A/N: This chapter is important, firstly, it's important for future chapters, and secondly, I wanted to explore how James and Lily, and Harry will interact when this happens. They only meet for about a day and after that James and Lily return back.
Enjoy!
"What do you mean the basilisk will be killed soon?" asked Lily.
"First we need to go and see Dumbledore, and there I will explain about killing the basilisk," said James.
Lily wanted him to explain what he means now, but she was afraid of the letter and knew that James will tell her, "Should I tell my parents about the war?" she asked and could feel tears in her eyes as she remembered about her boggart, about losing her parents, she clutched James tightly.
"It's your choice, Lily and I don't think I have a say in this, and I have no experience in these things," said James. "And Dumbledore will make sure that they are safe and we will try and defeat Voldemort."
Lily never lets her guard down and has always been bold, but James' hold, his presence gave her the comfort that she let all her guard down and release her feelings which she has held behind and has hidden from everyone, and that's why she let herself to stop holding back her fear for her parents and released all.
"I think he offered my parents to join him too, and they declined it," he mumbled into her neck after a few minutes of silence.
"Are you sure?" asked Lily.
"I heard some part of their conversation over Christmas and then at easter, and now this letter, so, I think he did and now he is threatening to kill them,"
"Ohh, James," she said as she felt his tears falling on her skin. "They will be fine."
"I hope so," said James. "Let's go and meet Dumbledore and also let's check if others have been offered or not."
Neither Sirius, Mary, Marls or Peter have gotten the letter and Remus was in the hospital wing, so both James and Lily went under the cloak to see him, he was asleep and had no letter.
"So, it's just us," said Lily as they reached Dumbledore's office.
Once inside, they showed Dumbledore the letter and saw his expressions were unchanged.
"Well I would be lying if I would say that I wasn't expecting this," grimaced Dumbledore. "Both of you are duelling champions and have shown excellent talent that day in Hogsmeade. Voldemort is recruiting students so as to gain more followers before they change sides, he believes that Hogwarts is the best place for recruiting."
"But why me professor? I am a muggle-born, they insult my kind and want to kill us, so why me?" asked Lily.
"From what I heard it's because of two reasons: first, you are a talented witch who is exceptionally good at duelling and second, he has been informed by other sources that James will join them if you join, and if James joins then Sirius will join too and so will Marlene and Remus," informed Dumbledore.
"They are stupid to think under any condition I will join them." said James angrily and then his face grimaced "So, . . . it's because of me that she has been put in danger," said James in a shaky voice, Lily took his hands.
"No, James, don't blame it on yourself," said Lily.
"Lily is right, Malfoy was the one who took the name of Voldemort, and a student from here informed him about Lily's talent and wrote to him to recruit her, and then the fact that she won the championship and then you defeated them in duels and as I said the Hogsmeade fight proved it," said Dumbledore.
"And may I know the name of that student?" asked Lily through gritted teeth.
"It's not of importance," sighed Dumbledore.
"Regulus informed you, and he will tell me who gave Lily's name, but I already have a name, it's Snivellous, isn't he?" spat James.
"I will kill him, that stupid git thinks that only powers matter," said Lily her anger rising again.
James didn't want her to get angry at this moment, "Sir, he tried to recruit my parents too?"
"Yes, I am afraid he did," said Dumbledore.
"Sir, can you provide my parents and Lily's parents and her sister protection?"
"Your parents are Aurors and their work is risky, though I have provided Potter's Manor extra security," said Dumbledore. "And after the Hogsmeade incident, Lily's parents, sister, and her house have been already provided all the protections I and the ministry can provide."
"Thanks, sir," said James and Lily together.
"And sir, I know how to open the chamber of secrets," said James, and Dumbledore's head jerked toward him. "If you allow then we can kill the basilisk."
"Excellent, I will call my trusted Aurors and some peoples who know about the basilisk," said Dumbledore. "Then we will enter the chambers. But how to open it, no one knows parseltongue."
"I memorized it, and I might have tried to open the sink, and would have succeeded," said James looking down and biting his lips, he received a hit from Lily.
"That would have been dangerous and not to mention it's in the girls' toilet," said Lily.
"It wasn't dangerous, the basilisk is far inside, into Slytherin's mouth, and that's where Tom Riddle got the idea for the dark mark, but the thing is I can open its mouth and the Basilisk will be out, but I can't control it, as only the Heir of Slytherin, means a true descendant of him can control the Basilisk, so we have to be cautious there," said James.
