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 8

The time was just a few hours after midnight on 2/11/1981 and the brothers Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. decided to attack the Longbottoms as the Dark Lord had planned. Voldemort was not going to take any chance that either boy would survive to stop him from becoming the magical ruler of Britain.

The Brothers Lestrange were angry, the Lord Black's sending them into the North Sea had been sudden and brutal, considering that the two almost drowned before they could apparate back to the Lestrange Manor. It was there that they were informed that a 15 month old child had ended the terror of Lord Voldemort.

The three were able to find the location where the three Longbottoms had been hiding as Dumbledore had allowed the magic fade as he had the tool/weapon created and if the other child's parents died, it would serve the 'Greater Good' to only have one weapon, but he had plans for a backup just in case.

The three were able to set anti-apparition wards as well as anti-port key ones as well, they had the contact Death Eater that worked in the Floo management office take the Longbottoms hiding places Floo turned off. The Aurors who were Death-Eaters had also planned on making sure the alarms would take time to call a force to the location.

The Lestrange Brothers and Crouch appeared and quickly took down the wards protecting the family. It was swift and brutal, the three played with the adults and unable to find the manikin Neville as the plan was to make sure the 'child' would be safe. The magic was more than the manikins were designed to withstand but not enough to terminate; the Cruciatus Curse removed the simulated memories and personality. This left the manikins appearing to be alive but so insane as to be completely disconnected from reality.

Just as they would have found the hidden manikin Neville, the Aurors appeared suddenly, this allowed the three to be captured. The MoB making sure that the backup weapon would live, as he had placed hidden monitor magics to allow him to summon the Aurors. Unknown to the brothers Lestrange they were now nearly broke as the action of Lord Black nearly emptied the vaults of the House of Lestrange.

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The Potters who now lived as Vernon and Petunia Dursley sent the manikin Harry to Gringotts, after making sure that the tracking spells had been altered. The health monitor spell that was designed to show the MoB when the Dursley's hurt Harry now would react when he was hugged or praised. It was all designed to make sure the MoB would have no idea that Harry was not being treated like a child and in a loving home. The remaining spells were transferred to Harry, without the limiter spells on Harry's magic, talents, gifts and intelligence. They would appear to be in place but in reality they would be maintained on the manikin.

Little Harry, the real child, had been hidden in the house in a clockwork magical expanded space, was now safe and with his parents and Cousin Dudley. Dudley would never know the fate that the MoB had planned for him, he would be part of a family that loved him, and would help him, and just as they would Harry to be the best they could be. James used a little known aspect of magic to ensure that Dudley would be considered a Potter. It was a modified Blood-Adoption, one where Dudley as a nephew of the Potters would remain a Dursley but have limited access to Potter/Bennet family magic.

Harry and Dudley would grow to be as close as brothers, Vernon and Petunia treated them the same. The two boys over time would learn the basic secrets of the Potter and Bennett family magics; mostly runes and wards, he was also taught the basic methods the adults in his life had discovered not only in school but before and after. Harry would show his talent for Charms, Transfiguration, Defense, Arthmathcy, Runes, and Potions, Harry would show an uncanny understanding of the Clockwork Magics; also know in the States as Technomancy as well as the innate ability to do wandless magic.

Dudley would show his talent in Charms and Transfiguration, as he would start Hogwarts with a wide range of knowledge of household magic.

Using the hidden location in the home, Harry and Dudley would start Hogwarts with a greater level of understanding than even most Pure-Blood would have had. It was just one more way that Dumbledore was being pranked. During the years to come Harry and the others would become a team, no a family and the core of the New Marauders.

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Remus Lupin had been in the states for some time, he was loving that here even though he was a werewolf he was being treated as a person with a treatable illness not some kind of dark creature, it was more than he had ever expected. The Department of Magic had contacted the Native American Magic Council about him and he was quickly taken to a location in the mountains of Idaho, here he would undergo tests and finally the method that would be used to free him from the curse of being a were.

The final method would be a vision quest; this would force the wolf within and the man without to bond, to become one and in doing so in a final ritual combining potions, runes and chants. The vision quest was going to take some time, in Remus's case it would take over a year, but in the end a new man would be reborn. Richard John Lawrence, a wolf animagus would exist in the place of Remus John Lupin.

