Sacred Magic; Wizards and Dragons.

Specifics of the challenge and prologue.

Sacred Gears. Also known as God's Artifacts. They are items with powerful abilities bestowed upon humans by the original God from the Bible. Wizards are Humans with an extra gene who gave them the ability to wield the arcane forces of the world, thus they can be born with a Sacred Gear. What would happen if the "Power He Knows Not" told in the prophecy was a Harry Potter in possession of the Longinus class Sacred Gear named Divine Dividing?

Requirements:

- Lily and Harry both live after the events of October 31th 1981. Done.

- Harry MUST BE the wielder of Divine Dividing and it is the power of the Sacred Gear to halve the power of everything it touches that permitted Harry and Lily to live that night. Since Harry is a toddler, thus unable to consciously use his Sacred Gear, it is Albion's consciousness who took control to save his wielder's life and his wielder's mother's life in the same time. He was a Heavenly Dragon for God's sake, not a nurse maid! He would not be stuck raising a human child. No diapers changing for this Dragon! Yep, I've got good ideas with that!

- I don't care how you do it, but Harry doesn't become a horcrux. I'm totally fed up with that. Yup! No horcrux in Harry!

- Harry must stay human until his seventeenth birthday, so no reincarnating him as a Devil before that. If Lily or James have Devil blood, Harry can be a Human/Devil hybrid, but be original, do not give him a Satan (Lucifer, Leviathan, Asmodeus and Beelzebub) ancestry. He will be half devil. Not as much as an ass-hole as Dante though. XD

- Harry will only have ONE Sacred Gear. Divine Dividing is quite strong enough and Dragons can be quite territorial. Yep, just one voice in Harry's head outside of his lol XD

-When Harry will meet with Issei, they won't get along well. Not only Ddraig and Albion are rivals since immemorial times, Harry was raised and taught to be courteous and respectful of women. Remember people, he is British born and raised, and the people from the U.K are renowned for their good manners and the stiff upper lip. (Not sure what it is, but I heard that somewhere...) Yes, he can be a bit perverted, like any red blooded male, but not to Issei's level.

He can respect his rival's determination to obtain his goals and the hard work he put for the achievement of said goal, but they will never be friends. I'd go for "colleague you must work with but don't like". So seeing Issei's and the other two members of the Perverted Trio's antics will likely disgust him. Done.

-Wizarding Apparition causes a glitch into Devil's and Fallen Angels' created wards. The technique can bypass any Devil and Fallen Angel made wards. Apparition is quicker than the personal family magic circles, but cannot transcend dimensions. Sure thing. He will surprise many people with that.

- Lily wants her son to have as much options as possible, thus Harry must have a mundane education alongside his magical one. Yep, education is important.

- Animagus training. He must also learn to have fun, so he can be a Marauder. Yep! Animagus transformation for the win!

Forbidden:

- A Great Satan ancestry. Nope! Harry won't be related at all to a Satan, old or new.

- Reincarnating Harry as a Devil before he's of age in the Magical community. I'm not sure if he will ever be part of a peerage.

- Horcrux Harry. If he becomes one, it won't stay there long, I have a plan.

-Martyr Harry. Nope, no happy march to his death for this guy!

- Joining Voldemort's merry band of murderers. As if he would join the hypocrite.

- Going along with Dumbledore's "Greater Good" and "Everyone merit a second chance even the psychopaths and murderers" bullshits. Nope. Dumbledore won't have much or any influence on this Harry.

- Pureblood Devil Harry. Hey, he will be half Devil, so he's no pureblood.

- Brave Saint Harry (Reincarnation as an angel) before his coming of age. Sorry but it's more fun on the Highway to Hell than on the Stairways to Heaven! XD

Recommended:

- James can live through the events of October 31th 1981. Not sure at 100% for this one.

- James is reincarnated as a Devil if he doesn't survive Voldy's social call. It's fifty/fifty for that option.

- Going to another magical school than Hogwarts. Yep, sorry nice castle in Scotland, the Potter heir is out of here! XD

- James and/or Lily having ties with the Church and the Angels. Nope.

- James and/or Lily having ties with some reasonable Fallen Angels. It's possible.

- James and/or Lily having ties with Youkais. Huh, maybe. I'll look through options first.

- Sirius not going to Azkaban and part of Harry's life. Yep, no Azkaban for Padfoot.

- A different wand than in canon. I'll see once I'm at this point.

