The Eye Of The Beholder
Disclaimer: I do not own any of JK Rowling's character's or Hogwarts (although id like to). ButI do own the plot and anyone who
steals it is gonna FRY!!!! Nah just kidds. But I might get angry at them.
If anyone hasn't noticed yet, this is James/Lily, Love/Hate. These are some of my favourite stories =D.
Anyway! On with the story and I hope you like reading it and reviewing it!
~ FallenAngel ~
Prologue
As a thirteen year old Lily and and her best friend Melissa stepped out of the taxi in front ofLily's family's cosy house on the
eastside of Surrey, they both excitedly paid the driver, grabbed their bag's and trunk's from the back of the taxi, and started walking
happily down the path towards the door of Lily's house talking about all the adventure's that they would have once the holiday's
started.
Luckily for both of them Petunia was spending the holiday's at her school with all her snobby friends in London, while Lily and
Melissa got free reign of the house and backyard. Unluckily for both of them, they both didn't see the black robed figure's in the
Evans' house before they stepped inside.
Once both girls stepped inside their house, they set their bags down in the living room, and sat on the cushy lounges. "Man. I'm
happy my parent's and your parent's let me stay over the holiday's", Melissa said while squirming around in her sit while Lily sat on
her lounge giggling at Melissa's squirming.
"Hey! Stop laughing at me Lils! Hey I need to go to the bathroom" Melissa said while standing up and running upstairs to the
bathroom in the Evan's house.
Lily got up and made herself comfortable on the lounge and yelled out to Melissa, "Don't take too long Mel. I'll meet you in my
bedroom ok?" And she broke into another uncontrolable fit of giggles.
Melissa jumped up the stairs two at a time, and walked down the corridor that took her to the bathroom. As she opened the door,
Melissa saw her best friend's parent's, lying in the bathtub. Melissa's eyes grew wide and puther hand to her mouth as she saw a
man in a black robe step out of the shower area and advance on her. A Death-Eater. Melissa suddenly took off down the corridor to
warn Lily to get out of the house, but she was too late. The Death-Eater shot a silencing spell at her and grabbed her by the waist.
Melissa was trying to get some reaction from Lily, by kicking the man, and tryingto make him make some sort of noise to hint to
Lily that she was in trouble, or scream her lungs out to warn her, but nothing worked. And the last thing Melissa felt was the cold
feeling of steel going into her chest and the pain that came with it, as the Death-Eater stabbed her with a knife, and silently dragged
her body away from the top of the stairs and into a bedroom, and apparated away from the home.
After five minutes, Lily started to get worried about her friend, walked up the stairs and downthe corridor to her bedroom, where
she said she'd meet her after she'd finished. But as Lily had opened the door, she found an image that would haunt her for the rest
of her life. On her bed was Melissa's body and on the wall above her bed in blood read;
"WATCH OUT MUDBLOOD! YOURE NEXT".
Tear's started streaming down Lily's face as she ran over to her friend's body which she saw at the door, was still shallowly
breathing. "Melissa. Please don't die! Don't leave me Mel! I need you!" Lily whispered fiercely to her friend, while stroking her
beautiful golden hair.
As Melissa took another ragged breath she whispered back to Lily, "Please Lily get out of the house. Go warn the Ministry Of
Magic. I'm a goner now anyway. Please live life to the best of your ability for the both of us. I love you Lil's." And with that Melissa's
body did a giagantic shudder and fell still. Melissa's spirit started to float away from her, but she still heard the voice of Lily Evans
answering her, "I love you too Mel." as she went to heaven.
Lily clung tight to the body of her best friend as she cried out all her tears. After an hour or so, when no more tears would come,
Lily stood up, and covered a blanket over her best friendand wiped her eyes on her sleave. Lily shut the door on her room, and
silently paded her way down to the bathroom. She opened the door, walked to the basin, and started splashing the cool liquid on her
face. As she looked into the mirror, she found another image she would never forget, she saw her parents bodies, motionless in the
bathtub. Lily gasped and backed out of the room, shutting the door behind her and running downstairs, jumping on lounge Melissa
was sitting on a while before, and let the tears come again.
