Evan froze as he saw James and Lily Potter speaking to lady Longbottom. This brought the attention of his parents who looked up from each other to see why Evan had stopped walking forward. They too froze at the sight. Loki got himself together first and said to Evan "Calm down little trickster, you will have to face them at some point whether it is now or in the future. Remember they cannot take you away from us. You are ours now."

Tony placed an arm over Evan's shoulders and said "We are here with you kiddo, you do not have to face them alone. Besides if they try anything I have a few gadgets that need testing. They will make the perfect test subjects."

Evan smiled at his parents as the feeling of safety encompassed him. He walked forward, toward their host with each of his parents on either side of him. The Potters had moved on into the ball room away from the receiving room. Following the etiquette his parents had been drilling into him he waited to be acknowledged by the adults. He was going to be taken to the other children where he would spend the rest of the evening making new acquaintances and connections for the future. Loki assured him they would always be within sight and if he wanted to leave he only had to say and they would go. Tony asked him to at least give mingling a shot before giving up.

This was how Evan found himself standing next to Neville Longbottom, the revered boy who lived, his ex twin brother who had made his life a misery and a few other pure blood kids. The conversation and familiarity of the other kids showed him they all went to the same school, the most obvious being Hogwarts. Alex sneered at him and said "What have we got here? Are you a girl or a guy? I can't really tell with all that hair."

The other boys laughed even though it was pretty clear on their faces and the fake laughs they didn't see what was funny, making it obvious that Alex was the resident bully. Evan didn't react as Alex wanted him to.

He kept his facial features neutral as he said "I am a boy of course. It is pure blood tradition to grow your hair and tie it back when you are an heir and seeing as I am an heir twice over its expected, not that I would expect you to know. You are only a scion of your family are you not? You do not even wear an heir ring."

The quiet that followed that statement was deafening, even most of the adults noticed and turned to see what was going on. Alex noticed the heir rings that Evan was wearing and gulped. He had not noticed them before and assumed because he did not recognise the boy that the boy was some half blood or muggle born seeing as the Longbottoms didn't discriminate on blood status. It seemed the boy he tried to bully was, if he recognised that ring on his finger, a Selywyn. His father had expressed how important it was to get them in their good graces. The family was powerful, rich and very recluse and despite the fact that they preferred to live in France they had several seats on the wizengamort and although it was not common knowledge they made the Malfoys look like powerless paupers in comparison.

With almost everyone's attention on him and knowing his father would not be pleased if he upset the Selywyns' Alex apologised. Evan raised an eyebrow at the whispered apology and said "Well I can see you never learned any etiquette either so I will accept your apology on the basis of ignorance."

Alex was red in the face, anger evident in his facial features but he bit his tongue as he realised he was actually making a scene with him in the center of it and it was all negative attention. James Potter noticed the commotion around his son and as soon as he saw who his son was talking to his face paled.

After not being able to find Harry he reversed the disowning hoping he could manipulate the magic and blood connection to find him and bring him home. The only way it would not work was if Harry was blood adopted or dead. Originally he had assumed he was dead as there was no trace of him and the only people who blood adopted were old pureblood families. This was the main reason he went to every gathering he could go to, to see if a particular family had gained a new member. Despite the differences in the face he looked at there was no disguising the color of Harry's green eyes. The coincidence of having another child with the same color eyes and the same age as Harry was slim. There was no denying it. This child was Harry.

Evan knew the minute James Potter put his identity together and realised who he was. He walked away from the children he had been talking to toward his parents who were still chatting to Lady Longbottom. James followed behind him and stopped in front of Evan and said "Harry?"

Evan stared back and said "I no longer go by that name. My name is Evan."

He turned to Loki who was closest to him and said "Dad can we go home now? I don't feel so well."

Loki wrapped an arm around Evan knowing he was finding it difficult being close to the man who had hurt him for most of his life. He pulled Evan close and said to Lady Longbottom. "I apologise my lady. It looks like we will have to cut this evening short Evan is not feeling well. We do hope you have a wonderful christmas."

Tony moved to Evan's other side effectively blocking any access James Potter had to him and said "Thank you for inviting us my lady."

Lady Longbottom knew there was more to it than what she could see. The desperation in James' eyes, the fear in Evan's and the anger in the two men she had been speaking with. Before she could word a reply Lily Potter arrived beside her husband and tried to reach out for Harry. ~"Harry, oh my god Harry! My baby!I..."

Tony blocked her access as well and said "I would appreciate it if you don't touch my son."

Lily shrieked and said "Your son? He's my son, I gave birth to him and you..."

Evan cut her off as he said "I am not your son, I never have been and I never will be."

The loathing in his eyes and voice stopped her cold. Even James was startled at at the venom in the voice. Loki decided enough was enough and took hold of Tony and Evan and said "merry Christmas, "then fire flashed them out of the manor, leaving a gobsmacked crowd wondering what just happened and how they fire traveled without a fire place.

