Summary: Harry's parents didn't die; he has a brother, Hayden, who is the boy who lived. He is neglected and finally runs away at the age of seven. He leaves his parents and meets Draco, Hermione, Neville, Luna and Ron where he finally finds home and the reason to fight. Meanwhile, at Hogwarts, trouble is brewing. Harry gets the call for help and now, he has to face his past and the truth.
Lightning - Harry Potter
Athena - Hermione Granger
Drake - Draco Malfoy
Fire - Ron Weasley
Sunshine - Luna Lovegood
Nex - Neville Longbottom
Disclaimer: All characters belong to J. K. Rowling. I don't own anything.
Lightning, Athena and Drake stepped inside the flat and found the others missing from their sleeping bags and blankets, probably getting ready for the day. Lightning petted his owl, Hedwig that had swooped in and landed on his shoulder as soon as he stepped in, while Athena scooped up Crookshanks, her ugly, bendy legged orange cat, into her arm.
"Alright, guys! Get ready for the day then we can eat breakfast. We have some stuff we need to tell you guys about."
As soon as Sunshine, Fire and Nex heard Athena's voice, they came out rushing from the bathroom and other various places in the flat they were in before and began to unpack the breakfast and set the table.
After a brief moment of confusion that involved people falling over chairs, an accidental fire in the kitchen (Cough cough Drake and his horrible kitchen skills Cough cough) and a quick but furious fight between Fire and Crookshanks (that included a lot of cursing and kicking on Fire's part and a lot of hissing and scratching on Crookshank's part), everyone was sitted down, munching on their bagels, fruits, treacle pudding, etc, when Lightning began to speak.
"I think the aurors are looking for us again. We saw them prowling around the neighborhood as we were coming in, and they seemed to be looking for someone. They can't find our flat because of the wards we put up, unless they see us walking inside the front door. But I bet my treacle tart and Drake's entire chocolate card collection ("Hey!" protested the blonde with green streaked and spiky haired boy) that they're searching for us."
There was a temporary silence.
"But why would they be searching for us? I mean they often did, but that was usually after a fight, or some less than legal stuff we did. I don't think any of us did any illegal stuff lately- unless Lightning got affected by Wrackspurts and did something stupid like attacking someone in the middle of daylight again? (Lightning shook his head while protesting, "Hey, that guy had stolen my piece of treacle tart! Nobody steals my treacle tart!" To which everyone had rolled their eyes. "So you give the guy two black eyes and knock him unconscious?" asked Nex wryly, to which Lightning smiled sheepishly. Lightning's love for treacle everything and coffee were atrociously famous amongst them) Why us, and why now?" asked Sunshine, totally ignoring Lightning's playful pout.
"I don't know, Su. Maybe they want something, maybe they want to capture us and throw us into Azkaban. It might even have to do with what happened last June. I don't know what's going on, but we can't afford to get captured. Especially not now." Fire sighed.
Nex nodded. "Riddle is back now. We need to spend our time trying to take him down. We can't waste any time than neccessary. He's not moving around in the open, but it's obvious he is bidding his time. Maybe he's planning an attack, a big scale one. We need to track down the horcruxes and destroy them before he starts causing serious damage."
Lightning looked pensive, and made a plan in his best strategizing voice, after running his hand through his blue-streaked hair in thought.
"We could head up north, to Liverpool maybe. We have a safehouse there. We'll lay low for a while, do some more research, work on potions and spells we needed and a couple of us should find a part time job- we can't keep coming back to Gringotts whenever we need money. We can then lay out a fake trail for the aurors if we still need it, or we'll wait out the search. We can take the train at 1:15, I still have some business to finish up and we'll have to exchange more muggle cash at Gringotts. We also need to work on the wards and stuff to last until winter ("We got it." Drake and Sunshine promised), and one of us also needs to send a letter to our Hogwarts contacts; Theo, Daphne, Padma, Angelina, Lee, the rest of the crew- Nex, could you do that? ("Sure!" agreed the brown haired wizard) September is arriving soon. It's nine now, we'll regroup here at 12:30, then it's a half an hour walk to the station, we can buy the tickets there, and the ride is about two and a half hours long. Then it's another half hour walk to the safehouse, but we should be there by dinner." Lightning decided.
