The Forgotten Hero

31st October 1981

Halloween night, a night in muggle custom for children to dress up as a variety of scary costumes for trick or treating and remembering relatives who have passed on. For wizards the whole outlook on the holiday was about to change entirely.

Godric's hollow, birthplace of Hogwarts founder Godric Gryffindor, final resting place of Ignotus Peverell, the village where Albus Dumbledore grew up, and currently the hiding place of the potter family.

The Potters consisted of Lord James Fleamont Potter, head of the Noble and Ancient house of Potter, descendent of Ignotus Peverell and one of the four marauders nicknamed Prongs for his stag animagus ability. James was around six feet tall with short messy brown hair and small frame glasses over his dark brown eyes. Lily Potter nee Evans his wife who was around five feet two inches tall with wavy red hair and green eyes. The pair were parents of twin boys Harry James Potter and Charles Evan Potter both aged a year old. Both boys were nearly identical in looks but looking into their eyes one could see the difference, Harry had inherited his mothers striking green eyes whereas Charles had inherited his fathers dark brown eyes.

The potters were currently in hiding in their cottage in Godric's Hollow, they had been in hiding for more than a year now, since the potters were told of a prophecy by Dumbledore concerning one of their unborn children and Lord Voldemort as well as finding out that their was a spy in the Order of the Phoenix who was leaking information about the Order and its Members to the Death Eaters. The prophecy told that Voldemort could be defeated by one of the unborn Potter children or the unborn Longbottom child. Upon hearing this the Potters and the Longbottoms went into hiding from Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

They had made use of a Fidelius Charm turning the location of the house into a powerful magical secret held only by a single person. The Potters had originally chosen James best friend and once heir to the Noble and Ancient house of Black before he was cast out of the Black family Sirius Orion Black nicknamed Padfoot because of his dog animagus ability who was named Godfather of both the Potter boys. However after nine months Sirius noticed that he was being followed by known and suspected Death Eaters and decided to recast the Fidelius Charm and name Peter Pettigrew nicknamed Wormtail because of his rat animagus ability.

Since the Potters changed secret keepers which was known only to Lily, James, Peter, Sirius and Dumbledore news of Voldemort had gone quiet since he spent all of his energy and resources hunting down the Potters. The four had distanced themselves from the fourth Marauder Remus Lupin nicknamed Moony due to his werewolf condition (or furry little problem to his friends) since he was not around much anymore and had now begun to suspect that he may be the spy. Sirius and Peter had both gone into hiding hoping that Voldemort wouldn't realise that Peter was now the secret keeper and keep Voldemort's focus on Sirius rather than Peter. However tonight it was all about to go horribly wrong and the lives of two children were about to change forever.

A lone hooded figure was walking up the street towards the Potters cottage, he was over six feet tall and a ghostly white face with red eyes could be seen from under his hood. He paid no mind to the muggle children dressed in Halloween costumes running past him.

He reached the front gate of the house and paused when he felt the wards around the house fall. He then put up anti apparation and anti portkey wards around the house.

"Looks like Pettigrew was right, now I will be able to stop the prophecy" thought Voldemort.

He lowered his hood and walked towards the door but he was seen through the window by one of the occupants.

"Oh hell, Lily he's here" said James who was wearing a red dressing gown and black pyjamas.

"What, how could he know, Peter wouldn't" said Lily paling at the realisation that they had been wrong about who was the spy.

"Lily take the boys and run, I'll hold him off" said James as he stood up and drew his wand turning towards the door.

Lily picked up both Harry and Charles and ran up the stairs.

Then with a blast the front door flew open.

Voldemort walked into the cottage with his white skeletal wand drawn in his thin hands which had a spider like look to them.

"Lord Potter" drawled Voldemort mock bowing to James.

"Voldemort" snarled James locking eyes with the man.

"Such a shame blood as pure as your must be wasted, so therefore I will offer you a chance to step aside and spare your life out of respect" said Voldemort.

"Over my dead body, you killed my parents, so now I will kill you" replied James aiming his wand towards Voldemort firing of a silent bombarda spell.

