In the hallway…

Mrs. Pomfrey was just about to bring Lily her hot chocolate, but suddenly a little white figure came out of the room next to Lily's. He saw Mrs. Pomfrey, who gasped, and said "Hi! I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!" as he held his arms up for a hug. Mrs. Pomfrey screamed and dropped the hot chocolate mug, which broke as she ran away, shouting "A GHOST! THERE'S A GHOST!" Olaf said as he sighed and put his arms down "No one around here likes warm hugs…" He saw another door, however and reached to open it with his twig hand, which was difficult due to his height, but he managed.

Olaf walked into the room happily, and said "Ohh what's in here?" As he walked further into the room, he saw the fireplace and said as he approached the fire "Whoa! So this is heat! I love it! Whoa! But don't touch it!" as he almost set his twig arm on fire. When he looked away, he gasped as he saw Lily on the floor, and said "Lily! Are you okay?" She nodded, and he helped her to stand up and walk closer to the fire. As he helped her sit down she said "T-thank you, Olaf." He asked "So, where's Severus? Did he kiss you yet?" Lily sighed and said "W-we kissed, but it d-didn't work." Olaf gasped and asked "We've gotta find an act of true love to save you!" Lily said as tears filled her eyes "O-olaf, I c-can't. I'm to marry Severus in a couple of hours, and if I don't, h-he will kill Siri." Olaf said "Wait if Severus isn't your true love, that means that you'll die." Lily nodded as the tears fell from her dark blue eyes. Olaf frowned and said "Aw Lily, don't cry!" as he came over and hugged her, and when he pulled away, he said "Don't worry, we will find an act of true love to save you. I won't leave until we figure it out." Lily said "H-how? James is gone, and I'll never get to tell him how I feel." She suddenly gasped and said "Olaf! Y-you're melting!" as his face slowly started to melt, and he said as he smiled at her lopsidedly "Some people are worth melting for." Lily smiled at him, and suddenly the window swung open, and a rush of cold air swooped in, causing Lily to shiver violently again. Olaf gasped and said "I got it!" as he ran to the window, and just as he was about to close it, he saw two figures running in the distance, and as he watched them for a minute, he realized it was Remus and James! "Lily! I see Remus and James! They're coming back!" Lily gasped excitedly, and said "O-olaf, you've g-gotta help me get to t-them!" as she tried to get up, and Olaf said "Nonono you need to stay by the fire!" Lily said "O-olaf, my t-time is running out. I've got to kiss J-james before I f-freeze to death." Olaf ran over to her again, and was about to say something, when they noticed the room start to freeze, starting at the ceiling. Olaf said "On second-thought maybe we should go find the guys."

He helped Lily up and helped her to the door, but then the two tried to open it, but realized the door had been frozen shut! Olaf said "We'll have to jump out the window." Lily nodded, and they walked quickly to her large window, and opened it. They stood in the window, and looked down: they were going to have to slide down the roof and into the snow. Lily pulled her cape tighter around her, and Olaf took her hand and said "Let's jump!" and they leapt from the window, the wind blowing furiously around them, as they slid down the roof and into a snow bank on the ground. The wind blew with so much force that poor Olaf got swept away in it as he fell from the window. He shouted to Lily "Keep going! Don't worry about me!" Lily pressed on, hoping that she could reach James in time, especially since she could barely walk or see in this weather.

Remus and James ran as quickly as they could into the powerful storm, and James was frantic about Lily getting caught in the storm so much so that he didn't see the ice-coated lake crack beneath him. As he was about to fall through into the below-freezing water, Remus, who had been trying to keep up, shoved his younger brother ahead of him, and fell into the water in his place. James fell to the icy ground, and as he looked back, he didn't see Remus anywhere. His heart pounded in his chest, he yelled "REMUS!" And he crawled over to the hole in the ice, and dipped his arm in, desperately trying to reach for Remus, and thankfully Remus had caught his hand, so James pulled him to safety. Remus coughed up water, and James hugged him and shouted at him "DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN." Remus smiled, and then shoved his brother out of the hug, saying loudly as he shivered "G-GO TO HER Y-YOU T-TWIT." James smiled, and got up carefully and continued to run across the ice. James ran, the wind tugging and pulling on his clothes, and he shouted into it "LILY?"

Across the lake, Lily had been walking slowly, trying not to be blown away by the wind that whipped around her. It was relentless, and kept pulling and pushing her around, which wasn't that hard to do in the first place as she was so weak. She shouted into the wind "JAMES?" As she pressed on, she noticed her fingers starting to turn blue, and she held her hands together, and said loudly once again "James!"

After Sirius landed in the snow, he had been trying desperately to find his way across the iced-over lake to get back to his ice palace. He couldn't believe how fiercely the wind whipped around him, and it was all his fault. Suddenly, he heard behind him a sword unsheathe, and a voice said "Running away isn't going to solve your problems, I thought by now you understood that." Sirius turned around to face Severus, and dodged his strike with his sword. Sirius said, with much fear in his silver eyes "Let me go, Severus. Just please take care of my sister, and if I know you can do that, I will leave you both be. Forever." Severus chuckled darkly, and said "Oh, your majesty didn't I tell you? I saw your sister, and she was not well. She said you struck her with your powers, and died moments later in my arms. You killed her." Sirius's face grew pale, and tears stung his eyes as he said "N-no, that can't be." He fell to the ground in despair, and the storm stopped, leaving an eerie silence.

James was halfway across the lake, and in an instant, the storm had stopped. He took off his glasses and wiped the frost off of them, and as he put them back on, he saw a figure in the distance: he knew it was Lily. He said "Lily!" as he ran towards her.

Lily had struggled to walk across the lake, and when the storm stopped, she saw in the distance a man, and knew it was James. She smiled in relief as she shivered violently, and said "J-James!" as she tried to walk towards him.

James ran and ran towards Lily, and she tried to walk towards him. As he got closer to her, she heard a voice that said "Goodbye, King Sirius!" and saw Severus holding a sword above his head, about to strike Sirius, who was on the ground, bent over in distraught. She gasped, and whispered "Siri!"And after shooting a look of sadness at James, she ran as fast as she could to stop Severus from striking her brother. She reached them just in time, and shouted "NOOO!" as she stepped in front of Severus, and froze before everyone's very eyes. Severus's sword struck her frozen form, but it shattered, and he got knocked out by the heavy sword handle and fell backwards.

James felt as if his heart had shattered into a million pieces. He stared at her frozen form, unable to move. Remus had run up behind him, and said "James-" and then saw Lily's frozen form "N-no, Lily," he said as a few tears rolled down his cheeks, he put his hand on James's shoulder, and noticed that James had tears in his eyes that wouldn't fall.

Sirius looked up, and when he looked behind him, he saw a frozen form, recognizing it immediately. "Lily!" he gasped and ran around to face her. He held the sides of her frozen face gently, her determined and yet fearful eyes etched in ice, and he whispered "Lily, why?" as he broke down sobbing, hugging her as he did.

Olaf had put himself back together, and as he ran to the center of the lake, he saw everyone, and saw Lily frozen solid. He gasped and whispered "Lily," tears filling the little snowman's eyes.

All the people of Gryffindor had saw what happened, and each person was horrified and saddened to witness what they had just seen and heard. Arthur Weasley held his wife, who sobbed silently in his arms as she saw what happened to her new friend. The staff of the castle all bowed their heads, most of them with tear-filled eyes.

Time stood still for a good few moments, all that was heard was Sirius's sobbing over his sister's frozen body. No one noticed that around Lily's heart, the ice began to melt.