They arrived home to find wands in their faces and for a moment Lily was stunned until she remembered what they looked like. She quickly said, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good. Harry let go of my hand and see if it clears up."

"Ok." He agreed and dropped her hand and in a moment she was back to normal.

"Did you know you could do that?" she asked getting on her knees so she was at his level.

"No." he grimaced, "Well I knew I had more metamorphic abilities than I told you about, but not about sharing it."

"What happened?" James finally unfroze enough to ask.

"She was at the market." Harry was shaking and Lily pulled him into a hug.

"Bellatrix?" Andromeda gasped recognizing the shape he was in was the same as the last time he had seen her.

"We were trapped between her and the brothers." Lily rocked gently with Harry still clasped in her arms, "I thought I was dead but then she glanced at me and walked right past. I was shocked and turned to watch her go and saw my reflection. Harry changed us both."

"I thought you couldn't change your facial structure." Sirius said from his seat not far away.

"I haven't been completely honest with you." Harry pulled away from his mother, "I wasn't sure how trustworthy you were. Bellatrix doesn't know because she never retested me after the first time. As I got older I was able to change more things. I wanted to keep back a secret in case I needed to run away again."

"She was so horrible I guess I can't blame you." Sirius was the first to speak, "There are a few secrets from my growing up years that I have yet to tell my friends. Blacks are a cruel lot."

"But the Potters aren't." Ted reminded the boy, "And the Tonks are pretty good people too. We understand your reluctance and we hope to gain your trust eventually."

"I'm going to go rest for a bit." Harry left the room quickly and Crookshanks jumped from Ted's lap to follow.

Lily let out a small sob before James grabbed her in a hug, "It's not us he doesn't trust. Bellatrix made him weary of everyone. We just have to show him he can trust someone."

"He wants to trust us but his lessons are just engrained too deep." Sirius supplied, "I really know what he's gone through or at least in part."

That was all Harry heard before he went on to his room. He stayed curled up on his bed with Crookshanks until Lily came and got him for dinner. Harry had been thinking and had a few questions for the adults.

"How did she get so close?" was the first one he asked after they began to eat.

"Our uncle owned this place and willed it to me. She knows it exists and the island chain it is in. She is just checking out all the islands hoping for a glimpse of us." Sirius shrugged, "We've decided to shop further afield when we go for muggle stuff. We don't want any chance of them spotting us or you."

"We'd like you to stay here for the next few trips too." James stated, "Your last trip scared me to death."

"Me too." Harry agreed.

"Would you feel better if we made the same vow the others have?" Lily asked.

"I really hate to ask you to do it." Harry bowed his head in shame.

"That's ok." James grinned broadly and both of them gave him a vow.

Before they could continue on with dinner Harry gave his own vow like he had for the Tonks' that first night. After dinner Dora and Harry went for a walk. They were both quiet for a while before Dora broke the silence by tripping.

"Sorry." A laughing Harry reached out a hand to help her back up as she glared at him.

"You don't sound sorry." She huffed.

"Your hair changed seven times as you fell." He chuckled, "I am sorry you fell, are you alright?"

"Nothing more than a bruised ego like normal." She chuckled, "Seven times?"

"May have been eight but your head was in the plants by that time." He tried to hold back the renewed chuckles.

"Smarty." She cuffed the back of his head, "So how are you doing? You were pretty still during dinner."

"Stressed, I was afraid for a moment that one of them had told her where to find me." Harry shuddered, "Then I feel guilty for thinking that way about my parents."

"Well don't feel too bad. I've heard nothing but horror stories about her and I'd be freaked out too." She rubbed his head, "They do understand even if they don't like it."

"When will I quit being so hurtful to them?" he asked.

"You aren't hurtful. Bellatrix did all the damage and she gets all the blame. The rest of us are just her victims." Dora said in a rare insight of wisdom.

Harry stopped suddenly, "Not any longer."

"What." She had taken a few more steps so she had to turn back.

"I refuse to let her make us victims any longer. Come on." He turned and ran back to the house.

They ran in the door and Lily immediately stood, "Is something wrong?"

"No." Dora allayed their fears, "I think Harry had an epiphany."

"I did." He said, "I've decided I'm not her victim any longer. I am going to trust you with my last and biggest secret. She had no idea I can do this. I only finished it a week or so ago and she didn't know I was even trying."

"Ok." Lily tried to smile but it came out more as a grimace.

James came and stood beside her with an encouraging smile on his face. Remus, Sirius and the Tonks family leaned forward paying close attention. With a quick grin Harry closed his eyes and in a few seconds a large tiger stood in his place.

"Yes!" Sirius jumped up and yelled, "That is so cool."

"You did this on your own?" Lily asked faintly.

The tiger nodded as Sirius tried to tackle him. It only made the animagus sway a little. James was laughing as he fell on his knees in front of the animagus and pulled his head into a hug.

