Hey everyone here is Chapter 4. This is my longest chapter so far and I ask that you not get used to them being this big because it probably won't happen all the time. I'd like to thank all my reviewers for their constant support and suggestions and my sister for helping me int he editing process once again. A special note for Tiasantamaria (hopefully she'll read this) I've put in a special part just for you so I hope you like it. I hope everyone likes it. I'm also hoping to have one more chapter posted sometime over the holiday before I go back to school and it gets harder to write. All I ask is that you bear with me during that time and I will have chapters out as soon as possible. Now on witht the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.


The time for the end is near; your fate rests with me. Your father survived, will you?

"What is that supposed to mean?" Susie asked the others. They were all sitting in the room of requirement, trying to make sense of the letter Lily had received earlier.

The time for the end is near; your fate rests with me. Your father survived, will you? The time for the end is near; your fate rests with me. Your father survived, will you?

"I don't know, but I think it has to do with something your guys dad did,"

"You're probably right Draco, why else would dad be mentioned,"

"But what Sirius? you and I both know that dad did a lot of things when he was our age,"

"Things that none of us could even try to imagine James. Things that he won't even talk about to this day,"

"He probably doesn't want to give Mr. Prankster over here any ideas Lil, but honestly would you blame him. From history books alone we've discovered that there are true horrors in Uncle Harry's past,"

"But Sus, it wasn't all bad,"

"That's true, I remembered dad telling me about when he snuck off to Hogsmeade back in his third year,"

"I remember that too Sirius but something tells me that this is more serious than sneaking off to Hogsmeade,"

"Your probably right James, the whole 'end is near' thing has me thinking it has something to do with defeating Voldemort,"

"You sure it's something that extreme Lil? This could be a prank for all we know,"

"I'm sure it is James, I don't know but I've got this feeling that this is the start of something big. This letter alone radiates dark magic. Can't you feel it?"

"Now that you mention it I can feel it a bit, but only if I really concentrate on it,"

"Maybe there's a spell out there that can tell us who wrote this letter, or at least give us some idea if it's a prank or not,"

"Good idea Sirius, I'll start researching tomorrow,"

"Why tomorrow?"

"Because it's already after curfew,"

"Oh ok, wait! It's after curfew? How am I going to get back to the common room, Filch'll put me in detention if he catches me out you guys know that. Oh why didn't I bring the invisibility cloak with me?"

"Sirius calm down, are you forgetting about the Marauders Map?"

"The map? Oh yeah the map, but wait I didn't bring the map,"

"Please tell me that this is an act for Lily's sake Sirius, no one's this thick,"

"Shut up Draco, but that's not true there are people who are that thick,"

"Who?"

"Dursley and his buddies,"

"Well besides them, they don't count,"

"As fascinating as this conversation is I'd like to go to bed, so the map please Lily,"

"Sure thing Susie, Accio Marauders Map, although why you couldn't do it yourself is beyond me,"

"I forgot my wand in the common room, and I haven't mastered wandless magic yet,"

"Well that makes sense then," Lily then turned away to grab the map that was whizzing through the air towards her. "Looks like the coast is clear let's go. Quickly and quietly now, and Sirius that means you,"

"Sure blame me, I wasn't the one who walked into a suit of armor last time,"

"Sure rub it in,"

"Anytime Draco, anytime,"

With that said the teens quickly raced off towards Gryffindor Tower without being spotted much to Sirius' relief. Once at the tower they said their goodnights and went off to bed.


Lily tossed and turned for what seemed like forever but was really only half an hour. She quickly glanced at her clock that read 1:30. She finally decided to head down to the common room to read for a while to try and tire herself out.

Once she reached the bottom of the stairs, she decided against reading for once. Instead she started writing her reply to Vi's letter. She got out some parchment and a quill and began to write.

Dear Vi,

I was so happy when I saw Pig this morning at breakfast. Although this morning really became yesterday morning a couple of hours ago but you get what I'm saying. It sounds like Salem is a great school. I'm kind of jealous that you get to attend instead of me. I would love to study abroad even if it meant that I'd be on my own but Dad would never let me. He's too worried that something would happen to me because I'm 'Harry Potter's daughter'.

Things here at Hogwarts are going fairly well. We started classes yesterday and our Mondays totally suck. We have Double Potions first thing in the morning but then it becomes ok. Si and Draco then have Divination while James and I have Ancient Runes. Susie is in Muggle Studies at that time but her schedule is different than ours because of the whole different year thing. After lunch we have Care of Magical Creatures and then Transfiguration. So overall I guess the day doesn't totally suck, just the first part of the morning. We have History of Magic tomorrow along with Herbology and DADA. So again the day could be worse, I had to rewrite the History of Magic schedule over the summer since you and Ron will no long be able to assist and let's just say that Sirius isn't going to be happy with me come tomorrow morning.

