Lily was sitting in her chair correcting essays they had written on Boggarts, an odd creature that transforms itself into someone's worst fears. Over the six months period she had been teaching at Hogwarts, the famous school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she had discovered how fulfilling it was to teach young people the true skill of Defense Against the Dark Arts. She was busy reading a piece of parchment when she heard the classroom door open and three of her 5th year students enter, one by one. They were led by Harry, all three were wearing Muggle clothes.

"What are you three doing out of bed?" she asked putting her Eagle feathered quill down.

"We need answers Professor," said Hermoine, the only girl out of three, reminding Lily of her own childhood, their closeness reminded her of her own group of friends she had.

"On your assignments?" she asked puzzled.

"No," Harry answered shortly.

"Who are you?" Ron asked, the Red headed by who always worried about anything except homework.

"Lily Caviezel," she said coolly.

"Did you know my parents?" Harry asked.

"Like the back of my hand," she smiled.

There was silence for a moment, then, without looking at her, Harry asked, "are you my mom?"

A state of shock past threw the former Auror's body, breathless she looked at him and asked, "what?" as though the wind had been knocked out of her, which it seemed to have happened.

"Are you mom?" he repeated.

Before she had a chance to reply they heard a loud bang in the fireplace and two heads appeared in the fire, "oy!" said one of them seeing Harry, Hermoine, and Ron.

"Sirius?" Harry asked seeing his godfather's head in the fire.

"Hey Harry," the bearded man smiled forcefully.

Lily sat back in seat looking at her best friend and husbands heads in the burning fire, she gaze into her husbands blue eyes as they communicated silently, "should we come back?" he asked her.

Lily stood up and walked towards the fire, "I think we should tell him, he's got the right and Voldermort will want to kill us anyway. We'll be able to protect him better if he knows, and you and I will finally rest, so will he."

The head of her husband in the fire looked thoughtful for a moment, he looked to his side at Sirius, "what do you think Padfoot?"

There was an air of silliness between them, "I think that's fitting Prongs."

"Prongs?!" yelled Harry with shock, "I thought that was my father's nickname!"

Lily, James (her husband) and Sirius looked at each other for a moment, "what's going on here?" Harry asked looking at Sirius's head.

"Sirius, you should tell him, he knows and trusts you," said James looking at Sirius.

"Tell me what?" Harry asked looking at his godfather.

"Harry," said Sirius quietly, "these are your parents."

This time shock took over every single fiber in his body, he couldn't process Sirius's words, "what?"

"Your parents, James and Lily aren't dead!" he repeatedly quietly.

Harry's eyes darted from Lily and James, his parents, he tried to accept the fact that his beloved mum and dad were back. Lily quite said, "I'm sorry we had to tell you we were dead. I'm sorry for lying to you Harry, but we had to for all our sake."

Through watery eyes he looked at her, "how come I didn't recognize you?"

"Lily, I think it's better if Dumbeldore was here too," James said quietly, "in fact if we were all together there to explain everything to Harry it would be better."

For a moment she thought, "you're right honey, why don't you boys Dissaparate in to Hogsmade, and come up to the castle. It'll take Dumbeldore equally long to get up here."

"Ok, Snuffles and I are on our way," James smiled looking at Sirius sheepishly.

"Oh shut-up!" he said half laughing half angry.

James laughed the same bark like laughter Harry had heard come out of Sirius's mouth, "bye kids, love you Lily," she smile as there was another loud crack and the two heads disappeared.

"Ron, Harmonies, do you mind asking Dumbeldore to come here?" she asked.

Without another word they left the room leaving Lily and Harry alone, mother and son alone. She looked into his eyes, he had just noticed that her eyes were the same color as his, green with a hint of blue, "you really do look like James."

"My dad?" he asked quietly.

She nodded, "my husband."

"Can you explain to me what's going on please?" he pleaded.

She looked at him, "your father should be here Harry."

He mouthed the words dad quietly but Lily could read his lips and smiled, "it's overwhelming isn't it?"

"A little bit yeah," he smiled weakly.

"We were planning on selling you towards the end of the year, but James and I talked it over and you'll actually be safer if you know."

The door opened, Dumbeldore walked in followed by the two students, a huge black dog, and a tall man wearing a blue cloak followed. James closed the door behind him and the dog turned into the bearded figure that was Sirius, "Snuffles," laughed James as Sirius whipped his clothes, then he looked at his smiling wife then at the face of his astonished son, "Sirius was right."

"About what?" his son asked nervously.

"You look just like me," he smiled.

"First time I saw Harry, I actually thought a spell had gone wrong and that I was back in time when I realized he had Lily's eyes," Dumbeldore said.

"Ok, can you now tell me what's going on?" Harry asked extremely eager.

"Remember I told you the night Voldermort attacked you I came to your parents' house, I found the house ruined, ya know," said Sirius as James went over to his worried looking wife

She looked into his eyes, he whispered so only she could hear, "are you ok?"

"Just worried that's all," she said looking at his moving lips, she loved him so much it was incredible.

"Why?"

In answer she just looked at him, telling him that she was worried that their son may not except them and despise them for having to lie to him. He put his hand on hers her, reassuring her everything would be ok.

"I remember," said Harry.

"Well, I didn't tell you what happened afterwards, well I just skipped to the part where I confronted Peter"-James was heard whispering "the dirty rat bastard"- "and was taken to Azkaban. What I didn't tell you was what I found."

"What did you find?" he asked looking expectantly at his precious godfather.

"Well, when I got there, Voldermort had already blown the house apart, I found Lily mending James's arms, he was severely hurt. And you were in your mums arms trying to escape from her grasp so you could crawl about," he let out a bark like laugh, "I remember the scar on your forehead burning red."

"Before you go any further Sirius, Harry should know what his scar means," said Dumbeldore who was sitting down with his long snow white beard resting in his lap, "Harry, when your mother was born, she had a lightning shaped scar on her wrist."

"Harry," she said quietly taking off the fashionable cloth covering her right wrist, "you were born with that scar on your forehead, Voldermort didn't do that." There was only one difference between the two scars, Lily's was glowing like a real lighting rod while her son's was just a unique scar. "Has any one told you what they mean?"

