Hampstead suburbs…
Dan Granger arrived at his house at 6:30 pm, his clinic wasn't far from his house but just when he had called the day off a patient arrived with a broken tooth, since the young man had been in pain he treated his tooth with swiftness and efficiency. Luckily his assistant hadn't gone home so she informed his wife and daughter that he would get late.
Now he was finally getting home and more importantly he was going to spend the rest of the day with his family. He entered his house and was met with a yelled from the kitchen.
"Dan, I'm glad you're home, dinner is almost ready!" His wife's voice rang and he saw his eleven year old daughter ran towards him leaping into his arms.
"Hello gorgeous" Dan said to his daughter while kissing her cheek in an affectionate way.
"Hi daddy" She replied.
"How was your day? Did the magical world convince you with that tour?" Dan asked his daughter who a few days ago was completely excited to go to the magical tour around the Diagonal Alley.
"It was fantastic, and guess what!?" She said enthusiastically.
"What honey?" He asked
"I made a friend!" She said
"Really? That's fantastic!" Dan said
"Yes, his name is Harry and he likes to read just as much as I" She said.
"I'm glad honey, you'll tell me all about it during dinner alright sweetie? Let daddy wash himself first" Dan said as he gently put his daughter on the ground and he went upstairs for a quick shower.
At dinner time the conversation was pleasant as Hermione talked and talked and talked about the things she and her new friend Harry had done, seen and talked.
"And he has heterochromia, one of his eyes is blue and the other is green isn't that amazing?! Oh and he is also ambidextrous" Hermione was completely excited of having a friend that she had barely eaten from her food.
"Looks like he is a wonderful young man" Dan said as he took a small bite from his food.
"He should be given who his father is" Emma replied smugly
"Who? Do we know him?" Dan asked his wife
"Oh yeah, we do know him" Emma responded with a glint in her eye
"Alright, who is it?" –Dan asked her, he wasn't fan of riddles so he wasn't going to try to solve or guess who the father of Hermione's friend was.
"Bruce… Wayne" She said completely smug and the shocked face of her husband send her laughing out loud
"You're telling me that the CEO of Wayne Enterprises is a wizard?" Dan asked, he still was surprised by the revelation.
"No, he is a muggle like us, but his son is magical like Hermione" Emma responded.
"I'm impressed I'd like to meet him, I'm sure he has interesting stories like us" Dan added.
The rest of the supper was like any other, as the finished Hermione went upstairs and wrote in her diary her thoughts about her friend Harry Wayne.
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On his room at Grimmauld place Harry watched the Potter ring appear and disappear on his hand, he wanted to keep practicing the properties of the ring so he took his chemistry set and with a few vials he placed some chemicals that could be potentially dangerous or sickening as well as some completely safe to drink, he wasn't going to drink them but he wanted to see if the ring worked properly.
He smiled as he began looking at the ring changing colors, he quickly wrote his findings, at least he would be safe is someone wanted to poisoned him, he would need to make further investigations when he goes to Hogwarts. The sickening chemicals turned the ring's crest orange while the safe ones turned green, which warned him about the presence of it.
"Copper" Harry said looking at the cotton mouth snake sleeping on her terrarium.
"Yesss massster?" Copper asked
"Can I take some drops of your venom?" Harry asked
"Of courssse, just be careful not to consssume it" She responded, she knew her human was unstoppable when he got hooked on an idea or an experiment, so she went along.
Harry gently grabbed her head, placed the fangs on the milking vial, and gently placed the top of her head letting some small streams of the venom to be expelled from her glands.
"Thank you Copper, go back to sleep" Harry said returning his snake to her terrarium
"Don't mind if I do" Copper responded before coiling and closing her eyes.
Harry placed the vial in his desk, he labeled it with tape and black marker, and put the ring close to it and saw that the crest turned completely black.
"Ok, now I know more color identifications" Harry said to himself. He took the chemistry set to its case and he laid on the bed, he took the note his biological mother had left him.
He felt nervous, he felt a lot of affection for Selina and Talia, but this letter was something real, from the woman who gave birth to him. He took a deep breath and decided to begin reading the letter, he broke the wax seal and unfolded it.
