Ch.4

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, never have and sadly never will, I make no profit from writing this, as this is just for fun.

A month had past, things were very hectic in that amount of time. What with the wizengamot, and trying to free Sirius, he was beginning to feel overwhelmed with it all. Right now though, James was grading papers, when he heard a peck on the widow seal. He looked over to see that it was an owl with something tied around its leg. He went to the window opened it, letting the bird in, and taking what was offered to him. He opened it up, after casting a bunch of spells to make sure it wasn't cursed, and read it. It was from Remus Lupin. It looked like he wouldn't have to contact him after all. He did wonder where he had heard about him though, since to his knowledge, they hadn't met yet in this time line. He wanted to meet at the leaky cauldron at noon the next day. He thought about it for a second, before he wrote yes on the back of the parchment, giving the owl an owl treat, before reattaching the letter to its leg, and sending it off. As soon as he was alone again, he was about to go back to grading when there was a knock at his door. He went and answered it wondering who it could possibly be. When he opened it, it was the last person that he ever thought he would see, Albus Dumbledore was standing there with an expression like a deer caught in the headlights. James just sighed, asking what he wanted. Dumbledore replied that he was checking in with all of the teachers. That he had sent him an invite to his office twice, and that he never got a response from him. James smiled and said that everything was under control, and that Dumbledore should be on his way. Albus sighed. He knew what this was about, and it was obvious that neither of them had come to terms with it yet. Albus spoke again, asking if he could come in. James narrowed his eyes, and then went on a tangent, explaining to Dumbledore that he had been avoiding him ever since there last encounter in his chambers. So he decided to deny entry. Dumbledore became a bit upset, he knew when he wasn't wanted, so head bowed, he asked one more time. Explaining that he wouldn't be here unless it had to do with the school board. James raised an eyebrow at that. Asking why Dumbledore decided to leave that out to begin with. Dumbledore had no excuse; he just looked down, not wanting to look James in the eye. Finally, James put a hand under Dumbledore's chin and raised it up. Dumbledore flinched; he didn't need another repeat of what happened last time. He just needed to talk teaching. James removed his hand after a minute and invited Dumbledore inside his chambers. Dumbledore was a bit nervous, he wanted to get this over with quickly and leave. So as soon as they're seated across from each other, there conversation takes up about forty-five minutes. They talked about the progress of the students, which ones are his best. What he is teaching each year. How he thinks there going to do on there OWLS and NEWTS, etc. Once they were finished, Dumbledore and James stand up from their seats. James walks up to Dumbledore, while Dumbledore pulls out his wand. James stops moving, and Dumbledore starts to leave. He thanks James for the chat, starts to turn around, which was his mistake, and heads for the door. Once he was at the door, he feels arms encircling him, and a body pressed up against his back., while he was pressed against the door. James licked his ear, and Dumbledore shuddered. He then felt one of his nipples being grabbed through his robes, while his earlobe was being bit. Dumbledore gasped, leaning his head back before realizing what he was doing, He finally lifts his wand up and casts a spell that sends James packing and crashing into the sofa. James recovers quickly, but pretends to get up on shaky legs. No sense in telling this man that he is a creature, he would just get himself killed. Dumbledore however is already gone, when he looks up. James shakes his head, and picks himself up the rest of the way, fangs coming out, and grinning the entire time.

