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Harry Potter
the Time of Rescue.
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Chapter 1
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Pain… Pain was the first thing he felt as he lay on the floor, then it was the cold. Shaking his head, he rolled over and threw up everything in his stomach. He lay there, shivering. Finally, after fifteen minutes, he climbed to his feet and untied one of his trunks from the chain around his neck, and enlarged it. Opening the seventh compartment he climbed in and down into the apartment that the trunk had built in it. Using his wand, he tapped the rune stone that kept his elves in stasis and Manny and Maria woke up and looked around. Spotting their master, they went to work doing his orders that they had previously been given by him. While Manny helped him into the bath to clean up and warm his shivering body, Maria grabbed the vial of potions and started administrating them to their master. As his magic restored itself, he checked the time and date and saw it was October 1st nineteen eighty-one. He started cursing as he came back further in time then he wanted. He wanted to arrive just before Padma was murdered so he could save her. Now he had to devise a new plan and so he dug out the records of his family the goblins had gathered and found out that in days the American branch of the Potters would be wiped out across the country. One of the potions was a blood adoption potion and was linked to nineteen year old Kyle Anthony Potter, who was killed on October ninth by Death Eaters in Denver Colorado along with his entire family or it was assumed the whole family perished it was he who Harry had planned on impersonation in 2006. The American branch of the Potter family never knew they were being hunted down by Voldemort and so was unprepared when the houses in Denver and five more across the country were closed up and set on fire with Fiendfyre. Several special potions that took years to get the items needed for were consumed and the years flowed off him like butter until he looked nineteen again. Looking in the mirror, everyone would swear he was James Potter with green eyes because even the scars were gone from his body except the basilisk bite and the horntail piercing on his shoulder. The lightning bolt scar had vanished when Voldemort had killed him in his seventh year so that wasn't a concern.
For the next eight days, he waited in the house in Ouray inside his trunk. When the time came he took the last potion, the blood adoption and then apparated to the house in Denver and watched as the house was destroyed and then he took the Death Eaters down. Nine Death Eaters were killed and captured; those surviving were turned over to the MaCUSA to be prosecuted. They would later be executed as terrorists, with the British Magical Government throwing a hissy fit because they were purebloods. It was placed under secrecy laws that Kyle had survived and had become head of the American branch of the House of Potter but Primary was still James Potter.
On October thirtieth, Kyle as he was now called had deplaned at Heathrow and headed for the nearest hotel in Surry before heading to the ministry and removing the prophecy orb in the Department of Mysteries. For the next two days, he waited and on the night of November first he was hidden on the roof of Number seven Privet Drive watching where he had grown up. He had watched his former head of house sitting on the wall staring at the house until Dumbledore arrived. With his magic under suppressive charms and hidden under the cloak of invisibility that he had removed the charms and runes that Dumbledore had placed he waited and waited. Finally Hagrid appeared and then all three left, leaving his younger self on the doorstep. He waited an additional half hour as he didn't trust Dumbledore and he was glad he did because that was when Dumbledore returned and started casting spells on the property and his younger self. When finished he apparated away once more.
Kyle apparated to the street and headed for his younger self as he pulled his wand out and then started casting spells and found the ones Dumbledore had placed on him and the house. Summoning a squirrel from the nearby tree, he stunned it and then transferred all the spells to it and let it go with a compulsion to make its home in the back of the shed. Bending down, he picked up his younger self and transferred him to a baby sling and banished the letter and basket before apparating to the Leaky Cauldron and headed for Gringotts.
