The actual chapter one
31st of July 1980,11:56pm, Saint Mungos hospital
James Potter was nervous. Lily had gone into labor almost ten hours ago but neither of the twins was here yet. He hoped that everything would be fine.
When the first cry rang out he all but stormed into the room. On the bed was the love of his life very exhausted but still smiling holding their firstborn son.
“Hello Lily-flower, did you name him already or have you waited for me?”
”I haven’t named him yet but I thought about a few names. My current favorite is Harry.”
”Harry? I really like the name so how about Harry James Potter, the middle name after family tradition and the first name you picked?” James suggested.
As Lily was about to agree she felt her second child moving forward and immediately told her husband to call for the medi-witch. A moment later he was sent out of the room and asked to wait outside.
About fifteen minutes later he heard a second cry. This time he walked in with a lot more grace. The second he saw his wife and children he threw any remaining calmness out the window and ran over.
Their second son was named Henry Narcissus Potter and from the moment he was born his parents adored him.
The next day at around 11am Sirius and Remus visited to see their godsons and .
The grey eyed man had previously asked if he could blood adopt one of them so he wouldn’t have to produce an heir to the most ancient and most noble house of Black. Lily and James agreed but only because the title and fortune would go to the Malfoy’s otherwise and because James is even if he doesn’t like it still a son of the house of Black.
By the time the prophecy about the downfall of the dark lord was told the twins were as different as they could possibly be. Henry was still rather chubby, with tan skin, ginger hair that was just as untamable as his father’s and hazel eyes.
Harry on the other hand was smaller than his brother and not really chubby enough for a baby. You could already tell that he had been the one who was blood adopted by Sirius because of his slightly wavy midnight black hair, the high cheekbones and nearly white skin. The only thing that suggested that he was even a son of James and Lily were his piercing green eyes and his troublemaker grin.
Another noticeable difference was the fact that Harry almost never cried and was generally quiet. Henry was not. He cried and screamed a lot especially when his brother got attention from his parents or any other family friends and he didn’t.
Samhain/Halloween 1981, 10:30pm, Potter cottage, Godric’s Hollow, England
It had been a wonderful day for the Potter family. The parents and their youngest had gone out trick or treating while the oldest slept in the nursery. Now though they were all in the living room laughing and smiling when all of a sudden the wards around the house collapsed.
James shouted at Lily to run and take their sons with her because the dark lord had found them. Mere minutes later the Potter lord was stunned and bound by ropes.
During all this the Potter lady ran up the stairs into the nursery and barricaded the door behind herself. When she heard a loud thud from down stairs she started crying and set both of her children down in their cribs. Shortly after the door was blown open by what she assumed to be a Bombada Maxima and Voldemort walked in.
She begged him to kill her and spare her children when he told her to step aside.This was repeated three times before he stunned her and she fell unconscious on impact with the floor.
The dark lord turned to the boys and looked them over to see which one was the threat and which one was not. He noticed that the black haired baby was completely silent and stared right at him and that the other was crying loudly and looking down at his mother. So Voldemort decided that Harry had to be the child of the prophecy.
The next few moments were absolute chaos. The Slytherin fired a killing curse at his chosen. Unfortunately for him it rebounded, hit him and then the window shattered.One of the shards made a cut on Henry’s cheek. A few seconds later both of the twins collapsed.
Twenty minutes later a very worried Sirius ran into the house and saw his brother in all but blood on the ground. He knew instantly that Peter had betrayed them. So he transformed into Padfoot to see if could track the traitor down. (We all know how that ended)
Hogwarts, Headmasters office, 10:30pm
Albus Dumbledore was rather suddenly woken up by an explosion. He immediately started looking at what exactly happened only to find that the device that tracked the wards of the Potter house blew up.
He smiled because this meant that Tom had found them and he could now mold one of the twins into the savior of the wizard world.
When he arrived at the Potter house he saw that James was on the floor in the entryway struggling to remove his bindings. They went up stairs and found the nursery littered with glass shards from the windows.
James ran almost instantly to his wife and was relieved to find that she was still alive. He then used a spell to make her regain her consciousness.After that they turned their attention towards the boys.
”Are my babies still alive?”,Lily asked.
“Yes ,however it looks like little Harry is a squib. I can feel absolutely no magic in him. I think it’s best if he grows up somewhere muggle because he will get jealous of his brother’s fame and magic.”Dumbledore replied.
James implored:”Does that mean Henry defeated the dark lord? Also where should we send Harry?”
”Yes, Henry vanquished him but the injury on his cheek will likely scar. As for Harry I think I know a good place for him to live .”assured the headmaster.
“Take him there immediately. I don’t want this thing anywhere near my baby!”declared the Potter lord.
“I will but we need a reliable cover story because of the shame that comes with a child being born a squib.”Dumbledore pointed out.