I must say that the weirdest thing happened to me today though. I received a letter tonight after dinner that was delivered by a raven. And when I opened it up there was no name to it and a chilling note attached to it. 'The time for the end is near; your fate rests with me. Your father survived, will you?' That's what it said, I'm still trying to figure out what it means. There's talk among the group that it could be a prank but I don't think so. I'm going to start the research for unraveling this mystery tomorrow, but at least with this going on I haven't really had time to think about that article.

About that article, I went on full rant mode the first night here, just ask Susie. I don't know what to think about that to be honest. I mean it sort of bugs me that they have my entire life planned out for me. I also agree with what Susie said that night, about not having to follow the path they created for me but if I don't follow their path, I'll never hear the end of it because the reporters will be all over me. I just don't understand why I'm so freaked out about this though, I've never worried about what the press have said before. So why am I now? And to be honest, there is no truth about me and Draco, I don't even like him as any more than a friend.

Anyways its really late and I should get some sleep, write back soon Vi. As a side note, Sirius listened to what you said about giving Snape hell and we lost 20 points to Gryffindor. No more ideas please.

Love ya hun,

Lily Malfoy

Lily then took a second to reread her letter. It was then she had noticed the error she had made in writing her name. Slightly embarrassed, she quickly changed it to read Lily Potter. Shrugging the error off with the excuse that she was just thinking about the Daily Prophet article and it being late, she tucked away the letter so that she could give it to Gilbert tomorrow, and went to bed.


Once again Lily was the first to wake up the next morning, but instead of spending her time reading in the common room she went straight to the Library to start her research on the mysterious letter. She found many books that had some potential but one book caught her eye more than the others. It was called 'How to Make Your Own Spells' and Lily knew that worse case scenario, if she couldn't find a spell to help her maybe she could create one. She knew it was very hard to make spells and only a very powerful witch or wizard could do it but it was worth a shot. She was the only daughter to the 'Great Harry Potter' after all, one of the most powerful wizards to ever live. Besides even if I can't make the spell I'm sure dad will be able to, Lily thought to herself. No! A voice in the back of her head said, If dad knew about this he would over react and start to worry even more about my safety. It was then she decided that no matter what she would deal with this problem on her own, without her parents help, sure she would ask for help from her brothers and friends but no one else not even a teacher unless extremely necessary. It was then that Lily realized how late it was, if she wanted anything to eat before class today, she would have to leave now, especially since she wanted to visit the owlery first to send off her letter to Vi. She quickly picked up the book and her book bag and rushed off to the Owlery.
When Lily arrived in the Great Hall she quickly scanned the Gryffindor table looking for her friends. When she spotted them it looked like they were conversing about something and Susie looked like she was just getting up to go somewhere. Lily quickly walked over to them to see what they were talking about.

"Hey guys, what's up?"

"Oh there you are Lil, I was just heading to the Library to find you and give you some food," Susie then opened her hand to show Lily a bunch of pieces of toast wrapped neatly in a napkin.

"Thanks Sus, and the rest of you guys, it was very thoughtful of you," Lily took the toast from Susie and sat down to eat.

"Did you find anything worth noting Lil?"

"Yeah James I did, but you'll have to wait until after classes before I share anything with you guys, I still want to do a little more research before we have the formal 'What to do' discussion. I grabbed a couple of books so that I could continue my research in History of Magic,"

"How are you going to do that if your busy taking notes?"

"We'll discuss that after Herbology Sirius, now let's get going before we're late,"

With that said she got up and started to head off to the greenhouses. The others having no choice but to follow her.


Herbology seemed to go rather quickly and soon the teens were off to History of Magic. Once seated the debate about taking notes began.

"I still don't see how you're going to do research while in this class,"

"Come on Si, its not like Professor Binns is going to notice,"

"I know that Lily but it's your turn to take notes,"

Growing up the teens had heard stories about their classes. One of the stories was how boring History of Magic was (that story came from their fathers mostly). So before the start of first year they all came to an agreement. They would set up a schedule so that each class one person would copy down extensive notes while the others would be able to do other things. That way they all wouldn't be completely bored out of their skulls. The order was chosen by their names in alphabetical order.

