AN: Tonks and Remus never had a relationship. Remus was with Sirius until he died.
Chapter 1: The Return
"Harry Potter?"
"HARRY POTTER!"
As Albus Dumbledore shouted his name Harry felt a burning sensation along with the panic and fear he already felt.
At that moment Harry James Potter aged 14 burst into flames and died. What emerged from the flames was a 24-year-old Harry James Potter Black. This Harry was more seasoned, he had accomplished much more in his life than most had.
Immediately he raised the Elder Wand. He was moving it frantically trying to point it at everyone in the great hall. Too many targets though, as the great hall was full of people. He hissed whisperingly to Zephyr to hide and wait for his signal. Zephyr went invisible and slid down his arm.
"Harry?" Albus Dumbledore asked. He was concerned, one minute Harry burst into flames, and then the next an older-looking Harry Potter stood in his place.
What caused his concern to turn to shock was seeing his charge holding the Elder Wand in his hand. He felt for his wand in his robe only to find it gone. Luckily, he always carried his original wand with him.
Severus raised his wand at the James Potter look-alike. He needed to subdue him, he looked as if he was about to start cursing everyone, including his Slytherins. He fired a stunner at him.
When Harry saw the stunner come at him, he knew it was time to fight these impostors, it must be an illusion. He swatted the spell away and sent a bolt of pure lightning hissing in parseltongue towards the Snape lookalike.
Snape didn't have time to move before he was impacted by the spell. It hurled him through the air, as pain shot through every inch of his body before he was rendered unconscious.
At once every teacher and even a few older students fired spells at Harry. Harry turned into a silver vapor and flew to the entrance hall; he swatted every spell that came close to him away. In doing so he dropped countless people with the redirected spells. He also managed to send out even more chain lightning spells.
Most students at this point had ducked under the tables trying to avoid the battle. Soon only McGonagall, Flitwick, and Dumbledore still stood of the teachers, the students that had attacked were all writhing on the floor.
"Stop!" Dumbledore said before dodging the strongest Fulgur he had ever seen produced, even by him.
Flitwick was wrapped in Fulgur Flagellum and tossed aside knocking the half-goblin out. McGonagall was taken out by a stunner that broke her shield.
Dumbledore continued blocking but made no move to attack, "Please, stop you are hurting children."
Harry stopped at this, was it an illusion or not? He couldn't be back in time, it looked to be the drawing of the Triwizard Championship. Deciding not to risk it he threw up a Protego Diabolical.
Albus was stunned. It was like a blast from the past tonight, he had seen more high-tiered spells than he had since Voldemort's first rise, and most of the spells tonight were some, he and Gellert had created over half a century ago.
"If you are who I think you might be then you know this spell won't hurt you if you mean me no harm," Harry said.
Dumbledore nodded and calmly walked through the blue flames.
Harry let out a sigh and lowered the spell causing the blue flames to dissipate.
"Now, what the hell is going on? One minute I'm hunting a dark wizard in Wales and the next it looks like I was sent almost 10 years into the past."
Hunting a dark wizard, Merlin what had this man gone through?
"You are Harry Potter?"
Harry let out a snort. "Yes, now explain, this didn't happen the last time."
"The goblet must have known you weren't of age and decided to make sure you were," Dumbledore said placatingly.
While the conversation was going on the students started to come out from under the table. A few of the older years started to revive their downed classmates and Professors. The professors were looking at Harry carefully, some still twitching from the lightning spells.
"But why did it send me back when I was 24 and not 17."
"I do not know my boy, perhaps we could adjourn to the ante-chamber and find out."
Harry nodded and started hissing in parseltongue causing flinches.
$ Zephyr come out but be on guard. $
Zephyr came floating down from behind Dumbledore and coiled himself around Harry's shoulders and neck. Zephyr was a long black snake with a white belly and blue markings on his scales. He also had 4 horns and a blue jewel attached to his head.
"Harry?" Albus said.
"This is Zephyr he's my familiar."
"My word is that a horned serpent?" A slowly approaching Professor McGonagall said.
He simply nodded and made a motion with his hand to move on.
They made their way to the chamber where the champions were waiting. Professor McGonagall, Snape, and Dumbledore made their way in first followed by Harry.
"Who's this Dumbledore," Mad-eye asked.
"I'm Harry James Potter-Black, Barty." As he said his name shock crossed the scarred man's face, but before he could react a Fulgur Flagellum was wrapped around him.
