A New Beginning

31st October 1991

"James time to put Harry and Hermione and Heather to sleep" shouted Lily. " 2 more minutes Lily flower" pleaded James. "Fine only 2 minutes," said Lily. She walked to the window as she think something was not right and then she saw it. He was there. "James he's here," Lily said in a worried voice. BANG. The door opened "Lily, take Harry, Heatherand go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off !"Hold him off, without a wand in his hand?. . . . He laughed before casting the curse. . . ." Avada Kedavra!"The green light filled the cramped hallway, lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the bannisters glare like lightning rods. James felt like he was weak and was on the ground He could hear her screaming from the upper floor, trapped, but as long as she was sensible, she, at least, had nothing to fear. . . . He climbed the steps, listening with faint amusement to her attempts to barricade herself in. . . . She had no wand either. . . . How stupid they were, and how trusting, thinking that their safety lay in friends, that weapons could be discarded even for moments. . . .He forced the door open, cast aside the chair and boxes hastily piled against it with one lazy wave of his wand . . . and there she stood, the child in her arms. At the last sight of him, she dropped her son into the crib behind her and threw her arms wide, as if this would help, as if in shielding him from sight she hoped to be chosen instead. . . ."Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!"Stand aside, you silly girl . . . stand aside now."Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead—" This is my last warning—" Not Harry! Please . . . have mercy . . . have mercy. . . . Not Harry! Not Harry! Please— I'll do anything— "Stand aside. Stand aside, girl! "He could have forced her away from the crib, but it seemed more prudent to finish them all. . . .The green light flashed around the room and she dropped like her husband. The child had not cried all this time. He could stand, clutching the bars of his crib and he looked up into the intruder's face with a kind of bright interest, perhaps thinking that it was his father who hid beneath the cloak, making more pretty light, and his mother would pop up any moment, laughing—He pointed the wand very carefully into the boy's face. He wanted to see it happen, the destruction of this one, inexplicable. danger. The child began to cry. It had seen that he was not James. He did not like it crying, he had never been able to stomach the small ones whining in the orphanage—"Avada Kedavra!"And then he broke; He was nothing, nothing but pain and terror, and he must hide himself, not here in the rubble of the ruined house, where the child was trapped. Suddenly Lily Evans opened her eyes and heard a baby crying. Harry. James No James. Lily ran downstairs to see James lying on the floor motionless. "James wake up please wake up" Lily cried and shook James. James's eyes fluttered open "Lily" he croaked "Ohh James," said Lily crying on his chest "Where is Harry," asked James. "He is upstairs" Lily replied. The couple ran upstairs. "Merlin's Beard," James said. "He survived and so did we," James said in a voice that was in complete shock. "James where is Hermione" Lily asked. "Near the couch,h he didn't spot her" James answered. Lily headed downstairs when James saw something. "No way he g- g- got a scar?" said James as Lily came up with Hermione "What is it James," she asked as she saw James's worried face. "He got a scar" as he touched the lightning-shaped scar. "My god we need to call Professor Dumbledore," said Lily in shock "James put Hermione and Harry in the crib and start repairing the house, I'll send a Patronus to Dumbledore," Lily said "Expecto Patronum,6\," Lily said. A white doe appeared Professor Dumbledore came but we survived somehow. There is a scar on Harry's head and we don't know how it came. Go send this the Dumbledore. The white doe ran. "Lily flower I can't repair the house it just rebounds," James said. Before Lily could reply. They heard a noise of a POP. James went downstairs followed by Lily. "Who is there," said James. "It is I Dumbledore," said a man with a white beard and long robes. "Professor we are glad you are here," Lily said. "What happened" asked Dumbledore. "He came and then he used the Killing curse but we survived and somehow Harry has gotten a scar" James summed up for Dumbledore, "I think I may know what happened," Dumbledore said. "Please bring Harry," Dumbledore asked. Lily went upstairs and brought the sleeping babies "The scar upon his forehead, what it might mean. I guessed that it might be the sign of a connection forged between you and Voldemort." "No way," James said. "When Lily tried to sacrifice herself for Harry, it didn't work because Harry was seeing this and he may be a baby but he loved James and Lily and he thought that Voldemort was Lily or James. When Voldemort hit you both with the curse it didn't work and when he tried to use the killing curse on Harry it rebounded and hit him" Dumbledore said. "S- so you mean Voldemort is dead," James asked. "No I do not believe he is dead but he may return in 10 years 20 years 50 years and that is when Harry will be in grave danger," Dumbledore said calmly. "Now if he returns I want you to sign a Marriage Contract with Arthur and Molly Weasley with their daughter Ginevra Weasley I have already contacted them and they should be arriving," said Dumbledore. POP.

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