*Chapter 6*: Life and Death "You summoned me Milord?" Bellatrix asked.
"Yes, my dear Bella. I have a question for you. Is there a way for a woman to steal the magic of the family?" Voldemort asked her.
"No Milord, there is no way in which magic of a person or family can be stolen." She replied.
"Then explain to me how that mudblood Potter whore acquired their family magic." He asked.
"When a witch is properly married into a pureblood family she gets some protection from the family magic as she is a part of that family now. Lily Potter even though she is a mudblood was a formidable witch before marring into the Potter family. I don't know how their family magic works but it might have added to her power." She explained.
"Are you praising a mudblood Bella?" he questioned her.
"Master I don't believe that she is a mudblood. No mudblood can be that powerful. She must have some 'Wizarding blood' in her veins. I have heard from Severus that she doesn't look like any of her family members. She might be a halfblood. Even though halfblood isn't as good as a pureblood it is still better than a mudblood." She answered.
Hearing that family magic can't be stolen angered Voldemort. He didn't take his anger out on Bella as she had given him the idea of attacking the muggle parents of the bitch at their home. They won't be protected by the wards and it would send a strong message to the people who oppose him.
"Bella take a team of 5 and attack those damn muggles. Teach that bitch a lesson of what happens to people who mess with us." He ordered.
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Dumbledore apparated to the front of the Potter manor first thing in the morning. He had made a plan to place charms on the Potters to get them under his control and make them give clothes to that damn elf.
"Hmm! You are back again?" the elf asked a rhetorical question. "Wait here I will inform my masters of your presence." Saying that Leon disappeared.
'After the Potters free the elf I am going to give him a painful death.' Albus thought to himself.
"Follow me." Leon said reappearing as the gates open. "I am sorry, my master was expecting a visit from you last night but he forgot to inform me about it." Leon said just to spite Dumbledore.
Hearing this made Dumbledore's blood boil with anger. He was planning to blast the elf into oblivion.
"Albus it is good to see you." Charles said in a fake sweet voice. "Care to join us for breakfast." He asked.
"No thank you Charles. I am here to discuss some important matter with you." Albus informed him.
"I was anyway going to meet you today, so I guess it's good that you here. Let me finish my tea I will join you in a few minutes. In the meantime have a seat on the sofa." Charles told him.
Dumbledore didn't like been dismissed but for now he controlled his rage. 'I will have to add a couple of loyalty and obedience charms as well.' He thought to himself.
In a few minutes Charles joined him and asked, "What is so important that caused you to come to my house so early in the morning?"
"I wanted to discuss the actions of you son and daughter in law. Yesterday they murdered a lot of people. They should have just restrained them. Not to mention the brutal killing of the werewolves. They should have killed them. Werewolves have no control over their action under the influence of the full moon. The death eaters should have been given a second chance." Dumbledore ranted.
During his rant he silently cast many compulsions, loyalty and obedience charms using his enchanted ring. The ring on his hand acted as secondary magical focus giving the people the illusion that he was capable of wandless magic.
All of Dumbledore's charms bounced off harmless as the internal wards of the manor activated themselves to protect their master. Even if they hadn't reacted Charles was prepared for the attack and had taken the necessary precautions.
"I don't agree with you." Charles stated. The statement stunned Dumbledore. He couldn't believe that his charms had no affect on Charles.
"In fact, I was planning to announce that the group known as death eaters and its allies as the enemy of the house of Potter. Declaring a feud with them." He informed Dumbledore.
"No you can't do that Charles. This would cause an all out war between your house and the death eaters." Dumbledore said frantically try to cast a few more charms to prevent this course of action.
"I didn't ask for your opinion Albus. It is just out of curtsy that I am informing you. The death eaters and their master have been given a free rein for too long. Yesterday they even dared to attack my home. Now I am going to show them the consequences of messing with my house." Charles rebuked.
Dumbledore decided to leave seeing that his plan was a failure and he couldn't change Charles mind right now. He just hoped that Charles cooled down before he declared war on the death eater.
He needed a new plan to gain control of the Potters. He knew that the actions of the Potters would be supported be many neutral and light sided families. There was no chance of alienating Potters from their allies.
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Bellatrix lead a team of five death eaters to attack the Evan residence near Spinner's end. She was happy that her lord had chosen her to lead the mission.
When they arrived at the residence she detected no wards around the property. 'Potters are getting sloppy. I expected them to ward this area to protect their in laws. This makes it easier for us to kill them.' she thought gleefully.
As the death eaters entered the property they triggered hidden wards. These wards were design to detected the dark mark and activate special portkeys placed on the Evan family members. The portkeys were capable to breach any anti-portkey wards and take the Evans to a designated safe house.
