Harry Potter and the Lightning Child

Chapter 1 - Saving Harry

Harry and Ginny found themselves in a new world for what felt like the hundredth time. Harry was the master of death and Ginny his companion and that meant that they would never die. They'd just move on to a new world every five hundred or so years.

In his first life he had been Harry James Potter, since then he had taken many identities in many worlds. In one world he was a pirate, in another he was Robin Hood, he was a Viking in one life, a healer in another and a warrior in another one. In his last life he was Hadrius Black, the older brother of Sirius and Regulus Black while Ginny was born as Gwen Peterson, a muggleborn witch.

Harry and Ginny transformed their clothes, they both now wore black shoes, blue jeans, a white shirt and a black jacket. They exited the alley that they arrived in and found themselves in a street, it was dark, they guessed that it might be midnight or close to it.

"Hey Harry, look at yourself" Ginny said "you look like Harry Potter again"

"Really?" Harry looked at a reflection of himself in a glass window "wow, I do. Bit of a shame, I was rather fond of my Hadrius Black look" As Hadrius Black Harry had higher cheek bones and a slightly different jaw, the biggest difference was the grey eyes and tameable hair.

"I don't know" Ginny pecked him on the lips "while Hadrius Black was brilliant, I prefer Harry Potter"

"And I prefer Ginny Weasley" Harry kissed her back, when Ginny was Gwen Peterson she looked the same, except for higher cheekbones and blue eyes. "Hmm, so what should we do now?"

"I don't know, where are we?"

"Muggle London" Harry guessed

"Probably, we should ask someone what the date is" Ginny suggested

"Stop thief!" A voice shouted, Harry and Ginny turned to see a shop keeper chasing after a laughing man with beer bottles in his hands. Sensing an opportunity, Harry ran after him. He rushed past the shop keeper and tackled the thief to the ground, he struck the man in the fact, knocking him unconscious.

"Well, that was fun" Harry commented as he stood up

"Thank you!" A worn out shop keeper said when he caught up to them "thanks a lot, don't know how I can repay you"

"How about a free newspaper and two bottles of water and we'll call it even?" Harry replied

"Deal" The shop keeper coughed, he turned and pointed to his shop "my shops that one over there, go and help yourself, while I call the police"

Harry and Ginny made their way into the shop and true to their word, took nothing more than two bottles of water and a newspaper. The two gulped down their bottles, travelling through worlds did make them thirsty, once they finished they tossed the bottles into a nearby bin.

"Okay, let's see the date" Ginny opened the newspaper, Harry looked over her shoulder at the date and his eyes widened.

"SHIT!" Harry cursed

"What? What is it?" Ginny turned but by that point Harry had begun running.

Ginny ran after him, Harry ran back into the alleyway they had exited frim, Ginny followed. Harry, once he was sure that no muggles would see him, apparated away. Ginny apparated after him, using their connection to follow him.

Ginny found herself in a muggle park, it was dark, there were lots of trees and grass. The swings and playgrounds were probably on the other side of the park.

"Harry stop!" Harry's voice ringed through the air, Ginny turned to see Harry and what he was looking at.

She saw a young Harry Potter, holding an open bleach bottle. Her eyes widened as she remembered why, she remembered that on this day Harry tried to kill himself because he thought he could see his parents again. The Dursley's told him that he'd be gone if he drank it, young Harry had thought that he could escape the Dursley's and didn't hesitate to drink it.

"Harry stop!" The older Harry repeated, the younger Harry slowly put the bottle down, his little arms trembled. Thinking that he was in trouble again. "Oh boy" Harry ran up to him and knelt down so he was face to face with him "did you drink any of that?" Harry gestured to the bleach bottle

"N…no s…ir" The younger Harry began shaking, he didn't know that what he did was naughty. He was terrified, terrified that this man would punish him. He had heard some people say don't talk to stranger people you don't know, but the Dursley's told him to do the opposite. What he didn't realise was they told Dudley not to talk to strangers because they actually cared about him.

"Good" Harry sighed "don't worry, you're not in trouble Harry"

"H…Harry? My names not Harry, it's freak" The younger Harry said, hoping he didn't say too much. The older Harry's jaw tightened, he remembered not knowing his name until he was six, but he only learnt it then because he had to be able to say his name to the teachers.

"How old are you?" Ginny asked as she came up to the both of them

"F…five ma'am" Harry answered, looking down

"Harry" Ginny said "that's your name, it's Harry"

"Aunt tunia and unca Vernon call me freak" Young Harry replied

"Your name's not freak" Older Harry said softly "your parents named you Harry James Potter"

"My parents?" Harry looked up "did you know them?"

