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Ch 2: The Bond of Mother and Son

They were up till maybe four or three in the morning talking, laughing, and becoming saddened by memories of their losses. But smiled happily at their gains, they were back together, the Marauders were in power again, this time more experienced, more powerful, and more cunning. They finally decided that it was time for the kids to go to bed, after all they had school the next day and the end of the term wasn't for another 4 weeks.

"Ok guys, get to bed, we'll see you tomorrow morning," said Lily as they exited the magical room.

"Do we have to?" Harry asked, realizing that he sounded like a baby only a second after he had said it, he blushed a little.

Lily smiled, "yes you do honey," she smiled, "we'll be here in the morning, don't worry, this isn't a dream, it's as real as it gets darling."

Harry smiled, "I just don't want to leave you guys," he sighed, "but I guess I have to."

"We all have sacrifices to make son," James smiled putting a hand on his son's shoulder.

"I guess," he said sadly but smiled anyway, he didn't have a care in the world, his parents were back! "Good night then!"

"Night," Lily smiled as he hugged her, "love ya Harry."

He looked at her with a smile, "I love you too mum."

He said good night to his father as well, then headed towards the Gryffindor common room, feeling full filled.

"Gotta say Harry, your parents rock!" Ron exclaimed when they were out of ear shot.

"I know," Harry smiled.

"Your mum has become my hero Harry, I must admit it," Hermoine said, "she's a fantastic women!"

Harry again grinned as they entered the dormitories, there was no one there. Not a creature was stirring, the only sound in the grand Common Room was the sound of the fire cracking as it slowly faded. The only persons who had been up that late were Harry when he and Sirius met to talk about things that were on Harry's mind. He smiled at the memories, the advice, but he somewhat felt mad because he'd been kept in the dark for a long time, AGAIN!

As he lay in his four poster bed, listening to the snoring and grunting of his fellow Gryffindors, he stared out of the window at the moon (luckily for Moony it wasn't full). He couldn't help but feel mad at his parents for leaving with the vicious and cruel Dursleys, they had tortured him when he was down. But Harry also knew that his parents loved him, and that was why they had to hide and make him suffer emotionally. He closed his eyes, not knowing how to feel. He had accepted his parents, he had forgiven them though still slightly mad at them, at Dumbeldore and his Godfather. Harry fell asleep thinking about the stories that his parents had told him about his childhood, and the tales of the Marauders quests and Lily's triumphs at being able to play pranks on her husband during their years in Hogwarts. He fell asleep with a small smile dancing on his lips.

In the Hogsmade Inn, James lay on the bed, on his back, one arm was behind his head, the other around his wife's body, a smile dancing on his face.

"I can't believe that he actually copped with all this so courageously!" Lily said, her head resting on her husbands bare chest.

"Well…look at the facts, he's faced Voldermort six times, he's put up with Vernon's beatings, and he's my son," he smiled pleasantly.

Lily lifted her head up slightly to look into her husbands eyes, "Snape was right, you do have a big head."

"I never denied that," James smiled, he grabbed his wife by the shoulders and pulled her up to be level with his face, "we can start leading a normal life know Lil, as normal as we can."

Lily smiled putting her forehead on her husbands chin, she had done that since she and James got together. "And Sirius, we got him off the hook," she smiled.

"Yep," James sighed happily, he moved his hand and lifted his wife's chin, "I love you," he said.

"I love you too," she said as her husband's lips touched hers. She felt her body become warm internally, and smiled.

The next morning Lily left at about 5 for the castle, kissing her husband passionately of course before she left for the castle. She, as usual, regretted leaving that perfect body of his, and the lips that tasted wondrous. But then she remembered that Harry knew she was his mother, and the world changed, she was actually glad to leave James lying on the bed, topless.

She was walking up drive way towards the castle, she was lost in thought, there were so many of them that it was hard for her to actually know what she was thinking about. "Professor!" she heard a voice call.

She turned around and saw the giant, Hagrid former Keeper of Keys now Care of Magical Creatures teacher, coming out of his cabin. "Morning Hagrid!" she smiled, waving.

"I just got the Daily Prophet!" he said waving a news paper in his giant hand, "your Lily Potter?"

"Apparently," she smiled, she saw the confused look on Hagrid's face and said, "yes, I am Hagrid."

"And all those years I thought you was dead," he said, "you and James broke a lot of hearts with yer staged death."

"I know," she said, she wanted to avoid the subject, "I have some stuff to do before class begins Hagrid, I should get going."

"Right," he said, and Lily walked away, feeling guilty.

To her surprise, the Castle was alive with students at 6 in the morning, usually they were up at around 8. They all looked at her and started whispering intently, the Slytherin's giving her a disgusting look, Huffelpuffs and Revenclaws whispered in admiration and told of the story about what had happed, and Gryffidors, let's just say that they were close to dropping on their knees and start saying "we're not worthy".

She avoided eye contact as best she could and nearly ran stepped on the magical step as she dashed up the stairs to her office, she stopped dead when she saw Reeta Skeeter standing there, looking very pleased with herself for some odd reason.

