Harry Potter ~Protection~ The Three-Phase Plan-1

Harry Potter ~Protection~ The Three-Phase Plan

Protection Phase One

Harry was working hard in the backyard garden like he was usually forced to. The early morning was hot and humid. Sweat covered his still small and skinny form. He noticed that his pants were baggier on him than they had been last summer and the shoulder of his long sleeved shirt was falling off, exposing his pale skin. He had managed to roll his sleeves up, however this exposed his old scars.

He breathed out loudly as he straightened up, cracking his spine and wincing as his back and ribs throbbed from his most recent beating.

"Harry, are you back here?" A familiar voice called out as Harry spun around, he grabbed his wand from his back pocket and was raising it in defense as a reflex.

Remus Lupin and a large black dog at his feet walked around the corner of the house into the backyard.

"What shape does your boggart take?" Harry asked, trying to keep his happiness at bay from seeing his old professor and his godfather.

"A moon and when the spell is used it turns into a deflating balloon." Remus said carefully.

"What's his name?" He nodded at the black dog at his feet.

"Snuffles, I really have no idea how Sirius came up with that but he is slightly insane." Harry smirked and yelped as the grim leapt up at him, taking him down to the ground.

"Oh gross stop it!" Harry laughed as Padfoot licked his face.

"Do something Professor!" Harry begged.

"Like you said Harry, Snuffles is slightly insane." Remus had to bite his knuckles to stop from bursting out in laughter.

"I feel offended." Sirius huffed, he transformed from Padfoot's form into his human form after he got off of his godson.

"Sirius!" Harry beamed as he got back onto his own two feet.

"Is it safe for you to be in your human form?" He asked worried about his godfather's 'wanted' status.

"We are in your backyard prongslet, I believe I'll be safe for the moment." Sirius reached down and pulled his godson into a tight hug, noticing the flinch the 15 year old gave at the physical contact.

"You never know…" Harry muttered, hugging his godfather back. He felt comfortable in Sirius' grasp, he hadn't realized how touch-starved he had been before. He didn't want to ever be let go.

"Harry… What are these on your arm?" Remus asked quietly having moved to stand beside the duo during the hug.

"Nothing!" Harry leapt out of Sirius' grip, forgetting the feelings from before.

"Harry, I know scars when I see them." Remus said softly.

"What happened? Who did this to you?" Sirius fell down to his knees in front of his godson and started to gently pat the 15 year old down and took note of how he winced when his hands fluttered down his back and across his ribs.

"It's nothing… I'm fine." Harry tried to protest and he froze when he heard a car pull into the driveway.

"You have to leave! You can't let him see you! Please!" Harry begged with wide eyes. Sirius and Remus felt their resolve crumble under the wide green eyes.

"If you love me then you will stay out of sight!"

"Harry!" They both gasped at him, but the teen had already bolted into the house.

They exchanged looks and after a silent conversation, they decided to stay out in the backyard to respect Harry's wishes… For the time being at least.

The two stood in silence, keeping their senses open for anything and everything. They had a rough plan, but it was now going to be reconstructed if what they thought about those scars were correct.

Sirius kept one eye on Remus as the werewolf had better sense's, they were enhanced even more today as the full moon was only a week away. Remus suddenly went stiff and looked at Sirius with wide eyes.

"I smell blood." Was all Remus needed to say before Sirius bolted towards the backdoor, Remus was right on his heels. Neither had pulled out their wands, as they didn't want to tip off the underage magic sensors and get Harry in trouble.

They burst into the kitchen and Sirius could feel his blood boiling at the sight in the hallway. The side of Harry's face was covered in blood, thanks to the bleeding gash on the side of his head and Vernon Dursley had his meaty hands wrapped around Harry's pale throat. Harry's attempts to get the hands away from his neck were slowing down and his eyes were fluttering shut.

"LET GO OF MY GODSON!" Sirius roared, launching himself forward in a tackle. He knocked the Dursley off of his godson; Remus was there in an instant to catch Harry. The werewolf cradled him in his arms, muttering words of comfort to him.

"Y-you!" Vernon gasped out in shock at the sight of the two men.

"Remus, take Harry upstairs. I'll deal with these muggle's." Sirius spat at Vernon.

"Siri…Don't kill them…" Harry muttered out between deep, gasping breaths.

"Don't worry pup. I know what I'm doing." Sirius dropped a kiss to the uninjured side of Harry's head.

Remus nodded at his friend and stood up slowly with Harry still in his arms. Remus shot an amber coloured glare at Vernon Dursley alongside a very wolf like growl. Moony not impressed with the treatment of his cub and if it weren't for said cub injured in his arms he would be very cheerfully ripping Vernon apart right now.

"Now I think its time for us to have a little talk Vernon." Sirius cracked his knuckles and he landed a solid punch on Vernon's stomach.

"See I don't like it when people touch what doesn't belong to them."

"What?" Vernon wheezed out as he clutched his stomach falling to his knees.

"Let me say it so even a pig like you can understand." Sirius grabbed a fistful of Vernon's greying hair and lowering his face down to whisper in Dursley's ear.

