Reversura
The fantastic world of Harry Potter belongs to J.K Rowling. The story is mine, hope you enjoy.
Chapter 3
Room number 3
The door to the old but oddly comforting room opened with a bang as wood hit the wallpapered wall. The couple entered first looking around the room, lily heading to sit on the four poster whilst James lent against the bed-post that was closest to her. Remus was the last to enter the cramp room his wand fixed permanently to his side frightened to let the fingers relax even for a second.
"Remus" Lily started then hesitated as she looked into the eyes; how they had changed they were so different, so impossibly different to the ones that used to look at her with love and friendship.
"Remus, I need to know where Harry is, is he safe?" Lily pleaded desperate for any knowledge at all on the whereabouts of her only child.
"Do you really think I'm that stupid?" Remus hissed in reply.
James took a step forward towards his fellow marauder getting slightly frustrated with the situation, not used to being in the dark when it came to his friends
"We need to know what has happened to our son and you have no right to keep him from us."
"No right? You come in here disguised as his parents and expect everyone to be so glad that your back that we just hand Harry Potter over to you without a second thought? Now I know that you people don't hold us in much esteem but this is ridiculous."
Lily stood up from the bed and moved to stand next to James.
"What on earth are you talking about?"
"Oh come on, Lily and James Potter have been dead for almost 14 years so you death-eaters must be getting pretty desperate and I must say that I certainly don't appreciate this latest attempt."
James and Lily stood frozen in their place trying to process this new piece of information.
"Did you just say 14 years, as in over a decade? ... That's not possible Remus are you feeling okay, is it your time of the month?" James laughed hesitantly silently begging his friend to break into a large smile to confirm that this was all a joke, no such confirmation was given.
"Fucking hell" James sighed stepped back to sit on the bed then ran his fingers through his black hair. "Fucking hell".
He couldn't believe what he was hearing. He glanced up at his wife who always white as a sheet and placed a hand on her wrist and moved backwards to sit next to him and wrapped his arm around her shoulders, the only thing he could do as he had no words of comfort for her.
"Okay so let me get this straight 31st October 1981 was 14 years ago and you think me and Lily are impersonators, death-eaters who are trying to get to our son" Remus narrowed his eyes and glared at James.
"Okay there is a simple why to figure this out, ask me something, ask me something that only the real James Potter would know, that's reasonable isn't it?"
"Fine" Remus agreed "but only so I can show you for the fake that you are."
Remus paced up and down the small length of the room, never fully turning his back on the other two occupants.
"The morning of the attack was the last time that I saw James and Lily alive. What was our conversation about?"
"It was about the day that Sirius got his head stuck between his bed and the wall next to it because he wanted the chocolate frog that had jumped down there and we found him wailing about the fact Morgana had to have invented the sweet because it was the devil but that there was a silver lining as he was convinced that if he remained in that position that they couldn't make him take the potions we had next period. We laughed and Sirius got annoyed because he still insisted that the plan would have worked if gravity had not been an issue forcing him to beg for help several minutes later because he was starting to feel woozy as blood rushed to his head."
Remus stood there his eyes boring into James. "That's not possible" he wished his brain starting to believe what his heart wanted desperately needed to be true.
"James" He whispered. "Lily" His eyes finally going to the red head. "Is it really you?" His eyes flicked from one to the other.
Lily sighed and went straight to him wrapping her arms around him and holding just as tightly to him as he was to her. James held back until his wife and friend were finished before stepping in to replace her greeting his friend that he had not seen in a long time as well as seeing only the other day.
"Alright so we need to figure out what to do next. I mean this is going to be an enormous shock for everyone. We need a plan of action" Remus said as he wiped the tears that he hadn't notice fall until now, from his cheeks.
"Well there is only one thing on our mind at the moment and that is Harry, however judging by your reaction to us then we are going to need to prove ourselves to the rest of the order before we can see him aren't we" Lily said as she tried to think of a way to stop them attacking as soon as they saw her and James considering the fact that even Remus thought that they were death-eaters.
