Read the authors note in Chapter two I combined the disclaimer and authors note in the beginning of the chapter.

3rd person pov

It had been six months since the last time the Phoenix had appeared and Harry was now seven months old. Harry proved to be a bright child he could say Mama, Daddy, Mooey, Ruff-Ruff (for Sirius) and Ha wee. Sirius couldn't get him to say Padfoot or Siri or Sirius for anything. Little did he know that James and Remus had photos of him and said Ruff-Ruff every time they showed them to Harry, it became an ongoing gag to the two Marauders. Harry had developed a pretty good vocabulary for a kid who could barely walk, he said Baba, want, hungee, up, no, uh huh, yes, wuv yu, and he could point out anything he wanted that was in sight. Harry hardly ever cried and when he did, you knew something was wrong. He was a near perfect baby, he was smiles and laughs, and he could charm just about any adult with his big green emerald eyes that seemed to be more than half his face, and a full, quivering bottom lip when he was sad or upset.

Sirius came over today to visit his godson, Sirius had made Harry his heir and said even if he had kids of his own Harry would be first in his heart, Harry was a true child of the Marauders. Remus had made Harry his heir as well. Few people knew, but Remus came from a well to do family in France. He was not allowed to inherit while he was a werewolf, but any child he named as his heir and not cursed as he was could inherit. Remus loved Harry, Harry was the only child he would ever have access to, and the child just adored him, and him the child. Harry was very open and friendly with his parents, godparents and Remus. However there was another Marauder who Harry could barely stand to be in the same room as. That's right Peter Pettigrew. James and the other Marauders tried time and again to get the two together, but Harry would have none of it. Harry screamed bloody murder if Pettigrew tried to touch him, and if he touched him anyway, there would be powerful accidental magic that would fling Pettigrew across the room. Peter often wondered how accidental that magic was. The child always had a satisfied smile on its face when it used its magic to send him hurtling into a wall. The others said that was not true, but Peter had his suspicions.

Sirius was sitting in the parlor with Harry bouncing on his knee trying to get him to Siri.

"Okay Harry, say Siri. Seer Ree, come on Prongslet you can say it Seer Ree." Sirius said hopefully.

"S... S... See...(pause) Seer... Seer...RUFF RUFF." Harry laughed as the hopeful look on Sirius face change to one of frustration. James who was sitting on the love seat with Remus giggled and snickered.

"Oh yea James, that is definitely a little Marauder." Remus managed between snickers.

"Yep, that's my boy, well, our boy; he is the son of the Marauders." James said smiling so happy that he could share this sense of family with two of his best friends. Yes the Marauders were truly a family now, well all except Peter. James didn't want to admit but Peter was drifting away from them. He didn't blame Harry for that as Peter had started to fade from there group before Harry was born. He always seemed to be off on a trip or something which was strange as Peter was unemployed and lived off a small stipend left him by his family. The group were talking happily while Lily was out, she arrived a few minutes ago and went to change clothes while she was changing the floo ignited.

"Hello, anyone there? James? Lily?" Amelia Bones said.

"Hi Amy, I'm here, Lily just went upstairs to change after getting off work." James grinned.

"I told you not to call me Amy, my name is Amelia or Madam Bones and you will do well to remember I am your BOSS!" She stated forcefully but it didn't have the bite as she was smiling, 'darn Marauders, always hard to get angry with them.'

Which was true, because of Lily and Severus and the fact that James almost lost Lily because of the way he treated Severus, he grew up. Yes he still had fun and played pranks but he always made sure they didn't really humiliate anyone and that everyone knew it was just in fun. It had been hard and required a lot of repentance and slavery to Severus, but the Marauders got him to forgive them, of course the bitter man made them humiliate themselves for a year, but he forgave, and that was mainly for Lily he would always love her. He wanted nothing more than for her to be happy and if that was with a changed and repentant Marauder so be it as long as they were still best friends. After that year, Sev became sort of fifth Marauder but without the pranks he really couldn't stomach them unless it was for revenge.

"Here's Lily now. Hey baby Amelia is on the floo." James told Lily.

"Thanks Hon, so Amelia what's up?" Lily asked her pseudo aunt.

