I do not own Harry Potter, this is a fan fiction only.
Through out his life James Potter hated discrimination in all forms and was partially the reason he made his band of pranking avengers, the reason the marauders would prank some people worse than others. The ones that would avenge the little people against bullies and discriminating scum.
Through his entire education he often lived under the constant ridicule that he was more like a Slytherin than he was a Gryffindor. Through six years his girlfriend would often found herself secretly agreeing to that and wished he was in her house. If only so she could spend more time with him.
The two were quite the secret couple and with good reason the houses they each belonged to had been rivals since the founding of the school. Them falling in love couldn't be helped however since her cousin was James' best friend and often partner in their little vigilante group.
Narscissa Black was very much in love and she told her own parents that it would take a miracle for her to stop feeling the way she felt about James. "Jim I still can't believe that you a third year managed to become an animagus. I am very proud of you my love."
James looked at her and smiled, "You know me Cissy, always full of surprises now tell me how are you doing?" Narcissa looked at him and smiled. She told him she was much better now that she could see him again and how she missed him during summer break.
"The only bad thing that happened was that insufferable Lucius Malfoy was in my house for summer break, he stayed the entire break! How many times must I tell him I am spoken for, slimy git." James placed his hand on her shoulder and pulled her closer. He kissed her cheek which made her smile and kiss him on his lips.
"You always know how to make me feel better, Jim I am seriously thinking my mother is trying to marry me off with Lucius. I wouldn't be surprised if my father and his made a marriage contract on me, I love you James but how can we fight off one of those contracts."
James looked at her and told her they still had four years left to find the way to do just that, by the time the carriage arrived at the castle she was no longer seated in the seat but on his lap. She looked quite comfortable as the door of the carriage opened and they saw his head of house shaking her head at what see saw.
James would always do the same thing as he returned to school. He would ride the same carriage as her and he would give the thestrals a pat on the back thanking them for what they did for them, to others looked like he was patting nothing but air. He had seen his uncle die on his first summer break and had to admit he was quite scared of them at first, but once he got to know them he became good friends with a few of them. One of them was the mare that was pulling the carriage he and his girlfriend were in.
McGonagall reminded them they missed the sorting yet again, as each went to their house tables and sat down. Sirius was waiting for him with a smile on his face, he knew he was going to ask a question he rather avoid but since he was his best friend he might as well let him say it.
"So Prongs how was the ride? Did you enjoy the ride on the carriage or did Cissy enjoy a ride on you?" Remus couldn't believe what he heard and he was supposedly the wild beast in their group of friends, Peter just blushed and looked at the floor.
"Padfoot you are a dog, it's your own cousin you are talking about and not even that stops you from asking. If you must know we didn't do anything that a pair of third years would do, you know I love her." Sirius laughed as he heard him say that.
"We both know that my uncle will try his best to get her married off to someone of higher status since your family is so accepting of muggle born wizards and witches." Remus decided to finally say something on the defense of his friend. "You are one to talk padfoot, you are still in love with Evans and you haven't even told her yet."
Sirius pretended to be hurt by his comment. "way to kick a man were it hurts Moony, you better be careful Wormtail he might do the same to you one of these days." Peter looked at him with a smile and told him he was very much used to being kicked were it hurts since he had the entire first year to remember.
They looked at him with a reassuring smile when suddenly James saw Lucius try to get a little fresh with his girlfriend and they knew what the smile he wore now meant, it was time to prank someone and pranking him was something the four of them loved to do. "Hey Moony mind having him for a snack?"
Remus looked a bit green when he heard that, "A wolf I may be Padfoot but even wolves have standards on what he eat, can't you find a nice chicken to eat that? They usually eat worms don't they?"
This made the friends laugh as Remus said that and gave them a wonderful image to think about, Lucius running for dear life to avoid being eaten by a chicken. "Let's wait to start our pranking after the welcome meal if you please, I don't want to spend the next hour or two being lectured by the headmaster again."