At that Lily scoffed “We can just tell them he died nobody will think much about it because we were dealing with a dark lord.”
” I think it would work,”James agreed.
They discussed the details for another fifteen minutes before the headmaster left with little Harry.
When he arrived in his office, Dumbledore laid the child on his desk and started mumbling spell after spell to block the boys magic and abilities.
Nearly an hour later he was dropped the boy off at Number 4, private drive,Surrey where Lily’s sister Petunia and her family lived. He didn’t knock or anything just placed the bundle on the doorstep and left.
Mrs.Dursley found her nephew the next morning and took him in.
August third 1985, 4pm, Number 4, private drive,Surrey
Harry knew his aunt and uncle didn’t want to raise him or care for him. It made him feel miserable because he remembered, remembered his parents, his brother and his godfathers showing him affection, making him laugh and sing lullaby’s so he could fall asleep.
Now though he just felt lonely because his family had abandoned him, because he didn’t have any friends and because the only beings that had shown any love for him in the past years were just figments of his own imagination. They sometimes seemed to be watching over him or even protecting him but that was probably only a hallucination.
The young boy was very much aware that it wasn’t t normal to be able to float things around or to heal any injuries in a few minutes to an hour. It was why aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon called him freak or boy, why they let Dudley and his friends beat Harry black and blue, why he had to had to do the chores and why he only got the bare minimum of food to survive.
Harry knew because he’s read the books in the library about human biology and about physics. It shouldn’t be possible for him to float stuff but he could. When he asked his aunt she screamed at him to get into his cupboard and to never bring the subject up again. So he didn’t but he did read more books about it and about magic too.
During his stays at the library he started reading about anatomy and realized quite quickly that he was too small and too thin for someone his age.
Harry loved the library because Dudley would leave him alone. But also because Mrs Penelope the librarian would give him small snacks and new books to read. She also got him glasses when his sight started getting worse. She also helped him with his sirius lack of confidence and his communication skills.
But all of this wouldn’t help him right now because he surely did something wrong again and when asked he had the audacity to imply his angel of a cousin was responsible he knew he would have to cling to his life to survive. That uncle Vernon had punished him by whipping him with a belt would just add to the ever growing amount of scars he carries. The only small mercy Harry had been allowed was that he fell unconscious shortly afterwards.
Death was furious, they had been watching their master all day and they don’t like what they see. It was too early for little Harry to cross over into their realm. He was still so young and yet so sad and hopeless.
The moment an outraged scream sounded from their side, Thanatos turned to look at Lady Magic and Khaos (I intentionally wrote the name with a K this time)
Hecate looked ready to murder the monster that dared to attack her favored, godly rules be dammed.
The oldest being of the universe on the other hand was completely calm, which was all the more frightening considering it was the embodiment of Chaos.
“We’ve let this go on for too long. We have to do something about this now, imperio non penititus cum mortalibus damnari*.”the goddess of magic snapped at the other two beings present.
”Are you sure? We’ll be in a lot of trouble.”stated Khaos.
Death hissed “I don’t care about the consequences! He is nearly dead! If we don’t interfere now, we might never get another chance !”
After that comment all of them began to form a plan: bring the young boy to the goblins or more accurately the goblin king of the British Isles and place him somewhere else, somewhere safe.
They healed him enough to safely teleport with him and off they went.
Head office, Gringotts, August third 1985, 4:20pm
The goblin king Ragnok was having a pretty good day. Business was booming and they were able to make a deal with a very high profile customer.
To say he was surprised when three immortals teleported into his office holding what looked like a three to four year old human child, had to be the understatement of a lifetime. After the shock settled, he quickly bowed and asked
“What brings you here? Who is the child? Why is he injured? What happened? Wha-“
“Try to take a breath please “Lady Magic interrupted.
“My apologies my Lady. It’s not very common for three divine beings to appear in my office with a human child nonetheless. Am I allowed to know what exactly happened and who the boy is?”
After a few moments of silence Death had enough and started explaining to Ragnok.” The boy is Harry Potter he’s my master and favored by Hecate and Chaos. He was placed into his aunts care by Albus Dumbledore after his Brother was declared the savior of the wizard-world. We’ve been watching this child ever since he was given away by his parents and the headmaster. We are healing him right now and want to see if we can place him somewhere else and maybe change his name. For that we need the help of Gringotts.”
“I see you want him to take an inheritance-test.We’ll have to wait for him to wake up before we can do this. Although I can prepare everything.”
When Harry woke up, he immediately noticed that he was not in his cupboard. As he became aware of his surroundings he started panicking because there were four strangers with him in a room he didn’t know.
The female spoke first,”Hello there, am Lady Magic or Hecate, the grumpy one is Lord Death they are better known as Thanatos though and the wild looking … being over there is Lord Chaos or just Khaos. Thanatos has chosen you as his master and Khaos & I favor you. We’ll teach you later what that means, for now we just want you away from the Dursleys. Because we are deities we can’t interfere much without getting in serious trouble and have therefore asked King Ragnok of the goblins for help.”