"Very well, I will call you when I have gathered people for the task," said Dumbledore, and James and Lily stood to leave, "and I want you both to not go and fight the Slytherins."
"When did you opened the chamber?" asked Lily as they walked back to Gryffindor tower.
"I saw and learned it the night after the Hogsmeade incident and then tried it the next night," confessed James, he was hoping to receive some scolding from her, but she just leaned into him as he put his hand around her shoulder. "All right, Evans?"
"I am with you Potter, how could I be all right," smiled Lily.
"Shit, Peeves is throwing puss and dung at everyone," said James pointing ahead. "Let's take cover." James pulled her into a room nearby and closed it. "What has gotten into him lately, shit he is coming to this side."
"He was angry for some shitty reasons..." said Lily and Peeves entered the room and started throwing dung and puss at them.
"Ooooo Pottery looves Luly, sneaking and snogging, pottery looves Luly," he sang horribly as he continued targeting dungs at them.
James and Lily ran away from him, and collided with a door, Lily opened it magically, it was locked with a few more magics but she cracked opened it and both of them rushed into it. But Peeves entered.
"I hate that he is a poltergeist and could easily enter everywhere," cursed Lily as puss landed on her robes.
James pointed his wand at Peeves and shot a spell but missed as a puss landed on his glasses, making it difficult to see, "I should have cast the dirt-repelling charm, but I forgot."
"Don't worry, I got it," said Lily and hit Peeves with a spell, he dropped all the things on the floor and collided with the shelf shrieking in pain, Lily laughed, and cleaned James' glasses but then things from the shelves fall on them, an hourglass attached to a chain landed on her hand, James tried to move towards her to see the hourglass, but slipped on the puss and fell over Lily bringing both of them on the floor, in shock a spell released from Lily's wand and hit the hourglass.
The room dissolved, Lily felt James' weight over hers, his hand clutching her hand and her hand clutching the hourglass. She had the sensation that she was flying very very fast, forward. A blur of colours and shapes rushed past her as she and James moved forward, she held James tightly with her other hand and tried to yell but couldn't hear her own voice-
And then she felt the ground beneath her and everything came in focus again, and she felt James' eyes pressed shut and centimetres away from hers and his lips so very close to her, she pressed her lips to his, and he kissed her and opened his eyes.
He pulled back, "What just happened?" he whispered.
It was hard to focus with him so close, "You are laying on me, I am pinned to the floor," she said.
James grinned and kissed her, "It feels good, though we will continue it later," he said standing up and pulling her up with him, Lily blushed and shoved his arm playfully.
Lily looked around, the room was cleaned now, with no fallen things. "The room has cleaned how?" and then she realized what it was in her hands. She opened her hands to look at the tiny hourglass, "Oh shit!"
James too examined it and realized what it was, "A time turner, fuck!"
"We are into the future," said Lily as she examined it more closely.
"This room is Hogwarts store room, the secure one, it was locked with many spells I guess," said James looking at Lily who nodded. "Well, let's go out and find which day it is."
A/N: Harry was using Marauders Map continuously to trail Malfoy, so we are there in the HBP book.
Harry Potter woke early even though it was Sunday, he sat in his bed, searching Marauder's Map for Malfoy, and he found him in the Slytherin dorm, Harry felt disappointed and was about to close the map when two dots appeared on the map, and his eyes widened in shock, his heart rate increased, he rubbed his eyes, he knew the room in which the dots has appeared it was used to store things. He got up, put on clothes, took the cloak and ran towards the room, hope rising in him. The map never lies, he thought, the map never lies.
James opened the door and found a boy just like him, standing there, looking at James curiously, Lily came out and stood beside James looking at the new boy who looked like James.
Harry's eyes widened, as he looked at the two people in front of him, a golden sparkle caught his eyes, and he looked at the hourglass chain in Lily's hand and gasped.
Lily who hasn't noticed the eyes or examined the boy carefully, grinned and looked at the time and turned as she spoke, "Looks like we have found you, James."
"That's a time turner," said Harry gasping.
"Yes, James, it's a time-turner," said Lily rolling her eyes.
"I am not James," said Harry slowly and Lily now looked at him carefully, he was a little different than James, his nose was a different size and...
"He has green eyes," James gasped and clutched Lily's hand who too held it tightly.
"You are James Potter, Prongs?" asked Harry, though he knew what has happened and who it was but wanted to confirm it. James nodded his mouth still open. "Turn to Prongs then."