"I finally found Jean Grey; she's at the Xavier Institute for the Gifted in Westchester, PA. She's a teacher there. It's a boarding school so she's there nearly year round." Amelia told both Lily and James.

"Thanks Amelia, I really appreciate it I know it was a lot of trouble." Lily said in reply

"It's all right, I need to develop my information collecting system for the muggle and looking for her help me develop it." Madam Bones said with a smile.

"Great can you give me the phone number, I want to call her and arrange a meeting." She told Amelia

Lily got the phone number from Amelia. James heard everything he could practically feel the nervousness coming off his wife in waves. Sirius heard and well, and he was anxious to see this possible new family member.

"Well, are you going to call or what? I'm curious. Maybe she's hot like Lily and then I can have my own red head." Sirius said.

SMACK! Amazingly it was Harry that smacked Sirius in the face loud enough for the sound to ring around the room. Sirius, he was holding harry at the time, looked at Harry in shock as a tiny hand print bloomed in red on Sirius' cheek. Harry laughed. Remus and James stood shocked for a moment before going off in another giggle fit.

"Thanks son, I couldn't reach him from here." Lily said, as she picked up the phone.

"Hello, Xavier Institute for the Gifted, Kitty Pryde speaking." Kitty said over the telephone.

"Hello Ms Pryde, I would like to speak to Jean Grey please." Lily told her in reply.

"Yes, Ma'am whom may I say is calling? And what is this call pertaining to." Kitty inquired.

"My name is Lily Potter, and it's a personal matter." Lily replied back.

"Hold on a moment and I'll see if she can accept your call." Kitty told Lily.

"I'm on hold. James I'm more nervous than when I said yes to you after you asked me out for the 247th time." Lily said to her husband James.

"Hon, I asked you 447 times." James said grinning.

"Yes, you did, but I said yes at the 247th time, but you left before I could give you an answer, so I just refused the next two hundred times." Lily said breaking off into chuckles.

"WHAT?" James yelled in reply to her comment.

"Hello, Jean Grey here. How can I help you?" Asked Jean.

"Hello Ms. Grey. My name is Lily Potter, though originally I was Lily Evans. A mutual acquaintance of ours suggested that you and I may be related. She said that we were to similar not to be. She recommended that we investigate it, as it could be important in the future." Replied Lily.

"And just who is this mutual friend?" Jean Said.

"I really can't discuss that over the phone, I'm sworn to secrecy though I believe you are the exception. Still not all phone lines are secure, so I would prefer to meet you in person." Lily said, though she realized it did sound rather cloak and dagger.

"All right, where would you like to meet?" Jean Said.

"Well, I am in England right now, but I can be there tomorrow afternoon about 2 pm your time is that all right?" Lily asked Jean.

"Yes, that's fine." Jean said in return.

"I will bring some people with me, my husband, son and a couple or three friends if that's okay?" Lily asked hoping that Jean would say yes.

"Sure bring whom you like, I have the facilities here to do a DNA test it'll only take a couple of hours." Jean said, she was sure Beast being a biologist as well as medical doctor could do it no problem.

"That's great, can you talk to your family and see if they know anything? All that's left of my family is my sister Petunia and she hates my guts because...I'm different. Even if she knew something she wouldn't tell me just to be spiteful."

"Sure thing, I'll talk to Mom as soon as I hang up with you. She's the family historian she knows all about the family, her side and my Dad's it's a hobby for her. She's traced back the family ten generations on both sides already and planning on going to twenty generations by the end of next year." Jean said to Lily.

"That's great, I'll see you tomorrow and I hope your mom will be there too, if we are related I would like to have more family than just Petunia. Okay, then see you tomorrow I can hardly wait. Goodbye." Said Lily to Jean.

"Bye." Jean said before she hung up.

"Well, that went great. She's going to have her mom whose the family historian look and see if she has any missing family. We'll meet them tomorrow at 2 pm their time. So who's going? James asked Lily as soon as she had put the phone down.

"James you and Harry are given, put your hand down." Lily replied to her husband James.

"Well, I'm definitely going, as said I could have a redhead of my own." Sirius said grinning.

