LILY POTTER AND THE FINAL PROPHECY

Warning – This is the sequel to Harry Potter, Time Traveler and Lily Potter and the Change of Time. If you have not read either of these stories I would highly recommend it as this story will get very confusing. You may not recognize many of the characters and may have no idea what is going on if you do not read it.

Summary – It is Lily Potter's final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and it will be her most memorable. In her final year, with the help of her friends, Lily must face many obstacles; boys, relationships, rivalries, new teachers, her NEWTS, the threat of Voldemort and the newly written prophecy, and not to mention being on the edge of finding out the identity of her true, biological mother. Now, Lily must overcome these obstacles to fight the final battle against Voldemort. It is the final battle between good and evil and only one can prevail…

Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter, the characters, or the Harry Potter world. They all belong to the fabulous J.K. Rowling. However, while I do not own their names, the characters and the personality traits of Lily Potter, Eddie Weasley, Daris Malfoy, Christof Nott, as well as Asher Lazard and Robyn Andrews all belong to me.

Chapter 21 – Greetings and Meetings:

Eddie Weasley let out a loud yawn and a long stretch of his arms as he headed down towards the Great Hall for breakfast. He had taken an extra-long shower to think about certain things and had told Asher to take Lily and go on ahead to breakfast without him; that he would catch up with them. When he finally reached the Great Hall, the first thing he looked for was that little golden blonde head, but it was nowhere in sight. Eddie furrowed his eyebrows and headed towards the Gryffindor table.

"Where's Lily?" Eddie asked as he sat down between Mandy and Asher at the Gryffindor bench. Asher was scooping of spoonful of eggs into this mouth.

"Im beb," he mumbled. Eddie could see his half chewed eggs rolling around in his mouth and looked away in disgust.

"Mandy?"

"Still in bed," said Mandy, softly. "She said she'd rather sleep an extra hour than eat breakfast."

Eddie rolled his eyes and helped himself to some pancakes. As he ate he looked up at the staff table at his mother. She could see she was glaring at Delinor in a strange way as Delinor was looking very anxious and shooting random looks around the room. He knew she would be having a meeting with his mother last today and he figured she was probably very nervous about finally confronting the people that raised Lily when she absolutely refused to.

'Time to face the wrath of Lily Potter's godmother,' Eddie thought smugly to himself. Asher caught Eddie's eye and grinned. He also knew that Delinor was in for it.

After breakfast, Asher and Eddie headed towards their Defense Against the Dark Arts class, both curious as to why Lily had not come down yet; class started in five minutes. Their questions were answered when they saw Lily, still in her pajamas, racing down the staircase at top speed with a note in her hand. A look of pure joy and happiness was lit all over her face. She reminded the two boys of a two year old child at Christmas time.

"Lily?" Asher asked confusedly. "What-?"

"FORGET CLASS!" she shouted happily. "HAGRID IS HERE!"

"What?" Eddie and Asher asked in unison, not fully comprehending what she was talking about. Lily ignored them and raced through the Entrance Hall and out into the sunlight, still wearing nothing but pajamas and she was barefoot. The boys gave each other weird looks and immediately raced after her. They had both agreed to never let Lily out of their sight if they could, ever since Robyn's death.

They saw Lily racing across the grounds and towards the lake and immediately followed. In the distance, standing by the lake was a big, burly man, reaching about nine foot. His shaggy brown, but graying, hair was long and his beard was just as long and shaggy. He wore a long animal skinned cloak and was skipping rocks in the lake. They knew that figure anywhere; it was Rubeus Hagrid. Eddie and Asher shared excited smiles and raced after Lily, who had already reached Hagrid and had already thrown her arms around him in a giant hug.

"Hagrid!" Lily cried out. "Oh Hagrid I missed you so much!"

"Heh, I missed yeh too lil Lily," he chuckled heartedly, returning the hug and stroking her head affectionately. Hagrid loved Lily just as much as he had loved Harry. But, the only difference was that Hagrid always had friendly feelings towards Harry, for Lily, he had come to grow fatherly feelings towards her. But he had loved them both all the same.

