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Originally, there had been my first attempt at a writing a "lemon" scene between James and Lily in his chapter. I have since removed it as I did not feel that it really fit into the story very well. I have yet to decide if I will attempt anymore such scenes in future chapters.
Chapter III
One Week Later
In the following week, many things began to change around Potter Cove. Sirius had spent most of the week absent from the Cove and refused to tell anyone where he went. Everyone, besides Danny, was curious on how he planned to acquire Devil's Grip and hoped that it didn't involve anything too dangerous. Remus, meanwhile, packed up The Retreat, the small home that Sirius and Remus had used as a safe house. It was an obvious decision given the new development with Danny and James to move them into the Cove. Danny was ecstatic over the opportunity to have his two uncles living with them, still oblivious that he was the cause. The Potters, meanwhile, organized themselves to prevent another outburst from Danny. James increased their mental arts training and stressed the need to calm one's mind. Additionally, Lily introduced dreamless sleep and calming potions to her lesson plan. Harry immersed himself into the lessons because he knew that Danny would follow his lead. In their time alone, Harry and Danny would play together as they normally did but Harry kept a close eye on Danny. He hoped to prevent anything that could cause another incident.
Finally, early one morning, Sirius stumbled from the fireplace with a large smile on his face and a package in his hands. He quickly noticed no one in the living room so he made his way into the kitchen where Gretel and Bobby prepared breakfast.
"Good morning, Bobby and Gretel." Sirius greeted jovially with a flirtatious smile towards Gretel.
"Master Sirius!" Bobby greeted. Gretel tried to greet Sirius but couldn't find her voice through her blush. "Welcome back, sir. May Gretel and Bobby get you some breakfast?"
"No thank you, I'll eat with everyone else." Sirius declined their eager offer of what appeared to be eggs benedict with strawberries. "Speaking of everyone else, is anyone awake?"
The house-elves accessed their unique magic to locate each person in the house. "Master Remus is just waking, Young Masters Harry and Daniel are in their rooms and the Master and Mistress are bathing." Gretel and Bobby announced.
Sirius blushed, he knew exactly what "bathing" really meant. His blush quickly turned into a devious grin, "May you inform the Master and Mistress that I have arrived?"
Gretel and Bobby looked at each before they timidly replied, "Gretel and Bobby are not to disturb the Master and Mistress when they are bathing, sir."
Sirius adopted his most charming smile and directed it towards Gretel. "But it's very important, Can't you make an exception…" Sirius paused for dramatic effect. "…for me?" Gretel couldn't help her blush and Bobby grew irritated at her reaction.
"Gretel will go," and she disappeared with a soft pop. Bobby just shook his head when he and Sirius heard a loud feminine shriek resound through the house.
"Must Master Sirius always trick poor Gretel into doing that?" Bobby asked. Sirius just laughed and rewarded himself for his prank by grabbing an apple and taking a healthy bite before he made his way to the sunroom to wait for everyone.
Five minutes later, Remus walked in with a disappointed look but with a hint of a smile, "You just can't help yourself, can you?"
Sirius just smiled and tossed his eaten apple in the air to be caught by the appearing and then disappearing Bobby. Sirius placed his package on the table and scooted it across the table to Remus. Remus eyed the package before he picked it up and examined it.
"Uncle Sirius, you're back!" Danny exclaimed excitedly. Remus quickly hid the package in his robes before the small child could see. Danny quickly ran towards his uncle while Harry followed calmly behind him.
Sirius caught the little missile boy and pulled him into a bear hug, "Hey their Danny, how's my little pup doing?"
"Good. Mummy's been teaching us about sleeping potions that make you not have dreams and Daddy showed us how to look into our minds and become all calm and stuff." Danny said animatedly. Sirius raised his eyes and confirmed with Harry and Remus that the lessons had stuck with the youngest Potter. Sirius brought his attention back to Danny.
