Dean watched as the Great Hall went silent as the Goblet of Fire ignited in blue once more, shooting another slip of parchment out into the air. He didn’t know the name that was on it, but considering the three champions had already been chosen, he had a good guess. He watched as Dumbledore seemed to go through a wide range of emotions before opening his mouth and confirming Dean’s guess.
“Harry Potter.” The name was spoken into absolute silence. Around the hall, students of all three schools began whispering about Harry Potter and how his name could have come out of the Goblet. When Harry Potter didn’t show up for his first year, three years ago, a lot of questions were asked that Dumbledore gave answers that while some accepted, most quietly questioned the validity of them, at least in the British Wizarding World, elsewhere just ignored it with smirks. Since then, though, nothing was ever heard, so the British Wizarding World was left to largely, dumbly in Dean’s opinion, to believe what Dumbledore said. The fact that despite it being more central to the British Isles, the rest of the Wizarding World knew what had been happening, but clearly knew something more, showed that Dumbledore wasn’t believed as much as he liked to think, especially since he then lost his position of Supreme Mugwump or whatever his position at the ICW was (along with having already lost Chief Warlock or whatever of the Wizengamot since he'd lost the ability to claim the Potter and Black seats as proxies years previous, which Dean knew related to when Alfred gained guardianship), Dean couldn’t give less of a fuck.
Dean began composing in his head, he wished he’d kept his mobile on him for this, the text he would send once back in his dorm to his cousin and then snorted causing some of his housemates to look at him confused. He waved them off but continued laughing in his head knowing that all Dumbledore’s lies were about to be exposed and probably topple the British Wizarding World who relied so heavily on one fucking old man, fucking idiots. As all the students from all three schools were sent back to their dorms or accommodations, he watched as there were several of the foreign press that seemed to huddle together, going as far as to erect silencing, anti-eavesdropping charms and privacy wards to keep out the British Wizarding press that was sulking about, especially one Rita Skeeter. Dean knew then that shit was really about to hit the fan and couldn’t wait knowing that it was probably going to happen within only days knowing his cousin's family.
Three days had passed since the Goblet of Fire had spat out Harry Potter’s name and sent the British Wizarding World in a tizzy. Dean watched as they all seemed to collectively lose their heads while all the foreign students and press seemed to watch them with contempt that he honestly probably reflected back considering the intrigued and questioning glances many sent back at him. He only smiled in amusement before going about his day waiting for everything to explode in Dumbledore’s face. Currently it was lunch on Monday morning with most professors at the table while a select few seemed to be with Dumbledore, the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang headmasters, the organizers of the TriWizard Tournament, and some foreign officials once again in the office clearly not doing much. Lunch was almost over when Dumbledore and the others came in and sat at the head table. They all started eating when a bang was heard from down the hall where the doors to Hogwarts was located. The Great Hall doors were open, so the sound rebounded loudly causing everyone to go quiet. All the adults slowly stood up with wands either raised already or pointed down at their sides. Dean continued eating unlike everyone else (except one Ronald Weasley who'd eat through anything really), as he’d received a text that morning and then another at the beginning of lunch, so he was unconcerned knowing the cause behind the noise.
Dean looked up at hearing the gasps and turning towards the doors to the hall. He bit back a snort at the group standing in the doorway to the hall. He nodded at seeing some people who he figured to be from the ICW but was more amused by the sight of his cousin and family. Among that group, though no one had realized yet, was ‘Harry Potter’. He watched as the gasps doubled again and even some of the professors startled when from the back of the group, Sirius Black stepped forward, looking absolutely livid.
“What the fuck happened?! Why the fuck did I receive a notice that ‘Harry Potter’ came out of your insipid cup?!” Sirius Black bellowed into the silence.
Everyone just stood there stunned at the man before them. When Harry Potter hadn’t appeared for his first year, Sirius Black magically received a trial, that apparently never happened in the first place, and was proven innocent and then proceeded to vanish as he was never seen in the British Wizarding World afterwards. Many wondered if after he’d been cleared and gotten healed if he’d gone to look for his godson despite what Dumbledore had said about him being ‘trained’ and other such rot. Dumbledore was the first one to finally shake off his disbelief and to slowly start forward and make the stupid decision to speak.
“My boy, Sirius-”
“I’m not your boy, you fucking crackpot! Why did the false name of my godson come out of that blasted cup?” Sirius asks only being stopped from moving forward to be in Dumbledore's face by the hand of one Bruce Wayne on his shoulder.
