Reunion: A Jily Returns Harry Potter Fan-fiction

4. Old Friends

4/22/2016

A/N Last chapter was pretty much just filler, and was probably a bit boring. Hopefully this chapter I'll get to some excitement!

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8/4/2016

I added the quote above because it sounds like something Dumbledore would say. It's a quote from Japanese film director Hayao Miyazaki, who made some of the most famous classic Japanese anime films such as Howls Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Princess Mononoke, all of which are some of my favorite films.

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P.S. Much of this chapter will include dialogue from the book, all dialogue from the book belongs to J.K. Rowling.   

     Lily and James stood in a corner of the dining room. Dumbledore was invisible with them too and had informed Molly that he would not be staying for dinner. (Which was only partially true.)

     They saw Sirius and Harry sitting at the table together, talking. When Lily saw Harry she gasped, "James, he looks exactly like you!" She whispered.

     James gave a soft laugh. "But he has your eyes."

     They wanted so much to get close to them and hear what they were talking about. But, as James pointed out, there was too much of a risk someone would notice them.

     So, they stood there, watching people rush in and out of the room carrying plates and silverware. At one point they heard Molly screech, "Fred - George - NO, JUST CARRY THEM!" They turned to see the twins bewitching a large cauldron full of stew, a flagon of butterbeer, and a wooden bread board and knife to hurdle through the air, right at Sirius and Harry! 

     The stew skidded to a halt at the end of the table, leaving long skid marks on the table. The butterbeer fell with a crash, spilling its contents, and the knife landed exactly where Sirius's hand had been moments before, point down and quivering ominously.

     "FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! THERE WAS NO NEED - I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS - JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE ALLOWED TO USE MAGIC NOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO WHIP YOUR WANDS OUT FOR EVERY LITTLE THING!"

     "We were just trying to save time!" One of the twins said, retrieving the knife. "Sorry Sirius, mate - didn't mean to -"

     But Sirius and Harry were laughing, and James was having a hard time controlling his laughter as well. An orange cat that James hadn't noticed before hissed and dashed underneath a dresser.

     "Boys," Said a man with red hair, who the Potters assumed to be the twins father, "your mother's right, you're supposed to show a sense of responsibility now that you've come of age -"

     "- none of your brothers caused this sort of trouble!" Molly raged at the twins, slamming a fresh flagon of butterbeer on the table. "Bill didn't feel the need to Apparate every few feet! Charlie didn't charm everything he met! Percy -" She stopped suddenly and the atmosphere in the room quickly changed to tense and awkward.

     Lily felt that Percy was not a pleasant topic at this time. She wondered why that could be. She remembered meeting him when he was very young and remembered him as a pleasant child, if not a bit too polite for a child his age.

     "Let's eat," said Bill quickly, turning them away from the topic.

     "It looks wonderful, Molly," Remus commented.

     For a while everyone was silent, and the only sounds that could be heard were the sounds of forks and knives clinking and scraping on plates.