"Yes, we did" Older Harry nodded, at least he knew them in his last life and met them in his first "your dad's name was James and your mums name was Lily"

"James, Lily" Harry repeated, testing out the words in his mouth. "James, Lily" He liked saying the names

"Yes, James and Lily" Ginny nodded

"Who…who are you?" Harry asked

"Well…" Older Harry realised that he couldn't use Hadrius Black as he was not a Black and he couldn't use Harry Potter as that would be confusing "I am Henry Potter, and this is my wife"

"You can call me Gwen Potter" Ginny smiled

"Does…does that mean that we're family?" Harry asked hopefully

"Yes" Henry smiled "I'm your…dad's brother, which makes me your uncle Henry and that makes her your aunt Gwen"

"Unca Henwy, aunt Wen?"

"Uncle Henry and Aunt Gwen" Gwen corrected

"Yeah, it's nice to meet you Harry" Henry smiled

'Harry' Gwen spoke to Henry in his mind 'I want to help him'

'Then let's do it' Henry mentally replied 'let's take him away and raise him'

'Can we do that?'

'Well, it'll be tough but I think we can. Getting custody from the Dursley's in the muggle world will be easy, then we can custody of him in the magical world. Come on Gin, or Gwen as it is now, let's do it!'

'You don't have to beg for me to agree, just get him out of that bloody house. I know you have a plan already'

"Now" Henry spoke to Harry "I was wondering Harry, do you want to leave the Dursley's and come and live with me and my wife?"

"Y…you want me to l…live with you?" Harry couldn't believe it, why on earth would they want him? He was just a freak

"Yes" Harry nodded without even pausing "I'd like you to come and live with us. We can have fun, me and Ginny could help teach you things so you don't have to go back to that school again and we can tell you all about your parents. What do you say? Do you want come with us?"

"You really want me?" Harry looked at the two with disbelief but hope as well

"Yes, Harry" Gwen knelt down next to Henry "we want you to come and live with us, do you want to?"

"Y…yes" Harry nodded "I w…want to come with you"

"Brilliant" Henry smiled "I should let you know that it will take a few days before we have a house ready"

"A few days? Why?" Harry began tearing up, he didn't want them to leave him

"Hey, hey" Ginny spoke softly "it's nothing bad Harry, we just need to set up a house for you and we need to get everybody else to let you come with us."

"Yeah" Henry nodded "we can't bring you with us if everybody else is just going to force you to come back to the Dursley's, we want to make sure you never have to stay there again."

"Please don't make me go back to the Dursley's!" Harry begged "Please!"

"We're not making you go back to the Dursley's" Henry reassured him "as long as I have my way you will never go back to them. We need you to come with us, I want you to grab my wife's hand and go with her. I'll be right back"

"Where are you going?" Harry asked before mentally shouting at himself, he wasn't supposed to ask questions

"I'm just going to check on something" Henry replied "Gwen, take him up there and wait for me, I'll be back" Harry stood up and walked off.

"Well" Gwen slowly stood up and extended her hand to Harry "come on Harry, let's go" She said

Harry nervously extended his own hand, and placed it in Gwen's hand, it was soft, not like uncle Vernon who had hard and strong hands. Ginny flashed him a smile and began walking, gently guiding Harry who followed alongside her.

A minute or so late they were out of the park and they met Henry on a street just outside the park. He walked up to the both of them looking extremely pleased and proud of himself.

"What did you do?" Gwen whispered to him

"I tossed Vernon's car through his living room after I painted the insides pink" Harry whispered back "when Vernon came out, he didn't even realise that his hair had turned green until all the neighbours had saw him"

"Oh my god" Gwen laughed "come on, let's go and get him to the leaky cauldron."

"Fine" Henry replied "how should we do this? I don't think him apparition would be good for Harry and I don't want him being thrown around on the night bus"

"Why don't you apparate over then I'll use the bond to bring us both their" Gwen suggested

"Excellent, I'll see you there" Henry apparated away, Gwen turned to Harry who looked utterly shocked by the fact that Henry had disappeared

"Harry" She said "can you close your eyes please?" Harry didn't really feel like doing so but he wasn't going to argue with the nice lady who was saving him from the Dursley's, he closed his eyes. "Okay, you can open them now Harry"

Harry slowly opened his eyes and he was amazed by what he saw, he was no longer outside the park. Now he was somewhere entirely different, he looked at his Uncle Henry and aunt Gwen who were both grinning at him.

"Come on" Henry waved an arm and the three went into the black door in front of them, leading them inside the leaky cauldron. "Hello, is anybody there?"

