"It's nice of you to finally Join us, Mr Potter!"
Laura was still in shock from the explosion of magic that came from Harry, but she reached for her cousin anyway to try and support him. Her anger towards Dumbledore growing, and despite him seeming to be shocked, she knew he had something to do with it.
She grabbed hold of him, her other cousin's grip loosening as Laura got too far away and she held her cousin by wrapping an arm around his back and helping him stand up, Laura could feel how weak he was, whatever had just happened had severally hurt him, She asked gently "Harry are you okay?"
But all she could hear was her cousin grit his teeth, as he stared at Dumbledore, his eyes full of anger. He managed to cough out "I...I AM NOT...I AM NOT HARRY POTTER!" He was putting a lot of weight on her but she would stand by her cousin no matter what. She was just about to reshuffle his weight when she felt his weight alleviate as Léa grabbed his other side supporting him from both sides; allowing Harry to start catching his breath.
The door to the backroom where the three Champions had disappeared creaked open with Fleur, Krum and Diggory stepping out with confused looks on their faces, Fleur's face quickly turning to one of concern as she saw her little cousin being supported. Instead of resting, however, Harry started to put more weight on the ground as he continued to speak "I AM NOT HARRY POTTER, HEADMASTER DUMBLEDORE! I AM HARRY JAGGED DUPAIN-CHENG COUFFAINE, SON OF MARINETTE AND LUCIA DUPAIN-CHENG COUFFAINE!"
The headmaster chuckled as his eyes narrowed on Harry "Mr Potter, your name came out of the Goblet, your magic reacted to the goblet and your true appearance came through despite this trickery. I very much believe that you are Harry Potter. You may have been raised to believe that you weren't but the Goblet does not lie."
Laura looked up at her own headmistress but saw the look of shock on Madam Maxine's face, she was completely stunned that Harry was Harry Potter. Laura could curse the woman's name right now if she wasn't cursing Dumbledore's name. That was when Miss Bourgies jumped into action, jumping from her position at the teacher's table, doing a backflip and landing between the trio and Dumbledore. A stern and confident look on her face. Laura's eyes widened as she saw the woman jump. Only a miraculous user could jump like that.
Fleur ran down to where they were and cupped Harry's face in her hand "Harry, are Zie okay, do you need a drink, Are you feeling faint." Nor giving Harry a chance to answer any of her questions but Miss Bourgies took off her hair tie allowing for her soft blond hair to flow down to the bottom of her back "Take this Miss Declour, He'll feel a bit better when he looks more like himself."
Taking the Hairtie from the older woman, Fleur wrapped her hands around Harry's long hair and gathered it all up putting it back into a ponytail, immediately making him look more like himself. Turning back they saw Miss Bourgies still standing in front of them, a hand on her wand "I do not think so Headmaster Dumbledore. Young Harry here as he stated is the son of Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Lucia Couffaine. I do not know what trickery that Goblet of yours is but I have the papers to confirm he is their son."
Dumbledore growled "Do not challenge the Goblet Miss Bourgeois. Its ancient magic is much truer than some forged papers." Miss Bourgeois glared at him "Mr Couffaine, is 14 and is not eligible to enter the tournament. Mr Couffaine nor his two cousins who are the same age as him entered his or their names into the goblet and have been far away from it all day. That suggests that the Goblet can make mistakes."
That was when Fleur finally decided to challenge the headmaster, stepping away from her cousin to give him some space "As Madam Bourgeois has said, he is MY cousin Harry Depain-Cheng Couffaine, He is not and never has been Harry Potter and under the International Confederation of Wizards, Rules and guidelines under legal names and Magical bloodline, he goes by Harry Depain-Cheng Couffaine"
The headmaster stroked his beard as he said "Champion Declour, I'm very involved in the ICW, and I have kept an eye on Mr Potter's profile for his safety, I would know if his name had been changed to whatever Couffaine." Miss Bourgeois just grumbled, "If you actually listened you would know he isn't even that."
