That afternoon after Sonny and Harry caught up on some much needed sleep they finally sat down to have Melanie put up the wall.

As she had explained it Sonny would hold Harry and offer comfort while she set about exploring his mind and constructing the wall. Sonny would have to maintain the emotional link between her and Harry the entire time while Melanie would have to move slowly and cautiously to prevent damage. The process was draining and time-consuming. Nora was also on standby in case a healer was needed for any of them. While that should have helped put Remus at ease it in fact only increased the anxiety that had been developing since he returned upstairs and found Sonny and Harry asleep on their bed.

Sonny took a seat with Harry in her lap, "Ok little man let's find out what is going on in that head of yours." She took a deep breath and began to let the two of them feel as one. Sonny was to not only calm Harry but let Melanie know when she was close to the memory by sensing his fear. She wasn't technically in Harry's head like Melanie would be still it was an intense process.

Since Melanie, like Sonny, was a natural occlumen and legilimen therefore she didn't need her wand or a spell and it was far more advanced than anything a trained legilimen or occlumen could do it was almost as if Melanie was stepping into Harry's mind and taking a stroll. "Let's begin," Melanie said before she slipped into Harry.

*Inside Harry's Mind*

Melanie was shocked to find a flimsy set of shields and a gallery like structure in the small child's mind it was not that different from the first time she visited Sonny's mind apparently she would be giving another child lessons in the mind arts.

While she was not expecting this it was still easy to move past the shields and she began to maneuver the gallery. She saw happy memory after happy memory but she also saw the stress that war had put on the adults in his life through his eyes. She saw James and Lily fighting, Remus looking worn and aged, Sirius' increasing depression and paranoia, Peter's lies and Sonny looking broken and adrift.

It turns out that Sonny's warning that she was close was not needed as she could tell that she was getting closer judging from the looks of the people in the memories.

She finally made it to the memory of that night she saw James shout for Lily to take Harry and run. The foolhardy boy didn't even have his wand. Lily tried to get out with Harry but they were quickly trapped. She begged, pleaded and ultimately gave her life for her son. The memory continued as she saw the vile creature turn his wand on Harry and uttered those unforgivable words.

What Melanie Cromwell saw next shook her to her very core. The curse rebounded and a wraith like figure was all that was left of the so-called Dark Lord. He disappeared through the gaps in the wreckage. She saw a young man in black robes start cradling Lily's lifeless body ignoring the screaming child in the crib he soon escaped when he heard the loud anguished cries of Sirius. This is where the anxiety for Harry ends.

Just beyond that memory is something dark, leeching on the boy's mind. She set about putting that as well as the memories of those last few months and that night behind the carefully constructed wall that would hold until it was time for Harry to know the truth.

*Exit Harry's Head*

Two days later the trio finally awoke from their healing sleep as Nora called it. Remus called it a coma. While Remus was feeding a very hungry but much happier Harry Melanie came to see Sonny who was drying her hair in her room. "Honey, we need to talk," she told Sonny as she stood behind her. Melanie reached out for the hair brush that was in Sonny's hand took it and began to run it through the girl's long dark hair. It was something she had done for her as a child not only for Sonny but for Nora and Regan as well an act of comfort.

So Sonny sat in the room that had once been solely hers and listened to Melanie describe what she found in Harry's mind. She told her about the happy memories, the struggles that James and Lily went through as the threat became more real, and the heartbreak at the sight of her so frail and broken. She also explained how Harry had rudimentary shields and with some training his mind would be as impenetrable as Sonny's own steel walled labyrinth.

Then she explained what she saw that night she talked about how brave and foolish James was to try and take on Voldemort without a wand, "A true Gryffindor," she added. Of which Sonny already knew from Sirius' recollection of how he found James. Then she told her about Lily pleading for Harry's life and how after he killed her Voldemort laughed. She described the way he was destroyed, "Albus is right about one thing he is still out there. I saw it with my own eyes." They spoke about the young man in black when Sonny asked for more about him she replied, "His hair could have used a good scrubbing." Alarms went off in Sonny's head; Severus Snape was in Godric's Hollow that night.

What was most alarming was the darkness that Melanie described as leeching on Harry's mind. Something about it seemed familiar but Sonny try as hard as she could was unable to place what was niggling at the back of her mind. Melanie assured her that behind the wall it couldn't hurt Harry. Until Sonny could remember why that seemed familiar Melanie's words would have to be enough.

AN: The Horcruxes are still in. I don't know whether Harry's shields are because of Voldemort's power like the parseltongue or because of Sonny blood adopting Lily what do you guys think it should be. Behind the wall is the time from after Harry's first birthday to Sirius showing up on Halloween because he would make Harry feel safe.