Reviews:

zugrian : I do agree with that, if I am honest when I wrote that story I actually just wrote each chapter without a plan, with my other stories I would at least have a general plan, but with that actual story I literally wrote it chapter by chapter (of course i would have an idea from previous chapters but you understand what i mean). Also I plan to make this story shorter than the last one anyway, a lot of the conflict in that one came from Red, Adrian and Dumbledore. In this one Red's not bad and Harry will be dealing with Dumbledore a lot quicker than the previous one plus I have already skipped a few years.

Sultan Asil Arslan : That was actually one of those 'unexpected but not bad' coincidences. I only realised it myself after you pointed it out.

Crazy Girl Writer : Thanks...i guess...and don't give up, you can do it.

Chapter 10 -

"So mum," Adrian said as he, Remus, Sirius, Rose and Ryan sat around Lily and James's bed. Harry had combined their beds for them before he, Violet and Red had left to go get some food. "are you two alright?"

"Tired." Lily sighed. "I still can not believe that I missed so many years."

"You both deserve better than what you got." Sirius sighed.

"I think everyone in this room does." James sighed and ran a hand through his hair before he looked at Rose and Ryan, "so how did you two meet Harry?" He asked. Ryan and Rose looked at each other and had an unspoken conversation that came from years of knowing each other.

"Well," Ryan said as he turned back to James. "that is...a hard question to answer."

"Doesn't sound like a hard question." Sirius commented.

"And you sound serious." Ryan said without missing a beat.

"Oh ho." James laughed while Remus chuckled as Lily rolled her eyes, far too many memories of 'Sirius-serious' jokes in her head.

"Anyway, it also involves the rest of the guys so we would probably like to ask them about it before we answer." Rose added.

"But long story short me, Rose, Red and Violet were in a bit of a bad situation." Ryan said as he continued speaking. "Harry helped us, and then we spent our years living together on the streets until Harry was called for this bloody Triwizard tournament that he did not even enter. Then we came to Hogwarts and then we come to visit you and then...well...you lot wake up."

"Tell us about Harry please." James said.

"What is he like?" Sirius asked, wanting to know about his godson. Lily, James and Remus leaned forward, all three were interested in knowing as well.

"Well...he is smart," Rose said. "and he is nice."

"Well, that depends on who you are." Ryan responded. "But long story short, he is nice to you as long as you do not give him a reason to not be nice to you. He is also pretty fun when he wants to be."

"He is also pretty hard working." Rose added. "He always does his best to help me and the others."

"He, me and Red are like brothers," Ryan added. "we are a family, we have each other's backs."

"I am glad that you all are great friends," Lily smiled at the two. "but I can't help but wonder if..."

"Look at what we have here." An amused voice interrupted, everyone in the room looked to the entrance where five men walked in. Rose, Ryan, Sirius and Remus had got to their feet when all five men pulled out their wands and pointed their wands at them. "Hold it right there," The apparent leader said, the Potter's and the rest had no choice but to stay still as none of them really fancied getting blasted.

"What do you want?" Ryan asked in a calm and cool voice as he grabbed Rose by the wrist and gently pulled her until she was behind him.

"You guys are who we want," The leader of the group of wizard said. "well, not you, but them. The boy-who-lived and his parents, you've caused the dark lord quite a few problems over the year and have been major thorns in our sides. We think it's been long past time to get rid of you, funny thing is we kind of forgot you two were alive with the little brat hogging all the spotlight."

"Hold it," One of the other men said. "we got Sirius Black and the werewolf as well."

"A blood traitor and a half-breed, well nobody with a brain will be sad to see them go." A third commented.

"Wait a sec," The fourth said. "I have heard of this one," He said as he gestured to Ryan. "you are the squib who dared to sneak himself into Hogwarts and had the balls and stupidity to sneak yourself into the ancient and noble house of Slytherin, you are aren't you?!" He demanded.

"Wait!" Lily pushed the kids farther back. "Do what you want but let the kids go!"

"Quite you stupid mudblood!" The leader snapped. "Blood traitors, half-breeds, mudbloods and squibs." The leader said in a disgusted voice. "Come on lads," He said to his own group of wizards. "let's hurry up and get his over with before somebody else comes or before these lot infect us as well."

The group raised their wands just as a bright light shined, enveloping the whole room. The light lasted several seconds before it died down, when it had finally gone most of the occupants of the room blinked at the scene in front of them.

The group of wizards were down on the floor, groaning in pain as blood poured out from either there shoulders or legs, the leader of the group had an arrow in his shoulder. The Potter's along with Remus and Sirius glanced at Ryan and found it difficult not to ignore the bow that was in his left hand, but their attention returned back to Red, Ryan and Harry who were now in the rooms with their wands up and ready. Harry, Red and Violet stunned the men before they took a couple of seconds to check for anymore threats.

