A/N: I should have put this in the first chapter, but Ron and Molly will not be shown in a favorable light in this story. I don't really l like saying I'm going to 'bash' them because I don't think I am going to go that far, but if it's what I'm doing then that's that I suppose.

A/N2: Most of this chapter will be exposition. Sorry, but that's how it turned out.

Keeping Sirius out of Azkaban had actually been rather simple. He had gotten there long before Pettigrew did and waited. He had to wait two days, but as soon as the man was far enough in the alley, Harry Stunned him just as Sirius showed up.

His godfather had stood stock still, shocked that the traitor was suddenly unconscious. He had recovered a moment later and raised his wand, no doubt to finish the rat off.

He had used the Metamorphmagus abilities he gained from Tonks while she slowly passed away to change his appearance when he talked to the man as not to antagonize him with how much he looked like James. He had changed his hair to being blonde and his eyes were a dark brown.

It had taken some time to convince Sirius to not kill the rat, especially since he was a 'stranger'. However Harry finally managed to convince him to turn Pettigrew over to the DMLE instead. Before his godfather disappeared, he handed Sirius a piece of paper with the address of where Violet was. He, of course, asked how he knew the address. Harry just told him that he was an acquaintance of Lily and she had mentioned her sister and where she lived. He said that he had heard about what had happened and that it would make sense for Violet to be sent there. This seemed to satisfy him and he Apparated away with Pettigrew.

After that he, Apparated to the Longbottom Manor to check on them. He appeared just as the Death Eaters entered the home. Upon seeing this Harry rushed inside, still disguised, and found the Lestrange brothers, Barty Crouch Jr., and, to his immense surprise, Alecto Carrow.

Alice was dueling Alecto, Frank with Barty, and he was somewhat surprised to see Augusta taking on both the Lestrange brothers. Though he wasn't too surprised since even seventeen years from this point in time she fought in the final battle at Hogwarts and not only took out several Death Eaters, but also survived.

Harry charged forward just as a spell slipped through Alice's guard and hit her stomach. She screamed as several slashes appeared on her body, telling him the spell had been Sectumsempra.

Jabbing his wand forward, he banished Alecto into the wall, where she collided with a loud thud. Harry then rushed to Alice and started chanting, "Vulnera Sanentur." He chanted three times before the cuts were completely healed.

He turned around just in time to deflect a curse from Rabastan. He immediately started fighting the man. Though fight wasn't really the right word. Harry knew that Rabastan wasn't one of the bravest Death Eaters and the man probably thought he would be an easy opponent because he figured that he only took out Alecto since he had surprised her. While partially correct he would have taken her out even face to face. As such Rabastan was rather quickly beaten with a bone-breaking curse to his leg and the shoulder of his wand arm. Harry then disarmed him just as Barty and Rodolphus were Stunned.

He then hit Rabastan and Alecto, just in case, with a Stunner. He would rather have ended them, but he had just wanted to get to Alice quickly and used the first spell to come to mind. He also wasn't sure how the Longbottoms would react to him killing them while they were down. As Frank rushed over to his wife, Augusta approached him. She thanked him profusely for helping them and healing her daughter-in-law. Harry merely waved her off and asked if she would tell the Longbottom couple to go to go Number Four Privet Drive later. She seemed cautious, with good reason, but when he told her Violet was there she agreed to tell them.

After that he decided he needed a way to prove that Dumbledore wasn't the man he portrayed himself as. An idea popped into his head and he left for Gringotts.

Once there he asked for a goblin that could identify wards that had been placed somewhere. It took about an hour of convincing, but after paying a bit of money, extra for secrecy, Harry and the goblin, Bloodfang, portkeyed to Privet Drive.

"Please drop the disguise wizard," Bloodfang said. At Harry's arched brow, the goblin said, "Did you think we don't have a way to detect Metamorphmagi? No, while they are rare we have wards to detect them and warn all tellers if they aren't in their base form."

"What if they don't like their base form?" the immortal* asked, remembering one Metamorphmagus' dislike for how he really looked.

"Then they will leave identification of their preferred look," he answered easily.

"Alright I'll stop hiding my appearance, but I would appreciate it if you would keep it a secret," Harry requested.

Bloodfang eyed him for a moment, slightly surprised that he was requesting him to keep a secret rather than demanding him to. After a moment he nodded in agreement. The goblin was shocked when the wizard started to look like James Potter. The only difference was the fact that he had emerald green eyes.

