The Returno f Hallows
Chapter One – The Stone
"The Headmaster and Neville are coming! Quick! Hide yourself in your cloak!" Hagrid said hurriedly
"The cloak it's not mine, it's Potters! And by the way, Albus has it until the end of the year" I said with a snort. I hate business of being alone with the cloak when I ask in advance. Be the younger daughter sucks.
"What is he doing with it?" Hagrid asked forgetting all our hurry
"He must be using it with that Ravenclaw that he likes so much" I shrugged and then winced. Pictures of my brother's not very nice in my mind now
Somebody knocked on the door and this made me and Hagrid jumped. I couldn't be at Hagrid's for this time of night. It was past ten p.m. Thank Merlin my brother were Head Boy. But I don't know if the Headmaster and Professor Longbottom would give me a break.
"Quick! Go through the forest" Hagrid whispered pushing me to the back door. So he turned around and screams to the front door "I'm coming!"
He opened the back door and pushed me to outside, I ran to the forest and waited until Professor McGonagall and Professor Longbottom enter Hagrid's house. But for they do not see me; I went to Hogwarts through the forest. But of course I had to stumble on some branch. I went straight to the floor, scratching my knees and hands
"Oh great" I groaned when I was trying to detach my skirt from a branch, but I stopped when I saw something shining on the ground
I extended my hand and catch something like a ring. It was really a ring, a silver ring with a black stone in the middle, I think, and it had a symbol… something on it…
"Lumus" I whispered and a light lit on the tip of my wand, illuminating the stone on the head, leaving me better see the symbol.
It was something I had never seen before. It was a triangle, inside a circle, and through this circle, a straight line. I kept staring that symbol until I heard a noise, and I realize what I was doing before I found the ring. I put it on my finger, which served well to be exact, and ran the faster I could to the castle. I was going up straight to the Gryffindor Tower when I heard my name.
"Lily, what are you doing here?"
"Oh great" I groaned for the second time in ten minutes while I turned around and I encountered my second oldest brother, Albus.
Albus Severus Potter. My second oldest brother, black hair, green eyes, and he are really like our father Harry. He is from Slytherin, not Gryffindor like me and James, our oldest brother. Albus is also friend of our cousin Rose (she is in Ravenclaw) and her boyfriend and co-bedroom Scorpious Malfoy. I love my brother, of course I do, but he is so over protective with me like James, that makes me so angry! And this "little sister" thing got worse when he became Head Boy, he think he can control all my moves!
"I was going to my Common Room" I said giving my little angel smile, not fooling anyone else from the Weasley Family. So it was obvious that my brother would not deceive.
"And what was you doing out of your Common Room at this time?" He asked me with a suspicious glance. He was looking so much like mom and grandma Weasley when they are suspicious with something that James and Fred II have might done.
"I was taking my essay on Sphinxes for Hagrid. And if I had the cloak, I wouldn't be caught" I said
"I have the Map, Lils" he said raising the most valuable piece of parchment in the world. The Marauder's Map is a map created by four awesome guys! It's really sucks that all of them are dead, and one of them was a traitor. They are Sirius Black, father's godfather, James Potter, our grandfather, Remus Lupin, Teddy's father, and Peter Pettigrew, the little rat and traitor. The four of them created a map that shows all Hogwarts's ground and all the people in here. And, unfortunately, shows people under invisibility cloaks.
"I keep forgetting that you stole from James's desk on beginning of the year" I said with a snort and passing my hand trough my hair "But Al, please, let me go without punishment!"
"I will Lily, but if someone discovers…"
"They all know that you never give me any detentions!" I said with a smile and sent a kiss to my little snake brother, I turned around quickly to return my way before he changes his mind
"Lily! Wait!" I heard he scream and I turned around really tired of being called by him. Now you guys know what I meant before?
"What is it, Albus?"
"Have you packed your trunk? Tomorrow we go back for the Christmas Holliday" He said giving me a warning glance
"Is just wave my wand, Al" I said with a sarcastic look and I finally get to the Gryffindor Tower
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"Have you managed to deliver your essay to Hagrid?" Hugo asked me
We were at the Hogwarts Express getting back home to spend the Christmas Holliday with our families. I was in a compartment with Hugo, my cousin, at my side, Alice Longbottom, my best friend, and her twin Frank Longbottom, Hugo's best friend. We all are in Gryffindor at our fifth year.
Hugo Weasley is Rose's youngest brother and aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron son. They are often at the Potter Manor, because aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron are dad's best friends. But, always, when they leave, we have to go to the market again, because Hugo and uncle always eat whatever it have in their way. Rose and Hugo are both gingers, but not the same ginger as mine. They have the Weasley ginger, while I have the Evans ginger.
Evans was my grandmother's last name before she married dad's father, James Potter. I was named after her, her name was Lily Potter. Dad showed me a few pictures of her, she was really pretty, had my hair and green eyes, like dad's and Al's. And my grandfather, James Potter, was identical to my father, but with almond brown eyes, the same color of my oldest brother's eyes. He was one of the Marauders just like Sirius Black, dad's godfather, another one that James was named after. It isn't a surprise why my brother is like the way he is.
Alice and Frank are twins and Neville Longbottom's kids, another friend of mom and dad, and Hogwarts's Herbology professor. Both have brown hair and eyes. And they are really friendly and nice. The both were named after Neville's parents that went mad because of the Cruciatus Course one year after Neville was born.
"Of course I managed!" I said patting Widget, my cat red. Instead of an owl, Mom thought it best to give me a cat in my eleventh birthday. James and Albus have owls, but Al wanted a phoenix and Jay, along with our cousin Dominique, wanted to create a dragon, which our Uncle Charlie would bring to them. But Mom and Dad did not leave any requests happen.
