A/N I am going to use something VERY similar to what Ariana used in her story, with Peter, I hope you don't mind Ariana! I give you full credit for the idea, but I just had to use something like it! Okee, I'll let you read now!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, nor do I own Ariana's idea! That is TOTALLY Ariana's! okee?
The Final Years Part 4
... And turned to her friends unwillingly. It was like, someone had taken the information out of her head, and now she couldn't say. Lily tried hard to say the words, but she only heard herself asking everyone to leave.
"Can you all leave? I'll feel more comfortable if I tell him myself." Lily said, confused.
"Sure, Lily." Said Suzanne.
"Thanks!" said a cheerful Lily.
Dumbledore smiled slightly as he watched the other students leave.
"Lily, I am afraid that I am very busy, so please make this quick."
Lily nodded her head.
"All right," said Dumbledore.
"Well, Professor, I just wanted to say congratulations on picking such a SUPERB Potions master! I really LOVE that class.
Dumbledore was evidently thinking very hard, his eyes were furrowed in thought, and he obviously concentrating on something else.
"Well, that's great that you love the class so much, Lily."
Lily smiled on the outside, but was screaming on the inside.
Dumbledore looked very confused, but smiled, and stood up.
"Are you done, Lily?" Dumbledore asked very quietly.
Lily nodded. "
Dumbledore smiled very gently, and escorted Lily outside.
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Lily met up with her friends in the Common Room.
"What did he say?" Suzanne asked.
"About what?" Lily asked, angry at herself for not being able to control her words.
Everyone just stared at each other. They decided to ignore it.
"Hey Lily," Peter said as though he was remembering something. "Do you know how to do that very hard charm, where you can make people join the darkside?" (He's not too bright.)
Lily stared at Peter, "I am able to, yes, but I would never perform it. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason." Peter said hurriedly. Just then, Pulchra and her gang came up to Lily.
"Hi Lily!! Who are you going to the ball with? I don't have a date yet, oo! How about we wear our hair the exact same way, and we can be like twins!" Pulchra squealed.
"Hello, Pulchra. I am not going to tell you how I'm going to wear my hair, because I don't want to go as anyone's twin."
Pulchra's smile faded a little. "Oh, well, whom're you going with?"
Lily smiled broadly. "James." She said.
Pulchra looked deeply jealous. "Aww, Jamsie - poo, wouldn't you rather go with somebody extremely gorgeous, and smart?"
James stared at her, and then put his arms around Lily's waist. He looked into Lily's eyes and said, "I already am."
Lily stood on her tiptoes, and kissed him. Sirius watched this while smirking, and since then, Lily and James were officially a couple.
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Lily, Nadia, Suzanne, and Luci were jumping up and down around their dormitory. It was the morning of the ball.
"I CAN'T BELIVE I'M GOING TO THE BALL WITH REMUS!!!" Nadia screamed.
Suzanne hit her with a pillow. "BUT I'M GOING WITH SIRIUS!!!!!" She said very excitedly.
Luci threw two pillows at Suzanne and Nadia. "I'M GOING WITH PETER!!!!" she shrieked.
Lily stepped in. "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU! I'M GOING WITH JAMES POTTER!!!!" She fell onto her bed pretending to faint.
Meanwhile, in the Common Room, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all sat on the couch grinning broadly. They were sure that the girls didn't care if everyone heard them. Then they saw a shirt get thrown down the stairs.
'GO GET IT!" screamed Lily.
"NO!" Suzanne replied while giggling. Then she threw all of Lily's shirts down. Lily then took all of Suzanne's shirts, and threw them down the stairs.
"HA! NOW WE BOTH HAVE TO GO DOWN AND GET OUR SHIRTS!" Lily said giggling. Nadia and Luci wisely decided to stay out of this.
The boys sat staring at the staircase leading to the girl's dormitory. All of Lily's shirts, and robes were thrown down. So were Suzanne's. They heard the door slam, and the sound of Lily and Suzanne's giggles. They came down wearing only their bras, and covering themselves up with their arms.
