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Chapter 5 : Hogwarts Bound

"Please don't cry, Mum." Harry tried to placate his mother as he was about to board the Hogwarts Express.

" We will be home before you even know it. Christmas is just two months away." Harry trying to calm a very upset Dorea

" Come now, Dor. Harry is right. We won't even notice them gone. They will be back before you know it." Charlus explained as he placed an arm around his wife. Dorea nodded. She knew that this would happen. They had to go to school.

" I want the two of you to write to me every week." She demanded. " Harry, no skipping meals and drowning yourself in your practice." She warned and Harry could only nod quickly.

" James, Sirius. I warn the two of you. Please don't waste your time playing those pranks. I am fed up with Minerva writing to me complaining about all your shenanigans." She narrowed her eyes as the boys grinned back at her cheekily.

" I don't even know why I bother." She sighed as the two boys grinned victoriously.

" James?" She snapped and James held his hands up in surrender.

" Ok fine. I'll try my best to not try and prank a lot of them." James immediately backtracked.

He didn't want to anger his mother. It certainly won't be good for him.

She smiled at the three of them. " I want you to enjoy yourself. And study well. Take care." She kissed the three of them on her forehead.

Charlus then addressed the three of them with a very serious expression on his face.

" I know that you two are furious about the matter of Peter Pettigrew." He calmly pointed out and was not surprised when James snarled in anger.

Learning of the supposed betrayal of their friend from Harry had been a bitter pill to swallow.

They were devastated at first and found it difficult to digest, but that didn't last long as it turned to fury. It had required a considerable effort from both the elder Potters to prevent James from running to the boy and killing him himself.

" James. Calm down." Charlus warned with a no-nonsense tone.

" I know that it won't be easy, but the boy is not the same man he would become. Not yet, to be precise." Charlus continued.

" So, I won't have the two of you running through the train and cursing him within an inch of his life," Charlus warned. " I won't tolerate it either."

" Now, I want you to give the boy a chance." He raised his hand to quell the protest.

" Believe me, I want to kill the boy for that myself, but he is not the same person." He explained.

" Give the boy a chance. Observe him. Something happened that caused the boy to tread that path. You had repeatedly told me that he was a bit weaker than the rest of you. That he was a bit of a scared boy. I am almost certain that something happened that caused him to become what he did become." Charlus explained calmly.

" But if his intention was always betrayal, if he is playing around with you, if he is planning behind your backs, then he is fair game. I want you to be ruthless in dealing with him. Show no mercy." He bit back, fire burning in his brown eyes.