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Chapter 29: Save the World Thing
The holiday was boring, except the announcement to Lily and James that they had to plan the 'Spring Fling.' It was a new, once-in-a-school-career ball thingy that, apparently, James wanted to have the dance floor on the ceiling. Um, James, you kind of lost your mind, so we're not really listening.
When everyone came back from their own houses, James and the other Marauders (including Co.) had a wonderful prank.
Since no one (mostly Lily) would let James charm the dance floor upside down, that particular scene would have to be set for the welcome back feast.
"One… two…three!" James whispered excitedly, and Lily, Hermione, and Remus all chanted a special custom charm for the first part, then the rest of the group tossed a pinch of feverfew and ground up cockroach teeth in the air. Everyone suddenly started floating onto the ceiling, even the Marauders. They all turned upside down and so did the tables and chairs.
Some people (cough Slytherins cough) were mad/freaked out about eating their feast upside down, but everyone else was actually glad for a little change in plans. Dumbledore was actually charming chairs and the students in them to spin around once or twice, but since they all seemed to have lost their gravity, no one fell.
It was quite fun, though it lasted until about 2 hours after the feast ended. Most people ended up going to bed upside down.
Not Harry though. He just wanted to be alone, so after all the boys in his dorm were asleep (an right side up) he snuck down to the common room. No one was down there, and that surprised him. Usually at 10, the common room had a few insomniac students on the couch.
Harry sat down roughly on the couch, and just sat, thinking.
I have to live, every single day, with the weight of this. Sirius, my mum and dad, they will all eventually be gone.
Every day, I have to see Sirius, even if he is the seventeen year old version, and deal with the thought that I am the reason he dies. I am really the reason all of these people die. I just wish that for one god damn moment I wasn't The Boy Who Lived. Not even when I am not in the time of The Boy Who Lived, I can't escape. I can't escape the past, future, or present.
While Harry was contemplating all of this, Hermione had snuck quietly down the stairs and saw Harry, frowning deeply, and thinking so hard he didn't notice her until she sat down next to him.
"God! Hermione, don't scare me like that!" Hermione shook her head. Harry had always a tendency to drift off.
"I was standing next to you for, like, five minutes, and you didn't notice me. I could 'scare' you without trying." Harry laughed, though it sounded dead. "Harry? What's wrong? You were thinking very deeply…"
Hermione trailed off, and Harry started to tell her. Hermione didn't interrupt through it, she just nodded.
"Harry, wow, you've got to have the most messed up life in the world. Even before all this." Hermione waved her hand around her, gesturing. Harry nodded.
"I can just barely guess at what you are feeling. But, you know, it'll be okay."
"How can you say that?" Harry said, staring at Hermione. "You know that they die! You know that my life is probably ruined! Hermione, the future for me is not worth living in. But I have to after I use up my time here, after you and Ron do, too… I have to go back and 'save the world' and probably make my life worse, while everyone else will be safe at home. Praying that I save their stupid, hopeless lives." Hermione reached toward Harry, but he jut sagged a bit, and shrugged her off. Hermione saw that he wanted to be alone, so she walked off. What she did not see was the red-headed girl who dashed up seconds before she herself walked up.
Harry had gone back up to his dorm a little after Hermione left. Talking only made him feel worse, not better.
In the morning, everyone was happy and congratulating the Marauder and Co. on their magnificent prank. Their latest pranks had been harmless, because of the new circumstances (cough Lily cough).
No one really noticed the strange looks from Lily that she was giving Harry and Hermione, nor did they notice how sullen Harry was. He barely smiled when someone said, "Congrats!" to him. Lily was really suspicious, Harry was usually a real happy person.
Who dies? And how do they know it? They aren't Death Eaters! I've seen Hermione, and the others' arms… Lily was getting a massive migraine from all her thinking. She hadn't even gone to sleep last night, she had been thinking so much.
For the first time in her life, Lily cut class. Okay, not really. She just told Professor Binns that she really needed to go to the nurse.
After getting away from that old ghost, she actually did go to the nurse. If she was to think, why not without her migraine?
Madame Corson decided the best thing was a potion for pain (Lily thought it was a lot like morphine) and some good rest. Lily knew that the nurse would not let her out until at least after lunch, and Lily was really grateful.
After settling on her bed, Lily closed her eyes, and thought about last night.
Alright. They know about the future... they didn't show up until last year… they know about a death that's going to happen… And Harry talked about going back.. and the future.
That can only mean Harry is here… and has to go back somewhere. But he kept talking about his future. Plus, what about all this 'save the world' thing?
