A/N: Okay so we are back with Chapter one. As stated scorpiodragonfly and I don't own the Harry Potter world, we are however, blessed to play in J.K. Rowling's sandbox with her creations. So we are off to start this. Please note that there will be time jumps during chapters. There will be parts that are important and will be focused on, and others will be touched on. Anywho… onto chapter one…

Chapter I

Fresh Start

November 1st, 1981

Edgeware, London

10 A.M.

The sound of a Motorbike caught Jackie Granger's attention first. The dentist had always loved the sound of a decent Motorcycle and she knew how to appreciate a good bike when she saw one. Moving to one of the front windows Jackie looked out and watched as two black Sedans, a black truck, and a silver Motorbike pulled into the driveway next door. The biker dropped the kickstand with one foot before swinging the other foot over the bike before removing his helmet and running a hand through shaggy black hair. Another man stepped out of the truck this one with sandy blonde hair. Jackie watched as the dark haired man walked up and joined the other before they headed towards the Sedans that now had people exiting the vehicles.

Out of one of the cars stepped a red haired female and a messy black haired male. Jackie's first thought was that the other people there were helping someone in the group move in. The house had been sold earlier in the year but until this moment no one had so much as shown up to the property. Her confusion surfaced as the male and female from the first car moved to the back seat and pulled out two babies. The confusion was due in part to the fact that the baby the red head held was platinum blonde. Her brow furrowed in confusion until the occupants of the second car had exited the vehicle. A tall black haired man with a fairly prominent hooked nose stepped out of the driver's side of the car while a platinum blonde couple stepped out from the passenger side and back seat of the car.

The blonde female made her way over to the red head and scooped the toe headed boy into her arms. The group exchanged a few words briefly before moving into the house. Jackie Granger had not often been one to spy on others, not for three or so years, but that had been for different reasons. She couldn't wrap her mind around the new neighbors. She decided that after her two year old had her nap Jackie was going to gather little Hermione and go play welcoming neighbor. Jackie reached for the phone after watching the large group enter the house and called her husband at work to talk with him.

"Granger Family Dental; this is Rae, how may I direct your call?" The cheerful voice of their black haired assistant bubbled on the other end of the line.

"Good morning Rae," Jackie replied, "I was wondering if Robert was free for a brief chat?"

"Oh hi Doctor Granger," Rae said, "Just let me check." The line went silent for a moment before she returned to the line, "Doctor Granger is free I'll just transfer the call over and pass a greeting on to young Hermione for me."

"Thank you Rae and I'll be sure to pass the message onto Hermione," Jackie said before there was a couple clicks and her husband picked up.

"Jackie, is everything alright?" Robert Granger asked.

"Everything is fine Robert; I just thought I would let you know that we apparently have new neighbors. I was thinking of taking Hermione after her nap and go introduce ourselves," Jackie said.

"Ever the dutiful neighbor," Robert said with a chuckle, "I think that is a great idea. I'll meet them this weekend when I'm not at work."

"Alright," Jackie agreed, "I will see you tonight."

"Tonight," Robert agreed, "I love you Jackie."

"Love you too Robert," Jackie said and ended the call. She made her way into the kitchen to pull out ingredients to make a bundt cake when she heard the quick steps of her two year old flit down the stairs.

"Mumma," Hermione called excitedly.

"In the kitchen Hermione," Jackie called back. She could hear the swift footsteps as her daughter ran into the room.

"Mumma new friends!" Hermione said her eyes bright with excitement.

"You saw the new neighbors?" Jackie asked.

"Uh huh," Hermione said nodding her head, "can I go play?"

"Not right now Hermione," Jackie said, "after your nap we'll go over and meet them. Now why don't you go grab one of your books in the livingroom and read for a bit before your nap."

"Okay Mumma," Hermione said and ran off to the other room. Jackie smiled thinking about the excitement she saw in her young daughter at the prospect of new friends. "I hope they get along," she mused to herself out loud. She got the ingredients out for the cake before going into the livingroom to read with Hermione like they did every afternoon.

The cake was baking and while Hermione still slept Jackie took the time to think about the new neighbors. She went back to the window and saw the cars were still there but had seen no large lorry used to move furniture. "Hmm, that's odd I wonder where their furniture is?" She said out loud to the empty room.