Bellatrix found the house to be empty. In her rage she destroyed the house by casting Fiendfyre.
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A Potter family elf by the name of Misty informed the Potters of the Evans entering the safe via the use of the portkeys.
Lily went to visit her family while James went to check on their house in Spinner's end. He saw the raging inferno at the place where Evan house used to be. He quickly dissipated the Fiendfyre and lit the house in a normal fire and left before the fire fighters could arrive.
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In Diagon alley, Charles Potter made a public statement declaring Voldemort, his death eaters and their allies as the enemies of the house of Potter. After making his statement he effortless killed two people in the crowd bearing the dark mark.
"Anyone having the dark mark would be executed by the Potters on sight." He announced before making a dramatic exit using thunder.
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Initially the death eaters didn't take the threat seriously even though they had lost two of their members after the announcement. They didn't think that Potters could pose a threat to their organization. They only realized that Potters meant business when a few more of their members were slain at the hands of the Potters.
Charles Potter appeared in a muggle village where death eaters were running rampant. The nearest death eaters saw him and tried to attack him. Before the death eater could complete the curse Charles summoned bolts of lightning for the sky. Each bolt of lightning struck a death eater killing them instantly. The aurors that had responded to attacked were stunned by the sight they witnessed.
Lily in retaliation to the attack on her parents' house attacked a house of a known death eater family. The family was having dinner together. She killed them with all with powerful cutting spell which diced their bodies into multiple small pieces. She then used their blood to leave a warning message on the wall to Voldemort's forces. She signed it as 'your beloved mudblood.'
In Diagon alley, a marked death eater named Jugson was minding his own business shopping. Suddenly many creepers like plants sprung up from the ground and wrapped him in a cocoon completely smothering him. The creepers receded to leave a dead Jugson lying on the ground. Many Eye witness saw Lisa Potter passing through.
James in true Marauder fashion parked some death eater to death literally. He doused a couple of them with itching powder which made the scratch themselves to death. He put a pair of death eaters under a spell which made him sing and dance till death.
After this the death eaters lost all their unmarked supports overnight. They didn't want to become the enemies of house of Potters. Most of them declared their neutrality in the war and joined the neutral faction.
Some of the lower ranking newly marked death eaters burned the dark mark off their hand before quitting the organization. They had heard about Potters moving around in plain sight and killing the members of their group.
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The Wizarding world had always heard stories about powers of the Potter and how deadly they could be towards their enemies. Most of the modern Wizarding world dismissed them as just rumors, legends and folktale. To them the Potter family was just a simple light sided family with lot of money and political power.
The perception of the Wizarding world about the Potters was suddenly changed by the attacks. The power displayed by the Potters during the attacks was unheard of. Wizards normally couldn't control lighting or make living plants suddenly sprout out of the ground or go back into the ground after smothering someone to death.
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Millicent Bagnold was in no way a supporter of Voldemort but at the same time she didn't like the fact that blood of the pureblooded wizards has been split. She tried to find a loophole in the ancient law being used by the Potters to kill the death eaters.
The Potters were one of the oldest family, if not the oldest family currently existing in the world. The old laws gave maximum protection to such families. Failing to find a loophole in the laws she gave up. She knew that Potters had a valid reason to declare the death eaters as enemy of their house and nothing could be done to make them back down.
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For the first time in his long life Dumbledore felt helpless. He couldn't do anything to stop the Potters from killing the death eaters. The only thing he could think of to declare them as a dark family and openly attack them.
The problem with this plan was that no light sided family would support this move. These might even turn against him. He couldn't let that happen.
He decided to forget the problem for now and concentrate on his work as the headmaster. He saw an interview request for the position of divination teacher on table made by a Sybill Patricia Trelawney. 'Trelawney hmm, I wonder if she is related to Cassandra Trelawney.' He thought to himself.
He sent a reply to her giving her the time and place for the interview.
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The death eater activity completely stopped for a few days after the attack made by the Potters. Some of the veteran death eaters were also scared to venture out of their home. They had all heard or seen the message written by the mudblood bitch.
The recent events made Voldemort contemplate whether make his brand on the marked death eaters invisible or risk losing them all to the Potter family. He had no idea the Potters were capable of being so lethal or they would retaliate in such a manner to his attacks.
Even though, the Potters were killing his followers he felt perverse pleasure at being proven right. The Potters were showing the might of a pureblood family. After all baring 'Lily' all the Potters are purebloods. Right now he was inclined to believe Bella's theory about Lily not being a mudblood whore.