"I had been praying that you were locked up in Azkaban right know, no doubt for slander," Lily said looking coldly at the poor excuse for an journalist.

"Like your old friend Black, right?" Skeeter asked.

Lily gave her a venomous look as they entered the office, "if you read the Daily Prophet, you would know that Sirius is innocent."

"I did read the Prophet and must say Lily, that bit about you and James being alive all this time really impressed me," she said sitting in one of the chairs, annoying Lily.

"Really?"

"Yes! Especially the part about you being extremely sorry that you had to leave your beloved son with the Dursleys when you could've been with him! He actually accepted you back after all that you put him through?"

"Rita…get the hell out of my office," Lily ordered pointing to the door.

"I was hoping you would answer some of my questions," she said.

"Not in this lifetime, OUT!" Lily yelled.

"Ok, but just know that you've been a horrible mother!!" Rita yelled as Lily used a curse to drive her out of her office.

"Dummass," she murmured dropping in her chair, though she knew that Rita Skeeter was the last person on earth who was be right, a part of her still believed that she had been a horrible mother. Another part of her kept telling the other part that she had been the best mother because she had risked her own well being for her baby boy who was know a teenager. She put her head in her hands, deep in thought of despair and what she should think about herself.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a nock on the door, "yo!" she said, America had had an odd affect on her, instead of saying "you may enter" she had actually yelled "yo". Only in America would you learn that.

The ancient door creaked open and her tall, handsome son walked in, looking gauche, "just saw Rita Skeeter going down the stairs on her butt, you have anything to do with that?" he smiled.

Lily grinned evilly, "after being with James Potter and Sirius Black for 24 years, they are bound to effect your brain one way or another," she stated innocently, "who d'you sleep?"

"Not good…" he answered.

Lily had guessed that by the pale look on her son's face, "wanna talk about it?"

"Yeah…Sirius said that I should try and tell you all my problems and not him," Harry said not sure if he should have.

"Well, I don't expect you to tell us all your problems, you've always confessed to Sirius," she smiled.

"Um…I had this dream," he said.

"Dream like the one about Arthur or dream as in dreams?" Lily asked leaning closer to Harry as he sat down across from him.

"Like Arthur Weasley's," he answered not meeting his mother's piercing eyes.

"What happened this time Harry?"

"He um…he was killing Sirius," Harry gulped.

It took a moment for the words to settle in, "but Sirius is here honey," she said, there was silence, "what time do you think you saw this dream?"

"Maybe half an hour after I went to sleep, so like 3:00 or something," Harry answered.

"3? The prophet comes out at about 6 every morning, so that means Voldermort didn't about James and I," Lily said more to herself then Harry, who still looked terrified at the prospect of Voldermort accessing his thoughts, he still hadn't really come to terms with what had happened last time….

"Harry, I guess this is a good time to tell you," said Lily looking concerned, "Dumbeldore wants you to start Occlumency lessons again."

"What?!" Harry yelled, not knowing why he had raised his voice, "last time I did that, we nearly caused Sirius to die!! Thank goodness Dumbeldore knows reversal spells!"

"Honey, I know you're scared, but if you don't learn Occlumency," she paused, "let's just say things won't be peachy anymore."

"Mum, I don't want Snape accessing my memories again! That git caused my brain to just be easier for Voldermort to access!" Harry pleaded.

"I'll be teaching you," Lily said smiling a little.

He looked at her, "fine," he said simply.

"Ok," Lily nodded, "you'd better go to breakfast, I'm sure people will have questions to ask you."

"All the more reasons not to go," Harry sighed but walked towards the door anyway, but stopped and turned around again, "can I ask you something?"

"You know you can," Lily said.

"What did you mean yesterday by you and dad having to recover?" he asked eagerly.

"Well, when Voldermort attacked, he didn't exactly use a feather," she smiled sadly.

"What did he do?"

"Used the Carciatus on us, multiple times," Lily said sadly looking at her hands, "James and I have never fully recovered from that, I sometimes have to use a cain to walk and your father has to take a particular potion everyday so he doesn't feel the pain. James was tortured more then I was."

"Wow…." Harry said breathless and terrified at the prospect of his handsome, strong father, writhing in pain on the floor to protect him. "I'm sorry mum…"

"For what? You didn't do anything," Lily said sadly.

"I know, but…" he didn't find any words but rushed over to her and hugged her. She hugged him back, smiling sadly.

"It's ok Harry," she comforted him stroking his back sweetly, "it's gonna be ok Harry."

"It never has, it never will be," he said.

"Oh come on, don't say that! You sound just like your father during the last war," she said, she lifted his head so she could stare into his eyes. "Like we said last night, the Order is stronger then ever! We'll be able to intercept any plan of his! But right now I need for you to focus on Occlumency."

He nodded trying to hide his tears but it was too late, his mother knew him, and pulled him into a hug again, "judging by what happened last time…You should be more then willing to learn how to block your mind, or someone is seriously gonna die this time."

