I'm not a hero

21

In the hospital room, a rare and unusual sight could be seen. Harry bloody Potter, top Slytherin and sass master level five was crying into his mother's shoulders. This surprised many people for many different reasons.

Sirius was surprised because Harry had visited him before in Azkaban and while Harry looked extremely uncomfortable he never cried, he also remembered that Harry barley cried as a baby as well. Remus tried to rack his memories for times he saw Harry cry and he could only remember from the top of his head was one time he actually saw it happen and that was when Harry was born. Heck, Harry was barley bothered when he was stabbed so it was definitely an unusual sight.

Dumbledore was also surprised, in his experience Harry always had three different looks. The 'I can't wait for you to finish so I can go' look, the 'I am getting pissed off look' and the 'I am irritating you and I'm bloody proud of it look'. Never before had he seen Harry cry.

In all honesty the boy was reminding him a lot of a younger Tom Riddle, both were smart, strong and handsome half-bloods that made their way into Slytherin and reached the top. He was also slightly worried with how Harry seemed to be much stronger than Tom was at his age.

Looking at Lily Potter hugging her son, Dumbledore could only wonder where his plan went wrong.

This wasn't the first time the Potters had woken up, the first time was when Adrian was about five and Dumbledore couldn't have that, he had made sure that the staff alert him before anyone else. He had gotten there and oblivated the healers before hitting James and Lily with a coma spell, then oblivating them whilst they were asleep. He only ever did that one time since, when Adrian was nine.

He had to keep them away so they couldn't affect Adrian, they would ruin his influence over him. He had planned to stage an accident when Adrian was older and get rid of both Potters, he would then blame Voldemort and Adrian would want to get revenge.

But now, he couldn't do that, the healers had alerted him and he realised that his spell had worn off but unfortunately Remus Lupin was in the room when the floo came. Remus had ran out of the room with such a surprising speed that Dumbledore didn't even have time to obliviate or even speak to the man, Dumbledore had decided to take action.

He went to the hospital wing, he found the healers trying to settle down a wild Lily and James Potter. He had hoped to have them settle down then quickly find out who knew they had woken up, but then Sirius and Remus arrived with Harry.

Dumbledore was thinking about this, he was an extremely powerful wizard and could chose to obliviate everyone in the room but that wouldn't be as easy as it appears.

Sirius and James, while suffering the physical effects of Azkaban and being in stasis, were still auror trained and dangerous men, even with the later not having a wand. Remus Lupin was also a brilliant duellist and would have defiantly made auror if he wasn't a werewolf, Lily Potter didn't have a wand but was also a person that one doesn't cross. Plus there's also the handful of healers in the room, Dumbledore had no idea about how strong they were and while he used to be a Gryffindor he wasn't a fan of jumping head first into the unknown.

Plus there was Harry Potter, the Slytherin who was just as dangerous with his hands and feet as he was with his wand. As evidenced by the Japanese war duels and his confrontations with Malfoy and his duel with Adrian.

If the boy was capable of non-verbal casting and swatting away spells, things that many adults struggled with then it was clear that the boy was powerful. Plus, Dumbledore for all of his magical knowledge had no physical combat knowledge and if Harry got close enough he could probably cause some serious damage.

With that, Dumbledore decided to let the events go on until he could find a way to fix everything.

"Look at you" Lily let go of Harry, she put her hands on his shoulders and looked at him from head to toe "so handsome, you take after your father but you have my eyes."