After giving it a lot of thought he decided to halt all death eater activity for the time being and alter his mark to become visible only when he summoned the bearer or contacted them.
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During the interview Sybill made a prophecy.
"The one with the power to vanquish the dark lords approaches,
Born to those who have defied them,
Born as the seventh month dies,
He will have powers the dark lords can't dream,
The dark lords would die at his hand,
The dark lords can't directly kill him,
He is born to end their reign.
The one with the power to vanquish the dark lords approaches…
Hearing the prophecy gave him an idea to get Potters under his control. He knew that the prophecy was referring to the Potters as no one else fit the bill. He didn't know whether Lily was pregnant or not currently but her future son posed a threat to him and Voldemort.
He would have to be patient and hope all the death eaters aren't wiped out quickly. He planned to make a fake prophecy and leak half of it when the time was right.
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Millicent Bagnold had a meeting with the Potters trying to make them tone down their aggression in the feud they had declared with the death eaters.
"We will stop the feud when Voldemort surrenders or dies." Was Charles reply.
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For a time period of 8 months magical England enjoyed a fragile peace. The death eaters had almost gone into hiding. The Potters hadn't attacked any one. Voldemort and Dumbledore were trying to increase their power base.
Both the dark lords underwent rituals to increase their powers after witness what the Potter family was capable of doing.
Lord Apollo had informed the Potters of the prophecy involving their family via a messenger.
James didn't like the prophecy for two reasons. Firstly, it involved his son and secondly, it stated he would be responsible of defeating the dark lords. Lily didn't mind the prophecy at first since she didn't believe in divination. Lisa explained to her how tricky a true prophecy could be. This scared Lily.
The Potters had kept the news of Lily's pregnancy a secret even from close family friends. Even the Marauder weren't informed.
Sirius was sent an ambassador by the Blacks to negotiate a truce agreement with Potters. The Lord Black didn't want to lose any more family members after his youngest son died in an accident. The outcome of the negotiation was that the Potters would leave the Black family members alone unless they directly attack them. In return the Blacks would have to support them in the Wizengamot.
Poseidon usual kept visited them from time to time. The friendship between him and Lily had increased as time passed on. During one such visit he told the Potters about the prophecy surrounding his future unborn demigod son and about his desire to have a son with Potter blood in him to give his child the maximum chance of successful completing the prophecy.
Poseidon gave them a choice to refuse his proposal if they didn't want to have his son in the family. James told him that he had no problem with his proposal but the final decision would be Lily's as she is the one who would be carrying the child.
After giving it some thought, Lily agreed to have Poseidon's child a year after her first son would be born. She also told him that she would only sleep with him once to conceive a child. Poseidon happily agreed to her conditions.
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Artemis as the Goddess of childbirth felt the imminent birth of the newest member of the Potter family. She left the hunters at camp half blood and left to deliver the child.
Long ago she had made a pact with the Potters to be present during the birth of every child born into the family to ensure there are no complications. Her brother Apollo helped her by checking on the mother's condition and providing any medical aid if needed.
She had made the pact because a Potter had saved her when she had fallen into a trap of her would be rapist.
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James had only told Lily that they didn't need an appointment with a healer as two specialists would come when the time was right for the child to be born or if she needed any medical attention. She hadn't expected Apollo and Artemis to come and deliver her child. She tried to bow to the God and Goddess in front of her. Her condition didn't allow her to bend to make a proper bow. Now she understood what James had meant when he said, "They are the best in their field and they have been doing it for generations."
The Potters had agreed to name the child Harrison James Potter. He would be known as Harry.
Harry Potter was born at 11:59:59 on 31th July 1980. Lily felt no pain while birthing him as Artemis used her powers to facilitate child birth. Apollo vanished after declaring both the mother and son healthy.
Artemis stayed behind and played with Harry for a while. She found Harry to be very cute and adorable baby. She also felt the immense power the child had.
Charles and Lisa were very happy at the birth of their grandson and the new heir to the family name. They left the room allowing the new parents to spend some time with their son.
Unknown to all of them Nyx was also present at the birth of her first demigod son. She couldn't show herself till Artemis left.
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Little Harry suddenly started crying in Artemis hand. Artemis tried to calm him down without any success. As Artemis moved baby Harry close to her chest he suddenly latched on to her nipple through the gossamer dress she was wearing began to suck. Only Nyx managed to see a tinge of blue glow in Harry's green eyes.
"I am so sorry Lady Artemis." James said trying to take Harry away from her before the Goddess got angry.
