CHAPTER 7: THE FUTURE

Mudbloods we wont maste much time

With warning you with silly rymes

All you need to know is your deaths shall bring us cheer

We shall kill you all for fun, we will see you in the future, near.

The message was the same to every muggle born in the school one cloudly March day. The writing once agian seemed to be in blood. It made me sick with dread, but I had no time to dwell on "Silly rymes" as even their writers had called them. Career advice was now being administerd to fifth year students and I was busying myself with pamplets on various available wizarding jobs. Some seemed quite intriging such as being an auror (A sort of dark wizard catcher.) or being a healer (Muggles refer to them as doctors), others sound awful, for example training security trolls and working with muggles. James was immursed in a brochur "So you want to be a quiddich player for England?" but I had also spotted him considering an auror Sirius wouldn't even think about anything besides an auror, Remus seemed vaugly interested in teaching, Lo was determined to single handedly kill Lord Voldemort, be an auror AND marry Remus. Bernadette insisted she didn't know but she looked interested in working in the Wizengamot, wizard court. I arrived at my appointment to discuss my future with Professor McGonagall. She was sitting at her desk when I enterd her office and motioned for me to take the seat oppisite her. "Good afternoon Ms. Evans" she said pleasently.

"Good afternoon." I responded.

"So what careers intrest you?" she folded her hands, and looked at me politley curios.

"I was thinking well, maybe and auror, or a healer and I know I would need top grades for both, which not be be unmodest, but I do believe I have very good grades. I was wondering which do you think I would excell at?" I said.

"Well, you are certainly dedicated enough to undergo to challging tests and training that both feilds require. I think the ultimate decision is up to you but my advice would be to become an auror. It is not a career that I would suggest to many, but for you Ms. Evans I think you shall be one of the best, and in dark times the ministry needs the best." she said handing me extra information.

"Thank you Professor." I said grinning, I would perfer auror to healing anyway.

"Your most Welcome." she replied and smiled as I exited the room, hardly beliveing I had recieved praise from such a strict teacher.

"Lily!" Lo and Bernadette ambushed me as I exited McGonagall's office,

"So what is it gonna be?" Bernadette asked.

"Auror!" I exclaimed excited. Lo "Whooped!" and Bernadette beamed.

"Auror? You too?" James ran up to them with Sirius.

"So are me and Padfoot." James said proudly.

"So are me and Lo!" I said still grinning.

"What about Shadow?" Sirius asked.

"I'm going to try and be a member of the wizards court.' Bernadette grinned,

"Well, this group of law enforcers is so gonna get rid of Voldie." Lo said happily.

"Voldie?" sneered a voice from the shadows.

"Yeah thats right, your mate Voldie Kins." Lo said to Bellatrix who had a disdainful smile playing around her face, she was backed up by her usual, Nott, Lestrange, Avery and Snape.

"You mock him with your unworthy halfblood tounge?" Bellatrix said still smiling.

"Yeah thats right we do." James interjected.

"Oh and the blood traitor thinks he has the right to insult the Dark Lord? Lestrange seethed.

" So does this blood traitor." Sirius added glaring at his cousin and her friends.

"Oh Sirius, what your mother would say, what Regulus would say, what your father and even your house elf would do if they heard you now. Why you'd be blasted of the family tree." Bellatrix said, a look of false concern on her face.

"I don't care what my family thinks." Sirius said through gritted teeth.

"Oh but you do care, and its not YOUR family, dear cousin, it is OUR family." she said.

"I shall make a point in alerting OUR family that were found in the company of a mudblood, disgusting thing she is." Bellatrix said glancing at me.

"Silencio." I murmed clamly depriving Bellatrix of her voice. She mouthed curse words at us before diapearing agian. Lo, Bernadette and I gave Sirius odd looks.

"Regulus?" I asked.

"Blasted off the family tree?" Bernadette said.

"House elf?" piped Lo.

"Regulus is my brother, and much better son, my mother so kindly tells me and everyone else she has ever known. The family tree is a carpet hanging on a wall in the drawing room, being blasted off it would mean I am disowned. Yes, I have a house elf, an awful, hideous creature...named Kreacher, he hates me." Sirius said in a would be causal voice.

"Well were hungrey were gonna go steal food from the kitchen." James said in a fake cheery voice.