"We're clear." Red said a few moments later before he walked back out of the room and they all lowered their wands while Ryan's bow shifted back into a ring.

"What...in the seven hells...was that?" James blurted out.

"They were called spells I think." Harry responded. "Are you guys alright?"

"Yeah but...did you lot do this?" Adrian asked as he pointed to the unconscious wizards on the floor in front of him.

"Hey I helped too you know." Ryan commented.

"It was nothing." Violet said as Red returned with some food.

"I had left it outside while we were dealing with the loser squad over there." Red explained as he handed the food to the Potter parents.

"Everyone wait here," Remus said. "I will go and call the aurors."

"I will come with you." Sirius said.

"Violet," Harry said. "go with the both of them just in case there are more hostiles."

"That is not necessary," Remus said as he looked between Harry and Violet. "we can handle ourselves."

"And you are right when you say there could be more people, me and Remus will be enough." Sirius added. "It is better if you stay here, it will be safer for you." Harry and the rest of his group looked at each other for several minutes before they collectively snorted in amusment.

"Come on old timers." Violet said, shaking her head slightly as she walked out of the room. Remus and Sirius gave each other slightly disbelieving looks before they both quickly walked out after her so that they would not lose her.

"Harry that was incredible!" Lily said. "I can not believe you all did that!"

"Oh it was no problem," Harry said as he casually stomped on the groin of the leader. "as long as you are both alright, you are both alright aren't you? Adrian, what about you? Are you alright?"

"Well," Adrian's shoulder's shrugged ever so slightly as he tried to think up a response. "still alive." He said once he had settled on one.

"We're all fine Harry," James said as he looked at the unconscious bodies. "but still this is incredibly impressive."

"Ah well thanks, me and the guys have just learnt how to take care of ourselves over the years." Harry commented before he stomped on the leader's groin again.

"Harry," Lily said. "what are you doing?" She asked, it was obvious to everyone in the room that she was referring to Harry's stomping and re-stomping of the groin.

"Well, this is the one who called you mudblood right?" Harry asked. "I am pretty sure I am right, I did hear him."

"I think it was him." Red nodded.

"It was." Ryan confirmed.

"Good point," James said with a thoughtful face. "give him one for me Harry."

"Not a problem dad." Harry said before he stomped a third time.

"What?!" James said defensively when Lily looked at him. "Nobody insults my wife."

"Or my mum." Harry added.

"Oh can I kick him?" Adrian asked, suddenly feeling like the odd one out in his family.

"Sure, have at it." Harry said as he stepped back and gestured to the unconscious body of the leader.

"No, do not have at it." Lily said before she looked at Adrian who had a pouting look on her face. "Okay fine just one." She sighed.

"Thanks mum." Adrian smiled before he walked forward and kicked the leader in the ribs, Adrian was slightly worried when the leader began stirring but felt better when Harry stunned him again.

"Not in the groin?" Harry raised an eyebrow.

"I think that is a bit redundant, you have pretty much dealt with that bit already." Adrian responded.

"Fair enough." Harry replied.

"Thanks Daphne," Astoria said as she and her older sister sat in the library, Daphne had just completed her potions homework and was now helping Astoria with her transfiguration homework that Professor McGonagall had set. "I totally get it now...or at least I think I do get it now." Astoria added as she began writing.

"After half an hour of explaining it to you I would probably slam my head on this desk hard if you did not." Daphne said, rolling her eyes. "I do not see why you have so much trouble with this, it is not that hard you know."

"Oh shut up," Astoria sighed. "you know I hate transfiguration."

"That is because you are not good at it." Daphne said as she began looking through her homework and double checking her answers, just because Snape was willing to give a free pass to any and all of his Slytherin students did not mean much for Daphne. In her opinion a free pass now could and likely would be a very horrible cause of failure in the future. After all other potions companies and shops were not willing to hire someone with no knowledge on how to properly prepare potions. They were going to hire the best, and if Daphne happened to be the best because she did not rely on Snape in class like others then so be it, she was not going to complain. Snape did not grade the OWL and NEWT exams after all so it made sense to not be reliant on Snape.

Though as she thought of Snape she realised that she did not like the man at all, before she would always have at least a small level of respect for him. When she had first arrived at Hogwarts as a first year she respected him because he was her head of house, a teacher at the supposedly best magical school in Europe and he was a potions genius and youngest ever potions master in history, at least so far. Unfortunately Daphne's respect for the man had withered down over the years for a few different reasons.

