Harry Barton
AN:As always thank you to those who have reviewed I appreciate every one of them.
Sorry about the long wait for this chapter, a few things came up and my inspiration went missing, but it seems to be back now, hopefully it won't be such a long wait to the next chapter but I can promise nothing. I know now exactly where I am going with this story and have the next few chapters outlined as well as an overview of the story, so hopefully the next chapter will not take so long to write.
By the way what did everyone think of guardians of the galaxy. I thought it was amazing, one of there best films yet.
Allietheepic7: Am trying to improve the way I write, hopefully this chapter will be easier too read.
Little-bast: Don't worry, Hermione has no romantic feelings for Harry or vice-versa.
Chapter 10: Reunions and Holidays.
Dumbledore stumbled slightly as the portkey deposited him outside of Nurmengard's wards. He walked up the winding path a small smile gracing his lips as he thought about seeing his lover again. The guard held up his hand and Dumbledore stopped he knew the rules and handed over his wand. He kept the Elder wand hidden, it always amused him to think that he got one over on the guards by handing over his second wand. With the wand handed over, the guard stepped aside and allowed Dumbledore to enter the prison fortress.
Dumbledore stepped through the archway into the prison, it was a huge black structure reaching up into the sky the four walls seemed to close in on anyone who entered, no light permeated through the door or from the open sky, if it wasn't for the torches flickering creating a eerie glow the prison would be in complete darkness. Dumbledore started up the steps that ran up the wall the twisted up the four sides as the rose. The moans and murmurs of prisoners long since forgotten about filled his ears but he blocked them out as he always did, intent only on reaching the highest level of the prison. As he ascended higher he resisted the urge to look down, there was a compulsion charm on the stairs that anyone who looked down would have the irresistible urge to jump, this was a safety feature designed as they believed that if anyone managed to get out of their cell, they wouldn't have the strength of mind to resist the compulsion charm. Hurrying so he wouldn't have to hear the pitiful noises that were coming from the cells.
He ascended to the highest point of the prison and eagerly pushed open the door. He froze when he saw the empty cell and let out a scream of anger and frustration. Striding into the room his magic whirling angrily he picked up the note that was left on the bed.
Dumbledore you've fucked me over for the past 60 years, now let me return the favour.
With a growl of anger the note set itself on fire and strode out of the room intending to find who had let Grindelwald walk out, and who had ignored his instructions for not visitors except himself.
While Dumbledore was furiously screaming at the guards at Nurmengard he had no idea that back in England events were being set in motion that could ruin him. Amelia Bones, director of the DMLE sat in her office awaiting two of her aurors who had requested a private meeting with her. She was unsure of what it was about but from the request she knew it was important. There was a knock on her door and her secretary stuck her head around the door.
"Madam Bones, Aurors Tonks and Kingsley here to see you" Amelia nodded "Show them in please Claire" Her assistant nodded and held the door open. Aurors Tonks and Kingsley walked in, accompanied by Officer Shaw.
"Madam Bones" the two Aurors greeted with a short nod of their heads.
"Tonks, Kingsley, I assume this man has something to do with why you wanted to talk to me" Tonks glanced at Kingsley who nodded.
"Madam Bones, this is Officer Shaw" they shook hands in greeting "Yesterday he arrested The Dursley's, the family Harry Potter lives with over the summer" Madam Bones looked up sharply "Do we know where Potter is, I still want to talk to him but in seems Dumbledore is blocking all attempts for anyone to contact him"
Shaw nodded "I can guess where Potter is, but where he is exactly I wouldn't be sure, perhaps the Goblins at Gringotts know how to contact him" Bones looked conflicted but nodded.
"I shall contact the Goblins and see what they say most likely they will refuse to give out details of a client, but now I want to know why you're here and why the Dursley's have been arrested."
Shaw grimly nodded once and opened the file that he had brought with him. "Yesterday I had the Dursley's arrested for Child abuse and neglect. I also have a file here about there finances" he handed the file over and Madam Bones drew in a sharp breath. "They we're being paid to keep Harry there"
Shaw nodded sadly "It seems that way yes, but worse is who authorised those payments"
Madam Bones looked up warily "I'm not going to like this am I?"
