Visions and
Revenge
Disclaimer: Harry Potter stuff
belongs to J.K. Rowling. The rest is mine.
" The Founder spoke true. The Stag is here. The boy will
live. The curse will come true. Son of
the phoenix and the stag, by his hand alone shall He-Not-To-Be-Named fall. Death will haunt him, courage he will
have. The servant is close and he shall
almost always be. A betrayer let free, an innocent imprisoned. Mercy will seem
foolish but good it will do. Bonds at
their deepest alone shall save. And the
one who lives, the gem like eyes, he shall defeat the greatest riddle."
They had gotten the food and returned to
the Hospital Wing. After an argument
about Answa being there and the settling into their now normal chairs, Answa
and Remus in one, Sirius and Nicole in the other and James and Peter on the
foot of Lily's bed, James had played the prophasy for Lily. Her eyes had grown even bigger than usual.
" Interesting, isn't it." James asked. Lily nodded. She grinned at him.
" Very, my lord Stag. That
part at least is obivus." She said.
" What does that mean?" Sirius demanded.
" Well, isn't the Potter seal of a stag?" Lily asked. James looked at her.
" Yes. But I assumed that
since I can, you know." Answa looked
at him.
" You know what?" She
asked. James glanced around, instintivly checking to make sure no one was
around, and then shrugged. He stood and
where he had stood there was suddenly a stag. It walked over and looked at Answa with dark blue eyes. Then James was back, looked down at her with
the same eyes. Answa stared at him for
a moment and then grinned.
" You're an animagi." James nodded. He took his seat
again.
" Since last year." Sirius grinned and transformed. A huge black dog sat on the chair and then sprawled across Nicole's
legs. Answa grinned.
" How cute!" She
started petting Sirius' head. He
grinned at Remus and James, who rolled their eyes.
" James, the phoenix, if it's your father who is the stag, that would
make your mother the phoenix, right?" James nodded. And relized what Lily was getting at.
" You're right, it would be difficult." Sirius looked at them.
" What do you mean?" He asked. James smiled.
" What does a phoenix bring to mind?" He asked. Remus smiled.
" Fire." He said. Sirius and Nicole laughed. Answa looked at them, puzzled.
" Mrs. Potter is a very calm woman." Lily said. " She never loses her temper."
" Ever." Said James. Sirius nodded.
" Even when I turned her wedding ring into a snake." He said, transforming back.
" Oh, and since she isn't very firey, then it probably isn't
her?" James shrugged.
" Names usual have some basis." Answa shrugged.
" It could be that or it could be refuring to the curse." James looked at her and then started
laughing.
" Good point." Remus
started chuckling. Sirius looked at them.
" What are you talking about?" He asked. Lily grinned.
" The Sea Eyed Potter curse." She said. Sirius also grinned.
" Of course! Richard Potter
has brown eyes. He's out. James is the Stag." He leaned back in his chair. " So what about the innocent
imprisoned?" Answa gave him an
innocent look.
" Why, you'll get thrown in Alkasban for pulling a prank in the
Minester of Magic." The entire
group started laughing.
Lily was at breakfast the next morning,
smiling, laughing at Sirius' jokes, and helping to decide what they were going
to do for the rest of the day. Fenus gave
her a glare as he and his troupe of friends headed to the Slytherin table. James and Remus grinned at each other and
Sirius snickered. Answa was talking
with several of her year-mates, but she looked up and winked at the Marauders
as the Slytherins sat down. Gasps
echoed through out the hall as the entire Slytherin table was drenched in red,
blue, and yellow liquid. An unseen hand
began writing and within twelve seconds a warning for the entire school was
written in huge white letters over the Slytherin table.
" THE MARAUDERS DISLIKE STINKING COWARDLY BULLIES! WE WILL BE REVENGED! THIS IS JUST THE BEGINING!" The entire hall was silent for several
seconds, except for the Slytherins, who were cursing as they wiped the gooey
liquid off themselves. Then several
first-year Ravenclaws started screaming and the entire hall echoed with shocked
and puzzled exclamaions. James, Sirius
and Remus looked as shocked as anyone else and Answa had turned a deathly
pale. She ran to Nicole, who hugged
her. Lily looked at James, her face was as shocked as anyone's but her eyes
were furious. Nicole looked up and her
blue eyes were the same. The two girls
waited until they had walked out on to the grounds and settled them selves
around a fountain. Lily turned to
James.