"You know?" asked Lily, her heart running fast, Harry nodded. James looked at Lily who reassured him and then there was a stag. Tears fell from Harry's eyes.
"Dad," he choked as James returned back to human form. "Mum."
"Why are you crying?" Lily asked in a panicked voice as she too realized that he has eyes like her and rest like James, it was a lot to take in.
"Which year it is?" James managed to ask.
"1997," replied Harry as tears fell from his eyes, he knew he has to explain them having experienced the time turner himself "You are in future, I am your s. . . I was looking at the map and..."
"You have Marauder's map?" asked James, shocked, Harry nodded as he continued.
"And you both appeared as James Potter and Lily Evans, so I ran here, Remus said the map never lies, and then your stag form, it's you both," said Harry tears falling but he was happy internally.
"So, we are 20 years in future," gasped Lily.
"He knows Moony, are you who I think you are?" asked James as Lily's grip tightened around his hand.
"Yes, I am your son, I know you must not have me yet in your time, but I am your son, here let me show you," said Harry, he was happy, he knows what has happened, his heart was beating fast. He looked at his parents, "Expecto Patronum!"
A silver stag erupted from his wand and circled the three, James and Lily gasped, James too did the same and another stag appeared slightly bigger than Harry's, Harry's stag reached James' stag and took comfort from him.
Harry could no longer hold it back he rushed and hugged James and Lily, and their hands engulfed him.
"I missed you both, I missed you both so so much," cried Harry holding them tightly. James and Lily were confused but returned the hug with the same enthusiasm.
"What do you mean you missed us?" asked James.
"Are we. . ?" asked Lily hesitantly.
"Yes," replied Harry and both James and Lily let out an "Oh!"
"When?" asked Lily, but before Harry could reply James interrupted.
"Umm... do we want to know, is it okay?" he asked in a worried tone.
"My friend Hermione told me all about time-turners. You both will not remember this incident, at least not completely, as when you travel to the future you are bounded by time fluidity law, so, you both will remember only a few things," replied Harry and a new hope rose inside him. "And you might able to change this as each incident affect the future so you might change it and I would get a chance to grow up with you both."
"Does it mean that we die when you were very young?" asked Lily a huge lump in her throat.
"You both died on 31st October 1981," replied Harry "When I was one year old."
James gasped and pulled Harry into another tight hug, and Harry too hugged him.
"I want to talk to you both as long as possible," said Harry.
"Well we have time since the time-turner will take time to reset before it will be ready for use again," said Lily examining the time-turner. "But it's strange, it feels both odd and good to meet my son."
"I know," said James placing a hand around her.
"We can go to the room of requirements," said Harry instantly. "No one will disturb us."
"I knew it was real, it's on the seventh floor right?" asked James excitedly and Harry nodded as he pulled out the cloak to give it to them. "We already have one, you lead the way."
Soon the three of them were in the room of requirements, sitting silently, Harry was looking at both of them, feeling like the luckiest guy alive.
"Umm... what is your name?" asked James breaking the silence.
"Harry James Potter,"
"Harry, it's the middle name of my dad," said Lily and they were silent again.
"How did you get that scar?" asked James.
"I got it when Voldemort killed you," said Harry.
"I hid here twice after pranking and the door appeared to become a broom cupboard once and a room with dung bomb when I was in need of one," grinned James breaking the silence.
"Big surprise," said Lily rolling her eyes though she grinned.
An old question popped into Harry's mind.
"Mum, are you both together? Because I have a question," he asked hesitantly, Lily looked at him after a few seconds when James nudged her.
"Sorry, it's odd to be called mum," said Lily sheepishly. "And yes, we are together, what do you wanted to ask?"
"Didn't you hated him when he hanged Snape upside down near the lake?" asked Harry."He was a bully."
James looked at his son, gasping, he looked ashamed, and he didn't know what to say, Lily noticed it and placed her hand over his, before turning to look at Harry.
"Can you tell what and how much you saw, Harry?" asked Lily and Harry recited the entire Snape's Worst Memory part.
"Ohh, so you don't know the whole story," said James slowly. "Though I am sorry, I was a big idiot back at that time."
"That was a stupid thing but, Harry, you didn't see the whole thing, you saw only one side of the story and arrived at the wrong conclusion," said Lily. "Don't judge people from only half-truths, one-sided stories or from others' opinions about them. You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them."