A few hour's later, The Ministry Of Magic arrived at the house, seeing the Dark-Mark over her house, and took her to Hogwart's with
all her's and Melissa's things. As Lily was led up to Professor Dumbledore's office, a million thoughts ran through her head,' If only I
went to the bathroom first, Melissa would still be fine.' and 'If only we were a few hour's earlier, my parent's and Melissa would be
fine.'
The Ministry Of Magic officer took her to the Gargoyle and left her and the trunk's there, giving Lily a sympathetic look, as Lily spoke
the password to move the Gargoyle and went up the stairs to the Headmaster's office. As she opened the door's to the room, she
saw Professor Dumbledore, his eyes no longer twinkling and his face grave, Professor McGonnagal, who lookedlike she had been
crying, and James, her boyfriend. She ran towards James' embrace and hugged him, letting the tear's flow down her cheek's again.
"Lily...", Professor McGonnagal started saying, but faltered. "I believe with the event's you have been through today is enough pain
and suffering for a lifetime, but Professor Dumbledore and I would like to speak to you alone for a few moments." McGonnagal
sniffed, and James withdrew his arm's from around Lily, but she hung on to him.
"Don't worry Lily. Im only going to be outside." James whispered into her ear and walked out of the door's and stood patiently
down the stairs.
"Im sorry to say this to you Lily. But I believe that you must change your identity to continue doing your magical studies, as your life
is in great danger." Professor Dumbledore stated wearily to Lily, as he moved to his chair and sat down.
Lily thought about this carefully, and one question popped into her mind, 'What will happen to James?'. Obviously, Dumbledore knew
this question was coming and answered straight away, "I'm very sorry Lily, but you will have to give up James. Or try a
'long distance' relationship to him, and try that way."
Lily's eyes started to fill with tear's again, and she looked into Dumbledore's eyes, pleading,"I've just lost both my parent's and my
best friend, my idol, and now you're asking me to give up anotherperson for that SCUM VOLDEMORT?! I wont let James go!
NEVER!" Lily confirmed at the end of the sentence, and crossed her arm's in a child's way of defeat just to be dramatic.
"Very well then Lilian, but you must think of a new name now, and a new identity." Professor McGonnagal finally spoke, very sad of
the thought of her best student hurting and in pain.
Lily sat for a moment thinking, then asked, "Can James know?".
After Lily had said this, Professor Dumbledore sighed and looked down at his clasped hands, "Im afraid not Lily, it may be too
dangerous for anyone to know," His voice was grave as he spoke these words, certain that Lily would burst into tears again.
"Very well." Lily spoke, finally defeated and glum. "But what do I tell James?" she questioned Dumbledore, her eyes showing
confusion.
Dumbledore looked up from his hands and spoke wearily, "You shall tell him you have to go away into hiding to save yourself."
Lily thought about this for a moment, then nodded. "Then my name is Aurora Melissa Zachery sir.Can you please call James in
now?" She stated, and McGonnagal opened the door's to the office, beckoned James in and left.
"James, I have to go away. I dont know where, but I dont want to loose you. Please dont leave me." She whispered to James once
back into his embrace.
James whispered back, "I'll never leave you Lily, I love you. No matter how far apart we are, I'll still be here ok?". Lily's eyes
overflowed with tear's again. She wouldn't leave after all. "I love you too James." She said to him as she kissed him on the cheek.
Professor Dumbledore sighed as he watched this. He hated unhappy endings. One day hopefully they would both meet back up
and share their love once more. They have to. "Im sorry children, but James has to go back home, and Lily, we need to transport
you to your hiding place." Dumbledore mumbled from where he was sitting, but slowly stood up to let James out, and then he faced
Lily.