The next day James got ready to meet Lupin at the Leaky Cauldron. He was wearing blue jeans, a t-shirt, and a pullover sweater, in order to keep warm. No reason to flaunt his wealth, were his thoughts. So after he got ready, he started heading to the Leaky Cauldron. Once he got there, via floo, it was 11:58am. He started looking around, when he finally spotted Lupin in the back corner of the bar, sitting at a table, drinking a butter beer. He made a beeline for that table and coughed to announce his presence. The werewolf looked up instantly, and instantaneously thought he was looking at James Potter. He sucked in a breath, and got a better look at him. He finally started noticing some differences; Green eyes, which looked a lot like Lilies, more tamable hair, no glasses, etc. He finally stood up, and asked if he was James Evens. James confirmed this for him, and then Lupin asked if he had any relationship to Lily Potter nee Evens. His eyes widened at this, and that was all Lupin needed. Lupin then went to explain that Dumbledore told him that there was a new Evens running around Hogwarts, and that he was a professor, so naturally, he wanted to know if there was any relation between them. That this is the reason for the invite. Lupin then offered for James to sit down, and so they both took a seat and started chatting for a bit, talking about this, that, and the other. Eventually, the topic of Harry Potter was brought up. James didn't know if he could trust Lupin not to run to Dumbledore yet, if he told him that he had baby Harry, so he just kept that to himself. Although, James did hint at the Dursleys, and said that that was probably where young Harry was. After he mentioned this, Lupins expression became horrified. He jumped up so fast, James thought his head was going to fly off of his shoulders. James told him to calm down that he was making a scene. Lupin stared at looked around for a moment before nodding and sat down once more. Lupin wanted to know who would place young Harry with Lilies awful sister and oaf of a husband. James just smiled knowingly. Saying that he wouldn't believe him if he told him. Lupin started to demand answers, so James told him. Lupin couldn't believe what he had heard, Dumbledore? Really? No way! He thought that James was lying, but when he looked into James's eyes he realized that he was telling the truth, but just to be sure he had James swear on his magic and life, and once he didn't kill over dead, he couldn't deny it anymore. The next topic was Sirius Black. Lupin was really upset with himself for turning on Sirius for a crime he didn't commit. He really wanted to apologize, and make up with Sirius, and go back to the old times when they were buddy buddy, best friends, etc. He was begging James to get him out of askaban as soon as humanly possible. James said that he's doing everything in his power to free Sirius, and that he wanted him out to. That he wanted Harry away from the Dursleys as much as the next person, and that this was the only way that he found to do it. Lupin just nodded thanking him profusely. After a few more minutes of chatter. James asked Lupin a serious question, in which Lupin gave James his full attention. First of all, he asked Lupin to choose between Harry and Dumbledore, Lupin opened his mouth to say that he never would, but James just put up a hand stopping him from saying anything, saying for him to just think about it for now. He didn't need an answer right away. He decided not to tell him anything else until he decided, except for the fact that Dumbledore has done a lot of things that go against everything that he is suppose to stand for. That if he chooses Dumbledore that he could forget about being apart of anything in the future, but if he chose Harry's side, then he would have to take a magical oath to never betray Harry's secrets, and then he would be let in on a lot. Lupin just nodded, and so after the meeting was concluded, they both shook hands, and went their separate ways.

A month had gone by and finally Sirius Blacks Trial was ultimately here. It took a quarter of a million gallons to get things moving quickly, but to James Evens, that was just pocket change. The trial was held in courtroom ten. All of the wizengamot were there; it was a very crowded place. Everyone was chatting, waiting for the accused to get there. Eventually everyone quieted down when Sirius Black came in surrounded by two dementors and in chains. He looked awful. It wasn't as bad as last time, since he stayed in there for less than a year, but still, his eyes were still haunted, his hair was ratty, his clothes were all cut up and dirty, he really needed a bath to. Finally they put him in the chair in the middle of the courtroom, chains wrapping around his arms. Once the dementors left him, they got started. The Purebloods who were former Death eaters all tried to get him put back in azkaban without a trial; one of the main ones being Lucius Malfoy, one of the worst death eaters. Finally Dumbledore banged his mallet and everybody shut up. They started the trial, Sirius Black was egger to be allowed to take veritaserum, he voiced it like ten times before they finally gave it to him. They asked him some simple questions to start with, like what is your name, and