Chapter Six: Our Son, The Wizard Part II

-Five Years Old-

"Who the hell are you?" Tony snapped as he put a reassuring hand on Pepper's shoulder. "And how did you get in my house?"

"I already told you my name, Mr. Stark," Albus said politely without blinking. "And I used floo power to transport myself from my fireplace to yours. Molly, you may go now thank you."

Molly gave them a small smile. "I am terribly sorry for deceiving you like this." she quipped as she grabbed a sleeping Ron. She threw some powder from her pocket into the fireplace and Pepper stepped back in shock when Molly went into the flames and disappeared.

"Don't be alarmed," Albus said amused. "Molly wasn't injured and I apologize for using her without your consent so that she could monitored Harry and give me some update about his lifestyle."

"And what does Harry have to do with any of this?" Tony snapped. "You are out of your mind if I'm going to act like it's perfectly fine that I let a strange woman watch over my five year old son and letting some crazy psycho get into my house!"

Pepper tightened her grip on Tony's arm. "Call down, you will wake up, Harry."

"Perhaps you should put the boy to bed, Miss Potts." Albus said.

Pepper nodded as she went to pick up Harry while whispering in Tony's ear. "Behave."

Tony rolled his eyes as both him and Albus watched Pepper take Harry to him room.

"Ok, Merlin you have five minutes, what really is going on?"

"Please sit down, Mr. Stark."

Tony shook his head in a mocking way. "I think I rather stand."

"Very well. I was the one that left young Harry on your doorstep-"

"You already said that." Tony interrupted.

"But I'm not finished." Albus finished. "The reason that Harry was left on your doorstep was because he was left an orphan when both his parents Lily and James Potter were brutally killed by Lord Voldermort."

He blinked. "Lord, who?"

"Voldemort, he was a very powerful, very malicious wizard that caused many deaths, he was killed five years ago, or so they say." he gave him a small, knowing smile. "Harry's only living relatives didn't want him and I thought placing him with you would let Harry better adapt to his lifestyle and prepare him for being different."

"What do you mean by different?"

"Harry is a wizard, Mr. Stark." he said calmly. "Both his parents were wizards and Harry is one as well. His powers are just beginning to develop and I hope you don't tell me you don't believe in wizards because I myself have showed you at least one method that makes me a person out of this world. Harry will begin going to a British school called Hogwarts at the age of eleven, so it would be a total of seven years of schooling."

"And you expect me to believe that all of this garbage you're sprouting is true?" Tony snorted. "I didn't make my fortune and avoided getting killed by trusting every idiot I saw. As for being a wizard, Albus I believe you. . .you do have freaky abilities. But I don't believe that Harry is one."

"I have proof." Albus waved his wand and a box appeared in front of Tony. "Open it."

Tony hesitated before pulling the box open and pulling out several photos of Lily and James with baby Harry along with various articles of the Potter family, the boy who lived, and Voldermort. The words wizard, Harry, and family seemed to pop out.

"I can't believe this." he murmured.

Albus put a reassuring hand on Tony's shoulder. "I know that this can be quite overwhelming, Mr. Stark. Surely not expected, but you can't tell me that you've haven't had some doubts about Harry's. . .origin."

"Well, yeah," Tony admitted. "Some things, but I never thought that he would end up a wizard I just thought he had some weird genes or something. Finding out he's not normal, well I wasn't expecting it."

Albus put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "Wizard or not, Tony Harry is still your son. He still loves you and I know you and Pepper love him as well. You treat him as your own. To him you're his real father, Harry, not James entirely though he is his paternal parent. But Harry has never meet James, to him you are his father and no one else. You're doing a good job raising him."

"Are you all right?" Pepper asked gently as she slid in next to Tony.

"Hmm?" Tony looked at her and sighed. "No. . .yes. . Maybe. It's just hard to put everything into perspective."

Pepper smiled. "It's hard to take in all at once, but it could have been worse."

"Our son is a wizard and you don't think that's bad enough?" Tony snorted. "Pepper, I thought we went through enough already. All of us are weird enough as it is, I just thought that at least Harry would be the normal one in this."

"Things don't always work out as planned," Pepper snuggled closer to him. "He is still your son Tony, wizard or not."

"I know," he said. "I'm not worried about that, I'm more worried about how we are going to tell him, how on earth are we going to tell him that he's adopted and that he is a wizard?"

"In time," Pepper said. "We still have a few years to figure it out."

"That's not enough time."

-End of Chapter Six-