The quartet meet Lily and the Marauders

AN: This is the final part of the confession time part of the series.


The Quartet Meet Lily And The Marauder's
Chapter sixteen: Confession Time Part Nine (The final Part)


They landed in the final memory. This was the incident that caused the quartet to end up where they were currently. The first thing they noticed was that this memory was hardly a few months old. They could tell by looking at the quartet, they looked exactly like they currently did back in their time line. They were once again inside of the potions class room. Snape was his usual vile and sarcastic self.

They watched as Harry teamed up with Ron and Hermione with Ginny. They watched as everything they had been told was going to happen, went a head and happened. Hedwig arrived and delivered the letter to Harry and waited for a reply.

Then Malfoy junior deliberately chucked a large jar of beetle’s eyes into Ginny's cauldron and messed up the unfinished potion. The potion exploded and drenched the quartet a long with Hedwig and was surrounded in a bright red light and the room did indeed spin around fast, enough to leave Lily and the Marauder's feeling queasy. They watched as Hedwig and the quartet disappeared.

They suddenly found themselves looking at the version of professor McGonagall from their own time line. They winced when the red light cleared and quartet landed on the floor in a tangle of limbs, and Hedwig screeched wildly.

They snorted when Ron complained "Oh Merlin you guys I think I'm gonna bloody hurl." Ginny had growled "Malfoy that bloody wanker, what the hell did he think he was doing chucking that damn jar of beetles eyes in my cauldron?"

Hedwig had continued to screech and pull at Harry trying to get his attention. Harry had complained "Holy shit, I feel like I've been hit in the head with a bloody bulger. Calm down Hedwig you’re screeching is hurting my head" Harry added. Hermione had gasped "Where the hell are we?"

James had snorted when McGonagall had accused Harry of being him and lying when he denied he was James. He had to show her the scar on his forehead before she would believe he was not James. Then McGonagall noticed his eyes were green while James's were hazel brown. The memory had faded after that and they could hear Dumbledore calling them back.

Once they emerged out of the pensive they noticed Harry was dressed in his school robes again and was fully healed. He was lying on top of the newly made bed, his hands were behind his head and one leg was folded over the other.

Ginny was lying beside Harry while both Ron and Hermione were sitting at the bottom of the bed cross legged. They all got off the bed and returned to their seats around the bed, leaving only Harry lying back on the pillows. James, Lily, Remus ,Sirius and Peter took the seats they had been in around the bed before they had gone into the pensive.

Dumbledore and Minerva a long with Poppy were sitting in chairs near to the group. Dumbledore cleared his throat and said "Welcome back. You have all been inside the pensive for nearly an hour and a half. We watched how you reacted to each memory that was given access to you all."

James looked surprised and asked "You were watching our every move and reaction in side the pensive during each memory?" Dumbledore nodded and replied "Yes Mr. Potter all of us saw everything. I, professor McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey saw everything you five seen."

Dumbledore continued "I want each of you, one at a time to ask any questions or make any comments you feel you need to." They all nodded and turned to the other four in front of them.

James went first, and said "I've come to a decision based on what I've witnessed tonight. If Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny agree I would like to invite you all to Potter manor for all of Christmas and new year.”

He added at their questioning looks “I would like Harry to finally be able to meet his real grandparents and see the future home I will make sure he’ll grow up in this time around. There is no way I'm letting that snake bastard any way near me and Lily to give him the opportunity to even kill us. And I sure as hell am not going to let the occasion rise where you end up being left with that scar on you forehead Harry."

Harry was shocked as were the others. Harry thought ‘shit I'm finally going to get to meet my real grandparents and see where my father grew up, I'm going to see the family Potter manor’

Harry sighed and asked "Is there anything else I and the others should know of?" James nodded and replied "Yes, there is. I want my parents to be told the truth, I want them to know who you really are and why you are here now. They are after all your grandparents and are entitled to know what has and will be going to happen to their only grandchild.”

