a/n: I'm glad I'm getting a positive response to this! It makes me so happy that at least some people like the way i write. lol. Anyway, this is the last part I have for the time being. I need to write some more over the weekend, and probably tomorrow as well, but don't expect a chapter to be posted every night. Thanks to potters chik, Myrddin Emrys, Gwen Sanderson, Black Sparkles (again :O), A Tye (again :O), and Dani for reviewing the second part. I really appreciate the reviews. It's a morale booster.
The three days of the trial dragged as slowly as if it were three days straight of history of magic. Soon, the verdict was reached though and Lily stood, with Mrs. Black and her attorney across from Petunia, Vernon and their lawyer. The jurors returned and everyone sat down. The foreperson handed the verdict to the judge. She then proceeded to read it and hand it back. (a/n: trying to make this as slow as possible, like it would really feel. Lol) "Mr. Foreperson, have you reached a verdict?" the judge spat out mechanically. "We have your honor. In the matter of the state versus Petunia Dursley, on the charges of child abuse and assault and battery on a minor (a/n: again, pulling this out of my a$$) we the jury, find the defendant, Petunia Lotus Evans Dursley, guilty. We have sentenced her to five years in a medium security prison with psychiatric supervision. On the matter of the placement of the plaintiff, (a/n: yah, I know they would be two separate trials, but you know what? I don't feel like putting poor Lily through another one!) we find that the newly appointed guardian of Lily Begonia Evans shall from this point on until said child's eighteenth birthday, be Mrs. Ana Lee Black." The foreperson sat down and the judge then dismissed everyone. Could it be? Was it really that easy? Lily was truly…free?
After the hugging and handshakes, Lily and Mrs. Black turned to leave. As she did, she caught Petunia's eye as the bailiff escorted her in handcuffs. Lily wasn't free. She would have to live with this for the rest of her life. As if Petunia had been reading her mind, she called out from behind the bailiff, "I hope you're happy Precious Little Freak! Look what you've done. I can't believe you would do that to your own sister!" She was sobbing uncontrollably as they took her away. Lily couldn't move, and she couldn't breathe. She was grounded to her spot on the floor. What had she done?
They got back to the Black home a short while later, Lily in a daze, Mrs. Black chattering happily about the new life Lily was soon to partake in. "Lily, dear, are you alright? You haven't said a word since we left the court room." Mrs. Black looked over to find Lily's face tear stained. "I can't believe I just did that to my only family. I just locked her up. What the hell is wrong with me?" She cried intensely into Ana's shoulder. Mrs. Black spent the rest of the night explaining to Lily that while she was at school, Petunia had been visited by a few court psychiatrists and psychologists. They had also taken her into custody for a month so they could observe her for a prolonged period of time. They thought she might be bipolar, or even psychoneurotic. She was, nonetheless, decidedly unfit to care for anyone, much less herself. The fact that she blamed Lily for the demise of their parents just gave Petunia more reason to concentrate her neurosis on Lily (a/n: I'm trying to be all cool cuz I took psych last year and I want to see how much I can remember.). Lily didn't know any of this. Though it brought into perspective just how sick Petunia was, Lily still felt like she shouldn't have done that to her.
The rest of the week before the boys came home was finished with Mrs. Black and Lily spending all day, everyday together. Sometimes shopping (it had been a while since Lily had bought any decent clothes for herself. She always wore her robes so dressing wasn't really a problem.). She got some dresses that made her 14-year-old self look like a sixteen-year-old. They went to a muggle play, cleaned the house, and sometimes even just stayed at home, talking for hours about what had happened, or how either one of them felt. Ana was a different kind of mother in that she didn't treat Lily like a child. Ana acted more like a teenager than Lily did sometimes and Lily loved it. Mrs. Black was young, granted, but she was far too old to say some of the things she did. She and Lily discussed boys, rock stars, and movie stars. She was more like the sister Petunia never was.
The boys came home and summer was officially started. They all got off the train and ran to give Lily a group hug. All shouting at once, Lily caught, "We heard! Congratulations!" and "Lily isn't that great? It's like I've got a new sister! This is going to be the best summer. No worries right?" Good old Sirius. It was going to be a good summer.
