More Relatives ? and a Magical Experience

This chapter consists of Harry's reaction to the letter left by James and Lily, sorry I haven't updated the story in a while, will have an update again within the next few weeks. Enjoy!

Harry laid the letter down onto his lap and felt the tears begin to fall from his eyes. He took off his glasses and rubbed at them and then re-reads the letter again. So he had more family out there somewhere, and this Rose had known his mother. He grabbed the box and its contents and put them back inside and made his way downstairs back to his room with the box.

He placed it carefully onto his bed and paced back and forth stealing glances at Hedwig who watched her master curiously and then at the box. Harry looked out into the night sky and grabbed a piece of parchment and quill and began to write.

Dear R

Hope all is well, I need to talk to you ASAP about something I have found out about my family, I don't know if you may have known or not, but I am curious to know about this new found information.

Please write back with anything you know.

H.

Harry rolled up the parchment and called to Hedwig. She flew to him as he attached the letter to her leg and stroked her softly and whispered «Take this to Remus, be careful » he said as she flew out the open window into the night.

Manhattan, New York.

Peter grabbed his rucksack and looked one more time at the picture of the baby on the bedside table and frowned. He closed the door and heard the familiar yelling. « Where's my rent! » from Mr Lebowitz his landlord. He ran past the door and downstairs as quick as he could. He reached into his pocket and pulled the padlock key for his bike from it and got on and started it up and made his way to his morning University classes.

The morning seem to be going smoothly, he made his way to classes, without being stopped on the way to help anyone, the first morning in a while. Peter sighed as he made his way to Dr Connors class and watched as he eyed him, obviously wondering where his overdue assignment was. Peter made his way down to the front of the class.

« Umm Doctor Connors? »

« Whatever the excuse this time is Peter I don't want to here it, you have until tomorrow, this is your last chance to complete the paper, or else I will have to seriously rethink your position in this class. »

Peter nodded and made his way back to his seat as the lesson began.

Later that day as he made his way across town, his spider sense began to tingle ever so slightly, he turned and saw a young woman with red hair rush past him obviously in a hurry and realised immediately it was MJ.

« Excuse me » he heard her say. He had not seen much of her over the past year, since that day in the cemetery, when she has confessed her love for him, knowing he could not return her love, because of who he is and always would be. He turned and looked into her face « MJ, its me Peter! How are you? ». As soon as she heard his voice she turned around and smiled. « Hey stranger, how have you been » she said as she looked into his eyes with the same gaze from that day in the cemetery reserved only for him.

« I'm good, are you on your way to an audition? » he said as they stood close together on the sidewalk

« No, I was on my way to pick up my dry cleaning, have you just finished a class? »

Peter nodded.

« You want to get a coffee? »

« Yeah, sure » said MJ as she walked closer to him.

They made their way to a nearby café on the campus in silence; Peter could sense she was trying to think of something to say. As they made their way inside and ordered, they sat down and began to talk about their everyday lives. They got halfway through their coffees, when Peter's spider sense began to tingle. He immediately stood up.

"Uh, MJ, I need to go, I forgot my other class starts in 5 minutes and its halfway across campus" he said pretending to look at his watch.

"But, we've barely been in here for 20 minutes Peter, how can you have a class now, when it was you who suggested we go for coffee, I swear Peter, I just can't understand you sometimes what goes through your head... maybe I'll never know" she said murmuring the last part to herself.

Peter watched the pain in her eyes. "Look, I'll call you later tonight and we can go for something to eat" he said grabbing his bag and running out the door.

"Sure, whatever" she said nodding to him as he ran across campus.

Peter ran across the sidewalks and into a nearby alley and changed into his costume, swinging to the robbery scene. He watched as the robbers put money into their getaway car and speed across the city, he jumped down onto the hood and sprayed webbing on either side of the buildings to pull back the car. The robber driving shot a bullet at him, he was about to dodge it but it froze in mid air, Peter touched it and it fell to the ground, he punched the driver and jumped as the car spun out of control into a lamppost missing two people. The police had been on their tail and as he watched as they did the rest, he couldn't believe what had happened with the bullet.

As he swung back across the city to the alley, he tried to figure out what had just happened, it was as if the bullet had frozen in mid air because he wanted it to. He cast it to the back of his mind and got ready to head back to the rest of his classes.

As the day wore on, he got more tired and irritable and decided to go back to his apartment.