"I can't believe they're already 15 months old," Lily Potter said, slightly tipsy as she leaned over the table and looked lovingly at her husband James.
Lily, only at 21, already had two kids that she loved with all of her heart. Her firstborn, Harry, from the moment he was born, had the cutest little tuft of black hair on his head that only got more unruly as he continued to grow. The moment she saw him, she already loved him, but when she first saw that his eyes were the same beautiful shade of green as hers, she burst out crying. Then again, that was partially due to the fact that she was having contractions for the next child that would be born twenty-three minutes later.
When Alexander was born, her first reaction was to scream out in pain, as he broke her tailbone. He was definitely a bigger baby than Harry, but she loved him just as much despite the pain he caused her. He, surprisingly enough, didn't have any hair on his head, but he did have his father's warm brown eyes that melted her heart.
Since the moment they were born, they were a happy family. Lily and James had never gotten along better than they had in the first year of their children's birth, and it didn't change at all when Dumbledore sent them into hiding.
James, who had always been accustomed to having a large home, was uncomfortable at first being cramped into the small wooden home just a few kilometres from Potter Manor, which he had grown up in. Lily, on the other hand, was used to to the size of their new home and appreciated how cute and homely it was. Eventually, Lily's love for the small home wore off on him, and he couldn't help but love it too.
When Dumbledore had set up the Fidelius Charm, it had been a very hard decision for James and Lily to choose Peter over Sirius, but they knew it was the safer option. Who would ever suspect Peter as the secret keeper? Somewhere in James' heart, he felt immensely guilty for not considering Remus and even suspecting him as the spy, but he knew it was inevitable due to what he has and where the rest of his kind was aligned with. Besides, he had always trusted Dumbledore and Dumbledore was the one who suggested he might be a spy in the first place. James trusted Dumbledore so who was he to doubt him?
"I love both of them so much," James said emotionally, clearly more drunk than Lily. " I just hate that they're at risk because of Voldemort. I hate that we can't do anything about it and that we can't do more to protect him."
Lily looked at her husband reverently, loving him for how much he cared for their children and herself. "It's okay, James. It'll all be okay once this war is over. I just hope it won't be too far from now that this hell ends for us."
James nodded, pursing his lips as he glared at the ground. He repeated, "You're right, it'll all be over soon."
Just as these words left his mouth, awful-sounding alarms, like cats howling at something attacking them, went off. James and Lily's eyes instantly met, as the bartender announced, "There's been a sighting! He-who-must-not-be-named is here!"
An hour earlier, all was peaceful in Godric's Hollow as Peter Pettigrew babysat the Potter twins.
Pettigrew sat next to the boy's cribs and muttered, "I'm so sorry, James and Lily," before casting a Patronus and saying, "My Lord, it's time. The parents are away at dinner and it's just me and the twins."
The rat Patronus scampered away as Peter looked sadly towards the twins. Suddenly, two cracking noises went off and Peter flinched. The smaller of the twins, Harry, looked at him sadly while Alex slept soundly.
"I'm sorry, I'm just protecting Alice and I don't know how else to do it," Peter said to Harry, who seemed to understand everything he said. The bright green eyes met Peter's eyes, before looking down and staring at the floor, almost as if accepting his fate.
Peter stood up and walked to the front door to meet his master and he could hear a conversation between his master and the unmistakable voice of Severus Snape. "Which child is the one of the prophecy?" "I believe the first born, that's who I will kill first." "Ok, well I will see you at the celebration afterwards, my Lord." "Thank you for aiding me with this, Severus. You will be rewarded greatly tonight." "Thank you, my lord." Another cracking noise went out as Severus disapparated away.
The front door creaked open, revealing the cloaked figure of Lord Voldemort. Peter got down on his knee and bowed, saying, "My lord, they are upstairs in the bedroom."
"You are dismissed, Pettigrew. Remember the plan for tomorrow." Voldemort spoke coldly, not even sparing a look to his follower as he strode past him purposefully.
"Yes, my lord," Peter said respectfully before walking outside of the apparition wards and disappearing with a crack.
Voldemort walked towards the twin's bedroom without a second thought and walked in before looking down at the two children in front of him. One was glaring at him and sitting in front of his brother while the other was sound asleep.
