When everyone was ushered out of the room, Harry was dragged up into his room by Fred and George. When they got up there, Fred and George faced him with evil grins.
"Harry, we're going to do something for you." George said.
"What?" Harry said cautiously. He knew enough of the twins to know when they're planning to prank someone.
"We want to help you. Don't worry. All we need to know is when you're going to do it." Fred said with the evil grin.
"What are you talking about?"
"I think they want to know when or if you're going to prank your parents." Ginny said walking up behind them with Ron and Hermione behind her.
"Why would I want to prank my parents?"
Fred and George looked astounded and said in unison, "Why won't you?" They looked each other as if to confirm something and George said, "Young, inexperienced Harry, asks, 'Why would I want to prank'. Tell him Fred."
"Harry, think about it, your son of a marauder, godson of anther and friend of the third. Why wouldn't you want to?" He turned to his twin and said, "I don't think Harry can prank. I think he's too scared to go up against the marauders old."
Ron, Ginny and Hermione laughed at this. Harry knew what they were doing and it worked.
"I do know how to prank! As you said, I'm son of a marauder, godson of another and friend to the third; it's in my blood." He stopped and thought for a moment. His eyes shown with glee once he thought up a plan. He walked up to Fred and George and said through a huge grin, "Fred, George, how soon could I see your shop? I think you have some things that could help me."
"That's the way to go!" Fred said.
"Okay, here's what I'm planning…"
Harry told everybody what he was thinking and everyone's face lit up. Fred and George immediately said he could get the things for free because he helped them to start their joke shop. Ron, Ginny and Hermione thought that was a good idea of giving the twins the money from the Triwizdard Tourdiment, but wasn't happy about being in the dark about it.
When the group went down stairs for dinner, James and Lily were looking a little disappointed and cross. Remus and Sirius signaled Harry, Ron and Hermione over.
"What's wrong with my parents?" It felt weird to say "my parents" Harry thought.
"Nothings wrong, it's that they're mad at us." Sirius said.
"We wanted to tell you if they ask anything about Harry or what you three do, be careful about what you say. Do you remember earlier today when they started yelling?" Remus asked.
"Yes, but what does this have to do with not telling them about Harry?" Ron asked.
"As you remember they got really angry. If they were told all the…the interesting things you three did, they would have a heart attack." Remus said seriously. "And we don't want that. So especially don't tell them when Harry fought Voldemort."
"WHAT!" Sirius yelled. "When did he do that? I only know the once!"
Remus ignored his friend and said, "And don't tell loud mouth over here ether, if you don't mind."
They went into the kitchen and Harry broke off from the group and went over to his parents. Everyone in the room smiled at this and when Harry saw Ginny, he quickly looked away and started to talk to his parents. Then everyone laughed because Harry blushed.
When everyone was eating, Fred and George said to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley that they were going to return to their shop the next day. At the same time Hermione said that she wanted to return to her home because she wanted to see her family before she came here for the summer. Tonks offered to Apparate her to her house. Ron was telling Bill and Charlie how most of the Weasley family and Hermione had to leave their homes to find Harry and bring him to the Order. But the Potters weren't talking they were listening to everyone. Remus and Sirius saw this and they didn't want James or Lily to find anything out so they dragged the Potters into conversation.
"Lily, James why don't you tell Harry about everything since we didn't." Sirius said.
James looked at Sirius cautiously, then turned to Harry and said, "Okay Harry, what do you know about us."
Harry thought for a moment. He knew that his parents didn't get together until their seventh year; they left him a small fortune, James had a bighead when he was younger, Lily was smart like Hermione and they hated Snape.
"Well I know you left me a small fortune, you two didn't get together until your seventh year, you hated Snape," he looked at James, "you had a big head," he looked at Lily, "and you were smart like my friend Hermione. But besides that, nothing."
James and Lily looked at each other. How could they tell Harry about them? About they're houses or vault; about their way of life.
"Is that all you know?" James asked and Harry nodded.
"Remus, Sirius tomorrow we're taking Harry to our house; to his house." Lily said with a loud voice. Not an angry one, but strong. "He deserves to know what his house looks like. If he has had to live in my sister's household, then he deserves much more to see his house. He deserves anything he wants. To live with her and her husband is to live in hell. We never got along but when I became a witch, she hated me more because of it. And when Harry came into our life, she loathed me even more. I don't care if you don't want to let us out of the house, but you don't have a choice."
