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Bayfire: Thank you for reviewing I am sorry if this chapter is not going to be to your liking, but this is not actually bashing Dumbledore. In this, James and Lily have a right to be angry at Dumbledore & Snape! They do not know the future. Just the happenings till the fourth year. So accordingly, they only know that it was Dumbledore's decision right until that point in time, as well as Snape's behavior (he was a bastard to Harry) which is only going to be explained in the future, so they would not know. This is from the parents' point of view with how their son was treated. Anyway, hope you like this chapter!

Chapter: 4

The newly arrived group sat down once Dumbledore conjured a few chairs for them. Those who were close to James and Lily before their death beamed at the two of them. James took a deep breath before turning to Dumbledore. The group had decided to let James be the spokes-person as Lily and Sirius were sure that they would lose their tempers faster than James.

"We have a lot of questions that has to be answered in regards to the treatment of my son, Dumbledore" James said.

"I wonder what tales your son has been telling you. You have no right to question the headmaster, Potter. Your son is as arrogant as you." Snape sneered from his seat although he had not taken his eyes off Lily ever since she revealed herself.

"Oh, shut up, Snape! Our son has not been telling tales! If you want to know, there is a room called the Room of Requirement. As the name suggests, the room provides what the person requires. We wanted to see Harry's life and so we got to see his memories on a projector. We'll get back to you after James finishes with Dumbledore!" Lily snapped at her ex-friend.

"You knew perfectly well that we specifically stated that Harry was never to be left with the Dursleys. So why the hell did you leave him there? Not only did you leave him in the one place we forbid, you did not even think to check up on him. You had the nerve to leave him on their door step just because you knew very well they would have declined to accept Harry into their house if you had woken them. Did you know that his bedroom was a cupboard under the stairs for the first 10 years he lived there? Did you know that he was starved and abused? Did you know that they actually told him we died in a car crash?" James asked trying to keep his temper under control.

All those present gasped as James mentioned Harry's living condition but Dumbledore just hung his head and nodded.

"I did know that they would not treat him very well, but that was for his own protection. Lily died to save Harry, so her protection is strengthened if he lived with Petunia. No harm came to him. Besides, Sirius was sentenced to Azkaban, so he could not take care of Harry." The headmaster said in his grandfatherly tone.

"That is bull shit! You knew Sirius was not our actual secret keeper. You were the one who performed the Fidelius charm after all! So why did you give evidence that Sirius was our secret keeper? Why did you not demand a trial for Sirius when you gave Bellatrix Lestrange and her cohorts a trial? After all, is that not why you immediately believed Sirius when he told you his tale last year? There was no Peter Pettigrew as a witness and Remus was in his warewolf form, so he could certainly not vouch for Sirius's innocence. Neither did you administer Veritaserum which could have cleared him immediately. Not only that, you asked Hagrid to bring Harry to the Dursleys before Sirius was even arrested. So again, I am asking you, why did you leave Harry at the Dursleys despite knowing they would not treat him well by your own admission?" James asked glaring at the old man.

Mrs. Weasley, Professor McGonagall and a few others gasped at James's language and looked at him disapprovingly, but he did not notice any of it, his attention solely on Dumbledore.

"As I already told you, I left him there because of the Blood wards." Albus said, sweating a little. He was surprised that he was not already on fire from the glare he was receiving from Lily, James and Sirius. Some of the order members were also looking at him with a little bit of shock that he knowingly left a one year old child in an abusive environment.

"Then why did you not check up on Harry regularly? They would not have loved Harry, but at least they would not have withheld food and treated him properly if they knew they were being watched. They did give Harry the second bedroom after his Hogwarts letter was addressed to 'the Cupboard Under the Stairs.'" Lily cut him off.

"I had Arabella Figg watch him. She never reported anything out of ordinary." Dumbledore said defensively.

"Mrs. Figg is a witch?" Harry asked incredulously.

"She is a squib." Dumbledore said.

"She only baby sat Harry when the Dursleys go out. As if they are going to announce that Harry was being abused. You could have let the Dursleys know that they were being watched. You could have gone for some surprise visits to make sure they were treating him well. Or you could have actually kept him truly safe by leaving him with some couple who did not have children to look after and put them under a Fidelius with yourself as the secret keeper." James said.

Dumbledore had no reply for that.

"Alright, let's move on to the next one, shall we? We love Hagrid, he is our friend, but shouldn't Harry have been re-introduced to the wizarding world by some person actually qualified to inform him about his Heritage? Who the hell is his magical guardian if Sirius was in Azkaban?" Lily asked.

"That was me." Albus said wincing.