He continued "And I must admit I'm not looking forward to explaining why you are not known at Hogwarts as the true and pure blooded Potter that you are by birth right. They are going to have a fit over the name Parker regardless of the fact it was necessary to have done so.”

He went on “I must say however necessary it was to go under a false identity it still does not please me, but I understand perfectly why you did. I'm certain my parents and Lily will agree with me, when I think it would be best if you were to continue with the name Potter for the remainder of the year. We can say I found out over Christmas that you were a cousin of mine I had no idea existed that's why you had to go under a false last name. But now that I know you are able to use your real name."

Lily finally spoke up and said "Yes I do agree with James and I'm certain James's parents will also. You are entitled to use that name no matter what, it is who you are and always will be. And I think James's plan will work, at least it will squash those ridiculous notions that you are James's clone.”

She added with a hard edge to her voice “I'm also going to write a letter to my sister and invite her to the Potter manor for Christmas and new year along with my parents. I will inform her , I will even show her what we saw if that's what it will take to stop her from marrying Dursley."

Peter sighed and laughed humourlessly "Well my future didn't turn out how I'd wanted it to that's for bloody certain. The woman I wouldn't minded of marring was married to a fat abusive son of a bitch. I end up a revolting mass murderer. I ended up the reason why Harry had no parents and Sirius spent twelve years in a cell in Azkaban for a crime my future self committed. Even if it's the last thing I ever do I'm going to make sure petunia Evans doesn't marry Vernon Dursley.”

He added “And I sure as hell am going to make it my life’s mission to make sure Harry grows up with his parents. And that Sirius never finds out for the second time what the inside of Azkaban looks like or what a dementor is like up close and personal. I will not have that ugly fucking dark mark tattooed upon my skin. And I won't be know as Scabbers for twelve wasted years of my life. And Remus won't spend twelve years alone and without anyone, I will make sure of that."

Remus smiled and said "It was wonderful seeing my older self interact with you Harry. The fact I got see the first kiss we had shared, and watched as you and I created each others promise rings."

Sirius winced and asked clearly horrified at the thought of what Ron had threatened him with in the second to last memory. "You really weren't serious were you when you said if we were to have anymore children I would have to mother them biologically. I honestly don't think I'm cut out for that shit." Ron and the others burst out laughing before Ron told him truthfully.

"Why the hell not, why should I have to be the one who deals with the mind boggling agony that is giving birth and squeezing something the size of a melon out of the opening the size of a bloody lemon and see how bloody hot you look after wards? So yes I sure as hell did mean it. Are children would still be related biologically and would be from the same gene pool. Only their parents would swap roles biologically so to speak."

Sirius grumbled "Damn you seriously not shitting me here are you?" Ron replied unblinkingly "No I am not. I'm as serious as the fact Voldemort needs wiping out for good so we don't have to bloody fight that war you saw during the last memories. I don't honestly think either me or the others could go through that again, especially Harry.”

He added “I don't want to have to spend practically all of my seventh and half of my eighth month of pregnancy in a hospital wing caring for people who have been mangled during the war, or have to watch several people I or someone else could not save die in front of me. I want a peaceful or as peaceful as pregnancy tends to be in the future."

Harry told them "I've been thinking about that while you've been gone and ever since I arrived here two months ago. I've come up with this plan. Lily and James were originally murdered in Godric's hollow. I was thinking we could prevent it from happening by hiding Lily, James along with baby Harry, Sirius, Remus and Peter in Hogwarts. And I and the rest of the quartet along with Hedwig will be at Godric's hollow on the night that you were originally murdered which was Halloween 1981.

I will kill Voldermort. I did it once as you saw in the memory and I shall do it again and for good this time. I'm sure he will not be as difficult to get rid of this time, at the risk of sounding like I'm gloating I'm guessing I'm more or less powerful then Voldemort is in this time line. Considering back in my time line I was on equal footing if not more powerful then Voldermort was. You see back in 1997 he had gained over twice the power he had back in 1981."

