GeGeGe no Kitaro it's own by Shigeru Mizuki and Toei Animation. Harry Potter is own by J.K. Rowling.
James was reading a book, despite his wife's protest. He married the woman of his dreams, Lily Potter, the brightest witch he has ever met. She is caring and brave, he couldn't hide his happiness every time they were together. But she may have a defect, her hate for the dark arts.
He may have done very bad things to another classmate back in his school days. He regrets that, as he feels responsible for that kid to grow up with hate enough to become a Death Eater. The worst is that that kid was his wife's best friend. That may be why she is so against the dark arts, as this kid was very into it, and many believed it was the reason for him to be invited to become part of them. But he knew best, he knew that the guy only wanted to be recognized, and they offered him that.
James normally would follow his wife's advice, but he is desperate. He knows that his wife is working in a way to protect their son, Harry. But once he is secure, they need to work in a way to also protect themselves. This is when his book comes in hand.
The Potter family is an ancient one, but even when they are known to always side with the 'light'. There have been some exceptions who had studied the dark arts. Some of them were banished from the family, others hide their inclinations. Some did it for power, others did it for the simple idea of learning something new. The Potter library is not rich on this subject, but it still has some interesting books like: "Secrets of the Darkest art".
In the book, James found some really nasty curses, and some rituals that made him find out the severity of his decision, but he continued reading. Until he found a curse that may help him. It sounds more like a prank, but it is will be irreversible, so that would be a very nasty prank. Only if you hate your target. And worst is that the curse is meant to be as an attack. A soul transfer curse, where the soul can end up in any object. After reading it, he thought about the consequences. He understood the curse, in fact, it was easy to perform, as unlike the other curses inside the book, do not need any murder, but it really messes with the soul.
James sighed a little and looked at the books that were on the dining table. His wife also has been reading some books to protect their family. He took a pick on the bookmark in one of them and read 'blood protection'.
He should be angry at her, as she was meddling and nagging him for reading a dark art book, and she ended up doing the same. He knows that she is smart enough to understand the undertones of the book. But instead of getting angry, he chuckled.
"What's so funny? God knows I need some laughing right now", Lily said, walking down the stairs.
"You nagging me about the books I am reading. While you read a similar one", answered James with a smile.
Lily looked at the book he was holding and frowned. "That's not a dark magic book".
James raised one eyebrow, and Lily rolled her eyes, "Dumbledore gave it to me. Do you really think that He will give me a book with dark arts inside?"
James only shrugged. He knew that Lily took Dumbledore as this hero of the light, but he knew better. His family told him that Dumbledore worked with Grindelwald in the past. That he was a Wizard supremacist, and that he changed at some point, but his family has always been trying to not be too involved with the man. Now that idea is very much discarded, especially thinking that he is the leader of the side he picked up.
Habits die hard, and that goes both ways. Dumbledore may not have changed his habits about the been a wizard supremacist, and he may still read or practice dark magic. Which it's not wrong, as long you don't use it to damage innocents. And James has not changed his view about him and still continues to have his guard up around that man.
The bad feeling about Dumbledore may not be shared by his wife, and at the beginning, he may have started to open up to the old man. Especially after he was successfully leading the Order. Then he saw his wand, the "Elder Wand". That made him be in alert.
But there is a reason why he no longer trusts the man, and the reason is that he asked him for his invisibility cloak. James refused vehemently, of course, and thought that the conversation was over. Dumbledore did not think the same way and asked Lily for it. There was a big discussion, which made him look like a bad husband. The invisibility cloak is a family heirloom and is one of the deathly hollows and a Potter secret.
Because it was a secret, no one understood how bad the situation was. Dumbledore was in possession of two Deathly Hollows. Although it won't work as he pleases as he is not the right owner, hopefully, he will realize it when it's too late for him. Now that they are in this problem, trapped in their own house, is when he wanted the cloak. He could have used the cloak to hide his wife and his kid.
James looked back at his wife and finally answered, "Coming from him? He will give you a muggle gun weapon and ask you to kill in a muggle street". Lily shook her head.
