Author's Note: I don't want to write a long one. Check the disclaimers in the first chapter. I don't think anything is mine except for the basic plot. If you see words surrounded by {like this} they are Lily's thoughts.
I am not sure on the date placement, but until I find proof to the contrary I am sticking with these dates. The song I have used in this chapter is Lonesome Town by Rick Nelson.
I have based this chapter loosely in the universe created by Cassiopiea (formerly Rain6) in The Marauders Strike Back. It is a really great story that I think you all should check out. I took some okay most of the events that she used to base some of my situations in this chapter. It was her story that helped me get past my brick wall. So I am dedicating this chapter to her. I asked for her opinion, but I haven't heard back from her yet. I was too anxious to get this out here to you all to see if anyone liked it. This story is not based on her story, but some of the events that happen in this chapter I tied to events in her story.
I have also previously introduced certain characters called The Elders that belong to the Charmed tv series. They are property of the WB network I believe. I have also introduced someone else that belongs to them.
I hope you enjoy this, I sure did! PLEASE don't forget to Read & Review! And if you have any ideas for where this should go...PLEASE let me know. Review responses for this chapter and the last one will be in the next chapter.
Always,
CapriceAnn Hedican-Kocur
The Last Song - A New Beginning - chapter seven
by: CapriceAnn Hedican-Kocur
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five years after graduation, October 31, 1981
Lily and James were sitting in the living room watching Moulin Rouge with their little one year old, Harry. All of a sudden they heard some loud crashes and banging coming from outside.
"Lily, this is it. The moment we have dreaded for a long time. I want you to take Harry and get out of here." James said to his wife.
"James I am not leaving without you. If we apparate now, we can make it to Hogwarts before Voldemort will find us." I said to my husband who I didn't want to lose for a second time in less than a hundred years.
"Lily, go! This is not open to discussion! They are here, and for Harry to survive like I know he will, you must go!" He told me. "I love you!"
"James, I love you too, but didn't you say that I was to die too?" I asked him. "We can't change the future or it could have disasterous results for Harry."
"Fine then take him upstairs. Maybe, just maybe, I can stave him off long enough for ministry officials to get here, or at least for Dumbledore to save us." James said as he pushed his wife and son upstairs.
I barely had time to close the door to Harry's nursery before I heard the front door smash open. Harry started to cry, and I couldn't calm him down. "That's it Harry!" I exclaimed causing Harry to stop crying long enough to look at me with eyes that were so like mine. "I'll sing you a song. A song to remember me and your father by."
With that statement to Harry, I remembered a song by an American singer my Mum had always liked. It was called Lonesome Town by Ricky Nelson.
There's a place where lovers go {At the sound of my voice Harry settled down even more.}
To cry their troubles away
And they call it Lonesome Town
Where the broken hearts stay {I could hear a violent argument downstairs and a lot of things crashing about.}
You can buy a dream or two
To last you all through the years
And the only price you pay
Is a heart full of tears {All of a sudden there was complete silence, and I could hear footsteps coming up the stairs to Harry's room.}
Goin' down to Lonesome Town
Where the broken hearts stay
Goin' down to Lonesome Town
To cry my troubles away {Oh, Merlin! There is someone at the door opening it. I turned to the window not wanting to see Voldemort. For I knew that is who it was. James would have come up the stairs yelling my name. Harry was getting restless again, but I held him tight and continued singing.}
In the town of broken dreams
The streets are filled with regret {Regret that I will not see my son grow to manhood.}
Maybe down in Lonesome Town
I can learn to forget {Live with maybe, but never forget that I love you Harry, and so does your Father.}
Maybe down in Lonesome Town
I can learn to forget {With the last note dying away, I heard Voldemort utter those two words that will forever change my Harry's life.}
"Avada Kedavra!" Lily fell to the ground, and Voldemort walked over to where Harry was now sitting holding on to his mother's hair.
"So little Potter, it is just you and I alone now. No one to protect you now." Voldemort said still pointing his wand towards the child. "Avada Kedavra!" As he said the words he had said so many times before he hadn't counted on something. A Mother's love. In that instant the curse ricocheted off of Harry and back to Voldemort. He instantly dissolved. (A/N: think Wicked Witch of the West...I'm melting, I'm melting)
Harry started crying because he couldn't get his Mother to look at him, and he didn't know why. But it wasn't a few minutes later when a big tall giant of a man showed up and Harry's face lit up. "Agid." He said reached up to Hagrid. Hagrid picked him up and they were on their way to meet with Dumbledore.
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In another realm watching this terrible night unfold were a few of the Elders and Whitelighters. One new Whitelighter asked, "Can't you do anything? They don't deserve to die like this. After all they have been through, and all that poor child is going to go through because his parents are dead."
"Child, you must calm down. All is as it should be. But it is not how you see it. The events that have taken place tonight happened for a specific reason. The young boy must grow up in the manner that he was destined to otherwise it would mean a greater harm would come to the earth." The Elder answered the new Whitelighter. "As you know, time has no meaning here like it does there. And before you know it, it will be time for destiny to unfold. As it is, you have your new charges to check up on."
"But they don't even have their powers yet. They were blocked by their Mother and Grandmother to protect them." The young Whitelighter said.
"But the Charmed Ones will always need you Leo." The elder said as he turned and left the young Whitelighter standing there confused. Leo then orbed down to San Francisco to check on his very young charges.
"Did he leave to go check on the Charmed Ones?" Another Elder asked.
"Yes, and now we must finish what we started almost thirty years ago. Leo was right, Lily and James did not deserve to die like that." The first elder stated.
"Then it is a good thing that we stepped in, and they didn't. It is also a very good thing that this Voldemort character has no clue how to trace Ancient Magic spells." A third Elder stated.
"I am also glad that Lily was able to learn those spells from Mrs Halliwell." The second Elder stated. "It was what enabled us to help them. Voldemort never even knew of our plan, nor has he any clue how to overcome it. For we all know that he is not dead. Just like James and Lily he will come back."
"Yes, but for Harry to be able to develop the way he was meant to we cannot send them to his present, not can we send them to any time before the Marauders as they called themselves showed up in Harry's time. We will send them to the summer before his sixth year, and before you ask it, they will age as they would have had they 'lived'. Is that acceptable to everyone?" When the other Elders nodded their agreement, the first Elder flicked his hand away from them. "There, it is done. And now we wait."