By SilverWolf7007
Gryffindor Common Room
Harry arrived just outside the Common Room, along with Lily and James, at the exact same time as Draco and the Slytherins.
Draco blinked rapidly after seeing Lily and James, and turned to Harry. "Am I hallucinating, or are your parents standing right behind you?"
"They're really there, Draco." Harry smirked. "I'm rather disappointed that you didn't faint."
The blond glared at him. "Oh come off it Harry, I'm not some weak-willed Gryffindor. If anyone's going to faint from the sight of them, it's going to be someone already in your Common Room."
Harry shrugged. "You're probably right. Either way, we ought to get on with this."
Blaise Zabini, standing at Draco's side, nodded. "Yeah. I think that if I have to stand around here any longer I may actually fall asleep. And there's nowhere comfortable to do so out here."
Before Harry could tell the fat lady the password, though, the portrait flew open and Cedric flew out, landing on his butt.
"Ow."
Harry raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing down there, Diggory?"
Cedric glared up at him. "Get a less violent best friend, already. Ron Weasley is mean."
Harry blinked. "Ron? Mean? Ron's as harmless as a first-year Hufflepuff in a fluffy pink bunny suit. What could he have done to you?"
The ex-Hufflepuff pouted. "He thought I was You-Know-Who disguised as me to get to you!"
"Did that make sense to anyone?" Blaise wondered.
Cedric rolled his eyes. "To accommodate for your tiny Slytherin brain capacity – "
"Hey!" yelled the offended majority of the Slytherins. Crabbe and Goyle merely blinked in confusion (as big words like 'accommodate', 'capacity' and 'brain' tended to bewilder them).
"Ahem. Sorry. But anyway, Harry, d'you think you could convince Ron that I'm not evil?"
Harry shrugged. "I'll try, Cedric, but I can't guarantee anything. Ron can be as stupid as Crabbe and Goyle when the mood strikes him."
The blond grinned suddenly. "On the other hand, I think seeing Colin Creevey fainting was worth getting kicked out on my arse."
"Thank god someone fainted," Harry muttered.
Blaise nodded. "Fainting is always fun to see."
Cedric gave them a dirty look for interrupting before he continued to speak. "And some of the pictures I got are absolutely priceless!"
James raised an eyebrow. "You took pictures? Where'd you get a camera?"
"I lent him mine," Harry answered. "C'mon, let's get this party started!"
And so, Harry, Cedric, James, Lily, Draco and Blaise led the Slytherins into the Gryffindor Common Room.
"Argh!" Ron yelled, looking terrified. "Harry! You-Know-Who is here, pretending to be Cedric Diggory!"
Most of the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws watched, wondering how this was going to play out.
The guests from out of the school moved closer, but didn't speak.
Those who had just entered looked unimpressed, except for Cedric (who was glaring at Ron and trying not to sulk about the fact that no one ever believed him about anything), James, Draco and Blaise (who were laughing hysterically) and Lily, who was frowning at Ron in disapproval.
Harry raised an eyebrow. "Er, Ron?"
The red head seemed to have calmed down a little. "Yes Harry?"
"You do know that when Voldemort is near I get a massive headache?"
"Well, yes."
"I don't have one now. I can assure you that this is really Cedric Diggory."
"Oh." Ron looked highly embarrassed, but it was then that he laid eyes on James and Lily. "Um, Harry? Is that who I think..."
Harry nodded, smirking ever so slightly. "Yep. Everyone, meet my parents; James and Lily Potter."
Ron fainted.
So did Colin, Hermione, Ginny, Lavender, Parvati, Padma, Lisa and Luna.
Dean, Terry, and Neville pinched themselves. "Ow!" they all cried, obviously discovering that no, they weren't dreaming. Terry and Dean then proceeded to faint, while Neville smiled and waved at Lily (as James was still laughing at Cedric and had collapsed on the ground, where he was being sent odd looks from Draco and Blaise, who had calmed down).
