Title: The Map Never Lies

Chapter 5: Parents, Centaurs, and Divination

Author: Kokiri Hidorina

Authors Notes: At the bottom.

Warnings: Blood, mentions of rape, swearing

Spoilers: Books 1-5

Disclaimer: I own nothing of the sort.

"Hagrid, Lily's dead,"James stated. "And anyway, why would she kidnap her own flesh and blood? Her son no less?"

"Did you see where they were headed, Hagrid?"Dumbledore asked.

"Forbidden Forest, sir,"Hagrid answered.

"Then let's check it out, shall we?"Dumbledore asked.

When Harry opened his eyes, he was enveloped into a hug by a woman with red hair and emerald green eyes. His mother was holding him. He thought this was odd.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Harry, I thought you were a deatheater at Hagrids,"she said.

"That's ok,"said Harry. "Mum, what are you doing here?"

"Well, I was watching you and what Vernon was doing to you and James and I decided to act quickly. I couldn't let you live that live anymore,"she said, squeezing him tightly.

"Harry!"

Harry blinked. "That was Sirius…"

Lily looked around. "Where?"

Suddenly, he was enveloped into a huge hug by Sirius and James, and hollered in joy because he was safe.

"Guys, I'm fine, I was just talking to my mother,"Harry said.

Sirius glared at Lily. "What about you knocking him out?"

"I thought he was a deatheater…"

James and Remus sighed heavily. Sirius still had Harry wrapped in a hug, not wanting to let go of him. Lily noticed this and smiled. She also noticed that Sirius and Harry were really close, or so it seemed from her point of view.

"Can we go back now?"Harry asked.

Lily frowned. "What'll they do about us?"

"When we get back to the school I will have a Polyjuice Potion made for each of you. For now, just try and sneak past the students and staff,"Dumbledore instructed.

"I doubt Snape'll make a potion for them,"Sirius whispered to Harry, who giggled.

"I know,"Harry whispered. "Probably put poison in it."

That made Harry and Sirius laugh all the more and they earned a quizzical look from Lily and James.

"You'll see,"Harry and Sirius grinned.

"I wouldn't say anything else if I were you,"Remus glared.

"Ah, Moony, can't we have one day of fun making fun of old Snivellus even though you two are an item?"Sirius grinned as James started to make gagging noises.

"No wayMoony with old Snivelly?"

"Yes, and quit insulting him or I will have your head,"Remus growled as James backed off.

Lily smiled. "Well, at least someone is nice to him."

Sirius blinked. "I'm not cause he treats Harry horribly,"he said.

"How?"

"Deducts house points for nose reason, it's his greatest hobby to insult me and my friends,"Harry replied.

James growled. "I'd say it's time to play another little prank on him, what do you say Sirius?"he asked.

Sirius winked but Harry and Remus and Lily exchanged worried glances with one another.

"If you guys do anything to hurt him, I'll kill you,"Remus warned.

"Ah, Moony, we won't hurt him, just embarrass him is all,"Sirius said, grinning madly.

Remus was still very cautious with either of them before he noticed Harry had disappeared.

"Harry!"

When they looked over, they saw he was takjubg ti a centaur, and that made their eyes widen.

"We meet again, Harry Potter,"Firenze greeted.

"Hello Firenze. How are you?"

"Not good, really,"the centaur replied. "Dumbledore offered me the Divination subject at Hogwarts but the other centaurs don't like it."

"You mean since Trelawyney got fired you are replacing her?"Harry asked.

Firenze nodded.

"Why don't the other centaurs support you?"Harry asked.

"Because they think it is…unwise to help a human with their situations and they also don't like the idea of passing down our knowledge to humans,"Firenze replied.

"Oh…do you think you'll accept?"Harry asked, feeling sorry for the centaur.

"I don't know,"Firenze answered. "Even if I don't the herd'll betray me for even talking to humans."

Harry blinked. "Really? Then what about when we met before?"

"I was saving you from You-Know-Who at the time so they allowed me to see you."

"Oh…"

"Well I had better be off. Tell Hagrid hello for me,"Firenze said, and with that he was gone.

"Well, you knew a centaur, who knew,"James grinned.

"I thought he was gonna blast you to bits,"Sirius said, eyes wide.

Harry laughed. "He saved me from Voldemort in my first year,"he was shocked there were no winces at his name. Usually Ron cowered from it like hell.

"Can we go back now?"Harry whined.

"You really want Occlumency with that"Sirius was about to make a rude comment when he got a glare from Remus. "Nothing."

"I just don't want to lose house points,"Harry answered.

"Snivey teaches you Occlumency? Why?"James asked.

"Voldemort uses Legimency to read my mind and to send funny dreams and stuff there,"he replied as Lily looked horrified.

"What kind of dreams?"

"Ones where Voldemort attacks/murders people."

Lily hugged him. "Oh I'm so sorry you have to go through that."

"No, I actually saved lives because of these dreams,"Harry commented.

"Really?"

"Yeah, I saved my best friend's father from being killed by Voldemort."

"Who's your best friend?"

"Ron Weasley."

James grinned. "Weasley, eh?"

Harry grinned and nodded. "And I am pretty sure he's enjoying a good shag right about now,"he grinned again when some of them looked horrified.

"I always knew he and Hermione would end together!"Sirius exclaimed. "I was right!"

"For once,"James grinned.

"Be serious for once,"Remus said.

"I am, it says so on my birth certificate."

"That gets really old, Padfoot."

"I know."

Harry rolled his eyes. "Can we leave now!"he whined.

"This from the person who makes friends with centaurs and hippogriffs,"Sirius grinned as Harry punched him.

"Hippogriffs?"Lily looked horrified.

"Yeah…"Harry started. "Can we please explain it all at Hogwarts? I want to go back!"

Dumbledore chuckled. "All right, let's go."

And with that, they all walked back to Hogwarts.

TBC…

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