"I always though that night when Voldermort attacked me as a baby caused it," he said in a shruggy manner.

She smiled an shook her head as James explained, "when a witch or wizard is born with a scar such as Lily's and yours, it means that person is very powerful."

"In your mum's case, its glowing yellow where it means she's the most powerful witch on earth!" said Sirius looking admiringly at Lily, "and yours, it means you're also a powerful one, which is why Voldermort wanted to kill you three."

"I thought you were a Muggle because of," Harry began but his mom finished this sentence.

"Petunia, I know, but my real parents died when I was three so I was adopted by muggle parents, and when I had some free time, I researched my parents and found out that I'm a distant relative of Sirius's, I'm a pure-blood" said Lily looking at Sirius then back to Harry, "but no, she's not really my sister thank God!"

"But why does the scar hurt when Voldermorts around?" Harry asked.

"Could you all please say you-know-who?!" Ron cried frightened, Harmoine thrust her elbow into his side.

"Because, this part you already know, it connects you to him," said Dumbeldore.

"We feel the same things you feel when it comes to V…" James looked at the quivering Ron, "you-know-who."

"You have it too?" he asked James, he nodded.

"Anyway, I got there and found the mess, Dumbeldore appeared I had to go and find that Wormtail friend of ours," Sirius said bitterly.

"I put a curse on your parents so no one recognizes them unless they tell you who they really are," said Dumbeldore, "it is as though they are their own Secret Keepers."

"But why did Voldermort come to our home?" Harry asked.

"Your dad is independently powerful, the smartest Auror ever, I'm marked as well as you," said Lily, "he knew we could over throw him easily, so naturally he found our weak spot."

"Which was?" Harry asked.

His parents looked at each other, "you," James answered as everyone fell silent in aw to the power of the words, "we loved you too much Harry."

As if something inside him broke like a twig, he ran across the room to where Lily and James were standing, he hugged them both. They were taken aback by this, they had finally gotten their son back. Tears appeared in their eyes as they both kissed Harry's head and smiled. Not one person in the room had a dry eye. "We're sorry about leaving you with that women called Petunia whom I call a sister, but we had to," said Lily.

"If you knew what's been going on how we've kept an eye on your for the past 15 years, you'd know that we know everything about you," said James, "you may not know it but we've been there for you, you've never been alone, nor an orphan Harry."

"We know you've been hurting," said Lily tearfully, "but you not knowing where we were and who we are was the only way to keep you safe. The people who new were in such danger I didn't want you to be exposed to it."

"Who knew about you being alive?" Harry asked,

"Sirius and Dumbeldore," James answered.

Harry's eye quickly fell on his godfather standing in the corner, his wasted, once extremely handsome face had an unfamiliar emotion set upon it, he looked happy and relieved, "you knew they were alive?"

He slowly nodded, "I couldn't tell you Harry."

James left his wife's side and went over to his best friend, "one of the reasons he was sent to Azkaban actually," he said graciously putting a hand on Sirius's shoulder, "the Minister knew Sirius was our best friend and secret keeper, and accused him of lying. 13 people and the dirt bag Pettigrew was just a cover, they really sent him to Azkaban because he wouldn't risk our life."

"I feel so guilty now," Ron whispered to Harmoine, "I despised Sirius Black till three years ago."

"We all did," Harmoine reminded him.

"We've been living in Turlock, CA in America for the past few years, but we occasionally visit Dumbeldore or Sirius or you," said James.

"You said you kept an eye on me, how?" he asked.

"When you were staying at Grimmauld place with the Order we'd come in as various things, Sirius new we needed to know what was going on so he led us in as we had taken our Animagi form," James said, "well your mum anyway, I had sneak in under the invisibility charm."

"Well, I could be anything I wanted, making my life easier, most of the time I replaced Crookshanks," Lily smiled.

"I thought Animagi's could only take one animal form," said Harmoine.

"True Miss Granger, but the yellow bolt has given Lily the extraordinary powers no witch or wizard can obtain no matter how hard they try," Dumbeldore explained.

"So you disguised yourself as Hermoine's cat?" Harry asked his mom.

"Not all the time, mostly when there was a meeting, if you noticed during meetings Crookshanks' eyes were colored differently. I'd jump on Sirius's lap or sometimes yours," she smiled, "I kept my eye on you like that most of your whole life."

"Wow," he said with a sort of relief, knowing that his parents had always looked out for him made him feel extremely happy, "were you at the Dursleys? Either of you?"

"Oh yeah!" exclaimed James, "I have wanted to kick Vernon so bad sometimes but your mom wouldn't let me."

Harry laughed, he used to think that his parents were fond of the Dursley's because Petunia was Lily's sister, but it seemed that they hated the Dursley's as much as he did. He stared at her for a minute, taking in her features, he noticed she had red hair, long and spread on her shoulders, she was beautiful. When he had gone into Snape's worst memory, and saw his father and his friends as teenagers and thought Sirius was the most handsome man he had seen. But changed his mind after he had seen his father when his extremely messy hair as a teen was now long and tied in a ponytail making him look cooler then Ron's older brother who also had long hair, the uniquely shaped nose, the color changing eyes, the beautiful smile were all the assets Harry had gained, were present and livid.

"You alright?" James asked seeing the distant look on his son's face.

"I just can't seem to be able to suck this all in," he said quietly looking at his handsome father.

Dumbeldore quietly stood up, "Ron, Harmoine, Sirius, let's leave so they can have a little privacy," they obeyed as Sirius turned into the big black dog and followed close behind Dumbeldore.

When the door closed, the three looked at each other for a moment, then James tore into laughter. "Are you finally going crazy?" Lily asked a sign of laughter in her voice, "what's up?"

"The three of us are actually standing together in the same room," he smiled, "last time we were together in the same room, you were only a year old Harry."

Lily smiled and jumped on top of her desk as she always did when teaching her classes, James walked over to her, standing next to her with his arm around her shoulder, the smile still hadn't faded. "how do you feel about all this?" Lily asked.

"I feel like the luckiest guy alive, for fifteen years I thought you were dead," he said.

