Harry Potter a Clockwork Mage

Harold James Potter = Harry James Potter

James Charlus Potter = Vernon Dursley until Harry left for Hogwarts

Lily Marie Potter nee' Evans = Petunia Dursley until Harry left for Hogwarts

Steven Brand = Sirius Orion Black

Simon Tiberius Prince = Severus Tobias Snape

Narcissa Prince nee' Black = Narcissa Malfoy nee' Black

Drake Centauries Prince = Draco Scorpios Malfoy

Xenophilius Goodelove = Xenophilius Lovegood

Clair Goodelove = Celeste Lovegood nee' Olivander

Luna Goodelove = Luna Lovegood

Isabella Regina Brand= Bellatrix Black

Hermione Isabella Jane Brand = Hermione Jane Granger

Richard Lawrence = Remus John Lupin

Patricia Lawrence = Petunia Evans

Douglas Lawrence = Dudley Dursley

I do not own Harry Potter, JK Rowling does and anyone she has sold the rights to. I am not any of those. I just write because I love the Potterverse. This is an AU story and many characters will be OC.

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Chapter 6

The friends all traveled to Bennett house and talked until they were contacted Joshua. They had explained everything to Simon and as they did he also felt the same level of anger and hatred for Dumbledore as the others did.

Joshua contacted James, "I have the manikins ready if you are all ready we can do the last few steps to make sure that you can start the prank on the old MoB."

James, Frank, Sirius all laughed, Lily and Alice smiled, and Simon just kept his amusement to himself, for now.

James stood slowly and then motioned the others to join them. Lily and Alice went to get little Harry and Neville. As soon as the group was together they walked to the office and soon traveled through the portal and into Joshua's office in the States. Soon the introductions were made between Joshua and Simon. "I have everything ready, all we need to do is to now, are the last steps for the manikins to be activated and then you can start fooling the old MoB."

Joshua walked them to a small laboratory where lying on beds appeared to be exact duplicates of the Potters, Longbottoms, and Sirius Black. "Simon," motioning him over to the nearest manikin which happened to Sirius's manikin, "what we have here are clockwork manikins or artificial people, we are going to use a process that will allow us to give them a semblance of the others memories and personality, plus we will place into them a magical crystal that will hold a magical charge, this charge will be simulate the magical signature of those they are designed to replace." Joshua then shows Simon one of the crystals, "These crystals will act as a battery for a fake wand we have made that will look like the others, but will have what we call rune-generated-magic, this will allow the manikins to appear to use magic."

Simon watched as they had all of them on beds beside the manikins, Joshua and the he's assistant were ready and soon they place a circlet on their heads and connections made to identical ones on the manikins. After all of them were given a mild sleeping potion the strange machine was activated and the circlets began to glow.

"Well Simon, this part will take a few hours for the transfer of the needed memories and personalities to complete, why don't we sit and get to know each other." Joshua was going to make sure this one was a real friend to the Potters.

After a long talk, a good meal and introductions to the other members of Joshua's family they headed back to the laboratory and the slowly awakening others. "Simon, when I have them disconnected, can you please talk to them and make sure they are fully awake?"

Simon helped Joshua; it took only a few minutes to get them checked and all were shown to be fully awake. Helping them into a nearby room they would be allowed to go back to sleep before the last step would be taken that would allow the manikins to become active.

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Hours later after everyone had had a chance to sleep a full eight hours. Each of them was awakened and together, all of them had breakfast and once again were in the lab where the manikins were. Joshua smiled, "All we need to do now is for each of you to place your hand on the foreheads of your manikin and push a bit of your magic into them, this will awaken them and we can check to see if they are ready to use."

James asked, "Joshua, just how will Harry and Neville activate there manikins?"

"Well cousin, you will place their hands on the head and push your magic though the boys hands that will awaken them, as that will activate the central crystal." Joshua then showed them where to touch and how to push the small amount of magic into the manikins.

Over the next few hours each of the manikins were asked questions that only the originals would know, and true to his word, they would fool anyone as they seemed to be the person they appeared to be.

