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A MEETING TO REMEMBER

Summary: Harry and Hermione's trip to Godric's Hollow changes course as a trip to the graveyard takes the two back to a chance for a meeting they'll never forget.

MEET THE PARENTS

"You have lost your mind, that's all I can say." Ginny said walking into the bathroom directing her words to Harry who was sat in bed reading.

"Gin come on, it's just a thought okay? I just thought that maybe you could meet my mum and dad and well they could meet you. I mean of course I understand if you don't want to, I mean it would be pretty weird, so yeah it was just a thought."

"Harry… have you really thought about it though? Everything is so much different than when you were there last, it'll be the exact same there. It was seven years ago that you went with Hermione, you were seventeen then, you're twenty four now, married and with a child on the way yourself, your parents are still going to be twenty with a one year old you."

"I know Ginny, I know, and I did think about that, but like I said it's just a thought, if you think on it and come up with an answer or yes or no it's fine honestly, we don't need to go until after Christmas if you want time to think."

"I'll think about it Harry, but don't get your hopes up okay?"

"Yes dear." Harry laughed, falling out of the bed when he tried dodging a punch thrown at his arm.

"Get up off of the floor and go to sleep." Ginny laughed turning off the lamp and attempting to go to sleep while Harry looked for his glasses and tried to get back into bed. That night Ginny did think about Harry's proposal, she thought about it right up to Christmas before reaching a decision.

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Ginny followed a rather excited Harry from their house, past his parents' ruined house and to the graveyard, she was unsure of the whole thing but the way she saw it was that she could either do something that made her unsure or stay in a box for the rest of her days. It had been years since she'd done something that made her feel unsure. It was December 30th and Harry was hoping it would still work as it had on Christmas Eve seven years ago. When they reached the graveyard Harry took Ginny's hand in a way that he could land under her instead of her landing on the ground if it worked, he reached his hand out and touched it against the granite. Then with a violent tugging and a flash of red the two landed in the main street of Godric's Hollow, Harry under Ginny to cushion the fall.

"Remind me to kill you when we get back Harry that was terrible." Ginny said as she and Harry stood up and brushed the snow off of their clothes. Harry took Ginny's hand and started walking towards the general area of James and Lily's house, they came to a stop when they saw James talking to a young looking Remus Lupin.

"You won't kill me Ginny, but anyways we're here." Harry announced quietly just before James and Remus noticed the two of them standing there.

"Well, Merlin's Beard, back again are we? It's only been what, a week?" James said with a laugh leaning towards Remus. "Recognize that face there Moony?"

"That's absolutely impossible." Lupin replied looking at Harry as he popped the lock on the gate and lead Ginny through.

"And you thought I was making it up, Remus, you should know me better than that. Harry my boy, you're looking a little older since a week ago, tell me, how old is my son this week?" James laughed leaning against the railing on the front steps.

"Twenty four, it's been seven years Dad." Harry answered with a smile.

"Blimey, well are you planning on coming in? Remus was just leaving sadly, otherwise I'd have loved for more time to prove him wrong for a change. When will you be back Moony?"

"Um, oh, ah probably next week, with Padfoot." Lupin replied as he patted James on the back and made to leave. "So much like your father Harry, except of course your eyes, your mother's eyes. Say goodnight to Lily for me Prongs."

"Will do sir, will do, have a good night Moony." James gave a wave as Lupin disaperated with a pop. "Oh, how rude of me, James Potter and you must be Ginny?"

"Yes sir, that's me, it's nice to meet you." Ginny replied quietly, she was obviously nervous but Harry gave her hand a comforting squeeze as James led the two of them inside.

"Pleasure's all mine, and please call me James, no need to call someone sir when you're older than them really." James said with a smile. "Lily's upstairs trying to get the tike to bed, he never seems to want to go. You two go make yourselves comfortable I'll go put the kettle on."

Harry and Ginny sat in the front room waiting for James to return and Ginny could see the look on Harry's face that Hermione had described, the look as if he was totally at peace more so than ever and she was glad she'd come to the past, she was glad she'd said they'd go.

"James are you talking to yourself again? I heard you talking." Lily's voice said quietly from the stairs as she walked down to find her husband, she walked into the front room and came to a stop with a huge smile on her face. "Harry! Oh honey how are you?"

"I'm great Mum." Harry smiled standing up to hug his mother.

"And you must be Ginny, it's so great to meet you, I'm Lily." Harry watched his mother hug Ginny tightly to her, well as tightly as she could all things considering. "Oh my, you were planning on telling us I hope Harry? I've been there I know, your father however…"

"Well we were panning on it being a surprise but I suppose now it's only going to surprise Dad." Harry replied sitting back down with Ginny while Lily sat in the rocking chair in the corner.