"From To Kill a Mockingbird," winked James and then Lily began to tell Harry the entire incident, and how James and Lily got together.
"Oh!" was all Harry managed and James hugged him as both of them smiled.
"Harry, you said we died when you were one, so who took care of you? my Mum and Dad? or her Mum and Dad? or Marlene? or Sirius?" asked James.
"No, both of your parents died before your death, and I have only heard of Marlene. I grew up with Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon," said Harry. "Sirius was my godfather but he was in Azkaban," said Harry and both James and Lily gasped.
"What? Why?" asked James and Lily.
"It's quite a long story," said Harry and explained everything from the prophecy to Peter's betrayal, to Voldemort killing them, Lily's protection and Harry becoming the chosen one.
Both James' and Lily's eyes were filled with tears.
"Peter betrayed us? He is my brother then Why?" James' heart broke at this and more tears fell from his eyes, Lily rubbed his back. "I am sorry, it was due to me you died Lily and you had to grow without us."
"It's not your fault James, and we will talk about it later, tell more about yourself, Harry," said Lily and Harry for the first time opened his heart and told everything from living in the cupboard under the stairs to being abused by Dursleys to Harry's first year, Voldemort, and then Basilisk.
"Wait you killed the basilisk and destroyed the diary?" asked James instantly, Harry nodded. "But here the story changes, I mean the past changes, Dumbledore already has the diary, it's a Horcrux and we were about to go and kill the basilisk, we were returning just after meeting Dumbledore about it."
"It means it is changing, but how did you know about the diary?" asked Harry.
"My uncle helped to pass the information and then we stole it from Malfoys," said James.
"But in this timeline, Malfoy still had the diary in 1992," said Harry.
"I know what must have happened, but we need the newspaper from that day," said Lily and immediately a newspaper appeared. Lily opened and read it and James and Harry too read it, it was about the death of Ben Potter.
"Look, both of them died, so they failed to pass the information to Dumbledore and that's the turning point," said James sadly and then smiled, 'Maybe Peter will not betray us this time,' he thought.
"It's where the timeline changes," said Harry.
"Tell more about yourself, Harry," said James and Harry told them about Sirius escaping and how he rescued him and how Remus was a good teacher but Snape sold him and told the students about him being a werewolf.
"That git is teaching hear?" asked Lily angrily.
"Has Dumbledore gone out of mind, he is a death eater," roared James angrily.
"Harry, did he hurt you? Are you okay?" Lily asked in a worried voice.
"He didn't physically hurt me, but he has made my life worse," said Harry and he complained about Snape freely to his parents, both of them were furious. "And. . and a few days ago. . I accidentally used a spell. . . sectumsempra, but I didn't know what it was."
"Harry! that was a dark spell," Lily scolded him. "It nearly killed James."
"But I didn't know that, I would have never used that if I knew what it does," protested Harry. "I read it in the book by Half-Blood Prince, and then Snape made me do work that mentioned the name of you and Sirius, it's like torture."
"I will kill that Snape," growled James. "But who is Half-Blood Prince?"
"It's Snape," Lily answered her jaw clenched, "His mother is Prince."
"Snivellous, that git, does he bullies others too?" asked James, Harry nodded.
"He is up to something with Malfoy but Dumbledore is trusting him blindly," said Harry.
"Harry, did you see the memory from Snape?" asked Lily and he nodded. "Well, that explains."
"Tell about your fourth year then Harry, we will deal with Snape later," said James.
Harry told them about the triwizard tournament and his name being put in it, Lily and James gasped.
"And Dumbledore let you or to say forced you to participate?" asked Lily and Harry nodded and then continued, Lily's face turned white when he told about Voldemort being reborn, about him torturing and using a killing curse and about priori incantatem.
James sat beside Harry and pulled him into a hug while Lily hugged him from another side.
"We are sorry Harry, that you have to face that," said James.
"I am proud of you, Harry, you are such a brave boy," said Lily tears falling from her eyes. Harry gave both of them a sad smile as he told them the rest of the story about Umbitch about no one trusting him, about Sirius' death and then about this year so far.
"And I forgot, we won the cup this year, I was made the captain," grinned Harry.
"Hey! congrats! I am captain too and we too won the cup, so, what position do you play?" asked James excitedly.
"Seeker, was selected in the first year," replied Harry.
"First year? Excellent! I too was a seeker in my second, and third year but then became a chaser in 4th," said James and both of them continued talking about quidditch excitedly, both of the same age and the same enthusiasm.