"Harry. Is. Mine." He hissed and sank his free fist into Vernon's gut once more.

"Well he's mine and Moony's. You are just lucky you got to have this talk with me. See Moony gets real testy this time of the month, you know being a werewolf and all." Sirius said casually with a feral grin on his lips. If possible Vernon went a shade or two paler than he had been before and looked like he was on the verge of passing out.

"Now for one of the reasons we came here today. You are going to quietly sign over any and all guardianship rights to Moony and myself. In other words Harry Potter is never going to step foot in this house again if we have any say in it." Sirius withdrew a few pieces of paper from his robes. One was for the wizarding world and one was for the muggle world so no one could disregard his and Remus's claims on Harry.

Vernon quickly filled out the documents and even signed the wizarding one with the needed blood to make it official.

"We're done here, remember our little conversation and I do not believe we will have anymore problems." Sirius hissed before heading up the stairs to Harry's room.

"Everything taken care of then?" Remus asked, looking up from where he was sending things into Harry's trunk.

"Yes, how you holding up prongslet?" Sirius moved to the bed where Harry was propped up on, holding a cloth to his face.

"Been better…" Harry said quietly.

"I know prongslet, I know. On the bright side, you never have to come back here again." Sirius said proudly.

"What?" Harry looked at his godfather bewildered.

"Dursley has legally given up guardianship of you to both Remus and myself in both the muggle and wizarding world." Sirius presented Harry with the documents with a flourish.

"But the blood wards, Dumbledore said…" Harry said confused as he looked over the papers.

"Did you ever consider this house your home?" Sirius asked.

"Never." Harry said without hesitation.

"Did your aunt love you?"

"Pretty sure she hates me."

"Was your blood used to bring Voldemort back?"

"Yes."

"Then the blood wards are useless."

"But Dumbledore…" Harry felt more confused than he ever had been in his life, including when Hargid told him he was a wizard.

"We will get to that later, we promise. Right now we need to leave this house." Remus promised, easily picking up Harry's trunk and Hedwig's birdcage easily thanks to his werewolf strength.

"Where are we going?"

"I'll tell you soon, I'm the secret keeper after all." Sirius helped his godson stand up before the trio went down stairs and after both men shot heated glares at Vernon Dursley they left the house and quickly made their way to apparition point.

"Okay Harry we are going to be appariting to 12 Grimmauld Place, London. It's an old Black family home that is being used as HQ for the Order of the Phoenix… Dumbledore's army I suppose you could say. Now hang on tight." Sirius explained, wrapping his arms around Harry. The teen nodded and clung to his godfather's waist and the three disappeared with a crack.

~~/~~

The three re-appeared in a large, musty library. Harry wobbled on his feet, but having Sirius' arms around him steadied him until his legs grew steady once again.

"Ugh, still better than the Knight Bus." Harry moaned, rubbing his head carefully. Remus had healed it, but it was still tender to the touch as were his back and ribs but they were mending nicely. The ex-professor was a genius when it came to healing spells.

"If I remember correctly your mother hated the Knight Bus, she always threw up after riding it." Sirius said cheerfully.

"I haven't thrown up just yet. So that's something to look forward to." Harry huffed and the older men cracked smiles at the teen. "Where are we?"

"We are in the Black family library on the 3rd floor of Grimmauld Place. It is only accessible to the three of us, anyone we allow and Kreacher." Sirius answered and a crack sounded as an old house elf appeared in a worn and ragged pillowcase. He shot Sirius a glare full of hatred.

"Kreacher take Harry's things to the room across from mine." Sirius sent an equally evil glare back at the house.

"Master Regulus's room?" Kreacher hissed annoyed.

"Yes my brother's room." Sirius hissed back.

"…Yes Nasty Master." Kreacher growled, moving forward to Harry's trunk and Hedwig's cage.

"Thank you Kreacher." Harry said politely. "I will do my best not to disturb the room too much."

"…Thank you Young Master." Kreacher looked at Harry with wide eyes before he popped away.

"Huh." Sirius looked down at Harry in awe, even Remus looked impressed.

"What?" Harry felt confused again.

"You are amazing pup." Sirius barked out a laugh hugging his godson once more.

"I was just being polite. I mean it seemed like your brother meant a lot to him…" Harry muttered.

"That right there was all Lily." Remus admitted with a fond smile.

"She was always looking for the good in people." Harry beamed at the piece of information about his mom.

"So Moony, time to move onto phase two?" Sirius asked excitedly.

"Phase two? Okay someone needs to tell me what is going on!" Harry interrupted, getting annoyed.

"I was stuck in the Dursley's for almost a whole month with no mail from anyone! I get why you two couldn't but why couldn't my friends?"

"Dumbledore strikes again. Okay Harry we are going to give you a short version as we do have a schedule to keep to." Sirius muttered before gently pushing Harry towards a large plushy chair near the fireplace.

Remus silently pointed his wand at the fireplace and it sprang to life as he and Sirius sat in the other two chairs facing Harry's.

