For several minutes all the two witches did was glare at each other. Rather boring to Hadrian so he decided to end their little staring contest. He stood from his seat and made his way to Rita and Lily and tapped both of them lightly on the shoulder. They both jumped nearly a foot in the air before whipping around to stare at him. Rita simply blinked in shock before backing up as she realized she wasn't acting in an appropriate manner. Lily however wasn't backing down at all. If anything she only grew angrier.

"Calm down. You have no reason at all to be barging in here and making such a fuss." Hadrian stated calmly as he moved to stand between Rita and his mother. Both were taller than him be several inches but both Lily and Hadrian knew that she wouldn't be able to get past him. The last time she'd attempted to try had landed bother her and James flat on their arses. The memory brought a hint of a smile to Hadrian's face. Seeing the smile on his face sent Lily into a nearly apoplectic rage and she herself seemed to swell up like a toad.

"I WILL NOT!" Lily all but screeched as her face quickly went from cherry red to a rather frightening shade of purple. She was huffing as if she had just ran a marathon as well. Hadrian opened his mouth to ask her not to shout but he was cut off due to her beginning to yell at him. Again.

"Now you listen to me young man! You are my son and are far too young to be giving an interview alone with a woman as horrid as Rita Skeeter! She's absolutely vile and has been trying to print and spread lies about us for years and I'll not have you helping her run our family name through the mud! I am your Mother and I'll be taking you straight home RIGHT NOW!" Her mini rant now over, Lily was just now pulling deep heaving breaths and glaring Darkly at a straight-faced Hadrian and an absolutely shell-shocked Rita Skeeter. Lily didn't even notice that the quick-quotes quill was still madly scribbling away in as much delight as a magical quill can feel.

Hadrian was silent for several moments before he slowly lifted his hand and pointed it at Lily. She was pushed back immediately by a powerful force and pinned to the wall unable to move. James who had been hovering in the doorway for the duration of the time Lily had been screaming lurched forward sharply but seemed to change his mind mid-move as he came to a complete stop barely a second later. It was quite amusing to watch as he's nearly fallen flat on his face and had flailed his arms wildly for a few moments before regaining his balance. He straightened slowly with a red tint to his cheeks from embarrassment before slowly turning and facing Hadrian who was eyeing him coolly. Neither of them were paying the slightest attention to Lily who was spouting profanity and thrashing as much as she could.

"I just wanted to say that while I don't approve of what you're doing with Rita I can't say that I blame you and I certainly know I have no say in it. You are my son. My flesh and blood yet I treated you like garbage and threw you away. I failed you and for that I am truly sorry. I don't expect you to forgive me and I don't have a hope that you ever will. I will attempt to control my wife so that we don't burn the bridge between us anymore than we already have." James went silent after the small speech and instead simply stared at his eldest son. He wanted to burn his image into his mind so that he would never forget it as he was sure his son would never speak to him or see him ever again.

Hadrian was of a different mind however. James' way of thinking and his actions had changed too drastically since they first met again. This didn't sit well with Hadrian. These thoughts in mind, Harry walked over to his father and looked up at him for several minutes despite the uncomfortable shifting he was doing after the first few seconds. He suddenly motioned for James to lean his head down and he did so if with a bit of hesitation. Hadrian placed his hands on either side of his father's face and rested their foreheads together while closing his eyes and concentrating. James' face went slack after just a few seconds and he appeared to have gone to sleep before Hadrian abruptly jerked away with an angry and slightly alarmed look on his face.

"You're mind has been tampered with by means of compulsion and memory charms." Hadrian stated in a tight voice as James came back into to his senses. He didn't seem to have hear him speak because he shook his head like a dog for a moment before turning to him with a questioning look on his face. Lily had heard him though as she stopped her screeching and stared and him with horror and a bit of guilt on her face.

"What did you do that for Hadrian?" James questioned . He had absolutely no clue why his son had done that but it made him feel as if his entire head was full of cobwebs. He'd felt his son's magic rooting through his memories and had watched as they flashed in rapid fire snippets through his mind's eye. His childhood and time at Hogwarts before they had moved onto to his life after. When Hadrian had reached the point in his life that they had given him away the images had moved even faster and he could feel the anger in his son's magic although he did understand the reasoning behind that.

