A/N: Warning! A very boring chapter. I couldn't help it. Sorry!

A swoosh of wind flew over the dusty wooden floor that was filled with debris. A moment later, someone appeared right there.

A thud followed soon and on the floor above, someone appeared in the small nursery that had a blown hole in the wall.

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James Charlus Potter squinted his eyes as he looked around what appeared to be the corridor of his house at Godric's Hollow. But it was filled with debris as if a war had taken place there a long time ago. He pushed himself up from the stairs as he looked around confused when he heard someone running on the floor above. Turning around, he saw what shocked him through his life.

"Lily!" he cried and ran towards her as they both embraced in a longing hug. She was shivering. He could feel her.

"James? Wha...What happened?" Lily asked. "Whe...Where's Voldemort?"

"I don't know. I remember losing to him. I saw a green flash and then everything went black. I thought I'd lost you and Harry...Harry? Where's Harry?" James asked all of a sudden.

Lily's face fell. James knew that look.

"I found myself in the nursery. Th...There's a huge hole in the wall and Harry's nowhere," Lily said sniffing.

James held her tightly in his arms as a tear rolled down his eyes. He felt so weak and so defeated.

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Four people appeared in a lonely gravel path of Godric's Hollow. The village looked empty. It appeared people had gone to celebrate Christmas.

"Gohan? What's going on?" Harry asked. There was a tinge of worry, sorrow and curiousness in his voice.

"Where's the Potter Cottage?" Gohan asked.

"Gohan, what are you doing?" Harry asked again but Gohan ignored him.

"Sirius?" Gohan said.

"Huh? Oh, it's th...this way," Sirius said.

The three children then followed him. Harry and Hermione's faces were grim and so was Sirius'. The former tow had been here in their last timeline and Harry, for the first time had seen the place where he was born. He had discovered a few things there. Some of them were quiet shocking like Dumbledore had lived at Godric's Hollow during his childhood and had lost his mother and sister there while his father had been convicted of murdering muggle residents. Then he had found the grave of his long family descendant Ignotes Paverrell. And who could forget those two graves? He had stopped cold when he saw the graves of his parents. He knew without them, he wouldn't have made out of that night. And the world considered him a hero. He mentally chuckled at that. A hero who this world saw only as a tool. A tool that was used and was about to be thrown before he came back in the past.

"We are here."

Harry stopped when he heard Sirius' voice. He looked up from his feet and towards the ruined house. Just like before only a bit newer. The last time he had been here seventeen years later. He was early now. But still, he couldn't gather up enough strength to walk inside. It was Hermione who had dragged him the last time.

He then looked up at Gohan. What was going on in that boy's head? Ten minutes ago he had gathered some golden balls and then a dragon had appeared who told him to make a wish. Gohan had then wished for his parents to be brought back.

"You okay, Harry?"

Harry looked up from Gohan to Hermione and then again at Gohan who now had a smile on his face. The raven haired boy looked back at him and smiled even more.

"Wait here," Gohan said and started walking towards the cottage. He went past the broken door and then disappeared into the darkness of the house.

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James and Lily still held each other as tears rolled down their eyes when they heard footsteps inside the house. James immediately reached out for his wand but it wasn't there. He looked up at Lily who also had the same expressions on her face.

"Lily and James?"

The two startled at the voice and turned towards the source. A boy of around eleven to twelve years stood in the corridor, looking towards them when they saw a smile came up on his face.

"Who are you?" James asked.

"You will be told everything but for now, I need you both to come outside," Gohan said.

Lily stepped back and James' grip tightened on her as he felt her fear.

"Don't worry. I am here to help you both. Believe me, I won't cause you any harm," Gohan said as softly and calmly as he could.

"I see you are a wizard. Show me your hands and throw your wand towards me," James said in his auror manner. After things he had been through, he didn't even believe the sir he was breathing in.

