A/N : Hey guys so this is my first attempt at Fanfiction so save me some flame but do give me creative suggestions. Now i don't have a Beta yet so forgive me if you notice some mistakes and if anyone among you would care to spend some time to beta my story in future PM

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23rd December 1979

Office of The Headmaster, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was sitting in his office on the Throne like chair behind his grand desk. His brow furrowed thinking about the recent turn of events in The Wizarding War. His mind wandered back to the shocking discovery of 11th December. Who knew that a normal interview for a new teacher for Divination an art Dumbledore himself wasn't to fond of will turn out to be so interesting...

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..." was the prophecy made by Sybill Patricia Trelawney.

To say Albus Dumbledore was shell shocked would be a worthy contender for the understatement of century. If this prophecy was to be believed a baby was supposed to be born by end of July and he shall be marked by the Dark Lord as his equal and he would wield the power to end Voldemort... the power he knows not. What could this power be. But then again what was meant by "Neither can live while the other survives" This part needed to be given more thought. Whatever the case was Headmaster of Hogwarts was sure of two things first that this prophecy was true. He could tell that by grogy voice that feels like hundred speaking as one, that hollow eyes. And 2nd whichever family this child was blessed to was whether in The Order or close allies to The Order. That would certainly make controlling the child of prophecy much easier and control he must. According to the prophecy the child is supposed to have unrivaled power... such power can't go unchecked, For the Greater Good.

31st October 1981

Godric's Hollow

A dark hooded figure appeared out of thin air in a side alley of Godric's Hollow. His skin was so chalk white it seemed like street lights were reflecting off him. His eyes were vivid red color and his face reassembled that more of a snake than a man. Then a smirk crept on his lipless face. How fool one could be. A few months back it would have taken him The most feared Dark Lord hours to break through Impenetrable wards of Potter Manor, giving his targets ample time to run with there lives. But now they have given there trust to an old fool by abandoning the Manor to live under a feeble Fidelius Charm. Since Severus has informed him with the prophecy of his own downfall and Wormtail had confirmed his suspicions that Potter child could be the child of prophecy he had spent days about thinking how to penetrate Potter War wards. But with recent developments it looked like fate itself wanted to help him.

With long and confident strides he walked towards the building where he knew his target was located. Since Wormtail has already disclosed the secret of the house it was clear as day. With a flick of his wand he checked for some additional wards. Even though Wormtail has informed him that it was just the Fidelius charm and some basic alert wards Dark Lord was no fool Gryffindor to rush in without checking. All he found was a mere alert ward. Pathetic how idiot can Dumbledore be. But then again the old coot always believes in the best of people. He never would have thought Wormtail is a mole in group.

He left the alert ward, he wanted them to be scared and beg for his mercy before he killed there child. He wanted to kill the whole family, but alas Severus Snape one of his most trusted has requested him to spare Lily Potter. Apparently he wanted the filthy mudblood as his plaything. But he would make sure to take great joy at killing James Potter and his son.

The Dark Lord mind went to the family history he was about to erase. The Potters were one of the oldest pureblood families in the world. He knew that should there be a boy who was destined to defeat him, it would be from them as they were the only one who could claim a direct blood relation with Godric Griffindor, Slytherin's biggest enemy. That was the reason he had come personally to kill them.

But didn't need to worry. He had sent Bellatrix Lestrange one of his most faithful and ruthless to end the Longbottoms. Surprisingly, his informants have reported that Longbottoms were not foolish enough to follow Dumbledore's idiocy and have stayed in there heavy warded manor. But Bellatrix can take care of that. Now he had a task to complete. With a flick of his wand the gate of courtyard swung open and he walked in. With another flick the front door of the cottage blasted off its hinges. Time to eliminate the threat to his immortality... was the last thought before he walked inside.

Lily Potter sat in family room of the Potter Cottage in Godric's Hollow watching James play with fifteen month old Harry. Wind passed through window pane making a thud sound. Lily head snapped towards the sound when she noticed it was just the wind. Lily's paranoia was of different level since past few weeks. Neither James nor Lily wanted to leave Potter Manor in favour of Godric's Hollow not because the cottage was cramped compared to Potter Manor. Just because they didn't feel safe here. They wouldn't have even shifted here, if it wasn't for the death of James's parents Charlus and Dorea. James has still not come to terms with the loss of his parents. In total honesty she knew how he felt after all, now they only have each other and Harry. She was brought out of her trance by voice of James.

"Do you wanna fly around on your broom Harry??" asked James ploping Harry in his lap and started tickling him.

"Yay flyyy" said Harry with a happy gleam in his eyes. All of a sudden Lily found words coming out of her mouth in a automated way.

"No! Absolutely not! It's too late to be flying James." interjected Lily her eyes narrowing on her husband.

"Mama! Brum!" said Harry, giggling at his mother's angry face. James grinned and said, "Oh, come on Lily. He is a natural flier! Didn't you see how he flew around the manor the last time?"

Lily glared at her husband "Yes I did see him flying last time and I also know he is a natural. But I only agreed because we were at manor not here and I don't feel safe enough here."

James gave Lily a soft kiss and enveloped her in a deep embrace. "Neither do I Lily. Even though Fidelius Charm is a brilliant idea. I hate the fact of it being our only layer of defense. But we have taken all the precautions we could. Dark Lord and his band of Cattles will never find us here."

'Only if we could cast Fidelius on Manor' thought Lily with an internal grimace. This was one other thing that nagged her to no end. How Dumbledore one of the Greatest Wizard ever lived after Merlin lacked the magical power to cast Fidelius Charm on the Manor?. She knew Potter Manor was on the larger end of spectrum but Dumbledore could easily have cast the charm on manor. And for the love of Merlin she couldn't figure out why he didn't.

