Harry's Tale Part 2

"Well it was a week before Halloween when you decided to change your secret keeper from Sirius to Peter," Teddy went on.

James closed his eyes not wanting to hear what happened because of that decision.

"And Peter sold them out," Sirius said through gritted teeth.

James nodded "Voldemort turned up in Godric's Hollow on the night of Halloween."

The Marauders and Lily were all holding their breath while the time travellers all looked rather depressed and were getting more and more so as the story went on.

"Just tell us what happened and stop avoiding it," Sirius burst out unable to stand the tension.

"James, you answered the door," Rose said sadly "You told Lily to take Harry and run. You … you were killed."

"NO," Lily cried out although she had seen it coming; she couldn't live without James, he could not be dead. "No, that can't have happened. Don't lie to me. Please, tell it's not true."

"I'm not lying," Rose choked out hating the pain that was etched over Lily, Remus and Sirius's faces.

James put his arms around Lily as she sobbed silently into his chest. The fact that he was going to die in just over two years didn't bother him as much as the fact that Peter had betrayed him and Lily. Or the fact that there was a chance Lily didn't make it out of this situation either. The only light he could see in this was that at least his son survived; well his grandchildren in front of him were living proof.

Remus felt a lump rise in his throat as he watched his best friend. He couldn't grasp the fact that James was going to die. It was an impossibility, it couldn't happen. James had been the first person to ever befriend him, he hadn't abandoned him when he found out he was a werewolf. He had broken the law in order to help Remus during his transformations. Remus could think of no better friend than James – except Sirius of course – and the fact that he was going to die so young tore Remus apart.

Sirius could feel himself shaking. Rose's words were replaying over and over again in his head but he was barely grasping the meaning of them. Sirius stared in horror at James as he finally grasped the meaning of the words. James was closer to him then any of his family. In fact James and Mrs Potter were basically his family (Mr Potter had been as well before he died). Sirius was seeing all his memories with James flash before his eyes; their first flying lesson when Lily whacked them both over the head with a broom, their first prank together, their first detention, their first transformation into Animagi, the shock when James received his Head Boy badge, the shock when after seven hundred and eleven refusals Lily finally said yes to James, their final train journey back to King's Cross. Sirius could honestly not think of a time in his life when he had felt worse and the distress was only increased when he remembered it was all because of Peter their supposed friend.

Rose decided to continue so as not to prolong the story "Well Lily ran upstairs with Harry to his nursery and tried to barricade the door but it was no use Voldemort blasted it out of the way. He told Lily to get out of the way and she would be spared."

"He offered that," Lily sounded disgusted "How could he think for one moment I wouldn't do all I could to protect my son."

"It was because you didn't move away that Daddy survived," Lily said "You saved him with love. You sacrificed yourself so he could live. Voldemort never suspected love would get in the way of his plan, he was an idiot. When he tried to kill Harry the curse back-fired and almost killed Voldemort himself."

"You saved him, Lily," James said into Lily's hair.

Lily nodded "I guess I did. There are things worth dying for."

"Oh Merlin, Lily," James moaned covering his eyes with his hands "I'm so sorry, this is my entire fault. If only I hadn't changed the secret keeper, if only I'd fought Voldemort off, if only I'd stopped him from going after you and Harry."

"James, don't you dare blame yourself," Lily said sharply "I'm pretty sure we all had a say in the secret keeper business and you know that if Voldemort wants to kill someone then they're as good as dead."

"Except Harry," Remus cut in still not over the shock that now not only himself and his future wife were dead but two of best friends were dead at the hands of another of his best friends.

"Yes, James, our son survived and he defeated Voldemort and got married and had his own children," Lily smiled weakly.

"You're right, I suppose there are some things worth dying for," James agreed gloomily "I just wish you could have lived as well."

"And I feel the same about you James, but at least we'll still be together even if we're … dead," Lily gripped his hand tightly.

"Hold on," said Sirius speaking up for the first time in a while "we could stop all this happening. We could make sure I'm your secret keeper and then you won't be betrayed and … k-killed."

Rose and Al shared a look.

"Sirius if only it was that easy. But if we change your future the whole world as we know it will be ruined, we might not even be born," Al explained.

