A/N – Thank you for all the wonderful reviews, and all those who favorites, followed, and added this to communities. The list of everyone is now going to be moved to the bottom of the story as it is getting very long which is a great thing.
Disclamer: (which I often forget I think) I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER AND OR OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO. I do however believe I own my story line and ideas. (I say believe because more than likely somewhere at some time someone has written a story similar before. After all there are no new ideas. Just look at all the Law and Orders or any cop shows.)
LILY AND HARRY INTERACTION AHEAD!
Chapter Twelve:
Minstry of Magic, Auror Department, Afternoon December 5, 1983
The past two weeks had not been kind to James Potter's nerves. In fact the past two weeks had James Potter's nerves more shot than they were during the beginning of the war. Regulus' first plan to challenge Dumbledore with medical and or any type of asylum had fallen though. Meaning Regulus and Remus, with the sporadic help of the others, were scrambling to find any answer. They had come up with two, but they were two answers none of them wanted to face. The first being to send Harry back, maybe having James and Lily go along. But with questions on the legality of dimension travel in other dimensions that option did not sound very appealing.
The second however sounded even less appealing, because the second option was calling a case in front of the Nine Worthies.
The Nine Worthies are the nine pendical families in the British Magical world from its creation. A time centuries before even Hogwarts was built. The Nine Worthies were the Magical Britain's pillars on which the society was created. They were the families who owned Muggle land on which they protected magical until such a time they decided to separate themselves and create their own separate society. The Nine Worthies were as followed, according to the date they entered the agreement of creating a separate world and establishing a Ministry.
The Most Noble and Ancient House of Black,
The Most Noble and Ancient House Prewett,
The Most Noble and Ancient House Bones,
The Most Noble and Ancient House Zabini,
The Most Noble and Ancient House Greengrass,
The Most Noble and Ancient House Potter,
The Most Noble and Ancient House Diggory,
The Most Noble and Ancient House Flint,
And finally The Most Noble and Ancient House Yaxley.
In creating this new world they agreed upon a power based system that kept their family heads powerful over the magical world. After they instated a working ministry the next generation of Nine's took a step back allowing the Ministry to run the country. Yet the power of the Nine never subsided. It was still known that the Nine held power above all workings of the Ministry.
In the height of power the Nine took no slow action in ridding themselves of Politicians they felt would challenge there power and or bring danger to the Magical community, however, this all ended in their quick decline in power during the war on Grindelwald.
Specifically their decline began when Grindelwald brought together his army from the Knights of Walpurgis. This event resulted in the breaking of the Nine due to blood purism. An issue so inconsequential to them up till that point, yet so powerful that would end up destroying them.
The Houses of Black, Greengrass, Flint, and Yaxley proclaimed themselves as blood purist. The houses of Prewett, Bones, Potter, and Diggory soon after became proclaimed themselves as blood equalist a term soon lost by the more popular slur of blood traitors.
The Zabini's left their family estate in England during the war to stay out of the politics of battle. Instead they fled taking to the manor they owned in Italy which was much more isolated and away from the power of the British Ministry of Magic. In doing such they removed the family from the debate about purism or equalism Grindelwald brought upon the magical world.
When they returned years after the fall of Grindelwald the family held off on placing themselves to either camp staying quite neutral even during the war on Voldemort. The Zabini's never spoke for or against either side, and in return both sides did not attack the manner knowing that act would only push the family to their opposition's side.
After this decline the Nine had not been able to reach decision on anything they had called a case on. One such was the move for impeachment of the first Muggle-Born Minster, Minister Nobby.
A calling of the Nine would most likely result in disaster on a momentous level. The press would have a field day with the fact the Nine were gathering and hound every family to get information about the case they took and or information on arguments with in the group. Speaking of witch another problem would be the arguments between the Nine themselves due to the distrust everyone regarded each other with would be at an all-time high, and more so than that the chance the group could come to a decision in less than a month was an unattainable notion. As the days sped past it was however beginning to look as if the Nine would be the only option to save Harry from his fate. Sirius had been saying as much to James before the elder Potter blanked and became unresponsive.
"Jamie," Sirius said as he slipped into the desk staring at the blurry eyes of his partner. All of the worse cases the duo had gone though the past two years were spread over the desk. There were seven total, only five of which got relatively happy endings for the children involved. Two cases saw some justice for the children post-mortem. All seven were part of the kidnapping cases, each more horrible than the last. The Auror department knew there was one person who was running the operation however the 'main' kidnapper distributed the children and those he distributed to would not turn the man over. Even for less prison time or no prison time at all. Therefore the operation went on, with the department playing catch up.
"Jamie," He repeated his voice a bit louder.
"James," He was practically yelling now and only the slightest of flinches told him James was listening.
