Lily's Hogwarts Experience Year Four: In Which A Whole Lot Of Things Happen
Chapter One: Life Or Death
In the great hall of Hogwarts James, Remus, Sirius, Callisto, Less, Saraan, Peter, Maxis and I sat waiting for the sorting and the feast to end so we could get down to business. Our Animagi potion sat up in the Gryffindor tower waiting to be tested. And our skill would be tested too. They could die tonight or they could live. I noticed that James, Sirius, Less, and Maxis were stuffing them selves just incase this was they're last meal (or at least that's what I assumed. I was being very paranoid, but possibly being responsible for your boy-friends death could do that to you). When Dumbledore released us from the hall we ran up to the tower ahead of every one, and said the password, stolen from a prefect by Sirius. We hurried up to the girl's dorm rooms and into ours. The potion was still sitting under my bed just where we'd left it in our third year.
"Cloak." Said Sirius to James.
James pulled it out of his pocket.
"Over the cauldron." Instructed Saraan "now over James and Sirius."
Over the summer we had devised a plan by sending owls back and forth. We'd take the potion to one of the secret passages we'd found and use it there. If one of us got hurt we'd get madam Pomfrey as soon as humanly possible and if she asked we'd explain every thing as long as she tried to treat who ever it was that got hurt. James and Sirius were to take it to the passage under the cloak, and we'd follow behind as if we were taking a stroll.
"Lily put the spell on it." Said Less. I put the spell on the potion the wolfsbane wouldn't affect Remus.
"Now go." She said, "We'll be there soon."
Sirius reached his hand out from under the cloak and gave a thumbs up sign. Then a few seconds later we could see the door open and close pushed by invisible hands.
"Ok, lets go." Said Callisto.
We walked out of the door and down the stairs into the common room. No one was there so we swiftly climbed out of the portrait hole.
"Where're we going again?" asked Saraan
"The third floor." Answered Remus "we can take a passage to get there."
He led us to a picture of a bookshelf with a man pacing in front.
"Dickens." Said Remus
The man looked up at us.
"Ah yes. My favorite author. You may pass. He moved from in front of the bookshelf and it opened up.
"We climb through." Said Remus
We carefully climbed through the picture. There were stairs, but Remus directed us away from them and led us to a ramp. He sat down and slid down it. We followed suit. I landed on top of Less at the bottom and Callisto landed on top of me.
"Ouch." I yelped as the impact hit me.
"Sorry." Callisto rolled off of me and I rolled off of Less.
"Guys we're almost there." Said Remus
We followed him about 2 more meters until he stopped and knocked on a stone. The stone opened and we fell into a room.
"We thought you'd been caught." Said James helping me up.
They already had the cauldron set up in the middle of the room.
"It's really ready!" yelled Sirius
"Shhh!" said Less
"The rooms sound proof." Said James "we already made sure of that. We're ready."
James walked over and filled five goblets with the potion. "All we have to do is drink."
"Wait!" I said, "You're sure?"
"Lily we went over this. We're sure."
"The potion can sit for one more day you know. Just so you can make up your mind."
"Lily," said Sirius gently "we worked for three years for this. We're not stopping now."
"Fine, fine. Just do it now." I said.
At the word now Sirius downed the goblet.
"Sirius!" I yelled, "I didn't mean then."
Sirius was smacking his lips.
"Not very tasty, but I'm not dying am I…"
All of the sudden he stopped. His hand went to his mouth, and with a pop he wasn't there. Instead there was a black dog.
I screamed out of joy, "it works, it really works."
The rest of them put the goblets to their mouths and swallowed. The same thing happened. They froze for a second and then there were four new animals on the floor. Saraan, Callisto, Remus, and I jumped into each other's arms, and started yelling. Then I realized that I had a pair of antlers nudging me in the back. I turned and smiled.
"Yeah you did it." I admitted, "you're dead and you're not dying."