Shaw shook his head sadly "It was Dumbledore" Bones turned white and just blinked not knowing what to say "It gets worse I'm afraid" Shaw continued his voice apologetic "It turns out he sealed the Potter's wills and knew that Sirius Black was not the Potter's secret keeper"
At this Amelia Bone's face hardened "Are you saying that Dumbledore has been deliberately engineered everything to keep everyone away from Harry who could help him" Shaw nodded "It seems that way yes" Madam Bones dropped her head into her hands and sighed "Ok, leave your files with me, I will take it from here" Shaw nodded and stood to leave "Oh you should also know there is no chance of the Dursleys getting off they're going to be sentenced at the end of the week as no lawyer wants to defend them" Madam Bones nodded and Shaw left the office.
Madam Bones leaned back and sighed before looking to Tonks and Kingsley "Was there anything else that you required from me?" She frowned slightly as she saw the nervous look cross both her employee's faces.
Kingsley was the one who spoke first filling her in on everything that the order had started to do before they had realised that Dumbledore didn't seem to care. Madam Bones seemed to age before them. "So your not only telling me that Voldemort's back, but Dumbledore may have his own side in this fight and our minister is refusing to believe anyone or the reports about people going missing"
Tonks nodded "That about sums it up Ma'am" Bones sighed deeply and leant back "Ok I'll need a couple of days to think about this. Tonks return on Thursday, I'll have made my decision then" The two Aurors nodded and left the office.
Fury stood at the end of the meeting room talking quietly to Coulson as the Avengers team slowly filtered in. He nodded to everyone as they entered.
"Ok I'll keep this short, I know your not my soldiers but we need to de-brief, do we know what happened out there or what cause it?"
Steve took the lead as he so often did and shook his head "There we're no identifying marks on any of the men or the building, so I don't think it was Hydra, their soldiers always like to tell everyone that they are Hydra."
Fury nodded "That does seem to be their method, do we know anyone else who could have pulled this off?"
Steve shrugged "There was no evidence of who could have pulled this off, my best guess is that they were mercenary's that we're hired by one of our enemies"
Fury nodded. "Agent Coulson, any ideas?" Coulson shook his head, "None" he replied "Other than they had training equivalent to our best operatives, as in they had specialist training, but I don't know where from, they barely spoke half a dozen words, but English was obviously not their first language"
Fury sighed "so they could have been hired by anyone, Ok I want you all to keep your ears to the ground and see if anything turns up, I've got a team going over the site where you were found Coulson"
Coulson looked pensive for a moment before asking "Sir I'd like to request that my team travel back to help, we've been there before and might be of some help"
Fury thought for a moment before nodded "Go, take your team, report back the minute you have something" Coulson nodded and hurried out the room as Fury turned back to the face the room. "Is there anything anyone else believes needs to be said"
Clint spoke up stretching his shoulders and back while everyone else shook their heads "We need to find out who these people where any why the captured Coulson's team, I mean can we just rule out that it was just a opportunist attack by some people who don't like us?" The room fell silent, no-one had seemed to consider that and ever Fury looked slightly shocked by the idea.
"I shall look into, for now you should all go and relax and try not to get into any trouble" he said this last part while looking directly at Tony who just grinned and shrugged in an I can't help it kind of way
"Dismissed all of you" Fury barked. As one the members of the Avengers stood and with nods and Fury left them room.
Harry was pacing the living room worried about his father. "You'll wear your shoes out by doing that"
Harry stopped and looked up to see Jane standing in the doorway looking at him.
He gave her a small smile "If you can figure something out for me to do, then I'll stop, but until then I'll keep worrying" Jane smiled, and moved over to one of the couches and sat down.
"Well I could use some company" she said. Harry looked conflicted for a moment before moving at sitting awkwardly at the other end of the couch.
"So you want to talk about what's bothering you?" Jane asked gently after a few moments of silence.
Harry looked conflicted for a moment before speaking "I don't know how to deal with this, the worrying about someone I care about, it's never happened to me before"
Jane look confused "But what about your family, your friends back in England, have you never worried about them?" Harry grimaced "My relatives" he said with as much disdain as possible "Wouldn't have cared if I dropped dead in front of them, as for Hogwarts, normally it was me who was in danger of getting hurt, or when I was worried I was there with them able to help. Just sitting around helpless is new to me"
Jane nodded sagely a look of understanding crossing her face. "So it's not the worrying, it's the not being able to do anything about it" Harry thought for a moment before nodding. Jane smiled slightly "Well it's something you'll have to get used to unfortunately"
Harry just sighed "That's what worries me, I don't want to get used to it, I don't want to get used to the last remaining member of my family going out to here, there and everywhere and putting himself in harms way without me being able to do anything about it"
Jane smiled sadly and nodded "I know I worry that I will as well, I guess you just need to find something to do while they're out, to try and block the worrying rather than stop worrying."
