, who's been sending them to me" Harry replied with an air of mystery surrounding his reply. Hermione smiled hoping she'd get the answer she was looking for although Holly and Rose were thinking 'She's going to get a major surprise'.

"So, does this mean we get to find out who your girlfriend is?" asked Hermione before full blown laughter by Holly and Rose interrupted the conversation. "Oh Sorry, this rumour is just funny. Anyway continue" said Holly. "As I was asking, do we get to know who your girlfriend is?" asked Hermione repeating her earlier question. "No, it's not my girlfriend. I don't have one, I'm eleven, nor do I plan on having a girlfriend anytime soon" replied Harry even though he was thinking about the redheaded girl from a couple of months earlier.

Hermione frowned, knowing that she was not getting the answer she was expecting and was frustrated with Rose and Holly, who both seemed to know more than they were letting on.

"Are you sure about that, Harry? Most of the girls are convinced that you're exchanging love letters with a Muggle back home"

Harry started to respond, "No, I'm..." before getting sidetracked ever so slightly, "What do you mean?" and Holly then interrupted, "Letting you three know, we're only jumping in when we feel we're needed."

"Not helpful but anyway, Hermione, continue" motioned Harry. "Well Parvati and Lavender have been trying to find out whether or not you have a girlfriend. They've assumed it was someone back in the Muggle world. You've been so secretive with your letters, making sure no one can see them."

"It probably didn't help when the first letter he received, you tried reading it out loud" said Ron. Hermione blushed, realising that she had most likely started the rumours herself of Harry having a love life.

"To answer your question Hermione, no, she is most definitely not my girlfriend. Now I am trusting you both to keep what we're about to talk about a secret."

Ron and Hermione nodded. "We won't tell a soul unless you say we can" Ron said. Hermione followed up by saying, "We promise."

Harry took a deep breath, "Ok" paused then continued, "The name of the girl I've been writing to is Emma. Emma Lily Potter, my little sister." He waited for the inevitable reaction.

Ron and Hermione both looked at him as though he were insane. "No way. You don't have a sister. It's impossible" said Ron. Harry responded, ""I can tell you that I do." "But how?" Hermione asked, "You cannot possibly have a sister, we would have heard of her otherwise."

"Why not? And how would you know anyway if you had?" challenged Harry.

Hermione was trying to figure out what was going on and she realised that she still had not taken into account Holly and Rose. "I'm guessing you two know about this?" Hermione asked the two siblings. "We do, but, it is more complex than you think it is"

Seeing that neither Ron nor Hermione could get much further by questioning Holly or Rose, Harry decided to continue. "There are ten of us, Me, Emma, James, Beth, Michael, Lily Alice, James Jack Paz, Harry Kazuhira and two others. You've actually have met them already" said Harry. Ron then asked, although Hermione was quickly piecing everything that Harry had said together, "Really, I'm sure I would've noticed. It's not like they've gone under an assumed identities."

At this point, Holly and Rose, seeing that Hermione had all but figured out their true identities, decided to speak up. "They would go unnoticed if they were people like us two" Holly said, with Rose nodding behind her. Ron and Hermione both went wide eyed at the revelation, despite Hermione having worked it out. "Yeah, we're his sisters. We are in fact triplets" said Rose.

Everyone who was at the sorting at the start of the year knew that Holly and Rose entered the school as Holly and Rose Jordon, so Ron was trying to figure out why they were saying they were in fact Potters. Hermione was trying to figure out this puzzle as well although she was a bit more believing than Ron was, so the triplets continued their explanations.

"The surname Jordon in fact belonged to our primary school teacher and he was in fact the first wizard we knew in our lives. We however didn't know until after we found out that we were wizards and witches." Harry continued after Rose had finished speaking, "Hagrid knows about them." Whatever Harry was going to say was interrupted by Hermione. "Hagrid knows your brothers and sisters?" Hermione asked. "Yeah. He said, in regards to Harry and Emma, they respectively looked like our Dad and our Mum but their eyes were other way round" said Holly, thinking about what might be happening on private drive.

