AN: This is a fic that has been sitting on my hard drive for years. I wrote it as part of my wridanoJune total in 2009 and it has been on my hard drive ever since with little to no love or care since then. I intend to post a chapter a week, mainly so that it spursme on to continue it. I had at one point intended to complete it then post, but this way wasn't working as I wasn't writing to continue it but working on other things. This way I need to write some of it each week so as to not run out of fic to post.

I intend to post between twelve and two GMT time on Mondays, but it may be either earlier or later, depending on what I am working. I hope you enjoy this fic and you let me know your opinions. Constructive criticism is always welcome.

I also know that there is another Harry Potter Torchwood crossover on fanfiction . net with a similar name, I want to say that I have not read that fic and the title for this was chosen by the 30th of June 2009, and that I am not trying to take anyones thunder so to speak.

Caz251

Ianto Jones was a man that was always seen as calm and composed, except by those who knew him intimately, like his boss, Captain Jack Harkness or who had seen him in life threatening danger, like the other members of the team, Owen, Gwen and Toshiko. Ianto's calm façade was what the team as a whole hid behind, he was their front although Jack was their leader. Ianto ran their decoy tourist office, cleaned up for them, filed and researched objects, stopped others from finding out about them, and saved them all from the death that would come from drinking Owens' coffee. He was simply the glue that held Torchwood 3 together.

It was no surprise then that when Jack disappeared a few hours after coming back to life again, Ianto was put in charge by the rest of the team. Ianto reluctantly took over as the head of Torchwood, even though his personal life had just fallen apart, Jack having been his lover. He was not in charge for long though as a week after Jack had disappeared, he returned. It had been six months now since Jack had been away with the Doctor, the team only knew that he was away trying to figure out why he couldn't die, though both Ianto and Owen knew of the year of torture and constant death he suffered. Ianto knew because it was him who held Jack through his nightmares and Owen because he was his Doctor, the girls however were kept in the dark for their own peace of mind. Jack and Ianto's relationship had progressed since he came back, and Jack had even moved out of the hub and into Ianto's large apartment.

Ianto was at this point however annoyed, he had been standing in this queue for about five minutes and no-one had moved yet. He'd only come in to buy milk and coffee beans, but as it was a few weeks from Christmas, the place was packed. In front of him were two police women, talking about something that caught his interest. Apparently, one of them had worked in Surrey, England before being transferred to Cardiff, she had been looking into a case about the abuse of a little boy, when everyone on the case had suddenly forgot all about it except her. When she tried to mention the case to her commanding officer she was then transferred from that station, to one in another country.

To Ianto it sounded like someone had done a bad job of a retconning, having forgotten someone. Before he could think on it further, his phone rang, looking at the caller ID he saw that it was Owen, great. "Hello, what do you want, Owen?", he answered, trying not to sound annoyed, knowing that Owen probably called to get him to pick up some cakes or something.

"Ianto, are you alright, you've been a while and Jack wants to know if your okay. Jack and I are about to head out to Splott, there is another Weevil wandering about, Tosh is staying here though, we should be back in an hour.", Owen said.

"Yes, I'm fine, I'm stuck in a queue trying to get the coffee, I'll see you when you get back then, listen Owen, remember when Jack gave Gwen the B67 and she fought it, what are the chances of that happening, I mean is it possible for it to happen if you had no knowledge of anything having happened before you passed out.", Ianto asked.

"I'm not sure, I'll think about, have you got something then, you seem to have got yourself hooked with something.", Owen answered.

"I don't know, maybe, I'll see you and Jack later, maybe Tosh might know something, Bye.", Ianto finished before hanging up. In the time he had been on the phone, the queue had moved and he was next to be served.

He quickly paid for his purchases and hurried after the two police officers, catching up with them as they neared his car. Calling after them he asked if he could have a moment of their time. "Sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but I heard what you said when in that queue about the little boy. I was wondering if you could perhaps tell me more, the boys name and maybe your contact details, so I can get in touch with you if I need to.", he said.

"I'm PC Cathy Davies, I'm sorry, I can't just give information about a case to anyone. I don't even know your name.", she said.