"That's my boy." He whispered over and over.

"Told you so." Harry felt Crookshanks jump on his back and settle in.

"Yes you did." Harry replied, "But I had to have some motivation, a good reason to give it."

"Not all of us can be as smart as me." The feline began to purr loudly from his back.

"I guess we don't need to worry about jungle survival now." Sirius laughed.

One morning a few weeks later Harry awoke to find his mother standing in the kitchen and staring at one of the walls, he stood next to her and looked at the same wall but didn't see anything interesting. Shrugging he went on to set at the table but noticed there was no breakfast setting out or cooking. Rather than bother her he set about making his own breakfast. He had never cooked so he looked for something simple. It took several moments but eventually found some sweet rolls and poured himself some milk to go along with it.

When James arrived he found Lily in the same state and Harry sitting at the table eating. He approached his son, "What's up with her?"

"Don't know." He shrugged, "She was like that when I came in for breakfast. I didn't want to disturb her thought process so I found these to eat."

James walked back to Lily and put a hand on her shoulder and spoke quietly so as not to scare her, "Lily?"

"Hmmm?" the sound was the only change.

"Are you alright?" he continued to whisper.

"Hmmm." Again only sound was the change.

"Lily." He said a little louder.

Still no change but then Sirius barged in and with his normal boisterous ways called, "Where is breakfast, I'm starving."

"Oh." Lily jumped, "You're all early today."

"No we're on time." James countered, "What had your attention so thoroughly? Harry has already been in here and has almost finished eating a sweet roll."

Lily turned and smiled widely, which neither James nor Sirius expected, "Well aren't you resourceful finding yourself something."

"I didn't want to disturb your thoughts." He shrugged and got up, "I'm going to get dressed."

"Lily?" James questioned after the boy had left, "Are you alright?"

"Yes, why wouldn't I be?" she turned and began to pull out quick foods for breakfast. Cereal and sweet rolls were set out and she fairly bounced around the kitchen.

"You are ok with us eating sweets this early in the day?" Sirius asked and quickly put a roll in his mouth in case she changed her mind.

"Sure why not." She grabbed one for herself.

"Lily." James was getting exasperated, "What happened this morning?"

"What are you talking about?" she asked.

"You were staring, unmoving mind you and staring at the wall. I called your name several times and you didn't notice. Harry even came in for breakfast and you didn't notice. What happened?"

"Oh, I just realized." She giggled, "Ten years ago today Harry went missing."

"Ok." James drew it out confused.

She sighed and explained, "This is our first Halloween all together, the last one he was too small to dress up. We can take him trick or treating. We can have a party! We can celebrate this day again!"

"Party!" Sirius ran out of the room yelling, "We're going to have a Halloween party. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!"

James was frozen for a moment before he began to grin madly. He picked up his wife and spun in a circle several times before stopping and putting her down and kissing her soundly. He didn't let loose of her though and when Andromeda made it to the kitchen she found them dancing slowly to music only they could hear. Not wanting to bother them she snagged the rest of the sweet rolls and the milk and left the room to head off Ted, Dora and Remus.

"What do you want to dress up as?" Sirius asked as he reached the door of Harry's room.

"What?" Harry asked.

"What do you want for your Halloween costume?" he rephrased the question.

"I don't understand what you're talking about." Harry looked skeptical.

"Well for Halloween muggle kids dress up and go door to door for candy." Sirius explained, "They dress in what their idea of magical things or funny things. I knew one guy who liked to dress up as Santa Clause for Halloween."

"But that's Christmas." Harry looked at Sirius like he had two heads.

"That's why it was so funny." He laughed at the joke.

Harry was still confused, "Why do they do that?"

"It is fun." Sirius was grinning like mad.

"So what do you want me to dress up as?" he asked resolving to speak to Ted about it before he ever let Sirius touch him to try and dress him up.

"That's up to you." Sirius poked at him, "My first time I went as a wizard because I already had all the stuff for it. Since then I've been a mummy, a lion and a dog."

"Only four different kinds?" he asked.

"We've not celebrated the holiday for a few years." Sirius sobered.

"Why not?" Harry cocked his head a moment before his eyes widened, "Peter took me on Halloween! How could I have forgotten that? He was always bragging about it. It didn't even dawn on me. No wonder Mum was in such a state this morning. I remember that there was always a battle on Halloween and Rabastian would always complain about how you all fought like mad people that night and on my birthday."

Harry threw himself at Sirius and gave him a big hug before he ran from the room looking for his parents. When he found them, still dancing in the kitchen, he threw his arms around them and buried his face in his father's chest. For a moment James thought he was crying but when he pulled back to look he found his son grinning like a maniac.

