Nobody could move or think more than one thought. How is it possible?
Sirius and James looked like they both were going to strangle Harry and Lily was trying to control her anger. Sirius yelled at his godson, who was near his bed with his cloak blown off.
"HARRY WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT? WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?" yelled Sirius.
Lily blew up next. "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU WERE YELLING ABOUT GETTING YOURSELF KILLED?"
Harry didn't like to get yelled at but this was too much. His family whole again; just like that? He really wasn't looking forward to getting yelled at by James.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER, WHAT DID YOU MEAN THAT YOU WANTED TO BE KILLED? WE DIED TO SAVE YOU SO YOU COULD LIVE, NOT BE KILLED BECAUSE YOU WERE UNHAPPY!" He took a breath trying to become calm. "We died to save you because we wanted you to live. It didn't matter if you were unhappy, as long you were alive."
Sirius and Lily were now trying to become calm like James. Harry was looking from James to Lily and then back to Sirius. He knew that it was Sirius because he knows what Sirius looks like in person. But his mom and dad? Could his family really be back from the dead?
Mostly everyone couldn't think that straight but a few like Remus and Dumbledore could. Dumbledore spoke up.
"How did this happen?"
The three looked at each other. They didn't remember anything but Harry yelling, and the night when they were killed.
Harry's mind was taking this in slowly. He heard Dumbledore's question but he wasn't thinking about anyone but his dad, mom and godfather. How can they be alive? People who are dead are supposed to stay dead, not come back.
He stopped thinking because he found a few people staring at him. They were his friends. He didn't need to hear them to know what they were thinking. All he had to do is look at their eyes and they would tell the story. They were afraid but different. Hermione and Ron were afraid that he would do something stupid, but Ginny was different. She was afraid all right but her eyes were daring Harry to do something stupid. Harry gusted she was glaring at him because of what he did earlier.
While Harry was looking at his friends, James, Sirius and Lily answered everyone's questions as much as they could. All they could say was they didn't know why they came back and that somehow they heard everyone. When they heard Remus say, "And to think you're James Potter's son" they appeared in the room.
Harry thought he was forgotten so he tried to sneak out of the room but Sirius was keeping an eye on him.
"Where do you think you're going Harry?" Sirius asked Harry all of a sudden.
Harry didn't say anything but he was intently looking at his godfather to check if it was really him. Sirius was wearing the same clothes, and looked normal. His face was the same and as far as he could tell his personality was the same.
"Harry? Are you there? I'm trying to talk to you." Sirius said.
"You can't be real. I saw you fall into the veil and you didn't come out." Harry said finally. "I yelled and yelled, but you didn't come out."
"I'm real. If I was a hallucination I don't think everyone would be having the same one." Sirius was trying to make Harry laugh but his godson was to afraid to.
"Can I prove it to you that I'm real?"
"Turn into your animagus form." Hermione called.
Everyone turned to her and Hermione continued.
"If he's really Sirius then he'll turn into a big, black dog. If he's not, then he won't and we'll know if it's him or not."
"Why doesn't James do it to? If they both turn into their correct animagus form then they're really them." Remus said. He, Dumbledore, Harry, Ron and Hermione knew what form they take so they could tell if it's them or not.
So James and Sirius turned into the stag and the dog. They walked around the room and went over to Harry. His heart was beating fast already and now it was out of control. He fainted when Sirius and James were in touching distance and Sirius wagging his tail.
They turned back and dragged Harry onto the bed.
"Well that went well." James stated and Lily glared at him. She went over to her son and sat on the bed.
Remus's heart flew. He knew better then anyone in the room what James and Sirius's animagus form was.
Harry woke up to Lily looking down on him. He had mixed emotions. His family was whole, but he still couldn't believe it. He got of the bed and asked, "How do I know you're not a Death Eater?"
Before anyone else could answer Hermione said, "Nobody can turn into anther person's animagus form, Harry."
Lily nodded and said, "It's true. No potion or spell can change anyone into another's animagus form."
"Harry I know you saw me killed but I broke out of Azkaban. I can do anything!" Sirius said.
"I think you're being a bit conceited mate," James said with a smirk but then asked, "but why were you in Azkaban?"