"Rape," James whispered, "hexes, curses, unforgivable , starvation, lack of hygiene, infections" he rambled off all of the things found in the cases in one go Sirius raised his eye brow in question.
"Extremely malnourished, dehydrated, iron - deficiency anemia, Concussed, multiple infections, bad eyes, 3 broken ribs one partially healed, fractures in legs and arms and bruised hip bone, Irritant dermatitis, curse scar binds on his core." Sirius paled considerably, he knew that file.
"Jamie," Sirius said moving to rest an arm on the man's shoulder.
"I am a damn f*ck up." The other man leaned down to run his hands though his hair.
"James," Sirius said his tone almost berating.
"I can't protect him in any world Sirius. Not here, not there. This stuff is so foreign to me it might as well be damned runes."
"You weren't able to protect him James." Sirius reminded.
"I SHOULD HAVE BEEN! I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PROTECT HIM. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO NOW, Merlin's balls Sirius I should be able to help him," his eyes where unfocused. Sirius moved to grab his friends shoulders and offer some kind of comfort by his presence.
"You are," He assured James. s
"No Sirius you are. Mary, Remus, and Regulus are, You all understand him and he trusts you."
"He's never met Regulus and I am pretty sure he is pretty wary of Remus,"
"That isn't the point." James assured.
"You are right because there is no point, James he has known Mary and me longer of course he is a bit more attached at the moment. That will change."
"He threw me across the damned room!"
"Is a scared little boy James, an abused scared little boy who has no control over his magic. You scared him he reacted the only way he knew how to give him enough time to run. There was no conscious thought and or vindictive motive." Sirius said.
"But,"
"But nothing, Jamie you only met him less two weeks ago. I have known him more than a month of course he is more comfortable with me he has known me longer."
"Whose fault is that," Silence fell quickly James moved to take back the words.
"Mine, and I have never denied that."
St. Mungos, Afternoon December 5, 1983
The Freak named Harry was quite confused.
Such confusion was to be expected, after all he was only three his brains capacity to accept change was only so big. He was trying very hard not to be bad and react badly to the attention of his 'parents' a term that for the most part was still foreign to him. He tried to do his best but he did not think he was very successful in his attempts.
Because, most nights when the two left the hospital he heard them cry.
He did not really understand why the Mummy and the Daddy cried at first. His initial reaction is he must have done something wrong. After all they were fine when they came in and they cried when they left. So logically, in the three year olds mind, he must have been the cause.
He fingered the wet spot on the colored picture in the story book the red headed woman had brought along with her yesterday. The soft pad of his finger touching it as if he expected the page to still hold a kind of of wetness to it. His green eyes narrowed as his eyes traveled over the rest of the page.
"Harry," the small boys head snapped to take in the presence of doctor lady.
"You are distant today aren't you? Do you want to tell me what's wrong?" Freak named Harry just blinked in response.
"I doubted it." She said with a sigh. "Your Mummy is coming early today and bringing some toys for you." Doctor lady said, in the past few weeks she had begun to announce the daily presence of his parents to the small child as if to prepare him. As she continued to do so she did not quite know what the point was. Harry seemed to take to them fine. So he had yet to speak to them but other than Sirius the small boy had yet to speak to anyone else either.
"Sounds like fun doesn't it, I just may have to stay for that. Riveting I assure you." Harry's face pulled together slightly at the large word, he could not understand it but it sounded funny to him.
"Good afternoon," The voice of the Mummy carried she took in the sight of the untaken potions her eyes lit up the slightest bit at the thought that like any other three year old Harry might be beginning to protest the many potions he was fed.
"Why look whose here, say hello to your Mummy Harry," Harry turned to stare at the Mummy instead of the doctor lady but offered no change in facial expression.
"How are you today Harry?" The Mummy asked in her sweet voice. Freak named Harry liked her voice. It sounded nice and warm like the chocolate the man's friend gave him when he came to visit those few times.
The man's friend looked at Freak named Harry weird sometimes, sometimes his eyes where brown like his hair and other times they were gold. When they were gold he spoke differently and called Harry 'pup' or 'cub'. He always spoke in odd sentences as well. Such as 'Pup feel better,' or 'Cub need to eat now'. The doctor lady always huffed when she saw that and made him leave the room quickly. Freak named Harry wished he didn't. He liked the gold eyed man's friend more than the brown eyed Man's friend. The brown eyed man's friend did not talk as much and when he did it made Freak named Harry's head hurt. He spoke in big words that Freak named Harry could not understand. He tried to be better though and use big words only once and a while. When the doctor lady's friend, who looked like the man, came those few times he spoke in very big words Harry couldn't understand at all. He smirked a lot as well and liked flustering the doctor lady. Harry did not know if he liked the doctor lady's friend all that much.
He turned back to face the doctor lady who answered the question for him as she often did. "Contemplative today aren't we Harry." She said and the boy pursed his lips, another big word he couldn't understand.
