Until Death Do Us Part
Harry Potter theme and related characters are property of J.K. Rowling. Plot idea is accredited to the original author, J.K.Rowling. Plot angle and revisions idea of Melissa Pomeroy. Character Verissa Station (name borrowed with permission from an aquaintence) property of Meisako Pyoko-Chan (Melissa Pomeroy), 2002. Any and all reviews appriaciated.~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~
chapter FIVE: Strawberries
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Welcome to my version of 'life before Harry'. This is the story of James, Lily, and the gang in their seventh year of Hogwarts to the begining of the Harry Potter series as we know it... Please read my rendition of Harry's fifth year, Harry Potter and the Fallen Angel at Hogwarts (complete), and his sixth year, Harry Potter and the Children's Crusades (work in progress).
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Lily rubbed her eyes sleepily and looked at her watch. Two-thirteen in the morning. She lazily closed her Potions book and stood to leave the common room and retire to bed. As she made her way up the stairs she heard voices in the common room.
Confused, Lily turned back down the steps.
"Who's there?"
The voices hushed and the sound of muffled feet ceased.
"I asked, 'Who is there?' Show yourself!" It remained quiet. "Head Girl of this school demands you return to your beds immediately before I get angry."
There was a distant whisper.
"Lumos." she finally muttered and shewed it around the room. There was no one there. Lily's heart began to pound wildly. "He-hello?" There was a forbodding sense about the room and Lily didn't like it one bit. Telling herself it was just Peeves the Poltergeist, trying to give her a fright, she extinguished her wand and turned back up the stairs. As she reached the door to her dormitory, Lily heard the distinct sound of the common room door open and close. Furious at herself for letting them get out, LIly told herself that students out of bounds was not her problem. It was the delinquents' who were out sneaking off.
Lily woke the next morning to the angry shouts of Professor McGonagall downstairs in the common room. She pulled open the curtain around her four post and stuck her head out.
"What's going on?" said Evelyn Keir sleepily from across the room.
"Shh!" Analisa Jones whishpered. She had her ear pressed against the door. "Some one is being chewed out-- out late last night-- wandering halls--"
"Oooh!" said Lily in an irritated voice. "I tried to get them to bed!" She threw on her Hogwarts robes quickly and swept past Analisa and down the stairs.
"...should have known better! I can't bring myself to believe that you, of all people, would be out at such an insane hour! I am deeply disappointed, all three of you... Detention tonight. I will discuss the details with you later."
Lily appeared at the bottom of the steps to see McGonagall's emerald robes flow out of the room.
"You!" said Lily when she saw the persons accountable.
James smiled sheepishly. "Morning, Lily-dear. Sleep well?"
"Oh James... You're Head Boy... I can't believe tha-"
"Lily!" Sirius interrupted. "It was my fault. I talked Jamie and Peter into coming with me- I wanted to sneak into the Slytherin common rooms." Sirius looked at his friends intently.
Lily opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out. Finally she shook her head. "You realize you may have just cost Gryffindor the House Cup? I'll expect you to make these points up."
All three hung their heads in shame.
"Sorry..."
"Yes, dear..."
"Yes, mother..."
Lily rolled her eyes at Sirius's remark. "I reckon you haven't eaten breakfast yet? Famished, I would assume?" She took James's hand. "Let's go eat, and you can tell me all about your adventures- although I'm certainly not pleased with you..." She gave a meaningful look to James, who smiled at her.
"Of course not! Dare to think such a thing!"
In the Great Hall, they found Remus sitting at the Gryffindor table, sleepily prodding his scrambled eggs. "Morning..."
"When did you get in, Moony?" Peter said as he took a seat beside the pale-looking boy.
"Just a few minutes ago- Strawberries?" He handed Lily the bowl, which she accepted and piled strawberry slices onto her porrige.
"Thank you. Are you feeling better?" Lily added cream.
Remus nodded with a smile. "Very much so."
"You missed out last night, Moony!" Remus looked sharply at the dark haired boy. "We nearly found the Slytherin common rooms!" Sirius looked as though he had something in his eye.
"Do tell!"
