Chapter Five: Truth

"That was… strange", started Remus.

"It's an understatement, Have you seen her before?"

"No, never", stated James

"My friends, I think that the Marauders have found a new job", said Sirius enthusiastic.

"Which is?"

"Discover who the Head Girl is."

"Yeah. Any idea?"

"How about asking Claire? She know nearly every thing about Hogwart. Plus now we know that she is a Gryffondor."

"Right."

They hurried toward the Griffie seventh-year-girl dorm where they found Claire with her friends, giggling.

Claire Debb was a tall blond girl with blue eyes. She was really pretty but mean and a bit snobbish, she was also the gossip's queen of Hogwart. The other girls were Lizzie Hernan, Sara Tahel, Elie Vanil, Dany Coppard, Io Stan and Bella Figg. Lizzie was a small athletic girl. She had dark hair always put in a ponytail, dark purple eyes. She was on the Quidditch team as a Chaser. Sara was an average girl with blondish-brown hair, brown eyes. Elie was a quite tall girl with shoulder-length dark blond hair and greenish blue eyes. Io was tall and skinny. She had amazing grey eyes and long reddish-brown hair. Dany looks a lot like Lizzie but she had amber eyes, she was in the team as a Beater. Bella whose real name was Arabella was a dark-haired girl with hazel eyes. They were all pretty. Bella was going out with Remus, Lizzie with Sirius and Claire with James.

"Hi Jamesie! Said Claire while kissing James.

"Hi sweetie" he kissed her back.

"Hey James not now!" Shouted Sirius but James didn't listened to him as he was kissing Lizzie too, and Remus Bella.

Then they chatted a few minutes, then Remus asked.

"Do you know a seventh-year girl with red hair and green eyes?"

Claire thought for a while

"No, Why?"

"We have found out that the Head Girl is a red Haired girl in Gryffondor, but nobody seemed to know her."

"No, all the Griffie girls I know are in this dorm."

"She has a special dorm."

"No, I really don't know who she is. But I will ask. OK?"

"Thanks, you're the best, answered James, happy, kissing her.

But days later, Claire hadn't find a person who knew a red haired girl in Gryffondor.

"Take a photo of her", advised Lizzie, "and show it to everyone, there must be someone who knew her!"

"Great! Liz you're a genius!" Shouted Sirius. He ran to his dorm, grabbed a camera, and came back.

"Let's go my friends."

With that, the four boys headed towards the library.

They found her at the same place, dreaming, her cat on the table. They hid under the Invisibility cloak and came closer to take a good picture. Suddenly the cat mewed. The girl jumped, startled.

"What Shadow?" She asked to the cat.

She seemed to listened to something. Then she turned in the direction of the Marauders and smirked. She hold up her wand

"Accio Invisibility cloak! Accio camera!"

The boys became visible.

"What do you want?" She snapped, angry to have been interrupted by them.

"To know you", stated simply James.

"None of your business! Leave me alone!"

"You can't always live alone!" Shouted Remus, astonished by her behaviour.

"I've lived alone for sixteen years and I'm not dead! For your information, only the professor know my identity, so it's useless to ask everybody in the school, only two students had know my name and I know for sure that they had forgotten it!"

"Who were they?"

"Mr I-am-the-centre-of-the-universe Potter and Mr I-am-the-king-of-pranks Black!"

"What?" Yelled James and Sirius.

"Shut up!" She continued in a deadly voice, "now forget all about me, you don't know me, you haven't see me. I had to work with James but that's all."

She faced James.

"I will send you my suggestions and discuss them with Dumbledore. He will informed you."

She turned to see the four boys, speechless.

"Don't try to find me again."

She stormed out the library. She was so angry she didn't see Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape and bumped into them.

Watch where you go!" shouted Malfoy

"Shut up both of you, you little snobbish prat!" Her eyes flashed dangerously. She ran to her dorm. Malfoy and Snape stood there startled for a moment.