I swear as a stag he could still look smug.
"Can you guys change back?" asked Remus
The stag nodded and with a pop he was James again.
"It's so cool." He started but then "Sirius!"
Sirius was running after a small gray rat. The rat ran up a high table and the dog started to growl.
"Yeah, you have control the instincts." Said James "Less is fine, and so is Maxis. I guess Sirius is just having sort of a hard time."
Saraan ran over and grabbed Sirius by the fur and pulled him away from the table.
"Stop!" she yelled at him.
He looked up and started whimpering.
"Change back now." Said Callisto
His head turned towards Callisto and he ran over, and started licking her.
"Change back." She said urgently "can he hear us?"
"I hope so." I Said "Maxis come here."
Maxis looked up and promptly walked over.
"Get him to change back." Said Remus
She growled at Sirius and started to chase him around the room. When he was finally got cornered he changed back quickly.
"Has she gone crazy?" he panted.
"No, you were lost in the dogs mind." Said James "you weren't listening to us."
"So that's what that was." he said "I heard a voice in the back of my head I just couldn't really focus on it. What about Less?"
Less at hearing her name had slunk over in her cheetah body.
"You can come back now." Said James
And with a pop she did.
"That rules! I had so much power and so much strength."
"Now Peter." I said. I walked over to the table and picked him up by the tale. "He's Sirius again. You can come back." I told him. I put him on the floor and then Peter came back.
"It's called control." Peter said to Sirius "you could use some."
Sirius rolled his eyes.
"He's right you know." said Less "we can't have you wandering off on full moons to sniff fire hydrants. Change into Padfoot."
"Why?" he asked
"So you can exercise some control." She said sternly
He sighed and changed into a dog. For about ten seconds he stood perfectly still then he started trying to jump on me.
"Sit." I said
Amazingly he did.
"Now change back."
He did this too.
"Is that enough control for you?" he asked sarcastically.
"Fine." I said
"Lets have something to drink." Said Saraan. She waved her wand and nine cups appeared in the air along with a jug of pumpkin juice.
"I'll do the rest." Said Sirius. He took out his wand and pored the juice and made it come to us.
"To us friends forever." Said James.
"To us friends forever." We echoed.
I drank, and felt a little sick.
"Is this fresh?" I asked and then I wasn't me anymore.
I looked down and discovered that I was dear. I could see that my friends were looking in astonishment, all except for Sirius.
"Oh, my god!" yelled Saraan
I was thinking the same thing. I wanted to me be me, and then all of the sudden I was me. I fell to the floor, and James caught me. He bought me to a chair at the table.
"Are you ok?" asked Remus.
"A little woozy, but fine. What was that?"
"Animagus potion." Said Sirius simply and calmly "I spiked your juice."
I will not kill Sirius, I will not kill Sirius; I thought over and over.
"What did you do?" I asked slowly
"I put animagus potion in your pumpkin juice. Why do you think I offered to help serve."
Saraan, Remus, and Callisto spit out all of the juice in their mouths, and then dumped their cups
"You know it's at times like these," mumbled James "I wonder if they just have this little cell in Azkaban picked out just for you. What were you thinking?"
"Well Lily was really worried, I just thought I'd give her the experience." He was too calm.
"I said I wasn't doing this!" I yelled
"I know, but you have to admit it is cool. You can turn into dear at will."
"Sometimes I wonder if the Crucius Curse would be to good for you." I said.
"Lily it's not all that bad." Said Less.
"Please, I'm trying to figure out Sirius' mind and you are not helping."
"Sirius," said Remus "her body wasn't prepared. Remember we put all sorts of spells on you guys. She's going to be sick to her stomach for hours."
"Sirius you're one of my best friends but sometimes I wonder if you have anything in between your ears!" I said.
"You'll get used to it." He said still showing surprising calm.
"Callisto," I yelled "he's your brother can't you do something?"
