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Category: Alternate Universe Characters:Harry/Ginny Genres: Drama Warnings: None Rating: PG-13 Reviews: 32 Summary: The night of Halloween 1981 was when everything changed, when a good man laid down his life to save a child. Now years later the Potters return to the world they had left. For Harry Potter and his family this is only the beginning... Hitcount: Story Total: 27558; Chapter Total: 2209 |
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Disclaimer: I don’t own Harry Potter Another Marauder’s Sacrifice Chapter 1: Childhood “I don’t want to go,” screamed a very red faced six-year-old Harry Potter to his parents’ who were putting clothes into a trunk as a black grim changes into a human. “You sort little prongs and little red. I will help Lily,” Sirius said taking the clothes James had in his hand as James scooped up his two oldest children, carrying them to a small rocking chair in the corner of the room, sitting them both on each knee. “We have to,” James smiled cuddling his son and daughter. He hated the fact that his three children didn’t have a normal childhood. “But why?” Harry cried. “Because when you were only little and you were in mummy’s tummy,” James said tickling his children’s sides earning two small giggles from them. “You had a wonderful uncle his name was Remus, he was protecting you from a very bad man.” “What happened to him?” Harry asked the question. “He stopped the bad man from hurting you,” James explained. “Your mummy cast a spell to protect you and Remus used his own magic to power it.” “So is the bad man still out there?” Harry inquired further looking a bit frightened. “Is that why we have to move again?” “No, he’s gone,” James told them. “But his followers are still around but your Uncle Sirius, your mother and I won’t let them hurt you.” “…Will we ever stop moving around?” little Rose asked her father. “Hopefully this will be the last time” James answered with a smile. He looked up to see Sirius was watching him talk to Harry and Rose, that’s when he saw Lily walk back into the room with their three-year-old son Evan who had his mother bright red hair a lot like Rose but Rose was the spitting double of her mother whereas Evan looked like James and Harry but of course Harry had his mother’s eyes. “Hey, do you two want to see some magic?” Sirius as pulled out his wand and pointed it at their father. “Padfoot…” James warned trying to look stern. “Wingarium Leviosa,” Sirius uttered as he waved the wand. Harry and Rose laughed as their father was lifted into the air by the spell. He laughed himself as he held onto them. That night the Potter family and Sirius Black moved out of the Boston apartment that they called home for the past six months landing outside of 12 Grimmauld Place. Albus Dumbledore had secured for them there was only a few that knew where the Potter family where and more to the point that the night of the thirty first of October James Potter didn’t die. Remus Lupin had used Polyjuice potion taking the place of his friend to save their lives but to the magical world James was dead and Lily was on the run with her only son Harry. It was hard for James and Lily to watch their children grow up while they hid away from the magical world, they could go out in muggle world because they looked like any normal family. But they made sure their children still had fun memories including the time they took a break from Grimmauld Place for Rose’s birthday to a beach in Spain. “I should be getting my letter for school, not sitting in a hotel room,” screamed Rose Potter for third time in an hour, her outburst was not helping her parents guilt. “I know dear,” James sighed trying to open the door to the room his daughter was in. He was met by a fed-up grunt; James sighed turning back to face Lily who was holding a seven-year-old Evan on her knee who looked scared of his sister’s outburst. For being a Potter he was very timed; Harry sat beside his mother holding a wrapped up present. “Can I try dad?” Harry asked getting up giving his dad a smile. “Be my guest she has a temper like your mother,” James sighed before Lily give him her best death stare. “Case and point,” he laughed sitting beside his wife as Harry went over to the door sitting down beside it. “Come on Rosy Red I have a present for you,” Harry said though the door the room stayed silent. “I’m not Rosy Red I’m eleven,” Rose responded. “What every Rosy Red,” Harry laughed all of a sudden, he’s lying flat on his back with his sister pouting at him and the laughter from his family. “Present?” Rose grabs the present pulling the paper off and dropping it on Harry face. “My wand?” All of a sudden Harry is pulled to a sitting position and his sister is hugging him. “Thank you, you’re the best.” James and Lily stared for a moment, their eyes flicking between the two of them as they hugged. Even after all