This is my first my first attempt at fan fiction ever so please be nice in your reviews. The scene is set in 1981 on the night Harry's parents were murdered by Voldemort. This is my idea of how the Potter family spent their last night together, and Lily Potter's final moments with her son Harry before she was killed.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does. The lullaby does not belong to me either. It comes from the movie The Prince of Egypt.

The Last Lullaby of Lily Potter

Chapter One: A Magical World at War

For most of people in the country of Great Britain, everything was peaceful, calm, and serene. But unknown to these people, there was a world of magic and wonder living right under their noses. A world where amazing creatures such peaceful unicorns, fierce dragons, wise centaurs, brutal giants, and many other magical beings roamed.

Among those were the witches and wizards, humans with supernatural powers who lived alongside the magical creatures. Wizards and witches harbored the fear of being shunned, prosecuted and their magic being used for all the wrong reasons. Their fears were also for the creatures being hunted and driven to extinction. Therefore, they used their powers to hide their world from the muggles (humans without magical abilities) and lived in peace, and happiness.

But unfortunately, their virtual paradise wasn't destined to last very long. For not all wizards were good. Some became enveloped in the Dark Arts (the dark side of magic) and attempted to use it to rule over the magical world. Many Dark wizards and witches had tried before but all had failed to bring their terrifying visions of power to light. Then, eleven years before our story starts, another Dark wizard emerged.

He was the most dangerous dark sorcerer in over a hundred years. No-one knew were he came from or who he was, nut one thing was clear. This Dark wizard killed with no remorse and showed no mercy. His deeds were so foul that the Wizarding world began to think that he barely had a trace of humanity left in him. They feared him so much that they dared not speak his name. Instead he was called the Dark Lord, You-Know-Who, and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. But the Dark Lord called himself Voldemort.

Voldemort was basically a magical form of the German dictator Adolf Hitler. His goal was to bring the wizarding world out of hiding and rule over the muggles. He believed that wizards were superior to non-magical folk in every way and that it was his destiny to rule over both wizards and muggles alike. But his prejudice did not stop there.

Voldemort also believed that only wizards and witches who came from all-magical families (pure-bloods) deserved to call themselves wizards. There were also families that had married muggles and therefore produced children that were half-magical and half-muggle (half-bloods). And then there were wizards and witches who came from all-Muggle families with no magical relatives and somehow found themselves with magical abilities (muggle-borns, Mudbloods). Voldemort especially hated the Muggle-borns.

Voldemort started to gather followers, in order to carry out his plans for world-domination. Some he scared into serving him under means of mind-control, and blackmail. Others joined him under their own free will, and shared in his ideas of power over the muggles. These people were known as the Death-Eaters. They were taught by the Dark Lord himself in the ways of the Dark Arts. Any wizard or witch who refused to join Voldemort ended up dead along with their entire families. Voldemort even murdered the woman and children. No mercy was shown by the Dark Lord and his followers.

There was only one man that Voldemort feared, and his name was Albus Dumbledore. Dumbledore was the headmaster of the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Not only that, he was also a Grand Sorcerer; Chief Warlock on the Wizard High Court the Wizengamot; a proud holder of the Order of Merlin, First Class; a chairman of the International Confederation of Wizards; and was featured on the Famous Witches and Wizards Chocolate Frog cards. He was also the one who in 1945 defeated the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald. No-one knew why Voldemort feared Professor Dumbledore but one thing was clear: He was the only thing that stood between Voldemort and his victory.

In order to protect the wizarding world from Voldemort and the Death-Eaters, Professor Dumbledore formed the organization known as the Order of the Phoenix. Talented wizards came from all over Great Britain to join the rebellion. The Order of the Phoenix protected not only witches and wizards, but also protected the muggle population as well from Voldemort's evil.

For eleven years the forces of good magic and the Dark Arts were caught in a stalemate. But in the year 1981, something would happen that would tip the outcome of the war. This is where our story begins. In a quiet village of Godric's Hollow…..

Author's Note: Well, that's chapter one of my first fan fic! I hope you enjoyed reading it as much I enjoyed writing it! Please review if you what to know what happens next and I promise it won't take long. Yes I know I left it in a cliffhanger, but it just seemed to be a good place to stop.