She was once again brought out of her stupor by James wrapping his arms around her waist pulling her into his lap. "Don't worry Lils even if push comes to shove we have our plans made."

Lily faces suddenly darkened, she leveled James with a cold glare and he gulped. She breathed a calming breath. Tears pooled in her beautiful green eyes "If I lose you. I don't know what I will do, I lost my parents, I died for Petunia years ago. You and Harry are the only ones I have." she whispered crying softly in his chest.

"I know how you feel. I also have no one else other than you and Harry, but both of your safety is my first priority." he said in soothing calm voice rubbing her back. "But don't worry Lily everything will.."

James stiffened in mid sentence someone has crossed Fidelius line and it had told him, it was not someone they knew. A million thoughts crossed his mind but the most prominent thought was, Why? Why did peter betray them ??. But he buried those thoughts deep in his mind. For now he needed to protect his family.

"Lily he is here we have been betrayed." said James in a urgent tone removing his wife from his lap. "Take Harry and leave. I will delay him as long as I can. I will blow up the ward stone so don't come back."

"No" said Lily in a defiant voice shaking her head angrily. "I will not leave you here to die alone. I am going to power up the rune enchantment on Harry's crib. I love you!" said Lily in a manner that left no room for arguments. With that Lily raced upstairs towards the nursery.

James knew wrangling with Lily was not going to be successful. So he started to cast spells on main door and trap door in floor which held the rune stone. Then he picked his Two way communication mirror and said "Padfoot". Once the face of Sirius Black appeared on the mirror he spoke "Padfoot he is here, the rat has sold us out." with a look of disgust. All James wanted to do right now was to find Peter Pettigrew and tear him limb by limb.

Sirius face shuffled from different expressions within one second. From shock to anger to determination. "Don't worry Prongs. I am-"

Before Sirius could complete his sentence the door blasted open. James snarled If only Lily had agreed to his plan. He would blast the brains out of the snake faced bastard standing in front of him. To be honest he should have thought about it. Lily never agreed to his plan. She just didn't voice her disconcern until last second. But now it didn't matter. He would not let anyone walk all over his family.

"Ahh, James Potter, How lovely to see you again. Now step away I am here for your son and Mudblood whore you call wife. You don't need to die today." drawled Voldemort in a mockingly silky voice.

"Indeed we meet again Voldemort. But if you thought I will just let you slaughter my family. Then you must have forgotten I am a Potter. And we never back away from a fight."

Without taking another breath, James started throwing curse after curse at Dark Lord. Voldemort started laughing hysterically as he batted away every curse James sent his way. While James was one of the best aurors currently working in Ministry. He was hardly any match for Dark Lord.

Dark Lord laughed at the pitiful attempt James Potter was making. Though it was fun to watch the man try to overpower him, he was here for a task to complete. Then something caught his eye. A feint glow in wooden floor near him as if it was absorbing residual magic... Then it clicked in his mind. Potter was going to blow this room. He mentally snorted at the idea. With that Voldemort sent a killing curse followed by dark blasting curse at his opponent. Then he turned towards the glow in the floor and erected at full body shield.

Voldemort didn't notice the thick stone wall conjured by James which in contact of the killing curse was blown up in pieces impacting James right on head. James unconscious body fell in heap on floor, getting covered by different layers of debris caused by the blasting curse and rune stone explosion. After dust settled down. Voldemort cancelled the full body shield and looked around. He laughed menacingly when his eyes rested on a heap on the floor. He knew somewhere in this heap of debris is the body of one of Dumbledore's strongest and most loyal supporter and last of the muddied line of Gryffindor.

While the confrontation between James and Voldemort was going on. Lily had rushed to nursery with Harry. Placing her child in the crib she turned towards the door, flicked her wrist summoning her wand to cast the strongest locking and silencing charm she knew on door. It wasn't meant to stop Voldemort it was meant to stop the sound of ritual she was going to perform to go outside of room. She turned towards the crib and knelt down.

"Harry Mama loves you, Dada and Mama both love you so much. Don't you ever lose hope, you are very strong and powerful." Then the house shook with the shockwave of an explosion. She knew it had to be the Rune Stone but the sound was followed a menacing laugh of Voldemort. At that moment she thought that she would collapse down in grief. If Voldemort was alive it meant James had ...

She didn't even complete the thought. Her priority was to save Harry. And if everything went according to plan she would join James in few moments. She only hoped there friends would raise Harry with love and care.

With that she tapped her wand on headboard of the crib and powered upp the Runic arrays she had drawn some time ago, followed by the rune on her wrist. She was going to sacrifice herself to provide Harry with protection that would never allow Voldemort magic to touch him. If she was going to die she would kill Voldemort too.

Just as she stood up the door was blasted open. She turned around with hatred and defiance glowing in her emerald green eyes.

"No! Not my son." she hissed in an angry tone as the Snake faced man entered the room. "You have to kill me first."

"Step aside women. As tempting it may be to kill you. I have promised one my most loyal, that I will spare you and let him keep you as his play thing." said Voldemort. It was true he had promised Severus that he would spare the mudblood. He already killed James Potter so, giving Lily Potter as a reward was least he could do. After all it was Severus who brought him the prophecy. With that he flicked his wand letting loose a scarlet stunner.

Lily froze upon seeing the scarlet coloured spell. He was not going to kill her. She was being spared so one of the inner circle death eaters could have her. But most of all if she wasn't going to be killed the sacrificial ritual will not be effective. 'Harry' was last thought she had before the stunner hit her and she fell with a thud on floor.

