Reversura
The fantastic world of Harry Potter belongs to J.K Rowling. The story is mine, hope you enjoy.
Chapter 1
October 31, 1995
Godric's Hollow
Tingling. That's what she felt, an almost painful tingling sensation. A screeching sound filling her ears deafening her to all else creating a headache that only intensified when she opened her eyes regretting the decision instantly as sunlight blinded them.
After a minute or so of squeezing them shut in an attempt to lessen the pain, she attempted it again this time braving the world for a longer period of time allowing the time for her to the become more accustomed to the new and bewildering sensations the now filled her. Slowly she moved her arms from their positions; one down by her side and resting on her stomach, the other above her head. Both body parts protested greatly to the movement however she forced the limbs to move and pushed herself up from the floor which seemed to be wet and covered in dead leaves.
Her eyes glanced around the strangely familiar room with, looking up to see the roofless room which was the source of the sunlight and she guessed this was also how the room contained dead leaves. Bringing her hand up to place on her forehead she pulled it away to see it covered in blood. Suddenly memories flooded her mind, 'Take Harry and run!'James. 'Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead'. Harry. Voldermort.
She rose to her feet quickly now forgetting the pain her green eyes defiant as ever, Lily Potter needed to protect her family and nothing was going to stand in her way.
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Lily searched the room for any clues to try and figure out where she was. She recognised the room however placing it was another matter entirely. Her head still aching she moved to the door and into the hallway. The wall where lined with the familiar green and yellow floral wallpaper that she always hated. Stopping she turned back to the room she had just exited her hands reaching out to the wall to help support her body as she placed her other hand on her forehead.
That room was where her child had slept and to the left was the room where she and her husband had spent the best part of a year sleeping in. But that wasn't possible, what had Voldermort done to the first house she had as a mother and as a wife. Picture frames lay on the floor of the hallway, the broken glass distorting the picture of her perfect family. It was the first picture the Potter family had taken of Harry after they were able to take him home from St Mungo's. Lily was holding Harry in her arms whilst smiling down at him, James and Sirius where either-side of her and where pulling funny faces at the newborn to try and get him to laugh. Lily choked back a sob as she continued on her journey down the hallway until she reached the top of the staircase.
And there he was lying on the stairs, hair jet black, glasses covering his closed eyes. James Potter.
Lily leaned over him, her heart beating fast in her chest she desperately wished it would stop so that she could concentrate to she is there where any signs that he was still living. Thump, thump... Thump, thump. Collapsing to the side of him in relief her hand only just catching the rail on the side of staircase to stop her from falling onto her still unconscious but alive husband. Placing one hand on his cheek, she run her fingers over is dirty forehead and into his hair, a habit developed over the time they had been married, being the lighter sleeper of the two.
James groaned his eyes fluttering open.
"Five more minutes Lil." Before placing a hand over his eyes and resting the other on his stomach.
Letting out a relived laugh which sounded croaky and made her throat protest at the sudden use.
"James" Lily said, shaking his head slightly. This time James woke with a start nearly knocking Lily over from her uncomfortable position on the stairs. Looking at Lily with wide eyes he uttered the one word that meant the most in the world to the them ,the next however was the one they feared the most. "Harry... Voldermort." Lily felt tears well up in her eyes.
"I don't know , one moment I was facing Voldermort trying to save Harry, then there was a green light and the next thing I knew I was on the ground in that room over there." She replied her voice recovering slowly as it became used to being used again.
James looked around him taking in everything that he could, trying to understand as much in as possible. His Auror training kicking in he turned to his wife and wiped away the growing tears. "Here is what we are going to do, we are going to get out of here and find someone, anyone from the order and get them to tell us what the hell happened and we will not stop until we find our son." James' brown eyes stared in Lily's emerald green ones their determination shown in both. They were going to get their son and if the unthinkable had happen they were going to make whoever was responsible pay, dearly.
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Holding each other's hands tightly they descended down the rest of the unstable staircase. Lily holding onto the rail whilst James' spare hand remained on the wall to help balance them both as they journeyed downwards careful not to step into the gaps or trip on any of the broken panels that where sticking up. Both remained silent unable to speak about their tragic situation. What would they find when they reached the bottom? And of course the question that never left either of their minds, where was their son? Where was Harry?
The corridor at the bottom of the stairs lead to the front door and they walked at all too familiar yet foreign path to the door which was growing ivy at the hinges and the previously glare window panes where no longer transparent with the dirt, dust and cobwebs that now covered them. Light raced through as James forced the door open with all of his body weight, as it had grown stiff and difficult to move, before returning his hand immediately back to Lily's who grabbed it as if the time it took James to open the door was far too long of them to not be in contact with each other. So hands clasped together the Potter's stepped outside of Godric's Hollow.
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James and Lily blinked as they stepped out into the sunlight and the cold October weather forced them closer than they already where to help keep them warm, not that either of them protested. As the married couple walked down the path to the gate at the entrance of Godric's Hollow, golden writing emerged rising up from the ground:
On this spot, on the night of 31 October 1981,
Lily and James Potter lost their lives.
Their son, Harry, remains the only wizard ever to have survived the Killing Curse.
This house, invisible to Muggles, has been left in its ruined state as a monument to the Potters and as a reminder of the violence that tore apart their family.
Unable to move from there spot as they read the words written outside what was supposed to be their safe haven.
"Harry's alive" Lily whispered, relief flooding through her tears of joy welled up in her eyes as she brought a hand up to her mouth and released a short excited laugh. James smiled and brought his wife in his arms enclosing her kissing her on the forehead. However then the rest of the words sank into James.
"Are we dead?"
They remained silent their brains needing the time catch-up with this new information.
"I don't think so, I mean we aren't ghosts we can touch things and feel things." The rational and logical side of Lily's brain finally processing everything. "Let's go and find out what happened."
Opening the gate and walking down the street. James looked at his wife before running after her.
Now outside of the village that Godric's Hollow resided in James and Lily felt that they were far enough away so that any charms placed around the house would not reach, if they were still working after all the house itself didn't stand well against the attack, so the pair disapparted to the first place that they both thought to go and get answers. The Leaky Cauldron.
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AN: This is my first fanfiction so please excuse any grammar or spelling mistakes. As I said this is my first one so I don't know how long it is as it hard to tell when you are just writing on word. Please review. Is this worth continuing?
Thanks for reading
Brightrose14