"Harry, Holly, Rose" began Ron, "If you don't mind me asking who else knows about the ten of you?" Harry took over from this point, "some of our Dad's friends, although one of them might be dead, a previous minister of magic, a person called Crouch, someone named Bones. Hagrid and Samuel spoke very highly of her, from what I heard there was some romantic interest between her and one of Sam's and Dad's friends. Also a person named Professor Bagshot." "You mean the author of 'A History of Magic' and historian?" asked a surprised Hermione. Rose responded very simply, "Yeah."

"Only a handful of people know where we live. With our relatives I might add" Harry said with enough venom in his voice to be noticeable to Ron and Hermione, who decided not to say anything in the meantime. "If you've got any questions, we'll try to answer as best as we can in as little time as possible. I mean, we don't Harry to not be at his first quidditch match and the result being that we lose" said Holly, "So ask away."

"Yeah ok," began Ron, "How come Fudge doesn't know about this?" Harry responded, "Well put it this way, Sam called him 'King of the Morons' and Hagrid called Fudge 'a world class bungler' due to several incidents."

"Yeah, that sounds right. Many people including Dad have problems with Fudge. Apparently receives quite regularly some 'charitable donation' from many 'imperioused' families" Ron said.

Hermione then had a question for the three Potter's, "Why are you three telling us both this?" Harry chose to respond, "Because we trust you both. We felt bad about keeping it from you." Holly spoke up from there, "We also didn't want you to receive the shock everyone else will get next year." Ron was grinning like mad before responding "That will be brilliant. It will be like a shock to the system." Hermione was giggling at the thought of everyone being shocked when all this came out.

As they were getting out of the classroom, Hermione came out with a revelation of her own, "Since you three have said about your brothers and sisters, I thought that I might as well come out and say that I too have a sister." Hermione was nervous about the reaction but she had no reason to be worried. "What's her name?" asked Rose, out of curiosity. "Daisy, Daisy Summer Granger. My little sister. She is also a witch but she is more like you two" pointing at Rose and Holly, "than like me." They went to the quidditch pitch while Harry went to change for what would be his first quidditch match.

It was a while later after Harry had been checked out for any injuries and was given the all clear by Madam Pomfrey. Harry's two sisters had been invited to Romania after the twins had told them, that they had told their mum about the pair and how they wanted them to meet their sister, Ginny, and how their Mum told them about the trip to Romania. The two sisters told them that they would get an answer in the next few days. Now the triplets and their two best friends were heading down to Hagrid's hut, despite the fact it was supposed to be just the triplets, due to some urgent news that needed to be said as quickly as possible.

After Hagrid was assured that Hermione and Ron wouldn't tell a soul, they all sat down for this news. It turned out Hagrid had received a magically altered phone from the triplet's former teacher and it was from him this news was from. The phone was ringing and Harry put it on loudspeaker.

"Harry, Holly and Rose. How are you?" asked Samuel

"We're good" said Harry

"Me and Rose have been invited to Romania. Can and should we go?" asked Holly nervously.

"Yes sure, I'll just make the necessary preparations."

"We brought two of our friends along. Is that okay?" Asked Rose, "We trust them."

"Go right ahead. I was never in favour of the secrecy in the first place. Now are you ready for the news that I've got? It will most likely be distressing."

"Yes" replied the triplets, worry starting to set in their hearts.

"Well, there was a bombing on Halloween night and as a result, Harry Kaz and James Jack Paz have both been seriously wounded" said Samuel in a slightly gravelly voice.

"I don't want to ask but how badly injured are they?" asked Harry, slightly teary eyed.

"Are you sure you want to know? They're not pleasant injuries" replied Samuel

"Yes, we want to know" Holly said fairly loudly which made everyone else in the room jump.

"Fine, okay. Well Harry Kaz has lost an arm and a leg and if your friends think I am being sarcastic, I am not. He was in shock for a couple of days but now I think he wants revenge on whoever did this to the two of them. As for James Jack..." Samuel trailed off.

