(James's [2] point of view)

Remus was the first to respond, "they were dead?"

I nodded.

Sirius was the next to react and I wasn't all that surprised when he stood up, strode over to the wall, and punched it. He returned to his seat huffing and stroking his now bruised hand. We all sat in silence waiting for James to do something. Finally after at least three minutes he looked up from the floor, stared at the spot on the couch between Lily and I, and slowly shook his head while roughly ringing his hands together.

"James are you okay," Remus asked.

James stopped messing with his hands and turned his gaze to me.

"How did I die," he whispered. It looked like it took him a lot of effort to get those words out.

"Uh, well I am going to assume that you know about Voldemort," everyone except Lily winced at the name, "I'll take that as a yes. Anyway, well there was this prophecy thing and it mentioned someone who would have the power to vanquish him and it said other stuff too that all seemed to point to your son, Harry, so Voldemort," they winced again, "went to your house and killed you and Lily, but Lily died protecting Harry so he didn't die and it rebounded on Voldemort," no wincing this time, "and he fled."

I looked at their faces in turn and each one had an expression I couldn't decipher. I saw Lily about to say something else, but shushed her when I noticed James open his mouth.

"I died protecting my family and that's all that matters. I can tell there is other stuff involving what happened, but that is all I whish to know," Lily and I nodded in agreement and let him continue, "Anything else and I think my head will explode," he smirked at his last comment and the sight of it seemed to bring everyone out of their funk.

"I wish you had said that before I went and punched the bloody wall," Sirius growled.

"Shut up Padfoot, your such a pansy," Remus said. They all exchanged glances then broke out laughing. We couldn't help but join in and soon we were in an uproar. We were all settling down when the portrait hole swung open to reveal the rest of Gryffindor, making their way to their dormitories to drop off their things before heading down to dinner. Among them was Lily who after putting her own things away, came bounding
down the stairs, and upon seeing James, skipped over to the chair he was sitting in and plopped herself onto his lap. They gave each other sickening looks then preceded to kiss passionately. Sirius and I fake gagged in their direction alerting Lily to our presence.

"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't realize there was anyone here."

"Obviously," Sirius mocked, "honestly Evans I think I preferred it when you cursed James instead of snogging him. Which reminds me," at this point he turned toward James with an accusatory look on his face, "When were you going to tell us Lily agreed to be your girlfriend?"

"At Lunch you dunderhead, but we got caught up with, you now." He pointed towards Lily and I, which alerted past Lily that we were also sitting there.

"Oh, hello. I'm Lily Evans and I don't believe I've ever seen you before. Are you new?"

"Uh, yeah. I'm Ja- I mean Ron Thomas and this is my sister Lil- I mean Hermione. We just came here today, from uh . . . ."

"Being home schooled. Our parents decided we would be better off here than at home," Lily cut in. Merlin she's a life saver.

"Wait a minute didn't I see you in the hospital wing with James earlier?"

"Yes you did because uh, upon our arrival I tripped and hit my head, and James happened to be passing by and kindly took me to the hospital wing, accompanied by Dumbledore."

Lily seemed to find no holes in this story and decided to continue the conversation.

"So are you three their welcoming committee," she asked James.

"What? Oh, yeah we are. Ron here is a seventh-year and Hermione is a fourth-year."

"Oh well that's a pity you won't be able to share a dorm with me Hermione, we would have had loads of fun," she said.

My Lily looked kind of disappointed at that news and I felt sorry that she wouldn't get to spend as much time with Lily and the rest that I will. At that moment Sirius's stomach growled rather loudly and after he was done complaining about how hungry he was, we gave in and decided to head to the great hall early, seeing that if we stayed he was most likely to start eating a pillow. Laughing we all headed out of the common room looking forward to spectacular dinner.