IT'S THE LAST CHAPTER! Sniff, sniff the sadness I liked this one the best…don't ask me why I'm just a weirdo. LoL Oh boy I hope you people like the end and just for your info in the end I do refer to a Hermione Harry pairing and no, I will not be doing a sequel this story was so long it was a story and a sequel in one! Please read and review!

Disclaimer: Now this is truly the last time. I do not own Harry Potter no matter how much I would like to I don't it all belongs to the goddess J.K. Rowling.

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Chapter 26: Epilogue

Needless to say that Gryffindor won the quid itch cup. The wedding was beautiful every little detail down the white lilies in Lily's bouquet . And two years after being happily married Lily and James had a beautiful baby boy whom they named Harry Potter. But on one night in October things changed drastically…

~*~October 31~*~

Lily and Avril were laughing reliving old times when they were young and still single. Avril had come by to show off the engagement ring that Remus had given her just two days ago when he proposed. It was a beautiful diamond ring simple yet with a meaningful purpose. That night it was a full moon and Avril had not wanted to be alone and went to visit her favorite cousin and her godson. She held the beautiful baby in her arms he was a cutie for sure just like his father. It was nearing eleven and she had decided it was time to leave. Avril got up and hugged her cousin and her husband and said goodbye to the cutie. She left out the door and said they would be the first ones to be invited to her wedding.

Avril continued to walk down the drive way taking in the large house her cousin lived in. One day she was going to live in a house just like it with her husband and a baby of her own. As she descended the drive she noticed a dark figure standing by the bush. Avril dove and hide under the branches of the weeping willow in the front yard she watched as the shape made its way up to the house. Avril knew immediately what and who it was. She snuck out from behind it determined to protect that little baby and her family. "EXPELLIARMUS!" she shouted only to have it deflected by a well aimed spell. Obviously he had known she was there. "Aveda Kedavra!" said the eerily calm hissing voice from under the hood of the cloak. Avril screamed and then lay motionless on the ground her ring still on her finger.

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Lily was getting ready to take her baby up to bed when she heard a scream, her and James rushed to the window she saw a figure slowly approaching her home. "Lily its him run!" screamed James. Lily grabbed James and kissed for the last time, she ran up the stairs to the nursery and heard her husbands dreadful blood curdling cries as he tried to protect them. Lily heard him drifting up the stairs and sat Harry in his cradle. The door was blown off and Lily turned on the figure she yelled the disarming spell but it was deflected as the figure yelled Aveda Kedavra she flung herself over Harry to cover him shielding her precious baby from the curse. With both Lily and James gone the figure appeared before the baby who was now screaming as the noise had disturbed him.

The figure pulled back his hood revealing Voldemort and his snake like eyes set so intently upon the child.

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By the time Sirius got to the house, it was too late… he knew as soon as he set foot in the safe house that Peter was at, the little bastard had betrayed them all. Sirius quickly scanned the area praying that he had been wrong that this pile of ruble was not the house of his best friend, his wife and child. Then he saw them. James laying amongst the ruble and Lily somehow when the house collapsed her body must have been over his on the second floor and there they lay together. Tears choked Sirius his throat constricted. He turned to his left as a sound echoed through the deserted street.

"Who be there? You get away!" came the choked ragged voice Sirius squinted in the darkness and saw the tall thick frame of Hagrid. And a bundle in his arms smaller in size in comparison to him.

"Hagrid its me…Sirius. He, he found them…it was-" Sirius started to tell Hagrid about Peter being the traitor when Hagrid hushed him.

"Shhh, you'll scare him. Found him playing with a toy o'er there." Hagrid held the small bundled figure out toward Sirius, Sirius took him from Hagrid and held him to his chest, silent tears fell. Thoughts raced through his mind.

"Hey Sirius! What's up man?" asked James Potter coming towards Sirius at the annual Christmas party held by he and his wife of two years Lily.

"Nothing really checking out the blondes over there in the corner, the one under the mistletoe especially. So what are you two doing?"

"Well," started Lily looking unsurely at her husband. "We have something to ask you."

