Chapter twenty two

'Um, Brian will be home soon, that's my husband. He's going to need to hear all this and I can tell you now, he's not going to like it or want Evan to have anything to do with you.'

'He'll have no choice and you will have to make him understand that or he will lose Evan. I have legal rights over my son, but I know he's loved here, but I will not let anyone take him away from me again. We'll all have to learn to live with this and share Evan. Now if he tries to keep Evan from me or our world, we have magical ways of stopping that or finding him. As Evan's biological father I can use magic to track my children, I've never had to use those charms, but I do know how they work.'

'Mum, why don't you tell dad when there not here, dad might get angry?'

'Angry, how?' Harry tensed, 'He's never hit you has he Evan?'

'No, just yells sometimes, dad loves me.'

'Brian would never harm Evan, in anyway,' Kate said.

'If I may make a suggestion that might be beneficial to all involved,' Minerva said, 'I think the best solution right now is that Evan visits with Harry for a while, say until tomorrow. You can explain all this to your husband without anyone getting upset or this getting out of hand. Mrs. Gibbs, your husband will need to accept this and if he starts anything, he will lose, you both will. None of you want that for Evan, you all love him and want what's best for him.'

'She's smart mum, so can I?'

'This feels strange, allowing my son to go off with people I don't know. But you do make sense Miss McGonagall.'

'Than I have one more suggestion and that after Harry and Charlie take Evan, I stay and help you explain about our world to your husband. It will be easier on him if he sees proof, like I showed you.'

'Again she's smart mum.'

Charlie and Harry laughed, 'That's why she's headmistress of such a prestigious old school, not to mention how powerful she is,' Harry grinned, 'Mrs. Gibbs, Evan will be looked after, he won't get into any trouble or hurt in anyway. The only thing that will happen is he'll be overly excited with everything he sees and hears.'

'Yes, alright, Evan, why don't you change your clothes, then pack your pyjama's and clothes for tomorrow,' she watched her son bounced out of the room looking excited, 'Promise me he will be okay.'

'You have my word Mrs. Gibbs. We'll bring him back tomorrow afternoon then we'll have to sit down and work out when I can visit him here and when he can stay with me.'

'Yes, but Brian will want to be in that discussion.'

'That's fine and expected, he raised Evan, so it's understandable.'

'Okay, I'm ready, do you have a car?' Evan said excitedly.

'No, we don't use cars in our world Evan, we have other ways to travel and it's a lot faster. I will tell you this, at first it's a little uncomfortable, but not dangerous in any way, you just need to hold me tight and don't let go.'

'Okay even if I have no idea what you mean.'

'You will,' Harry turned to Minerva, 'Take care and let me know how it goes.'

'I will Harry, get to know your son. Evan, remember to listen to Harry and Charlie.'

'I will ma'am,' he smiled.

'You can call me Professor McGonagall or Professor, since that is what you will call me when you get to Hogwarts.'

'Alright Professor, it was nice to meet you and you're not as grumpy as my old headmaster.'

Harry burst out laughing, 'Harry, behave,' Minerva said sternly.

'Sorry Minerva, but Evan will learn, he hasn't seen the real you yet.'

'That's for sure, she scared the life out of me at school.'

'Charlie Weasley,' Minerva scowled, 'Go home, the pair of you.'

Harry saluted, making Evan giggle, 'Yes ma'am, okay Evan, say goodbye to your mum and we'll go,' Harry watched as Evan hugged his mother and could see she was very apprehensive to let her son go, but she did, 'Now hold my arm tight and remember, don't let go,' Harry waited until Evan took his arm, then placed his own hand over it, 'Charlie take Evan's bag, it will be easier, then you go, we'll follow. You watch Evan.'

Charlie grabbed the bag, nodded to the woman and Minerva before turning on the spot and vanishing.

'Wow,' Evan's eyes widened again, 'he disappeared.'

'It's called apparating and you learn that when you're seventeen. Okay, are you ready mate?' Harry smiled down at his son and got a nod, 'Let's go,' Harry turned on the spot and they vanished. A few seconds later they arrived down the back of the property surrounding the house, 'Breathe Evan, it's okay, takes a bit to get used to.'

'Wow, that felt strange, but where are we?'

'Our home, the house is just through those trees, come on,' Harry and Evan walked over to Charlie then through the trees.

'That's a big house.'

'Yeah, I suppose it is, come on,' Harry smiled and they all walked into the house, 'I'll show you which room you can use.'

'Harry, let me talk to mum, I'm sure she'll get everyone over for dinner and they can meet Evan.'

'Okay Charlie, it might be good to do this quickly. Come on Evan, this way,' Harry led the boy up the stairs and into one of the room. He pulled his wand and changed the coverings on the bed to ones with dragons on it, the walls he changed to have dogs, owls, hippogriffs, unicorns and centaurs, 'There, suits a boy now.'

'So I'll learn all this stuff.'