"That is your real form?" Bloodfang questioned just to be sure.

"Indeed it is," the immortal answered. "While your first thoughts are probably wrong, I'm sure you can understand now why I want this secret for now."

After Bloodfang nodded, Harry gestured to the house he wanted checked and the goblin got to work.

It was only a few minutes later that Bloodfang was swearing in gobbledygook at the wards he found. He wasn't surprised having seen what the wards were himself.

"Do you want these taken down?"

"Unfortunately not," Harry sighed. Upon seeing the goblin's angered look he explained his reasoning. After hearing the reason Bloodfang could see his point. "If you can I would like a list of the wards erected to show others and having Gringotts identify them would authenticate it a great deal."

A vicious grin spread across Bloodfang's face, "I can do that and more."

He pulled out a piece of parchment and started waving his hand over it and then at the house. The parchment glowed slightly as it seemed like magic itself wrote the wards down. When it was finished a brighter glow appeared and wrote something else at the bottom. When he was done he handed it to Harry.

Taking the parchment he read through the wards, his anger rising once more as he read the wards that would have put the girl he was sure he would consider a sister soon through hell. When he reached the bottom however, his anger changed to surprise and confusion. There on the bottom was Dumbledore's signature with the Gringotts seal next to it. He glanced at Bloodfang questioningly.

"That spell used is something that only goblins can cast," he started to explain. "It makes it to where Magic scans the wards and writes them down. It will also tell you who erected them."

Harry couldn't help the grin that spread across his face.

Bloodfang watched appreciatively as a rather feral grin spread across the James lookalikes face. He had never seen a wizard produce such a goblin-like grin before.

Glancing down at the goblin, Harry said, "Thank you Bloodfang. This makes my plans so much easier to do." He took out fifteen galleons and gave to the goblin. "I know goblins like to make a profit, so take that for what you did and this as a show of thanks for making it more authentic it without prompting." He dropped another fifteen galleons on the pile.

Bloodfang was shocked by not just the thanks, but being paid without saying anything. True the wizard had requested it, but he had done more without him asking, so the goblin was expecting him try and skimp off on the actual price. Yet here he was actually paying more than the usual twenty galleons.

The goblin wordlessly pocketed the gold before giving Harry a nod and disappearing in a swirl of blue.

"Morana?" Harry called out.

"Yeah?" she asked, appearing next to him.

"I plan on being there for Violet at Hogwarts," he told her, getting her to nod.

"I had figured you would want to do that so I already talked to Hogwarts and Magic to get you put down even though you are way too old to be going," she said.

"...Hogwarts and Magic?" he questioned.

"Did you not expect them to have aspects as well?" she asked, with a smirk.

Harry could only incline his head in acknowledgement. He should have guessed that if Death had a human form than Magic wasn't too far of a stretch. He idly wondered if Life had one as well.

"OK, I get Magic, but Hogwarts?"

"That's right," Morana confirmed. "With how long that castle and all that magic has been here did you not expect something to happen?"

"I suppose," Harry said. He was surprised that something could actually gain sentience like that. He had never explored his Hogwarts that much so he didn't really know if the same happened in his world. Of course, magic seemed relatively the same so it likely did.

"Oh, and your name won't appear until the year that Violet will be old enough to get her letter," she told him.

Harry nodded, before he walked toward what he was going to be calling home for the next eleven years.

A great many things happened shortly after Voldemort's apparent death. When Harry entered the house he met Petunia and Vernon. He hadn't even recognized them when he saw the two. His mother apparently forgot to mention that, for whatever reason, the Dursley's from his world and the ones from this looked completely different.

Petunia wasn't horse-faced at all with a normal neck and actually looked like she was Lily's sister. She had strawberry blonde hair, with warm brown eyes, and her facial features were soft instead of harsh.

This Vernon was the exact opposite of Harry's Vernon. This one was completely fit. He wasn't a bodybuilder, but was buff enough to make people think twice about messing with him or, more importantly, his family. He still had his mustache, but it didn't make him look like a walrus with it. He had dark brown hair and his eyes were the same blue, but looked much kinder than he knew.

