Disclaimer:Well, none of these characters are mine. Just the situations that I put them into….
Enjoy and please don't hesitate to give me your opinions I'd really appreciate knowing anything that you think could help!
When they walked into the Entrance hall on the 3rd of January they couldn't help their instinctive glance up to see which of the houses was winning. They turned their heads and smiled at each other at the same time when they realised that although the term had only just started Gryffindor was winning. Quietly they walked through the corridors realising there must be lessons happening at the time. As they walked they noticed little had changed about the castle, there may have been a few more ghosts and portraits but other than that it was exactly the same. When the pair reached their destination Albus Dumbledore's office, James realised with a curse that they didn't have the password to get passed the Gargoyles up into his office. They stood and thought then James said, "If I remember correctly he always had muggle food or candy as his passwords maybe because of his addiction to it maybe if we just start guessing we may get lucky?" Lilly nodded and they both started guessing candy "Sherbet Fizz" after each one they paused waiting to see if the gargoyles were going to let them passed. When it didn't work they tried all of the sweet muggle things that they could think of and some magical ones too. They even tried jams which didn't seem to work either. They had been standing around guessing passwords for an hour when the bell rang signalling the next class. They kept themselves hidden and out of the way of any students that passed going down the corridor.
Another hour later and they had run out of guesses and were just standing there when Minerva McGonagall walked passed. She paused when she saw two people obviously trying to get access to Dumbledore's office, she was ready to chase them off when she realised that they weren't students especially with the navy robes they weren't wearing the uniform. She could see just by looking at them they had almost given up. Then the female one must have had an idea because she straightened up and murmured something to the man who slapped his forehead and said "why didn't we think of that before." They smiled and left. Minerva followed worriedly wondering where they were going. Although Lily and James gave no sign that she was following them they knew but didn't glance over their shoulder or anything to watch. With the abilities that James had gained along with his stag animagus like heightened hearing, smell and the things he had learned in his auror training it was obvious to him when anyone was following.
As they walked to the great hall they were hoping that Albus was going to be there if not they would have to return at a later date. They walked in and there he was standing up as he prepared to leave they looked happy and walked faster robes and cloaks swishing behind them. Albus noticed two people hurrying towards him and looked confused everyone had left by now except him, them and Minerva who had been following the visitors. When they reached him they asked ever so quietly "can we talk Albus; perhaps in your office where we aren't so exposed somewhere where we can talk without being overheard." With the last two words the young man eyed the two Weasly twins who were listening and watching with interest. Albus glanced at them and nodded saying just as softly, "Follow me." His voice increased its volume, "Fred, George shouldn't you be in class?" The two didn't seem to catch the hint or if they did they ignored it, all were shocked when they said; "No Professor Dumbledore, we have a free period we were waiting for our friends." Other than raising an eyebrow they gained nothing from their words. Then Albus left the room followed by the two foreigners.
As soon as they had left the room they turned to Minerva who were they? Do they work for the Ministry? Why are they here Professor?" They didn't get an answer as she just walked out of the hall towards the class that would be waiting for her.
When they reached Dumbledore's office they removed their cowls, watching to see the expression on Albus's face as he turned asking; "Now what can I do for you two?" Then he just stopped and stared at them in shock. He stared for about a minute before it wore off. Then he asked the first thing that came to his mind, which inevitably was the thing that set them on their nerves, "But how? I thought you were both dead." They sighed.
Lily started to speak telling the story as she went back to that memory all those years ago that didn't seem that long ago for her, "I'll start at the start. It was Halloween, Harry was one year old, Peter had gone out saying he'd be back soon with supplies. When an hour later he hadn't come out James went out to get supplies himself under a disillusionment charm since you had his invisibility cloak. While he was out he met two of our friends who we found out were actually distant relatives of mine. They had magic and their names were Sophia and Henry Johnson. Sophia was my Father's elder sister who was adopted out at birth because they didn't want another daughter they wanted a son to carry on the family name of Evans. When she was eleven she was taught magic at Beauxbatons because although she wasn't French she had learned French at school and was fluent in it. After school she met Henry who we'd met in Hogsmade after we graduated. They said that they'd been looking for Sophia's family to find out why they didn't just keep her as well as her other sister Annabelle. So James brought them back to join us because they had nowhere else to go and we spent a merry few hours talking and then Sophia of course asked for my maiden name and then told me hers was Evans too and that she had been put in an orphanage and everything. She said that must mean that we were their niece and nephew. We were so excited especially when they realised that Harry was their great nephew." There were tears sliding down her cheeks and she couldn't continue so James took over telling the rest of the story.