"Then why did you never teach his duties as an Heir to the Ancient and Noble House? Why have you not taught him our culture and etiquette? You have too many titles that make you very busy, and you know that. So why the hell did you not appoint someone to tutor Harry on the things he needed to know?" James asked his temper no longer under control.

"I did not want to burden him with all those duties when he had just entered the Wizarding world. He had to first get used to his celebrity status, after all." Dumbledore said yelping when a stinging curse from Lily hit him. James too had cursed the headmaster a few seconds after Lily.

"And whose fault is that? You bl- Ugh! You really think that excuse is acceptable? Harry has been in the wizarding world for four years now and you still have not taught him a thing about his Heritage! All other Heirs shoulder their responsibility at the age eleven. True, Harry would have been overwhelmed, but at least he would have been prepared for any type of situation that requires it. You needn't have even started immediately. You could have started his tutoring after a month or two in the Wizarding World." James said frustrated. Harry just took James's hand and squeezed it slightly and smiled at his father.

"And then, in his first year, you bloody hid the damn Sorcerer's stone in a school full of children knowing full well that Voldemort is after it. You hide it with a few traps that three first years are able to get past it! You keep a fucking Cerebrus in the school locked behind just a bloody first year spell. Why did you not lock the door with something the students could not have easily opened? Why not put a trigger ward so than you and the staff were notified immediately when someone crossed it? Why could you not have drawn an age line specifying the age limit to be a hundred bloody years so that only you could have entered? Even Voldemort is not hundred years old!"

"You only give a warning not to go to the corridor on the pain of death. Have you actually gone insane in your old age? A quarter of the school population which is full of teen-agers is Gryffindor who want to prove that they are brave. What better way than to prove that you are not afraid? I know my friends and I would have immediately gone to check it out! This castle has moving staircases. What if some student was stranded in that corridor and were caught? That is how Harry and his friends found the Cerebrus, by the way. And why in the bloody hell did you not return immediately once you found out the letter was a fake used to draw you out? You leave in the afternoon and you return late at night when you knew very well that the stone was in danger? And how in the deepest pit of hell did you not figure out Quirrell was being possessed by Voldemort?" James shouted the last past with frustration.

This revelation caused an uproar with Molly being the loudest demanding answers. It took nearly fifteen minutes for everyone to calm down.

"And finally, how insane are you to actually approve the use of time-turner by a thirteen year old girl? No matter how brilliant, did you ever think how she would cope with so many subjects? Professor McGonagall, why did you not check Hermione's health frequently and see whether she was getting enough sleep or if she was over worked?" Lily asked still incredulous over the fact that they had allowed a teen age girl to use a restricted item without supervision. The transfiguration professor had the grace to look ashamed at the rebuke from her former student.

"You, old man, again put my son in danger when you let him confront Lucius Malfoy at the end of his second year. Thank Merlin, Dobby was there and was devoted to Harry. You knew what sort of a man Malfoy was, and you knew what his reaction to Harry would be and still you did not supervise that meeting nor did you tell Harry to be careful. And then in their third year, you actually encouraged Hermione and Harry to use a time-turner to rescue a hippogriff and a prisoner. Did it ever occur to you that Remus would be roaming in the forest as a warewolf without the wolfsbane potion? Or what if the bloody ministry officials found Harry and Hermione rescue Buckbeak?" Lily questioned turning to Dumbledore once again.

"And lastly, we come to this year! If you are Harry's magical guardian, then why did you not prevent him from competing in the Tournament? I know for a fact that a minor can only compete with the approval of his parents or magical guardian. So why did you not refuse to let Harry compete? And how come you were fooled by a death eater into thinking he was your close friend?" James asked.

Once again Dumbledore was silent and cursed the older Potters for asking so many damning questions. He wondered how much damage-control he would have to do.

"If your son is arrogant enough to compete in the tournament Potter, there is nothing the Headmaster could do." Snape sneered.

"Oh, nobody asked for your opinion you bloody Death Eater!" James snapped.

"I wonder how you employed a Death Eater in a school full of children, Headmaster!" Lily said glaring at her ex-friend who looked as though she had slapped him.

"I trust Severus, Lily. I would like to ask you to trust my judgment on this." Dumbledore said.

"Your Judgment? Really? After all you have done or neglected to do in our son's case? You still expect us to trust you? You really are barmy!" James said incredulously making Harry and Ron snigger quietly.

"He has done nothing but abuse my son verbally and you expect me to just accept that? Did you know that if this was a muggle school, Snape would have been fired after Harry's first Potions class? Did you know Professor, he called Neville an idiot and berated him for melting his cauldron when the boy was injured before he was sent to the Hospital Wing and he took points off from Harry when Harry was not Neville's partner. The b—" James gasped when his wife was about to curse and took her hand in his trying to calm her down. He knew Lily was hurt that Snape treated Harry so badly.

