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It was three-thirty in the morning when they arrived.
Harry spent the last hour cleaning his home, making it look presentable for his nephew. He cleaned out Mister's litter box and the whole kitchen in general. After that he sweeped out the fireplace. He lit the fresh wood, giving the room a warm glow. The livingroom, his room, and the bathroom were all also cleaned. Lastly, he took care of himself. Shaved, showered, and put on some presentable clothes. He didn't want them to think he was a slob!
When he heard the knock, he had just finished getting ready. Exhaling, Harry went and opened the door. There stood an older woman, a giant, hairy beast, of a man, and an obscenely older man. The giant was holding a small bundle and weeping, carrying a bag over his shoulder.
"Mister Dresden, I presume?" Said the old guy.
"That's what they call me" Harry crossed his arms and leaned against the doorframe. "Want to come in?"
"Yes, that'd be ideal."
Harry led the three inside and shut the door. He gestured for them to sit on his frumpy, old couch and stoked the fire.
"So, details. About the kid. What exactly do I gotta do?"
"Well you need to feed, bathe, change-"
"Not that! I know about that, I mean, is there anything special I need to do?"
"Ah, I apologise. Hm... Well naturally he will go to muggle-"
"Muggle?"
"Non magical"
"Ah"
"Yes. He will go to muggle schooling, or you can educate him yourself. If he begins to expirience magical abilities, we will be alerted and he will be urged to attend Hogwarts at 11."
"Hogwarts... that's like, far. Will we have to move?"
"No, mister Dresden. It's a boarding school. You'll only need to drop him off and pick him up for summer and holidays."
"Oh. That's a lot easier. Kay, what else?"
"There is a strong chance some of the Dark Lord's followers will be after young mister Potter."
"Yikes"
"Indeed. But he will be safe. His blood relation to you will see to that. As cliche as it sounds, your love for him will keep him safe. That and you are a more than capable wizard yourself."
"Well, I don't like to toot my own horn..."
"Anyhow. We know you will take very good care of him. We collected his remaining clothing, food, toys and other items that survived the... destruction. You will recieve payments in the form of 1,000 US dollars per month."
Harry gaped.
"Where did you get that kind of money?!"
"Harry's parents left him a large fortune. That payment won't even dent it."
"Er... alright then. Anything else?"
"I believe that's all. I will send a professor here every once in a while to check in on how you two are doing."
"Sounds good, I guess. Don't really mind that."
The beast-man handed the baby Harry over, but not before giving him kisses and sobbing loudly. He also handed the older Harry the large bag of baby stuff.
The trio made their way to the door.
"We will be in touch, mister Dresden."
"Yea alright. Happy travels."
They left with that.
Harry sighed and sat on the couch, cradling his baby nephew in his arms.
"This is gonna be tough..."
He looked down into his nephews sleeping face. Adult Harry smiled a gentle smile and lightly rubbed the baby's cheek.
"It'll be worth it."
The two sat like that for an hour. Eventually Harry fell asleep on the ouch, but clutched tight to his nephew. The two slept soundly through the night.
Unaware of the figure outside of the window, watching.