At the false name bit everyone looks at each other and starts whispering. Many wondering if even after it was revealed that Sirius Black was innocent if maybe his brain was still too addled for him thinking that ‘Harry Potter’ wasn’t his godson's name.
Dean watches as Hadrian just watches absolutely amused from where he’s leaning against Tim. Dean squints his eyes since he’s pretty sure the two are holding hands even though Tim’s arms are crossed over his chest like most of his siblings' arms are. He then looks around the room when he doesn’t notice Cass or Steph with the group. He raises an eyebrow when he sees them with someone, he’s pretty sure is from the ICW making their way towards Moody who doesn’t seem to notice the three approaching him, which considering his constant vigilance stance is very suspect for the man.
Dumbledore seems to come back to himself again, much to many's disappointment, “Sirius, why would you think Harry’s name is false? As he’s your godson, surely you know that’s his name.”
Sirius looks at Dumbledore with the most deadpan look which causes Dean to snort so loud in the still quiet hall. He waves off many who look at him and refuses to look at Duke knowing that he’d just end up losing it otherwise.
“What I’d like to know, is why you think that’s my name?”
Every head swivels to the boy in the middle of the group in confusion. At seeing everyone seeming to not understand they’re looking at ‘Harry Potter’, Dean can’t help it and just bends over losing it. He ignores Seamus asking if he’s okay and Hermione scolding him.
“I thought you would’ve lasted longer.” Duke says laughing while nodding at his cousin.
“So did I, so did I.” Dean says as he finally stops laughing and looks at Hadrian.
“Hey Dean.”
“Hey Hades.”
“Now back to why you think my name is ‘Harry Potter’. Also, while we’re on that, how about why you think you’re my guardian or have any right to speak any of the lies you’ve spouted about me over the last thirteen years.” Hades asks tilting his head as he stares at Dumbledore. “Also don’t call me ‘your boy’ or boy in general because I will stab you.”
At Hadrian’s second statement, the group around him, minus the ICW officials, all close rank around him and Tim. Dean’s positive that he does actually see the flash of a blade from both Damian and Jason which honestly makes sense for Damian, not so much Jason as he somehow has gotten a preference for guns. Dumbledore just stares uncertain what is going on and Dean’s sure trying to figure out how he can wave away what was just revealed.
“Well. Are you going to answer or continue standing there like an idiot in those atrocious robes?” Dick asks raising an eyebrow unimpressed.
“Why don’t we take this conversation somewhere private? My office for instance.” Dumbledore finally responds clearly not liking that he’s being backed into a corner, in public no less.
He’s ignored however from the noise of a body hitting the stone floor. Every head swivels to look towards the teachers table to see two girls holding down Alastor ‘Mad Eye’ Moody. Dean snorts when he sees Cass from the pile on the floor surface holding out a flask to the ICW official with them.
“Is there a reason you have a professor under Polyjuice Potion teaching your students Dumbledore? It looks like the charges against you have just increased again.” The official says as he waves his wand over the prone form of Moody.
Every head moves like they’re watching a tennis match as they turn from looking between the three people surrounding the fake Moody and Dumbledore. Dean does everything to keep the cackling to inside his head finally getting the confirmation that despite all the rumors that surround Moody, there still was something off about him and glad that he’d mentioned it to Duke when complaining about the man. He wonders how bad the chaos is about to be among the rest of the British Wizarding World when they discover what has happened today. He along with everyone else watches as Steph takes a vial from the ICW official and forces it down the fake Moody’s mouth. They watch as the body ripples before another body comes into sight that causes many to shout, and two other officials surround Bartemius Crouch because the body that was polyjuiced is apparently his son if the murmurs of ‘Barty Crouch Jr.’ are anything to go by. Apparently, it seems the kid wasn’t as dead as they’d been led to believe, Dean’s amused that someone other than Dumbledore is going to be arrested, two others even.
“Hey Dean, wanna come check out the Chamber with us?” Hadrian asks causing heads to turn towards him once again.
Dean startles, not having expected the question, before he turns to look at Hadrian. He raises an eyebrow as he thinks and ignores his housemates around him asking him what’s going on. He finally shrugs, “Sure why not. We can always see the pensive memories later.”
Hadrian smiles before turning to Tim with puppy dog eyes. Tim debates for a second before deciding, “I suppose. Someone has to stop you and Damian from deciding that adopting a basilisk is a good idea.”