"Yeah," said James slowly, "day and night I think about the life I could've had if I hadn't become an Auror and lay low," he looked at his son, "do you know how much I just wish with all my heart that we were normal, well, as normal as you can get when your best friends with Sirius. But I kept imagining us playing Quiddich."

"James, honey, even if you hadn't become an Auror, we still were a target," said Lily quietly looking at him.

He let out a great sigh of pain that had been within him for the past 15 years as his son looked expectantly at him. James smiled faintly, "Sirius told us about your first encounter with him, your third year right?"

"Yeah," Harry said shyly. He recalled his terrible encounter with the man whom he had considered his greatest enemy, and then his he loved him like a father. Harry had thought that Sirius was the man who had betrayed his parents until he found out more about what had happened, Sirius was no murderer nor traitor but the greatest friends his parents had had.

"When he told us you tried to kill him we laughed so hard it was absolutely uncalled for, the laughing I mean," James added.

"Well. I thought he had sold you to Voldermort, I thought he was the reason that," he paused, "I thought he was the reason I didn't have parents."

Lily looked sad as a stream of tears ran down her cheek, "after things had cooled a bit, Dumbeldore told us that they had arrested Sirius and that the hole world thought our best friend and most loyal one had betrayed us to that old hag called Voldermort. Everyone thought that freaking Pettigrew was a hero!" Lily sounded angry but seemed to have every single right to feel that emotion, "I was about to march up to the Ministers office and just choke him when I found out that they had give the sack of crap the Order of Merlin First Class, Sirius Black deserves that!"

"So you knew Sirius was innocent?'

James nodded, "the worst thing was I couldn't help in any shape or form except send massages to him telling him I still loved him like a brother and that he was innocent," there was the obvious hint of restraining in James' seemingly calm voice.

There was a brief pause, "did you help him escape?" Harry asked unexpectedly.

James and Lily looked at him, "yep," said James, "your mum did extensive research and experiments until we found out that the guards, the dementors, can't sense any other emotion but human ones. And poor Sirius was so thin that he could easily fit through the bars so he got threw as Snuffles."

"He lived with us most of the time, but came to see you the night he scared the crap out of you after running away from Petunia's. He said you thought he was a Death Omen?" Lily asked looking at her son.

"Yeah, Professor Trelawney said I would die so, naturally," he said quietly.

Lily laughed, "my first year with her, she told me I was gonna die too," she laughed, "oh God bless her, she was so much fun."

"We used to sit, we as in Sirius, Lily and me, Remus was smarter and dropped the class," said James, "but the three of us used to sit in the Common Room and make up horrific ways that we'd die."

"Ron and I do that," Harry said laughing at the laughter of his parents.

"One time she told me I was going to sustain an injury in a week, that day I broke my leg at Quiddich practice," James said as the laughing fit ceased.

"That happened to me too, except I broke my arm two hours after she told me I was going to break my head in a month," smiled Lily, "the Goddamn bludger hit me straight in the arm."

"You played Quiddich too?" Harry asked.

"Are you kidding? She was the best Keeper Hogwarts has ever seen!" James yelled, exuberantly.

"Really?"

"Yeah!" James answered.

"I never new that," Harry said quietly looking at his mom.

"There's a lot we know you don't know about us sweetheart," his mom said comfortingly, "I'm assuming, from what I've heard, that you kinda think I was a bookworm?" she asked studying his face carefully.

He blushed, "yeah, kinda," he said.

She laughed, "I loved reading, I still do but I loved breaking rules."

"You know what your mom's nickname was during school?" James asked.

Harry shook his head.

"Maverick," James answered.

Harry stared astonished at his mother, he always had pictured as a version of Hermoine, but to find out that she was a Quiddich player and a fellow rule breaker was utterly astonishing and delightful. He looked at her and imagined her sneaking off after hours to meet his father in the Common Room and her sitting on a broom and hitting a Bludger with the tail of her broom lightly almost carelessly, blocking the other teams attempt to score. There must've been a far away look on Harry's face cause Lily asked him, "you alright sweetie?"

The last word kept fluttering around in Harry's brain, ringing as it finally sank in, his parents were back. His mom was back, she would call Harry cute names like "sweetie" "honey" or "darling" asking him take out the trash or be careful playing Quiddich. His dad was back to encourage him on as he flew on his broomstick in the Quiddich match or to clap on the back paternally as his son said or had something impressive. Individually having them back was wonderful, but having both of them back was even more ecstatic. He no longer needed to stay with the Dursleys or endure the fact that he was an orphan. He could finally lead a semi-normal life with his parents, and Sirius (hopefully) and live in the magical world full time! He would spend his Holidays with his parents and actually be gloomy when summer ended. He no longer had to put up with all the trash Aunt Patunia said about his mom, he could act horribly around the Dursleys without having to pay consequences, but he had a feeling if he did his father would be laughing and cheering for him while his mom tried to give him a stern talk trying to stifle the evil grin that wanted to come out.

"I'm fine," he said as the thoughts of a normal life passed through his head and a smile appeared on his face.

His parents smiled knowing what their child was thinking but said nothing as they beamed at him. There was a silence then James broke it, "come on Harry! Don't you have any questions?"

He looked at his dad in surprise, "well yeah."

"Go on then!" said James encouragingly.

"Well…" he said hesitantly, the truth was he had no questions, "I just want you to tell me what it was like….what it was like when I was a baby?"

"You mean what the relationship with Sirius and Remus was like?" Lily asked reading her sons thoughts.

He slowly nodded. "There's just one word to describe those days when everything was somewhat simpler, crazy," said James with a slight smile as he recalled the good ol' days when Voldemort was less of a threat then the present.

"Well," Lily began with a small sigh, "you were addicted to Sirius, he was your babysitter, and I don't how many times he took you flying in our absence. Remus would read stories to you about werewolves," she laughed, " and Peter," she paused as the wave of anger passed her, "Peter would tickle you silly."

"If you don't mind Lil, leave the rat out of this please," said James bitterly.

There was silence for a second and Lily looked up with a tear running down her cheek, "how 'bout we get everybody back in here? Sirius can tell you stories of how much I yelled at him when he flung you in the air carelessly and I'm sure Remus has shown up by now."