"So you're saying I just have to stand around and see my friends get killed and do nothing about it just so that you're born," Sirius said angrily.

"Sirius!" Lily exclaimed.

"It's not quite like that, in the end we're going to go back to 2026 hopefully and when we do, we're going to have to erase your memories," Fred said.

"You mean we won't remember anything," James gaped.

"Its better that way," Lily sighed "How could we go on knowing exactly how and when we were supposed to die. Knowing when we're going to get married-"

"And when you're going to have a baby," Fred added in.

"And that," nodded Lily blushing slightly. "James, we just can't know all that imagine trying to live our lives normally."

"Lily's right," Remus said heavily.

Sirius looked far from happy but nodded grudgingly "well what happened to Harry then?"

"You looked after him of course, you're his godfather," James smiled at him.

"Err … actually that's not what happened," Teddy said feeling awful telling them all this bad news. "You see Dumbledore and Dad and the Order all believed Sirius was still your secret keeper and therefore he was arrested and sent to Azkaban for life."

"HE WAS WHAT!" James exploded.

Sirius paled at the thought of going to Azkaban.

"The only living people who knew about the change of secret keeper were Sirius and Peter," James explained "Sirius attempted to kill Peter but then Peter faked his death by cutting off his finger and transforming into a rat. He also murdered twelve innocent muggles and the Ministry arrested Sirius on the charge of mass murderer."

Remus and James looked furious while Sirius and Lily seemed disbelieving.

"So where did Harry go?" Lily pressed.

"To live with Moony," said Sirius confidently.

Remus shook his head "I doubt the Ministry would allow that, I'm a werewolf after all."

"Alice and Frank then?" Lily said slightly desperately.

Al shook his head "They were tortured into insanity by the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr."

"No," Lily gasped tearfully.

"You don't mean my bloody cousin and her husband and brother in law," Sirius said through gritted teeth.

"Unfortunately yes," Al sighed.

"If anyone deserves to die, it's that foul bitch," Sirius muttered.

"Don't worry; our Grandma Weasley took care of her," Lucy said smugly.

"Thank her for me won't you," Sirius grinned for the first time in a while.

"What about Marlene McKinnon?" Lily asked thinking of her other best friend.

"Her whole family was murdered," Teddy said sadly. Remus was now getting extremely worried; every single one of his closet friends was dead, insane, imprisoned or faking death. He was going to have a very hard life he predicted.

"Oh Merlin, not Marlene too," Lily sobbed. Suddenly a horrific thought occurred to her; there seemed to be only one person left to which Harry could be left with. "No, not her," Lily gasped "Harry can't have been left with her."

"Who are you talking about?" James asked.

"Petunia, my sister," Lily said begging the time travellers with her eyes to tell her she was wrong.

"I'm afraid so, Harry had to live with someone who had the same blood as you so he could be protected from Voldemort until he was seventeen," Teddy sighed.

"But I thought Voldemort was gone," Lily said confused.

"Lily-flower if you remember Harry didn't destroy him until he was seventeen. Also Lily said that Voldemort almost died, he didn't actually die," Sirius reminded her.

"Don't call me that," Lily scowled "And of course that's what happened. Anyway Harry can't have gone to Petunia, she'll hate him for the simple reason that's he's a wizard."

"She can't be that bad," Remus tried to calm her down.

"Remus we are talking about someone who had to be talked into inviting her own sister to her wedding because her sister is a witch," Lily replied; she knew Petunia was jealous of her but it hurt her a lot that for a moment she wasn't even going to be invited to her sister's wedding. She loved Petunia and she missed her more than she let on.

"Right then," Remus muttered unsure of what to say as this was clearly a sensitive topic for Lily.

Teddy knew very little about Harry's time with the Dursleys as Harry refused to talk about it so he decided to skip to Harry's first year. "Well when Harry was eleven he started Hogwarts of course and was sorted into Gryffindor."

Fred, James, James and Sirius cheered and Lucy booed while Remus and Lily looked amused.

"He quickly made friends with Ron – Rose's dad – and not so quickly made friends with Hermione – Rose's mum." Teddy continued smiling.

