The Summer: Part II

2013


WARNING: I only know who to watch videos, not make them. Remus is a smart cookie. James is full of sass. Lily is too.


"Hi there, um… so a small explanation before I get started. My dad got me this camera and laptop and I thought why the heck not start a YouTube channel?" Remus smiles at the camera shyly.

"Promise you won't laugh when I introduce myself, okay?" He take a deep breath, "I'm Remus John Lupin, like seriously, and that's my name. I am a huge fan of Harry Potter though. Not a werewolf," He laughs.

"I'm thirteen and yes oddly enough my two best friends are James Potter and Sirius Black. I don't actually know a Peter Pettigrew, but I do know Lily Evans, she's quite lovely. She's going to come over to the house with Dad and I in about a week and spend a month with us while her parents go off to Brazil, something about plants. The she and I will be returning to school. So maybe you can meet her sooner rather than wait until the fall when I go back to school. I attend Wobbles Academy. James and Sirius are my roommates. Lily is another friend of ours." Remus slips into this a bit more.

"In a rather interesting twist of fate Sirius's middle name is Orion and occasionally he'll insist he is the third Sirius Orion Black. He insist on lots of things, like a pun jar, we don't actually have. If you want the full story I will be linking it to my friend Taylors Tumblr, she has the whole story there and some rather embarrassing photos of all of us. So please don't click the link," Remus giggles and winks.

"I'm actually going to show you how to build your very own..." Remus trail off and pull out the example, "Industrial strength kindle case. Sirius is very hard on all of the things in our dorm. You should see James glasses."

~Doomed~

Remus grinned at the camera and pulled Lily into view, "As promised this is the very lovely Lily Evans, she is not as shy as she wasn't you to think. You should hear the insults she hurls at people who insult James."

"Remus!" Lily protests.

"It's not my fault I have ears!"

"Yes it is, Remus, do you know what James is doing this summer?" Lily asks.

Remus shrugs, "Probably moping in his room about summer break."

"Not causing mischief?"

"James never did the prank he was told to, he's not very good at mischief," Remus says then looks at the camera, don't tell him I said that, pretty please with a cherry on top?"

"What about chocolate? You love chocolate that would mean more coming from you."

"Give then chocolate in exchange for silence?" Remus considers this, "Nope not happing they can tell James and then deal with the eyes later."

"James has this look like you've just attacked him down pat, and you feel terrible when you look at him," Lily says.

"What should we do?" Remus asks Lily.

"We should talk about boys," Lily giggles. Remus frowns.

"No we've already done that."

"Look up pictures of boys?"

Remus considers this then turns on the camera on his lap top recording their activity on his lap top. Opening a browser he types James Sirius Potter into google and fan art pops up.

"It seems as if people think James is just a character, let's try Lily Evans, shall we?"

"No you have to put my middle name in!"

"We don't actually know James' middle name, it could actually be classified!"

"Huh," Remus looks at the screen.

"People think you're Karen Gilligan," Remus laughs.

Lily pushes Remus out of the way and takes over the computer. Lilly laughs at Remus' reaction.

"I don't know a Tonks, she's not my girlfriend, I don't have a son, Sirius is not my boyfriend, why Lily why?"

"People think I'm Karen Gilligan," Lily responded, clicking on a picture, "Aw look the little marauders. James is acting like an idiot and Remus had a boo-boo on is nose and chocolate in his hand."

"Lily Evans is the actually worse, never let her near technology." Remus aid asy Lily click the next picture.

"Aw look the little idiots are grow up Remus had cool fingerless gloves and a beanie. James is getting his hair ruffled. I bet he actually loves that. Awe and look Sirius has an arm around Remus, their dating."

"Their not-" Lily clock the next picture, and laughs out loud.

"I think they are." Lily says.

Remus look at the photo, "Well that is simple wrong Sirius is too much of a dingbat to kiss me first I'd have to kissed him."

"I don't- well that's probably true but this is fan art."

"Why can't we have normal names?"

"We should look up Sirius name!"

"Apparently Sirius is a gay punk who smokes…" Lily says. "This would have been more fun when I was like ten now…it's not so fun."

Remus deletes a portion of word in the boa leaving only Sirius Black-"Hey is that-?"

"Sirius is a model?" Lily and Remus says.

"He's very nice to look at least." Lily giggles.

"This feels so wrong."

"Why there nothing wrong in saying a guys is hot."

"Well of course Sirius is hot but like don't you think this like privet? If he wanted us to know about it wh would have told us?" Remus says.

"Oh, yeah I guess you're right."

"Hey, Remus, what's Sirius doing this summer?"

"Helping Ms. Lion again. I hope he gets more little pizza tables I have better idea this year."

"Maybe he is modeling."

"You think?" Remus sassed.

~Doomed~

Remus and Lily's faces looked shocked when they greeted the camera, "So there have actually been quite a bit of questions about Lily and I've realized she didn't introduce herself properly, so let's actually meet Lily Evans, and I'll interview her with all sorts of questions you've asked. Also there are a lot more viewer than I thought when I originally started this channel."