Dean snorts at the pouts Hadrian and Damian both sport at that. Duke, Dick, and Jason just roll their eyes while Bruce and Sirius look thankful that they won’t potentially have a deadly animal added to the manor. The ICW officials that still surround the group look at each other before a couple nod and then walk away towards the doors. Dean gets up, walking over to the group that moves towards the doors. Everyone else in the hall looks unsure about what’s happening and the turns that seem to keep happening.
“Wait. If your name isn’t Harry Potter, then what is it?”
Dean, Duke, Damian, Tim, and Hades all turn to look at who Dean is pretty sure, one of the TriWizard organizers from the British Ministry. He watches as Tim squeezes Hadrian’s hand before nodding at him. Hadrian breathes out before deciding to answer knowing it was going to come out one way or another due to this whole fucking debacle anyway.
“Hadrian Rigel Potter-Black, ma’am.”
The silence that follows after that is deafening. Just about every mouth is hanging open finding out that apparently ‘Harry James Potter’ was completely a lie. Every British Wixen’s head then turned to Dumbledore clearly wondering why in the hell he’d lied about, probably everything based on what had just been revealed. Unfortunately, this seems to be what finally causes Dumbledore to come back to himself as he raises his wand in Hadrian’s direction. Before anything further can happen though, his wand flies into Hadrian’s hand and several ICW officials tackle him to the ground and cuff him. Everyone is dead silent as many look horrified at who once seemed like the greatest wizard alive while others look downright murderous, including Hadrian’s family, rightfully so.
“Huh. Guess I’ve got a wand now, cool. Let’s go.” Hadrian says, unbothered as he puts the wand into a slot that magically appears next to the one holding a blade on his forearm.
“DUMBLEDORE!” Is the last thing Dean hears before tuning out the noise from the Great Hall at Sirius’s exclamation causing even more chaos.
“So which way to the bathroom where the Chamber probably is?” Hadrian asks Dean as the group walks down the hallway followed by the ICW officials that had stepped out of the hall earlier.
“If there is a live basilisk please don’t try and adopt it. I’d rather not have a murder animal roaming the manor grounds. I’m also sure Alfred wouldn’t like it either.” Duke says as he throws his arm over Dean’s shoulders.
“Tt. You’re all no fun. At least Hadrian agrees with me.” Damian says as he walks alongside Hadrian.
Hadrian smiles down at Damian while Tim rolls his eyes at his boyfriend and knowing this is exactly why he agreed to come with because the two would’ve found a way to walk away with a basilisk if it’s still alive even with the ICW officials following them. Plus, he knew Dick and Jason would be enough help for B and Sirius anyway. He’s sure Cass and Steph will stay just to help fuck with Dumbledore, especially with the stunt he just pulled, and they would’ve just egged the two on anyway. He honestly wishes Babs was here since she at least would be another voice of reason, too bad she stayed back with Alfred in Gotham. He hopes they all make Dumbledore hurt though for daring to try attacking Hadrian. Nobody touches his family, especially his boyfriend and honestly future husband if he’s being honest with himself.
Bonus scenes that are part of this little verse I made but had nowhere to go:
Jason stood with his arm around Hadrian as the two stood in front of the desk staring at Bruce Wayne. He was trying his best, read failing, to stop from laughing at Bruce being scolded by a tiny child. Next to them was the butler, Alfred, and next to him was Dick Grayson, Bruce’s ward that didn’t know that two more were about to enter the manor.
“Would you even care for us? I don’t know since you were just going to try and adopt us without even talking to Dick about it, is it okay if I call you that?” Hadrian asks turning to look at Dick.
Dick just looks so lost and confused. He’d come back from his patrol to find Bruce apparently trying to adopt two kids who’d been trying to steal tires off the Batmobile. Then for the smaller one, Hadrian, to start scolding Bruce when it was clear he’d come up with the idea to adopt the two on the spot without input from either him or Alfred. Dick already was starting to love this kid and hoping that they would be added to the family honestly.
“Yeah, it’s fine little one.” He says smiling.
Hadrian gives the brightest smile back before going back to scolding Bruce while Jason is still trying not to laugh at this giant of a man cowering from a tiny six-year-old who looked like they were a four-year-old instead because they were so small. Finding this kid last year and taking him in was the best decision ever.
“If I may stop you there. I believe I may have a solution for all of us that we can hopefully all agree on.” Alfred interjects.