Voldemort eyes moved from the women lying on the floor to the baby sitting in crib tear tracks evident on his face. And then he felt it...the magic surrounding him. It was so radiant and storng to feel. It was clear that magic was resonating from the boy, but what astonished him more was that the boy wasn't crying anymore. Instead his eyes were glowing the same color of the killing curse. Anger and hatred apparent in them.

At that moment if anyone had said that Harry Potter was just another normal child he would crucioed them to death. He knew it, he felt it, Harry Potter was the child of prophecy.

"I can sense the magic in you Harry Potter. Your eyes radiate it. Such power for one so young is outlandish. Your ancestors would be proud." Voldemort snorted at the irony of the Purebloods. They spout there magical Supremacy over Half-Bloods and Muggleborns. Yet two most powerful wizards in world are Half-Blood and if allowed to live Harry Potter would certainly over power Dumbledore and would be very close to overpowering him only if he didn't have gone through all those ritual to increase his magical strength.

"You would have been a very powerful sorcerer Harry Potter. But sadly you are destined to kill me. And I am destined to be immortal. So get ready to die."

"AVADA KEDAVRA" roared Voldemort and smiled softly as the green light of the killing curse raced towards the boy. But when the light hit his forehead instead of falling lifeless as the other victims of the Killing curse. The light rebounded towards him. Voldemort froze he knew he wouldn't die but how did the boy reflected the killing curse. No one in known history ever has even been able stop the Killing Curse let alone reflect it.

Before he could think any further the curse struck him square in chest. Only thing Voldemort knew at the moment was PAIN. So much pain. Pain like he never experienced before. It felt like his soul was ripping in pieces, he knew he wouldn't die but his body was destroyed. He fled the house. He had failed. He was furious. He knew that very soon his most faithful will find him. The first thing he would do after getting a new body was to kill Harry Potter.

Peter Pettigrew was anything but a brave man. How he got sorted into Gryffindor was a mystery to himself. Even all the time in school his so called friends treated him more as Henchmen than as a friend. Even when Marauders would pull some massive prank credit was distributed among Remus James and Sirius. Did he get any opportunities to gain fame and make a name for himself?NO!.

He was always shadow of other three. So when Barty Crouch Jr. approached him to be a mole in The Order. He was more than happy to oblige. After all at the rate order members were dying it was clear that Voldemort will rule Magical Britain within a year or so. He thought he would be respected among death eaters but no there also everyone treated him as trash. So when the opportunity presented it self to rise among the ranks he quickly grabbed it. As soon as he knew Dark lord was searching frantically for Potters he knew it was his chance. So he lead him to the Potters himself.

Then a sound of explosion came from the building in which his Master was eliminating his once bestfriend. The sound was followed by the laugh of his master so he relaxed. After a minute or so another explosion came from second floor where he knew Harry's nursery was. But what followed the explosion wasn't the laugh he expected but a scream of his master.

Peter stilled. What happened?? Did his master fail? But How was it possible???

Without wasting another moment he transformed in his animagus form and made his way to the house. The living room was collapsed. He knew his old friend was already dead and somewhere in rubble. So he made way upstairs to the nursery. What he saw there was what gripped his bones in fear.

Dark Lord's cloak and wand was on ground a few feet from body of Lily Potter. Then he noticed it. The feint breathing from Lily's body. He knew if he let her live it will cause problems for him in future. So he took out his wand and pointed at Lily's limp form with curse on his tongue. But then he saw light crackling in his peripheral vision. He turned towards the crib holding Harry Potter. He froze in fear. Harry's eyes were glowing a scary green, magic crackling from his outstretched tiny hands. Before Peter could react a wave of magic hit him square on chest and threw him against the wall, breaking it and Peter landed in master bedroom with a very loud thud in an unconscious heap.

James's eyes fluttered open, his head pounding as if someone has whacked him straight in head with a Beater's bat. His vision was blurry but he noticed that someone was offering him his glasses. He took the glasses and put it back on his face. The first thing he saw was the face of one Sirius Black his brother in everything but blood.

"Prongs thank Merlin you are fine what happened. Where are Lily and Harry?" said Sirius his face has returned some colour after seeing his bestfriend alive.

"Lily" gasped James and with that realization of what happened in last twenty minutes crashed on him like a muggle vehicle. His eyes brimmed with tears at the thought of his possibly dead wife. He tried to get on his feet and dash upstairs towards nursery. But his legs gave upp and he was about to collapse but Sirius grabbed him.

Without wasting another breath James and Sirius made there way upstairs to the nursery. Seeing Lily laying still there made James's knee feel hollow. He fell down near the love of his life wrapping her tightly in hjs arms. Then to his immense joy she breathed lightly. Then it dawned on him that she was just stunned. His shoulders sagged with relief.

Sirius also noticed Lily's breath and cast a quick Ennervate on her. Lily opened her eyes and looked up.

"James are you fine? Where is-?" asked a confused Lily

"HARRY" shouted Lily and James in unison both of there eyes snapping up towards the crib where Sirius was holding a sleeping Harry in his arms.

"He is fine. Sleeping but fine. But there is red lighting shape scar on his forehead." said Sirius as he handed Harry into Lily's arms. His brows furrowed at the scar.

Lily ran various diagnostic spell on Harry. Her forehead creased as she started to chant in Latin, when the chant completed she gasped.

"He was hit with the killing curse." Lily squeaked. "It is Dark Lord residual magic. I have seen it at Department of Mysteries before."

"Lily what are you saying how is that possible...How did Harry survive? Even the ritual wasn't complete." asked a shocked James hesitancy evident in voice, his face an epitome of disbelief. Sirius nodded his head in agreement too shocked to say anything.

