Harry Potter the 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 9

Simon Prince the former Severus Snape had been contacted by the Dursley's and asked to contact Celeste Goodelove to inform her that he wanted to meet her at Gringotts for the possible collaboration in developing new potions. He also asked her to bring her husband and daughter as well as he wanted to meet them and have dinner after the meeting.

The Rookery, the last holding in what had been a small vacation house that had once been the Lovegood Family, an old family that had fallen on hard times. The loss had been due to the last Lovegood, Xeno's father had been a supporter of the Order of the Phoenix and had given all of the families money and even sold the families seat on the Wizengamot all to support the Order, which meant Albus Dumbledore. It was in Xeno's final year at Hogwarts in 1977 that the family was destitute other than the Rookery, as it had been a gift to Xeno and Celeste from her family, the Olivander's. This lead the loss of the name Lovegood and Xeno having to change the name to Goodelove, it was the only way to save the Lovegood family magics from being sold as well.

The Gringotts owl that delivered the letter was unexpected, but the possibility of working with the youngest potion master in centuries, Severus Snape had completed his mastery right out of school, it had taken Celeste almost 4 years to earn her master. "Xeno," Celeste walked into the strange house that looked like a large chess piece shaped like a Rook, so it was called the Rookery, "please look at this letter for me, it seems strange that Severus Snape would be contacting me, everyone knows he left Britain years ago." Celeste was a tall beauty, her hair was a pale blonde and her eyes a deep blue the color of the sky.

Xeno took the letter and read it, "Celeste this seems to be a real, it was sent via Gringotts," Xeno was only slightly taller than his wife with wild pale blond almost white hair that looked as if it couldn't be tamed, his blue eyes showed deep humor and an honesty that few could look at and not feel they could be honest with him.

Little Luna who was eating the lunch her father had made for the small family looked at her mother and father and in her sweet songlike voice, "Mummy, Daddy, we should go, the winds tell me it is for the best if we go." Luna was a small girl with the same color of hair as her mother and the best of both her parents looks, she also seemed to know things others didn't. "If we don't go something bad is going to happen." Luna's parents had grown used to her, they knew she saw and heard things others didn't it was a combination of each family's gifts.

The Goodelove family had the ability to see the truth in things, and the Olivander's had the ability of Aura-sight , with Luna she was gifted with the ability to not only know what was true or a lie, she also was able to 'hear' the spirits in the winds, the spirits didn't always talk to Luna but they did always sing to her, this gave her a look of a person always daydreaming, but it wasn't daydreaming it was listening to the music of the spirits or the way Luna called it the voices of the winds.

Xeno and Celeste smiled and sat at the table and talked about going, it was not long before they had sent the response that they would be at the meeting. The Gringotts owl was quickly winging itself back to the bank.

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The Goodelove family dressed in high quality but brightly colored robes, Xeno in a bright multi-color ones, Celeste in a bright violet and Luna in a sky-blue set. The three drew many stares and whispered comments followed them all the way to the doors of the bank. Walking up to the nearest teller, "Greetings to you, honored teller, I am Xeno Goodelove and my wife has a meeting scheduled with Master Severus Snape." Xeno had made a respectful bow as he finished.

The small goblin looked at the respectful wizard and nodded, "Mr. Goodelove, I will summon one to take to the meeting." The teller touched a small crystal on the tall desk and soon a younger Goblin was escorting the three to a conference room, "Mr. Goodelove, if you and your family will enter, Master Snape will be with you shortly."

The three entered the room and noticed the richness of the furniture and the furnishings, it was much finer than they expected. The three found seats and quietly waited for the Potion Master to join them. It was only a few minutes when a very different looking Severus Snape entered, it was Severus Snape but he looked different, he had shorter, sandy blond hair and it was actually styled, and the Robes he was wearing happened to be extremely expensive and in a deep grey color, not the black he was known for while in school. "Welcome, Celeste, Xeno, and this must be Luna?" Severus was smiling and it was a surprise to the two adults, but Luna smiled at him and laughed.

"Mummy, Daddy, he is a good man, we should trust him." To Luna she was seeing a man with a bright aura of a man that loved life and wanted to help others. "I like him." Luna moved from the chair and walked over to him and smiled, "Can I get a hug?"

Severus kneeled down and gave the small girl a gentle hug and kissed the top of her head, "Miss Luna, you are a wonder. I am blessed to know you."