"That's very good. Make sure that you pay attention because you know what the reward is for doing well in you lessons, right?" Danny raised his arms like they were wings and ran around the table making whooshing sounds. Sirius grabbed Danny when he tried to pass him and began to mercilessly tickle him causing Danny to breakout in an unending fit of laughter.
It was then that a furious looking Lily stormed into the sunroom. "Sirius Orion Black! How many times have we told…?" Lily cut off her tirade when Remus turned and showed her the package he had hidden in his robes. Harry saw it too but stayed quiet as not to draw Danny's attention to the silent exchange.
Sirius, meanwhile, smiled back at Lily. "Where's James?"
Lily focused back on Sirius and narrowed her eyes. "He'll be down in a moment."
"Still a little stiff, is he?" Sirius baited with a smile.
"Sirius!" Lily cried incredulously, subtly motioning towards Danny and Harry, who didn't seem to know what was going on anyway.
"What? I was just asking if he was still getting stiff in the mornings. What do you think I was talking about?" Sirius asked innocently.
Lily huffed and muttered, "Mangy mutt." Lily stared murderously at Sirius as she moved to her seat.
"Harry, Danny sit down it's time for breakfast," she commanded irritably.
It was then that Bobby and Gretel, with her head cast down, popped in and placed the breakfast trays on the table and began to pour drinks for everyone. As they were pouring Harry's cup of orange juice, James strode into the room staring very unpleasantly at Sirius. He sat down and accepted his own glass of juice from the still very embarrassed Gretel. James tried to thank her but she could only squeak and promptly popped out of the room. Sirius chuckled lightly to himself at James's and Lily's obvious discomfort over what the small house-elf had witnessed them doing. Thankfully, Harry and Danny were eagerly delving into the delicious spread and were oblivious to the subject matter. Lily leaned over to James and whispered into his ear about the package which caused to James to look from Sirius to Remus who slightly nodded that it was what they were looking for. The four adults were all looking at each as they attempted to have a silent conversation on when they should discuss what lied in Remus's robes when Danny enquired
"What are we doing today, mummy?"
"Umm…" Lily wasn't quite sure what to say.
"You two are going to work with me today," Sirius answered for Lily. "I've got to make sure you two have stayed in shape while I've been gone."
Danny looked really excited and turned to Harry. "I'm going to beat you today, Harry."
Harry just scoffed in indignation. "Yeah right. In your dreams, baby brother."
Danny got really upset. "I'm not a baby."
"Baby, baby, baby." Harry teased.
Danny almost bounced out of his seat. "Mummy! Make him stop." Danny pleaded to his mother but before Lily could intervene, Sirius raised his hand to stop her.
"Now Danny, what have I said about allowing your opponent to upset you?"
Danny was about to argue back but stopped at Sirius's stern stare down. Danny then pouted in defeat.
"If you let them into your head, then they have already won."
"Correct," Sirius confirmed before he returned to his breakfast.
Danny stared narrowly back at Harry who sported a smug grin. Danny then finished up his plate and got up from the table to prepare for their workout with Sirius. As he passed Harry's chair, Danny quickly reached out and pinched Harry's arm above his elbow (a painful pressure point). Harry instinctively reacted and pulled his arm away from Danny. Not wanting his little brother to get away with the first strike, he rushed out of his chair to chase Danny out of the room.
"Mummy!" Danny wailed as he tried desperately to outrun his older and faster brother. Lily mostly ignored the usual game of chase but decided to at least help her youngest child.
"Just don't hurt him, Harry."
With the children gone, Remus pulled out and carefully unwrapped the package to reveal two wide-bodied metallic black bracelets highlighted by an embedded glowing red octagonal ruby. This unique and terrifying ruby was responsible for forcing hundreds, maybe thousands, of wizards and witches to live as muggles. The three wizards and one witch in the room maintained their distance as they carefully observed the dangerous artifact before them.