Voldemort calmly blocked the spell and fired a silent killing curse back at James who swiftly dodged it by leaping to the side. Both men hurled various spells and back and for the at each other moving onto the stairs. After blocking another spell from James Voldemort fired a powerful bombarda spell at the ground near James feet blasting him through the bannister off of the stairs and into the wall of the living room knocking him out and causing him to fall onto the floor.

Believing him to be dead Voldemort continued on upstairs.

Meanwhile Lily had run into the children's bedroom and barricaded the door. She tried to apparate along with the twins but discovered that their were anti apparation and anti port key wards in place.

She placed the twins in the crib and knelt down in front of the crib trying to console her crying children.

"It's okay boys, it will all be okay, I'll protect you, I won't let him hurt you" said Lily in a soothing voice.

She heard footsteps coming up the stairs.

Lily stood up and turned towards the door which was directly in front of her reaching into her pyjama pocket for her wand but felt only an empty pocket. She then realised that had left her wand downstairs and she had no way to defend herself.

The door then exploded open and Voldemort stood in the doorway. Lily locked eyes with him as he walked into the room.

"Lady Potter, a pleasure to meet you despite your Mudblood status, stand aside" said Voldemort.

"No" replied Lily keeping eye contact.

"Severus spoke very highly of you, he asked me to spare your life you know, but your boys must die" drawled Voldemort.

"I don't care what your servant told you, I will not let you hurt them" said Lily moving closer to the crib to shield the boys.

"Haha foolish girl, I would just kill you but instead I'll leave you with a parting gift from Severus, Sectumsempra!" said Voldemort blasting Lily in the chest with Snape's personal slashing spell.

The spell slashed Lily across the chest leaving three large wounds over her upper torso and shoulders narrowly missing her throat spraying blood over both of the twins. Unseen to Voldemort the blood that had landed on the twins dissolved into the skin of each twin causing them to glow gold for a few seconds.

Voldemort turned towards the twins who had bunched close together in fear of the man.

"Such a shame to spill young magical blood, but it must be done, the prophecy cannot be fulfilled, I think I will kill you first" said Voldemort looking into the eyes of the twins as he raised his wand at Charles.

"Avada Kedavra!" shouted Voldemort as a green ball of light erupted from his wand and flew towards the Charles.

Just as the curse was about to hit Charles a bright gold light erupted blinding Voldemort, the light was so bright that he didn't notice his killing curse flying back towards him striking him in the chest.

Voldemort let out an almighty scream of pain as he felt the curse ripping through his chest. His eyes widened in horror as he felt his body explode unknown to him two small parts of his spirit head towards the boys while the most of his spirit was dragged out of the room after the explosion shook the house causing plenty of structural damage to the house.

The parts of his soul entered each of the twins and the impact of the spell had left a lightning shaped scar on Charles's head. All that was left of Voldemort was his black robe and his wand on the floor in front of the crib.

Meanwhile at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in a large circular office containing a variety of unusual magical instruments and portraits of people in various magical clothes. A picture of the Potters Cottage in Godrics Hollow on the desk in the middle of the room glowed white and started emitting a loud screaming noise.

Ten minutes later two men walked into the office.

Upon entering the office both Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape froze in shock at the realization at what must have happened.

Albus Dumbledore was an old man around 100 years old. He had long white hair and long white beard and was wearing long blue robes which extended all the way down to the floor. He was also wearing small glasses over his light blue eyes.

Severus Snape was a younger man around 21 years old. He had long black hair down just above his shoulders. He had a hooked nose and black coloured eyes and was wearing black robes.

"Godrics Hollow" said Dumbledore paling.

"We need to go there now" replied Severus.

"I will go Severus, you will stay here" replied Dumbledore striding over to the picture.

"I'm not staying here, I need to see them, I need to know their okay" replied Severus following Dumbledore.

"That their okay, or that Lily's okay?" said Dumbledore curiously.

"That their okay, and don't bother trying to convince me otherwise Dumbledore, I'm coming with you" replied Severus.

"Theirs no convincing you otherwise then" said Dumbledore.

"No" replied Severus.