these years they still had trouble trying to understand the whole dynamic between the two. Evan was straight forward and simple compared to these two when they were being utter terrors. After a few seconds of staring and wondering what just happened, they sighed and shook their heads. They would never change… “Come on I want to go the beach,” Evan said getting fed up of sitting around waiting he was promised a day at the beach with his siblings and parent instead his sister had sent a hour throwing a tantrum. It wasn’t long before they finally left the hotel and made their way down to the beach. Once they arrived Lily quickly had them laying out towels on the sand and lay down. James planted a parasol next to them and sat down beside his wife. Evan had already sat down on the sand itself and was putting sand in his plastic castle. Rose was running down to the water and quickly dived in, getting a feel for it. As for Harry… Let’s just say there was no doubt that puberty had finally hit the Boy-Who-Lived and he definitely took notice of the opposite gender. Between the women lying around and swimming in the water all wearing bikinis he didn’t know where to look. His face burned as he found himself staring at more skin than he’d ever seen before and only snapped himself out of it when Sirius”in his Animagus form”came up beside him and with a knowing look gave him a long-wet lick across the side of his face. “Ew!” he groaned as he pulled away. “Padfoot!” “Don’t blame him,” James told him with a smirk. “We’ve been trying to get your attention for the last five minutes,” his smirk widened when he saw his son’s face turn almost crimson. “Your sister is going swimming and we’d rather she not be alone, so you go with her.” “Erm okay,” Harry nodded and walked off towards the water. “Honestly that boy sometimes,” Lily sighed and shook her head. “You’re going to have to give him the talk soon.” “Hah,” James chuckled. “That’ll be fun.” The family arrived back at Grimmauld Place later that night they give Rose more presents and she blow out her candles on her cake her and Evan were now in bed, but Harry was still awake. He couldn’t get to sleep after the day he’d had especially since his mind kept going back to what he’d seen on the beach. He knew that he’d liked girls, but he hadn’t been able to pull his eyes away from them. A knock on the door caught his attention and he looked up to the sight of his father sticking his head into the room. “Hey Harry,” James said with a reassuring smile. “Had fun today?” “Erm yeah dad,” Harry nodded. “So,” James said as he closed the door behind him. He walked over to the bed and sat down. “I think its about time we had a talk.” “A talk?” Harry asked suddenly feeling both nervous and frightened. “Yes,” James nodded with a knowing look. “I know you’re getting to that age now where your body is changing and your noticing girls more.” “Oh Merlin,” Harry uttered in mounting horror as he fled beneath his bed covers. “I think I know where this is going dad, and I don’t want to hear it.” What followed was forty-five agonising minutes of extremely detailed information that his father supplied, mostly about women and what he could do with one. It pretty much boiled down to women are not objects so treat them right, don’t be forceful”unless they want you to be”and this goes there. After he was done explaining James left the room feeling both amused and sympathetic at the same time. Harry on the other hand was mortified and quickly decided that sleep was the best option to forget about it all. Idly James realised that he would have to do this all again when Evan eventually reached that age… “Please tell me you didn’t scar our son that badly,” Lily spoke up from the bed. “Oh he’ll be fine,” James waved off her concern as he got changed and climbed into bed. “Believe me, the talk I had with him was nothing compared to the one my own father gave me.” “Dare I ask?” Lily asked half-amused. “He thought it was a good idea to use transfiguration to better explain everything,” James winced at the memory. “I was twelve and I was that messed up afterwards I spent the summer holidays not able to look at anyone without my face turning red.” “The horror,” Lily said completely unsympathetic. “My own talk was basically my mother telling me to always use protection.” “I bet that was fun,” James grunted with amusement. “I could never stand those muggle bubble things you had.” “It’s better without them,” Lily said as she suddenly rolled over and straddled his waist. “Oh?” James mused as he stared up at her. Her reply was to bring her lips crashing down on his… --- The Potter family were sat around the breakfast table one morning nearing the end of October of 1994 when an owl arrived at the kitchen window it was very rare that the family got post, and it only ever brought news from Albus Dumbledore. Lily got up to receive the letter from the owl’s beak it