A/N lily Evans potter will be in italics. Lily Luna will be regular.
Chapter 03
Lily fell hard on the ground in front of number 4 privet drive; her great aunt was outside fixing up the garden while Dudley screamed from where he sat on a blanket full of toys.
Vernon wasn't around. Good, he would just make things harder.
"Petunia Dursley?" she asked walking determinedly up to her great aunt.
Petunia gave a start.
"WH-who are you?" she asked backing up quickly. "And how do you know who I am?"
Lily rolled her eyes. "No time for that, I need you to listen to me and listen good. Your sister lily is not going to make it past tomorrow night; I need you to make amends with her. I know you want to; I also need you to be nice to her son Harry. Love him like a son and do not under any circumstances lock him in the cupboard under the stairs. Understand?" petunia looked gob smacked.
"How would you know lily was going to die?" she asked.
"I'm from the future, just do what I said and you'll be fine." Lily assured her. Petunia just stared at the girl.
"How can I trust you?" she asked.
Lily took a deep long breath. "when lily was nine, and you were eleven she jumped off the swing on the playground staying up far to long and landing far to lightly, she showed you how she could make a flower open and close it self, a boy Severus Snape came out of the bushes and called lily a witch. They became friends, you felt left out and jealous, two years later lily got her Hogwarts letter, you felt left out and jealous again and wrote a letter to Dumbledore asking to go as well, you found out lily and Severus had read his reply and got upset calling lily a freak. It ruined your relationship; you still regret it and you will until the day you die unless you do something about your relationship with your sister before tomorrow night."
"How do you know?" petunia asked.
"Are you going to listen and make amends to your sister or just stand there like a gaping long necked fish?" lily asked slytherinly.
"I haven't had any contact with my sister other than her telling me she had had a son." Petunia looked down.
"Ah, speaking of boys that age. Don't let Dudley turn out like your husband. And on that subject I would get away from the walrus as fast as you can. Besides the only reason you married him was because he hated magic as much as you wanted to." Lily smirked.
"How do I see lily?" petunia asked.
"I'll take you there." Lily promised.
"How?" petunia asked.
"You'll see." Lily smirked sticking out her wand into the open street. Petunia's eyes widened as she looked around frantically for the neighbors. "You might want to grab your son." Lily said as the giant purple night bus screeched to a halt in front of the Dursley's house.
"Oh my." Petunia gasped as she walked up to the bus with Dudley in her arms.
"Welcome to the night bus, my name is Luke Wilkins; two seats will cost you 16 galleons. The baby's free. Where do you want to go?" said the bored looking teenager.
"Godrics hallow." Lily said handing the man a handful of gold coins.
"Alrightly then, you're after Mrs. Norton." Said Luke. Lily took a deep breath and handed the man another four galleons. "On second thought you're next."
"Thank you." Lily said sweetly. "Come on." She waved petunia forward.
Lily and petunia arrived at godrics hallow and lily thanked Luke. Petunia was actually very shocked when she saw lily looked quite fine about the whole bus ride. Petunia herself was dizzy and feeling rather sick.
Lily walked through the village to number 7 godrics hallow, the last time she had seen it she was with her dad like every year on Halloween – Harry got special permission to take the three kids out for Halloween every year – the large house was left destroyed, a wizarding monument with a plaque out front.
The house she approached now was in perfect order; she was relieved that she could actually see it because she wasn't sure if that was going to be the case.
"What are you looking at? There's nothing there." Petunia asked.
"Think about this address. Number 7 godrics hallow." Petunia's eyes widened as the house appeared in front of her.
"What just happened?" she asked.
"Fidius charm. You can't see it until someone who knows where it is tells you. Usually it's the secret keeper but people from the future can get in." lily said walking up the path and knocking on the door.
"Hello?" said a very confused looking red-haired woman. Lily. "How did you find the house? Did Sirius give you the address?"
"Hello Mrs. Potter I know this might seem rather strange to you but I am from the future." Lily started.
"From the future? But that doesn't explain how you got in." lily said.
"Well you see it does since I know the location from where I come in the future." Lily said.
"So you come from pretty far then." James laughed from inside the house.
"Yes two generations after you." Lily said trying to get back on track.
"So you'd be the same age as our grandchildren?" lily asked.
"Yes actually." Lily started again.
"Oh how wonderful." James said.
"Will you two let me talk?" lily snapped.
"Sorry." They said together. "Why don't you come in?" lily walked into the house. Petunia followed but the couples attention was on lily.
