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Harry Potter

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Lily Leaves Part 5

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Note: This chapter covers a lot of years on purpose.

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Lily looked in on her now nine year old son, sleeping in his bed. He was stretched from one end of the bed to the other. Looking around the room, she remembered how much it had changed over the years. Where once toddler toys were stored, now had hot wheels, smaller Legos that hurt when you stepped on them, comics filled his shelves, while overhead hung some easy to build model airplanes. On the bookcase below the window was a model of the RMS St Helena, which one of the crew members had built him for his birthday. The ship was twenty-four inches long. Lily had made miniature figures that went to the scale of the ship, and in one corner of the ships outside dining area, there were three figures: one of herself with blond hair; Minky, as she looked back then; and a baby Harry in a highchair.

Walking over to her son, she sat down on the bed and gently rubbed his back, "Time to get up, Sweetie."

She smiled as she watched her son squirm on the bed and mumble that he didn't want to get up as his head went under the pillow.

Slapping her son's bottom, she said, "Time to get up. Breakfast is ready and your friends will be here at noon," and left the room.

Harry lifted his head up and glared at the closing door, before giving a huff and rolling out of bed to start getting ready for the day.

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Dumbledore sighed as he sat in his office. He had survived another attempt to remove him as Headmaster by the skin of his teeth. One, because he couldn't keep a decent DADA teacher; and two, because he still had not fired Binns. Dumbledore was being watched even closer now because of Binn's pay, which he had dumped into the general fund. A ghost had no need of a paycheck. It wasn't like he wasn't the only one who did that. Dippet had done it before him, as well. The only thing that saved him, was that Sirius Black wasn't at the meeting. He'd told his friend Amelia that he had a lead on finding Harry in the United States, and to vote his vote the way he wanted, which he had to insist that since he wasn't there his vote be voted as abstained.

The one good news was that Dumbledore had found the Dursleys in Australia but failed to get them to move back to Britain where he could place the boy once he found him. Maybe he should use a compulsion spell on them, he thought as he popped another lemon sherbet in his mouth.

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Sirius and Remus stood at the rail watching the island approach. They had waited five years to give the crew time to forget them, and were able to buy tickets from the company for them, Andromeda, Ted and Nymphadora to come see Lily and Harry. During that time Sirius cleaned house in the Black name. The surprise was when the goblins plundered the Malfoy and Lestrange vaults after finding a class fifty dark object in the Lestrange vault as they were doing an audit of the vault because he had terminated the marriage and revoked the dowry. Determining it was a Horcrux of Voldemort, they destroyed it and then did a search of all imprisoned Death Eaters and found one in the Malfoy vaults. It too was destroyed and one day, Sirius Black came in with a trunk full of dark items he wanted destroyed and a third one was located. Yes they had had the letters from Lily about what had happened and then the ones from Lily telling them about the birth of Marlene but still Sirius wanted more as his oath was demanding him to protect Harry, but how do you protect someone when you couldn't find them. Lily had been so vague on her location and it had taken a lot of searching to find her. Even Gringotts wouldn't say anything but forwards the letters for them using their special mail boxes but now, Sirius would see him and bring them back to the only place that mattered in his opinion was to Magical Britain.

"Is that it Uncle Sirius?" Dora asked as she walked over to them and looked out over the ocean.

"Yes, that's the island of Saint Helena, or so I was told," Sirius said as he slipped his arm around his favorite fifteen year old niece.

"I heard Napoleon was incarcerated there by the British after they defeated him," Dora said.

"Who?" Sirius asked.

Ted walked over and said, "Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to become the Emperor of France. He won many battles during the French Revolutionary Wars and at once time controlled most of continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815 where he was captured by the British and imprisoned on the Island of Saint Helena where he died in 1821. His military victories are studied around the world because he was that good."

"Oh a muggle thing," Sirius replied as he looked once more at the lonely looking island, "Why did she run way out here?"

