Title: To Rise Again
Rating: K+…just to be safe!
Author: Ashley Graham
Full Summary: Harry believes himself to be very alone, with Albus Dumbledore and Sirius dead, but all this changes when nothing short of a miracle happens. James Potter never died that Halloween night (you'll see why), and he's going to protect his son as he attempts to vanquish the dark lord once and for all, even if he goes back to the grave doing it.
Category: Action/Adventure/Angst
Author Note: To address more concerns, I decided to alter the timeline, so that the year would be the same as ours now, it's just something I prefer to do. As for the Wolfsbane potion, I completely forgot to incorporate it into the previous chapter, when I later go in and edit everything, I will fix that. Thanks for the reviews!
To Rise Again
Prologue
The night was still, the only light shining was from the moon and the twinkling stars overhead. Godrics Hollow had no street lamps, for there was only one house on the otherwise abandoned street, and it stood in ruins.
Young children thought the entire street haunted, and would never dare venture there. For at that very house, 16 years before, a murderer had come and killed the two people inside, and their son had been whisked away, never seen by any of the neighboring streets again.
In the past, construction workers had come to knock down the charred house, wanting to build a new one on top of it. Their attempts had been in vain, the house stayed as it was, amazingly resistant to even bulldozers. Many believed it to be some sort of black magic; others simply kept trying to destroy it.
Eventually, the contractors gave up, and what was supposed to be a prominent street of many homes diminished, nobody would buy a house beside one with such a gruesome tale, nor one that looked like death had swept through it.
To the side of the house on the once green lawn, stood two tombstones, each with an engraving upon them. They had mysteriously appeared 4 days after the attack had been made, but no one had seen the bodies of James and Lily buried there. What was odder was the fact that every week, even in the cold winter nights, two red roses always seemed to lay atop of the marble stones, never moving, never withering.
The houses on the streets closest to Godrics Hollow eventually came to the conclusion that someone replaced the flowers every night, when everyone was sleeping, and left it at that. They chose to live in ignorance, rather then wonder why the house, which should have collapsed on its own, did not even creak when a bulldozer smashed into it. The older residents on the street also chose to keep quiet the fact that the Potters had seemed very strange themselves, and in the weeks before their murder, had not once left the house.
If the residents thought that they had seen the strangest and last of all occurrences, they were very wrong, for something very odd was happening in one of the graves on Godrics Hollow, something very odd indeed.
Beneath the tombstone of James Potter, a man was screaming.
TBC