Now the real plans were made on how to set the old MoB up and start the greatest prank even on not only Dumbledore but on the whole of magical Britain and in turn the whole world.

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Albus too-many-names Dumbledore was happy the pawns were once again doing what they were told, now he would have them where he needed them, but the loss of Pettigrew and Snape had forced him to alter the plan, now he would use a note, one he would accidently leave where Lucius Malfoy would find it and also he would make sure that Malfoy believed that it was a note that Sirius Black had written it down. He had to have Black to take the blame as the secret keeper, even though he himself would be the keeper of the secret.

Albus meet The Potters and Sirius at a small cottage in Godric Hallow. Albus cast the Fidelius Charm and soon everyone had forgotten where James, Lily and Harry Potter were hidden. Albus then showed a note to James, Lily and Sirius, in reality they were the manikins, he used a silent memory charm to make all of them believe that Sirius was the secret keeper and that he had written a note he would be able to show to others to allow them to find the Potters.

James and Lily sent Dobby to check on the manikins as Free-House-Elves; as bonded Family Elves, he was immune to the Fidelius Charm. Dobby used elfish magic to create a duplicate note of the one that the Dumbledore had left. Dobby returned home and gave the duplicate note to James, "Sir, this was left with the not-Sirius."

James laughed, "Thank you, Dobby you did well, go back and take care of Harry."

Dobby nodded and smiled, "Dobby will always take care of Master Harry, always."

The manikins Longbottoms were hidden on a small cottage on the main Longbottom estate, and yes once again Dumbledore cast the Fidelius Charm. This time the secret keeper was Frank's mother; Augusta, the caster of the spell could cancel the spell at any time if they also knew the secret as he would.

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At the same time the charm was cast Simon was in the States building the new life he'd need to hide under until Harry and Neville turned five years old. Then he would return and start teaching the two boys the needed skills to become Master Potion-makers.

Simon was making sure he would have the international certifications that he could get from the Magical Nations Alliance or MNA. It would take years but he would make sure that Simon Tiberius Prince would be a name in the international world of potions.

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When the manikins were placed into hiding as Dumbledore wished, the Potters contacted the Dursley's. They meet them early in September, as to work to at least build some kind of relationship with them.

Lily and James used charms that masked them from magical persons but not mundane ones. They drove to the Dursley home a few hours after the manikins were hidden, both were not looking forward to this meeting but they were going to start the prank, and it was going to be a wonderful one.

James and Lily parked and walked to the door, Lily had a sleepy Harry in her arms, and a runic array active that would calm muggles, and it was going to be needed as Lily knew that Petunia and Vernon were not always easy to talk to.

James rang the bell, Lily had spent the last few years making James very comfortable in the mundane world, and he still had times when it frustrated him but those times were less and less often, and waited for the door to be answered.

A large man*, opened the door and blinked a few times it was the sister and the husband of the … freaks. The magic of the array was for the moment nullifying the magic that Dumbledore had placed on the man at the wedding of the Potters to make Vernon's dislike of magic to become hatred. "So what the bloody hell do you two want?"

Petunia heard Vernon and knew it was bad if he was using that kind of language, walking to the door she saw her sister, her husband and the cutest baby she'd seen in some time, the magic of the array also effecting Petunia, allowing her true self to be active, the first time since she learned her sister was a witch and she wasn't. "Lily, you promised not to come here, the neighbors."

Lily looked at her sister and knew the array that they had created was working, "Tunie, please let us come in and we will explain."

Petunia hearing the pet name her sister had used when they were children awakened in her something; it was an actual feeling of love for her sister. "Lily, yes you please join us inside," Petunia smiled at James, "and you also James Potter, get that boy out of the cool winds we're having here."

The Potters entered the well kept and actually lovely home, the love that existed here was something magical people could feel, well Lily could as this was the home of her sister, a sister she loved and was going to protect from the MoB. Allowing themselves to be taken into the living room, the Potters and Dursley's; for the first time in memory were actually acting civil to each other.

