A/N. At Long last the latest chapter of Sins of the Father III. Plus it's my birthday so this is a birthday treat from me to everyone who reads this story.
Chapter 8a – Meet The Family (Part 1)
'Well this is hell' thought Jack contemptuously as he began working on gardening and repairing the fences of Number 4, Private Drive. He had been with Samuel the previous day and while the Dursleys had been informed of what would entail, they had become increasingly frustrated and were giving more and more tasks that he had to complete on the days he was there.
His Siblings had also become more despondent and increasingly glum as there was no news from the wizarding world. Dudley was gloating over them which didn't help as was Harry's mentioning of magic to Vernon which resulted in an increased workload for the rest of them. Their secret stock of food was now at dangerously low levels and they were now forced to have no more than a few bites each from it per day.
Kaz was suffering more than the rest of them, the events of several months ago long haunting him. His thrashing and shouting caused Vernon to give him a severe yelling at, which became more frequent. Kaz also viewed anyone he didn't recognise who walked or drove with massive suspicion. Another side effect of the attack on him and Jack meant Kaz was massively paranoid about every tiny thing. Cars, bikes, post boxes were sometimes bashed with his crutch whenever he was out by himself. He also wore sunglasses anywhere he went as he had become somewhat sensitive to light and frequently stayed on his basement bed during the day, preferring to stay in the darkness when possible, reading books by George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh which were left in random places.
Petunia's cooking had improved to the extent that she was entrusted to feed the Dursley part of the household. It also meant that she was entrusted with cooking for an important visitor that Vernon had invited over. The visitor was a builder whom Vernon hoped to sell a lot of drills to. The Visitor's wife was also coming to the house and this meant the Dursley's had gone into overdrive preparing for their important dinner. The Potters, of course, were pre-emptively punished and told to stay in their rooms and pretend they weren't there.
The Potters were given a very small dinner each. Some burnt toast, boiled eggs and a tiny chunk of cheese were all that was given to them. The younger Potter children wished their oldest Siblings a Happy Birthday although they noted that because of the Dursley's, it sounded somewhat hollow although the older triplets didn't care. The group was told to hurry up and return to their rooms, so they rapidly consumed their food and drinks.
The group parted ways and returned to their rooms and Jack decided to join them while the Dursleys were not paying attention. When Harry and Emma entered their room, they were greeted by a house-elf. Jack arrived a moment later and was taken by surprise.
"I'm not hallucinating, am I Harry?"
"No Jack. You aren't, let's find out what's going on"
The house elf finally noticed that he had company in the room and found who he had been there to see.
"Harry Potter! Such an honour it is!" bowed the house elf.
Jack whispered in Emma's ear, "Well at least we know who he's here for."
Emma closed the door behind the three and gave a small smile to Jack then turned her attention to the house elf.
"What are you?" she asked her curiosity and surprise showing.
"Who are you?" Harry amended, also curious and surprised.
"Dobby sir, Dobby the house elf. It is an honour to meet you sir. It is also an honour to meet..." Dobby trailed off, looking at the two people behind Harry.
"Emma. My name is Emma, and this is..."
"Jack. Don't mind this" he said pointing to the piece of shrapnel in his head, "It's something from nearly a year ago."
The three agreed that it would not be a good idea to reveal the truth of their relationship to uninvited visitors who would inevitably be from the wizarding world.
"Not to be rude or anything but this isn't the greatest time to have a house-elf or any visitors of any kind in my room." said Harry with a touch of frustration and alarm in his voice.
"Ah, yes, Dobby understands but Dobby has to tell Harry Potter. It is difficult."
"Please Dobby sit down" said Emma indicating to the chair at the desk. She hoped Dobby wouldn't start to wonder why Harry's room had an extra bed in it.
"Sit...down? Never could I be allowed to do that, Miss Dursley" Dobby said, torn between accepting the offer and punishing himself for even allowing himself to consider it.
"Ssshh, Dobby please. They'll hear you downstairs" said Harry.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you." Replied Emma, trying to keep her own voice down.
"Miss Dursley, you have not insulted Dobby. Dobby has never been asked so politely to sit down by a witch as good as yourself."
It only struck Emma right then, that she had been referred to as 'Miss Dursley' not once but twice. Looking up behind Dobby, Emma saw Jack silently speaking to her with a cheeky smile on his face. "Miss Dursley? I think he believes you to be Harry's muggleborn cousin or something along those lines." Jack looked thoughtful for a moment, "If he thinks you're a Dursley, what does that make me then?"
"You can't have met many decent Witches or Wizards, Dobby?" asked Harry and Jack in surprising synchronicity.
Dobby shook his head before trembling slightly. Then without warning, he began banging his head against the desk in the room. It created a small racket.
Jack managed to subdue Dobby and forced him to sit on Emma's bed.
"What do you think you are doing?" Emma hissed at Dobby.
"Dobby had to punish himself, he nearly spoke ill of his family."