James was the first to break the silence. "How the bloody hell did you find these, Sirius?" He wasn't too thrilled with their presence in his home.
"James! Language," Lily chided, though she agreed wholeheartedly with his sentiment. All the attention now focused on the prankster at the end of the table. Sirius solemnly leaned forward and rested his arms on the table.
"I had to access the Black's ancestral vault."
"That means…" Remus started disbelievingly.
"…I had to talk to my father." Sirius finished. It wasn't a secret to anyone in the room how troubled the relationship was between Sirius and his father. Lily, who sat nearest to him, reached out and grabbed Sirius's hand and gave him a comforting squeeze. James had the most experience with Lord Orion Black and knew that he wouldn't just give access to their family's most private vault without getting something in return.
"What did it cost you?" James asked.
"Nothing I can't afford," Sirius replied, not willing to discuss it further.
James let the matter drop, for now. The more important matter softly glowed on his breakfast table. Remus was already holding up a bracelet using a napkin instead of his bare hand and carefully examined the part of the bracelet surrounding the ruby. He pulled the bracelet closer to his face and squinted before he leaned back and waved his wand over the bracelet creating a magnifying glass effect in the air. Lily moved over to Remus and looked over his shoulder to examine the minuscule glyphs surrounding the ruby. These glyphs were the key to the bracelet's power; the ruby was just the repository for the magic that the glyphs absorbed.
"Let me see it." Lily said and carefully took the bracelet from Remus's hand. She stared more closely at the glyphs but shook her head in puzzlement. "I can't understand what these runes are saying. Do you, Remus?"
"Not really." Remus shook his head as he took the bracelet back from Lily and examined it closely. "There must be some kind of hidden cipher to it," he concluded.
It wasn't difficult to believe that a unique code was used so that if it was put on a runes master, they wouldn't be able to take it off before the bracelet took their magic. The code, though, was very confusing but the two of them were going to have to find a way to break it.
As Remus and Lily conferred, a realization came to James. "But even if you two can alter the bracelets to work, what's to stop Danny from just taking them off or not even wearing them?"
A stunned silence filled the room over their newest predicament. 'How were they going to get Danny to wear them and not take them off?' they all thought. They couldn't use compulsion charms or anything like that since they had been teaching both children how to recognize and repel them.
"We'd have to find a way to make him want to always wear them," Sirius commented.
"I don't think we'll need him to wear both of them, actually," Lily pointed out. "If we get the sequencing right, he'll only need to wear one of them."
"Well that's good at least," James commented, hoping for a little optimism.
"Yeah, but it doesn't change the fact that we need something to make him wear it," Sirius said.
"Why don't we just tell him to wear it," Lily offered. Everyone paused at Lily's ridiculous contribution with Sirius the first to speak.
"That'd be a rich conversation…'Hey Danny, wear this bracelet or your father might die the next time you have a nightmare.'"
"We can say that it's a family heirloom," James submitted, trying to ignore Sirius's tone.
Again Sirius scuffed. "I don't know about that, whenever my parents tried to get me to take some old family heirloom, I'd just say thank you and put it in my drawer. Couldn't exactly trust what would happen if I ever put them on."
"Well that's your family, Sirius," Lily countered. "Our families don't have a walk-in closet for all their skeletons."
Sirius admitted she had a point, "But doesn't he already have Charlus's old pocket watch? Have you ever seen him with it?"
Sirius spoke, of course, of Harry's sixth birthday when Danny didn't understand why only Harry got gifts so James had given him his father's old magical pocket watch. James had tried to explain its significance but it was difficult for a three-year-old to comprehend. Danny was excited about it for a while but it eventually ended up on his dresser amongst all his other clutter.
"We can say it's from Lily's side," James said, defending his idea.
"Oh yes, we can't forget the Great-and-Completely-Muggle Evans Family, can we? Sirius said dismissively. "What were they, com-putters eny-gears? What kind of magical heirlooms did they have?" Sirius knew that his comments were inappropriate but if there wasn't a way to get this to work then his deal with his father was definitely not worth it.