Lily watched them with a smile, it melt her heart, they were her boys, and she felt bad for not being able to be with him, she swore to do her best to change it when she goes back so she could see him grow and be there with him.
"Enough about quidditch, you are just like James and I am proud that you are just don't do pranks like him," said Lily grinning and both the boys laughed.
"Why don't I tell him about the pranks you have pulled, Evans," chuckled James.
"She is a prankster too?" asked Harry.
"No, Harry, don't listen to him," said Lily sticking out her tongue at James.
"What about the prank you did yesterday? And that one when we did ice one? And what about that time you changed our voice?" said James.
"Okay, fine, I did some prank, but Harry, he spoilt me," said Lily.
Harry smiled as his parents bickered, all his doubts were cleared about them but then his face felt that they will be gone soon.
"What happened Harry?" asked Lily as she noticed his sad face.
"I will miss you both, please, can't you stay here forever, please," asked Harry desperately, "I have lost you once, I can't lose you both again." His hands held both of them tightly.
James' heart shattered into millions of pieces and he saw Lily's watery eyes, she was feeling the same. James moved and sat on his knees in front of Harry, and hold his hands.
Harry looked at his father.
"Harry, we too don't want to leave you, who would want to leave their son, and when the son is you, who is such a brave, kind and good boy, we don't want to leave you but we have to go, but you know what I will be here with you," his hand rested on his heart. "I will be with you Harry, Lily, your mum will be here, we will be with you here, until the very end, okay?
"You will find the strength to move on because we will be there to give you strength, I haven't had you yet, but this time we are spending together is enough to tell that, Harry, I love you," he looked at Lily. "Your mum loves you, we both love you."
"I love you both too, it's just this world is very hard, I feel lonely," said Harry.
"Harry, I promise you, I will try my best to make it right this time, I will do my best that we can be there for you, you are my child, and I will do whatever it takes to make it easier for you, we already have the diary, and we will defeat Voldemort, we will defeat him, I promise that we will try our best," said James.
Harry nodded and James smiled at him.
Lily stood up she knew the way to cheer up, "Come on, boys, I am hungry, let's go to the kitchens."
"Yeah that's a great idea, Lils," said James. "I am really hungry."
The three of them sat in the kitchens eating food, talking and laughing, all three of them forgot how bad their previous time was and they just lived in the moment. Harry savoured the moment with his parents though they were the same age as him, he got to hear a lot of stories from them.
"You know it feels really odd, but then also like it's perfect, imagine just accidentally getting into the future and meeting our son, and we got along really well," smiled Lily.
"I agree, if anyone would have told me that I was going to be eating food with my son and with my girlfriend then I would have asked them to go to the asylum, because the day first thing, the day started really shitty and then look at us," grinned James.
"What happened?" asked Harry.
"We both woke up and found a letter attached to our legs, and it was an invitation to join the death eaters," said James.
"Not to mention your sudden sitting and throwing my head down, and then playing with my leg, and thus waking me," Lily said.
"They tried to recruit you both!" Harry gasped. "That's bad."
"We dealt with it, and there's nothing more important than you Harry, we should focus on the moment," said Lily smiling.
Harry nodded, "Wait a moment, did you guys woke up together?"
"Way to go Lils," murmured James.
"It was a full moon yesterday, and he was hurt, so I was healing and fell asleep with him," said Lily eyeing James.
"Ohh, I am proud of you dad, that you use to take so much risk for Remus," said Harry and James smiled at him.
"So, Harry got any girlfriend?" asked James with a smirk. Harry's cheek turned red as he blushed. "Aww, Lils he blushes just like you."
"So, have you got any?" asked Lily.
"Yeah, she is a year lower than me, her name is Ginny Weasley," said Harry.
"Is she the daughter of Arthur and Molly?" asked Lily.
"Yes, do you know them?" asked Harry. "They take care of me like a family despite having such a large family."
"We kind of know them, through the Prewett twins," said James. "But say thanks to them from me."
"So, what should we do next?" asked Lily.
"We can prank someone," suggested James and Harry was excited to prank someone along with his dad.
"Really James?" asked Lily.
"Come on, mum, I want to enjoy," said Harry, and Lily smiled and nodded.
"So, who do you wanna prank?" asked Lily.
"Snape," said James and Harry together.
"What's the plan?" asked Harry.
