Hello Readers! Sorry that it took so long! This is a early New Year's Present. It was supposed to be up by Christmas, but that didn't work. I was having horrible technical difficulties loading this, and I am SO SO SO sorry that it wasn't up sooner. Chapter 5, 6, and 7 will hopefully be up VERY soon. They just need to be beta-ed. Please enjoy this chapter, but understand that this is a transition chapter, and it will get much better! Enjoy!

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Chapter 4: More Introductions and Stories

"I guess someone else has come to live here. I wonder who it is…"

When the couple made their way outside they were surprised, none the least. All they saw was a small, scrawny boy, Remus, and Dora. They never would have guessed that a laugh as full and a voice as confident as the one they had heard came from such a small child. Lily and James stood there in shock for a few minutes.

"Hello?" The small boy asked, his voice higher-pitched and more squeaky than that of the voice they had heard before. "Are you alive? Merlin! You're dead!" At this, Colin gasped, but continued on with his rant before anyone could get a word in edgewise, "You're Harry's parents, aren't you? This is so amazing! I GET TO MEET HARRY POTTER'S PARENTS! WOOHOO!"

And with that, Colin promptly fainted out of excitement.

Once Colin was awakened, the small group proceeded by telling the story once more to the newcomers.

"I have an idea!" Sirius exclaimed, "Let's introduce Remus, Dora, Fred, and Colin to the other people here! Because we have no idea how long the war will continue on for."

"That's a great idea, Sirius. But before we go, what are your names?" Lily asked Colin and Fred.

"Oh, I'm Fred Weasley. And this strange guy is Colin Creevy. He usually isn't this spastic. Maybe it's just that he's in shock. I hope it doesn't continue, his first year was torture for Harry, and if this continues, with him clinging on to me, I think I will actually die."

"Nice to meet you Fred. So, how do you know Harry?" James asked earnestly.

"Well, I met Harry right before my third year. Mum was freaking out, she had five of us, and all of us were going to Hogwarts, except little Ginny. Right before we were going to go through the barrier, a boy came up to Mum and asked her how to get to platform 9 and ¾. Mum told him, and later on the train, Ron, my brother, befriended him and found out that he was Harry Potter. It was the first time anyone in the wizarding world had really seen him since you two died. And then that summer, George, Ron and I rescued him in the flying car."

"Wait, what do you mean rescued him?" Lily interrupted, her voice full of concern.

"Well, Harry didn't respond to any of Ron's letters, or Hermione's for that matter. So we borrowed our dad's flying Ford Anglia and pulled the bars off his windows and brought him back to the Burrow. Mum was horribly disgruntled, but dad was pleased."

"Those were… decorative bars, correct?" Lily questioned, fear evident in her voice.

"Um… er… how do I put this? Er, they were very pretty…"

"They were bars like on a prison room, I'm assuming," Lily guessed, hoping her thoughts to be untrue.

"NO!" Lily shot Fred a look, and Fred stammered under the pressure from her death glare. "Ok, so maybe there was a slight chance that they possibly were the same possible design, but only slightly and a small probability of the small chances that the slightest possibility of the… yes…"

"And, WHY, pray tell, were those bars on Harry's windows?!"

"Dobby the house elf."

"DOBBY?! You mean HE'S the reason my baby got locked in his room?! I'm going to MURDER that elf!" Lily screamed in anger.

"No, no, it's not like that. Dobby was just trying to warn Harry of the Chamber of Secrets being opened that year. Dobby wanted to protect Harry, he cared for Harry, but Dobby had a strange way of showing it. Ask Dobby for the details, I've only heard the 'giggling-after-winning-a-Quidditch-game-while-on-a-sugar-high-and-running-only-on-adrenaline-at-three-or-so-in-the-morning' version. But that was quite strange, even considering some of the other stories people told," Fred explained, trying to sound amused, but really, he was fearing for Dobby's life.