"Oh, right, sorry, I'm Ianto Jones, I'm with Torchwood. Do you want to see some ID.", he said, as he pulled his identification out of his pocket. PC Davies looked at his identification for a moment before replying, "Alright, I live a few blocks from here, if we take a walk to my flat I can give you my file on the boy."

Ianto nodded, "Thanks, this is my car though so I might as well give you a lift, it will be quicker all round."

PC Davies agreed and before long Ianto was back in his office behind the tourist office, reading through the file she had given him on the little boy, Harry Potter. The information that the police had gathered about his family, from the teacher who had reported the abuse, was that he stayed with his aunt, uncle and cousin, his parents having died in a car crash. Having already decided to help the boy, with or without Jack's permission, he did his own search for information about him on the databases, to add to his own knowledge of the child.

What he found was that the little boy was the saviour of the wizarding world, yes Torchwood knew of the wizarding world, even if it did specialize in aliens, and usually stays out of their business. Minster Fudge doesn't like them because Torchwood holds more power than the ministry and because they are 'only' muggles. His parents were James Tiberius Potter and Lillian Calah Potter nee Evans, James' family being pure-blooded for centuries and Lily, a muggleborn. His godmother was interesting though, Alice Jane Longbottom nee Cooper, turns out to be the younger sister of their very own, Gwen Cooper.

What really intrigued Ianto though was Harry's great-grandfather on his mother's side, Lily Evans was only adopted into the Evans family, her mother died in childbirth and her father had died the month preceding her birth. Lily Potter was in fact a Harkness, Jack's granddaughter. He gathered all the information that he had on the child, ready to give to Jack when he arrived back, knowing that he would need Jack's help to get Harry out of the care of his abusive 'aunt' and 'uncle'.

Ianto knew however that even if Jack refused to help, he would remove Harry anyway, not because he was the saviour of the wizarding world, but because he was Lillian's child. A fact not commonly known about Ianto was that he was a wizard, his family knew of course, as well as Jack, Tosh and Owen, but all his other friends, his muggle ones at least, had no idea. Ianto had gone to school with Harry's parents, and was sorted into the same house as Lily, Slytherin. Although most people, i.e. the wizarding public, or sheep, believed Lily to have been in Gryffindor, this was not true, she was the Slytherin Queen.

Lucius Malfoy had left Hogwarts as Ianto, Lily and Severus, their other best friend, entered their fifth year, the position of the Head within the Slytherin house, known as King or Queen, should have gone to his betrothed Narcissa, but she denied the responsibility handing the title to Lily. The title could have gone to either himself, Severus or Lily, they had always been a brilliant team, each with their own talents for infiltrating the other houses, before Lily became royalty they were known as the Silver Trio. Severus always knew what was happening in Slytherin, as well as the staff room, he himself with his quiet and studious nature was great for infiltrating the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws. Lily however was the ultimate snake, in that she was able to hide in lions clothing, she infiltrated the Gryffindors, she proved herself as being worthy to be crowned, and she became their Queen, Queen Lillian.

Entering the main part of the hub where Toshiko was sitting in front of some new program she was making, he put the file on his desk to give Jack.

"Hey Tosh, what are you doing? I take it that not much is happening today?", Ianto asked.

Toshiko turned to face Ianto before speaking, "Hey, just a new security program I'm trying to debug. I don't think there is anything, Jack and Owen should be back any minute though, they lost the weevil, but were going to bring back some lunch to save you from ordering some."

Before Ianto could reply the door rolled open revealing Jack and Owen carrying bags of food. They made their way straight to the board room, so grabbing the file for Jack to read Ianto followed, Tosh only seconds behind him. As he sat down Ianto gave the file to Jack, "I suppose Owen put to you my query from earlier. I overheard two policewomen talking and from what one was saying it sounded like she had been retconned and had remembered or she had been forgotten about and missed the dose of retcon."

Jack nodded to him as he flicked through the file, "Well, I decided to find out what they had been working on to find out why they had been retconned and by whom. What I found however was a history of abuse to a young boy of five, Harry Potter, so it's not a case of someone resisting retcon, it's someone has been missed when the memory charms were being done."