"My dearest Harry.
If you're reading this then it means that we fell during the war against the evil wizard Voldemort, I wish I could be there to see you take your first steps, as I write this letter the most you can do is stand up on your two stubby feet. I want to tell you that I've love you since the day you were born, when I held you in my arms I felt the like you were the most wonderful thing on this world, I wanted to protect you from any harm. That's why we made our old Head of House your magical guardian and two of our best friends Sirius Black and Alicia Longbottom your godparents, they will take care of you if worst come to pass.
I really hope that you've a wonderful life, full of love, adventure and knowledge, if you end up living with your godfather Sirius don't let his immaturity be your downfall, it's ok to make pranks and relax but it's better if it's compensated by study and hard work. If you end up with your godmother Alicia showed her that I loved her like a true sister and I hope that you and her baby boy Neville become fast friends.
I wish I could let you know more or write you more but this is too much for me, I left you my diary, it looks small but it contains every passage of my years at Hogwarts as well as some experimental rune sequences that I designed so that I could have working electricity on the magical world, I will always love you my dear Harry Potter.
With the love of a thousand lives
Your mother Lily
P.S. Hey Harry it's me your father, don't underestimate the power of a smile, you can be a true ladies man if you put your mind into it ha ha ha.
Harry was crying as he read the letter but he was glad his biological father ended the letter with a joke to ease the tension, Harry wondered if his biological parents would get along with his adopted ones, he was taken out of his thoughts when his cellphone buzzed, it was a text, it came from Hermione.
"Hi, I'm Hermione, Hermione Granger, the girl from today's tour guide through Diagon Alley, am I interrupting? Is this too soon? Were you asleep?" The message said
Harry smirked as he saw the message full of questions, he already analyzed her behavior and knew she hadn't had a friend, like ever, so he decided he would help her on her way to make friends.
"Hi Hermione, no, you're not interrupting; no it's not too soon and no I wasn't asleep, how are you?" He asked her
"I'm fine, just finished having supper" Harry could feel that she was shy once again.
The kids began having a conversation over the books they had been reading. As well as making a date for a trip to Diagon Alley before he went back to America.
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Jump City.
Nightwing and Starfire patrolled the streets of their city, in theory it was a very quiet night until the thief Mumbo Jumbo had decided to steal a bank and ran away while sending elephants, banana peels and doves from his top hat towards the duo of superheroes.
"How deep is that freaking top hat?" Nightwing asked
"I don't know, let's catch him and ask him" Starfire responded as she sent her laser beams to the flock of doves flying towards them that exploded in a pink puff.
As Mumbo continue his escape he clashed with a dark purple force field that knocked him unconscious, as the force field began to dissipate Nightwing and Starfire saw a very tired looking girl collapse on the floor of the rooftop.
"Rachel?" Nightwing said
"Nightwing, do you know her?" Starfire asked him as she placed meta-human suppressing handcuffs on Mumbo's wrists.
"Yes, she's friend of my brothers" Nightwing answered.
"Let's take her to the Tower, I'm sure Cyborg would make an analysis on her state" Starfire suggested as she put Mumbo over her shoulder.
"Sure, let's take David Copperfield to his cell first" Nightwing added.
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On the Titans tower Nightwing had taken his mask off showing his Dick Grayson's features to everyone present, in the Titans Tower there was no such thing as a secret identity, mainly because Cyborg no longer needed one and Aqualad didn't had one, not on land at least. So they decided that they wouldn't use it inside.
Dick gently placed the girl's body on the table so that Cyborg could do a proper scan and MRI, after a few moments of Cyborg using his scans he turned to look at his friend.
"What is it Vic?" Dick asked him, even though since his accident he hated to be reminded of his former self he let his closer friends call him that way.