"Very well then, lets go" said Dumbledore holding out his arm.

Severus grasped his arm and they apperated to Godrics Hollow.

Meanwhile outside a small house in the outskirts of Bristol a large black motorbike flew down and landed in the street. A man around five foot ten inches got off of the motorbike and started walking towards the house. The man had long black hair and was wearing a leather jacket and jeans with black boots. Sirius Orion black knocked on the door before entering.

Sirius walked into the living room and started shouting.

"Peter, Peter, its Sirius, are you here?"

He walked towards the bedroom and instantly knew something was wrong.

The wardrobe and all the drawers had been emptied of clothes and other personal belongings. The bed looked like it hadn't been used in days. After seeing this he had suddenly realised what had happened.

"Peter, you didn't, you traitorous bastard" said Sirius as he ran out of the house and jumped on the motorbike.

He started it up and flew into the air making his way into Godrics Hollow.

Dumbledore and Severus apparated into an alleyway near the Potters Cottage in Godrics Hollow and ran towards the house to see it in ruin.

They ran inside the house. Dumbledore noticed James lying on the floor and ran over to check on him while Severus ran upstairs to look for Lily and the twins.

Dumbledore crouched down next to James and checked for a pulse. He was bleeding from a wound to the back of his head. He felt a pulse and pointed his wand at James.

"Rennervate" said Dumbledore.

James stirred for a few moments before opening his eyes.

"Albus, what the-, why are you-, Lily where is she?" said James panicking.

"I don't know, Severus went upstairs to find her" replied Dumbledore.

"What's that Death Eater bastard doing here" said James getting angry as he sat up.

"Severus is on our side, he turned against Voldemort and has been spying on him for us" said Dumbledore.

"I don't care I'm not letting that bastard near Lily" shouted James as he got to his feet and made his way over to the stairs.

Dumbledore got up and followed him.

Severus ran into the nursery and howled in anguish at the sight of Lily's body. He stumbled over to her and picked up her head and held it close to his chest.

"I'm sorry Lily, I'm so sorry" said Severus crying.

He almost dropped her head in shock when he felt her warm ragged breathing on his chest. He then gently placed her head back on the ground and pulled out his wand.

"Phonosempra, phonosempra, phonosempra" said Severus as he traced his wand over each of the wounds caused by the Sectumsempra that was cast by Voldemort.

As he had finished healing Lily's wounds James and Dumbledore appeared at the door. Severus whipped his head round and locked eyes with James.

"Snivillus, what the hell are you doing here you bastard?" said James furiously.

"Forget about that for a moment Potter, your wife needs a blood replenishing potion and fast" replied Severus just as furious.

"In the bathroom cupboard" said James rushing over to Lily pushing Severus aside.

"Go and get some Severus" said Dumbledore calmly.

Severus swept out of the room and headed to the bathroom to find the potion.

Dumbledore knelt down besides the body and cast the rennervate spell on her as they heard a thud from outside. Dumbledore got up and swept out of the room as he saw Sirius enter the house with his wand drawn. He kept his wand raised when he saw Dumbledore.

"Where are they Dumbledore" said Sirius panicking.

"They're upstairs Sirius, they're fine" said Dumbledore calmly.

Sirius ran upstairs barging past Dumbledore at full speed into the nursery.

"Prongs" said Sirius as he ran over and embraced James in a hug.

"Padfoot" replied James as he embraced his best friend.

Sirius got up and went to check on the twins in the crib.

"Oh thank god, the boys are okay" said Sirius as he picked up the twins.

"Take them downstairs Sirius" said James.

"O-" said Sirius before he froze looking at the doorway as Severus swept into the room clutching a potion bottle in one hand.

Severus knelt down next to Lily and poured the potion down her throat.

"What are you doing here Snivillus, come to make sure your master finished the job" shouted Sirius.

"I'm here with Dumbledore Black" replied Severus.

"Your a Death Eater you dark bastard, why should we trust you?" said Sirius.

"Calm yourself Sirius, Severus has been my spy for the last year, he's been spying on Voldemort for us" said Dumbledore calmly.