From there Alfred proceeds to blow all their minds and causes Hadrian to start crying and attach himself to hug Alfred finding out that he’s not the freak that his previous ‘family’ had told him he was, they’d been lying to him instead. Honestly, it was probably for the best anyway since as they’d gotten older, Bruce still hadn’t officially adopted Dick like he should’ve so having Alfred take custody in all the paperwork for Jason and Hadrian made more since when Hadrian was eleven, he had brought Jason into the Potter family for Jason’s thirteenth birthday.
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Hadrian had been with Duke and Tim doing homework when he felt a tug on his magic that startled him badly. Duke and Tim turn to him when he falls off his chair clutching his chest clearly in pain.
“Are you okay? What’s wrong?” Tim asks as he kneels down in front of Hadrian.
“I don’t know. I don’t know what’s happening.”
“I’m gonna get Alfred.” Duke says before leaving the library.
Tim hovers not sure what to do. He has a feeling he can’t explain that whatever is happening is magic related since he can see the Potter ring seemingly pulsing. He’s honestly glad that Damian isn’t home yet. He’d pretend not to be, but he’d be scared since apart from Dick for some reason, Hadrian is the one he likes the most. He barley catches Hadrian’s head when he’s startled so bad and spasms. Thankfully Alfred appears with Duke behind him. Alfred takes over and immediately clocks the heir ring pulsing.
“Master Hades, connect with the Potter magic. See what it’s telling you.” Alfred calmly says.
Hadrian does his best to do that and then almost convulses concerning everyone. He comes back gasping very badly and Tim can see tears just streaking down Hadrian’s face. They all startle again when Hadrian frantically starts trying to get up and murmuring in something that sounds Arabic, though Tim isn’t positive, so none of them know what’s being said though Alfred seems get the gist of whatever it is anyway.
“What’s wrong with Master Jason?”
“Joker.” Is the only answer they get before Hadrian disappears in front of them.
Duke and Tim look at each other and the spot where Hadrian was very confused and also very concerned. They’d heard some of Hades’ childhood, so they know that in dire situations, this is something that happened often, but adding into the mix apparently something about Jason and the Joker, they knew it only spelled absolute disaster.
“Where’s Hadrian?” Damian asks appearing in the doorway with Sirius behind him.
“I’m not sure. I’m going to contact Master Bruce since it seems wherever he went, it doesn’t spell anything good considering it involves Master Jason and the Joker.” Alfred responds as he stands up and then heads out to do just that.
Damian and Sirius look at Duke and Tim very concerned with Sirius already paling rapidly having been told all about the Joker when he'd showed up two years ago. Tim gets up and then proceeds to hug Damian who absentmindedly accepts and tightens his hold on Tim’s shirt.
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Several painstakingly frustrating hours later they finally see the others. Bruce had called for Sirius who’d apparated to wherever the others were. Wherever they had been apparently had spelled disaster as both Jason and Hadrian were in dire straits in Sirius and Bruce’s arms. They’re set in the medical ward, and Alfred begins to take care of them the best he can before he seems to call for someone else to come. The others had all known about magic due to Hadrian, Alfred, and then Sirius but they hadn’t spent much time in certain parts of the Wizarding World when entering with the others. So, they’re startled when two goblins and another Wixen appears and goes to work on the two alongside Alfred. Unfortunately, it’s still several hours before they get any sort of answers as Sirius was taking care of Bruce while the others healed Jason and Hadrian.
Bruce and Sirius are the ones to tell them when they enter the living room where Tim has been sequestered since he couldn’t stay by Hadrian’s bedside like he wanted to without getting in the way of the healing. Duke is sat next to him allowing him to lean his head as he stares off into space, Dick is comforting Damian who has not even bothered to pretend he isn’t concerned, while Steph and Cass are squished together on one of the armchairs hugging each other tight. They’ve got Babs’ chat open so they can let her know everything that’s going on and update her as soon as they know. Dick moves to call Babs when he sees the two enter the living room.
Bruce sighs as Sirius grabs his hand squeezing it. “We’re still not sure how, but the Joker managed to kidnap Jason but the aurors that appeared are working to figure it out. From what we’ve managed to figure out so far, the Joker took Jason as a trap for me to get to him, eventually. It seems like he’d planned for me to find Jason’s body. However, due to Hadrian bringing Jason into the Potter family and him getting a family ring, Hadrian felt when the Joker started. The aurors think that it was the family magic in the ring that Jason was unable to do anything with from being incapacitated, was the one to let Hadrian know that Jason was in grave danger. We’re not sure what entirely happened, but Hadrian’s magic reacted eventually lashing out and knocked out all the surrounding electronics along with killing the Joker. The reason it took so long was Hadrian’s magic had created a shield around him and Jason while simultaneously starting to try and heal the damage to the two, more so Jason as he was the most hurt. Hadrian as a result of this, severely depleted his magic, so he entered into a magical coma to replenish his magic. Both of them will be fine though, it will just take time.”