The time spent with the Goblins would have all the British vaults for the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter sealed until Harry came to claim them along with guardianship transferred to Kyle and with the will in hand, Kyle headed to the airport after buying supplies for Harry and a few toys. After he left, the Goblins descended onto Godric Hollows and packed up the house for shipping to Colorado where Harry would pick them up. A copy of a letter that was with the will was sent to the paper, declaring who was the secret keeper and if they had died who was their betrayer but it wouldn't do any good because by that time Sirius was already in prison. Another letter that Kyle had written was sent to the Longbottoms suggesting that they stay under the Fidelius Charm for one month. The Lestrange and Bartemius Crouch Jr. made the mistake of attacking the Longbottom ancestral home and the only survivor was Bellatrix and she had been crippled. Neville would grow up with his parents and be loved and when he went to Hogwarts, his self esteem would guarantee him a spot in Gryffindor.
Twenty-four hours later saw a tired Kyle and Harry exiting a plane in Denver, Colorado, where he would strap Harry into the second row of Kyle's new 1981 Jeep Cherokee Chief for the drive up to Ouray Colorado. After breakfast at the local Sambo's they were soon on the road for home. Kyle knew that the elves should have the house situated when they arrived. They left Denver at eight am and seven hours later they pulled into Ouray. It was another thirty minute drive up to the house. The drive should have taken only five and half hours but he had never done it with a child and said child got hungry and messed his diaper so with several stops they arrived and before Kyle could get little Harry out of the Cherokee the elves had emptied the vehicle of their luggage after he parked it in the garage.
Once Kyle brought the baby in, he activated the defensive runes on the property and anyone who tried to come onto the property with the intent to harm or remove Harry would be bounced away from the property to a lake down in the lower valley.
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Back in the United Kingdom, all was going well or so thought Dumbledore as he strode into the bank to pick up the first months money for the Dursleys. When he asked to go to the Potter vault he was denied and when he presented the key for Harry's trust the key was taken and he was told he did not have access as the vaults were in lockdown by the order of James Potter so he had to use his own funds until he could figure out how to get access. With two hundred galleons converted into a thousand pounds, he sealed it into an envelope and he would have Fawkes drop the envelope on the kitchen table like he had said in the letter. This would go on every month while the boy lived there. He never noticed the sneers of the goblins as he left the bank and apparated back to the castle.
Being the headmaster, he could apparate into his office, so he did. Setting the letter down he checked the charms he had placed on Harry and they showed him at his aunts. With a smile, he was happy that the boy was where he wanted him instead of where he should have been. Really! His weapon, raised by Black, would have been difficult to control and now he had to make sure that Black was never questioned because he didn't need the headache of him trying to get control of Potter.
Now all he needed to do was get access to the Potter vaults and all that ancient magic that the Ancient and Noble House of Potter had accumulated over the years. He wondered if he could still access Potter manor and the massive library that Potter would never need because he planned to never let the boy know and he decided he would visit the property over the Christmas holidays.
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Kyle was examining the scar and he had determined, yes it was a cursed scar and that there was something in it. So doing some diagnostics on the wound he was shocked at what he found. With a sleep spell on young Harry he then cast a numbing charm. With gauze and a scalpel he slowly but firmly cut into the wound until he found what he was looking for. A piece of metal that must have come off the crib was embedded into the scar and it was radiating dark magic. Using tweezers he pulled it out and then cast another diagnostic spell and found nothing else in the wound. With some healing and scar removing cream the wound started healing.
"That fucking son of a bitch, that horcrux was never in me," Kyle said aloud as he finished up on his younger self and placed him in the crib.
Taking the slim wire Kyle headed for his room and set it on the dresser as he opened the trunk and found the goblin made dagger that was infused with basilisk venom. With a quick silencing charm on the wire he cut it in half and watched as the mist rose up and formed a face that he was familiar with and then it dissipated.
"That's one down," he said as disposed of the wire and headed for the living room where he sat down on the couch.
"Master Harry, can I get you anything?" Maria asked.
"Hello, Maria, yes how about a hamburger with your chili cheese fries, and remember to call me Kyle, no one must know my real name," Kyle replied.
"Right away, Master," Maria replied with a pop and she was gone.
