I Will Not Bow Down

Summary: Sherlock/Harry Potter Fic Au: When Sherlock jumps, Joan receives a letter from her cousin asking her to take care of her son, knowing something bad was to happen to him. In heartbreak, she looks for her cousin and when she finds out what is going on, she gets help from Mycroft and gets Harry to be with her. Now Harry is being raised by Joan and the Consulting Detective, what will happen?

Note: So I will be making changes to the story and it will be a Harry/Hermione story, I hope that you guys like it. So things that you must know, all you need to know here is that Joan is six years older than Lily and she gave up the wizarding world. So there going to be changed. Like Sherlock and Joan were married before he took the fall and Joan knows his alive, you'll find out why later.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sherlock it belongs to Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I don't own Harry Potter tit belongs to J.K Rowling and Warner Bros.

I Will Not Bow Down

One: The Letter

Run!

It was the only thing that came to Joan's mind, well to the body she was currently in. She needed to keep safe, she had seen the Dark Mark up in the sky it was not like it was going to harm her, but she needed to keep away. She shifted back and she saw Death Eaters running, she had seen that a lot all of them running away and celebrations. She threw them some curses and knew that they would be caught by the Auror's; not that she minded since she had given up that world a long time ago, again it was coming more for the past three months and she hated it.

Joan arrived at the cabin, she lived in and she turned to see Mycroft sitting there. It shouldn't have surprised her since she had already smelled him from outside.

"What are you doing here?" She demanded, not entirely happy having him there. She didn't have to be happy to see him, they had to pretend that she was mourning and blaming the man that had helped send the man down the roof.

"Not even a hello." Mycroft told her with a raised brow.

"You wouldn't have come here for a simple 'Hello!' now my question stands, what do you want Mycroft?" She told him and Mycroft sigh.

"I did come to check on you, you are my sister-in-law after all." Mycroft said and it should sound mocking but he sounded proud.

"Technically I'm his widow at the moment." Joan reminded him. "Now, what news do you have for me?"

"He's fine if that is what bothers you," Mycroft told her and Joan thought that was it until he began to talk again. "There is something else that I have come for, a letter came to 221 B Baker Street a week ago address to you." He said giving it to her. She saw the parchment and the address but not who it was from?

"Did you open it?" she asked and he raised an eyebrow almost insulted. "Right, what can you tell me about it?"

"It was written by a Witch." He told her and Joan looked at him. She knew the Holmes had magic as well they kept it well hidden going so far as getting homeschooled, it had been awkward when Sherlock figured it out during the Blind Banker case but they were opened about it and the experiments had been interesting, to say the least.

"A Witch?" Joan exclaimed surprise she didn't keep in touch with many witches from the Wizarding World, not with the Death Eater's around she wouldn't be able to trust them. Unless it was someone that came to her mind?

"A Muggleborn, she seemed to have wanted to keep the letter from going by owl send it the muggle way and didn't want it to get back to her in any way. That says she is or was in hiding and wanted to tell you something of importance, the envelope is cheap but the paper inside it was not and written by quill."

Joan opened the letter and he had been right which again no surprise at all. She pulled it out and began to read:

Dear; Cousin Joan

It has been a long time since I saw you, but I know from your Mum that you were in the Army the muggle one still and I hope this letter gets to you. I think the last time we actually spoke was when your Father passed away in my third year. Well, I got married, to James Potter; I think you would have noticed all of the Death Eaters around and know that You-Know-Who is out there causing chaos. Everyone is doing it and I love James so much. But this letter is not just news, Joan we went into hiding and I know you told me that you would do anything to help me if I just asked. I had a son, his name is Harry and something terrible was put on his shoulders, someone told a prophecy to Dumbledore and he told us it was between my son and the Longbottom's little boy. He is hunting u down and I know it is much to ask but if we weren't to make it and Sirius his Godfather as well will you take my son in, please if Petunia gets his hands on him I don't know I don't trust my sister with my son and I know I can trust you. Please do this for me and I will be forever grateful.

Your Cousin;

Lily Potter

Joan was looking at the letter shocked out of her mind before she looked up at Mycroft.

"How long -ago did this letter arrive?"

"A week ago, but it was sent out months ago," Mycroft told her.

"I need you to search out my cousin."

"The letter?"

"It was from my cousin Lily," Joan told him. "Our mother's separated when I manifested my abilities, my Mother didn't think they would be open to having a witch in the family with Harry being a Squib, she was partially right. Lily was a witch like me but my parents had kept the secret for so long they never said anything until we met at Hogwarts, it was my last year and her first. I met Lily occasionally after and this is her letter to me asking me to take her son in if she and her husband weren't to make it." Joan said and Mycroft looked at her.

"The name of the boy?"

"Harry—Harry Potter," Joan told him and Mycroft actually looked shocked even more when he found out she and Sherlock had eloped.

"What is it?" Joan let him have the letter and he read it fast

"Joan, your cousin; he is being claimed the Boy-Who-Lived," Mycroft told her. "He defeated Voldemort and no one can explain the reasons why he disappeared but I will find him because his Godfather betrayed them."

"You're joking! I met Sirius and he was attached to the hip with James Potter and Remus Lupin and the other one which I tend to forget his name." Joan told Mycroft.

"He was sent to Azkaban."

"Without a trial and Dumbledore didn't ask for one?" Joan said and Mycroft's look told her everything she needed to know.

"So much for his Army, if he won't even do it the right way, that means Harry is with Petunia; oh I need to get him, she hates magic-well more like she is bitter and resents Lily for having it," Joan told him.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes," Joan replied and there must have been something in her voice that told Mycroft that she was not lying.

"I will find him and we will do everything from there," Mycroft told her. She knew that he was going to ask for something in return.

"Joan that means you must return to 221 B, it is protected now more than this cabin." There it was, Mycroft had hated the cabin but she had loved it and so had Sherlock when they had come around to it.

"Alright, but not before I get Harry," Joan told him.

Note: I hope you guys like the chapter. As you can see the Holmes didn't go to Hogwarts and they kept their magic covered. Now there won't be Dumbledore bashing much, just questioning because from Joan's point of view he should be helping Sirius to prove his innocence if Sirius was loyal to the Order and punish him if he is guilty of treason. So Harry will be found in the next chapter. Don't forget to review.