But Fleur continued, confidently proclaiming "Ah but have you checked the records today, Headmaster? Especially in the past few hours."
Miss Bourgies caught on to what was going on and proudly proclaimed "Miss Declour is right. If everything is as you say it, then Mr Dupain-Cheng Couffaine's magic wouldn't have exploded out of him like that. So tell me Headmaster Dumbledore, what's reaaaaally going on?! Or do I have to Mrs and Mrs Dupian-Cheng Couffaine?" Laura watched intensely the growing argument between Miss Bourgeois, Fleur and Dumbledore until it finally clicked what the two on their side were setting up.
That's when Laura spoke up, her voice as clear as day "Actually Madam Bourgeois, I think you should call my Aunts. But let's not stop there, You should call for my dad along with my Uncle Felix Declour, Minister for International Affairs with the French Ministry."
Madam Bourgies glared at Headmaster Dumbledore but also turned part of that glare onto Madam Maxine who was finally knocked from her surprise and said "Well of course, we will have to get on this straight away!"
Dumbledore sighed as he stepped back clearly losing this first small yet important battle before he called out to all his students "All students, please head to bed immediately, we will explain the situation in the morning when we have more answers" The Student body of all three schools grumbled as they all knew that nobody was going to be getting any sleep tonight. Laura looked over to see Luna give her a tender smile and mouthing "It may seem hard now but keep your chin up" Laura smiled and gave her a small nod of gratitude.
She then looked up to see Tracey and Daphne, both of their faces full of concern and shock trying to push past their classmates to reach them. Laura shook her head and put her hand up to tell them to stop "He needs some space. We will explain everything tomorrow." The two nodded slowly with Tracey whispering back "Tell him we're thinking about him." before being forced along with the rest of their house.
The person who had tried to hit on her earlier in the day tried to storm over to them screaming about how they had lied about not knowing Harry Potter and demanded to see his 'best mate' but he was quickly dragged away by the two older red-headed boys who had been at the world cup and the bushy-haired girl from before. Leaving only the Trio, Fleur, Madam Bourgeois who was now checking Harry's Vitals, Madam Maxine, The other two Champions and the teachers of Hogwarts and Dumstrang.
Madam Bourgies gently tapped Harry's forehead with a wet cloth that she had summoned allowing him to start to cool down, "So a Potter. I have to say your mother doesn't make things easy for herself. How are you feeling now?"
Wincing as she saw her cousin struggle to speak he said "A Bit better thanks Madam Bourgeois-" He was cut off by the woman "Call me Chloé, you call my half-sister Zoé by her first name after all?"
Harry gasped as the water went over his scar which was bright red and bleeding, "Your Zoé's sister?" Chloé nodded "Half-Sister but yeah, she's the one who convinced me to finally return to France. Now Mr Couffaine, do you think you can swab your own head? I need to get in contact with your mums."
Harry nodded and took the wet cloth while she went away to make the call before returning a few minutes later with a shocked face and sat down next to Harry. letting him lean against her "We didn't actually need to phone theme, Your Mums, Harry sensed something was wrong around about the same time as your name was getting forced out of the Goblet. Some kind of joint vision they said. They gathered up several of your family and are on their way now. They should be here in about 5 minutes."
Harry was happy to say that they didn't even need to wait that long, as the doors to the Great Hall came crashing open with his Mom's face as red as Mars from Fury, her fists clenched tighter than Harry had ever seen them. Her mom was wearing her mum's bright red jacket which matched her face and a pair of Black Jeans. His Mom never wore that much red unless she was angry.
Right behind her, he could see his Mum always red but keeping a steady hand on his mom almost stopping her from just jumping the Headmaster of Hogwarts. Harry noticed that his Mum hadn't even changed out of her recording clothes yet as she was still wearing a loose-fitting purple T-shirt that matched his Aunt Juleka's band and black cargo bottoms. Dumbledore could only stutter as he said "Yo…You!"
