Hey guys i knpw its been ages...nearly a month but ive ben on holiday and i updated as quickly as i could. Let me tell you something this chapter has been a real sucker to write and i'm still not sure its totally but i'll let you guys decide that.
How did everyone like HBP? I won't say anything in case people havent read it but to you guys who have i'll just say that "Death" was awful and "HE" was totally evil i hate him! Other than that it was absoultely brilliant.
Right enough ranting...
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Ok guys here it is Onwards to chapter four...
Mirror Image
Chapter four: Father and Son
Dumbledore surveyed the damage that came with the attack. Bodies littered the ground. None of either side had been fatally injured.
Only Kingsley had been seriously hurt others in the Order had managed to escape with cuts and bruises.
Dumbledore wanted to get to Harry to make sure he wasn't injured but he had to attend to the Death Eaters that were now either stunned or at the very least subdued.
Despite the early advantage the Death Eaters had been overpowered when the Order had answered the call to help Harry when the Death Eaters had attacked.
The Death Eaters that had not managed to escape were trapped in the playground under an anti-apparition jinx until the Ministry wizards arrived and decided what to do with them.
Dumbledore walked among them and ignored the looks of pure hatred that followed his every move.
Satisfied that none of the captured Death Eaters were going anywhere he made his way over to where he could see Harry was stood and from what he could see it looked like Harry was having trouble standing.
He knew right away that James must have revealed himself to his son and Harry was having trouble believing what his eyes were telling him.
Of course this was perfectly understandable his father was dead. Or had been up until a few short hours ago and now the man that had Harry had yearned to know was stood in front of him and Dumbledore was sure that Harry may be in shock as anyone would be.
It was time to go and help his young charge out. He smiled and made his way heard the voices of Remus soothing Harry and Harry's voice full of emotion that Dumbledore had never heard even when they had been in his office after the events of the ministry a few short weeks ago.
It was time things were explained properly.
"Hello Son."
Harry stared at the man in front of him for what seemed like forever. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. It just wasn't possible.
His father was dead.
But he was stood in front of Harry as if he had stepped out of one of Harry's wizarding photographs.
Harry started to hyperventilate.
"Easy Harry." Remus said coming to stand beside him. Harry whirled to face Remus. "Easy Harry?" Harry questioned thinking he had heard wrong.
"You're telling me to calm down?" He yelled. "How can I calm down? This isn't happening to me!" He put his head in his hands.
"Bit of a hypocritical assessment considering how you reacted Moony." James said keeping his voice light but not daring to step any closer.
He wanted to hug Harry after being away from him so long but knew that Harry was slightly unstable right now and he didn't want to do anything that might cause Harry to flip.
Remus looked up and shot James the filthiest look he could manage. "Prongs you aren't helping!"
Harry's eyes went wide at their banter. "No. It can't be. I killed you." James nearly keeled over.
"Oh Harry, No. No. Don't ever think that. I would die all over again if it meant you could survive."
"Dad?" Harry said his emerald eyes bored into James' hazel ones and James was sure Harry could see into his very soul. James couldn't ignore the eyes that were hauntingly familiar.
Lily had defiantly left her mark. James felt the emotion rise in his throat and he didn't trust his voice. He simply nodded.
Harry looked between Remus and the carbon copy of his father and realised that Remus was smiling for the first time since he had seen him. Harry still refused to believe it. It would be all the worse if something became clear and the dream of knowing his father was ripped away from him yet again.
"How do I know you're real?" He whispered his voice breaking with emotion he was trying to keep locked inside him. He watched as his "father" took a step towards him and looked at him.
Harry not sure what to do looked at Remus for help. "Go on Harry." He whispered soothingly. Harry stared at Remus and then back at James and took a shaky step forwards and then stopped.
James watched his eyes narrow in a gesture that reminded him of Lily.
"How the hell do I know you are who you say you are?" He demanded he had had too much experience with things such as this to not be wary.
"Ask a question then son." James said patiently. After everything Harry had been through James did not expect Harry to simply fall at his feet. This wary scepticism was healthy especially after all the attempts on Harry's life.
James wasn't going to pretend it didn't hurt though.
Because it did.
A lot.
Harry stared at the man telling him he was his father and thought hard. He needed to think of something that only James would know. He thought about it and thought about it…
He nearly asked who his Secret-Keeper was but since Sirius' death the Ministry had been persuaded that they had made a mistake and the truth had come out.
Besides the Death Eaters knew fine well that Wormtail had been the Secret-Keeper that was how they knew to go to Godric's Hollow on the night James and Lily had been murdered.
He thought and then came up with the perfect question, something Sirius had once told him that only he had James had known and then he would get James to transform into Prongs just for good measure.
