LILY POTTER AND THE CHANGE OF TIME
Warning – This is the sequel to Harry Potter, Time Traveler. If you have not read, Harry Potter, Time Traveler, I would highly recommend it as this story will get very confusing. You may not recognize many of the characters and may have no idea what is going on if you do not read it.
Summary – Harry Potter is supposed to be dead. But thanks to the Book of Time and a little time traveling back in his fifth year, he is now alive. Now Lily must overcome the obstacles of being a typical teenage witch and finding out where time got changed because you never want to mess with fate. Sometimes it does not always come out for the best…but yet…sometimes it does.
Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter, the characters, or the Harry Potter world. They all belong to the fabulous J.K. Rowling. However, while I do not own their names, the characters and the personality traits of Lily Potter, Eddie Weasley, Daris Malfoy, Christof Nott, as well as Asher Lazard and Robyn Andrews all belong to me.
Chapter 16 – Tiger Lily:
"PRESENTS!" a small girl, around six years old, shouted while running down the stairs and all of the adults sitting in the sitting room could not help but smile at the sight of her. Her hair was in two messy pigtails, with strands of her messy, golden blonde hair falling her eyes. Her emerald green eyes were sparkling with delight and joy as she stumbled into the room, a small smile creeping on her lips. Right behind her was lanky boy, around seven, with fiery red hair, loads of freckles, and a huge grin on his face.
"Calm down, Lily," said Sirius, who was sitting on the sofa next to. "You need to wait for daddy and then we can open presents." The little girl, also known as Lily, rolled her eyes and pouted as she crossed her arms over her chest, frowning and mumbling incoherent words under her breath.
A pretty red-headed woman, who was sitting on the loveseat next to her sister-in-law, laughed in amusement and leaned in towards Lily. "Hey Lily, you want to know a secret? Your daddy is in the yard with Uncle Ron. Do you want to go shout out for him?" Lily nodded her head vigorously.
"Let's go Ginny!" she said breathlessly, grabbing the woman's hand and dragging her towards the backdoor, which led into the family room. Ginny opened the door for Lily and they both stuck their heads out.
"DADDY!"
"HARRY!"
Both girls were shouting for Harry at the top of their lungs, making a pregnant Hermione nearly jump out of her skin.
"A fine example you're setting, Ginny," said Hermione exasperatedly. Ginny turned around and shot Hermione a look as Lily continued to shout out the door.
"DADDY! GET OVER HERE NOW! I WANT TO OPEN PRESENTS!" Ginny was still laughing amusedly as she patted Lily on the shoulder, as though she were proud of her. Sirius and Remus shared grins and laughed.
At that moment Ron came through the doorway, nearly knocking Lily over. He caught sight of the scene in the room and grinned at the proud look on Ginny's face, the bemused one on Hermione's, the amused one on Sirius and Remus's, and the anxious one on Lily's.
"Did I miss something?" asked Ron as he laughed and sat down on the couch next to his pregnant wife. Even though she sighed in an annoyed tone, Ron leaned over and kissed her tenderly on the cheek to her help her and the baby inside calm down. "Don't get so worked up, love; that's my baby you're carrying in there."
"Ginny is getting Lily worked up," said Hermione, giving her sister-in-law an annoyed look. It seemed as though she wanted Ron to do something about it. "Honestly, I never knew a six year old girl could be so loud." Ginny merely shrugged, picked up Lily, and held her against her hip.
"Well Lily isn't your average six year old girl," Ginny retorted, beaming proudly at the little girl settled on her hip.
"That's the truth," said Sirius, nodding in agreement while giving Lily the same look that Ginny had given her.
Lily beamed at all of them as she hugged Ginny. Ginny hugged the girl back before placing her down on the ground and moving to sit on the floor in front of the couch where her brother and sister-in-law were sitting.