Behind the two of them stood his Uncle Adrian a look of Fury on his face but he turned to face Harry and Laura will a look of concern before slowly relaxing slightly. But what slightly terrified him the most was his Aunt Kagami whose hands were locked with his uncle Felix in one hand and holding a long sword in the other. The Sword was perfectly balanced in her hands and Harry watched as she launched the sword past the rest of his family straight towards Dumbledore, The man dust avoiding being impaled by the weapon in the nick of time but his beard got caught and the sword slammed into the Goblet, a small Crack forming as the sword impaled itself sticking Dumbledore to it too.
They weren't the only people to enter however as Charlie Stranton, the Minister of Magic stepped into the room sighing "Lady Declour, I did ask you to do something that wouldn't cause an international incident." His aunt shrugged her shoulders "It wouldn't have hit him. I'm a good aim."
Harry smiled as his Mom stormed up to the headmaster, was surprised by a minuscule blue flash and then grinned as he heard his mom scream "What the hell have you dragged my son into Dumbledore!" Harry watched the confused faces of the British Ministry officials as his family stormed in, they were especially confused by his mom who went right up to one of the most powerful Wizards in the UK.
Dumbledore to the best of his ability turned to face the Minister of Magic who just said "Answer my old friend now Headmaster, before I bring the full might of the French ministry down upon you and get help evicting you from the ICW"
Dumbledore looked at Minister Stranton in surprise before turning back to Mom, saying "Mr Potter who you and your wife clearly kidnapped from his home at No.4 Privet Drive, had his name come out of the Goblet of Fire, The rules of the tournament state that he has to Participate, It's tied to his Magic!"
Mum stepped forwards this time and she was having none of it. "KIDNAPPED?! MY WIFE AND I FOUND HARRY LYING ON A DOORSTEP IN THE MIDDLE OF A COLD WINTER NIGHT WITH NOTHING BUT A THIN BLANKET OVER HIM, WE TOOK HIM IN FOR THE NIGHT TO KEEP HIM SAFE AND ONCE WE KNEW HIS FAMILY WOULD STRUGGLE TO LOOK AFTER HIM, WE OFFICALLY ADOPTED HIM! AND STOP CALLING HIM A POTTER, HE IS OUR SON, HARRY JAGGED DUPAIN-CHENG COUFFAINE!"
The British minister man Crouch stepped forwards all cocky and said "Yes but you didn't adopt him in magical law, Muggles. This means that he is still officially called Harry Potter by our laws and even his magic recognised it" Mom growled "Call me that again, I dare you. And by the way, we have also put in our official adoption papers to make Harry, a Depain-Cheng Couffaine by 'your laws' and they went through earlier tonight!"
The British wizards bar a few that Harry recognised from talking to Tracey and Daphne, which were Professor McGonagall with a stare that reminded him of something and Professor Snape started to cough. The Professor he had met earlier in the day coughed out "but the goblet still spit out his name, he still has to compete, he'll lose his magic otherwise"
Harry's Aunt Kagami looked at him and coughed to get their attention "Actually as far as my research into these kinds of phenomena goes, Harry doesn't have to compete in the tournament at all. The Explosion of his magic suggests that his magic which had accepted him as Dupain-Cheng Couffaine was forcefully dragged out of him by the goblet which saw small remnants of the old bloodline of Potter's within him. Not enough of his magic is tied to the Goblet to force him to compete, however…"
She stalled as he looked at him and his two mothers before his uncle picked up the conversation "However, Harry will have to remain at the castle, at least until the first task. It seems just enough magic got caught up based on the explosion. We're very lucky that Harry is still in one piece."
Harry's eyes widened, He could have died from it?! Looking up at his Uncle Adrian he could actually hear him growing like a cat, his right fist clenched, and did it have a black Aura around it? As the man looked at Dumbledore his growl got louder, he recognised the smirk on the old wizard's face any day of the week, it was one of scheming
His Mom also growled and almost hissed out "So what you're telling me Kagami, is that I can't take my son home right now because he's trapped here?" Time almost seemed to distort around him and Harry could feel the power of Sass running through the building, This set of the others and they were almost like flares all shooting off, the power of Intuition, Creation, Destruction, Emotion and Perfection. The raw power of someone of the fundamental powers of the universe made everyone step back in fear.