"Bye" Sirius called rather moodily.

"Cool, he has a house elf." Lo said as we walked away. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I HATE divination." Lo complained, trying to interprate the continuesly swirling fog in her crystal ball.

"I hate it more." Bernadette said miserably staring bored into her own crystal.

"Its not that bad, I mean we aren't really working." I reminded them glancing into the gilttering white mist, it dazziling, beautiful really. But somewhere in the depths of white something black appeared. I leaned foward anxiouxsly.

"What is it?" Lo asked hurridly leaning towards my crystal too.

"Its...." but I fell silent as I squinted and shut the divination class room out, the shape was no longer a shapless blob, but an emerald skull. It was the dark mark, then the image changed. A baby was crying, his forehead sliced open and blood was steadily dripping to the floor as were his tears. A women who was unmistably dead lay next to him, but I couldn't see who she was. A man, who was both handsome and frightened with a look of confusion and agony etched on his face, was staring at a destroyed house, a stout chubby screaming man was yelling at the handsome one on street full of people, a loud bang struck the crowded road like a bomb explosion and then...dead...people dead, the handsome man laughed. The handsome man now was gaunt, emaciated, with long unkept matted hair, he was grinning insanley, guarded by tall black figures in cloaks. A grave yard formed to replace the man, and amoung the graves and dying trees death eaters jeered a boy whose face surronded by darkness. He was being totured he was yelling, screaming, why was no one helping him? The boy's forhead was suddenly illuminated by moonlight to reveal a lightening shaped scar..he was an older version of the baby. The scene changed one last time to a women yelling triumphantly, a tattered veil was swaying innocently, the boy who had the scar was yelling agian being restrained from opening the veil by a shabby wizard. The boy's face was contored in misery, pain beyond anything most ever know. The veil was still swinging as though a gentel breeze was blowing it. Then the image faded and the mist was white agian. I shook my head, trying to forget the visions.

"Lily?" I heard my name and turned to the divination teacher,

"What did you see?" she asked carefully. There was no way I was going to reveal to the entire class what I had just seen.

"J-just the dark mark." I lied.

"For that long?" she questioned doubtfully. I didn't know how long I had been staring into the crystal so I just nodded.

"Ye-yes." I said shaking slightly. That crying baby, that boy being tortured and screaming at the veil....why did I feel such a strong connection to him? That handsome man who had been so wasted by those tall cloaked demons, who was he? Whose house was it who was the dead women? What was the veil? who screamed in victory has the veil swished? What was the short stubby wizard yelling about on the street? Why had I seen those things? I had never shown any apitutde for divination before, why? and with my head exploding with questions I looked absentmidy back at my crystal ball, nothing else appreared in it.

"What on earth did you see? You give me any bullshit about only seeing the dark mark I'll slip you veritserum!" Lo threatened as we walked down to the common room after divination.

"I saw a baby crying, his forehead cut a women dead beside him, a handosme man, a ruined house, a wizard screaming at the handsome man an explosion,dead bodies everywhere, the handsome man, no longer handsome but surronded by evil, cloaked thingys, I saw a boy being tortured, death eaters laughing at him in a grave yard, a women laughing and yelling at a veil, a boy, the tortured boy, trying to get to the veil while an older man holds him back..oh and I saw the dark mark first." I said watching their faces glow terrified.

"T-The tall black c-clocked..I mean cloaked figures..." Bernadette shuddered "Would most likley be the dementors, the guardians o-of the wizard pr-pr-prison Azkaban." Bernadette was so frightened she was visabley shaking.

"The men and the boy you saw what did they look like?" Lo asked anxiously.

"I couldn't see any othem...the baby, the boy..he..I just remember an odd shaped, lightening bolt slit on his forehead, and all I remember about the men is that one was handsome one was fat and one was shabby." I explained not really wanting to discuss it any further.

"Well clearly the visions h-have everything to do with Lord V-Voldemort." Bernadette said thoughtfully, still stammering.

"How can you tell?" Lo asked.

"Because she saw the symbol of him before anything else, right Lily?" Bernadette said thinking.

"True." I answered as we sat down in the common room.

"So what does the rest mean?" Lo asked annoyed.

"I guess we will have to wait and find out." Bernadette answered, finally able to speak agian.

"Dementors..." I said thinking outloud.