"Excuse us." They said together giggling. They quickly gathered up their things, and were about to go back upstairs when Lily stopped Suzanne.
"That's mine!"
"No it isn't! It's mine!"
"Nut uh!"
"Uh huh!"
Suzanne threw Lily's clothes back down the stairs. Lily did the same to Suzanne, and they ran back downstairs not even bothering to cover themselves up. The boys were smirking at them, and watched as they gathered up their clothes. Lily flashed the boys a smile, and curtsied. Suzanne did the same, and the boys seemed hypnotized by them.
"I can't believe we just did that!" Lily giggled.
Suzanne laughed, "I can't either, but lets get dressed and go downstairs! The boys still have to give us our Christmas presents."
The boys had left a note taped on the door to the dorm saying that they would give them their presents in the Common Room, because they wanted to see their faces when they opened them.
Since there weren't any classes, they were allowed to wear Muggle clothes if they wish. Lily put on her favorite Bellbottoms, and a white V-neck T-shirt, that showed off much cleavage. She arranged her hair in a messy bun.
Nadia was wearing a skirt, and a regular black long sleeved shirt. Her hair was half up, and the half that was up was French braided.
Luci was wearing a skirt as well, only hers was much shorter. And her T- shirt was pale pink, with a scoop neck. She had her hair down.
Suzanne was wearing jeans, and a yellow long sleeved V-neck. His shirt also showed off much cleavage. Suzanne and Lily were both Muggle- born, and they were fanatical about V-necks. Suzanne had her hair in a ponytail.
All in all, not very fancy. But, they did not care; they just wanted to be comfortable. When they came downstairs, the boys thought they looked simply gorgeous.
Lily sat down in James' lap, and started tousling his hair lovingly.
"Where are our presents Jamsie?" She asked.
"Oh -- er -- right!" He reached into his pocket, and took out a small box. He handed it to Lily, and when Lily opened she gasped....
(A/N I was going to stop there, but I decided to be nice!)
Inside the box was the most beautiful necklace Lily had ever seen. It was on a fine gold chain, and it was a simple white lily. James smiled, and put it on her.
"Do you like it?" he whispered. Lily was speechless, but she kissed him. Then she pulled back,
"No, of course I don't like it." James' face fell.
"You -- you don't?" he asked looking crestfallen.
Lily smiled, "Of course not, I love it." They kissed again, and stopped because Sirius had cleared his throat loudly.
They grinned at him sheepishly, and turned to watch everyone else get their presents. Nadia had gotten a pair of diamond earrings from Remus, Suzanne had gotten a gold bracelet from Sirius, and Luci had gotten a beautiful silver ring from Peter.
"Hey guys!! Let's go to lunch!" said Sirius. Lily giggled and threw a pillow at him.
After that, the girls had a little meeting, deciding what they could do to make their Christmas better for the boys. They walked back, smiling.
"1, 2, 3." Mouthed Nadia. Then the girls started kissing them, like they were the only men on the face of the earth. After about ten minutes or so, they stopped, and Lily, her eyes twinkling said to James,
"Merry Christmas, Jamsie." Then they went down to lunch. After a magnificent lunch, and a snowball fight, Lily, Nadia, Luci, and Suzanne all went up to their dorms at 5:00.
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Suzanne put on her shocking pink dress robes. Her hair was in a French braid, and she had lip gloss on. On her eyes, she had gold eye shadow.
Luci was wearing a turquoise dress robe. She had her hair half up, and half down. She had blue eyeshadow on, with wine colored lip stick.
Nadia was looking very lovely in a light purple robe, with her hair left down. She had a hint of eye shadow, with lipstick.
