Disclaimer: Really really not mine. All JK Rowling and Joss Whedon's.
Setting: Straight after Order of the Phoenix and starts at the Buffy episode 'No Place Like Home when Buffy finds out that Dawn's the key and Joyce is ill.
Pairings: Really not sure yet.
Summary: One is special, Two are chosen but 3 are destiny.
Sixteen years ago Lord Voldemort killed James Potter, only James Potter. Is it time Lily returned to the wizarding world?
Thanks to Sam 453 for all the help with this-but I swear it was still my idea but she helped loads
Big apology to Sam 453 who is very annoyed with me about the stereotyping of England and the way English people talk in this chapter. I'm English though so I'm allowed to do it but still just a note to say that British people do not talk anything like the man in this chapter, nor do they all talk like Giles and Spike. Happy now Sam?
Thank you thank you thank you for the reviews! Very exciting! Tanydwr I'm sorry-my bad!Glory will feature but not majorly-you'll have to wait and see how. Dawn is going to be important and again you'll have to wait and see about her and Harry-remember they don't know they have a brother yet. All will be revealed soon with the spell but you're gonna have to be patient!
So on we go…
Chapter 4-Discovery
Buffy was amazed at how quickly everything was sorted out. It was barely 24 hours later and she was standing with Dawn and her mother on the platform of a small train station somewhere in the English countryside. Giles had wanted to come but Joyce had insisted that this was a family thing. Buffy had tried to convince her that Dawn shouldn't come but had lost that battle on grounds of Dawn being family. So there the three of them were, in England, thousands of miles away from Sunnydale, heading…Buffy still wasn't quite clear where. On the way over Joyce had explained as much as she could remember but that didn't constitute much. It seemed to Buffy as if something was repressing her mother's memories and yet a few were leaking through whatever was in the way. So far she had remembered the names James, Harry and Hope, some terrible night when someone called Voldemort attacked and the place Godric's Hollow. That was the name of the station they were at, Godric's Hollow. Joyce was fidgety, Buffy knew she was anxious,Joyce didn't remember what happened to james but had a nasty feeling about it and Buffy was worried that her mother's crying of a killing curse was not coincidental. Buffy hoped she was wrong, Joyce was still emotional and Buffy didn't know if she could cope with this james guy being dead, it seemed that he had been pretty important to her.
The three of them walked through the tiny English village remarking at the quaintness of the shops and cottage. Joyce suddenly stopped in front of a small house with a blue front door and a silver car parked in the drive. She stood staring at the house, still as a statue, her eyes glassy until Buffy gently nudged her.
"It's not the same" Joyce said sadly but continued to stare. Buffy tried to stop her staring but was unable to. When an old man passed by Buffy turned to him and asked the question that disturbed the vacant look in Joyce's eyes.
"Does James live here?" the man looked very surprised.
"Why no miss there's no James living there s'far as I know. There was a long time ago but that was in the old house."
"Old house?"Dawn asked curiously and the man continued.
"Well this one was built fifteen odd years back, after that terrible accident."
"Accident?" Buffy asked sharply. "What accident?"
"Well miss I don't rightly know exactly what happened. It was Halloween see and strange things tend to happen on Halloween. I just happened to wake up in the middle of the night, looked out my window and wasn't the house in ruins. Went to help but there weren't anything to be done, the house was just about rubble."
"what about James? Did you find him?" Joyce gabbled.
"Aye ma'am, I'm sorry." The gentleman said sorrowfully shaking his head. "Found him next to Lily, the two of them were lying there side by side as if nothing had happened but, well there isn't too much yeh can do if a house falls on top of yeh is there?" Dawn looked horrified and Buffy worried but Joyce's face was blank as a mask. In a steely voice she asked the man
"What about Harry?"
"The little baby? Don't really know, we didn't find him but I don't know how he could be alive."
"And hope?"
"Who?"
"Hope, harry's sister" the gentleman shook his head.
"Sorry ma'am there was no sister s'far as I know. Sorry I can't help you more." He turned and walked away but before he got very far Joyce called to him.
"Who did you say James was found with?"
"Lily, his wife."
"Lily" Joyce echoed. "Lily Potter." Then she closed her eyes.
Behind a tree a second set of eyes were wide open, drinking in the scene in front of them. They were bright blue eyes for a moment but then the owner blinked and they were brown, then green, in fact they were continually changing for they belonged to someone who did not want to be recognised, someone on guard, their guard and someone else's.
Hmm should I stop there?-Nah too short wont ever get to the fun bits coming soon.