"Well I suggest that we go to the source. We prove ourselves to Dumbledore that way it will much easier to convince the others and Dumbledore is the one that is most likely to hear us out and maybe able to tell us what the hell happened." James suggested.
"To Dumbledore then" agreed Lily.
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"Are you sure that he is coming?" Lily asked tentatively her hands fidgeting in her lap as they waited. James noticing his wife's nervous behaviour place his hands over hers and grazed his thumb over the back of her hand. Remus hadn't said anything about what had happened since they had been away, simply saying that they should wait for Dumbledore before they do anything. So there they sat waiting to find about their son, that's all they seemed to be doing since they woke up, waiting to know about their son. The son that the last time they saw had only started speaking his first words a month or two ago and who now had probably formed whole sentences without them knowing and was now a fully fledged teenager. He didn't know how to handle a teenager he had only just conquered parenting an infant.
"Yes, we just need to give him time, you know Dumbledore he has probably got a million and one things that he has to do in a day" Remus reassured her.
"So whilst we are waiting were in Merlin's beard are we" James asked as he looked around the room that Remus had disapararted them to.
"This is my home, not much I know but it was all that I could afford."
James looked confused.
"But what about all the money that I had left you in my will, what happened to that." James had been supporting Remus whilst after they had left Hogwarts and Remus was refused any employment due to his condition.
"It felt wrong taking it after we thought that you and Lily had died, like I was stealing what was rightfully Harry's so I gave it back."
"Remus that money was for you, I gave it to because I wanted you to have it. We did it because we didn't want you to suffer if we weren't around because of something that you have no control over." But none of the words that James had said made Remus regret his decision or wish he had taken the money if he had the choice again.
"No matter what is done is done."
"And no matter how much we'd like to we can't change the past." Remus, James and Lily all turned around at the new voice that had been added to the conversation all three grabbing their wands.
"Calm yourselves it's just me." The figure said as he stepped out of the shadows and into the light that was streaming in from the small window.
"Professor" Lily sighed in relief.
"Lily, James this is quite a surprise last I heard you where not of the world of the living."
"Trust me, it's a relief for us too Professor". Answered James
"Yes I expect so, and James I think Albus or even Dumbledore is better suited now the same goes for you Lily considering the circumstances".
"Prof... Dumbledore" Lily said gaining the wise man's attention. "How come you believe it's us, I mean Remus thought we were death-eaters and after learning that we were supposedly dead for 14 years I wondering why you didn't jump to the same conclusion."
"Well my dear, there are several reasons to this; the first being that I assumed that you had to prove yourselves to Remus here meaning that you knew information that only the real Mr and Mrs Potter would know. Second polyjuice potion only works if the person you are copying is alive in order to keep the link active why do you think that Barty Crouch Junior keep Moody in the chest. And thirdly I have had my theories about this occurring since the end of the Triwizard Tournament."
"You what? You knew that this was going to happen and you didn't think to tell of us about it, not even Harry?" For the first time ever Remus had raised his voice in anger at Dumbledore.
"I wasn't certain and telling you would have just raised your hopes for something may not happen and then everyone else especially Harry would have had to lose them all over again."
"Dumbledore" James cut in before Remus could reply. "Our son, we need to see him." Lily turned her head away from Remus and looked directly at Albus.
"James, Lily" Dumbledore started "I know that you want to see your son again and believe me when I say that it will happen soon but first we must inform the order and as Harry doesn't know you and so although he may want to believe it with all his heart that his parents are returned to him he has no way to know for certain that it is you and so by convincing first the people that he trusts and that he knows knew you when you were alive 14 years ago he is more likely accept the fact rather than being reserved and holding himself back from truly loving his parents due to the feeling that he may being tricked again."
James looked at Lily and she, although sadly, nodded her head in agreement.
"Okay to the order it is then."
A.N:
Sorry about the wait, needed time to figure out how to write this one as it was harder then the others. Please continue reading and the reviews are greatly appreciated.
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