The now identified Thanatos then added “We wish for you to take an inheritance-test to see where you can stay and the extent of your magical abilities.”
Harry was extremely excited about the fact that magic was real. He was also happy about the fact that he wouldn’t have to go back to the Dursleys, so he promptly agreed to take the test.
“To see what you inherited simply let three drops of blood fall on the parchment.” explained Ragnok.
The child nodded grabbing the ritual dagger the goblin offered him and nicked his left thumb. As the third drop of blood landed on the parchment it began to write itself.
Inheritance Test
Name: Harry James Potter
Born: July 31.1980
Gender: Male, carrier
Magical core: Grey
Power level: /
Family:
•Father: James Charlus Potter (no parental rights because of willful neglect)
•Mother: Lilian Rose Potter née Evens (no parental rights because of willful neglect)
•Blood-adopted Father: Sirius Black(illegally incarnated)
Adoption: 01.11.1980
•Siblings: Henry Charlus Potter (younger twin brother)
•Magical Grandparents: Dorea Potter née Black, Charlus Potter, Walburga Black, Orion Black
•Godmother(s): Alice Longbottom(unfit guardian)
•Godfather(s): Sirius Black (illegally incarnated), Remus Lupin ( werewolf,only possible if alternative guardian for full moon)
Titels:
•Master of Death
•Favored of Chaos
•Favored of Magic
Lord- and Heir-ships:
•Hier to the most ancient and most noble house of Potter (paternal)
•Heir to the most ancient and most noble house of Black (blood adopted, paternal)
•Heir to the imperial house of Slytherin (conquest)
•Lord to the most ancient and most noble house of Peverell (paternal, not claimed by anyone)
•Lord of the imperial house of Ravenclaw (blood adoption, not claimed by too)
•Lord of the imperial house of Gryffindor (paternal, not claimed by anyone)
•Lord of the imperial house of Emrys (paternal, First to meet the requirements)
Properties and Vaults:
•Rawenclaw Castle (Hogwarts)
•12 Grimmauld Place
•for other of properties see folder 00001
•for the Vaults see folder 00001
Abilities, current Blocks and potion affects:
•Parseltongue (30% blocked)
•Parselmagic (completely blocked)
•Mage sight (completely blocked)
•Necromancy (completely blocked)
•Natural Legilimens (completely blocked)
•Natural Occlumency (completely blocked)
•Eidetic Memory (95%blocked)
•Core (50% blocked)
All blocks keyed to Albus P.W.B. Dumbledore
•Hate potion (keyed to: Slytherin House, Malfoy Family, Severus Snape, Tom Riddle)
•Personality-Change-Potion (Laziness, Rashness)
•Loyalty-Potion (keyed to:Molly Weasley, James Potter, Lily Potter, Albus P.W.B Dumbledore)
Soulmates: Fred Weasley, George Weasley
While reading Harrys eyes grew as big as saucers. Reading his expression Ragnok snatched the paper and shortly after swore in Gobbledegook. “Ó, fokk hann hefur gengið allt of langt í þetta skiptið^.”
Now very intrigued the deities took the parchment from Ragnok.
Death read it first and cursed:”deodamnatus*, that old fool has gone too far.”
The next was Lady Magic she growled “ That Irrumator*, you’re right he has gone way too far.”
Lastly Khaos read and hissed:” Qualem blennum*, thinks he can mess with us without consequences.”
Then Harry chimed in “could you stop cursing? And can we do something about this?”
On that note everyone burst out laughing.
Once everyone had sobered up,Thanatos asked Harry “How did you know what we were saying?”
“ I really like to read and I learned Latin from books Mrs Penelope gave me.”explained the five year old.
It took over an hour to break the blocks, purge the potions and heal Harry’s remaining wounds. They had a few problems that made the whole process slow down a bit such as discovering the hocroux in Harry’s scar and the deities especially Death getting really angry about the fact that someone dared to mess with that foul pice of magic.
After that was all over they talked about what Harry wanted his new name to be. In the end he chose Hadrian because it’s similar to Harry and can be shortened to Hades, who is the ruler of the underworld and the ‘boss’ of Thanatos. Death convinced him to take Peverell as his last name and Ragnok asked to add Black aswell since Sirius Black isthe only parent still able to claim him as his child. His middle name he had to think about a lot. He ended up going with Silas which means ‘the requested one’ or ‘the longed-for one’. (The name also comes from the Roman god of the forest but I don’t know if I want to use that or not)
”Now that all of the blocks and potions are gone and you’ve picked a new name I want you to retake the inheritance-test”Ragnok stated.