James leaned over Lily and took an apple from a bowl. "Well, we think we nearly found them. It could have very well been Hufflepuff, or some old classroom for all we know!"
Lily had to laugh. "And we lost all of those points, too!"
"You should join us at night, sometime, Lily." Peter said. The other boys looked at him. "What?" Lily noticed their faces and her heart sank.
"Oh, no, it's all right. If you don't want me to hang around you at 'guy time', I'll just stay in the common room."
"Lil! Don't be like that, please. Join us tonight?" James took her hand.
"Only if I'm not intruding..."
"Then it's settled!"
Verissa approached in a huffy manner. "Good morning, gentlemen, Lily- Do you know what that git just did to me?" Tears were swelling in her eyes. "He called me a 'Muggle loving-" she whispered the rest into Lily's ears before bursting into heavy sobs.
"He didn't! What a fowl person!" Lily fumed.
Verissa nodded. "I was just sitting at my table, eating my porrige when he knocked into me. He turned around and told me off for being in the way!"
"But you were sitting, right?" Remus's brow furrowed. "Snape walked into you! Of all the stupid things-"
Verissa rubbed her nose with the back of her hand. "Then he just said that horrid thing, to my face, and infront of all the other Ravenclaws, too!"
"Oh, Vera!" Lily embraced her friend gently. "I'll talk with Professor Dumbledore about it later, alright? Right now, you'd better go finish breakfast before first period starts."
Verissa nodded and slowly retreated to her table and began to finish her porrige.
"Snape is such a jerk-"
"Moony?"
"Well, he is, James! I hate him! I wish that you hadn't saved him that nigh-" Remus closed his mouth abruptly and glanced at Lily. She was trying to appear as though she hadn't heard what he just said, but it was kind of difficult. James saved Severus? When?
A scream from the other side of the room jolted Lily from her thoughts. Some one was yelling for help.
"Verissa, Verissa! Oh, some one get Madam Pomfrey! Verissa! Speak to me!" A short blonde Ravenclaw girl was shaking Verissa wildly.
The Marauders and Lily looked around the room. Verissa was clutching her throat and turning a rather nasty shade of purple.
"Rissa!" Remus jumped onto the table very undeftly and across the room. He took the girl into his arms and shook her. "Rissa! Say something..." Verissa Station didn't reply, only gasped for breath. Remus muttered something profane and lifted her off her chair and rushed out of the room.
The entire Hall was silent momentarily, then errupted into excited talking.
"Did you see that?"
"That boy just picked her up and ran-"
"What happened to her, anyway?"
Lily looked up at James, who looked equally frightened. "What just happened?!"
"I'll find out, sit tight." Sirius got up from his seat and walked over to the short blonde girl from Ravenclaw. Lily sat with her eyes fixed on her spoon, lip trembling.
Siriyus returned shortly, shaking his head. "Wendy doesn't know what happened. She said Verissa was just eating her starwberry porrige when she started spazing out."
She narrowed her eyes. "Strawberry porrige?" Sirius nodded. "She's allergic to strawberries! I have to see Madam Pomfrey!"
"Wait!" James called after his girlfriend but she had already dashed out of the room.
Lily's pounding heart echoed in her throat as she rounded the corner and skidded into the Infirmiry. Madam Pomfrey was bent over Verissa and Remus was watching anxiously as he paced back and forth.
"She... ate... strawberries..." Lily panted. Madam Pomfrey looked up at her confused.
"What, dear?" The nurse had persperation on her forehead.
"She's... allergic! The vial... around... her neck!" Lily gulped and walked over to Verissa, rather bowleggedly. She pulled off the girl's necklace and took the stopper out of the bottle which hung there. She had remembered Verissa telling her about the antidote once. She used the information for an Potions essay last year.
Lily bit her lip and tilted Verissa's lifeless head. She tipped the contents of the bottle into her friend's mouth. Silently she prayed that it worked...
"If this doesn't work, we've lost her." Madam Pomfrey said slowly. "I've already tried to reduce the swelling in her throat with a charm- it didn't work..."
