I don't own Harry Potter in any format, this is a fanfiction only.
Dumbledore knew he was up the creek without a paddle. "I guess Harry will also need a new legal guardian. I can not buy him anything since it would be seen as favoritism by the other students. I was planning to have the things he needs be purchased from his family vault."
Francis looked at him with an almost suspicious look in his eyes. "That will not do. He is technically a minor on one hand and my son in law in the other. I can not fail to aid him in his time of recovery or until he reaches a legal age where he can be able to guard his own interests."
Albus has no choice but to allow Harry to leave with Francis and Fleur. The two did however promised that he could visit Harry during his summer and winter vacation time. "Harry I do know that you do not trust me, but I swear I shall do nothing to harm you. Please consider us your family."
The group entered the fireplace and left in an instant, and came out of the fireplace in his new family entrance hall. Fleur was holding his hand and ready to offer her support. Apolline was rather surprised by the guest, she did not even know his name at all. "Excuse me a few introductions seem to be in order or can I go see if your local zoo will giving me shelter."
Francis finally realized his wife and youngest daughter were staring at him with a look of confusion and fear. "Sorry, I get disoriented when traveling through floo powder for such a long distance. This is Harry Potter our newest addition to our little family, he is Fleur's mate after all. This lovely lady is my mate Apolline and the girl hiding behind her mother is my youngest daughter Gabrielle. Come on you two he doesn't bite you know. "
Harry could not help but to think Francis had a rather easy going personality with his family." I do not bite without good reason at least. Nice to meet you both, sorry that I interrupted your dinner. Maybe I should wait here for you and your family to have your dinner. A nice bowl of milk or even cream would be great, but if you rather have dinner first I will understand. "
Apolline asked him how he knew she had cooked dinner, she just finished as soon as they had arrived." Your family might not notice, but you can't hide much from this nose of mine. People even my kind get all kinds of smells of them that they never even notice. " Gabrielle asked why he asked for milk or cream like he was a kitty cat.
Harry decided they would find sooner or later, so he smiled at the little girl." Because I am, little bird, I am a cat. " Apolline was thinking he was making fun of her youngest daughter when he dropped on all fours and began to change into a brawny looking black furred panther. Gabrielle without anyone asked ran towards him and took hold of his neck in a hug.
" Look momma, he is a kitty. My sister's mate is a kitty. " Harry rubbed her hand on her opened hand and she scratched behind his ears. He gave her a big lick on her cheek.
" Harry is just full of surprises, and to answer your statement Harry. You are right we should eat dinner, but not without you. You are a member of this family too. So no excuses, change clean your hands and come let's us enjoy dinner as a family. " Harry took off towards the kitchen with Gabrielle getting to ride him like a pony.
" Well, at least my mate is good with kids, one thing I will not have to worry about. Bet my sister is having a great deal of fun. " Apolline just could not believe it. He was an animagus at such a young age. " Or he is eating your sister in the kitchen as his dinner. You saw how he licked her and call her a little bird. "
" Seriously mother he would not harm a hair on his head. He trusts her even more because she is not human to him. He can smell we are Veela after all. He simply doesn't trust humans as much. " Apolline did not understand what her daughter was talking about, the young man was human.
" Maybe he could get to tell you his story after we put Gabrielle to sleep. This story is not for the ears of children after all. " Gabrielle was heard laughing really hard, " But we better hurry before our girl ends up looking like my mate gave her a cat bath. "
Harry was actually telling her some rather really good jokes. It was making her laugh like she never laughed before. Fleur was quite happy to see her mate was getting along with her kid sister. Secretly she was worried that the two would never get along. It seems he found her secret weakness and that weakness was having a liking for animal jokes.
His family told him some jokes that would make the most violent gorilla laugh like a hyena after hearing some of the jokes he was telling Gabrielle. "How can you tell if a vulture went to a battlefield? " Gabrielle did not know how. "by looking at his stomach for stretch marks."
Even Fleur was laughing as she pictured a vulture with a pot belly and stretch marks on him. "So Harry would you like something to eat? We are having dinner I hope you have a good appetite. I don't mean to brag but my mother is an excellent cook."
As the family ate dinner Gabrielle asked for another joke. Harry had no choice but to say one. "A cougar, a jaguar and a panther were each drinking water at a local Lake. Each was complaining how horrible their day was." Harry made gestures as if he was each of the felines.
"First, the cougar said he only had a skinny runt of an elk to eat all day. The jaguar laughed and said that is nothing, he only had a skinny possum to eat, the panther seemed to be drinking a lot of water. The two asked him what was the matter. He said with a sad smile on his face he only had a human to eat." The family waited for the punchline. "Humans are meaty what so bad about it said the other two. The panther looked angry at their remark. That is what you say, but he was a lawyer, how am I going to get this horrible taste out of my mouth?"
