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 11
The next year was one of change for everyone, the families had to separate. The need was to make sure that Dumbledore never had any idea that the kids knew each other, as the mundane world was not really monitored by the magical world. The Longbottoms left first, they left for the US in order to ensure the needed paper trail, well parchment that would fool the magical world.
In time the Longbottoms, Frank, Alice, Neville and Augusta returned from the US the story was that the America Magical Healers had reversed the effects of the attack that early morning; 2/11/1981 when Frank and Alice had been tormented into madness. Using a modified array they returned showing that they were not completely free of physical side-effects of the time spent being 'cured'. Neville would show up at Hogwarts wearing a runic-array that would make him seem a bit overweight as well as shorter and weaker than he truly was.
Frank and Alice stood outside the home they lived in for the last few years, "Can you believe that it's been almost 10 years that we have lived here?" said Frank.
Alice laughed, "Yes, it has been 10 good years." Alice was nervous to be going back to something close to her old life. These years away from the magical world had been full of laughter and wonder as her and her family became more and more comfortable in the mundane world. "First we head to the States then back here to Britain, and you and I testing to confirm we are who we claim to be, then testing to see if we still have control of our magic."
Frank smiled as he looked at her, "Yes, and then I have to take up the Lordship of Longbottom," laughing at that, "Frank Longbottom, finally becoming Lord Longbottom, not anything I ever wanted to have to do but in order for the plan to work I have to." Taking up the mantel of Lordship was not going to be easy; he'd have to deal with 'Pureblood fools', 'Dumbledore Puppets', and 'Neutral Fence Sitters', as well as a corrupt Ministry. "Alice after all this why do we have to do this?"
Alice looked at her husband, "We have to do what is right not what is easy, besides if we want to live in a world where mad men like Voldemort and Dumbledore, we need, no we have, be the ones to stop them." Alice hugged her husband, "Frank, I love our life now, but we have to do this," pausing for a moment, "Frank, if not for us, then Neville and the other kids."
Nodding to Alice, "Well it looks like the house is empty now, so we need to collapse the clockwork's and other magics." Frank and Alice follow the instructions that James had given them and soon the home of the last few years was magic free, all of the magical protections and enhancements disappeared and the building was once again nothing more than a mundane house. Soon the only magical object was a mirror that they shrank and placed into an enchanted bag. Frank knew that the mirror would soon be placed at Longbottom manor and the connection between the families would be recreated.
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Next were the Princes; Simon, Narcissa and Drake would move to Spinner's End, where by using clockwork redirection magic to appear to have lived there for the last 10 years. Simon would use the same type of array to appear to be the man Dumbledore expected him to be. He would finally take the job of teaching Potions at Hogwarts, but he would not take over Slytherin house.
Drake wouldn't need an array he was healthy but small for his age, as he would soon hit the expected growth spurt that would help him start to meet his expected growth. The years did have an effect on young Drake he was stronger with magic than a 'Pureblood' would normally be.
Simon looked at the home he and the woman he had come to love as much as he had Lily, "I never considered that I'd actually come to be comfortable in the non-magical world."
Cissy laughed, "You, dear Simon," she looked at the man she knew was one she had needed to get over the evil of Lucius Malfoy, "Simon, we both became comfortable in it. I love it now." Cissy had had to learn to do almost everything that a mundane woman would need to know to survive. "Now just how hard will going back going be? Magic solves many problems but it creates just as many if not more."
Simon looked at his wife, "Cissy," laughing at her softly, "did you ever expect to be looking at the world, the magical world this way?" Simon took a deep breath, "I was born in the mundane world and lived in it, even though my mother was a witch, but I was never comfortable in it until we had to hide in it."
Narcissa smiled, "I do know that it has made our son a better person," she smiled as she looked at Drake as he was helping to pack the few remaining things he was taking to the house at Spinner's End. "If I had never left Lucius, my son would be just as evil as him, this way we have a noble, brave but cunning boy, one that will be on the right side of this fight."
Soon the three would leave but the home would remain theirs, it would be the safe house if they needed to retreat to if they had to. This home had been filled with love, laughter and hope for all the years they had lived here, now it would be maintained by the house-elves and kept ready if needed.