Petunia Evans, having been granted a divorce from Vernon in secret, began her treatment to free her from the spells placed on her by the MoB. First the physical binding spells were removed and where the horse-faced, too long necked, blonde woman was replaced with a beautiful woman. Patricia Rose Evans as she would be known as now, she had long auburn hair, deep sea-green eyes, a shade lighter than her adopted sisters. She would be not a strong witch but she would and in time to be able to cast magic. It would take her time but after a few years she would be able to return to Britain and raise her son, and having earned her license to use a wand in the states.

It was during this time that Richard Lawrence would meet Patricia Evans and the two would realize that they had met years before and they were destined to be together. In the end the two would marry and return together to Britain. When the couple returned to Britain, they would take Dudley and after a blood adoption he would become Douglas John Lawrence, and still have the basic access to the Potter/Bennet family magic. Richard and Patricia were not soul-mates but one could say they were as close as anyone who wasn't, acted as if they were.

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The Longbottoms would also settle in Little Whinging as Francis and Abigail Lang with a young son Nathan. This allowed them to raise Nathan in the non-magical world which would allow the boy to find confidence as well as friends. The Lang's would pose as a family that inherited a fortune and were able to live without either having to work. Neville would learn the basic secrets of the Longbottom family magics; secret knowledge of plants, and magical creatures, also Potions as the Longbottoms had long been known as breeders of hard to get plants as well as magical creatures. Neville would show his talent in Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, Defense, and Potions. Neville would with being with friends since an early age and raised by loving parents, be a wonderful confident boy.

The manikin Neville was left in the care of Augusta Longbottom, who in time left Britain for the states, she forced her brother Alistair Croaker to take over the proxy for the Longbottom family, also forcing him out of the Unspeakables, well as anyone would know he had left. Neville and his grandmother would return to Britain just before the boys 10th birthday. Lady Longbottom also took with her when she left her son and daughter-in-law with her. It would not only be her and Neville that returned but Frank and Alice.

Neville's friendship with Harry, Dudley and the others would in time bring them to look at him as the second-in command of the team, the New Marauders. It would be this that would help create the union of skills, talents and gifts that would serve all of them well in the future.

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Simon Prince quickly adapted to freedom from the manipulations of two powerful and ruthless Dark Lords. He decided to move to Little Whinging, so as to be close to the 'Dursley's'. It also gave him access to the former Mrs. Malfoy. After a short but whirlwind romance he married Narcissa Black and under a blood adoption became the father to Drake Centauries Prince. The three would fill the home with love and laugher and the child would grow up to be cunning but also he would be brave, loyal and well not granted a great intelligence, he would still be in time a powerful Wizard.

Drake would learn the secrets of the Black and Prince family magics. Potions and Politics, from the Prince side, and from the Black family, a skill with defensive magic and politics as it would be needed in time to further the ends of the New Marauders. Drake would show he was a natural with Potions, an ability that had grown after the blood adoption. Drake would by being raised in a loving home become a very good person; he learned the meaning of honor, loyalty and courage, not foolish courage, and as always controlled ambition.

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Steven Brand would continue to live in London as to maintain the illusion of being the new principal lawyer of the House of Black. In time Steven would act as proxy for Lord Black, this would give Steven/Sirius the needed experience of dealing with the corrupt Wizengamot and the M.o.M.

Steven did in time create a reputation of ruthless honesty and a proven ability of increasing the wealth of the now reformed House of Black, all the time laughing to himself at the stupidity of the magical population of Britain. Steven Brand would use that reputation to subtly create problems for Dumbledore. It was decided that Bella would become the adopted sister of Sirius/Steven as it would add one more layer of protection for her and the family.

Isabella Brand completed her training as a healer and eventually become a nanny, as her love of children had been forced to never show and after learning of the wonders of the mundane world she knew that young magical children might need a magical nanny. In time the group discovers that a young magical girl had been born to a young couple of Dentist's; Daniel Michael and Emma Jean Granger [Hermione Jean Granger who was born on 27/8/1980]. The couple would end up hiring Bella as the nanny for their daughter.

Just before Hermione started Primary School, her parents were killed in an automobile accident. Bella had been named as the person to finish raising the young girl, as it had been Bella who explained to the Grangers that Hermione was a witch. Bella adopted Hermione, a mundane adoption not a magical one, as having Hermione becoming a Black would be dangerous for her and the others. Hermione after becoming Isabella's ward moved to Little Whinging to be closer to the others.