Harry nodded and smiled "Thanks, I'll think about it" He stood up. "I need to stretch my legs, I'm going to wander around the tower for a bit, thanks for talking" Jane nodded and turned to look out the window as Harry left the room.
Harry had only been gone for several moments before a small ding announced the arrival of the lift. Turn Jane glanced over her shoulder and her face lit up when she saw that Thor and the rest had returned, jumping up off the couch she rushed over and threw her arms around him. Thor hugged her back just as enthusiastically.
"Whow there big man" Tony said with a grin "You don't want to break her" Thor just shook his head in amusement, he would never hurt Jane.
"Do you know where Harry is?" Clint asked. Jane shook her head "He was here a few minutes ago, but wandered off" Clint nodded and moved away to find his son while the rest of the Avenger team moved off allowing themselves to relax for the first time that day.
It was later in the afternoon and Clint was sat on the balcony over looking Tony's workshop, watching Tony and Harry play with the bolts for Harry's bow. "You know your dad made all the arrows for his bows, why didn't you ask him?" Tony enquired. Harry smiled "Because there arrows not bolts, there's less room to fit extras in, also I wanted to see if I, we, could do the same with magic"
Tony looked at Harry curiously "Explain what you mean" he said as he swung a stool round and sat on it facing Harry.
Harry thought for a moment "Well what I mean is I was wondering if it was possible to contain magic in the bolts until they struck a target and then exploded or something"
Tony looked confused "I wouldn't know if that was possible, first we'd have to work out if magic could be contained, if it can then it should be easy, if it can't then it probably won't be possible." Harry nodded and grinned "So how do we go about finding out if it can be contained?"
Tony leant back his face a mask of confusion before his eyes lit up "We need to find a way of monitoring your magic, I mean its just the manipulation of energy isn't it?"
Harry nodded "I think so yes" Tony moved around his workshop grabbing several sheets of paper "So we need to figure out how that energy is manipulated and what type of energy it is" Harry nodded "Right so what do we have to do?"
Clint stood with a smile, he was glad that Harry had been accepted into the group as easily as Jane had when Thor first introduced her. With that thought his mind turned to Natasha he was fairly sure he was falling in love with and with a last glance towards his son, he turned to go find her.
The next day found Harry down in the training room with Natasha, she was slowly and calmly pointing out parts of the human body, that if you hit hard or fast enough would cause immense pain for the opponent and would put them out of the fight for several moments.
"Remember Harry, the aim of all fights is make sure you get can away to fight again, something those idiots upstairs seem to forget sometimes" Harry nodded. "I mean it" Natasha's voice was serious
"Both Tony and Thor seem to forget that running is always an option in a fight, if you don't think you can win there's no point in sticking around, in our line of work if you lose a fight you'll end up dead or captured, neither of which is preferable." Harry nodded a lot more focused this time as Natasha's words sunk in.
"Good, you're starting to understand" Natasha said with a small smile. "Right I want you to hit the dummy here"
Harry took half a step forward and jabbed his fist into the jugular of the dummy. "Good, now kick here" indicating a point on the dummy's leg.
This continued for the next hour, Harry's arms and legs we're burning slightly and his punches were becoming slower. Natasha took a step back "Enough" she said softly. Harry took a couple of steps backwards breathing deeply, trying to get his arms to stop shaking. "How are you feeling?" Natasha asked.
Harry grinned warily "Sore, my arms are tingling slightly" Natasha nodded "That's to be expected, you keeping up your training with Steve"
Harry shook his head in a non-committal way "Kind of, he's changed it" Natasha looked at him with confusion and suspicion in her eyes "Changed it how?" she asked warily. Worried that Steve wasn't training him.
Harry grinned "Well he's got me running and doing weights, basically he thinks I'm too small and skinny so he's trying to fix that" Natasha nodded looking relieved which cause Harry to smirk
"You thought he'd stop training me didn't you?" Natasha just glared at him "No of course not" Harry just nodded "Ok I'll believe you, he said with a smirk that he threw over his shoulder as he walked out of the training room.
That evening Harry found himself round a table talking to Sirius and Remus. Remus smiled at him "So I guess we should figure out what you're going to do about school" Sirius groaned "Why bother I mean it's not like he's going to need it really is he?"