"Did you be caught?" Alice asked crossing her fingers "Say it was for your brother or your cousin!"
Oh, and another thing: Rose is the Head Girl. Yes… the family have a little tradition on Head Boys and Girls.
"It was for my brother, obvious" I gave a snort "He is with the Map"
"But it wasn't James who has it?" Hugo asked open another Chocolate Frog
"Albus stole it in the begging of the year. Before we went to Hogwarts" I said a little bit sad. Why didn't I have this idea? Oh yes! Because James promised to me that he would give me the Map
"We are ariving" Rose said opening our compartment's door and putting her head inside it. She was wearing Muggle clothes already "Change your clothes. Oh, and Hugo, mom send me an owl telling me that she and dad will be with Uncle Harry and Aunt Ginny"
"Like this never happens" he sighed "Why she even bothers to send an owl?"
But Rose wasn't there to listen what Hugo was complaining about. Just left him talking with us.
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"Hi sweeties! Made a good trip?"
Mom said hugging me. She was with her red hair (the Weasley red, like Hugo's, Rose's, and all my mother's brothers) tied up in a horny-tail. Dad was beside her, hugging my brother. Al was already as tall as Dad, but close to James, the two were kids. Jay pulled the Weasley side height. He was as tall as Uncle Ron
"James is waiting for us at home" Dad said while hugging me "Said he had to send some owls to Uncle George"
James, after finishing Hogwarts, went to work with Uncle George and his son, our cousin, Fred II at the joke shop Uncle has it with his twin, Uncle Fred, that died in the Great Battle. The Great Battle was many years ago, the one we had was born Ted Lupin, the godson of my father and our almost brother. He's dating our cousin Victoire.
We aparate directly in front of our house, the Potter Manor, after we said goodbye to Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione, Rose and Hugo. It was a beautiful house, it reminds me father's old house at Godric's Hollow, but much bigger. The only room of the house that wasn't intact, it was James's room. It have explosion marks on the walls, it's really a shame. Grandma Weasley said that Uncle Fred and Uncle George's bedroom it was the same chaos.
We found James sat in the living room. His owl, Falcon (yes, a pretty rubbish name), was on mom's center table, while James opened a letter. When he saw us enter, he jumped to his feet and came to hug me, taking me of the ground.
James Sirius Potter is the oldest son of the Potters. Is one year older than Albus and three years older than me. He is pretty handsome, with brown hair always messed up, with almond brown eyes, wear glasses like dad, but in him fits perfectly, and is really thin and tall like Uncle Ron. At Hogwarts he was pretty popular and managed to beat the record of detentions. It was more than Uncle George and Uncle Fred along with the Marauders! He always wanted to do justice to the names that were given. His best friends, and "Pranks partners" were always cousin Dominique and cousin Fred II.
"And you, little Albus! How is the house of the snake?" He asked a passing arm around Al's neck
"Winning the House Championship" Al said it back with a smile
"But not the Quidditch Championship!" I said poking Al's chest
"What is this ring, Lils" Dad asked with a wrinkled brow
"Oh. I found it on the ground" I shrugged as I watched the ring on my finger
"Where, Lily?" Dad said looking me with a suspicious glance
"At the Forest, OK?" I said indignantly with all that questioning. Only now he was missing me wonder what I was doing in the Forbidden Forest
But that's not what happened. My father's eyes widened and he looked at my mother. I exchanged glances with my brothers, everyone realized that something was wrong. Then my father turned to me with his hand extended and decided gaze
"Let me see this ring, please" He said
"Why?" I asked suspicious
"Give me this ring, Lily" He repeats moving towards me. I drew back a step
"What is wrong with the ring? You got so weird" I asked without taking out the ring
"Lily Luna Potter! Give me this ring now!"He shouts. I never seen he shouts like that way before. My dad, always so calm, was shouting like that with me, his little daughter. I was a little bit scared and shocked.
I took off the ring and give it to my father that started to look with attention the stone. Then he takes a shock and almost drops the ring. He looked at my mother and ran toward the office. I looked at mom, but she just shook her head and went after dad. Something was really weird. C'mon! It's just a ring, nothing else!
"Somebody understood anything?" I asked my brothers
"You really found that ring in the Forest, Lils?" James asked me
"Yes! I said the truth" I said outraged
So he ran toward the office like mom and dad. I looked at Albus and he nodded. We tiptoed up to the office that had the door half open. Dad was at his desk writing a letter, mom was looking into the ring and James was standing behind the chair for dad.
"Dad, is this the ring? The one of the Great Battle?" Jay asked dad
"Dad told you something about the Great Battle?" I whispered to Albus
"Just the same thing he said to you" he whispered back
"Yes it is…" dad answered by holding the letter in his brown owl "It is the Peverell's ring"
"Peverell?" Albus and I whispered at the same time
But then we heard the sound of dragging chair and we both ran into the living room again. Mom came in front, then Jay and Dad talking in low voices, the two guys with thoughtful faces
"So? Will you give me my ring now?" I asked to my dad with my hand extended
"I think I will…" He said giving me backs the ring, but I could see he wasn't too sure about his decision.
I put the ring on my finger again. The atmosphere was still a little bit strange. I saw dad agree with something James told him. I saw Albus looking at them too, but he just gave shoulders and went to his room. Mom called us for some tea, but no one was in the mood for it.
I just kept thinking about what dad said. Who was the Peverell? What the ring have to do with them? The only way to know is reading books, or asking our particular library at Christmas: Aunt Hermione!
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Hey everybody who read until here.
Is it too bad? This is my first story in English (I'm Brazilian, so English isn't my first language) I hope it's not so bad the transliteration.
So… any reviews?
Kisses
Victoria Black Herondale