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Chapter 1: Broken Hope
Summary: Sequel to The Death of the Heart (Read that first! To get the gist of what's going on). It's graduation day and two members of the Marauders are absent.…One in Azkaban Prison…another…possibly dead…Read and Review!
A/n: To new readers, please read the Death of the Heart (the prequel) so you may understand what's happening! Thank you! Thanks for everyone who read/reviewed The Death of the Heart I hope the sequel will be a success too. Enjoy!
Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness. A laughter that was mirthless as the smile of a sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was Azkaban, the savage, frozen hearted wizarding prison.
This is where our story begins…
A month it has been since James Potter, a seventeen-year-old boy with a dark past, entered the walls of Azkaban prison. He was surprised that he was not insane yet. That his mind did not slip to the darkness that he had became accustomed too. He shivered as he gazed out of the only, tiny, window of the cell. He sighed as he watched the dark sky.
He was innocent…
He believed that and that what kept him going nothing else just that little thought. James sighed as he slid down to the floor and sat on the thin sheet, which was his bed. He knew it would come someday…insanity. He knew that his mind would give this fight up and let him go. It was better like this. To die then to live.
It was there daily visit…
Dementors…
James mind clouded as one strong memory resurfaced…
"Daddy?" James whispered his father pulled him and his sitter toward a dark, eerie manor.
"Yes?" His father asked curtly as he continued his way toward the manor.
"Where are we going?" He asked hesitantly the only thing he wanted now was his mother.
His father chuckled. A chuckle that brought chills down James and Jessica's spine. "You'll see soon enough"
"No, no, no, no" James chanted as the memory became stronger. Clawing at his barriers that protected him from these memories.
He grabbed a fistful of hair, as he screamed "NO!"
Lily Evans heart quickened as she straightened her graduation robes. She took a deep breath willing herself not to cry as she sat next to her friend, Remus Lupin, and glanced at the two empty chairs next to him. Those seats belonged James Potter and Sirius Black. One in prison the other in St. Mungo's possibly dead. Lily blinked urging the tears to not to fall.
The school knew…why Sirius was in St. Mungo's and why James was in Azkaban.
Lily stared straight ahead not listening as Dumbledore spoke.
"Promise me one thing, Lils?
"Anything"
"Promise me you'll find my sister's killer. Promise that you declare my innocence. Because I know, I am innocent. I have a feeling…"
"I promise, James, " Lily muttered as she finally let the tears fall. She felt someone grabbed her hand. She looked to her right to see Remus, he smiled slightly. She smiled back.
"And now a word from the Head girl…"
That was her signal…
She arose from her seat and made her way towards the podium. She smiled as she began, "Fellow graduates, I congratulate you on a job well done. Every one of you deserves to graduate today…" She paused as she realized there were two people who deserved to graduate but was not here. She shook her head as she stopped and got down and took her seat.
It was too hard for her…
Dumbledore cleared his throat before he said, "Unfortunately, the head boy is unable to come today…"
Once again, Lily zoned him out. She took a shivering breath as she stood and left the Great Hall. She put on a fake smile and walked away.
Someone stopped her…
"Lily" Dumbledore called, his voice urgent
"Yes?"
"St. Mungo's has called me and say that we may go see Mr. Black but he is not awake yet."
Lily stared at him for a moment, digesting the information, before she said, "Is he alright?"
"I'm sorry but they have not told me the condition of Mr. Black," He said
"Wait…let me go get Remus" She said, she was sure he knew but…
"I'm here" Remus voice said as he stepped in front of Lily
"Let's go"
Lily smiled before she said, "Let's"
A piece of her broken hope was mended…
End of Chapter
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