Chapter 3: Potter Manor
Harry landed hard on marble floor. He looked up to see a large ceiling with a crystal and diamond chandelier.
"This, Harry," James explained. "Is where I grew up."
"NO BLOODY WAY!"
WAY
Way
way
His voice echoed through the halls.
"Well, that should save me the trouble of waking up Trix." James said with a grin.
"Trix?"
"MASTER JAMES! YOUS IS HOME! AND ALIVE!"
Harry turned to see a house-elf that looked like Winky appear.
"Hello Trixy." James said to the house-elf that was squeezing him tightly.
"Trixy is so happy!" the house-elf said releasing her master and jumping for joy. "First Mistress Lily comes home, and now Master James."
"Don't forget Har…Lily's alive?"
"Little Master Harry?" Trixy asked noticing Harry. "Yous is grown up."
"Thanks?"
"Yous is looking just like Master James when Master James was Little Master Harry's age."
"We have a house-elf?" Harry asked his father who was still shocked over hearing about Lily's revival.
"We have four." James corrected snapping out of it.
"Please tell me we pay them and/or give them sick leave." Harry said.
"Trixy will not accept pay." Trixy said. "And Master James has to order house-elves to take vacations."
"We have a Gringotts account set up for them." James whispered. "Just in case."
"Whew." Harry breathed. "Hermione would have my head if we didn't."
"Trixy?" a female voice asked. "Who's here?"
The two Potter men looked to see a redheaded woman with brilliant green eyes coming down the stairs.
"Mum?" Harry asked quietly enough to not be heard.
"Lily?" James asked.
"James?" she asked not noticing Harry. "JAMES!"
The husband and wife ran to each other and embraced kissing each other passionately.
Harry had no clue of what to do. So, he did the only logical thing he could think of.
"So, how long have you been working for the Potters?" he asked the house-elf standing next to him.
"Trixy's family has been working for the Potters since Hogwarts was founded." Trixy told him.
Silence.
"Do you know Dobby?"
"Oh yes Little Master Harry." Trixy said with a small blush. "Trixy met Dobby when Master Charles had a Ministry party here. Dobby's master brought him along to help Trixy with the Potter because Minister Fudge asked him to."
"Dobby works at Hogwarts now." Harry told her.
"Really?" Trixy asked with a bright smile.
"He's even being paid." Harry informed the elf
"Trixy is not surprised sir." She said. "Dobby is different. And, forgive Trixy Sir, but Trixy likes that."
"You LIKE Dobby. Don't you?"
Trixy blushed
"It's okay." Harry said. "He saved my life a few times."
"Is not Dobby a noble house-elf?" she asked him excitedly.
"Yeah." Harry agreed as he thought of how Dobby had charmed a bludger to chase after him.
Harry and Trixy looked back up at the kissing couple.
"I'd hate to interrupt them." Harry said.
So, he decided to look around.
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Harry walked through the parlor into a maroon study with a picture of a golden-haired wizard hanging over the fireplace. Harry looked closer at the picture and saw that the man was wielding a sword that looked vaguely familiar. Then it hit him:
This was Godric Gryffindor.
Harry's eyes turned away from the painting and landed on the door at the other end of the room. He walked over and entered the room.
"I'm in Hermione's version of Heaven." He said as he looked at the LARGE library.
(A/N: It's the same library as in the Potion Mistake Series)
"Trixy sees Little Master Harry had found the library." The house-elf said appearing next to him.
"How many books are here?" he asked.
"Last Trixy counted sir," she said. "1348572 books."
"Hermione would LOVE this place." He said.
Harry went over to one of the shelves and looked over some of the books.
The Journal of Robert Potter: Quidditch Champion, The Four Founders of Hogwarts and Their Histories, Secrets About Hogwarts.
"I wonder." Harry said to himself as he started to climb the ladder.
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A few minutes later,
"Oh James." Lily sighed still holding on to him as if he'd disappear if she released him. "I thought you were dead."
"I thought so too." He told her. "When I woke up in the grave and escaped, I saw our tombstones."
"I tried to get out of the house. Honestly, I did. But I was so dist…."
"Say no more." He said putting a finger on her lips.
