A/N Hello again. Thank you to all the people who reviewed, I am so surprised at the response this series has got! I can't be bothered to type out the names of the people who reviewed, but thanks to them all the same. I think this part's quite short. I need some motivational music, just hang on a sec while I fetch my Robbie Williams CD *goes to fetch CD* there that's better. "London's got it's gimmicks, and New York's had its minute, but Knutsford City limits I'll never change" *sings along to 'Knutsford City Limits.'* To infinity and beyond! Or, in English, on with the story!
When Lily met Harry
By
Little Witch
CHAPTER THREE - Now there really is no where to hide
Gossip can be defined as 'unconstrained talk or writing especially about people; idle talk; person indulging in talk'. Things that are innocent enough can be turned into festering pieces of gossip for those that are ignorant enough to gossip. A slim Gryffindor with blonde hair called Nicola Rogers was one of these ignorant people. She had just got hold of the best piece of gossip that Hogwarts had heard in years, from a painting. Yep. A painting had told her.
According to the painting, there were three aliens from the future hiding somewhere in the castle, and their mission was to eliminate all rats. Nicola was bursting to tell someone, she was ready to tell the first person she met, even if it was Snape or a teacher. Luckily, the first person she did see was a fellow Gryffindor sixth year, Lily Evans.
"Lily, hey Lily!" Nicola called. The red-head turned to see who it was calling her.
"Nicki, hi, what do you want?" Lily asked.
"I have just heard the most amazing thing ever," Nicki replied, and Lily rolled her eyes.
"What?" she replied, almost lazily.
"According to a painting, there are three aliens from the future hiding somewhere in the castle." Nicki said looking excited.
"What! Aliens!" Lily looked shocked.
"Yep. And their mission is to eliminate all rats."
"Nicki, did you say a painting told you?" Lily asked, a look of realisation on her face.
"Yes, a painting of a very pretty woman with gorgeous long blonde hair. She was all dressed up like a princess." Nicki replied.
"Oh no!" Lily said, "look Nicki, I've gotta go, don't tell anyone else about this, okay?"
"Oh, why not?" Nicki said looking disappointed.
"Just don't okay? See you later." Lily ran off in the opposite direction to try and find her friends. She hurried up to the common room, and practically yelled the password at the Fat Lady. She climbed through the portrait hole and saw her two best friends, Heather and Rose playing cards. She hurried over to them.
"Rose, Heather, have you seen James, Sirius and Remus?" she asked.
"They're in the library." Heather said.
"No, really where are they?" Lily asked, a disbelieving look on her face.
"In the library, I think they're trying to find a trick to play on Snape or something." Rose said.
"Well, we need to go and find them, Harry, Ron and Hermione may be in trouble." Lily said.
"Why?" Rose asked.
"I'll tell you on the way." Lily replied.
As they made their way to the library, Lily filled her two friends in on what Nicki had said.
"What! And what's this about rats?" Heather asked looking shocked when Lily had explained everything.
"Well, I think they may have been talking about Peter, but I'm just guessing." Lily replied.
"Great. If Rapunzel tells any more people, the whole school will know that we've been harbouring three people from the future, one of them who happens to be your son, and that there are three unregistered Animagi running around Hogwarts. Things can't get any worse." Rose moaned.
But she was wrong. When they had collected the boys from the library and told them about the rumours Rapunzel had been spreading, they started to make their way to the hidden room. They were almost there when they were met by Snape.
"Where are you going?" he asked them, "you're supposed to be in classes now."
"None of your business Snape, and you should be in classes too." James replied.
"I have special written permission from Professor Serpentine to be excused from classes today, because I have a bad cold." Snape said, sneering at them.
"If you have a bad cold, you should be in the infirmary." Sirius said.
"I don't really have a cold, idiot." Snape said.
Sirius pulled out his wand and turned Snape into a white mouse.
"There," he said a satisfied look on his face. He then pulled out a piece of parchment and wrote something on it and tied it around the mouse's neck.
"What are you going to do with him?" Heather asked.