Despite the pain he was in, he ran over and hugged his mom's stomach to try and calm her down. His breathing slowed after a few minutes and he said "If I find out that Harry has been forced to compete in a single Trial this coming year, then I shall come back and raise hell, My brother-in-law will dismantle this castle using one single finger. Do you understand me Albus Dumbledore?!"
Mom let him go, grabbed Aunt Kagami's sword and released Dumbledore from where he was trapped before turning around and walking towards the entrance and saying "Now Madam Maxine, I think all of us are wanting a small talk with our kids, if you don't mind." The headmistress smiled.
Just as Harry was about to follow after, Minister Stranton said clearly "I wish it hadn't come to this far Albus, and I pray it doesn't go any further. And I know you don't believe him when he says that they could tear this place down but they could. What we felt was the timeline literally starting to wrap around us. All it would take is them Activating their magical artefacts and anything could happen, one of them could touch a brick and he could make the entire castle disappear like-" Snap The room went silent as the Minsister Walked out "Now Good evening to all you folks. Fleur, Good luck…The rest of you please try to stay out of trouble."
With that Harry, Laura, Léa and Fleur followed after their parents so that they could talk.
Outside Hogwarts ~ 5 Minutes later
Marinette sighed as she felt the fresh air on her face, her body finally starting to calm down for the first time since she had seen the flash of Harry in her eyes nearly 40 minutes ago now. She whispered under her breath "Tikki, Trixx Divide." The Two Kwami's separated and the illusions she had cast on her family dropped revealing their super suits. Just as their kids arrived outside with them the larger group transformed. Marinette leaned against Lucia tired, she had held up her illusion for much longer than planned.
Chloé then appeared at the exit way and proudly exclaimed "I knew it! I thought the power of the miraculous was too strong in there for it to just be the Kwami's." Marinette ran up to her and tightly hugged her much to the other woman's surprise "Mari-" Her lungs got crushed even harder "Thanks you Chloé you stood up for Harry, you contacted us…Thank you."
Chloé rubbed her arm "I was just doing my job. I don't feel like I've done enough to earn your forgiveness ladybug." Marinette shook her head, but said truthfully "You haven't yet…but you're getting there and it's only been one day. It's not like I could trust you with a Miraculous right now…but I am willing to invite you to our big Christmas Dinner that we hold every year. I can get Zoé to send you the details."
The other girl teared up and said "I would like that very much…now if you will excuse me I need to make sure the other students are sleeping. Harry, Laura, Léa, Fleur, please try and get some sleep?"
Harry chuckled "No promises Mada…Chloé" The Woman chuckled before slowly making her way down to the carriages. Marinette wasted no time and enveloped her son in a hug "Oh my poor boy. Harry, promise me you will tell us if he tries to make you do anything. Please?"
Harry nodded his face against his mum's shoulder "I promise" Lucia then wrapped her arms around them both and Marinette asked, "So honey, how many times did you use second chance to get your anger towards him down?"
Lucia went silent before replying quietly "78 times…Each beat down was very satisfying" Marinette and Harry's eyes widened before they laughed at her. Harry looking up at both of them said "I've really missed you already…but I have made some nice potential friends…I'm scared at what Dumbledore will try, but I'm looking forwards to spending more time with my friends."
A sigh escaped Lucia "I'm happy Harry, just do as your mum asked please." Harry laughed "I will, I will." Before the three of them finally pulled away from each other.