Lily was wearing a beautiful, close-fitting white dress robe. She thought she looked a t little fat in it, but everyone else who saw it on her said it looked awesome, so she decided to keep it and see what James thought. She had the front of her hair in little ponytails, like a headband. The ponytails were twisted onto her head, and she was wearing pink lip-gloss. She had gold eye shadow on as well.
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James was wearing a navy-blue robe, and tried to tame his hair, but decided against it.
Sirius was wearing dark green robes, and was looking at himself nervously in the mirror.
Remus was wearing red robes, and was combing his hair.
Peter was wearing plain black robes, but they were velvet.
They all went down to the common room, and sat on the couch waiting for the girls. About ten minutes later, Suzanne came down, and met Sirius. Sirius looked at Suzanne like she was the only girl alive. Suzanne was very thankful that Sirius was her boyfriend. .
Nadia came down next, and Remus stared at her. He never knew how beautiful Nadia really was. They sat down on the same couch as Sirius and Suzanne, because they wanted to all go down together.
Luci came down next, and she almost tripped because of her high heels. Peter stood up, and took her hand. It was a good thing that Luci was so short, even with her heels because Peter was rather short himself. They went and sat on the couch.
Finally Lily came down. James stared at her. She looked beautiful, in robes that showed off her figure, but flared out at the bottom to look even more like a dress. Her hair was flowing down her back in soft curls, (A/N her hair is like Julia Stiles in Save The last Dance...) and her 2-inch high heels made her feel taller. James walked up to her and kissed her.
They all went down to the dance together. They were fairly early, and there was a queue outside the doors. Quite suddenly, the doors opened, and everyone went inside. Nobody went in, because every boy was staring at Lily, and throwing the deepest looks of loathing at James. Lily didn't notice this, but James sure did. He looked at the boys, and glared at them. Snape smirked at her, like he was planning to do something.
Dumbledore wasn't lying, the Hufflepuff band were quite good. They played one song while everyone sat down at various tables, and picked up their menus. They ordered different things, and then the plates disappeared, and the dance floor lit up.
"Would you care to dance?" James asked Lily.
Lily smiled, and took his hand. "I would love too." So, Lily and all of her friends started out the dance. James and Lily were staring at each other as if they were the only people on the earth. When the song ended, they kissed each other passionately. Then a faster song started, and they danced very exuberantly. Even though it wasn't a Tango song, Sirius and Suzanne started doing the Tango! Giggling, Lily led James into the Tango too, and before they knew it, everyone around them was doing the Tango too.
The music suddenly stopped, and Dumbledore stood up, his eyes twinkling.
"Will all the girls please make a circle inside of the boys, who will please make a circle."
The boys and girls formed two circles, with the girl's circle on the inside.
"Now, when the music stops, you shall dance with whoever is in front of you. While the music is going, the girls walk around to their left, and the boys move to their right."
The music started again, and the girls moved left. Suddenly the music stopped, and Lily turned to see who was next to her. She gasped; standing in front of her was Snape.
"Come one Lily, you heard Dumbledore, we're supposed to dance." Snape said, his eyes flashing manically.
Lily stood far apart from him, but he pulled her closer. Slowly, he guided her toward the door. He brought he outside. She screamed, but he just smirked.
"No one can hear you, Lily."
He dragged her toward the Forbidden Forest, and pushed her onto the ground.
"You're a pretty Mudblood aren't you? Now, lets get back to what we were doing in the alleyway in the summer, now that Potter or Black won't be able to save you."
Lily stared up at him with a mixture of fear and hate in her eyes.
"What do you want from me, Snape?" she asked in an amazingly calm voice.
Snape laughed. "Well, you see, the Dark Lord wants your powers, and it's my duty to keep you here until he arrives. However, that won't be for a while."
Just then an owl came. Snape read the letter with narrowed eyes, and then laughed coldly.