"Well, she seems pretty fine, but the scans show that she has been through a lot of stress, her mind needs to heal for a couple of days, does she have a family?" Cyborg asked him
"She has a mother, I think, my brothers Damian or Harry could know how to contact her" Dick said
"Contact her, she needs to know her daughter is fine." Cyborg said and Dick salute him
"Will do it chief" Dick smirked and left
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It hadn't passed more than twenty minutes since he hanged up with Damian, who according to what their father told him, he was supposedly on London with Mr. Black and his family, that the boy appeared alongside a raven haired woman and a house-elf.
"Thank you Dobby, Grayson, where's Rachel?" Damian asked his brother, Dick knew that if the boy used his last name then it would mean that the situation was severe. The woman who must have been Rachel's mother came to him.
"Please where's my daughter?" Arella asked
"If I'm not needed by Damien then Dobby will retire" Dobby shyly said
"Yes, thank you once again for bringing us Mr. Dobby" Damian thanked the small house-elf.
The trio went to the medical bay where Cyborg was looking at the machines overlooking Rachel's current state.
"Rachel, my baby" Rachel's mother, Arella said as she went to hug her unconscious daughter.
"How is her state Stone?" Damian asked Cyborg.
"She's fine, but she was under a lot of stress, do you know what might have left her in such state?" Cyborg asked the boy
"She was abducted by her "father" a demon called Trigon, who took her to his fiery realm, she has been there for four years" Damian said somberly
"I get it now, very well now that she's in the world of the living she will be fine in a couple of days, you can stay here as long as you need" Dick offered.
"Thank you young man" Arella said
"Yes, thank you Dick" Damian responded as he took a sit next to Rachel.
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Harry was informed about the reappearance of Rachel, and although he wanted to see her, he felt relief that at least Damian was with her keeping her company. In the meantime he continued to get to know his newest British friends Hermione, Justin who had been paired up with Susan during the tour and Dean who had been paired up with Draco, the six of them alongside a responsible parent accompanied them to the Diagon Alley once again for their shopping spree, the fortunate ones this time were Sirius, Selina, Talia and Dan Granger, with Bruce, Narcissa and Amelia being busy with their respective works.
Harry was having a pleasant conversation with Dean about superheroes when Harry said.
"You know, my dad makes Batman's technology" Harry said
Dean was shocked "Really?"
"Yes, at first dad's shareholders weren't on board with the idea of funding a vigilante but they warmed up at the idea when they saw the crime beginning to decrease, if we can all go to the Wayne Enterprises we could get a tour as well." He said with a smile
"Sure that would be wicked" Dean said
"And do you know any superheroes?" Hermione asked
"Well not per se, but I've seen Nightwing, Aquaman, Hawkgirl and even Wonder Woman, visit from time to time the labs, when I happen to visit" Harry said he was about to continue when his eyes looked at a beautiful snowy owl relaxing on a rack. "If you'll excuse me, Uncle Sirius can we bought her?" Harry asked pointing at the direction of the owl
"Well your father told me that he was going to get you a book for your birthday but I guess an owl will be useful during your school year, so yeah why not" Sirius said.
"Oh that's right, I didn't realized I was a few days away from turning eleven" Harry said turning to his companions "Hey I'm making a birthday party on my house next Saturday if you want to go I'll send you the invitations" Harry said which the other kids looked pleased to hear.
"Shall we young man?" Sirius asked his godson.
Just as they were entering the Owlery Harry saw a towering man wait on the counter as the saleswoman took the same snowy owl he had fell in love with and placed her on a cage, Harry grew dishearten seeing that someone else was about to buy such a fine animal.
"Hagrid is that you?" Sirius said to the towering man whose bushy beard and hair made almost impossible to see his face features.
"Sirius? What ye doin' here?" The man said hugging Harry's godfather, Sirius looked small compared to the man.
"Well my nephew and I came to buy him an owl for is school year" Sirius said
"I didn't know ye had a nephew" Hagrid said
"Well he isn't technically my nephew, he is the son of a squib cousin I have on the United States, but he is magical so he is getting into Hogwarts" Sirius explained
"Nice to meet ye youn' fella, I'm Rubeus Hagrid, gamekeeper and Keeper of the Keys and grounds of Hogwarts" Hagrid said extending his hand to shake
"Harry, Harry Wayne, nice to meet you Mr. Hagrid" Harry said shaking the hand of the gigantic man, even though he felt a little discouraged that the man had beat him to buy the owl he wasn't going to be rude about it, nor make a scene like a spoiled brat.