His screams echoed around the chamber.
"Stop!" Dumbledore said raising his wand as did the rest of the room.
Harry let up the spell causing Barty Crouch Jr. to slump to the ground unconscious. Harry fired a stunner at Barty Crouch Sr., "Relax, check Mad-eye he's under Polyjuice and Sr. over there was under the imperious."
Snape walked over to Mad-eye and checked his flask and sniffed, "Polyjuice."
"How?" The French Champion Fleur Delacour asked.
Giving her his signature lopsided grin, "I've done this dance before Ms. Delacour."
She blushed trying to avoid his emerald eyes that seemed to draw her in. She felt his power and it felt intoxicating.
"If we could speak privately Dumbledore, I would appreciate it. Snape can you make sure no one leaves this room."
"Why should I Potter." Snape sneered.
"One word, Lily." Snape's face turned into one of anguish before he nodded.
Clapping his hands together, "Splendid, shouldn't take too long. Fawkes."
Fawkes appeared in a burst of flame causing the people in the room to avert their eyes at the bright light.
"Mind giving us a lift to the old man's office."
Fawkes gave a trill of acknowledgment and flamed both away.
Harry went and took a seat while Albus slowly made his way to his seat. He was for once in his 100-plus years completely stunned.
"Ok, long story short, the tournament was a plan to get me to resurrect Riddle. It worked he came back and killed a lot of people. I destroyed his Horcrux's and then took a killing curse to remove the one from me, thanks for not telling me about that you asshat. I then killed him and became a hit-wizard."
Albus just sat speechless at the revelations.
Harry nodded his head, "Moving on I think that we should let everything play out the same as before. At least until Voldy's is resurrected. You'll have to activate the wards that make it, so people only vaguely recall tonight. We'll have to obliviate Barty."
"You want to leave an impostor in the castle," Albus asked incredulously.
"Well, Voldemort can't be killed until he gets corporeal. I'll deal with his Horcrux's and chill with Sirius at Grimmauld while I'm not participating in the tournament. Besides you know the real mad eye would agree to this, we can ask him if you want, he's currently locked in his trunk. For safety's sake you can have the House Elves and portraits watch him, and please ban his eye or put an enchantment on it so he can't see students naked."
Albus rubbed his temple wearily, Harry was right about Mad eye. "You want to forgo your education?"
Harry let out a snort, "Please, I've already taken my Newts and Owls. I'll just retake them. We can just say that I needed time to get House Potter in order as to why I'm gone from the castle, oh merlin, that won't be fun to do again. By not telling me anything the paperwork was horrible, over 15 years of neglect, kind of like the kind you stuck me with at the Dursleys." He finished with a glare.
"I did everything I could to make sure you were safe." Dumbledore stubbornly said.
Harry rolled his eyes, "You violated my parent's will, I was supposed to go to Andromeda Tonks if Sirius or Alice were unavailable. Speaking of wills, you better unseal it, or I'll show you why I'm the Master of Death."
At that Albus stood up, he had searched for the Hallows for decades. The Resurrection Stone had eluded him. Harry gave him a pointed look until he sat down. He was too old for this shit.
"I didn't know if she would have followed Sirius's example, I truly thought he was guilty," Albus said with shame in his voice.
He truly did believe that Petunia would have treated him with love and care. It was only after hearing about his escape with the Weasleys before his second year that showed how wrong he was. After that, he was too terrified to approach Andromeda about his mistakes. There was a reason the Black family didn't retaliate when she left the family, they probably thought it best to not anger the woman.
"Please Andromeda never would have done that, besides it would have been nice to be trained by Dora. I've mostly been learning as I go for my metamorph skills."
"You're a metamorph?" In answer, Harry's hair shifted to violet and then back to his unruly black.
Merlin, he had messed up, luckily the Dursleys never physically harmed him. Hopefully, that would help him avoid most of Andromeda's anger. He doubted it though, she may have been disowned by the Black's, but she was the most like the ones he went to school with all those years ago before they all went stupid after Arcturus withdrew from society.
"Quick question, have you assembled the order yet?"
Albus shook his head, "No, there wasn't a need, although now I believe that's what I'll do after I explain this mess to the ministry and the Daily Prophet." He finished with a weary sigh.
Harry smiled sheepishly at him, "If it helps you can tell them I'm under unspeakable oaths or some nonsense not to divulge the future."
