The summer passed much easier than the teenagers thought it would. They found that by staying in James' house they were safe and although daily reports of attacks were sent their way they were shielded from them.
August was quickly ending and the group were sat on the patio in James' backyard. They were each lost in their own world and James couldn't help but look between them all and wonder what was to come for them all.
His parents were out of the house keeping busy. His mother was in Diagon Alley collecting their school supplies with Lora. His father though was in work he was at this point in Germany lecturing about the importance of dragon control.
He had always found it funny that his father had gone into the regulation department, but he travelled the world visiting other ministries along with Thomas and he was making it a safer place, or at least he had been now it was in danger from another source.
As for Thomas he was in France giving a very similar lecture although James knew for a fact that they were also gathering overseas information on what was happening around them. Taliesin on the other hand was making his way around the wizarding communities trying to discover what he could.
As for Tad well he was spending the days with the Evans' but James had a feeling there was more to it than that. It was no secret they had taken the attack badly. Dudley was now fretting about having connections to the wizarding world and had considered pulling Lily out of Hogwarts and back into the local school.
It however had had an ill affect on Petunia she no longer would stay in a room with Lily. James had noticed she was jumpy around them all and after two days it was decided she had to go home. She now refused to have anything to do with the magical world.
Lily was taking it badly though James could see that. She was trying to put on a strong front though but she was looking very tired at the moment. James had also heard from Alice that she wasn't sleeping she kept waking up crying in the nights.
Alice though was fitting in happily, maybe it was the fact she was use to their house anyway and even Aaron seemed to be enjoying himself. Maybe it was the fact that they now had enough people to play a good game of Quidditch.
The teams were pretty good though James and Amanda were always on opposing teams and then Sirius would play one of the keepers and Peter the other. Then Remus and Ginny were playing the beater positions and then Lily and Aaron were the second chasers and they would also be the seekers when the time was needed.
Although this seemed to keep them entertained most of the time it was no secret that Peter kept sneaking away to sit in Branwen's room. She was getting better and now she was even able to leave the room and was doing better.
As for Remus though James couldn't help noticing the way that he was distancing himself from Ginny. He kept shooting looks towards her and he had the feeling that his friend had a crush on the red head. Ginny though seemed to be blind to all this but that was to be expected. She was too busy helping Lily.
Then there was Sirius he was busy running around the place trying to lighten the mood by pulling small pranks like changing all the food on the dinner table so that it tasted like whatever was in the bowl to its right.
James though couldn't help but notice Amanda. She was rather quiet compared to normal and she always had her head in the prophet. Only yesterday had James sat down with Sirius and her and watched as the pair discussed the latest murders and why they had been signalled out.
Even though they were all safe the real world was getting in on them and it was with baited breath that they all were counting down till the first of September and their return to the safety that was Hogwarts.