So...this plot bunny is running away from me...PLEASE REVIEW! I have tons of new followers which is awesome but I really want to hear your opinions! Also, going for a manipulative but not evil Dumbledore, he's just too set in his ways. Also the 'Lord Potter' thing isn't new but any of you who read my Code Geass fics know I enjoy writing about the nobility, its a cop out for personal preferences I know.


As Lilly came to once again in the glowing white expanse the first thing she noticed was it all had a bit of a gray tinge to it at the moment, odd, and for reasons she couldn't quite explain she felt...full... Finally clearing the cobwebs from her mind she realized that her head was laying in Susan's lap who was softly stroking her brow, groaning while she sat up she held her suddenly aching skull and tried to recollect just what in the bloody hell had happened.

Susan though was quite content filling her in, "You know love that was quite possibly the most brutal beat down I've ever seen a soul dole out, I'm impressed by your aggression and Granddad's fairly pleased as well, he hates it when wizards put decimal points in his soul quota so faster we take out these Horcruxes the better." Right...Tom, she'd confronted his soul fragment and...oh ick, right she ate the damn thing, the full feeling was probably her magic core expanding,

"Well, that was a...unique experience..." Susan rolled her eyes at this,

"You've a gift for understatement love, I'm hoping Harry's rather humble personality takes a back seat in the near future, the chaos you're capable of dropping on your backward medieval world is just too good to pass up." Snorting at that Lilly stood shakily trying to fight back the wave of dizziness,

"Yes I'm sure the Boy-wh...the Girl-Who-Lived who is currently being ostracized by the magical world at large can really muck things up for those in power, especially since I'm not me anymore and i have no idea if I even have a vault to pay for this bloody dangerous school...I could really use a drink right about now...wait how the hell do I know what a drinks like...ugh." Susan bemusedly watched her ramble for a bit before interjecting,

"That would be Tom's memories, you'll find that you'll be recollecting things that you've yet to experience, don't worry I've edited the really nasty bits out so no trauma of watching your own attempted murder or the like." Lilly thanked the Reaper for that bit of kindness before the lecture continued, "And don't worry despite consuming some of Tom's power your magical signature won't have changed so all enchanted documents and vows should still recognize you as Harry for purposes of ownership anyhow."

Lilly rolled her eyes while snarking, "Oh, good, I figured my run of bad luck would have left me destitute, par for the course and all that," feeling well enough to begin pacing she tried to keep the waves of nausea under control, something told her she wasn't handling that so well back in the real world. Susan waited for her to stop pacing then once again continued lecturing, 'Merlin she's like a goth Mary Poppins' Lilly thought with a suppressed snicker.

"So anyway as for causing waves well, as things stand now Harry Potter may have been Fifteen, but Lilly Potter happens to have already reached the age of majority, I'm sure you've noticed that you're a bit taller and before you ask your subconscious did it; a desire for your freedom and control of your life and all that aged you. As long as you keep thinking you're seventeen you will be, magic is funny like that anyway since you're the last of the Potter line the normally misogynistic leaders of the Wizarding world really have no choice but to accept you taking your rightful place as the head of House Potter."

Susan's smile began fading as she saw the look of utter confusion on Lilly's face, the formally perky Reaper then asked, "You do realize you're the heiress to the Ancient and Noble house of Potter right? One of the oldest wizard families in existence? Tom's little rampage wiped out the entire line except for you including all the cadet families, you've more money and power then even the Malfoy's..."

Lilly liked to consider herself a creative person, so the tirade of newly forged swear words pouring from her mouth must have been memorable if Susan's now thoroughly amused smile was any indication. Her rant ended after about an hour, huffing she glared into the distance before turning back to her Death,

"Anything else?" Susan tapped her chin thoughtfully, flashing a toothy grin she nodded,

"Yes, an idea to further mess with dear Mr. Riddle, are you aware of the ancient custom of 'Right of Conquest?" Lilly wracked her brain as she put some thought into this, brows raising she then nodded,

"Yeah remember reading about that in a muggle book...or Tom did..hell this is going to get old, anyway it was the justification to conquer new territory before World War 2, err...also 'Hogwarts A History' mentions that if you strike down an enemy thrice then you can claim their titles and lands magically." Susan gave her an appraising look then shook her head,

