CHAPTER 1:
It Was An Accident!
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Three Years After Sirius Black's Death:
Lily was nervous, worried, and lonely. She hadn't seen or heard from James or Sirius for five days now. The last thing she had heard either one say was that they were going to "give lil ol' Volders what he deserves". She wondered if they could be killed again. Probably not. She thought briefly about looking in on Harry, but then discarded the idea.
Lily sighed and then went back to the book she was reading. After she finally admitted that she couldn't possibly concentrate on her book, she put it down. 'In some ways, heaven is such a rip off. You'd think with all the things a person could do that you'd never get bored, but no! I'm bored beyond all reason for what must be the millionth time since I died. Maybe looking in on Harry wouldn't be such a bad idea.'
She quietly got up and started walking to the main gates of Heaven. To look in on Harry, she first had to obtain permission and then she had to sign out. Getting permission wasn't hard and she was soon on her way. She loved flying. Now she knew how Fawkes, Headmaster Dumbledore's pet phoenix, had felt. The freedom was incredible. She saw Grimmauld Place and hastened her pace. She couldn't wait to see her son again. Since she was dead, Harry could neither see nor hear her. That was disappointing, but acceptable. She could deal with that as long as she was allowed to see her son. It had been a couple years since she had last done this, but it seemed like just yesterday. She wasn't thinking that her little boy would grow up. That's why she was shocked when she slipped literally through the door and saw them. She nearly had a heart attack, figuratively speaking.
Harry and Hermione had finally realized that they were meant for, destined for each other. They were sitting together on the couch, holding hands, and watching a movie. 'Since when has Hermione become such good friends with MY SON?! And did I ever give my permission that he could go dating? I'm not so sure I like this at all!' They were behaving themselves, not doing anything bad, but she still had a few rumpled feathers. This was her only son, after all! She began grumbling about it to herself and slipped back out the door. It wasn't fair that she was dead and couldn't get to know Hermione. Maybe she'd break Harry's heart.
She was still grumbling to herself as she began a slow return trip to heaven. She floated lazily over the rugged landscape, enjoying the scenery. All of the sudden, out of the blue, she reversed her direction and picked up her pace. Although she was not a habitually impulsive person/spirit, she decided to follow a whim and head back for Hogwarts. It had been a long time since she had last seen the place, since before Harry was born. The prospect of returning made her excited and she quickened her pace still more.
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Sirius and James were outside of heaven as well. They were in the middle of a thick forest working very diligently. What they were doing would be quite a bit more noticeable (if it worked) than what Lily was doing. They were trying to find a way to tink Voldemort bright, neon rainbow colors from heaven and make it so everybody but Voldemort himself could see it. This had been a challenge just to perfect the color scheme. James, since he was better at tinking than Sirius, had worked on the spell on poor Sirius, who was already regretting this prank. The experimentation wasn't going very well at all. Right now various parts of Sirius were tinking neon orange, blue, red, pink, yellow, green, and purple while his robes (wizards go back to wearing robes in heaven) had turned an ugly gray and were now skin tight. James looked absolutely mortified about this while Sirius was fuming.
"If I didn't want to get Voldemort back for what he did to you and me, no make that just me, then I'd tell you that I QUIT! However, I'll help you figure this out on two conditions," Sirius said with fire in his eyes. He conjured up a new set of robes and disappeared behind a large rock that was in the clearing they were in.
What are they?" James asked his friend uncertainly. "Or do I even want to know?"
"Yes, you do or else I refuse to be your lab rat anymore," came the muffled reply.
"Oh, all right. Name your conditions," James said and sighed heavily.
"First condition-" There was a pause as Sirius struggled with the robes, "I get as many breaks as I damn well want."
"WHAT?!" James shrieked. He could just see it now- they were never going to get anything done because Sirius would always be on break. "Fine!" he said sulkily as Sirius emerged and waved a finger at him. "It's as bad as blackmail." Then he laughed. "Get it? Black-mail?"
"Yeah, I get it. It's not all that funny, wise guy. Maybe you can get this Prongs," he said and waved his wand almost carelessly. As the wand passed over the ground, the forest floor James was rolling on in laughter rolled and buckled, sending James flying.
Not for very far, though; a tree was straight ahead of him, giving him about ten feet to gain momentum before slamming headfirst into it. His head hit the huge willow with a sickening thump! and he lay at its base in a crumpled heap, unmoving. Sirius' first thought was that he had just accidentally killed his best friend. Then he remembered that they were both dead and couldn't die again. He walked slowly over to his still friend and gently shook him. Then something really odd happened: James vanished.
"Oh SHIT!" Sirius yelled and jumped back in surprise. He looked everywhere for his friend and then began to panic. Something was really wrong. He called for James, but couldn't find him. Even James' wand had disappeared. There was absolutely no sign of him whatsoever. Now really panicking, Sirius sped off towards heaven to get help. This was more than he could handle.
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At the same time that James vanished, Lily was arriving at Hogwarts. The school was just as beautiful as it had been when she had gone there. Her breath quickened and she slowed her pace down to admire the gorgeous building. She "walked" up the front doors and went, literally, through them. Then something odd happened: she became visible. She could see herself in the mirrors she was passing. Then she remembered about Hogwarts' magic spells. 'To heck with walking then,' she thought and floated up near the ceiling. She turned around a corner and nearly ran into Peeves.
"Hey! Who are you? You don't belong here. We don't have any female ghosts here!" he said with evident shock.
"I'm Lily Potter. I just decided to come back and visit. Hey! Put that pea shooter down! That won't do a darn thing to me and you know it!"
"You always were my favorite student to pick on. Then again, Hermione Granger was a lot of fun to," he mused. Why are you back, though? I though you were all the way dead!"
"I am," Lily stated. "It has to do with the spells put on the school when it was first built. It helps to keep any unfriendly ghosts from sneaking up on the students and faculty and harming them."
"You always were a know-it-all," Peeves grumbled.
"You don't happen to know where McGonagall is, do you?" she asked eagerly.
"Well, as a matter of fact, I do. She's away on business. Something about one of her students being reported missing. Nobody can get a hold of her, or we'd tell her the dumb first year is back. He apparently thought he could go take a walk in the forbidden forest alone on a full moon night. A werewolf attacked him, and he's currently in the hospital wing."
"That's horrible!" Lily said with a look of horror on her face.
"He deserved it," Peeves said as he floated away. "I never have liked those Malfoy stuck-ups. He's Draco Malfoy's half brother, Lucius Malfoy's son," and with that he disappeared through a wall in the castle.
'Well, I guess I could wander around for a while, maybe even catch up with a few of my old professors at lunch,' she thought, and, like Peeves, went straight through a wall.
