Chapter Seven
Potter House, Godric's Hollow, 12 August, 1991
Lily Potter stared out her bedroom window. She couldn't sleep. Harry was on her mind.
She wondered constantly what had become of her son, the one who she'd given away. The one the world had forgotten. Had he been treated well? How had his family reacted when he'd gotten his letter? Was he loved?
She sighed, remembering that day ten years ago when Sirius and Remus had come over to see their respective godsons, Harry and Henry.
*Flashback*
"Lily, where is my godson?" Sirius asked after looking about for Harry. Remus came up behind him, Henry on his hip gurgling happily.
"He's not here," she said quietly, a hint of shame creeping into her voice.
"Where is he, then?" Sirius asked, slightly irritated that Lily, who was generally very straightforward, was avoiding his questions.
"Gone, Sirius. He's gone," she whispered softly.
Sirius was more than irritated now. "Well where did he go? Mars? Just tell me, for Merlin's sake!" he shouted.
Lily burst into tears, sinking to the floor. Remus, who'd always been the more sensitive of the two, crouched beside her. "Tell us, Lily. Trust us, like I trusted you all those years ago," he said quietly, rubbing her shoulder comfortingly. She'd been the only he'd told of his werewolf troubles while they were at school.
And she told them everything, from when she and James had first discussed it to the last time she'd laid eyes on her son.
Sirius' eyes were a whirlwind of emotions as he struggled to breathe. "Do you have any idea what you've done to him?" he asked, voice low and seething with disgust, "Do you know what you've done to your son? You've ensured that for the rest of his life, he'll feel the outcast, unwanted by his own mother. I know how that feels, Lily, and so do you. You've done to him what your pathetic bloody sister did to you! What my mother did to me! How could you do that to my Pup?" he screamed, the lights in the house flickering as his fury mounted. Books on the shelves burst from their bindings, papers flying around the room as he used his nickname for Harry, Pup, which is what he was to his godfather. The agony in Sirius' voice was painful to those who heard it.
Lily cried harder, not daring to look at her friends.
"Where is he?" Sirius asked.
Lily sobbed out, "Johnston House," and Sirius was gone, leaving the destroyed sitting room in his wake.
Remus said nothing, only handing Henry back to Lily and following after his friend.
A few weeks later, Remus sent her a letter stating that the old woman at the orphanage had never heard of or seen a boy with Harry's description, and that he'd have to renounce his title as Henry's godfather to go looking for him.
*End Flashback*
And that was the last James or Lily had heard fromeither of them. Remus taught at Hogwarts now, teaching the younger students Transfiguration while McGonagall took the older students. Sirius was still roaming the world, looking for his Pup, renouncing any friendship with the Potter's. They'd seen him once, on a vacation to America, but when they'd tried to approach him, he screamed curses at them and Disapparated on the spot, shocking the two Muggles present.
Lily teared up thinking about the friendships they'd lost, and wondering if Henry would be the arrogant boy he was if they'd never given Harry up.
What if's ran through her mind, taking her breath away as the questions her mind came up with became more and more horrifying.
"Stop this," she told herself, "I would know if something happened. A mother just knows."
But you aren't his mother anymore, Lily. Someone else is.
Lily Potter cried herself to sleep, thinking about the Malfoy boys in Diagon Alley, and how the one, Adrian, had been so familiar….
Okay, I know this chapter is super short, but this part is important and I felt that this was a good place to answer a few questions, having re-introduced the Potter's in the last chapter. So, Sirius and Remus obviously did not approve of the Potter's giving Harry up in favor of their other son, but they will be a part of the story later on…
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