Note: All notes in parenthesis written like this are CyberSpacedOut's, all notes in parenthesis written like this are Remo Con's, and all notes in parenthesis written like this are Bookluva87's. We own nothing, which is why we aren't living in a gorgeous palace with maids, and butlers, and a million other servants who obey our ever command *drool* but you get the idea.

PROLOGUE

James whipped out his wand.

"Watch out, Snivillus," he snarled. Snape backed up farther until he was against he wall. Behind James, Sirius laughed.

"James, maybe you should reconsider. You wouldn't want anything bad to happen now would you?" a slow smile spread across Snape's face.

"No, I wouldn't want anything bad to happen. Not that anything is going to happen." James returned, glancing around. "I mean, what would?" It was true, nothing much could happen. There was only one door, the door James had entered through and no windows. A single bulb on the ceiling shed a dim light on the scene.

"There are many things that could happen. For instance," Snape casually (under the circumstances. So you say…) waved his wand. At first it seemed like nothing had happened.

"That was useless," James sneered. "Once again, Snivillus can't cast his spells right."

"That's what you think," Snape said, the smile growing wider by the second at the horrified expression dawning on James's face.

"James," Sirius said worriedly. "What's the matter? Nothing is happening, remember?"

"Not here," James answered hoarsely. "But there is somewhere else." He paused, appearing to be listening to nothing.

"Lily," he said urgently. "Lily! Lily!"

"What?" Sirius asked, half-curious, half-afraid.

"No," James whimpered. "No, you can't have hurt Lily, you can't!"

"James," Sirius said impatiently. "Lily isn't here. She's back at home, sleeping!"

"No," James said. "She's not. She's being tortured!"

"No, she's not!" Sirius said, perhaps more forcefully than he intended.

"James is right," Lily, and his son will die soon…very soon."

"No," James whispered, desperate. "There must be something I can do to save her! There must be-" struck by a sudden thought, he turned to Sirius.

"Where's Remus?" he asked. "Can he find her and help?"

"It's the full moon," Sirius reminded him.

"Damn!" James swore.

"Watch your language," Snape said mockingly. "But, I do know how you can save her. It would include a choice, of course, a very important choice…one that could mean the difference between-"

"Just tell me what the choice is already!" James cut him off.

"Well," Severus said. "It is simple: Will your become a death eater, or let Lily die?"

* * * * * * * * * * 16 years later * * * * * * * * 8

Harry Potter woke up with a start. There was a strange tapping noise on the windows. Well, it was strange to others, but not to the 16-year-old Harry Potter. He immediately recognized it: owls! With all trace of sleepiness gone, he walked over to the window and opened it, letting the owls fly in. At once Harry could see that one owl that looked like an owl that came from Hogwarts. He could see it carried a letter from Hagrid, the list of books for the new term, and two letters with handwriting that didn't seemed familiar, yet it felt like he had seen it before (well that's a bit contradicting, no?). He saw Pig, Ron's owl (a true HP fan should know that!) and another owl he didn't recognize, but saw that the handwriting was Hermione's. They (once again) hadn't forgotten his birthday! He didn't know how he could ever repay them. Even after the past few years, he could still remember the time when a major present was a pair of socks from Uncle Vernon. Harry was eternally grateful. As he went to open Ron and Hermione's presents the strange owl hooted softly at him, telling him to come to it first. So, puzzled, he did. It dropped its contents on his bed and then flew back off into the night sky. He picked up the first letter and opened it slowly…

Applaud is necessary *allowing time for applause, go on now* What'd do you think? Please review- this, the whole story: Dream Sequence, written by all 3 of us together under the penname FanficwriterS, and the other two parts/ universes: The Real World by CyberSpacedOut and Dark Reversed by RemoCon.