It was simply a horrible joke, but it was so horrible that they could not help but to laugh. Francis asked what do you call a lawyer buried up to his neck in quicksand? Harry said a lawyer in mid negotiations. The family finished the meal and they wondered if he could tell them about his past now.
He did not want to in front of Gabrielle but he did not want to be rude. So he opted to tell it without anything too graphic or detailed about what his supposed relatives did. "So you killed them and lived in a zoo for all that time before Albus found you," Harry told him he was happier in the zoo than with his supposed human family.
"The lawyer jokes they were told to me by an old gorilla. The others my sisters, and a few by an old lion that was kinda like my godfather. I had caring neighbors and good friends. My fellow panthers treated as family and my sisters were supportive and kind. " the next thing he did catch them by surprise he licked the back of his hand and rubbed his mouth with it.
" Here is a napkin you can use for that Harry." Fleur handed to him and he took it and thanked her and as he took it he touched her hand and would not let go of his hand. Something about holding his hand made her feel happy.
" Hey you two as much as I like to see some PDA how about you do that later, I just ate dinner." Gabrielle complained as she saw the two hold hands. Fleur was blushing as she heard her sister say that.
As Gabrielle left she was quite happy to have someone as fun as Harry in the family. She did however felt a bit sad that his own relatives, the sister of his own mother treated him like that. But if she and Fleur had any say about it, he was never going to go through something like that in this house.
"So how about telling us the details now that my kid sister is gone. " Harry told them of the daily beatings, the insults and the way they treated him no better than a slave. The last straw was when they tried to make him be sodomized by a dog a relative of his uncle owned and that he was going to be sold to said relative as the dog's bitch.
"Knowing all that it is no wonder the panther's pen at the zoo seemed like a dream come true. Some would condemn you for killing them, I, on the other hand, think that you were too merciful to them. Their pain was only a few seconds a minute at most. Yours was constant and for an entire year. " Apolline once heard that Veela in the past suffered but even they did not go through what this young man did.
" Don't you worry about it. I or my family will never do anything even remotely close to that to you. You will be happy here. Beauxbatons can have a few bullies, honestly what school doesn't. But it is by far a peaceful place of learning and since you two are technically married. You will not even have to live apart. "
Francis explained that the Academy actually had living arrangements for married couples to attend there. He went further and told him that in their home they had a very useful tome of magic that could help him." It is technically called passive magic, but it is very useful. It's the ancient translation magic. It allows the one that learns it to instantly translate any written or spoken language. "
" Since the Academy is in France it is practically a necessity. You be surprised how many nations send their kids there. Bulgaria doesn't because they have their own. But Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, and the Netherlands do. So tomorrow morning we are buying you your wand, books, and school supplies. The only downside is that the school uniform tends to be robes primarily in a sky blue color. "
Harry did not like the sound of that one bit. He was used to black, he guessed that anything that happens that is good there would be a price to pay. He just had to grin and bear having to wear what he would call a gown.
Fleur sensed his depressive feeling and smiled at him. "Dad is just exaggerating, why don't you pick that book, the one on the middle of the third shelf." He did and brought it to her. "This is my school yearbook." He flipped through it and he was surprised that the robes part was top it was something closer to a really loose jacket or suit that anything else.
The word robe was simply deceptive sometimes as Fleur explained. "Besides the sky blue color will certainly make your lovely green eyes seem more noticeable." Harry only had one question and that made Apolline and Francis laugh as he asked. "Where am I going to sleep?"
Fleur took hold of his arm and told him without any hesitation. "Why in my bed of course, you are my mate and it is only natural that mates sleep together." Fleur took the initiative and began walking with him towards their bedroom. Apolline wondered if there was anything wrong with him asking such a question.
"My love, he had little to no time to adjust to his reality. He first finds out he is a wizard, then he finds out he had a mate and said mate challenges to a duel, and now he is living with the family of said mate. To top it off he has to learn magic he never even heard of, in a country that is not the one he was born in... And all that in a single day, who wouldn't be a little overwhelmed. "
Apolline smiled and realized that it was indeed true. " And here I was thinking my kid has it rough. At least he seems like a nice young man. Unlike a certain someone who became my mate because I caught him peeking at my body while I was taking a bath in the girl's dormitory bath."
Francis told her a million times that he tripped and fell into the room by accident. "How many times are you going to remind me of one misstep I did when I was a teenager." Apolline laughed and told him that she actually think it was fate giving a helpful hint. "I would not be as happy as I am today if it was not for you tripping and ended up where you did."
Francis smiled at her. "I wouldn't change my life for anything in the world. I know Harry will feel the same. Good thing he has quick reflexes, though, I don't want to be on the receiving end of a Veela's fury." Apolline smiled and told him it was easy to avoid, just don't make your mate that angry. "That is why we have our rule, do not go to bed angry."