"Ah, yes, Mudblood. I have orders from the Dark Lord, and I'm sorry to say, we won't me making love today." Suddenly he struck Lily hard on the head with a rock. She went unconscious immediately. Laughing madly, Snape slashed Lily's beautiful robes. He tied the necklace the James gave her very tightly around her neck. She had very little breathing room left. Then he tied a rope round Lily's wrist, and took a broom from behind the tree. Then he flew her up to the highest tree, and tied one end of the rope to the highest branch. Then he changed his mind, and hung her on the Whomping Willow. The tree struck her, and gave her bruises, and many bloody cuts. Snape then tied her to the highest branch, and went back into the hall after making sure that there wasn't any blood on his robes.
Meanwhile, James was looking everywhere for Lily. Sirius tapped him on the shoulder, and asked him to go for a walk.
"Sure," James replied. They went off walking around the grounds.
"So, how are you and Lily holding up?" Sirius asked with a playful punch on James' arm.
"We're doing fine, but I haven't seen her since we did that circle thing, and that ended about 20 minutes ago." James turned to Sirius.
"You don't think Snape did anything to her?" Sirius asked sounding a bit worried.
"Dunno..." They turned around, assuming that she might be in the bathroom, but Sirius looked up, wanting to see the stars.
Of course, Lily's robes stood out slightly against the dark sky. Sirius grabbed James' arm.
"James, look, up there," he said pointing at Lily "is that Lily?"
They ran toward the tree, to get a better look. Sure enough, there was Lily, hung by her wrist.
"Oh my God...." James said softly, "We need to get Dumbledore!"
James and Sirius ran as fast as they could toward the castle. They burst into the hall, and looked wildly around. Finally they spotted Dumbledore in deep conversation with Professor Flitwick.
"Professor!" James said urgently, "You must come, NOW! Lily! Bleeding..."
Dumbledore quickly excused himself from Professor Flitwick, and hurried out of the following Sirius and James. They took him to the tree where Lily was. When they pointed her out, Dumbledore gasped.
"Oh my Goodness..." Then he shot something silvery toward the hall, and a few minutes later Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Hagrid came running out of the castle.
"Albus! What is it?" panted McGonagall. Dumbledore pointed up at Lily, and McGonagall stared at her. Dumbledore then turned to James.
"James, I want you to take a broom, and go up to fetch Lily. Sirius, you help him."
At these words, James ran off to the broom shed and got two brooms, and gave one to Sirius. Then they took off, and Lily looked even worse up close. She had a big cut on the side of her head, and a swelling bruise on her cheek. Her lips were blue from the lack of oxygen she had. Her robes were torn, and she had many cuts and bruises on her beautiful body. James noticed a piece of folded parchment shoved between the rope and her wrist. They quickly undid the rope, and brought Lily down.
The Professors gasped at the state Lily was in. James lay his cloak on the ground, and gently lay Lily on top of it. Then he sat down a good distance away, and put his head into his arms. He started to cry silently. Soon, he heard someone sit down next to him. He looked up, and saw Sirius looking at him. They looked at each other for a moment, and Sirius patted him reassuringly on the back.
"She'll be fine, James..." Sirius said not really believing himself.
Slowly they got up, because James wanted to see what that note said. He asked Dumbledore for it, and rather reluctantly Dumbledore gave it to him.
This is what it said:
The Mudblood fails to join the Dark Side. We want her powers, and will not give up until we get them. This is just a warning; hopefully you will get the idea that we want James, and the Mudblood. We know for a fact that they will make the one to defeat Lord Voldemort somehow. We aren't sure yet, but we want to kill James or the Mudblood before this happens. We will not fail to kill the one greater then Lord Voldemort.
James looked up, the fury visible in his eyes. Then he turned to Dumbledore,
"Is she going to be alright, Professor?" James' voice shaking slightly.
Dumbledore looked at James, and shook his head.
"I can't be sure James, we will have to wait and see."
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The Final Years Part 4
... And turned to her friends unwillingly. It was like, someone had taken the information out of her head, and now she couldn't say. Lily tried hard to say the words, but she only heard herself asking everyone to leave.
