Chapter ten up! these past few chapters have been sad, but there is a very big thing coming up!
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Chapter 10
Lily had been rescued the night before by Dumbledore. She had managed to wake up and send a patronus to him, but it barely made it because she couldn't find anything happy to think about. All she could think about was the cruel, dark thing that took her dad away from her. Death.
She couldn't do magic well either. All of the flowers she made pop out of her wand were brown and wilted. She didn't care, though.
Dumbledore had taken her to the funeral, but she couldn't cry. All of her tears had left her body the night before.
Now she was standing at her dad's tombstone, which happened to be right next to her mom's. It was raining and she was getting soaked, but she just stared at the two tombs, trying to get it in her mind that he was gone forever.
She needed something happy.
"Expecto Patronum," Lily managed to choke out.
What came out surprised her. Instead of her tiny leopard cub that went in circles around her, a large, short-haired thing galloped out and ran around her. It was a doe.
"You know, that was your father's patronus. And before him, your mother's."
Lily jumped upon hearing the voice. She turned around and her doe came up next to her. It flickered and died out.
It was Dumbledore.
"I didn't know that patronuses could change form!" Lily said in wonder.
"Oh yes," Dumbledore said quite calmly, "when you have a large emotional change in life, it often changes with your emotions."
Lily looked glumly at the ground. "I don't care. Nothing matters anymore."
Dumbledore walked calmly over to her right side. "Let me see your patronus again."
"Expecto Patronum."
The silver doe popped out of Lily's wand again. It trotted over to Dumbledore.
"Hello, Severus."
The doe nodded and walked around him.
"Lily, you do not have to finish the school year, but you may stay at Hogwarts, given you have no where else to go."
Lily nodded, tears in her eyes.
"Well, I must go back to my office." Dumbledore said, and with that he was off.
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Lily went to the Forbidden Forest against her better judgment. She knew she wasn't allowed, but it was peaceful in there.
After a while she heard noises. They were like great, majestic bird noises. She followed the noise and gasped at what she found.
A herd of great winged horses stood grazing on some burned grass. Lily would find them cool, but the only thing way that they had no skin, they were just bones.
She approached one slowly and it came over to her. She put her hand on it's snout and rubbed it. It sighed and then left.
She walked through the herd of thestrals and kept walking.
Soon enough, Lily stepped on a diamond-shaped stone. She rubbed her foot and picked it up. Lily thought of how her dad would have loved the smooth black rock to put in a potion.
"Lily….. You brave, brave girl."
Lily jumped about a yard off the ground and looked up. What she saw confused her.
Her mother and father stood there, but they looked like ghosts. They were pearly white and they smiled at her.
Lily held out her hand and walked towards them. Severus held out his, but when Lily reached for his, her hand went straight through his.
"I must be seeing things…."
Lily pocketed the stone and the figures drifted away.
It was then she realized how much she wanted them back.