Chapter twenty seven

Just after the group sat down, a girl entered the kitchen, older than Evan, looked to be about sixteen or seventeen, then all she did was stare at Harry. At first they all thought it was because Evan and Harry looked alike, but they noticed they were looks someone would give someone they were checking out.

'One thing you should know, Evan will be known as Evan Potter in our world. He can keep Gibbs here, but not when he's at Hogwarts. Our laws state he must have his parents name and since I have legal rights over him, he will take my name, but only when he's in the magical world.'

'So here he will be Gibbs, that's going to confuse him a bit.'

'Behave Dawn, Mr. Potter is gay, this is his partner, Mr. Weasley.' Kate scolded her daughter.

'Why is it all the best looking blokes are gay, but you can tell your Evan's dad, shocked the life out of me when mum told me.'

'I'm sure it would have Dawn,' Harry gave her a smile.

'That McGonagall woman said Evan isn't allowed to use his magic outside of Hogwarts, until he's seventeen, an adult in your world.'

'Yes, that's right, and because this is an non-magical home, the ministry can tell when magic is used here. Minerva McGonagall is always allowed to use magic in a non-magical home because she is the one that explains all this to people like you that are non-magical. Since I am an auror, I am also allowed to use magic in your home, but if Charlie was to, then he would need to explain why he did and that's usually done in front of our courts.'

'They can tell, your ministry?' Dawn said.

'Yes, there are a lot of things our magic lets us know. I was saying to your mother yesterday, because Evan is my biological son, I can use a charm that will let me know where he is at all times and I can go to him instantly, anywhere in the world if I have to.'

'This picture here, you look like your about twenty and your hurt, there's also a lot of busted walls and stuff, but also blood on the floor,' Brian said.

'That was right after our war finished, when Harry killed a very evil dark wizard that wanted to take over our world and yours and Harry wasn't even eighteen yet,' Charlie said squeezing Harry's hand.

Harry could see confusion and questions on the muggle faces, 'Voldemort or Lord Voldemort as he was called wanted to rule and would use any means to achieve that, including murder or torture. A prophecy made about him and I before I was born said that either must die at the hand of the other, for neither can live while the other survives. I'm lucky he never heard all of it, but the part he did hear was what sent him after me when I was a child. He murdered my parents and tried to kill me, that was the first time I became famous in our world.'

'How so?' Dawn asked.

'Harry is the only person to ever survive the killing curse, it's the only curse in our world that kills, it kills instantly. Yes, you could get stabbed, but there's a chance you could survive, here your doctors would do what they do, our world, healers could heal you. But the killing curse is literally instant, Harry didn't die, just got his scar on his forehead, so from then on he was called the boy who lived and everyone in our world knew his name,' Charlie tapped one of the other Magazines, 'After this, after Voldemort was gone, Harry was called the saviour of the wizarding world. The day that happened has been named the Harry Potter day, he has plaques and statues of him as a tribute. Not far from his parent's home which was left as a monument, there is a statue of Harry's parents and him as a child, but now there is another one near it, of how Harry looked right after the fighting finished. Harry doesn't like attention, but he's learned to live with it. Like with famous people in your world, they will be followed, photographed and asked questions. Harry's very private, so he will give an interview explaining something about his life and he only does that before someone else leaks the information and a lot of it might be lies.'

'Yes, I gave an interview yesterday, Evan chipped in a bit,' Harry smiled at his son, 'We explained how I never knew Evan existed until a few days ago, I explained what Ginny had done, that's Evan's biological mother and Charlie's sister. She was seventeen, pregnant and scared, a lot of it was my fault, so we've talked and we both just want what's best for Evan. I explained that Evan will be staying with you as long as we can see him and he can spend time with his other family, the Weasley family.'

'There all great dad, and so many of them.'

'So a large family, do you have siblings Mr. Potter?' Brian asked.

'No, I was an only child and my parents died when I was one. The Weasley family has been my family since I was twelve, it's large, seven kids, their all married and have their own children.'

'So you have a lot of cousins Evan?' Dawn asked.

'Yeah, heaps, a lot of girls, Victoire's pretty, long blond hair like her mum, Aunt Fleur, she's French. Uncle Bill is Uncle Charlie's older brother, but he has these scars on his face.'

'Bill was attacked by a werewolf years ago, but the wolf wasn't transformed when he attacked, so Bill is fine, he just prefers his meat raw. Bill is a very gentle man,' Charlie explained.

'So dragons, centaurs, unicorns, ghosts and werewolves, that doesn't surprise me.' Evan shrugged.

'There are a lot of things in our world that you might think are not real, vampires as well, their real. I met one when I was sixteen. But one of my father's best friends, Remus Lupin and my godson's father was a werewolf. He was attacked as a child, but never wanted to hurt anyone. So on the three nights of the full moon he would take this special potion called the wolfsbane potion, then lock himself up and he would sleep the whole time, but as a harmless wolf, not a werewolf.'

'So Evan will be safe with all that stuff?' Kate asked.

'Yes, there aren't any at Hogwarts, so he will be safe.'

'Mum said you turned into an animal, a dog,' Dawn said tilting her head.

'Yes, would you like to see?'

'Yes, I would love to.'