" You idiot! Do you really think that Dumbledor is an
idiot? He knows who you are and you are
going to get explelled!" She
shrieked. James stared at her. He had thought she would be mad about them
defending her, Lily and Nicole had been trying to prove that they didn't need
anyone's help against the Slytherins. But she was worried about him getting expelled?
" Lils, he doesn't have any proff. And you kno.." Sirius
started.
" And what the hell do you
think they're going to do? Leave us
alone? They're going to be twice as
determined to get us now!" Lily
looked about ready to punch Sirius and James knew very personally that Lily had
a very nice right hook. She had nailed
him the only other time he had ever seen her lose her temper, when he had died
her hair in their second year. Everyone had learned that day that the hair was off limits. When Sirius opened his mouth, James silenced
him with a look. He reached over and
grabbed her wrist. He pulled her onto
her lap and held her there, one hand over her mouth as she drew a deep breath
to scream at him.
" Let us explain! We want
them to go after you!" Lily
stopped fighting him and her huge green eyes got even bigger. " The first point of this was to show
them that you three can take care of yourselves. The other is to get revenge. As far as any of we know, the Marauders are a trio of pranksters that
were killed when a prank got out of hand and for the past seven centuries,
their ghosts have haunted Hogwarts. They don't come out much, but they make friends with people who
apperciate their pranks. They don't
like Slytherins, one was in each of the houses but that. They are very, very good at getting around
the castle and know all the secret passages." Lily's lips curved under his hand and James suddenly realized how
closely he was holding her. He removed
his hand and Lily sat up. She and
Nicole looked at each other and James realized that much like he and Sirius,
they didn't have to talk to understand each other.
" I get everything, but Answa. She's too little to take on the Slytherins." Nicole finally said, turning her gaze to
James. Lily looked at James too. No one would have belived that she had been
screaming a minute before if they hadn't seen it. She was like a phenoix, bursting into flame every now and again,
then returning to her normal calm. James stopped that train of thought right where it was. Lily never expressed feelings more than
friendship to him and he didn't want to break that bond. Besides, she was Remus' and James didn't
want his second best friend to stop speaking to him. He blushed as he realized that everyone was reguarding him with
an expectant look.
" Well, we don't have to worry about
Answa becasue of the ghosts." He
said, before anyone could comment.
" Ghosts?" Lily asked. Nicole looked at her little sister, who was standing on Remus'
shoulders, looking into the top bowl of the fountain. Answa yelped and started to fall, Remus cooly caught her and set
her on the fountain edge.
" He did! That old goat really did!" Nicole yelled storming over to her little sister, who was showing Remus
what ever it was they had been trying to find. Answa looked up and nodded.
" Of course he did. Did you really think he'd listen to
Mum?" Nicole planted her hands on
her hips.
" I thought he would respect her
wishes!" Answa sighed.
" Nicky-chan, it makes the most sense
this way. No one thinks that kids can
be trusted with secrets like that. It
doesn't really matter if I can control ghost or not." She dumped what ever it was into Remus' hand
and sat down. " When do we start
then second part?" She asked,
looking at James. He grinned.
" As soon as they come near
you."
" Hey, mudblood!" Lily turned around. She was in the Charms classroom, practicing
levitation charms. Fenus and the
largest of his gang were planted in the doorway. Crabbe, Golye, and McNair walked in and spread out. " We don't like being covered in
dye. So you're going to take a little
message to those Marauders." McNair cracked his knuckles and started to advance when then all four
slammed into the cieling. Lily
reguarded them, her wand raised.
" You're right. They are cowardly bullies." She said with a faint smile. A faint silolet, barely a human shape,
slowly materilized and nodded. Lily
walked to the door and opened it, followed by the shape. She glanced back and waved her wand again. As the door closed, all four Slytherins
crashed to the ground.
" Americans! You and your friends are going to regreat
this!" Fenus and Crabbe stood just
in front of the entire Slytherin gang. Answa and Nicole had been walking down the corridor and they whirled
around at the statment. Answa sighed.
" They don't get it, do they,
Nicky." Nicole smirked.
" Nope." Fenus glared at them.
" What dooo....." Fenus was locked in a total body bind with a
flick from Nicole's wand. Within a
minute, every Slytherin but a blond girl, Narrius, was under a curse of some
sort.
" Your mirror spells are so
nice." Answa said as they leveled
their wands at Narrius, who fainted dead away. They started towards the Gryffindor common room, but Nicole stopped
beside Fenus.
" The Marauders are our friends, not
our ghosts in silver armor. So stay
away."
Sorry it took me so long to post this, it's
been done for a while, but with everything that's happened lately… 10 should be up soon too.
- Aoi