Hermione would learn basic magic, her incredible intelligence and memory, allowed her to quickly have a wide understanding of the theory of magic and also allow her to even before going to Hogwarts, creating a number of unique spells all that had to be cast wandlessly. Hermione might not have access to the secret knowledge of the Clockwork Magic; she did show a talent with basic Technomancy and like Harry the innate skill of wandless magic.

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The Tonks would continue until Dora was old enough to start Primary School live in London, in time they would move to Little Whinging as to allow the children to go to school together. Dora will be as playful and outspoken as she could be, as she loved a bit of pranking. She would be the one that in behind the creation of the next generation of Marauders, not that it took much to get the others to go along with her, as each of them loved pranking as much as the original Marauders had.

Dora would learn the secrets of the Black family magics, as well as magics her father had discovered while working as a solicitor and account manager at Gringotts, none of them based on goblin magic but discovered by Ted by observation of the Goblins. Dora would show talent in Politics as she was a Black and also her own innate skill with Charms, Transfiguration and Defense. Dora as a full Metamorphmagus could never become an Animagus.

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All of the children, and the adults, would be taught Occlumency and Legilimency, but not in the way it was normally taught in Magical Britain or Europe. The American method they were being taught was based on a science-fiction series; American television's Star Trek. An American Wizard had discovered an easier way to teach the discipline, this one would be easier and stronger than the old world form. The American Version allowed a person to quickly find the inner mind, build the defenses as well as offensive ability and order memories and control emotions. This version allowed a person to feel emotion but to accept them and at the same time to use reason and logic to solve problems. The American version of Occlumency and Legilimency was simply called the Mastery of Passions.

Each of the children would before turning nine all but Dora found out if they had the ability to become an animagus, not actually learn how but if the innate gift was present. All but Dora discovered that they did have the gift but it would be years before their magics would be strong enough to actually learn the form and the change.

Over the years the children became more than a group of kids growing up together they became a team, a family. Harry was the leader, Hermione was the brains behind the leader, Neville the strong second-in-command, Douglas was the one to keep them fed and cared for, Drake was the sly mind that always looked out for the others, Dora was the binding force, she was always the one to stop the anger and fights, she was the mother of the group.

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Just before turning nine the American Seer, Amanda Grayson had another prophesy.

The Mother of the Moon Child … the love good shall threaten … the bumblebee … death is planned … but she can be saved … Lady of earth and Lady of green … shall rescue the love good … the Mother of the Moon Child.

Joshua as soon as being told of this; contacted the Potters and Longbottoms. "James, Frank, I have another prophesy for you."

James looking thru the mirror at the older man, "You're certain it is one that is for us?"

Joshua looked at James, "James, Lady Grayson always remembers her prophesies, she told me that it was for the ones of her first one that sent us all on this path," Joshua had learned to listen to Amanda Grayson, she had saved the Bennett family much over the years, "James, she has been right so far."

James looked at Joshua, "Can you send us a copy?"

Using a small black box, a magical mailbox, Joshua placed the copy into it and tapping a rune the one in America glowed and as the glow faded the one in Britain glowed then faded. Frank being closer took the paper and handed it to James. "Joshua," reading the paper and once again the same or similar words were being used, "I can see that it is for use, but I don't remember anyone named Goodelove?"

Lily and Alice happened to walk into the room and hearing the name Goodelove, "James do you remember Xeno Goodelove?"

James looked at her, "The odd Ravenclaw that was always talking about magical creatures no one had ever seen?"

"Yes, he married Celeste Olivander." Lily smiled, "Celeste was the only one other than I that could give Simon a real challenge in potions."

Alice smiled, "If I remember she became a Potion Mistress that specializes in Potion Research." Alice remembered listening to the three friends, Simon, Lily and Celeste talking about the wonders of potions. "If I remember right she has a daughter named Luna. She was born in late august of 1980. So she is only a bit less than a month younger than Harry and Neville."

James looked at the paper, "The love good? You can see the use of that instead of Goodelove."

James face grew angry, "It looks like Dumbledore can't stop interfering in others lives."

Frank looked at the others, "We can't go to her or Xeno, and we are either believed dead or in St. Murgo's."

Lily smiled, "Well we can contact Simon and have him contact them for us, get them to go to Gringotts? I mean it worked to save Sirius and Sev?"

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A/N: I figure this is a great place for a small cliff. I will work on getting this resolved as soon as I can. Please read and review.

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22/6/2016

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