Chapter 2: Memory Loss?
That night at dinner Dumbledore told the rest of the students about what happened to James. There was a lot of crying and cursing. Dumbledore decided to cancel classes for the upcoming week so that when ever Mr. and Mrs. Potter decided when the funeral would be the students that wanted to go could do so.
Lily and Sirius weren't in the great hall when Dumbledore told the other students. Lily was still asleep in her room and Sirius was sitting on a chair in her room keeping an eye on her. There was a low knock on the door and the Dumbledore walked in with Mr. and Mrs. Potter. "Sirius, these are James' parents they wanted to talk to you." Sirius looked at Lily who was sleeping peacefully. "Don't worry I'll stay with her." Sirius nodded and followed Mr. and Mrs. Potter out of the room.
"We just wanted to say thank you for being so good to our son. He used to tell us about all the things you two did together." Mr. Potter said.
"James was my best friend… He treated me as a brother and I loved hi for that. I'm extremely sorry for your loss." James' parents said their thanks and goodbyes. Then Sirius went back into Lily's room.
'I can't believe how mad James got, I had no idea he'd try to use a hex.' He said to himself.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Lily began to scream. Sirius ran to the bed and wrapped her in a hug, trying to calm her and when he realized that it wasn't working he put released his hug to pour the sleeping potion into the water glass. Lily had stopped screaming but was now crying hysterically.
"Shh, sweetheart. You'll be ok, here drink this" He handed her the cup and helped her tip it up so that she could drink it. With in a few moments Lily was asleep again, once Sirius was sure that she was dead asleep and would be ok he tip-toed out of the room and went down to the common room.
The next day Lily woke up and went down to the common room where Sirius was sitting by the fire. "Hey," she said as she bounced down the stairs "what's up?"
Sirius was confused as to how she could be so cheerful this morning after what she saw yesterday so he asked, "Lily do you remember what happened yesterday?"
Lily gave a small laugh and replied, "Of course Sirius. We went to Hogsmeade."
Sirius looked at the door and said, "go on down to breakfast and I will meet you down there." Once he was sure that Lily was down the stairs he left the common room and went straight to Dumbledore's office, knocked and then when he got a response opened the door. "Something is wrong with Lily. This morning I asked her if she remembered what happened yesterday and she told me something that happened two days ago."
Dumbledore was quiet for a few seconds then said, "she must have repressed the memory. People sometimes repress a memory that is too painful to remember."
"What should we do?"
"Well, we have two choices; one we can let her think that nothing has happened or two we tell her and hope that she doesn't have a mental breakdown. But you know her better than I do."
Sirius thought for a moment and then said, "I think that she would want to know." He sighed "It won't be easy but I'm willing to help her get through it."
Dumbledore then said, "go and get her and when you are ready you may use my office… it will be empty all day for you to use." Sirius nodded and walked out of the office to go and get Lily.