Remus glared at Sirius "Really Padfoot, and what is he going to do then, he can't sit around the tower for the rest of his life not doing anything" "Why not?" Sirius shot back "He has the money to do that if he wants to"
Remus sighed "But that's not the point, doing that wouldn't be good for him"
"So he can just do what his dad does, help save the earth and all that" Sirius replied. Remus threw his hands up in the air in frustration "His dad was trained and now works for SHIELD, it's not as if he does it for fun, which is what you what Harry to right, have fun?"
Sirius grinned "Of course I do, without having fun life is meaningless."
Remus just rolled his eyes "Look eventually Voldemort and Dumbledore will both be defeated and then Harry will need qualifications" Sirius nodded "So lots sign him up to take his OWLs independently and teach him ourselves"
"You know I'm right here right?" Harry said annoyance clear in his voice. Both Sirius and Remus looked guilty at him. "Sorry Harry" Remus said sheepishly.
Sirius just grinned he hadn't forgotten, he just wanted to see how long it would take for Harry to speak up
"Well what do you want to do?" he asked.
"Well I know I don't want to return to England until Voldemort is defeated. I'm also not sure about joining another school when I can make a difference here, plus Voldemort could turn up at any point and I don't really want to put anyone in danger" Harry rubbed his face tiredly "I guess we should register with the American Ministry as an independent student and you two can see if you two can teach me everything I need to know, if you can't I guess I could always hirer a couple of tutors"
Remus nodded "Ok well I'll fill out the paperwork in the morning" Harry grinned "Thanks Mooney" With a quick glance Harry realised what the time was.
"Well I'm going to go and sleep I've got a feeling I'm going to need it" Remus and Sirius nodded "Night pup" Sirius said with a grin as Harry left the room.
The next morning found everyone dragged out of bed by JARVIS who when they complained just said that Tony wanted a house meeting. Harry stumbled into the room still trying to rub the sleep out of his eyes and flopped down next to Darcy, ignoring Sirius and Remus' grins. They had taken to teasing him about how he seemed to like hanging out with her more than his own god-father.
"Aww" Darcy said quickly so no-one else could hear "You know you're kind of cute when you've just woken up" Harry just glared at her "And how are you so awake?" he demanded. Darcy just shrugged "I dunno, guess I've already had my coffee" she giggled as Harry's eyes lit up at the thought of coffee.
Tony bounced into the room and grinned as he saw everyone "Right guys" Pepper coughed "And girls, of course" Tony added as Sirius smirked "You're so whipped" Tony glared at him "Am not"
"Are too"
"Am not"
"Are too"
"Am not"
"Are too"
"Enough" Pepper through up her hands.
"Am not" Tony muttered sulkily, he then perked up "Right I'm sure you all want to know why I've woken you up" Remus rolled his eyes "No we just woke up stupidly early for fun" Tony looked at him in confusion
"You do that? Wake up for fun?" Pepper just groaned "Really Tony, can we just get back to why you've woken us all up" Tong grinned widely "We're all going on holiday" No-one really reacted other than to just stare at him either with confusion or amazement.
Pepper was the first one to speak up "You're inviting people on holiday with you?" she asked sceptically. Tony just shrugged "You've been telling me I shouldn't go on holiday by myself so I don't know why you're complaining" Pepper raised her eyebrow "Well it's your choice, but I believe this is the first good suggestion you've had in a while" she said.
Tony grinned "Right then since your all agreed I'll give everyone five hours to pack"
Pepper, Jane and Darcy just stared at him "Five hours?" Darcy said. Tony nodded grinning knowing he wouldn't leave until everyone was ready. With mutters of promises of pain for only giving them five hours to pack the three of them rushed out the room to go back.
Sirius just looked at Tony with suspicion "You wouldn't actually leave until they were ready would you?" Bruce and Clint laughed "Of course he wouldn't he just likes winding Pepper up" Natasha supplied with a grin as she stood out
"Come on Clint you can help me pick out which bikini's I should take" Clint grinned like the cat who had just caught the canary as he let Natasha lead him out of the room.
Thor looked on with confused "Do all earth women allow their men to help pick out their undergarments" Sirius laughed "What has Jane asked you?" Thor nodded a small blush appearing on his face as he remembered that conversation "Well yes most women who have a boyfriend ask their opinion because they know they will make them feel good, do the women on Asgard not ask their boyfriends to help?" Steve asked.
Thor laughed "Do not be silly Asgardians do not wear undergarments" Sirius just sat there opened mouthed for a moment "Damn, I've got to go to Asgard" Bruce just shook his head "They would eat you alive" Sirius grin just got wider "Yeah but what a way to go" Harry stood up shacking his head "Right well now I've been scared for life, I believe I'm going to go pack for this holiday"
Ten hours later, Harry stepped off Tony's private jet, and stared around in amazement, he never imagined a place like this. The sand seemed almost white under the sun, and it was peaceful and quiet.