"Well from what the goblins told me there are several reasons. One the volcanic ash of the island interferes with incoming portkeys and you could wind up anywhere in a hundred kilometer radius of the island. Two it's too far for apparition and broom flight since you saw how far we have traveled from Cape Town to get here," Ted said as he leaned against the rail

"What about Dumbledore's phoenix?" Remus asked.

"Don't know why it hasn't brought him here," Ted said.

Andromeda came out on to the deck and joined them, "The steward says we should be dropping anchor in about five hours, or just past two pm."

"I can't wait," Sirus said as he looked once more out at the island, "It's been so long since I… we've seen them."

"We know uncle Sirius but I can understand why she ran," Dora said.

"But she could have come back by now. All the Death Munchers are dead or in prison," Sirus replied.

"But Peter is still free and Dumbledore still has that unhealthy interest in Cousin Harry," Dora said.

"It's too bad the Longbottoms couldn't join us. I think Harry would like Neville… and Susan as well," Sirus said as he looked into his cup and realized he was out of coffee, "I need more coffee."

The group watched as Sirius walk away and Andromeda finally said what everyone was thinking, "What if Lily and Harry have made a home here? I don't think Sirius could handle them not returning with us."

"We cannot force them too," Remus said as he finished his coffee.

"You think Uncle Sirius will try?" Dora asked.

"He might, I just… I don't know what to think," Andromeda said as she turned and walked inside followed by her husband.

"Shit," Dora said as she leaned against the rail standing next to Remus.

"I know," Remus replied and then said, "Language."

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Lily watched her son open his gifts from his friends. The party was being held in the main room of the Black Cannon, which had been closed for the day. Through the main window she could see the RMS St Helena had just anchored. She hoped all the supplies for the pub were aboard. She would have to go down later to check and arrange for delivery so she could restock. Harry was currently open his sisters gift which Lily had bought for him. It was a new cartridge for his Nintendo. Sitting beside it were the clothes that Lily had bought him for school. Looking over at her six and half year old miracle she saw she was eating her cake and ice cream.

"Harry, the St Helena is in town, I gather they made better time than they thought they would," Lily said.

"Cool," Harry replied as his eyes went to the window as his friend Annabel came up to him.

"Happy Birthday, Harry," the blond haired girl said as she placed her gift in front of him and then kissed his cheek.

Harry blushed as Annabel Hawkins kissed him and he mumbled, "Thank you, Annabel.

Opening the package he was surprised to find a model of the Spitfire Mark IV and he looked up at the girl and into her green eyes and said, "Thank you, I love it."

"Welcome," she replied as her younger sister elbowed her out of the way.

"Happy Birthday, Harry," a younger looking version of Annabel said as she placed her gift on the table and then said, "I want more cake. Bye!"

Harry shook his head at Clarisse and watched her run over to the table where Minky was dishing up ice cream and cake to anyone who wanted it.

"I swear she's going to be bouncing off the walls," Annabel said as Harry opened her sister's gift.

In the gift was a bottle of glue, paints, paint brushes and a book on the Spitfire and he said, "Tell her I love it," as he set it to the side and Hank, his best friend stepped up with a large box.

"What in the world?" Harry asked as he looked at his best male friend lugging up a four foot tall box.

"Happy Birthday, Harry," Hank replied with a grin from ear to ear.

"What did you buy?" Harry asked as his mum came over and lifted the box in front him.

"You will see," Hand said as he stepped back.

Harry tore the paper off and his eyes went wide at the words, "No way! A Marx Toys World War 2 Battleground set! I wanted one but mum said no," turning to his mother and he asked, "You knew?"

"Yes, I did. Hank's parents asked me if it was ok," Lily said as Harry went back to examining the colored box.

"Thanks, Hank," Harry said as he thought of the fun the two could have in the back yard.

"Welcome," Hank replied as he sat beside his friend of four years.

Richard and Thomas Black were next and they both set boxes on the table that were wrapped. They were both about eight inches high and a wide and fourteen inches long.