Mr. Weasley asked, "What if someone sees you? How will you explain that? Besides Harry is going to need protection because somehow your little flight to the Hall of Prophecy's has gotten out."
Hermione gave a little moan and asked, "How do you know?"
"I read the Prophet. It's all over the front page." He turned to James and Lily, "I seriously don't know how your going to walk around outside and not get seen by somebody you use to know."
After a minute of silent, Harry spook before his parents. "I want to see my house. They could hide under invisibility cloaks or something. Do you know how hard it is to be alone in the world? To be the last Potter; and then in one day to have them back? In the same day to find out that you have a house? You're own house with parents that care for you, that won't look at you with disgust. Well I have Mr. Weasley and I don't want to wait or go back to parentless. Being the boy-who-lived and lost his parents. I want to be Harry Potter. A new Harry Potter who has a family, a house, and to know what his parents was like."
Harry left the room and started to go upstairs to his and Ron's room. In the kitchen nobody knew what to say. Harry didn't raise his voice but it was strong and firm like Lily's was. Ron and Hermione were especially surprised because Harry never talked like that or said anything like that before.
Ron, Hermione and Ginny got up to leave but Mrs. Weasley asked, "Where are you three going?"
"Mum, you know that we are the only one's that can find out what Harry's up to or thinking." Ron said.
"They're right, Molly." Arthur said. With that said the three close friends of Harry Potter's followed him upstairs.
At the door Ron knocked on the door and asked, "Can we come in Harry?"
"Yes."
They entered and saw Harry sitting on the bed with his back toward the door.
"Harry what was that all about downstairs?" Ginny asked.
"What do you mean 'what was that all about'? Weren't you listening? I'm sick and tired of not knowing about my dad and mum Ginny. Wouldn't you if you were in my position? The one chance to find out but then it gone the same moment." He said standing up and turning to them.
"Harry that wasn't the only chance. You remember what Remus said, they would ask about your life and they would get mad and who knows what they would do." Hermione said reasonably.
"Hermione do you think that anyone is going to let me go anywhere? Now that our trip to the Hall of Prophecies is out in the open, they probably know about the…" Harry didn't finish his sentence because Dumbledore said not to tell anyone about the prophecy and he really didn't want Ron, Hermione or Ginny to worry about him.
"About the what?" Ginny asked.
"Nothing, forget it."
"No. You were going to say something important about when we went to the Ministry." Ron said. "What do they probably know?"
"Nothing."
"Come on Harry. Tell us." Hermione said.
"No, I can't. Dumbledore doesn't want me to tell anyone."
"Tell us Harry or we'll jinx you." Ginny said, raising her wand up.
"You can't do magic Ginny! You'll be expelled from Hogwarts!" Hermione cried.
"I don't care Hermione. Harry's keeping something from us and it's important, I can tell." She turned to look at Harry. "Harry, tell us or I will jinx you."
Harry raised his own wand and said, "I won't tell. I can't."
They stared at each other for a moment and when Ginny opened her mouth to say a curse, Sirius, Remus, James and Lily came in.
"Stop!" Everyone one in the room said but Harry and Ginny.
Ginny looked around to see who it was and said to the adults, "Harry's keeping something from us. It's something important. He says he can't tell anyone, but it's about the when we went to the Ministry Remus."
"Harry what is it?" Sirius asked.
Harry didn't say anything; he sat back on the bed with his back toward everyone.
"Go, we'll talk to him." James said.
"James-"
"I know what I'm doing Remus. Do you think I'm incapably of talking to my son?" James raised his voice with every word.
"That's not what Remus was going to say James!" Sirius didn't want James or Lily mad again.
"We know what we're doing! Do you seriously think that I'm going to let James do or say anything that he shouldn't? You remember me from school?" Lily said annoyed.
Remus and Sirius knew they could count on Lily to keep the peace and make sure James didn't do anything stupid.
"Come on, Lily will make sure he won't say anything he shouldn't." Remus said to everyone.