"That wasn't Tom that was you, I'm starting to wonder how much that damn blood seal was holding you back, anyway you can claim Tom's title, there's really no money left to it but the power in it is strong plus it will certainly infuriate him." Lilly scoffed at that rolling her eyes,

"He's a half-blood orphan from a destitute house, the 'Lord' in his name was partly his ego and a ridiculous anagram, there's nothing to claim." Susan just stared at her a second then made a bunch of hissing noises, thinking the Reaper may have just lost it her meaning suddenly became clear, busting out into gut wrenching laughter it took some time for Lilly to recover. "Oh hell that's right he's the Heir of Slytherin, oh god can I claim that now?" Shaking her head Susan replied,'

"No dear you're going to have to go down into that nasty Chamber of Secrets and make your claim in the center platform, trust me the ancient magics of that house do not acknowledge Tom anymore, getting your arse handed to you by child a half dozen times doesn't really impress." Now very much looking forward to waking up and screwing with all her former puppet masters she rather hurriedly asked,

"Anything else?" Smiling one last time the Reaper stood and gave her a final hug,

"I'm giving you a bit of an information dump so you know whats going on in the world around you, outside of that you're going to be on your own for a bit. You take care now dear, I'll be sure to stop in now and then to see how you're doing...when you go Horcrux hunting I suggest you go after the Gaunt family ring first, its stone is...something of Granddad's and it'll allow us to speak at anytime. Now go get back to your friends, and if I may suggest use a breath freshening charm you've been vomiting for quite some time."

Her "Wait what?" was lost as she abruptly came to in the real world in the middle of a dry heaving, opening eyelids that felt like sandpaper she groggily looked about realizing she was in the medical wing, head hanging over a sick filled bucket. "Bloody hell, I'm here again?!" she stated incredulously, suddenly the hands that she hadn't realized were holding her head steady released and a squeaked,

"She's awake!" caused a charge of people to surround her bed, looking over to see that Hermione had been the one keeping her steady she was startled by her red eyed and tear stained face.

"Don't cry brown eyes, it was only a tiny exorcism," there was a forced chuckle from the twins but that was it, Poppy began shooing everyone away from the bed aside from Hermione who was holding Lilly's hair out of the way as Poppy scourgified all the vomit away. After having a few dozen potions shoved down her throat and reassuring everyone she was ok she was given well wishes from her friends as they were banished from Madam Pomfrey's domain.

Hoping beyond hope that everyone would just leave her be until morning she began dozing off, she was snapped out of it by a quiet kindly,

"Miss Potter, a word if I may?" She began screaming in her thoughts 'God! Bloody! Damnit! I do not need to deal with this right now!' Composing herself she opened her eyes and faced her visitor, the first thing to enter her mind was both Tom and Harry screaming 'DO NOT TRUST DUMBLEDORE!', if those two traits agreed on something, time to pay attention.

"Hello Professor Dumbledore, how can I help you?" His normally grandfatherly visage looked a bit strained as he observed her, as if he was trying to look past the surface and failing, which he was since he was obviously using legillimency and she'd assimilated Tom's rather advanced skills as occlumency. After a moment he gave her a soft smile,

"I was just wondering if you could perchance tell me exactly what was happening to you?" Ah, this, well Harry would tell the whole truth, and Tom would out and out lie, so what would Lilly do? Deciding on a course of action and committing to it she shrugged,

"After I fell asleep I found myself in my dreamscape which usually only happens when I try to focus my occlumency, I umm...regret to say that I failed to put up my shields before I passed out and I guess with everything else that happened today..." Dumbledore looked shocked for a moment before he asked,

"You've studied occlumency on your own?" Double down time, nodding she put on a regretful expression,

"Yeah I read about ways to block out bad dreams and the like and this seemed the best option, I owl ordered the books and been trying to get a handle on it but there was always something blocking my progress," 'Such as a piece of a dark lords tainted soul that you neglected to tell me about'... Nodding thoughtfully Dumbledore asked her to continue, 'Damn, distracting didn't work, time for misdirection.'