"Petunia, Vernon," Lily looked at them, "James and I found out something, something terrible and we needed to come here and make sure that you," looking at Petunia, "and you" looking at Vernon, "and also your Dudley," looking at the napping child in the playpen beside the fireplace, "are not under similar spells."

Petunia and Vernon started to get angry but the array kept them calm, well calm enough to keep them listening to Lily.

Petunia looked at Lily, "Lil? What do you mean spells?" Petunia was now more scared than angry; she knew that it was magic that killed her mother and father, even if the magical authorities said it was an accident.

Lily looked at her older sister, "Petunia the only way we can be sure is to go to Gringotts, they use magic differently than we do and they found we had had many spells cast on us to make us feel, and act different than which we really are." Lily looked at her sister and with her true memories she realized that her sister did not look like she should, she had been older yes by two years, but when growing up the two girls had looked so alike it was only that Petunia was taller than you could tell the girls were not twins.

Thinking; this had to be Dumbledore, he was the only one she knew that could do this level of change to a person and make it last. She was getting angry again, Dumbledore was going to pay.

Lily was angry and Petunia could tell, her sister when angered had this look, one that told you to run if you could and if you couldn't hope that Hurricane Lily passed quickly.

Petunia looked at Lily, "Lil, you're sure that someone has done the same to us?" Petunia was also getting angry, it was becoming stronger than the fear and hate she normally felt about magic. "How will we get to the goblins? Vernon, Dudley and I are what the magicals call, what is the evil word … yes muggles."

James looked at the Dursley's, "We have a magical means to do so, let us use it and we can get the answers we need, and we hope we are wrong, we really do."

Lily stood and looked at her sister, "Tunie, grab Dudley and we'll go now the sooner the better, mom always said."

Petunia smiled, for the first time in years she didn't react with anger of the mention of her mother or father. "Alright," Petunia bundled Dudley up and soon was ready to go with her sister and her husband.

Vernon Dursley hated magic, he couldn't remember why he did, he had forgotten; well had been made to forget; just that he did. "Petunia Dursley, you leave with them don't come back I will not have magic in my house!" The voice was loud and full of hatred, more than the array was designed to stop.

Petunia looked at Vernon and once again wondered why the bloody hell she had married this overbearing, bigot of a walrus. "Vernon Damien Dursley, this home is in my name not yours, my parents gave it to us as a wedding present, if anyone leaves this home it will be you not me and you will not be taking my son either," Petunia was about to tell Vernon off she but anger was stronger at this moment than the magic that bound her. Petunia was what was called a squib, a person born with so little magic they could never cast a spell. Petunia looked at Vernon and a flash of light and Vernon was lying against the wall and was unconscious.

Lily and James say the impossible a squib casting a spell, well an accidental one and in a person as old as Petunia it shouldn't be possible. "James you'd better immobilize Vernon for the trip to Gringotts, this is not normal."

Lily took the hand of Petunia, "We are going to use a goblin Portkey, they are easier to use but still uncomfortable, she you start to feel the spinning slow bend your knees and when the spinning stops, stand up hard, that way you won't trip when we arrive."

The six people, the four adults and the now awake children have arrived in Brightaxe's office. "Welcome Lord, Lady Potter, Mrs. Dursley," noticing that Mr. Dursley was out cold and was wrapped in magical ropes, "let me make a guess, he was as you expected a bit harder to calm down than Mrs. Dursley?"

James nodded, "I feel that we need to make sure that he is checked first, I am thinking he will be a person even after any spells are removed he will still hate magic and magical people."

Brightaxe called for the medical team to the office and they took the walrus of a man to be checked for magic spells, controls, etc…

The Potters and Brightaxe talked to Petunia for a short time and explained what they wanted, no needed to do. Petunia after the anger toward Vernon was beginning to remember that she had fallen in love with a young man, a young man from a magical family, but she wasn't able to remember who he was only that he was a man filled with sadness and pain, a man she never saw on the night of a full moon.