Instead of explaining further Lily rapidly stood up. "Explanation can wait James. Even I don't know what happened here. But I do know this place reeks of dark magic and I want to get out of here right now." said Lily in a demanding voice.

Sirius in the meantime started looking around. He noticed the huge hole blown in adjacent wall towards master bedroom. He saw a body stirring in the other room. He quickly drew his wand and walked in the room. The person that lay in front of him made his blood boil, his face was a mixture of anger, betrayal and hurt. He wanted to kill the rat right now but he reigned in his anger. He shot a overpowered stunner which stopped the stirring and followed that with full body bind spell.

"Prongs, Lily come upp here right now." Sirius called out his voice carrying rare tone of urgency and seriousness.

James and Lily made there way to the master bedroom. The moment James saw Pettigrew his anger got better of him. He lunged towards the treacherous man he once called his friend. But Sirius managed to hold him back.

"James, Stop!" Lily reprimanded him. "The aurors will-" she was stopped by a large rumble of sound that came from now destroyed sitting room.

All three adults suddenly went in 'Up and alert' mode with there wands in there hands. With James and Sirius covering Lily behind them they moved downstairs with most lethal of curses they knew right on there lips only to relax when they saw the friendly face of Hagrid.

"Hagrid what are you doing here?" asked James his voice laced with incredulity. Hagrid was not told the secret of the location of Potter cottage so it was clear that someone had told him after wards fell. James could only think one person who would do so.

The half-giant looked at the people in the room and stopped in shock. He looked like he wasn't able to believe his eyes as he said, "James, Lily! Yeh guys are okay! I though' yeh were dead!"

"Your concern is appreciated, Hagrid" said James carefully. "But again, what are you doing here?"

"Professo' Dumbledore asked meh to bring Harry to yeh sister's, Lily. We though' you were dead!" said Hagrid.

"YOU WHAT?" shouted Lily enraged at the thought of what would happen to her child if he was sent to Petunia. She noticed Harry had woken up and started crying so she gave him to Sirius. Lily went forward and snarled, "You were going to take my baby to Petunia? Who gave you the authority to do so?"

Hagrid looked confused. "Professo' Dumbledore said to bring them there immediately. He said the boys would beh sent there to live with your sister's family." said Hagrid taking a step towards Harry.

"EXCUSE ME?" screamed James, Lily and Sirius at the same time. "My child live with those magic hating bigots? What is Dumbledore thinking?" roared Lily. "Our Will says that they should never be taken anywhere near them!"

"How did Dumbledore assume that you both were dead and Harry survived in first place??" asked Sirius angrily his face a mask of rage. "And Why pray tell Dumbledore think Harry has to live with those spiteful people while I and Amelia are his Magic Sworn Godparents."

"B-but yeh betrayed them!" said Hagird angrily. "Yeh were their secret keeper, Dumbledore said so!"

"Peter Pettigrew was our secret keeper!" yelled Lily, her green eyes blazing with fury. "Dumbledore knew that as he was the one to put up the Fidelius charm. Just what he is playing at? GET OUT! Tell Dumbledore to come talk to us himself then! My child isn't leaving my sight!"

A scared and confused Hagrid quickly made his way out of cottage. James was now trying to calm Harry. Then he had a good look at the angry blood red lightning shaped scar on his son's forehead. He pointed his wand at it and tried some healing spell but to no avail. James frowned there was something wrong with the scar he could feel it. "We will need this to get looked at by Unspeakables." said Lily softly when she noticed James gazing at the scar.

Lily cast sleeping charms on Harry. Just as they were about to leave, a hook nosed man in black robes entered the house. James' eyes went wide when he saw the man.

"YOU!" he shouted in anger. "What the hell are you doing here, Snape?"

Snape stood slack jawed as he looked at the people in front of him. While he had wanted Lily to live so that he could have her for himself, he had expected the Dark Lord to have killed James Potter and his spawn. What had happened? He was curious, but he knew that this was not the place to be, if the furious expressions on their faces were any indication. He immediately ran out of the cottage.

As Lily saw the retreating form of his once bestfriend something clicked in her mind. Now she knew which Inner circle member has requested Dark Lord to spare her in hopes of having her as a plaything. Her blood boiled at the thought but she knew this was not the best moment to discuss such topics.

Sirius immediately took out his two way communication mirror and said "Amelia Bones".

As the face of his long time fiancee and soon to be wife Head auror appeared in the mirror Sirius opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by Amelia.

"Sirius where are you? what happened?" asked Amelia her usual intimidating Head Auror tone was replaced by a worried and frantic. tone.

"Amy, James and Lily are both fine as is Harry" said Sirius, making the woman sigh in relief. "But Dumbledore is playing some dodgy games here. Voldemort seems to have disappeared somehow. Peter Pettigrew, the secret keeper is stunned and bound here. I need you to bring aurors about this so that they can come here and take care of him."

"Sirius aurors are already on there way. Crouch is leading them himself but they are there with orders to arrest you -" before she could give any further explanation she was cut of by James.

"WHAT?WHY?" shouted James. The craziness of night finally cracking on his nerves.

"Apparently Dumbledore has informed Minister Bagnold about the attack and that Sirius was the secret keeper." she sighed and continued "Sirius stay right there for now as staying with James gives you chance to avoid arrest. And present Crouch with Pettigrew as soon as he arrives." with that Amelia closed the connection.

"What the bloody hell is Albus doing?" growled James. He for Merlin sake couldn't bring his mind on why Albus Dumbledore was acting so strange. He was brought out of his train of thoughts by Sirius.