"Okay tea's ready and Lily just to answer your question I don't talk to myself, I grew out of that when I was four." James announced as he carried the same tray as Harry had last seen with the same tea pot and cups placed on it. "But, how was the trip here? As rough as last time?"

"James you make it sound as if they came by plane or car." Lily laughed at the small hint of confusion James wore on his face.

"Well they know what I mean, but how was it?"

"The same for me but I suppose it was worse for Ginny, given the circumstances." Harry answered making his father's confusion grow.

"So Harry honey, I never did ask, how old are you now?" Lily asked when James waved the confusion from his shoulders and sat down on Ginny's other side on the couch.

"Twenty four these days, Ginny's twenty three."

"Oh my you're older than us, now that is strange."

"So, are you two finally dating?" James asked taking a sip of his tea.

"Actually no, we're married." Ginny answered making James choke and spit the mouthful of tea almost across the room.

"James! Manners, spitting tea across the room isn't polite." Lily said sternly, trying not to laugh at her husband who was choking still. Harry and Ginny couldn't contain their laughter and ended up gasping for breath.

"Sorry, my apologies you two, just came as a shock as you can imagine." James coughed taking a second sip to take away the coughing. "Anyways, Ginny, last time Harry was here he mentioned you played Chaser in school?"

"Yeah I did, as McGonagall put it "one of the better ones Gryffindor has seen" but I'm sure you were better." Ginny replied getting into conversation with James about the formalities and such about the position while Harry got into conversation with Lily.

"So, where abouts are you two living these days? Taking a rough guess and assuming of course that you have your own home." James questioned after he cleaned up the tea and moved the tray back to the kitchen.

"A few houses up the road actually, I bought a place when I was eighteen, before I started job hunting." Harry answered ruffling his hair as if to make it messier to compete with his father.

"Is that so? So I suppose there'll be the little pitter patter of tiny feet soon enough?"

"Well actually Dad that's another thing we need to tell you, Mum figured it out already so it's no surprise to her, but Ginny and I are expecting a baby in five months now." Harry said with a proud smile on his face while Ginny sat beside him a slight blush creeping onto her cheeks.

"Merlin's beard, really? I'm going to be a grandfather at twenty one, how strange of a concept that is, but tell me, do you know the gender then?" James asked, his voice an octave higher in surprise.

"We're having a boy, tell them the name we decided on Harry." Ginny replied with a smile.

"We're naming him James Sirius Potter, after you of course Dad and Sirius." Harry said receiving a grin from his own father and a soft smile from his mother.

"We're so happy for you two." Lily smiled gaining a nod from James in agreement.

"That we are, how excited are we back in the future?" James asked stunning Harry into silence, how does one explain to ones parents that they aren't there in the future to see all these large stepping stones in their own child's life? James and Lily Potter never saw Harry grow up past fifteen or so months, they were no longer around, but how could Harry tell them this without changing the whole future? He saw no way how to, but surely there was a way, there had to be.

"I-it's hard to explain actually, I mean if I tell you now there's always a chance you could change it, and as much as that would be beneficial to me growing up, it would change everything I have here… not that I wouldn't want a certain thing to be different of course because well I grew up wanting it to be different. But Mum, Dad if I do tell you, you have to promise me as hard it will be for all of us, that you won't dwell on it nor will you try to change what is coming." Harry explained, a pain in his chest when he thought of telling his parents their outcome in just ten short months.

"Harry dear, we won't change a thing if the future you have is the future you want to keep. You must know that everything we do is for your benefit not our own." Lily replied moving to come sit at James feet so she could be closer to her husband and her son.

"Okay well to be honest with you you're not going to like it and I am going to have to leave some details out, not because I want to but because I have to." Harry said, taking Ginny's hand in his own for support before he started his story. "I know how that right now you're in hiding from Voldemort, I know that some select people know of this, one of which shouldn't as in the end it turns out to end in betrayal. Voldemort will find you and it hurts me to say this, but you two don't make it out alive, he got to you first Dad, you told Mum to take me and get out, but he was too quick for you. Mum was upstairs with me, trying to buy time just to get us out of there, but once again he was too quick, not quick enough however to stop Mum from protecting me. With both of you gone then it left me, of course not even a child could get away from Voldemort's sentences, he aimed the killing curse at me, but because of what Mum did… it didn't do anything, all it did was leave the scar.