"Your Family?"Jack asked from where he was stood by the wardrobe.
What followed was a short discussion about the events at Hogwarts that happened a couple of months ago, the role of a House-Elf and an ominous warning about Hogwarts and that Harry must not return to Hogwarts. "Harry Potter must not go back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. If Harry Potter goes back, he will be in mortal danger." Dobby stated.
"What! Why?" Harry asked somewhat annoyed or angry.
"A plot exists to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts!" warned Dobby with a little distress in his voice.
"What things? If you know something, you can tell us and we can tell the right people." Said Emma encouragingly.
Dobby, feeling shocked, spoke up, "Oh no. Definitely shouldn't have said that." Dobby grabbed a lamp on Harry's bedside table and began bashing his own head with it. Harry and Jack managed to prize the lamp out of Dobby's hands but then heard Uncle Vernon coming up the stairs. This forced Harry to shove Dobby into his wardrobe and Jack followed him, not wanting to be caught out of his room at this point in the evening.
"What in blazes are you two doing up here? You've just ruined the punch line to my Japanese golfer joke. If I hear any more from either of you, I'll make you wish you had never been born. Understood?"
Harry and Emma simply nodded and didn't say anything. They glared at him as he left.
After he left, Jack came out of the wardrobe holding Dobby around the chest before not so gently putting him on the floor.
"Dobby I'm coming back to the wizarding world, and no plot involving Hogwarts is going to stop me. I want to take my...cousins and friends there. I have so much to show them, so many spells, show them how to ride a broom. I also want them to meet the friends I met there." Said Harry.
"Friends that don't even write to Harry Potter." Dobby commented
The trio spoke to Dobby for a moment before Harry realised what Dobby had said.
"Wait a minute. How do you know my friends haven't written to me?"
Dobby became nervous and said "Harry Potter mustn't get angry but..."
"Have you been stopping my letters?" Harry asked, anger creeping into his voice.
"Dobby has them here." Dobby brought out a tied bundle out of his pillowcase clothing."Dobby thought that if Harry Potter didn't receive any letters then Harry Potter would think that his friends didn't like him and he wouldn't want to go back to Hogwarts."
"Give me those NOW!" demanded Harry.
Dobby ran out of the room followed by Harry. Unbeknownst to them, Jack had taken the bundle of letters off Dobby. When Emma saw the bundle, she stared at it and then looked up at Jack.
"They'll realise shortly." Jack said.
After a while, there was a scream and then a few minutes later, there were loud footsteps coming up the stairs. Jack hid in the wardrobe again and less than a few seconds later, Harry re-entered the room and was thrown to the floor by Uncle Vernon.
Emma rushed to help Harry while Jack, not wanting further trouble to happen, peeked out from within the Wardrobe.
"Harry!" she cried out as she moved to help him.
"Shut up! I have had it with the lot of you. I'm locking you all up. You will not be going to that school, you will never see another freak again." Vernon barked menacingly at the pair. He then slammed the door shut and locked it.
Jack then emerged from the wardrobe and knew he wouldn't be able to get out of the room at this time without arousing Vernon's ire.
"Guess you've got me for company for a while." Jack said bluntly.
Jack and Emma turned their attention back to Harry and Emma questioned him on what had happened downstairs.
"Dobby had the cake floating around the kitchen with a charm he cast on it. He tried to make me promise to not go back to Hogwarts, I refused and he dropped the cake on Vernon's guests. Both of us could've still gotten away with something if an owl hadn't shown up to deliver this to me." Harry then pulled out a letter and showed it to Emma and Jack telling. Its contents were basically a written warning from the ministry informing Harry that performing underage magic outside of school could result in him being expelled from Hogwarts.
The following few days were a painful experience for the Potter children. Uncle Vernon had placed bars on Harry and Emma's windows and they had begun to wonder if any help would come for them. Emotions began running high and things had gotten unbearable. Only the calming presence of Harry, Holly and Rose had prevented the mood becoming ever worse. They were thankful when relief finally came.
Harry was watching over Emma and Jack when a bright light shone through the window and then suddenly saw his best friend and his older brothers driving a flying car. Jack had been disturbed from his sleep and was startled to see a flying car outside the window.
Emma then found herself rudely awoken by her brothers, her oldest brother holding his hand over her mouth to keep her from yelping and awakening Uncle Vernon.
"Harry? What the...?"
"Ssshh. We're breaking out of here but we need to be quiet.
Emma noticed that Hedwig was uncharacteristically quiet and that Jack was attempting to pick the locks of the door. Emma also noticed a flying Ford Anglia which she was then startled by. Then after a few moments, Jack unlocked the door and the flying Ford Anglia tore the bars off the window. And then Emma and Jack noticed the car had three redheaded boys piloting the magical vehicle.
"Okay Harry get in and we'll... and who are these two?" asked Fred indicating to the two kids beside Harry.
Fred and George observed the two with curiosity while Ron's eyes widened when he saw two of the Potter siblings.
