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Post by Stephanie on Jun 24, 2006 21:07:32 GMT 2
Post 5: Chapter 1: Undoings (continued)
They only had to wait a few stressful minutes before there was a light knock on the door. Immediately Dumbledore strode to the other side of the room and opened the door, allowing the visitor to enter. Sirius Black came in, his good looks as always radiant around the room, except his usually good-natured face had a few wrinkles on his forehead from his frowning. He knew something was wrong the minute he started talking to James, he recognized his voice of worry and sadness even if he was trying to hide it. Sirius shook hands with Dumbledore, pecked cheeks with Lily, and embraced James like a brother. “Glad you're here Padfoot” James said. “Yeah, glad to see this place again.” Sirius laughed. Dumbledore chuckled, but Lily wasn’t as patient. “Can we please get on with it…please” she said, sounding so hopeless and scared that the men stopped playing around in a heartbeat. “Right, well you might need a chair Mr. Black” Dumbledore whipped his wand and a wooden chair appeared next to James’ chair. They all sat down and Dumbledore got straight into business. “All right Sirius, now you listen to me and you listen to me well.” Dumbledore said in a serious tone. Sirius nodded. “We have just found out that Lily and James have been marked for death.” Sirius sucked in his breath. “It turns out that Harry might be the chosen one.” “As in the one who might defeat Voldemort?” “Yes, now we need them to go into hiding as soon as possible. We have to make Godrics Hollow a safe place for them. For that we will have to do secret keeping, you are familiar with the curse?” Sirius nodded. “Now James has insisted on choosing you” Dumbledore said. Sirius and James smiled briefly at each other. “But you will have to be careful, we have evidence of a betrayer close to you.” Dumbledore looked straight at Sirius’ gray eyes, as though reading his mind, before continuing, “Are you up for the challenge?” “You obviously don’t remember me at school Dumbledore” Sirius replied. Dumbledore smiled. “Told you he’d be up for it.” James said. “Good, then we will need to get started right away.” Dumbledore said, standing up. “What about Moony?” “He is at this moment transforming to a full moon, but I will ask you to please not tell him about this later on.” “Why not?” James asked curiously. “Like I said before, there is a spy amongst us.” “But moony would never betray us!” Sirius shouted in outrage. “Yeah, he’s like a total saint, except for his fury little problem!” James agreed. “It’s true Dumbledore, I know him pretty well, he would never do anything like this” Lily said. “I know, and I understand. However, we can never be too careful…” The three of them looked at Dumbledore, they somehow felt weird about this. “All right, now let’s get started.”
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Post by Lizzie (SmiLiza) on Jun 24, 2006 21:24:52 GMT 2
Lovely, Steph! I love it!
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Post by Stephanie on Jun 25, 2006 5:00:43 GMT 2
Thanks!
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Post by Lizzie (SmiLiza) on Jun 25, 2006 22:43:39 GMT 2
NP! More!