"Yeah, what's up mate?" A man up from behind the bar "if you want Tom, then I should let you know that he's gone sleep. I'm Jarred, working the night shift"

"Pleasure to meet you, we just need a room for a couple of days" Henry replied "would you mind taking my wife and nephew up to their room, I'll be off to Gringotts to pick up some money"

"Sure thing mate" Jared stepped out of the bar "follow me" he said, Ginny and Harry followed after him "nice to meet ya, let me tell you the room prices and you can pick which ones you want"

Henry walked out and made his way to Gringotts, thankfully Gringotts was open twenty-four/seven. The shops were all closed and the people gone, not surprising considering it was about midnight. Henry made his way into Gringotts bank, it was just as clean as he remembered it.

There appeared to be nobody else in the bank other than the goblins, Harry didn't mind, it would make his job easier. He walked forwards, stopping just in the centre of the bank. All the goblins looked at him.

"I'm here to see Lord Ragnok of the Goblins along with the Potter account manager Master Griphook" Henry announced

"You wish to meet the head of Gringotts?" One Goblin raised an eyebrow "What makes you think that he would be willing to meet with you?"

"Because I would like to think that meeting the master of death would be a good enough reason" Henry replied

"You are the master of death?" Another Goblin asked "Prove it" He challenged

"If you insist" Henry replied, Henry slowly released some of his magical power.

The Goblins began feeling sick, the sheer power coming from him overwhelmed them. Some could barely see straight, some dropped to their knees, all felt like death was coming for them.

"Is that sufficient enough for you?" Henry stopped, allowing the goblins to breath

"I…I will get you Ragnok and Griphook, m…master of death" One Goblin stuttered and ran off.

A little while later, Henry found himself sitting in a large office. Sitting in front of him was Ragnok, king of Goblins, on Harry's left was Griphook, the Goblin in charge of the Potter accounts.

"So" Ragnok steeled his hands "you are the master of death?" Henry, in response, raised his wand. The resurrection stone flew out of his chest and his cloak became visible

"Yes, I am" Henry said as the stone returned back to its dwelling, while the Cloak disappeared "I feel like I should be honest with you, I trust that what I say in here will not be revealed to others"

"What happens in Gringotts, stays in Gringotts" Ragnok replied

"Good" Henry smiled "to tell the truth, I was not born in this world. In my world that I was born in, my original name was Harry James Potter"

"Mr Potter?!" Griphook blurted out in surprise, Ragnok was no better. They knew he was telling the truth as the wards in the room prevented anyone from lying, didn't mean that they weren't shocked though

"Yes, my name is Harry Potter" Henry continued "in my world I was the boy-who-lived, I had also become a friend of the Goblins, believe it or not. May I bring my wife here?"

"I beg your pardon?" Ragnok replied

"I said may I bring my wife here, she can help with the explanation"

"Very well" Ragnok agreed

"Thank you, Gin, come here" Henry said out loud, Ginny or Gwen as she was now known popped into the room

"Lord Ragnok, Master Griphook" Gwen nodded to the two goblins before she took a seat

"How did she get in here?!" Ragnok pointed to Gwen "You cannot apparate or portkey into Gringotts!"

"Correct" Gwen replied "however I have a special ability that allows me to go wherever my husband is and vice versa, it does not matter where we are, we'll always be able to find each other"

"May I introduce my wife" Harry gestured to Gwen "in my world she was known as Ginny Weasley, the seventh Weasley child and their only daughter."

"We request assistance from Gringotts" Gwen said "we'd like for you to make us new identities as it wouldn't be good for there to be two Harry Potters and two Ginny Weasleys"

"I see" Ragnok shook his head and returned to his business-like manner "would you be willing to pay the fee?"

"Yes, but our accounts are something we wish to discuss later" Henry replied "I'd like for you to make me Henry Potter, James Potter's brother and I'd like for you to make my wife Gwen Potter, give her a fake background as an American muggleborn"

"And what would be your background?" Ragnok asked

"Simple" Henry said "I will be James Potters older brother who had been moved out of the country and taken to a specialist to help train me due to my high levels of magical power."

"Very well" Ragnok made notes on a piece of paper "what else do you wish to discuss?"

"Simple, I am a Potter, the only remaining Potter other than my younger self, I'm currently the oldest Potter and I would like to take up the Potter Lordship. Can it be done today Griphook?"