"I heard you were one of the Death Eaters that attacked the McKinnon's, I found her you know as she was dying, she told me she recognised you, as I held her in my arms, I loved her you know" shouted Sirius with fury in his eyes.

"I'm not proud of what happened that night Black, it was Bella who killed her not me" shouted Severus.

Both twins started to get scared and cry.

Lily stirred on the floor before opening her eyes.

"James, are the boys okay?" said Lily panicking.

"The boys are fine Lils, were all safe now" replied James sounding relieved.

Lily sat up and looked around and noticed Severus.

"You, how could you do that Snape" shouted Lily.

Severus paled.

"Lily I-" replied Severus panicking.

"You begged him to spare me instead of the boys, do children mean nothing to you, just as long as I survived you bastard" shouted Lily.

"You did what Snivillus?" said James striding over to him in anger.

"I didn't know he was going to target you, I turned on him when I found out he was after the twins" replied Severus sadly.

"I don't care for your excuses, get the hell out of here, I don't ever want to see you again" shouted Lily.

"Lily please, I made a mistake" said Severus as tears started to fall.

"Leave!" shouted Lily.

"Do as she says Severus" said Dumbledore solemnly.

Severus walked out of the room.

"Sirius, James, Lily take the children downstairs" said Dumbledore as he bent down to inspect Voldemorts robes and wand.

"What are you doing Dumbledore?" said Sirius.

"I need to check what's left of Voldemort, wait downstairs there's something we need to discuss, I'd rather we were all sitting down when we discuss it" replied Dumbledore.

James, Lily and Sirius left the room and went downstairs. Sirius carried the twins while James helped Lily walk.

They sat down on the settee downstairs.

"Sirius, give me my boys" said Lily.

Sirius handed the twins to Lily.

None of them could think of anything to talk about as they sat in complete silence. Lily had managed to calm the twins down.

A few minutes later Dumbledore came downstairs and sat down on a spare lounge chair and looked at the group.

"Okay, I can safely say that Lord Voldemort was killed here tonight as he attempted to kill the boys, as for the chosen child of the prophecy I believe that is young Charles" said Dumbledore.

"What makes you say that?" said Lily.

"The scar on his forehead Lily, it is a curse scar, likely from when Voldemort used the killing curse on him, we need to train him, so that he is ready for Voldemorts return" replied Dumbledore.

"Return?" said Sirius confused.

"Yes, Voldemort is still alive, but he does not have a body anymore after Charles destroyed him, it appears his spirit fled, he will be back one day, and on that day Charles must be ready to fight him, when he is older I want to start training him, given that Voldemort will target him again" said Dumbledore twiddling his thumbs.

"What of Harry?" replied James.

"Harry is irrelevant, Voldemort did not mark him so I don't believe Voldemort will target him directly again" said Dumbledore.

"Are you suggesting we ignore Harry?" said Sirius seriously.

"No not at all, but when the time comes when the boys are older we train up Charles properly while Harry can still live a normal childhood" said Dumbledore.

"Yes that will be a good plan for the greater good" thought Dumbledore.

"Why should we not train Harry as well?" replied Sirius.

"Because Harry is not the child mentioned in the prophecy, Charles is Sirius, Harry will not have the power to defeat Voldemort" said Dumbledore.

"And what makes you think that Charles will?" said Lily.

"Because Voldemort chose Charles, as mentioned in the first part of the prophecy, the second part dictates that only Charles will be able to defeat him" said Dumbledore.

"What do you suggest then Dumbledore?" said James sincerely.

"When I feel that he is old enough, I will come back and explain the situation to him and we will begin his training, but that won't be for quite a few years, when he is around seven or eight I think, but for now I take my leave, you know how to contact me if you need me" said Dumbledore as he got up and left the cottage.

"Am I the only one who thinks this plan is a bit crazy?" said Sirius.

"I can see the point he's making Sirius" replied James.

"You can't tell me you agree with him Prongs, focusing our efforts on Charles and paying less attention to Harry because of that" said Sirius looking rather shocked.

"Dumbledore won't start training him for years Sirius, we can give him a normal childhood, but Charles needs to know what he is so at least he won't at confused when people start praising him for defeating Voldemort" said James.

