Harry tried to move his head but it felt stiff and sore. He slowly opened his eyes to look at a dark and blurred ceiling. He reached out with his hand to try and find his glasses but ended up touching someone, who was lying next to him. He forced himself to ignore the pain in his head and he turned to see a head of blond hair next to him. What time was it? Harry thought, he slowly pushed himself up with a moan and tried not to disturb Jenny. He groped for his glasses and put them on, he was surprised to find that it was only his neck that felt sore. Ron was sleeping in the next bed and Jenny lay curled up in Harry's duvet. Harry smiled slightly and touched Jenny's head and brushed a few locks of hair out of her face. Jenny rolled over with a slight moan and put an arm around Harry's waist like he was a teddy bear or something. Harry let out a soft laugh and looked around the room. Why was he here? He remembered being hit by a spell from Rudolphus but that hadn't been a serious spell had it? Harry gently lifted Jenny's arms off him and slipped out of the bed quietly.

"Finally awake I see." Philleus said, "He hit you with a powerful curse, I'm surprise you didn't die." Harry gave the Portrait a nod and rubbed the back of his neck with his hand as he headed down to the kitchen. The door was open slightly and Harry heard voices coming from inside.

"I really don't know what to do. I can't be a mother, godmother, minister and head auror all at the same time." He heard April say quietly.

"You can do it. You have me and Sirius with you." Lupin said.

"But you try doing it. I'm the only one who got anywhere and now I'm started to sink into that depression I remember my parents talking about."

"You're not, April." Said Sirius. "And you're a good mother, no one could do better then you."

"Some one could." April said very quietly. Harry walked up to the door and put a hand on it but didn't push it open. "L-Lily was better then me." Harry felt something hit his heart. Hearing April say his mother's name seemed strange and yet it lit a spark of hope within him for some reason.

"Lily never got the chance to be a proper mother." Lupin said, "There's a reason she chose you to be Harry's Godmother."

"But I don't seem to be getting through to him" April said, she sounded slightly frustrated but tired and older then she was at the same time, "Jenny's told me that he's been to Hogwarts already this year to see her and that he went to see the Quidditch. If he keeps doing that he's going to get himself killed along with my daughter. She'd follow him to the ends of the Earth if he asked her."

"He's not." Sirius said, "People are always forgetting who his parents are."

"And who Jenny's parents are." Lupin said, "Jenny and Harry aren't going to get into too much trouble, they can look after themselves." Lupin said, "They're not children anymore and you have to accept the fact she's growing up." There was some silence in the room before April let out a sigh.

"I suppose, it's just I've missed so much of both their lives then I discover there's another Potter. It's too much even for me." April said,

"Nothing's too much for you." Sirius said, "You are April Marsden, the greatest catch in Hogwarts, part of the group of girls everyone wanted."

"That was the past Sirius. We can't stop dwelling on the past we can't change it and we can't do anything to prevent what has happened otherwise everything would be different."

"You say that April but you're still stuck in the past." Lupin said, "I've only heard you say Lily's name twice in sixteen years."

"I've said it more then that." April lied. Harry stayed absolutely silent, he knew he shouldn't be listening but he couldn't help it.

"No you haven't. You haven't even been able to bring yourself around to say Jenny's full name. In the past, when you used to leave her with me she'd ask why you'd call her Jenny instead of Lily, you remember that's her real name."

"Yeah, so." April mumbled,

"So, you have to get over Lily's death. You couldn't have done anything to prevent it. You couldn't do anything to-"

"Do you know how difficult it was for me?" April snapped at Lupin. "I watched Peter kill Merlin knows how many Muggles, I saw Sirius being dragged off by aurors. My best friends were dead, and I was pregnant while trying to be an auror myself while you were Merlin knows where." Harry heard a chair being pushed back. "The stress I have been under because of all of you suddenly reappearing then Peter admitting to killing everyone I loved and betraying the people I loved most in the world. And then to top it all off you are telling me to relax while my daughter and my godson go off and nearly get themselves killed with their friends and I don't even have Dumbledore around to guide me anymore." She took a deep breath.

"April, we really are sorry but-"

"But don't say anything. Just leave it Remus." April said.

"April." Sirius pleaded, "Just relax for a bit, we'll sort it out tomorrow and we can get a straight answer out of Harry and find out exactly what's been happening."

"He's not going to listen whether I tell him to stay or not so why even bother with him, he's too much like James." April said.

"He's nothing like James." Sirius said, "If anything he inherited his mother's personality with a hint of James thrown in." Harry smiled, "It's for the better I think or he would have got himself killed earlier."

"Though he isn't as sensible as Lily ever was." Lupin said.

"Actually, he is, she did get into a few difficult situations when you boys weren't around." April said. Harry thought he could hear the smile in her voice like she was remembering something. "I was looking in their pensieve the other day."

"You still have their pensieve?" Sirius asked, "I thought you were going to give that to Harry."

"I was but-" April sounded apprehensive, "But I wanted to look in it again. There's only a few memories that I wanted to see. I will definitely give it to him this Christmas."