"I'm going to give him to Peter to take up to the hospital wing." Sirius said and handed the mouse to Peter who hurried off up to the hospital wing.
"What did you write on the parchment?" Lily asked.
"I wrote, Hello, I'm Severus Snape. My best friend Lucius Malfoy turned me into a mouse. Can you please change me back?" Sirius said.
With Snape out of the way, there was nothing stopping them from getting to the secret room. They got there and James took out his wand and tapped the tapestry saying 'iroium'. The tapestry rolled upwards and the six of them stepped inside. The tapestry closed behind them. Inside, Harry, Ron and Hermione were playing cards, all looking extremely bored.
"People!" Ron exclaimed.
"Hello!" Lily exclaimed, "we need to get you out of here, Rapunzel's been spreading rumours, something about three aliens who are from the future. And something about rats as well."
Harry went white.
"Rats?" he said. Had Rapunzel told them about Peter betraying the Potter's?
"Yeah, apparantly she's been telling people that your mission is to eliminate all rats." Lily said.
"Oh, good." Harry breathed a sigh of releif.
"We have to go from here, I'm sure that Rapunzel will have told some more people by now, and she's sure to bring them here," James said, "you can hide in the shrieking shack, it's only just been a full moon, so Remus won't need it for a month."
"Good idea." said Sirius, and James covered Harry, Ron and Hermione with the cloak and they exited the room. On their way to the whomping willow, they met Professor Serpentine in the hallway.
"Students! What are you doing out here? Classes started five minutes ago." Professor Serpentine said.
"Um, we, um, Remus felt ill, we were taking him up to the hospital wing." Sirius said, hoping that Professor Serpentine believed him. All the teachers knew about Remus' 'condition', and had been told not to question him if he felt ill. Professor Serpentine seemed to think that it was in her authority to do so anyway.
"Mr Lupin, is Black telling the truth? Do you really feel ill?" she asked.
"Yes, professor, I do feel terribly ill." Remus replied. As if to prove this, he suddenly doubled over as though in pain.
"Okay then. I shall escort Mr Lupin to the hospital wing." Professor Serpentine said.
"Bye Remus, we'll come and see you after school." Sirius said.
"Oh no you won't. All of you are going to have a detention after lessons today. You are not ill, and therefore should not be out of classes. You shall meet me in my office at seven o'clock tonight. Now, off you go to your class." Professor Serpentine. She then hurried off in the opposite direction, dragging Remus along with her.
"I suppose we'd better go to History of Magic then." Rose said.
"Yeah. Remus is so lucky. Sirius, why couldn't you have said that I was feeling ill?" Heather said.
"What about Harry, Ron and Hermione?" James asked looking impatient.
"Oh, I'm sure they know they're way to the whomping willow. Now, all you have to do to get into it is-" Lily said, but was cut off by Ron.
"We know how to get into the whomping willow," came his voice from under the cloak, "we found out in our third year when Sirius was dragging me into the tun-" he stopped because Harry elbowed him. "was dragging me into the tunnel to show me the shrieking shack from the inside." he finished lamely.
Lily looked at the space where they were standing with her eyes narrowed.
"Well, if you say so," she said, and they set off in the direction of the History classroom, with the exception of Harry, Ron and Hermione. When Lily and the others were out of earshot, Hermione and Harry began chiding Ron.
"Ron!" said Hermione, "you almost told them then!"
"I know, I'm sorry." Ron replied.
* * *
They needn't have hurried to get to History of Magic, because Binns wasn't there yet.
"Do you think there is something Harry, ron and Hermione aren't telling us?" James asked.
"Yeah, I think it's something to do with Sirius, and Peter's animal transformations." Lily said.
"But what?" James asked.
"I don't know, do you remember, when we first met them, Ron said something about Sirius and Peter, but he didn't want to tell us?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, we're going to find out what's going on, even if we have to brew a truth potion." Heather said.
* * *
A little while later in the shrieking shack, Hermione blew up at Ron.
"RON! Tht's the second time you've almost told them about Peter and Sirius! Now they're going to be really suspicious and keep asking us questions all the time!"
