The Allfather cannot place full trust in the tension filled Avengers team. Instead he sends his oldest son to assist in retrieving the Tesseract and return his two youngest sons back to Asgard. His oldest son who has not set foot on Midgard in over 2000 years. The one that carries a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead and holds a certain mastery over death. [also on AO3]

Albus Dumbledore is visited by an unexpected entity on the night he delivers a newly orphaned Harry Potter to Number Four Privet Dr. This being promises a happy and loving life for the Boy-Who-Lived if Dumbeldore accepts their offer to prepare Harry for the future that lies ahead. What would happen if Harry was raised away from the Dursleys, away from this world altogether?