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CHAPTER TWO: CHRISTMAS 1978

"Okay so a tour through the new house." James' voice announced from behind the camera as the camera focused in on it's surroundings, it was obvious James was in the hallway when you entered the front door. "Lily has disappeared somewhere so she's just missing out on my amazing commentary on such things as the amazing wooden floor, it's got this grain which is just to die for apparently. I reckon the sales lady just said that to sucker us in. Moving on, to my left is the cozy front room, complete with a Muggle TV or something, either way it has moving and talking images, not too advanced really… it has a fireplace so I s'pose that's going to be handy seen as it's December and bloody cold. Oh wait looky here the cat on my new sofa, and it wonders why I'm not it's biggest fan… shame, come on Dusty move." James held his leg out and tap the cat with his toes causing it to jump off of the sofa. "That's better, anyways, onwards if I go back into this hallway and go to the kitchen you can see where the food is made, so this would make it probably one of my favourite rooms and right through the kitchen here is the itsy bitsy dining room. So going back we can take a look at the amazing staircase… well it's not all that amazing but it's fairly nice."

"James, what are you doing?" Lily's voice asked from one of the bedrooms.

"Giving whoever will one day see these videos a tour of the house. What are you doing?"

"Unpacking boxes without your help."

"Ah ha… the guilt trip. Just let me finish this and then I'll come help."

"Oh fine, hurry up."

"So commanding, I like it." James laughed and continued walking through to the next room, this room being the bathroom. "Okay so the bathroom, one of the most boring rooms a house can have, no one really wants a bathroom they're just needed, so there you have it a toilet, a bath and a sink… like I said boring. Moving on, over here on the other side of the hallway we have what will be the guest room slash library or something like that I wasn't really listening when I was told the plan, it's just filled with boxes right now. The room next to it is also an empty room but will be a nursery I think? Probably a nursery all I've heard from Lily and Alice these past weeks have been "baby this" and "baby that" dropping hints I think… anyways last but not least… the master bedroom, or as I like to call it James' Magical Room of Oversleeping and Not Getting Up Tomorrow Morning at Six Like Lily Says Room."

"We have to get up at six James so we can get a move on organizing the house." Lily said as James moved the camera to where Lily was unpacking boxes, her hair was tied back and she was in jeans and a t-shirt, the normal clothes one would wear when moving.

"But I'll be tired tomorrow morning at six."

"And you know that how?"

"Because I know full well that at six in the morning I am tired? I need like twelve hours of sleep to function Lily and you know that."

"Then you'd best stop you're whining and get to bed now right?"

"Ah… no, I'm not going to bed at six in the evening. I haven't eaten yet and Sirius is coming over at seven." Lily turned to look up at her fiancé with a roll of her eyes. "Don't give me that look Lil why can't we just get up later than six? We're not going anything else tomorrow are we?"

"James what's the date today?"

"December twenty third, why?"

"So that makes tomorrow what?"

"Christmas eve…?"

"Good, now what do we not have set up yet?" James sat for a moment thinking, to his knowledge they had everything but if Lily had remembered something else he'd probably forgot something.

"Oh! A Christmas tree?" he said, unsure with his answer but hoping it was right.

"There you go, a Christmas tree, so we need to get up early tomorrow get unpacked and organized, then put up the tree and get everything ready for Christmas dinner and such for when Remus and Sirius come over."

"Good point, so six a.m it is… sadly."

"So tell me James, what exactly are you doing with the camera?"

"Like I said, making a little video tour of the house so the future generations can see, you know for like if we have kids and all that."

"If we have kids? There is no if James." Lily said reaching up and taking the camera from James and pointing it at him.

"Wait… you're not pregnant now are you?" James' face looked panic stricken and his hands ruffled his hair messing it up further.

"I don't know, what would you say if I was?" Lily asked the camera shaking slightly as if she was trying not to laugh at her partners face.

"I'd say… um, well it'd be great news don't get me wrong but I think we should at least wait until after the wedding… b-but if you're pregnant right now… like right now… I wouldn't mind being a Daddy like right now…" James stuttered trying to say the right thing and not sound like a complete and utter git. "But you're not are you? You're not pregnant right now right?"

"No I'm not you great buffoon, one day though, one day. Anyways, say goodbye to the camera for now, you have work to do."

