Ch 4: The revival
Harry woke up once again to the sound of voices down stairs. It sounded like they were discussing bringing back his parents he decided that this time he shouldn't eaves drop and went to write letters back to Ron and Hermione. He searched the drawers for some parchment and a quill and started to write.
Ron,
Thanks so much for the awesome present! Tell Ginny thank you for it too. I don't mind if she has a crush on me, I'm going to tell you now and you can get mad at me or tell Ginny but I have a crush on her to. Please don't kill me for that but be happy to know that I am telling you because really want to keep you as a friend. Some new things have come up that I need to tell you and Hermione as soon as I get there. I'm staying with Sirius until I come to the burrow, don't ask cuz I'll tell you when I get there. I think someone has a crush on Hermione!! In case you are as thick as Crabbe ands Goyle, which I hope you aren't you can see that she likes you too. Ha! I have black mail! Just kidding I would never do that. I have to go thanks again and tell Ginny and everybody else hi from me. Hermione is coming the day I am right? I'll see when I get there.
Harry
He sent the letter off with pig and turned to write to Hermione.
Hermione,
How is my favorite hogwarts witch? Thanks for the book, you were right, it is much better than the last one. But I have learned some things from that advanced magic book. I'll tell you when I get to Ron's. some new things have come up that I need to discus with you two as soon as I get there. I'm staying with Sirius now, don't ask I'll tell you soon enough. I told Ron that and this is hard to tell anyone but I have a crush on Ginny, I know it sounds really weird but there's something about her I don't know. But don't you dare think that I am dropping you, you are like a sister to me and don't forget it! Ok, in case you haven't noticed, you and Ron have huge crushes on each other so tell victor hi from me, and that you just want to be friends. I can give you a direct quote from Ron but please don't tell! He says he is so happy you are coming that he could sing but he didn't and good thing too. Tell your parents hi from me and pat Crookshanks from Sirius, I have to go.
Love,
Harry
Harry and Hermione had become much closer over the summer. But not in boyfriend girlfriend way. They each felt like they were siblings and shared everything. Harry had always been like this with Ron, but it was new with Hermione. He was glad that they had crushes on each other but hoped that Ron wouldn't do anything stupid. He sent Hermione's letter with Hedwig and went downstairs to get breakfast.
He reached in the fridge and pulled out some cheese and eggs and started to make an omelet.
"you know, " Sirius said walking in the breakfast room, "that was your mothers favorite breakfast food. She wouldn't fix anything else, if you were ever out of eggs she would throw a fit." He laughed and picked up a sausage that had been sitting on the floor.
"ewww! Sirius that is disgusting, eat some real food." Harry yelled.
"hey!" Sirius said, "When you have been living off of rats for a year food off the floor is a delicacy. " Harry laughed. Sirius sure had done a lot to be able to watch over him during that tournament.
"come on paws," Sirius said, "moony needs to talk about the thing with your parents!" Sirius sounded very excited about it and practically dragged Harry away from his food into the living room. Harry sat down on the couch next to Cindy. She turned to him and gave him a big hug. Harry smiled.
"so sleepy head, " she said," nice to see you up!" Harry yawned and Cindy laughed again. Harry turned to Remus.
"was there something you wanted to tell me moony?" he asked.
" paws, " he said, " there is a way to bring your parents back, but only for about two hours." Harry smiled.
"it could be two minutes, along as I can see them." Harry said. Remus smiled and continued.
"yes, well, there is a spell, but it needs an immense amount of power to bring two people back. But the order will help us with that. Since you have so much power it shouldn't be too hard. We will all be working together to get done. Once they are in human form, they will stay that way for two hours before going back to heaven. It is easier if they actually want to come down, if we have to force them, it will be much harder but I really don't think that would happen. This is a piece of old magic, but it should still work. I have the incantation and we can perform it as soon as you are ready." He finished. Harry smiled.
"I'm ready now." He said "lets do it!" Remus nodded.
"we need to hold hands and call them down. We have to say, 'we call on the souls of lily and James potter' if we concentrate hard on them then they will come down. But it may take a lot out of us. Ready?" everyone nodded.
"okay," Remus said," start!" they held hands and started chanting. Harry could feel the power being drained from him but he kept focusing on his parents in his mind. He kept chanting and kept going. And then the chanting stopped. Harry could hear Remus Cindy and Sirius breathing heavily. He opened his eyes and standing before him were two people that he barely knew, but had seen in many dreams and pictures, his parents were right there in front of them. They looked very shaken and confused. Sirius looked up at them.
"ha!" he said, "we did it we did it! Look Remus it's James, and lily they are here. Wow! Guys" Sirius said to lily and James," Harry wanted to see you so we brought you down!" Harry's parents had just realized what was going on. They ran forward to hug their friends. After they broke apart lily looked over at Harry.
"oh my baby boy!" she said. Harry smiled. Sirius laughed.