"Wow" he heard Darcy and Jane whisper behind him. Tony jumped down the steps grinning "Well what are you all waiting for, go explore, we're got the entire island to ourselves."
Remus just stared at Tony "You own an island" Tony grinned back "Of course, I need somewhere to escape from the press" Remus nodded "I'm sure that Harry wished he had an island he could escape too sometimes" Tony shrugged "Well all he has to do it ask and I'll allow him to use this one whenever he wants" Remus chuckled, "He might just take you up on that"
Tony nodded and walked to the front of the group he had brought to his island. "Right, well if everyone would follow me we'll be staying just behind these trees" Tony set off down the path before anyone else could react.
With skeptical looks and shrugs everyone followed him. Harry found himself walking next to Darcy. She glanced up at him and smiled at seeing him look so happy "So how is your first time seeing the beach?" Harry grinned widely "It's awesome, is it always so clean and peaceful" Darcy shook her head sadly "Unfortunately nope, most of the beeches nowadays are over crowded and have rubbish on them that takes volunteers hours to clean up."
They pasted through the trees and Harry just stopped in amazement a the huge villa that was built into the side of the cliff. Even Sirius who had been brought up in the pureblood life style was shocked by the size of it. Of course Tony was just standing there bouncing on his heels grinning at everyones reaction.
Bruce just stared at Tony "Did you really build that just for yourself" Tony shrugged "Well yes and no, I built it to host parties then realised I don't want hundreds of people on my island so it's never really been used. Come on I'll show you around" Tony started down the path, as everyone else shook themselves out of their amazed stupors and followed him.
The villa was beautiful, even Harry could tell that, with his limited experiences, the grand entrance way split into three staircases each going to a different part of the house, one to the rooms, one to the recreation area and the last one down to the safe beach, where Tony had had shark nets installed so it was safe to swim in the sea.
"JARVIS, is everything ready?" The voice of JARVIS sounded out, just like it did back in the Tower in New York. "Everything is prepared for you and your guests arrival sir"
Tony nodded "Thank you JARVIS" before he turned back to the group
"Now all follow me, we can go find your rooms" Steve looked at him strangely "This is your house, don't you know which rooms will be for who?" Tony just grinned and shook his head "That's all just part of the fun"
Sirius bounded after Tony up the stairs grinning he turned back to Remus and Harry "I think I like him more and more every day" Remus just sighed "Really, is her ever going to grow up"
Harry glanced at Remus "Do we really want him to?" Remus just shook his head "Not really, he wouldn't be him them" Harry just smiled and started up the stairs.
The stairs lead to a landing which had doors running along either side. Tony stuck his head out of one "Right your names are on the doors, have fun" Pepper just sighed "I'll go make sure he's not doing anything stupid" she said as she walked through the door which Tony had just leaned out of. Everyone just smiled at the obviousness of Peppers feelings before moving off to find the rooms which would be theirs for the duration of their visit.
Harry entered the room and looked around in astonishment. The room was huge, a large bed that just made him want to lay down and sleep sat against one wall. Harry slid his shoes off and felt the soft carpet under his feet. A quick glance told him the bathroom was just as extravagant the large bath filling most of the room, if Harry had to guess it would fit at least six people. Everything was of the highest quality, evidently Tony hadn't been bothered by the amount of money he spent of the place. Walking to the door Harry opened it and stepped out onto the balcony that ran along the side of the villa and stared out at the view. The island lay sprawled out in front of him. The beach lay off to his right, and the sea soft and gentle seemed to stretch forever in every direction.
"Am impressive place isn't it" Harry turned to see Clint stepping out of the door further down the villa. Harry snorted "That's one word for it"
Clint shrugged "Extravagant, expensive, over the top would all do as well I guess" Harry laughed and nodded.
Clint came over and put his arm around Harry's shoulder, glad that he had stopped flinching whenever someone touched him. "So while we're here you're going to relax and not worry about what's happening in the rest of the world"
Harry looked up at his dad "I will if you manage to" Clint nodded and smiled "Well then, how about we go exploring" Harry nodded excitedly and rushed back into his room to change Clint grinned to see him acting his age, yes this holiday would probably be good for all of them.
AN: Hopefully the next chapter won't be such a long wait, please read and review