"Lily?" asked James' portrait to his wife's. "Wake up!" he said, shaking her.

"James? I just had the weirdest dream..." she said before she noticed Harry and Sophia, looking at her with concern and even fear. "Oh dear, it wasn't a dream? You really are pregnant?" he asked to the girl with dark brown hair. The young couple nodded.

"How did this happen?"

"Uh... well, you see... we did it before we got 'The Talk' and we didn't know about protection." answered Harry.

"In fact, I even told Harry back then that I wanted us to learn by ourselves... I'm so stupid." said Sophia, covering her eyes in shame. She started sobbing, quietly.

Realising the state her girlfriend was in, Harry took her in his arms and whispered calming words in her ears while rubbing her back. The portraits didn't know how to react. They wanted to take the young couple in a hug but since they were portraits, they couldn't do anything so they waited and let their son calm Sophia himself.

After a few minutes, Harry had calmed Sophia enough that they could turn their attention toward the portraits again. Both looked at them with anticipation and fear of their reactions to the news. Would they be disappointed in their son, in what he had done? Lily seemed to have realised what they were waiting for since she said "How are you feeling with the news?"

"I was a bit afraid at first, mostly of Harry's reaction. Would he blame me? Would he hate me? I told him but he didn't really react how I expected.

"When Sophia told me, I took her in a big hug and then started dancing in her room." he said, smiling.

"He shouted "I'M GOING TO BE A FATHER!" while laughing."

"I know we are young..." continued Harry "but it really makes me happy."

The portraits smiled. Lily said "I can't say that I am not disappointed that it happened while you are both so young..." she started. Harry and Sophia hung down their heads in shame "but I am also really happy for both of you and I will help you as much as possible... well as much as a talking portrait can help."

"Same goes for me." said James. "The father/teenager in me want to shout 'Attaboy!' for managing to lose your virginity..." he said, earning a glare from Lily "but the more mature part of myself, the adult in me recognise the situation and like Lily, I am ready to help you along the way."

"Always." finished Lily.

"Thanks." said Harry. The couple looked at each other with relief. Both were smiling. "I might need your help a lot Dad, I don't really know anything about fatherhood and I don't want to take Vernon Dursley as a role model." said the young wizard. The adults Potters frowned when they heard the name of their in-law. James nodded none-the-less.

"Is that why you were able to come down to the Family Vault?" asked James, remembering how they got here in the first place.

Harry looked at his father and said "Yes. The goblins said that since I now had an Heir, I was able to claim my Lordship and by extension, the Family Vault. Which remind me." he said before he turned toward Sophia. "I never imagined I would that this early but then again, I'm going to be a father..." he mumbled but everyone in the room heard him. James suddenly grinned. Harry was just too much like James for him not to recognise where Harry was going with this. Harry took Sophia's left hand in both of his and said "I remember on Christmas Holidays, the year we met. Spending the holidays with you and your mother showed me just how much love could be in a family, even one as small as yours. At the Dursleys, it's all materialistic, all about receiving but here, it was all about giving to each other. Theses few weeks were probably the happiest ones I had in my life. When I got back to Hogwarts, I saw the Mirror of Erised. I knew at that moment what I wanted for my future." Harry climbed down the couch, and kneeled in front of Sophia who gasped. Tears started to leak out of her eyes, realising what Harry was doing. "I didn't imagine myself doing what I am currently doing so soon, and I didn't really prepare myself and the occasion might not be really romantic but we have a child on the way so why wait." he added with a smile. He got the velvet box containing his mother's engagement ring out of his bag and, looking at Sophia, he opened it in front of her. "Sophia Clarke, will you marry me?"

Sophia wasn't able to talk. She just happily nodded and extended her left hand so that Harry could place the wedding ring on her hand. Once it was done, Sophia threw herself at Harry and snogged him right then and there, in front of James and Lily's portraits. Both of them were applauding and Lily was crying in happiness just like Sophia was. James even had a tear that leaked on his cheek but if you had asked him, he would have wiped it off before denying the whole thing.

It was on this scene that Florence Clarke arrived to. She first heard people cheering, then saw her daughter on top of her boyfriend, snogging on the floor and then finally noticed the portraits of James and Lily. All four were completely oblivious to the new addition in the room. She proceeded to clear her throat loudly to alert the others of her presence.

Harry and Sophia suddenly froze and their eyes came wide open in shock while Lily shut up and looked for the first time at Mrs. Clarke. James just burst out laughing.

"What is going on here?" she asked with shock. The teens weren't helpful as they were all flustered, trying to climb back up on their feet while still holding each other.

Lily took pity on poor confused Mrs. Clarke and introduced themselves. "My son found our portraits in our Family Vault. This pillock..." she said with a nod to James, "is my husband James Potter. I am Lily Potter, nice to meet you."

Mrs. Clarke's jaw had dropped wide open. "How is this possible?" she asked.

"Well you see, all Lords and Ladies Potters have a portrait made when they take their Lordship or when they marry the Head of House. It updates magically every week thanks to the House Potter ring." he said, showing his hand. James had the Potter ring on his finger, even if the real, physical and magical thing was currently on his son's hand. "Actually Harry, yours is probably being done as we speak since you took your Lordship."

"Oh no!" whined Sophia. "Not two of you at once!" she said, looking at Harry. James and Lily burst out laughing while Harry tried to pretend to look angry, without success and instead grinned.

"Trust me," started Lily. "It would have been a hundred time worse had it been two James running around." she said, still laughing. The Potters (and future Potter) had completely forgotten Mrs. Clarke who had to clear hear throat again to remind them.

"Right, where were we? Oh yes, the portraits." said James. "It also means that you will have your own one Sophia, you know, once you..." but was cut off by Lily who had switched frames and put her hand on her husband's mouth before he could say anything more.

"Shhhh!" said Lily.

"What?" asked an incredulous James.

"She doesn't know yet!" she said, looking at Mrs. Clarke. Understanding flooded James's face.

"Know what?" asked Mrs. Clarke.

"Uh... well... Mum?" asked Sophia. When she had her mother's attention, she lifted her left hand, clearly displaying an engagement ring. Mrs. Clarke, in a very unlady-like fashion, squeaked and took both teenagers in a bone-crushing hug.

"Congratulations!" she said. "I'm so happy for you! Even before this whole ordeal I just knew that you would end up together. In a way, I think it's too early but with a child on the way there is no good reasons to wait any longer." she said.

"That's the same thing Harry said!" laughed James up.

The Potters and Clarkes then spent the next hour talking together, until Harry remembered that Dumbledore would probably worry since he still wasn't back.

"Uh, Mum, Dad?" asked Harry. "What do I do with your portraits?"

"Well, we are yours technically... damn that's weird to say out loud. So yeah, you can do what you want with us." said Lily.

"Any recommendations?"

"Well..." said James with a mischievous smile "you could hang us around in the Gryffindor Common Room."

Lily groaned. "So that you can teach students how to prank people?"

"You know me so well!" said James, cheerful. Lily groaned even further and closed her eyes. When she opened them up again, she saw that her son had the same bloody look that James currently had, the one that both annoyed her to no end and also made butterflies fly in her stomach and made her smile like she had seen a small puppy. "Oh dear..."