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Next the Tonks moved back full time to London, the young Dora would finish her last year of school at a school in London. She also was due to training with other metamorphmagi from the States, she was able to hold her base form better, having learned to actually 'lock' her form so as to insure she would have perfect balance. Dora would also show why she would be a Hufflepuff when sorted; her sense of loyalty to the others would be the strongest aspect of her personality.
Ted and Andy smiled as the last of the personal things were taken by the house-elves back to the house in London, they would be going home, no not home, just a house that they needed to live in for a time. "Ted, I am going to miss Little Whiting," laughing at bit at that, "I never thought that living here would be so much fun."
Ted smiled, "Andy my dear it wasn't the place it was the friends and family that made this place fun." Ted wasn't looking forward to moving back full time to London but it was needed, they had to make sure that Dumbledore and others had no idea that they had been living here for the last few years. "I know we learned to live here," laughing, "and I have so many happy memories here, and Dora has been happy here."
Dora looked up when she heard her name, "Mom, Dad, you know we'll only be a portal away from everyone right?" Dora had long since locked herself into her true form, the long dark hair, and the deep blue eyes that made her a so much like her aunt Bella.
The Tonks like the Princes would keep the house here but move back to the homes that the Ministry recorded as the residence they had used seemed to live at. Ted laughed at Dora, "Yes Nymphadora Anne Tonks, just a portal away."
Dora laughed, after so many years dealing with the other kids she had come to accept her name, but she still preferred being called either Dora or Tonks. "Daddy, please don't call me that."
Soon the three members of the Tonks family were home in London and the next part of the plan to stop Voldemort and Dumbledore would begin.
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The Lawrence's would also move to a small community in Wales, this was for the same reason the others did to make certain that Dumbledore had no idea that the children knew each other. Young Douglas was never going to be the strongest of Wizard's but he would be very good at certain magic's; Runes, Arithmancy, Potions, Care and Herbology. He would be able to cast most of the practical housekeeping and personal magic with an ease that he would still be considered a very useful Wizard.
Richard was standing beside Patricia and looked at the small cottage they would be living in now, "Well my dear, it isn't the house we lived in from the outside but it will be home." It was a postcard cottage, it from the outside a normal Welch cottage, but inside it would be a magical home, larger inside than the outside.
Patricia laughed, "Richard," as she turned and looked at the man she knew so long now, "when will it end, the having to pretend to be the Lawrence's?" She had and did love her life but she also wanted to be known as the wife of Remus Lupin.
"Patricia, why would we stop, we have become these people, I for one like who we are now." Richard had grown stronger after the ritual that both bound and freed the wolf within, he was a happy man. "Pat, my love, you and I have better lives now than we would have before, now we have to make sure that others have the chance to have lives like ours."
Patricia smiled, "True, and look at Douglas, he isn't an arrogant, overweight slob like Vernon was becoming." Patricia smiled as she watched her son out flying on a broom. "My son is a Wizard, and I am a Witch, and I have you, my Wizard." Patricia laughed, she had in the years that had passed become the woman she was meant to be, the limitations that Dumbledore had set were gone and she was happy.
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Luna and her father and mother would move the Rookery to just outside Hogsmeade; this would be close to the Forbidden Forest but not actually inside it, it would actually be placed very close to the Shrieking Shack. Xeno and Luna, and her stepmother Clair would once again take over the active running of the Quibbler. Luna not having to watch her mother die and being unable to help her allowed her to learn to control and use her gifts and not be overwhelmed by them.
Clair the former Celeste smiled as she watched as the Rookery was placed at its new location, this would be better for them; it would be close to Hogsmeade and the forest. She wasn't happy that she had to pretend to be her own daughter's step-mother but in order for the plan to work she had to be Clair. Smiling as she watched Xeno finish with the placement and activating the new wards she knew her husband would have gone mad if she had died, and she knew that her darling moon-child would have never learned to use her gifts, but that never happened due to friends saving not just her but all of them.
Clair watched as a small building was placed near the house, it would be her and Xeno's offices. As Clair she would not be known as a spell researcher but a Xeno-Magical naturalist. The magical printing press would take up the basement of the new building and the offices for the paper as well.