"It was about midnight when there was a knock on the door. It sounded like the nocking of wood against wood. We realised that against all odds and with horror that we'd been found and that Peter our secret keeper was in fact the traitor and spy who'd been giving information away to Voldermort. We'd previously thought that it was Remus due to the rumours that were going around about the werewolves joining him. Although it seemed odd that Remus would betray us it seemed to make sense. We couldn't believe that Peter would be recruited by Voldermor, his magic was so weak he was pathetic. He had only just enough magic to allow him to do some spells. He also wasn't smart enough I mean without our help he would have failed first year and every year following. Think about it his animagus shape was a rat. Rats hide and have no courage. Now I think about it how did he get into Gryffindor in the first place that doesn't make sense. Anyway so I told Lily to go upstairs and that I would hold him off for as long as I could she was to run and take Harry. At that stage we were so shocked and distraught about Peter's betrayal that we completely forgot about Sophia and Henry. When I opened the door Voldermort and I started to duel he was alone. When he threw the killing curse at me I think Henry jumped in the way to protect me but I was knocked up against the wall unconscious. But before everything went black I saw Voldermort walking up the stairs towards where Harry, Lily and Sophia were. When I came back briefly I saw I was in a hospital Sirius was beside me crying saying something about Harry but I wasn't sure what it was, then everything went black again." Lily's tears had slowly dried up and after taking a deep breath and releasing it slowly she told what had happened when Voldermort came upstairs
"When he walked in the door opened and I hoped it was James but from hearing the Killing Curse a minute before I knew the chances weren't high. I stood in front of Harry protecting him like I knew I should. Voldermort stared for a moment and then said 'move out of the way girl I don't want to kill you I only want to kill him,' his wand was pointing at Harry. Then he yelled 'Avada Kedavra' I was ready to meet my fate to die for my son but Sophia dove onto me saying she couldn't live with herself if she let her niece die. Voldermort went and turned his wand on Harry but all I saw was a big green flash. The next thing I knew Sirius was sitting beside me. I was in a hospital bed all wrapped up in blanket, Sirius was crying and he just kept repeating 'I couldn't find him, I've failed you, I couldn't find him.' I tried to hang on and tell Sirius that it was alright but everything faded into darkness." I paused needing a moment to collect myself to continue the story about what had happened to us.
It was James's turn to continue the story, "We woke up 10 years later from the comas that we had apparently been in. We had no idea who we were or where. When we found that we were in New Zealand of all places well we were surprised. We made up names having no id on us and we hopped on a plane. Because of our British accents they let us go back even though we had no idea about our identities. We were told that being back in Britain would jog our memories and we have been working for the last four years just to feed ourselves and pay off the hospital bills which thankfully are all gone. Imagine our surprise when we opened the newspaper a couple of months ago only to find our friend on the front page listed as missing from a high security prison. It of course jogged our memories and they all came back, well at least most of them over the last few months. We went to Diagon Alley a few months ago got some new robes and everything, like parchment and all of the newspapers we could find from the last 13 years, which we read of course. When the robes arrived and we'd finished reading all of the old copies of the Daily Prophet we decided to come here and spent a long time guessing the password, trying to get up into your office past the gargoyles, Until Lily had the fantastic idea of catching you at either the end or start of a meal in the Great Hall. So here we are."
I'm Guessing by the lack of response that either nobody is reading this story or nobody minds so I'll just keep going.
If by any chance people that are reading it want to see something In particular happen just write a review I look forward to people's ideas because in my opinion it is this lack of ideas that often causes stories to become abandoned.
I hope you all had a great Easter and didn't eat so much chocolate at once that you became ill.
Another update should be in the next few days as i hope to have the story finished by then.
I hope you enjoyed!