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Chapter 3

Meet Harry Potter

Inside the closet, James turned to Albus and said, "I'll just check up on dad and you," he said pointing his finger to Albus, then continued, "just stay here."

"What!" Albus said in an enraged voice

"Well because I said so." James said as he readied himself in going out

"Well that's not fair! I helped in this prank too. I want to see dad as an eleven year old." Albus said as he stand up too.

With a sigh, James face Albus and said, "Al, the potion will only last for an hour and time is running as you well know and as written here in the paper, dad will not be able to remember anything about us except his first eleven years of his life and-," he put up his hand gesturing a 'don't interrupt me now or else' as Albus opened his mouth to say something, "lucky for us, dad will not be able to remember anything from it. This experience will only be a part of his memory when he was this age. And Lastly Al, because you look just like dad."

"And what are you implying by that statem-," Albus said but stop in the middle of the sentence when a hit of understanding cross his mind. He can't go out there, especially now that dad doesn't know him and it will surely create problems for them.

James saw the look of understanding in the face of Albus and said, "I think you finally got the message, Al. And I should better be going now as time is my enemy at this moment."

James went out the closet and went to the lying figure of his dad. He get his father's wand and was about to say the incantation for shrinking Harry's clothes when Albus head pop out of the closet door as he whispered, "What are you doing James? Using dad's wand…you would get into so much trouble"

"Al will you shut it!" James said angrily, "I'm just going to shrink dad's clothes or would you rather he wears clothes bigger than him."

"but-." Albus began saying but was cut off by James remark, "No buts Al, just shut it and just watch."

"okay," Albus said in a small voice but James did not seem to hear it said the incantation with a wave of his wand the clothes magically shrink into the right size as his dad's eleven year old body.

James shook Harry's shoulders gently and calls his name softly as to wake him up. He was not disappointed when Harry began stirring and his eyes started opening.

Harry looked at the boy sitting in front of him. He looks 3-4 years older than me. We have the same messy hair though but not the eyes. Harry felt something, something about this boy but he just can't seem to know what, he thought.

James just stared at his eleven tear old form of his dad. His prank had work, it's a success and I think it is time to get to know more about dad. Staring at my "mini dad" will just take too much time. He looked at his wristwatch and saw that he only have 35 minutes left.

"Hello, I'm James and who might you be?" James asked Harry as he stood up.

"Umm… I'm Harry." Harry said in a shy voice as he also stood up.

"Well no need to be shy. We' are family, d-Harry," James said with a smile.

Harry's eyes widen and said in a small uncertain voice, "We're family?" as countless of thoughts begin to enter his mind. If they were family, then that means he will stay with James right. He will not be staying anymore with the Dursleys. This really is a wish come true for him.

"Of course we're family. I'm your…umm…distant cousin, yeah I'm your distant cousin from the father's side. Oh and by the way I'm James Sirius Potter," James said

Harry smiled but inside him there's an inner conflict that is happening. 'Yes, I have a cousin, a relative that may not hate me because I'm a freak.' 'This is too good to be true and if it's true why did James looked uncertain when he told you that he is your distant cousin.'

Harry would have gone into giving excuses to himself but was cut off by James saying, "Are you alright Harry. You looked like you just spaced out."

"I'm fine don't worry about me, James. It's just that I think that this is just a dream and can't be real." Harry said

"Why would you think about that?" James said frowning

"Well my parents died when I was one year old in a car crash and from then on I was living with my only living relative which is my aunt and her family." Harry said

"WHAT!" James said, shocked. Everyone in the wizarding world knew that James and Lily Potter was murdered by Voldemort. His mum told him his father's story as this was a painful subject in his father's part.

James was just startled hearing that.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to be shocked," Harry said

"No, it's not that. Just continue on your story," James said apologetically

Harry told everything that happened to in his past 10 years. Harry didn't know how he could just tell everything in his life with James considering that they just met just now but nevertheless he felt he is some kind of connected with James. He felt that he can trust him.

Harry was about to tell him about Dudley's birthday but was interrupted by a boy, who look just like him but certainly older by 2 to 3 years, went out of what looks like a closet and went straight to them

James looked between Harry and Albus. Neither one of them is breaking their stupor and he can't blame the both of them; he made it his responsibility now to introduce the both of them and berate Albus for going out.

James made a coughing sound after a minute which broke their being stupor and said, "Harry I would like you to meet my younger brother Albus. Albus meet Harry, Harry here our distant cousin from dad's side who decided to visit. Harry here is just telling me his life story which you I think rudely interrupt."

"James this is important. Come with me I need to show you something," Albus said desperately

"This better be Al," James said to Albus. Then turned to Harry and said, "I'll be right back, just make yourself at home."

When both James and Albus are both out of Harry's hearing range, James rounded to Albus saying, "This better be good Al or else."

"Of course this is important but before that …do you think it's true what Harry said. Dad never told us his life at the Dursleys. Its just that he said he had a bad time there," Albus said

"I don't know, Al. We never questioned dad about his lif eat the Dursley's. We are always interested about his Hogwarts years," James said

"Yeah," Albus agreed

"So what kind of important thing are you going to tell me?" James said

"Oh, it slipped my mind but oh well, look at this," Albus said as he pointed at his watch.

"What's with the watch Al," James said jokingly but look nevertheless then said in a panicky voice, "Shit."

It has been past an hour when Harry Potter drank the juice with potion. He should be changing into a 38 year old man about five minutes ago but instead when they look at Harry, he is still a child and not an adult.

Both James and Albus has one thing in their mind at this moment and that is they are both dead. They messed up the prank.