"Well there was this...thing in my mind, it kept taunting me talking about taking over my body and claiming it was Voldemort's Horcrux, whatever that is, it attacked me and I tried fighting it off, I..." strategically placed pause and shudder, now continue. "I really don't know how to describe it, fighting that thing was just...ugh...the entire time it just ranted and raved, something about blood seals and rebounds and cursing my name and...well...typical Death Eater threats. Eventually it weakened to the point were I was able to push it out and well," she lifted her hands and gestured to the bed, he let out a humorless chuckle at that,

"Indeed, you did well child, I will let you get some rest, you've been through quite an ordeal and I do not wish to put you through any more trouble, I will talk to you tomorrow." Telling him good night she just sat there staring at the wall contemplating where to go from here; Harry was too honest, Tom was too deceitful, Lilly would be neither, no Lilly's path would be one forged by her alone. She had plans for the future, solidify her friendships, subvert and if possible convert her enemies, and prepare the downfall of her true foes, asking Poppy if she could have Hedwig sent down she began writing letters.

Her letter to Sirius explained everything that happened...everything along with her still gestating theories on why he had been denied a fair trial, she had no evidence yet but that blood seal and Horcrux in her head seriously had her questioning Dumbles motives at the moment. The second letter was to Gringotts and not knowing who else to address it to sent it to the master of the Potter accounts requesting a meeting and a method to get to the bank that wouldn't alert any at the school.

The third letter was about to be written to the Daily Prophet but she paused...no her story needed to go through a source that didn't go through the ministry; mulling the thought she suddenly recalled the blonde Ravenclaw Luna Lovegood, her father ran his own paper and she seemed to like Harry enough, perhaps she'd help for an exclusive. Finishing the last letter she called out,

"Dobby!" in a flash the little house elf appeared at the end of her bed holding a broom,

"Harry Potter sir! What can Dobby be doing for you?!" He shouted in excitement, Lilly's changed sex didn't seem to elicit any response from him so she tentatively asked,

"You've heard I'm a girl now right Dobby? I really can't switch back so if you would can you call me Lilly from here on out?" Dobby nodded enthusiastically at this,

"Yes Dobby heard about your accident! Don't really matter to Dobby though Dobby follows Ha- Lilly Potter by her magic, not how she looks!" Oddly touched by that sentiment she gave the little elf an affectionate smile,

"Thanks Dobby, I was wondering could you give this letter to Luna Lovegood in the morning, discretely? I'd like to talk to her away from prying ears, if she has a response get it to me when I wake up?" Standing ramrod strait with a look of awe on his face Dobby grinned and saluted,

"Of course Dobby can be doing this for Mistress Potter!" Handing him the envelope he vanished in a blink and she was left alone, eventually Hedwig winged her way through the door and landed on the bedknob and let out a petulant 'hoot'. Grinning at her miffed familiar she rubbed the owls head and soothingly said,

"Sorry for neglecting you today girl, you know how it goes, inadvertent sex changes, fending off a dark lords soul then eating it for super powers, lying my arse off to the only real father figure I've ever had, you know, the usual," nipping at her finger affectionately the snow white owl let out what sounded like a "humph" then watched her mistress alertly.

Lilly paused then met the owls amber eyes with her glowing emerald, eventually she asked her familiar, "Hedwig, was Albus filtering through Harry's mail?" The owl actually seemed to display a gesture of disgust with her wings as she nodded once. Growling a bit at that she then asked, "Is he currently riffling though Lilly Potters mail yet?"

Seemingly amused the owl shook her head no, grinning widely she tied both letters to her friends claws, "Brilliant, you are obviously the most intelligent owl ever, please deliver these quickly, if someone tries to stop you returning the post to me ditch it and we'll figure something out, careful now love." Nuzzling Lilly a moment the owl then took flight once again and disappeared down the hall, now thoroughly spent and having nothing else to do Lilly laid back into her covers and fell asleep dreaming of a future where she was in control of her own destiny.