SMACK. Harry had hit him again and was grinning.

"Lily take your remote controlled slapping machine, I think he needs his diaper changed." Sirius said huffily as a second tiny handprint overlapped the first on his cheek.

That was it for James and Remus, they were hugging each other laughing hysterically tears ran down their cheeks

"Yep James, ha ha ha, definitely a Marauder." Remus managed between laughs.

"That's our boy." James gasped trying to stop laughing and breathe.

Lily smiled at her son, he was a little Marauder, but he was her son because he only did things like when someone did or said something stupid. Her boy was smarter than they knew, she just knew it.

"Come on my little remote controlled slapping machine, you need bath and a new diaper." Lily said whileHarry waved at Sirius as he left room and blew him a kiss, taking his little hand to his mouth and then throwing it toward Sirius, mmmmwa.

"You know, he's definitely got charm the little rascal, knows how to play me," said Sirius.

"So Remus, are you going to come with? It could be fun and I'm getting an international portkey, so it takes as many people as can touch it, so it's no bother for you come." James said knowing how Remus hated when he paid for everything.

Still the Potters were a very rich pure blood family, even richer than the Malfoys and the LeStanges put together, they just never flaunted their wealth, it served no purpose to do so and trapped them in the upper reaches of society which most Potters found to be deathly boring. So they lived modest lives, leaving the majority of their fortune alone for future generations.

Still, they did have Potter Manor, which James loved to call the Pottery barn. It was very huge and lavish building about half the size of Hogwarts. It had about 40 elves taking care of it. James and Lily spent the summers there and though they loved it just seemed too much for a small family of three, so they stayed in Godric's Hollow. When the need for a safe place came they original planned to stay in the manor, but the wards were too open because during James parents time the place was used quite often for Charity events and everyone who came got listed in the wards. So the wards had to be cleared of everyone else before they could move in, unfortunately that proved to take months, so the fidelius charm was used on the Godric's Hollow until the wards at the Manor were cleansed. The Potters had other homes of course around the world, a chalet in Bordeaux france, a home in Syndey Australia, a house on the beach of a private island in the Hawaiian Islands, house in New York City and, co-incidentally a house in Westchester, PA.

"Yea, I think I would like to go, since it's a school maybe I can find some work there, part-time as a tutor or something. I've been thinking of leaving Britain for a while, the werewolf restrictions make it too hard to find work, I hear America is lot less restrictive just requiring that we be in a holding cell by 6 p.m. on the night of a full moon." Remus said thoughtfully. "I hear they even put cushioning charms on the cell so we don't get hurt too bad."

MEANWHILE BACK AT HOGGYLAND

Albus Wulfric Brian Percival Busybody Manipulative Dumbledore sat in his office thinking of the situation. He had two candidates for the savior, Harry Potter a boy who was a half-blood like Riddle, and Neville Longbottom a boy who was a pureblood like Riddle wanted to be. The boys were born minutes apart. There was Neville at 11:50 pm on July 31 and Harry who was born 11:58 on the same day. It was so close that prophecy could apply to either boy. He knew he had to figure out which boy it was, as he had to set plans in place to keep the boys safe and humble. For Harry he figured the Durseleys would be good to raise him, they hated magic and would keep the boy low, but the problem was how to get Lily and James out of the picture. For Neville, he figured Augusta would keep the boy low, and the problem there was Alice and Frank. He didn't want to kill them after all he was the light lord, but still they needed to be removed. Finally, he came with an idea, that broke ties with him and Fawkes, oh the phoenix stayed but only until his new master of ready to bond, the old fool never noticed the link between him as his familiar was broken.

A paved road in Westchester, Pennsylvania at the Xavier Institute.

"Are you sure you got the coordinates right, James?" Sirius asked.

"Yes, I'm sure, we didn't want to land too close and have to explain how we just showed up in the middle of their lawn now do we?" James said. "The house is a half kilometer up the road the road."

"Well, let's get going. I'm sure Lily can hardly wait to see this relative." Remus said, he then looked for Lily and Harry and Lily was already walking down the road, the Marauders had to run to catch up.

The reached the a big gate with a intercom camera system and pressed the call bottom.

