Worst News Possible

Summery: So while do research for another story I'm writing I found out that Mr. and Mrs. Potter (the parents of James Potter 1) were elderly and most likely died from 1974-1981 of natural causes. What if they died while James was at Hogwarts? How will he take it, how will others help him now that his parents are dead? P.S. This will basically be in my final installment of the series I was researching for.

Chapter 1

Time: Marauder's 7th year around October.

POV: James

I was walking down the hallway with my best mate Sirius Black, who was really like a brother to me now since he stayed at my house all last summer.

"Man that test was hard." Sirius said. We had just gotten out of N.E.W.T. level Muggle Studies. I originally took it to impress Lily, who was a muggle-born witch who I had a crush on but now we are officially dating, but then I enjoyed it, even if I didn't understand much. Sirius took it to tick off his mum.

"Yeah, they are hard, even with Lily tutoring me." I said.

"Well we have a free period, what do you want to do?" Sirius asked.

"Let's go outside and see if we can find Moony." I said. Moony was our nickname for our werewolf friend Remus Lupin.

We made our way down to the main floor and were just about to leave when we were stopped by our head of house Professor McGonagall.

"Oh, Potter, glad I found you." Professor McGonagall said. She looked different, she was usually stern but right now she seemed somber.

"What is it Professor?" I asked.

"Come with me." Professor McGonagall said.

"Go on Pads, I'll catch up later." I told Sirius, his nickname was Padfoot, and he walked out. I turned and I followed Professor McGonagall.

Questions flowed through my mind as we walked, I couldn't be in trouble could I? I mean I haven't pulled any pranks all week. Unless she figured out I was an illegal Animagus, but then, wouldn't she also have caught Sirius and Peter? But I figured it couldn't be these because she didn't seem mad, she seemed, sad if anything. We finally made it to the stone gargoyle which led to Headmaster Dumbledore's office.

"Gummy Bears." Professor McGonagall told it the password and it moved aside for us to head up the spiraling moving staircase.

When we reached the top we went into Professor Dumbledore's office, he was in there along with my house elf, Halie. Why is she here I wonder.

"Oh, James, glad you could make it." Dumbledore said. He seemed somber too.

Since when am I James? The teacher's always called me Mr. Potter.

"James, I bet you are wondering why you are here." Professor McGonagall said.

Now McGonagall was calling me James! What is going on? "Um, yeah."

"James, when your parents…" Professor McGonagall started, she chocked up some.

"What's wrong with my parents?" I asked.

"They didn't come down to breakfast this morning, so your house-elf went up to check on them." McGonagall said.

I didn't like where this was going, I shook my head.

"James," McGonagall said, placing a hand on my shoulder. "They died in there sleep last night."

My mind shut down.

"James?" McGonagall asked. I couldn't respond, I couldn't speak, I couldn't think.

"Master James?" Halie asked.

In the back of my mind, the rational part, I knew it was bond to happen sooner or later. I mean nobody lives forever, not even wizards, and my parents were quite old. But I never expected them to die at the same time either. But I just thought it wouldn't happen till I was at least married and had kids. I mean, I was just turned seventeen in April, now it was October. Then suddenly my mind turned back on and my world came crashing in on top of me. I collapsed, sitting on my calves with my hands burying my face, quite hard to do with glasses, and started to sob.

I lost all sense of time as I sobbed, but eventually I became aware that someone was rubbing my back, and I came to the conclusion that it was McGonagall. I knew what happened next was rude, but I was an emotional wreck.

"Don't touch me!" I yelled jerking up and standing. I burst out the door and ran all the way to Gryffindor tower, where I sobbed the password and ran up to the dorm. I quickly grabbed my Invisibility Cloak, hoping to hide from the world, and laid on my bed, covering myself with the Cloak and sobbed even more.