Gohan just nodded and took out his wand. He threw it towards James and then raised both his arms in a surrender position. The wand landed near James' feet and the man quickly lifted it up. Only then did Gohan saw his face a bit clearly. James looked quiet young, probably in his early twenties. Just like Dende had explained. Gohan knew Harry's parents were murdered only after a year of Harry's birth. Also, they had married as soon as they had graduated from Hogwarts. Being them this young was no surprise to Gohan.

"Now, would you?" Gohan said.

James, who held Gohan's wand pointed at him now, looked at his wife for a moment and then gave a small nod. Gohan nodded back in reply and started walking outside. James and Lily followed him soon enough.

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"What do you think he's doing?" Hermione asked but Harry didn't reply. He was just looking at the door through which Gohan had just entered the cottage. Also, he didn't know why but he felt a bit unusual inside.

"Looks like he's coming out," Sirius said and Harry's attention only increased more.

For a moment, Harry thought it was a dream when he saw the tow people coming out with Gohan. Their clothes were tattered as if they had been tortured and put in a fight with trolls. He then looked at those faces and for a moment, his heart stopped.

Harry looked up at Sirius and then at Hermione who were as shocked at him.

James and Lily squinted as they came out in the sun. When their eyes had been adjusted to the light outside, only then did they looked up at the three people who appeared to be waiting for them. Two of them were children, around the same age as of the boy who came inside their house a minute ago. However, the couple's eyes widened as they saw the third person.

"Sirius?" James said slowly.

But Sirius heard that. He seemed to have been frozen at his place, just like Harry and Hermione.

"It's alright, you three. It's them," Gohan said.

Sirius and Hermione looked up at Gohan. He stood beside the couple, smiling back at them.

"Ja...James?" Sirius said as he looked at the young bespectacled man. "Is that you?"

"Sirius, wait. We can't trust them. They can be imposters," Hermione said but it appeared she was still debating on her statement.

For a full minute, there was a pin drop silence. Nothing could be heard except for the slight wind that was blowing occasionally. Then Sirius came up with something and then looked up at the man who looked like James, straight in the eye.

"Fourth year. What and when did you became the animagus?" Sirius asked.

Gohan and Hermione looked up momentarily at him while Harry remained unmoved.

James appeared to take a step back but then steadied himself as he looked straight at Sirius. "June 22nd, three months after we came to know about Moony's condition," he said.

Sirius felt his head getting lighter. No one knew about that. Not even Remus or Lily. It was James who had come up with the plan of becoming the animagus in order to accompany Remus during full moon and no one but only Sirius knew about that. He felt his legs going weak as he started walking forward with shaky legs. His eyes were on the edge of overflowing with tears but he had somehow kept them at a hold.

James looked a bit startled as he saw Sirius coming towards him. His best friend looked quiet old and very weak physically. His teeth had gone yellow and black and his hair was long. But it appeared he was on some routine to puff himself back up.

It took him almost a minute to walk himself over to his best friend and brother in everything but blood, as Sirius held James tightly in his arms and let his tears go.

Lily stood agape. She was witnessing something she couldn't have ever thought was possible. One of her best friends was here, hugging her husband with all his life like he would never let go of James when his eyes fell on the three children standing a few metres away from them. There was the boy who had come inside the cottage a few minutes ago to call them out. Then there was a girl with bushy hair and her wand, ready to strike at anything dangerous. She reminded Lily of herself. Then she looked at the third boy.

He was thin, a bit small in built for a child of his age. But Lily immediately recognized his face. He looked almost as exactly as James when he was that young when her eyes fell on his. Those green, shining eyes behind that round glass frame, she could not have forgotten those at all.

"Harry?" she, sort of whispered in shock.

James and Sirius got apart from each other, mostly due to James who had initiated the parting when he heard his wife say the name. He then looked at where her wife was looking.

Harry didn't move. He just stood there like a petrified person. He was looking at them, who looked like his parents. But he couldn't decide anything. His mind wasn't working. He felt almost as a dead person with nothing but a heartbeat.

