CHAPTER 1
"Harry", "Harry you should go up there." Hermione told him in a hushed voice. Harry was still trying to process what was happining around him. Eventhough he doubted it because of his dreams and announcement of the Triwizard tournament, he atleast thought he might get a quiet year. Free of all the saviour stuffs and all. But, all his dreams were shattered when the esteemed Goblet of Fire spit his name out.
Harry slowly got up and started to move towards the podium. He saw the rage in Ron's face, the concern in the faces of Hermione, Neville, Ginny and some others. But most of the faces in the hall had anger written all over it. 'Great' Harry thought. 'It's second year all over again. They all think that I somehow cheated and entered into the tournament. So much for one quiet year'. He shook his head walked slowly towards tge podium.
When he reached the podium he lifted to see Dumbledore's face. The expression was unreadable. Sighing Harry took the piece of parchment. But what happened next was beyond imagination.
The Goblet started roaring again and a ball of blue flame erupted from it and hit Harry straight on the chest. He fell back few feet and he was screaming and vigiurously rolling on the floor. He was on blue fire. Even if Dumbledore tried to reach him, he gave up because of it.
Everyone in the Great Hall the students, staff, headmasters, Minister, Ministry staff were all shocked by it. Even there was concern in the face of Snape.
After what looked like an eternity, which was only 10 mins, the fire died out and Harry stopped rolling. Teachers started to move towards him. Harry slowly started to get up. But when he got up, everyone were utterly stunned.
Gone was the scrawny boy with raven hair, round face and green eyes. Stood in his place was a lean boy with brown hair, oval face and grey eyes. Dumbledore was going to ask who he was, but refrained the question after seeing the infamous lighting scar on the boys forhead. The Dumbledore and the staff were feeling that they seen the somewhere but weren't able to remember. But if someone would have observed Severus Snape, they would have seen that he was shocked and silently whispered, "He can't be?".
Meanwhile Harry was feeling like 100 trains ran over him. His body was aching, not much like earlier, but still has it. Even his eyes were stinking. When he opened his eyes his vision was blurred. So decided to take of his glasses to rub his eyes. But when he took of his glasses he was stunned by the fact that he can see things clearly. He doesn't need his glasses anymore. He could see everyone's faces and he was taken back by the concern and shock in their faces in place of the earlier anger. 'What did I do now?' he thought suspiciously. He turned towards the podium to see the headmaster he asked, "Professor, what happened to me?"
Dumbeldore cautiously asked even though he knew the answer, "Who are you?"
Harry was stunned by the question and asked, "What do you mean who am I? I'm Harry."
Dumbledore was still suspicious. So he decided to ask him something that only Harry would know, "What advice did I gave you at end of your second year, when we met at my office?"
Harry still couldn't understand understand what was happening, but decided to go with it, "It's not our abilities that show who we truly are. It is our choices."
Dumbledore relaxed at the answer and lowered his wand. Seeing this the members present seemed to relaxed as well. But they still haven't understood what was happening.
Harry started to getting frustrated, "Professor what is going on? And why were you asking me these questions?".
Dumbledore sighed and conjured a mirror. He came close to Harry and said, "Be prepared Harry."
Harry alarmed by it and slowly brought the mirror to his face. He couldn't believe his eyes. His face has completely changed. Except for the scar. He body and could feel that not much healthy but still, his body has changed from the old scrawny. He turned to Dumbledore and asked, "Wh..What happened to me?"
Dumbledore sighed and said, "I have no idea my boy. A ball of flame from the goblet hit you and you fell. You were all on fire. You were screaming and rolling and when the fire died out you were changed".
Harry asked, "But how is that possible?"
Dumbledore replied, "As I told you Harry, we have no idea what has happened. Even I'm not completely knowledgeable about the Goblet and it's working. So, it means we have no.."
"Ah, Headmaster" It was Professor Filtwick. "As you know the Goblet is a Goblin made artifact. So being a half goblin and a charms master, I think I can shed some light into what is happening".
Everyone eagerly turned to Professor Filtwick and Dumbledore asked him to continue. Filtwick explained, "The Goblet has a protective mechanism. If someone try it impersonate a champion to take on that person's glory, the moment when the said person takes the slip the Goblet verifies the person's magical core with that of the champion's. If the impersonation is caught the Goblet send a counter spell to the impersonator, which takes down the glamour".
Filtwick paused for a minute and continued, "But as you have verified his identity and with the scar on his forehead, I don't think this is an impersonator. This is indeed Mr.Potter. Or rather the one we all and he himself think is Harry Potter."
Harry couldn't believe what he was hearing. His whole life could be a lie. He might not be Harry Potter. Then who was he? How did he became Harry Potter? His thoughts were interrupted by a question. It was from the Minister, who only found his voice now aftef the events of the night, "But how can we verify if it's true? If it true then were is the real Harry Potter? What happened to him? Oh Merlin, the press is going to have a field day if they found out. The whole magical britain could go to chaos!!".
Seeing the Minister's hysteria Professor Filtwick, "That wouldn't be a problem. As you know the members of Gringotts could easily verify his identity. The very same way the check the authenticity of a person when he goes to Gringotts. If you give me the permission, I can talk with some of my family members and could resolve this issue."
Though Dumbledore was not completely sure about it Fudge's eyes lit up at the news and said, "Yes, Yes. That would be a wonderful idea Professor. You have my permission."
Filtwick acknowledged it and said that he will be back in 15-20 minutes with the Gringotts team. With that he left. Dumbledore told Harry to go and sit with his housemates. He did it absent mindedly as there was a lot going inside his head at the moment. Hermione put a comforting arm on his shoulder and said everything was going to be alright. Many of his housemates were comforting him and he could see that the entire school, even the members from the others schools were eager to know what is happening. Every single minute felt like any hour for Harry. He could also hear some murmurs around him about different of how could this have happened.
After 15 minutes, the doors of the Great Hall opened and Professor Filtwick came in followed by half a dozen goblins. He went to the podium and asked Harry to come up.
Harry reluctantly got up and went over to the podium. When he reached the podium, the goblin told, "Show me your right hand". He did exactly. The Goblin took out a knife and cut Harry's palm and let his blood drop into the bowl with a golden liquid. The colour of the liquid started to change. The Goblin took and parchment and put in the bowl and said something in language he doesn't know. After few minutes the bowl started to glow and when it stopped glowing he took it out. was fascinating that the parchment wasn't soaked in blood and some wording were written on it
The Goblin smirked at reading it and said, "Well this is interesting." When Professor Filtwick asked what happened, the goblin read out the contents.
Identity Verification Test
Name - Hadrian Regulus Black
Adopted Name - Harry James Potter
Father - Regulus Arcutrus Black (deceased)
Mother - Sophia Euphemia Potter (deceased)
Adoption mode - Blood Adoption
Adopted Father - James Potter (Uncle - deceased)
Adopted Mother - Lily Potter (Aunt - deceased)
Godfather - Sirius Black (Uncle - Oathsworn)
Godmother - Alice Longbottom (Oathsworn)
The entire great hall went silent by the news. There was vary magnitudes of shock in their faces. But none to the level of Harry.
He simply said, "Bloody hell".
The Goblin smirked again and said, "Welcome back Heir Potter-Black".
End of Chapter 1
So this story has been going on in my head for few days. So I finally decided to give it shot. I think you guys will enjoy it. Looking forward to your views and reviews.
As for picturization, old Harry will be Josh Hutcherson and Hadrian Black will be Daniel Radcliffe.
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