James laughed and said he probably only did that since they refused to make him a member of their little club, even thought he did make all four of them members of the Order. As the food appeared and each took their serving of their favorite food, Sirius began to really dig into the ribs and chicken legs he got.
"Honestly Padfoot if you were any more of a dog I expect you to be in animagus form humping McGonagall's leg. Table manners you do remember them don't you? I know you know them Cissy does at the very least."
He looked at his friend who said that, "Moony I didn't have dinner or breakfast so excuse me if I happen to be a little hungry and you know exactly who I want to hump and that happens to be a lovely red head from the Evans family."
This made Lily glare at him for some reason and she was blushing as she looked away. "I think your chances of that happening went from slim to none with that comment."
The group of friends made good on their plan to prank Lucius Malfoy as the poor nurse constantly tried every spell and counter spell to turn him back to normal. Nobody wanted to mention who or even when but somehow Lucius was turned into a chicken, and good thing someone noticed that he was a transfigured human before the kitchen elves got their hands on him, the menu for that day's dinner included roasted chicken.
The fact that the chicken had green feathers and an unusually plate face should really have told them this was either a very sick chicken or a student suffering the worst humiliation in his entire life. It sure didn't help that some of house Hufflepuff were actually dropping corn kernels in front of him. In the end Dumbledore was the only one able to turn him back to normal.
It goes without saying that Lucius Malfoy from that day on would never even think about eating any dish with as much as a mentioned of having anything chicken related ingredients in it or mentioned near it. He did however love sweet corn in the cob for some reason.
After the lecture by Dumbledore of not turning fellow students into barnyard animals, James had an extra lecture about the same subject with his girlfriend but not exactly the same manner, "Jim how could you turn him into a chicken and not tell me about it! I missed a perfectly funny incident no thanks to you."
James took hold of her and he kissed her cheek, "Cissy I didn't want you to get in trouble with your folks. You figured it out because you know how I hate the bastard trying to come between us. Don't even try to deny it, his father is trying to get that marriage contract and I hate the idea of losing you to that narcissistic idiot."
"I know, I don't like the idea of you ending up getting married to someone else either. James we have to face reality if they make this a magical contract it would mean breaking it would cause me to lose my magic. I don't think I could live with losing my magic no matter how much I wish and desire for us to be able to be together."
As the year finally came to and end James was reminded by his friend Sirius that maybe just maybe he should start looking for alternatives in my selection for a future Lady Potter. James decided to get even after this comment by saying that maybe if worse came to worse he could try and woe Lily Evans. This earned me a comment James would always remember. "So Prongs do you have that much of an attraction to snakes?"
His revenge was in telling him most of his dates also came from that particular house. As James reached the front door of his family manor a rather sad looking owl landed on his shoulder, She was the owl that Narcissa had to deliver her letters. This was rather odd Penny usually was a very happy owl.
As he took the letter and she ate the owl treat he would always give her she gave me the owl equivalent of a kiss on my ear and took off. As James entered the manor I knew what job he wanted to pursue and James had a Malfoy to thank for finally helping me decide his career path in life, he wanted to be an Auror. James even had a family in mind to be investigated.
Why the sudden decision you ask? Why it was what was written on the letter. His former girlfriend had just informed me of her planned nuptials with Lucius Malfoy. If there was one person that James wanted very much sent to Azkaban for life it was none other than Lucius Malfoy.
This made his free time be more focused on his studies and less on pranks, the requirements to be an auror were nothing to sneeze at. I retrospect his new commitment towards his education was probably the reason Lily actually became interested in him in the first place. He was always cordial towards the girl he still very much loved but now they had to be apart or risk her losing her magic.
At times James said that he would not care if she could or couldn't do magic, he simply missed being with her that much but he would not be selfish like her future husband clearly was. Lily knew that he was still very much in love with her friend and was even sad to hear what caused her breakup with her boyfriend.
