"Sirius oh my God!" Lily ran towards the man, taking him into a deep embrace and crying into his shoulder. "I thought you died and I was horrible to you when you left our house, I'm so sorry"
Sirius rubbed her back in a comforting manner. James had slow tears falling from his eyes as he watched them, this was too surreal. After everyone welcomed Sirius back he told them all his story, down to every detail he could remember. Lily looked especially uncomfortable upon hearing the prophecy.
"So that's what this is all about eh? The prophecy, or so what Voldemort thinks is it" Mad Eye Moody pondered from the table.
"So he really did try and have a baby with Bellatrix Lestrange? Did Peter say why that didn't happen?"
"Bellatrix is infertile," Sirius explained, " Therefore Voldemort knew he would have to go find an heir, the claiming false bloodlines part of the prophecy. That's not word for word, but from what Peter said, after Bellatrix could not become pregnant it became clear that although he needed an heir, he would have to find one rather than have one."
"No one can hear this prophecy but Harry? What about asking Snape what the full prophecy is?"
"Because he can't be trusted" James snarled, "Obviously. From what Peter told Sirius, Snape is the one who told Voldemort the prophecy which leads to Peter taking Harry, Snape is working for Voldemort!"
"Calm down James," Arthur Weasley chimed in, "Snape is on our side now remember? We all know he has a past but he's been watching Harry at the school for us, plus Dumbledore trusts him."
"Well, I don't!" Lily objected, feeling many things at once, mainly disgusted at herself for ever being friends with Snape at one point. "Heres my thing, we know where Harry stays and when he stays there, why don't we go get him now?"
"The boy is a ticking time-bomb that's why," Moody growled.
"Excuse me?" Lily asked, taken aback.
"We barge in into his home and try and take him and he will fight back. Be level-headed about this Lily, the boy thinks he's Voldemort's son, if we try to convince him otherwise he'll tear into us. We need to go about this methodically.
"We've been going at this methodically for 14 years now and have gotten nowhere!" Lily flared up.
"We have gotten somewhere Lily, think about it. " Molly Weasley said comfortingly, "We have all this new information gathered and now we can conduct a fool-proof plan to get Harry back. In the meantime, I think we all can agree to keep Ron out of this information. Him knowing too much could possibly cause harm to the plan."
"But he's our eyes on the inside, Dumbledore can't be with Harry everywhere, we need Ron."
"No, Molly is right," Mad Eye chimed in once more, " Ron hasn't been of much use to us lately, no need to bring him into all this. Plus, he is underage and as his mother, Molly gets a say in his participation in The Order, now we've got a lot of planning to and we cannot have any errors…"
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"What are you giggling for you school girl?"
"I'm sorry but, this is just so exciting isn't it? This is your biggest mission yet and here I am with you!"
"Calm down you twit, and be quiet my father says this man has like supersonic ears or something"
"He said an enchanted eye, were you listening?"
"Of course not, come on."
Two dark hooded figures approached a small cottage in the middle of the woods. One went to sprint towards it but the other held him back. "Its too easy," he said, pulling out his wand, "Revelio," he whispered. What looked to be a small cottage was revealed to be a deep hole in the ground filled with enchanted spikes.
"Close one," the other figure breathed. They walked a little further, into a pile of trees.
"Homenum Revelio" the first figure said, they looked through the trees and saw a blob of shimmery light hanging in what appeared to be thin air.
"He must be sleeping"
"No shit, lets go."
As they descended upon the invisible house they felt their way around it before finding a way in. They sneaked up to the second floor where the shimmery blob had been. Alas, asleep in his bed, was their prey.
"Ready?" one figure said, the other nodded and raised his wand.
"Put that wand down boy." the lump in the bed growled. This caused both figures to jump from freight, how did he see them? "And take off those hoods, Harry and Malfoy, I can see right through them."
Harry tried to keep his cool, he removed his hood. He looked so much different than he had the last year. His face looked that of an adult, he'd obviously gone through a puberty induced transformation over the summer, he looked less like a boy and more like man. Even his eyes had changed, they were far less innocent as though they had seen far too much in just their short years. He also had deep dark circles under his eyes as though he hadn't slept in days. Draco Malfoy also took off his hood, he too looked far more like a man.
"What're you doing here?" the lump demanded. Harry nudged Draco, there was a swirling eye in a cup on the man's bedstand.
"You're my birthday present Alastor." Harry told him happily.
"I'm honored" the lump gruffed, "explain yourself!"
"How dare you order him! You better start talking to him with some respect!" Draco spat.
The lump laughed, Harry put a hand on Draco's shoulder, "Its alright Draco, in due time. You're coming with us Alastor, as my present. You know its my birthday next week right? I want you to be the guest of honor at my party."
"You coming with us you old bastard, that's what he means" Draco snarled.
"Alright, come take me." the lump challenged. The boys looked at each other, Harry was smarter than this.
"Grab him Draco," Draco looked at Harry quizzically, "It's okay, I promise you'll be okay" he mouthed to him. Draco approached the lump apprehensively, as soon as he went to grab it, it blew up, sending him flying through the room. A thick fog filled the space, Draco got up, rubbing his head, he heard Harry scream out in pain.
"Harry!" Draco yelled, waving his arms to try and dilute the air, he heard a low laugh go past him. He pulled out his wand and began shooting spells off on a whim.