"What about you Lily?" said Sirius turning to look at her.

Lily looked like she was in deep thought.

"I agree with James, I don't want Charles to grow up with this destiny to defeat Voldemort, I want him to grow up without the weight of the wizarding world on his shoulders, but I would rather see him trained so that when the time comes he will be able to defeat Voldemort" replied Lily.

"Fine, be that way if you want, but just remember that they both are your children and they must be treated the same way with no favouritism" said Sirius looking intently at the two of them.

"They will be raised equally Sirius, you know that" said James.

Sirius looked away from them before speaking.

"Fine then, we can't stay here, we can go and stay at my flat for the night, we need to contact Remus in the morning and we need to decide what we do about Pettigrew" said Sirius.

But as the years went on things would only get worse for the Potters. Firstly after a team of Auror's were assigned to go and track down Peter Pettigrew he had vanished without a trace. Upon hearing this the rest of the Marauders and Lily were frustrated that he wasn't caught and made to pay for his betrayal. Secondly when the twins were two years old Lily gave birth to a daughter named Dorea Violet Potter named after James mother and Sirius aunt Dorea Potter nee Black, a beautiful girl with green eyes and long brown hair they had named Remus as her Godfather. Finally after the twins 7th birthday Sirius and Remus began to see the Potters less and less due to multiple disagreements. However they made sure to visit their godchildren as often as possible.

10 years later

31st July 1991.

Harry Potter ran upstairs to his bedroom in anger. He slammed the door and collapsed on his bed in deep thought.

Harry now had wavy brown hair but longer than his father and his brother. He had also gotten magical contacts a few years ago thanks to Sirius and Remus whereas his father and brother wore glasses.

He'd had another argument with his brother Charles which had turned into a regular occurrence for the last 4 years ever since Dumbledore had walked back into his life.

On Harry's and Charles 7th birthday Albus Dumbledore paid the Potters a visit at Potter Manor to speak to James and Lily. The boys were celebrating their birthday with James, Lily, Dorea, Sirius, Remus, the Weasley family, the Bones family, Sirius cousin Andromeda Tonks nee Black, her husband Ted and her daughter Nymphadora. As all of the guests bar Sirius and Remus were leaving he took them James and Lily aside before calling Charles into the dining room with him. Harry got up to go and follow his brother but Dumbledore told him he was not required in the room and turned him away at the door before closing it.

Stunned Harry walked away from the door not understanding what was going on. He turned to look at Sirius and Remus who looked both shocked and the former also looked rather angry.

"Uncle Padfoot, Uncle Moony, why can't I go in there with Charles?" said Harry confused.

"Sirius, what are you going to do?" said Remus.

"I'm going to have a chat with Dumbledore about Harry and how the old goat should be treating Harry, I'll explain later" replied Sirius.

"Okay, come on Harry, lets go and make use of your new chess set" said Remus as he put an arm each around Harry and Dorea shoulder and guided them towards the staircase.

"Okay Uncle Moony, I'll just beat you again" replied Harry smiling up at his uncle.

"Will you teach me how to play big brother, please?" said Dorea smiling at Harry.

"Of course I will Rea" said Harry reaching his arm around Remus back to grasp Dorea's hand causing her to smile at him.

Sirius stood outside the door for a few minutes gathering his thoughts and thinking about what he should say to Dumbledore. He thought back to a trip to Diagon Alley a few months prior when he went with James, Harry and Charles for a boys day out of sorts, Remus had been looking after Dorea for the day since Lily felt five was too young an age to go to the Alley, as they had made their way into Diagon Alley they were swarmed by members of the public all wishing to congratulate Charles for defeating Voldemort.

What worried Sirius was that although Charles did not know why he was getting so much attention he seemed to relish it and enjoy it, also they were focused that much on Charles that Harry was looking rather hurt at being ignored by everyone. Seeing his Charles like this concerned Sirius as he was starting to remind him of a younger James and a younger version of himself in some ways, but seeing Harry isolated concerned him even more as it appeared that James did not seem to notice how isolated and uncomfortable Harry was. It was then that Sirius decided to tell James that he was going to take Harry for the day which James agreed to letting Sirius take Harry into Diagon Alley himself.