Remus said quickly, "We can talk about that later. Why don't we go downstairs?"
When they left the room, James and Lily were busy trying to figure out why Sirius was in Azkaban in the first place.
"Did you kill somebody?" James asked with a serious face.
"No! Are you crazy James?" Sirius yelled.
"Then why were you in Azkaban?" Lily asked getting more annoyed.
"You're acting like two annoying kids. That's where Harry gets it from." Sirius said while ducking at James's swinging arm.
Harry who was walking behind them with Ron and Hermione said, "Because he was framed-" He couldn't finish his sentence because Ron stomped on his foot.
"What were you framed for?" James and Lily asked Sirius at once.
Sirius didn't answer their question but said to Harry, "Why did you have to say that Harry? Do you want them to get furious?"
"They should know what's been going on."
"So you want me to tell them where you've been staying then?" Sirius said with raised eyebrows.
James and Lily's attention were now on Harry.
"Where have you been?" James asked rounding on him.
"Not with my sister I hope." Lily said with plea in her voice.
Harry glared at Sirius who looked like he was having the time of his life getting his godson in trouble with his parents.
"Harry, you haven't been staying with her, have you? She hated me because what I am and who I married." She said turning to James with a faint smile.
They stopped in the middle of the hall. Remus was listening and finally said, "Why don't you eat something first and then ask?"
The group finally got into the kitchen and Mrs. Weasley started to cook while James and Lily looked Harry over.
"He's thin."
"He looks just like you James."
"I'm standing right here you know. I can still hear you." Harry said annoyed.
"You could leave the room if you wanted to." James said. "We're not stopping you."
"Don't listen to him Harry. We haven't seen you since you were a baby. We didn't know you were you going to look just like James." Lily said.
Harry felt ashamed for getting angry at them. When he was going to say sorry, his scar started to hurt. He could feel that Voldemort was very angry. Almost the angriest he's ever been.
Harry had his eyes closed and his hand on his scar. He felt a hand shaking him. He opened his eyes to see Sirius looking at him concerned. He looked up to everyone who was watching him, worried, but his parents had no clue that Harry had a connection with Lord Voldemort through his scar.
Harry didn't look at his parents. He looked at Sirius and said, "He was extremely angry. I think he knows about you guys coming back."
"What's going on Harry?" James asked.
Harry didn't answer him. He was ignoring the question because he didn't want to be the gray storm cloud.
"What's going on?" Lily asked.
Harry couldn't get around the question. Nobody was going to save him as he looked around the room. He sighed and said, "The night that you died, Voldemort tried to kill me. The Killing Curse rebounded on him and he was nearly dead. My scar is a connection with Voldemort. So I can feel if he's mad or not."
Nobody knew what to say to this. James and Lily were at a total loss for these words. They didn't imagine that their son, Harry would have any kind of connection with the most feared dark wizard in their wildest nightmares.
"Harry…" Lily said nearly crying.
"It's okay. It doesn't hurt all the time. Just when he is feeling strongly about something," he said truthfully not wanting his mom to cry.
Everyone ate when Mrs. Weasley put food on the table. Nobody talked much during the late lunch.
James and Lily wanted to know more about Harry, but they knew that he was under stress as it is and he didn't need to explain it all. Or at least for the moment. Sirius wanted to know why his godson looked and was acting differently. He remembered Harry always worried that he would get caught, but it didn't matter. If Harry was in trouble, he would be there no matter what, and now James and Lily would be there too. He would have to ask him later, Sirius thought as he ate his food.
After lunch the Marauders went into a separate room. The famous Marauders were together again, at least the ones that stayed on the good side. For the first few minutes they sat and remembered the good times. All those times when they were wild on the school grounds, or pranking.
"Those were good times." Remus broke through the memories.
"Yeah, they were." James agreed, and Sirius nodding.
Sirius turned to Remus and said, "Remember in our first year when we found out about your…problem?"
Remus could never forget that moment. At that moment when they found out, they would either ditch him, or stay with him, like true friends. It was his greatest fear back then. When he made friends, if they found out about him, would he still have friends in the end? When his friends did find out, they didn't run away or anything like that. They worked out a way that his transformations would be easier for him. They worked at it for three years to become animagus, to run around the school with him. To be there for him, always.
