A/N : This is my first story that I have ever posted on fanfiction.net!! please R/R I'll try to get new chapters out as soon as posible. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

"Remus, I need a favor from you, I'm making a potion and I need one ingredient. I need a werewolf hair, and because it is a full moon tonight..." Sirius started.

"This is important isn't it because that you detest potions."

Sirius nodded. "It is for Harry."

"I'll give it to you tomorrow."

That night Sirius fell asleep in anticipation of the next day.

***

Harry heard a gentle a scratch on his window. His large, white owl, Hedwig, was hovering outside his window. Along with him was the Weasly's elderly owl, Errol, a brightly colored bird, obviously Sirius liked them better than owls, and an official owl. Harry opened his window and let them in. He glanced at his clock and remembered it was his birthday.

First Harry took the owl from Hogwarts so it could go and deliver its next letter. It had his list of books for next year. Other than that, it had nothing special.

He took the letter from Sirius' bird next because the other owls were looking at it meanly and it would be better if they didn't have a fight. It was just a short note that read:

Harry,

I'm going to drop by later and give you your present. Warn your muggles so they aren't to surprised when I pop up. I'll see you later today.

Sirius

Harry smiled. His aunt and uncle were going to be so surprised. They still didn't know that Sirius was innocent. This was going to be funny.

Then he took the package that Errol brought. Inside was a letter that read:

Harry,

I hope you like your gift. Fred and George gave me the money for it. Somehow they got a lot of money over the summer but they won't say anything. They just mumble something like thanks Harry. Do you have any idea of what they mean by that?

Anyway, mum asked Dumbledore if you could come over. He agreed but only if there are some ministry wizards with us. At least you can come. We'll come pick you up at about 5:00 tomorrow. Make sure that your fireplace is unplugged and have your trunk ready.

Ron

"This just gets better and better." Harry thought. "I don't think that I could have any better luck than this. I should tell Aunt Petinua and Uncle Vernon but that would ruin the surprise."

Harry opened the package. Inside was a book entitled Famous Quidditch moves and who preformed them.

Harry leafed through the book before picking up Hedwig's package. He picked up the letter that guessed was from Hermione.

Harry,

I hope that you are having as good of a summer as possible. Ron told me that you are going to the Burrow. I'll meet up with you at Diagon Ally. I think that my present will be helpful. I would say how but then you would be able to figure it out. I'm also sending you some Daily Prophet's that have to do with You-Know-Who's return to power. (So that when school starts up you know who to be sensitive to.) There has been little good news since school ended. I'm glad that you are safe. See you soon.

Hermione

As Harry opened the package, he revealed a book under multiple Daily Prophets. Once he moved the papers, he saw that the book was called Crash course for Advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts for those with little experience.

"Herman was right, this could be useful." Harry thought but he had no idea how useful it would be.

Harry walked cheerfully down to breakfast and was immediately told to go clean Dudly's room as being happy was against the rules. It took all day to clean although he cleaned it last week. He couldn't wait until he left.

***

Around 2 o'clock Sirius heard a little pop and saw Remus appear.

"Sorry I took so long." Remus apologized. "Here you go I got a few hairs for you."

"Thanks."

Then Remus handed Sirius the hairs and dissaparated.

Sirius dropped 2 werewolf hairs into the caldron. The potion frothed and bubbled. Then 2 swirling wisps of smoke appeared. The 2 wisps of smoke started to form a shape. After a few minutes of twisting and turning 2 human forms appeared. "Lily, James, " Sirius said hopefully.

"Sirius! Is it really you?" James attempted to hug Sirius but passed through him.

"Harry, where is Harry!" Lily cried.

"Harry is fine. We're going to see him later in fact. You are his birthday present in fact."

"Sirius, how could you! Harry's parents a birthday present! I wonder how he will react." Lily pondered.

"As his father I think that he will be ecstatic."

"When are we going to see him?"

"I was thinking of taking Harry here for dinner. I can't take him out because I'm, well, an escaped convict from Azakaban. We'll pick him up and then bring him back here." Sirius replied being careful not to mention who Harry was staying with less it cause an uproar. "Until that time let me fill you in on the happenings of the wizarding world so you don't talk about things that are now nonexistent." Sirius showed Lily and James into his messy living room.

***

Harry had just cleaned up Dudly's room when his aunt yelled at him to come down for dinner.

"It took you long enough." Aunt Petunia yelled. "Wash your hands and face."

When Harry sat down, he saw that he only had about a mouthful of each of the different things that they were having for dinner.

"I wonder when Sirius is coming." Harry thought.

As if this was a cue Harry heard a pop and said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you Sirius was coming."

Aunt Petunia was staring open mouthed and muttered "Lily" before dropping into a dead faint.

At this Harry turned around slowly and stared at what he saw.

"Mum, Dad?" Harry asked as he saw the two ghosts that were next to his godfather.

Lily started to cry and say "Harry, Harry" repeatedly.

"Umm... Harry, how do you like your birthday present?" Sirius asked and got his response in the form of a huge hug from Harry.

"This is the best present I ever got!"

