"So, if it's that easy, can't we bring everyone back to life?" Lily asked, knowing the answer was no, wanting to know why.

"No. It isn't that easy. You see, very few people have the magic in them to sustain such a bond, and even fewer know what to do with a bond like that. It's a good thing you told someone, or else Kris would have been truly dead within a few days."

"How do you know?" Kris asked. "No offense or anything Mr Lupin. I just wonder how you know I would be dead so soon."

"Because no one lasts longer than a year and a half after they're killed. You were lucky. If Lily had waited another day or so, it may have been too late."

Kris nodded. "I should go see my mother. And get ready to go back to school. I am a year behind. But that should not matter?"

Remus smiled. "Of course it won't matter. Would you like us to take you home?"

"No. I will just use Floo Powder. I will be okay, my mother will not kill me."

"Good-bye Kris." Lily said. She couldn't believe he was alive.

He smiled too. "I will see you at school, no?"

"Of course." And then forgetting her father, and Remus, and Sirius, and Ron were all in there, she threw her arms around him and kissed him. He stepped into the fire and disappeared.

"I think I preferred him under ground." Harry said. This comment was met with a slap on the side of the head from his daughter.

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"Oh where is he?"

"Calm down Lily. He's been dead for over a year and you can't wait ten minutes for him to show up on the train?" Will said, craning his head out of the window, hoping to catch a glance of him first.

"Shut up Will." Lily had told them all about Kris' resurrection, before it became news. Everyone had had a difficult time believing it, saying they would make up their minds when they saw him at last.

Finally, the compartment door slid open and Kris popped his head in. He grinned when he saw them all in there and sat down. "I got my old job back."

"Waterboy?" Will said sourly.

Kris smiled indulgently. "No, no. As Beater for the Wimbourne Wasps. You know, the best team in Great Britain?"

"Good job." William growled.

"Yes. Good job." Anna said, kicking Will.

Kris smiled. "Well I must go prove to some other people that I am alive." He kissed Lily and left the compartment.

"He had better not get to used to being alive." Will said bitterly, watching Kris disappear down the corridor.

"You and my dad alike."

"Humph. At least someone is sane."

Lily looked at Moira and rolled her eyes. "Oh hey! Here comes the trolley man."

The man came to the door and slid it open. "Sweets anyone?"

"No thanks ma'am." Lily said innocently.

"But thank you anyway, trolley lady." Caroline said, smiling sweetly.

"Actually, miss, I think I'll have some Bertie Botts Beans."

"And madam? A blood lolly."

"Two of them, love."

The minute the trolley man, almost ready to toss his trolley at their heads, disappeared, they burst into laughter. "You like blood lolly's too?" Will said to Caroline once they regained control.

"I love blood lolly's. I almost had a fit when they were discontinued."

"Me too!"

"OoooOOOOOOooooooOOhhhHHhh." Everyone else said. "Do I smell the scent of Will moving on?"

Will and Caroline didn't say anything, they just looked at their shoes. "Yep." Daniel said easily, "Even though they're COUSINS, That's the smell of Will moving on. Everyone but me."

"And Moira." Lily piped up. Moira blushed and glanced out the window.

Lily caught Anna's eye and they turned to look at Moira. "OOOOoooooOOOooooooooooOOOOhhhhh! Moira who is it?"

"When did this happen?" Moira just curled up into a smaller ball against the wall. Daniel smiled.

"We ran into Saxon Walker and Anders Peyna when we were in Liverpool visiting or grandparents. Anders asked her out."

"Moira! Why didn't you tell us?"

"It wasn't a big deal, what with Kris coming back to life and such."

"Oh come on! Kris has been alive before, it's not like this is the first time or anything."

Moira was forgotten with the arrival of three of the most hideous creatures Lily had ever seen. But she didn't have long to think about how they looked because her mind suddenly went blank.



"Please Marit! Not while Lily is here!"

"Susan, Susan, Susan. Tsk, tsk. If you didn't want your daughter to see you die you should have left her at home."

There was a profound silence, sliced through by the sound of a child crying. "Harry! You've come! Oh Harry! It's Susan; she's been killed. Oh Harry, I think it was Ginny Weasley-"



"Lily? Lily are you alright? Here, take some chocolate." Lily looked up to see Remus standing above her.

"What was that?" She asked shakily.

"Dementors. They aren't supposed to be on here, they've been hiding out, all the children were just too much of a bait for them to handle."

"Marit killed my mum. It wasn't Ginny Weasley, it was Marit. She framed Ginny."

"That doesn't surprise me." Remus sighed, then smiled. "Don't worry about this, Lily. I doubt you'll ever see a Dementor again." Then he winked and left.

"So Aunt Ginny didn't kill your mum?" Anna said once Remus was gone.

"Apparently not. What did you guys hear?"

"I heard my dad telling us mum died." Moira said, Daniel nodded. "Me too."

"I got mum and dad saying they were getting a divorce." Anna said.

"Really?" Will said, "I got Auntie Moiré dying."

"What about you Caroline?"

"Dad telling me that my great-grandad died. Don't you think my dad dying would have upset me more?"

"Maybe he didn't tell you, maybe he just kind of came and got you and said that you were coming to live with him. Or maybe your great-grandad was worse because you knew him better."

"Do you really think he wouldn't have told me?"

"Well I mean, why would he? You were just a baby. It's not like it would have made much of a difference." Daniel said.

"I suppose." Caroline did not turn back from the window.