One of which was the man's attitude, he was about as pleasant as dragon pox on a good day and even worse when he was in the presence of the Gryffindor's. On her first night in the noble house of Salazar Slytherin she had heard from a variety of sources that the Gryffindor's would not hesitate to start trouble with the Slytherin's. Daphne had stayed on guard since being told that but was thankfully not bothered by many of the Gryffindor's, not counting Adrian and his then friend Ronald Weasley but all they did was annoy her.

It was in her first potions class that she experienced her first time properly witnessing the rivalry between the houses of Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin. Who started it though? Well it was not the 'arrogant Gryffindors' like she had expected it to be, no it was none other than the potions master, teacher and head of Slytherin house, Severus Snape.

Daphne was not sure what to think of it when she was younger but now as she was older, and old enough to understand people better, she thought back and could not help but think that she did not blame the Gryffindors for acting out against the Slytherin's when most of Slytherin and its own head of house openly target them. If she had Malfoy and Snape targeting her then she would likely also gain an aversion against Slytherin.

She also lost more respect for Snape due to his teaching methods, it could not be denied that the man knew all about potions. What could be denied was the fact that the man had the ability to teach. At times Daphne felt like she would be better served if she simply found an abandoned classroom and practised potions with one person around just to make sure to get her to the hospital wing if she ended up injuring herself on accident.

Snape also lost more respect with his inability, or more likely refusal, to do anything about the wannabe death eaters in the house. Especially Malfoy who felt like a king thanks to his father's backing which helped him against many Slytherin's from lesser families plus his godfather helped him, the fact that his godfather was none other than Severus Snape, a happy coincidence for Malfoy.

Recently Snape had lost more respect from herself, and this time a lot of Slytherin's, due to how he treated Daphne's boyfriend. Many Slytherin's were glad of Snape's help Slytherin policy, so the fact that he was targeting one of them, good reason or not, did not help Snape especially when he did not really have a good reason. Plus it also showed that Snape had no care for school rules, pretences or even the social and political ladder when he openly targets the heir to so many houses. Daphne's lips subconsciously curved up slightly at the thought of Harry.

"Thinking about your boyfriend?" Astoria asked with a teasing smile, bringing Daphne out of her thoughts.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Daphne said, masterfully fighting off the blush that had threatened to appear on her face.

"You can't fool me," Astoria smirked. "you can fool the whole world but you can not fool me. I saw your smile."

"I can agree that you saw something, whether what you saw is a smile is up for debate." Daphne responded.

"Oh shut up, you like him!" Astoria smiled widely. "You finally got a boyfriend and you like him!"

"Shut up." Daphne said in a warning tone.

"No, it's good." Astoria continued. "Instead of getting some pureblood dickhead, you get a nice and powerful wizard who makes you happy."

"Shut up." Daphne repeated.

"Or what?" Astoria asked in an innocent voice. "Are you going to set your strong, macho boyfriend on me?"

"No, I will remind you why I am to be feared." Daphne said, as she twirled her wand in her right hand.

"Okay, okay," Astoria rolled her eyes. "I will be quiet."

"Good." Daphne nodded.

"One last thing though," Astoria said, earning a groan from Daphne. "I am happy for you, really, I am glad you two are together."

"Thank you," Daphne sighed as she gave her a small smile and a one armed hug. "now get back to work lazy."

"Fine." Astoria said before returning to her work as she disengaged from the hug.

"By the way Astoria," Daphne said, causing Astoria to look up from her work. "thank you."

"Oh, you're welcome."

"Oh and Astoria, two more things."

"What?"

"First of all you made a mistake on question ten," Daphne said as she stood up and picked up her stuff. "also when you look at your hair, remember that I did warn you and you were the one who chose to ignore my warning and continue talking." Daphne gave her a small smile and walked off.

"Huh?" Astoria frowned before she took out a small make up mirror from her pocket, she looked at the mirror and her eyes widened in horror when she saw her hair had turned pink. She knew it would not last long and would likely be gone by the time she had left the library but that did not mean she was immune to the shock and horror of suddenly having pink hair.

A.N: Hi guys, hope you liked the chapter. I felt like giving Daphne some time because in the last version we had already had about three years of knowing her by this point. Also I just want to make it clear that will be nowhere near as long as the previous version for a few of reasons, firstly because a lot of the sources for conflict are eliminated (Red and Adrian), also because now Harry has his team with him, pretty much everything is easier by this point. If I had to compare it, I would compare it to how Ironman vs Ironmonger was a good fight, but Iron man and all of the Avengers vs Iron monger is a fight that should last no longer than a couple of minutes.

Anyway, thanks for reading and feel free to leave a review.