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The Phoenix Rises	By : greenwizard11 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 44621 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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James brought breakfast up to Harry in the morning.� �How are you feeling?� he asked.

�Better,� Harry answered quietly.�

�Good,� James smiled and set the tray of food down and sat
in a chair beside the bed to eat with his son.�

�Dad, can I ask you something?� Harry asked as he played
with his food.

�Of course.�

�Last night, you called Voldemort Uncle Tommy, and said you
were adopted�.�

James sighed and sat back in his chair.� �That all by itself is a lot to take.� You�ve already been through a lot, but I
suppose you deserve to know.� Yes,
Voldemort is my uncle, and your great uncle.�
The story about his mother dying and leaving him in an orphanage is
true, but before that she lived with her father and brother.� If you think some families today are pure
blood obsessed�� They were of the blood
line of Salazar Slytherin, and they intended to keep it pure.� Before Voldemort, his mother had a son with
her brother.� The baby was taken by the
Ministry though.�

Harry wrinkled his nose.�
�With her brother?� Please tell me
you don�t mean��

James smiled softly and squeezed Harry�s hand.� �Believe me, I know�� Anyway, that son grew up in a Ministry foster
home and was tossed out when he was seventeen.�
And yes, he ended up being my father.�
He fell in love with a woman and then raped her because he didn�t know
any better.�

Harry took it all in, feeling like he was going to
explode.� �How did you find out?�

�Actually, Voldemort told me.� I really don�t want to talk about the
details, but he tried to get me to join him by telling me everything Dumbledore
was keeping from me.�

�Dumbledore knew?� Harry asked in surprise.

James chuckled.�
�Haven�t you learned by now that Dumbledore knows everything?� he
mused.� �Anyway, I confronted him and he
confirmed everything.� He said he hadn�t
wanted to tell me until I was ready.�

Harry took a piece of buttered toast to munch on while he
listened.� �But you said you were adopted
and you grew up at Hogwarts.� Is that
really true?�

�Yes,� James nodded and took a sip of his tea.� �It�s all true, but don�t get ahead of
me.� When my mother found out she was
pregnant she wanted nothing to do with me, but she was morally against
abortion.� Instead she didn�t tell anyone
about me and when I was born she took me to the Ministry orphanage.�

�Wait, are the elves our biological family, or adopted
family?� Harry asked, suddenly wondering.

�Let me finish�.� James sighed.� �Then I�ll answer your questions if you still
have any.� And they�re our biological
family.� Your great grandfather Ivar is
my mother�s father.� But as I was saying,
I was at the orphanage until I was about two.�
Most kids display some magic at a young age, but I got the Ministry�s
attention.� The last straw was when
another kid stole a toy I was playing with and I teleported him to Greenland.� I could also Apparate, and the Ministry was
worried.� The average young wizard child
can only do small things.� The
Wizengamont gathered to decide what to do with me.� Since I was only a small child Dumbledore
decided he would take responsibility for me.�

�So he got someone to adopt you and watch over you?�

�No.� He adopted me.�

Harry�s eyes went wide with disbelief.� �He adopted you�� That would kind of make him my grandfather
too.� Why didn�t he keep me instead of��
Harry half shouted angrily.

�He was probably trying to avoid the mistakes he made with
me, like he was trying to avoid the mistakes he made with Voldemort by adopting
me.� He thought keeping me close rather
than having me sit unwanted and unloved in an orphanage would keep me from
becoming psychotic and hell bent on world domination.�

�And�?�

�I�m not hell bent on world domination�� I was very lonely though.� He was a busy man back then too.� I was basically raised by house elves and the
entire Hogwarts staff.� I guess it was
better than being in an orphanage.�

�So how did Dumbledore know about your biological family if
you were left at an orphanage?�

�I don�t know exactly.�
I know that when my mother finally confessed to her father what she�d
done he sought me out.� Elves don�t turn
their backs on family no matter what the circumstances of their conception
are.� He and Dumbledore put two and two
together, and did a blood test to make sure.�

Harry frowned.� �So in
my second year� they were right.� I am
the heir of Slytherin!�

James took his son�s hand.�
�You are, but don�t let that define you.�
Blood is the stuff that carries oxygen and stuff through your body and
nothing more.� I�m a Parselmouth, and so
is Dumbledore.� Do you think we�re dark
wizards?�

Harry shook his head.

