It's Been Sixteen Years.

What If Harry's parent's instead of dying all those years ago. Mearly had decided to disappear and go into hiding again not telling anyone. Not even Dumbledore. And leaving Harry in the process. Now with Voldemort gone they are able to leave and finally reconnect with the son they haven't seen in sixteen years.

AN: Sirius doesn't die in my story. He still escapes Azkaban and everything he does in the books still happens but Bellatrix's curse just misses him and he kills her instead. And in the Battle of Hogwarts Harry gets to Voldemort before anyone gets killed.

Also I own nothing of the Harry Potter series. JK does.

Chapter 1: The Past sixteen Years

Lily's POV

The night I had leave my baby was the worst night of my life. When we had left we had thought he was dead. I wouldn't have let James pull me away from him otherwise. It wasn't until a few months later that we heard that he was alive and that he was deemed The Boy Who Lived, although nobody seemed to know where he was or even who was raising him. I still remember that night like it was yesterday.

*****flashback*****

Voldemort had just left after using the killing curse on my son. My baby. My Harry. I thought James had been killed as well. It wasn't until he had entered the room looking for us that I had found out otherwise. 'Lily, Harry, where are you?' I could hear him shouting. I couldn't say anything back to him I could only think about my baby being dead. 'Lily, there you are, is Harry ok? Please say Harry's ok.' I could only look at him. I shook my head. 'He got him, James. He took him. My baby. He was barely one year old. How is that fair. Only one year with my baby.' James looked like he wanted to cry at hearing this fact but held off, he needed to be strong for his wife. 'Lily we need to get out. He could still come back.' She vehemently shook her head. 'No, I can't leave him.' He knew she wouldn't, possibly couldn't move so he moved and got her to stand up and started to pull her away. She started to struggle but he kept his firm grip on her and pulled her out and away from the house that had been there home in which they had intended to raise their son.

Ever since then they had moved all over the world never staying for too long making sure that they weren't recognised. Lily wasn't doing to well, not eating or sleeping, until they had discovered that Harry had indeed survived. That's when she got better. Especially when she heard that the dark lord was supposedly gone. Although they knew deep down that he wasn't and sure enough some years later they heard he was back and up to his old tricks and going back after Harry. They hated abandoning they're son but they had found that he was given into the care of Lily's sister Petunia and her husband and knew that he was safe and ok.

*****flashback ends*****

The moving was the only reason they had survived so many years away. And now they heard that Harry had done the impossible and defeated the Dark Lord for good and this time they knew he was gone.

That was what brought them here, standing in front of an old friends family home, where they had found Harry had been staying for the past few weeks since they battle at Hogwarts. They were about to go inside and see they're son for the first time in sixteen years. As they knocked on the door they heard a familiar voice shout out and say 'Harry dear, can you get that for me.' they heard a polite 'Sure thing Mrs. Weasley.' 'Tsk Harry. What have I told you, its Molly.' 'Sorry, Mrs- Molly.' 'Good now get the door please dear.' James felt Lily tense at his side knowing that whoever was to open the door would in fact be their son. The door opened and they saw what looked to be a teenage James, but with the green eyes of Lily. 'Hello Harry.' James had said. Harry looked like he was seeing a ghost and fell to the floor, collapsing.

Mrs. Weasley's POV

Molly Weasley was having her usual day. She was beginning to come to terms with the loss of her son now. It hurt considerably to begin with but after they had the funeral she had begun to feel like she was beginning to get closure on the ordeal and was getting back to herself more as each day past. She was in the kitchen preparing lunch for everbody. Since the war had finished all the family had decided to stick around for a bit afterwards each helping the other to come to terms with the loss of one of them. Even though Ron and Hermione had left to retrieve Hermione's parents but had returned only a few days previous. She heard a knock on the door and decided to get Harry who was only in the parlor with Ginny to get it. 'Harry dear, can you get that for me,' She heard his polite-as-always reply. 'Sure thing Mrs. Weasley.' She kept telling him to call her Molly 'Tsk Harry. What have I told you, its Molly.' 'Sorry Mrs- Molly.' She watched as he walked through from the parlor and headed towards the door and open it. She heard a somewhat familiar voice call out 'Hello Harry.' All of a sudden Harry fell to the ground, collapsing. 'Harry!' She called out. Ginny at hearing her mothers voice came running through to see what was wrong. She spotted Harry and ran towards him. Mrs Weasley finally looked to see who was the reason Harry had collapsed. At looking she saw two people who had been thought dead for the past sixteen years. James and Lily Potter. Harry parents. She couldn't believe her eyes. The others had started to come down the stairs after hearing the commotion. Ron and Hermione spotted Harry first and then his parents. With a shaky voice Molly called out to everyone. 'Ron, you and Hermione take Harry upstairs. Get him in his bed, will you and stay there with him. I don't want him to wake up all alone.' Ginny called out 'I'm going with you.' Ron came over and lifted Harry as best he could into his arms and went upstairs.

