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James watched Lily storm into the kitchen and instantly knew she was in one of her moods. "Rose honey why don't you go play in your room for a little bit while Mommy and Daddy talk."

"Daddy are you in trouble again?"

"I don't think..."

"Yes honey your father is in trouble again so why don't you run up and play with your stuffed Marauders." James, of course, was frowning; he didn't recall doing anything this time. As a matter of fact he had a perfectly normal day without any Lily provoking moments at all. However he was certainly being blamed for something so the question became who was framing him this time? Sirius was the most likely suspect but Remus could be sneaky like that.

"Does the accused have the right to know what he's accused of?"

"You, James Potter, are accused and have been found guilty of corrupting one Harry James Potter beyond any hope of redemption." Oh. Bugger. He was, at least partially, guilty of that. It had been a group project and it really didn't seem fair for him take all the credit for the wonderful results.

"And what is the evidence of one Harry James Potter being corrupted beyond hope?"

"Here!" Lily slammed the envelope from Hogwarts down in front of him. "Your son managed to get his entire class thrown out of the classroom on the first day within ten minutes of the class starting. He might just be worse then the three of you combined!"

James was torn. Such conflicting emotions. He'd taught his son better than that. If he was going to do something disruptive he knew better than to leave evidence. But to get the entire class thrown out? That was a record and required a small amount of pride to be recognized on achievement alone. Looking into the envelope to see what exactly Harry had done any sense of anything other than pride vanished in the next heartbeat. "Lily honey can we get Harry a new broom for Christmas?"

"James, you want to reward him for treating a teacher like that?"

"No, I want to reward him for treating Snivellus like that." Rereading the letter again James let out a low whistle. "Whatever the master of grease did he must have pissed Harry off something fierce. This isn't anywhere near Harry's normal operating method." Lily looked at her husband again and could certainly see the dots James was connecting now that James had mentioned them. "Harry has his own code of how he does things. First and foremost in five years I've never seen Harry fire the opening shot, he's never picked on someone he considers weaker than him, and he never tries to actually hurt someone. Harry favors being annoying and causing embarrassment; the things said in here were meant to open old wounds and rub salt in them. The last time I saw Harry do something actually hurtful was when we decided to prank Rose by turning her new doll into a snake. For Snivellus to push Harry to respond to that extent that quickly he must've done something to set Harry off."

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