Owen looked up from his Chinese at this point, "You mean this kids being abused and someone else is covering it up. Do we know who or why?" If there was one thing Ianto and Owen had in common it was their hatred towards child abusers.

Ianto nodded, "Yes, someone's covering it up. As for the who and why I can only guess. The who, I would say would be the same person who his trying to portray his mother as the perfect Gryffindor, Albus Dumbledore. As for why, the only thing I could come up with was to make him idolise him for saving him from the abuse, by allowing him to attend Hogwarts."

"So, what are we going to do about this? I mean can we do anything about it?", Toshiko stated.

"I'm getting him out of there no matter what, with Jack's help it should be a lot easier due to his relation to him, but even without your help he's going home with me.", Ianto stated, in a tone that the rest sitting at the table knew not to argue with.

"Of course we're getting him out of there, Yan. Tosh, I need you to draw up some adoption papers please, Yan, can you deal with the magical papers please. Then Ianto and I will go and collect him.", Jack answered.

Toshiko and Ianto both left to deal with adoption papers, Jack and Owen left in the board room. As Owen was about to leave to start on his paperwork, Jack spoke, "Right, while we are away, once you and Tosh finish any paperwork, can you give this place a quick tidy, then head over to ours."

When Owen nodded he continued, "I need you to furnish the spare room for a five year old boy, charge everything to the torchwood card and I'll deal with it later, get some toys, books, etc, you know, kids stuff. And if you could work out roughly what size he is from that file and get him a few outfits. We should only be a few hours, but I'll need you to do a full medical check for me when we get back."

They spoke for a few more minutes before Ianto came back with both sets of adoption papers, Tosh following behind him. As Ianto put the papers in his briefcase Jack spoke to Toshiko, "Right, Owen knows what I want the pair of you to do, no fighting whilst we're away. Oh and can one of you phone Gwen and let her know what's happening."

They nodded as he stepped up behind Ianto putting his arms around his waist for him to apparate them both. When he took in his new surroundings, Jack found himself to be in the centre of Surrey, raising an eyebrow at Ianto, he was pulled into a small café.

"One thing you need to know about the Dursley family is that they don't like anything abnormal. So we are going to hire a car and drive to their house, because if I was to apparate us there, we wouldn't get in the front door.", Ianto said as he ordered two teas to go.

Owen and Toshiko finished their paperwork, not that there was much, before cleaning the hub and heading over to Jack and Ianto's flat. Toshiko quickly tidied up, something that only took a few minutes due to Ianto's magic and obsessive compulsive behaviour, whilst Owen entered the spare room. The room was painted a pale blue with a royal blue carpet, perfect for a little boy, quickly taking a mental note of what he would need to buy.

Entering the living room, he noticed Tosh sitting on the couch on the phone to Gwen, "No Gwen, it's alright we're fine, Jack and Ianto have gone to pick him up, you just enjoy the rest of your trip and we'll see you on Monday."

Owen sat down to wait for her to finish the phone call before speaking, "What I was thinking of doing was, if we both go to buy his furniture, then you come back here and wait for it to be delivered, whilst I go buy him some clothes and toys. How good are you at painting? I was thinking of getting some of that paint that when it dries is like a chalkboard for the bottom half of one wall."

Tosh quickly agreed and they spent the next few hours setting up the room for a five year old child. When they were finished the bottom half of one wall was painted to be a chalkboard, the ceiling had been painted with some star constellations. The bed, bookshelves, chest of drawers, desk and bedside table were made of pine, the bed made up with blue linen. A blue swivel chair sat pushed under the desk, a blue beanbag at the other side of the room, the drawers had been filled, the top two with socks and underwear, the others with a few tops, jumpers and trousers. A pair of black shoes sat next to a pair of Nike trainers on the pine shoe rack next to it, the bookcase had been placed under the window that was covered by blue curtains, and had a few books on fairytales and other children's stories. In one corner of the room sat an art chest, also made of pine that was full of paper, paint, chalks, pens, etc, and sitting on the bed was a large brown teddy bear.