AN: Thanks to all of you that reviewed the last chapter and gave me some great ideas on what to do. The chapters should start to get a little longer as I try to put the first year in as much detail as I see fit but this will also mean that I will leave a bigger gap between posts.

Anyway, enjoy :)

It was a day before Harry's eleventh birthday. Harry was out with Sirius at the Quiditch pitch, Remus was out buying Harry a present in Diagon alley and James was sitting in his office. To most people if they saw James at this point would think that he was talking to a wall, but to the more observant person would see that he was in fact talking to a portrait that was on his wall.

"How is he doing James?" asked the portrait

James smiled, "He is doing great, he's practicing is reflexes with Padfoot at the pitch. He's going to be great seeker I just know it."

"I wish I could be there to see it in person"

(You must have guessed who it is now)

"I know you do Lils. It's been almost ten years since that day you left me and I've missed you for every single day but I kept Harry because of you. You saved him and he lives on in you," James was holding back tears. He loved his wife and wished she never had to leave him or Harry, "his eyes are that same as ours and whenever I look into them I see you."

"Am I going to see him on his birthday?" asked portrait Lily, She last saw Harry on that faithful day where she had been killed. She wanted to see what her son was like all grown up.

"Of course you are Lily and I have an idea that I think you will like." With that, James pulled out his wand and muttered Geminio. A copy of Lily's portrait appeared in James hand.

Lily gave a puzzled look, "James? Why?"

"This is so that Harry can speak to you when he is at Hogwarts. You missed out on so many years of his life because I forgot to get the portrait out of the vault and now I want you to be able to be with him during the most important ones" Lily's portrait looked like she was about to cry.

Suddenly there was the sound of laughing. James knew that meant that Sirius and Harry had finished with training. James turned back to the portrait, said goodbye to his wife, got up and walked out towards the kitchen.

As James entered he put on a small fake smile. He missed his wife and being able to speak with her portrait made it slightly worse but he didn't want his son to see him looking sad. Harry was covered in sweat, Sirius must have worked him hard, thought James, Sirius was much the same but his longer hair made it less obvious.

James pulled Harry into a hug, "you two have a good time?"

Sirius ruffled Harry's hair, "He was brilliant Prongs and it would be safe to say that he has better reactions that you do". James gaped at what Sirius had just said. He knew that he himself had brilliant reaction and that was why he was on the England team the first time but for his almost eleven-year old son to have better reactions that him was something to be marveled at. "Harry, why don't you go get cleaned up whilst I talk to your dad and I'll make you your favorite tea, ok?"

Harry ran for that door but he stopped when he reached it. He turned to Sirius, "Actually, Uncle Moony makes my favorite tea, then its Mickey and the elves and even Dad's cooking is better than yours". Harry stuck his tongue to Sirius who was standing there shocked at what was said; he always thought his cooking was brilliant. Harry then proceeded to turn and run upstairs.

"So Sirius, what do you want to talk to me about"

"Is my cooking really that bad?" said Sirius turning to face James.

"Well… umm… I… well it's not the best in the world to be honest Padfoot", James then gave his best mate a slap on the back, "so what did you want to tell me?"

"Right well, James, you know that Harry and Ginny won the small matches that they had against the twins and Ron?"

"Yes, then won every single on with a huge margin, why?" James now had a questioning look on his face.

"Well like I said, Harry has amazing reaction, it's like he knew where everything was all the time. Today I was firing bludgers at him from all directions and he was able to dodge every one even if it was coming from behind him."

"So you're basically saying that Harry knew where all of the bludgers where all the time, almost like having the Marauder's map in his head except it was for bludgers not people"

"That's exactly what I'm saying Prongs"

James stood where he was pondering what he had just heard. He had heard of something similar but that was a trait of a magical creature. He thanked Sirius for telling him that and told him that he would see go see Dumbledore immediately and that he should go wash quickly as he smelt rather disgusting after the training with Harry.

James sent his patronus off to Dumbledore to ask if they would meet. Minutes later, Fawkes arrived and landed on the kitchen table. James immediately felt something in his mind and found that Fawkes had left him a note telling him to grab a tail feather. James obliged, grabbing the Phoenixes tail feather and disappeared in a ball of flame. Moments later, he was standing in the Headmasters study looking at Dumbledore who seemed to be zoned out completely. James stepped forward and coughed quietly bringing Dumbledore back to reality.

"Ahh James my dear boy, what do I owe the pleasure?, Pear drop?" said Dumbledore, offering James a bowl of yellow sweets which he kindly accepted.

"Well Albus, I have a question about something Sirius told me today about Harry. It would seem that he has developed a similar trait to that of a Phoenix. He can see where everything is in a given area all the time like he has 360 vision"

Albus motioned towards Fawkes who landed on Albus' shoulder and began to whisper into his ear. To James, all he could hear was the sound of Phoenix song whilst Albus was having a full conversation with the bird.