Lucius groaned. "Oh crap. The Potters. This is just what I need!" Suddenly he brightened up considerably. "On the other hand, four torturers are better than three! This is just what I need!"
Sirius gaped at them. "James? Lily?" He frowned. "James! You prat! You owe me twenty galleons!"
Lily narrowed her eyes at them both. "Have you two been placing bets again?"
"It was twenty years ago, Lils, I don't think it counts," Sirius informed her.
Remus nodded in their direction from his seat by the fire. "Hey guys."
"Hey, Moony," James said back.
"Remy!" Lily shrieked, leaping onto his lap and hugging him.
Remus's eyes widened and he slowly began turning blue from lack of air. "Lils...need...air...must...breathe..."
Lily pulled back and stood up, looking sheepish. "Sorry Remy. Didn't mean to suffocate you."
He grinned back, having caught his breath. "No worries Lils. It's not like you've never done it before."
James sighed. "Will someone please tell me why no one seems to be surprised to see us?"
Harry shrugged. "You mean aside from those who pinched themselves and/or fainted? No idea." He looked over at Lucius. "Have you told Sirius and Remus yet?"
Lucius shook his head. "No, I haven't had the chance."
"Tell us what?" Remus asked.
"I have someone here that you might want to speak with. You too, James. And maybe even Lily."
Sirius looked hopeful. "Does he have fleas?"
Lucius groaned. "I was trying to forget about that, but yes. Harry, can we borrow your dorm?"
Harry nodded, grinning. "Sure. Have fun, and don't get anything dirty."
Sirius and Remus followed Lucius up the stairs.
James turned to Harry. "You sure you don't mind if we're torturing during your party?"
"Of course I don't! If I weren't a host here, and the only Gryffindor who can stand the Slytherins, I'd be joining you."
"Thanks kid. I always knew you'd turn out all right." He ran up the stairs.
"Use a silencing charm!" Harry yelled after him. A muffled yell of "Okay" confirmed that James had heard him. He turned to Lily. "Not going to join them, Mum?"
She shook her head. "No, I'll let the boys have their fun."
Harry grinned at her. "I'm glad someone decided to stick around." He glanced down at the four boys and seven girls lying unconscious on the floor. "Could someone wake them up, please?"
Most people merely exchanged reluctant looks, knowing perfectly well that Hermione would probably begin firing questions at a high volume the second that she regained consciousness.
Lily, not knowing this, sighed impatiently. "I'll do it."
Instead of using an awakening spell, Lily conjured several buckets full of ice-cold water, which she proceeded to dump over the eleven students. The buckets vanished.
The girls all gasped and sputtered, while Dean and Terry used drying charms on themselves.
Remaining out cold on the floor were Colin and Ron.
Lily glared.
Harry sighed, and walked over to where they were lying. "Ron," he said quietly. "Hermione's naked."
Ron sat up quickly. "What? Where!" Seeing Hermione glaring at Harry while fully clothed, he turned and glowered at his smirking best friend. Harry ignored him and moved over to Colin.
"Hey Colin," he said. "Snape's in here looking for your camera."
Colin didn't move.
"Ginny's wearing nothing but a g-string?" he tried. Ginny gave him a dirty look, but Colin didn't react.
"Draco's wearing nothing but a g-string."
"Hey!" the blond protested. Ron started to gag at the thought, and Cedric slowly raised an eyebrow.
Harry shrugged. "It was worth a try." He turned back to Colin. "You're missing Potions."
Colin still didn't wake, and Harry threw up his hands in defeat. "I give up! I wanna party!"
The Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Slytherins cheered, grabbing drinks. Someone turned on some music, and people began to dance and chat.
"Then party we shall!" Seamus exclaimed brightly. "Who wants a Butterbeer?"
Colin sat up abruptly. "Butterbeer? Where?"
Harry groaned and grabbed a bottle of firewhisky from the table Seamus had sat the drinks on. "I am now going to get very, very, very drunk. Don't bug me."