He opened the door to the dining room and strode in looking rather angry and also quite ashamed. The other people in the room looked at him rather shocked before Dumbledore started to speak.

"Ah Sirius, how nice of you to join us, please sit down".

"I'll stand" said Sirius keeping the anger on his face.

"Very well then, I was just explaining to Charles about his destiny and how we will prepare him for it" said Dumbledore.

"And are you going to tell Harry about this, or Dorea?" said Sirius.

Dumbledore began to look downcast and frustrated.

"As I explained in Godrics Hollow all those years ago, Harry will be told about it and when she is older Dorea will know as well, but they will not be receiving the same training as Charles for it will not be necessary" said Dumbledore.

"Well I can say I'm quite surprised Dumbledore, you seem to care more about this prophecy than you do about other people" replied Sirius rubbing his face with his right hand.

"You misunderstand Sirius, Charles is the only one who can defeat Voldemort, the special training I am giving him need not be shared with others" said Dumbledore.

"Oh I understand perfectly, up till now I actually thought I could trust you, but I see I was mistaken, I will have no part in your plans Dumbledore, and you three, do you agree with me or this old fool" said Sirius looking at James Lily and Charles sat together.

They stayed silent.

"You let me down, especially you Prongs" continued Sirius as he turned and walked out of the door.

Sirius marched back upstairs in anger towards Harry's room.

11 year old Harry moved over to lean on the headboard as he thought more about that day. Sirius and Remus didn't come round as often after that only visiting once every week or so. Sirius had told Remus everything that had happened in the dining room and the two had had an argument with James and Lily after Dumbledore had left. His parents still made time for him and Dorea but he could tell that Charles got that bit more attention especially from his father.

Charles was like his father reborn, loved Quidditch, enjoyed playing pranks and was rather arrogant especially about being the boy who lived and being famous for something which he would constantly rub in Harry's face whenever he got the chance, he treated Dorea fairly but she always felt closer to Harry which he was grateful for. The only person Harry found more irritating than Charles was his best friend Ron Weasley.

Ron and Charles had stuck with each other ever since they were six, he seemed to enjoy Charles arrogance and would boast about how the two were going to rule Hogwarts together. Harry and Ron got on at first but the year before they went to Hogwarts they fell out with each other due to Ron's belief that the only good house was Gryffindor and that everyone who goes to Slytherin is destined to be a dark wizard which the latter point was something that Charles agreed with. Like Charles Ron always loved to tell Harry how Charles was better than him in every way. Harry would usually ignore Ron but struck up a friendship with Ron's twin brothers Fred and George Weasley instead. After the twins came back from their second year of Hogwarts they showed Harry the Marauders Map which they stole from Filch's office, when Harry told them who the Marauders were they gave him the map telling him that they memorized all the passages anyway and that he should have it for when he starts Hogwarts.

Harry as Sirius and Remus said was more like his mother than his father, he loved studying and was always there for a friend when needed. Harry was also very good at planning and strategy as well as having an ambition to get out of Charles shadow and make a name for himself in the world. Harry would be reading all of Remus old texkbooks that he was given for his birthdays and Christmas as well as other books. Unknown to his parents and Charles Sirius would bring him over to 12 Grimmauld Place once a week to practice all of the spells that he had learned from his books, Sirius also taught him basic Occlumency which would allow him to shield his mind from Legillimency.

Much to his parents and his brothers disagreement he leaned strongly towards Slytherin house and planned to be sorted there. Harry remembered the conversation he had with his family at the dinner table earlier today when his mother asked him and Charles what houses they wanted to be in at Hogwarts.

"So Charles, what house do you want to be in at Hogwarts dear?" said Lily happily while she was eating her Sunday dinner.

Charles looked up from his food at her.

"Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart" said Charles proudly drawing an imaginary sword.

"Just like your old man Charles, you'll make a fine lion" said James.

"He'll make a better lion than you James, he'll spend more time studying than you did at least" smirked Lily.