They went over all the good times, close calls and avoiding their supposed friend, Peter Pettigrew. The same "friend" that they helped to become an animagus. James already knew who betrayed him and Lily. James was never stupid, just had a big head.
They talked the rest of the day about old times and for once, not about anything else. Not checking up with the news or what happened since James or Sirius died.
The chat came around to Harry when Remus said, "You know James, Harry is very much like you."
"How?"
Remus and Sirius looked at one another. This was the thing they wanted to avoid.
"How?" James said suspiciously.
"Well, you know we didn't exactly follow every rule, right?" Sirius said cautiously.
"Yes." James said suspiciously again.
"Er… he doesn't either." Sirius finished.
"Like we did?" James said with a raised voice.
"No, more-er- Remus, you've seen him at school, you tell him." Sirius said because James was glaring at him with a very angry glare.
Remus took a minute then said, "Harry gets in trouble, not because he curses anyone close to him," he gave James a smirk, "but to save his friends or to find out some things that nobody tells him. So they find out themselves."
"When you say, 'themselves' you mean his friends too?" James looked at his friends and they nodded.
He started to put his head in his hands but he changed it to pulling his hair.
"Hey what's wrong?" Sirius said while shaking his friend to stop.
When James stopped he didn't look up but said, "I could have been there for him. I could have saved them…"
His friends couldn't have said, "It's not your fault. No one but Harry can defeat Voldemort." But they didn't because they didn't know about the prophecy, only a 15 year old boy with black untidy hair with glasses and a very old man with a long, silver beard knew about it.
"James don't beat yourself up about that. That's in the past, time to look into the future." Remus said wisely. "Look at Harry. When he can't do something, he tries to make it better, not gives up on it."
"Besides, you should find out what Harry has been doing. You can learn all about the times when he crossed the line and got detentions." Sirius tried to get James's mind off his and Lily's death.
The three walked out of the room a few minutes later. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were in Harry and Ron's bedroom tried to find why Harry blew up at everyone earlier.
"Will you drop it guys? I'm not going to tell you!" Harry was lying down on the bed with his eyes closed.
"Why not?" Ginny asked. She had a feeling if she pressed it she could make him talk.
"It's my own business to tell anyone I want, Ginny. Why won't you leave me alone?"
No one answered this. For some reason, he was tired and wanted to sleep. There was a weight on his heart before, and now it has been lifted so he could sleep more soundly at night; knowing that he has Sirius again, and his parents too.
"Why won't you tell us?" Ron asked angrily. They have been at this for half an hour already.
Harry didn't know why he wasn't telling his friends. He could trust them not to laugh.
"We won't laugh." Ginny said as if she was reading his mind.
Harry sat up and looked at his friends. He knew he could trust them.
"I got mad at you because you brought me here." He stood up and turned his back on everyone.
"Why? You would have to come here anyway." Ron asked.
"Why? Why would I want to come back to Sirius's house when he just died? When he died because of me!"
"He didn't die because of you!" Hermione said astonished.
"Yes he did! If I didn't go, he wouldn't have died, none of my friends would have gotten hurt-"
"-and the Order wouldn't have caught any Death Eaters." Ginny finished for him. "Even though you shouldn't have gone, things did turn out okay."
He thought about it and things did seem to be better. The world does know about Voldemort being back, he had his family and soon the Ministry would be sending something out to people to get them prepared in case Voldemort or any Death Eaters tried anything.
They went downstairs into the living room where some people were talking. Mr. Weasley and Remus were filling in James, Lily and Sirius about how the day started while Fred and George were talking in a corner. Harry instantly knew what they were talking about because Mr. Weasley said, "He wouldn't come with us. In the end we had to stun him."
James look incredible mad at this and said, "You could have found another way!"
"No, there was no other way. It's like when you have made up your mind about something James." Remus said and then noticed Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny coming in.
Harry pretended that he didn't hear what they said and sat down on one of the chairs. Lily told him, "Harry we've been wanting to know what your life's been like, but we wanted to show you something first."
"What?" He said cautiously.
"Our house."
