A/N: This is a mostly AU but it starts out in Harry's normal 3rd year but it will change completely after chapter three. This happens to be one of my favorite fanfics that I have written, so I hope you like it. But if you don't please review to tell me what you think I should fix and if you do like it please review anyway because good or bad reviews are always welcome.

Disclaimer: If I were J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter would not be an orphan, I would not have killed characters for hardly a good reason, and Voldemort would have died a lot sooner than he did in the books. However, seeing as Harry is an orphan, plenty of characters have been killed for no good reason (examples: Sirius, Snape and Fred) and it Voldemort wasn't actually killed until book seven, I think we can all conclude I am not J.K. Rowling and therefore own nothing except the plot and a few future AU characters.

Had Things Gone Differently

A Harry Potter Fanfiction

Chapter 1: Harry Wonders

13-year-old Harry Potter sat looking out the window daydreaming, he was supposed to be taking notes on the new charm Prof. Flitwick was talking about, but he had other things on his mind. He had just recently found out what really happened the night his parents were murdered. Harry couldn't help but think 'what if things had gone differently that night? What if his parents lived? What would they be like? Would he have siblings? What would his life been like if he had grown up with his parents instead of the Dursleys?' He needed to go talk to Prof. Lupin and see if he could tell him any more about his parents.

After the last class of the day had let out Harry told Ron and Hermione that he needed to do something and he would meet them back in the common room before curfew. When Harry got to the Defense classroom, he saw Prof. Lupin sitting at his desk, he seemed to be grading papers, not wanting to disturb his teacher he turned to leave. But then Lupin lifted his head and saw Harry and said, "Hello Harry, did you need something?"

"Hello Professor Lupin, I don't need anything," Harry replied, receiving a disbelieving look from the Professor he continued, "I was just wondering if you could tell me more about my mum and dad."

Lupin smiled and exclaimed, "of course I can. What would you like to know?"

Harry's face brightened at hearing this and his slightly nervous frown quickly turned into a smile. "I want to know everything about them, whatever you can tell me. What were they like?"

"Well, your father, James, was a real joker and troublemaker like I told you but your mother, Lily, was almost entirely different. Lily knew how to have fun and she wasn't really a stickler for the rules, but she didn't set out looking to cause trouble like James tended to do. She was a very brave witch, she stood up for everything and everyone who were mean to her friends and family. I remember one day when we were your age. Some Slytherins in our year were teasing some half-bloods and muggleborns in the Great Hall when she walked in. When they saw her, they called her a mudblood, her friends got defensive at this and reached for their wands. But Lily simply turned to them and told them, loud enough for everyone to hear, that if they were going to try to insult her they should try being more creative. She went on to say that she thought it was stupid that they continued to call her and other muggleborns 'mudbloods' repeatedly and that it was starting to get a bit old and no longer insulting to her. The Slytherins faces went beet red as the whole Hall bursted with laughter and applause for Lily, whether because they had just gotten told off by a muggleborn or because it was in front of the entire school, I don't know. It was probably a bit of both," Lupin stopped the story waiting for Harry's reaction.

"Wow, she was brave to stand up to them like that. I really wish I knew her. Ever since I found out what had happened that night they died I have been wondering what life would be like if things had ended differently," Harry said.

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