"Mr Potter" Griphook replied "this is unusual but it can be done, normally your younger self would be the heir but fortunately for you the Potter magic may accept you as the heir. If it does not then it will be passed onto your younger self"

"If that's the case then I will become a proxy for the Potters with Harry's permission" Henry responded "also, I understand that Albus Dumbledore has been in charge of the Potter accounts and has been paying young Harry's muggle relatives money for his upkeep"

"That is true" Griphook confirmed

"Well, I feel that you two should know that those 'relatives' of his have abused Harry badly"

"What?!" Griphook exclaimed

"So much so that he was about to kill himself today" Ginny added

"HOW DARE THEY?!" Ragnok shouted, Goblins were many things. Greedy, cruel and cunning but they did not harm children

"I want to try and claim the lordship" Harry said "then if it works, I'd like for you to force Dumbledore and the Dursley's to return any money they have taken from the Potter accounts. I believe that Dumbledore may have also taken some family heirlooms without permission, I believe he had an invisibility cloak and pensive that belongs to the Potters. I'd like those returned as well"

"Hmm" Ragnok said softly "you are telling the truth, I believe that, in your previous life you were a friend of the Goblins. I would like to make you one in this one as well, after all, having the master of death as a friend can be very helpful"

"Yes" Harry chuckled "I accept and thank you for the honour"

"Griphook" Ragnok barked "get the Potter family rings"

"Right away" Griphook got up, he bowed and made his way out, leaving Ragnok to talk with Henry and Gwen.

Griphook returned a little while later with a brown box, he opened the box and inside were the Potter family rings. Harry took the lords ring while Ginny took the lady's ring, they both put them on. A gold light glowed around both of them, signalling the Potter magic had accepted them.

"Congratulations" Griphook said "you are now Lord and Lady Potter"

"Thank you" Henry nodded "I thank the entire Goblin nation for their hospitality"

Gwen and Harry got back to their room that night, they found Harry sleeping in his bed, looking as cute and innocent as can be. Ginny pulled his covers up so they covered all of his body, she then fired a warming charm so he didn't get cold. Harry placed a silencing charm around him so they could talk without disturbing him.

"So" Gwen said "what's next in your plan?"

"I could take Harry straight to Potter manor but I don't want to do that" Harry replied "the boy's had enough of a shock so far"

"Yeah, he looked like he wanted to ask me a lot of questions"

"He did but the most important rule at the Dursley's house was don't ask questions" Harry reminded her "when we looked through the properties I noticed that there is a small wooden home we own, it's on a small island, right next to a beach. I was thinking we start there then once he gets a bit used to us we move him to Potter manor. What do you think?"

"Sounds like a plan, is there anything else you want to do?"

"Yes, tomorrow I want to take Harry around Diagon alley, show him around a bit. But as of the moment, I have two people I want to meet. I'm off to go and break Padfoot out of Azkaban and get Moony, I'll be back by lunch tomorrow, then all three of us will go out and spend time with Harry."

"Sounds like a plan" Gwen smiled "you go, I'll look after Harry. He's so adorable, nice to know that he grows into such a handsome man"

"Yeah but just don't confuse your Harry's and we'll be fine" Harry joked

Sirius Black began opening his eyes, he felt dizzy. He remembered spending another day in that living hell known as Azkaban, he hated it there. He hated Wormtail more, the rat had betrayed him after everything they did together and for each other.

"S…Sirius?" A familiar voice brought him out of his thoughts, Sirius at that point realised that his hands were strapped to a chair and his legs were strapped to the chair legs. He wasn't in Azkaban, he didn't know where he was, he was just in a dark room, he couldn't see anything except for the man next to him who also happened to be strapped to a chair.

"R…Remus?" Sirius wondered if he was hallucinating "Is…is that you?"

"What am I doing here?!" Remus demanded, the werewolf was in no way happy to wake up strapped to a chair in a dark room with his traitor of an ex-friend next to him

"I was going to ask the same question" Sirius said in a hoarse voice "where are we?"

"You mean this has nothing to do with you?" Remus asked

"No, nothing" Sirius shook his head, they were both interrupted when they heard the sound of a door open.

"Sirius, don't say a word" Remus ordered

"Fericiousal" Sirius said

"I said no words!" Remus hissed

"Oh, so when we used to play Scrabble it's not a word but now it becomes one when it's convenient to you"

"Are you two done?" An amused voice asked from the shadows

"Who are you?" Remus asked

"I'm the guy who broke Sirius Black out of Azkaban and the guy who brought you both here" The voice answered

"Why?" Sirius spoke "Why are you doing this?" He couldn't believe that he was out of Azkaban, he just wasn't sure if this situation was any better

"I have a very good reason" The voice replied "does the name Harry Potter ring any bells?"

"Harry?" Remus's eyes widened "Why did you say his name?"

"Did you know that he is currently underweight and has spent the majority of his life being beaten and told he's a waste of oxygen?" The voice asked with forced calmness.

Remus's eyes narrowed, he hadn't been able to see Harry because of Dumbledore's insistence but that did not mean he didn't care about him. Even his inner wolf saw Harry as his cub, he'd be dammed if he let anyone harm his cub. He was about to give this person a piece of his mind but someone beat him to it.

"WHAT?!" Sirius roared "HOW DARE YOU?! HOW DARE YOU HURT HARRY?! YOU BASTARD! I'LL KILL YOU, YOU HEAR ME?! DON'T YOU DARE HURT HIM!"

