New Life Needed

Chapter 9

Harry and Amy

Harry and Amy walked hand in hand through the corridors of Hogwarts and entered the noble House of Merlin. Gently, without needing any words, Harry led Amy to his mother. Lily looked up curiously at her son and the young woman he brought with him.

"Mum, this is Amy Liana Artemis Snape-Bartlett, my soulmate," Amy bit her lip in anticipation as Lily studied her. Lily then opened her arms and Amy hugged her future mother in law. When Lily let go of her she said

"I must say Amy you look a lot like Marion did when she was your age, she was a Hufflepuff in the same year as me." These simple words told Amy she had a true family again.

James

As James was spat out the black hole it was plainly obvious he would never regain his sanity. Feeling the torture he put his wife through was enough to do so, but feeling the pain his stepson went through and the victims of his son was too much and it pushed him over the edge. No more James Potter – especially when the Aurors took him away for GBH, child abuse, rape and use of the unforgivables.

Harry and Amy

As they chatted, a sudden thought occurred to Harry,

"How on earth did people manage to confuse me and Tommy? He wasn't 'Born as the Seventh month dies" nor was he 'Marked as his equal'…what on Earth happened there?" Lily shrugged.

"People believe what they want to believe. Dumbledore 'sensed' a lot of dark aura magic coming from Tommy or some other crap." Harry rolled his eyes, and then remembered something rather important…

He remembered the book he had discarded earlier. The Rules of the House of Merlin and the Advantages, by Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin.

If you are reading this book, then it means that you have been accepted into the house of Merlin, and that you are our heir and the future King or Queen of the Wizarding World…

Dumbledore

How could everything go so wrong? Dumbledore thought. He thought he had covered all areas of his plan, he thought the wizarding world would always be under his thumb, but the entrance of one man brought down all his plans. Damn Harry Potter to the seven hells!

The boy would need to be dealt with, that's for sure. But how? He, by legal rights, was emancipated. That also meant that Dumbledore could not simply send him to a family he knew he would be killed in… Damn him!

The entire room shook and Fawkes shook his head. Dumbledore didn't even realise that Fawkes had done away with the bond between them and replaced it with a phoenix bond with Elise. Right bonded him to Harry Potter and his soulmate.

Regulas Black

Regulas sighed as he made himself a cup of tea. Even though he had a new life he couldn't help but think how much he missed Lily. After his hasty departure and a kiss to his older lover he had heard of her marriage to one James Potter. He had also recently heard of the young Harry Potter, his newfound son. If he had known his soulmate and child were in so much danger, he would have gone to them immediately, Dark Lord be damned. Unconsciously Regulas fingered his Dark Mark while becoming lost in his thoughts, remembering when his father forced him to take the mark.

Amy Amy silently walked down to the dungeons and knocked on the private quarters of her father's door. Not bothering to wait for a reply she walked in and heard a light moaning from her father's room and whispered voices. Curiosity caught the better of her as she lightly opened the door.

There on the bed kissing her father was her mother, Marion Fleming.