"I wouldn't mess with unspeakables. I'll tell them you gave me an oath not to tell anyone the future."
"You think they will accept that."
"They will have to, they're the ones that wanted this blasted tournament to come back."
Harry let out a chuckle. "I guess that will have to do, we should head back and obliviate that pile of garbage so that he thinks that I came back but doesn't remember the tournament. Maybe I should go up and act like Malfoy is my best friend or something so that they think I'm from an alternate reality or something."
Albus let out a chuckle of his own at that.
"Good now let's hurry up I don't want to spend a minute longer in this castle than I need to."
Albus looked at him curiously, "Why ever not my boy."
Harry looked to be haunted as he remembered the final battle, "The final battle happened here, I saw a lot of friends and people I love die here. Needless to say, just being here hurts."
Albus gave him a sad smile, "I understand, war never leaves you. Even 50 years later I'm still haunted, but you have something I don't."
Now Harry looked at him curiously, "What's that?"
"A chance to make sure it doesn't happen," Albus said with a smile.
Harry slapped his hand to Albus's shoulder, "Then let's make sure it doesn't."
Fawkes gave a trill of happiness as he flashed them back to the antechamber.
As they landed in the chamber Albus connected to the wards and made everyone that was in the great hall tonight have only a vague recollection of the night. If they pushed deep enough, they would remember.
It was more of a notice me not to not cause panic. They would remember that the goblet forcibly time-traveled Harry Potter but not the battle that took place. While this was unethical it also would make sure Voldemort wouldn't act and disrupt their plans of putting him in the ground for good.
Those in the Antechamber that were in the great hall remembered though as Albus excluded this room.
"Severus could you and Minerva take the impostor to my office, I'll be with you shortly."
Before anyone could talk Harry chimed in, "Now since this is a Magically binding contract, I'll take part as part of house Potter and Black. I won't be a Hogwarts champion."
"Don't worry I don't remember the tasks, probably the goblet trying to protect the integrity of the tasks. I hope that satisfies you all." He finished with a wink to Fleur causing her to blush.
Igor went to complain before Harry decided to mess with him. $ Hey Zephyr let's freak out the death eater scum, stare at him evilly. $
Igor paled as most of the room flinched at the language.
$ This is fun father; he looks like he's about to wet himself. $
Albus rolled his eyes at the antics he knew Harry was employing to shut up the Durmstrung Headmaster, not that he was complaining he detested the man.
"You're a Parselmouth?" Fleur asked.
"Why are you asking for a private demonstration." Fleur turned away her blush even deeper than before as Harry waggled his eyebrows at her suggestively.
"Mr. Potter, just go. Be back here on the 13th for the wand weighing." Dumbledore scowled at him.
Harry saluted Dumbledore and apparated out tearing through the ancient wards.
Cedric was looking at the headmaster in confusion. "Did he just apparate out of Hogwarts Headmaster, I thought that was impossible."
Albus sighed, "While not impossible it is extremely difficult and requires an immense amount of power."
The three champions and the visiting headmasters gulped as they wondered what the hell, they had gotten involved in.
Scene Break
After several jumps, Harry finally touched down outside Grimmauld. He was glad that the fidelus charm hadn't been placed yet. Originally, he thought that Sirius was outside the country until Andromeda told him years ago that Sirius snuck into Grimmauld and had mostly stayed until the battle of the ministry, outside of going with him at the start of his fifth year to Platform 9 ¾ and the times they met up during the tournament. The only ones that knew he was there, were Andromeda, Ted, Dora, Remus (who was living there), and Dumbledore.
He knocked on the door, not wanting to mess with the ancient wards that were active without the Fidelus. After a minute or so the door cracked open with Remus peering at him.
"Can I help you?"
"Oi! Let me in Moony, I have a lot to fill you in on."
"James?"
Harry rolled his eyes, "Not James, Harry."
Remus slowly opened the door looking confused.
He stepped into the room and spotted Andi and her family pointing their wands at him, he snorted. They must have been over for dinner or something, they didn't like to leave Sirius alone on the day that his life turned to shite.
"Where's Padfoot?"
"Who are you?" Tonks asked, curiosity in her eyes.
"Harry James Potter-Black, it's a long story can we sit or something, it's been a long day for me. I also wouldn't mind a glass of fire whiskey."
"Prongslet?" Sirius said from the doorway to the kitchen.
He went to go hug his godfather, only to stop when the wands that were trained on him started to light up.
