Professor Dumbledore, stubborn man that he was, did not like to admit his faults, but even he had to admit that that first meeting could have gone much, much better. Madam Pomfrey originally wanted to take everyone back to Hogwarts so that she could properly make sure everyone was okay but Dumbledore refused. One reason why he refused was because it was widely known in Hogwarts that Madam Pomfrey would look after patients far longer than necessary, honestly the woman worried so much. Though the other reason was because he finally knew where Harry Potter was and he did not want to risk him going away again.
So after some arguing Madam Pomfrey waved her wand and healed everyone the best she could, which basically meant they were all pretty much healed, but despite she insisted that everyone would be meeting her in the hospital wing when they got back, the three Professor nodded at that, resigned to spending time in the woman's care.
Luckily Professor Dumbledore was able to (barely) convince the man who appeared to own the building to have a meeting, which was why Dumbledore and his colleagues were now sat in the office of the man called Xavier.
Professor Xavier was sat behind his desk while Dumbledore, Snape, Pomfrey and McGonagall sat opposite him. Dumbledore didn't particularly like that fact as he felt like a child, which was something he had not been in over a hundred years. Dumbledore was sat with Professor Snape sitting on his left while Professor McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey sat on his right. Dumbledore's eyes glanced towards his right and saw the five people standing next to the wall.
The first was a black skinned woman with white hair, despite the colour of her hair she looked quite young. Next to her was a muscular man with short black hair and two tuffs of hair standing straight up, he had his arms crossed and his eyes were narrowed and looking at Dumbledore and the other Hogwarts staff. For some reason Dumbledore felt like these were not ordinary muggles.
Next to them were the three children, the red headed girl with green eyes, Dumbledore suspected that she was magical as well, how else would she have been able to push back Professor Snape like that? The fact that she was able to fight off Snape's mental probe meant that she was likely a powerful one. Then there was the brown haired girl who was holding a cat, she and the cat appeared to be glaring at Professor Snape. Dumbledore remembered the shock he and the others had felt when he saw those bone claws shoot out of her skin. He had wondered if she was fully human, but judging by the closeness of her and Harry, she was most likely his sister, Laura.
Then there was the last one, Harry Potter. Dumbledore wondered where he got those metal claws from, was that a muggle thing? Giving children weapons? No...they came out of his hand, just like with the girl. Dumbledore looked at Harry, he was not the skinny boy with messy hair and glasses that Dumbledore had expected him to be, no instead the boy appeared to be healthy with perfect vision and spiky hair and...Dumbledore's eyes widened to near comical sizes when he noticed there was no lightning bolt scar on Harry's forehead. He hadn't noticed it before because he had been distracted - he had been attacked and stabbed in the feet by an eleven year old after all - but now it was right there in front of him.
Harry noticed the old man staring at him, he was about to say something but was beaten to it by Logan.
"What are you looking at?" Logan growled at him.
"Where is your scar?" Dumbledore asked Harry, ignoring Logan for the moment.
"What scar?" Harry frowned.
"My goodness," Professor McGonagall gasped when she saw that Harry did not have the famous lightning scar that he was known for. "it's gone." She breathed.
"What the fuck are you lot on about?" Harry asked.
"Harry," Jean spoke before any of the other adults could speak. "don't you remember that Dr Strange got us all of those books?"
"You mean those books that I skimmed?" Harry asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Never mind." Jean rolled her eyes. "Remember that you're famous because Voldemort..." She paused when most of the most adults gasped or shivered with the exception of the old man. Jean was about to ask but stopped when she remembered that people in the magical world were afraid of speaking his name. "...tried to kill you and left you with that scar." She finished
"Oh right." Harry said before he turned to Dumbledore. "I never remembered having that scar."
"Forget the scar, let's talk about you four." Logan said as he looked at the four magical adults.
"Yes," Professor Xavier agreed with a nod. "how about we start with why you broke into my school and attacked my students?"