"That's computer engineers and you don't have to be rude, Sirius. Besides, I don't hear you offering any suggestions." Lily replied accusingly. Her parents, Benjamin and Rose Evans, had died years ago in a car crash. She had accepted it but that still didn't mean she would let Sirius bad-mouth them just because they were muggles.
"Hey! I got the bloody things, didn't I, and it wasn't exactly easy either." Sirius argued.
"Watch how you're talking to my wife, Padfoot." James warned in a raised voice.
Sirius shifted towards James. "You're the one that should be concerned, James," Sirius started, "you almost died a week ago."
"You think I don't know that," James said, "which is why we don't have time for your nit-picking."
"Oh I'm sorry for wanting to keep my best mate alive." Sirius countered as his quick temper started to flare. The argument started to get out of hand as their frustrations mounted. Thankfully…
"Gentlemen!" Remus interrupted which earned a glare from Lily, "and Lady." He added. "This is not helping. Lily and I already have the difficult enough task of making this safe for Danny and your petty arguing is not helping." James and Sirius quieted and looked slightly ashamed. With order restored, Remus continued, "Now, Lily and I need to focus on these runes, why don't the two of you handle the children and we'll think of a way to keep it on Danny's arm when we get there."
Everyone was silent and slightly embarrassed of their actions but it was something that Remus was used to. He had become accustomed to being the adult in their group. He usually shared the duty with Lily but sometimes her own fiery temper got the best of her and he was forced to play grown-up on his own.
"Have me give it to him," a voice spoke from behind them.
Everyone turned around to see Harry in his workout clothes as he looked intently at the bracelet that still lied on the table. He took a few steps into the room and came to stand next to Remus.
"Harry, wher…" Remus started looking behind him.
"Don't worry, I gave Danny a head start," Harry responded, anticipating Remus's question. Harry reached out and lightly touched the bracelet before him. "I can say that I made it in my spare time especially for him."
The adults looked at each other wondering if Harry's plan would work. "Are you sure, Harry?" Lily asked.
Harry slightly smiled and looked confidently at his mother. "If I give it to him, he'll never take it off."
Lily recalled the last time she witnessed Harry give Danny something, a drawing of them riding brooms, and how much Danny treasured it and displayed it proudly on the wall in his room. She could remember many other similar incidences and couldn't help but agree with Harry's idea. She looked over to Sirius.
"Does that work for you?" She asked cheekily.
Sirius studied Harry for a moment. He thought of his own memories of Harry and Danny and couldn't help but agree that the plan had merit. A grin crept onto his face as he couldn't help but agree.
"Yeah…that should work."
Three Years Later – May 1988
Not much changed for the residents at Potter Cove except for the new accessory that now donned Danny's arm. The glistening black bracelet with its glowing red ruby was a constant upon his person. Initially, there had been a problem in figuring how to translate the runes in order to change their purpose. Lily had spent days pouring every resource she could with little success. She had run herself ragged trying to find the answer and even her health had started to take a negative turn. If not for James's intervention (in a way only a husband could) Lily may have never got the rest she needed.
It had been the very next morning, that the solution to the bracelet's cipher had suddenly come to Lily. She had finally noticed the algorithm that described the proper placement of each rune on the bracelet. James had been extraordinarily pleased with himself and claimed credit for Lily's discovery.
The next day, James and Sirius planned a day by the beach with the children so that Remus and Lily would not have any distractions; not even Bobby and Gretel were permitted to remain in the house. The process required Lily to suspend the bracelet and keep it absolutely still as Remus carefully removed the correct runes and replace them with their own. The procedure took them many hours but eventually the task was complete. Unfortunately, the only way to test it was to place it upon Danny and wait for an outburst to occur but they were confident it would work. All that was left was for them to find the proper moment for Harry to give Danny the bracelet.
