Hey! I am finally back! My laptop decided to die on me and once I finally got it fixed life kept interfering in me publishing the second chapter, but here it is finally. I cleaned up Chapter 1 a little bit so you might want to skim through it real fast.

Thought I would address a couple things that people brought up in reviews.
First thing that comes to mind is that Harry wore long sleeves and turtlenecks for school to hide the bruises because it is exhausting to constantly have the glamour up. Harry only put it up after Horatio saw so its not something he constantly does.

Someone mentioned that I should make Harry tougher. It might happen slowly but surely, but keep in mind that Harry is for the first time living with someone that won't hurt him and he's still getting used to it.

Someone also mentioned American wizards being involved. I probably won't go that route simply because I suck at writing OCs. I have the hardest time keeping them straight in my head so I'm probably going with the assumption that the wizarding world is not as uniform as Britain. Something like each community within the states rules itself and no strict rules like underage magic hance Harry was never caught or invited to a school when he turned 11.

That's all I can think of but I want to thank everyone for the positive things they had to say! Keep the reviews coming and continue to question me on things I write...it makes me think.

Also this chapter is mainly background for the wizarding world and I tweaked a few things. It might be kind of a boring chapter but I've already started on the third so it should be posted soon.

"Cool," Speed said. Sirius smirked at him.

"Can you change into other animals?" Alexx asked.

"No," Sirius said. "You only have one animagus form and not everyone can do it."

"Can you?" Calleigh asked Remus.

"No," Remus said sharply. The others looked taken aback by the sharp response from a seemingly mild-mannered man. Sirius rested a hand on Remus' shoulder. Remus sighed.

"I apologize," Remus said wearily. "I have a previous…condition that prevents me from having an animagus form."

"Which is?" Horatio asked.

"He has a wolf inside!" Harry said excitedly.

"Which means?" Ran asked.

"I'm what's commonly referred to as a werewolf," Remus said bowing his head. Many of the others gasped.

"He's a good guy," Harry insisted. "The wolf doesn't make him bad just different."

"Thank you Harry," Remus said quietly.

"I'm more trying to accept the fact that werewolves actually exist let alone that I am in the presence of one," Eric said. Everyone was silent for a moment.

"Do you have an…animagus form Harry?" Horatio asked.

"You have to train to obtain a form when you're older," Sirius said before Harry could answer. Harry pouted at him and suddenly a small wolf cub launched himself at Sirius. Sirius caught him in shock.

"Harry!" Sirius said excitedly. The wolf cub excitedly licked Sirius' face. Remus stared at Harry in wonder.

"You're a wolf," Remus said reverently. The wolf cub pounced on Remus and Remus laughed. Then Harry changed back sprawled across Remus.

"How did you figure out how to do it?" Sirius asked. "It took us two years of breaking into the library at night and studying to finally get it."

"I just wished for it really hard," Harry said. "It took me awhile to get used to it."

"We're very proud of you Harry," Remus said. Harry smiled hugely at his words of praise and then suddenly yawned again.

"Still tired Harry?" Horatio asked. Harry nodded sheepishly. "Why don't you head upstairs and go to bed?" Harry darted a glance at Remus and Sirius. Sirius smiled sadly.

"We'll still be here when you wake up," Sirius said. "Now that we've found you, we're never going to lose you again." Harry smiled again and hugged the two of them slightly hesitantly. He then waved at everyone else and head upstairs.

"We need to talk," Horatio said. Sirius and Remus nodded and after cleaning up the dishes, they sat around the table.

"Now what can you tell me about your people?" Horatio said. Remus and Sirius exchanged looks and Remus started speaking hesitantly.

"We refer to ourselves as wizards and witches and we use magic," Remus began. He raised a hand forestalling the objections and questions the team was about to voice. "That is how Sirius and Harry were able to change into animals. How we appeared out of nowhere. How Harry was able to heal your hand," Remus said nodding at Ryan. The team settled so he could continue his story.