"Can you all leave? I'll feel more comfortable if I tell him myself." Lily said, confused.
"Sure, Lily." Said Suzanne.
"Thanks!" said a cheerful Lily.
Dumbledore smiled slightly as he watched the other students leave.
"Lily, I am afraid that I am very busy, so please make this quick."
Lily nodded her head.
"All right," said Dumbledore.
"Well, Professor, I just wanted to say congratulations on picking such a SUPERB Potions master! I really LOVE that class.
Dumbledore was evidently thinking very hard, his eyes were furrowed in thought, and he obviously concentrating on something else.
"Well, that's great that you love the class so much, Lily."
Lily smiled on the outside, but was screaming on the inside.
Dumbledore looked very confused, but smiled, and stood up.
"Are you done, Lily?" Dumbledore asked very quietly.
Lily nodded. "
Dumbledore smiled very gently, and escorted Lily outside.
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Lily met up with her friends in the Common Room.
"What did he say?" Suzanne asked.
"About what?" Lily asked, angry at herself for not being able to control her words.
Everyone just stared at each other. They decided to ignore it.
"Hey Lily," Peter said as though he was remembering something. "Do you know how to do that very hard charm, where you can make people join the darkside?" (He's not too bright.)
Lily stared at Peter, "I am able to, yes, but I would never perform it. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason." Peter said hurriedly. Just then, Pulchra and her gang came up to Lily.
"Hi Lily!! Who are you going to the ball with? I don't have a date yet, oo! How about we wear our hair the exact same way, and we can be like twins!" Pulchra squealed.
"Hello, Pulchra. I am not going to tell you how I'm going to wear my hair, because I don't want to go as anyone's twin."
Pulchra's smile faded a little. "Oh, well, whom're you going with?"
Lily smiled broadly. "James." She said.
Pulchra looked deeply jealous. "Aww, Jamsie - poo, wouldn't you rather go with somebody extremely gorgeous, and smart?"
James stared at her, and then put his arms around Lily's waist. He looked into Lily's eyes and said, "I already am."
Lily stood on her tiptoes, and kissed him. Sirius watched this while smirking, and since then, Lily and James were officially a couple.
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Lily, Nadia, Suzanne, and Luci were jumping up and down around their dormitory. It was the morning of the ball.
"I CAN'T BELIVE I'M GOING TO THE BALL WITH REMUS!!!" Nadia screamed.
Suzanne hit her with a pillow. "BUT I'M GOING WITH SIRIUS!!!!!" She said very excitedly.
Luci threw two pillows at Suzanne and Nadia. "I'M GOING WITH PETER!!!!" she shrieked.
Lily stepped in. "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU! I'M GOING WITH JAMES POTTER!!!!" She fell onto her bed pretending to faint.
Meanwhile, in the Common Room, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all sat on the couch grinning broadly. They were sure that the girls didn't care if everyone heard them. Then they saw a shirt get thrown down the stairs.
'GO GET IT!" screamed Lily.
"NO!" Suzanne replied while giggling. Then she threw all of Lily's shirts down. Lily then took all of Suzanne's shirts, and threw them down the stairs.
"HA! NOW WE BOTH HAVE TO GO DOWN AND GET OUR SHIRTS!" Lily said giggling. Nadia and Luci wisely decided to stay out of this.
The boys sat staring at the staircase leading to the girl's dormitory. All of Lily's shirts, and robes were thrown down. So were Suzanne's. They heard the door slam, and the sound of Lily and Suzanne's giggles. They came down wearing only their bras, and covering themselves up with their arms.
"Excuse us." They said together giggling. They quickly gathered up their things, and were about to go back upstairs when Lily stopped Suzanne.
"That's mine!"
"No it isn't! It's mine!"
"Nut uh!"
"Uh huh!"