Lily snatched his bottle before he'd have a chance to start. "Oh no you don't young man. I am not going to have my son getting drunk!"
Harry looked at her steadily. "Mum," he said evenly. "I have had a very stressful year. The last five minutes were just the last straw. Now give me the goddamn alcohol before I hex you to Australia and leave you there to be eaten by kangaroos!"
"Kangaroos don't eat people, or meat for that matter," Hermione informed him.
He glared at her. "Hermione, I KNOW THAT!"
Her eyes widened. "Oh god. It's finally happened. Harry's snapped!"
Blaise rolled his eyes. "No he hasn't. He just wants to drink himself into oblivion and wake up with a hangover worse than any he's ever had before."
Lily turned to face the Slytherin. "He's been hung over before?" she demanded.
Harry glared at his friend, who gulped.
Colin stood up and grabbed a Butterbeer. Harry turned his glare on him instead of Blaise. Colin, not used to being subjected to a full-fledged Harry Potter Death Glare, did the only thing that made sense to him at the time. He fainted.
"I just realised something!"
Lily, Harry, Seamus, Hermione, Draco, Blaise, Ron, and Ginny turned to Cedric.
"What?" Harry asked, narrowing his eyes.
Cedric didn't seem to notice that he'd earned a mild Death Glare. "I've let Lucius, James, Remus and Sirius torture Peter Pettigrew without me! The arsehole rat killed me, and I'm not even helping!"
Harry suddenly lost his Glare and grinned at the ex-Hufflepuff instead. "You're right, Cedric. When you get up there, give the rat an extra kick for me, will you?"
The blond nodded. "Sure thing, Harry," he said cheerfully before bounding away and running up the staircase.
They heard a door open, and then close. There was no doubt that Wormtail was getting what he deserved.
Lily grabbed eight glasses and began pouring whiskey. "We might as well join the party, I suppose," she sighed.
Harry smirked, but didn't let his mother see. He'd known she'd come around eventually.
The Great Hall
Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall were, as usual, the first to show up in the Great Hall for dinner.
At least, they thought they were. But once sitting at the staff table, they glanced up at the ceiling, only to see someone else had beaten them.
Severus Snape, however, was unaware that he had done so, as he was glued to the ceiling.
Minerva blinked in shock. "Is it just me, Albus or is Severus up there wearing nothing but Gryffindor boxer shorts?"
Albus seemed unfazed by the odd location and attire of his Potions Master. "It's not just you. I wonder who put him up there?"
She snorted. "Do you?" she said irritably. "I personally think it's your new DADA professor, one of his partners in crime, or perhaps his wife."
"Why Minerva, I do believe that you may be correct. Care to bet on which?"
"Ten Galleons on Lily."
He raised an eyebrow. "I rather favour Sirius myself."
"I'm putting my money on James," Filius Flitwick commented as he hoisted himself onto his chair.
Amanda Hooch, who had come in with him, shook her head. "I'm with Minnie. It was Lily."
"I'm leaning towards Remus," Poppy Pomfrey put in.
"If I tell you who wins the money, will someone get me down?"
The five of them looked up at Severus in unison. He glared.
Amanda sighed, stood up and levitated the Potions Master down.
Once on his feet, Severus charmed his boxers a plain black, and conjured himself some robes, which he donned immediately.
When he was done, he looked up abruptly to see that he was being stared at by five of his colleagues. "What?" he snapped.
"Who won?" Albus asked.
Severus rolled his eyes. "Minerva and Amanda. It was Lily."
Albus, Poppy and Filius groaned as they each pulled out their money.
Voldemort's Evil Lair
Daniel Parkinson was lucky. He'd only been forced to endure the Tickling Charm for the past ten minutes, until Voldemort had gotten bored. For Voldemort, this was an oddly short amount of time.
Brian Avery wasn't entirely sure why Voldemort was suddenly changing his plans, but he guessed that it had something to do with the letter that had been delivered by a snowy owl he'd never seen before just minutes ago.