-Adjusting the timeline to fit it for the High School DxD universe. Yes, I will put everything about the Harry Potter timeline ten years later than canon, so Harry will be around 17-18 years old when High School DxD canon starts in the year 2008.

-Catching Pettigrew early. That's a given.

- It is said in many fan fictions that many of the Fallen Angels were left homeless, since they are in constant conflict with the Devils for territory in the Underworld and no longer welcome in places of worship. Azazel could have relocated the peace seekers of his faction in the Magical Communities. Yes, the more peaceful Fallen who are tired of fighting are living an honest life among the Wizards all around the globe.

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Optional:

- Multi crossovers. (Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime, Devil May Cry, Ghost Rider, Supernatural, etc. Try to mix some believable animes/mangas/series. ) Yep! Fate/Stay Night is for sure and a bit of Ghost Rider, the rest I'll see.

- Pairings with Sona Sitri and/or less used girls of the DxD universe. Huh, I'll wait for the pairings.

-Harry having Phenex blood, it could explain his talent on a broom with the aero kinesis/wind affinity. Yes, Harry will have Phenex blood. He won't use the powers of the Phenex family the same way the main family does though.

- Other focus for magic. More likely a focus ring than a wand.

- Focus less magic. Only for prank spells or simple things since it's exhaustive.

Prologue

Author's notes: The Harry Potter timeline is different; everything will be ten years later, thus Harry was born July 31th 1990 instead of in 1980. Voldemort's visit to Godric's Hollow is then October 31th 1991 instead of in 1981. Why? Because, now that everything is a shifted a decade later, it will fit better with the High School DxD's canon timeline. Also, since Divine Dividingis a Longinus, thus a unique Sacred Gear, if Vali Lucifer appears, he won't have this Sacred Gear since its host is Harry Potter.

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Last Edit: Mai 27, 2017.

Lily Evans Potter was really cursing her luck. You see, she may look human, but she was not. In fact, she was a Devil. A pureblood Devil more precisely. You see, pure Devils look exactly like humans, albeit with at least one pair of black bat-like wings that can be hidden at will. However, those from the Phenex family do not have the usual bat wings, instead having eagle-like wings made of fire.

Some pure Devils can also have pointed elf like ears. Lily was in fact a Devil from the Phenex family, but not from the main line, rather from a now extinct branch. Why had she lived her entire life into the Human world instead of being in the Underworld with her kind? Her branch of the family had decided to cut themselves from the politics and the cold war between the Three Factions because they were fed up of everything and upped to live in the United Kingdom.

It worked, for a time. She was one of the rare Devils conceived and born into the Human world. The problem came from the Celt Gods, whom weren't pleased of having to share territory with Devils once they discovered the existence of their new Supernatural neighbors. You see, from all the Divine Pantheons on the planet, the Celts are those whom are the less tolerant about intruders and also very isolationist. Even more than the Shinto Pantheon was in the old days. So nobody knew they were still active since every other Factions though they had faded a long time ago.

To make a long story short, the Celts sent Cernunnos, the Celtic God of the forest, fertility and Lord of the Hunt as a trash man and the horned god made mince meat of every adult member of the Phenex family on his Pantheon's lands. As a god whose domains also touched life and death, he felt that claiming the adults were enough and decided to be somewhat merciful with the last living devil.

Also, as that particular branch of the Phenex had left the protection of the Underworld and they were on Celt territory, the main Phenex family, once they found out what happened a few years later, couldn't do more than lodge an official protest To Serafall Leviathan, who was in charge of the office of Foreign Affairs.

There was only one child with the Devils he cleansed, a baby girl with green eyes and red hair. That baby was her. Cernunnos decided to bind her Phenex powers and change her Devil nature to that of a Human Witch. Once he had "adjusted" her and made sure that she would gain back her true powers once she was twenty years old, he used his Godly powers to enter her into the human foster care system and named her Lily before dropping her to the nearest orphanage. From there she was adopted by the Evans family and her life had her ups and downs. Now she was married, and mother of a beautiful baby boy.

Harry James Potter was born half Devil and if his temperament said anything, he had inherited James' talent for broom flight, enhanced by her inborn aerokinesis. Seriously, the boy would do anything to reach the brooms of his father and uncles to fly around the house and pursue the poor cat everywhere!

She wasn't sure if he had inherited her pyrokinesis though. Not that she had much practice with her Devil powers, having lived as a Human almost all her life and being trained as a Witch since her eleventh birthday. Seriously, she had learned of her real heritage through a strange man called Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. He was some sort of Super Vampire, who could control his blood lust and use strange magic.