"We're also going to my house where I'm going to conjure a gourmet dinner. Sorry Lily and James. But I'm sure that Harry is hungry if that is his normal dinner."

Harry decided not to tell them that he normally got less. He didn't know how his Mum would react. He wasn't as worried what his Dad would do.

"Let's go back to my house now. I have a portkey for Harry and I. You two know how to get back to my house right." Lily and James nodded. I'll see you there."

Sirius pulled out two pouches that had buttons in them. "These will take will take you to my house."

Sirius handed one to Harry. Harry reached for the button and once he felt it the pulling sensation started. Once he left James, Lily, and Sirius left.

If anybody looked at the Dursleys right now, they would see all of them out cold on the floor.

Chapter 2

Once everybody got to Sirius's house Sirius and Lily went into the kitchen to get dinner ready. James told Harry about what he did at school. Or rather, the different pranks he played on Snape during the school year.

"Fred and George are going to like Dad. He must have played more tricks then they have so far." Harry thought. "With Dad helping them, which he probably will, this year will be one of the prank filled years ever. I bet that many the tricks will be on Snape seeing how Dad + Snape were enemies. If this is any indication of how this year is going to be I can't wait."

"Now I don't want to corrupt your mind, actually, I don't want your mum to yell at me." James admitted, "So lets move onto a safer topic. What house are you in? It better not be Slytherin."

"No, I'm in Gryffindor, but the Sorting Hat wanted to put me in Slytherin." Harry admitted, "But I didn't want to so it put me into Gryffindor instead. I'm glad that I'm in Gryffindor. You and Mum were in Gryffindor right?"

James nodded. "I'm glad that you are in Gryffindor. The very idea of you being in Slytherin..." James shuddered. "Anyway, are you are the Gryffindor Quidditch team?"

"Yeah, I'm the seeker. I was on the team since my first year."

"I was the seeker too when I was at Hogwarts. I thought that first years couldn't have their own brooms. Did that rule change in the many years after I left?" Harry shook his head. "They must have because you can't do much on the school brooms, no. I know that you couldn't win many games on those brooms."

"They let me have a broom as a special allowance. It is a funny story of how I got on the team. It was actually my rival who go me on the team." Harry proceeds to tell his Dad of his first flying lesson.

"Harry, James, time for dinner." Sirius called once Harry finished, choking a little when he said James.

They all sat down at the table. Or rather, Sirius and Harry sat down. Lily and James floated. As they ate Sirius talked with James and Harry talked with his mum. They made this arrangement of talking as they had already talked to the other person, even if it was nowhere near enough. Harry was telling his mum about his professors.

"We have Professor Binns for History of Magic."

"He is still there? We had him too."

"I'm not surprised he is very old, and boring. Some people fall asleep in his class."

"Some things never change." Lily said with a glare at Sirius and her husband. "What about your potions teacher?"

Harry shuddered. "Professor Snape." Harry said nastily. "Nobody likes him except for the Slytherins. We have potions with them too so, it isn't fair. He favors the Slytherins and picks on my friends and me. He especially picks on Neville Longbottom. Neville isn't very good at potions and shows the whole class. Sometimes he even blames my friends or me for not telling him the right way. If Snape wasn't our professor potions might be bearable but it isn't."

"Did somebody mention Snape?" James asked.

"Yes, he is our potions professor. And he is horrible. You will play plenty of tricks on him for me right?"

"I will." Lily looked at him sternly. "Don't look at me like that hon. It won't be anything to bad. How did he become a professor? He never seemed like professor material to me. Now Sirius what are the good Quiddich teams this year." James and Sirius continued to talk.

"What about your DADA teacher?" Lily asked.

"We had a different teacher each year. Only one year we had a good teacher. That was in my third year. We had Remus Lupin. Do you remember him? I think he said that you were friends."

"We were, he was better friends with your dad but we were also friends."

"I thought so. The other years my teachers were either fraud or one of Voldemorts followers. My first year..." and Harry described all of his DADA teachers.

Once he was finished, Lily said, "I have two questions. First, you keep saying things about people trying to bring Voldemort back. But when we died, he was still in full power. So what happened?"

"I want to ask you about his downfall too. I don't know much about his downfall. Once Voldemort killed you he turned to kill me but the curse rebounded on him, destroying him but only gave me this scar. It made him lose all of his powers and reduced him to spirit form. Nobody knew why this happened so I was wondering if you cast a spell or something on me before you died to protect me."

"No, I didn't think of doing that. It must have been something else."

"I think that Professor Dumbledore said that it was your love for me or something like that. I was also wondering if you knew why Voldemort wanted to kill me. Professor Dumbledore wouldn't tell me."

"Well, when you were a baby we took you to a special witch. She preformed a spell that told us what you would be good at and how powerful you would be. We found out that you would be very powerful, the most powerful in the world. You would be much more powerful than Voldemort. She also said that you would be the best at DADA. Somehow, one of the Death Eaters found out. Maybe she was one. Anyway, after we did that we went into hiding. We didn't want to but we knew what would happen to you if Voldemort happened. We didn't want anything to happen to you because you were such a beautiful little boy." Tears started to trickle down her face as she said this. "And you're such a handsome young man too. You look just like your father but with my eyes. I wish that I was there when you were growing up."