"Oh right, these two are Emma and James Jack Potter, just two of my younger siblings. Jack, Emma this is my friend Ron and his older twin brothers, Fred and George. Trying to figure out which one is which is very difficult."
"Wait, you really do have siblings?" asked a stunned George.
"Yes I do."A very confused Harry replied, "Ron I told you that you could tell your family when you got home."
"I did but no one believed me. I gave up after a few weeks because Mum threatened to send me to bed without dinner." Ron replied, his frustration evident in his voice.
"Well Ron, you have to admit..." Fred began but was interrupted by Emma.
"Erm... sorry to interrupt you but we have a few problems to deal with, such as the fact Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia could wake up any minute." Emma said worriedly.
"Right, you three should be able to get into the back no problem." Ron said before George continued.
"Me and Fred will get your things while Ron holds the car steady."
Harry, Jack and Emma shared a look between them before Harry spoke up. "What about the rest of our siblings?"
"Rest of your siblings?" Fred and George simultaneously asked before turning to Ron who just had smirk on his face.
"Come on, you two get Harry's baggage from the cupboard under the stairs while I get the others out of their rooms downstairs." Jack told George and Fred.
Jack got the rest of his siblings out of their basement rooms and led them stealthily upstairs.
"Right we've got a slight problem." George said.
"Which is we could probably get four of you in here but there will be no room for the rest of you." Fred continued.
Everyone looked to the window where a rope ladder had been thrown up. Before they could see who had thrown it, Jack made a quiet coughing motion which drew everyone's attention to him.
"I may have informed Samuel about our current predicament. I think he came to do the same thing you three are doing." Jack admitted.
"And that's solved the transportation problem." Ron said happily.
While Fred and George packed Harry's, Emma's, Jack's and Kaz's things into the flying Ford Anglia while Lily, Beth, Holly, Rose, Michael and James went down the rope ladder.
"See you later guys." The departing Siblings said one by one. They were greeted by Samuel and someone whom only Holly and Rose recognised. Harry helped Kaz get into the flying car while Fred and George resumed their positions at the front of the car.
"I am so buying you all trunks when we finally get to Diagon Alley." Harry said to the remaining three siblings.
"Harry, I'm sure that we could all buy our own trunks when we get to there." Emma responded.
"That's assuming we haven't got one already." Replied Kaz, his head turned towards Harry, looking at him through the sunglasses he wore constantly ever since last Halloween.
"Yeah, me and Kaz already have ours. During one of our rehabilitation sessions, Samuel took us to a trunk specialist who made us trunks that could be lived in." Jack added.
"My dear brothers, get in the car and let's get out of here." Emma interrupted the three brothers.
Jack then entered the car, sitting next to Kaz. Then Harry made sure Emma entered the car after Jack. Harry then began to enter the car but screeching from Hedwig made him realise that he had almost forgotten her. He retrieved her and her cage. Harry had just given Hedwig to Emma when Vernon crashed through the door. Vernon saw his worst nightmare before him; three freaks attempting to rescue the four freaks, with freakish magic. He had realised almost as soon as he woke up that the other freaks had already gone.
Harry dived for the car and had grabbed hold of it but Vernon grabbed hold of his waist. "Petunia, the freaks are escaping!" He called out.
Fred and George as well as Jack attempted to pull Harry into the car but due to their awkward positions were unable to. Vernon growled out some harsh words at Harry.
Emma looked at the cage Hedwig was in then turned around to see Harry struggling to get into the car. In that moment, Emma decided drastic action was required.
"Jack, get down." She shouted at Jack and Jack did as she said before turning to Hedwig, "Sorry Hedwig." Emma said to Hedwig apologetically. Hedwig just looked as though she was trying to say, 'Do what you need to do' and braced herself for what was coming next. Emma grabbed Hedwig's cage and swung it past Harry and catching Vernon in the face which forced Vernon to let go of Harry. Harry then managed to get into the flying car, kicking Vernon in the face with his foot as he scrambled into the flying contraption.
"See you next summer!" Harry called to the Dursleys as he settled into the car.
The younger Potter Siblings felt ecstatic as they realised the wizarding world had finally come through for them.
"Thanks guys, things had been getting pretty unbearable in there." Harry said gratefully.
"No problem Harry. So these are the famous, or should I say not so famous, brothers and sisters." Ron said.
"Only some of us, the others have gone with our former primary school teacher." Jack replied in response.
Emma at that moment shivered as unlike her brothers, she had changed for bed and had even slept in her bed. Jack too had slept but because of the near death experiences and other things that happened afterwards, he had been sleeping lightly.
"Is my lady feeling cold?" asked Fred, "Here, take my jacket." He gave her his jacket as he smiled cheekily and she smiled shyly in return.
"Thank you...Fred is it?" Emma asked.
"Yep. And this here is my ugly twin brother. If you have any difficulty figuring out who is who, I'm the good looking one!"