"Hey Lily, could I get one of those hugs?" asked Sirius, holding out his arms to the little girl before him. Lily giggled and immediately placed herself into the older man's lap and wrapped her arms around his neck. Sirius wrapped his arms tightly around her, tickling her stomach in the process. Lily let out a shrill and joyous giggle before slapping Sirius's hand away to stop him from tickling her. Sirius just smiled and hugged the tiny little girl closer to him.
The little red-headed boy, Eddie, smiled and walked over to his mother and father, Ron and Hermione. He stood in front of his mother and looked at her overlarge stomach. He slowly placed his hand on it. Hermione smiled and placed her hand on top of his and smiled tenderly at her little boy.
"You're new baby brother or sister is kicking like crazy," said Hermione, patting his hand. "They should be here any day now, Eddie." Eddie let out a small grin on his tiny little lips, lighting up his freckled face.
"I want a sister," he announced firmly.
"You do?" Ron asked, pulling his son on to his lap and bouncing him on his knee. "You want a baby sister eh?"
"Yes!"
"Why do you want a baby sister, Ed? Why don't you want a baby brother?" asked Ron curiously. He ignored the stern look that Hermione shot him.
"Because I want a sister just like Lily!" Eddie shouted out, looking at his best friend with admiration and joy. Lily looked at him and spit into her hand. Hermione made a face of disgust as Eddie also spit into his hand and the two small children grinned and shook hands, making a spit shake, which in fact was their best friend handshake.
"Bestest friends?" asked Lily.
"Always!" Eddie said with glee. Sirius looked over at Ron and smiled.
"What are we going to do with these two?" Remus asked, shaking his head amusedly. Sirius raised an eyebrow.
"Plan a wedding?" asked Ginny innocently, though her brown eyes were twinkling with her usual mischief. Ron rolled his eyes.
"Don't let Harry hear you say that," he mumbled playfully. "He'll have a cow."
"Oh then let him have a cow," said Ginny, waving her hand dismissively, causing both Hermione and Remus to laugh.
"Well I don't know about you all, but I plan on tickling Lily Flower here until she begs for mercy!" shouted Sirius lively, grabbing Lily, tackling her to the floor, and tickling her mercilessly. Lily let out a playful scream, which preceded a fit of laughs and giggles.
"Say mercy!"
"NO!" Lily managed to choke out through her laughs. "Eddie, help me!"
Eddie let out a joking, but angry shout and leaped at Sirius, throwing his arms around his neck and trying desperately to tackle him and pull him off of Lily. Sirius just grabbed Eddie's arms and pinned him to the floor next to Lily, tickling them both mercilessly. The two let out many cries of laughter and giggles, asking, no begging, Sirius to stop.
Ron had wrapped his arm around his wife, both of them smiling. Ginny caught Remus's eye and gestured to the scene before her, knowing that in times like these, they rarely got to have moments like this. It was truly breathtaking in a way.
Lily was almost crying she was being tickled so much. She started to flail her arms around in an attempt to hit Sirius.
"Please-Sirius-stop!" she cried through her laughs.
"Never!"
"DADDY!" screeched Lily pleadingly. "DADDY, HELP ME!"
"Harry, I think your daughter and godson might need some help," said Ginny sardonically as Harry stepped through the backdoor and entered the living room and a charming grin appeared on his face. He gently stroked the back of Ginny's head lovingly, staring intently into her big brown eyes as she looked back up at him. Harry sighed, almost longingly as he looked her before turning to see Sirius tickling Lily and Eddie.
"Sirius?" Harry called out, trying to make his voice sound angry and intimidating. "What may I ask are you doing to my daughter and godson?"
Sirius looked up and stopped tickling the two six year olds to see his own godson, Harry, leaning on the doorframe, grinning while continuing to affectionately stroke Ginny's head. Lily immediately took advantage of Sirius's distraction and jumped to her feet laughing as she ran towards Harry.