"That man has been abusing point system so much that he has made it into a joke! Where is the professional behavior when he allows the Malfoy boy to bully other students? Last year the Malfoy boy was injured and Ron and Harry were made to prepare his ingredients. Why should they be made to do that interrupting their own classwork when Snape could have made the boy to sit the class out and do the Potion when his arm was better? Where is the so-called professionalism when he reads out magazine articles about Harry during the class?" Lily asked Dumbledore and Minerva.

"You said James was a bully, then what the hell are you now, you bloody hypocrite? You seemed to have left most of the story out when you told me about the Marauders bullying you. You made it out that you were completely an innocent! But would an innocent boy curse muggleborns with his gang of friends? The Marauders took their revenge when you and your group of death eaters cornered muggleborn students and cursed them. The marauders never told me any of this. It was the other Gryffindor students who told me after the incident in our third year. You fought back against James, but you are now bullying students who cannot fight back against you!" Lily shouted at Snape who was looking quite pale.

"You say my son is arrogant, but you seemed to have made your opinion before you even laid eyes on him! If the past four years are to go by, then we think it would be best if we withdrew Harry from Hogwarts." James said before turning away to comfort his wife while the teachers gasped out in shock.

"James, please don't make any hasty decisions. Harry would be perfectly safe here." Dumbledore said making Harry, Ron, Hermione and Sirius to gape at the headmaster incredulously.

"All other students were perfectly fine, Potter. Your son and his sidekicks are the only ones to break the rules which is what puts them in dangerous situation." Snape said.

Within a blink of an eye, Lily hexed her ex-friend. "Breaking the rules does not normally lead to life threatening situations in a school, Snape." Lily snarled.

"When did the punishment for being caught out after curfew was a loss of fifty points each with a detention in the forbidden forest at night instead of a loss of twenty points each for the first time Professor?" James asked Minerva pulling Lily into his arms.

"Did you know that the entire school turned against Harry and Hermione for that? Why did you never ask Harry, Ron and Hermione why they thought the Stone was in danger instead of dismissing them out of hand? You doing so made them lose any confidence they had that the teachers would help at all and that is what made them go after the Stone in the first place." James said.

"I am truly sorry for that children. I realized that only later. I do promise to listen to any problems you have in the future." The transfiguration professor said, shame faced.

"That's okay, Professor." The trio said.

"We are going to the Ministry now, so we would like to take Harry with us. We are going to present ourselves to the Wizengamot." James said standing up.

"James, I would like to advise you against that course of action. It would be better-" Dumbledore was cut off when James glared at him.

"It would be better for us to be in hiding? Why? The Minister is not believing Voldemort is back, so why should we not persuade him to acknowledge the truth before it is too late? Besides, as I told you earlier, our trust in you has been broken. Unless you earn our trust, we are not going to listen to you regarding our personal lives. In the fight against the Dark? Yes we would trust you. But deciding how we live? No! Besides, we are not the only ones to have come back to life, Cedric has as well and the boy has a right to live freely. The Diggorys have already agreed to our course of action and have indeed summoned the Wizengamot already." James said.

With that the Potters and their friends made their way out of the Headmaster's office.

"I am so happy to have you back Lily, Prongs." Remus said breaking the silence.

"Why did you never visit Harry, Remus?" Lily asked while James stood stiffly.

"I was a werewolf. Dumbledore told me that he was safe and happy so I did not know whether he would have wanted to see me." Remus said softly.

"Why then did you not tell Harry last year that you were my best friend immediately? Why did you never write Harry this year after you knew for a fact that he never cared that you are a warewolf?" James asked.

Remus had no answer to that but just muttered a small 'sorry'.

"It's okay, Professor, but it would have been good to know a few stories about my parents." Harry said with a small shrug.

It took a few hours at the Wizengamot for James, Lily and Cedric to be proved alive and well and Sirius freed with a bounty on Pettigrew's head. A vote of no-confidence was called for the Minister Fudge and he was elected out making Amelia Bones, the Head of the DMLE to be named the interim Minister. Amelia heard Harry's tale about Voldemort's return and the Death Eaters that were present in the Wizengamot were immediately arrested while the others were to be immediately arrested when seen. She had immediately called a press conference to let them know about the return of Voldemort as well as James, Lily and Cedric. James and Lily took Harry, Sirius and Remus to the Potter Manor to not only have a good summer as a family but to train for Voldemort as well.

A/N: This is the last chapter! Hope you enjoyed reading it. Review Please!