"We don't know much of our history from before Merlin," Remus said. "We do know that magic was not as disciplined as it is now. There were no schools; teachings were passed from parents to children. After Merlin, the most powerful wizard recorded, four more powerful wizards made themselves known. They were Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin. The four together opened a school called Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This was the first time a school like this had existed so there were understandably some problems. Slytherin wanted only pureblood students admitted to the school, pureblood meaning both parents were magical. The other Founders believed that halfbloods and muggleborns should be admitted as well. Halfbloods being someone with one magical parent and one muggle, or non-magical. Muggleborns were those born to wholly muggle parents. The fight among the Founders escalated until Slytherin was kicked out. By then he had earned the title of a Dark Lord.

"Now what people tend to forget is that at the time Christianity was on the rise and many muggles were very outspoken and sometimes violent toward magic users who still interacted with them. Slytherin feared for the pureblood students, afraid they would either be hurt by the muggles or learn to hate their own magic, their birthright. And yes he practiced Dark Magic but that certainly didn't make him evil.

"Fast forward 1000 years, Hogwarts was still in existence as well as some other schools. The school was divided into four houses each one representing a founder. Of course Slytherin House had a bad name to it and those in that house were often thought of as evil or dark by the rest of society.

"One such student in the Slytherin house was a halfblood named Tom Riddle," Remus continued. "He was an orphan, his muggle father having abandoned his mother when she was pregnant with Riddle after finding out she was a witch. His mother died in childbirth and Riddle was left in an orphanage. At the orphanage, he was considered a freak. His accidental magic that would sometimes occur gave the other orphans the perfect chance to make fun of him. Riddle at this point had no idea what he was. It wasn't until a teacher from Hogwarts came when he was eleven that he found out what he was. By that time he was horribly jaded and when he got to Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin, he began to hate muggles as much as they hated him growing up.

"He took Slytherin's ideals and twisted them to his needs of promoting the complete annihilation of anyone with muggle blood. After he left school where he earned perfect grades and was a very charismatic student, he began calling himself Lord Voldemort and gathered followers, purebloods, who agreed with him. Voldemort and his Death Eaters began small but within a small amount of time they were terrorizing all of Wizarding Britain. It became an all out war, Dark vs. Light.

"Essentially leading the light was Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts. He led a secret organization, the Order of the Phoenix that fought Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Sirius and I as well as the Potters were part of the Order.

"In 1993, a prophecy was told of a child that would be born that would have the power to defeat Voldemort," Remus said rubbing a hand over his face wearily. "The parameters fit a boy, Neville Longbottom, as well as the Potter twins. Both families went into hiding, but the Potters were betrayed by a friend of ours. Voldemort went to the Potter house and after incapacitating James and Lily, he went to the boy's room.

"No one is sure what exactly happened at that point, but when the Order responded to the alarm, they was nothing left of Voldemort besides his robe and some scorch marks. Harry was asleep and Gabriel was screaming his head off and had an odd scar over his heart. Dumbledore established that it was a curse scar and that Gabriel must have defeated Voldemort by reflecting the spell Voldemort used back at him.

"That's when it started," Sirius said quietly. "It was small things at first. Gabriel got a bed while Harry remained in a crib. There were more pictures of Gabriel hanging up than there were of Harry. Gabriel got ice cream, while Harry went without desert. Things began building up and Remus and I tried to do more and more. Questioning Lily and James, spending as much time as we could with Harry. After awhile things became more obvious. Lily made Gabriel breakfast and left Harry to fend for himself. He was 3. He couldn't do it himself so he started loosing weight. James taught Gabriel how to fly on a broom while Harry stayed in the library. Harry didn't understand. He thought he had done something wrong. Every time we would come over he would show us something he had done or made or learned that he thought and hoped would make his parents not mad at him and love him again. It never worked. Half the time they would yell at him for whatever it was that he had done. Then he started thinking maybe something was just plain wrong with him, so he kind of faded away. When we would go see him…he was so quiet and pale and just…blank. I would get into more fights with James and Lily, try and show them what they were doing but it just got me kicked out and Harry more upset."

