What if I had never died that night, if I had insisted that I didn't want Peter as our secret keeper? Would we still be safe, whole a family? Would Sirius have ended up in Azkaban? Would Harry be haunted all his life?
"Come on Lily, we'll be late!"
"What do you mean?" I was still half asleep, curled up like our cat.
"Sirius's birthday" My husband said with an aspirated expression on his handsome face.
"Huh?"
"MUMMY, MUMMY, MUMMY, MUMMY!" A little lump landed on me squealing.
"What Harry?"
"Uncle Siri's Birthday!" Now he was bouncing on me. I have never known a more excitable two year old!
"Yes Hunny." I said groggily.
"Will Auntie Sansa be coming?" He looked puzzled. I smiled at him. Sansa was my best friend, and Sirius's fiancée-to-be! She didn't know that yet.
"I'm sure she will." James said rescuing me from our baby's grip.
"YAY!!!!" Harry took off like a rocket, speeding down the hall to his bedroom.
"Well, that went down ok." James said smiling, whatever he said I knew he was proud of our son.
I laughed and lent over to kiss him. He pushed me down and tickled me.
"Sirius and Sansa will be here in a minute."
"How?"
"Dunno, Sansa didn't say." He looked bewildered. Sansa normally went through everything with everybody. He got up and threw a pillow at me. I took this as a 'get up now or else' and I stood. James was looking out of the window.
"James?"
"Will it be safe for Harry when he grows up?" James turned to me, tears silently pouring down his face. This was the first time I had seen James cry since our third year in Hogwarts. It was me who was normally emotional. He was always the one to comfort me.
"James, that's what the order is working for." I pulled him into a hug.
"What if it doesn't work. I can't lose you Lil."
"You won't. I'll be with you forever." I said, my voice cracking.
"Ever and ever?" He said in a small voice, reminding me of Harry.
"Both of us." James smiled. "Now lets get ready for our best friends!"
James nodded happier. As he went out of the room I was left thinking. I was so glad that I had told James that I didn't want Peter Pettigrew as our secret keeper. So we had changed to Dumbledore. Sirius had suggested that he and Sansa change to Peter and Voldemort had gone to their house instead. Luckily they were both out of the house or they would have died. Voldemort had destroyed their house. They had come back to find it smoking, and the dark mark left above it. Turns out that Voldemort wasn't to pleased and killed one of his own.
I shrugged out of my blue nighty and put on some jeans and a black tee shirt. I left my hair to it's own devices and went downstairs. The scene that first saw my eyes made me cautious. Harry and James were sat in the kitchen with identical evil grins. This wasn't unusual in this house. I stood just outside the door.
"What?"
"Love you Lils."
"Love you mommy."
"What have you two done?"
"Us?" They answered in union. Harry looked to his father and giggled. James looked down at him and the corner of his mouth twitched.
"Harry?" I rounded on the youngest one. He suddenly looked like he had been trapped. He glanced at James uncertainly, when the doorbell saved him.
He ran to the door, yelling "SIRI! SANSI!"
"HARRY COME BACK HERE" James yelled sprinting after him. I followed and caught Harry.
James opened the door a crack.
"I am Sirius Black, I am James Potter's best friend and Harry Potter's Godfather." Came Sirius's voice. "My animagus form is a black dog and yours is a stag. And this is Sansa Stone, your wife Lily's best friend and Godmother to Harry James Potter. Her animagus form is a little bird. And she once turned you into a toy for our friend Hagrid's dog Fang, when you annoyed her." He said the last bit with a hint of a laugh.
James let the door open with a face like he wanted to kill them. Sirius smirked t them and Sansa laughing kissed James's cheek. She whispered something to him and he smiled. I knew that Sansa and James were firm friends aswell now; they had become friends in our first year at Hogwarts, our old school. I never found out what had made them such friends, but that's between them. Sansa spotted me trying to restrain Harry and grinned. She bounced over and said
"Losing that battle there my love!"
I smiled and let go of Harry. Whatever Sansa was expecting she wasn't expecting Harry throwing himself at her with a scream of 'Sansi.' Sansa promptly screamed and toppled down, with Harry still wrapped around her legs. Me, James and Sirius laughed. The doorbell rang again and a voice called out.
"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with a liking for raspberry jam and Serbet Lemons, and Minerva McGonagall, deputy headmistress of said school and likes…" With this Dumbledores voice broke off, and I could hear him say under his breath. 'nothing at the moment.' Then McGonagalls voice
"My birthday is on the 4th October and I take the form of a tabby cat." I opened the door cautiously and welcomed them to our home. I shut the door and watched Sansa finally untangle herself from Harry, who promply threw himself on Sirius. Sirius however was slightly more prepared then Sansa had been and caught Harry and pulled him into a hug. We were waiting for one more person to come and soon the doorbell rang again.
"Remus Lupin, known werewolve and maurader, friends to Lily, Sansa, James, and Sirius. Camped out in the Shreaking Shack every full moon, also known as moony." James opened the door and Remus was stood there, looking very tired and pale. James shut the door and the birthday party began.