Xeno after finishing the placement walked over to her, "Well my dear, do you think we will be able to start printing the new and improved Quibbler?"
Clair laughed, "Xeno my strange, loving husband, the answer to that is yes." Clair hugged the strange man that had given her a life of laughter and love, "Remember we have to wait till our friends tell us it is time to start the destruction of certain people."
Xeno smiled, he was looking forward to the publishing of the information he and the others had gathered over the last few years, he would be able to take down so many foolish and evil people and help with the eventually rebuilding of Magical Britain. "Clair my dear, I look forward to it."
Luna stood close by hidden just around the corner of the house, 'well my parents are happy, we are soon going to start the plan to make the dark know what justice feels like. Laughing at that thought, she walked over to her parents, "Mother, Father, I can sense the power of fate once again beginning to set things in motion."
Xeno and Clair had gotten used to Luna and her knowing what others cannot know. "Luna? Is fate going to be on our side or …?" asked her mother.
Luna smiled, "Mother, remember the movie we watched?" Luna looked at her parents, "There is no fate but what we make for our selves."1 Smiling, "I believe that you two changed fate when you decided to trust your friends, it made a new future for us not the one the old man wanted but one where we created, one of hope." Luna could still be a bit odd at times but when it did happen those that knew her understood it and accepted it.
Clair smiled, "Yes dear I remember, you just have to remind us now and then." She knelt beside her daughter and hugged her, "never change my dear; you always need to remind us what is true and what isn't."
Soon the three were inside the Rookery and unpacking and moving back into the home they hadn't used for the last few years; one of the first things placed was the mirror connecting them with the others.
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Hermione and Bella would return to what had been the Granger home in Oxford. Hermione would finish her last year in mundane school but this time it would not be a shy unassuming bookworm, but a confident, articulate young woman that would be able to make friends and be happy. Bella Brand would finish her mastery for Muggle Studies and using her connection via her 'brother' Stephen Brand she would have the job as the new Muggle Studies Professor at Hogwarts when her daughter and the other children started.
Bella smiled as she and Hermione once again moved back into the former Granger home, it had become her home long before the death of her friends and Hermione's parents. It had been so strange for her to learn just what it meant to be a mundane, they had advanced so much and had become in many ways so much more than magicals had, well at least here in Britain.
After placing the mirror and setting up the wards that were legal for her to do as she was an adult citizen of magical Britain, she was going to make sure that she and her daughter would be safe. Smiling as she set the family wards and thinking, 'I so hope the old man try to enter here, I'd love to see him slowly burn.'
Hermione watched as Bella placed and activated the Black Family Wards and felt them touch her and bind themselves to her as well as her mother. Hermione stopped and looked at the home her parents had built and felt sad for moment but smiled as she knew her parents were always with her, as a magical child she knew that those we love are always watching over us even after death.
"Mom, I miss my parents." Hermione walked over and hugged her mom, "I know that they knew I was a witch and you'd be here for me," looking at the former Bellatrix Black now Isabella Black, "they knew everything about who you where and what you became. I love you mom."
Bella smiled and hugged Hermione, "Mione, your parents in the short time I knew them loved you and as amazing as it was to love me as well." Bella had always wondered just what she would have become if she hadn't been freed from the Lestrange's, she was very happy that Lord Black, her uncle had freed her and her sister Narcissa from a life of pain and darkness. "Mione, you have to remember no magic around anyone until you head to Hogwarts."
Hermione smiled, "I know, but what when it is just the two of us here at home?" Hermione loved magic but also loved to just do things without using magic as well, it made magic just another part of her life not her life.
Bella laughed, "Well when you and I are home and it is just us then you know it will ok, as long as it is not with a wand it should be alright." Bella knew all but Douglas were more than capable of doing wandless magic, and to be honest even Douglas could do wandless magic with the simple household magics.
Soon the two would have the home ready and the next year would be both fun for Hermione and also the last year she would just be a normal mundane child.
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The year leading up to Harry getting the letter to Hogwarts was one of fun but sadness, he only was able to actually be with the other kids only on weekends, but that didn't stop them from using the mirrors copied from the design that the Maunders had used at Hogwarts to stay in touch.