Remus came to stand beside Lily. No one said anything for the longest time, what seemed like eternity, but was mere seconds. James, Sirius, and Peter's feet echoed in the hall as they entered the room. No one even breathed. Remus cracked.
"Verissa! Wake up!" He shook her.
"Mr. Lupin, please!" The nurse tried to pull Remus away put he shurgged her off.
"Verissa!" He placed his mouth firmly on the Ravenclaw's lips. Lily gasped, thinking Remus was giving up on her and giving her a goodbye kiss. Then it hit her. Mouth to mouth resesitation. She, like everyone else in the room, held her breath.
With the acute sound of a vacuum becoming unclogged, Verissa breathed and her eyes opened wide. Remus pulled up reluctantly and looked at her.
"Are you alright?"
She nodded slowly and smiled at him. "Thank you," she managed.
Lily let out a dry sob and smiled. "Oh Vera!" She lunged to hug her friend but Madam Pomfrey caught her.
"Now dear- Let Ms. Station rest some, alright? Come visit her later." SHe set Lily straight. "Now out! All of you!" She shooed them out, but left Remus, as he had taken a chair next to Verissa and they now sat, looking into each other's eyes and holding hands.
"How cute!" fussed Lily as James walked her to Runes. "I think they're wonderful together!"
"We'll see." said Sirius, slightly behind them.
"Oh, go get a girlfriend, Sirus!" Lily dismissed his comment with the wave of a hand.
"Whatever-" Sirius rolled his eyes and suddenly turned a corner, Peter following.
James looked after them.
"Did I say something wrong?" Lily asked.
"Erm... not exactly. But there are just somethings you don't know." James kissed Lily on the cheek. "Later." Before she could respond, he left her at her classroom.
"Well, I wish I did know- If only some one would tell me..." she muttered under her breath and entered the room.
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Sorry it took me so long, and yes, that 'shewed' up there is spelled correctly!
kasey: Alright! I've written more! Happy?
SeaS: I just learned about genetics in school and thought that I could use that for my story. Genetics will play more of a role MUCH later! :)
Please email me! Slytherin_Angel@MostlySunny.com
Harry Potter theme and related characters are property of J.K. Rowling. Plot idea is accredited to the original author, J.K.Rowling. Plot angle and revisions idea of Melissa Pomeroy. Character Verissa Station (name borrowed with permission from an aquaintence) property of Meisako Pyoko-Chan (Melissa Pomeroy), 2002. Any and all reviews appriaciated.
chapter FIVE: Strawberries
Welcome to my version of 'life before Harry'. This is the story of James, Lily, and the gang in their seventh year of Hogwarts to the begining of the Harry Potter series as we know it... Please read my rendition of Harry's fifth year, Harry Potter and the Fallen Angel at Hogwarts (complete), and his sixth year, Harry Potter and the Children's Crusades (work in progress).
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Lily rubbed her eyes sleepily and looked at her watch. Two-thirteen in the morning. She lazily closed her Potions book and stood to leave the common room and retire to bed. As she made her way up the stairs she heard voices in the common room.
Confused, Lily turned back down the steps.
"Who's there?"
The voices hushed and the sound of muffled feet ceased.
"I asked, 'Who is there?' Show yourself!" It remained quiet. "Head Girl of this school demands you return to your beds immediately before I get angry."
There was a distant whisper.
"Lumos." she finally muttered and shewed it around the room. There was no one there. Lily's heart began to pound wildly. "He-hello?" There was a forbodding sense about the room and Lily didn't like it one bit. Telling herself it was just Peeves the Poltergeist, trying to give her a fright, she extinguished her wand and turned back up the stairs. As she reached the door to her dormitory, Lily heard the distinct sound of the common room door open and close. Furious at herself for letting them get out, LIly told herself that students out of bounds was not her problem. It was the delinquents' who were out sneaking off.
Lily woke the next morning to the angry shouts of Professor McGonagall downstairs in the common room. She pulled open the curtain around her four post and stuck her head out.
"What's going on?" said Evelyn Keir sleepily from across the room.