Once the war ends, he will try to take her wife to another country, far from Dumbledore's reach. He would try to bring Moony, Padfoot, and Wormtail. And if he can apologize enough, he would extend the invitation to Severus. He knows that it would make good for his wife, so he can amend problems with her childhood friend. Also because he knew that Severus is the double agent, the one that told them about Voldemort's plan to attack them.
Who else could be? No other person in the Death Eaters has a reason to betray their master. None of them has or had any good relationship with any of the Order, or any Muggle-Born or muggle. The only one that could have been was Sirious' little brother, Regulus, but he died 2 years ago.
"Have you found anything good in that book?" asked James to his wife who was sitting again with the book in hand.
"I guess. It's a 'last resort' thing. Well, it's not like you can do it before", answered Lily.
"Let me guess. It requires self-sacrifice?" asked again James and Lily nodded without taking her eyes from the book. "And you said that is not dark?"
"James!"
James put his hands up as accepting defeat and left her in her reading. But he knew what was happening. Dumbledore wants them dead. Of course, he will give her a book about self-sacrifice, because there is no room for mistakes. If they do it correctly, he would look like our saviour or mentor, who gave us the key to protect our son. If we mess up, well, he will have the deadly hallow already in his possession and he will only need to defeat the wizard who kills us, making himself the hero again.
Dumbledore surely does act more like a Slytherin than as a Gryffindor.
It was Halloween night. The weather was perfect and spooky for the day. James and Lily had some trouble calming their son who was crying for a while. By the window, they could hear how the wind sounded, and it was close to a cry of a ghost.
Suddenly James realized that the wards he created for the house were broken.
"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!", "But…", "Go".
Lily ran to the second floor, directly to the nursery. Meanwhile, James was cursing against his luck, against Wormtail who betrayed him, and against Dumbledore who took the cloak.
He ran to the kitchen to grab his wand, but it was finally in his hand he heard the first words, "Avada…".
James knew what was coming. He knew that his days were finished, he only hoped that his wife was able to escape. But in his last moments, he remembered the book, "Secrets of the Darkest art". He remembered the curse. His wand was pointing at himself, but it did not matter, and before anything could happen to him he cast, "Anima Trabea".
A small white light hit him in the face, and then another green light hit him in the chest. The green light came from Voldemort who smiled in victory. He did not realize what James Potter did, but after he looked at the dead body on the floor, he did not care.
He continued walking with confidence to the second floor. He opened the first room, but nothing. He opened the other room, and again nothing. A baby started to cry after he opened the second door. Voldemort smiled and finally opened the right door.
The dark lord smiled at her, "move", he ordered.
"Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!"
"Stand aside, you silly girl... stand aside, now."
"Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead"
"This is my last warning,"
"Not Harry! Please, have mercy, have mercy, Not Harry! Not Harry! Please… I… I'll do anything ..."
"Stand aside. Stand aside, girl!"
"Avada Kadavra"
The green light went from Voldemort's wand and hit Lily on the chest. Her body fell heavily to the ground, lifeless. Voldemort only saw her body on the ground. It was a pity, as she was Snape's prize.
He turned to see the crib next to the dead body. A toddler was there crying. It was so easy, and now, he will complete his destiny. He pointed his wand at the child's head and shouted the curse again, "Avada Kadavra!".
The green light went directly to the toddler's left eye and rebounded to the dark lord, and a big explosion happened.
Downstairs, James was trying to move. He was trapped, but he kept pushing and pushing until he was finally free. He fell to the ground and recovered quickly. A few moments ago a big explosion sounded from his son's room. He turned and saw his body lifeless, a body without the right eye.
He ran to the stairs and found himself with the hellish task of climbing the stairs. He did not care that his new body was only 1.5 inches because he needed to go and protect his son. A good thing was that he could hear him cry, but he was worried about Lily as he was not hearing her voice.
After a great effort, he could climb half of the stairs when he saw Sirius arriving. He was relieved that his friend had arrived. James screamed, "Padfoot!". But he did not hear him and passed him after he saw James' previous body on the floor. He came back again from the second floor with Harry in his arms.
"Where is Lily?!" asked James to no avail. Sirius took Jame's son, and it seems that he was with Hagrid. From the stairs, he saw how Hagrid took Harry and fly away in a Muggle transport. He was grateful that they try to take care of his son.