had her name write across the front. “I wonder what Dumbledore wants,” James said watching his wife sit back at the table opening the letter his face paled as she read thought the letter. “What is it?” he stood up walking behind the chair she sat on readding the letter over her. “Harry, can you take you brother and sister into another room,” Harry could see the pale look on his mother’s face, so he didn’t argue he stood up leading his sibling out of the kitchen into the living room. Back in the kitchen Lily still seem shocked “I’m sorry Lil,” James said picked her up putting her on his knee tears slowly slipping down her face. “I can’t believe they have killed my sister too,” Lily cried as James pulled her into him. “I know Petunia didn’t like me, but she was still my sister but her and Vernon didn’t deserve to be killed the same way my parents did at the hands of Death Eaters.” “What do you want to do?” James asked a while after Lily had calmed down. “I want my children; will you tell Harry and Rose? Also send Evan in here,” Lily answered as she stood up from James’s knee to allow him up. He disappeared into the living room; she knew she couldn’t tell her nine year old what had happened. It would scare him; Lily heard the sound of feet come running in and straight into his mothers’ arms. Ten minutes later Harry and Rose came in followed by James they all gathered around the seat Lily sat on hugging her. “We love you mum,” Evan said as a lone tear ran down Lilys face. --- It was midway through December of 1994 when James Potter in a burst of genius”or insanity”decided to take his two sons out shopping in the middle of Muggle London. Christmas shoppers were everywhere and yet despite it all, James still thought it was a good idea to go to a shopping centre. There was one place in particular he wanted to go to and his only regret was that Sirius wasn’t here with them. It was time to educate his sons on the wonders of pranks… “Dad, where are we going?” Harry asked the question after quite a bit of walking. “Just a little further,” James replied as he pointed forward. “It’s just up ahead.” “This better be worth it,” Evan grumbled. It wasn’t long before they were standing in front of weird shop with clowns of all things standing outside. Personally, Harry was a bit creeped out by them and that was before he realised that he couldn’t tell if they were real or not. Evan on the other hand ignored the clowns entirely and walked right on into the shop. James chuckled to himself as he followed his youngest son inside. Once inside Evan could do nothing but stare at the muggle prank items on display ranging from guns that shot a piece of paper out of its end with the word ‘bang’ written on it to the classic woopy cushion itself. “This is wizard,” Evan grinned widely as he looked over the stuff they had. “What do you think?” James asked the question. “This place is great,” Evan answered as he ran off down one of the aisles. As for Harry… “…This is going to be a long day,” Harry sighed as he followed his brother deeper into the shop. It was a little over an hour later by the time they finally left the shop and Evan was struggling to carry all the things he’d bought. Harry on the other hand hadn’t gotten anything since there had been nothing there that he fancied getting for himself. After another few hours’ shopping”in which Harry bought a couple of football books”they finally Apparated back to Grimmauld Place and made their way into living room. A couple of hours later Evan had showed his mum and sister everything he had got at the muggle joke shop. “EVAN SIRIUS POTTER!!!!” Lilly shouted thought the house after she sat on a chair to be meet with sound of a woopy cushion and Evan, James and Sirius laughing. “The Marauders have been reborn,” Sirius cheered. --- It was around noon when Sirius Black made his way through the Diagon Alley towards Gringotts Bank, his disillusionment charm keeping him from being recognized. Earlier that morning as he was eating breakfast with the Potters, a lone owl had delivered a letter from the notorious goblin bankers of Gringotts. Wildfang wanted to see him and hadn’t told him anything in the letter. It must be serious then… He entered through the main doors and walked towards one of the tellers. “Hello, could I speak with Account Manager Wildfang?” he inquired. “Name?” the goblin asked back. “Sirius Black,” he replied quietly. “…Follow me,” the goblin said after a minute and stood up. Sirius followed him into a side room away from the main entrance, making sure he wasn’t spotted by passing wizards or witches. Once inside the goblins motioned for him to take a seat on the chair in front of a small desk, one that was familiar to the dark-haired wizard. It wasn’t long before Wildfang arrived and sat down, looking as unimpressed as ever. Sirius personally never liked dealing with goblins but he couldn’t deny that Wildfang was