"Shh!" Analisa Jones whishpered. She had her ear pressed against the door. "Some one is being chewed out-- out late last night-- wandering halls--"
"Oooh!" said Lily in an irritated voice. "I tried to get them to bed!" She threw on her Hogwarts robes quickly and swept past Analisa and down the stairs.
"...should have known better! I can't bring myself to believe that you, of all people, would be out at such an insane hour! I am deeply disappointed, all three of you... Detention tonight. I will discuss the details with you later."
Lily appeared at the bottom of the steps to see McGonagall's emerald robes flow out of the room.
"You!" said Lily when she saw the persons accountable.
James smiled sheepishly. "Morning, Lily-dear. Sleep well?"
"Oh James... You're Head Boy... I can't believe tha-"
"Lily!" Sirius interrupted. "It was my fault. I talked Jamie and Peter into coming with me- I wanted to sneak into the Slytherin common rooms." Sirius looked at his friends intently.
Lily opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out. Finally she shook her head. "You realize you may have just cost Gryffindor the House Cup? I'll expect you to make these points up."
All three hung their heads in shame.
"Sorry..."
"Yes, dear..."
"Yes, mother..."
Lily rolled her eyes at Sirius's remark. "I reckon you haven't eaten breakfast yet? Famished, I would assume?" She took James's hand. "Let's go eat, and you can tell me all about your adventures- although I'm certainly not pleased with you..." She gave a meaningful look to James, who smiled at her.
"Of course not! Dare to think such a thing!"
In the Great Hall, they found Remus sitting at the Gryffindor table, sleepily prodding his scrambled eggs. "Morning..."
"When did you get in, Moony?" Peter said as he took a seat beside the pale-looking boy.
"Just a few minutes ago- Strawberries?" He handed Lily the bowl, which she accepted and piled strawberry slices onto her porrige.
"Thank you. Are you feeling better?" Lily added cream.
Remus nodded with a smile. "Very much so."
"You missed out last night, Moony!" Remus looked sharply at the dark haired boy. "We nearly found the Slytherin common rooms!" Sirius looked as though he had something in his eye.
"Do tell!"
James leaned over Lily and took an apple from a bowl. "Well, we think we nearly found them. It could have very well been Hufflepuff, or some old classroom for all we know!"
Lily had to laugh. "And we lost all of those points, too!"
"You should join us at night, sometime, Lily." Peter said. The other boys looked at him. "What?" Lily noticed their faces and her heart sank.
"Oh, no, it's all right. If you don't want me to hang around you at 'guy time', I'll just stay in the common room."
"Lil! Don't be like that, please. Join us tonight?" James took her hand.
"Only if I'm not intruding..."
"Then it's settled!"
Verissa approached in a huffy manner. "Good morning, gentlemen, Lily- Do you know what that git just did to me?" Tears were swelling in her eyes. "He called me a 'Muggle loving-" she whispered the rest into Lily's ears before bursting into heavy sobs.
"He didn't! What a fowl person!" Lily fumed.
Verissa nodded. "I was just sitting at my table, eating my porrige when he knocked into me. He turned around and told me off for being in the way!"
"But you were sitting, right?" Remus's brow furrowed. "Snape walked into you! Of all the stupid things-"
Verissa rubbed her nose with the back of her hand. "Then he just said that horrid thing, to my face, and infront of all the other Ravenclaws, too!"
"Oh, Vera!" Lily embraced her friend gently. "I'll talk with Professor Dumbledore about it later, alright? Right now, you'd better go finish breakfast before first period starts."
Verissa nodded and slowly retreated to her table and began to finish her porrige.
"Snape is such a jerk-"
"Moony?"
"Well, he is, James! I hate him! I wish that you hadn't saved him that nigh-" Remus closed his mouth abruptly and glanced at Lily. She was trying to appear as though she hadn't heard what he just said, but it was kind of difficult. James saved Severus? When?
A scream from the other side of the room jolted Lily from her thoughts. Some one was yelling for help.
"Verissa, Verissa! Oh, some one get Madam Pomfrey! Verissa! Speak to me!" A short blonde Ravenclaw girl was shaking Verissa wildly.
