The Way It's Suppose To Be
It was a morning that every child in Godric's Hollow looked forward to. It wasn't Christmas or New Years, but a day to put on fun costumes and eat candy until their stomachs burst. It was October 31st 1981 and the streets were packed with people buying candy, costumes, or eggs.
Today was a normal day for the Potters'. They were trapped inside of a house because some madman is out to get their one-year-old son.
Lily Potter didn't mind it much because she was allowed to go outside to do a bit of shopping, but her husband, James, was bored with the whole idea of being locked away in a house. Especially on a night that he could have went with his friends to pull pranks on innocent residents.
"I know you want to go out with your friends," said Lily when James told his view on being locked in a house. "But Dumbledore said that you are not to leave the house."
"I know what Dumbledore said," said James irratibly. "I just need to get out for a bit. And so does Harry," he added.
Lily looked up from the laundry she was folding and narrowed her eyes at her husband.
"You know that Harry is in danger and he's—"
"—not suppose to leave the house," he finished. "He's one years old for crying out loud. He needs a social life, Lil."
"I know what you're saying, but until You-know-who is finished. . ." she let her sentence hang, then turned her attention back to her laundry.
James knew that he had not succeeded in talking his wife into letting him go trick or treat with his friends. Recognizing defeat, he left the kitchen and went to go check on his son, who was playing with his teddy bear in the living room.
Harry looked up from his toy when his father entered the room. He noticed his father looked upset about something and thought that he should try to cheer him up.
Harry stood up and slowly walked over to his dad and held his teddy bear out to him.
James thought that that was the cutest thing he ever saw. He picked his son up and sat him in his lap. Harry looked at him with bright emerald eyes.
"You may not know this," James said to his son. "But today is Halloween. Today was supposed to be the day that you dress up as a pumpkin and me as a vampire. We were supposed to go trick or treat and get all types of candy. Then the guys would have come over. Moony would have raided our candy for chocolate products. Wormtail would have danced for candy. And Padfoot. . .he would have thrown eggs at Wormtail for dancing."
Harry laughed. James was pretty sure that his son had no idea what he was talking about. Then again, Harry was pretty smart for someone his age.
James got a mental picture of Sirius throwing eggs at Peter and laughed himself.
"What's so funny?" asked Lily, as she walked in the room wearing a cloak.
"Just thinking," answered James. "Where're you going?"
"Going to the store to pick up a few things. You want anything while I'm out?"
"Can you get one of those pumpkin buckets, a pumpkin costume, and some Halloween candy?"
Lily gave a quizzical look, "You're not thinking of going out, are you?"
"No, I just figured maybe we'd do our own Halloween."
Lily considered James for a moment before saying, "Alright, I'll be back in a hour or so."
As soon as the front door closed, James turned his attention back towards his son.
"Don't worry, Harry. I won't let a psycho ruin Halloween for you."
Author's Note: This is the first of an eight-part story. Please read and review and tell me what you think. Snape appears in the next chapter.