"What are you going on about?!" Remus snapped at Sirius "Since when did you care about Harry?!"

"I've always cared about Harry!" Sirius growled "Always!"

"Not enough to not betray his parents!" Remus shot back. Sirius was about to reply but the voice beat him to it

"Sirius didn't betray James and Lily"

"What?!" Remus exclaimed "Of course he did! He was the secret keeper!"

"I wasn't!" Sirius replied "We switched at the last minute! We were hoping to throw everyone off our trail by having them think I was the secret keeper, the real secret keeper was Wormtail"

"Wormtail?!"

"Yes, we named him secret keeper. On the night of the attack he wasn't in his home, I had a bad feeling and went to James and Lily's house. When I got there they were dead, Harry was the only one there. Hagrid came and said that Dumbledore wanted him to take Harry to a safe place, I didn't want to give him Harry but I knew that Hagrid wouldn't let anything happen to him and he kept insisting. I gave him to Hagrid and went after Pettigrew"

"Then you murdered him and thirteen other muggles"

"No!" Sirius shook his head in frustrated "I confronted him, he yelled out some nonsense about me betraying James and Lily, then he blew up a gas main and caused the explosion. He transformed into a rat and escaped. Remus I'm not lying"

"He's not" The voice spoke again "in the Potter will it proves that Pettigrew was the secret keeper"

"Who are you?" Sirius spoke towards the general direction of the voice "And what have you done with Harry?!"

"I rescued him" The voice answered "let's go somewhere more comfortable and talk"

Sirius and Remus were jerked back and had to cover their eyes when the brightness of the room attacked their eyes, in truth it wasn't too bright but they were just in a dark room a second ago. They looked around, they were sitting on a sofa in a rather large room, Sirius and Remus quickly recognised that they were in Potter mansion.

They both saw the person sitting opposite them and their hearts jumped to their throats, in front of them was James Potter or someone who looked very much like him, except his eyes were grey. Grey eyes weren't a thing that Henry only possessed when he was Hadrius Black, ever since becoming the master of death his eyes were permanently grey unless he got emotional or purposefully turned them, then they turned back to green. He didn't really mind as they saved him the time he would usually spend trying to hide his green eyes so nobody would see that he and Harry had the same eyes.

"James?" Sirius breathed

"Not quite" Henry shook his head "I'm Henry Potter, James's brother"

"James didn't have a brother" Remus pointed out

"James didn't have a brother that he knew about" Henry replied "when I was little my parents had to send me away because of how powerful my magic was, the person who trained me had them make unbreakable vows to keep that information confidential. He had his reasons for doing so but he died before I could ask him, anyway, I am Henry Potter and it's a pleasure to meet you both"

"L…likewise" Remus replied

"I know all about you two" Henry smiled "James had left some journals, so you two are Padfoot and Moony, correct?"

"Uh yes" Sirius nodded

"So, Moony, you're the werewolf, right?" Henry asked, feigning ignorance

"Yes" Remus said nervously

"Hmm" Henry looked thoughtful "I think we have a basement for you to transform in, or we can keep you outside and have the other animals keep you grounded. At least until I can brew the cure for you"

"Cure?!" Remus blurted out in surprise

"Yeah, werewolf cure" Henry nodded

"Wolfsbane is not a cure" Remus pointed out

"Who's talking about Wolfsbane? I'm talking about an actual cure"

"There's a cure for werewolves?" Remus asked hopefully

"Yeah, I invented it" Henry replied "it'll take me a day or two to brew it, but fortunately the full moon is at least two weeks away. Now, let's talk about why I've brought you here, I want to discuss Harry."

"Where is he?" Sirius asked

"Hey, calm down or I'll put a leash on you" Henry responded "let me tell my story, then we'll discuss you seeing Harry"

"Fine but hurry up" Sirius said impatiently

"For reasons that I can't mention, I was out of the country until just recently" Henry began "when me and my wife got here, we wanted to go see Harry. On the way, we found him, just not in the way that you would expect.

We found him alone, in a park at midnight, with a bottle of bleach. Which I had to quickly stop him from drinking"

"BLEACH?!" Remus looked very close to transforming into a werewolf

"Yes, bleach" Henry continued "I stopped him from doing so, Harry thought that I was going to hit him or something. Did you know that Harry didn't know his name was Harry? He thought it was freak"

"Freak?! Why on earth would he think his name was freak?!" Sirius demanded

"Because that's what he was told by his aunt and uncle" Henry answered "Dumbledore in all of his infinite wisdom had put Harry with Lily's sister"

"Petunia?! That horse faced bitch! She hated Lily!"

