It was a cold and stormy night and he was stranded on a beach somewhere in America. He looked up and so a magnificent beach house not far off from where he was standing. He was tired having been just chased by a couple of Death Eaters, but he didn't think that he would have had to escape to somewhere in America, somewhere he knew that they wouldn't look for him, he thought that he James Potter could have handled a couple of Death Eaters no problem. How could this have happen to him? Just yesterday he had found out that Lily the love of his life and his darling wife was pregnant. So admitting defeat he walked slowly to the house and knocked on the door. He didn't know who lived there. He didn't know that he was knocking on the door of one of the richest families in the world, but he knew that he had no choice but to knock on that door.
John and Rose Riley had been sitting far apart from each other by the fireplace. They had had another argument about children again. She was ready and he wasn't. There was a knock on the door. Rose got up and answered it. They didn't have servants because Rose thought it interrupted the whole put on going away from everyone on vacation. When she opened the door she was greeted by a handsome man with jet black sticking up in wet clumps. Immediately, she grabbed him out of the rain and began running all over the place for towels and hot chocolate and running him a nice hot shower. All this and she didn't even know his name. She was just that type of person she had to help when someone was in need of it. This was another thing she and her husband argued about.
When he was showered and in dry clothes, James began to tell the Rileys that he had been stranded when his car had broken down miles from there. Rose told he ignoring the stares from her husband that James could stay there as long as he'd like. James was grateful for their kindness and said so as Rose showed him to one of the guest rooms. When she left he immediately started to write to Lily, he didn't tell her where he was in case someone got a hold of the letter. After he finished he opened the window and whistled. His pet owl came a few minutes later he had been sitting on a perch near a restaurant where James had left him. He sent the owl and went to sleep.
The next morning he was awoken by Rose she served him breakfast in bed and then went to tend to his laundry. That's when she found it a long wand it the pocket of his cloak she hadn't noticed that he had been wearing this last night and felt foolish for it. She hurried up to the guest room and confronted James about the wand. He wanted to kick him self for leaving it in his cloak. After he explained what really happened he was ready to do a memory charm on her when something made him stop. A feeling in his stomach made him stop what he was about to do.
Rose didn't even care the slightest bit that he was a wizard something told her that he was a good person. She hurried out of the room to tell her husband and to convince him to let James stay. She knew that this would be difficult knowing her husband was against anything that was bizarre or strange. She found him in the drawing room and after many hours of arguing he gave into the idea although he secretly loathed the idea of having a wizard in his home.
That night something strange happened that would change everything. James was sitting by the fireplace alone thinking about Lily and the child they would have when out of know where a Seer arrived out of the fire place. He asked what in the hell she was doing there and she responded that she was there to deliver a message to him. All of a sudden her eyes rolled back and she spoke in a dull tone as if it wasn't her speaking.
"A daughter and son will be born to women with the name of earth's beauty. One a witch, the other a muggle. The son and daughter will fall in love and she will be his equal. The daughter will posses powers that are unknown to any witch or wizard ever known, but the son will need her to help him save his life and the lives of every witch, wizard, and muggle.
The next morning James decided that it was time for him to leave and return to Lily. As he waved goodbye to Rose it seem to her that one minute he was standing there waving and when she blinked he was gone with a pop. He returned to his doorstep and was greeted by the tightest hug anyone could receive. Lily had just found out that she was pregnant so she didn't look any different at all. When they got inside he sat her down in her favorite chair and began to tell her about the prophecy that had been given to him. He was just telling her not to worry when they an owl flew through the window. It was from Albus Dumbledore. James opened the paper to reveal the handwriting of the headmaster.
" Dear Lily and James,
I trust that everything is all right. I had a strange meeting with a witch that I interviewed for the divination job. I hope that you are in good hands and that are safe in sound I will keep in touch. Congratulations on the announcement and we will see how everything works itself out.
Albus Dumbledore
They were in awe by the letter and a bit confused but the spent the day as usual and went to sleep that night with out any worries at all. Lily was dreaming of sitting in her favorite chair and holding the most beautiful baby boy. Then the scene changed she was standing in a living room and she could see the American flag hanging in a corner. Then she saw two shadowy figures running past her and up a flight of stairs. She heard a woman scream and crashes. She saw one of the shadowy figures come down the stairs. One of them whispered, "Check down in the other rooms Potter has to still be here." She awoke with a start and she looked up and saw her husband standing over her. She told him about her dream and then it was decided that James would write a letter in the morning to the Rileys and ask them to come and visit immediately.
So the next morning he did just that. He sent the letter by owl hoping that Rose wouldn't mine the change and that she would send the owl back with a response. He also sent a portkey in the form of a rose; so that Rose would find it easily. And when Rose received the owl from James she did just as he suspected except that she got into an argument with her husband while she started packing for their journey. He refused to have anything to do with people who were unlike them. They argued until they agreed that she was leaving whether he liked it or not and he said that if she left she couldn't come back.
She began to walk to the edge of the beach when she spotted it on the ground the reddest rose she had ever seen. She bent down and picked it up and then it felt as if she had been hooked by her navel and there was a rush a swirl of color around her, but just before she went left the beach she saw a blast of green light coming from her house.