Everything Your Heart Desires
By: EvelynRose
Chapter 2
Explanations
"Mum" Harry whispered, "It's really you!"
"Yes Harry, I'm back. And your father and I will never leave you again. Never," Lily Potter told her son.
"H-How did you come back? I always thought that there was no way to bring the dead back to life?" He asked his mother impatiently.
At Sirius' instance, the three of them sat down on Harry's old rickety bed, and Lily began her tale.
"Well, it starts with the Department of Mysteries, when Sirius here, fell through the veil. You see, the archway is somewhat of a portal between this world and the next. Those whose time has come, their souls enter the next world, the afterlife, through the veil. Those who fall through the arc, body and all are given the power to go back, to the land of the living. They can also bring other people with them. That is the one way dead people can come back," Lily paused, letting her son process this information. Then she continued.
"It was not Sirius' time to die, he fell through the veil purely by accident. Therefore he was given the power to go back. He didn't know this, of course. After he 'died,' he sought out James and I. When I told him what I knew of the veil, he immediately agreed to take me and James back. After we went bck through the veil, we ended up in the Department of Mysteries. We cast dillusionment charms on ourselves, and made our way to Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore was quite shocked to see us, to say the least. He kindly filled us in on the happenings since each of our deaths, then gave us permission to come and take you back to Hogwarts," she finished smiling.
"And the best part is," Sirius paused for dramatic effect, "I'm free!" he began to dance around the room singing, "I'm free!! I'm free!! I'm free!!"
"That's great Sirius!" Harry said, genuinely happy for his godfather.
"Uh, where's Dad?" he asked his mother.
"Oh, he's downstairs finding breakfast," Lily replied. A mischievous glint in her sparkling emerald eyes.
"What about the Dursley's?" he asked again.
"No need to worry about them. Prongs and I have taken care of Dursley and Dursley Junior. You Aunt however, is asleep downstairs," Sirius told him gleefully, vaguely reminding Harry of a kid at Christmas.
For once Lily didn't even bother to reprimand him for his childish behavior and 'prank' pulling.
"Come on Birthday Boy, let's go downstairs and see what your father has found for us to eat," Lily told her son, nudging him out the door after Sirius, and following the two of them down the stairs.