"I couldn't save him." She sobbed in his arms. "I couldn't save the baby."
"Actually." James said turning to the spot where he left Harry. When Harry wasn't there, James looked around in a panic.
"James?" Lily asked.
"He's probably exploring." James said going into the parlor.
Lily, extremely confused, followed him into the parlor.
James looked around then went into the study.
"WHAT are you looking for?" she asked.
"You'll see." James said with a Marauder grin as he looked around. He grabbed a pair of binoculars before entering the library.
"James!" she exclaimed "What is going on?"
Lily looked at her husband looking through the binoculars with a grin.
"Found him." He said.
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About five minutes after he went up, Harry found himself at the top of the ladder and the house. He looked at the top most books thinking that they'd be the most interesting. Sure enough:
How to Become an Animagus in One Month, Moste Potente Potions, Ultimus Validus Potio et Carmen, and other books that he had seen in the Restricted Section.
"Direct access to Restricted books." Harry said to himself. "Hermione will be SO jealous!"
"GET DOWN FROM THERE!" he heard James call. "AND COME MEET YOUR MOTHER!"
Harry grabbed three of the books and started to climb down.
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When he got down to the third level, he found a secret door. He sat the books behind it before descending the rest of the way.
"There you are." James fake scolded as Lily starred at Harry in shock. James was holding a megaphone he had conjured.
"Did you really expect me to watch you and Mum have a make-out secession?" Harry teased.
"You little scamp." James said ruffling his son's hair. "Have you been around Sirius?"
"Just a few times." Harry admitted sadly.
"Harry?" Lily asked quietly as James threw Harry a confused look about the tone of Harry's voice.
Harry nodded.
The next thing he knew, Harry was being squeezed as red hair got in his face.
"Oh my baby." Lily sobbed. "You're so grown up! I can't believe you're alive!"
"It's because of you." Harry said managing to get his arms around his mother to return the hug.
"You have a LOT of explaining to do, young man." Lily told him releasing him from the hug, but still holding onto his shoulders.
"How about dinner first?" James asked. "I had forgotten about that when I realized which Harry he was."
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Meanwhile at the House of Black (Dumbledore had already gotten Harry's permission days ago since the house now belonged to Harry),
"Should we tell the kids?" Molly Weasley asked.
"Guys." Remus said entering the room. "We have a problem."
"Tell me about it." Moody said sarcastically.
"I just came from the graveyard. James and Lily's graves are destroyed and the bodies are gone." Remus said.
"What?" Molly whispered in horror.
"Mad-Eye? WHO did Petunia say took Harry?" Arthur asked.
"WHAT?!" the Marauder exclaimed. "Harry's been kidnapped?!"
"She just said it was someone who looked like Harry." Moody told them. "For all we know, Harry Potter from the future took our Harry for safe keeping or something. Tonks! You saw Potter earlier."
The witch from the park nodded.
"Was he acting peculiar?" Arthur Weasley asked.
"Just paranoid." She said. "Then he saw an animal in the woods and went to go check it out. He was fingering his pocket, so he had his wand with him. It also looked as if he had his cloak."
"Did you see the animal?" Shacklebolt asked.
"Yes." She said. "It was a stag."
"A stag?" a pale Remus repeated.
"Yes." She confirmed. "But I've been in that area before and had seen lots of them. And he went back to the Dursley's unharmed."
Dumbledore said as he entered followed by two cloaked figures. "I believed there had been a delay with a side-effect of Priori Incantatem."
"Why do you say that?" Molly asked.
"If you will." Dumbledore told the visitors.
The two cloaked figures lifted their hoods.
"Hello Professor Moody. Professor Lupin? What are you doing here?" one of them, a young wizard of 19 years, asked.
"Professor Moody?" the other one, a witch about Remus' age, asked the ex-auror.
"It was almost two years ago and I didn't get around to teaching, Jorkins." Moody told Bertha Jorkins.
"I'm with the Order." Remus told Cedric Diggory.
"Anything exciting?" Cedric asked.
"Only that Potter's disappeared." Moody told the younger boy.
"Harry's missing?" Cedric asked.
"You two haven't seen James or Lily Potter have you?" Remus asked.
They shook their heads.
TBC