Soon Petunia and Dudley were in the medical area and the same tests were being made for her. After only a few minutes, a senior goblin medico entered the room, and was clearly upset, even angry. He spoke to Brightaxe for a short time and then left quickly.

Brightaxe looked at Lily and James, "Lord Potter, it looks as if the magical core of both Petunia and Dudley were modified, the two are both magical." Brightaxe was expected what happened next.

James and Lily both stood, and the auras of both magic flared, it was powerful and surprising. Lily shouted, "that Dumbledore, that evil bastard, he ruined my sisters life." Lily turned to the now scared and screaming baby in her arms; she calmed down and began to sooth the small child.

James had said nothing, it was all he could do to not allow his magic out, and he wasn't going to allow the magic out. James calmed and helped Lily care for Harry. Looking at Brightaxe, "What can be done?"

Brightaxe looked at Lord Potter, no James Potter, here was a man that had had he's life manipulated by a self-righteous old man that was even more evil than a Dark Lord. "The boy can be un-bond now, but the mother will need to be treated and the only place she can be treated for the sheer level of dark magic used in the States, we can send her there, the sooner we do the better the chance she will retain at least some of her true core's strength."

James looked at Lily, "Well we can't use the same trick we did for ourselves, but we can alter ourselves to seem to be Vernon and Petunia."

Lily nodded, "You are certain the rune-arrays can create the level of transformation we will need to appear to be them?"

James smiles, "Yes, the arrays are designed to be versatile; all we need to do is find the right combination of runes and the intent to make it happen."

Lily looked at Brightaxe, "I am Petunia's next of kin, magically and mundane, send her to where she can be helped, we will take care of the cost and also take care of Dudley."

James went home to Bennett house and using the Portal he and Joshua quickly created a set of runic-arrays that would allow them to look like the Dursley's.

James was back at the bank just as the goblins brought a sleeping Dudley to them. James looked at Brightaxe, "Thank you Master Brightaxe, may your gold grow, please see that the team that made the discovery are paid a bonus they may have saved not only my sister-in-laws magic but her sanity."

Brightaxe nodded, "Lord Potter we cannot prove, again that it was Dumbledore but the facts keep bringing us back to him."

James nodded, "May our enemies fear us in our righteous anger, and they pay a terrible price in time."

Brightaxe nodded, "And may those enemies never see the attack until it is done."

Vernon Dursley had been under spells, but not nearly as many as Petunia or even Dudley, it was found that Vernon was the grandson of a magical that had been cast out for being a squib. The grandfather had made he's son hate magic and so had the father made Vernon hate magic.

It was decided that in order to save Vernon from himself he would undergo massive memory modification as well as a totally different person. Vernon Dursley became Virgil Davison and would be relocated to a new life in New Zealand.

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Soon the Potters and Dudley are back at the house in Little Whinging, putting Harry and Dudley down they call Frank and Alice as well as Sirius as to what has happened. The Longbottoms have Lolly take them to James and Lily and using pollyjuice the two leave with Harry looking like James and Lily.

James and Lily then used the array and now appeared to be Vernon and Petunia, both hated the why they look now, but in time they can make changes to the way they look so to look more like themselves. Using the communication mirrors they begin to plan on how to make this work.

James eventually decided to use family wards that will be invisible to any not of the family to protect themselves from outside magic, this is done just in case Dumbledore decides to go against the will and send Harry here after the manikins 'die'.

It takes only a day before Dobby using elfish magic creates an illusion that hides the fact that Harry is even in the house. Until the Clockwork Magic expanded and the hidden room was in place.

James found it wasn't all that hard to take over Vernon's job, as Vernon was not all that smart a man but he was one that did take many, many notes on how he did the job, as well as the names of contacts. James quickly became better at the job than Vernon was and strange as it was, he found he actually loved the work, the art of the deal and the feeling of a job well done.

In the next weeks the Potters, pretending to be the Dursley's begin to make changes on how the others in the neighborhood saw them, but using special family wards that will make any magical that sees them will see the way the original Dursley's would have acted.