"Bloody hell, time travel happened. It's a discussion best meant for sitting." He scoffed.
"Tell us something only Harry would know?" Remus questioned.
Harry let out a sigh, "My Patronus was a stag."
"Was?" Sirius asked.
"It's now a Thestral, has been since I died when I was 17. Probably a Peverell thing." Harry shrugged.
"Peverell?" Andi was flummoxed, the Peverells went extinct over 700 years ago.
"Look can we just go sit; I'll explain everything. Fuck, I need a drink."
"Language." Chided Andromeda.
"Even in the past, you correct me, mum." Harry was shaking his head in silent laughter.
They all looked at him in confusion. "Mum?" Dora said curiously about the form of address.
Harry just gave her a look before Sirius understood and ushered them into the kitchen.
As they all took seats Zephyr floated over to a scared Andromeda and started to cuddle with her and let out a hiss of contentment when she cautiously stroked him on his chin.
"The wonderful Zephyr, my familiar. My trainer in Parselmagic told me that every Parselmouth needs a familiar. Don't worry he loved Andi and Ted; he won't hurt anyone I care about."
"He didn't like me?" Dora asked.
"He never met you; you died before I got him."
The room went quiet at that, Andi and Ted were fighting tears while Dora looked as if she was struck. Sirius and Remus just closed their eyes, war had taken much from them already.
"Don't worry, I won't let it happen this time."
"Not that I'm not grateful that I might live, but how are you here." Tonks softly remarked, internally trying to deal with the fact that she would die in a few years if the timeline hadn't been altered.
Harry shrugged, "Truthfully, I don't know. One minute I'm hunting Rabastan Lestrange in Wales and the next I feel burning all over my body and then I'm in the middle of the great hall when they selected the champions for the Triwizard tournament."
He paused gauging the reactions of the room before he continued, "Last time it didn't happen. The last time my name came out of that damn goblet, I was the fourth champion. At the end of the tournament, I was transported to a graveyard and Voldemort used a ritual to get his body back."
The inhabitants of the room except for Harry and Zephyr looked terrified. "The war began, Sirius died a year later when I was lured to the D.O.M and he came to rescue me, you were also hurt, Tonks."
Sirius smiled at him sadly.
"Afterwards Dumble's dropped the bomb on me that I was the prophesized one who was supposed to kill Voldemort. In my 6th year, he taught me Voldemort's history and how he survived all those years ago. Dumbledore died and I went back to my wonderful relatives." He finished with a sneer.
"Continuing on me, Ron, and Hermione spent my 7th year hunting down his anchors. It all culminated in a final battle at Hogwarts where we destroyed one of his last Horcruxs. We found a dying Snape who left memories that showed that my scar was a Horcrux, so I had to die for him to die, so I told Neville to kill his snake and I walked to my death."
"You died?" Sirius looked horrorstruck at the revelation. Tears were pouring from the eyes of the people in the room.
Harry shrugged, "To save my friends, your damn right I did. Just like you did for me."
Sirius looked at him proudly.
"Fast forward I died, and I was in the in-between, I guess. I was given the option to go back soul-fragment-free since Voldy killed only the fragment. I went back and killed him after Neville chopped off Nagini's head."
He sighed running his hand through his hair, "The fight was bad though. Ted lost a leg, Andi an eye, and Dora and Remus lost their lives, as did over 300 more people."
"After the battle, I helped Andi and Ted, and we became family. This time none of you are going to die or be maimed. I know where all of Voldemort's Horcruxs are. I plan to finish him off right when he becomes corporeal again."
"Horcrux's as in plural?" Sirius managed to say looking positively terrified at the possibility.
"Yep Sirius, the madman created 6 on purpose and one accidentally with me." He shook his head in disgust.
They all sat quietly as Harry drained the glass of fire whiskey, he had summoned from the kitchen drawer.
"While I will still have to participate in that death tournament, I plan to live here with you Sirius if that's ok?"
Sirius gave him a big grin, "Of course that's ok! You'll have to tell me about everything you've seen and done. Especially the girls."
Harry smirked at him, "Down mutt, I don't kiss and tell. Besides we need to talk about you making me Lord Black, I still don't like the idea of having two wives. I know you are with Remus but you fuckers can get a surrogate or something."
Dora let out a snicker, "What kind of man hates the idea of having two women warming his bed."