"Mr Xavier, we did not break in," Professor Dumbledore began. "nor did we attack your students."
"Really?" Ororo snorted. "You entered without permission and without even informing anyone that you would be coming, you then tried to read the mind of one girl, threw a cat and blasted another girl into a wall. Have I missed anything?" She said as she glared down at them.
"I apologise," Professor McGonagall spoke up. "my colleagues sometimes do not think things through." She finished by glaring at Snape and Dumbledore who both expertly ignored it.
"It appears to me that you all know about magic. We are from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," Dumbledore spoke. "the women with me are Madam Pomfrey, she's the school nurse, Professor McGonagall who is the head of Gryffindor house, deputy headmistress and teacher of transfigurations. The man beside me is Professor Snape, head of Slytherin house and teacher of potions. I am Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster. I do apologise but I do not know all of your names."
"I am Professor Charles Xavier, I own this school." Professor Xavier began. "The woman you see with you is one of my teachers, Miss Ororo Munroe, the man next to her is Logan, another teacher of mine. The girl with the red hair is Jean Grey, the other two children are Laura and Harry Potter, Logan's grandchildren."
"Grandchildren?" Dumbledore repeated with a frown, he looked at Logan. "You are most definitely not Harry's grandfather on his father's side, he is dead. So that must mean..."
"Lily's father." Snape finished as he looked at Logan. "No...you can't be...I've met Lily's father."
"She was adopted." Logan grunted.
"Then why didn't you ever come to take care of her?" Madam Pomfrey frowned.
"I don't know." Logan answered.
"How can you not know?" Professor McGonagall frowned.
"Logan has had some injuries in the past that has left him with memory loss," Professor Xavier explained. "until he had met Harry and Laura, he did not even know that he had a daughter."
"Are you sure that you're Lily Potter's father?" Professor McGonagall asked. "You look far too young to be her father."
"Blame that on the healing factor." Logan snorted.
"Healing factor?" Madam Pomfrey.
"It's part of his mutant abilities." Jean said. "We're all mutants."
"Mutant?" Professor Dumbledore blinked, looking confused.
"Ah," Professor Xavier opened a drawer from his desk and took out four brochures before he placed them on the desk. The four Hogwarts staff members took one when he gestured towards them. "I sometimes meet parents who require more information about mutants, if you read through that then it should give you a very basic explanation about mutations. But for a simple answer, mutants are regular people who are born slightly differently, born with a small change in their DNA. For some it comes in appearances, for others they gain abilities suck as enhanced strength or the ability to move objects with their minds like Jean."
"You're trying to tell us that this little girl can move things with her mind?" Snape scoffed as he looked down at Jean.
"Actually," Jean glared at him as she slowly lifted him up into the air, Snape's face shifted into one of shock, just like the other Hogwarts staff members. "I CAN move stuff with my mind." She finished before she lowered him back down, though she may have dropped him down less gently than she could have.
"What other abilities do you all possess?" Dumbledore asked as he looked at Professor Xavier. He sent a small mental probe to Professor Xavier.
"Oh goodness me," Professor Xavier sighed as he casually batted away Dumbledore's mental probe. "Mr Dumbledore, I have been willing to hear you out, but if you try to read my mind again then I will kick you all out."
"Albus!" Professor McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey gasped while Dumbledore looked like he could not comprehend what had just happened.
'My mutations allows me to read minds', The Hogwarts staff all turned to Xavier, they could hear him speak but they could not see his mouth moving, it took them a moment but they had realised that he was speaking in their mind. 'I can read your minds as well, but I am at least decent enough to understand that it is bad behaviour. Now, Mr Dumbledore, would you like to apologise?'
"I...I meant no offence," Professor Dumbledore spoke once he was finally able to regain the ability to speak. He was more than a little worried about this muggle having the ability to read his mind so he decided to quickly try and get on the man's good size. "I just wanted to make sure that you were not trying to trick us."