"Wow, yeh got pretty Lily," said Hagrid when he finally got a good look at her. "Prob'ly get 'em boys knockin' down 'em door eh?"

"Ha, no, not really," Lily said good-naturedly, shrugging. "Everyone here pretty much avoids me like I have the plague or something."

"Now why would anyone wanna do that?"

"Because I'm a Potter," Lily said simply. Hagrid nodded in understanding. "But let's not talk about that right now. What are you doing here? How have you been? How's Olympe and Sampson?"

"Ha! Calm down Lily, I'll tell yeh everyhin don' worry,'" Hagrid said with a smile. He looked up and beamed at the two teenage boys running towards them. "Eddie! Asher!"

The two boys came over and both gave Hagrid a good handshake and what Lily called, 'a man hug.'

"Still lookin' after Lily I sees," said Hagrid, smiling.

"But of course," said Asher, smiling as he nudged Lily with his elbow. "We all know how much Lily Billy finds trouble sexy that she can't resist it and needs protecting."

"Har, har har," Lily said sarcastically. Hagrid laughed.

"How I missed yeh three," he said happily, pulling all of them into a giant hug. "Yeh kids always made me laugh." Then he looked around with a raised eyebrow. "Where's Robyn? I'd like to see her too."

Lily, Eddie, and Asher all exchanged nervous looks. They knew the attack on Hogwarts probably made the France papers but more than likely, did not give the names of those who had died and who had been murdered in the attack. Unsure of whether the news of Robyn's death would break Hagrid's heart, the boys knew that talking about it would break Lily's.

"She died on the attack during Halloween," Eddie explained quickly, silently pleading with Hagrid with his eyes not to press the subject, knowing how it was such a touchy subject to Lily. Eddie felt that sometimes maybe Lily stilled blamed herself for Robby's death. Hagrid saw the pleading look in the boys' eyes and did not press the subject any further. He made a mental note to ask Hermione or Remus about it later on, and demand why they had not mentioned it to him.

"Well, let's go try fix up me hut," Hagrid suggested lightly, immediately changing the subject. "Haven' been in there in years!" He headed towards the edge of the Forbidden Forest and Lily jogged to keep up with Hagrid's long strides. Eddie and Asher, being taller, did not have as much of a problem keeping up.

"You're staying at Hogwarts?" Lily asked excitedly. Eddie and Asher, however, threw each other looks of suspicion.

"Yep, with me boy and me wife at Beaboxtons, figured I'm come here. Be gamekeeper again. Somethin' to do while me family is at school." Hagrid explained, sounding casual but not meeting their eyes.

"How are Olympe and Sampson?" Lily asked curiously. Hagrid smiled.

"Good. Both of 'em say 'hi.' Sampson started Beaboxtons this year," Hagrid said proudly, his chest puffing out. Lily smiled. She knew that Hagrid was ecstatic that his son was going to a wizarding school, even if it was not Hogwarts. He would have the opportunity that Hagrid, unfortunately, never got because of that git, Tom Riddle.

"I bet you're proud," Eddie said smiling. Hagrid's chest puffed out even more so.

"Ya have no idea me boy," he said beaming. "How you three been?"

"Well," Eddie said simply. "Getting ready for our N.E.W.T.S so life can't be that fabulous." They all let out small chuckles, when Hagrid looked down at Lily with eyes full of concern.

"Hermione and Sirius are really worried about ya, Lily," said Hagrid. Lily's eyes narrowed and she turned away. "Said ya been in a lot of trouble. And that You-Know-Who is getting stronger…"

"So what if he is?" Lily snapped bitterly. She hated Voldemort with everything she had and could not help but feel such anger and hatred when he came up in conversations. "I can take care of myself!"

"Yeah, ya can," Hagrid said softly. He dropped the subject. He paused and looked at Lily. "Ya should go to class."

"Yeah, Remus will have my head if I miss another class," Lily said with a small smile. Eddie rolled his eyes.