He stared at his "father" and took a deep breath, "How did you and Sirius communicate when you were in detention at school?" He looked up and saw James grin.
He glanced at Remus who looked between them in total confusion. "With the mirrors. Sirius and I had one each."
James looked at Harry and grinned.
"We used to talk to each other when we were in separate detentions. The teachers knew better than to keep us in the same detention it just wouldn't work out. So they put us in different detentions but we still managed to cause mayhem using the mirrors to tell each other what we were doing."
James grinned remembering when he and Sirius had planned a prank for detention and set off fireworks in both detentions and then framing Snape and Malfoy losing over 100 points for Slytherin without anyone ever knowing the difference.
It had been, in James' opinion, one of the finer moments of being a Marauder. He looked up at Remus and Remus' jaw was on the floor. The sight just made James grin all the more.
"THAT was how you managed that?" Remus said "You never did tell me I can't believe neither of you ever told me you had those mirrors."
Harry grinned. This was working…
Then another thought hit him…if that was true….
He looked up at James and James nodded he muttered an incantation and transformed into Prongs. Harry gasped. There was only one person who could do that…
Prongs nodded his head at Harry and Remus and then transformed back again. "My namesake Prongs." James said his voice choked with emotion as he realised that in that moment Harry believed him.
"Dad…"
Harry stepped forward but seemed unable to move another step Remus was at his shoulder muttering soothing words in his ear.
James felt mortified that Harry trusted Remus when it should have been him. He knew that Harry had a right to be wary.
Harry had never known his father. James struggled to breathe every time he thought about how much pain his son had been through and he had not been there to help.
Life was so unfair. Harry did not deserve any of this.
He watched as Harry looked up from the floor and his green eyes, so like Lily's, glistened and held more pain than a sixteen-year-olds had right too.
Harry looked up at his father and then horrified that he was about to cry looked up blinking furiously to try and clear his vision.
Harry had never been good at emotional stuff. He had never had cause to be. He had had to be strong all his life.
But this was just something he couldn't handle with out tears. He only cried where people could not see him. But now, now it didn't matter.
He swallowed the aching feeling in his throat and looked at his father, his father that he had longed to know and been denied.
It was him. Somehow, he was here. He was alive even though Dumbledore had told him no spell could wake the dead he was here.
James was here.
Harry had a father again…
"Dad…."
Harry said again. His voice was so close to breaking from the raw emotions building up inside his heart, he felt the tears he had been fighting begin to fall. He had a father….
James saw his son's tears and it was his undoing. His own tears that he had fought began to fall. He looked up at Remus and he nodded.
James didn't waste another second he crossed the yard and pulled his son into an embrace and hugged him.
Harry stiffened in his father's embrace not sure how to react since he had never really had contact with people in this way. The only people who had hugged him this way was Sirius and Mrs. Weasley and he had still never got used to the contact.
But as his father continued to hug him he relaxed and put his arms round his dad and returned the hug. He almost sobbed with relief.
James could feel Harry's tears and tightened his grip on his son. "Its alright Harry I'm here. It's alright." He hugged him and gradually let go.
James looked at his son and looked towards the other end of the yard to let Harry wipe away his tears. It was then he saw Dumbledore striding towards them a determined look on his face.
"We must leave for Hogwarts now." He said looking between the newly reunited father and son. "It is not safe here and I doubt Harry will want to return to the Dursleys."
James felt anger bubbling in his stomach. He would not allow his son to return to that place. Not while he was able to protect him. Not while he was standing. "I will not allow him to return there Dumbledore!"
Harry looked up at the obvious anger in his father's voice. He watched a silent exchange between the headmaster and his father and at last Dumbledore nodded.
"You are his father. But Harry will have to return once more to collect his school things."
"Then I will go with him." James said putting his arm round Harry. Harry leaned into his father's arm. The last time he had been able to do this was with Sirius and now he was no longer here.
Dumbledore bent and picked up an aluminium can and whispered, "portus." The can glowed and he held it out towards Harry. "On the count of three." Harry held his hand out and found that Dumbledore, Remus and…his dad, he would never get used to that, were doing the same.
James and Remus stood either side of him and James had a steady hand on his son's shoulder. Harry looked up at James and smiled.
James grinned back. "Ready Harry?" He asked. Harry nodded
"Three, two, one." Dumbledore's voice echoed in his ears and then he felt the familiar pull behind his navel.
He felt his feet leave the ground and the world dissolved into swirls of colour and he knew he was moving. The three most important people in his life at that moment moving with him.
Ok really not sure if that chapter s up to the standards you guys were expecting. It really was a sucker to write. I was going for Harry being almost too shocked to speak. I think i kinda got there but i'll leave that up to you!
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