"Okay, well bye camera, I shall be seeing you again tomorrow for Christmas eve," James waved with a small grin as Lily chucked a pillow right at his face before the screen went dark for a moment before it became a light with a new image. Tinsel was hung from the walls, red, gold and green, there was a large tree in the corner with garlands and baubles hung from it's branches and underneath were gifts in boxes and bags, and wrapped in paper with bows. James and Sirius were reaching to put the star on top but as tall as they were the tree was just that much taller.

"Do you think they remember they're wizards? And have wands?" Remus' voice questioned from beside the camera as he watched his two best friends.

"I don't think they do, mind you James did say something about doing it all the 'Muggle' way." Lily replied from behind the camera as she held it pointed at James and Sirius.

"Ah ha! Got it!" They exclaimed as they managed to get the glimmering star up as they turned around to face Lily and Remus the two high fived while James fixed his shirt and Sirius fixed his hair.

"Took you long enough, next year consider doing it with magic, it's so much faster." Lily said as they all sat down.

"So Lily-Flower, you heard anything from your sister?" Sirius asked as he peered under the tree at the presents.

"Nope, not that I want to, it'd only ruin the holiday."

"Ahh come on Lil, she's not too bad, I mean that in the sense that she's so fun to pick on and poke fun at." James said from beside Lily. "I sent her a letter the other day by owl just because I know she hates it."

"James! You can't keep doing that, you're going to give her or Vernon a bloody heart attack!"

"That's the point, it's less nagging to deal with when we go to your parents' place."

"Honestly…"

"Okay away from the old married couples bickering, what's the plan for tomorrow?" Sirius asked curiously while he turned on the television to watch some old Christmas film. "By the way I love this thing, it's so much better than a bloody book."

"Depends on the night, we only get five channels and none of them are all that great most of the time." James said.

"Well this is good whatever this is."

"That would be Oliver Twist." Lily commented passing the camera to James while she stood up and went to the kitchen.

"Oliver Twist? So which ones Oliver?"

"He's the orphan." Remus said indicating to the screen.

"Ohhh! How'd you know?"

"He's probably read the book." James laughed receiving the finger from Remus. "Gasp! Moony, how dare you."

"Don't act innocent, it's not like you haven't seen that before."

"Well how would you know I've seen it before?"

"Because you use it Prongs, I'm not an idiot." Lily walked back in then with a bottle of wine and some glasses as she sat back beside James.

"You might want to save some tape for tomorrow or something." She said with a yawn.

"You're right, Marauder Television signing out!" James laughed as the screen once again went dark, for a moment before showing three young men out in the snow outside.

"And this is what they call mature… James! That almost hit me!" Lily scolded after a snowball whizzed past her.

"I'm so sorry! I was aiming for Sirius." James replied as the camera moved to focus on the three of them, snow in their hair and James glasses fogged up.

"Come on inside time for presents." Lily announced causing James and Sirius to run into the house followed by Lily and Remus to walk in behind them.

"James you may as well go first, open the one from Remus." Sirius handed a large box wrapped in green paper and James tore into it faster than anyone could blink. Inside was a large silver box with his initials carved into it.

"It's not much but I thought maybe you could use it someday for something." Lupin explained as James looked at it from all angles.

"It's great Moony, thanks mate." The film carried on for a little while documenting the four young adults opening their gifts from each other. After half an hour of video James took the camera and directed it at himself. "Time for us to go, so I bid you a due until next time. Prongs signing out." He grinned as the camera turned off and the film ended the screen retuning to the white of the sheet.

"Your parents were pretty great Harry, at least they knew how to have fun, and I know you've heard it tons but you really do look like your Dad." Ron said while he removed the reel and looked in the box that had once been James Potter's. "The next one's labelled "Prongsie and Lily-Flower's Wedding – 1979, I'm guessing Sirius named it."

"Well I do hate to be the downer but it's getting late, why don't we watch some more tomorrow night?" Mrs. Weasley said as she looked at Harry who had a slight smile on his face.

"That sounds okay to me, come on then off we go," he said quietly standing up and heading to Ron's room. Harry drifted off to sleep that night with thoughts of his parents in mind.


Okay so so so so so sorry! This chapter is so short, but I'm getting into the swing of things so the next chapter will be longer, I promise. :) At least 4000 words or so? Anyways leave me some suggestions and such and I'm always looking for proof readers so if you're interested let me know :)

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