Remus ended up staying with them for three weeks that summer. It was the quickest time to ever have past in all of the friends' lives. They had fun, with most of the marauders present (a/n: yup, I'm one of those authors who just hates Peter. Can't help it. He doesn't matter anyway!) the mischief and mayhem was increased by threefold. (a/n: well, I guess Peter does matter, I mean, obviously, but I mean he doesn't play that much of a role in my story!) Lily liked having Remus around because it gave her someone to talk to while Sirius and James were being a little too stupid, and because he didn't make fun of her when she did her summer holiday's homework. When he finally left, there was a definite damper in the moods of the remaining children. They continued to enjoy their summer though. July came and went, then August and soon they were back at Diagon Alley, and then even sooner at the Hogwart's Express. Ana kissed all of the kids goodbye and they went back. Nothing of what James had said to Lily before the trial was ever mentioned that summer.
"Fourth years," Lily sighed as she looked out the window of the train. Sirius smiled, "I know, we are at the halfway mark. We are almost halfway done with school." Remus came into the compartment, with a look of satisfactorial glee on his face. "Guess who just got the largest, hairiest, ugliest spider in her shirt?" He snickered. No one had to ask. Ever since the second year train-ride, Remus had a vendetta against Narcissa Perkins. She had said some not so pleasant things about him and the others of the group. Remus didn't like her in particular, so things just escalated. He sat down next to James, who was writing diligently as the train bumped along. "Whatcha writing there James? Last minute potions homework? Charms?" James looked up, "Uh, yah. I…forgot to do it." Lily was quick to correct him in this. "No, James, I remember I helped you with your charms. And you did your potions while I was doing my arithromency. So what are you writing?" She smiled, triumphant that she could remember. "Oh, looks like she got you there, Jay." Sirius commented. "It's just some homework I forgot about." He answered quickly and went back to his work without another word. The group passed the time with games of exploding snap. When James had finished whatever it was he was writing, he joined in as well.
The sorting took place, and so the feast was to commence, but this year, Professor Dumbledore's speech was a little bit different than it was the previous three years that they had been there. "…also, I would like to add this. Fourth, fifth, and sixth years will be given a long-term project to complete by the end of the year. You have from the date it is given to you until the day before your exams start to finish it. It will count for a fifth of your grade. You will do these projects in pairs. Your partners will be assigned to you. If you fail to complete the project or produce any work on it, you will fail for the year. The ministry wanted to see how this would work out. Just think of it as…added pressure." Dumbledore laughed jovially and sat down. The food was hardly touched as everyone talked about the project.
The next day at breakfast, McGonagall informed everyone that the pairing was to take place right then. "Ok, here's how it's going to work. When I call your name, come up to the teachers' table, where I am sitting right now, and wait for your partner. I will then give you your topics and you may sit again. Aslan, Aiden (a/n: If you read the other L/J then you would remember both of these names. There's a long story behind the Aslan part and Aiden is just my favorite boy's name.)" She called out, and a tall, regal-looking young man of seventeen stood up from one end of the Gryffindor table. He confidently strode over to where McGonagall was sitting and waited patiently for his partner, Mark Salazar, a Ravenclaw fifth year that, compared to Aiden, didn't look so confident. This continued for a while. Eventually Sirius was paired with a Hufflepuff sixth year girl, whom he found quite attractive. James was paired with none other than his archenemy Severus Snape. He told Lily that they had to have picked the pairs purposefully. Remus got (a/n: of course he did!) paired with Narcissa Perkins. Lily, on the other hand, was paired with someone she had never even met before. He was a Ravenclaw fifth year. He was smart, funny, and a chaser for his house team. His name was Ludo Bagman (a/n: yah, I know, he's probably a Gryffindor and I have his position on the team all wrong, but I don't feel like checking right now so, sorry.). Lily and Ludo made plans to talk about their project, which just so happened to be Charms: Uses, Misuses and Those in Development, later on that night in the Library after dinner.
Days and weeks flew by and Lily and Ludo worked diligently on their project until they had finished only two months after they had received it. Since both of them were best in charms, they were able to write a full, in depth report, set up a speech for presentation, along with demonstrations, and they had charts of statistics of what charms were misused by how many wizards and witches each year. There was nothing more they could do really, so they just ended up hanging out with each other until Christmas vacation. Ludo was going home that year, and even though Sirius was, and he offered for Lily to come too, she was staying. The only people left during the holiday in Gryffindor were Lily, James, and a seventh year named Arabella. As the dark lord grew stronger, less and less people wanted to be away from their families.