Kyle leaned back in the couch and the sectional lifted up until he was reclining, he hoped Padma would forgive him for what he was doing. What really made him angry was the blocks he had found on his little self and one of them cut his intelligence to half and would make him struggle to comprehend things. His ability to recall was also cut. Without those blocks and Dumbledore's loyalty ones, he could see Harry winding up in Ravenclaw and he would make sure it happened, if it killed him. The good thing was he had the library from the future that included every book he had bought plus the ones from all his properties, Potters or Blacks. He even had Dumbledore's books that were supposed to stay in the headmaster's office and the ones he had placed in the secure vault. Those books along with all the dark books still resided in one of the trunks.
Maria popped in, and placed the tray on his lap. He told her 'thank you,' and went to eating as he conjured a pad of paper and a pen so he could write out his thoughts. Originally he wanted to come back to just before he started at Hogwarts but he now saw that it was better that he came back when he did. Now he had a secure identity and a way to help his younger self.
The next six months would see Harry flourishing, the nightmares of his parents' murder melted away to nothing as he bonded to what he thought was his uncle. When Harry turned three, he started teaching him how to count and read.
In the United Kingdom, everything was about to blow out of the water. When Harry turned three was when the so called 'true stories' of Harry came out in book form. The Gringotts solicitors moved in with a 'cease and desist' order, on the orders of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter. They found out it was Gildroy Lockhart printing them under a pseudonym. He was sued for misrepresenting the head of the Most Ancient House of Potter with lies and deceit. Gildroy did not recover. He would spend ten years working the goblin mines because his vaults did not contain enough to pay off the fine.
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Arabella Figg was on a mission, a mission to find and check on one Harry Potter. It had been almost two years since he was left at his aunts she hadn't seen a sign of him. So one morning she stationed herself outside the house and watched Vernon leave with no one with him. So she knew that he didn't have her and then at eight, Petunia came out with Dudley and placed him in his car seat then some luggage and drove away. She was worried that they had left him alone inside but had no way to check. That evening no one came home and for the next week she checked off and on and finally a week after they left they returned and again there was no Harry.
She rushed home and threw some floo powder into the fire and hollered out, "ALBUS!"
Albus was working at his desk on the school's paperwork when Arabella had hollered out, "What is it Arabella?" he asked.
"I think the Dursleys have done something to him. They went away for a week and didn't take him with them or asked anyone to babysit him," Arabella cried out.
"Why do you think that? Albus said as he checked his monitors and they showed he was on the property.
"Didn't you listen to me? I said they went on vacation and they did not take him with them," Arabella demanded.
With a sigh, he stood up and said, "I'll be right there."
Dumbledore stepped through the fireplace and questioned Arabella and then headed for the Dursleys house after changing his clothes to muggle style. Dumbledore stormed down the street and around the corner to number four where he banged on the door.
The door opened and all he heard was "YOU!"
"Ahh good afternoon Petunia, may I speak with Harry," he asked.
"Harry who?" Petunia snarled.
Confused he replied, "Harry Potter, your nephew that I left here several years ago."
Shocked, Petunia snapped back, "There is no one here by that last name. Why would the son of my freak sister be here?"
Shocked, he said, "You better invite me in."
"NO…"
"Otherwise the neighbors will begin…" he never got the chance to finish as Petunia reached out and dragged him in by his beard.
Once the door closed she snarled out, "Why would you think he would be here?"
"The night of November 1st 1981 I left your nephew on the doorstep after your sister and her husband was murdered. I told you in the letter that as long as he saw this house as his home you and your family would be safe. Now where is he?"
"I never found him and I get up before my husband to make him breakfast, get the paper and milk if it's being delivered that day so he was never here; and if he had been, we would have dumped him in an orphanage," Petunia snarled and then a memory tickled her memory, "it's you that's been sending that thousand pounds a month."
"Yes, it's for his care," Dumbledore replied but inside he was fuming.