"They are more terrible than you can imagine." Bernadette said "They suck happiness from you, you relive the worst moments of your life when they are around you." she continued. "They give you a kiss if they can...a kiss that will suck your soul out of you, and leave you living as a shell...empty devoid of any though or feeling. I've met one before, right after Bernard died the ministry came over with a dementor guard and aurors to try and find his killer. I learned all about them then." she explained.

"All wizarding families hear about them, they are twisted evil and souless." Lo said frowning.

"Are you guys talking about Snivellus and Bellatrix behind their backs? Because twisted, evil and souless...well Snivelly and Bella do come to mind." Sirius said cheerfully.

"How is our little seer?" James teased.

"Fine." I said sharpley. "And Im NOT a seer." I glowerd at him.

"Okay, sorry Evans." he said nonplussed. He rumpeled his hair and walked away.

"See ya ladies." Sirius said following him.

"Are they ever serious?" Lo asked.

"James is during quiddich, he has to be or he wouldn't have anything to boast about." I said grinning.

"Fair point." Lo agreed.

"Well I'm going up to bed." I said deciding to get some sleep and finish my homework another night.

"Your funeral, trying to do McGonagall's and Sprout's essay tommorrow.

"Yeah, Yeah." I said dismisivley walking up to the dorms and threw myself down on the bed falling asleep, not for a long time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Your in my way." James said irritably as a first year was walking slowly in front of him on the way to Transfiguration next Thursday. "Tarantanguala" he hissed and the boy began dancing, and imediatly danced of out James's way. Sneering he and Sirius enterd professor McGonagall's class.

"Finte incantem!" I said and the boy stopped dancing.

"Potter! Why did you just hex that boy?" I yelled angrily,

"He was in my way." James said indigantly.

"You too arrogent for your own good Potter." I said furios at him and walked to my seat next to Sirius.

"Hey come on Evans, have a sense of humor." Sirius insisted.

"Shut up Black and hold the iguana while I vanish it." I said coldly.

"Your know your really not that much fun after all. I was starting to think you were cool, oh well." he said shrugging. I narrowed my eyes.

"I am not going to laugh because you made some first year dance, when he got in your way, thats mean and embarassing!" I said hardly believing Sirius was so insensitive.

"You don't have to laugh Evans, but you do have to be more layed back." He cracked sretched out his fingers and yawned before holding up the iguana.

"I am layed back! It's just not fair that someone who didn't even do anything to you or James should deserve that." I said angrily, still.

"Deserve what? Your overreacting. All James did was make the little bloke dance!" Sirius said lazily.

"Your don't even care that you might have hurt his feelings?" I asked "If I hurts his feelings then he must be an overemotional, future prefect named Lily, because you are the only person I know to care about things like this." he said rolling his eyes.

"I AM NOT OVEREMOTIONAL!" I yelled, louder then I meant, resulting in half the class staring at me and laughing, and Professor McGonagall giving me a dirty look.

"Thats right Evans, because people who aren't over emotional tend to have sudden out bursts in the middle of transfiguration class." Sirius said sarcastically. "Oh shut up Black." I said grinning at him, he grinned back.

"I knew you would get over it, now come on lizard's don't usually vanish themseleves..."he said impatiently

"Wish you would vanish yourself." I mutterd grinning at him, gods he was handsome, like that man in my vision....But, that was impossible.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The weeks leading up to the OWL's, the last week of April and the first week of May semed to disolve as though that had never happened. It was simply weeks of studying, so much studying I thought my head might explode. Even James and Sirius had been sighted pouring over notes from time to time in the common room. And the weekened before the first OWL, Charms, dawned upon us.

"I can't wait until these next two and a half weeks are OVER!"Bernadette said after failing at doing the banishing charm correctly.

"Oh no, I just love tests!" Lo said sarcastically after failing to do the silcencing charm correctly.

"Ha! I can do the color changing charm!" I as smiled the book I had been practicing on turned from black to pink.

"Yay." Lo mumbled half heartedly.

"Hey Lo, isn't your sister coming to hogwarts next year?" Bernadette asked setting aside her wand, most likely looking for an excuse to stop practicing banishing her hat.

"Oh yeah! Callisto is coming next year. Why?" Lo asked, she too abanding her still squeaking mouse.

