That Halloween
A/N: Kinda an alternate way that Harry would have still had parents but still be the chosen one.
'James it's almost 11 'o' clock! It's time for Harry to go to bed'
'Okay Lils, I'm coming up in a second.' He gave Harry to Lily and sat back down on the sofa. It had been another long day. The Potters had been stuck in their house for a year because Voldemort was hunting their baby boy. Just as James was thinking of what kind of evil twisted thing would hunt down an innocent child because of some stupid prophecy, their front door was blown apart. James grabbed his wand of the sofa and pulled his two-way mirror out of his pocket. 'Padfoot, he's here. He's in my house.' James said into the mirror. The face of Sirius Black looked up at him with horror written all over it. James didn't give him time to reply he ran out to the landing and yelled to Lily, 'Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!' He saw Lily run up the stairs and he heard the door to Harry's nursery shut. The only thought that was going through his head was that Lily and Harry could not die. He heard a whoosh and he knew Sirius had come. He and Sirius turned to face Voldemort with their wands drawn. Voldemort let out a high cruel laugh. As if they could beat him! James and Sirius sent stunning spells at him and then James saw the jet of green light coming his way; he felt it hit his chest. He thought he was dead; but he knew he was breathing he could feel his heart breathing and here the battle between Sirius and Voldemort raging. There was a pain where he had been hit but he got back up and sent his first unforgivable curse at Voldemort it hit him in the chest and he doubled over in pain but he got back up and headed up the stairs. Sirius and James followed him, both shooting killing curses at him and thinking that he couldn't get Lily or Harry. They heard the door to the nursery being blasted open and heard Lily screaming: 'Not Harry, Please not Harry.' He heard Voldemort laugh mirthlessly and scream 'AVADA KADAVRA' and saw Lily hit the ground he looked down at Lily and saw her chest rise and fall and knew she was alive. Voldemort thought she was dead. He stepped over her body and aimed his wand at Harry. Once again James heard him say 'AVADA KEDAVRA' there was a blinding flash of green light and he thought for sure that his baby boy was dead. When the light cleared, James and Sirius hesitantly looked over to Harry's cot and were surprised to see Harry still sitting there, alive, almost exactly the same except for the lightning shaped scar on his forehead. They looked down and saw Voldemort's body on the floor. Lily got up and ran to James while Sirius went over to his godson and picked him up out of his cot. As soon as he got close to them, James and Lily pulled him into a hug. Dumbledore came later that night to tell them that their one year old son had defeated the most powerful evil wizard of all time and given peace to the wizarding world.
'James?' Lily asked later that night, 'how did you survive? I Heard him cast Avada Kedavra.' At this Sirius sat forward in his seat and looked intently at James.
'I survived because I died for love,' James said, then, seeing the confused look on their faces, he laughed, 'When he was attacking all I could think of was that I couldn't let you or Harry die. So when I was hit with the curse I didn't die because I had sacrificed myself for love. That's also the reason you didn't die, Lily, you died to save Harry and I had died to save you. As for Harry, we both sacrificed our lives to save him so he had our protection, he couldn't die.'
'Well I'm glad we'll get to see Harry grow up.'
A/N2: First, in this I'm gonna say that Voldemort DID NOT have horcruxses so Harry didn't have to suffer as much. Second, tell me what you think.