A/N maybe it's a stupid question but do you think I should switch over to 3rd person for everyone or just do 3rd person when Lily's not around and keep Lily in 1st person?
Declaimer – (I guess I'm supposed to do these so, her it goes) I do not own Harry Potter.
April 2000
Desiree – 21
Chloe – 2
Harry – 19 (almost 20)
Claire – 16
Julia – 12
Eliza – 9
Lily and James Potter survived the attack against Voldemort but were told that Harry and Desiree did not survive. (If you are confused about Desiree read my story 'The Price We Pay') this is a story similar to 'across the sea' which I wrote a very long time ago. That one I will not be continuing since I have reread it and found plenty of problems with it.
Back to my point, Lily and James are living in America to escape the wizarding world and no one knows they are alive.
Chapter 04
We hadn't told the girls what was going on when we left this morning so we figured now would be a good time to tell them. Before we went to the burrow.
"Girls, we have something to tell you," I said. "It's very important so I want all three of you listening,"
The three stopped talking at once to look at me.
"What is it?" Julia asked.
I took a deep breath. "Last night I found a newspaper clipping that had a wedding announcement on the front." They all looked confused about what this had to do with anything.
"Who's wedding announcement?" Claire asked.
"Harry's," I said. They all gasped and stared wide eyed.
"You mean our brother Harry?" Claire asked. I nodded. "But that's impossible! He's dead!"
"Aperenently not," James said. "We went to the ministry today and talked to the minister, and him. Fudge lied to us and lied to the wizarding world. Saying we were dead."
"Why?" Eliza asked.
"I haven't the slightest idea," James said.
"What about Desiree?" Julia asked.
"She's alive too," I said smiling slightly.
"Do we get to meet them?" Eliza asked.
"Yes, actually we're going to the burrow in just a few minutes," James said.
"We get to meet Harry and Desiree!" Eliza exclaimed.
"Well actually you might only meet Desiree, Harry seamed rather angry when we talked to him earlier," I said, the smile falling fast.
"But why?" Julia asked.
"For leaving him," I choke out.
"But you didn't know," Julia exclaims. "The minister told you himself that they were dead, he should know how that feels because he was lied to as well,"
"But if we'd just stayed with Remus and Sirius instead of running off we wouldn't be in this mess," James said. I thought about that. Why didn't we stay with Remus and Sirius and Rachel in the first place? They were our friends, our family. Why didn't we let them know where we were going?
It was most unlike myself and James to forget our friends, because quite honestly I hadn't even really thought about them until this morning when Harry pointed it out. My best friends.
"Well, we're going to be late," I say motioning towards the fireplace. James goes first.
"The burrow!" he shouts. The green flames engulf him. The girls go and I go last.
The burrow was absolutely full of redheads. But there were some with black hair and brown. But mostly red. This was the Weasley family.
Desiree was sitting on a couch next to one of the red haired men; he looked exactly like the man I saw in the store the day before, except he had both of his ears.
I saw Sirius standing in the kitchen with his arms around Rachel, his eyes were tight and he kept glancing in James' direction every few seconds. He must have the same feelings about us leaving as Harry. And though I didn't know how long Harry liked to hold grudges I knew Sirius held them for a very long time.
"Alright everybody!" Desiree called standing up. Some of the room quieted but the rest kept talking. "Quiet! Quiet! QUIET!"
The room became silent. "Thank you, now you all know why we have called you here today, a miracle seams to have occurred. Lily and James Potter are alive, but they have been absent from the wizarding world for 18 and a half years, so we are here to fill them in on what happened. First let's introduce ourselves," she pointed at Molly first.
"Molly Weasley,"
"Arthur Weasley,"
"Bill Weasley,"
"Fleur delacour Weasley,"
"Charlie Weasley,"
"George Weasley,"
"Kennedy Monroe Weasley,"
"Fred Weasley,"
"Ron Weasley,"
"Hermione granger Weasley."
"Ginny Weasley,"
"Tonks," said the colorful haired woman. "And this is Isabelle, Teddy's down for a nap,"
I smiled. I knew I recognized her from somewhere.
"Um I suppose we should introduce ourselves as well," I said. "Lily,"
"James Potter," James said sweeping into a low bow that caused a few people to laugh lightly.
"Claire Potter,"
"Julia Potter,"
"Eliza Potter,"
"Well I suppose we should start with right after the attack," Rachel said. I nodded feeling slightly worried. I didn't want more shouting and yelling. "That night was Halloween, I was at home and Sirius went to check on peter before coming home for the night, but the house was deserted. He feared the worst and went to check on you guys. When he got there the house was in ruins so he sent me a partonus. I got there to see you two being put on stretchers, I checked you myself. There was no pulse," her voice broke off in a sob. It took a minute for her to gain control.
"Harry and Desiree were in Harry's room; Desiree was crying and screaming for you. I took them home and convinced Sirius not to go after peter; instead I went to the ministry alone and told them Sirius had not been the secret keeper. They made Sirius and I both answer under veritaserum,"
"And Harry and Desiree?" I asked remember what Harry had said earlier about the Dursleys.
"Dumbledore told us that Harry had to live under a blood relative of yours roof for at least the school year and we could have him for the summer and all holidays," Rachel said.
"But why?" I asked harshly.
"The blood protection, when you sacrificed yourself for Harry it activated an ancient charm unknown to Voldemort that saved Harry's life, Harry would only be protected from Voldemort and his death eaters as long as he was under the protection of someone who shared your blood. Petunia was the only living relative," Desiree said.
"And you lived with Sirius and Rachel?" I asked.
"Yes, but I went to the same school as Harry and made sure he came over all the time," Desiree said.
