A/N: Hi everyone, this is my first installment of a three pronged ripple effect. Meaning I'm going to be writing three different fiction each resulting in a different house (leaving Gryffindor to canon) as a result for Harry in each hopefully novel series. So please read and review and let me know what you think of Harry Potter and the Call of the Badger Book I

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Lily's mind was going a thousand miles an hour. The dark lord was in her house, her home where she had been raising Harry for the past year, hidden from the eyes and ears of Voldemort's death eaters… What had gone wrong, how did he find them? They had taken all of the necessary precautions, she wondered if Sirius had revealed that he wasn't the Potter's secret keeper. That's when it hit her… Peter he wouldn't have, James had sworn on his life that they would be safe.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a body being blown against the wall. James! She gingerly lowered Harry into his crib, knowing in her heart that this would be the last time she would lay eyes on her beautiful baby boy.

"Mommy loves you Harry" she whispered to him, her eyes filling with tears, "Mommy loves you, don't ever forget that."

Lily ran out into the hallway with her wand drawn, fully prepared to face the Voldemort with her husband, she wouldn't let this… devil man, take her beautiful son. But when she crossed the doorway and looked towards the stairs to see her husband slumped against the wall on the floor, blood running from his arm heavily, her heart skipped a beat. James… her James, whom she had been in love with since her seventh year couldn't possibly be…

"He isn't dead…" she turned around to come face to face with the voice behind her… this was him… Merlin, she could feel the magic pulsing off of him, "He had traits I value my dear… Traits that filth like you couldn't understand. But once I'm done with him he will wish he was dead."

"I understand plenty you monster." She had to keep him talking, she had to protect Harry, she had to save her husband. She knew she had to do all of these things, but she also knew there was no way she would be able to do all of them. But if there was one thing she could do, she would make sure that this shell of a person wouldn't touch her son, "And there is no way I in hell you will touch Harry."

"Stand aside Mudblood, I will deal with you afterwards"

She raised her wand feebly, knowing she stood no chance without James, "Over my dead body."

"As you wish."

She closed her eyes, wanting her last thoughts to be of the family she would never be able to have anymore, "I love you Harry."

"Avada Kedavra!"

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James came to when he heard his son crying. What was going on? The last thing he had remembered was eating dinner with his wife talking about recent quidditch matches that were going on abroad knowing full well that any team from Britain had lost hope once half of their teams were forced to go into hiding… and that's when the wards went off… Peter! He cursed in his mind, how could he have betrayed them, James would make sure if it was the last thing he ever regretted, because if the Marauders ever learned something from school (which they most likely didn't learn much) it was to never cross a Potter… especially when it comes to loyalty.

The wreckage around him was amazing, chairs broken, pictures ripped from the wall, and windows blown out, it was only when he looked towards his son's room did the auror feel cause for panic. All he saw in the doorway, was a head of beautiful red hair. Lily! James was at his feet, ignoring the pain he felt stabbing through his right arm, he had to get to her, and she had to be ok.

When he reached her however, he knew that nothing was ever going to be ok again, because laying in the doorway was the wife he would never hear laugh again, a wife whom he would never share any more Christmases with, who would never see another sunrise, or send their son off to Hogwarts… he would never have anything more with her ever again. Defeated, he rose from her side and went to the crib, his son laying there peacefully sleeping now. Scooping him up in his left arm he whispered into the infants ear, "Don't ever forget the loyalty of your friends Harry, it's the difference between happiness and peril." Then, with one last tear shed, he apparated to order headquarters to recount the events that happened tonight.

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A/N: So if you might have been able to tell from the title, this novel will feature Harry as a lovable Badger in the Hufflepuff House. If this plot intrigues you feel free to check out the call of the Snake and the call of the Eagle on my author page. I plan to update these hopefully once a week and have all of the plots run parallel to each other and see what changes in each house.

A/N-2: This chapter was edited for length and more story content! Hope you enjoyed it if this is you first time rereading it!