After Harry, Albus and Fawkes disappeared from Privet Drive, they reappeared in flames outside a stable yard with a nice looking modern house and a sign reading "The Whitneys".
"Ah, Albus, so glad you could make it." A woman with long red hair and dark green eyes said as she welcomed them into her home.
"Thank you, Mrs Whitney. Sorry for taking so much time to get here, we just had a bit of issue getting Harry to believe in magic after living with the Dursleys for so long." Albus Dumbledore told her.
"How many times have I said please call me Rose? You make me feel like my husband's mother." The woman now known as Rose said to him with a smile.
"I know, I am sorry Rose. I am quite old now you know." Albus Dumbledore told her with a chuckle.
"So, you are my youngest sister's only child?" Rose asked her nephew.
"Yes, madam, I am." Harry told her a little sacred.
"No need to be a sacred, Harry James Potter, I know all about you. Another person has been here before and told me all about you. I want a word with you, Albus, alone, once my daughter comes home from Horseland Stables." Rose told the both of them.
"I can tell that you are mad at me for disobeying Lily's wish and putting him into your older sister's family home." Albus Dumbledore told her calmly.
"You should have found me much earlier, Albus Dumbledore, as I would have taken much better care of Harry than that horse who I call my sister. She abused someone with the same blood only because they are different!" Rose told him, getting more angry.
"I can see that you and Petunia don't get along with each other." Albus Dumbledore said to her as he thought about the differences between the three Evans sisters.
"Yes, I have fallen out with my older sister after Lily found out she was a witch. I didn't mind about that as she is still my younger sister, who I will miss dearly." Rose told him with many emotions in her voice.
"Well, I will have to go back to Hogwarts but I will tell you this - my Deputy Headmistress will be visiting Harry once a week and our school nurse will be coming with her as well in a few days time." Albus Dumbledore told her.
"If you ever need me, Harry, just call my name in your head and I will come to you." Fawkes told Harry telepathically, before he Phoenix Flashed himself and Albus Dumbledore away.
"So, Harry, tell me, how did my older sister treat you?" Rose asked her nephew as she took him over to a field where there are some horses.
"She only told me off if I did something she didn't like, but my uncle always hit me." Harry told her.
"So, you were getting abused." Rose told him.
"Maybe. " Harry told her, a little shy and a little uncomfortable.
"Come on Harry, I want you to meet a few of our horses here. We are getting you one of your own as well, but for now me and my husband agreed that you can ride Misty. She has won a few gold medals in the Olympics." Rose told him.
"Are you sure he is fine with that, Aunty?" Harry asked her.
"Indeedy I am, my nephew. As it stands, before you get your own horse, you must learn the basics in horse riding. Have you ever ridden a horse before?" A male voice asked him from behind them both, making Harry jump.
"No. My last family never allowed me to leave the house. They kept me doing house work as they said that what freaks do." Harry told him, looking at the horses in the field.
"I see. Well, Harry, as it still in early evening, I believe the best thing to do is to get to know Misty and her friends in this field. One of the horses is pregnant and is due in a few weeks, her owner has allowed me to keep the foal and it be your own horse to look after as it grows up." The man told him as he, Rose and Harry made their way over to the field that only had mares in it.
"I say, Misty, the young lad next to your rider is shy one." A palomino mare said to another as she looked at the young child, who looked no older then ten, coming over to their field.
"How can you tell that he is shy, mother?" Misty asked to her mother, being a light colour palomino with wild, blue eyes.
"I don't know why you two have all these ideas about him being shy, but by the look in his eyes he can understand what we're saying." A white-and-brown paint mustang said to them, the mare who was having her first foal in a few weeks.
"What do you mean, Lily?" The older, darker coloured palomino mare asked the pregnant mare.
"Look at his eyes as they are looking at us. He can hear us and understand what we say, Esperanza." Lily told Esperanza, Misty's mother.
"I do wonder how our missing friend Scarlett is getting on in her new home stable." A new voice sighed as another horse joined the three arguing mares.
"We all really do miss her, Dash." Misty told her best friend, a dark chestnut coloured Welsh Cob horse.
"We must do everything we can to make sure that the child with your rider is treated with care, Misty, as he was horribly abused by his old family." Dash told them, having been told by a cat that had strange shape around it's eyes.
"We will treat him with our care." They all said together as they looked at the small child.
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