Harry sighed and continued "Hermione, Ron and Ginny will hide with Hedwig in another room out of the way of me and Voldemort, I will kill that murdering son of a bitch and once I've done that I will quickly join the others.”

He concluded “I'm presuming as soon as Voldemort is gone and I'm in the same room and close by to Hermione, Ron Ginny and Hedwig then the potion will have run its course and the time travelling properties in the potion will reactivate themselves again and hopefully send the five of us back to our own time line. Only in our own time line it will appear we have been gone only three months instead of three years. And everyone will be alive and won't be mass murderers or ex innocent convicts."

Dumbledore asked "How may I ask do you propose we will inform Voldemort that Lily and James will be there at that time and place without using Mr. Pettigrew?"

Harry grinned and replied "Simple when they read the letter sent anonymously by owl, if they check for finger prints they will be revealed as Draco Malfoy's, who I assure you will only be a month younger then myself on the date required." James and the others were looking at him in amazement.

Sirius commented "Damn Harry you think like a Slytherin." Harry let out a bark of laughter and said "It's funny you should say that, considering that's exactly where the sorting hat wanted to originally put me. I had to beg it not to put me in that house, I didn't care if I ended up as a Hufflepuff or a Ravenclaw as long as I was not made a Slytherin.”

He added “The reason the hat wanted to place me in that house was because the night Voldemort gave me the scar on my forehead he accidentally transferred some of his powers to me. That's how I ended up as a parsalmouth as you saw in one of the earlier memories. Because Voldemort was a parsalmouth I ended up as one as well and the sorting hat must have sensed that in me."

James shuddered as he said "Yes I noticed that to during your sorting I saw in one of the first memories, thank God you had the sense to argue with the sorting hat. Or I and Lily would have been surely turning in our graves, as you would have undeniably been the first ever Potter to be sorted into Slytherin."

Harry looked surprised and asked "Really we've never been sorted into any other house? Not even Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff?" James sighed and added "I don't know about that I just know for a solid fact the name Slytherin does not belong with the name Potter."

Dumbledore cleared his throat and revealed "I do believe you are a family that is of Gryffindor blood down to the core. You James and Harry are descendents and heirs to Godric Gryffindor. I have records of everyone who was ever sorted at Hogwarts, as far back as to the first ever sorting at Hogwarts.”

He added with the usual twinkle in his blue eyes. “Four students in particular caught my eye, especially when it stated who their parents were." James asked "Who were they?" Dumbledore paused before revealing "They were Godric Gryffindor and Trinity Potter." James and Harry gaped at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore continued "When I checked the records I found from the very first Potter to attend Hogwarts to the very recent which are James and Harry, especially Harry because he is from the future. Every single last one of you was Gryffindor's."

Harry nodded and told them "The sword I pulled out of the sorting hat during the fight with the basilisk in the chamber of secrets, was the sword of Godric Gryffindor, the sword had belonged to him."

He turned to Dumbledore and told him what he had told himself after he had saved Ginny. "Professor Dumbledore your future self once told me that only the true heir of Gryffindor could have pulled that sword out of the hat. I know that after my father was killed I became the only living decedent of Godric Gryffindor, I learned of my ancestry back in my fifth year after the fight at the department of mysteries."

Harry grinned when something suddenly occurred to him. He asked "So Lily are you aware of whom your great grandfather is, because I'm definitely aware of whom my great great grandfather is?" Everyone was noticed Harry was grinning widely at a for once speechless Dumbledore. Dumbledore asked "So Harry I'm presuming you know of your relations on your mother’s side of the family?"

Harry replied "yes your future self revealed that on the same night I found out I was related to the founder of my Hogwarts house." Lily looked puzzled "I don't understand" Lily said.

Harry turned to Dumbledore "Shall I tell or would you like that honour? You did after all tell me in the future that you had want to so badly to reveal a rather large secret you had kept from my mother. But unfortunately Voldermort got to her before you could."