what is your date of birth, which he responded with Sirius Orion Black, and November 3rd 1959. Next they asked him if he was the Potters secret keeper? His response was No! This got everybody talking. There was a lot of outrage, and the voices were picking up. Finally Dumbledore banged his mallet again and everybody quieted. Next they asked him who it was, and he answered with Peter Pettigrew. When they asked why this was, Sirius said that he thought that him being secret keeper would be too obvious, so he convinced them to switch to Peter instead. The next question they asked was if he killed Peter Pettigrew, and a dozen muggles by blowing up the street. Sirius's reply was a definite no. He explained that Peter screamed that he had betrayed James and Lily, then cast a blasting hex on a gas main, cutting off his pinky finger afterwards, then transforming into his animagus form, a rat, and running off down a storm drain. After this line of questioning, they gave Sirius the antidote, released him from his binds, a free man. Everybody started going about there own way, mostly talking about what had just happened. The first thing Sirius did when he got free was to start asking where baby Harry was. James Evens was at this event, and went straight up to Sirius before Dumbledore could get his hands into him. He introduced himself and asked if they could talk in private for a moment. Dumbledore came on up right after him, also asking Sirius for his time. Sirius was about to speak to Dumbledore first, but James said that he insisted, that he was first, and that it would be rude to refuse. Sirius just started looking at both of them for a minute, before James subtly casted a privacy charm with his fingers. He then asked if he wanted to see baby Harry. Sirius eyes widened at this, he was about to start yelling and screaming at James, but James realized this and said two simple words, Petunia Dursley. Sirius gasped, and then nodded. The privacy charm went away, and Sirius said that he'd speak to Dumbledore in a minute. Dumbledore frowned, upset that he didn't get his way, but tried not to let it show. So James and Sirius walked out of the room and went a corridor or two down, making sure no one was around before James put up privacy charms there were unheard of. Then he cast an animagus revilo charm just to make sure there were no bugs anywhere, when he was satisfied he told Sirius that he had Harry, and that he took him from the Dursley's who were treating him very poorly. That when he found him there, he needed a diaper change, that he was starved, that he was basically living in filth, just like well Sirius was when he was a prisoner in Azkaban. He also told him that his room was the cupboard under the stairs. With each word said, Sirius was becoming more and more furious. He wanted to go beat those muggles to a bloody pulp. He wanted to hurt them. He wanted to know who put poor Harry there in the first place. He finally asked who put him there, and that's when Harry lifted his wand, scaring Sirius a bit. Harry then swore on his life and magic that Albus Dumbledore put Harry there. Sirius thought that this was some sort of sick joke, but then he remembered the vowel James just made, and that clinched it for him. He was not Dumbledore's number one fan anymore, not that he ever was, but still. Finally he asked if he could see Harry, and James said that he could see him if and only if he swore on his life and magic not to reveal Harry Potters secrets. Sirius agreed instantly, but he didn't have a wand. James now having a spare, pulled it out and handed it to Sirius, Sirius then made the vowel. Afterwards, James told Sirius to hold on tight, and then they apparated to Potter Manor. Once they were there, Sirius recognized the place at once, He then turned towards James, and asked/demanded, you're a Potter? James just smiled and lifted one eyebrow, basically asking what do you think? Sirius gasped, and slapped him on the shoulder playfully. Once they were inside, Sirius looked around in wonder, and some nostalgia, he missed this place a lot. He was so happy to be here again. Once he was done reminiscing, he finally asked where baby Harry was, James immediately led him to the nursery, where they found Harry and the nanny elf playing with a teddy. Once Sirius saw Harry he rushed to him, picked him up, and twirled him around. He was so happy to see him. Harry recognizing him said pafoo, James and Sirius both laughed at this. The fun had to end though because James said that Sirius needed to bathe before he let him play with young Harry anymore, saying that he just wanted to prove that Harry was safe. Sirius agreed, not wanting to make Harry sick. So they left him with his toys and the elf, and Sirius went and bathed. While James went to the kitchens and had a glass of blood. It took a few hours, but finally Sirius appeared, and he looked a million times better. The only thing he needed now was a new wardrobe, so that way he wouldn't be wearing his clothes. Once Sirius was in the living room, he looked at the drink in his hand, and started asking about it. He knew it wasn't wine, or beer, so what was it? James fangs lengthened in response, and Sirius just nodded. He then stated that James was a vampire, and James also