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Chapter seventeen: Deadly Papercuts and James Is Filled In

At breakfast the next morning James was nagging Remus to brew him a hangover potion as the rest of the marauders and Harry were silent. Suddenly realising this James stopped his nagging,

"What happened to you guys? You're all quiet. I mean Remus and Peter it's not that unnerving, but Sirius Black is never quiet!"

Sirius smiled weakly,

"Tired."

James raised an eyebrow,

"Tired? That doesn't usually stop you..."

"Well it does today."

James now looked worried,

"Did I say something?"

"Nope," Sirius shook his head, "I did."

"Like...?"

Sirius looked at Remus,

"Oh, your asking for permission before blurting things out now?" Remus asked.

Sirius shrugged and picked at his bacon, ignoring the fact Snape walked into the Great Hall. This concerned James more,

"You said something really bad last night didn't you?" Sirius nodded. "And I can't remember it!" James frowned, as Lily glared at him, completing his hung over morning from hell.

"If it makes you feel any better, you were asleep at the time so you didn't forget anything..." Peter said through a mouthful of toast.

'Thank-you so much Peter..." James said sarcastically, but sarcasm was wasted on Peter who grinned,

"No problem."

"Now, will you guys spit out what Sirius said last night? It's obviously big, I mean look at you guys..." James said then looked at Peter, "...Just not Peter...His table manners haven't improved since first year..."

Peter glared and wiped tomato sauce from his chin, but kept chewing with his mouth open.

Sirius took a deep breath, making quite a show of it, (Who would've thought breathing could be such a show?),

"Well-"

Remus caught Lily's eye, who was pretending not to be listening,

"Not here!" Remus hissed.

"James, what's a big risk wizards or witches take when they travel in time?" Remus questioned James as he, Harry, Sirius and James (Peter was still eating.) sat at one of the library's tables. Since everyone was still at breakfast it was the perfect place to fill James in, although Sirius did looked terrified by the thought he was in a library - he was convince something was going to jump out at him and paper cut him to death or something equally stupid...

"Uhh...Don't they risk deleting themselves from existance or something..."

"Exactly." Remus said, waiting for it to click in James' mind. For a moment James looked blank, then after Sirius pointing briefly at Harry, James gasped,

"No!"

They all nodded.

"He's my only son!" James cried, he grabbed Harry into a bone crushing hug, "He's my precious boy! He can't be deleted before he's created!"

"I'm not a computer program..." Harry muttered.

"A what?" Remus asked.

"MY BOY!" James wailed, "Remus! I just realised! It was me! I did it! I killed Harry, my own son!"

"James, you didn't kill Harry. His presence in general confused the whole system, neither him or you could've changed Lily's feelings for-" Remus tried to explain.

"That's it! Lily...She's the cause of the whole problem...If she understood she'd-That's it!" James jumped up and ran out of the library. Eager for the way out and also worried about what James was going to do, Sirius ran after him. Leaving Harry and Remus alone,

"He's going to do something stupid isn't he?" Harry asked dreading the answer.

"You learn fast..." Remus smiled. Harry brushed the hair out of his eyes, making his scar visible. "You know Harry, that's quite an unusual scar you have there..." Remus said getting slowly to his feet, he was getting weaker as his body was preparing for the full moon that night. Harry nervously flattened his hair down once more as he watched Remus walk slightly hunched towards the restricted section of the library,

"Erm...Yea. Moony? Are you allowed in the restricted section without a signed permission slip from a teacher?"

Remus began looking through books,

"I have a unlimited amount of books I'm allowed and they can be from anywhere in the library. McGonagall trusts I won't be making Polyjuice Potions and hexing people any time soon." Remus pulled a sickly green book off the shelf and brought it over to the table, "It's lucky she did, otherwise I'd never had known this..." Remus opened 'Death Marks, Cursed Scars and Unusual Spots'.

"Interesting book," Harry commented more uneasy than before.

Remus turned the book around to face Harry with a particular page open,

"It's weird Harry...Your scar looks a lot like this one..."

Harry stared down in horror at the lightening bolt scar, beside the words 'This scar means the person has been touched by the deadly curse, Avada Kedvra, currently no one has survived this curse...'

"What happened to you Harry?"