"One of us should go with you. Use the buddy system. You shouldn't go alone, just in case anything happens." Drake suggested.
"I'll go," said Athena, "I have to pick up something anyway."
"Li, we're running low on some potion ingredients. If I write a list, can you guys pick it up for me?" asked Nex.
"Will do, Nex" promised Lightning.
"Now Theena and I will visit Gringotts and stuff and could you guys pack up the stuff too, while we're gone?" Everyone made a hum of agreement, already moving out.
Lightning and Athena smiled in thanks, and grabbed their wand, knife and collective money purse and got ready for a walk through London.
Few moments later (after Lightning found his blue coloured contacts from the bottom of his extended bag and put muggle concealer on his scar, covering it) they left for the twenty minute walk that lead to a small alley that people generally didn't notice.
Lightning and Nex had found it by a complete accident few years ago.
There was a blank brick wall on one of its sides and if you tapped the bricks with your wand in a certain pattern, it opened right up to the Knockturn alley. Many people used it, especially on days when The Leaky Cauldron was incredibly crowded.
The portal closed as soon as Lightning and Athena stepped through, transforming back into a plain wall again.
The duo began to walk through the alley, exchanging greetings with their friends and allies, stopping at Mr. Mulpepper's Apothecary- Knockturn location!- to buy the items on the list Nex provided, before walking through the nearest sidestreet next to Msaw Ætare that lead to Diagon alley, conveniently located right next to Gringotts.
Lightning and Athena stepped up to the nearest goblin teller.
"Greetings, Griphook. May your gold flourish, and your wars bring victory" said Lightning after they had given a short bow.
"Greetings, my friends. How may I help you achieve your business today?"
Usually goblins hated wizards and were never civil to them, but they had (accidentally) saved the life of Ragnok, the goblin leader few years past, and had won their respect.
"I would like to withdraw fifty galleons from the vault number 517 please Griphook, and exchange them into muggle pounds, along with extra 23 galleons, as well as picking up the item I requested last week." Athena spoke.
Griphook nodded, "Please give me the 23 galleons you wanted to exchange and wait here, please."
When they showed their agreement, Griphook took the gold and disappeared into the back room. The vault they were talking about was one that the group had set up when they were ten and had first managed to save one hundred galleons.
Athena briefly smiled at the memory of their past. They had been always cold and hungry but they were happy together, and had managed to find love that their families had not given them in the least expected place.
When Griphook returned, he gave them the $1,500, minus the currency exchange fees, and a small package that he handed to Athena in exchange of ten galleons that Athena handed him, which turned out to be a new dagger (Goblin silver blade with a gold hilt, handle was covered with basilisk skin and a turquoise was embedded at the end) after she unwrapped it and weighed it in her hand, trying to get the feel of the weapon. They thanked him, gave a short but formal bow to the goblins and left.
(Drake had been unintentionally rude to the goblins when he was nine and had found out quickly that the best idea to deal with goblins were to be respectful to them. Afterwards, Athena had bought a book titled 'Goblin mannerism- from simple phrases in Gobbledegook to table manners for the Goblins!' and all of them had learned it. Well, most of them. Lightning procrastinated until Athena and Sunshine stuck him to a chair using a sticking charm, and then forced him to learn it, threatening to castrate him if he didn't.)
While they were walking back to Knockturn alley, Athena was strapping her new dagger on her arm and Lightning asked Athena why she needed a new dagger.
"Don't you have enough with five knives?"
"Oh," she answered, "Yeah, I do. Last week though, in that fight with MacNair, Avery and Malfoy, I 'accidentally' snapped the blade off in MacNair's shoulder. I don't think it killed him, it's a shame. It was my brand new dagger too. MacNair's going to pay for that."
Athena had a sadistic smile on her face that Lightning tried his best not to cower from. His friend was very scary sometimes. Lightning shuddered, knowing exactly how much force one needed to snap a silver blade in two, especially a new one.
Forty five minutes later, the duo arrived back at their London safehouse. They packed the remaining items in their bags (each with the undetectable extension charm and featherlight charm on them).