Christmas vacation was slow. It was slower than any other holiday Lily had ever experienced. Everyday for ten days out of the holiday, she and James would wake up and walk the grounds until lunch. After which they would go to the library or skulk around in the invisibility cloak into restricted areas. James had at one time informed Lily that he and Snape had finished their project in three days. "We had decided to set our differences aside for three days and just work. No interruptions, no names, no pranks. Just work. So we did. We ended up staying up for seventy-two hours straight, but otherwise, I would be moping around because our project wasn't done yet." He smiled at his resolution. She applauded him, truly amazed that he would be able to spend that much time with Snape, alone, without killing him. "Speaking of parnters, I haven't seen much of you lately, now that you're always working with Ludo." James' voice faltered a little. It hurt him that they were such close friends now, but he tried not to admit it to himself. "Well, we actually finished…about a month ago. We have just been hanging around since then." James's heart sank, but he didn't let it show. "Oh," was all he said as they continued through the castle, covered by the cloak.
Christmas day arrived finally, and Lily awoke to find that the floor around her bed was covered in presents. An array of wrapping paper stared up at her, reflecting into her emerald eyes. She jumped over the piles and raced in to the boys' dorm to wake up James. He wasn't there. She went to the Great Hall, still in her pajamas. He wasn't there. She decided to go change before she tried anywhere else. When she reached her room, she found him sitting on the floor at the foot of her bed. "Hey, you weren't here earlier. You weren't in your dorm either. How..?" Lily stared at him, puzzled. He just smiled and answered, "Well, we must've just missed each other then. Did you open any of your presents yet?" Obviously she hadn't but this turned her attention to the big piles around her bed. James had brought his and they both started in on them.
Lily got one from Sirius and Remus, a ton from Ana, and even one from Ludo. He had given her a teddy bear with Ludo embroidered on the front in a heart. "Well, he's terribly arrogant now isn't he." She chuckled as she tossed it on her bed. James laughed a little but said nothing. James had gotten her a very special edition of Peter Pan. She loved it (of course!) and she had given him a case for his glasses and something else. Amazingly enough, she was able to hide from him the fact that she had saved all of the money she earned over the past summer to buy him the newest model of brooms, The Astral Car. (a/n: I know, crappy name for a broom but it's from one of my favorite songs so I had to!)
There was one package left at the end of Lily's pile. James had gone to get dressed when she was halfway through her presents because he had finished a bit before Lily did. It was small and golden. She opened it and found a beautiful figurine of a girl that looked very much like Lily. She was tall with long, bushy hair. The color wasn't distinguished because the figure was hand sculpted in clay. The facial features were impeccably similar to that of Lily's. No note, no card, nothing to indicate who sent it. She was admiring it and turning it in her hands when James walked in. "Oh, you like it?" he asked brightly. "I love it. It's so detailed and perfect. Did you make it?" He smiled bashfully. "Yah, I figured I would try my hand at sculpting. I have an art class while you take ancient runes. We started with wax and moved to clay. I made that and a little shoe." She got up and hugged him. "I can't believe it James, you're really good at this. It must've taken you forever. Thank you so much." She stepped away again, looking at the little Lily.
"Lily?" James interrupted. "Mm?" She still didn't look up. "You know what I said to you…before the trial, last year?" At the Lily looked up, right at James. She had wanted to address that. "Yes." James cleared his throat. "Well, I meant it. I really did." He looked at her intensely waiting for any kind of answer. "I know you did," was all she said. There was an awkward moment, (a/n: man I hate those. They have to be the worst moments.) and then Lily told James she had to get dressed and she would meet him down in the common room. James could've kicked himself for saying that. He should've just left things as they were. He had to go and ruin their friendship didn't he? Just as he was in the middle of brooding in front of the common room fire, Lily came down with a pale, doleful expression on her face. "I uh, got a present from Petunia." A tear escaped her eye as she said this and ran all the way down to her chin. She handed James a letter and in the other hand was a small package.
Dear Lily,
I'm writing to you from an institution. I'm not supposed to tell you what one since I was barely allowed to write you this letter. I just wanted to tell you that, even though you locked me up in here, I'm not mad anymore. I just can't believe you would do this. They wouldn't let me send you a gift, and since there aren't any stores in here anyway, I had Vernon get one for you. It's from me though. Remember that. It's just a reminder (a/n: ha, found a use for the title.) of how cold and black your heart is.