"So they married their best friends," James chuckled.

"Yep and Dad married his best friend's little sister," James grinned.

"Sounds like a good story," Remus laughed.

"Oh trust me, it is," Lucy agreed.

"Anyway at the end of Harry's first year Voldemort attempted to rise again by using a Philosopher's Stone but Harry, Ron and Hermione stopped him," Rose said.

"So that's two escapes from Voldemort by the time he's eleven," Lily said faintly.

"That number is only going to get higher," Sirius guessed.

"You're right, in Dad's second year Voldemort attempted to return again by the means or a diary which he had preserved his sixteen year old self in all the while opening the Chamber of Secrets and petrifying Muggleborns by possessing our Mum," Al explained.

Lily gasped in horror "your mother was possessed by Voldemort when she was eleven."

"You mean the Chamber of Secrets exists," Sirius said sounding very interested.

"Yes to both of you. Well Mum was taken into the Chamber and almost died but Dad saved her, killed a basilisk and stopped Voldemort from returning again," James said.

"That of course was very awkward," Fred smirked "For hundreds of years, adult wizards have searched for the Chamber of Secrets and in the end it's found by twelve and thirteen year old."

"Do you not mean three people?" Lily asked.

"Oh, my Mum had been petrified so it was only Uncle Harry and Dad who rescued Auntie Ginny," Rose replied sadly.

"Oh goodness, I'm sorry," Lily said quickly.

"Don't be, it isn't your fault or Ginny's, she was possessed."

"So what happened in third year?" James asked.

"Sirius escaped from Azkaban," Fred grinned.

"Wicked," James and Sirius said in awe.

"No one's ever done that before," Remus grinned.

"Well actually Barty Crouch Jr did, his mother took Polyjuice potion and pretended to be him while he took Polyjuice and pretended to be her. She died in his body and was buried in Azkaban," Albus said "But Sirius's way of escape was cooler, he sneaked out in his dog form. The Dementors don't affect animals as much."

"Wicked," Sirius repeated.

"Anyway you escaped in order to kill Peter because you felt he was a threat to Harry which he probably was," Teddy went on. "Unfortunately the Ministry thought you wanted to kill Harry and stationed Dementors around Hogwarts and Harry couldn't go to Hogsmeade."

"Damnit," James groaned.

"Remus taught as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher that year," Fred smiled "And taught Harry the Patronus charm. Harry's takes the form of a certain stag by the way."

"I taught at Hogwarts," Remus beamed.

"For a year just, the job's jinxed after all," Fred nodded.

"Harry can do a Patronus," grinned Lily very impressed and proud.

"Yes," Lily replied.

"Hold on a sec I think you are all forgetting the most important bit," James cut in smirking "I'm his Patronus."

Lily hit him playfully "prat, that's not the most important part."

"I have to agree with Prongs," Sirius laughed.

"I was just wondering, could you show us your Animagus forms?" Rose asked curiously.

James and Sirius grinned.

"We'd love too," Sirius smirked.

"Now you've done it, these two are the biggest show-offs out," Remus groaned "And normally they only transform in front of Lily, Peter and I as we're the only ones who know they're Animagus."

"Don't worry Moony, we won't show off today," James winked and before the time traveller's eyes both of them transformed into a huge stag and a big shaggy dog.

"Awesome," Fred said impressed.

"I am so becoming an Animagus," Albusdecided.

"Couldn't agree with you more little bro," James smirked.

Lily and Rose went over to James and Sirius to have a closer look. Sirius rolled over and laughing Lily tickled his stomach while Rose petted the stag.

"I thought you said no showing off," Lily laughed.

Sirius stood up and bounded over to Lily and licked her face.

"SIRIUS!" she squealed wiping her cheek on her sleeve "I've told you a million times not to do that."

Lucy, Teddy, Albus, Fred and James were all laughing at the exchange.

"Right you two that's enough," Remus said lazily as James accidently knocked a painting off the wall with an antler. They both transformed back laughing as Remus waved his wand and the painting attached itself to the wall again.

"You're definitely Dad's Patronus," Al told James.

"Wicked," James grinned "So what happened in the rest of Harry's third year?"