Gohan knew what was wrong with his friend and so he thought this might not be the good place for them to have a weird family reunion. So he walked over to Harry and Hermione, pulled them where the three adults were standing. Harry walked like a dead person, his eyes still at those two who looked like his parents.

"We need to go. There's a risk of others to see us," Gohan said. Everybody, keep your hands on my shoulder, please," Gohan said and grabbed Harry's hand himself while Hermione took hold of Gohan's other free hand.

The couple looked confused for a moment but when Sirius gave them a nod, they reluctantly agreed and grasped Gohan's shoulder. Sirius followed last and once everyone was in contact with Gohan, Gohan closed his eyes and concentrated. He knew Harry's parents were still in the inviting list of the Gryffindor castle because Harry's father was a Potter and Lily was James' wife. No one had told the elves to remove their names from the list and so the two could still go to the Gryffindor castle.

A slight breeze hit everyone's face as James and Lily saw their vision getting blurry and a moment later, the lonely gravel road's view was replaced by the view of a grand hallway.

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Lucius sat in his grand study room, looking at the black diary. He had orders that he needed to work upon in the coming future. For a moment, he thought whether it really meant to be a true Malfoy, when he was serving the Dark Lord? But a moment later, he shook his head hard and slapped himself lightly for even thinking something like that. Keeping the diary safely back in his personal safe, Lucius got up from his study table and headed out.

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Dumbledore sat still on his comfortable throne like chair inside his office. He was thinking. He was thinking a lot these times lately. He had never even thought his plans would appear to look like nothing but a load of dragon shit. Plans that he had knitted at late nights, plans he had structured sacrificing his precious sleep at this fragile age.

Then there was that dream.

Dumbledore remembered in a fraction of second about the dream he had a couple nights ago. It was like the scenario of a battle being going in and around Hogwarts and he was talking and giving instructions to Ronald Weasely who seemed hesitant to do what he was given.

Dumbledore knew dreams could be strange. Things happened in dreams that no one could even think of but then again, there were no dreams where you could see your older self. It could either be some sort of a hallucination or... a view of the coming future.

His eyes widened at that thought. Had he really seen a glimpse of the future? If that was true, then it meant only one thing: Dumbledore's plan had and will work.

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Harry held them with all his life.

They held him with all their life.

Sirius, Gohan and Hermione had their eyes wet as they looked on. Harry and his parents were crying like anything as they held each other like they were one body. It had been ten minutes after they had arrived at the Gryffindor castle and once Harry realised after that that it was his parents, he couldn't control himself and had launched on his parents. And then he had cried, for the first time in his life, freely.

[TWO HOURS LATER]

All five sat around the grand dining table. It was decorated as per the day's celebration. Magical snow covered the top of the table and the food looked no less than the welcome feast at Hogwarts. The elves had outperformed themselves when they had come to learn about the return of their master and mistress.

"Gohan?" Harry asked slowly, "Don't you think you need to explain something to us?"

Gohan looked at his friend and then gave a smile.

"I think I do. But I first need all of you to understand that what I will be telling you all now has to be kept a secret. There can be no one other than us to know about it," Gohan said and after everyone stared at him for an entire minute, they all agreed with a nod.

"I used the dragon balls to bring your parents back to life, Harry. The Earth's guardian is actually a Namek and his name is Kami. The Namek is an alien race and he came to Earth a very long time ago as a child. He belonged to the Dragon Clan on his planet. This clan was the one that ruled all the other Nameks and every member of this clan had power to create magical balls that are called Dragon Balls. They are seven in number as it is a very powerful number and once these balls are brought together, one needs to summon the wish granting dragon. The dragon of Earth is called Shenron while the main dragon or the dragon of planet Namek is called Porunga. These dragons have the power to grant any wish as long as that wish has anything to do in the powers of the creator of those balls. You can wish for anyone or anything as long as it is in the limits of the power of the creator of the balls. You can wish anyone back to life as long as they did not die of any natural causes like age or some natural disease. The Earth's dragon has the power to grant one wish while the dragon of Namek has the power to grant three wishes. Also, Shenron can bring back the dead only once. That means those who have already been wished back to life can't be wished back again. It's a one way. But Porunga can bring back the dead any number of times as one wishes to," Gohan said.