Harry couldn't speak. He didn't know if he wanted to see the house he use to live in before Voldemort killed his parents.
"It's not the same house." James said. He knew his son was thinking about the house that he was killed in. Personally he didn't want to see the house either.
"What other house are you talking about?"
Sirius and Remus got up and Sirius said, "We have Order business to deal with. We'll be back."
"Much later." Remus mumbled.
Lily and James expression were extremely angry.
"HE DOESN'T KNOW? YOU HAVEN'T TOLD HIM?" Lily shouted. "YOU'VE HAD YEARS AND YOU DIDN'T TELL HIM ANYTHING!"
"We didn't have years Lily." Remus said in a small voice.
"I had two years with him and I was on the run!" Sirius said with more of a voice. "I could barely tell him anything."
"IT DOESN'T MATTER! YOU COULD HAVE TOLD HIM HE HAD A HOUSE! YOU COULD HAVE TOLD HIM ANYTHING! YOU KNEW IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO US YOU WOULD SHOW HIM ANYTHING ABOUT HIS FAMILY! NOT LEAVE HIM IN THE DARK!" James shouted louder that anyone Harry has every heard.
When Lily shouted Mrs. Weasley came in. When James shouted everyone in the house came in. Before James, Remus and Sirius started to talk, Dumbledore left to tell everyone the good new. Tonks came in about half an hour later and Bill and Charlie came an hour after Tonks. Everyone wanted to see James, Sirius and Lily but Mrs. Weasley said they couldn't until dinner.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred and George backed up into the wall when the Potter parents started to yell. Not even the Weasley's were used to this kind of yelling.
The fight was going to get very ugly, very fast if someone didn't stop it. Lily was yelling at Sirius for not telling Harry about the family vault when Harry did something very brave or extremely stupid. He stepped away from the wall and cautiously walked up behind Remus and Sirius.
He took a big breath and yelled, "Stop! It's not their fault!" Remus and Sirius jumped a foot in the air.
"Harry- you don't have to do this." Remus panted.
"Yes I do. It's not your fault that you couldn't tell me. You could barely talk to me since you were doing things for the Order," he said to Remus, "and you could barely talk to me since you were on the run."
"THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING!" James yelled.
"THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO! IF YOU HAVE NOTICED THEY CAN BARELY TALK TO EACH OTHER LET ALONE TELL ME EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU!"
"What do you mean they can barely talk to each other?" Lily asked.
"There's a war going on."
"Against…"
Harry didn't answer Lily right away but looked her strait into the eye and said, "Voldemort."
The impact of one word can be so great. Lily put her hands to her mouth and James was staring at Harry like he never saw him before.
"How do you know?" James asked.
His son looked down at his feet and said in a low and painful voice, "I saw him come back."
"Harry…" Lily cried as she hugged her son, for the first time. At first he tensed up, but he then totally relaxed into it and hugged her back.
James didn't know what to say. He never imagined Harry to witness anything like that.
"What happen?"
"Not now James. I heard it and you can't hear it right now. Not with the way you've been yelling." Sirius said with a voice that meant he was older and he knew what he was saying.
James and Lily weren't thinking right. They have been dead for fourteen years and they had a lot to catch up on. Taking in all that information in one shot wasn't going to be good for them.
"Are you saying that we won't handle it?" Lily asked.
"By the way you're acting, yes, that's what we're saying." Sirius said. Remus was getting everyone out of the room so they could talk to James and Lily.
When everyone was out James asked, "What are you saying? Are you saying that we mentally can't handle it?"
Sirius was trying to handle this carefully. He couldn't say plainly yes and not explain himself. "In a way, yes. Think about this: you came back from the dead and this time it's a lot different from the time when we were all the same age. There is a lot of new information you have to hear, but not all at once."
"You would explode with all the new details." Remus finished Sirius's thought. "There's fourteen years that you have to be filled in on. Do you really want to hear it in one blow?"
Lily and James thought it over. No mater how much they wanted to know about their son, they had to take it all in slowly.
A/N.. Thanks for all the reviews! Sorry if my grammar isn't the best. I love to write, but when it comes to grammar, let's just say it isn't my best friend. And if Dudley is OOC I'm planning to explain him.