'You will, takes time but all witches and wizards learn, some take longer like with anything you have to learn. Now you have your own bathroom right through that door, mine room is to the right, the room next to this is for Teddy, my godson who's a year older than you. The other room is just a spare bedroom, I sometimes have friends stay over.'

'Will I meet Teddy?'

'Yes, he's just done his first year at Hogwarts. Come on, I'll show you the rest of the house,' Harry held his hand out to his son and smiled when Evan took it and they walked down the stairs.

'Why has Charlie got his head in the fireplace with that green flames, won't he get burned?'

'No, it's another way we travel or we can talk to people through the fireplace. I'll explain more about that later as well.' Harry took Evan all around the house until they ended up back in the living room where Charlie was sitting on the sofa.

'Everyone's going to be there and can't wait to meet Evan.'

'You're about to get a lot of attention Evan, the Weasley family is very large.'

'Can you tell me about them Uncle Charlie?'

Harry and Charlie smiled, 'Sure, sit down,' Charlie patted the sofa next to him, 'See that picture on the wall with all the red heads, that's my family. My mum and dad at the back, then my brother Bill near me and Harry, Bill's wife Fleur with their three children and your cousins, Victoire, Dominique and Louis. Then it's Percy on the right with his wife Audrey and their two children, Molly and Lucy. Next is George, this needs a bit of explaining, as you can see there are twins, but Fred is the one on the left, he died in that fighting Harry told you about, but he was added to the picture. So George is with his wife Angelina and their two children, Fred and Roxanne. Next row is my brother Ron, his wife Hermione and their two children Rose and Hugo, then Ginny and her husband Lee and the boy with Harry, that's Teddy, his godson.'

'They move, their waving.'

'All our pictures move Evan, it's part of our magic,' Harry pointed at another picture, 'That's Charlie and I when we were married, the one near it is a picture of my parents and the one near that is my godfather who died a long time ago.'

'What's that small one, it looks like me but with glasses.'

'That's me and my best friends Ron and Hermione. A friend of ours took that when we were twelve. You can see the castle behind us, that's Hogwarts.'

Evan got up and stared up at the picture, 'It looks huge, I'll get lost.'

'Ron and I did the first week we were there. But if you need it, you can get a map that will help you find your way. There are a few things you'll need to know about Hogwarts though. Professor McGonagall will explain some to the first years, but I'll tell you some now. Like the staircases move, depending on the time or day. There are doors that aren't doors, there are walls that are door. Oh and don't be scared, but there are a lot of ghosts around Hogwarts, almost all are friendly. The Bloody Baron isn't friendly but he leaves everyone alone. Peeves, well he's a poltergeist and loves to play tricks, sometimes throws things at you, but he's harmless.'

'Blimey, oh sorry,' Evan said shyly, 'Mum said I'm not allowed to say that, it's like swearing.'

'I don't think of it as swearing, I use it all the time. So how's this, here you can say it, just not at home.'

'Thanks, but I was going to say, ghosts and dragons, are there other strange things?'

'Lot's, do you know what a centaur is?'

'Something about a half man or other.'

'Half man, half horse and they are real. There's a forest around Hogwarts and the centaurs live in there, also unicorns and hippogriffs, now there half horse half eagle. Professor Hagrid will teach you all about the creatures in his class and you have to listen to him, that's not till third year though. If you don't approach a hippogriff the right way, they can attack. But I own a hippogriff, but he stays at Hogwarts, his name is Buckbeak. Now another thing and I don't want you to be scared of him. Hagrid is a good friend of mine, he was the first magical person I met, but he's very big,' Harry pointed to another picture, 'You can see how big he is compared to me, he's a half giant, his mother was a giant and his father was a normal man, a wizard, but he has a brother that also lives in the forest, Grawp and he's a full giant. I know this is all very confusing Evan, but you will learn everything about our world.'

'I'm not scared, I have never been one of those kids that gets scared of things.'

'Like your father Evan,' Charlie smiled at Harry, 'He was never scared as a kid, well sometimes, but normally it was some dangerous situation that he found himself in, even then, he wasn't as scared as he should have been.'

'Like with the dragon you flew.'

'My friends and I were trapped and needed to escape, so Hermione suggested we use the dragon that had been chained up. She set it free after we got onto it's back and flew away. But at the time we were scared because dragons can eat you or burn you. This dragon though, it was just happy to be free, it's still free today.'

'Why don't we ever see them then?'

'It's all to do with our magic Evan, like this house. If anyone that hasn't been invited looks here, they won't see it. They will see the house next door, but not this house, not our land either. Because Harry is famous, he needed some privacy so he charmed the house and land. So it's the same with the dragons, there are things non magical people don't or can't see and it's all to do with magic.'

'Could you show me more magic Harry?'

Harry and Charlie chuckled seeing the excited look on Evan's face, so between both of them they kept transfiguring things, Harry even levitated Evan up to the roof then spun him around like a ride making the boy laugh which made both men laugh. Charlie did notice Harry had a wistful look and knew what it meant, his son won't be calling him dad, something Harry would love to hear.