"Sirius just helped me realize why today is so special." He took a deep breath, "I never thought to apply to myself all the stuff Peter was always saying about the Potter boy. He kidnapped me on Halloween when you had been called away to help someone. You all thought it was a trap by death eaters when you arrived and no one needed anything. When you returned home Peter had taken me away and you thought we both had been taken by them."

"Well at least he told you the truth." James sighed, "I'm glad that no good rotten rat is taken care of."

"Me too dad." Harry turned to his mother, "Are we going muggle or wizard?"

"Mixed." She replied, "We'll all dress up in costumes but have a party here."

"What do the muggles do that's different?" he asked.

"Muggle kids go door to door and people had out candy." She supplied, "But there isn't really anyplace we are sure is safe enough for you to do that."

"No that's ok." He shook his head, "I don't want to knock on a door and have Bellatrix open the door or one of the Malfoys. Who knows where they're looking now."

"Good point that." James agreed, "I'm going to have to go shopping. We need candy and drinks, anything else?"

"I'll make a list, you must stick to it and you're not taking Sirius. Remus is ok." She pulled away to find paper.

"I'm ok for what?" Remus entered the room.

"Helping dad shop for the Halloween party." Harry supplied.

After sending off the two men, Harry and Lily set out to tell the others about the party. Each person then went their own way to create a costume. After getting some ideas from Lily, Harry decided to work on his costume alone and surprise everyone. A few hours later Harry heard a commotion from the kitchen. Curious as he was he went to investigate and heard his mother well before he reached the kitchen.

"This wasn't on the list James." She stated.

"I didn't pick that up it was Remus." James declared, Harry could hear Sirius laughing in the back ground.

"I told you to stick to the list." She evidentially turned on the other marauder.

"No, you told James to stick to the list." He replied Harry had finally reached the kitchen and could now see the smirk that he was hearing.

"Honestly Lils, Remus is a chocoholic, did you really expect any other outcome?" Sirius said between giggles.

"What did you get?" Harry asked from the doorway. Sirius was sitting on the floor by the stove still giggling. Remus was standing behind James by the table and Lily was glaring at them from the other side of the table over the many bags James and Remus had set down.

"Butterbeer and pumpkin juice." James began.

"And chocolate." Remus added over his shoulder.

"Yes chocolate and a variety of other magical and muggle candy." James looked over his list.

"And chocolate." Remus added again, a huge grin on his face.

"I already said that." James waved him off.

"How much did you eat already?" Harry asked lifting an eyebrow at the man.

"Not enough." Remus huffed.

"So essentially you've planned to eat chocolate until you puke?" Harry snickered.

"I do not eat until I puke." Remus mock glared at the boy.

"I've not ever seen him get sick eating chocolate." Sirius added from his spot on the floor. The giggles had stopped but he was still grinning like a loon, "So what are you dressing up as?"

"It's a secret." Harry replied waving him off as he turned to Remus, "What happens if you eat too much chocolate?"

"There is no such thing as too much chocolate." Remus stated as if it were fact.

"He gets a bit hyper." James supplied.

"I do not." Remus frowned.

"Hyper isn't the word for it." Lily shuddered, "He starts acting like Sirius."

"I'm going to hide in my room." Harry chuckled, "I don't think I can stand two of them running around."

"Exactly." Lily called as he ran from the room the protests from Sirius and Remus being loud and clear.

Harry locked his door as he got ready for the party. He had worked on his costume all day and he finally had it right. Of course a little magic was involved in order to make it work. The costume really hadn't taken too long it was deciding what to be that had taken the majority of the day. He had quizzed the others on their costumes but none of them would tell him what they were going as. He did, however, get them to tell him what they had done in the past. He had heard of all manner of disguises and that let him to his new library full of magical and muggle books. From there he had picked it out and it was a quick magic job to transfigure all the pieces. The party was a big hit as was his costume. He had gone as Sherlock Holmes. His mother was so proud that he had picked out a muggle character to portray that she nearly cried.

"I need some chocolate." Remus sang as he entered the room in his muggle doctor outfit complete with stethoscope.

"Brilliant deduction Dr. Watson." Harry pointed his pipe at the man, "I hope you come up with some more good ideas like that."

"Thank you Sherlock, I endeavor to be brilliant like you." Remus grabbed his hand and the two made their way to the candy bowl.

"Maybe a dog wasn't my most brilliant idea." Sirius pulled on the collar he was wearing before swishing his wand over his fake dog fur and changing it into a superman suit, "Now I fit in with everyone else. Why didn't anyone send me the memo that we were doing muggles this year?"

"We didn't plan it out that way." Nymphadora shrugged, she looked like the muggle Princess Anne and even held the face for a while.

Andromeda and Ted were dressed as the current Queen and Prince Philip while Harry's own parents were dressed as local islanders. It was late when they finally went to bed that night.