Standing and carrying the small girl back to her chair, helping her sit. "I am happy you came, I was informed that you might have been in danger, so mutual friends informed me and asked to have me ask you to come here." Taking the chair across from Celeste, Xeno and Luna, he sat and smiled. "I need to inform you that legally I am no longer Severus Snape, but I used the name you knew me as when we were in school, I am now legally Lord Simon Prince."

Celeste had been watching him all the time, her aura-sight had shown her the same thing Luna had seen, here was a very different man than the one she remembered while at Hogwarts, this was a man that was confidant as well as one that loved life and the sheer beauty of living. "So Simon, you were told we were in danger?"

Simon nodded, he might be a happier man but he was still had many of the mannerism of the man he had been. "I was contacted from old friends of not only myself but yourselves. They informed me that it was you Celeste that was in the most danger but your husband and daughter would have had to live with what was going to happen."

Xeno was watching and listening to Severus, no Simon, and with the gift of his family he knew that what they were hearing was true, "So we owe you and our un-named friends a debt, a life-debt." Xeno wondered who he knew that was a seer, Luna sometimes acted as if she was something like a seer, but he had long since learned that Luna was just one that had a gift of knowing. "I do not remember any seer that we went to school with, so if I may ask who told you this?"

Simon smiled, "I will need an oath from you both before I can share that information, it is vital that unless you do I cannot tell you." Simon hoped that they would give that oath.
Xeno and Celeste softly talk for a few minutes then smiled, "I Xenophilius Odysseus Goodelove, affirm on my magic that I will keep what I am told today to myself, my wife, my daughter and Simon Prince, so Mote it Be." With the oath a flash of a blue-white light, the acknowledgement of magic itself of the oath.

"I Celeste Andrea Goodelove nee Olivander, do affirm on my magic that I will keep what I am told today to myself, my husband, my daughter and Simon Prince, so Mote it Be." With the oath a flash of a blue-white light, the acknowledgement of magic itself of the oath.

Luna smiled, "I promise to not tell anyone of what I hear today." A small unexpected blue-white flash happened of magic's acceptance of her own promise.

The three adults had not expected the young child, without a wand make a binding oath. It showed that Luna was going to be a powerful witch. Xeno and Celeste moved to take the girl in to a hug all the time smiling. "Mummy, Daddy, I had to promise, the winds told me I had to." Luna's voice was full of laughter as she watched the three adults react to what she had done.

Simon smiled and now was certain this child was one that was needed, she was one that the others would need, the one that knew what others did not, and could not know. "As each of you has given your oaths, I can now call the others here to help explain."

"I wish to introduce you to persons, some you know and others you do not." Simon introduces each in turn, Vernon and Petunia Dursley, and a young Harry Potter; Francis and Abigail Lang with their son Nathan; the former Narcissa Malfoy now my wife, Narcissa Prince and her son Drake Centauries Prince; Steven Brand and his sister Isabella with her adopted daughter Hermione Granger; Richard and Patricia Lawrence with their son Douglas; Theodore and Andromeda Tonks and their daughter Dora entered and each soon took seats in the now available chairs.

Vernon and Petunia allowed the runic-array to stop masking their aura, smiled at Celeste, as Celeste smiled she noticed that these two had aura's she knew, and it was not possible, the two were dead. "James? Lily? It isn't possible you died?"

Soon they Dursley's were shown to be James and Lily Potter, and Francis and Abigail Lang turned into Frank and Alice Longbottom. James smiled at them, "Well we had to allow the magical world to think that, we will tell you the rest at the manor."

Xeno's gift was telling him that this was a story that one day would shake the very foundations of Magical Britain; no it would shake the foundation of the Magical Worldwide. "I for one can't wait to hear the story."

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Soon using a portable clockwork portal, the large group was soon at Bennett house in the Valley of the Mists in Scotland. It was a long story and in the end the Goodelove's would allow the Magical World to believe that Celeste Goodelove had died in a potion accident at the Rookery.

Soon Xeno Goodelove and Luna Goodelove would disappear from the Magical World and the Quibbler was now being published by a Xavier Goodegood, from an undisclosed location somewhere in Magical Britain. A Xavier, Clare and Lana Goodelove moved in to Little Whinging, Surry.

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A/N: This I hope explains the reason for the name change from Lovegood to Goodelove? The next chapter will cover the year before the children get the letter from Hogwarts, I will begin to show the first glimpses of Clockwork Magic, which if any of you are familiar with Steampunk you will see the similarities.

I made a slight change to Chapter 5. It is between Flitwick and the others.

I was using the title of MoB for Dumbledore, replace Manipulative old Bastard. Please read and review, as always I ignore all flames, you don't like the story don't read.

Thank you for reading.

1615 EDT

7/16/2016