"How convenient" spoke Sirius in low but menacing tone. "He believed for whatever reason that you both were dead and Harry was alive. So by accusing me for betraying Potters he could prevent me from having Harry's custody. Meanwhile he would place Harry at Petunia's home away from wizarding world. Where no one would find him. He wanted to control Harry. But why is he and even Voldemort suddenly have developed so much interest in Harry and to a extent Neville." Sirius finished with a deep breath.

"That theory does have merit Sirius. And about why there are something that we haven't told you yet. But no more I promise after tonight ordeal is over we will share everything." said Lily before they turned towards the door hearing several pops of apparition.

Then entered a force of 8 Battle ready aurors lead by Director of Magical Law Enforcement Bartemius "Barty" Crouch Senior. Crouch was a stong and confident looking man with and Aristocratic face with Mousey White hair and moustache with a suitable attire for his station. Crouch opened his mouth the speak but was cut off by James.

"My Apologies for interupting you Director Crouch but you have been misled by letting believe that Sirius Black sold us to Voldemort. The real betrayer is upstairs in master bedroom stunned and bound. Be careful with him. He is an animagus rat."

Crouch frowned but nodded and sent two men upstairs to check on Pettigrew and two Unspeakable to check the left over residual magic. Few moments later one of the Auror came down with Pettigrew levitating behind him.

Crouch opened his mouth again to speak but then an Unspeakable came rushing down the stairs and spoke without asking for permission. "Sir, It is clearly Dark lord's magical signature. We can detect two Killing curse, 1 Dark Blasting curse and 1 stunner. But sir there is also a second signature up in nursery. A very strong one but doesn't belong either to Lady Potter or Pettigrew. But sir it is clear whatever the spell was it deflected the killing curse back at dark lord destroying his body. We found Dark Lord's wand and his cloak as evidence."

James wanting his child to be no where near this mess said "Director, will it be ok for my wife and son to go back to Potter Manor. We all had a pretty rough night." said James hoping that he could get Harry out of here before Dumbledore arrives.

Crouch looked towards them and appeared to be in deep thought for a while and then he spoke "Lord Potter I quite agree with fact that your family had a rough night. But you need to understand that this is not a normal attack on someone its something more complicated. Dark Lord vanished, How we don't know yet. So yes your wife surely can go home but she has to submit her memories along with yours and Lord Black's recollection of night too and we will draw out Pettigrew's memories in holding cell."

James wanted to respond in negative to his request but when he looked at Lily he saw her shake her head in NO slightly. James sighed it was true he cannot escape from the repercussions this night

"We will cooperate director. But I and Lord Black want to be there when you review those memories." said James in a Matter-of-fact voice.

"That is entirely acceptable Lord Potter." with that one of the auror took out memory fials and James, Lily and Sirius tapped there forehead with there wands and drew the required memory out. Lily paid special attention to omit the part of sacrificial magic ritual as sacrificial magic is a part of magic that is not easily accepted in wizarding world.

With that Lily flooed to the Manor, As soon as she steped in manor. She called for her head house elf Milly.

"Milly take Harry to master bedroom and put him on bed and keep a eye on him. If he wakes up inform me at once." without waiting for elf's reply she raced towards the dungeon of the manor where Ward room was located. Once she reached the door of the ward room she layed her hand over the door. The door recognized her magic and swung open. Inside was huge ward stone shimmering a brilliant shade of gold. She layed her hand on the stone and intended the Manor to be under complete lockdown with all offensive wards upp and running for maximum effect.

Lily then grabbed the tome that was kept above the ward stone. The tome contained the list of people that were keyed into the wards. She took the blood quill and crossed the names of Peter Pettigrew, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Rubeus Hagrid and all the other members of Order of The Pheonix.

She highly doubted that Dumbledore would try to send someone from Order here but right now she couldn't be any less protective.

Lily made her way to the master bedroom of the manor and laid beside her son. She thought about all the decisions that lead to the event of tonight. Silently Lily started crying. Why did she leave the manor on Dumbledore suggestions? Why did she believe that Peter was better option for secret keeper? She collected herself and ran some obscure detection spells on Harry that only Unspeakables knew off. She gasped when she saw the results and started sobbing

"I am so sorry Harry. We weren't able to keep you safe enough." said Lily between her sob.

Albus Dumbledore rushed toward the chamber of Minister of Magic. He was informed by Minister Bangnold that they were going to verify the memories of the happenings at Potter Cottage. He was quite happy with the idea. After the way Hagrid was rebuked at Godric's Hollow, he really doubted that Lily and James would want to cooperate for a while.

His mind wandered back to his plan. It was perfect. He knew the contingency plan of Potters by sending light Legilimency probes in James's mind. While Lily's occlumency mindscape was tough as a diamond and nigh impossible to break in without alerting her. James's occlumency shields were not as formidable as hers while they were also tough. Dumbledore wasn't a natural Legilimens for nothing. And that was the reason that when he figured out Peter was going to betray Potters to Voldemort he stayed silent and let it play.

He had hoped that Voldemort would vanish by Lily's sacrifice. And with Potters dead he only needed to remove Sirius Black from board and he would have undeniable control over Harry Potter. Yes there were other families who were close to Potters and included in the hierarchy of guardianship but within one night none of them could do anything.

He wanted Harry to grow up at 4 Privet Drive with his aunt's family without knowledge of magic. So when he would come to Hogwarts at 11 he would be easy to control. But alas that wasn't going to happen.

He really wondered how Voldemort was destroyed without Lily's death. But he was going to get his answers. And with that he pushed open the door of Minister's chamber. Inside there were 6 peoples ready with a penseive clearly waiting for his arrival. Minister Bagnold was sitting in her regal looking chair behind her desk. On the seats in towards the left of her desk were siting Head of DMLE Barty Crouch Sr, Head of Department of Mysteries Unspeakable Saul Croaker and Head Auror Amelia Bones. On the guests seats in front of her desk were sitting James Potter and Sirius Black.