"At the end of the year another prophecy was made saying Voldemort's servant was going to return to him," Teddy explained "And that night Harry met Sirius for the first time and he also met Peter."

"He met that filthy rat," Sirius growled.

"Yes, Uncle Ron's pet rat you see was in fact Peter in disguise," Lucy said gloomily.

"You mean he was around Harry all that time," said Sirius furiously.

"Yes but that's beside the point," Lucy said "The fact is that Remus also turned up and realised that you really were innocent."

"You mean I thought Sirius was guilty for twelve years," Remus said weakly.

"All the evidence pointed that way," Al sighed.

"Sirius, I'm so sorry," said Remus hoarsely.

"Don't worry about it Moony," Sirius assured him.

"So Remus and Sirius were going to kill Peter," Al went on.

James's head shot up. "Tell me they didn't."

"James, we are talking about the person who is the reason you are going to die, the reason Lily is going to die," Sirius looked at him in utter confusion.

"But I don't want him dead too," James shook his head. "And I don't want you two to become murderers as well."

"I agree with James, we're not acting on an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth thing here," Lily said sternly to Sirius.

"Well he deserves it," Remus grumbled.

"Dad stopped them from killing Peter," Al said putting James out of his misery "He told them his dad wouldn't have wanted it that way."

James and Lily smiled.

"I wouldn't have wanted it that way," James said in relief.

"So Peter escaped and returned to Voldemort," Al continued. Remus and Sirius gritted their teeth. James and Lily just looked hurt. "Then Snape turned up and tried to capture Sirius to turn him back over to the Dementors. But Dad, Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron attacked him." Sirius smirked triumphantly. "Then Dad suggested you take Peter up to the castle to prove Sirius as innocent. But when you emerged from the Shrieking Shack, Remus began to transform into a werewolf and it was at that point Peter escaped."

"NO," Remus gasped in horror "Why was I there when I knew it was a full moon."

"Dad, it's alright. No one was hurt," Teddy assured him.

Remus continued to look horrorstruck so Lucy passed him another chocolate bar in an attempt to cheer him up. He smiled weakly but didn't open it.

"Sirius got you into the forest away from everyone but got injured in the process. Harry went after Sirius and they both almost received the Dementor's Kiss," Teddy said.

Lily gasped in horror.

"But a Patronus fought off the dementors, there were over a hundred of them," Lily smiled. "Then Daddy passed out and woke up in the hospital wing to find out Sirius was about to be given The Kiss."

"NO" James and Remus shouted. Sirius was extremely pale.

"Don't worry, Daddy and Aunt Hermione were able to use a time turner – successfully I may add – and go back in time three hours." Lily explained. "Daddy was the one who fought off the Dementors who were attacking himself and Sirius. Then Sirius escaped on a stolen Hippogriff which had been condemned to death."

"That has got to be the best escape story ever," Sirius laughed proud that it had been him involved in it.

"It wasn't your idea you know," Teddy laughed.

"I know but I was involved," Sirius grinned.

"Fair enough," Fred shrugged.

"What happened in fourth year then?" Remus asked.

"Well there was the Quidditch World Cup," said Rose grinning.

"Best thing you've said yet, who won?" James asked.

"Bulgaria caught the Snitch but Ireland won," Rose answered "Dad and uncle Harry said it was a brilliant match but Uncle Harry insists the world cup final Aunt Ginny played in was a hell of a lot better. Dad disagrees."

"Well has it ever occurred to you that Harry might just be saying that because Ginny's his wife," Teddy raised an eyebrow.

"Of course that's occurred to me," Rose rolled her eyes "It's obvious that the reason Harry preferred that match was because of Aunt Ginny, he loves watching her fly."

"Well before you delve too far into my parent's love life, I think I'll continue this story," James cut in. "When Dad got back to school he was entered by someone else into the Triwizard Tournament."

"What! It was restarted," Sirius said in excitement.

"I don't care if it was restarted," Lily ignored him knowing full well how many people had been injured or killed in the Triwizard Tournament. "Who entered Harry?"