She wasn't really certain of the details and the look he gave her when she asked made her fear for her sanity. Zelretch did give them, to her husband and her that is, a magical binding oath that he was not a follower of Voldemort and meant them no harm, or else she would not have him in her house. He seemed to mellow around her son and also seemed to enjoy her husband and friends' antics though... Now, you would like to know the source of her current bad luck?

The Satan dammed Dark Lord (She found out the hard way that as a Devil now, she could no longer invoke the name of the Lord of the Bible without crippling pain, not even for cursing; the stingy jerk!) had gotten hold of the secret of their Fidelius protected cottage and now after likely killing her husband, he was trying to kill her son. And she had a pretty good idea how he was going to go about it. Damn Peter Pettigrew to Hell! The traitorous rat had squealed! It was Judas Iscariot all over again!

Lily was quite upset at her husband's death of course, but if her back up plan would work as she intended, she could take her time to mourn him later if her ace in the hole that she had prepared for his survival wouldn't work. The funny thing, Wizarding magic affected Devils just as much as any other species with the logical exception of those creatures with thick magic resistant hides like Dragons and Mountain Trolls; but as a Phenex, she could not be killed that easily.

The so dreaded Killing Curse would not work properly on her. She had firsthand experience, for it was in celebration of somehow having survived that particular Unforgivable Curse after a fight against some Inner Circle members of the Death Eaters that led to the celebration of still being alive with her husband. And then, the party with friends became a very intimate celebration with only James and her which was when their son was conceived.

But right now she was devoid of her wand and with anti transportation wards (Anti Portkey, Anti Apparition, Floo blocked, Anti Broom…) all around the propriety, she could only rely on her innate but untrained talents as a Devil and pray that Lady Luck was with her. Thus she stood firm in front of her son's crib where she had put him when she ran upstairs with him when Voldemort had blown the door in, acting like a pro to make the bastard Dork Lord believe she was cornered. Who knew she was such a good actress? Maybe it was the experience accumulated from when she was faking her orgasms the first few times she started to sleep with James once she had an Engagement ring on her finger?

Who knew really? But why was Voldy offering her to live in exchange of her son's life? Not that she would take him up on his offer, she loved her son with her entire being and sacrifice him for a chance of living was anathema for her. To the Dork Lord and his merry band of murderers, she was nothing more than a "filthy mudblood". She didn't really relish finding out what she would become under his care.

Harry was part Phenex, true but his human blood could likely interfere with the clan's immortality, thus when the Dork Lard decided to cut her down since she was obviously refusing to move and throwing back in his face his "generous offer", she stayed strong and immovable. She wasn't about to test her baby boy's resilience to death-like situations! When the sickly green light touched her, she forced herself to not burst into her regenerative fire right there and faked her death by letting herself collapse boneless on the floor, to better gather her flames and roast him alive in a minute or two.

Knowing the megalomaniac, he would likely monologue for a few minutes, thus giving her the time needed. She was about to literally roast him since she had gathered enough fire, but Voldy beat her to the punch, cursing her son! Just as she was about to jump in front of another Killing Curse, her son's aura changed! Two white translucent Dragon wings appeared from his back, with blue energy forming the membranes of the wings! What. The. Hell?! Then a deep masculine voice was heard coming from the wings

"You better get up and don't die on us Lily Evans Potter! I don't want to be stuck changing the kid's diapers! Now, as for the little dark Wizard who just tried to kill my host, let's get you a taste of your own medicine!"

It was as if time stopped or more likely slowed down. The same deep masculine voice would say the same word each time and after each word, the Killing Curse seemed to have lost half of his potency and absorbed into the Dragon Wings!

"(Divide!)"

"(Divide!)"

"(Divide!)"

"(Divide!)"

The problem was that Voldemort was not giving up, he was now shrieking something about being "the most powerful being alive on the planet since time began" (*snorts* *snickers*Yeah, right.) and kept pushing more and more of his magic into the spell! Then, the green light of the Killing Curse was evicted from the wings and the accumulated energy suddenly discharged blasted a huge hole into the nursery wall! Fortunately, the debris was blown outward, not touching Harry at all, except dousing him in sawdust. How come her sweet baby boy was able to sustain such a power while he was so young?!