"He has been staring at the book you brought all day. If I didn't know any better I would say he could read." Mary said Lily say the picture from the side of the bed and let out a soft sigh as she walked to sit Next to Harry and place her own hand on the book.
"All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot. And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on." Lily read her voice ever so choked by the words. Harry watched her with an inquisitive look as if trying to figure out why she was affected by the story so much.
After all he had heard her read it for the better part of two weeks. She only ever cried the first time she read it and Sirius told him that it was because of other Harry. Was this because of other Harry as well? He looked toward the Doctor Lady who was not looking in their direction and pouted slightly before turning back to the page.
He saw another tear splash against the book and moved to touch this one before it was no longer wet. As he touched the small wet spot another fell on his finger. He looked up at the face of the Mummy and saw a wetness on her cheeks. He reached out slowly his hand stopping inches in front of her face as he turned his head slowly to the side.
"They are tears Harry, eyes tear when people are sad, or hurt, or scared, or happy, or overwhelmed, or embarrassed. Really there are a lot of reasons." She explained and the boys hand fell his eyes searched her own for more information however, she looked in the eye of the boy she had only known for all of two weeks. But if felt like a life time, she reached to grab his hand but ended up clasping her fingers around the small boys wrists. He flinched a bit and pulled back slowly she allowed his wrist to leave her grasp.
"These are happy tears Harry. Very happy tears,"
"Harry, we need to get these potions in you." The Doctor Lady said softly as she pulled the boys attention back to her allowing the Mummy some time to compose herself. Six potions later and the boy was handed his lunch. He ate slowly as the woman talked about things, apparently a Neville was coming tomorrow because the Mummy had to watch him. Freak wondered what a Neville was but did not ask, he would know tomorrow when he met a Neville. He wondered if it was like the other things the Mummy brought. The second day she had brought the one thing Harry had missed the most.
A small blue blanket now Unfourtaitly it was not his blanket that kept him save during long nights in his cupboard, this blanket had a lion embroidered on the end of the right side and his did not. However, it was similar enough to become a new safety blanket for the small boy. It never left the hospital bed, but when he was on the hospital bed it was always in his hand. She had brought different types of toys and books and clothes on other days to make the small room seem more child friendly. The small boy barely touched half of the things but in the constant small gifts he had found one or two he enjoyed, the blanket and the book being among those.
After the boy finished eating the Mummy placed the plate on the bedside table and helping him from the bed and shooing him to the restroom as she always did. A few minutes later the boy would reemerge with washed hands still dripping wet and look to where the Mummy sat on the floor this time with small blocks in front of her. The plan was originally for the two slowly began to build the blocks knocking them down after they were all stacked. Well at least they attempted to. Freak named Harry was not as much of a fan of playing himself rather having the Mummy build and knock down the blocks as he collected them and brought them back for her to do again.
As the afternoon passed slowly the boy began to help build the tower as well slowly finding out the exact way to make all of the blocks stay together without falling over. He had practically finished that task when the door opened to reveal a stressed yet smiling James and Mary as she made her last rounds. Harry placed the last block on the tower in a crooked short of way that would never stand by itself without magic. Mary raised her eyebrows in a non-verbal question as she awed at the block tower. Lily raised her hands and discreetly nodded her head toward Harry. Mary waved her wand murmuring a spell neither Lily nor James caught and Harry began to glow a soft golden color and all three adults took in a shuttering breath. As the last brick was set on the tower without him touching it, seeing as the blocks were now well above his head, a rare smile spread across the boy's face in a serene type acceptance they rarely saw.
Lily slowly moved from where the boy was basking in his own work as Mary went to talk to him the red head raised herself to her toes and kissed her husband on the cheek.
"He," James gasped.
"Just completed his first controlled burst of accidental magic," Lily smiled tucking her head into his shoulder.
"Unbelievable," James chuckled breathlessly.
"Well he is your son." Lily laughed.
"That he is, wait till I get him a broom,"
"You are impossible James Potter."
"But you love me all the same Lily Potter."
"Twenty nine days."
"We're going to save him Lily,"
"How?" She asked her green eyes turning to him and boring into his. It was those green eyes he could never say no to. Those green eyes he had loved since first year. Those green eyes he had been so happy to see changing from the bright baby blue they had been when their Harry was only an infant. The green eyes that chilled him to the core when this Harry seemed to stare right threw him.
"The Nine, I have to go talk to Sirius, I will be back in less than an hour,"
"James you aren't making any sense."
"I will later. I love you."
"James," Lily huffed watching as her husband disappeared from the room, Harry and Mary where both watching her. She huffed and tossed her hair over her shoulder.
"I swear to you Harry your Daddy will be the death of us." The boy looked at Mary who began laughing at the statement. Then back at Lily who was also laughing.
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