Harry chuckled.

"What about you Harry?" said Dorea.

"Slytherin" said Harry casually.

A sudden silence went round the room.

Harry looked around the table noticing how everyone was staring at him. Lily looked shocked, Dorea was smiling at him, whereas James and Charles looked angry.

"Problem?" continued Harry.

"Why would you like to go there Harry" said Lily in a strained voice.

"My choice, besides being a Slytherin doesn't make you dark" said Harry casually.

"Yes it does, every dark wizard came from Slytherin" said Charles.

"Not all of them" said Harry.

"We agreed never to discuss that traitor at the table Harry, he wasn't a Gryffindor, he was a Slytherin in disguise, lions don't go dark" said James who looked angry.

"Yet it happened, besides its about time someone proved that not all Slytherin's are evil" said Harry sounding determined.

"Like that will ever happen" replied Charles sarcastically.

"Just cos you won't try it doesn't mean that others won't Charles, or am I mistaken when I say that teachers at Hogwarts don't try to encourage inter house unity" said Harry with determination in his voice.

"I will never trust a snake, especially not the evil snake spawn that will be in our year like Malfoy, Nott, Parkinson, Greengrass, Zabini, Davis, all snakes from dark families will be in our year and destined for Slytherin" snarled Charles.

"I think you'll find that the Greengrasses, Zabini's and the Davis's are neutral grey families not dark families" said Harry not backing down.

"So what, they'll all go dark anyway, its the nature of Slytherin, and if you go there you'll go dark as well" shouted Charles.

Harry was shocked by that, he couldn't believe that his brother had the nerve or the arrogance to say that.

"Your wrong, your blinded by your hatred of Slytherin that you judge them before you meet them, need I remind you that our grandmother was a Slytherin and Aunt Andromeda" shouted Harry.

"Grandmother was an exception, and Aunt Andi hated being in Slytherin, but I still stand by what I said, no Slytherin can be trusted and I will certainly never try to befriend one" replied Charles

"With you and that red haired lapdog that follows you around I'm not surprised why Gryffindor students won't try to befriend Slytherin students" said Harry.

Lily looked shocked. Dorea burst out laughing but a glare from Lily made her stop, James looked angry and Charles looked like he was about to burst a vein.

"Harry James Potter, apologise this instant" shouted James.

"How dare you insult my friend you slimy snake" shouted Charles.

"Harry that wasn't nice" said Lily in a disappointed tone.

"Your friend, acts more like a fan boy than a friend, and mother father, I'm not going to even think about apologizing, you heard what he was saying to me all the way through dinner and you kept quiet, so I will only ask you one more time what is wrong with me being in Slytherin" snarled Harry.

"I hope you don't go to Slytherin Harry, the death eater kids will make your life difficult if you go there" replied James.

Lily stayed silent and stared at her plate. Harry noticed this and sighed.

"Then we have nothing more to say to each other, if going to Slytherin makes me a disappointment then so be it, I will gladly do so" said Harry as he got up and left the room.

"I am proud to want to be Slytherin, I will show them that Slytherin can produce good wizards" thought Harry as he turned towards his bedside table noticing an unopened present.

It looked like a small box slightly bigger than the hand of an adult. It was decorated in green wrapping paper with golden snitches on the front of it. He unwrapped the present to find a box, he took the lid off to find a letter and a small mirror inside. He decided to read the letter first

To Harry

Harry your father wanted me to give this to Charles but I knew you'd need it more than he did.

This is a two way mirror, I have the other half, its used so that you and I can talk to each other from anywhere at anytime, your father and I used to use them all the time in detention.

If you ever need to speak to me about anything just say Padfoot into the mirror and I'll answer you.

Love

Uncle Padfoot

Harry looked at the letter and smiled. Sirius was his favourite uncle and Harry felt like he was closer to Sirius, Moony and the Tonks family than his own family minus Dorea.

Harry had grown up around the Tonks as Sirius had taken him there quite often, they elder Tonks Andromeda and Ted always made him feel welcome, he had formed a close friendship with Nymphadora who treated him like a younger brother she had just finished her 7th year in June and was now in the Auror program.