Lilly apparently slept three days strait after her trials, not exactly what she had wanted, but waking up to Hermione sitting beside her doing homework and Neville and Ron playing chess at the foot of her bed wasn't bad either. Rubbing the crust from her eyes while in the same motion plopping her glasses on her nose Lilly cheerfully said,

"Heyya guys, what did I miss?" All three jumped up in shock and began speaking at once, not even trying to understand the jumble she glanced up at the headboard which was supporting tuckered out Hedwig. The Owl hooted once then offered her leg up with a pair of letters attached, taking them she snatched a sausage off the plate on her bedside and fed her now indulgent familiar. Turning back to her friends she threw them the same story she'd given Albus then lamented her missed classes and homework, this of course scared off Ron immediately. Neville sighed at the redheads quick escape,

"I may not be that great at anything outside of herbology but Ron's running the risk of not graduating if he keeps up that attitude," snorting Lilly glanced over to Neville and reviewed her accumulated memories for a moment before responding.

"Neville, you're the son of two Auror's so damn good at their jobs they were called "Hit Wizards" by the Death Eaters, give yourself more credit please, if not for yourself then for your parents." Looking shocked, frightened, and angry all at once Neville stuttered out,

"Yo...you know about my parents?" Glancing towards Harmione who was now paying rapt attention then looking back to Neville he seemed to relax realizing she was asking permission, he hesitated then nodded once.

"Frank and Alice Longbottom where to be my guardians after my godfather Sirius Black, who incidentally was framed, they were tracked down by Tom Riddles...right Voldemort's, oh stop the shuddering please and be a man, anyway they were the "Dark Lord's" most insane and loyal followers and they captured your parents and tried to torture them with the cruciatus curse to reveal what happened to their lord.

"Obviously they didn't know because the bastard had been banished at that point, they went down fighting so be proud, and don't forget their sacrifice Neville." Pausing to take a breath Lilly stared at the ceiling feeling the images fed to her by Susan (bless that nosy Reaper) begin to peter off, Neville looked shaken and bade his leave, waving it off Lilly covered her face with her arm a moment before Hermione spoke up.

"So...Ha...Lilly how are you doing?" Deciding that this pussyfooting about was rather irritating she opined,

"Oh outside of having a beautiful girl beside my bed rather then in it I'm doing pretty good, you?" There was a squeak then she was smacked with a pillow, grinning she said, "Deserved that, so yeah, I feel terrible, and I have the feeling things are going to get worse rather then better..." Dropping her arm she looked at her worried friend then whispered, "want the real story?" Her eyes narrowed and she nodded sharply, pulling herself from bed Lilly stripped out of the hospital gown and slide on the robes left at her bedside, moving towards the door Hermione whispered,

"Where are we going?" Smiling in return Lilly cryptically said,

"Grabbing my broom then taking a pretty witch for a ride," an hour later found them in Myrtle's loo with Firebolt in hand, walking up to the snake head sink she whispered in parseltongue "Open"; as before the entrance was revealed, unlike before they flew down the twisting turning pipe rather then sliding down its filthy surface, soon the cavern echoed with Lilly's whooping and Hermione's screams. Reaching the antechamber she turned to her longtime friend who then placed her fists on her hips and gave her a scolding pout,

"Answers now," and so she spent the next two hours explaining everything that actually happened and the personal belief of her highly manipulated life, there was a long silence before the bushy haired young woman wrapped Lilly in a hug.

"Good god...ok...suddenly feeling a bit silly in judging you," Lilly simply shrugged, what can you do? Letting the tender moment last far longer then necessary they seperated and Lilly pulled out her letters, the one from Gringotts stated that they'd like to meet immedietly and had supplied a portkey, nice. The one from Sirius contained a mirror with the simple words 'Call me" written on the package. Shrugging she looked into the mirror,

"Calling Sirius Black AKA Padfoot the Dreadful!" Not thirty seconds later her shaggy godfather appeared in the mirror looking indignent,

"I'll have you know young lady I'm not dreadful! Merlin you look like your mother...except for the hair...how you doing pup?" Heart melting a bit at the true affection in his voice she gave him a shaky smile,

"Heyya Padfoot, things are a bit messed up, this umm...girl thing is permenant but it prevented the blood seal Dumbledore forced on me from blowing me up, so thats a plus I guess? Anyway you know everything I do, by the way neat mirror," Seemingly amused by her disjointed greeting he grinned happily,

"Well, I'm still you're godfather, so you'll just have to be my goddaughter now, so no worries I won't judge I know you didn't chose this. Now I followed the whole transformation thing but whats this about Albus keeping me from you?" Lilly glanced over to Hermione who looked at her quizzically, sighing she unloaded her personal nightmare,

"Ok...so mum and dad die protecting me from Tom's little rampage, suddenly Dumbles realizes that this kid is protected by an ancient primordial magic that cannot be replicated, but it can only be fueled by a connection to a blood relative. So along comes Sirius who is in some legal hot water due to Wormtails betrayal, he knows damn well you'd never consent to me being sent to the Dursley's and is well aware you'd be proven innocent under veritaserum, so off you go to Azkaban."