Suzanne threw Lily's clothes back down the stairs. Lily did the same to Suzanne, and they ran back downstairs not even bothering to cover themselves up. The boys were smirking at them, and watched as they gathered up their clothes. Lily flashed the boys a smile, and curtsied. Suzanne did the same, and the boys seemed hypnotized by them.
"I can't believe we just did that!" Lily giggled.
Suzanne laughed, "I can't either, but lets get dressed and go downstairs! The boys still have to give us our Christmas presents."
The boys had left a note taped on the door to the dorm saying that they would give them their presents in the Common Room, because they wanted to see their faces when they opened them.
Since there weren't any classes, they were allowed to wear Muggle clothes if they wish. Lily put on her favorite Bellbottoms, and a white V-neck T-shirt, that showed off much cleavage. She arranged her hair in a messy bun.
Nadia was wearing a skirt, and a regular black long sleeved shirt. Her hair was half up, and the half that was up was French braided.
Luci was wearing a skirt as well, only hers was much shorter. And her T- shirt was pale pink, with a scoop neck. She had her hair down.
Suzanne was wearing jeans, and a yellow long sleeved V-neck. His shirt also showed off much cleavage. Suzanne and Lily were both Muggle- born, and they were fanatical about V-necks. Suzanne had her hair in a ponytail.
All in all, not very fancy. But, they did not care; they just wanted to be comfortable. When they came downstairs, the boys thought they looked simply gorgeous.
Lily sat down in James' lap, and started tousling his hair lovingly.
"Where are our presents Jamsie?" She asked.
"Oh -- er -- right!" He reached into his pocket, and took out a small box. He handed it to Lily, and when Lily opened she gasped....
(A/N I was going to stop there, but I decided to be nice!)
Inside the box was the most beautiful necklace Lily had ever seen. It was on a fine gold chain, and it was a simple white lily. James smiled, and put it on her.
"Do you like it?" he whispered. Lily was speechless, but she kissed him. Then she pulled back,
"No, of course I don't like it." James' face fell.
"You -- you don't?" he asked looking crestfallen.
Lily smiled, "Of course not, I love it." They kissed again, and stopped because Sirius had cleared his throat loudly.
They grinned at him sheepishly, and turned to watch everyone else get their presents. Nadia had gotten a pair of diamond earrings from Remus, Suzanne had gotten a gold bracelet from Sirius, and Luci had gotten a beautiful silver ring from Peter.
"Hey guys!! Let's go to lunch!" said Sirius. Lily giggled and threw a pillow at him.
After that, the girls had a little meeting, deciding what they could do to make their Christmas better for the boys. They walked back, smiling.
"1, 2, 3." Mouthed Nadia. Then the girls started kissing them, like they were the only men on the face of the earth. After about ten minutes or so, they stopped, and Lily, her eyes twinkling said to James,
"Merry Christmas, Jamsie." Then they went down to lunch. After a magnificent lunch, and a snowball fight, Lily, Nadia, Luci, and Suzanne all went up to their dorms at 5:00.
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Suzanne put on her shocking pink dress robes. Her hair was in a French braid, and she had lip gloss on. On her eyes, she had gold eye shadow.
Luci was wearing a turquoise dress robe. She had her hair half up, and half down. She had blue eyeshadow on, with wine colored lip stick.
Nadia was looking very lovely in a light purple robe, with her hair left down. She had a hint of eye shadow, with lipstick.
Lily was wearing a beautiful, close-fitting white dress robe. She thought she looked a t little fat in it, but everyone else who saw it on her said it looked awesome, so she decided to keep it and see what James thought. She had the front of her hair in little ponytails, like a headband. The ponytails were twisted onto her head, and she was wearing pink lip-gloss. She had gold eye shadow on as well.
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James was wearing a navy-blue robe, and tried to tame his hair, but decided against it.
Sirius was wearing dark green robes, and was looking at himself nervously in the mirror.
Remus was wearing red robes, and was combing his hair.