No one speaks as they all stare at Bruce who seems to only be held up by Sirius sitting next to him. Damian breaks down in Dick’s arms, Steph and Cass cling even tighter to each other while crying, where Tim seems to have just shut down leaning on Duke who tightens his arms around him. Eventually Tim is brought back to himself by Sirius who is kneeling in front of him and wiping away the tears he wasn’t even aware were falling down his cheeks. He proceeds to crumple into Sirius’s arms while Duke goes to Bruce.
After that it’s another three days before Jason and Hadrian finally wake up, though they don’t do much, just let the others talk or read to them so they can be as relaxed as they can be before they’re finally allowed to get out of bed. It’s then another week before they’re able to be up and about for more than just the bathroom. Eventually everyone is able to get a somewhat decent answer about what happened though not much of one as neither Jason and Hadrian are really too sure about what happened themselves, but everyone just agrees that the two are okay and the Joker is dead so there’s not much that matters other than their safety. It does prompt Hadrian to become clingier to Jason though, (and he was already clingy since Jason was who he'd met first in Gotham and been taken under his wing and cared for like actual family before Bruce happened) and then everyone is outfitted with emergency portkeys thanks to the goblins, that will work even if they're incapacitated (even though Alfred and Sirius are the only other actual Wixen among the family) due to the magic Hadrian puts into them. It also finally prompts Tim into action causing the others to snicker not even hiding their amusement even if it's still some time after the whole Joker problem that it happens.
“Hadrian?” Tim asks as the two are lying down together reading out in the gardens as the weather was nice enough for it being the middle of August.
“Tim? What’s up?” Hadrian asks as he sits up feeling that this is important.
“I’m glad you’re okay but it also made me realize that anything could happen before I even tried. So, I’ve been meaning to do this but kept chickening out, but I don’t want to miss this anymore. Would you go out with me?” Tim asks looking into Hadrian’s eyes while holding his hands. He ignores the snickers and ribbing from the others where they’re splayed out around them.
Hadrian stares at him before a bright smile appears that hasn’t been seen in months even though him and Jason are healed from the mess back in April. He launches himself at Tim, wrapping his arms around Tim’s neck and chanting ‘yes’ into Tim’s ear. Tim smiles wide before burrowing his head into Hadrian’s hair as he wraps his arms around the boy who has made his day for accepting. Around them Jason and Dick are leaning against each other laughing, Steph and Cass are cooing with Babs while Damian and Duke just look happy that it’s finally happened. Bruce and Sirius look conflicted that the two are going to be dating, despite both being 14 and teenagers while Alfred just smiles fondly.
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On Halloween the family is having their annual movie marathon, taking a break from patrolling and other responsibilities to spend time with each other and everyone able to be together that everyone ends up confused instead. In between movies, Duke receives a text from his cousin Dean who attends Hogwarts, not that that's odd, but what the text contains is what is odd.
“So, it seems the British Wizarding World has fucked up again.” Duke says to the living room as he stares at the text with a raised eyebrow.
“They brought back the death tournament so that’s not hard.” Dick says from his spot next to Damian.
“Well Dean just texted me. The name drawing just happened.”
“I have a bad feeling.” Steph mutters looking to Bruce and Sirius who look unimpressed and irritated already.
“’Harry Potter’ had come out of the cup.” Duke says as he looks up at everyone.
Everyone is silent before pandemonium ensues. Bruce and Sirius start swearing and yelling and telling Alfred about everyone they need to contact due to this shitshow. Hadrian groans while burying his head into Tim’s chest whose arms tighten around his boyfriend's waist. Jason and Damian look murderous, Dick has an entirely too blank face meaning nothing good. Steph, Cass, and Babs are all whispering frantically with each other, while Duke looks back down to his phone.
‘Chaos has already started’
‘I can’t wait for it to happen here. It’ll be great entertainment.’
‘That’s just because the Brit Wiz World is dumb.’
‘Exactly.’
Duke rolls his eyes at Dean before tuning back into the chaos happening around him. At least the trip will mean he’ll get to see Dean since he wasn’t able to visit over the summer.