"Death Eaters," Voldemort called. Everyone looked up. "We have, it seems, been invited to a party in the Gryffindor Common Room."
Avery blinked. He hadn't been expecting that. He exchanged a glance with Dan. The other man just shrugged.
"There are no Hufflepuffs, and no students under fifth year. I have decided that I will attend. Anyone who wishes to accompany me may do so, but it is certainly not compulsory."
Avery glanced down at his orange tutu. "May I get changed before we go, M'Lord?
Voldemort nodded. "Of course, Avery. I don't think I'd want to be wearing a tutu in front of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy either."
Dan moved to where Avery was standing. "I think I'll come too. If only to tell people embarrassing stories about Pansy when she was little."
Josephine Zabini, usually called Joe, gave a little squeal. "Ooooh, I think I'll come so I can do the same thing to Blaise!"
Avery grinned. "Sounds like fun. Sam'll hate me, but, oh well."
Melanie Nott shrugged. "I don't see the attraction of embarrassing one's own children, and I wont do so to my son, but I will be coming to this party."
Bellatrix Lestrange, having recently escaped Azkaban, also stepped over to the small group. "A party sounds like fun. Who's the host?"
Voldemort grinned. "Would you believe that it's Harry Potter himself?"
The Death Eaters stared, and a recently resurrected Evan Rosier choked on his coke, managing to drop his can right on Flint's head as he did so.
Evan moved over to the group as a new blond Death Eater we're going to call SockPart so not to reveal his true name, asked a question. "Are we going to kill him at this party?"
Voldemort slowly turned and stared at the man, and all the other Death Eaters moved away. "Have you no manners, Lockhart? One does not get invited to a party and murder the host! Of course we aren't going to kill him! Nor are we going to torture him. Or anyone else, for that matter!"
SockPart, now revealed to be none other that Gilderoy Lockhart, cringed.
"You will not be joining us at the party, Lockhart. Now go away before I'm forced to kill you using a toothpick and some duct tape."
Lockhart, not wanting to find out how you killed a person with a toothpick and some duct tape, quickly left the room.
Voldemort stood up. "We shall go now. We don't want to keep Harry waiting.
He headed to he Apparition point, followed by Avery (now wearing much more appropriate clothing), Dan Parkinson, Joe Zabini, Nott, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Evan Rosier.
Gryffindor Common Room
"You WHAT?"
Harry frowned at his mother, Hermione, Ginny and Ron. "I invited Voldemort and a few of his Death Eaters."
Draco sighed. "That'll be fun," he said sarcastically.
Seamus nodded, ignoring the sarcasm. "Yeah, it sure will!"
Blaise and Pansy (who had joined their little group not long after Cedric left) groaned.
"You invited my father and Blaise's mother," Pansy informed him.
Harry nodded. "Yep, I sure did! I also invited Evan Rosier, because he's been resurrected."
Lily raised an eyebrow. "And you know this how?"
Her son just smirked at her. "Why Mother, I wouldn't dream of telling you such a thing!"
"Brat," she muttered.
Hedwig flew in suddenly, with a piece of parchment.
Harry took it from her and read Voldemort's note.
'Harry,
Thanks for the invite, HQ was getting boring. I'm coming, along with Brian Avery, Daniel Parkinson, Josephine Zabini, Melanie Nott, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Evan Rosier.
See you when we get there,
Voldemort'
He grinned at Pansy, Blaise, and the nearby Jason Nott and Samuel Avery.
Jason, seeing the grin, joined them looking panicked, followed by Sam. "What's happening?"
Harry smirked. "Your mum, Blaise's mum, Pansy's dad, Sam's dad, Voldemort, and a few other Death Eaters are coming to our party."
The four of them stared at him in horror.
Seamus, however, was giving him an odd look. "There's something that I want to know."
Harry raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"Well," the Irish boy began slowly, "Voldemort's minions are called Death Eaters. Dumbledore opposes him, and thus is considered his opposite. Does that mean that Dumbledore's lackeys are called Life Eaters?"
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