"God I miss him!" said James unexpectedly.

"You haven't seen Professor Lupin yet?" Harry asked bewildered and almost thunderstruck.

"No," Lily answered, "I'm not sure that he even knows-" before she could finish the door feel open and a man with huge, almost horror-struck eyes and graying hair emerged looking from Lily to James who smiled delighted.

"Oh my G…" he whispered.

"My God you've changed Remus," said James rather calmly.

"J…" Remus Lupin wanted to say the name but seemed restrained by an unseen force.

"God I've missed you Moony!" James said as though the thought had just struck him.

"James," he finally managed to say, "Sirius was right, my God!" he exclaimed.

They walked towards each other and hugged tightly, both recalling their love for one another, James and Lily's alleged death had screwed up everyone's lives, especially the relationship between the four Marauders. James was dead when he really was in hiding, Sirius was put in Azkakban for alleged murder of 13 people with one spell, Remus had just lain low, trying to find a job but no one would hire a werewolf, and Peter, the betrayer had staged his own death and had gone into hiding as a rat. But the three Marauders were back together know, and Moony and Prongs were reunited just as Padfoot and Prongs were.

The broke the tight embrace to reveal that their faces were stained with tears of disbelief and joy, Remus went over to Lily and hugged her. He had been her best friend during their years in Hogwarts and after Hogwarts, while Sirius and James would be playing with the newborn Harry or out in the garden discussing work Remus would go into the kitchen and help Lily, they both loved books.

"Remus," she whispered tears swelling up as she put her arms around his neck, "I have missed you so much!"

"Same here Lil," he said quietly, he retracted from her grip, "I've missed you all so much!"

Though no one had noticed, Sirius had just walked into the room and was standing next to Harry with a hand on his shoulder and a smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes which were alive again. They looked like a great burden had been lifted from them, and everyone new what it was. He had always felt responsible for what had happened that night when Harry was two.

"We're back!" he laughed looking at the others.

James nodded as Remus and Lily stood next to each other smiling, looking at him, "we certainly are, all the Marauders, except Peter," he said sadly.

There was an eerie silence at the mention of Peter, then Lily said, "the three true Marauders are here, with Prongs' so I think we can be happy about that part and not really care that Wormtail isn't here."

"Yeah," the other agreed.

Harry was looking around at the four adults, James was know standing next to Sirius who was still next to Harry, Remus had his arm around his mom's waist in a friendly way and all their eyes were sparkling with happiness.

"You were wondering what it was like before Voldermort made us go into hiding Harry, this is a pretty good example of it," said Lily.

"Yeah," Sirius agreed, "simple, fun times."

"Remember that time you rigged it so that Harry would say 'daddy Padfoot'?" Remus asked Sirius with a laugh.

"You what!" yelled James, "you did that! God Sirius you made me feel like a horrible father!"

"I'm sorry but I couldn't resist the temptation Prongs!" he said innocently, "but you gotta admit it was hilarious, right Lil?"

She nodded and said as her husband looked at her with a threatening glare, "I'm sorry honey, but you should've seen your face when Harry said that!"

"What did I say?" Harry asked.

"You had just barely begun talking, and James and I were out working and running errands for the Order a lot, so Sirius baby sat you, fulfilling his duties as godfather," Lily explained, "one day we were all in your nursery and James was trying to get you to say daddy or Prongs because Sirius had already taught you how to say Padfoot. So he taught you to say Daddy Padfoot and it drove James crazy because you wouldn't call him daddy."

Harry smiled as James said, "you kept calling me Uncle Prongs, I had been hoping that your first word would've been Daddy or at least Mommy but do you know what your first was Harry?"

He shook his head.

"Padfoot!" James yelled as the rest started to laugh like mad.

"It took me two weeks to teach you how to say Padfoot and equally long to call me Daddy Padfoot and Uncle Prongs," Sirius explained looking at Harry.

"We had been trying to teach you how to say James. But you were rather attached to Padfoot though. Both the word and the person," Remus remarked, more than slightly amused.

He couldn't believe what he was hearing, he hated not having known anything about his life with is parents, and know that he was finding it out, he felt even more regret swell up in his chest. He had actually been extremely close to Sirius, he looked at his godfather, "I can't believe I tried to kill you."

The smile faded from Sirius's face, "don't worry about it, you had every right to Harry," he said comfortingly.

"From what I've been hearing, you and I were really close, I can't believe I hated it you so much," Harry said in disbelief.

"Yeah but you saved my neck more then a few times to make up for what happened in the Shrieking Shack," Sirius said, "you and I were close when you were a baby, I loved you so much, but we still have it know, though we don't spend as much time together as we did before the hole catastrophe."

"From what Dumbeldore's told us, you two still have the same crazy relationship," said Lily to Harry, "as soon we can clear Sirius's name, we can go back to a semi-normal life."

"Clear my name? What do you mean?" Sirius asked looking at Lily.

"Dumbeldore thinks that we should come out in the open with what really happened that night, Voldermort did try to kill Harry after promising he wouldn't touch him if we went into hiding, how Peter was really the betrayer, how you Sirius, are innocent. We're basically gonna come out with the hole story," James said.

"No, your gonna attract Voldermort to you and the Death Eaters to yourselves," said Remus shaking his head.

"We have to, we have become much more powerful during the past few years, he attacks, we can take him on easily," said James.

"Still, I think it's a bad idea," Sirius said quietly, he looked into James's eyes, "I don't want to loose you again, and certainly Harry doesn't deserve to loose you right when you returned to him."

"Sirius, we can take him, the Order is stronger then it was sixteen years ago, we have some of the most powerful people in our world on our side," said Lily calmly looking into Sirius's eyes, "we know what to do, how to handle him this time, if we attack him before he attacks us then we'll win the fight."

He was silent, he looked extremely worried and lost deep in thought, "I don't know about this."

"Trust us Padfoot," James said quietly.

There was a knock on Dumbeldore's door, they all turned their attention towards it as Dumbeldore walked in, "can we come in?" he asked.

"Of course," said Lily with a smile.