"The wizarding world found out about Voldemort's downfall and went into celebration, not knowing at what cost the Dark Lord had lost his power to. It was Hagrid who came and got me on Dumbledore's orders, they took me to the Dursley's it was really the only place I had to go. I stayed with them until I was eleven when I went off to Hogwarts for the first time, of course no one hardly thought of Voldemort anymore it had been so long since his fall. But he was there, in the school, right under everyone's noses, I managed to get rid of him temporarily again." Harry stopped and took a deep breath to look at his parents, James sat with his hands on Lily's shoulder's as if keeping her calm, Lily sat quietly, looking at Harry as if to say 'just continue'. "It just went on like that for a while, where he'd go and come back again, in my third year Sirius got out of Azkaban he escaped, he was in there under charges of the murders of twelve and the betrayal of you two, but he hadn't done it. We managed to save him and get him away and then it calmed down again slightly.

"In the fourth year though, when I ended up as a champion for Hogwarts in the Triwizard Tournament he showed up at the end of the last task, Voldemort I mean, he gained human form again, and he tried, unsuccessfully to kill me again, it sounds odd but you helped." Harry again stopped and took a shaky breath, holding tight to Ginny's hand. "In the firth year he was back in full force I suppose you could say, Ron, Hermione and I started a little gathering we liked to call Dumbledore's Army, I taught anyone who wanted to learn, how to defend themselves, it proved use full in the end, Voldemort showed up at the Ministry and gave me the impression that he had Sirius and was going to kill him. Turns out he didn't and when Sirius and the Order came to help us out, Bellatrix Lestrange though, with some other Death Eaters managed to kill him, right there and then, it wasn't until I was alone that Voldemort showed up. Dumbledore showed up too not long after and tried to beat Voldemort, it worked I suppose you could say, he left and we were left dealing with the Ministry.

"During the sixth year I went with Dumbledore a lot, we were searching for parts of Voldemort's soul, hidden in objects, horcruxes. That was difficult, we worked so hard and in the end it was just in vain really, the horcrux we found had been replaced, it was a fake replica of the original. The night we got back Snape killed Dumbledore, it wasn't until the year after I found out it had been planned between the two for months. In what was supposed to be our seventh year Hermione, Ron and I were on the run, looking for the remaining horcruxes, it was tough and it brought us all over, including here to Godric's Hollow. It was by total accident that Hermione and I were brought back here and met you two, we didn't know it would happen. But this was a stop on the trip and we carried on for a few more months after, until the trail led us back to Hogwarts.

"It was a battle in full rage towards the end, and of course it didn't go without loss, Lupin and his wife were killed and it wiped out everyone I really had left as a connection to you. But Voldemort used this, he managed to get me alone and I'd really come to a stop where I knew it would end, and again he tried to kill me but it didn't work, the spell hit me and it killed of one of the last remaining pieces of his soul. It was Neville Longbottom who got rid of the last one, Voldemort's snake. I managed to kill Voldemort once that was out of the way. But after all those years I didn't have much left thanks to him, both my parents were gone, my godfather, Lupin and Dumbledore, gone. I had to move on after that, Lupin and Tonks had made me the godfather of their son Teddy and so I worked all that out." Harry finished with a sigh, he didn't know where this was going to go after this now, it all counted on what his parents did really.

"Oh Harry dear you've been through so much…" Lily cried standing up to take Harry into her arms in a tight hug.

"Son I'm so sorry that's how you grew up… danger at every turn and with him in your path all the time." James said quietly patting Harry's arm.

"I got used to it after a while, faced the fact that it was a large part of my life and I just had to live it, but of course in the end it all got me where I am now didn't it?"

"That it did and Harry, you have no idea how proud your mother and I are." His father replied, the emotions running high in his voice. Harry spoke with his parents and with Ginny well into the night, through on until early morning when he decided that he and Ginny should leave. Leaving was just as hard as it had been seven years ago, but with a final wave he and Ginny headed back to the graveyard and to the spot in which a grave stone would be placed in just a few seconds and with the tugging again he and Ginny were back in Godric's Hollow, in their own time, in front of the grave of James and Lily Potter. One the way home it was difficult for the pair as they passed by the ruined house and to their own five houses up, but they did it, and with memories of their time with Lily and James.

"You know Harry, it's scary how much like your Dad you are, I mean apart from the eyes and the nonstop joking and chatting you're basically his twin. But he and your Mum are so nice, I really wish you'd have had the chance to grow up with them." Ginny said with a soft smile as she and Harry went to bed, she had a great time with his parents and she had taken a liking to James' seemingly carefree attitude and Lily's compassion, it was easy for her to see just where her husband got specific traits of his, it was nice to see the two people he came from and see their life if only for a short time, she was honestly glad she had gone and met them, got to know them and had memories of that, memories she could share with Harry about his own family.

THE END