Title All Because of Lily / / / Rating T
Chapter 05 – Memories
Warnings Contains mentions of abuse and mentions of minor character death, swearing, violence. Weasley, James Potter and Dumbledore bashing.
Inspired By and Contains Text from… Broomstick Flyer's unnamed story
Contains some text from Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone…
As an aside, did anyone guess who the older brother of Sophie Granger was? Clue is it is a canon character whose ultimate boss within the DMLE is his wife…
-All Because of Lily-
Previously on All Because of Lily…
"But Aunt Sophie, what about Harry? Surely they would catch up with him?" Bernadette asked, worried about the scared little boy that she knew that her cousin had remembered about, not just because Bernadette knew that her Aunt had invited Lily and Harry Potter over to her house to play with Hermione as a toddler, but also the few times they had met since, each of those times being before Dumbledore had wiped their memories of him.
"It was only thanks to your great-grandfather Hector that Hermione and I managed to have our memories returned to us of Harry. Because of that, along with the diary that my best friend gave me, Harry is going to be on his way to us." Sophie said. "Plus, I know from the dreams and nightmares that Hermione has had, she does not trust the people from that school and because of it, she has no wish at all to attend that horrible school."
"Talking about Harry, I hope he was able to get away from those vile relatives of his," Hermione said, her mother noting a worried look on her face.
"Don't worry Hermione. Your Uncle Dan and Aunt Emma are going to be waiting for him at the bus station in Greater Winging, ready to escort him here."
The two girls had spent the rest of the day laying various games and reading. As time ticked by, Sophie Granger had been met by her older brother, Gawain and Gawain's wife, Amelia, who Hermione knew were police officers based in London, coming to the Granger family home for a meal as a family...
For Hermione, however, she just hoped that Harry would arrive at the Granger family home safely, as she knew that she wanted her friend with her.
Granger Residence, 4 Crooks Lane, Alcester, Warwickshire, England
15th July 1991
"It's been nearly three hours since Uncle Dan phoned from Paddington to tell us that he, Aunt Emma and Harry was about to board the train to bring them here." Hermione said, frowning. "When will they come."
It had been several hours since Harry had been due to leave his Aunts house at Privet Drive in Little Winging and Hermione was getting worried, especially as she knows that he had been watched by some woman who lived across his street named Mrs Figg, a lady who, it seems, is obsessed with cats.
It was another hour when there was a knock at the front door. Hermione rushed to the door and, seeing the raven-haired boy she remembered from the last time her parents had took her to Surrey, practically swept Harry off his feet in a tight hug.
"Harry, where on earth have you been?" she asked as she ushered him into the house, where he found himself surrounded by the entire Granger family.
"Your uncle insisted we head via Bristol and Worcester as he thought we had someone tail us." Harry said.
"That would be my fault," Hermione's maternal Aunt, Amelia Robards (nee Bones), said. "I had one of my Aurors, Wizarding police, follow you for safety. I am going to murder Dawlish when I see him!"
Each one of them wanting to give him a hug. He was taken by complete surprise when Bernadette replaced Hermione in hugging him, followed by Sophie, followed by Hermione again. It was then that she kissed him on his lips for the first time.
"Oh Harry, I was getting so worried," she said as she leant back from the kiss. It was only then that she realised she had just kissed him, and in front of the whole family. She quickly joined him in being red faced.
"Harry, take a minute to calm down please. Same with you Hermione." Adam said, gently patting Harry's shoulder, while chuckling at the duo of Hermione and the person who he knew would eventually become his son-in-law. Adam led the family into the dining room where they all took a seat around the table. As they all got comfortable, Bernadette was whispering to Hermione wanting to know where the kiss had come from and what possessed her to do it in front of the entire family. The whispered questions did nothing to calm Hermione who had never even thought of kissing a boy before.
Harry looked around at the people he considered his real family. He had first met them when he had started at Little Winging Primary School at five years old and was taken with the rest of his class to the local dentist for a compulsory check-up.
The Grangers had lived and worked in Greater Winging at the time and had gotten to know the young man, Hermione being in his year, when suddenly a man with a long beard and a red headed woman had forced them to lose the memories of his visit. Sophie remembered how she had taken a liking to the little boy who was a perfect little gentleman
At one stage, Sophie had been required to administer some treatment on his teeth as she had found that several were rather loose. As he was coming around from the gas he had been given he had apparently muttered quite a few things about his life with his relatives and just how awful it was that he could never share any of the food he was forced to prepare.
A few months later, when Sophie and Adam had returned from their new house in Alcester, they had bumped into Harry who was in a park near Privet Drive whilst on their way to see Hermione's grandfather, Hector Dagworth-Granger, a wizard who was aware of Harry Potter being in the neighbourhood and was keeping a discreet eye on him, the older man having been friends with Henry and Fleamont Potter, Harry's great-grandfather and grandfather.
It was to the Grangers, before they had found their memories being removed, that Harry had told them about the old man with a beard so long he kept tripping over it that he had seen several times, and how the old man would point a stick at Harry and mumble a few strange words before he told Harry to forget what had happened and that they had visited him. He looked around to see if anyone was close by before he whispered.
"That silly old man really thought I would just up and forget them after the nice woman with them mended my arm with a flick of her stick. As if I'm going to forget something like that, it was like magic. Wish I had one of them sticks then maybe it wouldn't be so hard for me when I have to mend myself."
That was how Sophie discovered that Harry had the same strange power that Hermione had, a power which Sophie knew her brother, Gawain Robards, and his wife, Amelia had, along with her childhood best friend, Lily Evans...
...They were all magical!
It was then that Amelia had told her sister-in-law that she had been forced to, by way of Love Potion, fall in love with someone who was now in prison for murder and on charges of being a Death Eater, charges that the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement believed was false as she knew that Sirius Black was not the Potters Secret Keeper, and she knew where his heart had been.
A few days after Amelia made her confession to Sophie and Adam, the four adults had arrived at the park with Hermione and her cousin, Bernadette. After watching the three kids getting to know one another for an hour Helen had invited Harry over to their house. Harry, however, had been forced to decline the offer, especially as his Aunt and Uncle would start asking questions should he not be in his cupboard by a certain time, the last time sticking out in Harry's memory as he had been hit with the belt of the larger man as punishment.
Pulling him self out of his memories, Harry looked at everyone again and then without thinking he took hold of Hermione's hand, holding it tight. He had something huge to show them, and he was feeling nervous. With his other hand, Harry pulled a small box that looked like a trunk made for a dolls house, out of his pocket. He placed it almost reverently on the table in front of him.
Everyone around the table looked at the box and then gave Harry questioning looks. Tightening his grip on the surprised Hermione's hand Harry spoke in almost a whisper as he said. "I learned this from a book from that trunk." Closing his eyes for a moment and scrunching his face up in concentration, he waved his hand over the little trunk, then opened his eyes to watch as the trunk grew right there in front of him.
Pulling a little red book from the trunk, he saw that Sophie had an identical one in her hand, and from that the Boy-Who-Lived knew that there was someone else who knew the truth of Lily Evans…
- All Because of Lily-
IMPORTANT NOTE -All Because of Lily is about to go on its midseason break, but don't worry, it will be returning around the middle of May with a bang!
Coming Up in… Chapter 06 – Revelations are made at the Granger Residence…
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