Lily looked like she wanted to follow them up but thought better of it. She turned her face towards her. 'Molly, can we come in. I believe we have things to discuss.' 'Yes I think you'd better.' Molly allowed the two to step over her threshold. They sat down at the kitchen table. 'Tea?' she asked the two. 'Yes that would be lovely.' Lily said. Molly waved her wand to summon the teapot and a couple of glasses over. 'So what happened?' She asked them straight and they gave her the entire story from the moment they thought Harry was dead. 'We knew he was alive but we didn't know anything else and we couldn't risk trying to see him. Not with Voldemort still out there. We could still feel that he was there even when the rest of the world didn't. But now that he is we wanted to see him at least. We wanted our son back.' James had concluded. 'It's been sixteen years. Sixteen years of hell for that boy. Would you like to know exactly what happened to him cause I can tell you.' 'Please, I have always wondered about everything.'Lily told her sincerely. Molly decided to tell them from Harry's life growing up with the Dursley's to his years at Hogwarts. 'He was lucky that he had Ron and Hermione. They were always there for him. So were me and Arthur. After Ron had explained what had happened with him at the Dursley's I could only feel sorry for him, ever since we've taken him in like he was one of our own.' The both looked horrified, Lily the most. 'How could she?' she just exploded. 'How could my sister treat my son like that. I knew she never forgave me for leaving her the way I did. But I've regretted that ever since it happened.' Molly decided to try and calm her down. 'From what Harry has told us, it was her husband, his Uncle who was the problem more than your sister. She just kind of went along with it.' Lily did calm down a little at this. 'Well that's no excuse. I still can't believe she did that.' Molly could tell that Lily was very upset by the treatment of her son by her sister. 'For what it's worth Lily. Harry still turned out to be a most humble, polite, brave, and intelligent young man. Ever since he was eleven and found out about his true life he has countless times come to the rescue of many including my own daughter who had been taken by Voldemort. If it wasn't for Harry I would have lost my only daughter. And I can't thank him enough for that.'

She looked at Molly and seemed to think about what the woman had just said about her son and then a smile spread across her face as if feeling a sense of pride that only a mother can feel when her son does something incredible. James seemed to turn to Molly. 'Well, it seems we have a lot to thank you for Molly. For making sure Harry was looked after and treated the way he should have been.' 'It was no trouble James. He needed someone to show him more than the hate he'd know for the ten years he spent at his Uncle's. And I was just lucky enough to run into him on his first day and get him set off right for Hogwarts and that my Ron became his good friend.' 'Yes, it was.' I looked at the clock and was startled as it was almost 3 which is when Sirius had said he'd be over so he could see Harry. 'Eh, James, Lily, Sirius is about be come over soon to see Harry. If you would like, you can take your tea into the parlor while I let him know whats going on. Don't worry James, I'll make sure he doesn't do anything, I know how he can get.' 'Thank you Molly.' They lifted their cups of tea and their teapot and headed into the parlor just as a knock came from the door notifying her that Sirius had arrived.

She got the door and opened it for him to step inside. 'Good Afternoon Molly,' he asked as he stepped in. Ever since Voldemort had been killed and Peter Pettigrew found Sirius hadn't been happier, as his name was finally cleared and he was officially a free man. He had decided to spend more time with Harry and try to be the godfather that he had always wanted to be for him. At this James and Lily stepped out of the parlor to face him. 'James, Molly tell me you see them too,' he asked me. 'Yes Sirius, they turned up not an hour ago, to see Harry.' Sirius looked stricken at this. 'Harry,' he repeated blankly. 'Where is he. Is he ok?' Sirius asked, clearly worried for his godson. 'Yes he's fine. Or should be. Ron, Hermione and Ginny are with him right now. He got a bit of a shock and collapsed but he should be fine when he wakes up.' Sirius still looked worried but softened when he heard that Harry had his friends with him. He turned back to face James and Lily and said bluntly. 'You two have some serious explaining to do.'

They all sat down and they explained for a second time the happenings of the night they dissapeared. Once they had explained Sirius seemed to relax. It seemed that he had thought they had just left Harry alone and left. 'Good, I know I shouldn't think of you in that way but I did think that you had just left Harry.' Lily looked as if she was about to explode again. This time at Sirius. 'Do you really think we'd do that. Sirius you saw and knew how worried we were for Harry and how much we wanted to protect him and keep him safe. Do you really think that we'd just leave him like that.' Sirius looked guilty. 'I'm sorry Lily but I've known what Harry has been through for the past sixteen years. More so after I escaped from Azkaban.' James looked at his friend amused 'Yeah, I was wondering. How did you do it?' 'How'd you think. Turned myself into Padfoot and slipped through the bars. The Dementors didn't know that it was me and I just took my leave.' James looked very surprised. 'Course they didn't know that I was an Animegus at the time. Now that I'm free, I've been put on the register.' He souded somehow sad about this. All of a sudden they heard footsteps on the stairs heading towards them. Hermione popped her head out from the staircase. 'Mrs Weasley, Harry's just woken up.' 'Thank you Hermione dear.'

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