The man hurriedly marched through the ministry, down to the second level, and into Head-Auror Potters office.
"Potter," he panted. "Is it true? The owl, my son, I came as quick- is it true Potter?"
"Amos, please sit down, take it easy." Harry guided him to the chair. "I know you might be fidgety right now, but you need to calm down, okay?"
Amos Diggory nodded, and sat down, but impaitiently waiting for the news.
"Now," Harry sat down, looking at Amos. "What have you heard?"
"What?" Amos was bewildered. "Shouldn't you jus-"
Harry gave him a look.
"Oh right," he cleared his throat. "I got an owl from here, the Aurors office that is, saying you had news ab- about my- my son, C-Cedric? Then I heard rumours about him being alive, at first I thought they were crazy, but then I re-remembered. Your parents. James and Lily. So please, Po- Harry... Please tell me that the rumours are true, please tell me my son is back." Amos sadly looked down at the floor.
"Amos, once upon a time, I had went through something horrible, but at the same time very nice I guess... I had just seen one of my class- well, school-mates being brutally killed, but then I saw," Harry corrected himself. "Then I thought I saw some people, that were dead. When I got back home, a wise old man told me that "no spell can reawaken the dead" nor anything else. But," Harry stopped, watched the man in front of him, and threw him a small smile, even though Amos didn't look at him. "It seems like he was wrong."
Amos looked up.
"You," he stuttered. "You mean-?"
"First my parents. Now him. It was true, the rumours are true. Cedric is, somehow, alive and well. Would you like to meet him?"
"Yes!" Amos quickly stood up, ready to go meet his son, twenty year after he died. "Wh-where is he?"
Amos gulped, because now, as he was standing outside the door of the interrogation room, he felt like fainting or throwing up. Possibly both. It was crazy. He was going to meet his son. He should be happy! But on the other side, he hadn't met his son in the last twenty years, because his son, his Cedric, his only child, died those twenty years ago. That wasn't happening everyday for everyone. Cautiously he opened the door, and before he even stepped inside, he saw the young man standing by the window, but turned around as he heard the door open.
"Dad?" Cedric carefully took a step towards his father. "Is that you?"
Amos felt his heart drop, and tears cloud his eyesight.
"Cedric?" The older man took a couple of steps towards his formerly-dead son, who nodded. "Is it really you?"
The father and son came closer and closer to each other, step by step, until they flung themselves into a hug, breaking into tears.
"Ho-how long?" Cedric choked out after a minute of silence. "How long was I gone? Everything is s-so dif-different."
"It's currently 2015, Ced." His father told him quietly. "It's been twenty years."
***
When the two Diggory's had talked through the most important things that had happened and changed since the cup, they decided to go back home.
"Y'know," Amos started. "Your mother and I never touched your room, not once in all of these years. It should be exactly the way you left it."
"But," Cedric smiled. "Perhaps a bit more dustier than then, right?"
"Yeah," Amos chuckled. "Perhaps a bit."
"Well, done now, are we?" Harry asked as he saw the two.
"Well, we were thinking of going home." Amos stayed quiet for a few seconds before continuing. "Harry, it's been a while since my last visit here at the ministry, mind showing us to the fireplaces?"
As they neared the fireplaces, Harry warned them about the age-difference Cedric's looks might get.
"We don't know how, but somehow, it probably has to do with them coming back, they are the same age as they died for about a day, so tonight or tomorrow when you wake up, Cedric will probably look like his age."
"Really? So, I'll go from seventeen to..." Cedric stopped to count.
"Thirty-eight... Wow, that's not a small difference."
"Well, imagine my parents, going from twenty one to fifty five." Cedric smiled, that was a much worse ageing. "I'm gonna go home to finally get my semester now, nice seeing you two."
"Good bye," Amos and Cedric said in union. "And thank you."
***
A couple of days later it was time for the Potters annual Christmas shopping. The Potter had this tradition, that every year on the twentieth of December, they went out and bought Christmas gifts to everyone, eating lunch somewhere in between, before eating dinner out somewhere in the muggle world. Usually they ate Chinese food or pizza. But this year was a tiny bit different, since the elder Potters were to join them.
When everyone had woken up, eaten breakfast and got dressed, they flooed to Diagon Alley and decided who were to go with who.
"So, mom, dad," Harry turned to his parents. "Anyone you want to go with? One thing, James and James can't go together."
"Aw," the both James' expressed groans. "Why not?"
"Two pranksters together here?" Ginny scoffed. "Yeah right, there's something bound to happen if you two go together. At least if you're alone." She then added.
"Fine, I'll go with little Lily." James said. "If that's okay with you?" He turned to his granddaughter.
"I'm not little." She huffed before grinning at him. "I know the perfect gift to mom and dad!"
"Perfect!" James smiled at her. "What are we waiting for? Let's go!"
And the two walked off, glancing into the shops windows, as everyone else looked after them, smiling. Well, the adults were smiling, James S and Albus just looked bored.
"Boys," Lily then turned to her grandsons. "Want to shop with me? I'm going to see if a certain store is still on the outside, if that's okay with your parents? I know you'll love it, and James perfect gift is there!"
The boys smiled and the three of them looked at Harry and Ginny to see if they were permitted to go out in the muggle world.
"With you, yeah do what you want." Ginny smiled at her. "Your husband is the one we would be unsure of."
"James, Albus, listen to her, okay? Imagine her as a mixture of your mother and Aunt 'Mione, 'cause that's what she is."
The boys eyes widened and looked up at Lily who smiled back at them, and then they began to move towards the other side, the muggle world.
"Guess it's just you and I then.." Harry turned to his wife, to see that she too was gone.
"Really?!"
***
After a couple of hours, Lily, James and the kids they were with were done with shopping for gifts. As they stood by Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour, waiting for Harry and Ginny to show up, James and Lily just stood there, looking out over Diagon Alley, being amazed by how much the little town had changed over the years.
"I'm cold, can we go inside?" James S suddenly expressed. "I'm freezing to death here."
"As much of a drama queen as his grandfather, I see," Lily muttered to herself, but nodded and the five of them went into the parlour.
"Well," Lily L exclaimed. "Why don't we buy some ice cream?"
With a grin she looked up at her grandparents, with puppy eyes, and her brothers followed her lead.
"Weren't you guys freezing to death just a minute ago?" Lily looked sceptically at the three kids. "Then you should eat some hot food, not an ice cold ice cream."
"Don't be such a buzzkill, Lils!" James shook his head at his wife. "What flavour do you prefer? Bill's on me!"
The kids laughed and began ordering their ice creams, while Lily shook her head, smiling at her husband who sheepishly grinned back at her.
"Come on Lils," he took her hand. "I know you want some. And I'm not only talking about the ice cream."
Lily gasped and hit her silly husband in the chest.
"James," She exclaimed. "There are kids around!"
James only smirked at her.
"I'll have a strawberry-vanilla ice cream, please."
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