"He is a potions teacher, right?" asked James.
"He was, but this year he has become a DADA teacher," said Harry screwing his face. "DADA was my favourite subject and now he has ruined it."
"That bad, huh?" asked Lily sadly.
"Yeah, one day when I said Patronus charm is the best way to fight Dementors, he took points from me and said I was wrong, and when I argued he took another 10 points," said Harry crossing his arms.
"Patronus Charm is not only the best way but the only way which guarantees safety against Dementors," said Lily.
"A dementor and a Patronus are just the opposite of each other, one represents sorrows and hopelessness while the other happiness and hope," said James.
"That's what I said too, but he ignored me," complained Harry, he was happy to have his parents to talk to, who were both understanding him, better than Sirius, Remus, Dumbledore, Hermione, Ron, and others. "It's like he started hating me the moment I entered in Hogwarts and met him."
"He is holding a grudge, sorry for that Harry, he is taking out his anger against me on you," said James.
"There's Neville Longbottom, a nervous boy in my class, and Snape has tormented him so much that Neville's boggart is Snape," said Harry.
"He is acting like an immature, how could Dumbledore allow him to teach here?" said Lily through gritted teeth.
"That's the question we all ask each day," said Harry.
"What's your boggart Harry?" suddenly asked James.
"Mine is dementor," said Harry.
"And you make me prouder," said James and Lily nodded.
"It's because when I faced them I would hear mum crying and asking Voldemort to leave me, he even said to stand aside but she didn't, and then I would hear you saying to mum to take me and run while you stood against Voldemort alone," said Harry tears falling from his eyes.
"Don't cry dear," said Lily wiping his tears.
"Let's go and prank Snape, now, that will cheer up everyone," said James as he took out the cloak.
After 30 minutes when Snape opened his office, soap bubbles came out of it and dissolved him in it, and the voice of James Potter spoke to him 'Enjoy your first ever hair wash Snivellous!'
Snape froze at that, he complained to McGonagall that it was Potter but she said that there was no proof of that.
"Onto next part," smirked Lily.
"You will prank him too?" asked Harry.
"No one touches the son of Lily Evans and gets away with it," said Lily and James laughed.
And then Snape's entire body turned pink while his hairs were half glittering gold and half glittering blue, and there were dark red colour imprints of hands on his face, looking as though someone has slapped him, and on his forehead was written 'MY CHOICE!' The thing about this was that the pink body colour spell was Lily's old signature spell, and the slap and choice word was a reminder for Snape of the time when he has made his choice and received a slap from Lily.
"That was quite harsh Lils," said James when the three of them left the great hall, James and Lily were under the cloak.
"Hark who's talking! and it made me feel better, and he will be reminded of the time when I slapped him," said Lily.
"Do you wanna play quidditch, dad?" asked Harry excitedly.
"Thought you will never ask," replied James.
They played one vs one, while Lily watched them, Harry beat James 4 out of 5 times in catching the snitch.
"I am surprised that you are not jealous Potter," teased Lily when James sat beside her in the stands.
"Why should I be jealous, I am defeated by my son," he smiled as Harry sat in between them. "I am only proud."
"What do you want to do Harry, after you graduate?" asked Lily.
"I want to be an auror," he answered."But I need to deal with Voldemort, as I have to be the one to kill him."
"We want to be auror too," said Lily. "And just as James said we will try our best to try to defeat him."
"I will like that world where there is no Voldemort and you two are there by my side," smiled Harry.
"Trust me, Harry, we both want the same," said James placing an arm around his shoulder.
"You both almost look like twin brothers," said Lily.
"But he has got your heart and kindness, and from what he says temper too," chuckled James.
"And he is a powerful wizard too," said Lily.
"I just got lucky each time and also help came at the right time," argued Harry.
"But Harry, you had the courage to stand against what's wrong, and you love and care about others, that's what makes you powerful," said James.
"And not to mention if Harry, you don't go behind powers, you are not hungry for it and that makes you even more powerful," said Lily.
"This is the first time, I have ever openly talked about everything and you both have understood me too," confessed Harry.
"I am glad that you did that but also tried and open up more Harry, and also you are our son, which is still odd to say, but you are our son and no one can understand a person better than the person's parents," said James.
"Tell me about grandparents," said Harry.
"Didn't Tuney tell you?" asked Lily.
Harry scoffed, "She barely talks properly to me, and talking about you or your grandparents is impossible."
"Sorry about that," Lily said sadly.