Harry picked up the mirror out of the box to have a look at it, it was quite small being the same size as the palm of his hand. Thinking back to the conversation at dinner Harry realised he needed some advice.

"Padfoot" said Harry anxiously.

Sirius's face appeared on the screen looking directly at him.

"Harry, to what do I owe this pleasure?" answered Sirius smiling.

"I need to talk to you about something important"

"Is it a girl, its always good to start young, find yourself a nice pretty girl and-" said Sirius before Harry interrupted him.

"Uncle, I'd more likely go to Uncle Moony for dating advice, but that's not what I wanted to talk about, its just, Uncle what would you say if I told you I wanted to go into Slytherin?" said Harry.

Sirius was quite shocked by this, but he composed himself before answering.

"Harry, it is your choice where you want to be sorted, you know my feelings on Slytherin house but that does not matter, if you want to be in Slytherin you know I will support you, may I ask why you wish to be in Slytherin though" said Sirius calmly causing Harry to smile.

"Everyone knows Slytherin has a reputation for dark wizards, but I want to prove people wrong, I want to prove that Slytherin can produce good wizards, you get where I'm coming from" replied Harry.

"That's brilliant, what do your parents and siblings think?" said Sirius.

Harry's smile faded.

"I told them at dinner, it didn't go well, Mum didn't say anything but I could tell she wasn't happy, Dad was quite unhappy about my choice but he didn't say much, Dorea smiled at me though, she's the only one happy for me, and I'm sure you can guess what happened with Charles" said Harry solemnly.

"He didn't take it well, I'm not surprised by your father's reaction, he's always hated Slytherin house, your mothers surprises me a bit but she must still be mistrusting of Slytherin over what Snape had done to her, your brother surprises me though, I thought he would have grown out of this hatred by now" said Sirius.

"I think he now expects me to go dark, he said as much" laughed Harry.

"You know something Harry, you remind me of myself sometimes, I was from a family of Slytherins and wanted to change history by being sorted somewhere else, I chose to be a Gryffindor just like you are choosing to be a Slytherin, everyone expeted me to be a Slytherin, but I said no, I told them that I was making my own choices in life, and going to Gryffindor was probably the best choice I ever made" replied Sirius.

"Thanks Uncle" said Harry smiling at him.

"Its alright Harry" replied Sirius.

There was a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" said Harry.

"Its Dorea" said Dorea from outside the door.

"Come on in" said Harry

"Well I'll leave you to talk to your sister in private, I'll be coming round on Tuesday, you should have your letter by then" replied Sirius who ended the conversation as the door opened and Dorea walked in.

She walked over to the bed and jumped on it next to him as Harry put the mirror on his bedside table.

"Harry, I'm sorry for what happened at dinner" said Dorea sadly.

"Its ok Rea, its not your fault" said Harry putting his hand on her shoulder.

"Its not fair though, them acting like that just cause you want to be in Slytherin" said Dorea.

"Hey don't worry about it kiddo, I will make sure that I am in Slytherin, wonder if I'll get a howler the day after sorting" laughed Harry.

Dorea smiled.

"Now come here and give your brother a hug" said Harry as he opened his arms towards her.

Dorea launched herself into his chest to give him a hug.

"What house do you think I should go for?" said Dorea.

"Whatever house you want to be in, and know this" said Harry looking into her eyes.

"Whatever house you choose will not change anything, you'll still be my baby sister, and I'll always look after you" continued Harry smiiling.

Dorea smiled at him with slight tears coming out of her eyes.

"Thank you, your the best brother ever" said Dorea.

"By the way what were you using to speak to Uncle Padfoot?" Dorea continued.

"My birthday present, the two way mirror he gave me" replied Harry picking up the mirror from the bedside table and showing her.

"That's awesome, will you show me how to use it?" said Dorea in awe.

"I will another time but not now, and off subject I see you enjoyed my description of Ron Weasley" smirked Harry putting the mirror into the drawer on his bedside table.

"I did, he's a total kiss ass anyway" replied Dorea smiling.

Harry burst out in laughter

The two continued to talk long into the night.