The rest of the conversation was quickly finished and Dumbledore did a quick detection spell and found his charms and spells he had put on the Potter brat on a squirrel that had made its home in the shed. He quickly removed the charms and spells and apparated back to his office. Calling for Minerva and Severus he told them what he had found out. Minerva went ballistic while Severus just sneered calling him a good for nothing Potter and spoiled. He was right on one point, as Kyle was spoiling him and giving him the life he never had.
Calling for an Order meeting, the first since Voldemort had been banished he told him what he found out and then gave his orders for all members to start searching for his weapon. Then he asked Severus to quietly start checking with all the Death Eaters that had escaped using the Imperius defense to see if they knew anything while he headed to Gringotts to get some answers. After three weeks of trying, nothing had been discovered except by Dumbledore when he went to the goblins and that they said as far as they knew he was with family and they hinted that it was him that placed the boy. As he was leaving he noticed the sneer of contempt on one of the goblins he had spoken with and he knew they knew more but were not saying. Dropping into his chair he sorted his mail and found his Potion Monthly and started flipping through it and stopped and stared at the article out of the United States on a cure for Lycanthropy. It was not that it was a cure but the name of the potion master that caught his attention.
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Kyle looked up as the doorbell rang and he glanced at a sleeping four year old Harry and saw the elves had spirited him away along with all his toys and pictures. Getting up he headed for the door when it rang a second time. With his wand short held, he opened it and looked out. Standing on his door step was a man he had no wish to see.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Hello, my boy, my name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore and I've come to speak with a Mister Kyle Anthony Potter about his new potion," Albus said and waited for the young man to invite him in.
"How did you get on my property?" Kyle demanded.
"I tried to apparate, but your wards refused to allow me so I had my companion bring me," Albus replied.
"And that didn't tell you I don't want visitors?" Kyle sneered at the man as he started to close the door.
"My boy I must speak with you," Albus said.
Pulling the door open Kyle sneered and said, "I'm not your fucking boy. Get off my property before I forcefully eject you."
Shocked at being spoken that way he adjusted his stance and replied, "Sorry, but like I said I must speak to you about the potion…"
"Do you have someone needing to be cured?" Kyle replied.
"No, no I don't," Albus replied.
"Then we have nothing to speak about. Get lost you has been," Kyle replied.
"I must demand… I mean ask you to stop giving the potion out. It's for the greater good," Dumbledore said just as the door was about to shut.
Yanking the door open he stared at the man in shock and then replied, "No. I will cure them of the disease everywhere I can. I had a friend growing up with the disease and I saw what it did to him. My cure would have given him back his life, but I can't give it to him due to him being dead. But I can and will help the others. So get the flying fuck off my property and don't come back. You come back I'll have you arrested and charged for trespassing," as he slammed the door in Dumbledore's face.
Kyle could hear the man on the other side of the door shout out that he was the Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards as well as the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot.
Yanking the door open he said a few more words, "Which means jack fucking shit here in the US. We're not part of the ICW and your Wizengamot doesn't rule us. We are an independent country, and your UK is a second rate country in our books. Now see that big mountain behind you. Do me a favor and go leap off it."
Slamming the door once more, he activated the internal house wards that would prevent anyone not a Potter or a Potter Elf from getting in.
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Outside the door, Dumbledore suddenly found him a half mile down the road as the wards removed him from the property. Dumbledore was pissed because his greater good had been refused. Calling Fawkes he had him transported back to the United Kingdom before MaCUSA found out he had been in the country since he was barred from entering legally. Heading for his Wizengamot office he started drafting up two bills to be submitted. They were to ban the production, selling and storing the werewolf cure and he would use several of his followers to introduce the bills. It would eventually fail in the ICW but in the United Kingdom it would be banned and a five year imprisonment in Azkaban for the producer and consumer. Three months later, eighty percent of the werewolf population had left the United Kingdom, heading to the United States to receive the cure for free. It included one Remus John Lupin and would set Dumbledore's plans back for years as Albus now had no insight into the remaining packs.
