Harry Potter and the Unexpected Heir
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True to James prediction the Hogwarts letters arrived that day, around midday. The trio were hoping to find out who the new Headmaster was but the letter was signed by the Hogwarts Board of Governors. The titles of the books for this year were much more advanced, in comparison to last year. Harry was surprised Hermione didn't get the Head Girl position because he could bet his Firebolt that she had that position since First Year. Maybe they were late with the decisions after everything that happened. Harry could feel Hermione was a bit disappointed that she didn't get the Head spot. They finished their homework; Harry having his new abilities fully operational finished his homework in half the time, beating Hermione herself. They spent the rest of the day talking or practising magic. They also tried to learn Combat Training by themselves but without a teacher they didn't know how, so they focused on Magical Training.
"I can't wait to go to Diagon Alley with me parents tomorrow, it would be the first time we went shopping together" Harry said
Hermione answered "You must be really excited Harry"
"Yeah I am, are you two going?"
Yeah it's gonna be great. Mum told me she and dad are earning really well now; we don't have to buy things second hand anymore. Apparently being in the Order gives good salary. We're in the Order now so we might start to get paid too" Ron said
"Have you thought about that Inner Circle thing? I wonder why she picked us, we're so young"
"But we have the most knowledge when it comes to fighting him personally. We've fought him about 5 times already"
Ron: answered "And besides Hermione is the probably one of the smartest witches at Hogwarts. What I know is that I 'm gonna say yes"
Hermione and Harry nodded in agreement; Hermione still had a slight blush on her face from Ron's comment. Just then Mrs Weasley's patronus made an appearance for them to help with dinner preparations. On their way down Ginny joined them and stopped Harry.
"Can I have a word with you Harry?"
After getting a nod from Harry they went into the nearest study on their left.
Ginny started "I just wanted to say… that… that I'm sorry things didn't turn out for the best. I know you were trying to protect me Harry. I want to move on Harry, I have lingered on you for too long, we obviously are not meant to be"
"I understand Ginny, I just hope we can still be friends?"
"Of cause Harry, Colin asked me out after we broke up, is it ok if I say… yes?"
Harry nodded "its fine Ginny" he hugged her "Be happy"
She nodded, smiled and exited first, after a few moments Harry went down too. As he went down the stairs he was thinking about the conversation with Ginny, for some reason he wasn't saddened at all, he felt relieved really. Ginny could move on, he could move on. No, he has a war to focus on. The back of his mind, his mature, knowledge side was thinking "The journey and victories of war are nothing without that special person to share them with". He smiled to himself; he was so lost in thought that he did not notice the collision between himself and his dad. When his mind returned to the present he noticed his dad was talking to him.
James looked worringly at Harry "Are you alright Harry? You didn't even hear me when I told you to stop"
"Sorry dad. Thinking"
James grinned "Thinking huh, you had the same look on your face that I had when I thought of your mother"
Harry blushed "Dad you have that look now" James laughed "Well that's because I'm thinking about her aren't I? You and Lily are always on my mind" He put his arm over Harry's shoulders and guided him to the kitchen. "You know Harry your grandmother had red hair, so did your great grandmother. The Potter's have a soft spot for redheads"
Harry laughed nervously, could his dad guess what he was thinking about? Was he talking about Ginny or Lillian? Wait, when did Lillian get in these thoughts?! Focus Harry Potter, focus, you have a war to fight. "The journey-" 'I know shut up' he said to himself. He sat down everyone was assembled. But Lillian wasn't there. Again.
Suddenly he looked over at Ron, his face was white like ghost, and he was still as stone. Right in front of his face was a large spider, hanging by a thread from the ceiling.
Harry looking at Ron "You have got to get over your fear of spiders Ron"
Surprisingly the spider turned its head towards Harry and said "Exactly my point" Now it was the people in the room's turn to turn white.
