Chapter 2
Harry was sitting on a swing in a deserted park. Brooding about not hearing from his friends all summer. Mad at the whole lot of them for not letting him in on what what was going on with Voldemort.
Suddenly he felt a pull behind his naval, like a portkey. Everything went black, he then found himself face down against a floor. He slowly raised his head and looked around the room. He saw a lot of people lying on the ground as well. Some of them he recognized, some he didn't and two he didn't believe he was actually seeing.
"When everyone is settled and you are sure you are not hurt, I will start with some explanations" said a male voice.
"How" asked Harry looking at the couple standing in the middle of the room.
"That is what we are going to explain" said Lily
" Is it really you?" asked Harry in a whisper
Lily nodded.
Harry ran over to his mother and grabbed on to her and looked like he wasn't going to let go. He buried his face in her shoulder to hide his tears. James watch his son hug lily with shiny eyes.
"Uh Hi everyone" as James waves at the larger assembled group of people. All of which are look disbelieving at the trio.
" Harry?" asked Hermione " who are they, where are we?"
"So if you haven't all guessed I am James Potter and the lovely woman hugging Harry is my wife Lily Potter"
"PRONGS!" yelled Remus and Sirius as they followed Harry and gave James a crushing hug. When they finally let go, James continued;
" Right so explanations. Fate and the Founders of Hogwarts got together with our help to bring all of you together so that you can prevent the war from starting completely. They decided you all need more information about what has happened and what will happen. Although some of you may not like to hear this" James looked directly to Malfoy and Snape " it is mostly surrounding our Harry. We are here as your guides, as well as keeping in contact with the founders. Before any of you ask, yes we are dead. There is no magic in the universe able to bring back the dead. We are only here for the time that you are here. Once you all leave an go back to where you were, we will go back to the realm of the dead.
As to where you are, you are all in bubble. A bubble separate from time and space, nothing in or out until a certain phrase is said by Harry. We are not going to tell him that until you are ready. We also cannot stay here forever, so at some point, when you have all come up with a plan we will have to leave. I am sorry." James looked at Sirius and Remus sadley. Knowing that this would be very hard on the two of them when the time was over.
"this is a very interesting development, you say Fate and the Founders brought us all here to receive important information." asked Dumbledore
"Yes and to make sure that it is shares with everyone, no keeping anything a secret anymore."
"And how exactly are we receiving this information sneered snape, are we just to take your word for it Potter?I Find it hard to believe that anyone would trust you enough with important information like this to end a war."
"Sev, is that really necessary? You may not trust James, but do you not trust me?" Lily admonished over he sons head.
"Ah yes, as I said in June to Severus and Sirius. Now is not the time to hold onto hard feelings and old grudges. We are here for a task. Now I assume some more introductions will be necessary as not everyone knows each other. Perhaps we should move over to those couches and chairs are. It looks wonderfully cozy for this sort of thing and then we can proceed? I am sure by that time many of you may have further questions, those can be addressed at that time."
Dumbledore led the way over to the area he had indicated. The area was full of couches and chairs. The floor was covered with a thick carpet, large pillows and there were blankets stacked in the corners. Dumbledore made himself comfortable in one of the chairs.
The rest of the group followed slowly. Then all of a sudden Fred and George stop still and turn to the Marauders
"Wait did you say ...
...Prongs!?
As in Mooney wormtail...
...Padfoot and prongs?
You are prongs!
You are...
...Our hero
Who is padfoot, moony...
...And wormtail?" Asked two very excited twins. They were practically vibrating with excitement.
James looked back at them and smirke a little." well would Mr Moony and Mr Padfoot please introduce yourselves."
"Of course Mr Prongs, I am Mr Padfoot, prankster extraordinair and lover of many"
Lily just groaned
"Mr Moony would like to congratulates Mr Padfoot on his imaginative introduction"
"Mr Mooney is just jealous"
"Mr Padfoot is insane"
"Stop, you crazy idiots, both of you. You have caused the boys to faint." Lily pointed to the two prone figures on the floor
"Oops" said the two grinning adults.
"Enervate!"
Both of the twins woke up, looked at each other " we were taught by a Marauder! We are not worthy!We're not worthy!We're not worthy!We're not worthy!..." as they crawled over and started to bow to the three Marauders
" Look, now you have broken the twins., Hi everyone, I am Bill Weasley for those of you who don't know. The two over there making fools of themselves are Fred and George" as bill walked over to the twins to grab them and throw them towards a couch.
Charlie walked over to help Bill with the twins " I am Charlie Weasley, the next son after Bill"
After they were done they sat down.
Everyone took seats, and introducing themselves
"Ginny Weasley"
"Arthur Weasley"
"Molly Weasley"
"Neville Longbottom"
"Amelia Bones"
"Percy Weasley"
"Kingsley Shacklebolt"
"Professor Sprout"
"Professor Snape"
"Professor McGonagall"
"Professor Flitwick"
"Draco Malfoy"
"Tonks"
"Alastor Moody, and none of you explained how we are getting the information?"
"Oh right, sorry, we have been given seven books to read all together. There may be oddities as magic can be unpredictable some time. There is a book for each year harry is at Hogwarts." explained Lily
"So clearly everything must be during Harry's years at Hogwarts. I hope that it means that everything will be fixed by the end of his seventh year. Only three more years!" Hermione exclaimed excitedly "that means the war doesn't last that long. It can't be that bad if it only lasts three years."
