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July 31st 1980
“You’re doing great Lily-flower, almost there!” exclaimed James. “One more push Lady Potter” said the Mediwitch, and with one last push from Lily the first child was brought into the world. The Mediwitch cleaned the child up and cast Tempus and was getting ready to write down the birth time of the first born, she heard a cry from Lily and ran over, the second born was already almost out, “One more push Mrs. Potter and then you are done” exclaimed the Mediwitch, and with one last push from Lily the second child was brought into the world. The Mediwithch cleaned him up, and as she was casting Tempus she saw the green floating numbers in the air, thinking this was the time for the birth of the second son on the birth certificate she wrote the birth date as: July 31st 11:59 1980.
Not realizing that was the time of birth for the first son and the second one had been born at 12:01 on August 1st. She noticed that in her rush to help birth the second child she hadn’t written down the first born’s birth date, but she remembered that the first born was born 2 minutes before the second born, so for his birthday she wrote down July 31st 11:57 1980.
The Mediwitch handed the two children over to their parents, “What are their names going to be?” she asked. “Harry James Potter is the first born and Asher Charles Potter is the second born.”
“Padfoot, Moony, Wormtail” said James “I want you to meet my sons, Harry James Potter and Asher Charles Potter” exclaimed James excitedly. “Why are they so small?” Sirius asked, “They’re babies and only a couple hours old” said Lily dryly “You saw my belly did you think they were going to magically be twice the size of it when they were born?” Lily stared at Sirius and asked questionally with her eyebrow raised. “Hey!” exclaimed Sirius “It’s one thing seeing your belly and a whole other thing to actually see the kids, plus I’ve never actually seen a baby before especially ones this young.” said Sirius sheepishly.
“Anyways” said James “we’ve gotten off track, Sirius Remus I was wondering if you would be Harry’s Godfathers, and Peter if you would be Asher’s?” asked James. ‘Are you sure?” Remus asked “I didn’t think the Ministry would let me be his Godfather due to my furry little problem.” said Remus. “Well technically you would be an unofficial godfather as the Ministry won’t let us name you an official one, but we still want you to be Harry’s godfather.” said James. “So what do you boys think?” asked Lily “Will you be godfathers for our sons?” she asked. “Yes!” replied Sirius Remus and Peter all at once.
Harry and Asher’s first year was a happy one. They were doted on by their parents, their godparents, and their grandparents (James’s parents, Lily’s had passed away two years ago in a car accident), but they weren’t spoiled too much, sure they got plenty of presents on their birthday and Christmas, but most children were given plenty of presents especially since they were only a year old. All was well for the Potter family.
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As the twins grew they started to look different from each other, while Harry’s eyes transitioned from the blue colour he was born with to Lily’s green eyes, while Asher’s looked more like James’s hazel eyes. As the twins' hair grew out Harry had dark jet black hair that Lily and James were unsure of how he got it as the only person with black hair in the family was his mother, meanwhile Asher’s hair was a mix of his parents, brown with hints of red.
October 31st 1981
Albus Dumbledor was holding an emergency meeting for the Order of the Phoenix in his office at Hogwarts. Everyone was in attendance including James and Lily Potter, except for Peter Pettigrew who had volunteered to babysit the Potter twins so James and Lily could go to the meeting and leave the house for the first time in a month.
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Meanwhile in Potter cottage at Godric’s Hollow, Wormtail stepped out onto the street in front of the cottage and pressed his wand against his Dark Mark to summon his master to the Potter’s. “What took you so long, Wormtail?” snarled Voldemort. “I’m s-s-sorry m-my L-L-Lord I w-was w-waiting until I w-was s-s-sure the P-P-Potters w-were gone and n-n-not c-c-coming b-b-back.” Wormtail stuttered out, “The Potter’s can be found at Potter’s Cottage Godric’s Hollow.” Wormtail told Voldemort weakly. “Wait here.” Voldemort demanded “Of course my Lord.” replied Wormtail quietly. Voldemort went inside the cottage and ventured upstairs to find the child that was supposed to be his downfall, to his surprise he found not one but two children in the nursery. “How dare Wormtail not inform me that the Potter’s had twins!” Voldemort snarled under his breath.
“I guess I will just have to kill them both” Voldemort declared to make sure that the one that was born to oppose him would be gone. As Voldemort was trying to decide which child to kill first, he felt a wave of magic come from the black haired child. Feeling the strong wave of magic Voldemort decided that the black haired child would be the first to die.
