Disclaimer- If I owned Harry Potter, I would be hurrying up and finishing book 6.

Chapter 6

Is This Weird?

Lily and James slept uneasily that night. They could not believe what was to come in the future. The words of the book played over and over in their heads, like a broken record. James' dreams were interrupted by a abrupt shaking.

"Err, Jake. You need to get up. We have potions first thing this morning," Harry said. James slowly turned over to see himself waking him up. Then he saw the bright green eyes and remembered it was Harry. Sirius put up a fight to get up. He was moving for no one. Well, until James gave him a stinging hex in his back. Once ready, the guys met the girls down in the common room.

"How can you girls be so awake in the morning?" Sirius asked sleepily.

"Some of us don't need 10 hours of sleep a day,"Lily said.

"Plus, you guys did not come into late last night. What were you doing?" Harry asked. The four shared awkward glances.

"Err, homework," James said. He was always a terrible liar. Harry eyed him suspiciously.

"What else?" Harry asked slowly as they were exiting the common room.

"Read a book," Sirius said. Harry was not satisfied with that answer either. He knew Sirius hated to read.

"What book did you read?" Harry asked slowly.

"Wow, will you look at the time. We better hurry to breakfast," Sirius said. Hermione was just as suspicious as Harry now, and wanted to know what they did.

"Lily, what went on last night?" Hermione asked. Lily looked extremely guilty.

"Hermione, it was not my fault. Potter, that toerag, and Sirius found a book that you advised us not to read. The Rise and Fall Of The Dark Arts." Lily pleaded. Harry, Ron, and Hermione stopped walking.

"What?" they all said together in disbelief.

"Yeah, and they read it, and found out some stuff," she said.

"Some small tidbits of information," James said.

"Like Prongs is finally going to hook up with Lily," Sirius said happily. "It was about time too." Harry sighed.

"Dumbledore is going to kill me," Harry said. He took a moment before he asked, "What did you find out?"

"Umm, well, err, that Evans and I get married. That you are our son, and that we die, and you defeated the Dark Lord," James said quietly.

"I knew I forgot one of the books," Hermione said. "This is all my fault."

"No, it was mine. Prongs and I would of found out some other way," Sirius said. There was an awkward silence for the rest of the trip. They ate their breakfast in silence, and made their way to the dungeons. They were just about to enter the classroom before Ron asked Harry and Hermione something.

"Do they know who the potions professor is?" Ron asked. Hermione and Harry just realized they forgot something big.

"Potter, so good for you to finally join us. You and your friends are late, and I will take additional points for not telling the exchange students to arrive on time," Snape said.

"But, Professor Snape, we are on time. We have a minute," said Hermione. The four marauders were dumbstruck.

"Professor?!" all four of them exclaimed. Snape narrowed his eyes on them.

"Fine, I will take back the points, but if you are not in your seats in ten seconds," Snape said. All of them ran to their seats, except for James and Sirius.

"Snivellus? You are the potions professor?" James asked. Snape eyes flared with extreme loathing.

"Yes, Mr. Porter. Now, I suggest you and Mr. Brown take your seats before I have to contact the headmaster about your inappropriate outbursts," Snape snapped. James and Sirius unwillingly got into their seats.

"How come you didn't tell us Snivellus was the professor?" James asked Harry.

"It slipped my mind. I forgot for a second about your past," Harry said.

"How did you know Snivellus and I hated each other?" James asked.

"Well, everyone tells me how much Snape hated you, and that is why he hates me so much," Harry said. James got a guilty look on his face.

"Sorry," James said.

"Potter, Porter, 10 points from Gryffindor for speaking during class," Snape said.

"10 points!" Sirius said.

"5 points from Gryffindor, Mr. Brown," Snape said.

"That was unfair," James said angrily.

"5 more points, and if I hear you speak again, it will be detention for all of you," Snape said.

"They didn't do anything," James said.

"That's it, Mr. Porter. Potter, Weasley, Granger, Porter, Brown, Lucas, and Evanson, detention tonight," Snape said.