When he walked towards the the group of people all them stood up and looked towards him. All of there faces in a pensive expression clearly deep in thought. Except James, whose face was a mask of fury. Dumbledore knew towards whom his fury would be directed but he would try repair there situation as much as possible.

"Thank you for coming on this short notice Chief Warlock. I hope there wasn't much trouble." said Minister Bagnold. By hearing the use of his Wizengamot title he knew there must have a debate to whether to call him on this review or not.

"Ahh, It wasn't much of a problem Minister after all we all have our parts to play." said Dumbledore in a calm voice. "James" continued Dumbledore with a smile on his and twinkle in his eyes. "You can't possibly know how glad I am to see you are alright. Where are Lily and Harry?"

"Away from your grasp." James snarled his eyes showing the fury he felt. "Just who do you think you are in trying to take our child and place him with Petunia?"

Albus paused. This question wasn't a good one to answer. The truth was that he wanted to keep the child of prophecy safe and ensure that he came to Hogwarts as a child with no idea about his past and Wizarding world. Not like trained young fighter Potters mostly arrived. He didn't know what was the unknown power within the child of the prophecy and he wanted to keep a close eye on him. He knew the boy would have suffered had he placed them there, but it was for the greater good. At least the boy would be safe from the Death Eaters once he erected a strong blood ward. After all, His protection was the biggest priority right now.

"I thought it was a perfect decision, James" said Dumbledore. "I wanted to keep the Harry safe and Lily's sister was the perfect person for it."

"Except I mentioned specifically in my will that Harry was never to go there!" said James angrily. "She and her fat husband are magic hating bigots, Albus! My boy would have been abused by them! If you were so concerned for his safety, why didn't you give him to Harry's godmother? You should have taken him to Longbottom Manor or The Greengrass state as was stated in our will! If not for them, Sirius is Harry's oath sworn godfather. Why didn't you contact him? Speaking of which, We found that you told Hagrid and Minister that Sirius was our secret keeper. Care to explain?"

Albus thought furiously and replied, "A slip of the tongue, James" he said with a smile. "I meant to say Peter, but in my shock and grief, I said that it was Sirius. My apologies. Now, do you mind telling me what happened?"

"That was the original reason we gathered here. I believe." interjected Minister Bagnold cutting James before he could retort. " Lord Potter please calm down and let us all return to matter at hand." continued Minister in a authoritative manner. Seeing James reign in his anger she nodded towards Head Auror.

Taking her cue Amelia spoke in calm yet strong voice having complete attention of the whole group. "Here we have memories of tonight provided by Lord Black, Lady Potter and Lord Potter. Along with them is memory of One Peter Pettigrew taken by using active Legilimency authorised by Minister of Magic. All of these Memories are verified to be untampered by Head Unspeakable Croaker himself." she ended her report with a nod towards Unspeakable.

"So" spoke minister indicating whole group "Shall we?" with that she took memories of James and poured it in Penseive. Minister then nodded to the group and sunk her face in the Penseive everyone else following her lead.

After forty Minute of reliving the events at Potter cottage from different perspectives all 7 people came out of penseive.

"Unbelievable" exclaimed Barty Crouch. "I think it will be wise if young Mr.Potter was throughly examined by Department of Mysteries. If there is a way to deflect killing curse it must be researched throughly." said Barty Crouch in a manner that seemed like it would be the final decision.

"Are you barking mad Director Crouch." growled Sirius fixing the man with a glare. "He is a fifteen month old baby and you want him to be a test subject."

Before Crouch could retort Dumbledore interjected in his annoying grandfatherly tone. "I quite agree with Director Crouch." Crouch puffed his chest out in winning gesture but deflated when Dumbledore continued "Harry must be examined for his physical and magical condition and if Minister would allow I would like to assist Unspeakables."

Minister agreed to Dumbledore request much to Croakers dismay. James thoughts scrambled. He did want Harry's scar to be checked by Unspeakables but he didn't want Dumbledore to be anywhere near him. Then again if Unspeakables checked Harry, Dumbledore would get hands on the report no matter what. How could he fix the situation?

As if reading his thoughts Croaker spoke for the first time since the Impromptu meeting started. "I doubt that would be needed." said Croaker his face blank of any expression. James saw Dumbledore grimace. What is it with oldman? he thought before turning towards Croaker who opened his mouth to speak again. "As we all know Lady Potter is a Beta Ranked Unspeakable so she can check if young Mr.Potter is fine or not. And for the research purposes. Mr Potter is too young for that. His magic is very unstable at this age. So the result will be useless for us. Perhaps after he completes his Final Magical Maturity we can run couple of test." spoke Croaker in matter of fact tone.

James was processing Croaker's word when he felt a soft push on his Legilimency shields. Surprisingly it wasn't from Dumbledore but from Head Unspeakable Croaker. Then he recognized the push as a Legilimency message that Lily used to do somtimes. Must be a Unspeakable thing he thought before lowering his shields enough for message to pass.

"Tomorrow I will be your guest at Potter Manor. I would like to check your son for any residual magic. It can stay off the record that way, do you accept?" was the message. James gave a very small nod towards Unspeakable.

"So what do you people are planning to do to keep Prophet out of this mess.?" asked Sirius not trying to prvent his irritation to become clear in his words.

"Whatever you mean by that Lord Black." scoffed Barty Crouch before continuing. "We can't lie to whole Wizarding World about something as serious as this. This is not some normal death eater death not even some inner circle member but You Know Who himself."