"Hmm," Professor Xavier hummed, he did not believe that answer at all and he had seen why Professor Dumbledore had wanted to read his mind, it was simply because the man had an obsessive need to know as much as possible and he wanted to see if he could take advantage of any of them. "now..."
"Oh, can we just skip straight to it?" Harry impatiently interrupted before he looked at the Hogwarts staff. "Look, you want me and my sister to come to your school, right?"
"Yes," Professor Dumbledore nodded. "I..."
"Yeah, well forget it." Harry cut him off. "You broke into our home, tried to read our minds and you attacked my sister and her cat. We're going to a different school." Harry said as he pulled out three letters. He handed one to Laura and the other to Jean. "These arrived today." He told them.
"Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have accepted us." Laura told Logan, Ororo and Professor Xavier after she had read the letter cover and who it was from. Ilvermorny being the most popular and best American school of magic.
"I got a letter as well!" Jean gasped, "Does that mean I'm a witch?!" She asked.
"It must be, they wouldn't send you a letter otherwise." Ororo replied.
"Wait a moment, Mr and Miss Potter cannot go to Ilvermorny," Professor Dumbledore quickly interrupted. "they must go to Hogwarts."
"And why would they do that when they have a perfectly good school in the same country?" Logan asked, wanting to see what the old coot would say. Logan knew that he was probably older than Dumbledore but at least he didn't have so many wrinkles.
"Hogwarts is the best school available." Professor Dumbledore replied.
"I'd settle for second best if it means I don't have to move to an entirely different continent." Harry shrugged as if to say 'what else you got?'.
"Your parents both went to Hogwarts, as did generations of your father's family." Professor McGonagall spoke.
"My parents are also dead, I'd rather not copy everything about them." Harry responded.
"My boy, you are quite famous there, the public look up to you, you'd be a celebrity." Dumbledore said, dangling what he thought was a pretty tasty carrot.
"Pass." Harry said easily. "I'd rather try the American school out, they probably don't try and read people's minds every couple of seconds."
"I'm with Harry." Laura agreed. "They probably don't break into people's homes and throw their cats." Laura finished, glaring at Snape while Felix hissed.
"Oh give me a break." Snape rolled his eyes as he looked at her as if she was the most pathetic thing he had ever seen.
"Come closer asshole and I'll do just that." Logan said with Harry growling alongside him, neither of them were liking the way this asshole was looking at Laura.
"You don't scare me." Snape sneered at Logan.
"That's because you don't know who I am." Logan said as he raised a hand and three metal claws popped out of his hand, Snape's eyes widened slightly. "And you should consider yourself lucky that grease stains are hard to get out of the carpet, because if they weren't then I would properly introduce myself. Now keep your beady little eyes in your sockets and stop looking at my granddaughter like that or I will make sure that you never forget who I am." Logan warned, glaring at Snape. Snape rarely found himself intimidated by anyone since he had become an adult, there were a few exceptions, but never had he expected a muggle with metal claws to be one of them. Though it wasn't just the claws, it was the animalistic aura that he felt coming from the man.
"Thank you, Grandpa." Laura smiled up at him.
"You're welcome sweetie." Logan said without breaking his glare.
"From what little time we have spent with you, at least two of you have shown that you should not be allowed anywhere near children." Ororo spoke. "I am all in favour of our children not attending your school."
"I'm sorry, but Harry and Laura must go." Dumbledore said, he only really needed Harry since he was the one the prophecy spoke of, but he wanted Laura as a backup just in case he was wrong. "When your parents accepted that you would both attend Hogwarts a magical contract was created."
"It was a common thing to do at the time since during the war parents wanted a safe place for their children to stay and there was no place safer than Hogwarts," Professor McGonagall added. "many parents - including James and Lily - had accepted magical contracts that would ensure their children would go to Hogwarts, that way there was much less ways for someone to try and keep them away from what many considered and still considered to be the safest place on Earth."