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Evan was shaking by the time they flashed home. He was getting flashbacks of his time with James Potter and even though he knew James could not hurt him anymore he was still freaked out by being so close to him and Lily, she had been his mother and yet she did nothing to protect him. She may not have been the one to harm him but she turned a blind eye which was just as bad.

Tony sat on a couch with him and said "Oh Evan I am so sorry. We should have left the minute we saw them there connections be damned. You were not ready to face that confrontation just yet."

Loki cut in, "I agree, you are our first priority little trickster. I think from now on any confrontations shoud be between us and them, you do not have to go anywhere near them."

Evan was no longer shaking as he sat between his two dads and said "It's okay. I mean no-one got hurt and now that I have faced them once I will be better prepared next time, now that I know what to expect and ..."

The fire place buzzed signalling a caller and Loki turned to answer it. It was in the middle of the wall in the room so they did not have to squat down like most people to talk to someone in it.

There in the fire place was the French minister of magic. They were all puzzled at the call as despite the fact that they befriended the man he did not usually make fire calls. He smiled and said "Lords Selywyn, I hope you are having a good Christmas!"

Loki answered him "Good evening minister, what can we do for you?"

Minister "Well as you may have deduced this is not a social call. I received a call from the British minister of magic a few minutes ago. He informed me that Evan's biological parents want him back. They claim they have been searching for their son for a while now and that you illegally adopted him. They are willing to go to court to fight for him."

Evan waved his hand and summoned his medical history then said "Minister, the Potters thought me a squib for the whole time they had me in their custody, I was tortured both physically and mentally under the guise of forcing out my magic until they finally gave up and dumped me with muggles who they didn't even have the decency to speak to instead James Potter just left me outside their door and left. This was after him using the cruciatus curse to force out my magic. It took me the better part of two years to recover from the damage they did to me and the emotional trauma is something my new parents are working on with me. They only wanted me back when they discovered that they were wrong about me being a squib through the wand maker. I have my medical history that shows the damage they did to me and you know there are spells to see events in the past if this goes to court then I will make sure that the Potters not only lose their case but have the children they have with them removed for their own safety. Besides the only thing they want from me is control of the Peverell lordship and vaults, which crossed over James and chose me as lord."

Evan sent the paperwork through the fire place and sat down. The minister was shocked. The story he had been given did not say anything about abuse or vaults. They had made it sound like their son had been taken against his will from where his parents had left him and adopted to keep him away from them. He then decided he would look into the case and if the boy was telling the truth then he would inform the British minister he was not going to make the Selywyns to give up their son.

xxx

James Potter didn't stand around agape like everyone else. He quickly went to the fireplace and fire called the minister at his home and told him he had found Harry and who he was with as well as the fact that he was willing to go to court to get his son back. After getting reassurance from the minister that he would call the French minister and have the boy brought back to England he sighed in relief. Harry might be angry now but he would work on getting him to get over it.

As long as he got his son back he would fight for the forgiveness he knew he would have to beg for. Even Sirius and Remus might forgive him finally or at least start speaking to him again. His family had fallen completely apart because of his actions towards Harry and he overcompensated with Harry's twin resulting in the most spoilt child to ever live. He would have to write Dumbledore about getting Harry into Hogwarts he would be safe there. Lost in his musings he did not see the fury in Alex's eyes as he had finally realised what was going on. Lily was in tears and the rest of the guests had a new topic to gossip on. The lost Potter child found.

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The next morning found James sitting at the breakfast table having his first cup of tea of the day. An owl delivered a newspaper and the first thing he noticed was the caption on the front page making him grab the paper and reading it. 'MISSING POTTER FOUND, not all Potters seem happy with the find.' The paper went on to describe what happened at the party the night before and someone somehow got a picture of Alex with a sneer on his face as they left the manor. Realising he had not helped when he encouraged and rewarded Alex's bullying of Harry, it was not going to be easy when Harry came home. He would need to have a word with Alex about his brother to help him adjust.

The letter that arrived from the minister from the owl that came in a few minutes after the paper had him backpedaling his thoughts. The minister was furious for being lied to and was rescinding his offer to help get Harry back and if James tried to take Harry by force he would be arrested for kidnapping and have the two kids he had living with him taken from him. Within the letter was a diagnosis of the damage sustained from the abuse he inflicted on Harry. There was also a restraining order accompanying the letter. James Potter wept now confronted with the things he did to his son, Lily felt fury when she read the letter and stated she had not done anything to harm Harry why was she part of the restraining order. She would find a way to get her son back if its the last thing she did.

That same morning found Evan reading the same paper before burning it in his hand. He was annoyed that he had been found so soon, he knew he would not be able to hide forever but he had hoped he would at least have some time to get used to being part of his new family before getting thrown into the deep end of things. On the bright side the minister had sent them a letter that morning telling them that the Potters had no leg to stand on, they had absolutely no rights over Evan and the only way of them ever having Evan go live with them was if it was what Evan wanted. Evan had snorted at that and said 'fat chance of that happening.'

The Selywyns decided to forget about the unpleasantness that was the Potters until they absolutely had no choice and this resolution lasted for the next three years.