Loved it!

Although there are more reasons Harry could be adopted than was mentioned, I understand his choice not to find his biological parents. James and Lily gave their lives for Harry. What more sign of love could a child want? There is no need to replace bad parents with new ones. Who knows what kind of people gave him up? Even if he was taken from someone who wants to know that about parents they love? The people who suddenly want to claim him are opportunists.

Great story.

This was great, of course Harry hasn't realized there are a few more options to choose from. He could have been kidnapped with is parents not knowing where he is or believing he is dead. He could have been given up for adoption for a good reason (young teen mother, incest, rape, ect) and his bio parent(s) didn't know the Potters had adopted him and even more reasons.

Thank you i actually know who my biological parents are though i have never met them i have the opportunity to but quite frankly i don't want to my adoptive father is a dead beat wanted for back child support and at this point may be dead and my adoptive mother passed from breast cancer 5 years ago and yet i still have no urge to see them. I know i was put up for adoption to have a better life at the time my biological parents and two sisters lived off and on in a vehicle and went days without food she didn't want that for me and put me up for adoption at birth. While true i did not have the best life in the world and there are many things i resent my adoptive mother for i can say i never went hungry, without clean clothes, or a roof over my head something my biological sisters lived through for many years. I am sure they resent their own mother i only met one of my biological sisters but have been told my biological mother was very flighty it wasn't from lack of money for food or rent that my sisters went hungry and homeless it was because she would spend all that months money on trips to Europe and then come home and live in cars and rely on charity to feed her and her kids. I am 28 now and have no need of a parent or even want of one though from the sound of things i am not impressed with them so even though i have could meet them my mother and father are the people who raised me and made me who i am today even if that person is not someone i particularly like most days I'm still me because of them.

Whooh powerful stuff right there..

Interesting; is this the end, or did you plan to write more?

So true for real life. This fic makes me happy.

good story

Wow, not the ending I expected but in a good, pleasantly surprising way. Awesome!

Interesting...I hope you continue this.

This would be great intro to a longer story. Please continue with it

This story was delightful. It also explored something many adopted children suffer from: the curiosity of others to find the adoptee's "real parents." My best friend and her brother were adopted (and, biologically, are not related at all). The day she (my friend) turned 18, people began to harass her to have her records opened to find her "real parents." When she pointed to her mom and dad and stated that THEY were her real parents, many of her friends (and some of her relatives) did not understand. I'm very thankful you didn't have Hermione (or someone else) pose the argument my friend heard most often: "You need to find your parents so that you don't accidentally marry or date your own brother." That argument hurt her a great deal. You may not have intended to address this issue, but thank you any way.

Now, a bit of constructive grammar criticism for you: "Whom" is very rarely the subject of a non-infinitive verb. Before using "whom," test to see if "him," "her," or "them" works. If not, use "who" instead. "Whom had been distracted" should be "who had been distracted." As should "whom his real parents were" have been "who his real parents were." (Linking verbs only take the nominative/subjective forms of pronouns. In other words, use "who," "I," "he," "she," "it," "you," "we," or "they" on both sides of any form of "to be" with the exception of the infinitive. :D)

This is a great story. I look forward to reading your other work.

You did a great job of showing that Harry actually has thought out the ramifications of his life and adoption much better than Hermione. I can easily see Harry deciding that people who hadn't claimed him in all this time were not people he wanted in his life.

It's interesting you chose to go this route. My Grandpa was adopted, and even though they offered him the opportunity to find out about his birth parents, whom his adopted parents apparently knew, and he didn't want to. He always considered them his parents, he was happy, and that was enough for him.