Peter was wearing plain black robes, but they were velvet.
They all went down to the common room, and sat on the couch waiting for the girls. About ten minutes later, Suzanne came down, and met Sirius. Sirius looked at Suzanne like she was the only girl alive. Suzanne was very thankful that Sirius was her boyfriend. .
Nadia came down next, and Remus stared at her. He never knew how beautiful Nadia really was. They sat down on the same couch as Sirius and Suzanne, because they wanted to all go down together.
Luci came down next, and she almost tripped because of her high heels. Peter stood up, and took her hand. It was a good thing that Luci was so short, even with her heels because Peter was rather short himself. They went and sat on the couch.
Finally Lily came down. James stared at her. She looked beautiful, in robes that showed off her figure, but flared out at the bottom to look even more like a dress. Her hair was flowing down her back in soft curls, (A/N her hair is like Julia Stiles in Save The last Dance...) and her 2-inch high heels made her feel taller. James walked up to her and kissed her.
They all went down to the dance together. They were fairly early, and there was a queue outside the doors. Quite suddenly, the doors opened, and everyone went inside. Nobody went in, because every boy was staring at Lily, and throwing the deepest looks of loathing at James. Lily didn't notice this, but James sure did. He looked at the boys, and glared at them. Snape smirked at her, like he was planning to do something.
Dumbledore wasn't lying, the Hufflepuff band were quite good. They played one song while everyone sat down at various tables, and picked up their menus. They ordered different things, and then the plates disappeared, and the dance floor lit up.
"Would you care to dance?" James asked Lily.
Lily smiled, and took his hand. "I would love too." So, Lily and all of her friends started out the dance. James and Lily were staring at each other as if they were the only people on the earth. When the song ended, they kissed each other passionately. Then a faster song started, and they danced very exuberantly. Even though it wasn't a Tango song, Sirius and Suzanne started doing the Tango! Giggling, Lily led James into the Tango too, and before they knew it, everyone around them was doing the Tango too.
The music suddenly stopped, and Dumbledore stood up, his eyes twinkling.
"Will all the girls please make a circle inside of the boys, who will please make a circle."
The boys and girls formed two circles, with the girl's circle on the inside.
"Now, when the music stops, you shall dance with whoever is in front of you. While the music is going, the girls walk around to their left, and the boys move to their right."
The music started again, and the girls moved left. Suddenly the music stopped, and Lily turned to see who was next to her. She gasped; standing in front of her was Snape.
"Come one Lily, you heard Dumbledore, we're supposed to dance." Snape said, his eyes flashing manically.
Lily stood far apart from him, but he pulled her closer. Slowly, he guided her toward the door. He brought he outside. She screamed, but he just smirked.
"No one can hear you, Lily."
He dragged her toward the Forbidden Forest, and pushed her onto the ground.
"You're a pretty Mudblood aren't you? Now, lets get back to what we were doing in the alleyway in the summer, now that Potter or Black won't be able to save you."
Lily stared up at him with a mixture of fear and hate in her eyes.
"What do you want from me, Snape?" she asked in an amazingly calm voice.
Snape laughed. "Well, you see, the Dark Lord wants your powers, and it's my duty to keep you here until he arrives. However, that won't be for a while."
Just then an owl came. Snape read the letter with narrowed eyes, and then laughed coldly.
"Ah, yes, Mudblood. I have orders from the Dark Lord, and I'm sorry to say, we won't me making love today." Suddenly he struck Lily hard on the head with a rock. She went unconscious immediately. Laughing madly, Snape slashed Lily's beautiful robes. He tied the necklace the James gave her very tightly around her neck. She had very little breathing room left. Then he tied a rope round Lily's wrist, and took a broom from behind the tree. Then he flew her up to the highest tree, and tied one end of the rope to the highest branch. Then he changed his mind, and hung her on the Whomping Willow. The tree struck her, and gave her bruises, and many bloody cuts. Snape then tied her to the highest branch, and went back into the hall after making sure that there wasn't any blood on his robes.
