Chapter 36 Departure

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1st September 1991.

Harry woke up to a clumsy but adorable attempt at capture and confinement, he woke up with little Lily sitting on top of him while he is tied up and attached to his bed with at least four different bedsheets.

Lily is happily smiling at him as if she is very proud of her work. But this smile didn't last long as she is gently lifted from the bed and is stuck floating in the air.

All of the bedsheets holding him down unwrapped on their own as Harry slowly got up from his bed. Seeing this his little sister tried to run towards him but she is stuck in the air as if she is held by an invisible harness. After fidgeting around for a bit Lily gave up and stopped moving.

Harry stretched for a bit while his bed and many bedsheets on it neatly folded and organised themselves on their own. Seeing that Lily has calmed down he brought her down but as soon as her feet touched the ground she ran straight towards him and tightly wrapped herself around Harry.

"Lily caught you! Harry doesn't need to go to school. Harry stay here, Lily will teach you." She pleaded as she held him tightly with her small hands.

Harry picked his little sister and hugged her. "Don't worry I won't be gone long, I will be back for the Christmas holidays before you even notice that I was gone and you can write to me any time want, Hedwig will always come to take your letters." he said while lovingly patting her back.

Harry looked at the phoenix who is happily sitting on her perch enjoying the show. Traitor! Hedwig could have warned him but she is content to sit there and watch. Noticing his look the phoenix quickly took off and flew out the window while mentally telling him that she will meet him directly at the school.

After eventually letting him go Lily looked at Harry with water in her eyes but she remained strong and gave him a nod before running out of his room. Harry couldn't help but take a long sigh, love is really the strongest form of magic, it can make us do all kinds of ridiculous things. Even now many people's lives and the majority of his plans rely on him attending Hogwarts but seeing his little sister cry almost made him say screw that and stay home and just forget the rest of the world.

Harry took a deep breath and remained strong before making his way to the bathroom to take a shower and properly start this day. The rest of the morning can also be described as bittersweet for the Potters, even though everyone is happy there is a little sadness in the air.

Harry's parents almost on had a sad look on their faces a few times during this morning, like when Charlie mentioned this will be their last meal in the house for a while, or when their parents were taking their pictures while they were getting ready, etc. Sally the house-elf is openly weeping with a little hankie in her hand, she is one who was assigned to the triplets and took care of all three of them from the moment they were born.

As they were ready to go their grandfather took out three rings. These rings are simple sliver rings with a black gemstone at the centre. Harry, Rose and Charlie all took one and wore the ring on their right hand.

As soon as Harry wore the ring he felt a wave of magic coming from the ring going through his entire body. After a while, the ring gave a hum of acknowledgement and the Potter insignia briefly flashed inside the black gemstone before the entire ring turned invisible like it was never there in the first place.

These are the Potter family rings, these rings are connected to the collective potter family magic that has been passed down for generations so only a potter can wear them. Aside from all types of protective charms that protect the wearer from mind magic to automatically creating a magical shield in emergencies, etc. These rings are also connected to the Potter wards, so they can function as portkeys to Potter Manor in emergencies, give access to the floo network in the Potter Manor and other potter properties and can even be used to track other potters. The location detection of the ring can only be blocked under powerful concealment wards.

Since these rings are so important only the person with potter family magic can remove or wear this ring, the only way to forcefully remove the ring is to first kill the wizard only then can someone remove the ring from the wizard's corpse. Some Houses like Blacks and Gaunts even put nasty curses on their family rings to punish people for trying to steal their property.

Every House that has existed for more than a few centuries can create its own family ring and the wizards without such heritage protect themselves by buying multiple enchanted jewellery and accessories that provide the same functionality as the family ring.

After getting their rings Harry, Charlie and Rose took the floo to the station alongside their parents and the rest stayed behind.

Even though they reached the station half an hour early, the station is still brimming with Hogwarts students and their parents. Harry saw the Longbottoms standing at once side with Neville as they are covered by all sides by a horde of reporters.

The Potters obviously avoided the Longbottoms and their horde of reporters while his parents gave an apologetic look to their friends as they passed by without helping.

Before they got on the train his parents stopped them for one last talk. His mother started " Don't listen to your grandmother, you don't have to care about the Potter name and all that crap. Just be yourself and enjoy this time in your life, let us deal with these boring grown-up things okay, have fun, make friends and most of all respect your professors."

After that when all three of them were all set up on the train Harry's father came to him. "Don't tell your mother but I secretly kept the invisibility cloak in your trunk. Someone has to continue the marauders legacy but the cloak can cause a lot of trouble in the wrong hands so I trust you with it. Don't let your brother cause too much trouble with it but just the right amount of trouble is okay"