"Hermione! No need to get so up tight! I won't say anything else, I promise," Ron said, "you women always get so emotional!"
"WHAT! Us women! What's that supposed to mean?" Hermione said looking outraged.
"Well, it's just that you women can get so touchy about the tiniest little thing." Ron said.
"And men don't?" Hermione asked, "I remember back in our third year you getting touchy about my cat eating your rat!"
"Yeah, well he was my pet!" Ron shouted back.
"But my cat didn't eat your rat! I would have thought that you would rather Crookshanks have eaten Scabbers! Look at who he turned out to be!" Hermione said, her voice had gone dangerously quiet.
"I didn't know that then, did I?" Ron asked, "plus, if Crookshanks had eaten Scabbers, or should I say Peter, then we would have never found out that Sirius was innocent. Harry would have gone on beleiving that Sirius had killed his parents, you should be thankful to Scabbers for proving Sirius innocent and Peter guilty!" Ron said shouting so loud that someone right up the other end of the corridor could hear. Which, unfortunately they did. Five pairs of feet could be heard thundering up the passageway, and then into the room.
In the doorframe stood James, Lily, Sirius, Rose and Heather. Remus was still in the hospital wing 'ill' and Peter had disappeared after he had taken Snape the mouse to the hospital wing. The five of them all had different emotions showing on their faces. No one seemed to know what to say, but finally James said something.
"I think you'd better explain what you were shouting about Ron." he said.
Ron glanced at Harry, and mouthed "sorry". Harry then began speaking.
"Well, um, I suppose you heard Ron shouting, and um well, this is kind of hard, so I'll just go right ahead and say it," Harry took a deep breath and continued, "okay, in 1981, when I was one, you were killed by Voldemort, I think you know that already, but I survived. No one really knows why, but the curse rebounded upon Voldemort, and he was left almost dead. All I got was this scar," as he said this, he pointed to his head, "I then went to live with Petunia and Vernon Dursley. When you were killed, you were in hiding, you were under the fidelius charm, and Peter was your secret keeper. You had switched to him from Sirius at the last minute. Peter, must have already been working for Voldemort, because he betrayed you and told Voldemort where you were. Everyone had thought that Sirius was your secret keeper, and that he had betrayed you, and this seemed to be confirmed when Peter blamed Sirius in front of a street of Muggles. He then blew up the street, killing a load of Muggle's in the process. Peter had cut off his finger and transformed into a rat, and as you were the only ones who knew he was an animagus, everyone believed him to be dead also. Then, the ministry came and took Sirius. He was sent straight to Azkaban, without a trial." Harry stopped, and looked at the shocked faces around him.
"Peter...Sirius...why didn't anyone tell them that Sirius was innocent? Why not Remus?" Lily asked, her eyes were wide and staring, and her face was pale.
"I think that Remus would have said something, but people don't really trust Werewolves, and the fact that he and Sirius were friends at school would have counteda against him." Hermione said.
"Why didn't they let me have a trial?" Sirius asked, his voice sounded hoarse.
"It was Crouch who sentenced you to Azkaban, and he thought you were a death eater, and he had a policy 'all death eaters shall go to Azkaban'. He even sent his son there." Harry said.
"Before, we heard Ron saying something about Harry finding out Sirius was innocent, how did that happen?" Heather asked.
"In our third year, Sirius told us what had really happened, and turned Peter back into a man, he admitted it, and we were going to take him to Dumbledore, but Remus changed into a werewolf as soon as we got outside. Peter transformed and escaped. He went back to rejoin Voldemort, and helped him regain power." Harry explained.
Nobody said anything. Then Lily spoke.
"Well, we know now not to use Peter as our secret keeper. Look at all the trouble he caused!"
"No! You have to let him be! If you don't everything will be different!" Ron said.
"I don't want them to use Peter." Harry said, "if they don't, I could have a normal life."
