Previously

"Moony?" James asked, lowering his wand, "Moony is that you?"

On with the story

Disclaimer: Nope still don't own it.


"J-James? Wha- Whe- How?" Remus said, he looked as if he were in a state of shock. He had to have known it was really James, somehow, Harry didn't understand.

"The Sorcerer's Stone. We're back Moony."

Harry stood next to his mother with a confused look on his face. He didn't know of anyone named Moony, no one ever mentioned his name. As confused as he was, Harry smiled when his father shared a tight, brotherly hug with the man. It lasted for a minute or two, and when the two parted, Harry swore he saw tears in his father's eyes.

"You survived." James said, his voice reflecting his happy tears.

"Yes, Wormtail didn't though, Sirius was sent to Azkaba-"

"WHAT!?" James yelled in outrage making Harry cringe.

Living with his uncle had not been good for Harry, whenever he yelled it was followed by a good beating for Harry, so hearing his father yell like that had frightened him. Lily noticed Harry cringe and immediately went into mother mode.

"Harry, sweetheart what's wrong?" She asked softly, James heard and turned quickly to see Harry with his eyes closed tight and Lily trying to comfort him.

"D-dad… H-he frightened me… That's all."

James' heart dropped, he had yelled and frightened his son, what kind of father did that?

"Harry, buddy I'm sorry. I didn't mean to," James said before turning around and looking at 'Moony' and saying, "What do you mean Sirius is in Azkaban?"

"Well, after he told Voldemort where to find you and Lily he ran off, but Peter caught him, Peter confronted him but then… Sirius killed him."

James looked as if he were about to explode; his face was as red as a balloon, moving towards more of an Uncle Vernon purple.

"Remus… We changed." Lily said, putting a comforting hand on James' back.

"What do you mean?" Remus asked, obviously as confused as Harry had been feeling the whole time.

"I mean, we switched Secret Keepers, we made Peter the Keeper instead of Sirius."

Suddenly James couldn't hold his outrage any longer. He picked up the nearest thing he saw, a purple vase, and threw it at the wall.

"THAT LYING RAT TRADED ME AND MY WIFE IN TO VOLDEMORT AND SIRIUS IS THE ONE WHO GOT PUNISHED FOR IT?! I TRUSTED HIM! I THOUGHT HE WAS OUR FRIEND!" James shouted, angry tears pouring from his eyes.

Harry was hiding behind his mother once again. He tried to tell himself that his father wouldn't hurt him, but the pain he had experienced as a small child spoke over his common sense.

"James stop it! You're scaring Harry again!" Lily said, turning around and holding Harry protectively in her arms, whispering softly into his ear.

This is pathetic Harry began to think to himself I can face Voldemort with no fear, but am afraid of my own dad?

Of course you're afraid of him another part of his mind answered because you love your father, you fear being hurt at his hand. You didn't love Voldemort, you knew that he wanted to hurt you.

Harry looked up at his father, still red in the face, but not screaming anymore.

"I-I'm s-sorry." Harry said to Lily, not looking her in the eye.

"For what honey?"

"For being scared."

"That's nothing to be ashamed of, but I do wonder why."

"I'll tell you as soon as you tell me what's going on."

James let out a soft chuckle, "A negotiator. Alright son. Let's head into the family room and sit down, you too Moony."

With that, the Potters plus Remus walked into the family room and sat on the chairs and couches, all red in color, and James began their talk.

"Oh where to begin?" He said nervously, not really sure what to tell his son.

"The beginning?" Harry suggested, making the adults laugh.

"Alright then. Everything started on the train in first year. I had sat in a compartment with a boy named Sirius Black, and we became instant friends."

Harry smiled at the thought that the same thing happened with him and Ron.

"Anyway, a little after the train left two other people came into our compartment. Your mum and her friend Severus Snape."

"Snape!?" Harry asked in surprise.

"You know Severus?" Lily asked, actually very concerned about how her son had met her old best friend.

"He's our Potions teacher."

"Oh good lord, Snivellus? I thought he hated kids." James said, looking as if he were about to lose his mind.

"Trust me, he does, but let's finish your story first dad."

James nodded at Harry then continued to tell him about his many adventures at Hogwarts. James told him about forming the marauders, formerly introducing Remus in there, picking on 'Snivellus', getting in trouble, and about trying to win his mum's heart.

"It was difficult Harry I'll tell you that, but in fifth year things… changed." James said, glancing at Lily to make sure she was ok with him telling this to Harry. She nodded in quick reassurance

"How?"

"Well, I was still an idiot throughout the year, but after we took our OWLs Snivellus called your mother something very bad. It destroyed their friendship completely. I was rude enough to ask her out right afterwards."

"Needless to say," Remus interrupted, "Lily ad e sure James didn't come out of the Hospital wing for a week."

"Yeah… Anyway, I apologized to her and in sixth year we became pretty good friends. We were getting comfortable with each other, I asked her out twice that year, I got rejected, but she laughed at my attempts. Then in seventh year we became Head Boy and Girl. We got closer and closer throughout that year when finally I asked her out again, and surprisingly she said yes."

Harry looked at his parents with amazement, they had gone from hating each other to loving one another all because of Snape.

"Now, tell us your story Harry." Lilly said softly to Harry, ruffling his hair slightly.

"Ok, but it's not very happy." Harry said quietly, finding the floor very interesting.

"We want to hear it sweetheart."

"Alright, well, I suppose it started the day you and dad were murdered-"


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