It was these wards plus other magical means that notify the Potters of the attack on the cottage as well as McGonagall watching them the day of 2/11/1981, yes two full days after the death of the 'Potters' and the start of the legend of the BWL.

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In the late hours of 31/10/1981 a note was given to Voldemort by Lucius Malfoy. Malfoy had found the note dropped by what appeared Sirius Black, but was actually a pollyjuiced Dumbledore. Malfoy, Voldemort, and the MoB now would have the sacrifice they wanted or needed this night. The Dark Lord and a hidden Lucius Malfoy appeared in Godric Hallow and was soon at the cottage, he entered and in a quick but deadly exchange that left what appeared to be James Potter dead. Soon Voldemort confronted the manikin Lily and killed her, and then turning to the small green-eyed 15 month old child he raised the wand and cast Avada Kedavra, the killing curse.

The plans of the Potters and Bennett's had worked; the special magical wards combined with the special magic of the manikin of Harry created a counter-curse; the same Avada Kedavra but so overpowered as to destroy the very body of Voldemort. Malfoy entered and finding what appeared to be a dead James, Lily and Dark Lord Voldemort, Malfoy a evil man yes, but one that would have killed the young boy if he had not heard voices; he grabbed the wand of his Dark Lord and apparated out of the cottage leaving behind the manikin of Harry.

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Soon the manikin of Sirius appeared and it entered the ruined cottage, finding the 'dead' it ran to the bedroom and was taking the manikin of Harry downstairs when Dumbledore, Hagrid and Barty Counch Sr. arrived, they forced Sirius to give the baby to Hagrid.

"Sirius?" asked Dumbledore, "Why did you betray them, he was as close to you as a brother." Dumbledore was laughing inside this was just too perfect, here he was the scapegoat he had needed.

"Sirius Black, I arrest you for adding and abetting the murders of James and Lily Potter." With that Counch cast an overpowered stunner which knocked the manikin back some 20 or so feet. "I'll see he's in Azkaban before sunrise, he's guilty and why would we need a trail."

Soon Black was taken away for a one-way trip to a place that was worse than a hell on earth, and the Harry manikin was given to Hagrid, "Hagrid take Sirius's motorcycle and take Harry to Hogwarts, I need Poppy to check him over, because no one has ever survived the killing curse."

"'ll be a'doing that Headmaster," the gentle half-giant said with sadness, "'arry will be safe there." With that Hagrid took a bundled Harry into one of he's massive arms and then took off into the sky on the magically modified motorcycle of Sirius Black.

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Dumbledore checked the bodies of the dead Potters and magically levitated the two bodies to the small graveyard of the Hallow. He cast a few spells to create graves and then coffins he placed the bodies of the dead into them, then using a small flame he then burned the bodies to ash. Closing the coffins now holding only ash he created a grave marker.

On the marker he placed this message:

James Potter Lily Potter

Born: 27/3/1960 Died: 31/10/1981 Born: 30/1/1960 Died: 31/10/1981

1 Corinthians 15:26 - The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

Dumbledore then did a sweep of the magic's used during the fight as well as masking the area from any Muggles; he did so in a way that allowed him to make any muggle to forget anything that happened this night.

The magic he found was consistent with the spells James and Voldemort would have used in combat, the magical signatures were of the two men. That Voldemort had used the killing curse on both James and Lily and attempted to use it on a baby. He also found what appeared to be a strange blood ward that absorbed the killing curse and then made it even stronger and sent it back at Voldemort destroying the body. Dumbledore also detected Malfoy's magical signature, he made sure to make that one disappeared. Dumbledore also bond Harry's magic, dulled he's intelligence, talents and gifts. He would need the poor child to be the perfect weapon, a weapon that is used and discarded by death at the end.

As Dumbledore made he's way back to Hogwarts he concluded that Lily had used an ancient blood ward that called for the sacrifice of love; the love of a mother to protect the life of her child; he would have to create similar ones at her sister's home. Dumbledore made he's way to the hospital wing and checked in with Madam Pomprey. She told him that a dark evil was in the scar of the babe and it needed to be removed. He used a memory modification spell and made her believe he had done so. Leaving Harry with Madam Pomprey he headed to London to spread the news, Harry Potter; the Boy-Who-Lived had saved them all.