"Fawkes, do you have any knowledge on this matter"

"None personally, as you know anyway, a person can develop traits dependent on their Animagus form but it is impossible for anyone to turn into a Phoenix. The only time I heard of this happening was Merlin but that was centuries ago. It is possible that Harry is related but I will have to return to the Phoenix realm to find out. I will be back soon my friend" With that, Fawkes disappeared in a ball of flames.

"he will return shortly, he needs to check something in the Phoenix realm" James nodded that he understood. For the next 10 minutes, the two men talked about the new DADA teacher Dumbledore had hired and how he had nearly asked Remus or Sirius to step in.

Suddenly, a huge ball of flame appeared and Fawkes landed on Dumbledore's shoulder and leant into whisper, "It is true that Merlin was the first and the last person to ever achieve a Phoenix Animagus form but we have a prophecy that states that 'the one who is born to the house of the greatest two wizards and the one that knows true love shall be the one to take our form and attributes, also the one that is the pair with this soul shall take our form also'."

"Thank you Fawkes" The bird the flew to his perch and Dumbledore turned to James, "It would seem that you are correct in what you though, Harry does indeed have certain attributes of a mythical creature. A Phoenix to be precise."

James slowly registered what he had heard in his head and decided that it was time for him to head back. He would talk to Remus and Sirius in the morning about what to do but for now he just wanted to be with his son and take it all in.

With that, he thanked Dumbledore for his time, walked to the fireplace and left for Potter Manor.

Dumbledore turned to Fawkes, "I will need you to find out anything you can in the Phoenix realm about this and I will do the same here"

"I shall Albus. I shall keep a close eye on young Harry for you until I can find a someone to do it for me"

"Thank you Fawkes" with that the Bird disappeared in a ball of flame.

Harry awoke the next day to the feeling that something was about to hit him in the face. He quickly rolled out of the way and off the bed, narrowly missing the water that landed with a splash on his bed. He rolled off the bed and stood to see an amazed Sirius holding a bucket in his hand.

"You'll have to do better than that Padfoot" Harry hugged the shocked man and went down to breakfast.

Remus appeared in the doorway and laughed when he saw Sirius standing in shock. He raised his wand and fired a full blast of water at the man causing him to be pushed down onto the bed. He flipped over to see Remus leaving the room laughing his head off.

Harry appeared in the kitchen to see Mickey, Minnie and Maxwell (the head elf chief) working hard in the kitchen preparing a fine looking and smelling breakfast. Harry went to sit as Remus walking in still with a huge smile on his face. Harry instantly knew that he had seen Sirius' face when he had dodged out of the way of the water.

"I'm not going to ask how you didn't get wet because from the look on Sirius' face, it was amazing" said Remus as he pulled Harry into a hug and whished him Happy Birthday. James was the next to walk in and immediately gave his son a huge hug and told him presents after breakfast.

As the elves began to plate up the food and hand it out, Sirius arrived in the kitchen still with a semi-shocked look on his face. Both Harry and Remus burst out laughing at Sirius whilst James just turned and looked at the pair with a questioning look.

"Do I want to know?" said James

"Uncle Sirius tried to pour water over me this morning but I sensed it and move out of the way" said Harry as he began to tuck into one of his favorite breakfasts. James looked in amazement at Harry then turned to Sirius and laughed at him.

Sirius gave James evils as he sat down and began to shovel his food down at an alarming rate.

They ate breakfast and thanked the elves for a great meal yet again and moved into the living room. James and Remus left Harry and Sirius whilst they went to go and get presents. After five minutes of searching, the two men arrived back with a hand full of gifts and placed them down on the table. Harry's eyes widened at the sight of the presents.

He got up from the sofa he was sitting on and moved towards the first thing that caught his eye. It was a medium sized box wrapped in paper that had mini brooms flying around. Harry undid the paper and opened the box to see a mirror. He took it out of the box and began to examine it.

"It's s magic mirror cub" said Sirius as he, Remus and James pulled mirrors out of their pockets and enlarged them to the same size, "Simply say either Moony, Prongs, Padfoot or elves and it will open up a connection between the two mirrors" To demonstrate Sirius put the mirror up to cover his face from Harry's view and said "Cub". Harry immediately saw the face of his godfather appear on the mirror. "I updated it form the ones that me and your dad used to use at school so it can now connect to more mirrors instead of them being in pairs. They will also work anywhere no matter what wards have been placed"

Harry ran towards his godfather and gave him a massive hug, "Thanks uncle Sirius". Harry placed the mirror back into the box and went to pick out another one. He looked at the little card that came with it and found it was from Remus. He opened the little box and unwrapped the ball from the tissue paper. He immediately noticed that it was snitch with his initials engraved into it. He ran to Remus and practically jumped onto him.