nodded. There was slience for a few minutes, as Sirius put things together, blood, he was drinking blood. From what he wasn't sure, but he wasn't about to ask either. After all, he gave him back Harry. So yes, he didn't want to piss the guy off. He finally sat down, and started asking James all kinds of questions about himself. James answered each question truthfully because of his oath to keep Harry Potters secrets. Even though he was now James Evens, he was still Harry Potter, so when Sirius finally got around to asking where he had come from, James planted a bombshell and said the future. Sirius nodded and started to say the future, but then he paused, and looked at him in confusion. The future? Wait what? He then asked who he was again. James looked at him seriously and stated that his real name is Harry Potter and that he has come from the future to try and rewrite it, because if something doesn't change then magic will die out because of the muggles going to war with the magicals. He then pulls out his wand and swears on his magic that all he just said was true. Sirius gaps at him, at a loss for words. James waves his wand and casts a lumos, Sirius to sputtering and just stares at James, or what he now new to be Harry Potter his future godson. He had so many questions that he didn't know where to start, that's when he said, so that's how you knew about the Dursleys, how did they treat you? James told him that they treated him horribly, and that's why he rescued himself from them. Sirius just nodded, trying to come to terms with everything. He also wanted to know what happened to himself in his time, which he replied that Bellatrix Lestrange casts a spell at him that sends him through the veil of death, and that's how he died. Sirius was saddened by this, he vowed to not make the same mistake twice. He was also mad that Bellatrix was the one to kill him. He eventually got his bearings back though, and asked another question, did Harry in his own time ever find love. James just shook his head no, and he told the truth also, that once Dumbledore died, he had no interest in anybody anymore. Sirius just nodded, and asked, so you're gay? Which James just nodded, and said that he guessed. He told his godfather that he had kissed a few girls and how they all felt so wrong. Sirius just laughed at this, and James smiled, he was happy to have his godfather back. He had missed him very much, remembering in his last life that he was the only family that he had ever had. Finally Sirius asked a very personal question, he wanted to know how he became a vampire. James looked at him for what felt like the longest time before answering. His eyes glazed over as he told his story. At the age of twenty he was turned. He was in knockturn alley conducting some hush hush business, when there was a commotion outside the building he was in. He went outside, to find out what was going on, apparently there were some vampires causing trouble for some of the people that were out at that time. So being the stupid Gryffindor he was, he started to fight the vampires. He was able to take a bunch of them out, but one got behind him, and knocked his glasses off of his face. Once he couldn't see, they took advantage of that, taking his wand from him, and holding him down, in the process. Some of them wanted to just off him, but a couple of the vampires were amazed by the fight that he had put up, so instead of killing him, they gave him there curse. They turned him, drinking his blood, then forcing him to drink from them. He lost consciousness afterwards, and when he woke up, he found himself in a sewer. That's when he started noticing the differences that were his senses. He didn't need glasses anymore because he could see without them, his hearing was so amazing that it kind of hurt at first. He also found out that he was a lot stronger then he was before to. He wanted to drink blood so badly also. He had to learn to control himself all on his own. It took him the best part of five years but he learned, he learned everything he could about being a vampire, without any help from other vampires. He even learned things that other vampires probably hadn't, like hiding his fangs so that he looked like a regular human being. Most vampires couldn't do that. He eventually ended his story, and started to focus on Sirius again. Sirius just sat there listening to the entire thing. He was amazed that James was that disciplined, that he could come back from something like that, he wasn't sure if he could do the same, especially without any help from anybody. Once that was out of the way, Sirius asked one more question, he wanted to know how old James really was, and James responded that he was three hundred and seventy three years old. Sirius just laughed, stating that he was older then Dumbledore, which James nodded to. After they got that out of their systems, they both smiled at each other, and decided that this was the best time to go and see baby harry. Once they got to Harry's room, Sirius started playing with him, turning into Padfoot and giving baby Harry a piggy back ride. James just sat down against the wall and smiled, Happy to have his family back again, now if only Lupin would agree to his stipulations; they could all be a family then.