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Kyle went back to his sofa, and the elves brought back Harry where he was still sleeping. He prayed his godson would forgive him for stealing his invention and curing his father and all the other werewolves. His godson had invented the potion in 2034 and Harry had helped finance it from the shadows. Four and half year old Harry woke up hungry and Maria brought the child fish sticks and French fries to munch on and fish and chips for her master. Both would sit at the table making faces at each other and keeping each other entertained.
Harry was coming along nicely. He was reading at a second year level and comprehending it already. With the blocks removed, Harry's eidetic memory was flourishing and when he was five it was found he had an IQ of 170. By six he spoke English, Spanish and Italian and was learning Latin and Kyle planned on him learning Japanese and Greek as well. He was also memorizing History of Magic and Magical Theory as well as the non-wand based classes. The next year and a half flew by, and he was pleased when he looked on the list of the werewolves that had been cured he found Remus name and quickly helped secure him a job teaching Defense at one of the smaller day schools in Florida where he would earn his masters in Defense, Charms and Transfiguration. Back in the United Kingdom, Snape blew up at the article when he found that a Potter had cured Lycanthrope and did not believe a Potter could account for anything.
When he was six, Kyle and Harry drove to San Francisco where a large convention of magical business from around the world was being held. He remembered Padma talking about how badly her father was screwed to start importing to the United Kingdom. So Kyle went hopping to find and meet the Patils so he could help them. He found Padma's father in the dining hall and asked to sit with them. Kyle faked like he had found out that Amal Patil was starting and import business here in the United States and he wanted to import mundane spices and exotic potion ingredients to the western world and was trying to get a foothold in the US and the Europe. He was currently eating lunch with his daughter Padma while Parvati had gone with his wife Arundhati and were clothes shopping.
Kyle quickly found Amal and walked over as the cafeteria was quite busy and they had a few empty seats and introduced himself and his nephew to them and when they were invited to sit, they did. Kyle placed Harry in the seat next to Padma and was pleased when they both started talking which led to books they had read while Kyle and Amal talked business. Kyle faked as he listened to the problems Amal was having and offered to buy in at the minimum amount to get the businesses started here in the US at twenty percent ownership and in the UK at thirty-five percent but he knew that anyone Amal approached in the UK wanted more than fifty percent so with an idea in mind, Kyle told Amal that he would accept only the thirty-five percent with the prospect that Amal could buy back his shares at the original buy in and why he offered that. Amal agreed and then he heard Padma address Harry by his name and quietly asked if Harry was the Harry Potter from the United Kingdom and the one that was missing. Kyle confirmed it was and that as the Last Potter alive besides Harry he had legal custody of his nephew. They watched the kids chat and then they picked up their children and walked to the lawyers section of the convention and with the help of Kyle's lawyer who was hashing out business deals for several clients they filled out the forms for the introduction of the Patil family to supply the Potter business with spices and potion ingredients. Mark Wittenberg would also forward the plans of import to house Potter's solicitors in the United Kingdom as well.
After the meeting with Mark, Kyle and Amal wandered the convention, while the two children walked in front of them. Harry had Padma's hand in the crock of his arm like a little gentleman. Amal was a little put out until Kyle said it wasn't meaning anything with that but with Harry being a Lord of an Ancient house in the United Kingdom and a lord in the Queens Parliament that he had been teaching him how he should act and one was to escort a lady.
Amal had nodded at that and they browsed the items and then Harry and Padma darted into a book vendors' section and started browsing. The attendant tried to guide them to the children section but stopped as the two children discussed Magical Theory around the world. Padma suggested several books on Magical India to Harry and Harry suggested several to Padma on Magical Theory of the Native Americans to her. They were eventually joined by Arundhati and her youngest daughter Parvati who soon joined her sister and started gushing over the clothes she had found. Kyle wanted to roll his eyes but didn't as he remember the young witch he attended school with.
"Amal what are your plans now? Kyle asked.
Amal shrugged and replied, we're here for three more weeks, so we'll figure something out."