"Just wondering, think she will be in Gryffindor with us?"Bernadette asked.

"I hope so." Lo said reaching into her bag and showing us her sister picture. She grinned at her sister's smiling and winking face affectionatly and set the moving photograph on the table, and began trying to memorize the incantation for the levitating spell.

"Wing-gar-duim. Lev-i-o-sa." she sounded out.

"What about your sister Patricia, is she evrr coming to hogwarts?" Bernadette asked me.

"Her name is Petunia, and nope she is already 17 and doesn't have a drop of magical blood in her veins. Plently of jealousy though. She keeps calling me a freak, or she wont talk to me. She wanted to be a witch too I reckon." I said practicing the wand movement used to summon an object.

"Ahh well jealousy is human nature, she'll grow out of it." Bernadette assured finally reisgned to resume studying.

"I need to practice the color changing charm! Evans come here I need your hair for a sec!" James called.

"I think she could do with a cheering charm...Overemtional, she is" Sirius added grinning at me. I rolled my eyes and went back to practicing my summoning charm.

"Ahh the highly useful summoning charm!" James said watching me.

"Accio hair tier!" he yelled and Lo's pony tail holder flew out of her hair and magically into James's hand.

"Accio hat!" he called and Bernadette's hat which she had been unable to banish, finally flew away from her and into James Potter's waiting hands.

"Accio prefect badge!" James called and my shiney badge unhinged itself my from my robes and landed on Bernadette's hat. I glared at James who winked in return,

"Potter go away." Lo said crossing the room taking back her elastic, my badge, and Bernadette's hat.

"Awww." James said frowning and sat down in a chair and began amazing, the easily amazed with catching his snitch. God he was so annoying...annoying in a loveable way...But I didn't just think that beacause James Potter is NOT loveable....but a little sarcastic voice echoed in the back of my head "Suuuure James isn't loveable and your not overemtional" I had been hanging out with Sirius waaaaaaaay too much if I was thinking things like that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I don't like James" I said aloud as I got into bed that night.

"Thats the spirit." Lo said sleepily from the bed next to mine.

"Of course you don't like James he is such a prat! Remember how he turned my hair green?" Lark called from the other side of the rom.

"He turned my hair white!" Lo hissed.

"He isn't as cute as Justin!" Haven said dreamily.

"He stole my hat!" Bernadette interjected. And I felt the urge to defend him, I slaped myself mentally.

"And he never stops with that stupid snitch! And he is always messing up his already messy hair." I added determined not to like him, determined to hate him...but why? I honestly don't know why....He really was too full of himself though...He really was so funny and cute though....I hate mixed feelings, and so I fell asleep thinking about James, which was much, much better then falling sleep contemplating strange prophecies in crystal balls, which had slipped my mind until something triggerd when I was almost asleep. The boy in the vision had the same messy black hair as James....but it wasn't James because the boy had the same scar as the baby, and James had no such scar...I began to wonder if I hadn't imagined all I witnessed in divination class that day...but it seemed like such a real prediction... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I do." I said to James, his face smiling his messy hair still untidy and sticking out in odd places.

"I do." James repeated softly as a congrigation cheered he pulled me in and kissed me sliding his hand into mine.

"Were married now?" I asked uncertainly.

"Yes, your mine to have and to hold, through better through worse, through richer, through poorer forever, Lily Potter, I love you." James said his hazel eyes penetrating my green ones.

"I love you too." I said breathlessly.

"Forever?" He implored his face looked anxious for a moment.

"Forever." I agreed. His lips closing around mine agian, I felt a leaping sensation in my stomach and thought 'This is how it feels to be inlove.' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AN: So, how are my readers? Like the story? yes? no? maybe? I did my best to fix the format, tell me if this is easier to read. There is one more chapter for year five, yeps year five is written in chapters 1-8. Chapter 9 will depict the summer, and then I will start wrting about *Drum roll* year six! The sixth year at hogwarts for Lily and James will have some interesting things such as murder plots, dementors, sexual tension and eveything included in year five...interested? I was also thinking that after this story is finished sometime in August-November, that I might start a fic about Sirius, or Bellatrix or Ginny. Would any of my readers be interested in reading stories about any of them? Well I'll let you review now. READ & REVIEW, REVIEWS WILL MAKE ME POST THE NEXT CHAPTER- April