Harry Potter: Fate Vs Destiny

Lily Evens and the Marauders find a series of books based in the future about a famous wizard. What happens when they take it to Professor Dumbledore who shares it with the newly formed Order of the Phoenix? What will they learn about the future and the fate of the world? Only these seven mysterious books hold all the answers.

Chapter 1 - Final Year at Hogwarts

It was their final year at Hogwarts and the four Marauders would soon be able to help Dumbledore in fighting the death eaters who were becoming extremely dangerous. At the end of their previous year the Headmaster had asked to see a number of students that he knew took an interest in helping to stop the number of death eaters that where growing by the day. These students were James Potter, Sirius and Regulus Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evens, Severus Snape, Frank Longbottom, Alice Green, Helena Williams, Jessie McKay, Ford Richardson, Sarah Hammond and Lisa Jane. Unfortunately not all of these students had agreed to join Dumbledore in fighting the death eaters but thought that their leader was the one to follow. So with the few students that jumped at the chance to do something to help stop Voldemorts follows their last year at Hogwarts was about learning all they could that would help them win this loosing war.

As the new year began James Potter found himself once again leading his fellow Marauders into what would be one of their greatest pranks to date. "All right lets go over this again. Wormtail you'll be keeping guard, Moony you'll be in Filch's office with me redecorating once Sirius as created his diversion a couple of floors above us. Sirius you are to keep Filch distracted for as long as you can. Is every one ready?"

"Let's get this party started." Sirius said as he left the group in order to find Filch before starting his biggest prank yet.

James nodded at Sirius's departure and headed to Filch's office followed by the remaining Marauders. Just as he rounded the corner and was walking half way down the corridor he heard someone calling his name. As he came to a stop he turned to see Lily Evens marching towards them.

"There you are. Where have you been? I've been looking everywhere for you guys. Dumbledore wants to see us in his office." She stopped to take a breath and looked around; she saw that there were only three people in front of her instead of four. "Where's Sirius? You guys weren't trying to pull any pranks now were you?"

"Um... No." They said at the same time.

"I'd hope not otherwise I'll have to report you to Professor McGonagall. Now hurry up and get yourselves up to Dumbledore's office. Oh and by the way the password is socks." She said the last part with a smile as she thought about the headmaster's choice of muggle passwords. Without another word Lily turned on her heel and walked away leaving the three marauders to stare after her.

"We'd better hurry and finish this before she's said back." Of all the days to have a meeting" Dumbledore had to pick the day they planned for their best prank yet. Maybe Dumbledore knew what they were up to and decided to interrupt them before they ended up in detention for the fourth time this week. James sighed and led the rest of the way to Flitch's office to finish what they started.

Ten minutes later the marauders met up with Sirius outside Dumbledore's office assuming that Lily must have caught up with him and told him he was requested. "Socks" they said and made their way up the staircase and into the headmaster's office whose door was open waiting for the remaining members to turn up.

"Kind of you to finally join us." Lily said with a disapproving look on her face while looking at Sirius. By the look on his face it was obvious that she had caught him red handed and told McGonagall who was looking at all four of them with her own disapproving looks.

"Is everyone here?" Dumbledore asked as he entered the room and sat at his desk. "Everyone except for Hammond who is in the hospital and Richardson who has detention with Slughorn" McGonagall reported as she walked to stand beside Dumbledore. "Good. We shall continue without them for today. As you all know Lord Voldemort is getting stronger and gathering more and more followers. We must stand together and fight to prevent him from killing and harming others. In order to do this we need people who are willing to put their lives forward for the actions of our cause which you all are. The minister has informed me that the numbers of Voldemort's Death Eaters have doubled in size; there is also the number of people who believe in his words. I didn't however gather you here today to discuss these matters. I gathered you all here because I need to make arrangements for you to learn more about what you will be facing next year, the danger which is involved and the possibility that not all of you will see the outcome of our troubles. I want you prepared, which means I want you to study..." Sirius was looking at Dumbledore with his mouth hanging wide open. "Yes Mr Black I mean study. I want you to study spells which will help you and to do that, which means some heavy reading is required. Any question? Yes Miss Evans."