Harry and the others worked on the plans for the Magical Airship RV via the communication mirrors and every weekend. Clockwork Magic was just one way of using magic but it did require an understanding of normal magic, as well as advanced magic that until he and the others were older just were not physically or magically able to cast yet.
'Vernon' and 'Petunia' began the plans to leave after Harry left for Hogwarts; they had to disappear so that when Sirius was freed and cleared he would be able to take over as his guardian, the plan required that. Over the years they had found that Dumbledore had buried ashes, not the manikin's remains. That one mistake would come back and make it even easier for them to take down Dumbledore as well as Voldemort, his Death Eaters and the corrupt ministry. The plan eventually called for the Potters to reappear and then and only then would the end of Dumbledore's plans would or even could happen.
Harry after getting the letter from Hogwarts laughed as he looked at the 'Dursley's", "Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, I have a letter." Harry was using the runic-array that made him look smaller than a normal child, as well as under-weight, plus the taped glasses and the 'curse-scar'.
'Vernon' looked at bit angry, they could feel Dumbledore's presence inside the wards as the letter had been delivered to the mail slot. "No, you are not going to that Freak School, no you're not."
'Petunia' walked over and took the letter and opened it, reading it slowly she looked at her husband, "'Vernon' we don't have a choice in this, they will come and take him if we don't allow him to go. I won't allow Freaks in my house other than this one, they cost us Dudley and I know they did something to keep us from having another child." Petunia looked at Harry, "You go to your room, we will talk later, you freak."
Harry left all the time acting as if the way the Dursley's actions and words was the normal way he was treated every day of the time he's lived here with them.
Dumbledore smiled as he stood by hidden with magic; Vernon and Petunia had become just what he had needed them to be, cruel, un-loving monsters toward Harry. 'It is perfect,' thought Dumbledore, 'when he arrives at school he'll be starved for love and I will slowly give him what looks like love, he will be the weapon I need to destroy Tom and then once again I will be the hero of the Magical-World and this time I'll use my plan to once again become a young man and then I'll never grow old and I'll eventually take over the magical world, first Britain then Europe then the world and eventually I will take over the mundane world as well, and then world will finally be what it was meant to be, one world ruled by one man, a man with vision, one for the Greater Good.' Dumbledore watched as the Dursley's talked about the letter and when he was certain they would allow Harry to go he used magic to once again strengthen the controlling charms he knew existed on the Dursley's.
The Dursley's felt the magic but due to the modifications of the wards had no effect on them, but they appeared to act on them they then called Harry down and after yelling at the boy they seemed to actually hit him, but due to the way the wards had been altered all that did happen were realistic illusions that Dumbledore saw.
'Perfect, no love, cruel words, physical punishment, the boy will be just what I need him to be.' Dumbledore then left silently and appearing back outside the gates of Hogwarts he laughed all the way back to the castle.
James and Lily after Dumbledore had left and making sure he hadn't left any hidden means to watch them allowed the array to deactivate and they quickly moved to comfort the boy, it had been hard to even allow the illusion to play out. "I so hate that man," James was angry, but he knew that Lily was even more angry than he was.
"Harry," Lily holding her son and feeling the arms of her beloved husband to hold them both, "now you see why we have done what we have, Dumbledore is evil, even more evil than Voldemort."
Harry hugged his parents and softly cried, it was hard to having to actually see and know that just how evil Dumbledore was, "Mom, Dad, I understand and taking him down and others like him is what we have to do."
Lily looked at Harry, "So soon you'll be living with Sirius and we'll be living in the Vale," Lily smiled, "then when you and the others get to Hogwarts you hit them hard and shock the hell out of them."
James laughed, "Lily, I thought the plan was to play it down? To go slow and then …" James had made plans for both, a slow buildup or a sudden hit hard and also blowing the minds of the Professors.
Lily laughed, "Damn you James, yes the plan is to go slow and build to the point to where the kids just shock the hell out of them, Dumbledore more than the others." Lily hugged her two favorite men and laughed. "So as soon as Harry goes to Gringotts or when he leaves for Hogwarts, is that when the Dursley's disappear?"