There was a stunned silence as everyone listened to him.

"Yo...you mean we were wished back to life from the dead?" Lily asked.

"Yes," Gohan said quietly.

"Ho...How long have we been dead? Harry, you look quiet old enough to start Hogwarts..."

"I am a first year," Harry said, interrupting his father. "Also, you have been dead for a decade."

"T...Ten years?" James said with his eyes as wide as saucers. "Is that why you and Padfoot look so old?"

Harry nodded.

"We also need to tell you one more thing and it is for you as well, Sirius," Harry said.

"I knew there was something and you never gave me a chance to ask before. What is it and why?" Sirius asked.

"As for 'why' Gohan told me not to tell you right when we brought you here. I didn't know it back then that he had planned all (he indicated to everyone, specifically his parents) of this. He persuaded me for good. And as for 'what' you first need to promise us that none of you three will tell anyone about it except for Remus," Harry said.

"You know Remus?" Sirius asked.

"I do and I will tell you how but first, promise," Harry said.

"I and Lily promise, son," James said after he exchanged looks with his wife.

"I do, too," Sirius said.

"Alright. I, Hermione and Gohan have travelled back in time."

Silence.

The three adults looked beyond shocked at that. They looked deeply at Harry, Hermione and Gohan.

"Our consciousness was sent back in our normal body of this time, if you are thinking why we look this young then," Harry then added.

"Is...Is this how you knew I was held in Azkaban?" Sirius asked.

Lily and James now turned and looked at Sirius who realised these two were not aware of the situation he was in.

"That's right. And that's how we know Remus. He was our defence teacher in our third year back in our timeline. And he was the best we ever had as a defence teacher," Hermione said.

"This is all too much for me. Is there anything else you want to tell us before I faint?" James asked nervously.

The three children exchanged glances and the adults understood something serious was about to come up.

"There was a battle, back in our timeline. We were in our seventh year, hunting something that would help us destroy Voldemort when he came to realise our plan and attacked on Hogwarts when we realised that one of those objects was at Hogwarts. The battle began and many from the Light side lost their lives. I, Hermione and Ron Weasely, the three of us were running all around the castle to find the object and the way to destroy it when Hermione faced the utmost truth.

She came to realise that Ron was nothing but a spy who worked for Dumbledore and was given orders to spy on me and take Hermione out of his way because she was hindering at his goal. When Ron and Hermione went to the Chamber of Secrets to have the weapon that would have helped us to destroy the object, I went to the Room of Requirement and in a part of it where the object was hidden. Ron attacked Hermione and she almost died before she saw Dumbledore who was supposed to be dead in our sixth year, while I was being attacked by three death eaters in the room and one of them caste Fyndfire out of which I narrowly escaped before throwing the object in it, destroying it. Soon after that, a white light engulfed me and I ended up back in time."

"The same white light engulfed me before I could have died and I ended up at King's Cross Station where I and Harry were on our first day to Hogwarts," Hermione said.

"And I was sent back with them in order to protect and help them in their mission by the Guardian of Earth upon you three's request," Gohan said.

The adults were shocked at this.

"Sirius, you were killed by your cousin Bellatrix in our fifth year," Harry said.

"Was i?" Sirius said, absently as he and the other two adults still looked at Gohan.

"I don't know whether you three know this or not, but your souls requested the Guardian to send Harry and Hermione back in time because in my time, the magical world hardly exists as a place to be called as a home," Gohan said.

"Yo...Your time?" Lily asked.

"I am not from the time of Harry and Hermione. I will be born almost five centuries from now. I had some incident which gave me some magic and due to which I was able to go to Hogwarts," Gohan said. "The Guardian chose me because I am powerful enough to protect Harry and Hermione."

"Powerful?" James asked.