The next day, James left Sirius and Harry to it while he went back to Hogwarts via floo. He needed to prepare for classes, with the first through fourth years that day so he had a bit to do. He was about to go to his classroom when there was a knock at his door. He was a bit annoyed to be interrupted at this time, he almost didn't answer, but the knocking became insistent, so he did, and surprise, surprise. Albus Dumbledore was the one knocking at his door. Dumbledore looked frustrated, he was wondering what this was about, when he remembered that Albus wanted to talk to Sirius the day before. He wasn't going to give any clues about being aware of what Albus wanted though. So he stood there, waiting for Albus to speak, finally he did, asking about Sirius, and wondering about his whereabouts. James just said that he didn't know the answer to either of those questions, and he had assumed that as soon as they had parted at the ministry that Sirius had went to talk to him. Boy he was a good actor; he would have to pat himself on the back later. Albus was saddened that he knew nothing. Albus decided to leave before James could do anything to him, but then remembered that he had one other issue that he wanted to discuss with James about. He needed to understand why James felt that it was necessary to sexually assault him every time he came here. He wasn't sure if it was just him, or if he did it with everybody. Albus was very worried at this prospect. He didn't want sexual assaults happening to the students here at Hogwarts. He also didn't want to talk about this while standing out here in the hallway, so he invited himself in. Once they were sitting down in there regular seats, tea in hand, Albus addressed this issue, asking the question, and regretting it as soon as it left his mouth. James put his tea down as soon as he heard the question. He got up, and moved around to the couch that Albus was sitting on, making him very uncomfortable. Albus swallowed, as James put a hand on his chin, rubbing his thumb against his lips, and turning Albus's face to where they could make eye contact. He told Albus that he didn't care about the kids in the school, that the only person that he had eyes for was him. Albus's eyebrows rose, and he stood up, not sure how to take his admission. He decided to leave before things could heat up. James didn't stop him; he just looked on sadly as Dumbledore left, thinking about what ifs.

A few more months went by, and school term was ending. The fifth and seventh years were taking their OWLS and NEWTS. Dumbledore hadn't spoken to him for months, and baby Harry and Sirius were doing great. A few weeks ago Lupin appeared, and had announced his choice as well, and he had made the right one. He made his oath to keep Harry Potters secrets, and was instantly afterwards allowed into Potter manor, to see baby Harry and Sirius Black, Everybody was happy, and Lupin was let in on the time traveling secret as well. He even became a proxy for James at the wizengamot, taking over the Gryffindor seat. So now they just needed three more people so that they would have five, no, six votes on the wizengamot thanks to Sirius taking up his Lordship. So now summer was practically here, the students were getting on the Hogwarts Express, and being shipped home. Everybody was happy to be out of school. James's teaching career was over due to the fact that his contract was over, so now he had to wait until baby Harry got his Hogwarts letter, in order to see Dumbledore again probably, great, that means he would have to wait until Harry was eleven years old. Harry was only barely two years old. So yes it would be awhile before he saw him again. He had forever to wait, unlike Dumbledore, who just kept on ageing. He wanted to make Dumbledore his now, but like he decided before, he would wait, he had no choice now. He finally turned his thoughts to other things, like what he was going to do with all of this spare time that he now had. He could probably go ahead and start putting some of his plans into action. First of all muggleborns weren't really muggleborns at all. They were just descended from squib lines. He decided that he would research a way to give squibs there magic back instead of trying to be inhuman and remove the children from there parents lives completely. If that didn't work though, then he would have to resort to the option that he really didn't want to resort to. He was also making great progress with the wizengamot. He was basically the person that was making all of the votes right now, people wanted to impress, all six houses, so most of them put in there lot with James, still not realizing that it was Harry Potter that they were voting with. Dumbledore wasn't having a good time anymore. People were taking James's side now instead of Dumbledore's, Dumbledore's support was waning quickly, and it was frustrating him to no end. Another law passed that Dumbledore tried to veto, but there was almost a unanimous agreement, that creatures, whether dark or light, should have equal rights as regular witches and wizards had. James fought very hard for this, and was very pleased with himself once he saw the results of his labor spring forward. He was also excited by the prospect that another law that he had been working on had also passed, and that was that there had to be a set amount of half bloods and, muggleborns that worked at the ministry, he wanted equality in there numbers, and with more jobs opening up for muggleborms, he was hoping that the muggleborns would leave the muggle world for the wizarding one completely. He also reminded himself that muggleborns were just descendents of squibs. He decided to work on this next.