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Post by Stephanie on Jun 26, 2006 21:07:07 GMT 2
Post 6. Chapter 1: Undoings (continued)
Overall the progress did not take long. Sirius, James, and Lily, held hands in a circle and just performed the secret keeping, passing all the house information to Sirius’ mind, then Sirius told Dumbledore where Godrics Hollow was and that was it. Except for what Dumbledore told them afterwards… They were still in the middle of the office. Dumbledore had told them all to grab hands with each other in a circle. So the three adults did so. James, Lily, Sirius, and Dumbledore linking hands with each other. “All right, I am about to perform a spell that is most uncommon. It was invented only for prophecies. Anyone performing this with those who are in the prophecy will have this protection. If this spell works - Lily, James - then it means that Harry is the chosen one. Now if he is we will not tell anyone about it, for what other people know, either Harry or the Longbottoms’ boy, Neville, can be the chosen one. Understand?” The Potters and Black nodded. “Good, now this spell is used only to protect the person or thing the prophecy was made for. So if one of us does something to harm the prophecy they will have some sort of bad luck. All right now this is a very complex spell, so it will need all our energy. What it does is - well there is no other words for it - it gives people their life back.” “What?” James asked, feeling more confused than he did before this conversation started. “It gives people their life back.” Repeated Dumbledore calmly. “If one of us is to die while protecting the prophecy, then what will happen is that we will live again. We’ll revise all science and come back to life.” “Wicket” James and Sirius muttered. “Yes it is, but there is a flaw. It might or might not happen right away. For the spell to happen might take seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and even years… all really depending on how powerful the spell or object that killed us is and time.” “But then, what if we die right, when we come back to life then Harry might be older than us or be already dead?” Lily asked. “No, not at all. When we come back to life it will be in Harry’s lifetime. And if, for example, we come back 5 years after we have died, then when we come back we will have aged 5 years.” “All right, so lets say we do go through with this, what happens to all the other people that want to protect Harry? What about Moony? Wormtail?” James asked, he didn’t really fancy much being safe while his 2 of his best friends weren’t. “Well they won’t really be in the spell, it must be done the same day that the - er - lets call them safety procedures are done. Meaning, in this case, the secret keeping. And only to the people who - in this case - are parents to the prophecy and the secret keeper helping them. So, if fact, I’m not really sure it will work for me…” There was suddenly an uneasy air around the room. “I don’t think I want to do it without at least Moony. It’s not fair.” James protested. “James, I fully understand, but you have to understand the less people that know about your whereabouts the better. Not only that but Mr. Lupin is already I much danger being one of the only werewolves who haven’t joined Voldemort’s side.” “I don’t know, something doesn’t feel right…” “James honey please - “ Lily started. “Prongs. You know as much as I do that doing this is necessary, as wrong as it might feel, and trust me I feel it. We’ll just have to protect Moony and Worm as much as we can by our selves. But in the mean time, anything for Harry right? I doubt that the rest of the Marauders would feel very good if you gave up the opportunity for more protection for Harry just because you want to keep them safe. Moony is very brave and he’s very good in Defense Against the Darks Arts, as for Wormtail he can be very good at hiding as you know.” Sirius finished looking at James weirdly, but James got the message. James nodded, “I guess your right…all right I’ll do it, Lily?” Lily had stayed quiet in all of this, it was just way to much to take in, but she wanted to do this, it was the only way, “Yes, I’ll do it too.” “Good. So now just close your eyes and hold hands while I say the incantation…” It took about a half an hour for Dumbledore to finish the spell, but finally he got it…
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Post by Lizzie (SmiLiza) on Jun 27, 2006 12:44:45 GMT 2
-crosses eyes-
I managed to read it amidst the color and length!
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Post by Stephanie on Jul 3, 2006 3:12:36 GMT 2
{Oh sorry! I didn't realize the color wa so hard!}
Post 7. Chapter 1: Undoings (continued)
Sirius, James, and Lily had kept their promise to Dumbledore up to now. Sirius had been doing some pretty good Secret Keeping, and Lily and James where safe and in hiding. Remus was told that nobody could go to the Potter’s house, and that’s why they weren’t inviting him over. All, of course, felt guilty about their lying, and didn‘t realize that this could some day cause trouble…
It was now about a year after the spells were done in Dumbledore’s office. Lily and James were more in danger than they had ever been their entire life. Their hiding was crucial. But they weren’t the only ones in danger, no, their friends were too. Voldemort had found out that the Potter’s had been doing secret keeping and had told his fellow followers to find the Secret Keeper. The spy, whoever that was, had told Voldemort that the most likely person the Potters would had made Secret Keeper was Sirius Black. Not only that, but Remus Lupin was also in danger. His refusal to join Voldemort’s werewolves’ army had been almost fatal to him, and now he had to spend his time hiding. He did not have time to tell anyone his whereabouts giving Dumbledore the thought that it was maybe him the spy for Voldemort. Peter Pettigrew, well he had kept himself alive and in touch, that is all that I can say…
OCTOBER 31st, A YEAR OR SO AFTER THE SECRET KEEPING.