What felt like snakes began to twist around his body, he couldn't fight them off. They wrapped around him tightly, like ropes, binding him. He dropped his wand and fell to the floor, writhing against the snakes, but then they began to bite him, he yelped. The fog cleared as quickly as it started. He looked around the room, Harry lay face down on the floor.
"HARRY!" Draco screamed, he fought against the snakes, who became agitated and started to bite more.
"Stop fighting my snakes boy!" Mad Eye Moody growled and he limped towards Harry.
"Get away from him!" Draco told him.
"Calm down Beta, I'm not gonna hurt him anymore, I know his father." Moody said.
"You don't know shit about his father." Draco glared. Moody kicked Harry over onto his back, blood was dripping from his mouth, his eyes shut. Draco panicked, he began kicked and fighting the snakes again, their bites became more painful.
"Now here's what's actually gonna happen, I'm going to take you two to some friends' house and you two are going to explain what this little plan was."
"Fuck you," Draco spat, "You're not taking anybody!"
Moody lifted Harry's left sleeve, "Oh I'm not?" he said as he did it. He gasped after taking a peek at Harry's arm and stumbled back.
"No. You're not." A voice from the doorway said. And there he stood, Harry unharmed.
"Where'd you learn to make clones like that boy!" Moody said angrily, although somewhat scared.
"None of your business actually, obviously not someone whos good at it though because I can never seem to get my mark on my arm." Harry informed him, he smiled down at his left arm and lifted his sleeve, The Dark Mark on his arm was darker than before.
Moody looked around frantically.
"Looking for that Mad Eye of yours?" Harry asked him, he reached into his mouth and pulled out the severed eye. "You must not clean this thing you filthy bird, it tastes disgusting." Harry put the eye between his teeth and bit down, hard, breaking it then spitting the pieces out onto the floor.
"Not so tough now are you?" Draco said from the floor. Moody looked at both boys, then made a dash for the window.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Harry screamed, wand pointed at Moody's back. The spell hit him directly, Harry was sure it was not strong enough but if the spell didn't kill him, the fall out the window did. The snakes around Draco disappeared, he stood quickly and dusted himself off.
"Thanks for using me as bait?" Draco huffed.
"It wouldn't have worked if I was the one who exploded Dre, thanks though" Harry smiled at him, Draco returned it. They left the house and retrieved Moody's body, charming it so it floated. The boys looked at each other, Draco nodded.
Harry pointed his wand at the sky, "Morsmordre!" A skull appeared in the air made out of clouds, a snake slithered from its mouth and lit up the sky, the formation matching the mark on Harry's arm. With that, the boys vanished.
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The members of The Order of the Phoenix gathered at 12 Grimmauld Place, dressed in black on the final day of July. After not hearing from Mad Eye Moody for days a few members went to search his hidden house. What they found was a battle scene. They searched his bedroom for clues and found the pieces of his broken enchanted eye. They fixed it and toyed with it until it opened and projected onto a nearby wall the scene right before Moody's death, showing them he was dead.
"All I'm saying is… there is no way Harry could have produced the power behind that spell, Moody had to have died from the fall not-"
"Oh shut it will you?" a pink-haired young girl snapped at Lily Potter, "Harry killed him, we all saw it! Then The Dark Mark in the sky, that means there was a murder, your son killed Moody!"
"Don't you snap at me Tonks!" Lily flared, "There's no doubt Harry contributed to his death, but there's no way-"
Tonks interrupted her again, "You don't know your son anymore Lily! Stop saying what he is and isn't capable of because we've already seen it and heard it! Front what Ron said to what Sirius told us Peter Pettigrew said, Harry is dangerous, there's no use trying to save him anymore we've got to capture him and-"
Lily stood from her seat, eyes shooting daggers at Tonks, "Don't you EVER fix your mouth to say I should give up on MY son, EVER! Say one more thing about my son and I'll hex his name out your mouth!" Tonks shut up immediately, Lily still glared at her as she sat back down in her seat.
After the funeral for Moody Lily and James went back home without saying goodbye to anyone. Molly Weasley tried to talk to Lily and assure her they were all there to protect Harry but Lily did not believe her.
"I'm telling you James, they're not with us anymore. Since Harry killed Moody I'm seeing it a lot more. They don't want to get Harry back for us, they want Harry to capture and kill him."
James walked into the kitchen and called back to her, "You're exaggerating Lily, everyone wants to help us and help Harry. We've been members of The Order for how long now?"
"You mark my words James Potter, they're not in this for the same reasons we are. When we find Harry we've got to hide him, they're not safe for him!"
"Nowhere is safe for him at the moment Lily, but with The Order is safer for him than with Death Eaters, now come here."
Lily stormed into the kitchen, "And that Tonks has got one more time to come at me and I swear to God I'll beat her ass!"
Lily stopped at the table, James had set up a little birthday cake display, with all the rukus that had been going on during the day she'd almost forgotten it was Harry's birthday. When she saw the cake she burst into tears.
"Oh James I miss him so much! I never even got to hug my own son, my heart breaks more everyday, I don't have anything less!" she sobbed
James ran over to hold her and stroke her back, "I know love, I know. I feel the same way. I promise you, I'm right here with you. And you know what? You will hug him this year, I'm going to make sure of that."
"You can't promise that James, please don't make me another promise you can't keep."
"But I will," James assured her, "Before his next birthday, you will hug Harry." He guided her around the table to the cake and lit the candles.
"Happy birthday Harry" he whispered, stroking his wife's shoulders.
"Happy birthday Harry" Lily hiccup'd wetly.