Artemis felt a slow buildup in her womanhood like she had never felt before. She wanted to allow the child to continue sucking her nipple. "Don't worry. I am not offended. The child is just hungry and wants some food." She said reluctantly handing Harry over to Lily.
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Lily took Harry form Artemis and opened the top of her dress exposing her nipple. Unlike with Artemis Harry didn't immediately latch on her nipple. Nyx noticed the tinge of blue glow had vanished from his eye.
As Lily suckled Harry, Artemis told James to leave the room. James obeyed the Goddess without any hesitation. Lily looked the Goddess questioningly. "I have decided to allow your son to drink my milk." Artemis said wanting Harry to suck on her nipples again.
"Drinking my milk would also give him my blessing. He would be the first male to have it. After you finish with him hand him over." She told her.
Lily couldn't exactly say that she had almost unlimited supply of milk for baby Harry due to Nyx modifying her body. She just handed Harry to the Goddess.
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Artemis vanished the top half of her dress and brought little Harry to her nipples. He immediately latched on to her right nipple and began to suck. There was a noticeable tinge of blue glow in his eyes. As Harry sucked the Goddess' milk Artemis had her first orgasm. She just closed her eyes and enjoyed the feeling.
Harry/Zoi had caused the Goddess to have multiple orgasms while drinking her milk. Zoi had sensed the presence of his beloved sister nearby. He couldn't wait to properly thank her for what she had done.
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Artemis lost track of time all she could think of was the pleasure she felt. 'No wonder Aphrodite likes spending so much time with a male companion. When Harry grows up I just might break my vow with him.
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Nyx watched as the essence of Zoi toy with Artemis. She knew he had that effect on women. She saw Harry's eyes returning to normal as Artemis left. She sensed Harry was powerful but his primary powers didn't seem to come from her brother's essence as she had expected. His powers were derived from the potter bloodline and it seemed that Harry had inherited her brother's mischievous nature.
Nyx made her presence known as James reentered the room. Both James and Lily gave her a slight bow. She took Harry from Lily's hand. She saw the blue glow in his eyes returning.
"He is a powerful child." She informed them as she felt Harry trying to touch her chest. "He has some control over my domain of night and darkness. The blessing he just received from Artemis adding to the powers or blessings of Zeus, Hecate, Aphrodite and Tyche he was born with makes him almost powerful as a minor God. He would become stronger when he grows up and learns to controls his powers. When he reaches the age of seven I would train him to use my powers. Till the good bye and take care." She said handing Harry back to Lily. She need to get out of their before she lost control and did something stupid.
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The next day the news of Harry's birth spread when Alice Longbottom who was taking care of baby Neville overheard James telling Sirius after the meeting of order of Phoenix. The news slowly reached Dumbledore.
He put the first part of his plan into action. He caught Severus Snape and implanted a false memory in his head. The memory involved Snape hearing a fake Prophecy. Snape would then inform Voldemort about it.
He then rushed to the Potters to inform them of the Prophecy and offer them protection. The prophecy stated,
The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord Voldemort approaches…
Born to the Potters,
Born as the seventh month dies,
He will have powers Voldemort knows not…
And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while other survives…
The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord Voldemort approaches…
After hearing the prophecy Dumbledore stated one thing was certain that the prophecy he recited was fake; as no true prophecy was ever this precise. The Potters refused his protection.
Seeing a part of his plan fail Dumbledore went out and hired a group of highly skilled magical assassins to kill the Potters. They didn't come cheap but he was willing to spend any amount of money to protect himself. He told them that he would inform them about the location and the time of the attack later.
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The specialty of the assassins Dumbledore hired was that they were known to a select few people. Dumbledore came to know about them as he became the head of the International Confederation of Wizards. They were used by the ICW to deal with matters when normal diplomacy failed.
None of their targets ever survived the assassination. They could either kill from the shadows of in an outright battle as the contracted demanded.
Dumbledore had told them to trap James, Lily and Harry in a battle between them and the Death eaters. Their main target was Harry Potter.
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Voldemort didn't react after hearing the prophecy from Snape. Instead he concentrated on the power boosting ritual he had already planned to perform. These dark rituals took time to perform correctly. They only could be performed on particular days such as the winter solstices, Halloween, etc.
Voldemort had instructed his death eaters to gather more allies to strengthen their armies. The dark creatures he already had were hesitant to attack the Potters. The local vampire clan had refused their support. This had caused him to look for allies elsewhere.
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As a year went by Harry had grown up to be mischievous one year old. He didn't have much control over his powers. The lack of control did tend to cause chaos around him. He made stuff in the room levitate and randomly move about. He accidently would meld into the shadows disappearing from sight. On his first birthday he changed all the guests including Dumbledore into various animals.
