A/N:
Disclaimer: All characters apart from the ones that are made up belong to JK and Warner Bros.
All events and places that refer to the books also belong to JK and Warner Bros.
This storyline (except events in books 1 to 5) is 100 mine and has come out of my tiny little brain.
Summary: Harry has defeated Voldemort and he leaves the wizarding world after graduating because all is not well there. He returns after a year and discovers that his life has changed dramatically. Theres a new enemy but who is it? There's also romance in his life and he has to learn to live with the fame and fortune that he has gained since leaving Hogwarts. How will Harry deal with all this and his best friends upcoming wedding all at the same time. Harry learns that One night REALLY can change everything in a persons life.
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RaI'DeE PoYnT3r - Thanks for reading and reviewing. Lol. I think it's a thing that dad's have to be overprotective of their little girls. Not that I would actually know seeing as I don't see my dad but maybe it's a thing they develop when their daughters are growing up.
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Jackuon - Thanks for reading and reviewing. I tired to keep it as a younger Harry and co but with them having babies it was getting boring to write and I kept thinking of things to happen but once I had thought them through I realised that it could only happen when the kids were older. I really feel for Peyton when I write the bullying scenes between her and Maddy, I think once I even cried while writing it. I'm glad to see that you're liking the story though.
And in this chapter I have borrowed the scene from OotP. That is so totally not mine no matter however hard I wish!
Anyways now onto our feature presentation. Here's Chapter 28! Enjoy.
Chapter 28 - Lily Evans and James Potter
The next morning Peyton and Maddy were shaken awake by Mrs Weasley.
All of that morning was taken up by the twins running around the house packing their things in to their Hogwarts trunks.
"Girls, can you come down here please?" Mrs Weasley called to them.
The girls went down the stairs and into the kitchen where they saw Harry standing by the fireplace.
Peyton hugged her Dad whilst Maddy stood at the door.
"Maddy, what's up?" Harry asked.
"I told you, I want nothing to do with you. And no amount of playing Quidditch together is going to change that."
"Look, come here. I have something to show you girls. Ellie already knows about this - she's seen it too."
Maddy walked over to where Harry and Peyton was standing and saw a shallow stone basin on the the table with runes and symbols carved around the edge that the twins didn't recognise.
Inside the basin was a bright silvery substance.
Harry looked over to the girls and read their thoughts.
"This is a pensieve, people put their thoughts and memories into them and well I want to show you something."
Harry told the twins to hold hands and pulled out his wand.
He gave the substance a prod and held Peyton's hand before gazing into the bowl.
Harry seemed satisfied with something and told the girls to take a deep breath and hold on to each other tightly.
He then took a gulp of air and plunged his head into the pensieve.
The kitchen seemed to disappear and Harry, Peyton and Maddy were falling through darkness into Harry's thoughts.
When they stopped they found that they were standing in the Great Hall.
They looked around and saw a fifteen year old Harry standing a few feet away.
They watched as the younger Harry made his way over to a fifteen or sixteen year old student that looked oddly familiar.
"Where are we?" Maddy asked.
"Snape's Defense Against the Dark Arts OWL" Harry replied.
Maddy looked around and saw the familiar hooked nose and the lank and greasy hair that all three of them knew all too well.
"Five more minutes!"
Peyton and Maddy turned round and saw Professor Flitwick moving between the desks.
They all watched as young Harry moved across the hall and stop in front of a desk that was occupied by a boy with very messy black hair.
Peyton followed Maddy and her Dad and they too stopped at the same desk.
"Dad, it's you" Peyton said.
"No - that's me" he said whilst pointing at young Harry, "look closer."
Both girls looked closer and realised who the boy was.
Both girls looked at the boy and took in his hazel eyes, his nose that was just a bit longer than their father's nose, the same thin face, mouth, eyebrows, his hair that stuck up at the back exactly like their Dad's hair.
Maddy looked at the boy's forehead and realised something.
"Harry, is this?" she asked.
"Is this who?" Harry replied.
Peyton realised that this was not her Dad but her...
"Grandad" she breathed.
Harry nodded then said "watch, don't talk."
Both girls nodded to show that they understood then watched as James yawned hugely and rumpled up his hair, making it even messier than it had been.
Then, with a glance towards Professor Flitwick, he turned in his seat and grinned at a boy sitting four seats behind him.
"Who's that?" Maddy asked.
"Shhh, explain later."
They watched as Sirius gave James the thumbs up.
Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs.
He was very good looking; his hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James's nor Harry's could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed.
And two seats along from this girl was Remus Lupin.
"That's Uncle Remus" Peyton said earning herself another shush from Harry.
He looked rather pale and peaky and was absorbed in the exam; as he re-read his answers, he scratched his chin with the end of his quill, frowning slightly.
The girls saw the young Harry look around the hall and spot someone - a small mousy-haired boy with a pointed nose - Wormtail.
Wormtail looked anxious; he was chewing his fingernails, staring down at his paper, scuffing the ground with his shoes.
Every now and then he glanced hopefully at his neighbour's paper.
