Hi guys, this is my first ever published fanfiction and I'm so excited to go on this adventure with you guys, I know this idea has been used millions of times but I really do love it.
Disclaimer: As much as I would love to own Harry Potter I don't, our queen J.K Rowling does!
Family Reunited
Chapter 1: The Return –
James Potter's eyes opened for the first time in 12 years. However, he couldn't see anything, the world was pitch black. He raised his arms and hit a surface inches from his face. He hastily searched around for his wand, grabbed it and shouted "Ascendio!" He shot up 6 feet onto the dew struck grass.
He remembered what happened that fateful Halloween night, how that good for nothing rat had betrayed them and Voldemort had shown up. He remembered as he shouted "Take Harry and run, I'll hold him off", he remembered looking Voldemort right in those cold, unforgiving, red eyes and seeing right into his split soul; he remembered that high pitched piercing laugh as the green light came shooting towards him and then blackness.
His thoughts turned to his wife and child, what happened to them? He whirled round to look at his gravestone; it read:
Here lies James Potter 27 March, 1960 – 31 October, 1981 and Lily Potter 30 January, 1960 – 31 October, 1981, the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Tears streamed down James' face, he couldn't ever imagine living in a world without his Lily Flower. However, Harry's name wasn't there, his little Prongslet must still be alive! Suddenly, a figure with blazing red hair came shooting out of the ground.
"LILY FLOWER YOU'RE ALIVE!" James exclaimed. He ran to his wife and helped her to her feet.
"James, how are we here right now? We died and what happened to Harry? James, what happened to our baby?" Lily cried as she fell back down to the ground on her knees and sobbed, tears cascading down her deathly pale face and on to her dirt covered robes.
"Lils look at me, Harry's alive I'm sure of it, his name isn't on the tombstone. He's probably with Sirius." Lily looked disbelievingly at James and then cast her eyes to the tombstone, she read it so many times it hurt her head, turned to her husband and smiled. "He's alive James." She confirmed.
"How long have we been gone? Weeks? Months? Or- or James what if we've been gone for years? What if my baby boy's all grown up? We could've missed his first time seeing Diagon Alley, getting his first wand; James we could've missed sending him off to Hogwarts" she pointed out, her green eyes full of sorrow.
"Don't think about that now Lils, he's alive, that's all we need to know for now, let's go to Hogwarts and find Dumbledore, he'll explain everything" James replied, his face full of serious determination.
"Okay" Lily agreed "but first let's find some new clothes, something tells me we've been in these for far too long".
James and Lily gazed up at the castle they once called home for seven years and hoped against hope that Dumbledore had the answers they were looking for. However, a familiar howling caught James' attention and had him running for the forbidden forest. "James? Where are you going? We need to see Dumbledore." Lily shouted, running after him.
"Sirius is in trouble, that was him I know it!" James answered and they both came to a stop in front of the frozen lake, shocked into silence by what they were witnessing. Hundreds of dementors were surrounding three figures, one of which James figured must've been Sirius. James wondered why dementors were after his best friend but knew he had to act fast. "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" James cried. A magnificent stag came sprinting out of his wand towards the dementors. They flew away one by one getting as far away from the glowing stag as they could and James' hazel eyes met one of the figure's green ones just as the figure passed out. He knew those eyes, they were Harry's.
James and Lily ran to the other side of the lake once all the dementors had fled and conjured magical stretchers for Sirius, Harry and another teenage girl who they supposed must have been Harry's friend and took them up to the castle where they were met with a bewildered Cornelius Fudge and Professor Dumbledore.
"Who are you? What is the meaning of this?" spat Fudge, looking utterly confused with the two people who are supposed to be dead carrying 3 unconscious people, one being an alleged mass murderer. Lily turned her head to Professor Dumbledore "I'm not sure how to prove it sir but we are really Lily and James Potter." She begged to her old headmaster who looked absolutely furious that someone would even dare impersonate them.
"We'll take Veritaserum" said James seriously.
"No!" came a voice from behind them. It was Severus Snape with an unconscious Ron Weasley on a stretcher.
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