"I'll walk ya to ya class," Hagrid suggested, remembering his assignment. Then he noticed Lily was in pajamas and was barefoot in the cold. "Or maybe ya should go and change first. C'mere, don' want ya catchin' cold." With that, Hagrid lifted Lily and sat her on his right shoulder and headed towards the castle.

Lily grinned broadly, was just so ecstatic to have Hagrid back at Hogwarts that she did not even begin to think that real reason he had come back to the school was to keep a protective eye on her. The boys followed Hagrid to the castle, talking nonstop the whole way there.

"I can't believe you didn't tell me!" Hermione nearly shouted angrily, throwing her hands up in the air. "Don't you think I would have liked to have known something like that? You're her mother for Merlin's sake!"

"Would you 'ave 'ired me if I 'ad told you zat!"

Hermione opened her mouth to argue that she would have, but then closed it softly, knowing perfectly well that would be a lie. She would not have hired had she had told her that she was Lily's mother.

"No, I suppose I would have not," she said with a sigh. "And I will not lie now when I say I have a strong urge to fire you…"

"What? Why? You can't! I need zis job!"

"Please Miss De-"

"'Ermione, pleeze," she begged. "I'll retire as soon as I can find anuzzer job. Pleeze!"

Hermione glared at the beautiful woman standing before her. She had never seen anyone so vulnerable and desperate. As much as she hated the woman for abandoning both Harry and Lily, she knew it would be wrong to fire her based on personal and emotional reasons. She was a talented witch and an excellent teacher. It would be pointless to fire a professor so late into the year. Hermione closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath, which came out in a sigh. When she reopened her eyes, her glare did not cease.

"Fine," she said shortly. "You may stay."

"Oh 'Ermione!" she cried out in joy. "Zank you! Zank you so much! You 'ave a 'eart of pure gold! 'Ow can I ever-"

"You want to thank me? Just stay away from Lily," Hermione snapped.

"I beg your pardon?"

"I'll be keeping my eye on you," Hermione said angrily. "And if I see you so much as look at Lily outside any classroom necessities, you'll be sorry you ever stepped foot in this castle. Is that understood?"

There was a long, pregnant pause where no one said anything.

"Is that understood?" Hermione asked sharply.

"But, she is my daughter-"

"Don't you dare call her your daughter!" Hermione snarled, advancing angrily on her employee. "You abandoned her! You are no mother to her! She's too good to be your daughter. Go near her for anything other than classroom necessities and you'll lose your jobs so fast it'll make your head spin!"

There was another, long, awkward pause.

"Yes, 'Eadmistress," she said quietly. "I understand."

"Good," said Hermione. She retreated to behind her desk again and sat down, taking a quill in her hand. "So we're finished here. You may go."

"Wait, 'Ermione, we're not finished." Hermione looked up at her, eyebrow raised.

"What else is there?" asked Hermione impatiently.

"On Lilee's graduation day, I 'ave every intention on telling 'er on 'ho I am."

"Excuse me?"

"I plan to tell Lilee zat I am 'er muzzer when she graduates."

"No!" Hermione said urgently, getting up from her seat. "You cannot tell Lily that. You shouldn't tell Lily that."

"Why not?"

"Because I know Lily better than you and I can tell you that she doesn't want to know," explained Hermione. "She said it herself. She refuses to know who her mother is. It'll only make her dislike you, or not respect you at the very least. I'm warning you for your own benefit, do not tell her you're her mother!"

"Once she graduates you 'ave no say on what 'appens to her and if I wish to tell 'er I am her muzzer, zen I will and you will not stop me. Now we are finished." She turned, stalked out of the office, and slammed the door behind her.

Hermione sat down in one of her chairs, burying her face in her hands and pitying the day that the poor woman tells Lily that she is the woman who abandoned her and her father.

"If she only knew her daughter…" Hermione whispered gently to herself before rubbing the bridge of her nose and going over to the fireplace to tell her husband, Ron, what had just happened.

A note from the Jitterbelle! I'm almost done revising this story and then I will continue writing the sequel and the other story I'm currently writing. Thanks for everything, especially to my reviewers! You're the people who keep me going!