Dumbledore sighed. He was in no way angry at Harry, truthfully he had actually help him a great deal by mentioning it. He had been having difficulty telling Lily, and considering Harry had just reveal his future self had missed the opportunity what a better time to now then to reveal the whole truth.

Dumbledore replied "I shall do this. You did your part by mentioning it, so it is only right I confirm the main details. He said "Lily I suspect no one ever knew I was married, and remained married until the day my wife Lucia died. We had two daughters and two sons, Amy, Nina, Edward and Stephen.”

He went on at their surprised looks. “Amy was the youngest then Stephen, followed by Edward and Nina as the oldest." Lily gasped "My great, great grandmother was called Lucia. Had her maiden name been Torvill?" Dumbledore smiled gently and replied "Yes Lily her full name had been Lucia corlett Torvill. She had the same red hair and green eyes as you do Lily."

Lily a paled considerably and said "My grandmother’s name had been Amy Harker. I never knew what her maiden name had been, I'm now guessing it had been Dumbledore." Dumbledore continued "Yes that is correct. Amy had married Christopher Harker, they had two children a daughter and a son, Laney and Mark. Both Laney and Mark were born a powerful witch and wizard. Then Laney had married Daniel Evans. And they had two daughters, yourself Lily then your sister Petunia. Your father is a muggle making you and petunia half bloods."

Lily shook her head in disbelieve and looked up at Dumbledore and said "That means your my great great grandfather and Harry's great great great grandfather." Dumbledore smiled and replied "Yes Lily you and Petunia are my great great granddaughters. And Harry is my great great great grandson."

James, Remus, Sirius and Peter were stunned. James realised as soon as he married Lily he would be related to Albus Dumbledore through Lily and marriage. James asked "I presume this means Harry and any other children me and Lily may have, will be pure bloods?"

Dumbledore nodded and replied "Correct. Because You’re a pure blooded wizard and Lily is only half blood, it still counts as pure blood because you are a wizard and Lily is a witch. You are both of magical heritages, so Harry and any other children you have will be pure bloods."

Harry let out a bark of laughter and crowed "Malfoy that son of a bitch. Wait until Malfoy junior hears about his, that prick has called me a dirty half blood since first year. Geez I'm going to enjoy rubbing this in that smug little prat's face."

Harry shook his head and said "Geez I really do have an interesting mixture of blood don't I?" Ron added "I'd say, Potter and Gryffindor on your father’s side, and Torvill, Dumbledore, Harker and Evans on your mother’s side. You mate are riddled with some of the finest and oldest blood the wizarding world has ever known."

Harry smiled and added "Yeah and I'm hopping to add Lupin to this very impressive blood line by the year 1999 as come and gone." Remus smiled at Harry lovingly.

Lily suddenly started laughing. James looked at her strangely and asked "What's the matter with you?" Lily replied "I just thought of something. If we succeed which I'm hopping we do, if we get Petunia from Dursley, I would bet Peter would have a more then fairly good chance with her. If he gets together with Petunia and they later on Marry, there is a good chance they would have children together right. So I think it is obvious that this long and interesting lineage we've got going here will have the name Pettigrew added to the long and getting even longer family tree."

Sirius added "You never know, me and Ron have already combined the Black and Weasley blood. In the future one of Harry and Remus's children could marry one of mine and Ron's children. And that in return would join the Black, Weasley, Potter and Lupin lines along with the other lines we currently have connected at the moment."

Minerva let out an out a startled laugh and said "I've never known such a mixture of blood like this. You will most likely have one of the most interesting family trees ever. If the blood lines Weasley, Black, Lupin, and Pettigrew do actually in the future join the already combined blood of Potter, Gryffindor, Evans, Dumbledore, Torvill and Harker. That will end up being one of the most powerful family trees the wizarding world as ever seen, considering the possibility of the blood lines that could be joined to the current lines are in fact all pure blood all except the name Evans."

Little did they know that they would be adding Snape and Malfoy to that impressive blood line in the near future.