"Actually Sirius if you want to get technical it's Ron's turn, but since he's not at this school anymore that makes it your turn,"

"Give me that schedule, I want to see this for myself," Sirius grabbed the schedule from Lily, both the old schedule and the new one that Lily had made up during the summer.

"Haha sucks to be you Sirius and look here's Professor Binns, better get started on those notes,"

"Shut up Draco," Sirius then pulled out some parchment and a quill and began to take extensive notes. He knew that if he didn't that he would never hear the end of it.

While Sirius was taking notes Lily was busy searching through the books she had found in the Library that morning in hopes of finding something to help her with the letter. James and Draco were playing a game of muggle hangman to pass the time all the while passing ideas off each other on what their first prank on Daniel should be.


The rest of the day went on fairly quickly. During lunch, while Susie and the boys were in the Great Hall with the rest of the school, Lily was back in the Library doing more research. She wasn't having much luck finding anything that could help her though. Afternoon classes seemed to drag for the teens. Lily desperately wanted to get back to the Library while the boys just seemed to want to be anywhere than where they were.

After class was over, Draco and Sirius went to meet Susie in the common room while James decided to accompany Lily to the Library for some more research before dinner. Lily had decided that after dinner she would discuss her findings with her friends.

Dinner was a quiet affair for the teens. James and Lily were looking through some books they had borrowed from the Library while the other three ate silently after being told to stop being so nosey by Lily, it was clear that they would just have to wait.


After dinner Lily had everyone meet her in the room of requirement so that they could discuss matters without being overheard or bothered by the other students.

"Before I start talking about the information I found, I would like to apologize to you all. There was no excuse for the way I treated you at dinner and I'm sorry,"

"It's ok Lil you don't have to apologize,"

"Susie's right, we all know how you get when you're engrossed in a project,"

"Thanks Si, Sus, and now on to what we're really here to discuss. I've been doing research all day and thought I had a few different leads on how to uncover who wrote the letter but they all came up blank except for one."

"What is it?"

"Chill out Sirius, let Lily finish,"

"Sorry James, continue Lily,"

"Anyways as I was saying I found one book in the Library that might be able to help us out, it's just going to take some work," Lily then pulled the book out of her bag to show everyone.

"How to Make Your Own Spells, seems basic enough,"

"You're right Sirius it seems basic but it's really not,"

"What'd you mean Lil?"

"Well Sus, it sounds easy, just think of something you want to do, say an incantation and point your wand, but in reality it's not that simple. It takes a lot of time, concentration and someone really powerful to create even the simplest of spells,"

"Well that's no problem, you are a pretty powerful witch Lily, and if you can't do it, ask your dad, we all know how powerful he is,"

"Well Susie that is true but there is one more thing that I haven't told you guys yet,"

"What's that Lil?"

"I don't want my dad to be involved in this,"

"What? Why?"

"I don't want him to worry,"

"That's stupid Lily, he worries when we go to Diagon Alley for the day,"

"I know that Sirius, but this is different. You remember what dad was like when we first got our Hogwarts letters,"

"I remember that, he almost didn't let us go. He was so scared that we'd have the same troubles he did in school,"

"I know that James but he also wanted us to have the whole Hogwarts experience that, and mum threatened to never speak to him again if he didn't let us go,"

"Think about it this way Sirius, dad gets all unnerved whenever there's an article about us in the Daily Prophet or any other wizard magazine, think how freaked he's going to be if he finds out that I'm being sent mysterious letters by some stranger?"

"He'll go ballistic Sirius we all know that,"

"You're right James but I still don't think this is a good idea,"

"I think Lily has a point Sirius, Uncle Harry is rather protective of you guys, especially Lily,"

"I know that Sus, I don't want anything to happen to Lily either, I'm just concerned is all,"

"Trust me Sirius, out of all of us here Lily is more likely to come out of anything unharmed, she is the brightest witch of her age,"

"I know Draco, I guess it's just the big brother role coming into play here. Nice blush there Lil,"

Everyone turned to look at Lily at this point to find that she had a nice blush going across her cheeks. James and Sirius were too busy laughing at her to notice that Draco had a similar blush across his cheeks and the pointed look that Susie shot towards their sister.