He raised his eyebrow at her, "The kind that wants a quiet life, besides you should know how people treat Metamorphs, not to mention my parseltongue skills."
Dora looked at him gobsmacked as he changed his hair blue, then green, and then back to his natural black.
"H-how?"
He shrugged at his fellow metamorph, "I don't know. The best I can figure is that when I died, I broke a bind or something that was holding it back. I should have known though I always regrew my hair overnight and never needed a haircut. Speaking of I would like some help controlling it, I never had a proper teacher."
Dora was jumping with excitement, "Your damn right I'll help! This is going to be so much fun!"
He raised his hands, "Calm down. The only other full metamorph outside me and you was your trainer and if I remember right, he died when you were 14?" She nodded her head, "So, I never had anyone to train me."
He suddenly remembered something, "Oh, Andi we broke your curse with Parselmagic."
Andi and Ted stiffened at that.
Hope blossomed in them. "Mum, dad what curse?"
Ted looked at his daughter sadly, "We always wanted more kids Dora, but your grandfather cursed your mother after she had you."
Tears started welling up in Dora's eyes, "I always wanted siblings."
"Which should have been me, Tonks." They all looked at Harry.
"Albus sealed my parent's will, I was supposed to be raised by you guys." He said looking at Andi and Ted who were growing red in anger.
"What!" Dora near yelled.
"Yep, I know he had good reasons, but I wish I had grown up with you guys. My relatives were neglectful and treated me like a slave, I was barely fed and lived in a broom cupboard." He said shrugging, ignoring the rage that was adorning the faces of the room. If he would have looked at Remus, he would have noticed the wolf in his eyes.
Remus put his head in his hands looking down, "He told me you were happy."
"I wasn't, but then again if I didn't go through all that then I wouldn't be the man I am today. I'll always think what if but at the end of the day, we can't live in the past." He turned towards Andi, "Now Mum how about you let me, and Zephyr cure you so you can have some more sprogs, you decided against it in the future because you didn't want to feel as if you were replacing Dora."
"You can cure me," Andi asked with hope.
Harry nodded smiling at his pseudo-mother. "I wouldn't joke with you about this."
He stood up and motioned for Andromeda to stand also. Zephyr coiled himself around Harry's right arm and bit down, Harry let out a slight wince. He gripped both of Andromeda's hands in his and started chanting in parseltongue. He and Zephyr started to glow as their magic saturated the air. The glow encapsulated Andromeda before quickly vanishing.
Andromeda felt like a weight she didn't know was there, was removed. She started crying in relief. She and Ted had always wanted a big family to replace the one she had lost and now they would finally have the chance to have more children. While they loved Nymphadora they always wanted to give her siblings. She and Ted were only in their mid-forties', by muggle standards they would only be in their mid-twenties at most since Witches and Wizards aged slower.
Harry staggered back almost falling only to be caught by someone, "It's ok pup I got you."
He managed to mutter, "Tired, sleep?" Before darkness took him, he thought he heard Nymphadora ask what a Horcrux was.
AN: I wrote this months ago, I have 10 chapters done. It's not supposed to be very long maybe 20 chapters, 30 at the most.
In this story this is my OP Harry. He is both a Metamorph (Limited ATM) and Parselmouth. He is also an Animagus (Dire Wolf). He is also highly skilled but not invulnerable. With his immense power (Voldemort's Equal) and his training he is a deadly combatant. Also has him being MOD, whatever that means, if it means anything will be dealt with later. He mostly uses it as shock value to people like Dumbledore (his payback for withholding information in the past)
Zephyr will have a bigger role in this then he does in An Unexpected Development. Zephyr in AUD at the moment is basically just a sleepy baby snake, whereas in this he is Harry's Hit-Wizard partner. I also really wanted Zephyr to fight Nagini (Something that I still have planned in AUD, even if its like 60 some chapters away)
Pairing wise I'm not sure yet. I would say Tonks, but she is mostly just his best friend atm (by chapter 10). It's either Harry/Tonks, Harry/Fleur, Harry/Hestia, or Harry/Amelia (13 years older than current him so 37).
I've seen a bunch of Harry being forcefully time traveled through the goblet and I've loved the idea since, this is my spin on it.
I'm currently putting this in the Ideas area because I don't want to start a new story section atm, I have too many already that are unfinished. I'm doing this also just in case I don't finish this story for a while. I haven't written anything for it in over 2 months even if I already have 10 chapters done.