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Family Secrets

Harry couldn't help anymore. Happiness is just building up inside him. Harry laughed.

Lily Potter looked at her son. She smiled also. "Did you have a nice Halloween, Harry?"

The youngest potter laughed out loud again, but this time it was joined by Lily's niece, Samantha.

Lily joined in the laughter. She knew that the night could not go any better. "Well Sammy, how do you like your visit?"

The small girl replied with a smile. She loved her aunt's family. She most especially loved Harry. For a year and a quarter, she felt very close to him, and he felt that too.

The laughter was interrupted by a shadowy figure that burst in the nursery door. "How did you get here? Did Peter--?"

The shadow spoke, "Hmm, smart girl. You never were the dumb type."

Lily's voice was trembling now. "Why are you here?" she said while putting an invisibility cloak over the children in the crib.

"You know why I'm here"

"Where's James? What did you do to him?"

"He's downstairs-in terrible pain."

Under the cloak, Harry couldn't help getting out of it. He knew that something bad is going to happen. "Arry, no." Sammy said. She held on to Harry's foot as he got up from under the cloak. The shadow spoke again. "Oh, how sweet. It's the smallest Potter. What a shame it is that he won't be anymore." He pointed his wand at Harry and began to say a few words. "Avada Ke-"

"No!!" Lily shouted. She jumped in front of the crib just as the shadow finished his curse.

"-davra!!" the shadow finished and a bright green light filled the room.

Meanwhile, Harry Potter woke up from a bittersweet dream.