"Lily, I know this has been hard on you, so we are keeping you here at Hogwart's. You will be staying in your new 4thYear Girl's
Dormitory's in Griffindor Tower, And we will announce to theschool at the ceremony that Lilian Evan's has left and you have taken
her place. I'm very sorry for all your losses." He spoke to her, and took her in his embrace. "Lily, Go to Madam Daisy and ask for a
Dreamless Sleep Potion. I believe you may need it for tonight and a couple more week's to come." And Lily walked out of the office,
not only for the last time as Lilian Audrey Evans, but also for the first time as Aurora Melissa Zachery.
NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS~*
Lily spent the next couple of weeks reading by the fire in the Griffindor Common Room, or at dinner. As it was dangerous for her to
be outside Hogwarts, as a risk of being identified, Professore McGonnagal went out to Diagon Alley, and London, to buy Lily her
school supplies and new identity.
One night before school was to start again, Lily went upstairs to her new room to find her school item's and new things waiting for
her. She put all the new book's into her trunk and looked at her 'New Identity' items. She found 2 cases, a bunch of pins to put her
hair up with,and a note. Lily opened the note, and was surprised to find it was from James. It said:
To Lily,
I don't think this is going to work out. I mean, you are going to be most probably on the
other side of the world,and I am going to be at Hogwarts. Im going to miss you of course.
Maybe we can get together in the future.
From,
James.
Lily scrunched up the letter in disgust, and letting the tear's fall from her eyes, as she walked down into the Common Room and
chuck the letter into the fire, watching it burn into piles of ash. 'If that's the way James Potter want's it? Fine' She thought as she
huffed back up the stair's and into her dormitory to open her other things, secretly hoping there would be no other surprise notes.
She opened one of the two small cases, finding brown coloured eye contact's in one, and blue rimmed glasses in the other. Lily
sighed as she placed the three new item's onto her bedside table, and jumped into bed, falling into a dreamless sleep that she
achieved all by herself.
As Lily awoke in the morning, she put in her new contact's and put on her glasses. 'I may as well get used to them now' She thought
as she put her hair up in a tight bun.
THE FOURTH YEAR~*
"Welcome student's to another year at Hogwarts." Professor Dumbledore spoke to the school, while Lily stood beside him at the
teacher's table. "Let me remind you that the Forbidden Forest, is still, hence the name, forbidden and that no magic is allowed to
be used in the halls." He paused for a moment, before starting his new speach, "But now, I have dissapointing news. Lilian Audrey
Evans, after her parent's and her best friend Melissa Ashling we're killed in an attack by Death Eater's, has left the school and gone
into hiding. Please do not try to contact her, as the mail might fall into the enemie's hands. On a brighter note, we have a new
student in 4th Year taking Lilian's place. Please welcome Aurora Melissa Zachery. She has already been sorted into her house.
And that was GRIFFINDOR!" Dumbledore spoke proudly, while the Griffindor table burst into cheers. "Please do not single her out.
Aurora, please take your seat at your house table." Aurora timedly sat down at the end of the table, away from James and his new
improved fan club and ate her dinner quickly, ignoring the looks the others gave her.
By the end of the night, Aurora had not only made enemie's with the Marauder's and their fan club, which hurt Aurora more than she
could imagine, but with most of her house. As she sat down at her bed that night, she picked up the picture Melissa from her
bedside table, and watched the tear's fall onto the painting. 'Tonight I make a vow. I will never speak to the over-ego freaks, I will
never let anyone get close to me again. Look at the pain it caused last time.' Aurora thought, as she put the picture up onto her
table, and climbed into her bed, drawing the curtains shut behind her. The last thing anyone ever heard from Aurora was her
heartbroken sobs and answer's to teachers questions directed at her. Except for once in a while, late at night, in the Griffindor
4thYear Girl's Dormitories, was the whisper from Aurora's lips, "Im sorry Melissa," until much
later in her life.
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A/N: Well. how does it sound so far? I will finish the 1st chapter in a couple of days and
post it up.
Thanks for reading!
Please Review!