Harry nodded, stood up and transformed, then he nudged Evan's hand again and rubbed his head against Evan before transforming back.

'I call him Padfoot after my godfather, who looked exactly like I did as a dog when he changed. My father could turn into a stag and Minerva turns into a cat. It's not a spell anyone can learn, it's very difficult and took me two years to perfect it. Their called animagi and we have to register our animagi with the ministry so we don't abuse our animal form in way. As an auror, I can use my dog to spy if I need to, but I have to get permission from the head auror and minister.'

'But you're going to be the head auror and uncle Charlie's dad is minister, so he'd say yes wouldn't he?'

'Only if I have a good reason to Evan, but like I told you, I don't lie, so if I said I needed to use Padfoot, he knows I'm serious, so he usually lets me.'

'What's with the owl?' Dawn asked.

'Evan, why don't you let Hedwig out, he might like to go hunting now it's getting late? He'll need a bowl of water left out for him and treats occasionally.' Harry suggested.

'Sure dad,' Evan said happily and opened the cage, but Hedwig hopped onto Evan's arm and he carried him over to the table, the owl gave a hoot and Harry took a treat out of his pocket and gave it to his son's owl.

'We use them to send our mail, they can usually get from one place to another in a few hours, unless it's overseas. They can always find the person they have been sent to without any problem.'

'He's pretty Evan,' Dawn smiled then gave the owl a pat, 'So has Evan done any magic since he found out he was a wizard?'

'No, it's not allowed, but when he goes to Hogwarts, he will be doing spells all day, every day. He'll start off small, like floating a feather, turning a match into a needle, making simple potions, like to stop the hiccups or to get rid of pimples, things like that.'

'He will also see Harry at Hogwarts, the head auror will go every day for a week and lecture about dark magic in the defence against the dark arts class,' Charlie said.

'So even though Mr. Shacklebolt will be one of my teachers and he was or is head auror, it will change to you dad?' Evan said as he tilted his head.

'Yes, it's part of my job to inform your minds what dark magic is all about so they don't use it. I also explain that the use of dark magic could earn them a lifelong sentence in Azkaban. That's our prison Mr. Gibbs and it's very secure. There has only ever been one escape from there, well, actually Voldemort blasted the walls to allow his followers out. But normally no wizard could do that as it's protected by dementors, but back then, the dementors went over to his side. A department in our ministry, the Unspeakables, they came up with a spell that has the dementors only following the orders of the minister, the head auror and the Wizengamot, there the people that run out court system.'

'What are dementors, auror type men like you?' Dawn asked.

'No, they aren't men at all. They are these creatures that suck all the happiness out of you. Maybe your parents might remember this, but a couple of years before Evan was conceived, there were a lot of strange mist around, it got very cold and everyone seemed miserable. That was all caused by dementors and non-magical people can't see them, just feel their affects.'

'I do remember that, I was shopping with a friend when we walked through that strange mist,' Mrs. Gibbs said.

'That was around the time that some bridges collapsed and tornados were seen in this country.'

'All that was caused by Voldemort's followers, called death eaters. The minister back then, Scrimgeour, he spoke with your prime minister and explained the situation. Maybe you might even remember this. The prime minister back then always had this tall black man with him, does that sound familiar?'

'Yes, I remember that man because he had an earring in his ear and I thought that didn't look right since he was with the prime minister,' Mr. Gibbs said.

'That was Kingsley Shacklebolt, my boss, he was placed there to protect your minister.'

'But he left and went to guard you Harry, remember,' Charlie smirked.

'Yeah, I asked him why he wasn't with the muggle prime minister.'

'What did he say dad?' Evan asked.

'He said I was more important and had to make sure I was safe. That day, I was being moved from my non magical relatives place to a safe house, Charlie's families home. So the order of the phoenix, a group that was fighting Voldemort, they worked on a plan to take me safely away. At the time Voldemort had control over our ministry, so I couldn't use magic to leave. So this old ex auror, mad and a bit eccentric came up with a plan.'

'Yeah, seven Harry Potter's, he had six others drink this potion that transformed them into Harry, in every way. Three of my brothers changed and were with others, like order members or aurors. I was still living in Romania at the time, came back a few days later. I heard the stories, Fred and George, their my twin brothers, they told me everyone just stripped off in front of everyone else so they could all wear the same clothes. But Fred said he had to see what Harry was like, if you get what I mean.'

'Don't remind me Charlie, I'm watching six people stand there as me, with no clothes on. They didn't care about showing my body, but two were girls.'

'Girls, they changed into you?' Dawn said with her eyebrows raised.

'Yes, our sister in law Fleur and my best friend Hermione, she's also my sister in law now. So they became me and also had a quick look. Hermione, she's very smart, she told me that becoming a man is something she wouldn't experience very often and asked me how we walked properly,' Harry shrugged, then he wanted to change the subject, so he spoke with Evan's adoptive father, explained how they would need to go into Diagon Alley not long after Evan got his letters from Hogwarts. Then the two men talked about visitation and Harry would have Evan for the second part of the holidays as long as he could come back and see his family for a couple of hours before heading to Hogwarts again. Dawn wanted to go with them the day they bought Evan's things, so Harry and Charlie agreed to take Evan's adoptive family into Diagon Alley.