"What's your middle name Lily?" Remus turns to her.

"Violet, my parents are botanists they love their job a lot, I'm just lucky they didn't name me Lilium longiflorum."

"Really? That would have gone well with your last name. Lilium Longiflorum Evans," Remus smirks.

"Lilium is my actual name I ask everyone to call me Lily though, it's a hard name to explain." Lily's sigh is long suffering.

"Lets not tell James or Sirius that shall we they'll tease you endlessly."

"You'll tease me endlessly, Remus." Lily says covering her face with her hands.

"What's you're accent?"

"American, I lived in New York until I was nine and then my parents decided that they would go over to England for some reason I have been teased for my accent. Although its lessened hasn't it?"

Remus shrugged, "I think it makes you unique."

"Thank you Remus."

"What's your favorite color?"

"Orange."

"Really?"

"Yes, I like orange, what's yours?"

"Steel gray," Remus quipped.

"Um…" Lily eyes Remus, "That's a strange color to like."

"So is orange."

"Stop being overly formal, it make me uncomfortable."

"You're country drives on the wrong side of the road," Lily tosses at him.

"I thought you were British now!"

"I thought you were causal!" Lily throws the popcorn she was eating at him.

"Any crusehes?" Remus wiggled his eye brow.

"Yes," Lily said with a straight face.

Remus almost fell out of his seat, "Really who is he?"

"Well he's very tall, and has curly red hair and a pasty face, with loud brightly colored clothing."

Lily watched as Remus went through the boys in their grade, "You could almost say he's clownish."

"Ronald McDonald," Remus moaned from his arms on the desk while Lily laughed, "I hate you."

"I love you too Remus," Lily patted Remus on the back.

"Lily Evans is a monster," Remus looked at the camera."

~Doomed~

Remus and Lily looked at the comment on Remus video.

"Is this for real?" Lily asked

"He doesn't have access at home?" Remus wondered

"Oh god what's that like?" Remus followed up.

The particular comment on their video started a chain of similar comments. It read:

Prongsisnotmyname 2 days ago

So this is the James, you keep mentioning in your videos. Like the one you've bu-sadkjgrekflas This is Teddy James' smarter, cooler, awesomer brother. I am currently sitting on James because he thinks just- fine he's says it because he is faster a e. H e-adksjfber Teddy is an ass, but this is your dorm mate, I was at my grandma's all of July and now dad is making us stay at the house in London, because he's freaking paranoid. I don't know. Teddy and I snuck out and took my aunts laptop were at a mu- café with wifisrhgkaufecyus Can someone explain that to me? What even is wifi? We don't have it at home is it necessary

See Teddy is not smarter, cooler or awesome than I. He doesn't even know what wifi is. Anyway Remus is a liar his favorite color is coral blue number five semi-gloss and Lilium is now his new name for lying about that.

Sirius will be informed.

Also don't ask how we found this video, Teddy is a very sick man, like you don't understand,

James what even is coral blue number five- shh Teddy, we'll look that up later.

"Coral blue number five?" Remus read again.

Lily can't answers him because she is to busy laughing at him.

"How did he find the video?"

"Well apparently Teddy is a very sick man."

"Teddy is like fifteen!" Remus says, "He's not a man, he's barely a teenager!"

"Viewers, Teddy is the sweetest boy you'll ever meet. He was my pen pal for a while and used James to send me this beautiful necklace." Lily motion to the emerald on her chest.

"Teddy is an idiot," Remus flops back on his bed. "SO ARE YOU JAMES!"

"Remus is having difficulties right now, so I will show you how to apply make up properly," Lily beams.

~Doomed~

"I cannot manage to get a hold of James, who is a total recluse during the summer unless you can accidentally find him I will share all of the embarrassing stories about him and Sirius that Lilly and I can remember," Remus says.

"Also we're going back to school next week so the next video might be a bit late," Lily says. Remus shakes his head at the camera and mouths she's lying!

"So last summer my dad and I spent it in the country house he inherited a few years ago, and I was in town because I was board, I never got the milk and I run in to James and his older brother Teddy outside the local chocolate shop. He was denying Teddy chocolate, can you belief it?"

"Anyway we went in and picked out the chocolate and Teddy was really excite able without the chocolate, James and Teddy had bought a football and James was determined to teach Teddy how to play. We weren't very good teachers, because we ended up playing football with each other while his cousins were watching us. He has a ton of cousins, like I think there sixteen of them, then again most of them were just babies. His parents were strange but so are Lily's," Remus waved a hand.

"After lunch we played another game and tried to teach teddy again. Somehow we ended up watching a movie but I really can't remember what it was, it , made Teddy mad, he wouldn't talk to either of us in the morning, any way the point of the stories is James has ducky pajama's." Remus flashes the photo he took of James with his cellphone.

Lily laughs, "If you think that embarrassing you should have seen Remus in…"

~Doomed~

James found himself in a predicament, again it all came back to him being a squib. He went to his father anyway.

"Dad?" James asked. Harry looked from his work to his son.