"Have you seen what I have seen?" Asked Lucius cautiously.

"Yes, we have to warn the master", answered the other boy. They ran to the owlery.

At the same time, the Marauders were discussing.

"What do you think of her?" James was quite shaken.

"She is strange…", started Remus thoughtfully.

"STRANGE! I rather say crazy or scary!" Cut Sirius

"Not sure."

"Remus! Who want to live alone?"

"She must have her reasons."

"James, what do you think?" Asked Sirius. "James? Jaaammessiiiiie?"

"What?"

"What. Do. You. Think. Of. Her?"

"I don't know. Have you noticed her eyes?"

"Yeah", answered Remus, "she had silver pupils…"

"Silver?! Nobody have silver pupils", stated Peter who had been quiet, frightened by the girl's outburst.

"Apparently it's possible. I'll ask my father", offered James

"Good! He may help us, even if we don't have a photo."

"It's remind me that I've lost a camera", said Sirius sadly

At this word a grey owl flew trough a window and landed on a table near the boys. She had a box tied to her leg. James took the package and open it. It was the camera. Here was a note with it.

I believe that this is your camera. I give it back to you but I have kept the film, I'm not stupid.

I say it again don't try to find me. The password to my dorm had been changed.

The Head Girl.

"We have to find her. Nobody can mastered the Marauders", said James. They came back to their dorm. James wrote immediately a letter to his father. Then they discuss of the next prank they will pull on Snape.

A few days later, an owl drop a letter on James' table at breakfast.

"Guys!"

"Yeah!"

"It's my father's answer!"

"Good!"

"Read it!"

He open the letter.

Dear James, Are you sure that her pupils were silver? It's very important. And has she green eyes and two beauty spots on her forehead between her eyes? Answer quickly, it's really urgent! Love Dad."

They were silent for a moment.

"She had green eyes", said finally Sirius.

"Yeah, and I remember that she had also two beauty spots on her forehead", add Remus.

"I'll replied immediately". He wrote his answer and tied it to the leg of the owl who had wait. She flew trough the window. The rest of the day passed uneventfully.

The next morning, Lily received her greatest shock. A dark owl drop a letter in front of her. She took it and was about to open it when she saw something which stopped her. The Dark Mark.

She got up and went to the teacher's tables and show it to Dumbledore. After taking a look on it he got up too and headed to his office, motioning to Lily to follow him.

Once they were in his office, they sit.

"Miss Evans, have you open it?"

"No Sir. I rather preferred that you read it first and then decided if I should read it or not."

"As you want, my dear." He open it and started reading it.

When he finished it, he looked at Lily. His eyes were worry, full of sorrow and concern. He handed it to her

"I think that you need to know the truth even if it is hard."

A bit scared, Lily started her lecture.

My dear Slivia

Yes, your middle name is Slivia. I have just been aware of your existence. So you're a witch, and a powerful one from what I've heard. I was said to that you're a Natural. You have to be careful with your look, your silver pupils show your nature. Are you curious to know from where you have inherited these powers? Yes, you should be. They came from your father. I supposed that your mother have hide the truth from you in fear he took you away from her. She was right. If I had know that she had had a daughter with magical abilities, I would have kidnapped her as soon I had be able to do it. You are confused? These facts will explain everything: when she was young, your mother had met a guy call Tom Riddle. They fall in love. But few months later, she discovered his real identity. Tom was a wizard, a dark wizard. Scared she left him as soon she found this in order to protect her life and I know now her daughter life. She met an other guy and marry him. What the link between her and me? You see my dear Slivia, My name isn't really Lord Voldemort, it's Tom Riddle. I'm your father. That's why you are so powerful my sweet girl. Join me. Together we will ruled this world. Join me my dear.

Lord Voldemort

Lily dropped the letter, shocked, then she fainted.

She awoke quickly as someone shook her. Please, Make it a dream! But when she opened her eyes, she saw Dumbledore, looking at her with a very, very worry expression.

