Chapter 2
Unveiling the Truth
Disclaimer: See chapter 1
Author's Note:
Well I have added some more stuff and corrected the old one , I hope that you'll like it. Please review. All suggestions and point of views are accepted excluding flames.
Three days after the incident ...
Sirius was sitting in the dining room of number 12 gremauld place, his eyes red and puffy signaling all the crying that he has been doing since the incident of Halloween, at Potters' cottage , three days ago. He was staring in to fire, a far away look in his eyes. He didn't notice the arrival of his wife, Cassiopiea ; a beautiful lady with average height, milky white and sharp features, heart shaped face, brown eyes, long and bushy brown hair .
Dark circles around her eyes were showing that she also didn't have enough sleep. She came behind his back and put her hands on his shoulders but he didn't budge. She could understand that how her husband was feeling, she can sense the pain of losing a family member, afterall she also had lost Lily ,the only sister like figure to her in whole life. She tried to engage him in a conversation but there were no answers other than little nods,"hmm" etc. she prepared a glass of hot chocolate and handed it to him, and told him that she was going to sleep upstairs, this again earned a nod from Sirius. With a sigh, she left the kitchen and started climbing the stairs . when she reached the entrance hall , she felt a familiar sign of magic near somewhereand she knew that what does that meant; it meant only one thing that Lily was alive and was around somewhere . without a thought, she ran towards the main door and opened it . the sight that awaited her made her alive ; actually more than alive . James and Lily were sitting their , exhausted and gasping for breath. She did only thing that could make Sirius leave the kitchen, she screamed "Lily !" and then dropped to the ground and hugged both Lily and James together . within a matter of seconds, Sirius was there, he stood wide-eyed staring at the humans before him, he couldn't believe his eyes, his brother and sister in all but blood were alive and sitting on his doorstep, smiling up at him. 'this could be a trap' he thought, with this, he quickly stunned both Lily and James. This caused a cry of disbelief from Cassi, she opened her mouth to argue but Sirius placed his hand on her shoulder gently and said,"Iam sorry dear, but Iam not sure that they aren't imposters, cant take risk …!" Cassiopia knew that she cant misjudge the magical signature of Lily but she also didn't want to disagree with Sirius, afterall it was war and anything was possible , so both of them decided to take the likely potters' inside and confirm their identities.
5th November...
Kitchen of number 12 gremauld place was full with people, close to James and Sirius . these all were invited by Sirius on special invitation. These include : Sirius Black(Auror), Cassiopiea Black(Healer), Remus Lupin(Hitwizard),Frank Longbottom (Auror), Alice Longbottom(Unspeakable), Alastor Madeye Moody(Senior Auror ) and Ammilia Bones ( Auror ).
Everybody was having a chat when the doors swung open. All the aurors pulled out their wands and pointed them at the intruders, curses on their lips. the invaders were nun other than James and Lily. Everybody looked wide-eyed at the new arrivals , except Sirius and Cassi.; both of them were smiling . James held up his hands and clapped "hello? Aren't we welcome here ?" he asked while smirking, "and please close your mouths or you might catch some flies" he said at their still dumbstruck audience . Moody was first to approach them , he hugged both of them and turned to look back at others around the dining table "come on You lot! I can confirm that these two are real in flesh, and Iam sure they wont bite if you hug them! " then he clapped James on his back and returned to his seat . soon there were hugs and kisses exchanged and after that everybody took their seats around the dining table once again. Potters' told them about the spell and that how did they managed to live."We found the spell in one of the old grimwer in one of our walts, it needed to be performed by at least two people who truelly loved the person on whom it was going to be performed . After the spell we both were totally exhausted so we did the only thing that could possibly save us at that moment, we disillusioned ourselves...", then they told them their suspition of Dumbledore's plans. "we went to gringgits, the day after we arrived here, I asked to meet my accounts manager. I was shocked to hear that the one I appointed was replaced, and after I inquired that who did that, I was told that Dumbledore himself ordered the replacement but when goblins refused to obey his orders and told him that he was not authorized to access any thing regarding Potters' state or heritage, he used his authority as the chief warlock . After to ensure that the replacement was made. Although he could not access the family walts of Potters, he somehow succeeded to steal 27000G from Harry's trust walt. Goblins also told us that we should not worry because Dumbledore has made a big mistake in breaking goblin's trust and they themselves will recover the money as well as punish the thief." Said James sipping his cup of tea. There were some other revealations from others around the table,the pieces started to fall in. Dumbledore was indeed using them to gain control over the wizarding Britain. Everybody around the table was livid.
"calm down!" said Moody,"we can not throw him away with anger , he is too clever and powerful for his own good! We need to form a plan ...!"
Everybody mermerd and nodded in agreement . after an hour the plan was formed and the first step of the plan was to rescue Harry ; who was placed with the Dersley family by Dumbledore purposely. knowing the fact that according to Potters' will, Harry was never to be placed with Dersley's , at any cost. Soon it was mmidnight , so everybody took leave and Potters and Blacks made their way towards their respective bedrooms.
7th November...
James, Lily, Remus and Sirius were standing in front of number four privit drive in the evening, waiting for the dark to fall,in order to rescue Harry from dersleys.
Mrs Dursley was Lily potter's sister in blood but she never liked to be called so. Because , according to her, Having Magic was not a normal thing instead , its an abnormality and Petunia Dersley despised abnormal people; not all abnormal but the magical ones. She had broke all ties with lily and her family since Lily was heard to be marrying another mage like herself. Why did Petunia loathed Lily and all magic related stuff was not a mistery because, Lily was a witch, that means Lily could do magic but on the other hand Petunia was not magical and the base of hatred towards magic began when Lily was told that she was accepted at a very prestigious institution ; Hogwards school of witchcraft and wizardry. Her parents and Lily were extatic to hear the news. Lily didn't find out about Petunia's hatred towards magic until she herself came to Dersley's ; to invite them for her own wedding. That day she and Petunia had a very heated argument which resulted in Lily's retreating, broken hearted and with a vow that she would never ever return. But here she was again on the same place. Thanks to the so-called leader of the light , Albus Dumbledore.