"Or it means potter dies on his seventh year and Voldemort won the war" said Moody
"I can't believe that Alastor." Said dumbledore "I am sure that everything ends well"
"But we are here to prevent deaths who says that it isn't Potters or yours" argued Moody
"Well we won't find out unless we read these books said tonks, we will know everything when we are done and can go from there." said Tonks looking at the seven books sitting on the table in the middle.
" alright does anyone have any more questions or comments" asked James. " NO, ok good I guess we can get started"
James Picked up the first book, he opened it ot the first page and read;
"The Boy who lived"
Harry groaned, this is going to be horrible, he thought, nothing better that having everyone hear about you and your life.
"Since these books are about me and I have no desire to have aspect of these read. I also know that there is going to parts of these books that are going to be hard to listen to. I think that we should all try to get the readings over as fast as possible so please try and to not interrupt too much during the reading. We can talk as much or as little (oh I hope very little about me), as we want during breaks or whatever." Pleaded Harry from the couch with his parents.
James and Lily looked at him with concern, the gave him a couple of side hugs and James continued reading.
Everyone who was listening was having different thoughts about listening to the dursleys
McGonagall was sitting listening to James reading about the Dursleys. She was remembering that morning quite clearly. That whole family is terrible. She knew Lily's opinion on them, she know it wasn't just Petunia that didn't want there to be any contact between the two. While lily did regret no contact with Petunia she knew that it was for the best. Mcgonagall looked over at her favorite students sitting there with there with their son for the first time and smiled sadly. She knew that Lily lived in dread that the wizarding world would learn of the Dursleys, she was scared that it would confirm many people's opinions of muggles and work against her in the war.
"Harumph No finer boy than dudley?" she grumbled. I can think of many boys in the world who are finer than yours are. Many of them are sitting in this room. She looked over fondly at the Weasley boys . No matter how they may frustrate me, they are still better than that one.
Oh that Man! He was watching me , oops he was the map. Oh well, I do not mind confusing him. She chuckled.
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Why are we reading about these muggles? They seem really boring... his most boring tie? Why would you pick out your most boring tie...? Why even own something you would describe, as boring muggles are strange. Thought Draco, he looked around at everyone here, why am i here it is not like I like anyone here. Who cares about about Potte's life other that the fact the dark lord wants to kill him. Oh i hope no one knows that i am here, My father be killed just for spending time with the the blood traitor and mudbloods.
Arthur looked up excitedly... I wonder what a "drill" is. He turned to Hermione to ask just that and she pointed to the parchment on a nearby table and a quill. Motioned for him to write down any questions he had. He took that to mean that she would answer them later.
Moody (Merlin, Statute of secrecy people, there is a reason we have one. Even a blind and prejudiced man like Dursleys is noticing something weird is going on. What would regular people be thinking that day... oh lord even more of us making fools of ourselves? Talking outside in the middle of the muggle world about Voldemort and the potters. Calling a muggle to his face.
Molly was appalled. She is happy that he learned the word Shan't, what horrible parents. They seem to be happy when he does something that should be disciplined. Chuckling over a tantrum and throwing cereal and thinking that it is alright to say that word.
All the rest of the weasleys were leaning away from their mother. She had THAT expression on her face. The one that usually preceded her blowing up at someone. When was sitting there turning red with anger and breathing through her teeth.
Tonks was chuckling at the mention of her father. Doing what he could to help muggles ignore the clues to the existence of magic. Just glossing over the strange actions of birds and that there were showers of shooting stars instead of rain that night.
I am amazed that he had the courage to bring anything up to Petunia. Thought snape, he clearly likes his life to be as "normal" as possible. To bring up Lily in anyway would confirm that something is going on. Wait what he doesn't know Harry's name. I hate the arrogant boy but I still know his name. He has an imagination?
Everyone was chucking at the description of Dumbledore. Those who knew him realized that he liked being odd and making other people uncomfortable at the best of times. We would do it on person.
" I KNEW IT!" exclaimed Siirus. Everyone jumped and looked at him. "What I knew it was mcgonagall."
Everyone looked away and chuckled.
McGonagall looked at sirius and sighed, he never learned. She sighed, I hated sitting there waiting for him to arrive that day. That horrible day.
Harry snorted, explain everything, ha, they told me nothing. Really, did he really think that something like this could be explained in a letter. Must have been one hell of a letter.
The weasley's and the professor's chuckled at the description of Hagrid. He sounded terrifying. But everyone knows he is as gentle as a puppy. He is so caring.
At the end of the chapter Ginny and Mrs Weasley were looking at dumbledore with looks of such disgust that several people were looking at them dangerously.
"You left him on a doorstep. In November?" Ginny asked dangerously. What if something had happened to him. You expected petunia to just take him."
" I assure you that I made sure nothing would have happened to him. I set several charms for warmth and protection. I also felt that Petunia would have refused to take harry had I actually spoken to her. She was wary of magic, I felt that having to converse with a wizard would have been too much and prevented her from looking after Harry." Dumbledore assured everyone.
"Why aren't you mad about this LIly?" asked Remus
"Because I already knew," she sighed " James and I have been watching over Harry for all of the time that we have been dead. We know everything that has happened to him already." Harry paled at that " Everything?" " Yes everything, and I am not happy with all of your choices young man, but there is little I can do about it. Trust me we are not happy about how Dumbledore decided to disregard our wishes about where to place Harry. We know that there is a reason but we don't have to like it. Trust me when I said when I get a chance he will be hearing about it, in private."