Unknown to Lily, Albion had played a very dirty trick on Riddle. He knew that his wielder couldn't support his power right now, so when the Enemy shot his green beam of death, the Vanishing Dragon took the energy needed to keep functioning from the spell itself. But soon, the magic was running dry. So Albion took advantage of the unstable soul of the Adversary and started feeding on it as to not feed upon his new partner's life force since he wasn't strong enough yet to sustain him without lasting consequences. In this Universe, there were a few universal truths.

Any kind of power requires energy to be sustainable and everything alive could be broken down into pure energy. Riddle had executed some sort of ritual to loosen a shard of his soul before coming here to commit murder. Thus, because of that ritual, Riddle's soul was even more unstable than it was normally (Cutting shards out of his own soul to create Horcruxes will do that to someone.) and by pitting his magic against Divine Dividing, Albion the White Dragon Emperor's consciousness could go upstream the connection and feed directly at the source.

Wizarding magic was managed by a metaphysical core, but said magical core was lodged inside the soul of the wizard. The soul was attached to the body, just like the mind. Thus Tom Riddle was currently been divided to almost non existence, that could be seen as his body, already heavily ravaged/modified by rituals, was breaking down. Riddle's existence would be reduced to the form of a wraith, lesser than the weakest ghost, but still somewhat alive. Normally, Albion would not be so nice and employing his resourcefulness like that for the wellbeing of an untested host who hadn't won his respect. But for now, it was more like an act of self preservation than anything else.

If his young host died, he would be stuck into the nothingness until he reappeared in a new one. He just woke up, he wasn't really in the mood to go back to sleep, but the Vanishing Dragon would not have much of a choice, even with his acts to minimize the consequences to the maximum, the physical strain in activating him for the first time was very hard on a toddler. Little Harry was now passed out. He was likely very tired, but alive and still healthy. The tyke would likely be hungry as hell when he woke up though.

Lily just couldn't believe her eyes! After forcing her body to resurrect itself without bursting into flames, something very tiring mentally for someone without the family training; her baby boy had used an unknown power and dealt with the Dork Lard by himself! Maybe there was something true about the prophecy that Albus was harping about after all? It was certainly "The Power He Knew Not", since Voldemort hadn't known how to deal with the dragon wings. When she rushed, once back on her feet to see if he was alright, the young mother found her baby passed out. He was exhausted, but unharmed! Tears of relief were now flowing freely from her eyes and in a moment that could be either dementia or insight; she spoke to the Dragon wings

"Thank you so very much. I don't know really what and who you are, but you saved my son's life. For that you have my eternal gratitude."

Albion was a bit taken off guard. He was thanked? That Devil woman thanked him for an act of self-preservation? True, he saved the kid at the same time but it was more to save himself from the trouble of another long time out into the nothingness than anything else really. He would never go so far out of his way to not make pay the due price of using his powers on an untested host in normal situations. Not knowing what to say, Albion just said

"Well...you're welcome. If you want answers, research the term "Sacred Gear" would you? And also you should keep my physical description and my name for only the ears of those you trust without any possible doubt. My name is Albion and the name of the Sacred Gear which resides in the soul of your son is Divine Dividing."

With that, the wings simply vanished into energy particles. One second they were there, the other they were gone as if they were never there in the first place! She would have loved to collapse in exhaustion, but she had to do something for her husband. That strange man Zelretch had given her an enchanted Chess set he had called Evil Pieces in one of his visits and instructions on their uses, abilities and limits. He said he was good friends with the creator of the Evil Pieces System and that the guy owed him a favour.

That the Devils had invented something that could resurrect the recently deceased but as a Devil, was nothing more than formidable! Once Lily had recovered her set hidden in the master bedroom after making sure that Harry was alright, she went down on the first landing of the house. There was only to find her husband dead at the base of the staircase once she was arrived at destination. Retrieving her wand left on the counter of the kitchen, Lily accio'ed James', and then knelt near him once her wand was back into her holster.

Looking through her set, she took the King piece and with a flush, put it underneath her blouse and bra between her breasts. She was glad that nobody was here to see that. A golden and black magic circle similar in color to all her Evil Pieces appeared before the Kingpiece was integrated into her being. Perfect, now she was King of her Peerage. Now, what Evil Piece would suit her husband the best? She debated a few minutes mentally between both one of her Bishops and the Queenpiece. Both had the enhancements that would fit her husband the best, even if the Queen was better well rounded all around.

She had to hurry though, the fact that the Fidelius failed meant that the repercussions of the night would be felt far and wide all across the country very soon. And she had a sneaking suspicion that Dumbledore had already a plan made for their son if they were no longer there to take care of him. She would not put it above him to have somewhat set them up as sacrifice to make Voldemort fall. After all, what was the loss of a few in front of the needs of the many? It didn't make her feel any better though...