�There�s an old saying.�
It�s not what your gifts are that defines you but how you use them.� There is no such thing as an evil power, only
evil intentions.� The same goes for
bloodlines.� You choose your own path.�

Harry looked like he felt a little better.� �That�s exactly what Dumbledore said.� Dad, where am I going this summer?�

James frowned and stared down at his hands for a
moment.� �The Dursleys�.��

�What?� Harry yelled as he nearly jumped out of bed.

�Only for a little while,� James sighed.� �Dumbledore gave us all a list of things to
do.� I don�t even have a home yet.� I�m going to be staying with Lucius for a
while, but the place will be crawling with Death Eaters.� I�ll have to hide in the nearest closet or
under the closest bed at a moments notice.�
That�s no way for you to live.� We
talked about it late last night, and decided you should go there
temporarily.� We were caught off guard by
what happened and we�re struggling to keep up.�
And Fudge refusing to cooperate is an extra blow.� In fact, I have to go somewhere with
Dumbledore tonight.� But don�t worry,
Sirius and I will take you back.� The
same goes for this summer as for last; if we don�t hear from you at least once
a week we�ll come get you immediately.�
Once we get something permanent set up we�ll come get you.�

�What about the Weasleys?� Harry asked.� �Why can�t I stay with them?�

James bit his lip and shook his head.� �Harry, they have lots of things to do too,
and a houseful of kids.� Please just
trust me, I�ve been through this before.�
We�re all in danger, but we want you to be safe.�

Harry let out a deep sigh and gave up.� It seemed no matter how hard he tried he
would never be free of the Dursleys.�

Draco came to visit him very late that evening.� Harry was fast asleep and was startled when
he was shaken awake.� He in turn startled
Draco who stood over his bed panting for a moment.� �Sorry, I just wanted to see how you were.�

�Brilliant,� Harry answered sarcastically.� �So I guess the whole school knows what
happened by now.�

Draco shook his head and cautiously sat on the edge of the
bed.� �No, not really.� Dumbledore made a short little speech this
morning at breakfast this morning telling us not to badger you.�

�Oh�� Harry breathed a sigh of relief.

�My father told me what he knew,� Draco continued.� That must�ve been horrible.�� The blonde reached over to take Harry�s hand,
but pulled back instantly when he felt a spark pulse through him.

Harry seemed to feel it too, and gazed up at Draco with
those deep emerald eyes.� Neither boy
knew what to say so they sat in silence for what felt like hours.� �I really wish you could come home with me
this summer,� Draco confessed.� �But
Father says it�s too dangerous.

Harry raised an eyebrow and Draco blushed a deep crimson.� �I just��
I mean, I�ve enjoyed our conversations and stuff.� I�ve never had a real friend before.� I like it.�
But this summer I�m going to have to go back to that big empty house and
pretend to like Pansy when she comes to visit.��

�So your dad is still making you marry her?� Harry asked in
disbelief.�

�We haven�t really talked about it,� Draco said as he
stood.� �There�s just too much going on
all at once.� Anyway, I can�t stay
long.� I just thought I�d come see how
you were.�

�I�m� here.� Harry said with a weak smile.� �And I wish I could come with you too.�

Draco gave Harry a warm smile before turning and
leaving.� Harry stayed a wake for a
little while thinking about how strange and out of place a smile like that
looked on Draco�s face, but at the same time it made him look handsome.�

Harry was let out of the Hospital Wing in the morning.� Even though the other students didn�t ask him
questions, Harry preferred to avoid them.�
He was quite content to wait until everyone had left the Great Hall to
eat his own meals.� The only time he
couldn�t avoid the other students was the end of the year feast.�

The entire hall was decorated in black drapes instead of the
usual colors of the House that had won the Inter-House competition.� Harry figured it had been done to honor Cedric�s
memory.� At the end of the feast
Dumbledore revealed to all how Cedric died.�
James thought it was a mistake to do so, but the older wizard was
insistent.�

Harry wondered if he would be taken straight to the Dursleys�,
but he was allowed ride the train with his friends.� Harry was grateful for that because he
enjoyed the time they spent in the train compartment.� James and Sirius were waiting for him at the
train station to take him back.� ��
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