Chapter 11 Halloween

Everything was going well at Hogwarts and things were beginning to settle down. Until one night in the week before Halloween Harry had a dream but not about Voldemort. He dreamed that after the Halloween feast he Ron, Hermione, and Isildur had decided to look at the Marauder's map (The map his Dad and his friends Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew had made together.) What really shocked him the most was what he read on the map. Coming out of the secret passage under the Womping willow were two dots labeled Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin, but with them were two others labeled Lilly and James Potter.
His parents had come back, but how?

The next day when he woke up he decided he wouldn't tell any one about his dream as he knew that they would only suggest he go to Dumbledore, but he really didn't want to tell him about it after all it could just have been him dreaming about something he had always wanted. After all he had dreamed about them many times before.

The week went by quickly and then on Friday October 31st things began to happen. First of course they had there usual classes. Even double potions with Slytherin wasn't that bad as they had the Halloween feast to look forward to. The great hall was decorated as it always was for Halloween. The feast was just like another at Hogwarts with the food appearing on the table once everyone was seated. Although tonight there was something different, because seated next to Sirius Black was Remus Lupin. Harry wondered why he was here. That night after the feast everyone left to go to their common rooms, they were also wondering what Professor Lupin was doing there.

On the way back to the Gryffindor common room Harry started to tell Ron, Hermione, and Isildur about his dream. Hermione's reaction was to tell Dumbledore about it but the boys just said why not take a look at the map to see if it happened.

So they all went to a back corner of the common room, while Harry went upstairs to get something out of his trunk. He came back a few minutes latter with an old piece of parchment, laid it on the table in front of the four of them.

Then he put the tip of his wand to it and muttered "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

After he said that the map begin to appear as did the names of the four founders of the Marauders 'Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs'.

They begin to watch it; they saw a dot labeled Albus Dumbledore pacing back and forth across the entrance hall. They also saw what they were looking for, they saw 4 dots come out from under the he Womping willow and they were labeled Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Lilly and James Potter. Harry couldn't believe it. Then suddenly someone behind them cleared there throat, they turned around and saw Professor McGonagall standing there.

She said to them "will the four of you please come with me."

Harry picked up the map and folded it up and put it in his pocket and they all followed Professor McGonagall out. She led them to the Stone Gargoyle that guarded the entrance to Dumbledore's office. She said the password and the star case started moving up to the office. When they got up there the five of them waited for Dumbledore to come up.

Then the door opened and in walked Professor Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black the Stewart of Gryffindor house, along with two other people who Harry recognised as his parents from the photos he had. He ran over to them and hugged them they hugged him back. When he hugged them it felt just like it did that time in forth year that Mrs. Weasly hugged him after he came back from seeing lord Voldemort rise again. Harry was the happiest he had been in a long time, but then it hit him his parents were supposed to be dead right?

Dumbledore who was now sitting at his desk begin to speak "I believe that an explanation of tonight's events is in order."

James stepped forward and spoke "Harry I'm sorry about what Lilly and I did to you 16 years ago but we did it to protect you and us. You see you and I are the Heirs of Godric Gryffindor and Voldemort is the heir of Slytherin. Slytherin swore as he was dying from the wounds that he suffered from the sword of Gryffindor that his heirs would seek out and kill every one of Grifindor's heirs. Sixteen years ago Dumbledore and I came up with a plan, we had two death eaters in our possession and I approached Dumbledore about using them for something. You see I knew that Peter Pettigrew was working for Voldemort, I had assumed that he, was as he always sought out those that were more powerful then he was. Sirius and Remus I'm sorry I didn't fill you in on all of this but I thought the less people who knew about it the safer we would be."

Sirius and Remus looked at James assonated at what he had just said. They accepted his apology and then James continued "First we made Peter our Secret Keeper knowing that he would betray us to Lord Voldemort. Then we got Snape to make up some Polly Juice potion and we gave it to the death eaters that we had. Then we hid in the basement of the house and used strong magic spells to control the death eaters impersonating us. So when Lord Voldemort came into his house thinking that he was going to kill you and me he actually killed two of his own death eaters."

Then Harry asked "So how did I survive then?"

Dumbledore then spoke again "Harry you know how I told you that your mother died to save you well that is partly true you see just before Voldemort came to kill you and James the death eater discussed as Lilly broke free and ran, so I quickly gave your mother a position that would make her seam to be dead when hit by Arvada Kadaver, but allow her to live. Unfortunately that was the last vile of it as it was made by my friend Nicolas Flamel who past away a few years ago. So she did die in a way to save you."

Harry the looked to Dumbledore and his parents and said "so I guess this means that I don't have to go back to the Dursly's again, Right?"

Lilly and James looked at Dumbledore as if he had just admitted to trying to posing Harry and they both said to him in very loud voices "You sent him to live with Petunia and Vernon Dursley? What were you thinking Albus? Why not send him to the Weasly's as we had discussed?"

Dumbledore then said back to the in a very calm manner "I sent him to live with them because I wanted to protect him from the fame he had begin to get in the moments of your supposed death. You see he is the first documented person ever to survive the most unforgivable curse of all. So naturally I figured that living with muggles would be better for him. So in some ways I was right for dining it and in some ways I was wrong for it and Harry I apologies to you for living you with them for 16 years but I wanted to make sure that everyone knew that your parents were gone before having them return. Does that make any since to you?"

It didn't really make much since to him but hey what did it matter now he had his parents back now. Dumbledore the said that Harry could go and live with his parents during the Christmas Holidays and in the summer. Harry hugged him and thanked him, then he relished that he hadn't introduced his friends to his parents yet. They of course knew Remus and Sirius already. He first introduced his best friend Ron to them, then Herminie and then his newest friend Isildur.

James looked at Isildur and saw him caring a sword with him and asked him "what's with the sword young man?"

Isildur smiled back at James and said "This sword is my wand," James looked at him with an extremely puzzled look, so Isildur explained further about how it was the sword Narsil from The Lord of the Rings and how Elrond had taken a wand from Olivander's shop and combined it with this sword.

James's response was just simply "Wow, now that's a really cool story."

By now it was midnight and everyone was begging to feel tired, but before they went to bed Harry had one more question for his parents "So where have you been for the last 16 years?"

James looked at Harry and said "Well for the last 16 years we were living in the Secret Chamber of the Lion."

When he said this everyone but Professor Dumbledore was wondering if James had gone mad or something. After all there was no Secret Chamber of the Lion right? James then explained how Dumbledore had brought them to Hogwarts late at night on the 31st and lead them through many secret passages that he (James) didn't even know existed to a large room with a statue of Gryffindor and a lion at one end. Dumbledore said a password and the Lions mouth opened up and the three of them walked into it. Dumbledore asked them to stay there until he called for them. Then on July 31st of this year he asked us to come out and live in the streaking shake until Halloween. After James explained all this Dumbledore lead them all to the Gryffindor common room where he conjured an extra bedroom for Lilly and James to stay in. Before leaving Professor McGonagall asked Harry what that old bit of parchment was that he grabbed when they left the common room a few hours ago.

Harry replied "It's nothing just an essay I didn't want anyone copying."

She was satisfied with that answer and left. James whoever guest by the amount of time Harry took to come up with his answer that it must be something he didn't want her to know about. James then asked Harry what it really was. Harry reached into his pocket and unfolded the Marauder's Map. James looked at it with the same look he had when he first saw Harry in Dumbledore's office. Lilly of course was wondering what this thing was and who the Marauder's were.