professional if nothing else. “Sirius Black,” Wildfang began with a gruff. “I’ll get straight to the point, you’re an idiot.” Blunt as always… “Dare I ask why you think that?” Sirius groaned as he leaned back in his chair. “It’s been years, you old garden gnome and you still think that?” “This time its true,” Wildfang shot back and slapped down a folder in front of him. “Take a look.” Sirius blinked in confusion as he took the folder and opened it. Inside was series of bank statements and a wizarding photo, showing a little newborn baby. There was a line of words attached to the top of the folder, one that he had to check twice to make sure he wasn’t seeing things. It read ‘Heiress of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Black’ and above it were the names Sirius Black and Catherine Jones. “…Is this a joke?” Sirius asked the question. “I wish,” Wildfang gritted out. “The paperwork I woke up to this morning seemed to have doubled overnight. Though I suppose congratulations are in order Lord Black, it’s a girl.” “I have a daughter…” Sirius trailed off in shock. “How? When?” “I’m sure you know damn well how,” Wildfang shot back with a glare. “Gringotts was contacted by St Mungos last night after one of their patients died in childbirth, a Muggleborn witch by the name of Catherine Jones. She didn’t even get a chance to name the baby but tests done later were able to identify the father”that’s you”and since they couldn’t find you they came to us. Now her name is on our accounts and the number of documents I have to go through every day has increased.” “I have a daughter…” Sirius repeated as his mind seemed to be stuck in a loop. “Black,” Wildfang hissed snapping him out of it. “I have files to sort so the sooner you go and pick up your new offspring, the soon you can fill out the rest of her folder! I have work to do and the longer you stall, the longer it’ll take me.” “Right”yes”I’m going,” Sirius stammered unsure what to say or do. He left the room and made his way back outside, absently casting a notice-me-not charm and disappearing into the crowd. After walking for a bit he Apparated back to Grimmauld Place and entered the house. Sirius couldn’t believe that he had a daughter, but Wildfang wouldn’t have contacted him if he wasn’t certain. He needed to talk to James and Lily before going to St Mungos, for advice if nothing else. She didn’t even have a name yet… Arriving back with a pop James and Lily where still sat where they were s when he left, he sat down with a thump caused the two to look at him. “What did they want?” James asked but Sirius didn’t answer James and Lily shared a look. “Sirius what happened?” Lily asked. “I have a ….” Sirius trailed off not still believing it “You have what?” James asked growing more confused by his best friend. “A daughter,” Sirius half whispered James and Lily looked at him then at each other. “Did you just say daughter?” Lily screeched. “How old is she? Did this happen during school?” James asked but got no reply. “Where is she?” again Sirius didn’t answer just stared forward. “Answer us you scruffy mutt!” Lily shouted bring Sirius back to them. “In St Mungos and newborn,” Sirius answered finally. “Her mother Is dead,” “Sirius what happened?” Lily asked not believing her ears. “Do you remember Catherine Jones from school,” Sirius said. “Yeah, blonde year below us big …,” James trailed under stare of his wife. “Yeah, that’s the one,” Sirius replied slowly still not really making. “Why haven’t you gone to get her yet?” Lily asked still very much confused. “You are going to get her Sirius, aren’t you?” “Yes of course, she doesn’t even have a name,” Sirius said they had never seen Sirius Black so silent. “Well go,” Lily shout before Sirius stood and with a pop he was gone. Lily looked at her husband in amazement. “I didn’t think your best friend could be any more of a idiot but there you go,” “He is a good man, but he has his faults you know him Lil,” James said with his head in his hands. “I know we will help him,” Lily said putting her hand on her husband’s back. A couple of hours later Sirius arrived back with a bundle in his arms James and Lily jump up as soon as he arrives as their children watch on Sirius had a wide smile as he handed Lily the baby to Lily, James could see his friends’ hands shaking pulling his friend into a hug as Lily stared down at the sleepy baby. “She’s gorgeous Sirius,” Lily said with a smile. “What am I going to do?” Sirius questioned still looking shook up. “Name her,” James pointed out. “I don’t have any ideas,” Sirius said by this point Lily had sat down so her children could look at the new baby. “Theodora,” Evan said out of nowhere. “That’s a pretty name,” Roses commented running her finger over the baby’s hand. “Theodora Catherine Black,” Sirius said. It looked like their weird little family had just expanded… |
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