"Your mind has been tampered with. Certain thoughts and ideas planted in your mind, memories erased and your personality adjusted to please someone else. But I'm sure you already knew that didn't you mother dearest?" Hadrian purred with a dangerous edge to his voice as he moved past his shocked father to stand in front of her, completely ignoring her frantic struggles for freedom as he stared her down with cold eyes.

"I-I don't know what your talking about." Lily protested weakly and with a slight stutter to her words. Her eyes refused to meet his and instead darted wildly about the room before finally settling on James who was staring at her with an expression of hurt and betrayal on his face. If possible she seemed to wilt even further before fire returned to her eyes and she straightened herself as much as she could while still being pinned to the wall. Her eyes were bright and held a slightly deranged look deep within the green irises.

"So what if we did?! James was paying more attention to YOU," Lily snarled with an ugly sneer marring her pretty face. "To pay proper attention to Evan! What did it matter if you were his heir? He was so wrapped up in you that he was ignoring everyone else ! Even ME! He didn't even notice what a freak you really were! Never crying or acting like a proper child. He dared to compare my perfect Evan to you! Tried to say you were the better child! But I refused to believe that so I convinced Headmaster Dumbledore that you would be a distraction for Evan and got him to send you away but you're still a bothering us and our perfect family!" She bellowed in his face, spittle flying from her mouth and splattering on Hadrian's cheek. She looked completely mad thrashing against the invisible bonds restraining her causing her hair to tangle as she also bared her teeth in an attempt at a snarl as Harry moved to use a handkerchief to clean his face.

James had been listening in silent horror this entire time but watching her spit on his son was simply too much for him to bear. He was moving before he even realized it. He stood in front of Lily and looked sadly upon the woman he used to love. He didn't know when or why she had changed but she wasn't the same girl he fell for at Hogwarts or even the same woman he married. People changed but not this much and he had to know what had happened to her and he wasted no time in asking her this.

"Lily what happened to you? You were never like this before and I know this isn't actually you? Let me help you." James said softly as he reached for, the now calm, Lily's hand. She stared at him with an unreadable look in her eyes as she stared first at James then at Hadrian and Tomoe who were hovering behind James. Harry to protect his father if need be as all his anger towards the man had vanished as soon as he learned that his mind had been tampered with. Tomoe was hovering to protect Hadrian should his unhinged mother manage to free herself and try to do him any harm. No one was paying the slightest bit of attention to Rita or her quill which had been flying over pieces of parchment. Taking down every detail of the encounter.

Lily stared for several moments before her face softened and her eyes lost the instability as her body went lax. She opened her mouth to speak before she froze and her whole body appeared to begin seizing as she thrashed around in her invisible bonds with her mouth open wide in an invisible scream. This state only lasted a few seconds before she fell completely limp as if unconscious but her eyes were wide open and glassy. James looked on in abject horror before whipping around and looking at Hadrian with a silent pleading question in his eyes.

Hadrian held his father's gaze for a long moment before releasing a silent sigh through his nose. He moved forward quickly and lifted his mother's face with his hands and gently rested his forehead against hers just as he had with James earlier. He sifted quickly and efficiently through her thoughts while looking for any signs of tampering made through magic. He frowned as he did notice the mental scars she had. They were old. Very old. James hadn't been nearly this bad. The scars in Lily Potter's mind had to be at least twenty years old with the way that had healed to leave such faint and nearly seamless scarring. Her mind had been tampered with since around the time she had joined Hogwarts. Harry frowned severely before leaving her mind and backing away from her slowly.

"Her mind has been tampered with as well and much more deeply than yours James. The scars from the spells and enchantment look to have been placed upon her as she entered Hogwarts. If they weren't in place I do believe Lily Evans would have been a much different person than she is now." Harry stated softly as he watched the heartbreak and anger take over his father's face. James looked to be at war with himself before determination took over his features.

"Can you repair the damage?" James questioned seriously as he turned to his son hoping that the answer would be positive. He watched as Harry mulled over the question in his mind before turning toward Tomoe to have what appeared to be a silent conversation for a minute or two before he turned back to him and gave his answer.

"Yes." was the simple answer he received.