A/N I think this part is shorter than the others. Oh well. There's a sort of cliffhanger. What will they do now? Harry doesn't want them to use Peter, will it change the course of history forever? Or will something extraordinary occur that changes everyone's mind? You, don't know (and neither do I yet!) so if you do want to find out what happens, read the next part when I post it! And now, TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!!!! (in case you can't tell, I've just watched Toy Story [great film, great film]) Please review!
When Lily met Harry
By
Little Witch
CHAPTER THREE - Now there really is no where to hide
Gossip can be defined as 'unconstrained talk or writing especially about people; idle talk; person indulging in talk'. Things that are innocent enough can be turned into festering pieces of gossip for those that are ignorant enough to gossip. A slim Gryffindor with blonde hair called Nicola Rogers was one of these ignorant people. She had just got hold of the best piece of gossip that Hogwarts had heard in years, from a painting. Yep. A painting had told her.
According to the painting, there were three aliens from the future hiding somewhere in the castle, and their mission was to eliminate all rats. Nicola was bursting to tell someone, she was ready to tell the first person she met, even if it was Snape or a teacher. Luckily, the first person she did see was a fellow Gryffindor sixth year, Lily Evans.
"Lily, hey Lily!" Nicola called. The red-head turned to see who it was calling her.
"Nicki, hi, what do you want?" Lily asked.
"I have just heard the most amazing thing ever," Nicki replied, and Lily rolled her eyes.
"What?" she replied, almost lazily.
"According to a painting, there are three aliens from the future hiding somewhere in the castle." Nicki said looking excited.
"What! Aliens!" Lily looked shocked.
"Yep. And their mission is to eliminate all rats."
"Nicki, did you say a painting told you?" Lily asked, a look of realisation on her face.
"Yes, a painting of a very pretty woman with gorgeous long blonde hair. She was all dressed up like a princess." Nicki replied.
"Oh no!" Lily said, "look Nicki, I've gotta go, don't tell anyone else about this, okay?"
"Oh, why not?" Nicki said looking disappointed.
"Just don't okay? See you later." Lily ran off in the opposite direction to try and find her friends. She hurried up to the common room, and practically yelled the password at the Fat Lady. She climbed through the portrait hole and saw her two best friends, Heather and Rose playing cards. She hurried over to them.
"Rose, Heather, have you seen James, Sirius and Remus?" she asked.
"They're in the library." Heather said.
"No, really where are they?" Lily asked, a disbelieving look on her face.
"In the library, I think they're trying to find a trick to play on Snape or something." Rose said.
"Well, we need to go and find them, Harry, Ron and Hermione may be in trouble." Lily said.
"Why?" Rose asked.
"I'll tell you on the way." Lily replied.
As they made their way to the library, Lily filled her two friends in on what Nicki had said.
"What! And what's this about rats?" Heather asked looking shocked when Lily had explained everything.
"Well, I think they may have been talking about Peter, but I'm just guessing." Lily replied.
"Great. If Rapunzel tells any more people, the whole school will know that we've been harbouring three people from the future, one of them who happens to be your son, and that there are three unregistered Animagi running around Hogwarts. Things can't get any worse." Rose moaned.
But she was wrong. When they had collected the boys from the library and told them about the rumours Rapunzel had been spreading, they started to make their way to the hidden room. They were almost there when they were met by Snape.
"Where are you going?" he asked them, "you're supposed to be in classes now."
"None of your business Snape, and you should be in classes too." James replied.
"I have special written permission from Professor Serpentine to be excused from classes today, because I have a bad cold." Snape said, sneering at them.
"If you have a bad cold, you should be in the infirmary." Sirius said.
"I don't really have a cold, idiot." Snape said.
Sirius pulled out his wand and turned Snape into a white mouse.
"There," he said a satisfied look on his face. He then pulled out a piece of parchment and wrote something on it and tied it around the mouse's neck.
"What are you going to do with him?" Heather asked.
"I'm going to give him to Peter to take up to the hospital wing." Sirius said and handed the mouse to Peter who hurried off up to the hospital wing.
"What did you write on the parchment?" Lily asked.
"I wrote, Hello, I'm Severus Snape. My best friend Lucius Malfoy turned me into a mouse. Can you please change me back?" Sirius said.