Ron stuttered "The… the… spppppider…. spppookkee"
The spider jumped onto Harry's head, to James' head, onto Sirius's shoulder and into Lillian's chair. The spider transformed back into the form of Lillian. Lillian was roaring with laugher seconds later the rest joined, all except Ron. When everyone calmed down:
Lillian: "I'm so sorry Ron, it's just I've been tired lately and I just came from your brother's shop and they mentioned you hated spiders, really arachnophobia is something terrible to have. I'm sorry I couldn't resist, but you should have seen your faces, it was priceless"
Sirius who was grinning "I love this girl, serious yet a prankster underneath".
Lillian said calmly "I am no prankster but I think a joke in a while to lighten up the mood does not hurt. But I will take it as a compliment from a former Marauder"
Remus' eyes grew wide "How do you know that?"
"I have an Inner Eye" Lillian said mystically while laughing.
Molly asked "Lillian you said you went to Fred and George's shop?"
"Oh yes, I have to say their products are brilliant. I just gave them plans for a new line for our Order members. Its protective charm woven into the fabric, like the ones they had last year but the charms are much stronger. Also it's them that will be making our earrings. Also a good thing is no one else will be able to buy them, it's a private line."
Remus was curious "I always wondered where you get your money from. In the past month you have spent more on protection and salaries than god know where"
"simple I make it" came the answer, when she noticed people were looking at her weird she said "What?"
"You can't money can you, or otherwise everyone would be rich"
"It's an old Merlin ability I suppose" she snapped her fingers and her wand appeared, she whispered something long and the other two wands that Harry had seen before during the resurrection of his parents, appeared in front of her. She once more placed hers with the other two and the long golden wand appeared. She waved it in intricate gestures, sparkles of magic falling from the tip. Finally she said "Deslubrium" and a gold galleon appeared in front of every person. "See easy, but don't try doing that, it sucks out your life, unless you have a really good genuine reason for it. Trust me" she parted her wands and the other two disappeared. She returned to her meal.
Harry deciding it was the best time to ask "Lillian I've been meaning to ask, who did those two wands belong two" Lillian looked up from her soup.
"Oh, those two, one belonged to Merlin and the other to Godric Gryffindor, I should really give it two since you're his Heir"
Harry shoock his head "It's fine you can keep it, how come you got Grandpa's wand, I thought you said you never came out of hiding?
Lillian explained "Well one day, Godric's son found the castle where we were hiding at the time, he couldn't see it but he was close enough, he was wounded and one of us went to help, he was in such a state and we took him in and nursed him back to health. He was so adorably kind that everyone befriended him. He promised not to tell anyone about us and as proof he gave us his most prized possession: his father's wand. Later on we discovered that if we united Merlin's wand, Godric's wand and our own wand we get one much more powerful. Capable of channelling our most powerful spells without exploding under the pressure and thus the Gold Wand was born, back then Grandpa was still alive, before he died he said something about four wands but he was kind of old, we didn't really pay much attention to him, he had a terrible sense of humour."
Noticing everyone had eaten while she talked, she quickly finished her meal, and with a wave of her hand dirty dishes were gone.
"How about we go into the living room and pass some time?" Lillian suggested
They agreed and passed onto the living room, each taking a seat.
"I would like to show you something, I found it while doing my daily history inspections" Lillian said, her wand appeared and she touched it on her forehead and then extended her arm, a ball of light following. A light screen appeared in mid air.
"I thought we could lighten the mood up a bit a more, this is a resume from a certain group that went to Hogwarts over 20 years ago" Lillian said (A.N. it's basically a magical TV screen)
On the screen appeared Remus, Sirius, Peter, James and Lily. But they all looked 11, they were arguing "Sirius I told you a million times not to call me Lilyflower" a young Lily said. "Come on Lily you know you're just being like that because I beat you in a test", Peter and Remus laughed from the back, a handsome young James separated the two "Cut it out Sirius", "you're on her side! Prongs! I bet you're just doing that so she starts to like you, isn't it?" Sirius said. "Me, James Potter of cause not", Lily was getting more frustrated by the minute; she stormed off up the Gryffindor staircase. James looked at Sirius for a moment "Padfoot you're ruining my plan!" and with that he followed her, in the distance you could hear James say while knocking on the door "Lily come one, go out with me once please" she opened the door slightly, a orange light from the tip of her wand hit James over the head. A moment later James came down the stairs with large elephant ears instead of his own.