Ron and Hermoine fallowed him quietly, and marched straight over to Harry as though they were scared to look at the four adults. They stood next to Harry without saying anything and avoided eye contact by looking on the ground as though they had just noticed how interesting their shoes really were. "Ron, are you by any chance related to Molly Weasely?" Lily asked all of a sudden.

He nodded, "she's my mom," he answered.

"I knew it! You look exactly like Molly! How is she?" Lily asked.

He finally looked at Lily for the first time as his best friends' mom, "you know my mum?"

"Yeah, when I was second year she was a sixth year," Lily answered, "she was very sweet."

"So Arthur's your dad huh?" James asked.

Ron nodded.

James smiled delightfully, "I'm glad Harry's associated with you, Arthur is one of my favorite people in the world, not to mention my cousin."

"Ron and I are related?" asked Harry as both their faces went into a s state of shock.

"Yeah, through my mom," James answered with a smile, "Ron's father's dad is my mom's aunt's son."

"How come Mr. Weasely never told me we were related?"

"I dunno, maybe because the Potter's aren't' exactly what you would call happy with what they call blood traitors," he said with a frown, "I honestly dunno but yeah, you two are related."

"Cool!" they both said in unison.

"And you Hermoine, you have managed to impress me deeply during my rain as your teacher," said Lily, "I have yet to meet a more clever witch."

Hermoine blushed as she tried to fight the satisfied grin crossing her lips, "thank you Mrs. Potter."

"No no," she said, "that makes me sound too old, call me Lily please," Hermoine smiled again.

"So I gather that you have all enjoyed your reunion," Dumbeldore smiled, "I have always hoped for this day to come, I just didn't anticipate for it be so fast."

"Neither did we," James said smiling as he and Sirius looked at each other.

"I have a proposal, we shall continue this party after we take care of business, I have just informed Fudge that I need to speak with him, he is on his way. We shall tell the Wizarding world what really happened that night today rather then wait a while, the sooner it is done, the sooner we can be reunited with the other Order members."

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Sirius asked.

"I know you are frightened of the possibilities of the unfortunate to occur again, but I assure you Sirius, the Order of the Phoenix is much stronger then before and we are at least two steps ahead of Voldermort," Dumbeldore said soothingly.

"What do you mean?"

"We have a spy in the Death Eaters," he said as the door burst open and a tall greasy hair man entered.

"Snivellus!" James and Sirius said unison their eyes darting towards the door that had just burst open.

"So its true Potter, you are alive," he snapped.

"Unfortunately for you," James said coldly with a smile dancing on his lips as he looked at his sworn enemy, "I've been informed that you've been telling my son nasty stories about me Snivellus."

"I was just informing the boy that his father wasn't the hero he assumed you to be Potter, I was trying to protect him from disappointment when someone else told him how big of a head you had," said Severus Snape taking a step towards James.

"I've also been told that you have a hell of a time picking on him Snivelly, for no reason, or maybe just because I wasn't here to answer you, well know I am, so you have to answer me know," said James fury in his eyes.

"The boy is utterly undisciplined and I was just trying to tame his ego," Snape said, he looked at Harry, "but he still thinks that he can do whatever he pleases."

"Hey! Come on you guys, can you put your differences away for once?" asked Lily stepping in between them just like she had when they were school children. She looked at her beautiful husband piercing his soul with her crystal-clear eyes, putting a hand on his stomach, preventing him from taking another step.

"Ah! The mud-blood still trying to gain respect as…." he didn't finish for Remus, James and Sirius had pulled out their wands and were pointing them at him.

"Take that back Snape," Sirius hissed.

"I would seriously ask you to consider that," Remus said.

"STOP!" Dumbeldore yelled and everybody stopped and looked at him, "would you four please put aside your school yard differences! We have much more important things to care about then childhood grudges!" he turned to Snape, "I expected better then this from you Severus!"

"I am sorry Headmaster," he said venomously.

"Just please promise that you will not have any more outbursts," he looked at the five adults in the room, "any of you!"

They all nodded mumbling "yes sir" in discord. Harry finally understood why his father and Snape had been such great enemies in school, he couldn't quite put his finger on the reason but understood his father's fury. When he had seen James pick on Snape in the school yard in Snape's worst memory, he almost hated his father for being so cruel towards Snape. But know James had every reason to feel angry towards Snape, James was very protective of his wife and son. Harry was also feeling the urge to punch Snape whom had just called his mother a "mud-blood".

"Now," said Dumbeldore regaining his cool composure, "Fudge will arrive here soon and I will explain everything to him, unless you are willing to," he said looking at Lily (who was still standing with her hand on James's stomach just in case he wanted to attack again) to James who still looked like he was about to attack Snape.

"No, you do it, you know bigger words then us," James said.

Dumbeldore laughed, "of course," he said.

Lily walked over to James and put her arm around his waist, he smiled and did the same to her, they looked at the smiling Harry, "this is really us Harry," James winked.

He walked over to them and James put an around his shoulder with a smile, he looked at his father's pony tail, "so does this mean my hair'll smooth out eventually?" he laughed looking at his dad.

James began to laugh full heartedly, "yeah, when you hit 25 it'll become more controlled," he smiled squeezing his son's shoulder.

"You don't know how hard I've been trying to get him to cut his hair," she said running her fingers through his hair.

"I think it looks tight," Harry said.

"Thank you!" James exclaimed in triumph.

"Oh Lord!" Lily groaned, "you're never gonna cut your hair know are you?"

James smiled evilly, "nope," he quickly kissed his wife on the lips. For the first time in his life, Harry Potter, the boy who lived to tell his tale of surviving the Avada Kadevera curse, felt normal. He had parents that loved each other to death, and they loved him too, they were cool and they more then likely would not stop him from doing dangerous things but encourage his boldness. He had a feeling that Lily would be almost the opposite of Molly Weasely, whom yelled at her sons more then often and didn't let them get away with anything, he thought his own mum would let him get away with something's, he had a strong feeling that he and his parents would be best friends.

There was a sudden pop in the fireplace and emerald green fire sprang to life and an ancient wizard appeared out of the fire. He stepped out and was busy swiping his robes off when he saw Sirius Black standing in front of him next to the fireplace, looking at him with mild interest. "BLACK!" the Minister of Magic yelled in horror.

