What If???

Flashback and Other Things

Death turned away from the weapons and towards Harry and began to tell the story of how he came to help Harry and Lilly live through the pregnancy and what the cost was.

"I was going to reap one soul that had died a painful death. We were on our way to depart when I felt someone calling for help. See any God could have helped and answered the call, but I was the closest and wanted to help for once in my bleak existence. I had sent the soul with one of my Reapers and walked to where the call was coming from. I made sure to get there fast enough that another God didn't take the call. Once I arrived, I came to a beautiful handmade cottage that was white on the outside and had a wonderful and very colorful garden that had multiple lilies and petunias. I think it was a play on Her's and her sister's names. There were also tiger lilies that were a different color than I was used to these were more orange and purple instead of the black ones in the underworld. This house was where the call was coming from. I decided to look more human, so I changed my form and had short black hair with some slight gray on the sides, I was on the older side but still young enough to move freely without too much pain." He took a pause lost in the memories of the past.

Harry was in awe with how he described everything. He felt as though he was actually there with Death and was watching what happened. He began to wonder if there was something that actually was able to do that. He turned to Ranrock that was also looking at Harry. He was standing next to a bookshelf that held a lot of books and files. Looking closer Harry could see that some of them were original copies of some very old books that looked to be in another language Harry could see that they were in Latin, Arabic, and many other languages. Harry remembered what he was doing. "Hey Ranrock?" Once he saw that he had the goblins attention he began to talk. "Did you ever meet my mother and father?" He was excited for the answer while also a little apprehensive. He braced for the letdown of Ranrock never meeting his parents. 

Ranrock looked at the kid and thought for a moment. "Yes, I think I did meet your mother. I know I dealt primarily with your father since he was Lord Potter."  Harry looked at him confused as to what he meant by "Lord Potter", so he explained what that meant to Harry. "With the old families. Such as your family, they are referred to as Lord's and Ladies. It is why most of the time when a announcer begins and announcement they start with Ladies and Gentlemen. It was to reference everyone. It was a very weird time." 

Harry paused "So essentially the Wizarding World is stuck in the eighteenth century?" He thought about this and what that could mean for himself since he was a muggle born as far as he was aware. "Ranrock where both my parents wixen? Or whatever the word for multiple wizard and witches is." Harry moved closer to where Ranrock was standing and sighed. 

Ranrock began to answer Harry's question when he heard Harry sigh to himself. "Is everything ok young one?" Ranrock asked trying and hoping to make Harry feel better. He pulled a book off the shelf. It looked handmade and had loopy writing on the front cover. When he turned the book over and looked at the back there was a name on the bottom. The name was faded with time as though the book had seen hundreds of hands and years before now. He held the book as if it was the Holy Grail and had great importance to him. He opened the book and flipped through it quickly as though he was looking for something and finally he found it and gave it to Harry. "Here you can have copies of these photos and keep them. They are pictures of your family throughout the years." Ranrock held out his hand holding the book.

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HELLO everyone, 

How are yall doing? I know that this is strange having 2 chapters published back to back. BUT I am currently writing this during work and college. Sadly I have very little time to write.

Thank you for reading and please vote and or comment.

(Sorry for the second upload I accidentally deleted this part. Who know computers were touchy?)