"First off, no Sirius did not give me the location. He couldn't have could he? Because he's not your secret keeper?" lily and James looked surprised. "Oh and on that subject I would advise telling Dumbledore and Remus that Sirius isn't in fact the secret keeper unless you want him to be sentenced to Azkaban for the rest of his life."
"Wouldn't peter go to Azkaban?" James asked looking upset.
"Not if he faked his death and framed Sirius." Lily snapped.
"Wormtail would never do that." James said forcefully.
"You also think wormy" she said his name with venom. "Wouldn't betray you to Voldemort?"
"He didn't!" lily gasped.
"Why else would he want you to not tell Remus? Don't you trust him more than wormy?" lily asked.
"Yeah but no one would suspect peter he's so week and small and scrawny." James said.
"Exactly." Lily said. "No one would suspect him as secret keeper and no one would suspect him as the spy. No you suspect the strong people Sirius and Remus you would never expect a useless rat."
"I always wondered why he was a rat." James muttered.
"You will also notice that he always hung around people stronger and more powerful than him. You, Sirius, and Remus were rather powerful. Voldemort is powerful, James." Lily said.
"I guess that's true." James sighed. "I just thought he wouldn't be like that. I thought I could trust my friend."
Lily comforted James as a whine came from Dudley. Lily noticed for the first time that her sister was sitting in her living room looking extremely awkward.
"Petunia." She said stiffly.
"Lily, she came to repair your relationship." Lily said.
"Lily I am truly. Truly sorry that I was so mean to you. I really was just jealous of you being a witch. I wanted that so bad, I wanted to do magic and have great friends who could do magic as well. I wanted to go to Hogwarts with you, it had been my dream and I didn't do a very good job of expressing my jealousy. "Petunia said. "Can you please forgive me?"
"Petunia I – I don't know." Lily said looking sad.
"Lily." Lily said. "I know you don't really want to forgive her but you have to, it's the only way to make things better for Harry. He has to live with petunia at least part of the year before he can stay with anyone else. And if you two don't make up it will cause for years of her jealousy building up and also years of her wishing she could make things better with you. Those things build up and she doesn't know how to deal with them."
"So she's mean to my son." Lily exclaimed.
"How would you feel?" lily snapped. "You wanted more than anything to say you're sorry to your sister but she's gone before you had the chance. And you're the one taking care of her son for ten flippin years until he goes to Hogwarts. Don't you think you'd want to do something? Plus she has a husband who hates magic as much as the Malfoys hate muggles."
"Petunia I. I'm sorry, I can forgive you." Lily said walking forward and hugging her sister. Lily smiled and looked towards baby Harry sitting in a shocked James's lap.
"We're not gonna make it?" James asked.
"I just told you wormtail ratted you out. What'd you expect?" lily asked.
"That's why you came back? To give Harry a better childhood?" James asked.
"Well yeah." Lily shrugged.
"Why do you care so much?" James asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" lily surprisingly asked.
"What?" James asked looking at his wife.
Lily rolled her eyes. "Harry's her father."
"He is?" James exclaimed. Now all three girls rolled their eyes.
"Think about it. She said she's the same age as our grandchildren, she has red hair and acts just like Me." lily pointed out laughing.
"Oh, I guess she kind of does act just like you." James admitted.
"So tell us about Harry." Lily commanded.
"What do you want to know?" lily asked.
"his first year of Hogwarts, what house he's in, who he's friends with, does he play quidditch, does he get on the house team, what year he gets on the house team, what position he plays-"
"James!" lily and lily snapped.
"Sorry," James said sheepishly. "So?"
"He's in Gryffindor." Lily started.
"I knew it!" James grinned.
"He's best friends with Ron weasley and Hermione granger." Lily continued.
"Oh I'm glad he's friends with the Weasleys they're a wonderful family." Lily says.
"Yeah they become his family. Literally he marries their daughter." Lily smirks.
"Wait the new baby that was just born in august?" lily asked. "Jenny…Janie…?"
"Ginny." Lily says.
"Awww, molly will be pleased." Lily coos.
"Who did you say his other friend was?" James asked.
"Hermione granger." Lily says.
"Never heard of granger before. Must be muggle born." James comments.
"She is. And she's the smartest witch of their age." Lily says.
"You know her well?" lily asks.
"Yeah she's my aunt." Lily says smiling.
"Wow, she must marry Ron. Awww that's so cute." Lily coos.
"Yeah they argued all the time because they didn't know how else to express their feelings." Lily smirks at lily. "Kind of like someone else I know."
Lily blushed and James laughed.
"That's true dear." He laughs. "So what about quidditch?"