"Barty Crouch Jr who took Polyjuice Potion for the entire year to pretend to be Mad-Eye Moody, the Defence against the Dark Arts teacher," Al answered.

"Who's Mad-Eye Moody?" James asked confused.

"Alastor Moody, I take it he's still normal-eyed Moody at this time," Teddy guessed.

"Oh Alastor Moody," James said but still looked confused about the eye bit wondering what had happened to the Head-Auror.

"Well Harry was the fourth champion along with Cedric Diggory, Viktor Krum and Auntie Fleur," Fred explained. "The tasks must have been brilliant to watch. First they battled a dragon and then they fought merpeople and finally they completed a maze full of dark creatures and jinxes."

Lily stared at him in horror while the Marauders looked enthralled.

"You forgot the Yule Ball," Rose smirked; it was her favourite bit of this story "No one's ever going to let Dad and Uncle Harry forget it."

"What happened?" asked Sirius eagerly.

"Well it all started when Harry and Ron both got rejected by the girls they asked," Teddy said "Harry asked a girl called Cho Chang but she was going with Cedric Diggory and Ron asked Fleur but then ran away before she could answer."

Remus, Sirius and James roared with laughter.

"Sounds like a soap opera," Lily giggled.

"What's that?" Remus asked.

"Muggle thing," Lily replied "And isn't Fleur now married to Ron's brother?"

"Yes, she's married to Uncle Bill," Albus nodded.

"Oh Molly and Arthur's eldest," Lily smiled; she had met the two eldest Weasleys while visiting their Uncle Fabian and Uncle Gideon once.

Fred nodded "That's the one. So in the end Uncle Harry asked a girl called Parvati out and got her to get her twin sister, Padma to go with Uncle Ron."

"Who'd Hermione go with?" Sirius asked.

"That's the good bit," Al smirked "She went with Viktor Krum. Apparently Uncle Ron refused to dance with Padma all night because he was huffing over her going with Krum. Dad also didn't dance at all and basically the two of them just sat and huffed."

"And Dad finally started to realise that he might just like my mum," Rose laughed.

Everyone was laughing by this point.

"And just as a finishing touch on a whole night of drama and jealously, Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione had one of their famous screaming matches in the common room," Lucy added grinning.

"Those two could honestly shout for England," James said shaking his head.

Rose glared at him "they aren't that bad."

"Rose, I hate to agree with him. But they are," Al sighed.

"Although they always end up snogging at the end of most of their rows," Lucy added.

"We don't need to go into that," Rose said quickly "Well it was all going quite well for Uncle Harry until the last task. At the end of the maze both he and Cedric grabbed the Triwizard Cup at the same time but instead of transporting them out of the maze, it took them to a graveyard."

"Oh no," Lily groaned.

"Peter was there with what was left of Voldemort," Teddy took over from Rose. The Marauders all looked annoyed at the mention of Peter. "Cedric was murdered," there was a collective gasp "And Peter made a potion using a bone from Voldemort's father's grave, his own hand and Harry's blood. It was a potion to resurrect Voldemort."

The Marauders and Lily were staring at Teddy in horror.

"That filthy, lying, traitorous rat," Sirius growled. "How dare he! I am going to make him pay."

Teddy decided to continue quickly before Sirius went on a rampage to get Peter. "So Voldemort rose again and fought Harry but once again Harry escaped, bringing Cedric's body with him. He arrived back at Hogwarts and Moody's imposter was revealed to Snape, McGonagall and Dumbledore. They alerted the Minister of Magic that Voldemort was back but he refused to believe it and had the Dementor's Kiss performed on Barty Crouch Jr so he couldn't tell anyone the truth."

"Why didn't he believe them?" Remus asked shocked.

"People had been living without fear for too long," Lucy explained "He didn't want to cause 'unnecessary' panic."

"That's ridiculous," Remus scoffed.

"At this time the Ministry was extremely corrupt," explained Al. "it's been completely reformed since Voldemort's downfall though."

"By now Harry's fourteen then and he's escaped Voldemort four times," James shook his head in disbelief.

Lily nodded "unfortunately it doesn't end there."

I know I said there would only be one more part to 'Harry's Tale' but I don't like chapters being too long so there will be one more :)