Dumbledore used the story to have the will of the Potters sealed, and himself named the boys magical guardian. It was all going as he had planned; now he would use the next ten years to weaken the magical community of Britain and when the time was right he would be the man on horseback to lead the sheep into paradise.

Dumbledore took the whole day to make sure all of the needed things were in place, he also dropped the charm protecting the Longbottoms, he didn't need them now, and if they died as well as the boy then it would be one less problem later.

Dumbledore made sure that Sirius Black was in Azkaban before going to Number 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, in Surrey. Using massive notice-me-not charms, silence charms, and other ways to mask himself he began to create the needed charms to further weaken the boy, he made sure the Dursley's would mistreat him. They would do the needed things to make Harry ready and willing to die the way he needed him to.

Minerva McGonagall had unknown to Dumbledore traveled to Petunia's home, she knew that these were the worst kind of muggles to raise a magical child and she'd tell him. She watched the complete day; never noticing the things Dumbledore was doing, as he was using old magics to hide his actions.

It was late at night of 2/11/1981 when Dumbledore reappeared, he used the deluminator to make all the street lights go out, then he walked over to the small home, not really any different from the others, but to him it was the perfect place to have the weapon raised, he had no concern that he was going to be placing a youngster into a living hell, he needed it for the 'Greater Good' so it as all other things he had done was justified.

McGonagall transformed from the small tabby cat from she had used all day to watch the Dursley's, "Albus these are the worst kind of muggles, please we can hide him somewhere else?" She would take him herself and hide in a remote area of Scotland no one would ever find them. "I can take him Albus, please I can hide him."

Albus looked at her and cast a silent charm that made her forget that part but allowed her to remember that she had told him these were not the right kind of people to raise Harry. He needed that just in case it went bad, he'd blame her for not offering to take him. He smiled to himself this was going better than he thought it could.

"Minerva, the protections that Lily used they will only work in a place where Harry has a living relative." He knew that was a lie, the wards that Lily had used would allow a modified blood adoption and anyone that would love Harry, could then be used to anchor the magic. "Minerva, we have to do what is best for the boy and this is for the Greater Good."

Dumbledore then turned and looked into the sky a noise was growing, soon a large, well huge man on the back of a flying motorcycle was landing. A deep and booming voice spoke out, "Headmaster, 'ere's 'arry." Hagrid was looking down at the sleeping form of the sweet boy, the son of two of the best people he had ever known. Hagrid handed the bundle of blankets and Harry Potter, well what they all thought was Harry Potter, to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore took the babe in the blankets and transformed one into a baby carry basket; placing warming charms and timed protection charms on the basket to keep the boy warm and in the basket until the boys aunt could find him in the morning, he wasn't going to allow a 15 month old any chance to wake and then toddle into the street and die, the boy would die when he needed it and not any time sooner. Dumbledore took out a note and placed it in the basket, the spells placed on it would make the aunt and uncle take the boy and would guarantee they would treat the boy the way he needed him to be; the boy would be happy to be rescued when the time came.

Dumbledore looked at the others, "Time to go, he will be safe." As Dumbledore walked away he cast a spell that would keep these two from ever coming here unless he told them too. He loved modified loyalty and compulsion charms, most believed he was just a master of transformation, potions, and alchemy, but he was also a master of charms as well.

Soon the lights were back on and the three magical's had left, two of them would always have concerns and doubts on the path the headmaster had chosen, but over time these would lessen as Dumbledore would insure they did as they were told.

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*[A/N: book canon appearance of them, so I am not going to write it],

A/N: this is a point of change from canon, the special wards that Dumbledore would in time make the Dursley's the same as in canon, but by having James and Lily going now they are going to be able to figure out a few things.

I hope you like the twist's I have made, I was having a problem on how the Potters would take over the lives of the Dursley's I hope you like them.

Please read and review … I love the feedback

22/6/2016

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