"It is okay Mum. I'm just glad that you and Dad are here now. Are you coming with me to school?"

"Of course I am! I was only gone for, oh, 14, 15 years. There are going to be two more ghosts at Hogwarts this year. You will be very tired of us by the end of the year."

"It will take a long time for that to happen, is ever. You are my mum."

"Harry do you want to stay the night? You can't stay until tomorrow if you want." Sirius asked.

"I would, but the Weasleys are picking me up tomorrow at the Dursley's house." Harry told Sirius.

"You can contact your friends via fireplace and I can get your stuff."

"That sounds good to me. I get to spend another night with you, Sirius, and I'm going to be spending lots of nights with you Mum and Dad."

"Make sure that you tell them that anyone who doesn't know about me isn't near the fireplace. Oh and we're going to go over after breakfast."

Harry and Sirius went to do their jobs and then they went to bed.

Chapter 3

"Are you ready to go Harry?" Sirius asked.

"Yeah, am I going to carry my trunk or are you going to do it for me?"

"I will do it for you if you want."

"Yeah, I don't like traveling floo powder very much. I would probably lose my trunk or come out to soon."

"Then why did you even ask if you should carry it. Nevermind, you go first."

Harry grabbed some floo powder, threw it into the fire, said "The Burrow," and stepped in. After he disappeared, Lily and James zoomed off. Then Sirius grabbed Harry's trunk and followed him.

Harry fell down on all fours coughing on the floor of the Burrow. He got up slowly and then moved over so Sirius wouldn't fall on him.

"Hey everybody!"

"Hey Harry, it's good to see you again. Is Sirius coming with your trunk?" Ron asked.

As if that was a cue Sirius came tumbling out of the fireplace.

"Hey, sorry for the short visit but I better get going. I don't want anybody to walk in by accident. You can owl me if you want. Bye." And with that Sirius Disapperated.

"That was a short visit wasn't it." Mr. Weasley said. Harry started to look around for his parents. "Um, Harry, what are you looking for."

"My parents." He replied calmly.

"Dad, I think that we need to contact St. Mungos," Ron looked at Harry, "quickly. I mean if he thinks his parents are alive.... "

"I didn't say that they were alive. I said that they were coming. Sirius brought them back as ghosts for a birthday present." Harry informed them. "They should be here soon. Hey Ron, can you help me take my stuff up to your room?"

"Sure, lets go." Ron said as he grabbed Harry's trunk. Harry picked up the other side and they started to walk up the steps. "Are your parents really ghosts? I mean, it is kind of hard to believe."

"Yeah, it is so weird though. I never had any parents before. Now all of the sudden I have a mum and dad. Even if they are ghosts."

"So, are they coming to Hogwarts with us?"

"Yep, and you can tell Fred and George that they will have some help with pranks this year." Harry started to clutch his scar in an over-exaggerated motion. "I'm having a premonition. I see a scowling figure. It looks like Snape but no, it can't be. It is clean, and it has green hair!" Harry and Ron started to crack up.

At that moment Percy walked by and stuck his head in. "I just came home from the craziness at work and you two are in here laughing your heads off. Can't you be quiet at all? I've had no peace and quiet this year at all. With work, Fred and George..." he walked off mumbling.

"What is with him? Let's see what Fred and George are doing." Ron suggested.

"Sure, come on." They went to the twin's room. On the way, they heard numerous bangs. "I guess that they are working on something."

"They were working on stuff all summer. I have no idea what they are doing but they have been getting increasingly good-natured over the summer. Maybe the will let us in." Ron knocked on the door.

"Ah, Harry! Welcome, come on in." Fred exclaimed. "Sorry Ron, you have to stay out here. Only one visitor at a time" Fred remarked. "So come on in, Harry."

As Harry stepped into the room, he looked around in wonder. The room was lined with cauldrons filled with bubbling liquids. In a tank, there were many unhappy looking frogs; a few of them were mutated.

George stood in front of one of the caldrons, stirring it with a long wooden spoon. "We are making a potion, that we will later add to some type of food, that will transform the eater into a balloon. They will turn round, red, get a string, and float a few feet in the air. We are almost done making it so in a few minuets you can see how it will turn out."

Harry looked around for a few minutes while he waited for George to finish brewing the potion. Two minutes later he heard a bang. He turned around to see Fred grabbing a frog and giving it to George. He took the from and put several drops of liquid into it's mouth. Then he placed it onto the floor to see what would happen. The frog started to grow bigger and rounder. As it's tail got longer it's color started turning from green to red.

"Good, good." One of the twins mumbled. "Lets see how long it stays like this." Then to Harry he said "That is how we create all of our stuff. Thank you so much for giving us the money. Some of the ingredients are expensive but I think that we are going to make a lot of money. Now that Ron is probably green with envy, you can let him in for just to look around."

Harry stood up and let Ron in. Ron looked around for a little while and then one of the twins told them to leave.