Luckily, James, Sirius and Harry had been instigating a plan throughout the day. Their day at the beach had consisted of swimming drills and exercises with plenty of fun activities included. Towards the end of their day, James and Sirius devised an obstacle course with the incentive that the winner would receive a prize from the loser. Harry cleverly lost without making it look suspicious while Danny was consumed with glee over finally besting his older brother. Harry faked indignation (though he really was upset) at the loss of his undefeated record. When Danny asked for his prize, he was told that he would receive it the next day and that it was something that Harry had been planning to give him anyway. When Danny first saw the bracelet and put it on, his face was lit with joy and excitement at the thought behind the gift. In the following weeks and months, Harry's prediction proved true as Danny was never seen without the bracelet on his arm.
The first test of its effectiveness came one evening when Danny had yet another nightmare. He dreamed of Sirius, who was finally permitted by Dumbledore to seek word of their friend, Peter, in the dangerous forests of Albania but had not yet reported back from his venture. He dreamt that Sirius had been captured by the lethifolds that inhabited the forests and then was devoured by them. When Lily investigated his cries, she noticed the bracelet's ruby glowing more brightly but more importantly that James remained unaffected: the bracelet had worked.
Presently, on a particularly hot day, Lily was attending to her garden of various vegetables for the kitchen and exotic plants for potions. She worked with a gentle smile on her face despite the heat and sweat. Out in the yard, James chased the boys around with water from his wand. The activity started as training to practice dodging but that quickly devolved to a game of tag. The cool water was too tempting for Harry and Danny and they allowed themselves to get hit more often than not.
Lily paused for a moment to watch as James backed his sons into a corner of the manor house. James strode confidently and raised his wand to blast them with more water but Harry had a sinister grin on his face and his hands behind his back. Danny stood closely next to him so that James could not see behind them. Just as the tip of James's wand glowed blue, Harry and Danny pulled from behind them a top of a bird bath that deflected the water back onto James. Her sons laughed and cheered as they watch James get drenched by his own spell. Lily tilted her head at the way the water reflected off the smooth surface of the bath and into her husband's face. When she saw the water get absorbed into his clothes, her eyes grew wide with realization.
'Could that be it!?' she thought.
She quickly dropped her tools and ran towards the back door of the house; she had to investigate her theory. She thought that she went unnoticed but Harry saw her in his peripheral and noted the eagerness in her face.
Ten minutes later, Harry excused himself and sought out his mother. He found her in the library with a plethora of books and charts scattered across the table. She talked excitedly to herself about the moon and magical energy.
"Mother?" Harry called to gain her attention. Lily looked up and saw her son looking curiously at her and her work.
"Harry, what are you doing here? I thought you were playing outside."
"I was, but then I saw you run inside all of a sudden and I was curious." Harry walked into the room and stood by the table. He picked up one of the papers which had a picture of the pyramids of Egypt.
"What are you researching, Mum?" He looked up at his mother who seemed conflicted.
She wasn't sure if she should tell him about the prophecy and what she thought she had discovered. "Just an answer to a question that I've been searching for," she answered cryptically.
"What question?" Lily remained silent to the question which made Harry realize. "You're not going to tell me, are you?"
"No, it's too soon for you to know." Lily prayed that Harry would understand. She knew that he was only concerned about their family but he wasn't ready for the responsibility of the truth. Harry's next response, though, surprised her.
"Can I help?"
Lily was shocked to hear his offer despite her denial of information. "I figure it's about Danny and I want to help, please,"
Lily thought for a moment about saying no but figured that since Harry didn't know the prophecy it wouldn't hurt to accept his help.
She looked him in the eye and nodded her head. "Alright, you can help."
The smile that appeared on Harry's face was one of the biggest she had ever seen and couldn't stop her own from forming. Putting her mind back to the task.
"I want you to take these star charts and calculate the angle to the moon from these six points on the night of August 26, 1980," Lily handed a slip of paper with the six coordinate points, "Do you remember the formula I showed you?"