"Actually Lily it can't be that bad." She said
"Well then that's two Black's I'm planning to murder."
I started feeling sick again and I threw up.
"Just great." I said "what a great way to start off my year."
Chapter Two: Trying The Talent
In the third week of school I still wasn't speaking to Sirius, but I had decided to see if he was right about it not being so bad. I snuck outside one evening at about 5:30, and went behind the school where I didn't think anyone would see me. I ducked down behind a bush and concentrated on the dear, and in a second I was her. I blinked and looked around. No one was there. I moved my legs a little, and started to walk around the little patch I was in. there was some grass so I let the animal take over and it started to eat.
"Lily!" I heard a voice and took control back. I quickly looked around and saw James coming towards me. I started to run it let him think I was some other dear, but decided against it. Instead I changed back.
"I thought you weren't going to use your power because it was forced upon you." Said James sarcassticly looking it me.
"I was just trying it. Seeing how it felt. I wasn't really doing anything." I retorted.
"So did you like it?" he asked
I sighed, "yeah I guess, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm pissed at Sirius."
"You have every right to be. We've had a long talk with him about free will. He says he's sorry."
"I guess I should talk to him. Its just fact that he has no sense."
"We went over that too," he said grimly, then he brightened "so are you coming with us on the full moon?"
I laughed "yeah right! Never."
"Well will you come back up to the castle with me, or are you going to sit here playing Bambie?"
"I'm coming." I agreed
Back in the tower Less and Sirius were sitting on a couch talking. When Sirius saw me he got up to leave.
"Wait." I said
He turned around and came back.
"Yes?"
"I'm sorry," I blurted out, "I shouldn't have been so mean to you about this."
"No, you had every right to be. I deserved it, and I shouldn't have did what I did."
"You're right, and I forgive you."
"Thanks." He said.
We smiled and then I turned to go upstairs to the dorm, then I turned back to look at Sirius,
"Oh yeah Sirius," I called over my shoulder. He looked up "the animagus thing isn't all that bad after all."
He gave me an ' I told you so' smile and then went back to talking to Less.
About two weeks later I was out running as a dear. I couldn't resist, and I didn't think any one would care. I ran through the parts of the Forbidden forest that were close to the school. I had no problems except for a really pushy griffin that didn't want be in his territory. When I was done running I changed back behind a bush by the lake.
"Where were you?" asked a voice.
I turned around and saw Maxis standing behind me.
"You scared me, can't I sit in peace?" I answered.
"No," she said, "you weren't sitting. I saw you ride up. Where'd you go?"
"Just to the forest, not far."
"So you like the animagus power. Even though you insisted that it would be awful for you, and that you'd kill Sirius."
"I just wanted to try something." I said sharply. "What are you doing here?"
"Illusions. I was in the bush."
"Bye Maxis." I said exasperated.
"Oh, yeah James wants you." She called after my retreating back."
It turned out James just wanted to know where I was. I told him and he laughed.
"That's the second time you've used your 'horrible' power. It can't be that bad if you're always disappearing on us."
I just turned to go up stairs. In our dorm Less and Saraan were sitting on their beds talking and giggling.
"Hey lily," said Less smiling "we saw you running from the window. I guess you like it."
"Gosh, did every one see?" I fell back onto my bed.
"You were gone awhile," explained Saraan "we looked out the window to see if you were out there."
"I was only running." I huffed.
"I understand" Less smiled "I'd be out there too if a cheetah in day light wouldn't be suspicious."
I was about to comment when an owl flew through the window. It landed on Less's head, she grabbed it, and opened the letter.
"NO!!!" she yelled.
(A/N- Cliffhanger, oh well. the only thing I can really say is that no ones dead. Its just there's going to be a really un-pleasant visitor soon (not Voldemort). Also when you review please tell me whether you'd have me concentrate more on Sirius Blacks daughter or this. I'll post the most popular one next. Well toodles.)
- Sirius Black's Daughter