"He was tickling me daddy and he wouldn't stop!" Lily said hugging Harry's leg tightly. Harry gave Sirius a mocking glare. "Beat him up!" Harry gave Sirius a wink before clenching his fists and charging towards Sirius with his fists raised.
"Did you tickle my Lily Flower?" Harry asked in what he hoped as a mock, aggressive voice, making his tone go lower and deeper. Sirius chuckled and got to his feet, stepping away from Eddie's giggling figure.
"Why yes, yes I was," said Sirius in mock innocence, winking back at his godson. "Do you plan on doing something about it?"
"Beat him up daddy!" Lily shouted again while pointing at Sirius. Harry grinned and charged at Sirius while letting out a false roar. Lily and Eddie let out loud screams of laughter and delight, both laughing as Sirius and Harry playfully fought and wrestled each other to the ground.
"I'll be referee!" shouted Ginny as she got to her feet. Ron, Hermione, and Remus both busted out laughing.
Suddenly, as everyone took joy in their surroundings, there was a loud bang from upstairs and almost immediately everything, as if someone pressed some kind of universal mute button, went deathly silent. Lily and Eddie's smiling faces slowly disappeared and their eyes widened like saucers. Harry immediately jumped to his feet and took out his wand, standing at the ready. He was immediately followed and back up by Sirius, Remus, Ron, and Ginny doing the same. Hermione wobbled over to Lily and Eddie and wrapped an arm around each of them, as though her comfort would protect then. Nobody even dared to breathe, as though waiting for some kind of explosion.
"What was that?" Hermione finally whispered, breaking the silence. Sirius and Ginny shook their heads as Harry's eyes narrowed and he slowly advanced into the kitchen. He was followed closely by Sirius, who had his hand protectively on Harry's shoulder, and Ron. Ginny began placing more protective enchantments around the living room while Remus placed himself in front of Hermione and the two children.
The silence was so eerie and so deafening that Lily could hear a ringing in her ears. Even though she knew what was going to happen, she could not help but jump when she heard a popping sound that came from the kitchen and she heard gasps from Harry and Sirius and a terrified yell from Ron. She noticed that Remus had now grabbed Hermione's hand from behind with his wand still at the ready. Ginny started advancing into the kitchen.
"Well, good afternoon Harry," came a high, cold voice; a voice that Lily recognized only too well. It was Voldemort's voice.
"Voldemort!" Harry's voice snarled dangerously. Lily heard Hermione give a quiet sob as Ginny quickly turned to her and Remus.
"Get them out of here," she whispered frantically to the two of them, gesturing towards Lily and Eddie. ""Use Floo Powder to get to the Auror Headquarters at the Ministry. Go…now!"
"I can't use Floo Powder," said Hermione desperately, pointing to her overlarge stomach and the baby within it. "At this point in my pregnancy, I'll lose the baby." Ginny swore slightly and looked over at Eddie and Lily, a desperate look in his tired, stormy, gray eyes before turning to Remus.
"Remus, you need to take them! I'll take care of Hermione."
"What do you think you are doing here?" Sirius's voice asked from the kitchen. They heard a quiet, high cackle and a painful moan from Harry. Everyone immediately knew it was because of the excruciating pain that he was feeling in his scar.
"Why, I've only come to wish young Lily Flower a Happy Birthday," said Voldemort in mock sincerity. Young Lily's eyes widened and she quickly looked at the three adults in the room. She felt Eddie grab a hold of her wrist tightly, but comfortingly and would not let go.
"Ginny, I can't leave the two of you here alone," said Remus, shaking his head in distress. "You're a powerful witch Ginny, but seriously, what are you going to do? Fight Voldemort while protecting Hermione who is nine months pregnant? You'll yourself, Hermione and the baby killed!"
"Thanks for the faith, Remus," hissed Ginny sarcastically.
"You keep away from her," snarled Harry's voice ferociously. "It's me you want; you leave Lily out of this!"
