Chapter 12
Harry was staring at himself in the mirror, not recognising the boy staring back at him, the dress robes he was wearing made him seem more elegant and posh and were different to his school ones. Tonight was the Potter-Black New Year’s Eve party to reintroduce not just his parents back into the wizarding world but also himself, not only were his friends and family going to be there but the most prominent wizarding families in their world, Harry’s parents assured him that he didn’t have to be involved in any of the adult talk that would be going on and he could just be himself with his friends tonight. But as much as Harry trusted his parents he just knew something would happen tonight, as he seemed to just attract trouble.
Harry made his way downstairs and saw people already starting to arrive, as they stared at him in either awe or disgust Harry quickly made his way into the ballroom and saw his parents talking to his Uncle Mooney, he made his way over and his dad noticing him smiled ‘everything okay pup?’ Harry nodded ‘yeah, no problems, have you seen any of my friends?’ His father keeping an ear on the conversation answered ‘Fred, George and Neville are outside, why don’t you head on out instead of having to stay in here talking to stuffy wizards and witches’ Harry grinned and started making his way towards the doors, and while he did he heard his dad laughing loudly while his Uncle Mooney scolded the two of them ‘James you can’t just call people stuffy, and Sirius will you stop laughing, what would mama and papa Potter say if they could see you now’ but that just seemed to make James and Sirius laugh even harder.
Harry stepped outside and saw his three friends standing by the water fountain, he made his way up to them ‘and then Charlie still tried to bring the little sucker home with him’ Neville chuckled before seeing Harry ‘Hey Harry’ Fred and George looked to their left just as Harry came to stand between the three of them ‘hey guys, you doing alright?’ The three nodded ‘yeah doing okay, bit quieter at home this year’ Harry gulped and looked down guiltily, but George seeing the direction Harry’s thoughts were about to take him stopped him ‘no Harry, you are not to blame’ Harry looked up ready to argue but Fred continued his twin’s conversation ‘George is right Harry the only ones to blame are mum, Ron, Ginny and Dumbledore, you and your parents are the victims’ George nodded ‘yeah so don’t you worry about a thing’ Harry looked up gratefully at the twins and surprised them with a hug ‘thanks guys, now come on, let’s explore the rest of the grounds’ the twins and Neville nodded and the four of them took off down the path.
Meanwhile back in the ballroom James and was listening to a ministry official drone on about something or the other not that he was paying much attention, as he made to get out of the conversation he saw his husband coming in from the next room, as he and Sirius made eye contact, Sirius staring making his way towards James when a cold, arrogant voice made him stop in his tracks ‘I I hope you enjoy the time you’ve had being free, because the time will come and you and your freak of a family will get what’s coming to you’, Sirius turned around to face Lucius Malfoy ‘Well I should’ve known a slimeball was around, how are you out of Azkaban?’
Lucius smirked at Sirius ‘of course there was no evidence to prove I was a death eater, so they let me go’ Sirius glared ‘well you’re not welcome in my house, get out’ Lucius again smirked at Sirius ‘maybe I should go say hello to your son’ Sirius felt the anger he was trying to hold on explode from him as he took out his wand ‘YOU KEEP THE HELL AWAY FROM MY SON!’
James who was watching the entire scene unfold went charging towards the two men once his husband and Malfoy took out their wands, from the corner of his eye he saw Remus making his way over then it got worse as he saw Harry and his friends coming in from outside but they took pause as they saw what was going on, James reached his husband’s side also taking out his wand pointing it at Malfoy ‘back away from my husband, or they’ll be taking you out on a stretcher’ at this point the entire hall was silent and Remus finally reached his friends’ side also taking out his wand, Lucius seeing he was outnumbered put his wand away ‘you Potter-Blacks will get what’s coming you, mark my words’ he then turned and left the hall and the three Marauders slowly put their wands away, James slowly turned to his husband, grabbed his hand and pulled him into a hug, they then felt a body slam into them as they turned from the the hug and grabbed their son ‘are you and father okay?’ Sirius smiled down at his son ‘we’re fine Harry, nobody is going to hurt us, and if they do they’ll see why me and your father were feared aurora’ Harry smiled at his parents and Uncle Mooney and nodded before being pulled into a group hug, feeling very much protected from the world and the people in it.