James smiled, "Well I think when he's on the train, that way we are gone from here by the time he gets to Hogwarts, this will make it harder for Dumbledore to find the Dursley's." James laughed at that, "Seeing as soon as we leave here the Dursley's disappear never to be seen again."
Harry smiled, "I understand now, that man is evil and as you have told all of us he is even more evil than Tom Riddle, Voldy was openly evil, and the old man hides his evil by pretending to be the leader of the 'Light'." Harry knew now better than he had that they had to do what they were doing, Dumbledore, Voldemort and the others that made it possible for them to exist and have power had to be stopped.
Harry when he sent the letter back accepting the place at Hogwarts didn't ask for anyone to take him to Diagon Alley, he would go but using a modified runic-array it would be him and his parents that would make the trip. The trip to Gringotts went as planned; except Harry had to have a new key created as he didn't have the key to the trust vault. Most of the books on the list were almost identical to the ones his parents had used so only a few new ones were needed to be bought. The robes were easy to buy as well as the potion supplies. Harry did find a beautiful snowy owl that as soon as he saw her had bonded as a true familiar, after reading a book he chose the name Hedwig for the owl, a friend that would live and be loyal to Harry for as long as it lived.
Soon Harry was on the train for the trip to Hogwarts. At the same time Harry was on the train the Sirius manikin was sent a signal that activated the self-destruct function as it just sublimated into a mist that was quickly carried away unseen by anyone.
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At the same time Aberforth Dumbledore was taking out garbage from the Hogshead Tavern saw something strange, a body. Looking at the body he knew whose it was, and was shocked no one had ever know what had happened to Peter Pettigrew, but here was his body and he looked the same as he had the last time Abe had seen him. Walking back inside the tavern he used the Floo to contact the DMLE.
Amelia Bones, the director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement was soon looking at the body of Peter Pettigrew and was wondering where he had been and why now would the body be found.
Alistor Moody had been called in as the special investigator on this case looked at the body and then at Madam Bones, "Director, the body has been under a stasis spell for years." Looking again as well as casting more than a few spells, "The boy looks to have been killed while under the Cruciatus Curse or something worse, every bone in his body is broken and the heart looks to have exploded. I have never seen a spell do that, but I have seen something like this before."
Amelia was shocked at what Moody had said; to die in so much pain it was inhuman. "Moody? Care to explain that?"
Moody stood and smiled, anyone looking at the scared face and not knowing him would call it a grimace of pain, "Well Director, I saw a man die this way when he tried to fight an unbreakable vow, it was terrible." Moody looked at the boy that he had liked and even respected, he hadn't been a strong Wizard, well not strong with spells but if he had been more than a muggle-born he'd have had a good job as a potioneer. "The boy was killed in a way that I'd not do to even the darkest Death Eater."
As Director Bones was finishing up the investigation she was informed that Sirius Black had escaped from Azkaban and was free. "Oh My God," she looked at Moody, "Moody get a team over to Hogsmeade at the station I want the students escorted to the school as soon as they get here, make sure that we have teams on the lake to protect the first years."
Director Bones looked at Moody, "If I hear that Dumbledore hears from about this I'll fire the person who does, that includes you Mad-Eye."
Soon Director Bones was at the school and telling the Professors and Headmaster that Sirius Black had escaped and the body of Peter Pettigrew had been found.
Dumbledore didn't show it but he was in a panic, what the hell was going on? Black escaping, Pettigrew's body being found, no one had even thought of Pettigrew all these years, all anyone knew he had disappeared just before the Potters had died. Losing Pettigrew had forced him to change the plan so that he would be the secret keeper and had had to use a trick to make sure Black was thought to be the secret keeper, he had had to make sure that Black was nowhere near Harry. Thinking a moment he soon remembered that Frank and Alice Longbottom had returned and … no both of Harry's godparents alive and able to take care of the boy. The plans on how to make Harry into the perfect tool, the tool that willing dies was in danger, what was he to do now.
A/N: final time jump before I start the time at Hogwarts. I will have the will reading happen as well as the knowledge that the Potters are not 'as dead' as expected.
At this time I will be making a few changes, as I see the need to alter the story as it was first written.
1 This comes from Terminator 3…
Please Read and Review and if you see a mistake tell me, just do so in a way that wouldn't make you angry if you read it.
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