Taking a deep breath and seeing both Hermione and Sirius' horrified expressions she pressed on, "Now here's the guesswork, I was supposed to go to Alice and Frank Longbottom after you, but out of the blue they're given the all clear signal and are out in the open for the Lestrange's to gank them, now they're not in the way. Amelia Bones was next but pff, even Dumbles isn't arrogant enough to mess with that hardened War Witch, so while not sealed my parents will was never read, and off I went to the Dursley's to charge Dumbles secret anti-Voldemort battery."

Silence...then, "That...bastard..." She looked up in surprise to see an utterly infuriated Hermione, her fists were clenched and she was practically vibrating from her restrained rage, keeping Sirius in sight she walked up to the fuming brunette and wrapped her free arm around her. After a few tense second she started to relax, eventually Sirius said,

"Ok...your plan? I'm in, claim the House of Slytherin as your own and I'll back you up, plus this is a prank worthy of a Marauder," looking at the mirror she could see he was smiling in amusement, even if it was a bit forced, "I mean really, a Gryffindor claiming control over the Ancient and Noble House of Slytherin, too good. I have some preperations to complete before we move to the next phase...like getting a haircut, you be careful Ha...Lilly, I'll keep in touch."


As Lilly shoved the two way mirror into a pocket she let Hermione go and walked up to the entrance and began hissing at it, after a moment it began opening,

"Seriously ostentatious Sal...ugh... ok this way 'Mione, mind that smell there's a rotting basilisk down here after all," noticing the foul odor the second the doors opened she cast a bubblehead charm on both of them, the raven haired girl turned around and gave her a heart stopping grin, "Thanks 'Mione, all right lets get this over with."

Walking through the massive chamber and avoiding the desiccated corpse of the snake monster she heard Lilly mutter, "What a waste," as she stared at the dead beast, eventually they made their way to the central platform,

"What do you have to do now?" Lilly faced her again while rolling her eyes,

"I have to go through the entire laws of inheritance...in parseltongue, this is going to be a bit hang tight," Annnnd she hadn't been kidding, even though to Hermione's ears it sounded like nothing but hissing after five minutes Lilly sounded distinctly bored, eventually the chamber filled with a hissing echo in return. Lilly's face twisted in disgust and she let out an irritated "tsh...fine asshole", she then sat crosslegged and looked up to her friend, "Salazar says we have to view all of his 'True Heirs' defeats to take up the Ring of Slytherin...even the one Susan sealed up." Growling a bit she sat next to her friend and grabbed her hand,

"We'll watch it together...ok?" Smiling thankfully Lilly nodded, dropped her head and then they were somewhere else.


A cloaked figure marched unafraid through the village of Godric's Hollow, confident that he'd finally sealed his destiny of immortality by offing the Potter's and their brat, whistling lightly to himself Lord Voldemort muttered the words,

"Another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust, hey I'm gonna get you too, another one bites the dust!" With that the jubilant snake faced wizard pulled his wand out and sent a blasting curse through the Potter's front door, he heard a mans voice distinctly yell, "He's here!" as he pushed his way through the wooden splinters. "I do hope I'm not intruding Jam-" he didn't get to finish his quip as the shotgun blast nearly took his head off, fucking gray wizards and their refusal to follow the rules.

"Heyya goat bugger, guess choosing Wormtail as secret keeper was a bad idea, I owe Mooney twenty quid," with that several more shotgun blasts and curses were hurled towards the Dark Lord, grunting in annoyance and keeping his shields up he finally made it into the building proper. James Potter stood there tossing the shotgun aside grinning like a madman, his dark gaze and glittering eyes showing no fear whatsoever, casting several spells the dashing man transfigured all the furniture into stone knights and sent them towards Voldemort.