"What? We don't care what state he's in, we just want to know if he'll recover" said Rose, her voice laden with emotion.

"He has lost his left arm, he has numerous scars and then there's the shrapnel. There are at least 108 foreign bodies in his system although I'm detecting a lot more than what the Muggles can find." Mr Jordon took a couple of deep breaths before resuming.

"The majority of the fragments are located around the heart and in his skull and the skull, which is where the biggest piece of shrapnel is located. It is the most noticeable piece of shrapnel, which some of the doctors have described as looking like a horn."

"What else did they say?" asked Harry, no longer teary eyed but with a look on him that could scare anyone. It was just as well Samuel wasn't there.

"They say that he should physically recover well enough, despite the loss of his left arm, scars, the shrapnel I was talking about and any other disfigurements. His mental state is less assured however. No one will know this until he wakes up, though."

"There's more, isn't there?"Asked Harry.

"Yes. I've moved the two of them somewhere a lot safer. I won't say where but I have people looking over the two of them. Believe me, this place is secure as it can possibly be. I've also got some contingency plans in place, should they be discovered by hostile forces. So before I go, has anyone got any questions?" asked Samuel, sounding like he was in a hurry.

"I've got one" said Hermione, "How come you never told them, that he was wizard in all the years you taught him at primary school?"

"Well I'll answer that question with a question of my own. I'm guessing you're a muggleborns, so I'll get to the point. What was your reaction when you learnt that magic existed?" asked Samuel.

Hermione looked thoughtfully for a moment before responding, "I didn't believe it at first, I thought it was some joke."

"That's my point" said Samuel pausing for a moment then some static cropped up before disappearing and Sam was then able to resume speaking, "Sorry about the static, interference on my end. Anyway from how Harry and his siblings had been raised, they had been taught that magic did not exist. Of course they now know that is as about as true as North Korea claiming to have beaten Portugal in a football world cup match."

"Don't talk about that weird muggle sport, because one of our friends is a half blood and loves that thing" said Ron, banging his head into his hands.

"Oh really? I'll probably meet him one day. Anyway, I've got to go but before I do, Harry, who are your friends? They never said their names" said Samuel.

Harry gestured for Hermione and Ron to say their names, "Hermione Granger" "Ron Weasley" they said.

They were all in for a shock, "Hermione Jean Granger and Ronald Weasley?" asked Mr Jordon. They nervously said yes, wondering how he knew their names.

"I've met you both and your parents years ago, although I've really got to go. Your other brothers and sisters were told the morning after. Bye." And the line went dead.

In the next few moments, the triplets just stared into open space with fire in their eyes.

The next month was then spent with Harry and Emma discussing the situation on private drive

It was Christmas when another major event happened in the life. Hermione, Holly and Rose had left for their respective holidays and Harry had found a mirror. In that mirror, he saw one thing, himself and his brothers and sisters with their parents.

Harry fell to his knees, streams of tears falling down his face, "I remembered what you said to me, all those years ago. I protected them as best as I could, though two of them are badly injured. I hope you can hear this even if you aren't real."

"I'm sure, they know how much you love them" said a voice from behind him. It was Dumbledore.

"I know, it's just I really miss them" Harry said and Dumbledore simply stated," I know. Now Harry do you know what this mirror shows?"

"It shows me, my brothers and sisters and our parents" replied Harry.

"It shows us what we most desire, no more, no less. Now Harry I must ask you not to look for this mirror again. It does not show what want it to show."

"You're wrong professor, it has shown me what I want. I now know what they looked like."

Dumbledore looked startled at this, "Very well Harry, but all the same I must ask you, not to look for it again. Now let's leave this room."

"Alright" Harry said and started walking out of the room but then collapsed crying. "I'm sorry Harry" said Dumbledore softly and led Harry to the hospital wing.

A few days after being released from the hospital wing, Harry picked up a note from Mr Jordon that said, 'when he wakes, the phrase, V has come to will be, to you via your phone.'

A few weeks later, James Jack woke from his coma…