"Why don't you bring the family out to my house? We have plenty of room and we can show you the Colorado Mountains and the kids can play," Kyle suggested.
Amal looked to Arundhati who was watching the kids and then asked her what she thought in Hindu. Turning she smiled as she had been watching Harry and Padma interacting and replied, "I think that would be a wonderful idea."
So gathering up the kids, Kyle and Harry led the Patils to the car and they set it up so the six of them could travel to Colorado. Padma and took the third seat while Parvati and Arundhati took the middle and Kyle and Amal sat in the front. The luggage was stored in the overhead rack and they set off. They took three days to travel to Colorado and up into Ouray, stopping along the way so Kyle could point out sights or they could do some shopping in the muggle businesses and the few magical ones that were scattered about. Even though the MaCUSA law prevented magicals marrying muggles they were well informed on the muggle side so a lot traveled that way in cars, trains and airplanes and used both businesses as they traveled. Arriving at the house, the elves were ecstatic of having company and when both found out who their guests were a shared look went through the two elves. Parvati and Padma were set up in one room while the adult Patils had another. Kyle and Harry had their normal rooms. Padma fell in love with the massive library of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter and turned to her father and demanded that he set up a marriage agreement between the two because she was in love.
Kyle laughed when Amal replied that she couldn't marry the library it wasn't alive which set her off and pointing her finger at him. By this time Arundhati was clutching her sides in laughter and Parvati and Harry was looking confused. It was then Padma stomped her foot and stormed outside to stand staring out at the nearby mountains. Amal later apologized to Padma for making fun of her comment but said he thought she was too young to be thinking that.
Later that night, Kyle and Amal were talking in the den about where the kids would attend school. Harry was already down for Hogwarts and then Kyle told him the truth. It had upset him at first and swore that his daughters would attend school in India and he explained how Arundhati had been murdered in India on a vacation home by their local version of Death Eaters who wanted his daughters as concubines and his business. Kyle then explained how he came back in time to try and save her but wound up coming further back in time then he originally planned and now planned to use his new identity, as he had survived the assassination of his family and went in hiding buy instead he came back days before their murder. So he changed his plans to get his younger self away from the people Dumbledore had left him with. He succeeded. Then he went to Gringotts and had the vaults locked down, and brought Harry to the United States. At the same time he sicced the Gringotts solicitors on anyone who tried to make a Knut on Harry's name or image.
After Amal had listened to what he had said, he brought out the pensive and allowed him to see how happy Padma and he had been and how devastated he was when she was murdered. He also showed how Voldemort came back from the dead and about Horcruxs and how he and his friends destroyed them. He then showed three that had been destroyed so far. The cup from Bellatrix vault was destroyed by the goblins due to the treaty of 1527 when a wizard brought one back from Egypt and stored it in his vault. It later took over a goblin and started a war in the nation. So the classification and their anger over them were moved to the highest level and a destruction on sight order was implemented on them. The next was the piece of wire that Kyle had removed from his younger self's forehead, and the third was a disgusting ring. He knew there was one in Hogwarts the other two were in the Black's family home. Lucius Malfoy had one, too. All three were out of his reach at this time. As to his snake, he didn't think it had been made yet.
As Amal digested all of this, he went to bed thinking of the smile on Padma's face when Harry asked her to marry him. He quietly spoke to Arundhati about a betrothal agreement between Padma and Harry. He explained about Kyle and with his agreement showed her the memories. She quickly agreed to proposal but asked that there be a way out for them if it didn't work.
Amal and his family would stay the three weeks looking at nearby property and finally purchased a four bedroom house on ten acres a mile from Kyle and Harry. The house was on the same road that Kyle and Harry lived on. During this time, he taught Amal and Arundhati how to drive and helped them purchases a Cherokee Chief before they flew home to India to pack up their home. They left India a week before mundane school would start, and left the running of the business in Amal's younger brother's name, as Amal would be running the American branch. Later he would switch to the United Kingdom's. It would take the rest of the week to get the kids set up in school and their records transferred from India.