Yes, no doubt that Dumbledore's plan was so far working perfectly. he had succeeded in taking possession of Harry and had placed him in the great and loving care of his beloved aunt Petunia, in order to achieve his greater good. Lily couldn't believe her ears when she, James and some others found about the real plans of Dumbledore. How easily he had fooled them all to hand him their lives to accomplish his desires of becoming the most powerful wizard since Merlin, both politically and magically. During the meeting held at Black's house, many old misteries were revealed. According to the information gathered through different sources, Albus Dumbledore has never abandoned his cause of achieving great powers, and becoming the greatest man ever to walk or exist on the face of earth . According to their speculations, when Dumbledore thought that his childhood friend and stretigic partner,Gellert Grindelwald was not going to win the war and if he (Dumbledore ) did not interfere, then somebody else will do and get the credit for defeating the worst darklord in history. Luckily for him, he was already not on speaking terms with the darklord Grindelwald because of the confrontation happened between them some days before Grindelwald started his campaign of enslaving the whole human and non-human population of earth. So he devised a quick plan and effectively earned the place of a great sorceror by dueling with Grindelwald and killing him. Then came the matter of prophycy, which meant that Dumbledore was going to lose his place and instead some other little brat will earned the title of defeating the greatest darklord of the century. This however was proven also in favour of the old man. With potters' and Voldemort out of the picture, and others having blind faith on him, it was piece of cake for him to take the Boy-Who-Lived, under his own thumb. Disgusted with the dirty games of the Old Manipulater, Lily shook her head to clear her thoughts and looked around to observe the place.
After a while , when it was totally dark , at about 8:00 pm. Four shadows crept towards number four privit drive. Some yards away, they came to a halt. Then one of them moved forward and began to wave her wand in a complex manner, after a couple of seconds a faint dome, comprising of varius colours appeared around the walls of number four. She glanced back at the others and said quitely "wait here, I think that its safe to go in, that old coot thinks that he can dodge us !" she was about to jump on to the other side when she heard James "Lily !" she looked back and he said softly "be careful !" she nodded and jumped inside. Her feet touched the soft grass and immediately she bent down so that no one could see her. She could not perform magic here because if she did so, the old goat will be informed of the intrusion and its quite possible that he would come here straight away , in order to secure his most precious weapon ; that would help him to achieve his bloody greater good . how hellish is that old manipulater bastard, how dare he could sacrifice my son for his personal madness; she thought to herself.
She approached the front door very cautiously and opened it slowly ; careful not to make the sound . she stepped inside and studied the room. She could hear some voices coming from kitchen . voices were low and muffled so she had to move closer in order to intersept the conversation . perhaps she can deduce the location of her son from that conversation and can take him from here without any confrontation. There were two people in the kitchen talking low in hushed voices. Quriosity increased, she tiptoed nearer. She caught some of their words "but vernon, he is very little and need our care ..!" Petunia voiced her thoughts fearfully.
"and what about our Dudley? Hmm? did you forget about him? Is that freek of your bastard nephew more important than our own son ..? if you are thinking this , then you can take care of your pathetic nephew anywhere else ! but remember before making any decision ! you'll have to pick from your own blood or your sister's blood !" barked vernon .
Lily thought to give vernon dersley a piece of her mind ; how dare that scum call my son bastard?. But before she could open the door and charge on him , Petunia spoke
"vernon ! enough ! its acceptable that you are worried about Dudley but you have no right to call my family pathetic or freakish and if you ever cursed my dead sister again ..!" before she could complete her sentence, Lily opened the door and stepped inside.
Both of the occupants turned their heads towards the door and found a black cloaked , hooded woman standing their. Petunia shrieked with fear and Vernon paled instantly .
"who-who are you?" Vernon asked after some time "and wha-what d-do you want ?" he was still pale with fear while Petunia was hiding under the dining table .
Lily lowered her veil slowly and said with a smerk "I hope you recognized me Vernon!"
As in response , Vernon's eyes popped out with horrer and he fainted immediately; falling backwards from the chair and breaking it in process.
"Lil-Lily? Is that really you ..?" Petunia's face was still white as ghoast with fear.
Lily nodded , unshed tears shining in her bright green eyes. Both sisters stood their fighting with raging imotions within themselves, then Petunia made a move and launched herself at her younger sister, she hugged Lily tightly and then broke out sobbing,"Iam sorry Lils, forgive me honey ! I-Iam so so sorry ..!".
Half an hour was passed and still their was no sign of Lily which was making James worried . Making his decision, he told Sirius and Remus about his plan and asked them to stay back and come if they thought that their was trouble. He approached the wall and was about to climb on it when he heard two feminine voices coming near the gate. He quickly backed away in the shadows. Soon the gate opened and Lily stepped out with a bundle of blankets in her arms and Petunia on her side . Lily called for James , Sirius and Remus. All three of them came out of the shadows and greeted Petunia. James took Harry from Lilly and Kissed on his scard forehead. They talked for some timeand then exchanged well wishes with Petunia. She stepped in and closed the door.
After little babbling and crooning over Harry, all of them disappeared with little pops, leaving the silent privit drive without a sign of them being there.
Author's Note:
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Thanx and stay blessed.