Her ex-Headmaster was a good man, but he kept too many secrets close to the vest and that damn war would have been over far sooner if he hadn't made everything in his power to bar the Light side fighters to fight back with deadly curses. But no, they had to be captured alive and unharmed so they could be redeemed! The fact that her husband and Sirius were gobbling that shite was icing on the cake!

Only Mad eye Moody, she and Remus were clamoring to fight fire with fire in the Order's meetings! Shaking her head and those thoughts away, she decided to use her Queen piece. It would be her subtle revenge after being brushed off when she pleaded her husband to leave Britain and the War behind, if only for Harry's sake. But nooo, James had to consult Saint Dumbledore and the manipulative old man talked him into staying inside a fucking war zone.

She should have taken her baby and walked away, but her love for James had made her stay. Well, after today, her dear hubby will no longer worship Saint Dumbledore or he would be sleeping on the couch for the foreseeable future. She could usually make her man submit to her every whim when she was withholding sex long enough.

Lily put the Queen piece on the unmoving chest of James and moved his hand in manner to make them cup the Piece. It was a good thing that the Killing Curse was not attacking the soul like so many believed. It was attacking the brain and making it believe the body was dead and forcefully shot down every vital system in one hit. If it had taken the soul, she couldn't have reincarnated him. Taking a big breath, she then said

"In the name of the Phenex Family, I, Lily Evans Potter order thee, James Charlus Potter to rise back to life! You shall serve me as my Queen in this new life! Now, rise!"

The words for the ceremony were not important; it was the feeling that the King was transmitting that would activate the process. She was glad to see the golden and black glow and the piece sunk down into him. A few seconds later, the glow faded and James sprang back to life, panting and eyes wide. No longer able to contain herself, Lily let go of her emotions and crashed into her husband's arms, crying her heart out. James was somewhat calmed to see his wife safe and sound, but he had to ask!

"Lily flower, talk to me! Is Harry alright? What happened?"

She had only time to explain to her husband that Harry was alive, unharmed but passed out from exhaustion when a loud motor sound was heard from outside. Once the motor was cut off a loud man voice yelled

"NOOO! JAMES! LILY! HARRY!"

James, glad to hear his best friend's voice yelled back

"PADFOOT! GET IN HERE!"

Sirius Black rushed into the house, feeling an immense relief washing over him in seeing his brother in all but blood and the woman who he had come to love like a sister still alive. James had inkling on how he was suddenly alive when a few minutes ago, he was dead. But that would be a conversation for another time. Lily hugged Sirius and left him to help James to his feet when she went upstairs to get "Pronglet" as Sirius and Remus were prompt to nickname him.

Once back in the destroyed nursery, with a swish of her wand she gathered everything needed for a few days and put it into the travelling bag in form of a koala and before taking her sleeping baby boy in her arms, she snatched Voldemort's wand from the ashes pile that was his body and with a vindictive smirk, snapped it in two, then in four, before setting it ablaze with her Clan's fire.

Surprisingly, a red and gold feather was left untouched. So Voldemort had a phoenix feather core wand? Huh, who knew? Not knowing if the feather could be useful, she still decided to keep it as a trophy. Her family had survived when so many had been cut down, a little token to celebrate that would be nice. Taking her baby boy into her arms after tucking him in a blanket, she then went to her and James' room to get them some clothes for a few days.

When she was done with that task, she shrunk down everything to fit it in one bag and went downstairs to rejoin Padfoot and Prongs. What she discovered once on the ground floor was hey boys arguing with Hagrid of all people! And the gentle Half-giant was looking rather pissed off!

"James and Sirius, I have enough now, so stand aside! Professor Dumbledore told me to take little Harry from here and bring the boy to him and by Merlin, I'll do what I've been asked to do! I don't care if you're the little tyke's father and godfather. Dumbledore's word is final. An order is an order. You have a problem with that? Take it with him once I'm done. Now you really don't want me to thump you both, trust me you won't like it, so move."

Not many things could make Rubeus Hagrid stop when he had something in mind. His strength was unreal and his resistance to magic well known, just as his loyalty to Albus Dumbledore. But as he made past the protesting duo of troublemakers, he stopped short seeing Lily holding her baby boy protectively into her bosom. What made him stop, was the furious and slightly manic green gaze she launched on him and the feeling of intense heat emanating from her lithe form.