"Hello," Sirius smiled pleasantly.

"What is going on here Dumbeldore!" Fudge yelled backing away from Black as though he was about to be attacked.

"Cornelius, please, for one moment forget that Sirius Black is standing in my office and look around the room," Dumbeldore said gently.

Fudge obeyed, he looked from Sirius to Remus Lupin who was standing in the shadows to Hermoine and Ron looking awkward, towards Snape who looked icy, and from Dumbeldore. When his eyes became larger then dinner plates and he let out a gasp, everyone knew he had just spotted Mr. And Mrs. James Potter. "What's going on here Dumbeldore?" he asked again looking terrified at Lily and James who grinned broadly.

So, helping each other Dumbeldore, Remus, Sirius, Lily and James explained what happened in the last 16 years. James and Lily told the tail of the night of the famous attack on their family, how Voldermort had said that if the two didn't flee he would kill Harry and after having promised to not touch one hair on Harry's head he had attacked anyway, which was where he met his downfall having broken a promise to a superior witch. Sirius explained how Peter Pettigrew had faked his own death and had let him suffer the consequences, he told how Wormtail had killed the thirteen people with one spell and how Sirius had confronted him in the ally way. Dumbeldore explained how James and Lily had gone into hiding with the Tanachloon Charm on them. Then the five of them explained that they were ready to tell the world of what had really happened.

"Minister, I only ask one favor for your protection," said Lily as they had informed of the ambition and capability of the new Order of the Phoenix.

"What is it?" Fudge asked, his throat had become dry.

"You clear Sirius Black of all the charges, retract the Order of Merlin First Class from Voldermorts right-hand man and give it to the most deserving man in this room, Sirius Black," James said sharply and surly.

"You're expecting me to apologize for putting Black in Azkaban, half the world thinks he's you-know-who's favorite toy!" Fudge said trying to regain his assumed look of authority over the extremely qualified Dumbeldore.

"Yes, because Sirius is innocent of everything he's been accused of," said Lily, it was as though they were the only ones that dared speak about Sirius's freedom. Except that the reason no one spoke except James and Lily was because they were representing Sirius so brilliantly and effectively.

"I can't," said Fudge shortly.

"Why not?" James asked glaring at the tiny and spine-less Minister of Magic.

"Because…" he began but couldn't find a perfectly good reason for refusing to act on the actions he had been requested of.

"Minister, please," said Lily quietly, "Sirius Black has done everybody a great deal of good by pressing Peter Pettigrew to go into hiding as a rat belonging to the Weasley family! You owe him!"

"I don't owe him anything!"

"Fudge, listen to me, your jurisdiction doesn't reach America so I'm not very scared of speaking my mind in front of you. If Sirius hadn't confronted Pettigrew in the ally, Voldermort would've been back in power maybe ten years ago! But Sirius laid off the plan until Lily and I had made a full recovery and were strong enough to come back."

Harry frowned at the words recovery and strong enough and asked his mom, "what does he by that?"

"I'll explain later hon," said Lily being extremely preoccupied with the appeal for Sirius.

"What do you say?" asked James looking intermittingly at Fudge, James being such a tall man and Fudge being so short, it was extremely helpful when James gave him a cold hard stare.

"Everybody will think I'm crazy!" Fudge yelled.

"And your point?" asked James.

Fudge had a look of defeat on his face and Lily and James had a look of victory upon their face, "all right! I'll be here tomorrow morning to give him the Order of Merlin! Know, if you will all excuse me I have to go the Daily Prophet and inform them of everything," he looked at Dumbeldore, "just as you requested Albus."

"Thank," he said bowing slightly. He then looked at Sirius who was smiling again.

"I don't believe this," he said and stepped into the fireplace and disappeared into this green flames.

After he had gone, everybody except Snape, began to literally jump up and down in joy. "OH MY GOD!" yelled Sirius as Lily hugged him, "I'm free!"

"Yeah you are!" James said as the three hugged each other, then Remus joined and they invited Ron, Harry and Hermoine to join in the group hug, it seemed they all had springs in their legs.

"Come on Professor!" said Remus to Dumbeldore who was standing next to the group, doubling over laughing with delight, it was such an unbelievable site.

"No thank you Remus, but old age refrains me from being able to jump up and down," he smiled.

After they had finally stopped bouncing, James said to Harry and Lily, "how 'bout this, by this time tomorrow, the three of us will be able to become a family again."

Remus, who was usually the calm one of the Marauders, howled with delight. Everybody laughed because Remus really was a werewolf.

"Well," said Sirius with tears of differing reasons in his eyes, "where do we continue the party at?"

"Why don't you stay here?" Dumbeldore suggested.

"You have done more then you can imagine Professor," said Lily gratefully, "we cannot manage to ask you for more favors."

"Ah my dear Lily, such a wonderful girl!" he said, "alas I have much work to do and I am not doubting that I will be called to numerous meetings, so I must regrettably ask you all to find somewhere else to continue your celebration of triumph. I will leave you alone to decide the location to make marry again," and he went upstairs into his sleeping quarters to give them privacy.

"How 'bout Snape's dungeons," said Ron was sandwiched between Harry and Hermoine.

Snape glared at him but didn't seem to dare say anything to the boy because of the four adults in the room. "Excuse me," he said and in a flash of black cloak he disappeared out of the door.

"How 'bout we go into the Room of Requirements?" asked James, he looked at Harry, "do you guys know if it's still by the statue of Barnabus the Barmey?"

"Yeah," said Harry.

"Ok, do you have the Merauder's map with you?" Sirius asked, "we don't want to run into anybody yet, they might be ready to see the notorious murder patrolling through the corridors."

"Yeah," said Harry, "but it's in my trunk in the dorm."

"Why don't we go get it?" Ron asked.

"Yeah, you'd better bring my old Invisibility Cloak too, I don't think the portrait's keep their mouth shut about two allegedly dead couple and a murderer," said James.

Harry nodded and said, "ok dad," there was a pause and a grin spread across the twos face. First time that night Harry had called him dad.

"See, he's calling you dad and not uncle Prongs," said Sirius.