Lightning released Hedwig, his snowy owl in the sky with directions to find him in few hours, and gave Lakota, his Shadow Wolf familiar to follow them along the train, and to meet them at the safehouse in Liverpool as long as nothing goes wrong. Lakota growled back, showing his agreement.
Sally the snake (AN: How original of me *sarcasm*. Dear readers, please excuse my unoriginalness and pretend that I said a cool and interesting name) slithered up Drake's arm and stayed hidden under his sleeve, while Crookshanks had his hair sticking up high and clawing as Athena wrestled him into his cage, and put a notice-me-not charm on the cage. Lightning could hear others running around the flat, finishing getting ready.
Few minutes later (half an hour), they were ready and on their way to the Euston station.
They walked in, Lightning lost a game of rock, paper, and scissors; and went to buy six tickets while others looked for a compartment and settled in. He was on his way back to the train, when Lightning got a feeling in his stomach like it was bungee jumping from the top of the Tower of London, and noticed that all the muggles on the platform were now gone.
He felt, rather than saw the first spell approaching and dropped flat on the ground and rolled away, jumping back to his feet. Lightning flicked his wrist, causing his wand to shoot to his hand from the wand holster on his arms. He shot a bone shattering hex back to the direction where the wizard who shot the spell was standing, and noticed that he was surrounded by at least twenty other wizards, dressed in plain black work robes. He cursed.
Complete pandemonium had broken out at the station, magically emptied of other bystanders. Spells were being shot at Lightning from all other directions, and it was only his instinct, the one he had developed over the last 8 years he had lived on the streets, that kept him alive and fighting back.
Strangely, the attackers did not seem interested in killing him. Lightning noted with a corner of his mind that most of the spells flying were the telltale red of stunners without a flash of green anywhere. So they weren't Death Eaters, or the Nightwalkers; a wizard gang that dominated the Knockturn alley and muggle London. Who were they then?
Lightning didn't get a chance to answer his question, as at that moment, a stunner caught him at his back as he was distracted by shielding himself from two other stunners flying his way, and his last thought before he felt himself losing consciousness were, 'Damn, I forgot to knock on the wood.'
Lightning blacked out, unaware of panic his friends were going through in the train, or the consequences this would cause- and very possibly change his life.
Shadow Wolf: A magical breed of wolves that is stronger and more intelligent than average wolves. They have longer life spans, and are said to be 'as fast as a bullet' while running. They understand human speech, especially if they are magically bonded to the wizard speaking. During the night, when the moon has risen, they can transport anywhere where the moonlight is touching. Their interior fur (fur under the rough exterior coat) has healing properties, they are deadly killers, but loyal to those they deem family, or pack.
Author's Ramblings:
I'm not completely sure yet of what the pairings are going to be in this story. Pairings won't make up most of the story, since this is more about family, friends and healing, but there certainly will be moments for couples and couple-y fluff. I was leaning towards either Harry/Hermione and Draco/Ginny; or Harry/Daphne and Draco/Hermione, but as I said I have not decided yet. If anyone has a suggestion, either for one of these two pairings, or another pairing you think would work well for the story, please let me know in a review, or PM me, and please tell me a reason why it would fit well with this story along with it too, since that would be quite helpful for me. I'm not opposed to slash either; if I like it and I think it fits in well with my story, I will write it (with the exception of in the lines of Harry/Snape, Harry/Voldemort or Incest). However, please do not be too mad at me if I decide to write with a different pairing then what you suggested. I do not intend to offend you, and I might have just filed the pairing away for other fics and one-shots I may do in the future instead. Finally, please take into account that Harry and others are still a minor here, and I do not want to pair them with someone that has about thirty years of age difference (I think that counts as Pedophilia). I will definitely be pairing Neville with Luna though; it is one of my most favourite pairings as well as Ron/Susan. Just wanted to give you readers a heads up.
If you have any specific scenes (fluff, kick-ass, jokes, moments/lines, etc) you wanted to see in Power He Knew Not, please let me know in a review or PM me, and I will take it into consideration.
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P.S. Wow... This story is eleven pages... that's a lot...