"Sirius was lucky you guys were at the Ministry of Mysteries that night, what exactly happened?" he asked.

"Well…Your godfather immediately contacted us after he found out about what had happened, you going to rescue him and whatnot, we of course tagged along though undetected," Lily explained, "Sirius fell through the Veil, we were standing behind it…He was too injured to get up and Dumbeldore stopped you because he wasn't sure if we wanted you to know about us so we stayed hidden, nursing Sirius back to life. Then, after the Aurors and whatnot had arrived, Dumbeldore came back down and he took Sirius to St. Mungos. The rest you know."

"Yeah," he said thoughtfully, "that thought of Sirius dead…"

"Destroyed you, I know, I was disguised as Focks that day when Dumbeldore told you about the prophesy," she smiled, "James was with him in the hospital, I think you guys both were having the same reaction to Sirius."

"Wait a minute, you can disguise yourself as Focks?" he asked shocked.

She nodded smiling.

"When else were you Focks?"

"I was the one who came into the Chamber of Secrets," Lily smiled cheerfully watching her son's expression change from somewhat grim to happy.

"I see by what you meant about being there for me," he smiled, "were you anywhere near the Shrieking Shack that night?"

"Most of that year I was Crookshanks, that's why I helped Sirius or Padfoot, whatever you wanna cal the dog," she smiled, "James was there with you every step of the way though. He saw everything."

"Then why didn't he go after Pettigrew?"

"James was too busy trying to get Remus away from you kids, Sirius still wasn't exactly healthy to be able to take on a fully grown werewolf," Lily explained, "so James used Sirius a special signal to get him to drive the werewolf towards himself, in his state, Remus wouldn't recognize James."

"But why did Sirius follow Remus?"

"Loyalty and protectiveness is something Sirius and James have always shared, your godfather didn't want to let James take care of Moony alone, so that's why he followed him into the woods," Lily said patiently.

"So I did see dad that night! I wasn't going crazy!" Harry cried.

Lily laughed, "you did produce the Patronus but James was crossing your path when you did, so it reflected off him or something, I never fully understood what happened. But when James walked away from the Patronus, it still had held its stag form. We were both very proud of you sweetie."

Harry smiled delightfully. So he had seen James that night!

"Honey, you should go get some breakfast before classes start," the concerned mother said snapping Harry out of his thoughts.

"Ok, I'll see you in DADA," he smiled and left the room. He avoided eye contact with everyone he passed in the corridors. Everyone, for extremely obvious reasons, wanted to talk to him and ask him questions about his parents. He saw Ron and Hermoine sitting next to a couple of their Gryffindor mates on the House table for breakfast. Still keeping his head down, he walked towards them passing Draco Malfoy and the Slytherins.

"Did you tell her?" Ron asked as Harry squeezed between him and Hermoine.

"Yeah, she told me that she was going to start teaching me Occlumency again," he said sounding disappointed.

"Hey! Look on the bright side mate! You'll be able to spend more time with her!" Ron said clapping him on the back.

Harry smiled slightly, "yeah," he said. He looked up at the staff table, Lily had just taken her usual seat on Dumbeldore's left. It looked like she bid Dumbeldore a good morning, she then looked at the Gryffindor table to catch Harry's eye, she smiled pleasantly before turning her attention back to the Headmaster.

A few minutes later, Dumbeldore stood up, asking for silence from the students, which was given to him in a heartbeat. "Some of you may have gotten a chance to read the Daily Prophet and some of you have relied on gossip as your source of information about what happened here last night. It is true that James and Lily Potter are alive and well, it is also true that Sirius Black was here and that he is an innocent man, so if you see him, don't bother getting frightened for Mr. Black is an extremely pleasant man. Now, your parents may not want me to tell you exactly what happened last night, and I will not interfere with their decisions, if they are willing to tell you about what happened to the Potters, it is absolutely up to them. However, I must put to rest the rumor that Lily Potter is in fact Lily Caviezel, that rumor is true," he looked at Lily who was thoughtfully looking at a spot on the table cloth without blinking, she looked up and smiled when she heard her name.

"I will ask you all to refrain from bother Harry and Professor Potter about the occurrence of their reunion," Dumbeldore said kindly looking at every student, "thank you for your attention. You may resume eating your breakfast."

He sat back down and everyone's attention turned to talking to each other yet again. Only Harry, Ron and Hermoine were still looking at the Staff Table at the head of the hall. A door behind Hagrid opened and James walked in looking a bit grim considering that he finally had his son back.

He bent down close to his wife's ear and whispered something so powerful that it made her jump slightly in her seat. She then stood up and quietly walked out of the Hall following James, Dumbeldore followed after saying something to MaGonagll.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in light of some new occurrences, lessons are primarily canceled for know, please do not leave the Hall," the deputy Headmistress stated.

"What the bloody hell is going on?" Harry whispered.

AN: Sorry for the mini cliff hanger, hehe.