"Yeah and he spouts a lot of dung as well." George said from the driver's seat.
"That's true of both of you." Ron commented amusedly.
The group then shared a giggle before Ron spoke up again.
"Now Harry, why haven't you been responding to my letters?" asked Ron
As Harry, Emma, Jack Kaz and the Weasley's began making their way to the Weasley home, talking about Dobby, the other Potter Siblings, Samuel and his companions were driving up the motorway en route to Devon where the Weasley home was located but Samuel had forgotten where it exactly was.
"So you have information about thousands of people but you still forget where one wizarding family are located?" Holly asked very sarcastically.
"Erm, yeah that is basically what I am saying." Samuel replied before grabbing a walkie talkie from the glove compartment of his customised Jeep. "Jamie and Andy, we're gonna pull over at the nearest services."
They pulled over several miles later and while Andy and the Potter siblings waited with the cars, Samuel and Jamie grabbed many different kinds of fast foods, from KFC to Burger King and Pizza Hut to Dominos. When they returned, the Potters and Andy were shocked.
"You're not seriously expecting us to eat all of this are you?" Rose asked, her eyes wide at the feast before her.
"Of course not. Most of this is actually a gift for the Weasley family when we arrive at theirs. I don't think they've been introduced to many muggle foods that are more recent than the 40's or 50's. Mind you same could be said about most, if not all, of the wizarding world." Samuel replied, explaining about the feast he had bought.
"How are you going to keep it warm?" James asked curiously. He had not spent much time reading the books from the wizarding world.
"Warming charms." Holly and Rose replied simultaneously, rolling their eyes at him.
Samuel then removed an angular looking device from the car he was driving and activated it. It brought up a lot of imagery which appeared like a hologram to everyone.
"This is an Idroid. It can be used to manage many things such as business, tasks to be done and resources that can be bought or sold." Samuel explained.
"It's mostly used by military organisations such as the one we run." Jamie continued.
Samuel began making a call using it and eventually the face of Jack appeared on the holographic screen.
Harry, Emma and the Weasley brothers were stunned when they heard a beeping noise and then saw Jack pull out a strange looking device and emerged shot out a projected image of Samuel, the Potters former primary school teacher.
"Hey Jack and the rest of you, I need you to mark down your positions on your Idroid to tell me where I need to go otherwise I'm going to get very lost." Samuel asked Jack to do.
"Of course, I'll put the markers on the map as we're travelling. Why are you at a services anyway?" Jack asked.
"Had to get my bearings and also getting a whole ton of delights for who I imagine will be hosting you for the rest of the summer."
"When you say delights...?" Kaz asked.
"You'll know when you see it." Samuel replied simply.
"How come we're so far ahead of you?" Emma asked next, seeing how they were far ahead of Samuel and their siblings.
"Think about it, you're in a car that's been modified with magic while we're in cars that stick to the road and run on fuel and people that run on drinks and food."
"Hang on this person knows about our world?" George asked.
"Yes. He's been watching over us for almost our entire lives." Harry replied.
"Besides he didn't bat an eyelid when he saw this flying outside our bedroom window." Emma commented.
"Good shout there George." Fred said to his twin, having also observed .
"Right put those markers on the map Jack and I'll follow them." Samuel said before cutting off the call.
Jack then concentrated on placing markers on the map of the Idroid.
"We're not going to get anything out of him for sometime are we?" Asked Ron.
"Nope" replied Harry and Emma at the same time.
"Oh by the way, do you think that you could keep my siblings existence a secret? At least until we get to Hogwarts." Harry asked.
"I think that can be arranged..."George started.
"...Provided my lady and those with her don't mind?" Fred finished.
Emma giggled and if the others were there in the car with them, they would've agreed that they were going to enjoy being at the Weasley's home.
The Flying Ford Anglia landed in the backyard of a house that made sure The Potters knew magic existed. Even more magical than Dudley's pig tail given to him by Hagrid.
Harry and Jack assisted Kaz in getting out the Anglia and they all walked into the Weasley house.
"Welcome Potters, to the Burrow." Said Fred cheerfully.
"Home to the many, many Weasleys that inhabit this magical world of ours." Continued George, just as cheerfully.
"Just how many of you live here?"Asked Emma, her eyes looking over the whole place with a sense of wonder.
"Well there's five of us and Mum and Dad who live here right now. Add in Bill who lives in Egypt and Charlie who lives in Romania that means that there's 9 of us when everyone is all together." Ron explained.
"That's a lot of you!" Jack exclaimed in surprise.
"That's a bit rich considering there's ten of you." Ron replied jokingly.
"He has you there Jack." Harry said teasingly.
"Alright, here's the plan. We'll all quietly sneak into the house and upstairs. Mum will then call us down for dinner and Ron can point to you four and say 'look who showed up last night!' and no one would know that we took the car last night." Said Fred.
"Ok, Harry, Emma, Kaz and Jack, I sleep on the top..." Ron began but never finished because the twins then spoke up and grabbed his attention.
