What if Lily Potter Died But James Potter Survived?

The house is still smoking when Sirius arrives. He does not slow the motorcycle down, does not circle the street, does not take a moment to absorb the sight of what used to be one of the safest addresses in England. He lands hard on the scorched grass and he runs, because if he stops moving he will have to start thinking, and he cannot think yet. The front of the house has been blown outward. The garden is scorched in a perfect, terrible radius from whatever happened here. He finds James in the