"Yeah," said James not taking his eyes of Harry.

After a few minutes of silence, Hermoine said, "we'd better go get the stuff Harry."

"Yeah," he said, "let's go."

As they were about to walk out of the door, Lily said, "why don't you stay here, I'll go with him."

"Ok with me," Ron and Hermoine both said.

Lily rushed over to son after kissing her husband, the two walked down the moving staircase and out from behind the Gargoyle that protected Dumbeldore's office.

"Can you believe all this is happening?" she asked as they made their way towards Griffindor tower.

"No, but I'm thankful it's happening," he said looking at her.

"So tell me, what do you think of your parents know that you've met them?"

"Your just like I imagined you would be," said Harry as they went up the corridor towards the Fat Lady's portrait, also known as the entrance to Gryffindor House.

"Really?"

"Yeah, except dad having long hair," he laughed.

"I know," smiled Lily putting an arm around his shoulders.

"Professor Caviezel!" the Fat Lady in Pink exclaimed sleepily, "what are you doing here?"

"Just escorting a student," said Lily with an innocent smile.

Harry looked at his mom, "I wont be long," he said then gave the password, "flabberdung," and the portrait swung up and Harry crawled in.

Lily had to only wait about ten minutes, the portrait swung open again and Harry came out holding a beautiful purple cloak in one hand an old piece of parchment in the other hand. She smiled at the site of two objects, "so many memories," she sighed as they began to walk back to Dumbeldore's office.

"Like what?"

"Well…" she searched her mind for a clean memory she could share because mostly she and James would sneak off somewhere and make love, using those two objects, they had never been caught in the Prefects shower nor the Room of Requirements. "Oh, one night, a few weeks after we'd started dating, James took me out towards the lake, we were covered with cloak to get down by the river, we shared our first kiss there."

"Really?"

"Yeah," she smiled stuffing her hands in her pockets, "can I see the map Harry?"

"Sure," he said giving her the old piece of parchment.

Lilly took out her wand, pointing it at the piece of parchment she said, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good," and a map appeared on the surface of the then empty parchment. "Hey, Dumbeldore's not in the castle!" she exclaimed, "must've gone to a meeting or something."

They went towards his office to find Remus, Ron, Hermoine, James and Sirius outside the office. Harry and Lily burst into fits of laughter as they saw James and Sirius try to hide themselves by facing the wall and pretending to look busy by kicking it, trying not be recognized by anyone. Harry gave his father and Sirius the Invisibility Cloak, they draped it around themselves, disappearing beneath it.

"Harry, you wanna lead the way?" James said, though no one could see where they were.

"Sure," he said and his mom handed the map back to him, and they strode off towards the fifth floor of the South Wing.

"Ow! Sirius!! Stop stepping on my Goddamn foot!" they could hear James hiss.

"Me! You're the one with the large feet mate!" Sirius would hiss back.

"Would you two shut your mouths!" Lily would say and Remus, Harry, Ron and Hermoine would laugh.

"God, we could easily fit under this thing when we were in school!" Sirius said as they approached their destination.

"Well, we're a bit taller know mate," James answered.

"OK, we're here," said Harry trying not to laugh because it sounded like James and Sirius were tripping all of them selves trying to hide under the cloak. They took off the cloak and the two best friends reappeared, they howled with laughter as Remus and Hermoine tried to shush them.

"Would you two please keep quiet!! Someone might here us!" Remus said looking around nervously.

"I think if we find the room faster we'll be safer," said Lily smiling.

"Right," they all murmured. It was an amusing site, four fully grown adults and three students pacing back in forth murmuring under their breaths. After the third time they passed it, a door appeared.

"K, you can stop," said Lily as she saw the door, no one seemed to hear her, "STOP!" she yelled and they did. She opened the door and entered first to find a room full of beautiful furniture, food, and photo albums. There were exactly 7 seats in the room for the seven guests, there was a table with some butterbeer on it and some cupcakes, and another table was stacked with photo albums.

"Whose idea were those?" Sirius asked looking the albums.

"Mine," Lily answered.

"Good idea," he smiled and winked at her.

"I know," she giggled as they all sat down. James and Lily sat down on a love seat across from Remus who was sitting on a single armchair by the fire. Harry, Ron and Hermoine quietly sat in a three seated sofa while Sirius sat on the carpeted ground next James.

"Why don't you sit on the couch over there mate?" he asked looking at Sirius who was sitting at his feet, his back was resting again the arm of sofa.

"Dunno," said Sirius and the two seemed to communicate the reason why Sirius was sitting on the couch through nothing but silence and their eyes. It was evident that two wanted to sit together.

"Why don't I sit over there Sirius, and you can sit here," Lily offered.

Sirius shook his head, "it's fine Lil," he smiled.

"At least use a cushion, I reckon you don't want to get hemorrhoids tomorrow when the world will find out you're a free man," said Lily and conjured a cushion out of thin air and gave it to her friend with smile and a wink.

"Oh hey! These are the pictures from Harry's baptism!" said Remus who had picked up one of the albums and was looking threw it, "here's the picture I took when you were yelling at Sirius, Lil," he said.

"That was the most anyone's ever yelled at me," Sirius said looking at Lily.

"Well you deserved it using magic on a 3 month old baby," Lily hissed at him.

Remus and James had begun laughing as Sirius argued his case, "he was perfectly safe!"

"Still! Using such a charm on him was extremely dangerous, all you had to do was ask me!" said Lily her voice quivering with laughter.

"What did Sirius do?" Harry asked.

"Well, you were baptized when we went into hiding so we weren't using are own house to hold the party. All the guests had gone and we all had changed into Muggle clothes, more comfortable clothes, you know, we were all extremely hungry so Remus and I went to look for some food in the kitchen while Sirius and James were still outside talking," Lily explained as Sirius looked at the pictures from over Remus's shoulder, "you were in my arms, so when Sirius came in we were pretty busy trying to find food, so, your godfather used the Summoning Charm on you Harry."

"How dangerous!" Hermoine said.

"Great minds think alike Hermoine," muttered Sirius with a laugh.

