"Hello my little Harry," a woman with fiery red hair and beautiful green eyes smiled at me. I knew her face. I saw it whenever the world was not dark. "How's my little man?"
I didn't really know what she was saying, not everything, but the feelings of warmth I felt when she was near made everything else not matter. I would giggle when she would make funny faces or play with my hands and tickle my feet. Every time I saw her, I was happy.
"Mum! Mum!" I giggled and laughed. So did the woman. She liked it when I called her mum.
As she continued to play with me, I saw something around her neck, dangling and swaying as she moved. It was round, and big, and shiny.
I wanted it.
As if responding to my want I felt something well up inside of me. I didn't know what it was, but I had felt this way a few times before. I knew what was going to happen.
The pendant lifted itself around the woman's neck and made its way to me. I held out my hands and grabbed a hold of the shiny round thing, smiling as I began to chew on it.
The woman gave a surprised gasp, but I wasn't really paying attention anymore. "James! James you have to come here and see this!"
A little ways over from us the door that led to the room opened and in walked a man with messy raven hair and brown mischievous eyes hidden behind a pair of wire frame glasses. "See what Lils? Is something wrong?"
"No, nothing's wrong, but our little Harry just had his first bout of accidental magic," Lils said excitedly.
"What?"
James walked over to the two of us and looked at me. Blinking as I saw this new person that I knew in front of me, I stopped gnawing on the shiny thing long enough to look up at the man, before going right to back to my previous activity.
"You sure he did accidental magic Lils? I mean, magic at his age is completely unheard of. He's not even one yet."
"I know what I saw," Lils said firmly. "Watch this."
She gently pried the pendant out of my grip. Seeing my new toy gone, I reached out with my hands to get it back, but Lils moved it out of my reach.
For a moment, I thought about crying. That usually got me what I wanted. But Lils who liked it when I called mum and James who liked being called da didn't like it when I cried. They always got very sad. I didn't like it when they were sad, so I didn't cry.
I still wanted the shiny though, so I held out my hands again and reached out for that warm feeling that let me to lift the pendant again. The pendant, once again slipped from around Lils' neck and floated into my hands.
James blinked, opened his mouth, closed it, then blinked again. Finally, he said, "um…Lily, I don't think that was accidental. It seemed pretty deliberate to me."
Lily scoffed, "now who's sounding far-fetched. A one year old using wandless magic? Really James?"
James rubbed the back of his head, "well maybe this is natural for him. After all, the prophecy said he would defeat the Dark Lord. Maybe he's just super powerful." As if someone flipped a switch James began to gush and wiped crocodile tears from his eyes, "I'm so…proud…my son is going to be more powerful than Merlin! Just wait until I show him the ropes and get him all ready to go to Hogwarts!"
"James Potter! I will not have you teach my child to be a Delinquent like you and your Marauder friends!" Lily said in a scolding tone.
James was instantly cowed, "yes, dear."
The scene began to change, Lily and James disappeared and I was alone.
Shouting reached my ears.
"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!"
"Fool, you think you can defeat me without your wand? Avada Kadavera!"
The door burst open and Lily rushed in. Seeing the woman, I smiled and got to my feet.
"Mum!" I held out my hands. "We play now?"
But my mum did not play with me. Instead of coming over to pick me up like she usually did, she began pushing large objects in front of the door. I watched, curious. What was she doing? Was this a new game?
Only after she had put every big object in the room in front of the door did she walk over to me. I smiled and held out my hands. "Mum! Mum!" She smiled at me and gently rubbed my head. "We play now?"
"I'm sorry, Harry," even though mum was smiling, I saw that she was crying.
"You sad? Got boo boo?"
Mum sniffed a bit, her head shaking back and forth. What was going on? Why was mum crying?
Only a few seconds after mum came in did the door burst open, exploding and sending all of the objects that had been previously used as a barricade away. In walked a very tall man with very pale skin, dark hair and dark eyes. I didn't know him. He wasn't unca padfoo, moon or wormy. Who was he?
"Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!" Lily pleaded as she turned around to face this man.
The man merely laughed and stalked forward. "Stand aside, you silly girl…stand aside, now…" he hissed. His voice sounded kind of like this one snake that I spoke to that lived in our flowers. Except that snake sounded nice. This man did not sound nice. He sounded cold.
"Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead!" she begged.