"Lily, why don't you do that before you murder someone?" James asked hoping that she would take him up on his offer. "You know that I don't want to have to send you to Azkaban after we return to the world of the 'living'."

"Actually, that's something that you can't do! Azkaban is actually under the control of You-know-Poo at the moment. I don't think it will ever be in use, ever again," Fred joked, but slightly serious at the same time.

"WHY couldn't that have happened when I was in there?! I could've gotten out of there much, much sooner! Then again, people would've hated me even more… so maybe it's not a bad thing…" Sirius thought out loud.

"Ok! After that happy note, let's introduce Remus, Dora, Fred, and Colin to the others." James suggested.

"Sounds good to me!" Lily replied.

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The group was standing in front of a cream colored cottage with moss green shutters. Lily walked up to the door and knocked a couple of times. A young man, probably in his early twenties, answered the door.

"Hey Lily, what are you doing knocking? You know that you and James are welcome to just walk in!"

"We know, we just brought visitors…" she paused slightly before continuing. "And we were also hoping that maybe you might be willing to share a room with Jeff, Cedric."

"Why? How many new people have come?" CEDRIC REPLIED, LOOKING AROUND.

"At the moment, four, but Remus said that the final battle is going on now, so there may be more coming."

"Oh wow… But I'm willing to share a room with anyone really. Is that who's behind you?"

"Yes, these are the people who came recently."

"Hey! It's Professor Lupin! And a Weasley twin! What are you two doing here?" Cedric paused for a moment before realizing how incompetent that made him sound. "Oh wow, I sounded pretty thick didn't I? I should know why you're here…"

"It's OK, I mean, it's still a bit of a shock for us too," Remus replied.

"Yeah, it's not like you're Percy or someone like him. Then I would bug you unmercifully about being an incompetent fool." Fred and Cedric laughed, while Remus and Dora both let out a small chuckle, yet the rest of the group was silent.

"So, we should probably have a group meeting, shouldn't we?" Lilly suggested.

"Sounds great," Cedric replied, "I'll get the others."

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"As you can all see, there are four more people joining us here," Lily began. "This means that we will have to review rooming situations so that everyone can have a place to sleep. We also need to introduce everyone. And it would be nice if we could add another building for extra space, which we could use for rooming or for recreation."

The entire group nodded. Then, a beautiful young woman with golden brown hair and bright blue eyes stood up.

"Lily, where would we get the materials? We've asked Amora for enough as it is!"

"Charity, there are trees around here. We could be like early man civilizations. We could build the house ourselves."

"I think that's a great idea," Sirius added in, clearly lusting over Charity like a dog over a piece of steak.

"Ok, there's one thing settled," Lily stated. "Now, why don't we introduce everyone. For starters, I'm Lily Potter."

A short blonde boy stood up next, "Hi, I'm Colin Creevy."

A freckly red head waved his hand. "Frederick Weasley, at your service."

"Wotcher! I'm Nymphadora Lupin, but please, call me anything but Nymphadora. Dora is fine." She was now sporting bubblegum pink hair down to her shoulders.

"Hello, I'm Remus Lupin. Nice to meet you all."

Dobby stood up, with his tennis ball eyes bulging out of his head, "I is Dobby, sirs. Pleased to be making of your acquaintance."

"Moody, Alastor Moody," said a gruff man, his mad eye swiveling out of control.

"Hello, I'm Charity Burbage. Pleasure to meet you all."

"Hi, my name's Bertha Jorkins. Glad to meet you all."

"Hullo mates, Cedric Diggory here."

"Hey, I'm Jeff Potter," a muscular young man with deep hazel eyes and dark red hair stated. "Nice to meet you all."

"And we," James started, pointing at himself and Sirius, "are the eminent James Robert Potter and Sirius Orion Black."

"And we have come to haunt your souls!!!" cried Sirius, grinning maliciously. The group broke out laughing.

"Well, now that that's over, we can continue with the meeting," Lily announced. And with that, the group decided on new responsibilities for each resident of the small village.