Around them, Marinette could see the others speaking to their kids when Lucia suddenly gasped "Oh actually kiddo, I've got something for you that should re-harmonise you." He went into his side bag and pulled an old crumpled jacket out of his bag "This is my old leather jacket I wore when I was your age, I thought you would like it." Harry grabbed it from her hands and pulled it on. It was slightly too large for him but he said "I love it" Marinette in that moment saw a tiny version of Lucia standing before her "Harry, you look perfect in it. Now check the pockets."
She watched as Harry stuck his hands into the pockets and pulled out a large packet of hair dye "A hair tie and a jacket help but you'll feel more like yourself when you actually look like yourself." He pulled them into a massive hug and thanked them. Marinette held her son tightly not really wanting to let go but knowing she need to and crouched down slightly "It's probably best you get some sleep." He nodded, feeling the effects of the night slowly starting to catch up with him. Looking around Marinette could see the other kids acting the same way and the 5 parents watched as their precious children walked to their carriages.
Ardiran then turned to face Fleur and said "Felur, congratulations on becoming a champion….promise me you won't do anything we would do." They all laughed and Fleur said "No promises Uncle Adrian, but I'll try. I should join the others in getting ready for bed. Night everyone." She hugged her dad and mum goodnight before joining her sister and cousins.
The Adults all sighed and Marinette took charge, Right are the Kwami's all recharged? From around them all she gots agreements from the 5 Kwami's and she said "Right let's transform!"
~the Next Morning~
Harry hurrrrrt, the next morning. Every fibre of his body ached and throbbed, truthfully he didn't want to get up at all. He would much rather stay curled up in bed and avoid all the people who were sure to ask him questions which he either wouldn't be able to or want to answer.
At least Laura if not both of the girls were snoring from their room telling Harry that his two cousins were still passed out from the previous night. How did they get to sleep in when he didn't?! That was when he reached for his phone and groaned as the light stuck his eyes, why was it so bright?
It took him a few moments for his eyes to adjust but he moved his head back in surprise when he saw the time 10:28 He had seriously slept in, maybe he shouldn't complain over his cousins getting more sleep now. Putting his phone back down and lied in the same position for another few minutes, letting the pain slowly reside a bit.
After a few minutes, he slowly pushed himself up and sighed as he got into a sitting position, he really needed to find better positions to sleep. Taking a sip of his bottle of water he smiled slightly when he saw Rapidde still fast asleep on the little bed Harry had made for him. His Kwami must still be resting from all the magic he had absorbed from Harry the previous night.
Walking out into their little living area he found Léa already awake reading a book and his cousin waved at him "Morning Har, how are you doing?" He stretched and said, "Feeling a bit better, What are you reading." She lifted the book up and he realised it was that book about modern-day Greek gods that his cousin was obsessed with. Continuing on he went into the bathroom to have a shower and start applying the hair dye that he had received last night.
By the time he left the shower with hair back to being a bluish-black (The cyan and amethyst streaks would have to wait), Laura was in the living area, head first on one of the couches and Harry chuckled out "Is Laura still breathing?" His cousin raised the middle finger to him and said "Who let me sleep so long."
Harry looked at Léa who shrugged her shoulders "Hey, I was at breakfast. Don't blame me. By the way, you both missed it and the schools have been filled in that you are not competing Harry. Dumbledore was in a bad mood about that this morning because of that." Laura chuckled from the response "Well what are Harry and I going to do about food then?"
Léa shrugged "Not really my problems guys, Although Laura didn't you say you were going to explain to those two girls about what was going on? Because they might have food." Laura perked up "That we did…Hmm Daphne and Food, a dream combo." Before she went bright red as realised what she had just said
A Smirk appeared on Harry's face and he said, "Alright then, let's get up to the castle then." Laura glared at him "Lemme shower first." She vanished for 20 minutes before reappearing with her hair silky smooth. "Alright, I'm ready to go." Léa who was falling back to sleep perked up and said "Oh by the way, the entirety of Hogwarts is chasing after you all. I told them that you had been given permission to go to Hogsmeade today to pick up some stuff…but stay safe out there guys."