Lily however was not going to miss the chance to use this for her benefit. She was not a Slytherin for nothing after all. Sirius, James, Narcissa and Lily came up with an ingenious little plot. James would officially marry Lily and Narcissa would marry the man her parents had chosen for her, except Sirius would be the one sleeping with Lily while Narcissa would become the unofficial mistress of James Potter.
The plan was simply devious enough to make Salazar Slytherin himself quite proud. As the years went by many things happened for James. First was the untimely passing of his mother, then he had to rescue his most bitter rival from a prank that would have ruined two lives. Severus Snape often wondered why Remus would disappear from school the day before and after a full moon. Had James not stopped him he would also have his friend's furry little problem.
The fact that he was saved was never seen by him and would always say he did it to save himself. James and Sirius eventually graduated with top marks and James would have the distinction of having been the best Head Boy the school had ever seen. The best Head Girl was none other than Lily Evans much to the surprise of everyone in the graduation ceremony.
Being accepted as an auror by the Ministry of Magic was not just accepting a job, it also meant that they would be under the guidance and be trained by a senior auror in the office and on the field. The man who was in charge of James and Sirius was one of the toughest, most brutal auror whoever lived his name was Alastor Moody. The man had lost an eye and would ware a magical eye and people called him by another name Mad eye Moody.
The wedding between James and Lily was wonderful, Sirius was of course best man or if you asked James he would say in reality he was the best man and Sirius the groom. Even as he saw the woman he loved married to the blonde bastard who stole her from him he never once cheated on her. Lily did go to her honeymoon as she expected, but she went with Sirius and James spent two weeks training with his friend Remus Lupin.
As the plan called for Narcissa would get little invites to the Potter manor. She told Lucius it was to keep an eye on James and even he knew that it was a smart idea to do so. He never suspected that it was a lie, his wife was going to see James Potter but not to spy on him like she said, rather she was going there to be with the man she really thought of as her husband.
The only problem was that one day Severus Snape accompanied Dumbledore to interview a possible new professor in divination. That is when the tragic prophecy was told and with this knowledge he went and told his master about the possibility that some brat would stand on his way to rise to become the ruler of the world.
Knowing the danger Dumbledore told James he would have to go into hiding since Lily's expected child would more than likely be the child the prophecy spoke off. Lily met with Sirius and she promised she would take care of their child. Narcissa also promised James that she too would keep their child safe.
A year went by and the time of his son's first birthday was drawing closer when the day of Harry's first birthday came they had an unexpected guest show up at Godric's Hollow. The most feared and wanted criminal in the magical world had found them and blasted the door off it's hinges. He was face to face with the self titled Lord Voldemort.
"Before we get started, would you mind telling me how you found our location?" James asked him while trying to sound as calm as possible. The madman laughed as he heard him ask this of him.
"It was easy Prongs, so easy I didn't even need to make an effort. You really should have listened to my kind offer Prongs but you couldn't see what I saw, you couldn't let your so called ethics go. You should know better Prongs, never trust a rat."
As he heard these words he knew who had betrayed him and as the realization was made known on his face he saw a green light hit him and he fell dead were he stood. He walked over his body and through the door leading inside he was helpless to stop him but he tried. He saw him murder Lily as she was trying to keep her promise to Sirius.
At the last second the ghost of James tried to stop the killing curse from killing Harry but something strange happened that very instant the curse rebound off Harry and it appeared as if Voldemort was hit by it, but that was not all that happened that moment indeed Harry did die, but somehow the soul of James came to take his place inside his body.
Next thing he knew he was inside the body of Harry and was alive once again. He had no way of speaking since his body was still in need of growing but he remembered seeing Sirius and he knew the look on his friend's face. The look of a man who would not stop till he avenged the death of the woman he loved.
As Sirius left James was knocked out, it must have been the entire process of the soul transfer that took too much out of him. Next time he was awake he was face to face with the person he never wanted to meet again. The jealous sister of Lily Evans, the single worse person to live the child of a witch with, it was Petunia Evans or should I say Petunia Dursley.