"Yes, I believe that in their will they said Harry was never to go to the Dursley's. In fact, the order of people he was supposed to go to went like this: Sirius, Alice Longbottom, Remus, Andromeda Tonks, Minerva McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, literally anyone else who is not the Dursley's or a death eater, Satan, Satan in a hat, Satan in two hats, Satan's house elf, Satan's house elf's wife, a stray dog, a dragon and it ends with a plank of wood."

"Yeah" Sirius smiled slightly "that sounds like something James would write"

"Yeah, well Dumbledore ignored the will" Henry continued "he didn't even ask the goblins about a will, he just immediately put Harry with the Dursley's. Now, tell me, don't you boys find that suspicious?"

"What do you mean?" Remus asked

"Well, don't you find it suspicious that Hagrid immediately popped up after James and Lily's death to take Harry to Dumbledore who immediately placed him with his aunt who was known for hating her sister and all magical beings"

"Well" Remus shifted slightly

"Also" Henry wasn't done "how come Dumbledore jumps to help Severus Snape, a known death eater, during his trial but doesn't even so much as gets Sirius a trial when Sirius was an auror, valued friend and a member of his precious little order."

"Yeah!" Sirius looked furious "Why didn't he?!"

"M…maybe he had a good reason" Remus shifted uncomfortably, his voice didn't really make it sound like he believed his own words "but…but it's Dumbledore, he let me into Hogwarts and he's the only reason I still have a wand"

"No he isn't" Henry shook his head "there are no laws that ban werewolves from attending Hogwarts, in fact Hogwarts could have had a lot of werewolves if someone just made it clear that they were allowed to attend. Dumbledore had no right to bar you from Hogwarts unless you had committed a criminal act, he may claim to be the only reason you were allowed to attend Hogwarts but he's not. Check the Hogwarts laws if you don't believe me"

"Are you serious?" Sirius asked as Remus seemed incapable of speaking

"No, you are" Henry replied "anyway did the two of you know about the prophecy?"

"It…it was the reason they went into hiding" Sirius said

"The prophecy states that Harry is the only one capable of defeating Voldemort" Henry replied, he would have gone and defeated Voldemort himself but the Prophecy was about this world's Harry, not him.

"But Voldemort is dead!" Remus regained his tongue

"No, he isn't" Henry shook his head "he's just gone, the headmaster knows that. Do you two know what a horcrux is? It's when you place a piece of your soul in an object, that way you can't die unless the object is destroyed. Horcruxes are the worst type of dark magic and Voldemort has made quite a few including his unintentional one he put in Harry"

"What?!" Sirius and Remus said at the same time

"Harry has a piece of Voldemort's soul in him?!" Sirius looked paler than ever

"Yes, and Dumbledore definitely knew" Henry replied "it'd only take one diagnostic spell to figure it out, and you know that after Harry survived the killing curse Dumbledore definitely had him scanned. Dumbledore hasn't made any move to remove it and I know he can work out that it was a horcrux and it's obvious that Voldemort had made more if his soul was so unstable that he could actually make one by accident."

"So…so what do you think Dumbledore is planning?" Remus wasn't sure if he wanted to know the answer to his question

"It's quite simple" Henry sighed "imagine I'm Dumbledore, okay? Now, Harry Potter just survives the killing curse and he's destroyed Voldemorts body, I scan Harry and I work out that he has a horcrux in his head. Voldemort must have put a bit of his soul in Harry by accident because there is no way that he'd put a bit of his soul in the baby that was prophesised to be his downfall.

Now, the horcrux needs to be removed, then either Harry kills Voldemort or Voldemort kills Harry then I can sweep in and finish off Voldemort. I could train Harry for his upcoming fight, but the boy is already too powerful, I can't have that. I can't have him become too powerful, he'd slip out of my control."

"What makes you think he wants to control Harry?" Remus asked

"I think the numerous blocks he put on Harry's magic might be one indicator" Henry answered "anyway, where was I? Oh yes, now I'm Dumbledore and I place Harry with his mother's sisters, I erect some blood wards based off the love that Lily had when she sacrificed herself to save Harry"

"Blood wards?" Sirius blurted out

"Yes, they were very weak though" Henry replied "I examined them when I rescued Harry, love based wards don't work so good when they don't share any love. Anyway, I'm Dumbledore and I leave him with his aunt, I know his aunt hates him. Everyone knows his aunt hates him, but I'm Dumbledore so people will listen to me because I'm the wise old wizard and everyone should listen to me and if they don't then I will say something smart that will convince them to listen."

"That's actually a good impersonation" Sirius commented

"Snape gets put on trial" Henry pretended he didn't hear Sirius "now, Snape would be a valuable asset, he's the youngest potions master in history and is capable of spying on the death eaters for me. Sirius Black is also on trial, now Sirius was valuable but I can't have him free as that gives Harry somewhere else to live.