The Duo thanked their cousin and left the compartment, the chill of the morning chilling them to their bone and they crept up to the castle. Massive groups of people were creeping around the groups, eyes darting around for people. Every time someone might see them, they stopped in dark shadows and the people ignored them.
They made it into the castle eventually and started to make their way down to the dungeons where Tracey and Daphne had shown them where they stayed. The two calmed as they realised that the castle seemed to be mostly quiet. Thankfully it seemed like Léa excuse had worked.
They were just about to take the final turn down when a small bundle of red hair crashed into him almost sending Harry crashing to the ground. He helped the person up and said "Sorry about that." Despite it not being his fault.
The person said in a light voice "Oh no problem/ Just continuing the hunt for my future husband, Harry Potter." Harry tensed up, chills going up his spine. He backed up a little, "Well I'll let you on your way then." The girl looked up and stared at him for a few seconds and yelled "Harry" Before lunging at him trying to hug him. Harry sidestepped, seeing her jump in slow motion thanks to Rapidde.
The girl twisted her head around rapidly and said "Harry, what are you doing? We need to get you up to the Gryffindor common room. Ron wants to apologise and we need to get ready for out-" "Stupefy!" A Red ball of magic shot past Harry's face and struck the girl sending her to the ground. He looked up to see Daphne lifting her wand up. Icy mist coming from her wand. She put it away and said, "So are we having this chat?"
Laura nodded and the two of them led Harry and Laura towards a room that they called the room of Requirement. It was somewhere on the seventh floor of the castle and they had to make several detours to avoid some other Hogwarts students. Daphne walked in front of the wall three times and suddenly a large door appeared before them.
Tracey pushed the door open with force and revealed a small room with two tartan couches, a small birch table and an old wood fire. The Two girls strode into the room and sat on the further away bench and Tracey said "Sit!" Looking between themselves, Hary and Laura crept over to the free couch and sat down before their new friends could get any angrier.
Tracey clicked her fingers and a small elf appeared and she said to him gently "Dobby, could you please grab the 4 of us some Butterbeer and sandwiches?" The Elf nodded "Of course Miss Davies." Tracey then pulled out a galleon from her pocket and passed it to the elf and he vanished returning a few minutes later with a sandwich platter and four very full butterbeer.
Once the elf Dobby left, Tracey said lightly "So…You Harry Potter?" Harry took a sip of his drink, before fluttering his eyes in surprise at the taste of the beverage, Harry couldn't help but smile as he saw the girl try to keep a serious look on her face and said, "In a very roundabout way yes…but also no I'm definitely not."
Carrying on and Harry said "Yes, I was born to Lily and James Potter…but I don't remember them. I was barely a year old when they died for Christ's sake. But My mums found me and raised me with so much love and care. They are my family. I'm Harry Dupain_Cheng Couffaine and I wouldn't change anything about my life. I have a great family, and great friends, I love my school, I love my city. For me life is perfect."
Laura then picked up "The fairytale books that have been printed about my cousin paint this image of a legendary hero who can do no wrong. But Harry's just like any other guy."
Daphne piped up "So I'm guessing you dye your hair?" Harry nodded "Not as much as you might think, over the years my hair's got closer to my Mum's colour. Only last night did I revert back to Potter's Black. As for my eyes, when I was growing up they used to be this Emerald green colour but recently they've-"
Tracey interrupted "-Started turning blue…I've read up on things like that happening. Your magic literally bonds to the magic of those around you." Harry was taken aback but said cheerfully "So that's why that was happening." The other two broke out laughing, with Tracey saying "So you've definitely not killed a dragon, Fought a vampire and argued peace between two werewolves then?" In a slightly mocking tone.
Harry and Laura looked at each other and burst out laughing as she got out "God no. Although we did have to hold off Harry's Grandfather, Mr Dupain-Cheng when he was akumatized into a Baking Wearwolf."
Tracey sat back a little "A What? Wait What is Akumatization?" Harry groaned as he realised he had to tell her a very long story about the history of Paris.
