Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. It is JKR's baby and I doing the baby sitting.
Chapter 3
Moments before his world faded to black he read:
Dear Harry, our little Marauder. First let us say that we love you and we are sorry if your are reading this with out the two of us there with you. We will get the formalities out of the way first. I, James Harold Potter, and I, Lily Evans Potter being of sound mind do here by bequeath to Remus J. Lupin the sum of 1,000,000 galleons and the small cottage that resides in the Forest of Nottingham. To Sirius Black we leave the guardianship of Harry James Potter and will hold our estate in probate until Harry is of age and can take control of the Potter Trust. In the event that Sirius is unable to care for Harry, he is to be left with the Longbottom family. If these two families are unavailable, Harry is to be left either with his godmother, Minerva McGonagall or at The Little Lions wizarding orphanage in Wales, located on the northwest end of the Potter family property. Let us make this next part perfectly clear. HE IS NOT TO BE PLACED WITH MY ADOPTED SISTER PETUNIA DURSLEY. That is right Petunia is not biologically related to me.
What happened was, our parents had tried for years to have children but were unable to conceive. So they did what they could to have their own family, they adopted a baby girl, Petunia when she was 6 months old. Two years later the adoption agency asked my parents if the were interested and able to adopt a second child. After a short discussion, they decided to add a second member to their family. This is how I became an Evans. The only living people aware of this, besides James and myself, are Petunia, Sirius Black, Alice Longbottom, and Albus Dumbledore.
The reason Albus knows is, he is responsible for placing me with adoption agency. He was there when I was born and as my biological mother, Rose McGonagall, died. My biological father is unknown because I was the byproduct of a rape. Yes my mother was raped by a group of boys during her last year of Hogwarts. My real mother was a witch and her attackers wizards. They were led by a sycophant named Tom Riddle, who had graduated from Hogwarts fifteen years earlier. At that time there was no way to tell who the father actually was and my mother was Obliviated of all their faces except Tom's cruel smile and the knowledge of her being attacked.
As Harry read the last part of the will and letter informing him of his ancestry, his nervous system had had one shock too many in a short span of time and did the only thing it could to protect itself, it shut down causing him to faint dead away. This action caused to the other occupants of the house to fall into a jumble of reactions. Vernon was yelling is he dead, Petunia was screaming what is in the letter, Dudley just kept eating, The two new comers realizing that the young man had passed out simply stood up, walked over to the boy, picked him up, and headed up the stairs to place Harry in his bed until he awoke.
Remus look at Tonks when he heard the commotion inside and asked, "Did that come from the Dursley's?" Tonks nodded and they both took off like a shot. As they reached the front door the yelling got louder and they heard the words is he dead. With this statement Tonks shot a Reducto spell at the door and didn't slow down until they were inside.
The sights that greeted them was a happy Vernon, a hysterical Petunia, an oblivious Dudley, and two strange men. It seemed that one of the men were carrying the limp body of Harry Potter. Remus was the first to notice the strangers, raised his wand and said, "Stop, what happened here and where are you taking him." The one holding Harry continued up the stairs after receiving a nod from his elder. Remus went to fire a curse at the man carrying the young boy but found that he no longer had his wand and neither did Tonks. As he looked for his wand a small cough caught his attention. The taller of the two men was holding the two wands, one in each hand, handle out.
With this gesture the man spoke, " We have done nothing to harm our young lord and in turn mean you no ill will Remus J. Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks." "Let me introduce myself, I am DaZach, Lord Chamberlin to the throne of Avalon and my companion and apprentice is Alzander." " The reason we are here is to deliver the Potter's will and retrieve young Harry back to his rightful home."
He remembered James saying something about Avalon once but then played it off as a joke. He recalled that every summer James always disappeared for a month during summer holiday when they were back in school but never said where he went. One time when asked James replied that he couldn't say where he went until he reached the age of 21. After they left school no one questioned him about it.
Tonks responded first " What do you mean rightful home?" Remus being the intelligent man that he his, started to put the pieces of the puzzle together, stated so that is where he went to during the summer hols, more to himself than anyone else. Dazach heard Remus' comment and replied to the second statement first. "Yes, James would come to Avalon every summer to receive training and to be with the royal family. And Ms. Tonks what I mean by rightful home is Avalon is where Harry was supposed to be raised at least on a part time basis up until he assumed the throne." With this rejoinder Tonks followed Harry's lead and passed out on the spot.
After reassuring that Tonks was fine Remus started to laugh uncontrollably. The other people in the room looked at him like he had lost all means of sanity. Once Remus regained his senses, he asked somewhat jokingly "So this is why Harry is out cold upstairs?" The response he got brought him up short. "Harry has yet to read the second letter that was left for him. All he read so far is his parent's will and the part describing his mother's true heritage." With this declaration everyone in the room sobered up so to speak.
Remus was thinking "Oh Shit, once Harry wakes up he is going to have questions that I can't really answer. Petunia's mind was racing, "what the hell I am going to do when that old man finds out this happened and holds me responsible." Vernon was thinking there goes the new Jaguar I was going to buy with the freaks money. This last thought was caught by DaZach. He turned on Vernon and Petunia Dursley so fast no saw he move. With a fury in his eyes and a coldness in his voice that would scare the demons of hell he asked "What do you mean the freaks money?"
Petunia went from pale to see through and Vernon looked like fish gasping for air. As DaZach stalked towards the pair, Vernon started sputtering "I don't know what you mean." DaZach's response was just as cold as before. "I heard your thoughts about not being able to use the freaks money to purchase a new car. What do you have to say for yourself." At this point Vernon's stubbornness arose and shot back "The old man Dubledork or something or other gave us 15,000 pounds a year to look after the brat and to make sure he grew up mistreated. I would have done the last part for free."
Remus had to force down the wolf in him before he did something he might not regret after this last statement. After he finally gained his senses, responded "What do you mean the old man wanted him mistreated?" Vernon replied " we did not ask why when he started giving us money about the time we took him in." All conversation stopped with this comment. Everyone was slowly going over what they had learned.
As quiet fell over 4 Privet Drive, a raven haired, green eyed young man slowly woke from the biggest shock of his life.
Author's notes: For those of you wondering about Harry's fifth year, I didn't include that in the initial part of the story for a reason. Please bear with me on this. There will be different things that seem left out or omitted but I promise I will be sticking to canon through OotP for the main story line. To those that have reviewed I want to thank you. I will try to respond to as many as I can but don't feel slighted if I don't. They are appreciated. Please forgive me if I don't update as often as I have been, my wife, who is a teacher, will be proof reading my story when she has the time.