"He killed twenty dementors when he, Harry and Hermione came to Azkaban to rescue me," Sirius said.

"Twenty?" Lily shrieked.

"Killed?" James followed next and then the two looked at Gohan.

"We will tell you everything and I promise you that by the end of tomorrow, you three will know everything we feel safe to share with you," Harry said. "But for now, I think eating will be good. It's Christmas."

Everyone nodded at that. The adults thought they could hardly take in any more of the revelations at that moment.

"Harry?" Gohan called slowly.

"Huh?" Harry replied as he looked at him.

Gohan looked at him and then at his parents and then smiled. "Happy Christmas."

Harry smiled as his eyes got wet once again.

"By the way," James' voice came up, "What did you mean you were in Azkaban, Sirius?"

Sirius' face fell and his eyes reddened with anger at the same time but he calmed himself down and took in a long breathe.

"The night Voldemort k...killed you and Lily and Harry survived, I think you need to know that it was Peter who betrayed you, not Remus as per your suspicions," Sirius said.

James and Lily looked surprised at that but then James' face came back to normal.

"You know, deep down I always knew he was up to something. He was never a true marauder," James said.

"He betrayed you both to Voldemort. When I reached Godric's Hollow, I saw him coming out of the destroyed cottage and knew what had happened and confronted him. But then he started shouting that why had I betrayed you both. I had already lost my mind over the loss of both of you and thought Harry was dead as well and attacked Peter. He tricked me and killed several muggles who were on the street, seeing the then ruined house. He then cut his one finger and then changed to his animagus form and ran away. I was arrested by the ministry as they thought I had betrayed and hence, was responsible for your deaths. I was sent straightaway to Azkaban, without a trial on a life sentence until Harry and his friends saved me," Sirius said.

"Didn't anyone tried for the conducting of your trial?" James asked.

"It was Dumbledore. Now that I know what Dumbledore truly is, I think he was the one who was primarily responsible for me being in the Azkaban along with the then minister of magic who's dead now," Sirius said.

"And the current minister, Cornelius Fudge is too coward to do anything. The last time when Voldemort returned, I and Dumbledore tried to convince him but he didn't listened. Although I didn't know back then that Dumbledore had his own agenda for the return of Voldemort and me," Harry said.

"You?" Lily asked.

"It's better if you tell them, Harry," Gohan said.

Harry thought about it for a minute and then agreed.

"That night, in Godric's Hollow, after Voldemort killed you both," Harry said as he looked at his parents, "he then came for me."

Lily gasped and almost chocked on the food she was chewing while James' fork left his arm and fell on the table.

"He casted the killing curse on me but it rebounded. Years later, Dumbledore told me that it was due to a blood protection charm that you had casted upon me, mom," Harry said and smiled at Lily.

"It worked?" Lily said.

"It did. But then something else happened as well," Harry said. "Remember I told you that I and Hermione had found out a way to destroy Voldemort in our last timeline?"

The three adults nodded.

"Well, we found out that Voldemort had created horcruxes..."

"WHAT?!"

The three children and Lily almost fell from their chairs when they heard James and Sirius shout.

"What is it, James?" Lily asked.

"Harry, please tell me that's not true," Sirius said.

"Unfortunately it is," Harry said.

"What's a horcrux?" Lily asked. She definitely had that expression which Hermione always held whenever she felt like something was being hidden from her of something was just not getting easily through her head.

James turned towards her wife. He definitely had a fearful look in his eyes.

"A hor...horcrux is basically any object in which one hides his or her soul, basically a part of it. it acts as an anchor to your life once created. As long as that horcrux exists, it won't matter whether you are dead. You will always be able to come back because your entire soul was not destroyed along with your body," James said.

"You know about Horcruxes?" Harry asked. He couldn't believe that his father would know about something like this.

"The Potters are a very old wizarding family, a direct descendant of Godric Gryffindor himself. All the arts, be that dark or light or black, their knowledge is passed over to the next generations for security. It is done so that we can think wisely before conducting those arts," James said.