"Well nothing much eventful happened for a few years," Rachel said. "Then Harry went to Hogwarts,"
"What happened there?" I asked. Ron and Hermione looked at each other.
"Well, first Harry and I were on the train together because we're best friends and Hermione comes in acting all bookish," Ron starts.
"I was not acting bookish! I was simply excited for Hogwarts as you should well know," Hermione interrupted. Desiree rolled her eyes.
"Anyway, so Hermione comes in all excited and snooty," Ron tries.
"I was not snooty," she injects.
"Actually you kind of were your 1st year," Desiree says.
"Well we don't become friends at first, then during flying lessons Malfoy steels Neville's rememberall," Ron says. "Harry flies up and catches in after a fifty foot dive!"
"No way!" James exclaims.
"Yes way! I saw it!" Desiree says happily.
"Well anyway McGonagall comes out,"
"Ooh, she's not gonna be happy," James mutters.
Half the room bursts out laughing. Molly, Hermione, and Rachel look disapproving.
"Oh, she was happy all right," Ron laughed. "She was so happy she gave him a spot on the quidditch team,"
"No way!" James yelled.
"I know right?" Sirius laughs, "And so she owls me and next morning I'm out buying him the best broom in the market! The nimbus 2000,"
"Well anyway, Hermione gets all snippety and we still don't talk to her," Ron says. Hermione huffs but doesn't argue.
"then when they were learning wingardium leveossa, Ron said some pretty mean things about Hermione and she went off crying to the bathroom," Desiree said putting her arm around Hermione. Ron does the same on her other side.
"I'm really sorry about that," he whispers.
"I know," she whispers back.
"So that night someone lets in a giant troll!" George yells.
"A troll?" Julia asks.
"Yup a great big giant one," George said pointing up to the sky.
"How would you know? You weren't even there!" Ron snorts.
"Well anyway, the boys realize Hermione is still in the bathroom and doesn't know about the troll, so they run after her and realize the troll has gone into the girls' bathroom. They don't yell for help instead they charge right in and go to save her."
"With a spell that Ron couldn't do three hours earlier," Fred laughs.
"Huh?" I ask.
"Oh, Ron knocked him out with his own floating club using wingardium leveossa," Desiree laughs.
"And then the golden trio is formed!" George yells.
"Better not let Harry hear you saying that," Desiree said. "He hates the name,"
"Well soon after that the trio finds out that there is a 3 headed dog somewhere in the castle,"
"no. no. no. no. "Ron says. "We found fluffy before the troll incident,"
"Fluffy?" I ask.
"The three headed dog," Hermione shudders.
"Hagrid's?" I ask. They all nod.
"So sometime later we find Snape limping and we find out that he was trying to get past the 3 headed dog," Hermione says. James growls but Hermione silences him with a look. "So we ask Hagrid about it and he accidentally lets slip that someone names Nickolas Flamel was involved,"
"One of the only times I've willingly been in the library," Ron mutters.
"So anyway we find out about the philosopher's stone and figure Snape's trying to steel it. So we go to tell Dumbledore only to find that he has been called to the ministry," Hermione says.
"We tell McGonagall and she forbids us to investigate, blah, blah, blah. We do anyways because we're sure he does gonna steel the stone that night. So we learn from Hagrid that fluffy needs music and will go right to sleep so we play him a song on the recorder and jump down a trap door and land on some plant," Ron says.
"Devils snare, Ronald," Hermione sighs.
"Devils snare!" I ask very worried.
"yup and Hermione thankfully pays attention in herbology and says we need light, of course she looses her nerve when I tell her to light a fire and exclaims that there's no Wood! And Harry and I are choking to death," Ron said. Hermione blushed.
"Well we got out and ended up in a room with lots of keys, Harry used his quidditch skills to catch the right key and unlock the door. Then we come across a giant chess board where Ron takes over," Hermione says.
"Oh yeah, it was actually kinda fun, when you didn't think about the life and death part," Ron says. "So we're playing and I figure the only way to win is to take the queen take me,"
"Just to clear this up, is this wizard chess?" I ask worried again.
"Uh, yeah," Ron says. "So anyway the queen takes me and Harry checks the king and him and Hermione go on,"
"we get to a room with a line of potions and a riddle, I figure it out but only one person can go on the other has to go back,"
"So he went alone?" I screeched.
"Yes, he went and Quirrel was standing there, looking at a mirror. Oh yeah the mirror is the same one Harry found at Christmas when he got the invisibility cloak, it shows your hearts true desire. So turns out the stupid turban Quirrel was wearing was concealing Voldemort's head. He gets Harry to get the stone out of the mirror and almost kills him for the stone. But Harry has taken much love in him and destroys Quirrel and Voldemort. Almost killing himself in the process," Desiree finishes.
"Please tell me that's the worst," I say white as chalk and terrified.
"Sorry," Desiree says.
An insistent cry came from upstairs, then another followed. Both Tonks and the Weasley twin sitting next to Desiree – Fred – walked quickly up the stairs.
The room was in silence, waiting for the two to return. They came down each with a toddler in their arms. Tonks had Teddy with his hair bright light blue, no longer crying but rubbing his eyes. Fred held a toddler girl with dark red hair and blue eyes. She reached out for Desiree.
"Mama," she said, Desiree took her and snuggled her.
I stared in shock.
A/N
update: ok, so ive only gotton a few reviews. more please, i want up to 26, that's 10 more from chapter 3 which had 16. please help me reach my quota and i would apreciate some ideas. please. should lily be angry? should james try to kill fred?
also you may have noticed that on my acount there is a poll. who should i save in the battle of hogwarts in my story the price we pay? please! please! do the poll, i only have two people so far. you can vote for up to 7 people.