"Can you part with it?" Lupin asked.

"Of course I can." April said, she sounded like she was trying to convince herself.

"Of course." Lupin said but he didn't sound convinced,

"Why don't you get it down, I was always curious as to how James proposed to Lily." Sirius said eagerly.

"Oh, he proposed in the bath." April told him.

"Bath?" Sirius asked.

"Yes, a lot more romantic then any of your proposals." April said matter of factly. Harry stared at the door listening, taking in everything he could about his parents.

"Fine then." Sirius said. He had obviously just understood where they had proposed and roughly what they could have been doing. "I've always wondered what Lily looked like nak-"

"Sirius!" April snapped

"What?" Sirius asked, "I have though. James used to go on and on about how she had the greatest body though I didn't really see it at first, I did have a slight crush on her in sixth year though."

"Everyone had a crush on Lily at some point" Lupin said, "Even I fell for her in fourth year."

"I remember that very well." April said, "You ended up with Jenny for a few weeks. She complained how you only had eyes for-" April stopped.

"Yeah but that was only for a while. My biggest regret was not asking Jenny to the Valentine's ball. If I had then maybe she wouldn't have died." Lupin said.

"You know she wasn't really interested in you though." April said sympathetically. "That was a good night even if it was the night Jenny died." A sombre silence filled the room. Harry tried to quieten his breathing and thought that his heavy heart beat might give him away. His heart was beating so quickly by listening to the conversation. It beat quickly every time he heard anything about his parents or their friends' pasts.

"Oh, Harry, sir. You is awake." Said Shoner as he walked into Harry's leg. Harry looked down and strained his neck while doing it.

"What was that?" April asked. The door opened and Lupin stood in the doorway staring at Harry seriously.

"Hello Harry." Lupin said. Harry looked up.

"Hello." Harry said nervously.

"You can come in if you want." Lupin said stepping aside then returning to his seat. Harry nodded and stepped into the kitchen. April sat at one end of the heavily scrubbed table with Sirius holding her hand on the surface. There were a few tissues near them and April's eyes were slightly red like she had cried earlier that night.

"Harry." April said slightly surprised.

"Er…hi." Harry said.

"How are you doing? You've been out for a few hours." Sirius said.

"My neck is a bit stiff." Harry said.

"I felt the same when it happened to me." Sirius said "You got hit by a curse that caused your muscles to swell up. You would be in a lot more pain if April hadn't lifted that curse off you." Harry looked at April.

"Thanks." Harry said. April gave a slight nod and looked away.

"Well, I think I should get to sleep. I have a meeting with Kingsley and Valcrew about our apprentices and then I've got to go and see to sorting out Harry's assessment"

"I have an assessment soon?" Harry asked.

"Be grateful that's all you're getting." April said sternly. "I have told you many times that under no circumstances are you to go to Hogwarts but I've found out you're disobeyed me twice. I see that Snivellus was right when he said you have a disregard for rules." April left the room leaving the men in silence.

"She's a bit stressed." Sirius said trying to cover up for his fiancé.

"Of course she is." Harry said glumly. He sat down in the chair that April had vacated. "Is everyone alright?"

"If you mean are they safe then yes, they are. Moony also went and saved your younger sister from being beaten by her dearest adopted father" Sirius said sarcastically.

"Beaten?" Harry asked.

"It seems that Draco and Emma Malfoy are beaten regularly, particularly Emma because she doesn't have the right attitude to life" Sirius said.

"That's why her face was bruised earlier?" Harry asked.

"No, that was because she helped Gryffindor win the Quidditch." Sirius said. "I think you should get back to bed, sleep off that sore neck." Sirius got up and patted Harry on the shoulder. "April may not have approved of what you did but I thought it was noble and I would have done the same thing for April, James would have done the same thing for Lily." Harry nodded and took that in. Sirius was half way out of the door when Harry turned and called him back.

"Sirius." Harry said. Sirius looked at Harry.

"Yes?"

"Did you really fancy my mum?" Harry asked slightly disturbed. Sirius smirked.

"Everyone fancied your mum." Sirius said, "Her and her friends. Night Harry."

"'Night" Harry said. Sirius went to sleep and Harry spent a few minutes staring at the wall before getting up himself and deciding to get back into bed. Jenny was, obviously, still in the bed and she looked so peaceful and innocent while she was asleep. Harry got into the bed and smiled as he looked at Jenny and kissed her forehead. A slight smile played across her lips as she slept and when Harry got into the bed properly he put an arm over Jenny, he felt very slightly awkward, he'd never really shared a bed with anyone before but when Jenny shifted in her sleep and put her head on his shoulder it seemed perfectly natural. Harry took his glasses off and went to sleep with a smile on his face

A/N:-Ok, I'll put up a chapter a day. If i don't, you all have permission to shout at me, spam me with hate mails and so forth. Doing all the bulky updates has really really confused me to I'm sticking to one chapter at a time until further notice cause i'm just sooo confused! Anyway, hope you liked this chapter. Next chapter....Delving into the past.....dum dum duuuuuummm!