Sirius looked at them puzzled, "Go ahead."

"Well, you see Lily is expecting," said James settling his hand upon Lily's still flat stomach, and smiling down at his wife.

"Congratulations! I had no idea you were trying!" said Sirius giving James and Lily each giant hugs.

"That's the funny part!" laughed Lily, "We weren't!"

"So what did you want to ask me?"

"Well, you see we already asked Avril to be godmother and she accepted but we still need a godfather. And nothing would make me happier knowing that my best friend would raise my child if something ever happened to me and Lily." said James smiling even though the thought of he and Lily not getting to live out their lives and watch their child grow gave him a deep and mind-blowing pain.

"Oh my gosh, well of course! All right! Does this mean I get to teach him how to play quidditch? Not that he'll need teaching of course as its your son Jamesie-poo!" laughed Sirius.

"It could be a girl!" shouted James.

"No," said Lily. "it's a boy, he's going to be mischievous too."

"How do you know that?" asked James.

"Mother's intuition and Sirius your not coming near my son with a broom until he's of proper age you too James he'll not ride until he is 10," stated Lily matter-of-factly. Before walking off James in tow. His voice fading as they walked away.

"But Lily! That's only one year before he goes to Hogwarts! He wont have enough training! Someone needs to teach him the basics how will he make team captain by third year if he doesn't practice!? This is my son too he's partly my fault, I think…"

Sirius smiled at the memory, those were better times and he was destined to keep his promise to Prongs. Looking to the Potter's driveway he saw the body of Avil lying there. Moony would be devastated. A cooing sound made Sirius look down at the small bundle in his arms. Lily and James' child. This little boy needed him and no matter what he would be there for him, to teach him quidditch to tell him about his father and mother tell them the story of how it happened.

Then someone tapped him on the shoulder. "I have strict orders from Dumbledore to bring the b'by to 'im. Got to get on my way take me four hours to get him there by broom." Hagrid tried to take the baby away but Sirius held fast.

"I want to help you Hagrid take my bike you'll be there in two hours." Sirius stared at the little boy in his arms. The only living reminder of his best friend he closed his eyes. This little ones life was screwed up by the acts of one selfish person one selfish person who would die at the hands of him. He would kill Peter if it took him the rest of his life. He gave Harry back to Hagrid after he kissed him on the cheek and took Hagrid's broom and watched as his godson flew off in the air along with Hagrid. He had a rat to kill. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"And that Harry is the story of it all, everything. Sirius would have wanted you to know. He never did kill Peter as you know already. And he was right…I was devastated after Avril's death but there is nothing you can do about the past you can only make things right in the future," smiled Remus Lupin with a sad smile. The smile of a man gripping at straws praying that he could hold off his own death long enough to protect Harry. Before the Potter's had died they had asked him one simple thing. To be the godfather of their next child. Lily was three weeks along at the time and her mother's intuition had told her it was a little girl. Remus had not been able to protect her as Sirius had Harry all these years but he vowed that he would protect Harry for as long as he needed to protection.

The story of how Harry's family would have enlarged would go with him to the grave. Harry need not know of what else he lost on the fateful day. There is nothing to be done, but in these most awful days their were two things that kept Remus going. One he had to kill a rat, a rat that would die a death so horrible the devil himself would shake his head to it. And two, because he was the last marauder the last of a once thriving friendship. And Harry still had much he needed to learn that only Remus had to give him, and he was willing to give him some of his lasting memories because those are the only ways that Harry would ever really know his parents and because their friendship unlike any others was unique just like the people who were part of it. Remus had only ever seen one such like it before. It was between a girl, and two boys. And just like James, Harry had fallen in love with the girl of the friendship, Hermione and Harry were the next Lily and James Potter only this time, they would not suffer the same fate. Remus would ensure it. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Okay so that was it the end. The rest is up to the imagination the only question is do you like what I gave your imagination to work with as an ending. I hope you liked it I certainly loved writing it and I loved your reviews! At this time I would like to thank all my reviewers!

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