The call of Justice

Title: The call of Justice

Pairings: Implied parental pairings

Fandom: Harry Potter

Summary: Harry, his elder sister, his friends and his yearmates grew up with the reality of abuse. Some of them like Harry, Dudley Black-Tonks and Sally Smith were rescued from abusive situations; Harry and Sally from the Orphanage from hell and Dudley from his magic-phobic birth parents. Together these children grow up all the stronger for the bonds they share and set out to worthy of the world that their parents have forged.

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Chapter two

Cora hugged her fathers before dragged Harry off, their trunks shrunk and stuffed in their pockets.

She located the compartment that Theo had claimed and dumped Harry off along with Accalia in it before looking for her own friends.

Coming down the corridor was Hermione.

The two witches hurried towards one another and hugged while twittering about their summers and asking after each other.

When the door to the compartment on their right was roughly slid open, “Do you have to be so bloody loud?”

Millie was in a temper again.

Cora was long since used to her mood swings; she’d cool off as soon as Giselle showed up as usually.

Well with the exception of their last year at Number Four because Giselle was off at Hogwarts alone…

If she had been forced to go to Hogwarts without Harry, she’d probably be just as grouchy but then again Millie was close to Giselle and she was even jealous of Greg but that part Cora didn’t get at all. That was like being jealous of… Cora didn’t have a suitable comparison for it.

Knowing that leaving Millie in an empty compartment would invite persons who didn’t know her quirks to try to join her, Cora and Hermione entered the compartment and took the bench opposite her to resume a far more quiet conversation while Aurelia curled up between her and Hermione’s feet.

XooooooX

Theo spoke gently to Harry, “Hey Harry. Draco should be here soon. Can’t think what’s keeping him.”

“I don’t want to go…” Harry mumbled.

Theo sighed, “It will be fun. We’ll get to learn all sorts of things. Your fathers and your siblings will be at school so you will be able to visit when we have time. Who knows, we might make new friends.”

Harry shook his head, “I don’t want any…I’ve got you guys and Cora’s friends.”

Theo threw an arm around the youngest of their circle, “Harry you can’t be afraid of change forever. It’s part of growing up and learning. Someday I want to see you as happy as your papa okay? You’re family and blood matters.”

The door to their compartment slide open…

Standing there grinning like some many-headed monster was Dean, Dudley, Greg, Vince, Neville, Draco and Blaise.

“Hi ya Harry!” Dudley smirked; his personality was like a mixture of Uncle Sirius and Dora.

Draco winked at him, Neville’s smile was weak and Dean just nodded, while Greg and Vince treated them to jaunty waves.

“Been awhile.” Draco scratched behind Accalia’s ears before joining Theo and Harry on the bench.

Dudley’s Shani tackled Accalia; surprisingly the tiger was the same size as the wolfhound. The two were well acquainted due to Harry having known Dudley forever like the others.

Dean and Blaise were newer to their circle…

Harry naturally curled up against Draco while Theo’s arm slid off his shoulders and the eldest of the boys chuckled to himself.

XooooooX

Millie turned as if sensing…

Cora’s Aurelia yipped excitedly.

The compartment slide open and their bubbly blonde childhood friend skipped in throwing her arms around Millie.

“You’re here! We’re going to Hogwarts together!” Giselle exclaimed in excited French.

Since Blaise, Giselle, Greg, Cornelia and Trev were half French, Greg’s mother and Aunt Celine had given them all French Lessons at Number Four. Not that they needed them but it made it interesting, they also had lessons in Latin because many spells were Latinate.

Millie seemed to relax at once now that Giselle was there.

Cora kept her own counsel but she was suspicious that there was some feeling between them like there was between her fathers. While she didn’t personally known any witch couples, she was raised to believe that love was love and it didn’t matter what gender one’s spouse was.

Miss Figg and Aunt Emelia were asexual and that was okay too…

Uncle Kingsley had tried to make a relationship work but when he fell in love with Aunt Charity’s sister Irma who identified as androgyne rather then female, male or bent. As long as Uncle Kingsley accepted s/he as hir was they got along famously even to the point of taking turns bearing children much their families surprise...

XooooooX

Between their house elves everyone had a basket of lunch to share…

They were boys after all and buying sweets was to be expected…

So what if they ate a few more sweets then actual food? There really wasn’t a parent to chide them after all…

The train trip was rather boring but for Harry it was nerve-wracking…

Sitting in Draco’s lap with Accalia at their feet didn’t really calm him…

XooooooX

Just because Cora didn’t seem worried didn’t mean she wasn’t…

She couldn’t let Harry use her as a crutch anymore…

He needed to grow up and learn to stand on his own. That didn’t mean he didn’t have support but he couldn’t cower behind anyone anymore…

The girls of course shared their lunches and they each bought one sweet item that they shared.

Cora was disappointed not to find chocolate sugar quills on the cart but settle for pumpkin pasties instead.

She and Hermione returned to their discussion of a History of Hogwarts the 95^th edition…

 

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What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?

A/N: So should Greg end up in Gryffindor or should he be stuck in Slytherin? Should Harry be in Ravenclaw or Slytherin? What about Susan, should get her wish and end up in Gryffindor?