As soon as everyone left Lily went over to Harry and asked, "Do you want to see our house Harry?"
Harry and James were both shocked to hear Lily ask that question. But Harry said yes immediately.
"Good, we can go there after everyone has gone to sleep."
"What is this, Lily Potter doing something she's not suppose to?" James said with a satisfied smile.
"Hey once I started dating you I learned things Lily Evens wouldn't do. Now how late can you stay up until?"
"Why?"
"Don't you want to know what our house looks like?" James asked walking over to his son and wife.
"Yes of course I do! But how are you going to go anywhere without being seen? I only have one invisibly cloak, which by the way is very helpful." He looked at James when he said the last half sentence. "Unless someone has another one we can use."
"Now you're thinking!" James said happily that he knew Harry was going to help him.
"We need someone to help us. I can't ask my friends, or Remus or Sirius, they would stop us."
"Why do we need help?" James asked.
"We don't have enough supplies to do anything. We would have to create a diversion because Sirius's mother's prorate is going to make a lot of noise when we open up the door."
There was a moment of silent then Harry remembered about the prank he's going to play on his parents. He could ask Fred and George if he could have some of their fireworks right now, he could set them off in the kitchen or something.
"I have a plan, I'll be right back."
"Hold on. We said that we would see what's up with you and the Hall of Prophecies, and we are." James said to Harry who started to say something. "We'll make a deal, you tell us what you can't say and then you can go."
"No, I can't. I'm not going to tell you." Harry said stubbornly.
"Is it about the prophecy?" Lily asked.
Harry was shocked. How did Lily find out about that?
"What are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking." Harry lied quickly.
"It's okay Harry, we know. Dumbledore told us. He thought it was a good idea to tell us so that when it was time, we could tell you." James said.
Nobody talked for a while. The Potters were thinking about the prophecy. Harry has to kill Voldemort or nobody can.
"Please don't tell anyone about it. I don't want anyone worrying about me." Harry asked.
"Of course we won't tell, but that doesn't mean we won't worry about you. James why don't start to teach Harry spells? Since it's the beginning of the second war, he'll need it." Lily said sadly.
"I was going to do that any way, but at our house. Harry you said you have a plan to get us out of here?"
"Yes, but I don't know if Fred and George have what I need for the distraction." Harry saw that James was going to interrupt so he quickly explained. "We need to make a big distraction to bring everyone to the same place so that we can slip out. But we still need one more invisibly cloak."
Before James or Lily could answer, Fred and George Apparated in front of them.
"What are you planning-" Fred asked.
"-and where do you want to go?" George asked.
Harry hit himself in the head. He forgot about Extendable Ears. "Who else heard us?"
"Nobody but us. We won't let anyone in our room," George said. "But where are you going? We're not going to help you if you don't answer us."
Harry looked at the twins. He didn't want to tell them, but he didn't have a choice. "We're going to our house. I want to see it and I don't want anybody to come with us."
"You mean you're snicking out?" George asked. "When?"
"As soon as everybody is asleep." James said.
"But we need another invisibly cloak. Do you know where one is?" Harry asked.
"Yes actually. We know that Tonks brought one and I think it's still in the kitchen." Fred said. He turned to his twin and said, "You get the distraction and I'll get the cloak."
In less then two minutes Fred and George gave the Potters what they needed.
"So you won't tell any one well you?" Lily asked. "If they ketch us, I won't be trusted again."
"Don't worry, that distraction will be enough." Fred reinsured her. "But I won't go out until morning. Someone is going to be up late tonight incase your trying something like this."
The Potters thought about this and decided that Fred was probably was right. Harry, James and Lily walked out of the room as soon as they put the second invisibly cloak and the distraction in Harry's trunk.
Everyone was in the kitchen when the Potters walked in. Harry sat down by Ron and Hermione and James and Lily sat down near Remus and Sirius.
"So did you find out what's bothering Harry?" Sirius asked James.
"Yes." James said simply.
"Well, what is it?" Sirius asked impatiently.
James shrugged and didn't say anything. Lily won't talk ether. Ron and Hermione couldn't get anything out of Harry as well. All he said was that James and Lily knew now.
"Come on Lily! What happened to you? I thought you were going to tell us!" Sirius said.