"I was wondering Professor, where exactly we are going to be doing all this. I mean so others don't know sir."

"Ahh, yes. I've got the perfect room in wind for these lessons. Unfortunately it's in need of a cleanup. Actually the room in question needs a complete make-over..."

"Albus, please get to the point."

"Sorry Minerva. I get carried away sometimes. The room needs sorting through which means Mr's Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew have kindly volunteered to do..."

"What! I did no such thing..."

"We will now conclude this meeting for this afternoon. You may go back to your dormitories now, everyone that is except for you four and Miss Evan." Dumbledore said pointing to the four marauders.

"What? What the hell for?"

"Mr Black please try to watch your language. As for why, you know what you did. Oh, and one more outburst like that from you and it'll be another detention. Am I clear Black?"

"Yes Professor McGonagall. Sorry for being rude Professor Dumbledore sir."

Dumbledore gave Sirius a nod before continuing. "As I was saying, since the four of you thought your prank on Mr Filch would be funny and you got caught I will be taking 40 points from Gryffindor..."

"But..."

"10 points from each of you, Mr Potter. As you punishment you will be reporting to Professor McGonagall at 7pm tomorrow night where she will instruct you to your respected tasks. As for you Miss Evans I want you to join them in order to keep an eye on them. I want you to make sure that they do what they have been told to do and not muck about."

"I would be glad to keep them in line Professor."

"Good. Now that that is done I would like you all to return to your dormitories."

Dumbledore turned to Professor McGonagall who held the door open for them as the five Gryffindor's made their way to Gryffindor tower before turning in for the night.

The following evening the four Marauders and Lily made their way to McGonagall's office. For the entire day Lily had not spoken a word to the marauders until 6:45pm to remind them that they had to be in McGonagall's office at 7pm sharp. When they arrived McGonagall had all ready made a list of the tasks in which each student was to complete that evening.

"Good evening," she said sharply, warning them not to cross her. "If you will all follow me please." Professor McGonagall said as she led the way through several or more corridors until she reached a corridor that had a large blank wall. Suddenly a door appeared in the wall which McGonagall opened. "Come along you lot, quickly now"

The mauraders and Lily looked around the room. At the back there were shelves and shelves of books that were scattered all over the place. Off to the side there were several dummies that were used for practice with arms and other parts fallen off and on the floor. On another side of the room were several cauldrons with bottles and bottles of ingredients surrounding them along with many other odd objects scattered around the room. "All right; Mr's Potter and Lupin I would like you both to attend to the potions and books. Mr's Black and Pettigrew you two are to repair the practice dummies and to clear away the rest of the junk that is just lying around. Miss Evans will you please write a list of the books that you think we'll need as they've been put away and make sure they do everything correctly and no slacking off. I will be back in several hours to check on your progress." McGonagall gave a stern look to the mauraders before walking out of the room leaving behind five silent students.

Lily waved at James and Remus to start with the books There were loads of books scattering the floor, books with defensive spells, conjuring spells, magical creatures, potions, the history of magic, famous witches and wizards and many others. Lily picked up a pile and began cauterising the books. After about two hours of sorting Sirius and Peter had mended the practice dummies and were currently sorting through several piles of random bits and pieces. Remus and James on the other hand gave up on organising the books due to Lily continuously yelling at them for disrupting her order so they were currently sorting through various ingredients. Lily however had just finished the row of shelves she was working on when she picked up a book that attracted her attention.

"Hey guys, come here for a second."

"What's up Lilyflower," James asked her glad for the break.

Lily just scolded at him before turning to Remus. "Take a look at this," she said as she handed him a book and pointed to several other books she had removed from the shelves and put in a pile on the floor.

Remus looked over the books before turning to James who gave him a puzzled look before turning back to Lily. "Where did you find these?"

"They were just sitting on one of the shelves." Lily bent down and picked up another book before looking it over.

Sirius on the other hand was getting annoyed with the two of them so he snatched the book from Remus's hand and read out loud "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." With a puzzled look on his face before turning to both James and Peter who both wore the same puzzled face he had. Turning back to Lily and Remus Sirius had all but one question in mind "Who the bloody hell is 'Harry Potter'?"