He felt like a fool. He tried to find a way to save his family, and in the end, he could accomplish nothing. Then another person entered the house. Severus Snape.
He entered and stopped when he saw Jame's body. He shook his head and got closer and saw the body with a missing eye. Then he moved to the second floor and searched for Lily. He walked slowly, not wanting to confirm what was told to him. And when he finally arrived at the room his legs gave up. Lily was dead.
James heard the cries of his school enemy, the cries of the target of his pranks, the cries of a man who put himself in danger to protect somebody else. James felt like trash, but there was something he needed to do. He needed to take back his son.
In his current state, he very well could be called squib. But he has never known, or read of someone in his state, so he jumped to go down the stairs and ran to the fireplace, hoping that it would work. He took some of the Floo powder that was on the floor and entered the fireplace, "Hogwarts headmasters office". His tiny body was covered in green fire and suddenly he was in Hogwarts. Surely Dumbledore used the Floo recently, there was no other reason for the Fireplace to be open in the Floor network.
James started to look around and sure enough, he found the invisibility cloak over a desk. Now the problem was to can climb the desk. It looked like a Muggle building. It looked completely impossible for him to can get over.
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Dumbledore walked down the street. The war stopped and was something to celebrate for many wizards and witches, who believed that it ended. But the headmaster knew better. Yes, the baby survived, and Voldemort disappeared, but it was highly unlikely that the baby has vanquished the Dark Lord.
The old man knew that the baby was protected by Lily. He knew about what kind of protection she used because he told her to use it. The prophecy talked that only he could defeat the Dark Lord, so he needed to survive. Obviously, he wished that the circumstances were different, losing one of the most brilliant witches he had met in the current generation was a big loss for the wizarding community.
He continued walking rummaging into his robes and finally found his deluminator. He used it and the lights of the street went off. He continued walking until he felt he was been watched. With only searching the area with his gaze he found a cat who was watching him.
"Fancy to see you here, Professor McGonagall".
The cat jumped and transformed into an old woman, "How did you know that it was me?"
"I've never seen a cat sit so stiffly."
"You'd be stiff if you'd been sitting on a brick for hours," said Professor McGonagall.
"When you could have been celebrating? I must have passed a dozen feasts and parties on my way here."
Professor McGonagall looked at the old man frowning, "Oh yes, everyone's celebrating, all right. You'd think they'd be a bit more careful, but no". She sighed shaking her head, "even the Muggles have noticed something's going on. It was on their news."
"I heard it. Flocks of owls... shooting stars... Well, they're not completely stupid. They were bound to notice something. Shooting stars down in Kent? I'll bet that was Dedalus Diggle. He never had much sense."
"How could we blame them? We've had precious little to celebrate for years", said the old man with a calming voice.
The conversation went on shifting from the celebrations of the ending of war to the idea of Dumbledore being the only person Voldemort truly feared, and then to the death of the potter family.
"Is it true the rumour?" asked McGonagall. The old man did not answer so she pressed, "They are saying that Voldemort went to find the Potters. The rumours say that Lily and James are… that they are… that they are dead."
Dumbledore only bowed his head. Professor McGonagall gasped with wide watering eyes and an open mouth.
The woman recovered a little and continued, "That is not all. They said that he took James' right eye… and that he did… the same to the left eye of the kid. But that he could not kill the little boy."
Dumbledore nodded glumly, "It's all true".
McGonagall gasped again, and some tears fell, she could not understand why. Why would he take an eye from both, father and son; she also didn't know why he couldn't kill the baby.. 'What kind of dark magic he was trying to perform' asked herself.
The old man looked at the sky.
McGonagall calmed herself and then turned to see the headmaster again. "And I don't suppose you're going to tell me why you are here, of all places?" asked the woman.
"I've come to bring Harry to his aunt and uncle. They're the only family he has left. They will be able to explain everything to him when he's older. I've written them a letter."
"A letter? Really? These people will never understand him! He'll be famous, a legend…",
"Exactly", cut Dumbledore. "Fame would be enough to turn any boy's head. Can you see how much better off he'll be from all that until he's ready to take it?"