"If Harry wants to tell you, then he will, not us."
Sirius and Remus turned to Harry. They could see that Ron and Hermione was getting as far as they were getting with his parents. But Sirius remembered how Harry blushed when he saw Ginny smiling at him. He called Ginny over to him.
"What?"
"I think you can get Harry to talk."
"How?"
"Do you remember earlier today when he saw you smiling at him?"
"Yes."
"I think he'll talk for you if you push it."
Ginny thought for a moment and said, "I'll try."
She sat down on Hermione's other side and looked at Harry.
"Harry will you please tell us?" Ginny begged.
"No."
"Why not?"
"I don't want you to know."
"Oh come on Harry. We fought together at the Ministry. You can tell us."
Harry felt uncomfortable. He knew that they would try and help him no matter what. But they would always worry about it.
"I don't want to tell you. As soon as I tell you, you're going to…"
"We're going to…what? Worry about you?" Ginny said. "Harry, we always worry about you. You always somehow to get into trouble every year and this is the chance to know ahead of time. We could help you when it happens."
James and Lily saw the little red head worm her way to get the information she wanted. She wasn't going to stop until she gets what she wants and by the looks of it, it was going to be soon.
"Harry, can I talk to you?" James asked before the red head could say anything else.
"Okay." Harry said instantly getting up to fallow his dad out into the hallway.
"I think you should watch out for that girl. If I didn't pull you out of there, every in the room would have known."
"Yeah, I never knew Ginny to do that before. I'll watch out for her next time."
Sirius and Remus knew what James was doing. Sirius was going to call him back but Lily kicked him in the knee. When they came back Harry had a blank expression on and James had a satisfied one on.
Ron, Ginny and Hermione knew that they were close to know what was bothering Harry, but when he came back they knew they had no chance.
Ginny had to think up another way to push Harry. She was determined to find out what was bothering Harry, no matter what.
Now how can I get Harry to tell me? I tried to push his weak point which was that we can handle ourselves but is that going to work? I think it will work if I play it right.
"Harry please tell us. Do you think we're incapable of handling it?" Ginny said annoyed.
"No, that's not it." Harry said, knowing what she was doing.
"It is! You don't think we can handle it! We were there when you fought the Death Eaters too! Or do you think that only Neville can handle it? Is that it? Is Neville the only one that can handle it Harry?"
"No! I'm not going to-" Harry said shocked. He didn't know how Ginny could think that.
"Or do you think that me and Hermione can't handle it? Are you going to tell Ron and Neville but not us?" Ginny cried.
"I'm not going to tell anyone! I'm not going to tell Neville or Ron, Ginny." Harry said. He didn't know what Ginny was getting at but he didn't want to see her cry.
Ron and Hermione knew what Ginny was doing a played along.
"What! I thought you were going to tell me Harry!" Ron yelled.
"What are you talking about Ron? I'm not-" Harry said confused and getting angrier every moment.
"You were going to tell them but not us! Harry I thought we were friends, no matter what!" Hermione said, tried to pretend to be hurt.
"See what I mean Hermione. Harry's going to tell everyone else but us." Ginny said slowly so Harry would understand her.
"At lest we'll know what to do," Ron said, "I think Harry made the right choice."
It was entertaining to see what Harry would do next. Sirius, Remus and Lily thought it was funny to see Harry struggle like James once did with Lily. When James finally made friends with Lily, Remus and Sirius wanted to know something, so they asked Lily to worm her way to find the information. It worked because James didn't know what was happening and because Lily did it in the Common Room so James could start a fight with her.
James and Lily got up at the same time and pulled Harry out of the chair. They were surprised how light Harry was but put that at the back of their minds. They dragged their son back out into the hallway and said to him, "Stay here," and left. Of course Harry could never stay still when he knows something good is about to happen. He followed his parents back into the kitchen to watch what comes next.
"Sirius! What did you do?" Lily yelled.
"What do you mean? I didn't do anything Lily." Sirius said innocently. It would have worked if they didn't know Sirius or Remus.
"Remus!" James yelled and surprised everyone.
"What?" Remus said totally innocent.
"What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything my friend. You can thank Padfoot for this one."
"Oh no, I know you had something to do with this." James said not giving up on this. "You did it before and you're doing it again."