I'll leave Harry at the Dursley's, I'll pay them to make sure they keep him. When Harry goes to Hogwarts he'll be weak and in awe of magic, then he'll see me as the wise grand wizard and look up to me. I can then mould him, mould him into the perfect hero and the type of person who would die for others, I can mould him into a martyr that's ready to sacrifice himself to save the world from Voldemort."

"You…you really think Dumbledore would do that?" Remus asked weakly, looking more sick than ever

"Yes" Henry nodded "I don't trust Dumbledore, neither did my parents. Now, let me ask you, if you truly cared for Harry and did this for his Harry's sakes, then wouldn't you come and check on him and make sure he is fine. Do you know what Harry currently is?

He's underweight, skinny, has bruises and scars on his body, he always looks at me like I'm going to snap at any moment and beat him up, he's someone who didn't know his own name until I told him and I offered him to come with me and he accepted. Me, a stranger he had just met at night in a park and he wanted to come with me, what does that tell you?"

"It tells me that I'm going to kill the Dursley's!" Sirius growled

"Me too!" Remus said enthusiastically "Sirius I'm sorry for doubting you, how about we make it up together by expressing our opinions to the Dursley's"

"Deal!"

"Wait, wait" Henry put his hands up, calming the two angry men down "I have a plan, just hear me out yeah?"

"Fine" Sirius crossed his arms "it'd better be a good one"

"Look, I was super pissed off" Henry said "so much so that when Harry was distracted with my wife I went off and tossed his car through his living room and turned his hair green and that was after using all of my control. The Dursley's are incredibly worried about looking and appearing as normal upstanding citizens.

The first thing I'm going to do is get custody of Harry from them, I'm hoping to become his legal guardian in the muggle and magical world."

"How do you plan that?" Sirius asked

"I'm going to get Vernon Dursley committed of a crime" Henry smiled "a big one, then I'm going to challenge him for custody of Harry. After that I want to work on freeing you Sirius, then we can claim guardianship of him in the magical world. I don't want anyone to be able to argue his placement with us. Actually, I'm going to do it now if you want to come"

"Uh….yeah" Sirius stood up, so did Remus

"Sirius, you're still a wanted criminal" Remus reminded him "if you're coming then you may want to transform"

"Oh, right" Sirius slapped his head and transformed into a dog

"What is the plan?" Remus asked

"I think it's better I surprise you so you both can acct convincing" Henry grabbed the two of them and teleported them to an empty alleyway "follow me"

Harry slowly woke up from what he felt was the nicest dream he had ever had in his life. In his dream this nice man said that he was Harry's uncle and this nice lady said that she was his aunt. They both said they would rescue him and look after him. In Harry's dream they could disappear and go wherever they wanted but they always came back to Harry.

His eyes opened slowly, Harry was waiting before he woke up in his cupboard again. He knew his aunt tunia would start screaming at him and make him get up. But Harry didn't want to get up, he was too comfortable, he had never felt this comfortable, he felt warm, warm and snuggly. He stretched his small little body and his eyes opened, Harry looked around and realised that he wasn't in the cupboard. He remembered coming here in his dream with his new aunt and uncle.

"Hello sleepyhead" A voice called, Harry's head turned to see his aunt Gwen enter the room while holding a tray full of food. Harry's eyes widened when he realised he hadn't made breakfast yet. He was about to pull off his covers and get out of bed when Gwen placed the tray on his lap.

"W...what's this?" A confused Harry asked

"It's your breakfast" Gwen answered "they didn't have much left but I managed to get you some cookies and milk"

"For me?!" Harry's blurted out in shock, looking at the plate of cookies and the glass of milk, while it wasn't too much food it was definitely more than Harry was used to.

"Of course sweetie" Gwen smiled while internally thinking up torture methods for the Dursley's "this is all for you"

"But...but this is too much" Harry objected, he never got this much food. He was a freak and his aunt tunia told him he should be happy with just bread and water

"You don't have to finish it all" Gwen said "just eat as much as you can, okay sweetie?"

"Y...yes aunt Gwen" Harry slowly began eating, he dipped the cookies in the milk and put them in his mouth.

"Do you like it?" Gwen asked

"Yes" Harry nodded

"If you need anything else then ask" Gwen said

"A...aunt Gwen" Harry said nervously

"Yes sweetie?"