The only one not turned into an animal was Poseidon. He made show of waving a wand to revert everyone back to normal. Sirius proclaimed that Harry would become the best Marauder ever.
Harry enjoyed playing with Poseidon. He used to call him 'unca Po'. He loved the tricks his unca Po did with water.
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Couple of month after Harry's first birthday Lily was impregnated with Poseidon's son.
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On 31th October, 1981 The Potter family got caught trapped of Dumbledore. They had been invited to a small get together at Longbottom manor. As they portkeyed into the grounds of Longbottom manor they were ambushed by a massive army death eaters on one side and members of the assassin order on the other.
According to the Dumbledore's plan the assassins blocked the members of the order of Phoenix to come out and help. They created strong anti apparation and anti portkey wards around the manor. Dumbledore would be secretly holding the wards up.
His spies in the death eaters would be doing the same around the Potters to prevent their escape.
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The trapped members of the order witness an unbelievable battle. Even though both James and Lily were heavily outnumbered and without any cover they held their own against the opposing forces while protecting little Harry.
They saw James and Lily move about in a dazzling manner cutting down their opponents. The most impressive thing about it was the way they kept tossing Harry back and forth between them while fighting.
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Harry didn't know what was happening around him but he was greatly enjoying himself. He loved zooming about in air.
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James was angry with himself for falling into a trap. He realized this trap was set by Dumbledore as he recognized the members of the assassin order. He would deal with the old bastard later. His first priority was to get Lily and Harry to safety.
Out of the corner of his eye he say Voldemort enter the fight. He knew that their chances of survival were dropping quickly. He decided to tap into the power of his bloodline to get out of the situation.
As he was about to access his power, he saw three old ladies standing behind Voldemort. One of them was holding a large socks, the other was holding a big ball of yarn while the last one was hold a large scissor. He saw the one with the scissor, snip the cord.
Being distracted by the fates James had given Voldemort the chance to hit him with a killing curse.
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Lily was momentarily stunned seeing James die. Voldemort took his chance and fire another killing curse, this time he aimed it at Harry. Lily could not move out of the path of the incoming curse in time.
The curse struck Harry on his forehead. The curse harmlessly bounced back towards Voldemort.
The curse struck Voldemort in the chest destroying his body. The rituals he had conducted didn't help him to stop the killing with his own magical signature. Lily final got a hold of herself. She tapped into the power of the Potter bloodline; she called forth the powers of all the dead Potters.
Her eyes started to glow white with power. She rose about five feet into the air. Strong winds started blowing. She turned her attention towards the assassins. She raised her hand in their direction and huge thunderbolt fell on them killing them all in one go.
Before she could turn her attention towards them many death eaters had portkeyed out of there. Those that remained behind were burnt alive by her.
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As her powers left her Lily fell to the ground. During the fall she protected Harry. She then crawled over to her dead husband's body.
The wards stopping the members of the order fell and they rush out. Sirius and Remus couldn't believe that James was dead. Peter disapparated from there seeing his lord fall.
Dumbledore along with the rest of the order members present had seen Harry bounce back the killing curse. He wanted to examine Harry. He had attributed Harry's survival to the prophecy.
As Dumbledore approached the Potters, Harry released a blast of lightning from his palm. The lighting struck Dumbledore in the chest and knocked him out.
The members of the order of Phoenix were still stunned by the display of power that they had seen from Lily Potter. They didn't react when their leader was struck down by the boy who had survived the killing curse.
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Dumbledore survived the attack but lost his chance of trying to take control of Harry as he was hospitalized for over a week.
The order of assassin was wiped out the next day by Archibald Potter and Nicholas Potter (Flamel). This had created an international incident as the order was based in Italy. But no concrete evidence of Potter involvement could be found.
Charles killed a handful of known death eaters in retaliation of his son's death. Lisa had stayed behind to take care of Lily.
The most of death eaters to survive the Potter's retaliation surrendered themselves to the ministry of magic.
Some fanatic death eaters, who weren't present during the fight and attacked the Longbottoms to find out what happened to their master. In the ensuing attack Bellatrix drove Frank and Alice insane.
They were caught by the aurors before they could torture Neville.
The Potters ended their feud with the death eaters after the fall of Voldemort. Harry was heralded as the 'Boy-who-Lived.'
The death eater who surrendered themselves escaped conviction by claiming to be under imperious curse.
Percy was born in the month of June 1982. Poseidon unfortunately couldn't be present at his birth. Being the son of Poseidon he naturally had his father's powers along with them he had the powers of Apollo and blessings of Nike.