"Have fun in detention tonight, Potter," Malfoy said from behind them. Both James and Harry turned around.

"Stuff it, Malfoy," Harry said. He turned around to copy the ingredients off the board.

"Malfoy? As in Lucius Malfoy?" James whispered to Harry.

"His son, Draco Malfoy," Harry said.

"Who would marry Lucius?" Sirius asked. Harry hesitated for a second.

"Narcissa Black," Harry said. Sirius nearly had a heart attack.

"You mean I am related to Lucius, the sleezeball?" Sirius asked in disbelief. Harry nodded.

"Guys, you better be quiet. You already got me one detention, and I will have to hurt you if I get another," Lily snapped. The guys stayed quiet for the rest of the class. Lily was positively furious with them for the rest of the day. She would only speak with Ron, Hermione, and Remus. Great, Harry thought, I have just met my mother and she already won't talk to me. I am the worst person ever.

That night, they all reported to the dungeons for detention with Snape.

"Alright, I will divide you into pairs for separate detentions," Snape ordered. Sirius and James moaned a little, and praying that they would not have to be with Snape.

"Granger and Brown, you will go to the hospital wing and clean the bedpans. Lucas, Weasley, and Porter, you will stay in here with me and do what I say. Evanson and Potter, you will go to the trophy room and clean every trophy so that I can see my reflection," Snape ordered. Lily and Harry were escorted to the trophy room by Filch. He stayed in the room with them until he found out Peeves was breaking into his office. He quickly left after that, Mrs. Norris sulkily following him.

"I'm sorry, for landing you here," he told Lily as he was cleaning a trophy.

"I don't blame you, Harry," she said. She hesitated for a second before asking her question. "I have a question for you."

"What is it?" he asked. He was really hoping it was not about the future.

"Is this weird for you? I mean, I am your mother, and James is your father, and we are here," Lily said. Harry thought about it for a minute.

"A little. I never thought I would see you again, so that was kind of a shock. I am afraid of getting to know you, though," Harry said.

"Why?" Lily asked. Am I that bad? she asked herself.

"Because eventually, you will have to go back, and that will be like losing you all over again. And I have already been through that recently, and I do not feel like going through it again," said Harry sadly.

"Recently? What happened?" Lily asked. Harry knew he just said something he wasn't supposed to. He wanted to hit himself.

"Umm, it is another one of those things that I was forbidden to tell you," Harry said guiltily.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Lily said apologetically. There was a long silence before someone spoke again.

"I see you have my eyes," Lily said after a while.

"Yeah, everybody says that," Harry said smiling. Lily was in the middle of polishing an award when she realized what it said. SPECIAL SERVICES TO THE SCHOOL- HARRY POTTER.

"Harry, how did you get a special services to the school award?" Lily asked. Harry blushed a little.

"I got it in my second year," Harry said.

"In second year? You must have done something spectacular. What did you do?" Lily asked.

"It is a long story, but I saved a girl form the Chamber of Secrets," Harry said. Lily was shocked.

"Wow, and you were only twelve?" asked Lily in amazement. Harry nodded. She finished polishing his award.

"I'm sorry, Harry," Lily said softly.

"Why should you be sorry? I landed you in detention," said Harry simply.

"I was really rude to you before. I didn't give you a chance. I'm sorry," Lily said.

"It's fine," Harry said, shrugging it off.

"No, it isn't. What kind of person am I if I automatically judged people based on their names? I thought you were going to be just like James. Arrogant, trouble making, detention getting, hexing jerk," Lily said. It was weird for Harry to hear his mother talk so horribly about his father. It made him wonder if they would really end up together. "Oh, here I go again. James is your father, and I am insulting him," said Lily.

"Don't be so hard on yourself, Lily," Harry said, trying to get a piece of dirt off of the Head Girl plaque. Lily gave a sigh and moved to another trophy.

"Harry, since me and James died, who did you live with?" Lily asked. Harry hesitated to answer.

"Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon," Harry murmured. Lily gasped.

"With my horrid sister! She hates everything about magic!" Lily exclaimed. Harry nodded.

"Yeah. I was sent there the night of the attack," Harry said.

"Err, how did they treat you?" Lily asked cautiously.

"I'm not sure I can answer the question. That might interfere with some stuff in the past and change a lot," Harry said. If her told Lily about how they treated him, she might go into the past, get into a huge argument with her sister over something she has not done yet, and might completely refuse Harry when he is placed on her doorstep.

"I see," Lily said quietly. They finished the trophies in about a half hour. During that time, Harry explained the other teachers and their teaching methods.

"I thought they would of banished Binns by now, he has been dead forever," lily said as they entered the common room. Sirius and Hermione were already back. Hermione was finishing her homework while Sirius slept on the couch.

"Hey Hermione. How did your detention go?" Harry asked as he sat in the armchair.

"Well, Orion insisted to try and sneak magic and try and clean them that way. We almost got another detention when Madam Pomfrey caught him," Hermione said, glaring at the sleeping Sirius. "How about yours?"

"Pretty good, for detention standards. Filch left near the beginning because Peeves was trying to get into his office again," said Harry. He pulled out his Defense Against the Dark Arts essay and started it. By the time he was finished, Ron, James, and Remus came back into the room. All of them looked as if they had been to hell and back.

"That bad?" Harry asked as they came into the common room.

"Snape made us clean all of the cauldrons, organize his ingredients alphabetically, and scrub the floor, like muggles," Ron groaned. "AND I still have to the Transfiguration homework. When will I ever need to know the process of a table turning into a pig?"

"At some point in life, you will be thankful for all of this," Hermione said.

"Yeah, at some point," said Ron.

"Did you have fun at your detention, Evans?" James asked.

"Yes, Porter," Lily said, putting her books away. "I am going to go to bed."

"Ok, Lucy. See you up there in a bit," Hermione said. Lily gave a quick wave and went up the spiral staircase to the girls dormitory. She was greeted by Parvati and Lavender.

"Back from your detention, Lucy? How did it go?" Lavender asked.

"Ok. I spent it with Harry," Lily said.

"You're so lucky. Harry is one of the best looking guys in the school," Parvati said. "Don't you think so?" she asked. Lily did not want to think about it. It was her son.

"He is ok," Lily said.

"No, better than ok," Lavender said. "He also has that moody thing going. It can be quite annoying though at times."

"Yeah. After fifth year, he was depressed a lot. All he does now is mope around, and look at his photo album," said Parvati.

"Yeah. I even saw him cry once. He was by the lake, and I saw tears. Harry never cries," said Lavender.

"Why, did something happen?" Lily asked.

"Well, I think it was the culmination of everything he has been through," Lavender said.

"What has he gone through?" Lily asked.

"Lucy, you know the story of Harry Potter, right?" Parvati asked.

"Just the basis of it. I am a muggle born," Lily said.

"Ok, that explains some things," Lavender said. "Well, the cliff notes of what happened was that You-Know-Who came to his house, killed his dad and mum, tried to kill him, curse backfired, You-Know-Who fled, and Harry was left with a lightning scar, where the curse hit him," she explained.

"Oh, so that is where the scar is from," Lily said. They nodded.

"So, he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle on his mother side. We don't know much, since we are not great friends with him, but as far as Hermione told us, they treated him horribly," said Lavender. Oh my gosh, Petunia! She abused Harry! When I get back, I will curse her into tomorrow. She doesn't deserve to be engaged. Lily thought to herself.

"Yeah. They didn't even tell him he was a wizard for 10 years, even though they knew he was," Parvati added.

"Well, he came to Hogwarts with us, and battled a full grown mountain troll on Halloween, and won," Lavender said.

"A mountain troll?" Lily asked.

"Yeah. Then, he save the sorcerers stone from you-know-who and our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, who turned out to be a Death Eater," Parvati said.

"The sorcerers stone? Really?" Lily asked. She had read up about it, but she didn't think it actually existed. They nodded.