"he's not a baby anymore after four life threatening encounters with that Voldemort guy he is as far away from baby as you can get!" Sirius said, obvious pride in his voice. Lily had gone over and hugged Harry so hard Harry thought he was going to burst.
"James," lily said, "come over here and look how much our Harry has grown." James walked over to lily and saw Harry.
"aaahhhh!" James yelled, "lily lily! It's a little me!!" Harry laughed.
"I get that a lot, " he said, " but I didn't expect that from you." Lily slapped James.
"you have already done something stupid." She said. "James this is our son Harry." James scowled at lily.
"I know that!" he said. He looked over at Harry, hugged him and said, "so do you play Quidditch, please say yes." Lily who had been beaming at Harry turned to look at James again.
"we get called down to heaven to see our only son and the first thing you ask him is does he play Quidditch?!?" Sirius shook his head and Remus laughed.
"typical James." They both muttered. Harry looked back up at his father.
"yes I play for Gryffindor and I'm the seeker. I'm okay I guess." He said.
"ok?ok? he isn't just okay, this boy has only lost one match thanks to dementors, and can fly like hell. He got around a dragon on his broom. He is without a doubt the best flier in the school. And he won is team the cup in his third year. he is not ok, he could go play professionally trust me I saw all those games in his third year, and ok just doesn't cut it!" Remus practically yelled. James beamed.
"lily our son plays! He plays really well!!" he said. Harry nodded. Lily had been holding on to Harry for the last five minutes. Harry loved being hugged by his mother. He liked his dad a lot, he was just like Sirius said.
"Harry sweetie, " lily said, "tell us about you. We have really missed raising you." Harry smiled and started to tell them all about school and all his favorite things and his joys and his fears. Harry's parents were so proud of Harry. They still hadn't brought up the topic of Voldemort when James looked at Sirius.
"padfoot," he said, "what do you mean Harry has face Voldemort four times?" Harry looked down.
"we'll he means that I have encountered him four times. The last one was about two months ago." Harry started to tell his parents about how he had witnessed Voldemort coming back and how he felt about the situation. He was afraid but trusted dumbledore completely. He knew that nothing could happen to him while he was at hogwarts, or at least he hoped so. He told them about all his end of the year adventures, saving Ginny, who he told them he liked and saving Sirius. And fighting Voldemort and saving the stone. By the end he was crying and lily had pulled him into another tight hug and he didn't want her to let go. James had been muttering occasional swear words under his breath. Harry had told them how he felt that the whole thing was his fault. James objected outright to that statement and told Harry that from what he heard Harry had had nothing to do with it, and that Harry wasn't allowed to think about that. They all sat for a while in silence. Cindy broke the silence first.
"Harry, tell your parents about your friends." She said. Harry nodded.
"my two very best friends in the whole world are Ron Weasely and Hermione granger. Ron is one of seven and his mother molly has been like a mom to me. I owe them so much. Ginny, the girl I got out of that chamber in my third year, who I have a crush on is Ron's younger brother. They all have flaming red hair. Ron is obsessed with the Chudly Cannons, which is a bad thing because they stink royally, his room is completely orange. We share everything, we are behind each other one hundred percent, and I trust him with my life. He is the only the only one in our trio with real wizard background so he is the one Hermione and I go to for wearing stuff. Without him I would be clueless to all of the wizarding world." James looked up at Harry, pride in his eyes.
"he sounds neat the cannons are my favorite. I saw them play Ireland in the world cup when I was eight. Their 1969 season, they were good then." James said.
"oh yeah!" Sirius and Remus yelled. They all got up and did some weird kind of high five thing. Harry had never seen Remus and Sirius so happy. Something stopped Harry, his dad had said had said he was eight in 1969 that would make him nineteen when he died.
"dad, " Harry said.
"yup?" James said
"you were nineteen when you died weren't you?" he asked quietly. James nodded.
"sorry for bringing it up, I just wanted to know sorry you guys were so young." Harry muttered. James shook his head.
"don't be. " he said, "I'm just sad that we didn't get to see you grow up, but it looks like you have none excellently with out us. Keep telling us about your friends." Harry smiled and continued.
"ok my other best friend is Hermione. We, Ron and I, hated her guts in our first month at school, but then we saved her from a troll and have been best friends ever since. She is the smartest person at hogwarts. You never see her without a book in her hands. Without her I would have never gotten through the triwizard tournament in last year. she and I have gotten a lot closer this summer I share everything with her too. She and Ron are really close but not as cols as us. But they are hopelessly falling for each other but are too arrogant to admit it. She is a really great friend and worries about me all the time but I think I worry about her more." James was amazed about how humble his son was. He spent so much time telling them how great his friends were and how he wouldn't be anywhere without them. He could tell immediately that Harry was a very good honest person. He looked up at Harry again to listen to what he was saying now.
"they are really the nicest people you could ever find and I wish you could meet them I know they would love you. I love them both so much. I'm so glad I have them." He finished. Lily smiled and hugged her son. In her opinion she couldn't have wished him to be any better that he was. He was kind, honest, trustworthy, and humble. She looked up at him.