"Ah." Said Fred.
"Oh dear." Continued George. The pair both looked to be wincing and it was easy to see why.
Their attention had become focused on a very angry Molly Weasley who fixed her sons with a deadly glare.
"Where have you been? What were you thinking? Beds empty, Car gone! You could've gone missing, you could've died, could've been seen." She yelled at her sons.
"Hello dearest Mother." Said George.
"Good Morning Mother Dearest." Said Fred. Both were putting on their best sweet voices in an attempt to get out of trouble. It didn't work at all.
"Don't mother dearest me, Fred and George Weasley." She continued yelling at the pair before turning her attention to the Potters. " Hello Harry dear, how lovely to see you again." She then saw the auburn haired girl with hazel eyes wearing her pyjamas then the two boys with missing or prosthetic limbs with blue eyes and other injuries. "Hello dearies, I don't think we have met?"
"Oh sorry Mrs Weasley, need to give introductions." Harry said, somewhat surprised at her sudden change to being a sweet loving mum after having been an angry mum just moments earlier. "These are just some of my brothers and sisters, these three are Emma, James Jack Paz and Harry Kaz. Emma, Jack and Kaz, this is Mrs Weasley."
Molly Weasley was stunned and her eyes bulged. "Brothers and Sisters...then Harry really does have lots of siblings?"
"Yes that's what I've been trying to tell you for weeks." Ron said, exasperation showing in his voice.
Mrs Weasley then took a good look at the trio while Jack studied her, Kaz said "Hi" in a strained voice and Emma managed to give a small weak "Hello."
This brought out Molly Weasley's natural state of being: the uber mother.
"There's no need to be shy my dearies, where are your clothes and why are you wearing pyjamas?"
"We didn't have time to change." Harry replied. At that moment, the four Potter siblings' stomachs chose to rumble at that moment.
This then brought Molly out into her other natural state of being, which was to basically feed everyone she could.
"Well how about a spot of breakfast, dearies?" She asked. She then turned back and headed into the house. Ron silently communicated to Harry, Emma, Kaz and Jack that they should follow her to the kitchen, which they did so. Ron, Fred and George in turn followed them to the kitchen.
Mrs Weasley began filling frying pans with all sorts of breakfast type foods such as sausages, eggs, bacon, black pudding, hash browns, tomatoes and other things. Then she threw slices of bread onto the stove for toasting and began boiling water for making tea and coffee with a flick of her. Then with another flick of her wand, she sent jugs filled with orange and pumpkin juice and milk to the table just as the four Potters and the three Weasleys sat up at the table.
She knew she should have been angry at the fact three of her sons had just flown the car all the way to surrey and back. However, she had been shocked by the fact there was multiple Potter children.
They were very thin and wore clothes that were too big for them except for Emma who was in pyjamas. Harry and Emma were thin while Jack and Kaz were heavily scarred but were somewhat more filled out. Jack even had a prosthetic arm while Kaz had an arm missing and one of his legs had been replaced by a metal pole.
"When was the last time any of you ate?" Molly asked out of concern.
"We had a bowl of soup last night." Harry answered after they looked at each other in surprise at the question.
As far as molly was concerned, that did not count as dinner.
"And before that?"
"A bowl of Porridge." Emma answered.
"That was for brunch." Kaz added.
"And before that?" Molly asked, her voice becoming dangerous.
The Weasley boys braced themselves for the eruption that was their mother as she was getting very angry and their only regret was that the Potter's fat uncle was not there to be on the receiving end of it.
"If it helps Mrs Weasley, we've had one bowl of porridge and one bowl of soup for the last few days. Sometimes with some very over done toast." Harry said, attempting and failing to reassure her.
Hedwig flew in through the window and landed between Harry and Emma who stroked her affectionately.
"We also fed some bits of our food to Hedwig as well" Emma said as she fed Hedwig some bacon rind. Harry also fed her bits of buttered toast and Jack gave her a small amount of sausage. Hedwig gobbled all of the food up.
Molly was astounded and horrified as the children in front of her all but admitted they were abused. She saw they were more worried about their owl than themselves.
Her attention was then diverted by a squeal coming from the direction of the kitchen door, having heard the door open before the squeal and close with a slam after it.
Harry looked at Ron confused. "What was that?"
"Ginny. She's been talking about you non-stop since we got back." Ron said.
"Yeah Harry, I reckon she wouldn't mind if you gave her an autograph." Fred commented.
That last comment caused Molly to turn her attention back to her sons, "If you boys are all finished, you can go and degnome the garden."
"But Mum we haven't had any sleep." George protested.
"And whose fault is that?" Harry, Emma, Jack and Kaz, the four of you can go back to bed. It's not your fault that my sons chose to misbehave. I do think that you all need more food though."
"That's okay Mrs Weasley, I'm full up now so I'll go and help Ron." Harry said.
"I'll come too." Said Emma, wanting to help out.
