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Chapter 41

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"Over the holiday I found out that my last name is not Potter, it is Halliwell, and that Piper and Leo are my real mom and dad.

The response to the simple comment that Harry had just made was instantaneous. Hermione and Mrs. Weasley were protesting loudly; while Ron just sat there in shock, not daring to speak a word. Had the situation not been so serious, he was sure that he would have been laughing. Harry had known that he might be met with some opposition when he told his friends the truth. He made to pull out his wand to shoot off a couple of loud bangs, but his wand was left where it was because someone had beaten him to the punch.

Harry turned his attention to the one who had shot off the warning shots; their wand still smoking at the tip. "Thank you Mr. Weasley." He said with a small smile.

"You are welcome Harry." The Weasley head responded with a smile.

Taking the lead from her dad, Ginny Weasley turned to face those who the 'bangs' had been meant for. "Now, Harry is trying to tell us something and I am willing to bet that he doesn't want this to take all day. So if you all could just sit quietly for just a moment and just listen then all of our questions will be answered."

This quieted Hermione in an instant, Ron just sat there not moving and their mother was too shocked by the outburst from her husband and daughter to say a word. Nodding, Ginny turned and smiled at Harry before planting a kiss on his cheek; much to the shock of the entire room. Harry blushed as he looked about the room. He had not had the chance to tell his parents about the recent development, and he knew by the look on her mother's face, that Ginny would have some explaining to do. Harry also noticed the look on the strangers face. He was giving Harry a knowing smirk/smile, like he knew something that the rest of them did not.

Harry made a mental note to ask his family who this person was, why he was here and what he knew. 'Is he dating one of my Aunts?' He thought to himself as he shook his head and turned back to look at the others in the room. "For those of you don't know, last night I asked Ginny to be my girlfriend, and she said yes."

There were a few 'squeals' that Harry knew had come from his aunts. Apparently they had been hoping he would ask her, and they were just so happy for him that they had to make their happiness verbal; much to his annoyance. He chanced a look at Mr. Weasley, who just looked at Harry with approval. Mrs. Weasley, Harry noticed, was staring at her husband with a look of shock in her eyes. She had apparently guessed that, because of his lack of reaction, he had known. "We will talk later Arthur." Mrs. Weasley said in a serious tone, causing Mr. Weasley to wince slightly. Harry's shoulders shook slightly with the silent laughter that he was holding back, but this earned him a slap on the head from his mother, who also gave him a knowing look that said the same.

Deciding that it was best to continue Harry began "Okay, so as I was saying I am not a Potter, by name at any rate, but I am by blood. It turns out that one of my ancestors came over from England and met up with a lady by the name of Melinda Warren and after a few too many drinks…well you can guess what happened." He paused a moment to look around the room and smiled when his gaze landed on Ron, who was wagging his eye brows up and down in a suggestive manner. This did not go unnoticed by his mother, who lifted her hand and pinched his shoulder.

"Anyway, after that night he went back to England due to work and they never saw each other again. Melinda got pregnant and thus started the Halliwell line. It turns out that the man who came over from England was in fact a Potter and he had just graduated from Hogwarts and wanted to have a bit of fun before settling down. So I…well we," He paused again and gestured to Piper and his Aunt's, "Are distantly related to the Potter's, however distantly that may be."

"But Harry," Hermione began, "That doesn't explain why you're thought to be the child of James and Lily and why you went to Hogwarts instead of growing up here in America."

'Leave it to Hermione to nit-pick' Harry thought before deciding at how to go about this. It was complicated and even if he could explain it, there would be the chance that he would not explain it well. He looked to his mom, who just nodded and gave him a smile. "There is a chance that what I'm about to tell you next, you might not believe and so I just ask that you not interrupt me."

Receiving five nods in understanding he continued, "Well to start off, my mom and aunts are not muggles, they are witches. And my dad is a Whitelighter…a sort of Guardian Angel."

"When you say angel what do you mean?" Ginny asked curiously.

"Dad, could you?" Harry asked turning to look at him.

Leo answered with a quick "No problem." Then disappeared in a swirl of blue lights and then reappeared on the other side of the room much to the shock of all of those present; except Ginny. Harry was going to ask her why but as though knowing what he was going to ask, she cut him off and said "Later, please continue."

Harry nodded and said "Well, like I said, they are witches and each of them can do magic. Cast spells and such, it is quite amazing really."

"You mean with wands?" Ron asked.

Harry shook his hand and said "No, their magic is different from ours, or rather yours. Since I am their son, I can do what they can do. But not really because each of them has a power unique to them." He paused for a moment at seeing the looks of confusion on their faces and then said "I am not making sense am I?"