"I'm so glad you have such great friends. They will be one of the most important things in you life." She turned to Remus, "I'm so sorry moony for us not trusting you because you were a werewolf, we have no excuse for what we did. We should have trusted you." James couldn't add anything to this. He was already so disgusted with himself. He just nodded in agreement. Harry could tell from the look in Remus' eye that this was something James did when he was really mad at himself.
" don't worry, " he said, "I know what you are going through. Sirius and Cindy and I are constantly worrying about Harry, that we don't trust many people anymore. Prongs, lets not talk about that, right now we have to show off Harry to you." Sirius nodded.
"moony is right, " he said, "paws here has a hell of a lot to show you. It is time for us to show him off to you, because as you have probable already seen, he doesn't like to show off, but we are going to make him just for you. Come on, lets go out back." Lily stood up and went out with Harry and Cindy, James stayed to talk to Sirius and Remus.
" I really can't thank you two enough for looking after him. He is a really great kid. But I want to ask you why you called him paws." James said.
"we will show you prongsie." Sirius said. Remus laughed and James just shook his head and followed them out the door.
When they got out there Sirius whispered to Harry to apparate behind James and then change into his animagus form. Harry nodded.
"ok every one, " Sirius said, " we present the highly advanced magical achievements of Harry Potter!" Harry walked over to James.
"watch." He said. James looked at him curiously. Harry saw Sirius signal and disappeared. James and lily gasped.
"he can apparate?" they asked. Harry popped back in front of them and nodded. James smiled at him. Harry loved when they smiled, he wanted nothing more that to please them. He looked over at Sirius who nodded. Harry transformed into his beautiful golden retriever. He wagged him tail and walked over to James and lily. James transformed with Sirius and ran off to play with Harry. Harry let lily stroke him for a while then ran off to join his father and godfather. He knew that there was nothing better than that. They played for a while and raced around. Harry beat Sirius every time. They transformed back laughing hysterically.
"bloody hell!" James yelled," How long did it take you?"
"two months." Harry answered. James' jaw dropped.
"really?" he asked," jeez it took us three years to do it." Harry shrugged. James shook his head in amazement.
"paws, " Remus said.
"yes moony?" Harry replied.
"show James your patronus, he needs to see it." Harry nodded.
"expecto patronum!" he yelled. Out of his wand came prongs the stag, but that wasn't all, he saw a dog a wolf and an owl with a lily on it follow after the stag. There was a collective gasp.
"Harry, " Remus said slowly, " I d-didn't know w-we were your patronus too."
"neither did I." Harry said. Every one had an expression of amazement on their face's even Harry. They sat in silent amazement for a while, until a scream broke the silence.!
"aaaahhhhh!" lily yelled. Every one turned to her to see a snake curling around her hand. James go up to pull it off but Harry stopped him.
"wait, " he said, "let me do it, I need to show all of you something." He turned to the snake and started to talk to it but instead of English, hissing came out.
"get off of her and come over to me." he hissed.
"who are you?" the snake asked.
"I am Harry Potter, what is your name?" Harry asked the snake who was slowly moving to him and away from lily. Everyone was watching in amazement. Harry continued talking to the snake.
"my name is Christie." The snake said. Harry nodded and looked at everyone.
"this is Christie." He said. "I'll tell her to leave but just know she won't hurt you." Everyone nodded, still in shock. "mom do you want me to tell her to go?" lily nodded.
"ok, " harry said. He turned back to the snake.
"please leave one of them is afraid, sorry, it was nice meeting you." Harry said. The snake turned and left harry frowned he liked the snake.
"ok everyone, stop staring like idiots." Harry said, "yes I can talk to snakes, the whole school knows from when Malfoy set one on me last year and I told it to go away." He looked toward his parents.
"when Voldemort tried to kill me," James interrupted, "which time?"
"the first time." Harry said, "he transmitted some of his powers into me so that is how I can speak parsletoungue."
"is there anything you can't do sweetie?" lily asked.
"yeah, I can't seem to pass potions, Snape hates my guts." Harry said.
"he hates Harry, he never leaves him alone, we are trying to find a way to hex him permanently." Sirius said, obviously very angry.
"the same Snape, moony?" James asked, ignoring Sirius who had started taking the orange he was eating and mashing it into a pulp.
"yes." Remus replied, "prongs, he really does need to be taught a lesson."
"Sirius stop." Harry said. Sirius looked up and stopped smashing the orange, he looked at his watch.
"we need to wrap up this conversation." He said. "you have five minutes." Harry, lily and James nodded.
"bye paws, " James said, "I'm so proud of you and I love you."
"so do I, I wish we could have seen you grow up." Harry nodded.
"I love you too." He said. "it was great to see you"
"time is up." Remus said. "its time for them to go." They exchanged one last hug and they were gone. Harry smiled, it had been an excellent day.