"No Emma, you've been fed even less than me, Jack or Kaz have." Harry said sternly. "I hate to ask this Mrs Weasley but can you make sure Emma has eaten?"
"Of course I can Harry." Mrs Weasley turned her attention to the scarred boys, "What would you two like to do?"
Jack responded first, "I think I'll join Harry outside. See the surroundings and get some exercise."
"I might stay here, I'm still a bit tired." Kaz said, yawning as he spoke.
"Okay then. Harry and Jack are you sure don't want any more food?" Mrs Weasley asked.
"Yes I'm okay, Mrs Weasley." Jack replied.
"Yeah, I ate plenty of food while I was at Hogwarts. In any case, I think I am making your daughter distinctly uncomfortable right now. I think she's peeking from the door next to the stove as we're speaking." Harry responded in a matter of fact tone.
Another squeal was heard and Ginny's brothers laughed.
"Right, you three go out and degnome that garden!" Mrs Weasley said authoritatively and the three ginger boys ran out into the garden.
"I'll go and help them. Emma, I want you to eat, OK?" Harry said sternly.
"Yes Harry." Said Emma.
"And Kaz, well you do what you want. Have a rest." Harry then smiled, nodded and left to join the three red headed boys outside.
Mrs Weasley watched the sibling's interaction with great interest. Harry seemed to be acting much more of a parental figure than a sibling. He was much more mature than Ron as an older brother. The Sibling's apparent hunger issues and their familiarity raised a whole lot of alarm bells. It was something that had to be dealt with later but, for now, Molly Weasley had to revert to her most natural instinct.
"Ginny, come down here and sit at the table. There's still plenty of food if you want some and plenty to drink too."
Ginny walked into the kitchen and noticing that Harry was no longer there, relaxed herself and sat at the table. Once she was sat down, Ginny became aware of the presence of two other children her age, an auburn-haired girl and a raven haired boy with tones of blonde and sandy brown hair mixed in and blue eyes and was missing an arm and a leg. The auburn-haired girl looked at her with interest while the boy looked to be falling asleep where he sat.
"Emma and Kaz, this is my youngest and the boy's sister, Ginny. Ginny these two are Emma and Kaz, Harry's sister and brother. Somewhere outside, you'll find Harry and Jack." Molly said and as she finished the introductions, Ginny gasped.
"Hello." Emma said shyly.
"H-lo" Kaz said, almost on the verge of falling asleep.
"You mean Harry really does have multiple siblings?" Ginny asked shocked.
"Err, yes it appears so Ginny and it also seems that more of his siblings will be turning up later today." Molly said to Ginny.
"Wow!" Ginny said in awe.
Emma smiled and the pair turned to Kaz who was more or less asleep now. Ginny then turned back to Emma and moved so she could sit across from her.
"So, are you starting at Hogwarts this year as well?" Emma asked out of curiosity.
"Yeah. Ever since my oldest brother Bill started going, I've been looking forward to the day I'm able to go. He's not here though, he's in Egypt working for Gringotts."
"Yes, Harry did mention that. Could you tell me what exactly witches and wizards can do with their magic?"
Molly watched the two girls as they talked about their various fascinations and understandings about the wizarding world and Hogwarts. Both girls became more relaxed and began talking about other topics. Like her brother and sisters before her, Emma was learning about the wizarding world from a Weasley. Unlike his older Brother and sisters and Emma, Kaz was not finding out about the wizarding world or Hogwarts instead having fallen asleep at the burrow's dining table. Emma and Ginny then talked spells and magic including Ginny's favourite hex, the bat-bogey hex.
Jack was walking around the large garden of the burrow, taking in the surroundings. Across the garden, Jack saw Harry Ron and the twins tossing their gnomes beyond the fence and saw they were having a competition to see who could throw them the furthest. As it turned out Harry was a natural and threw the gnomes as far as the twins could. Jack was contemplating the magical nature of the burrow when the Idroid began beeping again. His Bionic arm was beginning to play up as he brought out the Idroid. He activated the Idroid and the holographic display showed the faces of his older sisters, Holly and Rose.
"Hey Jack. Where are the others?" Holly asked, her face showing her curiosity as she had assumed they would all stick together.
"Kaz is most likely having snooze, Harry is tossing Gnomes with Ron, George and Fred and I think Emma is talking to Ron, George and Fred's sister, Ginny." Jack explained.
"What do mean by tossing gnomes? Why are they throwing around those tiny little garden statues?" Rose asked feeling very confused.
"Oh no, not that kind of gnome." Jack clarified. "No, there's a magical creature called a Gnome. You'll see for yourself when you get here. Anyway, what do you want to tell me?"
"Samuel asked that could you tell Mrs Weasley not to cook dinner for later. We'll be bringing things with us for the Weasleys to try." Holly replied.
"Erm, Okay. How much food are you all bringing?"
Holly and Rose briefly left the display as they went to talk to Samuel about all the food they were transporting and all Jack could hear was car engines. His sisters then came back on the display.