"Hello," Lily said.

"Hello, are you the Potter party?" the voice said.

"Yes we are, I'm Lily Potter."

"Excellent, the gate will open just head up the road. Some will meet you at the door." The Voice said.

The gate opened and big beautiful lavish lawn appeared, a forest could be seen oft to right side, and a playground with a lavish fountain on the left. They walked up the path, which took twenty minutes, and reached the front door, just as they were about to knock the door opened and an Asian teenage girl in a yellow trench coat and sunglasses stood, "Hi I'm Jubilation Lee, but you can call me Jubilee. I'll lead you to the sitting room, Jean and her family are waiting there. Follow me please." Jubilee told the group of guests.

They walked through the house on a short tour that Jubilee lead them on the house was nice, not the size of Hogwarts but grand in an American kind of way. The students all looked very energetic, and friendly.

The finally reached the sitting and there was a red headed woman looked so much like Lily it was almost spooky. A older woman bounced in her place for a moment before running to Lily and hugging her tightly, "Oh Jeannine, my god, I've wanted so long to hold you. I've missed you so much. Not a day went by that I didn't regret my decision to put you up for adoption, but I knew the Evans loved you and I couldn't bring myself to take you from the family you loved so much." She babbled.

"Adoption? What adoption? I thought I was finding some long lost cousin or something. Who is Jeannine?" Lily stated confused. James, Sirius, Remus and Severus stood shocked silent.

"Apparently you are. You are, we think, my twin sister." Jean said, still dazed her mother had only told her about 30 minutes before Lily's group arrived and she was still processing it.

"You know Lily, that kind of explains why you don't look anything like Petunia, you are smarter, more beautiful, sweeter personality-wise, and even taller. Frankly when you introduced her as your sister, I thought it was weird. Plus, I met your parents, you didn't look like them either. They said you took after some distant aunt so I never questioned it." James said thoughtful after coming out of his stupor.

"As much as I hate to admit and I REALLY hate to admit it, I agree with James it makes sense." Severus said, as James rolled his eyes. They may have made up but the still like to tease and harass each other it just was not as ill-willed as it had been originally.

"I don't know why they didn't tell you, they told me they would tell on your fifteenth birthday." Lily's biological parents said.

"They died three weeks before that birthday. " Lily sniffed and James just held her.

"I think introductions are in order," Sirius said. "I am Sirius Orion Black Lord of the House of Black, this fine gentlemen next me is Remus John Lupin, next to him Severus Tobias Snape, and then there is our lovely Amy Bones."

"That's Madam Amelia Bones, and you young man had better learn to respect your EMPLOYER! Or you could find yourself looking for another JOB!" She snapped, but still it lacked the bite, and everyone could she see wasn't really angry.

"As you already know, I am Lily Potter nee Evans, this is my husband James Harrison Potter, and this little bundle of joy is our son, Harrison James Potter, or Harry as we like to call him." Lily said as Harry brightened at the mention of his name and waved. A lot of oos and ahs were heard around the room as Harry blew kisses to everyone.

"Definitely, a little charmer that one, James." Remus said.

"Like father like son." Sirius said.

"That's my boy." James said.

"Our turn I guess," Jean said. "Well, as you know I'm Jean Grey, this is my mother Janet Grey, my father, Jack Grey and my friends, Scott, my fiancée." A short man in the corner let at low growl that was noticed by the marauders but no one else. Remus' inner wolf felt it found a new possible pack member.

"The man in the corner scowling is Logan, then there's Dr. Hank McCoy, Professor Charles Xavier, he owns the school and is headmaster, next to him is my best friend Ororo Monroe. The beautiful, white haired, blue eyed, dark skinned woman smiled and Sirius felt his heart bang against his chest. Love at first sight, he thought would never apply to him but here what he felt was deeper than anything he had felt before it was beyond infatuation, it was full on Love.

"And I'm sure you've already met Jubilee." The Potter party nodded.

"Well, I think we should just face one of the questions we have now before we move on. I have to ask, are you mutants, or any of you?"

"Mutants? What's a mutant?" Sirius said.

"How could you have not heard of mutants?" Hank McCoy asked.