"This tradition has also been followed in my family..."

"What is it, Sirius?" Lily asked.

"When I was small, I had once heard my brother Regulus ask my father about what a Horcrux meant. At that time we weren't told about it. I distinctly remember my father beating Regulus as he told him to never ask that question again. I remember when we all were told about those dark arts and Horcrux, Regulus was not present in the meeting," Sirius said.

"Sirius," Harry said, calling for his godfather's attention. Sirius looked up at him. "Regulus died a hero, Sirius."

"Hero? Died?" Sirius asked. "But...but he was a death eater!"

"He became one in order to get inside Voldemort's innermost circles of death eaters. He did that in order to find about Voldemort's secret. He knew from the very beginning that Voldemort had horcruxes and by getting into his innermost circles, Regulus had a chance to find out exactly what it was, in which Voldemort had hidden his soul. Needless to say, your brother found it but before he could find a way to destroy it, Voldemort realised Regulus' intentions and killed him. Before he died, Regulus gave that locket to Kreature, your house elf and ordered him to destroy it," Harry said.

Sirius sat still. A tear rolled down his eyes. He had never realised his little brother would go so far in order to destroy the threat that hovered upon their world. And all this while he despised him, for being a death eater.

"But what's so scary about this horcrux? I mean, I know it is a black magic as per you all say, but what makes it so bad?" Lily asked.

"First of all," James began, "it is a black magic, not even dark. It is black, which in itself is a very heinous crime to do. Also, the ritual one has to undergo in order to make a horcrux is what makes it more of a scary sort of thing." And with that, James explained what and how one had to do things in the horcrux's ritual. Even Harry or Hermione didn't know that. Everyone lost their appetite once the explanation was finished. Lily's eyes were wide with shock. She even looked scared.

"I...I never knew that," Lily said on the verge of crying.

"And he made seven of them," Harry said.

"SEVEN?!" the three adults cried together this time.

"He...He tore his own soul for seven times?" James asked.

"But...but that's...that's just crazy! I mean, it...it is almost unbearable to go through the pain one must face while making the horcrux. The pain is told to be even a thousand times worse than the cruciates curse. And... and you are telling me that he made seven horcruxes?" Sirius asked, as shocked as he could.

"And we also found each and every one of those horcruxes. We know what and where they are," Harry said.

"I have totally lost my appetite and I think my head is spinning right now. This...this is just too much worse that we had ever thought," Lily said.

"You said you know what and where those horcruxes are. Can you tell us?" James asked.

"Well, the first one is Voldemort's diary itself. That was the first horcrux which he made when he was in his seventh year," Hermione said.

"He made a horcrux in his seventh year?!" James cried.

"Yes. The other horcruxes are the cup of Helga Hufflepuff, the lost diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw, the locket of Salazar Slytherin, the ring which belonged to Voldemort's mother Merope Riddle nee Gaunt and then there's his beloved snake. The snake will not be made a Horcrux until Voldemort has returned back," Harry said.

"But that's only six. You said there were seven," Lily said.

Harry's eyes fell. He didn't have enough will to tell his parents and godfather about the seventh horcrux.

"What's the matter, Harry?" James asked.

Harry looked up at his friends and Gohan and Hermione nodded in understanding.

"Harry himself is the seventh horcrux," Gohan said.

The shock and silence that followed that answer was so dense and electrifying that it could almost be felt in the air. The three adults had their eyes as wide as humanly possible as they looked at Harry who was looking down at the table.

"N...No! That can't be true!" Lily exclaimed.

"It is true, mom. I contain a part of Voldemort's soul. It happened that night in Godric's Hollow when he came to attack me. He had conducted the horcrux ritual and had planned to make one after he returned from the attack. That night, when he casted the killing curse on me, it rebounded and hit him instead of me because of your blood protection charm and it all happened so quickly that Voldemort's parted soul had to attach itself onto the only living thing there. That was me. I became the horcrux Voldemort would never want to have," Harry said.

"Neither could live until the other survived," James muttered.