With Snape out of the way, there was nothing stopping them from getting to the secret room. They got there and James took out his wand and tapped the tapestry saying 'iroium'. The tapestry rolled upwards and the six of them stepped inside. The tapestry closed behind them. Inside, Harry, Ron and Hermione were playing cards, all looking extremely bored.
"People!" Ron exclaimed.
"Hello!" Lily exclaimed, "we need to get you out of here, Rapunzel's been spreading rumours, something about three aliens who are from the future. And something about rats as well."
Harry went white.
"Rats?" he said. Had Rapunzel told them about Peter betraying the Potter's?
"Yeah, apparantly she's been telling people that your mission is to eliminate all rats." Lily said.
"Oh, good." Harry breathed a sigh of releif.
"We have to go from here, I'm sure that Rapunzel will have told some more people by now, and she's sure to bring them here," James said, "you can hide in the shrieking shack, it's only just been a full moon, so Remus won't need it for a month."
"Good idea." said Sirius, and James covered Harry, Ron and Hermione with the cloak and they exited the room. On their way to the whomping willow, they met Professor Serpentine in the hallway.
"Students! What are you doing out here? Classes started five minutes ago." Professor Serpentine said.
"Um, we, um, Remus felt ill, we were taking him up to the hospital wing." Sirius said, hoping that Professor Serpentine believed him. All the teachers knew about Remus' 'condition', and had been told not to question him if he felt ill. Professor Serpentine seemed to think that it was in her authority to do so anyway.
"Mr Lupin, is Black telling the truth? Do you really feel ill?" she asked.
"Yes, professor, I do feel terribly ill." Remus replied. As if to prove this, he suddenly doubled over as though in pain.
"Okay then. I shall escort Mr Lupin to the hospital wing." Professor Serpentine said.
"Bye Remus, we'll come and see you after school." Sirius said.
"Oh no you won't. All of you are going to have a detention after lessons today. You are not ill, and therefore should not be out of classes. You shall meet me in my office at seven o'clock tonight. Now, off you go to your class." Professor Serpentine. She then hurried off in the opposite direction, dragging Remus along with her.
"I suppose we'd better go to History of Magic then." Rose said.
"Yeah. Remus is so lucky. Sirius, why couldn't you have said that I was feeling ill?" Heather said.
"What about Harry, Ron and Hermione?" James asked looking impatient.
"Oh, I'm sure they know they're way to the whomping willow. Now, all you have to do to get into it is-" Lily said, but was cut off by Ron.
"We know how to get into the whomping willow," came his voice from under the cloak, "we found out in our third year when Sirius was dragging me into the tun-" he stopped because Harry elbowed him. "was dragging me into the tunnel to show me the shrieking shack from the inside." he finished lamely.
Lily looked at the space where they were standing with her eyes narrowed.
"Well, if you say so," she said, and they set off in the direction of the History classroom, with the exception of Harry, Ron and Hermione. When Lily and the others were out of earshot, Hermione and Harry began chiding Ron.
"Ron!" said Hermione, "you almost told them then!"
"I know, I'm sorry." Ron replied.
* * *
They needn't have hurried to get to History of Magic, because Binns wasn't there yet.
"Do you think there is something Harry, ron and Hermione aren't telling us?" James asked.
"Yeah, I think it's something to do with Sirius, and Peter's animal transformations." Lily said.
"But what?" James asked.
"I don't know, do you remember, when we first met them, Ron said something about Sirius and Peter, but he didn't want to tell us?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, we're going to find out what's going on, even if we have to brew a truth potion." Heather said.
* * *
A little while later in the shrieking shack, Hermione blew up at Ron.
"RON! Tht's the second time you've almost told them about Peter and Sirius! Now they're going to be really suspicious and keep asking us questions all the time!"
"Hermione! No need to get so up tight! I won't say anything else, I promise," Ron said, "you women always get so emotional!"
"WHAT! Us women! What's that supposed to mean?" Hermione said looking outraged.