They all watched as the young Harry stared at Wormtail for a moment, then back at James, who was now doodling on a bit of scrap parchment.
They looked down at the parchment and saw that he had drawn a snitch and was now writing the letters 'L.E.'.
"Quills down, please!" squeaked Professor Flitwick. "That means you too, Stebbins! Please remain seated while I collect your parchment! Accio!"
Over a hundred rolls of parchment zoomed into the air and into Professor Flitwick's outstretched arms, knocking him backwards off his feet.
Several people laughed (including the twins).
A couple of students at the front desks got up, took hold of Professor Flitwick beneath the elbows and lifted him back onto his feet.
"Thank you ... thank you" panted Professor Flitwick. "Very well, everybody, you're free to go!"
The three unknown visitors looked at James who had now crossed the 'L.E.' out and had jumped to his feet, stuffing his quill and the exam paper into his bag, which he slung over his back, and stood waiting for Sirius to join him.
They watched as young Harry looked around and followed his gaze to Snape a short distance away, moving between the tables towards the doors to the Entrance Hall, still absorbed in his own exam paper.
Round-shouldered yet angular, he walked in a twitchy manner that was like a spider, and his oily hair was jumping about his face.
A gang of chattering girls seperated Snape from James, Sirius and Lupin and by planting himself in their midst, the young Harry, the twins and Harry managed to keep him in sight whilst straining their ears to catch the voices of James and his friends.
"Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the Entrance Hall.
"Loved it" said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question."
"D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern.
"Think I did" said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds.
"One: he's sitting in my chair. Two: he's wearing my clothes. Three: his name's Remus Lupin."
Wormtail was the only one who didn't laugh.
"I got the snout shape, the pupils of the eyes and the tufted tail" he said anxiously, "but I couldn't think what else -"
"How thick are you, Wormtail?" said James impatiently. "You run around with a werewolf once a month -"
"Keep your voice down" implored Lupin.
Harry, Peyton and Maddy saw the young Harry look anxiously behind him.
Snape was still there, still buried in his exam questions.
They all followed as James and his three friends strode off down the lawn towards the lake, Snape was still following, still pouring over the exam paper and apparantly no fixed idea of where he was going.
"Well I thought that paper was a piece of cake" they heard Sirius say. "I'll be surprised if I don't get 'outstanding' on it at least."
"Me too" said James.
He put his hand in his pocket and took out a struggling Golden Snitch.
"Where'd you get that?"
"Nicked it" said James casually.
He started playing with the Snitch, allowing it to fly as much as a foot away before siezing it again; his reflexes were excellent.
Wormtail watched him in awe.
They stopped in the shade of the very same beech tree on the edge of the lake where Harry, Ron and Hermione had once spent a Sunday finishing their homework, and threw themselves down on the grass.
Again the young Harry looked over his shoulder and looked for Snape.
Snape had settled himself on the grass in the dense shadow of a clump of bushes.
He was as deeply immersed in the OWL paper as ever, which left the young Harry free to sit down on the grass between the beech and the bushes and watch the foursome under the tree.
The sunlight was dazzling on the smooth surface of the lake, on the bank of which the group of laughing girls who had just left the Great Hall were sitting, with their shoes and socks off, cooling their feet in the water.
Lupin had pulled out a book and was reading.
Sirius stared around at the students milling over the grass, looking rather haughty and bored, but handsomely so.
James was still playing with the Snitch, letting it zoom further and further away, almost escaping but always grabbed at the last second.
Wormtail was watching him with his mouth open.
Every time James made a particularly difficult catch, Wormtail gasped and applauded.
After five minutes of this, all of the onlookers seemed to have the same thought - why didn't James tell Wormtail to get a grip on himself, but James looked as though he was enjoying the attention.
They all noticed that he had a habit of rumpling up his hair - it was as though he did it to keep his hair from getting too tidy, and he also kept looking over at the girls by the water's edge.
"Put that away, will you" said Sirius finally, as James made a fine catch and Wormtail let out a cheer, "before Wormtail wets himself with excitement."
Wormtail turned slightly pink, but James grinned.
"If it bothers you" he said, stuffing the Snitch back in his pocket.
It gave the impression that Sirius was the only one for whom James would have stopped showing off.
"I'm bored" said Sirius. "Wish it was full moon."
"You might" said Lupin darkly from behind his book. "We've still got Transfiguration, if you're bored you could test me. Here ..." and he held out his book.
But Sirius snorted. "I don't need to look at this rubbish, I know it all."
"This'll liven you up, Padfoot" said James quietly. "Look who it is ..."
Sirius's head turned. He became very still, like a dog that has scented a rabbit.
"Excellent" he said softly. "Snivellus."
The twins watched as young Harry turned to see what Sirius was looking at.
Snape was on his feet again, and was stowing the OWL paper in his bag.
As he left the shadows of the bushes and set off across the grass, Sirius and James stood up.
Lupin and Wormtail remained sitting: Lupin was still staring down at his book, though his eyes were not moving and a faint frown line had appeared between his eyebrows; Wormtail was looking from Sirius and James to Snape with a look of avid anticipation on his face.
