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Prologue

October 31 1981

The night was wet and windy, two children dressed as pumpkins waddling across the square, and the shop windows covered in paper spider, all the tawdry muggle of a world in which they did not believe… and he was gliding along, that sense of purpose and power and rightness in him that he always knew on these occasions… not anger… that was for weaker souls than he… but triumph, yes… he had waited for this, he had hoped for it…

'Nice costume, Mister!'

He saw the small boy's smile falter as he ran near enough to see beneath the hood of the cloak, saw the fear cloud his painted face then the child turned and ran away…beneath his robe he fingered the handle of his wand… one simple movement and the child would never reach his mother… but unnecessary, quite unnecessary…

And along a new and darker street he moved, and now his destination was in sight at last, the Fidelius Charm broken, though they did not know it yet… and he made less noise than the dead leaves slithering along the pavement as he drew level with the dark hedge and stared over it…

They had not drawn the curtains, he saw them quite clearly in their sitting room, the woman with dark red hair picked up the little boy and carried him out of the room… the father and their other son were nowhere to be seen but that didn't matter he would deal them when he came to them…

The gate opened with a bang but Lily Potter didn't hear him… he opened the door and was met with no opponent how wise of James not to confront him… he walked up the stairs to the baby's room where Lily was putting him to bed…

'Oh, you came home early James' she turned around her eyes widened in fear…

'Stand aside girl.'

'Not Harry! Not Harry – please I'll do anything –'

'Stand aside. Stand aside girl.'

'No, please.'

'AVADA KEDAVRA!' She fell like a limp doll… now to defeat the one that could possibly defeat the most powerful wizard alive…


Meanwhile…

James Potter and his five-year-old son Percy landed in London at 8:30 but it was 1:30 in the afternoon in New York so Percy wasn't even remotely tired, the minute they got off the plane he took his son for side by side apparation to their home in Godric's Hollow.

On the outside the house looked okay the light was off in the sitting room but on in Harry's room, that was fine but the front door was open…

James ran inside with Percy on his heels. Quickly and quietly he turned on the lights in the sitting room and told Percy quite forcibly to stay there so of course Percy followed him as he ran up the stairs. They were too late; Lily was on the floor, quite obviously dead and a flash of green light shot out of Voldemort's wand aimed directly at Harry. Then something strange happened the curse rebounded and Voldemort disappeared leaving Harry very much alive and well except for a crooked scar above his right eye.

"Lily!" James sunk to his knees holding Lily's head in his arms and cried thinking about Lily and everything he ever did to win her affection now it was gone all gone with the careless wave of a wand. Tears came easily for Lily since he loved her more than life itself. He forgot everything around him and just sat there with his dead wife in his arms.

Harry started to cry and Percy went over to him. "Shhh. Harry its okay everything is going to be okay." Harry quieted down, Percy walked over to his daddy.

"Daddy? Daddy I know it's hard to lose Mummy but you have to be strong for Harry and me. Daddy, Daddy can you look at me?" James slowly looked into his small son's eyes. "Daddy, Mummy would have wanted you to be happy without her, and I know that's going to take a while, I know it's going to be hard but I need you to be strong for me, I still need you to be my Daddy, can you do that for me Daddy?" James was astonished his son had just given him the talk that James had given Percy when his fish died. He picked Percy up into a hug.

"When did you get to be so smart Percy?"

"I always was Daddy."

James picked up Harry and walked downstairs, he was proud of both of his boys one for banishing Voldemort and one for staying strong in the face of death. As James had expected Dumbledore was already there and so was Moony.


"Mr. Potter I believe that your family has just been attacked by Lord Voldemort."

"Yes, Lily's, Lily's, d-d-d-dead."

"But Harry isn't?"

"No when Voldemort attacked Harry he just sort of disappeared leaving Harry with this lightning shaped scar."

"Aaah. I see it appears that for some reason Voldemort could not kill Harry I will have to look into that also Harry is going to have to move into Lily's sister's house."

"What, Dumbledore you can't do this to me I just lost Lily now your telling me I have to lose Harry too."

"Harry must live with someone with Lily's blood since Lily died to protect Harry and it would be safer for everyone if Harry and Percy were raised apart considering their power and with that camp that Percy's going to go to when he's older it just isn't going to work also Harry's not going to know you since I'm leaking to the Daily Prophet that you and Lily died and since the Prophet knows nothing about Percy we should be good oh and James here is your invisibility cloak back." Dumbledore grabbed Harry out of James's arms and walked away that's when Sirius showed up.


"I'm going to kill him James."

"Who, Dumbledore?"

"No, Pettigrew he sold you out and got Lily killed I'm gonna kill him."

"No Sirius I need you here, I can't deal with this and raise Percy alone."


In the other room Remus (Lupin, Moony) and Percy were talking.

"Hey Percy I heard you were pretty strong there when you saw that your mom was dead."

"Yeah well I had to be strong for Daddy."

"Well now you don't have to be strong, do you want a hug Percy?"

Percy started to cry and Remus picked him up into a hug.

"Alright, James I'm in it looks like were raising a kid."


So what did you think? I'll ry to put up the next chapter eventually...