Amal and Arundhati smiled as they watched their children run to Kyle's vehicle and climb in to head to town to start their first day of class. Arundhati would pick the kids up from school and bring them to their home for a snack and finish up their homework before Kyle would pick up Harry to head home.
All three kids would flourish in school but Harry especially under Arundhati as she looked down on Harry as a son. Parvati still loved her clothes but was also changed by the competiveness of Harry and Padma over studying. They would also introduce Harry to Hindu food while it was a reintroduction to Kyle. When Harry and the twins turned nine, Kyle and Amal taught them Occlumency so no one could read their minds because they both knew that they would need it at Hogwarts due to Snape and Dumbledore. It was also at this time that Manny his faithful house passed away leaving a crying Maria to take care of the house. Kyle offered to hire another elf but she refused.
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In his tenth year it was a cold winter morning and Kyle was getting Harry ready for school when there was a knock on the door and Kyle went to the front door and opened it. Standing there was a man he hadn't seen in what felt like a hundred years.
"Can I help you?" Kyle asked and the man turned around and froze as he looked at the spitting image of his best friend, James Potter.
"James?" he asked, and then shook his head and said, "Sorry, I mean Kyle Potter?"
"Yes, and do I know you?" Kyle replied as his occlumency went to full power.
"No, you don't. I am on leave from my job for a few hours and was in the area. I wanted to stop by and say thank you," Remus said.
"You're a former werewolf, aren't you?" Kyle asked.
"Yes I am. I was also friends with James Potter in the United Kingdom," Remus said.
"Come in, so how do you know James?" Kyle asked as he stepped aside.
"Thank you," Remus said as he stepped in and took his coat off and hung it up, "I met James when I was eleven. We met on the Hogwarts express and were sorted into the same house."
Kyle led Remus into the living room and suggested he sit down, "Would you like some coffee or tea? We also have hot chocolate on days like this."
"Hot chocolate if it's okay," Remus said as he sat.
"Maria," Kyle called out and the elf appeared.
"You called master?" she asked.
"Yes, please bring me my coffee and a large hot chocolate for our guest," Kyle said.
The elf popped away, and was soon back with the two drinks.
"You didn't have to come all the way out here from the UK to thank me," Kyle said as he sat in his chair.
"I am on a field trip with a school skiing club so I was in the area," Remus replied as he noticed the picture of Kyle holding a child upside down and swinging him and sighed as he thought of his best friends' missing child.
"Something wrong? He asked.
Remus gestured to the picture and said, "Your son reminds me of James and Lily's missing son."
Just before Kyle could reply, Harry ran in with his backpack and came to a stop, "Who are you?" he asked.
"Come here," Kyle ordered and when Harry was standing next to him he said, "Remus, may reintroduce you to the future Lord Harry James Potter of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter. Harry this is your adoptive uncle, Remus John Lupin."
Remus lurched to his feet, his wand coming out and it was summoned from his hand by Maria who was watching as she had been instructed years before.
"Calm down Moony," Kyle said as Harry interrupted.
"The former werewolf who was one of my dad's best friends," Harry asked with eyes wide with hope.
"Yes," Kyle replied as Remus sat down because he no longer had a wand.
"Why did you take him?" Remus demanded, "We've been looking for him for years."
"I took him because it was my right being a Potter and his parents being dead. Dumbledore dumped him on his Aunts doorstep and didn't even bother to knock. He then came back and cast a dozen spells on him that almost made him a squib with his powers locked up. I went to Gringotts and retrieved the will and brought Harry home to Colorado where I have been raising him, since his godfather is in prison illegally.
Remus snarled and snapped out, "He's guilty. He betrayed James and Lily to that madman."
Kyle shook his head as Harry hung his head as he knew the truth, "Sirius is not guilty. He never even received a trial. James and Lily's will states that Pettigrew was the secret keeper."