"What do you mean he did it before?" Harry asked. He couldn't keep quiet much longer. "Sirius's the one that acts like a child."
James burst out laughing at the comment. He couldn't keep it in with a comment like that.
"What are you laughing about James? You acted more of a child then me!" Remus said forgetting everyone else in the room.
"Remus, you could act more then a child then me. Some of our little adventures, at the full moon, led us to where a sane werewolf wouldn't want to go." Sirius said. He knew that everyone in the room knew about Remus's furry problem, but James and Lily didn't know that.
James was laughing until Sirius said "werewolf".
"Sirius! What are you saying?" James and Lily yelled.
"Did you go to were the spiders are?" Harry said laughing. "I know that can be different to get out of."
"Harry!" Ginny yelled. She didn't think it was wise to say that in front of James and Lily…. or at lest Lily.
"You know?" James asked disbelieved.
"Yeah, you found out about it in your first year, I found out about in my third. Thanks to-"
Harry did say the last of his sentence because some pudding was flying his way. His reflexes kicked in and he jumped out of the way. There had been too many times when a spell was coming his way for him not to react. He pulled out his wand and pointed it the way the pudding came from.
Harry was pointed his want at Sirius's head. His hand wasn't shaking but he was. He didn't want to remember that night at the Ministry but he couldn't help it. Last year he had nightmares about the night when Voldemort came back and this year it was about when Sirius had died.
"Harry, it's only me." Sirius said calmly and slowly. He didn't know Harry would have reacted this way because if he did he wouldn't have thrown the pudding.
Sirius pulled Harry's wand from his shaking hand and Harry blinked. He opened his mouth a few times but nothing would come out.
What did I do? What did I do? Harry thought. I can't stay here!
When Harry didn't respond Sirius went to touch him but he quickly turned toured the door. Ron and Hermione quickly fallowed but was stopped by James and Lily.
"We have to ask you something before you go."
Ron and Hermione nodded and sat down on one of the chairs.
"Tell me what happened to him." James ordered angrily. He found out that if he gets his face right, people tend to tell him what they want to know.
"I-I-I don't know. He's never done that before." Hermione said scared.
"What happened to him last year? I've seen other people shaken up about something, but not like this. I'm not going to rest until I find out what's happened to him." James said darkly.
"James stop scaring them, they're not going to tell you. We've already spoke to them about it." Sirius said. There wasn't a happy smile or light hearted tone to his voice. When a matter came to Harry he was all serious. Even if it was James trying to get some information about him that he wouldn't give up, he wasn't going to let anyone bother him.
"What has gotten into you?" James asked him. "First you ask something that you want to know, and then when you don't get it you ask a little girl and when we want to know something about our son, you're all serious! What has happened around here?"
"What happened, James is Harry saw and did things a grown man would fear from doing! He's seen Voldemort almost every year since he's been at Hogwarts and when he doesn't, he has to worry about if someone else he cares for is going to die! You would act the same if that happened to you! Almost everyone you care about dies or is afraid of you because you're there! It's like going around the corner and finding something else to battle for!" Remus yelled.
Everyone was stunned because they thought Sirius would yell. Remus had been keeping this in when James started to harass everyone about Harry's life. No matter how close anyone is to Harry, he's not going to sit around and let Harry handle it all.
Remus knew that Harry was taking it hard when Sirius died, but not as hard as him. He had lost another brother, Sirius. When James and Lily died, he knew he had Sirius. But when he heard that Sirius was being blamed for killing the Potters and his other friend, Peter, Remus almost lost his mind. He couldn't think straight, he wouldn't eat and all he ever wanted to do was die. So when Sirius died, his heart was ripped out completely. He vowed that he would do anything for Harry. Even if it was for him to die.
James and Sirius were looking at Remus in the eyes. They could tell when someone was stressing on something and when they finally cracked because of OWLs and NEWTs.
James walked over to Sirius and whispered in his ear, "We need to get Remus out of here."
A/N.. Sorry I didn't update for awhile, my computer was having problems.
I said that I would explain Dudley but he won't come in for a few chapters (just to let you know). And as I said before, I'm not the best person with grammar so if you see any spelling mistakes please ignore them.