Love Your Only Family,
Petunia
James took the box from Lily's hand and opened it to find a pig's heart that had been dyed black somehow.
The three days of the trial dragged as slowly as if it were three days straight of history of magic. Soon, the verdict was reached though and Lily stood, with Mrs. Black and her attorney across from Petunia, Vernon and their lawyer. The jurors returned and everyone sat down. The foreperson handed the verdict to the judge. She then proceeded to read it and hand it back. (a/n: trying to make this as slow as possible, like it would really feel. Lol) "Mr. Foreperson, have you reached a verdict?" the judge spat out mechanically. "We have your honor. In the matter of the state versus Petunia Dursley, on the charges of child abuse and assault and battery on a minor (a/n: again, pulling this out of my a$$) we the jury, find the defendant, Petunia Lotus Evans Dursley, guilty. We have sentenced her to five years in a medium security prison with psychiatric supervision. On the matter of the placement of the plaintiff, (a/n: yah, I know they would be two separate trials, but you know what? I don't feel like putting poor Lily through another one!) we find that the newly appointed guardian of Lily Begonia Evans shall from this point on until said child's eighteenth birthday, be Mrs. Ana Lee Black." The foreperson sat down and the judge then dismissed everyone. Could it be? Was it really that easy? Lily was truly…free?
After the hugging and handshakes, Lily and Mrs. Black turned to leave. As she did, she caught Petunia's eye as the bailiff escorted her in handcuffs. Lily wasn't free. She would have to live with this for the rest of her life. As if Petunia had been reading her mind, she called out from behind the bailiff, "I hope you're happy Precious Little Freak! Look what you've done. I can't believe you would do that to your own sister!" She was sobbing uncontrollably as they took her away. Lily couldn't move, and she couldn't breathe. She was grounded to her spot on the floor. What had she done?
They got back to the Black home a short while later, Lily in a daze, Mrs. Black chattering happily about the new life Lily was soon to partake in. "Lily, dear, are you alright? You haven't said a word since we left the court room." Mrs. Black looked over to find Lily's face tear stained. "I can't believe I just did that to my only family. I just locked her up. What the hell is wrong with me?" She cried intensely into Ana's shoulder. Mrs. Black spent the rest of the night explaining to Lily that while she was at school, Petunia had been visited by a few court psychiatrists and psychologists. They had also taken her into custody for a month so they could observe her for a prolonged period of time. They thought she might be bipolar, or even psychoneurotic. She was, nonetheless, decidedly unfit to care for anyone, much less herself. The fact that she blamed Lily for the demise of their parents just gave Petunia more reason to concentrate her neurosis on Lily (a/n: I'm trying to be all cool cuz I took psych last year and I want to see how much I can remember.). Lily didn't know any of this. Though it brought into perspective just how sick Petunia was, Lily still felt like she shouldn't have done that to her.
The rest of the week before the boys came home was finished with Mrs. Black and Lily spending all day, everyday together. Sometimes shopping (it had been a while since Lily had bought any decent clothes for herself. She always wore her robes so dressing wasn't really a problem.). She got some dresses that made her 14-year-old self look like a sixteen-year-old. They went to a muggle play, cleaned the house, and sometimes even just stayed at home, talking for hours about what had happened, or how either one of them felt. Ana was a different kind of mother in that she didn't treat Lily like a child. Ana acted more like a teenager than Lily did sometimes and Lily loved it. Mrs. Black was young, granted, but she was far too old to say some of the things she did. She and Lily discussed boys, rock stars, and movie stars. She was more like the sister Petunia never was.
The boys came home and summer was officially started. They all got off the train and ran to give Lily a group hug. All shouting at once, Lily caught, "We heard! Congratulations!" and "Lily isn't that great? It's like I've got a new sister! This is going to be the best summer. No worries right?" Good old Sirius. It was going to be a good summer.