"Well, Samuel told us that virtually all the Weasleys have rather large appetites so said that anything would give us heart attacks would probably okay for them, not that he's recommending it."
"Okay, I'll go and tell her. Get here as soon as you can. I need Samuel to check out my bionic arm when he gets here." Jack replied.
"Okay, see you later Jack." Rose said .
"See you later Jack." Holly also said.
"Yeah, see you later." Jack responded before deactivating the Idroid.
Jack then passed Harry, Ron, Fred and George who were still throwing gnomes over the garden fence. Harry was definitely a natural as he was now beginning to throw the gnomes further than the Weasley twins. He entered the burrow as Mrs Weasley was beginning to prepare making lunch. Jack noticed that Kaz had finally moved out of the kitchen only to fall asleep again on one of the sofas in the burrow's living room.
"Mrs Weasley?" He called, hoping not to make her jump. He was not successful in that as Mrs Weasley did jump slightly.
She recovered her composure and noticed Jack was in the room. "Hello Jack, What can I do for you?" She asked, wondering if needed anything.
"I've just been told to tell you that you don't need to do dinner tonight. My siblings and the people bringing them here are going to bring it here with them. Apparently, not many people from the wizarding world have tried muggle food. Especially takeaways."
Mrs Weasley was flummoxed, she had always cooked dinner. Not cooking dinner, or any meal for that matter was against her very nature but on this one occasion, she decided to let the Potter siblings and the people bringing them there to bring them dinner. "Okay, I won't make dinner on this one occasion. Don't let them go to mad with it though, okay?"
Jack knowing his teacher realised that what they would be bringing would be considered mad by most people but then his teacher never had much restraint in some areas of life. "Ooookay, that may be easier said than done. One of the people bringing my siblings said they knew you and your family many years ago and knew that your family have rather large appetites but they may have blown it out of all proportion to what things actually are. It also sounded like they already have part of it with them."
"Part of it?" Mrs Weasley asked surprised.
"Don't ask. It's probably going to be a lot so it will last for a day or two at least." Jack replied.
A while later, Mrs Weasley was standing thinking about the Potter's home life in the kitchen when her husband returned home.
"Hello dear." He called to her.
The Weasley boys rushed into the house as soon as they heard their father return home, Harry joining them in returning to the house.
"Morning Dad!" Fred, George and Ron called out.
"Morning Boys!" Arthur greeted back.
"Hey Dad, did anything happen?" Fred asked.
"In nine raids, not much really. A biting kettle and some shrinking keys and that's about it. Mundungus Fletcher tried to hex while my back was turned though."
Molly then said to the boys, "Why don't you four take a shower then you can help Harry unpack. I need to speak to your father."
"Four?" Arthur said, noticing that one of the boys was not one of his sons.
Percy then came down the stairs, greeting his parents and sat down, helping himself to some breakfast. Molly pulled Arthur into the living room, Jack and Kaz having disappeared to upstairs moments earlier.
"What is it Molly dear?" he asked confused.
"I take it you noticed Harry?"
"Harry? As in Harry Potter?"
"Yes, that Harry Potter. Your sons decided to go to Surrey and brought Harry, Emma, Kaz and Jack back here. And when I say your sons, I mean Ron, Fred and George."
"They flew the car to Surrey and back?"
"Yes they did and we will be talking about their antics later." Molly said sternly
"Hang on, who's Emma, Jack and Kaz? Who are they?" Arthur asked confused.
"Ron's been trying to tell us all summer long about them. They're Harry's siblings, Emma Lily Potter, Harry Kazuhira 'Kaz' Potter and James Jack 'Paz' Potter."
"Good grief! So Harry does have multiple siblings then?"
"Yes and I don't think their relatives have been feeding them properly. I think they or someone they know has been trying to mitigate the harm caused in some way. Overall I think the boys did the right thing bringing them here, even if I don't condone their stealing of the car. The rest of Harry's siblings will be arriving later with someone else."
"There's more? And who's this someone else?"
"Yes, there are six more of them and as for this other person, I don't know them but they know us."
"Well if things weren't interesting before, they will be now." Arthur commented amusedly.
Jack joined his siblings upstairs assisting Kaz to a bed on the way. Once Kaz had found a bed to lie on, Jack went to find Harry and Emma who were both in the bedroom of the only Weasley girl.
"Is everything okay in here?" Jack asked Harry and Emma.
"Yes Jack we're fine. You should rest up you know." Emma said, showing concern for her horn-shaped shrapnel scarred brother.
"Maybe later, Emma. Maybe later." Jack then at that moment glanced at Harry and Ginny who were blushing to varying degrees and glancing at each other when they thought no one was paying attention. "Harry, when you and...Ginny is it?" Ginny nodded, "When you and Ginny have stopped shyly looking at each other, we should unpack our belongings. And then we need to figure out where everyone else is going to be sleeping afterwards." Jack then walked out the room, leaving a flustered Harry and Ginny and a surprised Emma.