"Besides we always wanted to go on an adventure like our parents did at our age, think how much fun this is going to be,"

"That wasn't the point I was trying to make,"

"I know that, but still it's not like anything could happen to us Draco, we're the kids of the ones who defeated the Dark Lord, nothing or no one could harm us even if they tried,"

"That's for sure Sirius, I mean look how many times we've out smarted Daniel,"

"Very true Susie, this bloke who sent Lily this letter can't be any smarter than Daniel, anyone smarter would know not to mess with us,"

"I don't know about that you guys, this letter seems pretty serious,"

"Aww come on Jimmy Boy, stop being such a worry wart,"

"Jimmy Boy? How on earth did you get Jimmy out of my name Sirius?"

"Well your name is James right? James and Jim both start with J's, and they have m's too,"

"Yeah but similarities stop there,"

"Aww come on Jimmy, lighten up,"

"Sirius, please don't call me Jimmy, you can call me anything else just not Jimmy or Jim for that matter,"

"Ok Jamsie,"

"You did say he could call you anything other than Jimmy,"

"I know Lily, remind me to keep my mouth shut next time,"

"Haha will do Jamsie,"

"Not you too Lily!"

"Alright you guys enough, can we continue on with what we came here to talk about, it's getting late and I'd like to get to bed soon,"

"Sure thing Sus, basically what Lily was getting at is that she doesn't want us to tell our parents, think we can all do that?"

"Yes Sirius I think we can do that, at least I think we can, right?" Susie looked around for approval from everyone else in the room; they all just nodded their agreement.

"Great now we can go to bed and for those of you who aren't allowed to be out at this time I brought the Marauder's Map and the invisibility cloak,"

"Thanks Lil you're the best," Sirius ran up and hugged his sister before throwing the cloak over Draco, Susie and himself.

Quickly and quietly they made their way back to Gryffindor Tower. Once inside the tower they quickly said their goodnights and went their separate ways for the night.


When Lily got back to the tower she decided against going straight to bed. It was only midnight so she thought she'd write a quick letter home since she had yet to do that. When she returned to the common room after having changed into her pajamas and grabbing some parchment she found James sitting in the chairs by the fire just staring into it.

"James? What are you doing here I thought you were going to bed?"

"I'm not really tired, what are you still doing up?"

"Not that tired either, I was going to write to mum and dad actually. Want to help?"

"Sure,"

Dear Mum and Dad,

It's us your two favourite children, Sirius is in bed and will never know we said that. So hows things at home with us running around causing havoc? Pretty quiet I bet. Although I'm sure you guys are spending lots of time with the Malfoys or even with Grampa Arthur and Gramma Molly.

School is going reasonable well; I mean we have only had two days of classes. We have the worst Monday morning ever, Double Potions with the Slytherins first thing! But then we have Ancient Runes while the other boys have Divination. The afternoons aren't too bad we have Care of Magical Creatures with Hagrid (He showed us Hippogriffs in our first lesson, they are really cool) and Transfiguration. Tuesdays we have Herbology, History of Magic, Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts, which is still our favourite class. Wish that Remus was still teaching it though, it would be so much fun to have him as a teacher.

Everyone here is fine, Sirius hasn't pranked Daniel yet although after the little incident on the train we seriously wanted to. As for what he did, he was just being a prat as usual, and Sirius almost jumped him, no biggie. We have started planning our first prank though. Something to do with knickers in the Great Hall, but we haven't quite decided yet.

On Monday morning we got our usual package from Gramma Molly and a letter from Vi and Ron. The Weasley family is doing well, in case you haven't heard yet and Ron and Vi are enjoying their new school that's located in a muggle community in downtown Boston, can you believe that? We have to go visit them sometime this year Lily would love more than anything to see Boston let alone America. Would also love to study abroad but she knows you're not comfortable with that dad (still love you anyways daddy).

But we should get to bed now, it's getting late and we have another Charms lesson first thing tomorrow morning. Take care and write back soon.

Love ya lots,

James and Lily

"Well now that we're done with that I'm going to bed, do you want me to hang onto that letter Lil?'

"No thanks James, I'll run it up to the owlery tomorrow before breakfast, don't know which owl I'm going to use yet either Scarlet or Gilly since Gilbert's off delivering a letter to Vi right now,"

"You send a reply to Vi already? You didn't tell me that,"

"I couldn't sleep last night so I wrote it and send it off this morning before breakfast, but after research in the Library. Guess I forgot to tell you guys since I was so absorbed in that mystery letter,"

"I understand, but tell us next time, I'm sure the rest of us would like to talk to them as well,"

"I will I promise,"

"Good, just one more thing, are you sure you don't want to tell mom and dad about the letter? Because it's completely your choice and I'll support you either way,"

"I know James just right now I think I'm making the right choice by keeping quiet,"

"Alright then, night Lily,"

"Night James,"