Why Me?

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Harry decides to stay in Puerto Rico. He likes the place and the people. He’s made a few friends and has some business. He can call this place home. He did learn Spanish and from time to time he dances salsa, for which he was practically forced first by Claudia and now by Maria and Emilia. He keeps in touch with Hermione, but he doesn’t go to England unless it’s strictly necessary.

Seeing Emilia grow and be completely involved in it is one of Harry’s biggest accomplishments. She is Daddy’s little princess. He took her to ballet lessons, even in diapers. Teaches her how to control her magic, flying, wizard’s chess and how to play football (soccer), he became a coach just for her. Yep, she is the light in his life, even more as Emilia grows more beautiful and looks more like her mother every day.

She’s homeschooled due to her accidental magic occurrences are too frequent. She also, has health issues. Being an asthmatic hasn’t been easy for her or the family to take care of for every asthma attack comes with a burst of magic.
She has to keep her emotions check, because they play a huge part triggering not only the magic, but asthma attack. Things fly or explode, but the most frightening is when she encases herself in a bubble while she is having an episode, because the only person that can reach her and calm her is her father.

That doesn’t stop her from having friends or being active. She can melt a frozen heart with a simple kiss or a smile. Most of her friends, too many for her father’s liking, are boys, “noisy, dunderheads”, he call them. They come and go from her grandmother’s house like bees. They love to be there, where they always find homemade sweets or a plate of food if needed. Especially Diego, Sebastian and Jorge Raul, they are Emilia’s best friends and her accomplices in all mischiefs.

Today, is a day he’s been dreading. She is eleven today. And that leaves him with the question, can he let her go?

“Papa, Papa, Papa,” clenching a letter and jumping of excitement, “I got it, I got it!”

“Princess, if you don’t stop you’ll have an attack. So slow down and tell me what you got.”

“Ok, what’s going on here? Emilia, stop, you could get sick, just stop child,” her grandmother reprimanded. Emilia stopped and put a hand to her chest, “Breath sweetie, just big breaths, ok, and just another ok.”

“I’m sorry, I got my letter from Hogwarts!” she exclaimed still out of breath.
Harry still remembered her first asthma episode that came with her first accidental magic.

Flashback

Emilia was about 2 months old and had a cold. The fever, the coughing and at some point during the night the coughing got worst and the wheezing sounds started. Harry felt his chest contract and knew that something was wrong with his baby. She was having trouble breathing, but he didn’t know what to do so he ran with her to Maria’s house looking for help. Eric was just stepping in from his hospital shift. Harry put the baby down on the couch so he can check her out and suddenly a bubble appears surrounding Emilia. Every time Eric tried to get to her he was pushed back. Harry then started talking and cooing at her and that is when Emilia’s bubble resided. At that moment the questions were left for later, the first thing was Emilia.

Eric got her breathing under control with some medicine. He was still confused, but his niece came first. Harry then called for Zary and asks her to pick up Hermione, being a healer she will need to be consulted on further treatment for Emilia.

After Hermione arrived and helped, Eric just slumped on the couch and looked at his mother and Harry. “What the hell was that?” he shouted.

Harry was confronted and they were no other way around it so he told his story.
“Ok, let me get this straight, you are the Harry Potter from the books that Claudia loved so much and magic is real, right? Holly shit!”

“Eric language”, Maria admonished giving Emilia to Hermione “it doesn’t matter what Harry or Emilia are, we will be here because we are a family. Though, that doesn't justify why you lied to us,”, she said looking at Harry, “but at the moment what is important is how we help Emilia live a normal life with this illness and the magic.”

“Maria, Eric, Thank you, how can I repay all the kindness.”

“For starters, no more lies. No matter what.” She took Emilia from Hermione’s arms and put her in a hammock. “Hermione, right?” Hermione nodded, “What is in those potions that you gave her? Can I make them or is that something only you can do?”

“Yes, you probably could, because she is so little we cannot give her any pharmaceutical remedies or complex potions, so we have to make something as natural as possible. In the potion there is a combination of aloe, honey, mint, bee pollen and lime. The therapy is a combination of Eucalyptus oil, sea salt and water she also needs to have camphor in her bedroom, which will help her breath easier, you also need to learn what triggers the asthma, allergies, emotions…”

End of flashback

“Papa, we need to go to a place call Diagon Alley to get books and supplies, we need to see Aunt Mione. Do you still have your old books; maybe I can use them to save some money? Can I bring Mino and my books?” a thousand questions in just a few minutes, “Papa, are you listening?”

“Yes, angel I do, you know it doesn’t have to be Hogwarts, it could be the Charm One Academy or……

“No, no, no it has to be Hogwarts, please, please” Could he ever say no to her?
He chuckled “Ok my angel, Hogwarts it is,” and he left to start the arrangements for their return to England. He sends Zac and Zary to clean and repair Godric Hollow and notifies Hermione of the details. He will be leaving his piece of heaven in two weeks.

He also needs to contact the Hogwarts Headmaster to see what other arrangements can be done for her.

Emilia loves her garden. Her father constructed a maze for her and in the middle are flowers of every kind, butterflies and a gazebo. But what nobody knows is that this garden have a secret portal to another dimension that Emilia use to meet with her mother.