As he began firing curses destroying the creations James swung up an old Sten sub-machinegun and unloaded it at Voldemort while casting curses in his off hand, 'I fucking HATE gray wizards, dark wizards drag shit out to torture you, light wizards fight to incapacitate, gray wizards kill you as fast as possible so they can hit the pub, ugh.' Diving out of the line of fire Voldemort threw several more curses and eventually hit James with a nasty case of necrosis, it would be fatal regardless of how this turned out.

As he slid to a stop James looked down at his rotting chest and sighed, "Oh well, guess that's that, gave her enough time though" looking up at Voldemort he grinned and winked at his murderer hitting the detonator in his hand just as the killing curse struck him.

"Fuck," Voldemort spat as the mines lining the room went off at once, shield charm or no the claymores hit him with at least a dozen rounds of buckshot, 'God. Damn. Gray. Wizards. Seriously if it isn't the Potter's with their bloody mines and machine guns its the Longbottom's with their grenades and thermite." Muttering to himself the Dark Lord made his way upstairs and came face to face with a smirking redhead,

"Ello poppet," and before he could dive out of the way she roared "LANCE AUTEM ARDENTEM!" the beam of solid light burned Voldemort's left arm off at the shoulder, cauterizing the wound and sending him flying. Lily Potter began throwing hexes and charms towards him at a pace he could barely keep up with, still grinning she quipped, "Came all this way to kill my baby and you didn't expect mum to fight back? For shame Tom!"

Snarling he spat back, "I already killed your husband mudblood, soon you will follow!" She laughed, she laughed at him, goddamn gray wizards, now on the defensive he backed up until he heard a child's crying, grinning he fired a blasting curse through the wall and ended up in a nursery; seeing the crib in the far corned the Dark Lord grinned and aimed his wand at the child, "Avada Kedavra!"

"HARRY!" the damn Potter woman screamed as he she dove through the doorway and landed in front of the curse placing her hands on the child as she died, rolling his eyes he limped to the dead body and pulled her off the crib, much to his consternation she was smiling. 'Whatever' he thought in annoyance, aiming at the mewling baby he sneered as he cast the killing curse one last time,

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" As the green light left his wand the Dark Lord noticed that room wide rune engraved on the floor that was suddenly glowing, as his curse rebounded Lord Voldemort's last mortal thought was "Oh bugger me."


The pair came to in the Chamber of Secret's, Lilly was crying but smiling widely, Hermione couldn't blame her, the Potter's went out in a blaze of glory and had a contingency plan that no one could have anticipated. If there was one thing made very clear Harry/Lilly's unconventional way of handling things was most definitely hereditary, there was hissing and Lilly began laughing, she sobbed then laughed again.

"The Shade of Salazar Slytherin not only holds me as worthy of being his heir he is also posthumously adding James and Lily to his family history because, and I kid you not "That was badass," hehehe..." Hermione finally broke down laughing at this declaration, after several minutes of crying and laughing Lilly stood and offered her hand to Hermione.

Pulling the smaller witch to her feet, she put threw her arms wide and declared, "I, Lillith Alice Potter do so claim the title of Matriarch and Head of the most Ancient and Noble House of Slytherin through the Rules of Conquest and do so take upon myself the roles and responsibilities as Lady of Slytherin, so it is said, so mote it be!" There was a flash of light and Lilly's school robes began to smolder, soon burning green snakes encircled her and in a flash she was wearing a rather fetching bodice and matching green dress. It was slit in several areas and layered to maintain mobility and modesty, a War Witch's robes if there ever was any, a moment later two intertwining silver snakes appeared on her right ring finger forming a double helix pattern, where their open jaws met a gleaming emerald appeared.

"Whoa!" Both witches said in awe, as the outfit finished off in a silver tiara and a pair of fingerless elbow length gloves a bellow went throughout the entire school,

"Lillith Alice Potter has claimed the long dead title of Lady of Slytherin, all hail your new lady, so it is said, so mote it be!" As dust fell from the rafters following the reverberating declaration Lilly looked at Hermione in wide eyed horror."

"Oh Shit."