Lily was standing in a baby room, trying her hardest to pull a pumpkin costume down her son’s head. ‘This really isn’t working.’ she thought. Lily took out her wand and muttered something under her breath, at once the boy is completely ready with his costume. Lily smiles as she watches her son. His messy jet black hair, so much like his father‘s, is sticking up more than usual because of Lily’s effort to pull down the costume before. His emerald green eyes peek at her curiously behind his round glasses as if telling her, ‘What did you do that for?’ Lily heard footsteps approach her and a second later James was walking inside the room. “Lily are you rea - a pumpkin!” he exclaimed, his hazel eyes are wide in shock at Lily’s choice of costume. “Yes James, a pumpkin, he’s a little kid and he looks so cute with it!” Lily smiled. James looks at her in disgust. “Why not a quidditch player!” he moaned. Lily rolled her eyes, “You can dress him up as a quidditch player later, when he’s older. But for now you are NOT going to dress my innocent, one-year old boy as a quidditch player.” “Why not?” James whined. Lily laughs, “Because I like this costume” James makes a puppy face. “You can dress him up as a quidditch player when ever you want, he has his whole life ahead of him to become that!” James faked being mad, but his mischief eyes gave it away. Lily laughs again and hands Harry to James. “Alright you finish getting him ready while I go get ready ok?” she says. James nods and kissed her on her lips. Lily giggles and throws her long mane of dark red hair behind her shoulders. James laughs at she steps out of the room. He’s really so glad to have her as a wife! Lily gets ready in a few minutes and when she walks back in to the room she hears her husband talking to Harry. “You don’t really like this costume do you?” James asks Harry, making a disgust face. Harry smiles and imitates him. James howls with laughter, as Lily tries her best to keep it in. “Yeah I know, I’ll get you to be a quidditch player someday, you and me, yeah we’ll be like best of friends…” Harry giggled and clapped his hands together. Lily smiles and steps into the room, “I hope that I’m in the picture as well James.” she says. James turns around and smiles, “Always” he whispers holding her around her waist. Lily leans forward and kisses him tenderly on the lips. They make the kiss deeper. But then Lily pulls away laughing. “What?” James asks confused. “Harry” she answers turning to him. Indeed Harry is looking at them with much curiosity. “Hmmm, Lily looks like your dream of making him a well-behaved boy is down the toilet, he like the kissing.” Lily laughs, “Oh no, a Marauders Junior!” she jokes. James smiles. “Well come on” Lily says taking Harry, “Lets go trick-or-treating” “Yes! Candy!” James exclaims rushing towards the door. He stops dead in his tracks, “I mean, candy, for Harry, ‘cause it’s Harry that needs the candy, not me…and I’m just here to open the door to you my lady.” he says, opening the door and bowing down. Lily shakes her head and heads out the door. Once downstairs James goes into the kitchen to get the candy for the other children while Lily goes to the window to show Harry all the people in costumes. But Harry doesn’t want to go to the window. As soon as he takes one look outside he starts crying hysterically. ‘That’s odd,” Lily thinks, ‘Harry loves going outside.’ “Hey what did you do to our baby?” James jokes as he came in with a basket full of candy. “Nothing, he took one look outside and started to cry” Lily says, trying to sooth Harry back down. She begins taking off his costume to see if something is hurting him. But the only thing she finds under there is his blue under PJ, nothing else, no marks, no nothing. James puts the basket down and looks out the window. “There, there Harry it’s ok” Lily whispers to Harry, but he just won’t stop for some strange reason. “Lily” James whispers. “Come on Harry, please calm down” “Lily!” James repeats, a little more urgent this time. “Hmm?” she asks, a little distracted. “Lily, take Harry and go! It’s him! Go! Run! I‘ll hold him off -” Lily turns to face James, his face is as pale as a ghost. “What!” “Go, go now and save yourselves” James took Lily’s shoulders and pushes her and Harry to the kitchen where there’s was a back door, too bad the door is locked! James curses loudly, and Lily doesn’t