"Yesterday, Unca Henry disappeared." Harry said slowly "H...how did he do that?" Harry lowered his head slightly, hoping he didn't say too much

"He used magic" Gwen answered

"Magic doesn't exist" Harry said, almost robotically

"Who said so?" Gwen asked, despite knowing the answer

"Aunt tunia and Unca Vernon" Harry answered

"Yes, but they think that Dudley is smart so let's not believe everything they say" Ginny joked, a giggle made it's way out of Harry's mouth before he could stop himself. "I promise you Harry, magic is real. When you finish eating then I will show you some, okay" Harry nodded and continued eating, he had eventually managed to get half of the cookies on the plate

"I'm finished" Harry said

"Okay, just drink your milk" Gwen handed him the cup, she was still furious that the Dursley's didn't even feed him enough "try and drink as much as you can" Harry did so, he barley managed to finish all the milk. "Well done Harry" She said

"Thank you" Harry blushed a little, he had never heard someone say well done to him before.

"Now, I'm going to show you some magic now" Ginny took out her wand and levitated the tray up and had it fly away and land on a table

"Wow!" Harry exclaimed

"Not done yet" Gwen grinned, she aimed her wand in the air and fireworks of various colours popped out of it, ranging from red to purple.

"That's so cool!" Harry clapped his hands

"Thank you" Gwen gave him a little bow "we should wait until your uncle get's back, he's even better at magic than I am"

"Really?" Harry asked

"Yes, your uncle is the strongest wizard in the world"

"The strongest?!"

"The strongest" Gwen repeated with pride in her voice "he can beat anyone, he can do magic that most magic people can't do."

"W...where is Unca Henry?" Harry asked, looking around the room

"Oh, he's just gone to talk to a few people" Gwen answered "and he's going to go make sure that you don't go back to the Dursley's again"

Sirius and Remus followed after James's 'brother', they followed him out of the alley way. Henry guessed that Vernon would be walking to work, likely because his car was tossed through his house and Vernon refused to take the bus.

"There he is" Henry pointed to Vernon, walking towards them while wearing a hat to try and cover his green hair "follow me, and keep quiet" Harry whispered to Remus and Padfoot.

The three walked over and stopped in front of Vernon, Vernon tried to walk around but Harry kept blocking him on purpose.

"Look" Vernon had had enough "can you move?!" It was at this point that Vernon looked at the man in front of him, he looked a lot like that freak his wife's sister got married to.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Henry said in a loud voice, attracting the attention of the crowd around him "I have a bone to pick with you Vernon Dursley!"

"Oh, do you?!" Vernon turned red

"Yes I do!" Henry snapped "I come back to England after five years and I discover that you're abusing my nephew!"

"What?!" Vernon blurted out in surprise, people began looking in their direction

"Don't lie to me!" Henry shouted "I found my nephew in the park at night trying to kill himself because he didn't want you to beat him anymore!"

"You liar!" Vernon saw that people were whispering to each other

"Lying am I?!" Harry roared "I found him and he had broken bones and scars all over his body! What the hell did you do to him?! You're being paid to look after him but he still looks like he's homeless! When was the last time he had a decent meal?!"

Padfoot nudged Remus who broke his eyes away from the scene to look at the dog, Padfoot gestured to Henry's hand. Remus looked and his eyes widened when he saw a knife slide into his hand.

"Look here!" Vernon pointed his finger right at Henry's voice

"Don't point your finger at me you sorry excuse for a human!" Henry pushed his hand down

"Don't touch me!" Vernon growled and pulled his hand away

"Or what?!" Henry challenged, spitting on Vernon's face as the words came out

Vernon reached into his blazer, he was going to pull out a tissue and clean his face, then he was going to go call the police on this lunatic. How dare this freak talk to him like that? He was an upstanding citizen who paid his taxes. He worked hard at work, he did not deserve to get talked to like that.

Henry quickly grabbed Vernon's hand, he placed the knife in Vernon's hand and pulled Vernon's arm towards himself.

Remus and Padfoot jumped back in shock, Vernon dropped his jaw while Henry staggered back. He pulled the knife out of his body, he took a step back and tripped. Remus caught him before he landed on the floor, Henry pointed at Vernon.

"YOU...YOU STABBED ME!" Henry shouted "SOMEBODY GET HIM! HE STABBED ME! HE'S A MANIAC! HE STABBED ME!" A police officer arrived on scene, he saw Harry bleeding and Vernon with blood on his hands.

"No! Wait! I didn't do anything!" Vernon protested

"You're coming with me" The officer advanced

"NO!" Vernon screamed and in a panic he threw a punch at the officer, officer took him down to the ground and handcuffed him. Vernon's hat fell off his head, revealing his bright green hair.

"You're mad!" Remus whispered to Henry "You're absolutely mad!" Padfoot barked in agreement

"I'm a Potter, we're all mad" Henry gave him a quick smile before continuing to pretend to be in pain. "Besides, it's for Harry" Henry added "I'm here to protect him, if I have to get hurt to do so then fine" Padfoot and Remus exchanged a look, both mentally thinking the same thing.

This guy is a type of crazy that James never was, yet he might be the best person to look after Harry. They couldn't think of many people that would be willing to stab themselves for their nephews.