Voldemort raised his wand pointing it at the child and shouted “AVADA KEDAVRA!” He saw the bright green light rushing towards the boy when all of the sudden a book from one of the shelves flew unsteadily into the path of the curse. The book was able to block most of the curse but a little bit made it past and struck Harry on the forehead. Luckily since the book Harry had summoned had blocked most of the curse the small amount that made it past didn’t kill Harry and just knocked him unconscious, but before Harry fell unconscious, he banished the book towards Voldemort.
Voldemort was so surprised by the events that had just transpired he didn’t think to block the book until it was too late. The book struck him, and the curse that still remained on the book destroyed his body. Voldemort collapsed to the ground and black smoke rose out of the body.
“NOOOOO!” cried Voldemort “I will be back.” he declared and smashed out of the room through the wall, that combined with Harry’s banishing curse was too much for the room and that wall and part of the ceiling collapsed around the boys causing the wards around the house to fall as well. Two pieces of wood cut deeply into Asher’s forehead, creating a V shaped mark that caused Asher to wake up and scream out and cry.
Downstairs Wormtail heard the sound of the wall and ceiling crashing down and ran upstairs to check on his Lord. He went into the nursery to find Harry unconscious, Asher screaming, and the body of his Lord laying on the ground. Then to his shock he watched the body of his Lord melt away until there was nothing left. Assuming that this meant that his Lord was still alive in some way somehow, he aimed his wand at the boys thinking he would be rewarded greatly for killing the boys to help his Lord. He was just about to cast the killing curse when he heard the door slam open downstairs. “Harry, Asher!?” shouted out James and Lily. Wormtail crushed and grabbed his Lord’s wand that was left behind and jumped out of the open wall and turned into a rat once he hit the ground. Grabbing Voldemorts wand in his mouth he scurried away into the night.
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Meanwhile in Dumbledore's office the meeting had just finished and Lily and James were talking to Dumbledore about when they would be able to leave the cottage more often when James felt the wards collapse at the cottage. “Albus!” James cried out, “The wards around the cottage just collapsed!” he exclaimed. All three adults raced towards the Floo, not knowing what shape their house would be in they Flooed to Bathilda Bagshot’s house and then ran over to their cottage.
They started running faster when they saw the part of the house that had collapsed where the nursery was. “Harry, Asher!” cried out James and Lily the moment they entered the house, they ran upstairs to the nursery with Dumbledore following closely behind. They ran into the nursery to find Harry unconscious and Asher screaming with blood running down his face. “Oh, my boys!” Lily cried out, she cast a quick Episkey on Asher that stopped the bleeding but didn't heal the wound on his forehead fully.
Dumbledore waved his wand over the boys to check on them. “James, Lily” said Dumbledore “I have good news and bad news, the good news is that it appears that Asher has defeated the Dark Lord!” exclaimed Dumbledore. “How do you know that?” asked Lily, “Remember the prophecy.” asked Dumbledore, “The Dark Lord would mark him as an equal, Asher has the V on his forehead and when you tried to heal it it didn’t heal completely!” exclaimed Dumbledore excitedly. James and Lily looked at each other excitedly and then they paused. “Wait, what is the bad news?” Lily asked, “Ah well it appears that young Harry has become a squib” said Dumbledore. “What! How is that possible?” James asked, “I am not sure.” Dumbledore said “I believe that Asher may have borrowed Harry’s magic to save them and ended up accidentally taking all of it.” stated Dumbledore.
“What are we going to do?” asked Lily, “I have an idea.” said Dumbledore “We could send Harry to your sister Lily, Asher will be incredibly famous for defeating Voldemort and there are probably quite a few people who will try and attack your family. With Harry not having any magic he will be in danger, plus he won’t become jealous of Asher for being the one to defeat Voldemort and for having magic.” said Dumbledore. “Alright.” Lily agreed, remembering what Petunia was like when they were younger because Lily had magic and she didn’t.
“When should we take him to Petunia?” asked James, “I can take him there tonight and explain the situation to Petunia” said Dumbledore. “Alright.” Lily and James agreed, so Dumbledore grabbed Harry and walked out the door and apparated to #4 Privet Drive. He wrapped Harry in a blanket and laid him down on the doorstep leaving a letter on his chest for Petunia, and then apparated back to Hogwarts.
Little did Dumbledore, James, and Lily know but Harry had woken up after Dumbledore cast the diagnostic charms and heard everything they said. While Harry was laying on a doorstep waiting for Petunia to find him in the morning, James and Lily were cooing over Asher and showering him in affection not even thinking of their second son.
Little did they know but this was the calm before the storm for the Potter family.