~FallenAngel~
Disclaimer: I do not own any of JK Rowling's character's or Hogwarts (although id like to). ButI do own the plot and anyone who
steals it is gonna FRY!!!! Nah just kidds. But I might get angry at them.
If anyone hasn't noticed yet, this is James/Lily, Love/Hate. These are some of my favourite stories =D.
Anyway! On with the story and I hope you like reading it and reviewing it!
~ FallenAngel ~
Prologue
As a thirteen year old Lily and and her best friend Melissa stepped out of the taxi in front ofLily's family's cosy house on the
eastside of Surrey, they both excitedly paid the driver, grabbed their bag's and trunk's from the back of the taxi, and started walking
happily down the path towards the door of Lily's house talking about all the adventure's that they would have once the holiday's
started.
Luckily for both of them Petunia was spending the holiday's at her school with all her snobby friends in London, while Lily and
Melissa got free reign of the house and backyard. Unluckily for both of them, they both didn't see the black robed figure's in the
Evans' house before they stepped inside.
Once both girls stepped inside their house, they set their bags down in the living room, and sat on the cushy lounges. "Man. I'm
happy my parent's and your parent's let me stay over the holiday's", Melissa said while squirming around in her sit while Lily sat on
her lounge giggling at Melissa's squirming.
"Hey! Stop laughing at me Lils! Hey I need to go to the bathroom" Melissa said while standing up and running upstairs to the
bathroom in the Evan's house.
Lily got up and made herself comfortable on the lounge and yelled out to Melissa, "Don't take too long Mel. I'll meet you in my
bedroom ok?" And she broke into another uncontrolable fit of giggles.
Melissa jumped up the stairs two at a time, and walked down the corridor that took her to the bathroom. As she opened the door,
Melissa saw her best friend's parent's, lying in the bathtub. Melissa's eyes grew wide and puther hand to her mouth as she saw a
man in a black robe step out of the shower area and advance on her. A Death-Eater. Melissa suddenly took off down the corridor to
warn Lily to get out of the house, but she was too late. The Death-Eater shot a silencing spell at her and grabbed her by the waist.
Melissa was trying to get some reaction from Lily, by kicking the man, and tryingto make him make some sort of noise to hint to
Lily that she was in trouble, or scream her lungs out to warn her, but nothing worked. And the last thing Melissa felt was the cold
feeling of steel going into her chest and the pain that came with it, as the Death-Eater stabbed her with a knife, and silently dragged
her body away from the top of the stairs and into a bedroom, and apparated away from the home.
After five minutes, Lily started to get worried about her friend, walked up the stairs and downthe corridor to her bedroom, where
she said she'd meet her after she'd finished. But as Lily had opened the door, she found an image that would haunt her for the rest
of her life. On her bed was Melissa's body and on the wall above her bed in blood read;
"WATCH OUT MUDBLOOD! YOURE NEXT".
Tear's started streaming down Lily's face as she ran over to her friend's body which she saw at the door, was still shallowly
breathing. "Melissa. Please don't die! Don't leave me Mel! I need you!" Lily whispered fiercely to her friend, while stroking her
beautiful golden hair.
As Melissa took another ragged breath she whispered back to Lily, "Please Lily get out of the house. Go warn the Ministry Of
Magic. I'm a goner now anyway. Please live life to the best of your ability for the both of us. I love you Lil's." And with that Melissa's
body did a giagantic shudder and fell still. Melissa's spirit started to float away from her, but she still heard the voice of Lily Evans
answering her, "I love you too Mel." as she went to heaven.
Lily clung tight to the body of her best friend as she cried out all her tears. After an hour or so, when no more tears would come,
Lily stood up, and covered a blanket over her best friendand wiped her eyes on her sleave. Lily shut the door on her room, and
silently paded her way down to the bathroom. She opened the door, walked to the basin, and started splashing the cool liquid on her
face. As she looked into the mirror, she found another image she would never forget, she saw her parents bodies, motionless in the
bathtub. Lily gasped and backed out of the room, shutting the door behind her and running downstairs, jumping on lounge Melissa
was sitting on a while before, and let the tears come again.
