Chapter 11- finding out
"You're pregnant?" James asked with an unreadable expression.
"Yes, I took a pregnancy test yesterday." Lily said. It was silent for what felt like an eternity until James responded to Lily. James jumped out of bed and grabbed Lily and spun her around and kissed her.
"we're having another baby!" James said excitedly as he picked her up again and spun her around.
"you're ok with that?" Lily asked
"Why wouldn't I be ok with it I'm so excited that we're having another baby." James responded.
"How are we going to manage this though we're at the start of another war." Lily said.
"We'll just manage this like we did when we had Harry. Lily we're such a good team together when I'm with you I feel like I can take on the world." James said as he held Lily close
All Lily responded was with a kiss to James. Even though that James was very excited he was still tired because he had been up all night, so he took Lily back to bed and they both fell asleep in blissful peace thinking about the second child that they were about to have.
Harry had been thinking a lot about what his parents had told him what to do about them not being able to do anything useful in Defense Against the Dark Arts. They would most definitely would have to organize something like this on a Hogsmeade weekend as Umbridge was cracking down on a lot of new rules not to mention that he would probably get endless detentions for the rest of his life or at least until Umbridge left. This would have to wait for later however as the amount of homework he already had for the week had to be dealt with.
The rest of the weekend went by pretty uneventful for James and Lily the excitement from James however had not worn off. Lily loved the fact that James was so excited Lily herself was also very excited when she and James got married, they also said that they wanted to have a bigger family. James was an only child and Lily only had her one sister what they also wanted was to have siblings and bigger families when they were kids, so it was easy for them to decide that they wanted to have a bigger family.
Monday came quickly for James and Lily, and they went back to work in the library trying to find out how they were able to come back to life. The past week it had been difficult for them to do much of their work as Lily had morning sickness but, it seems like she had moved past that over the weekend, so they were able to now do some more research. They also were even more motivated now because they weren't just finding out for Harry but also an unborn baby that they were expecting. It was no later after an hour of studying that James had found something in one of the books he was reading.
"Hey Lily, I think I found something." James said. Lily just turned her attention to James as he started reading it. "It says here that when sister wands connect that the last people were killed by that wand appear and if the user of the other wand truest desire is wanting something that the other user took away from them that desire is granted."
"So, what your saying is that Voldemort and Harry dueled, and their wands connected is the reason that we're back alive?" Lily asked.
"By this book that's what it seems like." James responded.
"I guess we should ask Harry some questions because this could be the very thing that he wanted but, I think we should get some confirmation answers first." Lily said.
The changes at Hogwarts were coming fast as Umbridge just in her second week had been appointed high inquisitor at Hogwarts and was now starting her reign of terror. It was hard for Harry to go to a single class without Umbridge being there to criticize his teachers. By the time he got to defense he was sick of Umbridge and was ready to stick it to her. He decided that he would follow his parent's advice just to spite Umbridge. So, after classes had ended, he got Ron and Hermione in his dorm room to tell them his plans.
"Why am I in here Harry what's so secret that we have to meet your dorm room?" Hermione asked.
"Because for right now we are the only three who can know. The other night I was talking to my parents, and I told them how Umbridge wasn't letting us do anything practical in defense, so they suggested that we form one in secret." Harry said.
"Who would teach us?" Ron asked.
"Harry would of course." Hermione said beating Harry to the jump of answering. "I mean he already knows how to cast a full Patronus, and he also has fought Voldemort three times and beaten him twice."
"So, are you two on board?" Harry asked.
"I'm on board especially with O.W.L's this year I need to learn how to do some of these things. Hermione said.
"I'm in anyway we can stick it to the ministry you can count me in." Ron said.
"Great we'll discuss the details later, but I need to call my parents first." Harry said.
Hermione and Ron nodded as they left so that Harry could speak with his parents privately. When Harry did call his parents, it was up to Ron and Hermione to make sure that no one knew as they didn't want anyone to find out that his parents were alive again yet.
So, James and Lily waited for the day hoping that Harry would call them tonight. As much as they wanted their answers, they knew that Harry had school and they didn't want to disturb him from his schoolwork. They decided that it would be better if he called them instead of them calling him and disturbing his schoolwork. They got lucky as Harry had decided to call them and tell them that he would be creating his own Defense Against the Dark Arts group.
"Hey mum, dad." Harry called into the mirror.
"Harry." James said as he picked up the mirror and motioned for Lily to come over.
"Harry, how are you doing?" Lily asked.
"I'm doing well. So, I thought about what you guys said and I decided that I'm going to make my own defence group." Harry said.
"That's good stick it to the ministry." James said.
"Yeah, so this week is our Hogsmeade weekend and we're going to go to Hogshead and scope out the interest in it." Harry said.
"That's great Harry." Lily said.
"Actually, we have a couple of questions for you Harry." James said.
"Sure, what is it dad." Harry said.
"The last trial in the tri-wizard tournament we know that you saw Voldemort come back but did you duel him?" James asked.
Harry really didn't like recalling those memories and to be honest he just got over the nightmares of it however he didn't mind answering the question. "Yeah, I did duel him." Harry responded.
That was one checkmark in the books. "And do you guys have sister wands." Lily asked.
"Yes, we do the cores of our wands came from the same phoenix." Harry responded.
"Alright and final question before we were back alive what was the thing that you desired most in the world." James asked.
"Well, I guess nothing really had changed since my first year when I saw you two with me in the mirror of Erised." Harry answered.
James and Lily looked at each other with a knowing look as they finally found out how they were able to come back to life "Thanks Harry." James said.
"Why were you asking those questions?" Harry asked.
"Well, we've been doing some research of our own and we just needed to know some of this stuff to confirm our findings so far." Lily responded.
"Ok?" Harry said kind of confused. "Well, I have to meet with Hermione and Ron to figure details about our defense group."
"Alright bye Harry." James and Lily said. "Love you."
"Love you guys too." Harry responded as he left to go discuss with Ron and Hermione.
"Well, I guess we know how we came back." James said.
"Yep, now we just need to find out if there are any additional risks of us being alive again." Lily finished.
So, with the answers that they needed they went back to researching books they thought that they might find that information in that book, but it only said that's how they came back. They still had half of the books left to search through. It was just the luck of James and Lily that they had gotten to the last book to find the answers that they wanted. It was once again Friday when they found what they were looking for.
"I found it." Lily said as she was reading the last book.
"What did you find Lils?" James asked.
"Here it says anyone who returns from life of sister wands dueling return to life at the age that they died, and they are able to live normally without any other risks or dangers." Lily read from the book.
"So that means we're back for good and we have nothing to worry about?' James asked.
"Yes, we can live our lives now." Lily responded.
James gave a happy whoop and grabbed Lily and spun her around and gave her a kiss "So we can live our lives with Harry and our new little addition." James said as he rubbed Lily's stomach.
"Oh my gosh we forgot to tell Harry the exciting news." Lily said.
"Right, we did but, to be hones I would rather tell him in person." James countered.
"So, you want to wait till Christmas to tell him." Lily said.
"I guess so I just would rather tell him in person unless you want to tell him sooner." James said.
Lily considered this for a moment "Your right I feel like telling him in person would be better." Lily finally said.