"Happy Birthday, Harry," the twins said together.

"Thanks Richard, Thomas," Harry said as he opened each box to find what looked like shoe boxes.

Opening the box he found each had two bags of fifty count plastic soldiers and a tank each. Once set had a British flag and the other had the German.

"Cool," Harry said as he high fived the twins and slid the boxes on top of the big one as more and more of his friends came up until the last was old man Markus Valentine, "Hello, Mr. Valentine."

"Happy Birthday, Harry, and many more," the seventy year old veteran of World War II said as he sat down in the chair his mother brought over.

"Harry, my lad, I have something for you," he said as he coughed in his handkerchief… "Actually, I have something for all of you not including the gift for Harry so gather around."

All the kids pulled their chairs over, and twenty-two children - age's eight to ten - looked at the old man waiting.

Marcus cleared his throat and looked at the children, "Now all of you know I fought in the Second World War, some of you know my history. Remember this: war is not pretty! It's a dirty bloody conflict between nations. I was a young nineteen year old man who signed up to fight for King and Country. I joined the Army, and found myself sent to Egypt where I was assigned to the 8th Army. We fought the Italians and the Germans and we fought in Greece where we were evacuated to Crete, and finally to North Africa. I saw things that I pray none of you ever have to see! But, remember your history book last year, and you all asked me about the war? I will tell you this; we were fighting for our freedom, our loved ones and for the country but most of all we were fighting evil. Evil that wanted to rule the world or destroy it," reaching out he patted the box of toys and continued, "Harry, when you and your friends play with these toys. I want you to think of the ones who lost their lives or were maimed. Because, the freedom you have to play with these toys, is the reason you have them. Now my gift to you is this," holding out his hand he took a box from his great grandson Hank and placed it on the table in front of the boy.

"I will, Mr. Valentine," Harry replied.

"Go ahead and open it," Markus said.

Harry gently peeled the paper off and then opened the box. Inside were several items. The first was a picture of Mr. Valentine standing in a tank with another tank beside him. The second thing was a model of the tank, with a different set of paints. The third thing was a book and he looked at it and raised his eyes. But it was the name that caught his attention.

"They named a tank after you?" he asked in awe.

Marcus laughed and replied, "Nay, lad. I was just lucky to be named the same and assigned to one during the war. My CO thought it would be luck and I guess it was. Enjoy the model and the book."

"I will," Harry replied as a few friends gathered around to look at the book and model.

"SIRIUS BLACK! WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Lily demanded as she saw him come in with several people that she recognized.

Sirius almost said Lily but quickly changed it, "Rose, we came for Harry's birthday. Aren't you glad to see us?" he said with a smile from ear to ear.

Lily stormed over to Sirius and grabbed him by the ear and towards the stairs, "Kids have fun I'll be back in a minute. Follow me," and dragged Sirius up the stairs.

"Who was that?" Hank asked.

"I think it's my godfather, but I am not sure. Mum doesn't talk about him much. He was my dad's partner in the anti-terrorism unit he worked with," Harry said.

"Lad, it looks like your mum has to work something out with them. Now that all your gifts are open, let's get this party rocking," Marcus said as Minky turned the music on.

With that the kids started being kids and trying to dance to the music with arms waving about while Marlene clapped her hands.

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Lily let Sirius's ear lose as she stormed into her apartment and turned on the man, "I asked you to stop looking for us. Why couldn't you respect my wishes?"

"But, Lil, he's my godson and I promised James I'd look after him," Sirius replied.

"And he's my son. Damn it. Does Dumbledore know you're here?" she demanded to know.

"No, he thinks I'm in the United States looking for you with Remus," Sirius said.

"Grrr," Lily snarled and then said, "Hello, Andromeda, Ted, and Nymphadora."

"Tonks," the young fifteen year old said.

"Behave Dora," Ted replied and then said, "It's good to see you Lily."