"Where we live, we don't get much outside news; so what are mutants?" James asked.

"A mutant is a person born with an extra ability not found in the normal human gene pool, these people are born with an x gene that gives them these abilities." Prof X said sagely.

"Abilities like what?" Remus asked suspicious.

"Abilities like, Jean would you do a demo?" The professor.

Jean made Remus float in the around the room before gently setting him back on the floor. *See Jean is a telekinetic and telephath, I am just a telepath, everyone in our group, in this school, as an ability.* The professor spoke directly in their minds before being pushed out. The group became angry, how dare he invade their minds without permission.

"How... how did you push me out?" The professor said shocked.

"Among our people it is rude to enter the mind of another without permission as well as ILLEGAL!" Lily snapped fury written on her face her companions in similar states anger.

"Please I apologize it was just a form of greeting, and I never go through others memories without their permission, I simply put my words in your mind as a form of communication, I meant no harm." Jean apologized to the party.

"Well, in future ask, or you will find yourself arrested, we may not come from this country but I have ties with your government that would frown on such invasions." Madam Bones said still filled pissed.

"I will Madam, but I must ask, who or what are you?" Professor Xavier asked.

The group huddled for several minutes but decided that since they were Lily's family or appear to be the could tell them without break the statue of secrecy, however if they proved unreliable they would all be obliviated.

"All right we've decided. We'll tell you the truth, but we must have your promise not to tell anyone outside this room." Madam Bones said. Just as she finished that statement there was a loud boom. The building shook.

"Professor, there is an attack on the west side coming from the forest, sir its Magneto and the brotherhood." One of the students said in a scared voice.

"All right, you all can stay here, while we take care of this. You'll be safe here. X-Men, let's go." Charles Xavier said to the guests.

Jean's party except for her parents left. Lily and James looked at their group they all nodded, after all this was a school with children they couldn't stand by and do nothing the children may be hurt. They all dashed after the X-Men. Jubilee with them, and Lily still had Harry in her arms. When the reach the site of the battle, they saw that the X-men were outmatch. Apparently Magnet had recruited Mr. Sinister to his side and both their teams were attacking at the same.

Sirius looked up where the sky had been previous blue and clear to see dark grey storm clouds gather, there was a flash of lightning and he saw his Ororo flying among in the sky with no broomstick or anything, she was now dressed in a black outfit with her mid-drift exposed, and off the shoulder sleeves she had on a black tiara that made her look every bit a goddess. He was already in love with her, but now, she was a vision beyond his comprehension, and all he saw was the woman he loved. He watched as she rained down lightning bolts on the enemy. She was everything he ever wanted.

The rest of the group watched as the X-Men battled slowly some students came and the Potter party new they couldn't just stand by, everyone drew their wands, Jubilee who was about to join the battle was stopped by Lily.

"Jubilee, protect our son, we're going to help your teachers." She gave the shocked girl her son, and watch and the Potter and group started through curses at the enemy. The X-Men were grateful for the help, for Magneto had stated that he and Sinister agreed to split the children between them. Some for Magneto's Army and some for Mr. Sinister's experiments. Neither prospect sounded good to anyone at the school.

Stupify, and other curses and jinxes started to flying everywhere, soon the Potter Party decided that if they hadn't met them and seemed suspicious just stun them and sort out later.

The battle was going well until Magneto used his power to get wolverine to turn on his friends. Magneto laughed as everyone ran out of Logan's way. Stunning curses had no effect. Then suddenly Magneto screamed. He was trapped in a giant bird claw made of flames. The claw lead to Jubilee who was hold baby Harry. Jubilee was speechless as she held the baby who's hand was out stretched out and was the source of the claw.

"You bad man." Harry said, he baby face scrunched in an angry look. "Bad man go away, all bad mans go way."

Suddenly everyone not with the school was gone, all of Magneto's and Sinister's forces were gone.

The X-Men stood frozen they had seen that claw of energy before and they were truly scared. It couldn't be. Not her, she can't. Then they thought maybe Lily was the Phoenix, they turned towards the Potter party their powers ready.

Suddenly a great bird of fire appeared in the sky. The Phoenix had returned.