A few days after that Alice, Frank, and, after he turned in the rat, Sirius all showed up at Privet Drive to see Violet when Pettigrew and the Lestranges, which disturbingly included Alecto, were convicted. Harry had been worried that, since the Longbottoms weren't tortured into insanity that they wouldn't be sent to Azkaban. However, it seems that whoever marries the Lestranges becomes, or just is, incredibly crazy as Alecto admitted everything and left no room for her brother to try and buy her out of being prosecuted.

Before the three entered the wards, Harry, disguised as he was when he met them, gave all three charmed bracelets to wear. When they asked why he said that he would explain inside.

Of course that was derailed for almost an hour when the three found out that Lily was actually alive and well. All of them questioned Lily about it, but all she knew was that for some reason Voldemort hadn't killed her. None of them really wanted to even think what the psychopath had in mind for her.

After the reunion they asked about the bracelets once more. When they explained that they hid their presence from the wards and the reason behind them, the three were somewhat doubtful. This was when Harry showed them the parchment Bloodfang gave him.

As they read through the wards, Sirius, Alice, and Frank, along with Petunia and Vernon who hadn't seen it yet, all paled before turning red with rage. By the end all of three of them wanted to teach Dumbledore a lesson for trying to treat a member of their family in such a manner. Petunia and Vernon were horrified, as well as outraged, at the thought of treating their niece in such a manner.

Harry managed to convince the three otherwise since, while they did have an official Gringotts list of wards placed around the home, it was still the goblins that gave it to them and likely wouldn't hold up in court. They begrudgingly agreed that would indeed be the case and dropped the matter for the moment.

After calming down, Harry and Lily requested the three to keep the fact that Lily was alive a secret. After seeing the wards they readily agreed, but asked if they could tell a few people. When asked who, they said Amelia Bones, the Greengrass', and Davis'.

Harry had deferred to his mother on this, since there was a chance they were different then he knew, though with Sirius and the Longbottoms suggesting them then he kind of doubted it. Lily agreed, having been friends with the Greengrass' and Davis'. She had also known Amelia fairly well so had no problems with her knowing. They had contemplated telling Remus, but two things stopped them from doing so. One was the fact that the man had already disappeared, most likely having spoken to Dumbledore and being lied to about events that had happened. Two was because he was a staunch supporter of Dumbledore. True they had all believed in the man, but Remus would likely not believe them and immediately tell Dumbledore Lily was alive.

Ten years later…

Ten years went rather quickly for Harry. For the first five he kept himself relatively distant from the others. The reason for this was because when Violet was five, he planned to reduce his age to being a five year old, something he could do as an immortal and the Master of Death. With this reason he kept himself from becoming friends with the others, though not being an git to them, so that when he disappeared they wouldn't really miss him all that much.

When those five years passed he played the part of five year old boy. Their story was that Lily found and adopted him when, as she passed an orphanage, she saw his hair change colors. It was also a good reason for him to look exactly like James with green eyes, claiming that with how Violet looked he was sure that a son of theirs would look like that.

When he changed his age he was able get close to Neville, Susan, Tracey, and Daphne. He spent time with Astoria as well, however because she was still only three she stayed with the other adults mostly.

It was when Violet turned seven that things got interesting. Nyx had finally spoken up again after staying silent for so long. She had said that she was keeping her power in check since it was actually too much for an infant to handle. While Violet was strong and could actually handle a good deal of her power, she still had to wait seven years before she could do anything else.

When she started speaking again, Harry explained to her about how he knew about Crimson Lords. To say that Nyx was shocked would be an understatement. That there was an anime, a cartoon, that was about Crimson Lords, Flame Hazes, and Crimson Denizens wasn't something the Lord had been expecting.

That year had been when Violet started training for being a Flame Haze. Lily had been rather hesitant to let her seven year old train with weapons, but Harry had helped with that. He etched runes onto some wooden weapons which softened them, so that no matter how hard she was hit they wouldn't injure her. He also put runes that made every hit feel like she was hit with a stinging hex, of course the pain increased the harder you were hit.

Harry trained alongside Violet when she started, learning to use his own Power of Existence. With Nyx's help he was able to manifest his Flame, though it turned out, once again, he wasn't normal. His Flame wasn't a flame at all, but ice. When he had tried to manifest it, emerald green ice erupted around him.

During these training sessions Harry came clean about himself. If she was old enough to learn to fight and understand the ramifications of it she could learn about him.