An unsettling chuckle rang out through the room at the small child as he knelt down. "What beautiful green eyes you have. You must be Harry."
Harry looked at Voldemort uneasily and watched as alarms went off in the town and Voldemort's eyes snapped to the source of them. He turned back to the boy and said, "I can sense that you have great magical potential, I'm sorry that we didn't meet under different terms because I would've taken you in and raised you myself."
Voldemort took out his wand and without missing a beat, pointed it at the infant and muttered, "Avada Kedavra."
An explosion ensued as green light flashed throughout the room. The spell seemed to crash into the young boy but almost immediately deflect off of him. It was a rare phenomenon, but since the spell bounced off of him, the raw power and killing intent of the spell had nowhere to go and dispersed throughout the room. This sent out jaggedy cracks of magic all throughout the room, causing huge cracks in the walls and in the process, even giving his brother a nasty scar across his midsection.
Seconds later, when the magic had finished its work, the room was left looking as if an earthquake had just occurred, a robe was left on the ground, and both twins had scars.
Roughly two minutes later, Lily could be found running into the house, yelling, "James! Get in here, you drunk idiot!"
Moments later, said 'drunk idiot', could be seen tripping and falling everywhere he went as he had had a few drinks too many on their date night out. Lily entered the twin's room and screamed as she saw the state it was in.
Hearing his wife scream sobered him up (a little bit), and he managed to make it up the stairs (barely). He gasped in shock as he saw the walls and dresser with huge, jagged cracks in them and their twins both unconscious in their crib.
"Oh my gosh!" Lily exclaimed, running over to the crib and checking the boy's pulses.
She sighed in relief and muttered, "Oh thank Merlin," before turning to James and confirming, "They're fine."
James slumped against a wall and let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding. "What do you think happened?"
"I'm not sure," Lily said, "But we should contact Dumbledore immediately."
"They've defeated Voldemort!" Dumbledore exclaimed happily, looking at the shaken couple with sparkling eyes.
Lily gave him a quizzical look, "Both of them? I thought there was only one child of the prophecy?"
Dumbledore sighed and explained, "Yes, you're correct. And only one of them did defeat him, but we can't be sure which one it was due to the fact that they both have magical scars."
James glared at the old man, knowing that he wasn't telling the full truth. "What aren't you telling us? Is there something you're hiding?"
"Well, my boy," Dumbledore started sheepishly as James glared even more harshly. "It appears as if Harry has a much higher than average magical core for one his age. I suspect that he may have been the one to defeat Voldemort."
The couple nodded and gave each other looks. It almost seemed as if they were having a conversation silently before Lily finally spoke, "Spread the news that it was both of them. We don't want one growing up in the shadows so we want them to be seen as equals."
Dumbledore smiled, before thanking the couple and leaving, telling everyone who asked him that Alexander and Harry Potter were the twins-who-lived.
Ten years later, Ginevra, Molly, and Ron Weasley all stood outside of Flourish and Blotts, preparing to go in to buy Ron's books for his first year at Hogwarts. Ginny was as red as her hair and Molly Weasley squealed in excitement and Ron looked at them weirdly before asking, "What is wrong with you two?"
"Don't you know, Ron?" Ginny asked, giving her brother a judgemental look. "Today, the Potters are going to be making an appearance in Flourish and Blotts!"
Ron's jaw dropped and he instantly went to fix his hair. "Why didn't you mention it earlier? I would have worn my nicer robes!"
The two continued to bicker as they walked inside, only to stop talking as they saw the two celebrities, centred on the slightly elevated floor in front of them, standing beside their parents as they spoke to the crowd in front of them.
Harry was the shorter of the two but was thinner and leaner than his brother. He had ruggedly handsome good looks, just like his father, but had his mother's high cheekbones and aristocratic face. His green eyes seemed to glow with power but his facial expressions showed that he was nothing more than bored.
His brother, on the other hand, looked cheery and friendly. He had ruffled brownish-reddish hair and deep brown eyes that seemed to convey that he was a friendly person. His mother finished speaking and handed him the wand and he pressed it to his neck, allowing the sonorous charm to be applied to him. He began to speak about how much he appreciated all their fans and how he couldn't wait for his first year at Hogwarts.
All in all, just about everyone knew that Harry and Alexander Potter were bound to be the biggest heart throbs that Hogwarts had ever seen.
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