"In second year, everybody found out he was a parseltounge, and thought he was the Heir of Slytherin. Then, Ginny Weasley, Ron's little sister, was taken into the chamber. Harry went there and saved her life, by slaying a basilisk," Lavender said. Lily was amazed.

"In third year, some major stuff happened, but Hermione absolutely refused to tell us what," Parvati said. Hmm, probably what they won't tell us now, Lily thought.

"Fourth year, he became the fourth participant in the Triward Tournament," Lavender said.

"Fourth? But I thought there were only supposed to be 3?" Lily asked.

"There are only supposed to be three. But someone entered his name, even though he was underage and he became the fourth participant," Parvati said.

"Yep, he was in first almost the entire time. Then came the last part. The maze. He and a student at the time, Cedric Diggory, grabbed the cup at the same time, and transported him to some place. The only reason we know what happened there was because of an interview he gave last year to the Quibbler. He went there, and You-Know-Who killed Cedric. Then, You-Know-Who came back to life. No one believed him, but more became convinced after the interview. In it, he said his parents somehow came and helped him. I thought that part was a little far fetched, but who knows," Lavender said.

"Oh my gosh!" Lily exclaimed.

"Then last year, we were taking our OWLs, and he started screaming uncontrollably during the History of Magic one. No one saw him for another two days. We wanted to ask Harry what happened, but Hermione told us not to. She said his godfather died. She would not tell who, but we eventually found out from Neville who it was," said Lavender with a sly smile.

"Who was it?" Lily asked.

"Sirius Black," she responded. Lily nearly fainted right then and there. She collapsed onto her bed. Sirius must be who he was talking about before, she thought to herself.

"Wow, he has been through a lot," Lily said.

"Yeah, more than anyone should go through if you ask me," Parvati said. Hermione walked through the door at that moment.

"Hello, Lucy," Hermione said happily. She was quickly disheartened when she saw Lily's face. "Is everything ok?"

"I don't know," Lily said quietly. Lavender and Parvati were gossiping about the Ravenclaw boys, and was paying not attention to Lily anymore.

"What happened?" Hermione asked sympathetically.

"Sirius is dead?" Lily asked quietly. She nodded slowly.

"How did you find out?" Hermione asked worried. She pointed her hand to the gossiping girls.

"Of course, I should of known. What else did you find out?" asked Hermione.

"Pretty much the entire Harry Potter story, cliff notes version," Lily said. Hermione understood. Only they would know what Cliff Notes were because of their muggle heritage.

"Oh, I see," Hermione said.

"He has been through a lot hasn't he?" Lily asked. Hermione nodded sadly. "Umm, was he close with Sirius?"

"Yes. Very. Since Harry did not get a chance to know his father, Sirius found him during our third year, and kind of became that void Harry had been missing. He was like the father he never had," Hermione said slowly.

"It must have been horrible for him to lose him," Lily said sadly.

"Lily, with me telling you all of this, you have to promise you will not tell the others, especially Sirius. Think how hard it was for you to find out you were dead," Hermione said. Lily nodded.

"I promise. It is just so awful. No parents, and the closest thing dead," said Lily. "And that awful you-know-who trying to kill him every year."

"Yeah. He has been really depressed since 5th year. He has lightened up some, but not a lot. He hardly ever smiles, and when he does, he feel he is betraying Sirius' and his parents memory. The happiest I have seen him was probably the past two days, when you guys were here," Hermione said. "But, he blames himself for your deaths."

"What? How can he blame himself? He did not want it to happen," Lily said.

"You try telling that to Harry," Hermione said. She gave a small yawn. "I am going to bed. I will talk to you tomorrow."

"Good night," Lily said. She went to bed herself a few minutes after. She did not fall asleep for sometime. When she did though, she had a fuzzy dream. It involved a veil, a black haired man, a red light, and a screaming boy. Lily woke up in the middle of the night, screaming. At the same time, Harry woke up from screaming too, from a very similar dream.