"The last line of the prophecy that Trelawney made for me," Harry said. "For Voldemort to be gone, I will have to die," Harry said.

"And Dumbledore wanted Harry to have willingly go to Voldemort so he could kill him," Hermione said.

"I could never even think things would go so ugly," James said. "And you say Dumbledore here is also a bad guy?"

Hermione nodded and so did Harry and Gohan.

"He has his own agenda for me. In the last timeline, he faked his own death in our sixth year. As per what we have come to realise, he wanted Voldemort to be gone so he could reshape the magical world according to his own desires. We are still not sure what or how he would make it happen but we have a feeling it won't be pleasant one," Harry said.

"He tried to get me killed in our last timeline because I had caused hindrance in his plans for Harry. As per that, I believe he should've tried to get me killed several times before. I just can't think of all those properly right now," Hermione said.

"As for that, I think none of us are in a position to think of anything right now with all this revelations," James said.

"We are sorry we had to tell you all about this so early..."

"No, Harry. We are glad you opened up. We know how hard it would have been for you to have to tell all this to us," Lily said.

"I think we should change the discussion of the topic for tonight. It is Christmas and I don't want us to talk about sad or bad things. We will have time for those tomorrow," Sirius said and everyone agreed.

The lunch went on for the next hour and a half where Harry and Hermione shared their experiences with the three adults.

"You said you were friends with Ron Weasely?" James asked.

"U-huh. When Hermione came to know about his real identity, she warned me about him after we came back in this timeline. At King's Cross, we saw how his mother occasionally called 'muggles' loud enough for me to hear and go to them for asking help. I fell for that trap in our last timeline," Harry said.

"Molly was a seventh year when we started our first year at Hogwarts. I don't know about her husband Arthur but it looks like he had already graduated from Hogwarts before we came there. From what I can tell, she was a repulsive woman from the first time I looked at her. She was stubborn and very violent on occasions. She also was jealous towards certain students and desired for attention," James said.

"So that's where Ron's character came in," Harry mumbled.

"I guess so. So, you and Hermione avoided him the second time?" Lily asked.

"Yes. Thanks to Hermione, I was saved or else I would have fallen in their trap once more. Things have already changed a lot since then. Things that were not supposed to happen have happened for the betterment of good and I have managed to make a sour relation with Dumbledore," Harry said.

"He shouted right at his face," Gohan said.

"Wow! You definitely are a perfect candidate for our marauder clan, Harry," Sirius said.

"Don't even think about it, Sirius," Lily threatened which brought gentle chuckles on everyone's face and lightened the mood.

"I do have to ask one thing," James said. "Gohan, this is about the dragon, if you don't mind?"

"Of course not, Mr Potter. But I hope you understand the importance of the secrecy of this," Gohan said.

"Of course I do. And please call us by our names. The 'Mister' and Missus' words feel kind of old to hear," James said.

"You know, I envy you right now. You both," Sirius said, looking at his two friends.

"Well, the dragon brings one back in the same age they died. So it is not surprising for Harry's parents to look that young," Gohan said.

"It would be for you. But it really gave us a heart attack when we saw that dragon," Hermione said.

"Gohan, you said we told you to help Harry and Hermione by taking them back in the past?" Lily asked.

"You did. You see, I have already told you about the Guardian, who resides over the Earth on a place called The Lookout. In the same way, there's a place called The Other World. It was actually named by me and my friends and father. That place has different entrances for different planets and each planet has their own guardian for the entrance of the souls into the Other World. For Earth, we have one and his name is King Yamma. I suppose you and James might have seen him after your death. He is a large man who wears a horned cap on his head?" Gohan asked.

"We did! And...and he was huge!" James said suddenly.