“Mummy” she calls, “Mummy, I have something to tell you” in front of her a portal appears, crossing it without fear, she enters, the place is very familiar. Everything is white and there is a chair where a being awaits.

“Mummy, I got it, I am going to Hogwarts” She runs to the waiting arms of her mother.

“I know my angel, how is your father taking it?”

“Not well, he was trying to convince me to go to another school”, she sighs, “Why I have to keep you a secret mummy? Am I going to be able to see you when I go to school?”

“Slow down and breathe, you are always in a hurry” she laughs, taking her to her lap, “Sweetie, I have told you why you should not let your father know about us, he needs to move on with his life, besides you promise” she chuckles.

“You will be able to see me anytime you want, you will have a wand and if I remember correctly there is a Whopping Willow in Hogwarts, you only need to talk to him like I show you and underneath the branches you can cast a portal, but you have to study hard and always need to let someone know where you are. There will be a time where you do not need me, but I always be there for you, my angel”

“Emilia, you have to promise me that you be very careful, there’s people that hate your father and will use you, so promise me, no wondering around alone.”

“I promise. Could you sing a la nanita, please?” Claudia looks down to her daughter and starts rocking back and forth and sing to her. Emilia fell asleep.
After hours of looking for her, Harry found her in the gazebo hammock asleep, he picks her up and kiss her in the forehead. “Mi amor chiquito (My little love), you are my strength, my hope, my life. I love you, my Emilia´. He got all he needs, right in his arms.

“I love you too, Papa and Happy Birthday” in a whisper.

Days before they move Harry went to the cemetery to say his goodbye to Claudia. He had white roses in his hands. He kneels and touches the simple cross that marks her resting place.

“Love, I have to go, but I promise to come as much as I can, Zac or Zary will keep flowers for you. Thank you, my love, because of you I have a life and the family that I always wanted. Emilia our miracle and blessing, she is beautiful you know, she looks like you. I’m so frighten, I don’t know if I will be able to let her go, we have never been apart. She is so little; here I close to her, there she will be alone, in a world that she barely knows. Yeah, probably I am an idiot; she needs adventure and magical education, I don’t know if I’m strong enough”, he sighs and put the flowers on the ground. “I love you”. Harry closed his eyes and went back to his memory in the beach when he first saw Claudia with her swollen belly. With misty eyes he stands and left to finish the preparations for their departure.

They are living today; the day is as their moods, cloudy and very rainy. Since they have a time difference they need to go early in the morning. It would be Emilia’s first time with a portkey, the trunks has already been taken by Zary and Zac as Mino, Emilia’s cat.

With promises of frequent writing and care packages; between tears and hugs, Harry activates the portkey that took them directly to Godric Hollow. Is not a big house but is cozy and have all muggle electronics that they would need. Not an easy task because electronics do not go well with magic, but Hermione came to the rescue using some very inventing charms. They do not call her the brightest witch of the age for nothing.

In the sofa is an envelope for Harry and a package for Emilia.

Dear Harry,
Welcome home. I hope everything is at your satisfaction. We will give you a couple of days to ajust to the time zone and surroundings. Yes we have prepared a welcome home party, I will write to you with the details tomorrow.
Love,
Hermione

“Papa, this is a Hogwats, A History book from Aunt Mione and got an inscription on it”

To my dear goddaughter,
This is my favorite book in the world and is my legacy to you. This is my copy for my Hogwarts years; I hope that you love it as much as I did.
Love, your godmother,
Hermione

“Yes, That’s Mione” , walking around the room, everything is so surreal, his parents photos in the mantel, muggle photos of Claudia and him, Claudia pregnant and Emilia growing up and one of him and her. “Let’s go see your room”
They went upstairs and the second door to the right was her room. They enter a room with a bay window with a seat on it, in pastel colors, with a beautiful dresser with a big mirror. She is not fan of having a lot of furniture. There is a book shelve with Emilia’s books, a desk with supplies muggle and magical, a walking closet full of her muggle clothing and robes.

“Papa, what is all this? There are too many clothes here; I will never use it all”

Harry smiles, “Do you like your room?” she turns to him a run to his arms, “I love it, thank you”.

“You must be hungry, let get something to eat and then we can take a walk, after that I have to give you a potion so you can sleep and get use to the new time zone” Emilia nodded and follow his father to the kitchen where Zary and Zac had prepared a meal for them and were feeding Mino.

After their walk, and before she went to bed, Harry sits beside her and recite with her the “Guardian Angel Prayer”

Angel of God, My Guardian, Dear
to whom God's love commits me here.
Ever this day be at my side
to light and guard and rule and guide.
Amen.

He kiss her and says to her “Buenas Noches, Mi amor chiquito, (Good night my little love) I love you”. This is a ritual that started with her grandmother after her first asthma attack and he repeated every night.

With sleepy eyes, she responded “I love you too, Papa” Before he leaves check the eucalyptus and camphor in the room.

Harry also will take the sleeping draught potion, but before he did he check all the wards and add some more setting them to his magic signature. He will consult Draco about some blood wards as well. He did eradicate the worst evil of all years ago, but he knows that he still have many enemies out there and he will not take any chances with Emilia.