even care that he’s doing it in front of the baby of how scared she is. “Damn it! Voldemort must have done this” James says as they run back to the living room. The doorknob is now twisting its self, wanting to open. James takes one look at the door, then at Lily, then the stairs. “Lily” he says seriously. “No James I’m not leaving you!” she shouts, knowing that that’s exactly what he was thinking. “Lily, listen to me” he says grabbing her shoulders and looking her straight in the eye, “You and Harry are the most important thing to me in the world, if I loose you then I have nothing! Please, go upstairs to Harry’s room, and go through the window, it has a big tree behind it I know you’ll be able to get out!” “NO!” Lily yells, tears are now streaming down her face. “Lily please, we don’t have any time, please…” He’s begging now. Lily takes a deep breath. “I love you Lily, and I always will” he kisses her, for the last time, “And you too Harry, I want you to be a good boy, and make your dreams come true…and…Harry save us all…” Lily cries harder. But James pushes them to the stairs. “No matter what happens keep going” he yells as Lily runs up the stairs, “I love you both…” Lily turns back to look at him, “I love you too” she then runs into Harry’s room, just in time to hear the door being blasted open, and a cackle of high-pitched laughter… She makes to head back, but stops in her tracks. She stands there, one hand on the doorknob. But then she remembers what James told her, and she looks down at Harry who looks like he’s in pain, that’s when she makes up her mind. She puts Harry on his crib for one second and races to the window, trying to open it. She hears James and Voldemort fighting. The window won’t open, and now Lily is starting to panic. “Come on open please…please…” That’s when she hears it, someone screaming in pain, James! Lily turns around and finds a blinding green light shining from downstairs, and she realizes what’s happened. Voldemort killed James. Lily began to cry silently, and Harry begins to bawl. In panic, she rushes over to him, to make him be quiet, but it’s too late. Voldemort heard them, and now he’s running upstairs… Desperate, Lily takes Harry and was about to head to the window again, when a tall, hooded figure entered the room. He pulled back his hood with his slimy, white, skeletal hands to reveal a bare head. All white, his nose was just like a snake’s, and his eyes…his eyes were glowing red, nothing else, no pupil, just red. He smiled wickedly and Lily puts Harry in his crib behind her and starts to beg Voldemort to spear her only son. But Voldemort just laughs, a cruel, chilly laugh. “Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!” she yells. “Stand aside, you silly girl…stand aside, now…” “Not Harry! Not Harry! Please - I’ll do anything -” “Stand aside. Stand aside, girl” “Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead -” Voldemort smiled wickedly at her. “Not Harry! Please…have mercy…have mercy…” Voldemort’s shrill laugh filled Lily’s body, and she knew that, right there and then, she would die. She would never live to see daylight again, she would never live to see her son grow up…and protect him…from his destiny… Everything was beginning to get blurry. Voldemort raised his wand and said words that Lily could not hear. Everything became green… There were shouts now. Lily screaming in pain. James screaming at Voldemort to leave his wife and son alone. Sirius crying for his best friend’s dead body, knowing this was all his fault, but he hadn‘t meant it, really. Remus howling at the full moon, feeling more alone than before. All are crying and shouting. Loudly. And it’s getting louder, and louder, and LOUDER! Suddenly, Harry Potter’s eyes snap open from his nightmare…
{um... thats kind of long right? Well don't worry I think this is the longest post...}
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Post by Lizzie (SmiLiza) on Jul 3, 2006 12:05:33 GMT 2
Long but good! Bumps!
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Post by Issa (Luisa) on Jul 4, 2006 17:34:22 GMT 2
Love it! That is soo...I can't even think of a word for it but my heart was thumping! Continue and BUMPS Steph!
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Post by Lizzie (SmiLiza) on Jul 5, 2006 0:53:48 GMT 2
LOL! Bumps, Steph!
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