Meanwhile, James was looking everywhere for Lily. Sirius tapped him on the shoulder, and asked him to go for a walk.
"Sure," James replied. They went off walking around the grounds.
"So, how are you and Lily holding up?" Sirius asked with a playful punch on James' arm.
"We're doing fine, but I haven't seen her since we did that circle thing, and that ended about 20 minutes ago." James turned to Sirius.
"You don't think Snape did anything to her?" Sirius asked sounding a bit worried.
"Dunno..." They turned around, assuming that she might be in the bathroom, but Sirius looked up, wanting to see the stars.
Of course, Lily's robes stood out slightly against the dark sky. Sirius grabbed James' arm.
"James, look, up there," he said pointing at Lily "is that Lily?"
They ran toward the tree, to get a better look. Sure enough, there was Lily, hung by her wrist.
"Oh my God...." James said softly, "We need to get Dumbledore!"
James and Sirius ran as fast as they could toward the castle. They burst into the hall, and looked wildly around. Finally they spotted Dumbledore in deep conversation with Professor Flitwick.
"Professor!" James said urgently, "You must come, NOW! Lily! Bleeding..."
Dumbledore quickly excused himself from Professor Flitwick, and hurried out of the following Sirius and James. They took him to the tree where Lily was. When they pointed her out, Dumbledore gasped.
"Oh my Goodness..." Then he shot something silvery toward the hall, and a few minutes later Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Hagrid came running out of the castle.
"Albus! What is it?" panted McGonagall. Dumbledore pointed up at Lily, and McGonagall stared at her. Dumbledore then turned to James.
"James, I want you to take a broom, and go up to fetch Lily. Sirius, you help him."
At these words, James ran off to the broom shed and got two brooms, and gave one to Sirius. Then they took off, and Lily looked even worse up close. She had a big cut on the side of her head, and a swelling bruise on her cheek. Her lips were blue from the lack of oxygen she had. Her robes were torn, and she had many cuts and bruises on her beautiful body. James noticed a piece of folded parchment shoved between the rope and her wrist. They quickly undid the rope, and brought Lily down.
The Professors gasped at the state Lily was in. James lay his cloak on the ground, and gently lay Lily on top of it. Then he sat down a good distance away, and put his head into his arms. He started to cry silently. Soon, he heard someone sit down next to him. He looked up, and saw Sirius looking at him. They looked at each other for a moment, and Sirius patted him reassuringly on the back.
"She'll be fine, James..." Sirius said not really believing himself.
Slowly they got up, because James wanted to see what that note said. He asked Dumbledore for it, and rather reluctantly Dumbledore gave it to him.
This is what it said:
The Mudblood fails to join the Dark Side. We want her powers, and will not give up until we get them. This is just a warning; hopefully you will get the idea that we want James, and the Mudblood. We know for a fact that they will make the one to defeat Lord Voldemort somehow. We aren't sure yet, but we want to kill James or the Mudblood before this happens. We will not fail to kill the one greater then Lord Voldemort.
James looked up, the fury visible in his eyes. Then he turned to Dumbledore,
"Is she going to be alright, Professor?" James' voice shaking slightly.
Dumbledore looked at James, and shook his head.
"I can't be sure James, we will have to wait and see."
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A/N: sigh: that was a sad chapter for me to write! If you want me to write more, than please REVIEW!!! Okee? Because, if you don't, then I recommend you read WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BAD PEOPLE DON'T REVIEW!!!! By, *~*Lily*~* hmm.... My cat keeps trying to climb in my ceiling, don't ask me how... long story... anyhoo, Thanx to YourWorstNightmare!! Lol! She wrote and AWESOME fic, and gave me wicked cool regviews! Thanks! Special thanx today to Ariana because I am using HER idea about the part where Lily couldn't say what happened in the beginning! ^ thanx!!
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