A few hour's later, The Ministry Of Magic arrived at the house, seeing the Dark-Mark over her house, and took her to Hogwart's with
all her's and Melissa's things. As Lily was led up to Professor Dumbledore's office, a million thoughts ran through her head,' If only I
went to the bathroom first, Melissa would still be fine.' and 'If only we were a few hour's earlier, my parent's and Melissa would be
fine.'
The Ministry Of Magic officer took her to the Gargoyle and left her and the trunk's there, giving Lily a sympathetic look, as Lily spoke
the password to move the Gargoyle and went up the stairs to the Headmaster's office. As she opened the door's to the room, she
saw Professor Dumbledore, his eyes no longer twinkling and his face grave, Professor McGonnagal, who lookedlike she had been
crying, and James, her boyfriend. She ran towards James' embrace and hugged him, letting the tear's flow down her cheek's again.
"Lily...", Professor McGonnagal started saying, but faltered. "I believe with the event's you have been through today is enough pain
and suffering for a lifetime, but Professor Dumbledore and I would like to speak to you alone for a few moments." McGonnagal
sniffed, and James withdrew his arm's from around Lily, but she hung on to him.
"Don't worry Lily. Im only going to be outside." James whispered into her ear and walked out of the door's and stood patiently
down the stairs.
"Im sorry to say this to you Lily. But I believe that you must change your identity to continue doing your magical studies, as your life
is in great danger." Professor Dumbledore stated wearily to Lily, as he moved to his chair and sat down.
Lily thought about this carefully, and one question popped into her mind, 'What will happen to James?'. Obviously, Dumbledore knew
this question was coming and answered straight away, "I'm very sorry Lily, but you will have to give up James. Or try a
'long distance' relationship to him, and try that way."
Lily's eyes started to fill with tear's again, and she looked into Dumbledore's eyes, pleading,"I've just lost both my parent's and my
best friend, my idol, and now you're asking me to give up anotherperson for that SCUM VOLDEMORT?! I wont let James go!
NEVER!" Lily confirmed at the end of the sentence, and crossed her arm's in a child's way of defeat just to be dramatic.
"Very well then Lilian, but you must think of a new name now, and a new identity." Professor McGonnagal finally spoke, very sad of
the thought of her best student hurting and in pain.
Lily sat for a moment thinking, then asked, "Can James know?".
After Lily had said this, Professor Dumbledore sighed and looked down at his clasped hands, "Im afraid not Lily, it may be too
dangerous for anyone to know," His voice was grave as he spoke these words, certain that Lily would burst into tears again.
"Very well." Lily spoke, finally defeated and glum. "But what do I tell James?" she questioned Dumbledore, her eyes showing
confusion.
Dumbledore looked up from his hands and spoke wearily, "You shall tell him you have to go away into hiding to save yourself."
Lily thought about this for a moment, then nodded. "Then my name is Aurora Melissa Zachery sir.Can you please call James in
now?" She stated, and McGonnagal opened the door's to the office, beckoned James in and left.
"James, I have to go away. I dont know where, but I dont want to loose you. Please dont leave me." She whispered to James once
back into his embrace.
James whispered back, "I'll never leave you Lily, I love you. No matter how far apart we are, I'll still be here ok?". Lily's eyes
overflowed with tear's again. She wouldn't leave after all. "I love you too James." She said to him as she kissed him on the cheek.
Professor Dumbledore sighed as he watched this. He hated unhappy endings. One day hopefully they would both meet back up
and share their love once more. They have to. "Im sorry children, but James has to go back home, and Lily, we need to transport
you to your hiding place." Dumbledore mumbled from where he was sitting, but slowly stood up to let James out, and then he faced
Lily.