After being met with five nods he sighed and turned to his dad. He was much better at explaining things and was hoping that he would help him out. Answering his son's silent plea for help Leo stepped forward and said, "What my son is trying to say is that when he started at Hogwarts, the core of his magic had to adapt to his use of a wand. But as he also said…or tried to say was that my wife and her sisters each have a different power that they excel at, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige." Leo gestured to the sisters to stand and give a demonstration of what they could do so that their company would understand.

Piper decided to go first and in one swift movement picked up a magazine and tossed it to Leo, who caught it without effort. He threw it into the air shortly after and then let his wife do the rest. Just as the magazine was falling back down again, Piper lifted her hands and gestured at it, palms exploding outwards, causing it to freeze in mid-fall. After letting it sit there for a few seconds she gestured at it again and instead of unfreezing; it blew up, causing bits of paper to fly in every direction. "I can slow down the molecules of any object, effectively freezing it in place, or I can blow it up." Piper said as she sat back down next to Harry, who just smiled at her.

"So I guess I will go next." Phoebe said stepping forward and as she lifted her arms she began to float off the ground. Harry's friends just stared on in shock. When her feet touched the ground she said "Unfortunately my power is not that great, and while I do have another power, I will let them tell you about it."

Not knowing what else to do Harry's friends just nodded and watched as the one called Paige stepped forward. "Well, to start off, I am their half sister. Anyway, I can move things with my mind but not how you might think." She paused for a moment and then called out, "Harry's wand." And in a swirl of blue lights, Harry's wand appeared in her out-stretched hand. She smiled and then handed it back to him.

"Thanks." He said as he put it away.

Paige nodded and then went to sit back down next to the stranger, who patted her on the shoulder. "And you have already seen what I can do." Harry said with a smile while looking at his friends and after a moment he continued. "Now, back to the story, and this is the part that you might find hard to believe, but I need to tell you anyway………… I'm from the future."

Harry watched the faces of those he cared about as he explained, as well as he could at any rate, about how his parents had gotten a tip that he was going to be attacked and they wanted to save him. He did need the help of Leo and Piper at some points to explain the parts that he himself was still confused about. But eventually they all got it. Even if they, themselves were still confused.

"So you're saying that you were born a year and a half ago and that they," Ron asked pointing to Piper and Leo, "Took you to the Potter's in the past because they wanted you to be safe, and that they chose the Potter's cause they were related?"

"Yea, pretty much. I know that it's confusing, I am still working through the logistics of it." Harry said answering his question.

Everyone lapsed into silence for a moment, all of them taking in all of the information that they had been given. All of a sudden Harry broke the silence when he jumped up and said, "Oh I almost forgot." And with a wave of his wand, just like on the train at the beginning of term he said "Confuto Celo Veneficus".

This time however the magic only swirled around those who had not previously been in on the secret. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were awed at the display of magic, though at the same time wanted to know what he had just done to them. When they asked him, he told them exactly what he had told the others. They nodded in understanding and congratulated him on an excellent piece of magic and were about to say something more but were interrupted by Hermione, who had what could only be a look of realization finding its way onto her face.

"Harry," She began, "The magic you did in the Room of Requirement; those were your personal powers you showed us weren't they?"

Harry nodded and answered with a simple "Yes."

"The levitation? The summoning of Ron's wand? All the wandless magic... you creating and controlling that fire?" She pressed again as she listed out what he had done.

Harry sighed and said "Yes, Hermione, though that is really only a fraction of what I can do. I think that if I showed you all of what I am capable of, you would faint with information overload."

"Still, Harry the fact that you can do all of that is truly amazing. I mean to be able to do that with fire…" She trailed off and then looked at Piper and said. "I bet that you are so proud of Harry, Mrs. Halliwell."

Piper blushed and began "Please call me Piper, Mrs. Halliwell was my Grandmothers name. And did you say that Harry created fire?"

"Oh, yes ma'am, he held it in the palm of his hand." Hermione answered.

Piper looked at Leo, not sure of what to make of the new development and it seemed he didn't either. They both looked at Harry, who looked sheepishly back at them, and said "I have been meaning to tell you about it."

"Well why didn't you? This is serious Harry, do you know who or rather what this makes you?" Piper said exasperatedly.

"Yea, I do, and it was part of the reason that I didn't tell you. I was afraid about the way that you might react."

"Harry, when did you find out that you could do this?" Leo asked in concern.