Harry nodded his head eagerly while also noticing that the date was Danny's birthday. He sectioned off a corner of the table and started his task. Lily didn't tell him what was at each of the six locations but they were all places he had heard of before. What he didn't know was that the six points were magical hot spots that included the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, the Great White Pyramid, the Pyramid of Teotihuacan, Machu Picchu and Uluru. Each of them lied in one of the six inhabited continents on the Earth and all of them were focal points for natural magic. What was more amazing was that large amounts of natural magic also tended to disappear at these locations but no one ever understood how. If Lily's theory was correct then she may have just made the greatest magical discovery since the creation of the wand.
Hours past while mother and son worked diligently to have their task brought to completion. When James and Danny came looking for Harry, Lily told them she had asked Harry to help with a lesson plan for their next astronomy lecture. Danny seemed to accept the explanation and teased his brother on having to work instead of playing while James caught onto Lily's suggestive glances that it was very important that Danny not become the wiser. James expertly diverted his youngest son's attention to going back outside and practice Quidditch which garnered a favorable response.
It was much later in the evening, after Danny was put to bed, that James returned to the library and the two working within. James noticed that both of them looked extremely tired and yet satisfied that their work was progressing in the right direction.
"Well, what is this all about?" James questioned, gaining their attention. Lily looked up and was about to speak but stopped and looked at Harry.
Harry looked expectedly back at his mother but sighed at her reluctant expression. "Fine." Harry dejectedly lifted himself from his seat and walked to the door. "I'm going to bed."
Just as he reached the door, "Thank you, Harry." Lily smiled to her son with an apologetic look, she knew he hoped to learn what their research was all about but she still thought he wasn't ready.
Harry paused and looked back at his mother, "You're welcome, Mum." Harry then left and James waited until he could no longer hear his footsteps before he closed the door and placed a silencing charm around them.
"What were you two working on that took up the entire day?" James said, placing emphasis on the later part of the question.
"Well we didn't actually finish. We still have some calculations that we need to make and then we would have to send it out to the Ministry to get verified but, of course, we can't do that because then everyone would know but then I could be wrong but I don't think I am and..."
"Lily! You're rambling." James interrupted by taking hold of her shoulders and lightly shaking her.
"Sorry, it's just a researcher's dream, you know, to make a discovery that could change how the world views magic," Lily said back excitedly.
"What discovery?"
Lily suddenly looked slightly unsure of herself and started to rummage through some of the papers. "Perhaps we should wait for Remus and Sirius to get back, you know, than I could work on it more and I could tell it all at once."
"Lily, tell me what's going on, what have you found out?" James pleaded. He motioned for her to sit down while he took the seat next to her.
Lily remained standing for a moment but eventually settled in her seat.
"Alright, but let me preface this with the fact that I haven't 100% proven all of this yet." James nodded his head and motioned her to continue. Lily took a deep breath and began.
"For the last couple of years, I have been researching how natural magic flows across the Earth. I figured that it was the only possible source for the amount of magic that Danny possesses. However, I always got stuck on the how. How did all this magic find its way into Danny's magical core? My only explanation was the haloed moon that the prophecy spoke of but that only raised the question of what is a haloed moon. What caused it? How did it give Danny all this magical energy?" Lily paused to take a breath and then grabbed six pictures and placed them in front of James. "What do these places mean to you?"
James looked down at the pictures of the six locations that Harry had spent the day researching. "They're the six most sacred places in the wizarding world." He answered easily. Every magically raised child knew of these places and most had visited them at one point or another in their childhood.
"But why are they sacred? Wizarding kind doesn't have any deities?"
"I don't know. Magic just happens there." James answered lamely.
"It does more than just happen there; it manifests to the point that even someone as muggle as my brother-in-law would notice it." Lily, of course, spoke of her sister's husband, Vernon Dursley, who absolutely despised magic and forbade Lily from ever contacting them. James stared pointedly back at her to say that her point had been made.