"He's pretty good." Lily shrugs as though it's no big deal. Goodness it was fun to mess with a marauder.
"Well did he get on the house team?" James asked annoyed at the lack of response.
"Yeah," lily shrugged again.
"I bet it was second year." James said proudly.
"Nope." Lily said.
"Third?"
"Nope."
"Fourth?"
"Nope."
"Fifth?" James asked getting worried.
"Nope."
"Sixth?" James was now getting very worried.
"Nope."
"Seventh?" James' voice was now very squeaky.
"no." lily said barely containing her laughter.
"I thought you said he got on!" James exclaimed.
"I did," lily smirked.
"But I say every year." James complained.
"Every year but one." Lily pointed out.
James' eyes widened. "No!" he exclaimed
Lily laughed. "Yes." She nodded.
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Will somebody please tell me what you're yessing and noing about?" lily cut in.
"Harry got on the team in first year." James said proudly.
"Not even you did that." Lily's eyes were wide. "I bet his head is huge."
"Not really. He's actually quite selfless and brave." Lily said not mentioning just how brave her dad really was.
"Good. We don't need another bigheaded potter." Lily said jabbing her finger in James' direction.
"Hey!" James pouted. Both lilies laughed.
"So when he gets married, tell me that." Lily demanded.
"Hey wait!" James cut in. "you didn't say what position he plays!"
"Oh right. He's a seeker." Lily says going back to her grandmother.
"right, so he starts dating Ginny in his sixth year – her in her fifth – right after the big quidditch game that dad had to miss because Snape gave him detention for the whole rest of the year –"
"Hold it! Snape gave him detention?" James exclaimed.
"Yes James. Snape is teaching at Hogwarts." Lily said. "Anyways mom was the substitute seeker and she had won them the quidditch cup so dad comes running into the room with everyone cheering and mom runs up to him and they kiss. Right there in front of every body."
"Hear that bud? You're gonna kiss a girl in front of everybody." James said to baby Harry.
"Anyways they date for a while and they got married later on and had three kids. James, al, and me." lily said smiling at the last part.
"What about Ron and Hermione?" lily asked a bit intrigued by their relationship.
"Oh yeah they had two kids Rosie and Hugo. Rosie is AL's age and Hugo's mine." Lily said.
"Did he have an arch enemy?" James asked. Lily thought for a moment. Telling them about Voldemort didn't seam like the best idea so she though Mr. Malfoy would work better.
"Well there was Draco Malfoy." Lily said.
"Of course what potter would be friends with a Malfoy?" James asked looking proudly at Harry.
"Al is." Lily said not really thinking.
"What!" James yelled. Oops.
"Well Scorp is really nice and he's in Gryffindor and he and Rose and al and Louis are all really good friends except Louis is in Ravenclaw instead of Gryffindor like the other three." Lily said really fast.
"What house are you in?" James asked. Lily winced. She had really hoped this question wouldn't come up.
"Slytherin." She said bravely though.
"Slytherin?" lily and James exclaimed.
"Well Slytherin doesn't really have that bad of a reputation and not only purebloods are in there any more because there was evidence of a lot of good guys on our side in Slytherin you know that were spies and all that." Lily said quickly before they could freak out more.
"So you're really in Slytherin?" James asked still looking green.
"Yup me and Lucy. One of my other cousins." Lily said proudly.
Lily was looking far off and distant. "One of those good Slytherins." She said. "It would happen to be….?"
"Yes it would. As I said there are many spies." Lily reassured her of her friend's loyalty. "Listen it's been great to talk to you guys but I really must be going. Bye!"
"Bye lily." They both said.
"Bye petunia." Lily said to her sister.
"Goodbye." Lily and petunia said before walking out the door to catch the night bus again.
When they got back to number 4 privet drive Vernon was out front waiting angrily.
"Where have you been?" he screamed.
"I've just been with lily; you know talking and sorting things out." Petunia said boldly.
"You've been talking to one of them?" he asked referring to wizards.
"Yes I have. I've been talking to three of them for quite some time now." Petunia said waspishly. "Vernon I'm sorry but you're going to need to get out or I am leaving."
"I'm not leaving this house. You'll be the one going." Vernon screamed. Petunia nodded and walked inside. She gathered boxes of stuff and put them her car.
"Goodbye, there will be no need to keep in touch." She said after placing Dudley in his car seat.
Lily smiled and turned her time turner to reset so she could go back to her time. Hopefully to find a happier dad.
A/N so I want to know what you think and yes this really will have a plotline and no it doesn't end here with a happily ever after just read – and review.
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