"Erm... well, yeah anyway. You got your clothes, haven't you Emma? Yes, you do... so I had better... unpack my clothes then." Harry said stutteringly and quickly dashed back out of the room.
Ginny was silently blushing while her jaw had dropped. Emma was still surprised at the comment Jack had said when walking out of the room.
"That was... I didn't see that coming." Emma muttered to herself, after initially struggling to find the right words.
"So you've got a crush on my brother then Ginny?" Emma asked the slightly older red haired girl.
"I think that was a bit obvious, yeah..." Ginny replied, her answer trailing off.
'I think Harry has one on you as well' Emma thought to herself.
They then proceeded to talk about how many witches and the odd wizard had crushes on Emma's famous brother.
A short time later, everyone in the house made their way to the kitchen for lunch with the exception of Kaz, who had briefly gained some energy but then grew too tired to go anywhere again and remained on the bed Jack had placed him on.
Percy had looked up to see an auburn haired girl arrive in the kitchen with his sister but did not see Jack as he had not yet made it to the kitchen, having had to go and relieve his bladder. He, of course, immediately assumed that Emma was Harry's girlfriend as so many at school had believed. "Hello, you must be Harry's girlfriend, right?" he asked Emma.
He saw looks of surprise directed towards him which he failed to understand. Ginny spoke up to explain who Emma was, forgetting Harry was in the room and also forgetting her shyness. "Percy you idiot, this is Emma, one of Harry's sisters. He does not have a girlfriend. Even two of his brothers are upstairs and probably making their way downstairs right now."
"Ginevra, surely you're not spouting all that drivel that Ron was saying earlier in the summer about Harry having multiple siblings?" Percy asked dismissively before turning to Emma, "You're Harry's girlfriend, right?"
"Nope. No word of a lie, I am actually Harry's sister. Two of our brothers are upstairs as we speak." Emma said
"So... so... so Ron was telling the truth. You are his sister and there a fair few of you around then?" Percy asked, realising the truth.
"Yep that would be us, hidden Potters, unlike our more notable brother over here." Jack said from a doorway as he walked into the kitchen and moved behind Harry.
"Where's Kaz?" Harry asked Jack.
"Upstairs. He's still too tired to come down yet. We will want to save something for him." Jack said to Harry. All of a sudden, Jack's bionic arm began twitching erratically until he hit against the table. "Sorry about that. This arm has started malfunctioning in the last couple of days and I needed to get it under control."
Percy stared at Jack, stunned at his appearance. "How did you get so injured? I have never seen someone with injuries like yours before." Percy asked bluntly.
"I'll explain later, when the rest of our siblings arrive. No earlier." Jack responded, dismissing the question until later.
The rest of the afternoon passed by relatively uneventfully with Emma hanging out with Ginny, Jack and Harry playing with the younger Weasley boys and Kaz, who had finally managed to wake up fully, watched the playful interaction between his brothers and the younger Weasley brothers. Kaz smiled at them, even as a solitary tear rolled down his cheek, knowing he couldn't do things like they could anymore.
As the afternoon drew to a close, an ever-louder rumbling noise was approaching the burrow, which was heard by all those inside the home and outside it. Harry, Jack, Emma and Kaz instantly recognised the noise as belonging to a car or two and knew at that moment their siblings and their former primary school teacher were arriving. Harry and Jack went inside the burrow where all the Weasleys were.
They found Mrs Weasley and Mr Weasley in the living room chatting to each other about something serious and cleared their throats to get their attention. "Yes dearies?" Mrs Weasley asked the pair in confusion.
"They're almost here Mrs Weasley." Harry said, then he and Jack went back outside to greet them. Mrs and Mr Weasley called all their children downstairs to greet the newly arriving Potters.
Ron and Ginny stood on either side of Harry in the garden as two cars drove up to the boundary of the property. "Meet the family, our siblings!" Harry said to them eagerly, forgetting that Ginny was shy around him and the fact both Ginny and Ron had met Holly and Rose before, although only Ron had known their true identities.
The cars pulled up and stopped, their engines turned off. The occupants of the cars got out and the Weasleys were stunned at seeing six more Potters emerge from the vehicles. They became even more stunned at seeing Holly and Rose emerge from the car as two of the six Potter siblings.
"There's an explanation for all this." Rose said apologetically.
The elder Weasley's were stunned even further at seeing Samuel emerge from the driver's seat of one of the cars.
"You?" Mr Weasley asked stunned. The Weasley children turned to look at their father in confusion.
"Yes. It has been a while, hasn't it? I think we need to have a long chat." Samuel said matter of factly, his eyes looking directly at the two adult Weasleys.
The Potter siblings and the Weasley children looked at the adults with some discomfort. Harry spoke to try and break the tension.
"So yeah, meet the family everyone."
A/N. Please Review and I hope you enjoy the chapter. Part 2 of the chapter will be coming. Just not entirely sure when.