"I agree with Director Crouch. Young Harry is clearly responsible for defeating Voldemort and surviving the killing curse! He is the Boy Who Lived!"

"Oh Brilliant! A new moniker. Like You Know Who wasn't bad enough. Tell me Chief Warlock, how long have you been working on it." said Sirius in a mocking tone. "Besides, How you guys are you going to break it to public that a 15 month baby killed Voldemort is out of my imagination.

"I don't think I will allow this." said James flatly. "What you are trying to do is bring unwanted attention to my family. I'm not going to let that happen. We don't know what happened to Voldemort and my son had nothing to do with it."

"But that would be lying, Lord Potter." said Minister Bagnold with a frown. "Besides, all the Aurors here know the story. Don't you think the public deserves to know what happened? They need to know who their hero is." she spoke before James could interupt her "And The memories of tonight along with You Know Who's robes and wand will be presented tomorrow in Wizengamot as evidence for death of Dark Lord and end of this damned war. The wand along with memories show clearly that after stunning Lady Potter, Voldemort cast a killing curse at young Mr.Potter and got killed when Mr.Potter redirected the curse towards the Dark Lord destroying his body in process."

James went red in the face. "I won't let you glorify my son just because the public wishes to know or just because you have to prove something." he said dangerously low tone. "This isn't a game for me. Harry is my child and I will protect them with any means necessary. Stay out of it. All of you."

"Come on Sirius, let's go." with that James turned and walked out of chamber Sirius close on his heels.

Albus Dumbledore frowned. Why were James and Sirius acting like this? He was only trying to determine how powerful the child of the prophecy was! Power could be corrupting and he didn't want to lose such power to dark side. It's not like he had done anything wrong. He was only doing what was best for the Greater Good. With a huff, he Disapparated too, not noticing the suspicious look being sent his way by Head Unspeakable.

James and Sirius appeared in front of the large gates. The Potter crest, which were two Griffins facing each other, with a shield and two joined swords on a red background were proudly looking at them. James flicked his wand at the gates and they went inside. The modified shrinking and distance distortion charms placed on the path from the front gates to the manor reduced their time in walking there by a large margin; otherwise it would have taken them hours to reach the place. A minute later, a beautiful and enormous manor was visible. James smiled he could feel all the Offensive and Defensive wards were all turned on, no doubt by Lily because of the paranoia that followed after what happened tonight. Even after so many years of growing up here, the sheer sense of safeguard the manor provided amazed him. They quickly passed by the water fountain and entered through the front door. They found Lily in the drawing room, on one of the plush sofa.

"Lily we're back" said James,

Lily jumped upp from the plush sofa she was sitting on and ran towards him kissing him deeply once she reached him. James responded the kiss immediately with everything he was worth. After a few moments passed Sirius started laughing, they broke apart and turned towards him. James was slightly embarrassed but Lily was fuming "What's so funny Sirius?"

Upon seeing Lily's anger building Sirius quickly threw his hands upp in a surrendering motion. "Funny is that 10 minutes ago your son was declared the 'Boy who lived' and here you are snogging each other senseless." spoke Sirius wriggling his eyebrows.

"BOY WHO WHAT??" screamed Lily. Sirius laughed and James winced, James knew how much these silly little monikers angered Lily. Hell she didn't even use 'You Know Who' as a moniker.

Then the floo in the drawing room flared green flames and two figures came out of the fireplace. Lily swiftly turned around her wand pointed towards newcomers. When she noticed it was Alice and Frank Longbottom with a wide asleep Neville on Frank's arms she lowered her wand and was about to apologise when suddenly she was enveloped in Alice's hug. She relaxed immediately. She was extracting herself from Alice's hug when one more family came through floo. It was Roxanne and Cyrus Greengrass with a blonde bundle in her hands. Lily was sure when she saw 14 months old Daphne Greengrass that she was scowling on everyone and frantically turning her heads as if searching for someone.

James voice broke her train of thoughts. "Don't worry Lils I called them. I don't know about you but I am tired by hiding our reason and hiding about prophecy from all our friends." Sirius, Roxanne and Cyrus all perked upp at hearing about prophecy. While Alice and Frank nodded there heads in agreement. To be completely honest with herself Lily wanted to tell there friends the moment she knew about prophecy but Dumbledore stopped her pointing out that they would treat child of prophecy like some sort of saviour. Lily scoffed, now the old wizard has gone himself and glorified her son.

By then the last members of there tight knitted group had arrived with last being Remus Lupin. Amelia had also arrived with Susan. Looking at young girl in Amelia's arm, Lily couldn't stop from tears pooling in her eyes. It had been a few month since the death of there long time friends Edgar and Melena Bones. She shook her thoughts clear. She will honour them by helping Amelia and Sirius in spoiling her neice.

She asked her house elves to deliver babies to master bed room and tuck them in bed with Harry. When everyone was settled down James and Lily started to explain everything. From the day they were told the prophecy till tonight. When they were done everyone was shocked to see Amelia Bones wiping tears.

Sirius broke the silence by diving into the explanation of what happened at Ministry. With rubbing Amelia's back. Soon Amelia regained her composure and informed them about what happened after they left. Everyone winced at the silly moniker Dumbledore made.

Lily explained her results from the spells she performed on Harry and his scar. Cyrus being a Unspeakable too took deep interest in her findings. From her test she could tell Harry's core has suddenly expanded massively. Harry had a relatively bigger core since his birth compared to other new borns. But now it was as developed as someone who had already gone through there first Magical Maturity. Also there was something very dark in his scar which seems to be fighting with his magic. She was shocked with the next question that surfaced in the conversation draining her mind of all thoughts.