The Marauders and Lily looked around the room. Verissa was clutching her throat and turning a rather nasty shade of purple.
"Rissa!" Remus jumped onto the table very undeftly and across the room. He took the girl into his arms and shook her. "Rissa! Say something..." Verissa Station didn't reply, only gasped for breath. Remus muttered something profane and lifted her off her chair and rushed out of the room.
The entire Hall was silent momentarily, then errupted into excited talking.
"Did you see that?"
"That boy just picked her up and ran-"
"What happened to her, anyway?"
Lily looked up at James, who looked equally frightened. "What just happened?!"
"I'll find out, sit tight." Sirius got up from his seat and walked over to the short blonde girl from Ravenclaw. Lily sat with her eyes fixed on her spoon, lip trembling.
Siriyus returned shortly, shaking his head. "Wendy doesn't know what happened. She said Verissa was just eating her starwberry porrige when she started spazing out."
She narrowed her eyes. "Strawberry porrige?" Sirius nodded. "She's allergic to strawberries! I have to see Madam Pomfrey!"
"Wait!" James called after his girlfriend but she had already dashed out of the room.
Lily's pounding heart echoed in her throat as she rounded the corner and skidded into the Infirmiry. Madam Pomfrey was bent over Verissa and Remus was watching anxiously as he paced back and forth.
"She... ate... strawberries..." Lily panted. Madam Pomfrey looked up at her confused.
"What, dear?" The nurse had persperation on her forehead.
"She's... allergic! The vial... around... her neck!" Lily gulped and walked over to Verissa, rather bowleggedly. She pulled off the girl's necklace and took the stopper out of the bottle which hung there. She had remembered Verissa telling her about the antidote once. She used the information for an Potions essay last year.
Lily bit her lip and tilted Verissa's lifeless head. She tipped the contents of the bottle into her friend's mouth. Silently she prayed that it worked...
"If this doesn't work, we've lost her." Madam Pomfrey said slowly. "I've already tried to reduce the swelling in her throat with a charm- it didn't work..."
Remus came to stand beside Lily. No one said anything for the longest time, what seemed like eternity, but was mere seconds. James, Sirius, and Peter's feet echoed in the hall as they entered the room. No one even breathed. Remus cracked.
"Verissa! Wake up!" He shook her.
"Mr. Lupin, please!" The nurse tried to pull Remus away put he shurgged her off.
"Verissa!" He placed his mouth firmly on the Ravenclaw's lips. Lily gasped, thinking Remus was giving up on her and giving her a goodbye kiss. Then it hit her. Mouth to mouth resesitation. She, like everyone else in the room, held her breath.
With the acute sound of a vacuum becoming unclogged, Verissa breathed and her eyes opened wide. Remus pulled up reluctantly and looked at her.
"Are you alright?"
She nodded slowly and smiled at him. "Thank you," she managed.
Lily let out a dry sob and smiled. "Oh Vera!" She lunged to hug her friend but Madam Pomfrey caught her.
"Now dear- Let Ms. Station rest some, alright? Come visit her later." SHe set Lily straight. "Now out! All of you!" She shooed them out, but left Remus, as he had taken a chair next to Verissa and they now sat, looking into each other's eyes and holding hands.
"How cute!" fussed Lily as James walked her to Runes. "I think they're wonderful together!"
"We'll see." said Sirius, slightly behind them.
"Oh, go get a girlfriend, Sirus!" Lily dismissed his comment with the wave of a hand.
"Whatever-" Sirius rolled his eyes and suddenly turned a corner, Peter following.
James looked after them.
"Did I say something wrong?" Lily asked.
"Erm... not exactly. But there are just somethings you don't know." James kissed Lily on the cheek. "Later." Before she could respond, he left her at her classroom.
"Well, I wish I did know- If only some one would tell me..." she muttered under her breath and entered the room.
Sorry it took me so long, and yes, that 'shewed' up there is spelled correctly!
kasey: Alright! I've written more! Happy?
SeaS: I just learned about genetics in school and thought that I could use that for my story. Genetics will play more of a role MUCH later! :)
Please email me! Slytherin_Angel@MostlySunny.com