Andromeda crossed the room and pulled the girl into her arms and gave her a huge hug, "Lily, it does the heart good to see you. I didn't know we weren't supposed to come. Sirius said he had permission."

Lily looked at Sirius who blanched under her stare, "Well, you're here now. But you cannot say anything but what about Dora? She is under Dumbledore's control for ten months of the year and he likes reading minds."

"I can protect it under family magic," Sirius said.

"Lily, I have a question. If you didn't want to be found, then how come you mentioned that your husband was murdered fighting terrorist," Ted asked.

"What I mentioned was Rose Evans husband was in the counter terrorism unit and was killed as part of my cover. A big difference that James Potter was attacked by Voldemort was murdered and Lily Potter a witch fled with her son Harry. If you think about it, the only ones who could find the truth were muggleborns and people like Dumbledore would read minds then ask muggles questions would assume that I was a muggle because the wizard world lacks common sense."

"I see, and you're right they do lack common sense," Ted replied while Andromeda and Remus nodded their heads.

With a sigh, she knew he was right, and finally said, "Well, come on. I'll introduce you all to him and to my daughter Marlene."

Lily led the group down stairs to find the kids playing twister. Harry was in the middle of the pile of kids while others were egging him on.

Sirius and his group along with Lily, Minky and Marcus watched the kids have fun and by four the parents had started showing up to take them home for dinner. That was when Lily was able to introduce Harry to his Godfather and his friends. Harry asked how long they would be there and Sirius said only thirty-six hours, just long enough for the ship to unload and deliver its cargo and load the empty cargo containers to take back to the UK. They would stay with the ship until it hit the Canary Islands and then they would use a portkey to head home to the United Kingdom.

Sirius asked if he was happy. Harry told him he was, and that he had he had lots of friends to play with and was doing very well in school. Later, Sirius asked about the scar that Dumbledore said Harry had and a confused Lily had asked what he was talking about. That's when Sirius said that Dumbledore had said that Harry had been hit with Dark Magic, which caused Lily to burst into laughter when she explained how she got Harry and herself out of the house. By then Andromeda and Ted were laughing while a confused Remus and Dora looked on.

At six the new supplies were delivered and everyone pitched in to carry them inside, and down to the cellar where Minky levitated everything into its spot. Barrels of Ale, bottles of liquor, food, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, and sundries for the pub were soon in place for opening at eight, when the first of the townsfolk's started arriving. In the kitchen, Minky started cooking, and soon had food ready while Dora and Harry were banished to the second floor as they were under age. Since it was Harry's birthday, he was able to stay up and play his Nintendo. He soon had Dora hooked on Mario Brothers. When he went to bed at ten, he could hear her still playing even over the muffled sound of the pub down stairs.

Thirty-six hours later Lily, Harry and Marlene would watch the RMS St Helena sail away. They took with them one of the vanishing cabinets to set up in the Black home so they could visit at Christmas but for the summer, they would have to come by the ship so they could stay longer. The next two years would fly by and then in March of ninety-one, Sirius mentioned he had a lead on Harry in New Zealand and was heading there which was overheard by a spy of Dumbledore's. He would lead Dumbledore all over the island before heading back to the United Kingdom.

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Dumbledore and Minerva watched as the quill went wrote the names of the incoming students. Minerva was miffed that Dumbledore was intruding in her job but he was the headmaster and even she knew what he was doing. The quill would jump from the envelope it was signing to the book to rest for a second before jumping to the next envelope that was waiting to be filled out. Slowly the envelopes filled out from Hannah Abbot to Susan Bone to the muggleborn Hermione Granger. It was now filling out Neville Longbottom and soon would be in the P's. A Perks came followed by Patil and Patil and she hoped they were not like the Weasley twins finally Potter.

Dumbledore leaned in and watched the quill write and as soon as it was finished he snatched the envelope out of the stack.

Mr. H. Potter

2nd Bedroom

Black Cannon Pub

Jamestown

"Found him," Dumbledore said as he ran out of the room with the letter.