She took it rather well all things considered. She was surprised he was from an alternate world from hers, but learning about Crimson Lords and growing up with magic had desensitized her a bit. Thankfully she still saw him as a brother since this pretty much made them actually siblings, something she made sure he knew.

When she turned ten Violet got her Flame Haze weapon. Her weapon turned out to be a glaive, which was a polearm with a single-edged blade at the end of the pole. That explained why Nyx had been insistent on Violet using a spear for practice and use magic to make it where the weight was different than what a spear should have been.

Now, it was the year that Harry and Violet would be getting their Hogwarts letters.

"So today's the day huh?" Harry said.

"That's right. You and Violet will be getting your letters," Lily said, smiling at her bouncing daughter.

Violet had turned out the exact opposite of Harry when he was her age, something that Harry and Lily were very glad about.

Where Harry had been shy and quiet, Violet was upbeat and not loud, but she did speak out. She was also as healthy as a child her age could be as opposed to Harry being as skinny and short as he had been.

"It's going to be rather boring without you two here," Dudley said.

Dudley looked as different from Harry's cousin as the boy's parents did. He was more of a dirty blonde than just blonde and wasn't big in the same sense. He was big in that he had decent muscles for an eleven year old.

"And you're going to reveal yourself to the wizarding world once again right?" Petunia asked, as she cooked breakfast for everyone.

Lily nodded to her sister. "I don't want to just hide here the whole time they are going to be at Hogwarts. When we show up at Diagon Alley we are going to move to Potter Manor to live." She glanced at Petunia before adding, "You and your family would be welcome to join us, Tuni."

Smiling, the strawberry blonde said, "No, thank you Lily. We like living here and Dudders has all his friends here."

"Mum," Dudley groaned, while Harry and Violet snickered.

"Well, when we leave I'm going to take down the wards around here and put up some that will actually protect you," Harry said, after calming down.

"But shouldn't you leave the wards so that you can prove that Dumbledore put them around our home?" Vernon questioned.

Harry shook his head, "I don't care if it would make bringing the old goat in harder, but I'm not leaving these wards here any longer since we won't have hide ourselves."

Vernon and Petunia just smiled at him. They heard the mail flap and Violet shot from her seat eliciting chuckles from everyone. She came back shortly after carrying the mail. She handed most of it to her uncle with her keeping one letter. She then glanced at her brother worriedly.

"There wasn't a letter for you Harry," she said.

Just as she said this, there was a tap at the window. They glanced at it and saw a tawny owl. Standing up, Harry walked over to the window and opened it. The owl flew inside and they saw a letter tied to its leg. Taking the letter, he opened it and saw that it was the same as when he got it the first time.

"Go ahead and use the owl that brought my letter Vi," Harry said. "I'll use-" He was cut off when something white and feathery landed in front of him. "Hey Hedwig," he said, smiling at the snowy owl and stroking her feathers.

He was so glad that he had been able to keep Hedwig alive through his war. She had tried to sacrifice herself for him, but he managed to hit her with a switching spell and switched her with her cage. He was even more glad that he was able to bring her to this world.

The two wrote their responses and gave them to the owls.

"So are we going to Diagon Alley now?" Violet asked excitedly.

The adults, including Harry, all smiled at her enthusiasm and not letting the things she knew could have happened and the things that might happen at Hogwarts dampen her mood.

"Yes, sweetie. We are going to Diagon Alley now," Lily said. She glanced at her son, "Are you ready Harry?"

He nodded, "Ready when you are Mum."

Standing up the they all exited the house. When they were outside, Harry took out his wand and, after casting a spell to keep people's attention off of them for a little while, he tore the wards around the house down. Once they were down he started placing his own wards. After he put them up, he made sure that only magicals that were keyed to the wards would be able to enter. Anyone else would be rebuffed, immediately removed from the neighborhood. He also put an alert that, should someone try to force their way in, would tell him so he could come and help them.

When he was done, the Dursleys tried to give the bracelets back, but Harry declined, saying that they were portkeys that would take them either to their home or Potter Manor, depending on what they said. After explaining that, the three Potters bid the Dursleys farewell. Lily placed a hand on Violet and, for appearances, Harry's shoulders before Apparating to Diagon Alley.

* I know that this is rather out of the blue, but I wanted something else to refer to Harry as besides his name and using 'he'.