James Potter was spoiled as a child. His parents Fleamont and Euphemia were already quite old when they got pregnant with James, even for wizards. They had tried for so long, but it would never bother. Euphemia was heartbroken. She wanted a child so badly that it physically made her ill sometimes. At one point she just gave up after many warnings from the healers in St. Mungo's. She as too old anyway, so why bother with stressing about it. Fleamont was thinking about maybe selling the company, he invented Sleekeazy's Hair Potion. And then in June 1959 Euphemia became nauseous all of the sudden. The signs her body was showing were a bit weird. Both of them already let the idea go of getting pregnant, so when the healer at St. Mungo's told them they were expecting a baby they were both in shock. When the shock went away came the happiness. Euphemia was crying the whole time, she would finally be a mother and as soon as she left St. Mungo's she went shopping for clothing and furniture. Fleamont was immensely proud and announced it very big at his company. Once they knew the gender he had a big banner with the words: "It is a boy!" moving and changing into different colors of blue. All the employees got a big piece of cake with blue frosting. Even though Euphemia was pretty old, the pregnancy went very smooth. And a healthy baby boy was born on the 27th of March, 1960. James Potter was a baby who barely cried, came out with a head full of black hair (which was already messy) and big eyes.

During his youth he got everything he even wanted and even more. His room was big, he got the best clothes and he went to the best schools. His birthday parties were celebrated very big with a lot of family and friends. He got new toys every year, even though his old toys were still good. Fleamont and Euphemia were so proud of their son who was slowly turning into a handsome young man. But times were sometimes tough. There was a growing threat of a dark wizard who wanted to take over the wizarding world with his followers. People disappeared, were found dead in their house and you heard crazy stories on the news about people being tortured. The muggle news had no explanation at all. Muggles who were killed with the Killing Curse showed no signs of homicide or illness. According to the muggles they had a heart attack or it had to be carbon monoxide poisoning. What else could kill a perfectly healthy 14-year old and his 44-year old parents without showing any traces? People were getting more nervous and anxious around others. New people might be dangerous. You had no idea if you could trust them. Fleamont and Euphemia were fighters for muggle rights and this made them targets for this specific dark wizard. Muggles were less worthy than wizards and wizards should not be in hiding. Muggles should be the ones who were hiding and being afraid to be discovered.

His followers were killing, kidnapping and torturing muggles. But even if you were a wizard you not safe. Voldemort and his followers only viewed pureblood wizards with the same standards as their equals. The Potter family was a family of purebloods, but they were a target because they cared about Muggle rights. This was not acceptable in the eyes of Lord Voldemort and his followers. It does not matter if you are a muggle, muggle-born, half-blood or pureblood, if you did not share the same values as Voldemort you were considered as a threat. The Potters thought it was unnecessary that muggles were treated as less. Especially since they were not aware of the fact that wizards exist, they do not have access to magic and they are not a threat. For all these years wizards and muggles lived with each other and sometimes they even got married. James was also raised with this believe. So even with so much money, all the best toys and being a pureblood wizard he grew up with the knowledge that everybody was equal. He was also fully aware of the fact that he was a wizard. James got very frustrated with the fact that he did not had a wand and could not do magic. He ignored his parents arguments that even if his hand wand, he could not do magic outside of Hogwarts until he was seventeen. He started counting down the years, months and days since his 8th birthday that he could finally go to Hogwarts. September 1st 1971 was marked big and red in his calendar.

In April 1959 there were two very happily surprised happy muggles. Mr. and Mrs. Evans found out that they were pregnant with their second child and it was going to be another girl. They were euphoric. Finally Petunia will have be a big sister. They were not planning to get pregnant again, since Petunia is not even a year old. But this would mean that they were close in age and that they would grow up together. Everyone around them were surprised as well, but also really excited. Petunia was helping Mrs. Evans with picking out clothes, painting the nursery (where she ruined one of her best dresses) and telling everyone how happy she was that she would become a big sister.

Late in the evening on the 29th of January in 1960 Mrs. Evans went into labor. It was a quite a fast labor and early in the morning of the 30th of January Lily J. Evans was born. Lily was not aware of the fact that she had magic in her, since nobody in her family was a wizard or witch. Sometimes she could something unthinkable. She could let flower fly a little bit above her hand, let them grow and sometimes it seemed that owls were attracted to her for some reason. There was always a very pretty brown one outside of her window in the evening and Lily named him Henry. Before she went to sleep every evening she checked if he was there and he was always there. Lily gave him a bowl with water and some crumbs of cookies or bread.

Her youth was careless. She went to the local elementary school and she was very bright. She did not mind doing her homework and she was one of the best students in the class. Petunia was just old enough to be one class above her, but they always hung out during the breaks and after school. They had the same friends and with their little group they always walked home from school. In her class there was also a small boy with black hair. His clothes were too big, he only had old sandwiches and nobody wanted to hang out with him. Lily felt bad for him and one day she decided to sit with him. "Hi, Severus is it, right?" Lily was standing in front of him in her white dress and her red hair in two pigtails. "Eh … yes." The boy looked at her with big eyes. "Can I sit with you?" Lily asked. "Eh … sure, I guess." Severus said. He moved a bit further down the bench to make room for her. He looked very on edge and kept looking at her. "So, how did you do on that spelling test?" Lily asked him, while biting her sandwich. Severus answered: "I did okay, not as well as you though. You are the smartest person in our class." He looked down at his own old sandwich and put it back in his plastic bag with red ears. "Do you want my other half?" Lily asked while offering him the other half of the sandwich. Severus looked at it with big eyes. You saw that he wanted some nice bread, but it was not his. "Please, take it. It is okay! I am not hungry anyway." Severus smiled at her. "Thank you." Severus took the sandwich and took a bite. He closed his eyes when he was chewing. He obviously liked it a lot. "Thank you!" He said again now with his mouth full. Lily smiled. "I will bring one extra tomorrow for you." She closed her eyes and enjoyed the rays of sunlight on her face. Severus heart made a little jump. This pretty girl was being nice to him. Maybe he could make a friend.