"Why didn't it come out when the will was read?" Remus asked in confusion.
"Dumbledore sealed the will and guess who signed it as a witness," Kyle asked.
Confusion came across Remus' face and then he said, "Dumbledore?"
"That's right. Dumbledore signed it," Kyle said as Harry climbed up onto his lap.
Remus growled as Kyle leaned down and whispered in Harry's ear and he slid off his lap and ran for the cordless phone.
"Here you go, Cousin Kyle," Harry said as he handed the phone to his cousin.
While Remus dealt with what he was being told, Kyle called the Patils' and told them that he wouldn't be taking Harry to school as they had company. He then invited them up to the house and Arundhati said she would bring the girls up but she had a medical appointment and Amal was in San Francisco for the day dealing with business problems. Harry said he would send Maria to her to bring them up the whole time Remus was listing.
Kyle then called the school and told them Harry and the Patil girls wouldn't be in that day. With all three students' way ahead in their courses, they reported it was ok.
Before Remus could ask, Maria appeared with the girls and they ran to Harry and gave him his morning hug.
"Remus, may I introduce Parvati Patil and her twin sister Padma," Kyle said and both girls said hello.
"Remus, Padma is Harry's intended," Kyle said just as Remus took a drink of hot chocolate and it sprayed outward from him and was vanished by Maria before it even hit anyone.
"Intended as in…" Remus started to say buy Kyle stopped him.
"Yes, as his future wife. They have been joined at the hip since they were six and found out both have many qualities that each reflect. One is reading and another is power," Kyle said.
All three children blushed and Kyle sent them to the library to work on homework. Once the kids were out of the room, Kyle and Remus would spend the morning chatting away. By the time Remus left to get back to the ski resort so he could watch over the kids, Kyle had told him he was welcome to come around in the summer. He and the group he was with were leaving in two days to head back to Florida where he taught DADA in a small private day school.
Kyle would check in on the kids and found Parvati watching a soap opera and wiping her eyes as Harry slept on the couch with his head in Padma's lap. Shaking his head he went to his office to do some work.
The winter flowed by quickly. 1991 rolled in. Soon it was summer. Amal had submitted his request for his kids to attend Hogwarts and they were approved to attend. Both kids and their parents would take portkeys to London the week before the express was due to leave. One day in July as the kids were celebrating Harry's upcoming birthday, the wards flared and half dozen loud bangs were heard as the people bounced off the extended wards that protected the property.
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Albus and Minerva stood watching as the magical quill went through the list of names. It flew over the stacked envelopes and Albus stood ready to snatch the letter as soon as it was finished writing. Sally Perks went and Albus had his fingers on the next one so it wouldn't vanish and as soon as the quill finished he yanked the letter off the stack preventing it from being transported to a waiting owl. Both looked at the writing.
Lord Harry James Potter
3738 America Drive
Bedroom #2
Ouray, Colorado,
United States of America
"What in the world is he doing in the colonies?" Minerva asked.
"His abductor must have taken him there," Albus replied as the memory flickered a memory but he couldn't remember why.
"Well, give it here, I will take it," Minerva said.
"I'd better take it, along with the order," Albus replied as he thought, 'I have to find out how much I'll need to memory charm the boy to get him back with his aunt so I can turn him back in to my weapon.'
"Then I'm going, too," Minerva stated.
Albus nodded and sent out a patronus to all nearby Order members and soon they were gathered in the empty hall. There was Albus, Minerva, Moody, Diggle, Jones and Hagrid. On his orders, they gripped the rope and Albus activated it and seconds later the felt a gong and then there were splashes as they landed in a lake.
The lake was so remote the only way to get to it was a two hour hike. So, no one saw them land in the center and have to swim to shore, but the wildlife.
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Harry Potter™ is a registered trademark and copyright (©) of J.K. Rowlings and all that crap. The only thing mine is the idea and several characters. Everything else is hers including all the money... Damn wish they'd share.