"All right, Snivellus?" said James loudly.
Snape reacted so fast it was as though he had been expecting an attack: dropping his bag, he plunged his hand inside his robes and his wand was halfway into the air when James shouted, "Expelliarmus!"
Snapes wand flew twelve feet into the air and fell with a little thud in the grass behind him.
Sirius let out a bark of laughter.
"Impedimenta!" he said, pointing his wand at Snape, who was knocked off his feet halfway through a dive towards his own fallen wand.
Students all around had turned to watch.
Some of them had got to their feet and were edging nearer.
Some looked apprehensive, others entertained.
Snape lay panting on the ground.
James and Sirius advanced on him, wands raised, James glancing over his shoulder at the girls at the water's edge as he went.
Wormtail was on his feet now, watching hungrily, edging around Lupin to get a clearer view.
"How'd the exam go, Snivelly?" said James.
"I was watching him, his nose was touching the parchment" said Sirius viciously. "There'll be great grease marks all over it, they won't be able to read a word."
Several people watching laughed; Snape was clearly unpopular.
Wormtail sniggered shrilly.
Snape was trying to get up, but the jinx was still operating on him; he was struggling, as though bound by invisible ropes.
"You - wait" he panted, staring up at James with an expression of purest loathing, "you - wait!"
"Wait for what?" said Sirius coolly. What're you going to do, Snivelly, wipe your nose on us?"
Snape let out a stream of mixed swear words and hexes, but with his wand ten feet away nothing happened.
"Wash out your mouth" said James coldly. "Scourgify!"
Pink soap bubbles streamed from Snape's mouth at once; the froth was covering his lips, making him gag, choking him -
"Leave him ALONE!"
James and Sirius looked around.
James's free hand immediately jumped to his hair.
It was one of the girls from the lake edge.
She had thick, dark red hair that fell to her shoulders, and startlingly green almond shaped eye's - Harry's eyes.
Harry's mother - the twins knew this immediately.
"Leave him alone" Lily repeated.
She was looking at James with every sign of dislike. "What's he done to you?"
"Well" said James, appearing to deliberate the point, "it's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean ..."
Many of the surrounding students laughed, Sirius and Wormtail included, but Lupin, still apparantly intent on his book, didn't, and nor did Lily.
"You think you're funny" she said coldly.
"But you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone."
"I will if you go out with me, Evans" said James quickly. "Go on... go out with me and I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again."
Behind him, the Impediment Jinx was wearing off.
Snape was beginning to inch towards his fallen wand, spitting out soapsuds as he crawled.
"I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid" said Lily.
"Bad luck, Prongs" said Sirius briskly, and turned back to Snape "OI!"
But too late; Snape had directed his wand straight at James; there was a flash of light and a gash appeared on the side of James's face, spattering his robes with blood.
James whirled about: a second flash of light later, Snape was hanging upside down in the air, his robes falling over his head to reveal skinny, pallid legs and a pair of greying underpants.
Many people in the small croud cheered - the twins were laughing so hard that they both thought that their sides were going to split; Sirius, James and Wormtail roared with laughter.
Lily, whose furious expression had twitched for an instant as though she was going to smile, said, "let him down!"
"Certainly" said James and he jerked his wand upwards; Snape fell into a crumpled heap on the ground.
Disentangling himself from his robes he got quickly to his feet, wand up, but Sirius said, "Petrificus Totalus!" and Snape keeled over again, rigid as a board.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Lily shouted.
She had her own wand out now.
James and Sirius eyed it warily.
"Ah, Evans, don't make me hex you" said James earnestly.
"Take the curse off him, then!"
James sighed deeply, then turned to Snape and muttered the counter-curse.
"There you go" he said, as Snape struggled to his feet. "You're lucky Evans was here, Snivellus -"
"I don't need help from filthy little mudbloods like her!"
Lily blinked.
"Fine" she said coolly. "I won't bother in future. And I'd wash your pants if I were you, Snivellus."
"Apologise to Evans!" James roared at Snape, his wand pointed threateningly at him.
"I don't want you to make him apologise" Lily shouted, rounding on James. "You're as bad as he is."
"What?" yelped James. "I'd NEVER call you a - you-know-what!"
"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you've just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can - I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK!"
She turned on her heal and hurried away.
"Evans!" James shouted after her. "Hey, EVANS!"
But she didn't look back.
"What is it with her?" said James, trying and failing to look as though this was a throw away question of no real importance to him.
"Reading betwen the lines, I'd say she thinks you're a bit conceited, mate" said Sirius.
"Right" said James, who looked furious now, "right -"
There was another flash of light, and Snape was again hanging upside down in the air.
"Who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?"
Suddenly the kitchen materialised around Harry and the twins and the twins looked at their father very confused.
You see that little button down there. Well it's lifelong wish is to be pushed. You know you want to make the button happy. So grant it it's wish and push it to leave a review! DUN DUN DUUUUUN! Will the twins ask Harry what that was? How will Harry react to their reactions? And what happens when they go back to school? Find out in Chapter 29!