Pain…..sorrow…sadness, those were the thoughts that ran through

James Potter as he lifted his head, his eyes still filled with black dots, his head still swarming.

What happened, his last memory was Voldemort pointing his wand at him and shouting the dreaded killing curse and him diving away then blackness,

God Lilly, Harry were they all right,he tried to get up but his leg was broken, desperately he called out, " LILY,HARRY,LILLY."

But no answer, James was beginning to panic when he heard someone charge into the ruined living room where he was, "James is that you," as a familiar face appeared. Remus.

His eyes were big as he helped James to his feet before crushing him into a hug.

"I thought you were dead," he said sobbing into James's shirt.

James patted his friend on the back before pulling away, " Remus, what happened, where's Lilly. And Harry. And what happened to Voldemort?"

Remus took a breath and said, "Lily and Harry are alive, something happened though and Voldemort was killed, Hagrid arrived shortly after to check what happened, but," Remus paused and stared his friend in the eye, " you are declared dead." Here he trailed off as anger took him of that filthy little traitor.

"What ?" asked James, his hazel eyes filled with worry as he realized it was either something difficult to say, or it was really bad news.

"The ministry has caught Sirius and they sent him to Azkaban," said Remus a little unsure how James was going to take the betrayal of his best friend.

"WHAT!" yelled James absolutely besides himself with fury, grabbing Remus by the shoulders he shook him hard," What...Exactly…...is…...he….doing…...there?" Growling out every word to the now terrified werewolf.

Remus managed to shake of James before protesting, "he was your secret keeper, only he could have told You Know Who where you were hiding with Lily and Harry,"

James stepped back as he realised what Remus and probably everyone else in the wizarding world thought when a thought occurred to him but he pushed it to the back of his mind as he sat down on the half blasted couch,

"Remus, Sirius was never our secret keeper, we secretly changed it to Peter at the last second because Sirius thought he would be too obvious the secret keeper which means," here James's eyes widened and Remus staggered back as he realised who had betrayed the Potters to Lord Voldemort.

Remus whispered one word, one name whose one action had ripped apart two families in one go, the Marauders who were family in everything but blood and the potters, whose one action had sent an innocent man to Azkaban, one of the same men that took him in, Peter Pettigrew.

Hi my first Harry Potter fanfic and hopefully the first of many