More funny moment passed between the group, images of James, Sirius and Peter trying to get their animagus forms right, which ended in James having just antlers over his head and Sirius with fur all over his face, Peter's nose the size of a pea. For 30 more minutes the images went with people in the living room nearly wetting themselves, especially Harry laughing hard at the stupid things his parents used to do, he saw his parents grow older, until it came to their seventh year. It was obviously the welcoming feast. Professor Dumbledore was addressing the students. "I would like to announce the spots for Head Boy and Head Girl, I am sorry but this year the choice was large and so I took a bit longer. The Head Girl is Lily Evans and the Head Boy is James Potter" the whole Hall went "WHAT!" heads turned to James, mouths touching the floor. McGonagall got up and put her hand to Dumbledore's forehead "Albus are you sure you are all right, maybe I should take you to St. Mungos, you can't possibly be in your right mind with choosing James Potter as Head Boy, he would burn down the school!", Dumbledore laughed and said "But I'm sure it would be in a very entertaining way".
Down near the tables Sirius was throwing fireworks from his wand tip, and patting James on the back while singing in an off tone voice "Ha ha no more detentions for me, no more no more no more". The image changed to Lily, her face was one of shock and disbelief, her jaw wide open. "There is no way I'm sharing a Common Room with him!". Letters on the screen said 3 months later, James and Lily in a passionate embrace in a Gryffindor themed Common Room, on a door to left of the screen, could be read 'Lily Evans, Head Girl Bedroom', the right of the screen, 'James Potter, Head Boy Bedroom'. The two seemed to be snogging each other senseless; unawares that Sirius and Remus were watching, mouths hanging open. "Padfoot!" he said, making the two love birds break apart, Lily with her face all red "What happened to the I will never share a Common Room with him? heck the same coach, heck the same air!"
The scene changed to a simple wedding, Lily a beautiful bride stood with James, a handsome 17 year-old groom saying their vows. The scene changed again this time they were at St. Mungos, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter were seating by a corner, James seemed anxious , a bald Healer went up to James and told him "It's a boy" James started to jump around and shout "I'm a dad! A dad!" he went over to Sirius "I'm a dad! Padfoot I'm a dad", "Crap, Prongs I'm an uncle! I'm an uncle" they hugged each other jumping around, Remus and Peter laughing at the scene.
The next image was with sweating Lily holding a little baby with bright green eyes and a little bit of jet black hair, wrapped in a blue blanket while James watched over them. "What should we call him?" Lily asked, "I always liked Harry" James said, "How about Harry James Potter?", "James?" James asked, "Yeah for his brave father" Lily answered. James grinned "Harry Potter, welcome to the world my son" and kissed him over the head.
The final few images where of the Potter family, happily playing with one month old Harry, 5 month old Harry, James trying to feed a baby Harry, Sirius playing with Harry in the air, and Harry accidentally levitating a bowl of pasta onto Sirius' head. The final image was Lily and James watching over their 1 year old son sleeping peacefully in the night. The screen disappeared, with James and Lily with a few tears in their eyes, but laughing at the scenes on the screen.
Sirius began "My favourite part was that Common Room scene, first thing I remember I seeing perfect Lily Evans snogging her mortal enemy, or so she called him, senseless in front of the fireplace, on James favourite armchair! A memory worth a million patronus'" he was laughing so hard he fell of his chair. Others were doing the same and Harry was laughing so hard that he had tears in his eyes.
Remus added "I'm not even going to ask how you did that because I'm starting to believe you're unpredictable Lillian" he said laughing.
She smiled and got up; everyone was so caught up laughing that no one noticed her. She made her way up the stairs, a smile on her face; hopefully the potion would be finished tonight.