Mr. And Mrs. Potter of Godric's Hollow were as normal as could be, thank you very much. For wizards, that is. Their youngest child was a daughter named Carmen who was three. They also had a ten-year-old son named Nathan, (Nate for short) and their eldest, Harry, was sixteen. He had just begun his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. On December 20th, the Potters were celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah with their best friends Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and their families, when something… not normal happened to the people in that house….