"Well, as per what I had been told by the Guardian of my time, you both, along with Sirius had died and were allowed in the Other World with your bodies. And not many are allowed to keep their bodied after their death. Keeping one's body simply means that your nature is of a good one and even though you ever did anything bad, it was meant for the purpose of good. And you three had retained your bodies after your death. That alone had convinced me to help you. Now, in the Other World, things like time and age doesn't matter. And since you three had retained your bodies, you were able to see what was going in your world. You saw the destruction of the Magical World and how your son and godson was betrayed and killed along with Hermione and so, you requested King Yamma to do something. And he did. He informed about this to the Guardian of Earth and suggested that I would be able to help them. Then he brought Harry and Hermione in my time and at the Lookout where the Guardian healed them of their injuries and then told me about what had happened. Then he sent us three back in the past and I was told to befriend them from the beginning so as to gain their trust and help them in their mission," Gohan said.

"And what about the dragon? I mean what kind of wishes can it grant?" James asked but soon received an elbow in his gut.

"IT's all right Lily. You all need to know about it. As I told you, the Guardian is actually an alien from planet Namek. His clan had the power to create those balls. When he came to Earth as a child, due to the loneliness, he grew dark and called himself the Demon King. He planned to take over the planet and the best way to do that was to become the Guardian. So he went to the Lookout and told the former Guardian about it. The former Guardian said that in order to become the Guardian, he must get rid of his evilness.

Blind in his dream, he did what was necessary and split himself in two parts: one evil and the other good. The evil one named himself Piccolo and the good one named himself Kami. Both despised each other from the start. Then, Kami created the dragon balls. It has the power to grant any wish as long as it is in the power of the Guardian himself. For instance, if you wish for the destruction or defeat of someone and that someone is stronger than the Guardian, the dragon won't be able to grant that wish. But there are other things that can be wished for. And some tempting things like wishing someone back to life or wishing for immortality."

"Immortality?" everyone asked in surprise.

"Yes. And that is why I need you all to keep this a secret. As per what I have learned, Voldemort created horcruxes to remain immortal. If he comes to know about these dragon balls, he would collect them and summon the dragon and wish for immortality," Gohan said.

"We will protect this secret with our life, Gohan," Harry said.

"I know you will. I just need an assurance," Gohan said.

"We will," the three adults and Hermione said.

"That's enough for me," Gohan said with a smile.

"And you will stay with us during the holidays," Harry said again.

"Thanks for that," Gohan said.

"What happened to your place?" Sirius asked.

"My family don't exist in this timeline, remember? I will be born centuries from now," Gohan said.

"Oh," Sirius said as he nodded his head in understanding.

"Wait a minute, Gohan, if you say that almost anything can be wished from those balls, wouldn't it be wise to collect them and keep them safe so no bad people can get their hands on them?" James said.

"After granting the wish, the dragon balls disperse over the entire planet and become stones for one full year. Only after a year they become active and only then can they be collected. In my timeline, a friend of my father built a device through which these balls could be located much more easily. But that can only happen when these balls are active," Gohan said.

"So we will have to wait an entire year?" Hermione said and Gohan nodded.

"And there's one thing I would like to ask you, Gohan. It's related to that show you put back in Azkaban. You changed," Sirius asked.

"Even we wanted to know about that," Hermione said and Harry nodded in agreement.

Gohan smiled and put down his fork.

"Harry, Hermione, you know what I truly am, right?" Gohan asked and the two children nodded their head as the three adults remained confused. "It is related to that. I can change form and become more powerful. Maybe I'll just show you."

And with that, Gohan got off the chair and walked a few metres away from the table. Suddenly the air inside the room got dense and warmth tool over as to everyone's surprise, especially James and Lily's who were seeing it for the first time, a yellow aura surrounded Gohan as his eyes changed from onyx to yellow and his hair rose up and turned blond. But what surprised them all the most was the amount of power Gohan was liberating.

"Ja...James, can you feel it?" Lily asked as she never mover her eyes from Gohan.

It feels so...so powerful and yet the...there's nothing evil I can feel," James said.

"You all can feel my power because of the magical cores inside you. A simple human can't sense power or what I call, ki," Gohan said.

"How...how are you generating that much power?" James asked.

"Well, it goes like this..."