Shaking her head, Minerva went back to watching over the quill and soon it was finished. Stacking the envelopes she called an elf to take them up to the owlery and have them sent off as she put the book and quill away in her cabinet. She wondered if he noticed it did not say what county or country he was in, as there were over forty Jamestowns in the world.

Albus had left Minerva's office and headed for his. He had to get to the boy first so he could cast spells on him that would make him follow Albus' lead and suggestions and not his Godfathers when he came out. Opening the door to his office, he looked at Fawkes and then changed his clothes to a muggle business suit, only thing was the suit was from the 1920s and not the modern area.

"Fawkes, I need you to take me to Jamestown," Albus said.

With a nod, Fawkes flew down, landed on Albus shoulder, and they found themselves in the quiet village of Jamestown near Strathpeffer in Scotland. Albus looked out of the alley and then stepped out and looked both ways wondering where the Black Cannon Pub was as Fawkes vanished behind him. Seeing a couple walking towards him he wandered over to them.

"Pardon the intrusion, but could you tell me where to find the Black Cannon Pub?" Albus asked.

"Never heard of it, Mate," the young man replied as he walked on.

"Thank you," Albus said with confusion as he looked at the letter in his hand and then thought, 'It must be a different town.'

Albus headed back to Hogwarts and sat down in his chair once he arrived. He needed someone who was muggleborn who could tell him how to find the cities he needed. What he really needed wasn't popular yet, and even if it was, he wouldn't know how to use the internet or a computer.

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Sirius sat at the table with Remus, Lily and Harry. They were talking magical schools and Harry was trying to make up his mind where to go. They explained Dumbledore's unhealthy interest in him and in Neville Longbottom. A boy that Harry had met several years before when the Longbottoms had used the cabinet that was connected to the one Lily had. They always planned their arrivals when the St Helena was anchored in the harbor so it looked like they came in aboard the ship.

Later Sirius would buy a three masted sailing ship and anchor it in Cape Town and they would portkey to the ship, stock it with supplies and sail over. Sirius would play a pirate as he captained the ship until Remus flipped him out of the ship and then he acted normal.

"Mum, would you be mad if I said I didn't want to go?" Harry asked, "I mean you have been teaching me here, and you said I was on third year stuff in some things."

Lily smiled and shook her head, "No son. If you don't want to go, then you don't have to go."

"But Lil's," Sirius said.

"Sirius, he doesn't want to go. I don't want him to go while Dumbledore is there," Lily stated.

Sirius huffed and looked at her and then nodded, "Ok. What about when they send the letter out? It always knows where you are."

"Yes, it does Sirius. But I have a spell on Harry that won't report his actual location. It may say Jamestown but do you know how many Jamestowns there are in the world?"

"No, I don't," Sirius replied.

Harry smiled and then said, "There are over forty, if I remember right, three alone in the UK. Mom, by the way, Neville doesn't want to go either. Could he come in the evenings, before you open the bar, and join me?"

"I don't know. I'd have to speak with Alice and Frank on that. But for now, Remus, can you go to Diagon Alley and buy all seven years worth of the school books and get the potion ingredients Harry would need along with what other supplies? He won't need parchment and quills because we use paper and pens here," Lily asked.

"Sure," Remus replied and then headed for the cabinet and vanished.

"Where will you teach him? What about a wand?" Sirius asked.

"In the modified attic. As to a wand, Harry has one from the South African magical alley, and he found three in the family vault that work for him.

"Can you come over and teach him Transfiguration and Charms? You and James excelled at those," Lily asked as she knew that she had Remus with DADA and Care of Magical Creatures while she would teach Runes, Arithmancy and Potions as she excelled at the three courses. The hard one would be Herbology, but a plan was formed with Alice as she was a master at it.

"You know I will," Sirius said as he looked at his Godson.

With the use of the time turner that Lily had snitched at the DOM she would be able to have Harry do two classes in the afternoon for two hours, without wearing himself out.