"How do you know Voldemort is dead?" asked Cyrus in a very low tone but still catching everyones attention.

"I don't think he ran out of naked by ditching his clothes and wand." spoke Sirius making everyone chuckle softly and earn a slap on hand from Amelia.

Cyrus was first to recover from Sirius joke. "I don't mean he ran away. We all know how strong Harry is compared to any other 15 month old. Remember he literally blew the whole of nursery at Greengrass manor in his first bout of accidental magic." Everyone laughed again. Cyrus continued speaking after the laughter died down "And from Pettigrew memories we can see how his eyes and hands are displaying magic." he took a deep breath and continued. "I am sorry to say but I think Harry is child mentioned in the Prophecy. Now the main point is that Is the Prophecy completed. Has Harry really Vanquished the Dark Lord ??"

James frowned "How can we find out if he is alive or not?" said James in very worried voice

"The prophecy sphere." Lily thought out loud. After seeing everyone except Cyrus confused looks she explained "Whenever any prophecy is made by any seer in magical Britain it is recorded in a prophecy sphere and kept in Hall of Prophecy."

"If the Prophecy sphere has gone black it means that Voldemort is dead." continued Cyrus in a grim voice. "If not then..." he was cut by a patronus messager coming in the house and delivered its contents to Amelia.

"If he is not dead he will be back for Harry." spoke Amelia. "All photos of the evidence of Voldemorts destruction is sent to Daily Prophet, ICW, and foreign Wizarding papers. By tomorrow whole Wizarding world will credit Harry for killing Voldemort. He will seek revenge. Harry is the sign of his failure. He try to kill Harry no matter what. And even if we don't believe Voldemort is dead. Death Eaters certainly do 50 plus death eaters have surrendered to DMLE. Also the dark mark is much lighter.

"It's faded or just lighter ??" asked Cyrus immediately. When Amelia replied it was just lighter Cyrus looked towards Lily as if having a silent conversation. Lily then spoke up "Cyrus here is the head of team researching dark mark. We at DOM believe that dark mark is a part of Voldemort magic. It will fade once he or frankly his magic is dead." said Lily tears in his eyes.

"So, he is not dead." said James in grim voice. When Cyrus shook his head. James closed his eyes in frustration. How could his son be saddled with the responsibility of killing the most feared dark lord in recent history. As soon as this thought came to his mind his mind flashed several images of the night. Images of from Peter's memories of Harry's eyes glowing hand crackling with magic. He smiled about thinking how strong his son was. His smile turned into a full blown laughter when thought about surprise look that must be on Voldemort's face when he was getting destroyed by a baby.

Everyone looked at James laughing form in worry. When James noticed the worry look on his friends and wife faces he said "If Voldemort ever returns we will be prepared for him." Then he looked directly in Lily's eyes and continued. "Trust me Lily. I will not turn our son into a weapon or a soldier, He will live his childhood to the fullest and enjoy his life. But I will also prepare to him fight for those he will care about. We will be there for him. Also I am turning Potters into Grey Faction and I will suggest all of us to be Grey too because no matter what anyone says I will train Harry in Grey magic."

Remus grimaced "You know right Dumbledore won't like it. He would publicly spout non sense about 'you are going Dark'. If you think about it now thats what he did with McKinnons." growled Remus. Everyone flinched Marlene McKinnon was two years below them in Hogwarts and belonged in Slytherin House. She was another victim of Greyback's crimes. Being the only two werewolves at school Remus and Marlene had a very close bond. They started dating after Marlene graduated. But she had to leave country when McKinnons denied to join Order and Dumbledore openly said that McKinnon' were a Dark Family. Due to being treated as a Dark Family and Marlene being an registered Warewolf. Living in Magical Britain became very troublesome for her so she left for US to live out the war. Everyone knew Remus stoped blindly supporting Dumbledore since that day. It was still a very sore spot in everyone memories.

"No he won't" everyone was brought back to topic by Roxanne's voice. "If he values his political career he will not disgrace someone who defeated Dark Wizard No.1 in last century and is the only person who survived the Klling curse." everyone agreed with her reasoning.

"Whatever Happens House of Longbottom is with you, Whatever Harry faces in future we all will be with him." declared Alice. "And if it means turning grey then why not. After all where a Potter goes a Longbottom follows." said Frank receiving nods from everyone.

"Except in bed when most of the girls will throw themselves at 'Boy Who Lived'." said Sirius his eyes full of mirth lightening the mood in an Instance.

While this whole conversation was going on in the Drawing Room. In Master Bedroom of Potter Manor no one saw that Daphne Greengrass face brighten upp upon seeing a sleeping Harry. And only Head House elf Millly noticed the bright glow of Cyan that envelop both Harry and Daphne when Milly laid Daphne next to Harry.

"To Harry Potter The Boy Who Lived" several people raised there in celebrations of Defeat of Most Feared Dark Lord.

"Long Live the Saviour!!"

"Merlin bless the Boy Who Lived."

Were the chants going one throughout Magical Britain. Fireworks covered all over the Wizarding World that night.

A/N: Sooooooo?? How was it ???

This chapter is mostly introducting characters and getting the story started

I want a stubborn Dumbledore. There won't be extreme bashing like totally disrespectful behaviour towards him but respective weariness and disagreements. And even if Harry is going to be super strong he will have a run for his money against Voldemort and Dumbledore(But they will never wands at each other) but he will strong enough to kill other powerful witches and wizards like Snape, Bella.

Next chapter will be 7th Birthday to 1st September 1991 AD will probably post within 10 days. and that will be the schedule for further chapters

TBC