"Lily, I know this has been hard on you, so we are keeping you here at Hogwart's. You will be staying in your new 4thYear Girl's
Dormitory's in Griffindor Tower, And we will announce to theschool at the ceremony that Lilian Evan's has left and you have taken
her place. I'm very sorry for all your losses." He spoke to her, and took her in his embrace. "Lily, Go to Madam Daisy and ask for a
Dreamless Sleep Potion. I believe you may need it for tonight and a couple more week's to come." And Lily walked out of the office,
not only for the last time as Lilian Audrey Evans, but also for the first time as Aurora Melissa Zachery.
NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS~*
Lily spent the next couple of weeks reading by the fire in the Griffindor Common Room, or at dinner. As it was dangerous for her to
be outside Hogwarts, as a risk of being identified, Professore McGonnagal went out to Diagon Alley, and London, to buy Lily her
school supplies and new identity.
One night before school was to start again, Lily went upstairs to her new room to find her school item's and new things waiting for
her. She put all the new book's into her trunk and looked at her 'New Identity' items. She found 2 cases, a bunch of pins to put her
hair up with,and a note. Lily opened the note, and was surprised to find it was from James. It said:
To Lily,
I don't think this is going to work out. I mean, you are going to be most probably on the
other side of the world,and I am going to be at Hogwarts. Im going to miss you of course.
Maybe we can get together in the future.
From,
James.
Lily scrunched up the letter in disgust, and letting the tear's fall from her eyes, as she walked down into the Common Room and
chuck the letter into the fire, watching it burn into piles of ash. 'If that's the way James Potter want's it? Fine' She thought as she
huffed back up the stair's and into her dormitory to open her other things, secretly hoping there would be no other surprise notes.
She opened one of the two small cases, finding brown coloured eye contact's in one, and blue rimmed glasses in the other. Lily
sighed as she placed the three new item's onto her bedside table, and jumped into bed, falling into a dreamless sleep that she
achieved all by herself.
As Lily awoke in the morning, she put in her new contact's and put on her glasses. 'I may as well get used to them now' She thought
as she put her hair up in a tight bun.
THE FOURTH YEAR~*
"Welcome student's to another year at Hogwarts." Professor Dumbledore spoke to the school, while Lily stood beside him at the
teacher's table. "Let me remind you that the Forbidden Forest, is still, hence the name, forbidden and that no magic is allowed to
be used in the halls." He paused for a moment, before starting his new speach, "But now, I have dissapointing news. Lilian Audrey
Evans, after her parent's and her best friend Melissa Ashling we're killed in an attack by Death Eater's, has left the school and gone
into hiding. Please do not try to contact her, as the mail might fall into the enemie's hands. On a brighter note, we have a new
student in 4th Year taking Lilian's place. Please welcome Aurora Melissa Zachery. She has already been sorted into her house.
And that was GRIFFINDOR!" Dumbledore spoke proudly, while the Griffindor table burst into cheers. "Please do not single her out.
Aurora, please take your seat at your house table." Aurora timedly sat down at the end of the table, away from James and his new
improved fan club and ate her dinner quickly, ignoring the looks the others gave her.
By the end of the night, Aurora had not only made enemie's with the Marauder's and their fan club, which hurt Aurora more than she
could imagine, but with most of her house. As she sat down at her bed that night, she picked up the picture Melissa from her
bedside table, and watched the tear's fall onto the painting. 'Tonight I make a vow. I will never speak to the over-ego freaks, I will
never let anyone get close to me again. Look at the pain it caused last time.' Aurora thought, as she put the picture up onto her
table, and climbed into her bed, drawing the curtains shut behind her. The last thing anyone ever heard from Aurora was her
heartbroken sobs and answer's to teachers questions directed at her. Except for once in a while, late at night, in the Griffindor
4thYear Girl's Dormitories, was the whisper from Aurora's lips, "Im sorry Melissa," until much
later in her life.
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A/N: Well. how does it sound so far? I will finish the 1st chapter in a couple of days and
post it up.
Thanks for reading!
Please Review!
~FallenAngel~