Nymphadora Tonks had spent a lot of the last year on guard duty, it was one of the less interesting jobs for members of the Order of the Phoenix. Since Voldemort's return Dumbledore had made sure that any place he was likely to turn up was being watched. So Tonks had ended up in Godric's Hollow, the site of Voldemort's downfall and until now it had proved to be nothing more than an antiquated English village. The three people Tonks had watched arrive seemed perfectly innocent too, it was only for lack of anything better to do that she had even listened in on their conversation. It was lucky she had, anyone asking about the Potter's death was suspicious-Dumbledore reckoned death eaters would be very keen to find out more about what happened the night Voldemort's curse backfired. The bit that had really confused Tonks however was the older woman talking about Harry's sister. It was impossible, everyone knew Harry was an only child, she must have made a mistake. Suddenly Tonks noticed that the woman was sitting on the floor, her head in her hands. She watched as the woman looked around dazedly.
"Why are we here?" Joyce asked Buffy.
"To find James" Buffy said, eyebrow raised.
"The James I don't remember?"
"The James you're desperate to find and then...yeah, don't remember."
"He's dead?" Joyce asked and Buffy nodded, the weight of that one word 'dead' falling onto her shoulders. With her nod Buffy acknowledged that her mother would never find whoever James was, would never ever see him again, nor Harry…but the man said Harry wasn't found.
"Mom" Buffy said with renewed hope. "What about Harry?"
"Harry?" joyce questioned vaguely then a look of recognition came into her eyes and "Harry" she repeated. "Harry, Lily, harry. I have to find him. Dumbledore will know how to find him. I have to see Dumbledore."
"Mom please can we find your old address book, who is Dumbledore?" Dawn asked in a tone of exasperation, fed up with the revelation of names and the absence of actual people.
A blank look returned to Joyce's face and she muttered. "I don't know. I just have to see him. I have to see Dumbledore."
Tonks was growing more and more bemused, the woman was obviously under some kind of spell, a babbling curse or confundus charm from the sound of it but she wanted to see Dumbledore, that was Tonks' cue to interfere. She made her way forwards but tripped over a root and fell on her face in front of the trio. She quickly looked up only to see the small blonde girl standing over her with a steel look in her eyes and her arms crossed aggressively in front of her.
"You want to tell me what you're doing her?" Buffy asked the pink haired woman lying in front of her. "Or do you need me to force it out of you because either way I want to know." This was not the reaction Tonks had expected but she got to her feet, rubbing the dirt out of her pink hair and trying to maintain a façade of calm.
"Actually, I wanted to know what you were doing here and why you wanted to see Dumbledore."
"This Dumbledore guy actually exists?" Dawn said incredulously and Buffy shot her an irritated look.
"You bet Dumbledore exists and if your mum wants to see him I'm guessing he might like to see her."
"Hold it one second there, who the hell are you and how do I know we can trust you?" Buffy interrupted.
"Not my problem if you don't trust me, I don't really trust you much either I just reckon Dumbledore might be interested to meet people asking about the Potters. See my gut feeling is you have some link to death eaters, just, well you know fashion conscious ones."
"y'what now?Potters? Death eaters?" Buffy asked not liking the spiralling out of her understanding feeling that she was getting.
"Forget it let's just go see Dumbledore. The man'll have the answers to whatever your mom wants to ask him."
"So he's like Giles then?" Dawn asked earning yet another look from Buffy. "What Giles has all the answers too." Buffy pulled out her mobile/cell 'phone.
"Ok then what's this guy's number?" she asked and Tonks looked at her in confusion. She pulled out a broken pocket watch and said.
"We might need this to get there." Buffy looked at Tonks with equal confusion.
"We're going with the 'phone."
"Portkey."
"What key?"
"Oh, you're muggles." Tonks finally realised. "Just hold onto this ok, it'll get us to Dumbledore."
"Nu uh, no magic from strangers, never ends well. We'll use the 'phone."
"Fine" Tonks said and grabbed the 'phone. She put it behind her back for a moment and muttered something then gave it back to Buffy. Buffy put it to her ear but
"It's not ringing" she said.
Tonks grabbed Buffy's hand and Joyce and Dawn, a split second later the four of them were whirling through space. Buffy clutched her stomach as she felt her feet hit solid ground.
"See I told you magic from strangers was a bad idea."
"You don't know how right you are" a deep voice sounded and Buffy looked up to see a long white beard obscuring the face of an elderly man wearing a pointed hat and robes.
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