And then both James and Lily told about their parents to Harry, he got to learn his grandfather made a famous hair potion, and that his father has an uncle who died last year in his time. He learned about his grandparents on Lily's side.
Then they returned back to the Room of Requirements, where Lily suggests that they can duel, so they duelled, and it was now that Harry learned that his parents were duel champions.
"You know she had a crush on me since the fifth year," winked James.
"You don't have to rub it, James," said Lily.
"But he needs to know about his parents, and also Harry she was the one to kiss me first," said James.
Soon it was evening time and neither of them wanted the time to pass, they would freeze the time and would spend time together but it was not possible.
James has decided to give something to Harry, he has used the magic of the room to get it, while Lily told Harry about their friends.
"Harry, I want to give this to you, something that I made for you to remember us," smiled James sadly as he handed him a few pages stuck together, it has a sketch of three of them together, of Harry, of Harry and Lily, of Harry and James, and of Harry and James on the broom in air.
Harry's eyes filled with tears as he looked at the sketches, Lily gave a tap to the sketches and the figures became alive.
"And this is a book," James said as he pulled out three books from his locket, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, "It's Lily's books, she read them first and then gave them to me, and I think this is the best thing we both could give you which belongs to us."
"Thanks," said Harry.
Lily pulled her son into a hug, "You are a strong boy, Harry, you will find the strength you need in here, we will be with you until the very end."
"I will miss you both," said Harry.
"We will miss you too, though we might not remember this day properly but we will miss you," said James ruffling Harry's hair. "And Harry this is the best day of our life."
"It's the best day of my life too," said Harry his tears falling freely.
"We both love you, Harry, Mum loves you, Dad loves you, be safe, be strong," said Lily as both James and Lily hugged him.
"We will be with you, until the very end," said James as both James and Lily kissed Harry's forehead.
"We are proud of you, Harry, so proud of you," said Lily as she took out the time turner.
Harry remembered her mother's sacrifice, his father's sacrifice and the fact that they are returning to the past and may die the same way, no he can't let that happen.
"Wait!" he said suddenly, he has got an idea. James and Lily looked at him with sad watery eyes, all three of them had lumps in their throats.
"What is it, Harry?" James managed to ask in a brittle voice.
"I want to give something to you, but I can't give you anything as that will be left behind due to the law of the time," said Harry. "But I really want to give you something."
"What do you want to give?" asked Lily.
"I don't know what to give but I want to, really really want to," said Harry desperately as he thought about what to give them but failed.
James saw his trouble and stepped forward, touching Harry's scar, "You give me this sign, and I have a feeling it'll not fade, and it'll remind me and Lily about you."
"But that will hurt," said Harry.
"Not when there's love in it, and I have many scars on my chest, give one to me," smiled James.
Harry looked at his mother, who looked in thought as she looked at James but she gave Harry an approving nod.
"Well if I am going to give you one then I will give you my blood too, that kept me safe from Voldemort before he took my blood as mum's blood protected me, so I will give you my blood in hope that it protects you and mum and help you in defeating Voldemort," said Harry.
James didn't wanted Harry to be hurt but he nodded as Harry looked determined and seemed like he knows what he was doing.
James removed his shirt, and pointed over his heart, "Make the sign here," he said to Harry who nodded.
Harry pointed his wand at his hand first and a cut appeared but he just gasped a little, and blood started flowing, he then muttered a spell and the blood got collected at the tip of his wand, "Ready?" he asked James who smiled and nodded.
Harry placed his wand over James' heart and traced and made the same sign he had on his head, James flinched as the cut appeared but regain control as he continued looking at Harry with a smile. All of Harry's blood was inside James now and a lightning bolt shape scar appeared on James' chest.
James pointed his wand at the new scar and muttered a spell, "Now, it will never fade."
Harry hugged his father, "Promise me you will try your best and defeat him, for me, please."
"I promise you, Harry, I will do each and everything, however hard it must be I will do it, and make sure he is defeated," James assured him.
"And promise me, you will not leave me like you did this time, I want to grow up with you and mum, I really want to," said Harry.
"I promise Harry, I will do whatever it takes, I will do my best, I will put the hardest effort into it, I will try like no one else had tried before, I will put all efforts as no one has ever put before, I promise you, Harry, I will try the hardest and will succeed, I will do it for you," said James.