Hadrian agreed and for the second time that day took the ritual dagger from the goblin.As the third drop of blood hit the parchment it began to write itself.
Inheritance Test
Name: Hadrian Silas Peverell-Black
Born: July 31.1980
Gender: Male, carrier
Magical core: Grey
Power level: warlock, 132
Family:
•Father: James Charlus Potter (no parental rights because of willful neglect)
•Mother: Lilian Rose Potter née Evens (no parental rights because of willful neglect)
•Blood-adopted Father: Sirius Black(illegally incarnated)
Adoption: 01.11.1980
•Siblings: Henry Charlus Potter (younger twin brother)
•Magical Grandparents: Dorea Potter née Black, Charlus Potter, Walburga Black, Orion Black
•Godmother(s): Alice Longbottom(unfit guardian)
•Godfather(s): Sirius Black (illegally incarnated), Remus Lupin ( werewolf,only possible if alternative guardian for full moon)
Titels:
•Master of Death
•Favored of Chaos
•Favored of Magic
Lord- and Heir-ships:
•Heir to the most ancient and most noble house of Potter (paternal)
•Heir to the most ancient and most noble house of Black (blood adopted, paternal)
•Heir to the imperial house of Slytherin (conquest)
•Lord to the most ancient and most noble house of Peverell (paternal, not claimed by anyone)
•Lord of the imperial house of Ravenclaw (blood adoption, not claimed by too)
•Lord of the imperial house of Gryffindor (paternal, not claimed by anyone)
•Lord of the imperial house of Emrys (paternal, First to meet the requirements)
Properties and Vaults:
•Rawenclaw Castle (Hogwarts)
•12 Grimmauld Place
•for other properties see folder 00001
•for the Vaults see folder 00001
•for investments see folder 00001
Abilities, current Blocks and potion effects:
•Parseltongue
•Parselmagic
•Mage sight
•Necromancy
•Natural Legilimens
•Natural Occlumency
•Eidetic Memory
•Animagus affinity
•language affinity
•no current blocks or potion effects
Soulmates: Fred Weasley, George Weasley
“AHA,I knew it!”Ragnok exclaimed.
“Knew what?” questioned Hadrian.
“I suspected that some of your abilities hid themselves to protect you and I was right. Now do you have any other questions about the information on the parchment?”
”It says that I’m a carrier. What does that mean? Can you also explain the thing with core and power level? I have no clue what most of my abilities are. Can you tell me? What is blood adoption?”was the response he received.
The goblin was not at all bothered by the rapid fire of questions. He simply said “Easy there. A carrier is a male who can get pregnant if they are sexually active with another male.”He paused shortly before continuing
“The magical core is the raw state of your magic. It is like a scale: white, light, grey, dark and black. It indicates which type of magic you are the best at. That is not to say that a black wix, cannot cast a purely light spell, just that they will struggle with it and have to work a lot harder to succeed.Your core is grey that means you’re able to do all five levels without much difficulty.”
“Magical power is ranked. Muggles are completely non-magical and register as 0, Squibs have a level of 1 to 49, witches or wizards have 50 to 99, warlocks or enchantresses are at 100 to 149, sorcerers or sorceresses are from 150 to 199, and Thaumaturges have to be 200 or more.”
“You go through four core evolutions in your life.The first when you’re one to three years old. The second one on your seventh birthday. The next one when you turn thirteen and the last one when you’re seventeen. You get more powerful with each evolution but your final power level can only be determined after your last power boost.”
“As for your abilities, Parseltongue is the language of snakes and Parselmagic is the magic performed in the language.Mage sight makes you able to see magic that is normally invisible. Necromancy involves summoning the dead and guiding souls to the afterlife. It also makes you able to feel if someone is going to die or not.
Natural Legilimens and Natural Occlumency are the art of invading someone else’s mind and protecting one’s own. Eidetic Memory also known as photographic memory is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision after seeing it only once. Animagus affinity makes it easier for you to become an animagus which is a wixen that can transform into a specific animal. Your language affinity may make it easier to learn different languages.”
“Thank you so much.”Hadrian said.
“Now we must see where you can stay for the next few months until we can get your father/godfather out of Askaban the wizard prison.” Death stated.
“Ah, yes I forgot. Hadrian will also have to claim his heir- and lord-ship rings.”Ragnok remembered and turned to the boy. “ Once I have summoned the rings, I want you to hold your hand over the them and put them on the way your magic tells you to.”
Another hour later and all the final details had been discussed the rings claimed and Hadrian fast asleep. The deities said they’re goodbye and left.
“I told you that it was a good thing to intervene!” Hecate exclaimed.
“Oh, totally agree but you know as well as I do that we’re going to be punished for this.” Thanatos countered.
“Filioli, ambo vestrum! Omnes nos intervenientibus et mutandis pueris futuris fatis laboramus.*” Khaos chided.