"Is this the truth?" She asked, her voice shaken.

"I don't know, I think yes. I have send a letter to your mother. The answer will come very soon."

Indeed, an hour latter, an owl came with a letter tied to her leg.

Lily opened it in hurry, dying to know the truth. She read it aloud

"Lily, my dear. I'm so sorry, I should have tell you the truth sooner, but I was so scared of him, be careful my sweet girl, he is dangerous. Stay away from him. He's evil, he's totally corrupted the only emotion he feels know are pain, cruelty, hate… Please, forgive me. Love Mom." Lily burst into tears.

"No, it's not real, please say it's not the truth, please."

Dumbledore look sadly to the destroyed girl in front of him.

"Miss Evans."

She looked at him.

"I must be expelled, right? I'm Voldemort's daughter. I shouldn't be in Gryffondor, I should be in Slytherin. I shouldn't be at Hogwart at all,…"

"Miss Evans, the fact that you're in Gryffondor show that you're a trustworthy person. I would rather know how he could have been aware of your powers."

"I don't know… I have keep me away of everybody. No one know me… Unless…"

"Yes? What?"

"I'LL KILL THEM!!!!!!!"

"Who?"

"THESE….. These little…" Lily was so furious that she couldn't speak.

"Who?"

She breathed for a few minutes to calm her.

"James, Sirius, Remus and Peter", she spat, disgusted.

"How could they have discovered your nature?"

"I don't know. But they have spend the week trying to find who I am. They realised my existence because as I was Head Girl, I have to meet James. So they knew what I look like. They must have ask their parents who had to ask people around them."

At these words an owl dropped a letter on Dumbledore's desk. After reading it, he looked at Lily.

"You were right, Miss Evans. Apparently, Mr Potter had been asked by his son if he knew somebody with your description. Mr Potter had immediately realised your nature. But it seemed that the letter containing your description had been lost or more probably stolen."

"They're dead."

"I will have a talk with these boys"

"Not if I find them before."

"I understand that you are quite … mad with them. But don't do something too drastic if I may ask."

Lily thought for a minute

"Alright, I won't kill them. But sir, I've spent six years here alone because I've to hide my abilities, and because of these…. I can't find a word for describe them, all these years had been useless. Can I at least teach them to don't mess with people's lives?"

"I think that a little lesson might be useful, but don't be too hard on them, OK?"

"I'll try my best."

She went out the office under the amused look of Dumbledore.

"Oh I'll said to them to go see you after I'll have finished with them."

"Thanks Miss Evans."

Then she ran to the seventh-year-boy dorm. She stormed in it. Suddenly, James and his friends were on the floor, then in the air.

"What the hell do you…?" Yelled James

"Shut up you little stupid brainless prat!"

"What?"

"Do you think sometimes? Do you use that thing we call brain?"

"I…"

"No, apparently no."

"To think, James need a brain", said Sirius jokingly

"Sirius, I'm not really in the mood to listen to your pathetic jokes."

Lily glared at him. Her eyes were so full of hate that the Marauders were a bit scared.

"Can you explain to us, why we are now floating", please, asked Remus, the first to recover.

"I'd have very good reasons to hide myself, to stay alone, invisible to everyone. And now because of you he had found me! Thanks to your damn curiosity, he know who I am and he is after me! Are you happy? You must be. You've just destroyed the few things which supported me!"

"But…"

"No but! Stop now! You've done enough! Now, I warn you for the last time. Don't come near me again, forget all about me. You have never know me. OK?"

They nodded.

"Good. Dumbledore wants to see you immediately in his office. Password is "Lemon drop". But before, I'll teach you not to mess with my life again."

When they enter in Dumbledore office, few minutes later, he hardly contain his laughter. They had now long neck, like giraffe, elephant's ears, eyes as big as plate, hot pink hair, a very, very big nose, bright green skin.

"I see that you have met The Head Girl, young men…"