"What up jamie?"

James picked at the hem of his shirt, "I-er I think I need a cell phone."

Harry lifted an eyebrow.

"A cellphone?"

James nodded.

"Why do you think this?"

"Most muggle kids have one, they call home on them and message their friends with them. And I never know what they are talking about because there are all sort of things they reference that I don't understand and I think perhaps they think I'm… odd."

"Do you want to know what they are always talking about?" Harry asked.

James nodded, "Of course I want to be able to relate to other muggles my own age!"

Harry winced. James bit his tongue.

"James-"

"I know you left the Muggle world because of your own reasons, but Dad. That's where I belong. I don't like being a freak in both worlds, not when I can fix that."

"You're not a freak James."

"Yes I am! You don't understand, how could you? You turned eleven and then suddenly you were whisked of to a place you never even dreamed of, sure it wasn't perfect but you build yourself a family and here you are decades later with a family and a job and a normal life. I like Wobbles it is where I belong. No one expects a god damn thing from me! My friends are normal muggles, who think I'm just like them, except my family is one of those weird families that doesn't have things like television or cable or cellphones."

"James Sirius Potter." Harry voice is icy cold, "Do not take that tone with me."

"I don't care!" James shouted and ran from his father study.

"Malfoy Mansion!" James shouted at the fire place. He ended up coughing in being spit out an fire place that seemed to be abandoned.

"Draco!" James called. "Draco please I need you, you said-"

A house elf appeared before him, he was old and tired looking, "Master does not live here nows. He says to bring the visitors to him," The elf croaked out and grabbed James arm and apperated them.

James blinked up at the blond haired man who hadn't expected his arrival.

"You said if it became too much I could-" Draco smiles at him.

"Of course you can still come here, you use the floo?" Draco asked.

"It's quick?"

Draco sighs, "You never change, James. It's late. I will make up a guest room for you, and in the morning we will resolve it okay?"

"Thank you mister Malfoy." James bowed his head.

"Please don't call me that James."

"What can I call you?"

"Would cousin suffice?" Draco asks him.

"I guess, but that's strange, are we actually cousins?"

"The black family and the Potter family has intermixed heritage. I belie you great grandmother was Dorea Black. My mother was Narcissa Black." James follows Draco down the hall.

"Thank you Cousin," James says.

"Would you like to tell me why you're here?"

"No," James says.

"I think perhaps you misunderstood me, I asked politely that you tell me what happened James," Draco directed.

"I asked my dad for a cell phone, it's only practical… and then it turned in to a shouting match."

Draco snorted, "Harry doesn't seem the type to shout."

"He didn't that was me. I was angry, I called myself a freak. Dad doesn't understand that I want to be like other muggles."

"James, you're not a muggle," Draco said.

"I might as well be," James grumbled.

"But you are not," Draco said, "Harry always like proper labels for some reason, and not everything has a labels. He can't just accept that something's just are. I think it comes from how his aunt and uncle raised him."

"James you are a squib, that is different than muggle. Muggles can't go into Diagon Ally or use floo. The have hardly any ability to sense magic. Squibs on the other hand can find magic, just not use it." Draco explains.

"Well that's stupid," James says.

"That's labels." Draco said airily.

"Labels shouldn't matter, they don't seem to help anything," James said.

"That James is what the world at large doesn't understand, if everyone understood that a lot of war could have been avoided."

James frowns in concentration, before he can get the next few word out of his mouths Draco has arrived at a door that he deems appropriate for James to sleep in.

"It's time for teenage runaways to go to bed, would you like anything to help you sleep?" Draco offers.

"Can I have warm mile please Cousin?" James asks tentatively. His mother use to give that to him when he couldn't sleep.

Draco smiles, and snaps his fingers an elf appears and he give the elf James request. James has never seen a house elf up close, he know his dad has a few that work diligently for him but never on the house, supposedly doing chores makes James and Teddy better people.

"Thank you." James says taking the milk and going into the room climbing into the bed. He take s sip of the milk and feels drowsy. Draco watches him protectively from the door way.

"Sleep well James," Draco says before leaving for the Potter residence. Outside Grimmuald place Draco looks over the building glad he doesn't live there though the Potters have made the place livable. He knocks on the door twice. A very irritated Harry opens the door.

"What do you want," Harry growls.

"I want nothing I assume you are looking for your oldest son?" Draco leans against the door frame.

"What would you-"

"Harry, a funny things happens when you treat your children like they are actually people, the listen to you. James is safe. He's a sleep in a guest bed at mine and Astoria's house. I have no intention on keeping him there longer than he wants to be at my house."

"Why is James at your house?"

"I meet him will paying back an old debt, he needed a ear to listen. I told him I would always be that ear if he needed it."

Harry closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm himself, "Draco Malfoy is on my doorstep to talk to me about my squib son's problems. No that doesn't sound less crazy out loud. Come in Draco, I'm sure we have lots to talk about."

The gray eyed man smiled.


In the last chapter there was a question about if they know about the magical world. They don't they just think its funny to tease James about that because he is so vague about his past.