"Well, it's just that you women can get so touchy about the tiniest little thing." Ron said.
"And men don't?" Hermione asked, "I remember back in our third year you getting touchy about my cat eating your rat!"
"Yeah, well he was my pet!" Ron shouted back.
"But my cat didn't eat your rat! I would have thought that you would rather Crookshanks have eaten Scabbers! Look at who he turned out to be!" Hermione said, her voice had gone dangerously quiet.
"I didn't know that then, did I?" Ron asked, "plus, if Crookshanks had eaten Scabbers, or should I say Peter, then we would have never found out that Sirius was innocent. Harry would have gone on beleiving that Sirius had killed his parents, you should be thankful to Scabbers for proving Sirius innocent and Peter guilty!" Ron said shouting so loud that someone right up the other end of the corridor could hear. Which, unfortunately they did. Five pairs of feet could be heard thundering up the passageway, and then into the room.
In the doorframe stood James, Lily, Sirius, Rose and Heather. Remus was still in the hospital wing 'ill' and Peter had disappeared after he had taken Snape the mouse to the hospital wing. The five of them all had different emotions showing on their faces. No one seemed to know what to say, but finally James said something.
"I think you'd better explain what you were shouting about Ron." he said.
Ron glanced at Harry, and mouthed "sorry". Harry then began speaking.
"Well, um, I suppose you heard Ron shouting, and um well, this is kind of hard, so I'll just go right ahead and say it," Harry took a deep breath and continued, "okay, in 1981, when I was one, you were killed by Voldemort, I think you know that already, but I survived. No one really knows why, but the curse rebounded upon Voldemort, and he was left almost dead. All I got was this scar," as he said this, he pointed to his head, "I then went to live with Petunia and Vernon Dursley. When you were killed, you were in hiding, you were under the fidelius charm, and Peter was your secret keeper. You had switched to him from Sirius at the last minute. Peter, must have already been working for Voldemort, because he betrayed you and told Voldemort where you were. Everyone had thought that Sirius was your secret keeper, and that he had betrayed you, and this seemed to be confirmed when Peter blamed Sirius in front of a street of Muggles. He then blew up the street, killing a load of Muggle's in the process. Peter had cut off his finger and transformed into a rat, and as you were the only ones who knew he was an animagus, everyone believed him to be dead also. Then, the ministry came and took Sirius. He was sent straight to Azkaban, without a trial." Harry stopped, and looked at the shocked faces around him.
"Peter...Sirius...why didn't anyone tell them that Sirius was innocent? Why not Remus?" Lily asked, her eyes were wide and staring, and her face was pale.
"I think that Remus would have said something, but people don't really trust Werewolves, and the fact that he and Sirius were friends at school would have counteda against him." Hermione said.
"Why didn't they let me have a trial?" Sirius asked, his voice sounded hoarse.
"It was Crouch who sentenced you to Azkaban, and he thought you were a death eater, and he had a policy 'all death eaters shall go to Azkaban'. He even sent his son there." Harry said.
"Before, we heard Ron saying something about Harry finding out Sirius was innocent, how did that happen?" Heather asked.
"In our third year, Sirius told us what had really happened, and turned Peter back into a man, he admitted it, and we were going to take him to Dumbledore, but Remus changed into a werewolf as soon as we got outside. Peter transformed and escaped. He went back to rejoin Voldemort, and helped him regain power." Harry explained.
Nobody said anything. Then Lily spoke.
"Well, we know now not to use Peter as our secret keeper. Look at all the trouble he caused!"
"No! You have to let him be! If you don't everything will be different!" Ron said.
"I don't want them to use Peter." Harry said, "if they don't, I could have a normal life."
A/N I think this part is shorter than the others. Oh well. There's a sort of cliffhanger. What will they do now? Harry doesn't want them to use Peter, will it change the course of history forever? Or will something extraordinary occur that changes everyone's mind? You, don't know (and neither do I yet!) so if you do want to find out what happens, read the next part when I post it! And now, TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!!!! (in case you can't tell, I've just watched Toy Story [great film, great film]) Please review!