Two hours later Hermione asked for the umpteenth time, "Mumma, can we meet my new friends? I've been a good girl...please?" She looked at her Mum with that look that Jackie could never say no to.

"Alright, alright, go get your jacket," Jackie replied. She went to the closet and to grab her jacket only to find Hermione holding it for her with an eager smile. Chucking, Jacket put on her jacket and picked up the waiting cake, "Okay let's go," she grinned at her precocious daughter.

As Lily put the finishing touches on the livingroom of the main house the doorbell rang. 'I'll get it," she called out. Reaching the door to waved her wand muttered a charm to reveal who was at the door. To her surprise it was a young woman and a cute little girl realizing that the woman was a muggle. She opened the door cautiously to greet the guests.

"Hi, welcome to the neighborhood," Jackie said as she held out the cake. "I'm Jackie Granger and this is my daughter Hermione. We live right next door," she said. "Hermione saw your two children and wanted to meet her 'new friends'," she replied with a rueful grin on her face.

Lily smiled and relaxed her stance, "Why thank you, won't you come in?" she said as James came up behind her.

As James put his hand on her back she could feel as he held his wand out of the muggles sight. "Is everything okay, Love?" he asked cautiously.

"This is Jackie and Hermione Granger, our new neighbors. They wanted to welcome us," she said in a tone that told him to relax.

Entering the foyer, Jackie was surprised to see the house furnished. She removed Hermione's jacket, then her own handing them to James' waiting hand. "Would you like some tea? James, would you go get Harry so he can meet our neighbors?" She asked. "Come, come in and make yourself comfortable. I'm Lily and this is my husband James and our son Harry," she said just as James returned with Harry.

When Harry came into the room Hermione made a beeline for him. "Hi," She exclaimed, "My name is Hermione! What is yours?" She asked giving him a hug.

Harry grinned and tried to hug her back but lost his balance knocking both pf them to the floor. Laughing the two untangled themselves while their parents looked on.

"Me Hawwy. Dats Dada n dats Mummy." Harry managed to say with a grin as he pointed to them. Harry leaned over and gave Hermione a wet kiss on her cheek. "You Hewmyny," he said as he attempted to say her name.

"Harry, you can call me Mynie if you want. Where's your brother? Hermione replied.

Lily chuckled, "Draco isn't his brother but his cousin." As if on cue, Narcissa walked into the room carrying Draco.

"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt." Narcissa said quickly.

"No Cissy you didn't. This is Jackie and Hermione Granger our next door neighbors. We were just getting acquainted. Jackie this is Cissy and her son Draco, James' cousins. Cissy, why don't you join us? I'll go make some tea for everyone. Will Luc and Sev be joining us?" Lily said. "James have Siri and Remus come back yet?" She asked.

Cissy smiled brightly, "It's a pleasure to meet you both" she said while putting Draco on the floor with Harry and Hermione.

"Hi Draco I'm Hermione" Hermione said before reaching over and embracing him a hug. "Now we can be bestest friends!" She exclaimed. Hermione plopped herself down between Harry and Draco. "But you can call me Mynie like Harry." She told the young blonde boy before hooking her arms into both boys' arms.

James smiled, "I think I heard them just before I came in. I expect to..." James was cut off by a barking laugh heard throughout the house.

"Prongsie! Where is my godson? He's not in his..." Sirius stopped when he walked into the room, Remus following behind him, eyes closed and shaking his head at his friend, collided with Sirius' back.

"Padfoot," he started to exclaim before stopping when he saw the guests. He looked to James questioningly. James just shook his head slightly knowing both of his mates would understand, for now. "Please excuse our interruption ladies" Remus said as he poked Sirius in the side.

"Um...oh yes we didn't men to be rude. Who is this beautiful angel attached to Harry and Draco?" He replied quickly.

"Sirius, Remus these are our new neighbors. This is Jackie and Hermione Granger. They wanted to welcome us to the neighborhood."

James, who slipped out during the introductions, returned with tea for everyone and small china plates and forks for the cake. "Tea is served," He said as he set the tray with everything on it upon the coffee table. "Siri," James said, "Could you go see if Luc and Sev would like to join us?"

"Sure" he said after a minute. "Be right back. Don't have cake without me!"