"Meaning I thought the same thing, but Sirius ignored me and went outside to play with you, I looked threw the window into the yard to find him lying on his silk cloak with you hanging in the air, playing with you two feet above him! I sent your father to tell him off, and it worked."

Sirius laughed again, sounding like a bark, "but you yelled at me in the kitchen, not even my mother yelled at me with so much enthusiasm and conviction," he paused with a frown, "then again my mother hated me."

"You guys remember what happened after I went out in the yard?" James asked, it was very odd, someone seemed to have turned off the joy button and hit the tension one, the tautness was so thick it could be heard and smelled in the air.

"You actually expect me to forget that?" Sirius asked.

"Why? What happened mom?" Harry asked.

She drew in a deep breath, then began, "well, we all were in hiding during those days, Voldermort was on the hunt, he was killing anyone and anything that crossed his path, and of course, the four of us, the Marauders and I that is, were considered the biggest threat to Voldermort, mind you. We were always changing the homes we lived in, jumping from one house to another, only seeing one another once a month, dark times," she paused, "the house we had your Christening in was Dumbeldore's idea of a hideaway, not a lot of people knew about it, we only told those invited. It was very secretive, I might add Patunia didn't bother showing up that's why she doesn't have a clue who Sirius is. Anyways, when you, James and Sirius were outside, about 6 Death Eaters attacked, appearing out of nowhere.

All I could do was get you to safety, I used the emergency portkey and took you back to our home, I..I actually thought of asking Peter to watch you while I went back to see what was going on. I saw I had no choice but to stay with you, after I dunno, half an hour finally James appeared, bloody, he said Sirius was in the hospital."

"Oh my God," Hermoine breathed terrified.

"That's what I said," said Lily, "until James told me that Voldermort himself had attacked."

"How did they know where you were?" Ron asked, Hermoine thrust her elbow into his side yet again.

"Peter Pettigrew," Sirius said bitterly, "I spent a week in St. Mungos and I actually that little piece of crap was actually my friend, volunteering to stay with me."

"We didn't want any of the others to be alone so we kept each other company every hour," said James seeing the perplexed look on his son's face.

"We actually thought that Remus was the spy," said Sirius, he looked at him, "sorry 'bout that."

"Don't worry about it," he said, a sad grin appearing on his face as he put a reassuring hand on Sirius's hand on his shoulder.

"What do you mean? No one suspected anybody?" Harry asked.

"Well, one day Dumbeldore told me that he thought that there was a spy in our group, the Marauders, I didn't know what to believe. Instinctively I eliminated Sirius, because he's my best friend, Remus, he was too smart, and Peter, well…" said James, "no body would really befriend, he wasn't exactly what you'd call a good wizard, the clumsy fool," James muttered a, "Dumbeldore set up a trap, he told me to tell Remus that I was going to go to the park jogging with you, if the Death Eaters showed up, then it was Remus, if they didn't, then he wasn't guilty. Well…we didn't think much of it at the time, but I did go jogging and the Death Eaters did hung me down. I ended up in the hospital and told one of my greatest friend that I despised him for betraying me. He did tell me that he had told Peter about my plans, but I didn't think much of it, hate blinded me. Then I came to realization that he would never do anything like that, so we accepted him back."

Remus smiled slightly, "it was so good to be accepted back into the group, but Sirius still hated me a while after that, until the night I guess." The two friends looked at each other, Remus wearing a forgiving smile and Sirius an ashamed one.

"How come you didn't suspect Pettigrew then if Remus was innocent?" Harry asked looking at his father.

He shook his head, "I couldn't even think that one of my own friends out to get me, even though I was never fond of Peter, I just pitied him."

"He always hid behind us," said Sirius, "just like he's hiding behind Voldermort. I don't believe I asked you to make him the Secret Keeper!"

"It was the perfect plan should we have known he was a spy, a murderer," Lily said quietly.

"Hey! This is from the night you guys got engaged," said Sirius looking at the movie magical pictures.

"You sure? It looks like…." Remus said studying the picture closer, "oh, no, your right, that is the night they got betrothed."

"Remember that speech you gave me before I propose to Lily?" James asked Sirius, the mood of the room changing back to jovial.

"Yeah," he nodded, "I stayed up all night practicing the speech," he said with his famous bark like laughter.

"I actually thought you liked me Sirius," said Lily sounding hurt.

"I'm sorry! But you were taking my best friend away from me! I had to do something stupid!"

"I understand," she nodded, then turned to explain to her son, "you see, the night after James had decided in asking my hand, Sirius gave him this long speech about the hazards of marriage."

"Which were?" Harry asked amused.

"Um…lets see, he couldn't go bed hopping, same face every morning, kids, trouble," Sirius said closing his eyes in concentration, everyone laughed.

"So you two didn't get along either ha?" Harry asked.

"No actually, aside James, Lily was my friend in Hogwarts," Sirius said, "of course she didn't have a clue who I was, so that might've caused her to say hi on the train."

Harry smiled, "so you two were good friends in school then?"

They both nodded with a smile, "then everyone made a fuss about him being a Black and talking to a presumably Muggle, I didn't get what they meant, until we both made Gryffindor, and you told me most of your family were in Slytherin."

"You were such a good friend to me though," Sirius smiled, "got me out of a tight spot when I needed it."

"You were the better friend Sirius, trust me, without you, I would've been sitting in a corner in Moaning Myrtles bathroom pulling out my hair," Lily smiled, "you're a life saver, literally."

There was silence then, then Remus began to laugh, everyone's attention turned to the laughing werewolf. "R-r-remember that time w-w-we put a dead snake in James and Lily's bed?" he asked looking at Sirius.

"Oh yeah!" he began laughing as well, "we were living with them at the time right?"

Remus nodded but before he could speak, James spoke, "YOU IDIOTS! I BLEW UP MY BED BECAUSE OF YOU!" he yelled furiously.

This did nothing but increase the amount of laughter in the room. "I couldn't resist, I'm sorry," Remus said between screams of laughter.

James looked at Moony, "you put the snake in there! You?! I thought it was Sirius!"

"Hey man, I didn't have anything to do with the snake, all I did was egg him on," he said innocently looking at his best friend who could pass for his brother.

The night wore on, but time flies when you're having fun right?