"I see ye re interested on Hedwig" Hagrid said
"Yes Mr. Hagrid, I saw it on the window shop and I wanted to buy it, but you beat me to it fair and square" Harry explained, he really didn't wanted to make the giant man to feel bad and give it to him so he was just answering with honestly
"I'm sorry son, I didn't know" Hagrid began apologizing
"Don't need to apologize sir, it's ok" Harry said
"Well, actually I haven't paid for her, so ye could still take her home, if that's what ye want" Hagrid offered.
"But what about you? Won't you need an owl?" Harry asked
"No son, this was going to be a gift for a person but I don't believe said person will need it, if ye excuse me" Hagrid said leaving the store and a very intrigued Harry behind.
Harry was about to pay when Sirius put the galleons on the counter "Don't worry your father gave me this to spent on your gift." He said with a wink making Harry smile.
The rest of the day went smoothly with Harry showing off his new owl to his friends, eating ice cream on one of the stores and most importantly, secretly testing the veracity and functionality of the Potter ring, obviously nobody would try to poison a "muggleborn" like him but he wasn't going to take chances.
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As Harry arrived at Grimmauld place he introduced Hedwig to his other animal familiar Copper, apparently the two of them went along just fine and Copper promise to not poison the bird if she didn't try to peck her eyeballs out.
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Two days later Rachel finally began to show signs of strength and one morning in front of her mother and friend, who was a boy, Damian she began to stir awake. Her mother and Damian took one of her hands in a caring manner.
"Hi Rachel, how are you feeling?" Damian asked the girl as she was opening her eyes for the first time, he quickly noted that her eyes had changed, the last time he saw her she had dark brown eyes, now she had dark purple ones and her hair had a slight purple hue in it.
"Damian… Mom… where… Where am I?" Rachel asked
"You're in the Titans Tower on Jump city" Damian answered.
"Jump… city?" And with that she fell asleep once again.
It took two more days for Rachel to be fully rested and, most importantly, out of the medical bay. Her magical abilities seemed to have improved and her health was better than ever so she, her mother and Damian went to London to celebrate with the family Harry's birthday.
Harry and Damian noted that Hermione and Rachel made quick friendship over a book Hermione was reading. Helena, the twins and the triplets made chaos for wherever they passed, like a hurricane, Tonks, Tim, Steph and Cass shared many knowing looks and laughed like hiding a secret. Draco was seen playing with Dean, Justin, Neville and Susan.
Meanwhile inside the house Bruce talked with Grandma Minnie on the kitchen counter.
"Is it possible to do it?" Bruce asked her.
"I don't know, I mean the letters were sent and the inscriptions were made, besides what does her mother thinks" She responded
"The school year hasn't started yet, you could still do it you know, and she thinks she will be safer there" He told her.
"Do you know if they can pay for it?" Grandma Minnie asked as she drank from her cup of tea her wonderful husband had made for her, she didn't wanted to sound greedy, after all she wanted what's best for the children.
"I would pay for everything she needs" Bruce responded.
Grandma Minnie let out a sigh and looked at her son-in-law straight into the eyes. "Very well, Cookie!" She exclaimed and in front of them a well-dressed house-elf appeared
"You called Professor?" The house-elf asked
"Yes, please add this name to the first years sorting scroll" She said handling the house-elf a small parchment.
"Yes professor" And with a small bow the house-elf disappeared
"When I get to my office I'll deal with the paperwork, is that all?" She asked with a stern look
"That's all, thank you Grandma Minnie" Bruce said as he kissed her in the cheek and went to the backyard, he saw his children and friends had already joined the other kids playing around.
"Rachel, can you come here for a second?" He asked the raven haired girl.
"Yes Mr. Wayne?" She asked looking up to him, she was nervous.
"Congratulations, you'll go to Hogwarts" He told her the good news.