"Yes, you are right. Still…" said the old woman concerned. Then from far away the sound of a motorcycle engine sounded. The sound went louder and louder, closer and closer. From the sky, a motorcycle was flying down, until it landed in the street.
The man riding the motorcycle was almost as twice as tall as the normal man. He seemed to have a mane for hair and a beard. And in his grasp a small bulk of clothes.
"Hagrid, at last. No problems, were there?"
"No, sir. But Potter's house was almost destroyed" answered the giant. Dumbledore nodded and took the baby from him. Professor McGonagall went close and took a look at the baby who was sleeping and noticed right away the missing eye.
Dumbledore took his wand and wave it over the baby. He sighed and then smiled at the baby.
"Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?" asked Professor McGonagall.
"He is healthy. And the missing eye won't represent a problem, more than it does to anyone. Unfortunately, I could not make it grow again. Perhaps because of the way it was lost".
McGonagall looked at the kid with a sad smile. Then Dumbledore walked in front of the door of the house in private number 4. "It's time for us to also leave. It's not a goodbye, as we are going to see him again, in Hogwarts."
The old woman nodded and follow Dumbledore. Hagrid cleaned his face which was full of tears before he went again to the motorcycle.
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2 hours took James to finally climbed the desk. And when he was taking the cloak, green fire showed in the fir place, and it was followed by another green flame. James hid under the cloak, and he saw Dumbledore approaching, and Professor McGonagall behind him.
"Dumbledore. I am still unable to understand this decision. I have watched them for hours today. You couldn't find two people who are less like us", said McGonagall.
"It's the best place for him. Lily's sister is the only family left, and that would result in better protection for him."
Professor McGonagall sighed again, resigned, as it was already done. She said goodbye to the headmaster and went back to her own chambers. The headmaster looked at one cloak and waved his wand. The clock changed part of his form. Instead of numbers, it shows the words, safe, danger, and in the hands of the clock, the word Harry shows up.
Dumbledore look at the cloak and decided to save it. He rolled up the cloak and put it inside a trunk. After that, he proceeded to walk to his own chambers.
James took another 4 hours to can escape the trunk. He was able to take his cloak and went to the fireplace. He floo back to his house in Godric's Hollow.
He did not take his time before, but now he was back he could see his house. The remaining of it. Only that morning he had a wonderful breakfast with his wife. He saw his son laughing at the faces he was making at him. But it was not the moment to cry. He walked around the house, "Crookshanks!", he screamed.
A noise of a small bell sounded and got closer. A half-Kneazle orange cat showed up and stood in front of James. It looks like it was studying him, and thinking if James was a snack or not. But then the cat just stopped being manacing but kept watching James.
"Ok. We are going to rescue Harry!", screamed James while climbing the cat. The cat meowed and started to run outside the house to the streets.
The cat ran and got distracted by a rat. Then it ran again but went to a park because nature called. Then it ran again, and change direction to the closer dumpster as it was hungry. Then ran again, and got in another direction because some dogs were chasing them. This kind of situation happened again and again until a week passed, and James could find Lily's sister's house.
The cat hide in the attic, and James went directly to the room where Harry was. He noticed that they have a preference for their own kid, and it seems that Harry was treated out of pity.
As Harry was always left alone, James could spend time with his own son. He was able to steal food to give it to Crookshanks, and the cat was able to hide from the owners of the house, and still leave the house as the cat it was.
James looked at his sleeping son. He saw the eye of his son and remembered Lily. 'I am sorry Lily, I could not save you. But I promise… I promise that I will watch over our son. I will make sure that he grows correctly', thought James.
And as his father's promised, Harry grew up with his father at his side. He was ridiculed on the street by the neighbours, and by his cousin. They called him, 'Harry the cyclops', and not a single child played with him. Harry did not care, as he had his father with him. But he grew up walking with a bad posture as he tended to walk looking down.
5 years passed, and James had enough of the mistreatment. In the last year, he has been trying to contact wizards and witches outside England, in secret. To his surprise, it was an old family acquaintance the one that answered him using a crow, Sunakake-Babaa. She offered him a room in the apartments she manages. Knowing that Gringotts will have no problem with him in his current form, he knew he could afford it, so he decided that he will take Harry to Japan and live in the Yokai village.
