Authors note: I finally have a new chapter up! yey! Sorry it has taken so long to update but I've been busy revising fr my GCSE's ,which are thankfully now over ,so I will be able to update more often from now on :)

Chapter 3

Lily left the living room, closing the door quietly behind herself. She knew James only too well to realise that he was surely causing some sort of mayhem upstairs whilst attempting to alter the morals of their child and change him into a fellow trouble causer. Naturally, as Harry's mother, she knew from experience that it did not take long to prepare the young child for bed when he was in such a sluggish and drowsy state and this further fed her suspicions.

Wanting to catch James unaware she did turn on the light as she snuck along the hallway and carefully manoeuvred around the pushchair parked beside the banister. With the grace of a feline she crept up the carpeted stairs and was thankful that they muffled any sound she made as ascending. Reaching the top she paused for a moment in an attempt to hear what ruckus awaited her.

She was met with silence.

After waiting a moment longer curiosity got the better of her and she clasped the door handle of Harry's nursery in a slender hand before pushing it open and screaming at the sight that met her.

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Downstairs the three men heard the scream and looked at each other for a split second in alarm and fear before immediately jumping up from the sofas they inhabited and heading for the door. Taking out their wands and preparing for a possible fight with Death Eaters they vaulted the stairs four at a time. Sirius was in front of the trio and he turned to the others to ensure that they entered the room together.

"On three," Albus mouthed, his eyes clearly displaying the turmoil of emotions he was currently experiencing.

"One, two…" Remus began.

"THREE!" they all yelled before Sirius momentarily kicked the nursery door open with a BANG.

They all entered, wands ready to duel to the death if needed. The love and worry they felt for their mutual friends powered them along with the adrenaline currently pumping through their veins.

However, the sight that met their eyes was not quite what they had actually expected. Lily and James, both unharmed, were stood in the centre of the room in front of the cot. James looked sheepish and could hardly meet Lily's eyes as she glared at him, arms folded across her chest. She was clearly furious.

As the trio of 'rescuers' had chaotically entered the room their gazes had left each other before looking in shock at the three- posed and ready to fight. Sirius gazed around the room, dropping his wand arm from its' raised position as he realised there were no Death Eaters (or any other form of threat) in the room.

"Lily, James, what has happened?" Albus questioned whilst stowing his wand back into a pocket on his lilac robes.

"We heard you scream," Remus added when nobody answered, hoping to prompt an explanation.

Scowling at James again, Lily stepped backwards so the three could see inside of Harry's cot.

"Hell," Sirius muttered as he peered inside.

There, sat upright was Harry. He was wearing a white pair of teddy bear pyjamas which had chocolate liberally smeared down the front. Looking up from the slurpy treat held tightly in his chubby grip Harry smiled at the five adults with a chocalately sticky face and wild hyperactive green eyes caused by the major sugar overload.

"Mars bar, mars bar, marsy marsy mars bar!" Harry sang as he threw several mars wrappers into the air in delight.

"I admit, it was a mistake," James mumbled to his furious wife.

"A mistake?" Lily raged. "A mistake? Oh right, so you accidentally gave him six full-sized mars bars did you?"

"No but, but, but…" James attempted to find a suitable explanation but couldn't and instead settled on the truth. "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

"Look at him!" Lily shrieked.

Harry was at that time attempting to do a handstand against the bars of his cot and was covering his crème bedding and lemon cot bars in chocolate in the meantime.

"I realise now that it wasn't quite such a magnificent idea." James admitted in a truly defeated tone.

Sirius could no longer maintain a straight face and sniggered, trying to hide it behind his hand. Lily swirled around to face him and glowered.

"Oh look at the time!" Remus exclaimed dramatically. "We really must be going Sirius." As he dragged Sirius out of the room before he put his foot in his mouth again he called "Thanks for having us – good look Prongs!"

Realising that he would soon be left alone with the bickering pair, Dumbledore also made his excuses. "Yes, I really must get back to Hogwarts. Wait up Remus! ," before quickly following the departing pair.

The wooden door slammed close as Albus left and, previously weakened by Sirius' kick, it fell off its' hinges and ended up on the floor with a BOOM!

Using James' distraction to her advantage, Lily muttered "Alfinenzo," as she pointed her wand at him. The jinx took immediate action and James' hair turned a shocking shade of pink. Before he could even contemplate retaliating (not that h would- he knew he was clearly in the wrong) she flicked her wand again and a tattooed word appeared in black across his forehead. As Lily darted from the room smirking – careful to avoid the door- and shouting that he should now clean up Harry's room etc. James peered in the small mirror in the lion patterned frame above the chest of drawers. With shock he saw his reflection with the shocking hair along with the word 'IDIOT' emblazed across his forehead.

"Great, just great!" he grimaced, thinking of the reaction and teasing he would gain from Sirius and Remus the following day.

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