"Exactly," Professor Dumbledore nodded, very glad he had been able to talk James and Lily into signing those contracts before they died. "Harry and Laura must go."
"What if they do not? What happens then?" Ororo asked, narrowly beating out Professor Xavier.
"Their magic will nudge them towards Hogwarts and if they still do not go and break the contract then that could result in the loss of their magic." Professor Dumbledore added.
"That is a serious thing," Madam Pomfrey frowned. "magic is a part of them and to lose it would cause serious mental, emotional and physical damage, it could even kill them."
"Hmm." Professor Xavier did not make a habit of reading minds whenever he could but he did read the minds of the four in front of him because he really did not trust them at the moment. Though he made sure to be quick in case there was some way that they could catch him, he knew it was hypocritical since he had told Dumbledore off for it earlier, but he had already failed these children before and did not want to do it again. "I have a friend who is a magical expert, I will discuss this with him, though for now Harry and Laura will be attending Hogwarts."
"What?!" All the other mutants in the room said at the same time, they would have said more if not for the quick mental message that Professor Xavier had sent them.
"Excellent," Dumbledore smiled, glad to get his way. "we can escort the children to get their supplies today and..."
"That will not be necessary, I have someone who can help us with that." Professor Xavier cut him off.
"You might but it would be no trouble to take them today." Dumbledore said.
"Perhaps not for you," Professor Xavier said with a small but fake smile. "do not worry, my friend is an expert on magical Britain, I'm sure he will not steer us wrong, and if he does then I will be sure to contact you."
"Very well," Dumbledore sighed. "I..."
"Though, I do have some concerns that I need to address." Professor Xavier interrupted. "First of all, I will look into receiving a class list to see what subjects you teach but i do not believe that it's wise for Laura and Harry to attend potion's class."
"What?!" Snape looked at him with disbelief.
"One reason is because they both have enhanced senses thanks to their mutation, they are both working on controlling it but I do worry about the way fumes, chemicals and whatever else could be in that class could affect them. Secondly because I do not believe that Mr Snape and the children will get along."
"The brats are demanding special attention now?" Snape said with disbelief.
"Don't call us brats!" Laura snapped at him.
"Listen you stupid girl, I will..." Whatever Professor Snape was about to say was cut off when Harry suddenly charged at him, before anyone could do anything, Snape was on the floor, screaming in pain, Harry had stabbed him in his left shoulder with his right claws, the same shoulder as last time. Harry moved his other claws moved towards Professor Snape's mouth with the intent of cutting off Snape's tongue. Fortunately - or unfortunately depending on your point of view - Harry was pulled off by Logan and Ororo. The former doing so with very, very, very, super extreme reluctance.
"Don't you dare insult my sister!" Harry roared as he was being pulled off.
"That would be the third reason." Professor Xavier dryly finished as he rubbed his eyes.
"What the hell do you mean we're going there?!" Harry demanded once the Hogwarts staff had left.
"I have read their minds," Professor Xavier sighed. "and it appears to be true, you will actually lose your magic if you don't attend. I told them what they wanted to hear. I will contact Dr Strange, and see what he thinks about this, if he thinks there is a way to get you both out of this then you will not be attending, but if not then..." Professor Xavier trailed off.
"Try not to attack any people while you're there." Ororo said, mostly speaking to Harry.
"It's not my fault, you left me unsupervised." Harry shrugged.
"If Harry and Laura are going to Hogwarts then I'm going with them." Jean said suddenly.
"You don't have to go because of us." Laura said in a quiet voice.
"You're not getting rid of me that easily." Jean joked before she spoke in a serious tone. "And you're both my friends, if you think I'm leaving you with them then you've got another thing coming. Between the three of us, they won't stand a chance."
"I..." Harry was cut off by the sound of his mobile phone ringing. He answered it and was about to speak when the other person began speaking. "...it might not be just the four of us," Harry said to the girls after a few moments of silence. "it turns out Emma got a letter as well."