Chapter has been revised on 4/29/2014

Language: Spells, 'Thoughts & Parseltongue'

James and Lilly Potter were holding their newborn son in the nursery of St. Mungos. There was a knock on the door before a wizened old wizard with purple and red robes entered. They did not notice the power-hungry look the wizard gave their newborn as he looked at the small bundle cradled in Lily's arms.

"Hello Albus," James called out as he recognized the wizard. Albus sighed before he adopted a sad and weary appearance which made him look older and frail. James looked worried. "What is it professor, what's wrong?" James asked. James's tone of frantic worry made Lily look up from her son and take in the haggard appearance of her mentor and friend. Her eyes widened at his worn and sad appearance causing her to place her seemingly sleeping son in the cradle. Little Harry's eyes opened when his mother placed him down in the small cradle and watched as an old wizard spoke to his parents. He could not understand what was being said but he would always remember for he had been born with a gift, a very rare gift, that very few children were born with in the wizarding world. This gift was an eidetic or photographic memory. This allows Harry to remember everything he has ever heard or seen in perfect clarity.

The old Wizard hid a smirk. "I have been a witness to a prophecy one that concerns me. Voldemort is going to target both you and the Longbottoms for their son was born close to young Harry. I do not know who the child of prophecy is but I am warning both of you to go into hiding. I have also seen Frank and Alice about going into hiding with their son Neville." Albus Dumbledore said voice filled with sadness.

James and Lilly potter were playing with Harry when the wards around their cottage shook once and fell. James leapt up brandishing his wand. Turning to his wife he gestured up the stairs.

"He's here Lilly, take Harry and run." James said before rushing off to defend his family from the wizard invading their home. Standing in the doorway was a tall wizard with dark ebony robes on and a hood obscuring his face. James though he had caught a glimpse of silvery white hair beneath the hood but paid no mind to it. Before James had a chance to confront the wizard he was hit by a green light. The last thing that came to his mind was 'he cast the deadly unforgivable silently'. The wizard chuckled darkly as James fell. . He lowered the hood from his head and Albus waved his wand around himself.

"Rubrum oculos, candidum facie, naribus enim colubri" Albus mumbled. His appearance changed to that of a pasty-faced man with glowing red eyes. He took his hand and tapped his wand placing a glamour on it to make it appear to be made of white yew in the shape of a bone. Before he went upstairs he placed several small glass spheres around the different rooms starting with the kitchen. He touched each of the spheres with his wand before murmuring "dissilio". Oncethe spheres were charmed into explosives he started to head upstairs.

"Now it's time for the idiotic mudblood." He said quietly to himself.

AN: Rubrum oculos, candidum facie, naribus enim colubri loosely translated from Latin means "Red eyes, white face, the nose of the serpent". Dissilio loosely translates to "To burst"