Remus ended up staying with them for three weeks that summer. It was the quickest time to ever have past in all of the friends' lives. They had fun, with most of the marauders present (a/n: yup, I'm one of those authors who just hates Peter. Can't help it. He doesn't matter anyway!) the mischief and mayhem was increased by threefold. (a/n: well, I guess Peter does matter, I mean, obviously, but I mean he doesn't play that much of a role in my story!) Lily liked having Remus around because it gave her someone to talk to while Sirius and James were being a little too stupid, and because he didn't make fun of her when she did her summer holiday's homework. When he finally left, there was a definite damper in the moods of the remaining children. They continued to enjoy their summer though. July came and went, then August and soon they were back at Diagon Alley, and then even sooner at the Hogwart's Express. Ana kissed all of the kids goodbye and they went back. Nothing of what James had said to Lily before the trial was ever mentioned that summer.
"Fourth years," Lily sighed as she looked out the window of the train. Sirius smiled, "I know, we are at the halfway mark. We are almost halfway done with school." Remus came into the compartment, with a look of satisfactorial glee on his face. "Guess who just got the largest, hairiest, ugliest spider in her shirt?" He snickered. No one had to ask. Ever since the second year train-ride, Remus had a vendetta against Narcissa Perkins. She had said some not so pleasant things about him and the others of the group. Remus didn't like her in particular, so things just escalated. He sat down next to James, who was writing diligently as the train bumped along. "Whatcha writing there James? Last minute potions homework? Charms?" James looked up, "Uh, yah. I…forgot to do it." Lily was quick to correct him in this. "No, James, I remember I helped you with your charms. And you did your potions while I was doing my arithromency. So what are you writing?" She smiled, triumphant that she could remember. "Oh, looks like she got you there, Jay." Sirius commented. "It's just some homework I forgot about." He answered quickly and went back to his work without another word. The group passed the time with games of exploding snap. When James had finished whatever it was he was writing, he joined in as well.
The sorting took place, and so the feast was to commence, but this year, Professor Dumbledore's speech was a little bit different than it was the previous three years that they had been there. "…also, I would like to add this. Fourth, fifth, and sixth years will be given a long-term project to complete by the end of the year. You have from the date it is given to you until the day before your exams start to finish it. It will count for a fifth of your grade. You will do these projects in pairs. Your partners will be assigned to you. If you fail to complete the project or produce any work on it, you will fail for the year. The ministry wanted to see how this would work out. Just think of it as…added pressure." Dumbledore laughed jovially and sat down. The food was hardly touched as everyone talked about the project.
The next day at breakfast, McGonagall informed everyone that the pairing was to take place right then. "Ok, here's how it's going to work. When I call your name, come up to the teachers' table, where I am sitting right now, and wait for your partner. I will then give you your topics and you may sit again. Aslan, Aiden (a/n: If you read the other L/J then you would remember both of these names. There's a long story behind the Aslan part and Aiden is just my favorite boy's name.)" She called out, and a tall, regal-looking young man of seventeen stood up from one end of the Gryffindor table. He confidently strode over to where McGonagall was sitting and waited patiently for his partner, Mark Salazar, a Ravenclaw fifth year that, compared to Aiden, didn't look so confident. This continued for a while. Eventually Sirius was paired with a Hufflepuff sixth year girl, whom he found quite attractive. James was paired with none other than his archenemy Severus Snape. He told Lily that they had to have picked the pairs purposefully. Remus got (a/n: of course he did!) paired with Narcissa Perkins. Lily, on the other hand, was paired with someone she had never even met before. He was a Ravenclaw fifth year. He was smart, funny, and a chaser for his house team. His name was Ludo Bagman (a/n: yah, I know, he's probably a Gryffindor and I have his position on the team all wrong, but I don't feel like checking right now so, sorry.). Lily and Ludo made plans to talk about their project, which just so happened to be Charms: Uses, Misuses and Those in Development, later on that night in the Library after dinner.
Days and weeks flew by and Lily and Ludo worked diligently on their project until they had finished only two months after they had received it. Since both of them were best in charms, they were able to write a full, in depth report, set up a speech for presentation, along with demonstrations, and they had charts of statistics of what charms were misused by how many wizards and witches each year. There was nothing more they could do really, so they just ended up hanging out with each other until Christmas vacation. Ludo was going home that year, and even though Sirius was, and he offered for Lily to come too, she was staying. The only people left during the holiday in Gryffindor were Lily, James, and a seventh year named Arabella. As the dark lord grew stronger, less and less people wanted to be away from their families.
