"Harry!" Neville called catching sight of his friend.
"Hey, Neville," Harry smiled when Neville was close enough for a normal conversation. "I wondered where you were."
"I was just leaving the hospital," Neville started his story, ignoring Harry's statement and Harry nodded knowing that by 'hospital' he meant his parents. "When the nurse came rushing over to me telling me something had happened."
"What?" Harry said nervous. "It was nothing bad, was it?"
"No, no, it was brilliant," Neville grinned and his next sentence was said in awe. "They've got their memories back, Harry.'
"Neville, that's brilliant!" Harry exclaimed but then his smile dropped. "You're positive it's them?"
"Yeah," Neville said not worried in the slightest. "The nurse checked while I was standing there. They're outside in the hall."
"Well bring them in," Harry grinned. "What are you waiting for? Kreacher can put two extra's plates on the table."
"Come with me?" Neville asked seeming more like the nervous school boy Harry had met on the train first year and Harry nodded.
They walked through the crowd answering questions here and there and greeting old school friends. Harry got stopped by Slughorn for a bit and the Patil twins. Neville got stopped by Lavender Brown, who was now Thomas, and Professor Sprout, now no longer Professor. It took them nearly five minutes simply to walk across the hall to the double doors.
When they got out they found a note saying 'We're in the family room' stuck on the wall opposite the door in neat, curly handwriting. Frank or Alice obviously knew their way around but Neville didn't. So Harry led the way through the halls to the family room where they found two people sitting on a sofa talking quietly to each other in their own little bubble.
"Mum, Dad," Neville said. "This is Harry, Harry Potter."
The two people on the sofa looked up. The woman, Alice, had brown hair that was up in an elegant twist, with curled strands at the front, she had a kind, smiling, round face and a petit frame. She was dressed in a sky blue dress the complemented her blue eyes. Frank was in black robes, similar to Hogwarts school robes, his hair was neat and a darker brown than Alice's, he had brown eyes. He was taller and had a more pointed face, which was smiling. They looked at the two boys, before standing up, Alice hugged Harry before speaking.
"Harry, it's nice to see you again," she said but when Harry looked confused she added. "Your mother was my best friend at and after school; you and Neville were always playing together."
Harry and Neville looked at each other in shock before Harry's attention went to Frank who shook his hand and clapped him on the back.
"You look way to much like your father," he said laughing. "It's creepy."
"It's nice to meet you….again," Harry said smiling. "Everyone's in the 'ball room'. Mum, Dad and the rest of the Marauders, -"
"Oh dear," said Alice. "All of them together? In the same room?"
"Not the rat," Harry and Neville said, but at Neville's parent's confused look, Harry spoke alone. "Peter Pettigrew was the reason my parents died."
"It'll be fine, Al," Frank said although he looked a little worried and angry.
Harry smiled at them before leading the way to the ball room, everyone was still catching up with those who'd been dead or that they hadn't seen in a while. Ginny was with Luna at a table, both families of kids playing near them. Lily and James were talking with Petunia although James didn't look very happy doing so near Ginny. Harry caught Neville's eye and gestured with his head over to them, Neville nodded and they went over.
"Ginny!" Harry called at the same time that Neville called Luna.
Both woman looked up from their conversation and smiled at their husbands and the new comers. Lily, James and Petunia looked up at Harry's voice smiled at him before turning back to their conversation. Or at least the meant to, as they looked away their eyes caught onto Alice and Frank standing just behind Harry and Neville. So when Petunia looked down, not knowing them, James and Lily kept looking up.
"Alice!" Lily exclaimed, wrapping her friend in a hug.
"Lils!" she laughed. "Although, I've have no memories of the last 34 years. I still feel like I missed you so much."
When they let go of each other which was after a while of patting and swaying Alice went to hug James and Lily Frank. The men had already greeted each other in a manly hug and their greetings from the women were completely different. Alice kissed James cheek and hugged him, and Lily did the same but she hugged Frank, hard, and then kissed his cheek when she pulled back. Harry and Neville looked at each other smiling.
"Mum, Dad," Neville said.
"Yes, dear?" Alice asked.
"This is my wife, Luna," Neville said, as Luna stood up, he wrapped an arm around her. "Luna, these are my parents - with memories."
Luna smiled at the differentiation for she had meet Alice and Franks before. She and Neville visited the hospital at least once a month and sometimes she would go on her own while Neville was at work.
"Hello," Luna said, her dreamy peaceful voice barely being heard over the ever louder crowd. Alice didn't bother saying anything, she just hugged her as did Frank. "These are our kids Alice and Fiona they're seven. Fiona was my mum's name, she died when I was little."
The kids stood up at the sound of their names and came over to their parents; Neville picked Fiona up and put her on his shoulders while Little Alice took her mums hand. Alice smiled at Neville when she heard the name, her eyes watering up.
"Kids these are your grandparents," Neville said. "Alice and Frank Longbottom."
"Hi," they said together.
"I'm Alice," Little Alice spoke alone now. "And that's Fiona."
Alice and Frank smiled at her grateful for the distinction, luckily they weren't identical twins. Alice had mousy brown hair and brown eyes while Fiona had brown hair and blue eyes, both of them had the same odd air as the mother but it seemed tinted by an angelic one.
After a while of talking with her family, Alice looked at the ones who her grandchildren had been playing with before they had come.
"Neville, who are they?" she asked. Neville looked to where she was looking.
"Oh, they're the Potter kids," he said smiling. "I'm the godfather to the girl, and Luna's godmother. They're Harry's kids. Cute lot, they call us aunt and uncle although we're no blood relation"
"Family's more than blood, Neville," Ginny said, stopping on her way to her kids. She smiled at Alice. "I'm Ginny Potter, by the way, Harry's wife. Nice to meet you."
"You too," Alice said smiling at her. "I take it you know us."
"We've meet briefly," Ginny said shortly with a glance at Neville.
"So what are their names?" Alice asked gesturing to the Potter kid's who were coming this way.
"The girl," Ginny started "is Lily Luna, she's our youngest. The younger boy is Albus Severus and the eldest James Sirius - which I'm starting to think, was a mistake."
"So they're named after people, you know?" Frank said coming over just in time to hear the introduction.
"Well after dead people - apart from Luna," Ginny said. "People who're important to me and Harry or saved Harry during the war - Severus. Dumbledore was like a grandfather to Harry, it seemed fitting."
Soon the Potters and Longbottom's were chatting or playing in the kid's case. Harry, Lily and James had come over. The conversation moved from the grandparents' school days, to Neville, Luna's and Ginny's - the least deathly parts - Harry joined in at a few points. Then to families and work, eventually everyone was told to sit down to eat.