"Why didn't you report it?" Alexx asked angrily. Remus scoffed.

"There is no one to report it to," Remus said sneering. "The wizarding world is stuck in the 1800's. There is no such thing as child protective services. Child abuse is something that is never mentioned in polite society. Pretty much what goes on behind closed doors is no one else's business and others have no right to interfere."

"We tried to run away with him once," Sirius said quietly. "We didn't get very far before James and some of his buddies caught up to us. They took Harry away and beat us up. The next time I saw Harry, he had a black eye and a broken arm. After that, Remus and I just tried to be with Harry as much as we could."

"When they told us Harry had died," Remus said shakily, "We knew something was wrong. We never thought that they had lied about Harry being dead. We just thought James had gone too far one night. We never contacted James and Lily again, but we did discretely check up on them to make sure they didn't move on to Gabriel though. He was there angel though. He's a spoiled brat."

"It wasn't until I tried to renounce my godfathership of Gabriel magically that we found out Harry was still alive," Sirius said. "I was never officially named Harry's godfather, but magic recognized me as his, so when I tried to essentially disown Gabriel the magic essentially asked if I wanted to disown Harry as well."

"That's when we started looking," Remus said. "We checked so many adoption agencies until we finally got a lead. Then we found out it was the Turners that adopted him, then we learned they lived here and we were slowly able to track Harry by his magic."

"That's…wow," Ryan said.

"Can you tell us what happened with the Turners and how Harry ended up with you?" Remus asked. Horatio told them about getting called to the crime scene and their suspicions upon meeting Harry. How they confronted Harry and got their first hint of Harry being different when he hid the wounds. Remus growled when he heard about Harry's wounds and Sirius looked about ready to hunt the Turners down. Then Horatio explained how CPS had nowhere for him to go and that Horatio volunteered to take him in.

"I was planning on offering to adopt him," Horatio said slightly challengingly. Remus and Sirius exchanged looks and looked to be having a silent conversation.

"As long as you allow us to have a relationship with him," Sirius said slowly, "we won't fight you for him."

"You don't think he's worth it?" Alexx demanded angrily. Sirius glared at her.

"Remus and I would die for Harry," Sirius said. "We would do anything for Harry." Remus laid a calming hand on his arm.

"As a werewolf I am not allowed to have children in my custody according to our laws. As for Sirius…it wouldn't be good for Harry," Remus said hesitantly.

"Why not?" Speed demanded. Sirius sighed heavily and closed his eyes.

"The Black family is a very old family, firmly rooted in Dark Magic," Sirius said opening his eyes, his face absolutely emotionless. "When I began at Hogwarts I was sorted into Gryffindor, infamous for it's Light magic. My best friends were all either Light Purebloods or Halfbloods and Muggleborns. When I would go home I imagine I got something similar to what the Turners did to Harry. I was the white sheep I guess you could say," Sirius said smirking sardonically. "I won't put Harry through that. I will not have him face the prejudices that go along with the Black name. I will not give my family any sort of chance to have access to Harry. If I died Harry would automatically go to another Black regardless of anything I would have in my will. I will not take that chance with Harry," Sirius ended fiercely.

"Oh sugar," Alexx said softly.

"Just please…" Sirius paused tears in his eyes. "Please take care of him. Do what I couldn't. I want to know my godson again. I want to see him laugh. I want to see him play without being afraid of getting hurt. I want him to do his best at everything he does and know that someone will be waiting at home for him that will be so proud of him. I want him to not be afraid. I want him to know that he will never be denied something so basic as three meals a day. I want him to enjoy his childhood. I want him to know that if he has a nightmare someone will be there to chase it away. I just…just want him to be happy, and if you can give all that to him, then I won't stop you from adopting him."