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Albus Dumbledore sat in his office fuming. He searched for seven days to try and find Harry Potter and failed each time and now the cutoff date had come and gone and he wouldn't be attending this year with his spy who was supposed to guide the boy to Gryffindor and into his hands. Even Nicolas refused to give over his stone so he could set the trap to lure Tom out of hiding. Yes, he had set up a fake trap but he wanted the real stone. He was entitled to it since he was the leader of the light, not like his mentor who sat in his many homes doing nothing with it. The last time he spoke with him, Nick had told him not to ask again about the stone; and then had severed all communications. Albus had no idea where the two were.

September 1st rolled around and he saw the sorting of the students and they went where he thought they would but when Harry Potter's name was called there was no sign of the brat. Later that night hundreds of letters went out to the families and the paper ridiculed him the next morning when the boy never showed up. The second person not to show up was Neville Longbottom, and when he floo'ed them, they said they had enrolled him in another school.

The next several years flew by and to his surprise his friend Annabel Hawkins received an invitation to the South African school of Magic and she went off to the school for ten months. In his third year, Sirius, Remus and the Aurors captured Peter Pettigrew. After his trial, it was determined he was an escape risk and he was given the kiss and his body thrown through the veil. Then the tri-wizard tournament came and Harry's name came out but the Goblins told him about magical contracts and how he had to physically drop his name in to be a contestant so they ignored it. That was the same year Marlene started school at the South African School of Magic.

Harry and Neville took their OWLs before the South African Minister and passed with eleven OWLS as they refused to take Divination. They also received top marks in four other classes that are not considered OWLs, Enchanting, Foreign languages (Afrikaans and Latin) and Weather Magic, or Tribal Magic as it was called in South Africa. That was when Dumbledore received a hit on where Harry was, and went to South Africa. He started snooping for a location of the boy, and found out he was on an island way out in the Atlantic. Calling his phoenix he tried to flame there but the bird bounced off the anti- phoenix wards that Lily had placed on the island. He found himself way out at sea, with no land in sight. Fawkes grabbed him and flamed him back to Hogwarts so he could change and dry off.

The following two years saw Harry and Neville take their NEWTS, and pass with flying colors. At the same time, Harry and Annabel Hawkins had grown closer and started dating. The good thing about the South African school is it taught mundane courses, too. So the kids were well rounded out. Annabel even took her NEWTs early, and the two of them had finished their testing when Dumbledore had burst into the ministry, eyes wide, hair un-kept as he shouted out for Harry to come with him as the Dark Lord was on the move. The kids grabbed their own portkeys, and vanished to Sirius's ship. There they entered the cabinet to get back home. They left the one they arrived at the island open, and blocked so it couldn't be used.

Dumbledore never left the South African Ministry. He was arrested and placed in the magical version of an insane asylum, to be treated where he would die of Dementia three years later. The spirit of Voldemort languished in Albania, waiting to be discovered by his followers who would never come as they were all in prison. His second to last horcrux the Diadem would be found by a seventh year muggleborn who gave it to Flitwick and as like the rest, it was destroyed. After Dumbledore's death, his papers were gone through and a note in them suggested that a Horcrux could be found at the old Gaunt property and ten curse breakers from Gringotts would descend on the Riddle Manor and Gaunt shack where a ring was found. It was quickly destroyed and as they wondered how many more the maniac had made, deep in the Albanian forest as Voldemort's spirit was leaving his dying host, he faded away to his damnation in hell. They would find out the next day that he was gone when all his marked Death Eaters died as well.

Harry and Annabel would marry and head for the United Kingdom, a year after the death of Dumbledore, with their twin daughters. To the shock of the Wizengamot, one morning Harry walked into the chamber and announced that he, Lord Harry James Potter of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter, would be taking his seat, and its twelve votes. The year before, Frank Longbottom had turned over his seat to his son, so he could take care of his ailing mother.

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Edit By TeNderLoin

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