"Someone's happy," He ruffled Harry's hair, "it will obey whatever you tell it to do and it is also able to transport you to any set location so it has the Manor, the Weasley's, Diagon alley and as soon as you enter Hogwarts, it will set the common room as a location as well. I'll teach you how to set a location later"

Harry took the snitch in his thumb and forefinger and told it to float. No sooner had he said it, two winds unfolded from it and it pulled away from Harry's hand and floated in the air, flapping its wings like mad. Harry told it to stop, placed it back in its box and moved onto the last box on the table. By power of deduction he knew it was from his dad. He walked over to it, removed the wrapping paper to find inside the box, a leather painting case and a bag. He went for the bag first pulling it out of the box. He put his hand in to grab the item, it felt soft to the touch and when he pulled it out, it was so light you wouldn't have noticed you had it in your hand.

He unfolded it and placed what he assumed to be a cloak around his shoulders. He looked down to see how it looked but was shocked to find that his body had disappeared. He looked at his father with a face full of amazement.

"It's and invisibility cloak cub, it's been passed down from father too son every time they start Hogwarts. A lot of good pranks have been pulled of because of that cloak" James was suddenly hugged by and invisible person and he hugged back, "go open the next present" said James, pointing back to the bag

Harry removed the cloak and placed it down back in the bag. He then removed the picture holder and unscrewed the top. He pulled out the rolled up canvas and began to unravel it. The top half of a red head slowly appeared as more of the canvas was unraveled.

A soon as the canvas was fully unraveled, both Remus and Sirius looked shocked, "LILY!" squeaked the pair.

"Hey boys" said Lily as she waved to the two of them.

Harry was still looking at the portrait, "Mum?", a tear began to fall down his cheek. It was the best present ever in the world.

"Hey darling, Happy Birthday. I wish I could be there with you" Now Lily had a small tear running down her face. It was her son, all grown up. "I'll let your dad explain"

James went over and knelt next to his son. "You remember when we were at Gringotts and I went to get something form one of the vaults?" Harry just nodded, "well I remembered that me and your mum had both had portraits made just to be safe and I had forgotten about it till that day and I decided that your mum should come home" Harry looked from his father to his mother in the portrait. "Harry this copy is for you, I have another so that you can have your mum with you throughout your time at Hogwarts to make up for those lost years".

Harry didn't know what to say, he had just met his mum for the first time since he can remember.

Harry, James, Remus, Sirius and Lily talked for hours, catching up on time they had lost. Mickey, Minnie and Maxwell had prepared a brilliant Lunch and the four men decided that they should play a game of Quiditch whilst Lily watched. It was Remus and James vs Harry and Sirius and to everybody's shock, Harry and Sirius won by a margin of 200. Mickey called them in for tea and they sat at the kitchen table.

Minnie went round the table offering them drinks and a cake and much to the surprise of the four men, Minnie asked Lily if she would like something.

"Minnie, you know I would love to have one of your cakes because they are the best I have ever tasted but I am a painting so I can't touch anything outside of the painting"

"That is not a problem Mistress Lily, we elves can send things through to the portraits. That is how elves is feeding the paintings in Hogwarts" with a snap of the elf's fingers, a cake and some coffee appeared on the table behind Lily. All of them were slightly shocked by this but quickly went back to taking again.

At 5:30, Harry and James were in the sitting room playing exploding snap whilst Remus and Sirius in a heated argument about what team were going to win the Quiditch league this season. As always, Sirius was saying that the Cannons would have a comeback and win it which everybody knew had less chance of happening than soul bond taking place in the next 1000 years, whilst Remus on the other hand was rooting for the Wimborne Wasps who had had an excellent season last year and narrowly missed out on the final when their seeker missed the snitch and face planted a goal post.

They were all suddenly interrupted by the voice of Mickey standing in the doorway. "Master James, Edgard is here to see you and young master Harry" He then bowed and led the elf into the room. Edgard was dressing in Tails and looked very clean.

"Edgard, Hello. May I ask what Her Majesty would like from her great nephew?"

"Her Majesty?" said Remus, Sirius and Harry simultaneously

"Ahh, I may have forgotten to mention to all of you that I'm related to the Queen"

AN : I think a nice cliffhanger is a good way to end this one. I doubt you would have seen this coming unless you paid attention to the letter James received from the England Quiditch squad and seen the HRH – His Royal Highness.

Sorry about the late post of this, I've been bombarded with work and could only wright at around midnight. The next post will also be a bit of a delay as I'm going to England to visit some friends and I won't be able to write much.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed it. I'm still available for some Oneshot ideas people may have and as always, R&R

Quick note : Tails = /ggs9yu