Hagrid knew that Lily Evans had a temper, hell he had had a front row seat quite a few times over the years when she unleashed it on James, Sirius and Peter when they were bullying that Snape kid and on multiples other occasions. Like when she announced she was pregnant and an Order member suggested that she go through an abortion because she was too young to be a good mother and it was too dangerous to have children right now because of the war.

Needless to say, that man learned the hard way to never piss Lily Evans Potter. Hagrid knew she was a spitfire, but until today, he had never been on the receiving end of her fiery temper. Sirius and James, proving that they did have a survival instinct, paled greatly and gulped in fear when they saw Lily in that state and then, made a mad dash outside, morphing into their animagus forms to be faster. Were they brave? Yes. Suicidal? Hell no!

In the end, Hagrid retreated without Harry, his tail between his legs, with mild burns all over his exposed face and hands. His fur coat was smoking and many patches of his great bushy beard were now missing. He was lucky that he was resistant to magic and that she was tired from the ordeal her family just endured or it would have been quite worse. Just as Hagrid disapparated away with a loud crack, she heard a loud angry shout from outside. Rushing to see what was going on; she found out that her husband and best friend had found Pettigrew hiding nearby. She acted immediately

"James! Sirius! Restrain him! Don't kill him! I will not have you both becoming murderers! We will drop him off to the DMLE with an anti-animagus jinx. He's neither rich nor well connected; he won't escape the just punishment for his crimes."

Her boys almost didn't listened to her, but when Lily repeated her command with magic laced in her voice, James had to obey, since she was King of the Peerage and him Queen. Sirius followed the lead of his brother in all but blood, but he was growling with suppressed rage and his emotions where all over the place. Peter had sold the Potter family to Voldemort by sheer cowardice! But no, he would not sink to his family's level. The law would be followed. Quicker than Peter could react, he was restrained in such a way he could not move on his own and the anti-animagus jinx was applied with an anti-apparition and anti-portkey jinxes added just in case.

He could be side-apparated or taken by another portkey, but Peter could no longer use the ability by himself and if he had had a portkey somewhere on his body, it was now inactive.

The Potters and Sirius were lucky when a squad of ten Aurors apparated on the scene just as they were contemplating to travel to the Ministry to drop the traitor. Had it been only fifteen minutes since the Dork Lord's courtesy visit? Two Aurors secured the place against Muggles eyes and intervention as was protocol, the seven others dispersed all around the propriety to investigate while the Squad leader went to interrogate them once he was done dishing the orders.

Needless to say, Lily had to talk fast about what happened to Voldemort and fudge details. After all, she couldn't tell that a Sacred Gear housed into her son into the form of Dragon wings had divided the Dark Lord's Killing Curse until the megalomaniac poured his soul into the spell to the point of breaking down his body could she? So she gave the name of Zelretch the Wizard Marshall of Clock Tower and the rest she put it into the Family Magic category. If there was a good thing about the isolationist's ways of Magical Britain, it was the laws forbidding LEOs (Law Enforcement Officers) to dig too deeply into the family magics of the Old Families.

In the end, the Aurors bagged the ashes of Voldemort and took Pettigrew in custody when they were made aware he was the Secret Keeper who gave their Secret to You-Know-Who. Three magical oaths and the Dark Mark branded on Peter's arm were sufficient to arrest him. Sirius and the Potters had almost managed to escape when Dumbledore of all people arrived on the scene.

While waiting for their emergency portkey to whisk them to their bolthole somewhere in Ireland, Lily cradled her baby boy into her bosom tightly when she saw Albus' gaze inspecting Harry's face. She felt rather smug to leave him to flounder with a two fingers salute before the reality warped around them. They arrived into a humble house with three rooms and soon, the four of them migrated to their rooms. James could not even support the thought of being away from his family, so they took their son to bed with them, not before James asked Sirius to inform Remus.

"Resume what you can Paddy, told him to come over tomorrow okay? We have many things to explain, but now I need some time with my wife and my son."

Sirius offered him a reassuring smile and answered

"No problem at all Jimmy. Moony needs to hear that from us. I can't believe I thought he would be the spy...I never thought that Peter would betray us..."

He finished, ashamed of himself.

In the master bedroom, Lily and James transfigured their ruined clothing into sleeping wear and as a family; they all cuddled together on the king size bed, glad to have survived. They knew that the following years would have their share of hardships, but as a family, they knew they would overcome them together. Why? Because they loved each other and Love was one of the greatest forces of the Universe.