"We promise you, Harry, we will try everything to prevent you from having this horrible life, we love you and we will do it for you, we will fight as no one has ever done before, we will show them what's the power of true love," added Lily giving her son a kiss on the forehead.
They hugged for the final time.
"Take care, Harry, be safe, and be strong," said Lily as she pointed her wand at the hourglass and James clutched her hand tightly.
"We will be with you, Harry, Until the very end," said James.
"Until the very end," nodded Harry, all three of them smiled and then James and Lily disappeared.
James and Lily landed on the ground again, they were in a room and had enough memory that they time-travelled to the future and this room is the room of requirement.
"I have both a sad and a happy feeling," said James.
"Me too," replied Lily as she looked at the time-turner.
"I will return it back, we will not tell anyone that we travelled to the future," said James, and Lily agreed.
"Yeah, or Minnie will kill us if she finds out this," said Lily.
"It's still morning, so we returned at the same time," said James as they left the room of requirements.
"We should go get ready for classes," suggested Lily. "Though I am feeling tired."
When the pair entered the Charms class Lily could feel a few pairs of eyes following them, and one of them was especially fixed on her.
"They know about the offer," said James as both took a seat behind Remus and Peter.
"So, we ignore them?" asked Lily.
"Yeah, that's the best thing,"
The class began and Lily could still feel a pair of eyes looking at them, she ignored it, she was feeling tired and thought they would have done a lot of activity in the future, though she doesn't remember it's all fuzzy. Lily yawned and rested her head on James' shoulder as she wrote the notes, James put his hand around her waist and pulled her closer.
"Tired?" he asked and Lily nodded.
"Can you cover for me?" she asked in her cute voice.
James gave her a kiss on the head and she took a nap while James took notes for her too.
The rest of the day Lily never left James' side, she didn't tell anyone or even James, but she was still quite worried about the letter and the threat to her parents. The next day when she was walking back from Minnie's office after submitting her essay, she came face to face with a happy-looking Snape.
Lily ignored him however when her hands were itching to hex him, she moved aside and began walking, Snape started walking by her side.
"Now, we will be working together, we are on the same side," said Snape.
"No, we will not," snapped Lily.
"But you are offered the position, you can use your talent," said Snape. "And you know, I requested them to take you in, so you can be safe and powerful."
"I know you did," said Lily feeling of betrayal rising in her. "Thanks for that."
Snape felt so happy that he missed the sarcasm in Lily's words or the tears in her eyes.
"Welcome, now we will be working together, we will have power and rich, no one will be able to say anything to us, we will have control over both the worlds, we will be free," said Snape. "Even that Potter has been offered, but he will be beneath me, so no problem, I will have power over him."
"He is not joining," said Lily her voice rising.
"Well, then that's even better, you will not have to tolerate him and we will have the upper hand over him, I will be winning and he will be losing."
"I am not joining either," said Lily.
"What? Why? Lily doesn't let that psycho's decision affect your decisions, he is a moron and will die for sure, he is on the losing side, think properly Lily," said Snape shocked, he didn't expected Lily to deny the offer, surely Potter must have manipulated her.
"Then I will die with him," said Lily without skipping a beat.
"What? NO! Lily, don't be stupid, I worked so hard and persuaded them so that they let you join, so you too can be among us," said Snape angrily.
"I said thank you for that," shouted Lily. "Thank you because of you my parents are even a bigger target now, thanks to you now that they have threatened to kill me and my parents."
"They will do nothing to your parents if you join," argued Snape his voice rising too.
"Hey, what happened?" James and Remus appeared when they heard Lily shouting.
"I am not like you, I am not a heartless person who has no morals, I am not hungry for power and money like you, you have already done enough damage, so please stay away from me and my family and friends, or will you only rest when I am dead?" shouted Lily.
"I will never let you die, I . . . you are my friend, I only helped you," said Snape.
"You are not my friend, if you were then you wouldn't have joined them, called me a mudblood, or given my name to them and put my parents in danger," said Lily her wand out and pointing threateningly at Snape. "Go away Snape, or I will lose control and you will be sorry."
Snape looked at the wand and left.
"That scum thought I would join them, I will never join your shitty gang of arseholes nutters even if the hell freezes," shouted Lily at the retreating figure of Snape.
"He thought you will join?" said James as more of a statement, and Lily nodded. James put his hands around her. "Gang of Arseholes nutters, nice name," chuckled James kissing her forehead and Lily smiled.
"Join what?" asked Remus.
"The death eaters," replied James.