Lily shook her head with a wry grin, "He never misses out on food" she said through a chuckle. "So Jackie, what do you do, I mean besides take care of your little angel?" She asked.

"My husband and I are dentists," she replied and was surprised at the puzzlement on most everyone's faces.

Sirius returned with Luc and Sev in tow just in time to hear what Jackie said. Luc mouthed "Dentists?" Sirius shrugged his shoulders.

Lucius walked into the room with Severus a few steps behind him. When Severus looked at their guest he stopped walking abruptly as he recognized her. Lily introduced Lucius and as she started to introduce Severus, Jackie spoke up.

"Severus? Severus Snape is that you?" Jackie asked with surprise.

Severus smirked, "Jackie Merriweather? Lily you know Jackie from before we went to school in Scotland."

Lily looked back at Jackie and smiled with recognition, "Why of course! I thought you looked familiar! I was Lily Evans." Lily exclaimed.

Jackie looked from Severus to Lily while realization came over her. "Oh!" she exclaimed, "Lily! It is you! I thought you looked familiar but it's been a very long time since I've seen you. Didn't you go away to a private boarding school?" she finished with a grin.

"Yes, Severus and I both went to the same school together. That's how we all met." Lily said gesturing to all of the people in the room.

Cissy sat up a bit straighter and said, "Merriweather, Merriweather, Luc I remember that old family name from our ancestry classes."

"Hmmm..."Lucius mused, "You're right Cissy, but I'll have to check into it."

"Old family name? Ancestry classes?" Jackie asked a bit confused.

"Oh I'm sorry; some of the older families tend to teach their children about ancestry and genealogy as an addition to history taught in school. It's believed that we should always know where and from whom we come from." Cissy told Jackie.

"Really? I would love to know my family's ancestry." Jackie replied quickly. "My family hasn't talked much about our roots past my grandfather. They've been pretty close lipped about it. I only have ever gotten snippets of information when they thought I wasn't around to hear it."

"Well then I think we can do some research on it together," Lily said with a smile.

"Prongsie, I think I just heard Lily's favorite word, we'd better hide." Sirius said while holding back laughter.

"What is wrong with..." Lily started to say before the sounds of the children made her trail off. All of the adults turned to the children on the floor. Harry and Draco were having a tug-of-war with a stuffed animal. They got a bit more aggressive and noisy when Hermione intervened. Right before the eyes of the adults Hermione touched both boys on the arm. To the amazement of the adults a bright blue light went into Draco and a bright gold one went into Harry instantly making them stop their struggle over the toy and smile brightly. The shocked adults turned to face each other noticing the dumbfounded look on Jackie's face.

"Umm...what just happened?" Jackie asked. "What were those lights that came from Hermione?"

The other adults looked at Jackie and then each other. Severus spoke up, "I think we should have a chat. Lily, since we know her the best and you know best how this can go, why don't you start off."

"Yes, well...I..." Lily started before Jackie's look of confusion and a trace of fear made her mind up as to how to broach the subject immediately gave her a starting point. "Jackie, I know the confusion you are feeling as I'm pretty sure that my parents felt the same way about me." Lily said taking Jackie's hands into hers. "I know how this is going to sound but please bear with me and keep an open mind."

Jackie looked into Lily's emerald green eyes and saw the pleading look in her eyes and said, "Go on, I'll listen and keep an open mind."

Lily looked around at the other adults and said, "I wish your husband was here for this conversation."

"If it's that important," she said looking at her watch, "Let me call and see what the rest of his schedule looks like. Do you have a phone yet?" she replied to Lily.

"Oh yes, it's right this way." Lily said and took her into the other room to make the call.

Cissy was watching the children interact and was amazed to see that all three children were working together to stack up the wooden blocks. Hermione set up the base and the boys helped her build a small wooden pyramid. She was brought bck to the adults with Lily and Jackie returning to the room.

"Robert will be here in 15 minutes." Jackie said. "He didn't have any more appointments scheduled for the afternoon, so he decided to call it a day. He had just finished up with the last one."

"Well since it's going to be dinner time soon, maybe you'll join us for dinner?" Lily suggested.

A/N 2: Okay sorry for the wait here is chapter 1. Sorry it's short. Will try to make the next one longer. Remember, enjoy and please R&R

~Lahotes Girl & Scorpiodragonfly