A/N: Hey guys! Sorry you had to wait so long for the chapter, but I found it kind of hard to write and get all the right moods and stuff of the characters. Anyway, this chapter is dedicated to luckystar125, because she wanted a chapter where the Marauders went to see the Dursley's!!
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After they had run off on Mrs. Weasley, the three men apparated straight to the Dursley's household to see them through the window on the front of the house eating dinner.
They all smirked at each other and walked to the front of the house. Sirius knocked on the front door and stepped back to stand between his two friends. They heard the scraping of chairs and words that sounded like muttering through the wood of the door. Next thing they knew, the door was opened and they were face to face with Vernon Dursley. James inwardly smirked and Remus stepped forward.
'Vernon Dursley?' He asked. Vernon nodded hesitantly and gave them all weary looks. Sirius and James exchanged amused looks and turned back to Vernon.
'I'm Remus Lupin, and they are Sirius Black and James Potter. We are here to discuss how you have been treating a certain Harry James Potter.' Remus said with absolute seriousness in his voice. Vernon turned deathly pale.
'James Potter? He's dead,' he said in a small voice. 'And what do you want to know about the boy?' Vernon eyed them suspiciously.
'We want to know how you have been treating Harry. He came home today and told us that he was being mistreated by Dudley. We want the truth; how have you been treating Harry?' Sirius asked.
Vernon looked around the street and noticed a few people staring out of windows.
'Come inside.' He demanded, holding the door open for them and stepping aside to allow them to walk through. The three men entered the house and went into the living room, where they saw in the other room, Petunia and Dudley sitting at the dining table and watching them through scared eyes.
James saw on Petunia's face the look of utter shock and horror as she laid her eyes on him. James smirked and sat down on the couch, propping his feet up on the coffee table and putting his hands behind his head, leaning back against the couch. Sirius followed his lead and did the same, while Remus was ever polite and did nothing of the sort.
Vernon reappeared in the room and sat on the opposite chair to them. He glared evilly at the two men with their feet up on the coffee table before he noticed that Petunia had entered the room. She sat down beside him and shot him a look.
'I would appreciate it if you didn't put your feet on the coffee table.' Vernon spoke in very clipped tones, but Sirius and James groaned as they put their feet down again and onto the floor. Remus eyed them and looked back at Petunia and Vernon.
'As I said before, we've come to talk to you about how you have been treating Harry.' He said. The Dursley's shifted uncomfortably and wouldn't look them in the eye.
'My son came home from the movies in Surrey yesterday to report that he had encountered Dudley in the bathrooms and Dudley and his "gang", as he would like me to put it, rough-housed them and teased one of Harry's friends' family, called Harry's girlfriend a prostitute and generally annoyed the hell out of them. Let's just say as Harry's guardians, that we are not pleased.' James said, leaning forward on the chair and fixed them with a piercing gaze, which they fidgeted under.
'I have been receiving letters from Harry every year since he was thirteen and none of them say that you have been particularly pleasant over the years. In fact, he looks forward to the times when you aren't in the house so he can eat, relax, drink, not be yelled at and do basically what he wants, for however short a time that is. Then, he told me that the reason he had good reflexes is because he is so used to ducking Dudley's hits with his cane from his school and your cuffs over the back of the head,' Sirius directed at Vernon. 'Now, can you honestly tell us that you have been treating Harry with respect you would your own son?'
'The boy deserves it!' Vernon defended.
'Harry deserves respect! If you went through the stuff that he has been through you wouldn't have survived! The only reason why Harry went to you is because Sirius was in prison at the time and him living with muggles would have helped him and kept him away from the immense fame he has in our world. Can you honestly expect us to want to put him through that when he was one?' James argued in the offence. Neither of the Dursley's looked at him, but kept their eyes to the floor.
'Look, Lily loved you Petunia, she still does if she's alive. I haven't found her yet, but when I do, the first thing I am telling her is how her sister treated her son while she couldn't. Harry didn't get a childhood like most kids do. He spent his fighting off your son, snakes, defeating Dark Lord's, doing stuff that normal kids shouldn't have to do, and you people didn't help him in the slightest like we thought and wanted you to do. Instead, you abused him, punished him for performing magic when he had no control over it and forced him to go for days without food. All because he was our son and we were magic and none of you liked us. Well, I have news for you, if I ever hear of you or your fat-ass son out there, bullying or abusing my son, there will be hell to pay.' James said with deathly venom at the end of his voice.
Petunia and Vernon nodded; they both had wide eyes and were deathly pale.
'What do you mean if Lily's still alive? She died to save the boy didn't she?' Petunia asked in a small voice. James' eyes clouded over swiftly and he wouldn't look at them.
'Lily didn't die that night like I thought she did. It was my mother that died instead. But I didn't know this until she had already died. I pulled her from out underneath the rubble of the house and found out who it was. I never found Lily afterwards.' He told them. It was deathly silent as the Dursley's processed everything that had been said.
'So, now we are over with that,' James perked up a bit, but still didn't look at all pleased with these people that Lily had called family. 'I would like to inform you that Harry will now be taken out of your custody and I doubt that I will ever let you see him again. Good day.' James stood up and brushed off his robes, looked at Remus and Sirius, the latter looked rather hurt that they were leaving already and no injuries had been made to the accused Dursley's, but got up anyway and Remus followed suit.
James gave them a nod, his eyes steely, hard and cold, and swept from the room, his friends following him.
When they left the house and had apparated away, Sirius and James bent over double in laughter.
'Did you see the looks on their faces?' Sirius got out as he laughed. James nodded and because he was laughing so much, tears started flowing down his face.
'Absolutely priceless.' James burst out. Remus just looked at his friends with a slight smile and shake of his head.
'You two are so immature.' He muttered. Luckily neither of them heard him.
'Really, I should have thought that we could have inflicted some sort of physical pain onto them.' Sirius whined, after catching his breathe of course. James and Remus rolled their eyes and James looked at Sirius with exasperation.
'If you want to go back to Azkaban, then sure, go back and curse them, but as no one actually knows that I live, then I think I will pass.' James said sarcastically.
'Fine, only because Azkaban is a foul place.' Sirius said with distaste.
'Good boy.' James said, patting Sirius' head and walking into No. 12 Grimmauld Place with his friends followed him.
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