Chapter Seventeen:

A Mother and her Surrogate.

Immediately, after hearing Mrs. Weasley, Harry let his own contentment drift and went to help her pick up the broken pieces of china, as did lily.

James went and sat down on the couch, his hands behind his head a smile played on his face, he loved doing that to people. James was happy his son was slowly accepting them pretty soon he would be meeting the twins and then they would all be a family again.

"James get off your lazy arse and help us out" Lily screeched at her husband.

James rolled his eyes and got of the couch, and seemed to remind the others that they were magical beings by muttering a quick "Scourgify" in which all the glass and tea disappeared; he then smiled cheekily at his wife.

Lily playfully swatted James and looked over at Harry who was watching the two of them with fascination.

"What?" Lily asked.

"Nothing" Harry said, smiling slightly. Harry momentarily grasped the fact that his parents were alive, and he remembered the image in snapes pensieve of their fifth year in school, and somehow the diversity between the people he had seen in the memory and the ones that stood in front of him seemed to be utterly shocking, and also highly amusing.

In all this commotion, Mrs. Weasley had left quietly again, she seemed to see that they still needed sometime, which was perfectly okay with her, she was absolutely entirely happy that Harry had his own family now, but to a certain degree she felt sad, she had been the surrogate mother of Harry for so long, he had told her himself on so many occasions, she was not needed there anymore though.

It had been the same way with her older children they grew up, and suddenly did not need there mother all the time, though Harry's case was somewhat different, because while he was growing up he was also drifting from her close hold into another family all together.

She was happy though, no regrets that's for sure, things were the way they should be.

Harry went and sat back down on the couch and his parents sat across from him.

There was a silence once more but it was shorter this time. Harry was slowly becoming used to the atmosphere surrounding his parents now all it would take was time, time to adjust and time to believe.

"Well Harry you know all about us now, so how bout you return the favor what have you been doing for the last fifteen years?" Lily asked curiously she was incredibly eager to learn who her son was; well she was going to get a shocker there.

Harry looked very hesitant this wasn't a good Idea, "umm… I would rather tell you later, maybe with Sirius or Remus around, is that okay?" Harry asked uncertain if his parents would accept this answer.

There was no arguments there but it just peaked there interest, "So till' tomorrow then?" Lily said with a small smile etched on her face.

"Tomorrow" Harry answered with a smile that seemed to not be true, how was he supposed to tell his parents of his life? What they left him to; he did not want more guilt upon them then there was already. They may deserve guilt but not that much, it was not all there fault he knew that, this was going to be difficult.

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