"But then that magic disappears like it wasn't even there," Lily continued. "The current theory is that the magic transforms to geothermal energy and goes back into the Earth but what if it didn't? What if it went somewhere else?"
James just shrugged. He tried to keep up but a lot of this was over his head. Lily paused for a moment; she was starting to get ahead of herself. She rummaged through her papers and grabbed a book and placed it in front of James. He looked down to another picture, this time it was of a large reptilian beast.
"Do you remember about ten years ago when the magical community finally accepted that the dinosaurs came before wizards?"
James remembered it well. It had caused a huge uproar among the pureblood elite when they were told that "mindless" creatures came before them.
"Well, when I was a child before I knew I was a witch, one of the theories for their extinction was a world-wide volcanic eruption. Now, what if that event was triggered by an unprecedented buildup of magical energy." Lily paused again to allow James to absorb the information she had presented thus far. She conjured a cup and filled it with water and took a long gulp.
"After the dust settled and life returned the first wizards and witches began to appear. What if they somehow could sense that there was a problem with the amount of natural magic that existed? What if they knew that if they didn't do something then they would be wiped out just like the dinosaurs and so they built these structures at these places to do something about it?"
"So you're saying that wizards built Uluru." James pointed out the hole in her theory. Uluru was a natural rock formation in Australia so how could wizards have made it. Lily waved her hand and scoffed at him.
"No, of course not, but there plenty of ancient writings that are actually complicated runes but no one has ever been able to decipher them. They're written in a language that no longer exists so there's no telling what they do, so why couldn't they be for releasing magical tension."
James didn't have a rebuttal and was slowly coming around what Lily was saying, but…"I'm still confused, though. Why does all this matter?"
"I'm getting to that." Lily took a deep breath. "My theory is that these structures were designed to collect magical energy and release it into space."
"Space?" James questioned skeptically.
"Yes," Lily answered back confidently.
"Lily, that's ridiculous."
Lily rolled her eyes, "Think about it. The magic just disappears, why can't it go up instead of down?"
"Because Lily, magic shooting out into space from some old rocks is ludicrous." James said in a way to emphasize the absurdity of the idea.
Lily ignored it and pressed on. "Think about the haloed moon. Everything says it's a magical event but not where the magic comes from."
"This is what you think caused the haloed moon?"
Lily immediately found the slips of parchment that Harry had been working on and placed them before James. "Look at these readings for Stonehenge. This one shows the energy levels a minute before Danny was born and this one shows the exact moment he was."
James studied both parchments and his eyes grew in shock. He looked up at Lily who nodded her head.
"The magic at Stonehenge disappeared completely within a minute of Danny's birth." Lily grabbed another of Harry's papers. "This shows where the moon was when he was born."
James accepted the parchment and took a moment to look at it. It appeared as if the moon was directly over Stonehenge.
"What are the odds that Danny's birth, the moon's location, and the disappearance of the magic at Stonehenge all happening at the same time?"
James had no idea but he was sure that it was a very small number.
"So, what are you saying?" James asked in a shaky voice. "That all that magic went into Danny's core."
Lily shook her head. "No, there is no way somebody could absorb that much power."
"But…"
"I think that the magic was injected into space, impacted with the moon and then reflected off it in all directions," she clarified. "Most of it went out and created the halo while the rest of it came back towards Earth and a small fraction of it landed on us at Godric's Hallow and went into Danny's newly formed magical core."
James stared incredulously as to how she could have come up with this theory.
Lily noticed his look. "When I saw the kids use the bird bath to shield them from the water. Most of it sprayed out but some of it ended up on you," she answered sheepishly.
"So how much power will he have?" He asked, accepting her theory.
"I don't know but if he was able to knock you out at only four and a half, then he'll probably be the most powerful wizard to ever exist."