"It was during the summer; just after I learned how to clear my mind. It was like I always knew it was there, but it was only after I could clear my mind that I was able to access it. Plus I got curious as to what exactly it was that I could do, so I looked it up in the book." Harry answered thoroughly.

"Leo we have to fix this." Piper said, but as soon as she said it she knew that it had been a mistake.

"It is not something you can fix mom, it is who I am. I have had this power since the beginning of summer and have kept it under control ever since, and now that you have found out, you want to fix it. Just how do you plan on doing that?" Harry exclaimed as he began to stand up.

"Harry she didn't mean it like that," Leo started but was cut off by a furious Harry.

"You're lying." Harry said starting to tremble.

"Harry, don't speak to your father like that, we mean what we say, because we want to help." Piper began.

"Piper's right Harry, we love you and just want to help." Phoebe put in.

Harry was shaking now, and had one hand on his head and another hand clutching at his chest trying to ease whatever it was that he was feeling. "STOP, you're both lying. You are all scared of me now, and it is making my head pound. Just stop it, it's killing me!"

Everyone in the room flinched at the tone in his voice. Harry was mad, they could all see it, and when Piper went up to try and comfort him they both yelled out. Piper had yelled because as she soon as she had touched her son's skin she had been burned.

Wanting to do something to help, Ginny stood up and walked towards Harry but was stopped when Leo had called out to her, "No, it's not safe." And he was right because what happened next shocked everybody; Harry's body had begun to glow bright red, as though he was heating up.

"Leo we have to do something." Piper said to her husband as tears began to fall from her face.

He nodded in understanding and turned to the stranger, "Chris, get him out of here."

Chris nodded as he lifted himself off the arm of the chair and walked towards his over-heating brother. "Be careful." Paige called after him.

"I know what to do; this is not the first time this has happened. And it won't be the last." He said waving her off. Chris then brought his hands up just in front of him and closed his eyes in concentration. No one was sure what he was doing and at the same time, they did not want to interrupt him. Not a second later Chris opened his eyes again and looked at his hands; they were glowing a soft blue. He smiled briefly at his success and then immediately grabbed Harry by the shoulders and orbed him out of the Manor and to a place that he knew Harry would be able to calm down at.

The entire house was bathed in the silence that followed the departure of the two boys. Piper was crying silently, while Leo healed the minor burn that Harry had given his mom. Ron and Hermione were just sitting on the couch looking on as Harry's dad did his work. Phoebe and Paige were staring blankly into space, trying to go over what had just taken place. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley just watched their daughter as she gazed at the spot, not blinking, that Harry had just been standing in. She was trying her best not to break down, and was doing an okay job at it, but the few tears that were escaping from her eyes were becoming more frequent.

Seeing this Piper rushed forward to pull Ginny into a hug. She may not have known the girl yet on a personal level, but she had seen in her sons eyes that the care he had for her ran deep into his very being. "Shh," Piper began, "It's going to be okay, you will see." Ginny just hugged Piper more tightly at this. She knew what Harry's mom had said was true; it would be okay. She just wished that there was something that she could have done to help.

The silence reigned for several more minutes, no one daring to use their voices yet. But after enough time had passed, a single voice broke through the silence that had fallen over them. Piper and Ginny pulled away and looked at the person who had began to speak. "Where did that young man take Harry?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

Piper, not knowing what to say turned and looked at her husband, "Leo," she began, "Do you know?"

Leo shook his head and said "No I don't, but I am guessing that since Chris said that this has happened before, I'm going to bet that he knows exactly where to take Harry."

Both of the women nodded in understanding, and they all fell back into silence until the Weasley matron spoke again. "So… you said that you were a chef?" Molly Weasley said with a small smile trying to make conversation.

Piper nodded at the woman who had claimed Harry as one of her own said "Yes, I love to cook."

Molly returned the smile and said "Would you like to exchange recipes?"

ELSEWERE: TIME AND PLACE UNKNOWN.

Rune,

You might be interested to know that there was a massive power surge last night on the Hogwarts Grounds. I will let you know more as soon as I am able. Most of the students were either in their rooms or at the ball. However, I must wait until the right moment to begin my investigation.

Could it be that the one we are looking for is actually at the school?

I shall contact you again as soon as I have more information.

Spore

A/N: So here is the chapter, where Harry's friends are told everything. And as you saw, some told a bit too much info, that Harry had apparently wanted kept a secret. We will see exactly where it is that Chris took his brother in the next chapter. And what is with this last bit? Thank you to all of those who reviewed my last chapter. It is because of all of you who review, that makes me want to post my next chapter.

Thank you all again,

Mudbloodpotter.