"Dumbledore believes it is better for you to be kept in the dark about a lot of things. We disagree and have a bad feeling that you will be a key player in the upcoming war against Voldemort. However you are nowhere near ready to fight against him, you lack proper instruction in many things. None of which are your fault, you were not raised the way you should have been as Lord Potter." Sirius began to explain.

"Lord Potter?" Harry gapped at the two men before him.

"Looks like our work will be cut out for us." Remus muttered as Sirius swore under his breath once again.

"Harry as the last remaining Potter you have inherited the title of Lord of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter." Sirius said slowly to give Harry time to absorb it.

"I'm a lord." Harry said simply. "I feel a lot of political issues coming my way."

"Don't worry about that just yet Harry, it's all part of our plan." Remus consoled.

"Okay, what plan?" Harry shook his head to clear it of thoughts of being a lord.

"Well getting guardianship away from the Dursley to Remus and myself had been part of phase one, the rest was getting you here and explaining things to you. Phase two is to head to Diagon alley to sort some things out. The phase three… Well, you will just have to wait and see won't you?" Sirius winked and Harry made a face.

"We should get changed before we go to Diagon alley." Remus said after casting a tempus.

"Ah right as always Moony." Sirius agreed and the three stood up.

"Ah Harry the Weasley's and Hermonie are here, but we don't want anyone else to know that you are here just yet."

"Okay?" Harry agreed before following Sirius and Remus out of the library and down a hall or two. They stopped in the middle of the hall that housed only two doors. They both had golden nameplates, the one on the left had Sirius' name on it and the one on the right had Regulus Black's name.

"What happened to your brother Siri…If you don't mind me asking?" Harry said quietly seeing a flash of emotional pain go over his godfather's face.

"He became a death eater and he died, no one is sure how and his body was never found…" Sirius said briefly before turning the doorknob on Regulus's door.

"I'm sorry." Harry muttered, not really knowing what else to say before he entered the room.

The room was grand; the furniture was a dark wood matching well with the Slytherin green that accented the walls and the silver fabrics.

"Sorry about the green, silver and black." Sirius said rubbing his neck.

"It's okay, the green matches my eyes." Harry grinned and he could see Sirius relaxing and Remus winked at him from over Sirius's shoulder. He grinned when he saw Hedwig preening on an owl stand by the open window and he rushed over to her.

"Hey girl, I'm glad you found this place alright." He whispered, petting her softly as she nipped at his fingers happily.

"Hedwig is one of the most intelligent owl's I've ever seen. She showed up here a few minutes before we left to get you." Remus commented and Hedwig let out a soft screech of pride at the comment.

"Don't give her an even bigger ego Moony." Harry smirked and yelped when Hedwig nipped his fingers harshly.

"Alright, I'm sorry!" He whined rubbing his fingers.

"Got an attitude that one." Sirius laughed.

There was a crack and Kreacher appeared in front of Harry making the teen jump a bit causing Hedwig to trill in an amused manner.

"Hi Kreacher." Harry smiled pleasantly at the old elf.

"Young Master, I have sorted your clothes for you. However I insist that I burn them." Kreacher said with distain. "They are rags and Young Master shall not wear them."

Sirius and Remus looked at the clothes Harry was still wearing and nodded in agreement.

"…These are the only clothes I have other than my school uniform…" Harry protested, not that he liked the rags the Dursley gave him; just he had no other clothes.

"That's part of phase two." Remus spoke up and Sirius nodded.

"Young Master I found some of Master Regulus's old clothes for you to wear." Kreacher snapped his long grey fingers and on the bed appeared a pair of pressed black slacks, black dress shoes and an emerald green dress shirt and a black robe familiar to the Hogwarts robe.

"Wow, thank you Kreacher I will wear them with pride." Harry beamed at the elf after looking at the clothes.

"Thank you Young Master." Kreacher bowed before disappearing with a crack.

"I'll be damned. He actually likes you, well this makes things easier I suppose." Sirius mused, running a hand through his long black hair.

Harry just beamed cheeky at them before snatching up the clothes and heading into the bathroom that looked a lot like the school's perfect's bathroom. He came out a few minutes later looking like a proper pureblood wizard… Well until you get to the untamable Potter family hair.

"I feel like Malfoy." Harry deadpanned much to Sirius and Remus' amusement.

"Okay Harry can you stand with your arms out for me for a second?" Remus asked pulling out his wand.

"Sure thing Professor." Harry said falling back on calling him professor. Remus shook his head amused before waved his wand over Harry's limbs and a quill appeared, writing down words on a piece of parchment.

"I'll take care of it Padfoot." Remus smiled at Sirius who grinned back and Harry just looked at the two confused.

"We shall be going to Gringotts pup while Moony over here goes to get you some new robes. After that we will be going to get you everyday clothes in muggle London." Sirius explained.

"But you are still a wanted man Sirius!" Harry protested, as he didn't want his godfather to be caught.

"In Diagon alley I will be Padfoot and out in muggle London I'll get Moony to transfigure me." Sirius said having already thought about that problem.

"Okay…" Harry said slowly.

"We better be off then." Remus suggested and Harry latched into his godfather once more and the trio disappeared with a crack.