Christmas vacation was slow. It was slower than any other holiday Lily had ever experienced. Everyday for ten days out of the holiday, she and James would wake up and walk the grounds until lunch. After which they would go to the library or skulk around in the invisibility cloak into restricted areas. James had at one time informed Lily that he and Snape had finished their project in three days. "We had decided to set our differences aside for three days and just work. No interruptions, no names, no pranks. Just work. So we did. We ended up staying up for seventy-two hours straight, but otherwise, I would be moping around because our project wasn't done yet." He smiled at his resolution. She applauded him, truly amazed that he would be able to spend that much time with Snape, alone, without killing him. "Speaking of parnters, I haven't seen much of you lately, now that you're always working with Ludo." James' voice faltered a little. It hurt him that they were such close friends now, but he tried not to admit it to himself. "Well, we actually finished…about a month ago. We have just been hanging around since then." James's heart sank, but he didn't let it show. "Oh," was all he said as they continued through the castle, covered by the cloak.
Christmas day arrived finally, and Lily awoke to find that the floor around her bed was covered in presents. An array of wrapping paper stared up at her, reflecting into her emerald eyes. She jumped over the piles and raced in to the boys' dorm to wake up James. He wasn't there. She went to the Great Hall, still in her pajamas. He wasn't there. She decided to go change before she tried anywhere else. When she reached her room, she found him sitting on the floor at the foot of her bed. "Hey, you weren't here earlier. You weren't in your dorm either. How..?" Lily stared at him, puzzled. He just smiled and answered, "Well, we must've just missed each other then. Did you open any of your presents yet?" Obviously she hadn't but this turned her attention to the big piles around her bed. James had brought his and they both started in on them.
Lily got one from Sirius and Remus, a ton from Ana, and even one from Ludo. He had given her a teddy bear with Ludo embroidered on the front in a heart. "Well, he's terribly arrogant now isn't he." She chuckled as she tossed it on her bed. James laughed a little but said nothing. James had gotten her a very special edition of Peter Pan. She loved it (of course!) and she had given him a case for his glasses and something else. Amazingly enough, she was able to hide from him the fact that she had saved all of the money she earned over the past summer to buy him the newest model of brooms, The Astral Car. (a/n: I know, crappy name for a broom but it's from one of my favorite songs so I had to!)
There was one package left at the end of Lily's pile. James had gone to get dressed when she was halfway through her presents because he had finished a bit before Lily did. It was small and golden. She opened it and found a beautiful figurine of a girl that looked very much like Lily. She was tall with long, bushy hair. The color wasn't distinguished because the figure was hand sculpted in clay. The facial features were impeccably similar to that of Lily's. No note, no card, nothing to indicate who sent it. She was admiring it and turning it in her hands when James walked in. "Oh, you like it?" he asked brightly. "I love it. It's so detailed and perfect. Did you make it?" He smiled bashfully. "Yah, I figured I would try my hand at sculpting. I have an art class while you take ancient runes. We started with wax and moved to clay. I made that and a little shoe." She got up and hugged him. "I can't believe it James, you're really good at this. It must've taken you forever. Thank you so much." She stepped away again, looking at the little Lily.
"Lily?" James interrupted. "Mm?" She still didn't look up. "You know what I said to you…before the trial, last year?" At the Lily looked up, right at James. She had wanted to address that. "Yes." James cleared his throat. "Well, I meant it. I really did." He looked at her intensely waiting for any kind of answer. "I know you did," was all she said. There was an awkward moment, (a/n: man I hate those. They have to be the worst moments.) and then Lily told James she had to get dressed and she would meet him down in the common room. James could've kicked himself for saying that. He should've just left things as they were. He had to go and ruin their friendship didn't he? Just as he was in the middle of brooding in front of the common room fire, Lily came down with a pale, doleful expression on her face. "I uh, got a present from Petunia." A tear escaped her eye as she said this and ran all the way down to her chin. She handed James a letter and in the other hand was a small package.
Dear Lily,
I'm writing to you from an institution. I'm not supposed to tell you what one since I was barely allowed to write you this letter. I just wanted to tell you that, even though you locked me up in here, I'm not mad anymore. I just can't believe you would do this. They wouldn't let me send you a gift, and since there aren't any stores in here anyway, I had Vernon get one for you. It's from me though. Remember that. It's just a reminder (a/n: ha, found a use for the title.) of how cold and black your heart is.
Love Your Only Family,
Petunia
James took the box from Lily's hand and opened it to find a pig's heart that had been dyed black somehow.