"I'm afraid you are mistaken, Harry," said Voldemort's voice mockingly. "It is, in fact, the girl that I want and you I don't need."
"STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!" Harry's voice roared, making everyone nearly jump out of their skin. "I'LL KILL YOU, TOM RIDDLE, I SWEAR I WILL!"
"Remus, you've got to get Lily out if here!" Ginny hissed in a loud whisper. Voldemort must have heard because;
"Oh, I don't think so, Ginevra," came the cold high voice of Lord Voldemort. There was a pop from the kitchen, followed by Harry swearing loudly and profusely; then came four different pops from behind Hermione. Lily, Eddie, Hermione, Ginny, and Remus all whipped around. Hermione screamed into the face of Voldemort and his three Death Eaters. There were frantic footsteps from the kitchen as Harry, Sirius, and Ron charged back into the living room with their wands raised. Voldemort raised his own wand and pointed it straight at Hermione's face, making the footsteps stop abruptly.
"Take another step and I'll kill her so fast it will make your head spin," growled Voldemort. Lily turned her head slightly and saw Harry, Ron, Sirius, Ginny, and Remus all their lower their wands slowly to their sides. "Yes, I doubt very much that Mr. Weasley would like to see his Mudblood wife and unborn child die like this. It would be a pity, I'm sure."
Ron jerked forward, as though he were having some kind of panic attack, with his face burning with complete and utter fury and fists clenched. Remus and Ginny grabbed a hold of his cloak to prevent him from taking another step forward and from doing anything stupid that could provoke Voldemort to actually kill Hermione, like leaping at the Dark Lord and tackling him to the ground; which is what he looked like he wanted to do.
At this point, Sirius had already grabbed Lily and Eddie while Harry grabbed a hold of Ginny and the two men pushed the three of them behind Harry and Sirius in order to guard them from harm's way. Voldemort ignored the two red-heads but eyed the small girl that was cowering from behind the older man who was like a second father to her. His evil grin widened and he stepped closer to Hermione with her wand pointed at her face.
"I have a proposition to make," said Voldemort, still eyeing little Lily. Harry narrowed his eyes, if was even possible, even more. He knew what was coming and he knew that none of them would be happy with this so-called proposition that Voldemort would make. "If you give me the girl, I'll let the Mudblood and the rest of you go."
Everyone stared blankly at Voldemort. Harry seemed to have stopped breathing for a moment and slowly turned and looked at Ron. His best friend had grown deathly pale; even his freckles were unnoticeable. He turned and looked at Harry, his eyes filled with fear, confusion, hopelessness, and desperation. Then, to Harry's horror, Ron's eyes slowly drifted from himself and settled on the little girl whose hand was clutching on to the back of Harry's cloak, her emerald green eyes filled with fear and sorrow. Harry knew that Ron was having a great internal struggle with himself. Sighing heavily, he looked down at his daughter, then back at Voldemort's blood red eyes; red connected with green and they did not tear away.
"Now, this makes matters a little more complicated, and a little more entertaining, wouldn't you say so?" asked Voldemort menacingly, not breaking the eye contact with Harry. Harry looked over at Hermione, as though desperate for answers; Hermione always had the answers. She turned her head slightly and gave Harry an encouraging nod.
'No,' Harry thought to himself, 'I'm not going to let this happen.' He was not going to let his best friend and her unborn child die at Voldemort's hands and he was not going to let the bastard lay a finger on his daughter.
Despite his determination, Harry did not know what to do about the situation. He knew Ron would be absolutely devastated if anything ever happened to Hermione or his unborn son or daughter. Hermione, Eddie, and the new baby meant everything to him. They were his whole world and if anything happened to one of them, especially at Voldemort's hands, Ron would completely break down and lose his will to live.
But then again, what about Lily? Lily was everything to Harry, if not more. She was the only family he had and it was his only child; his daughter, his baby girl, his flower, his life. If Lily died, then he would die inside.
"Well, Harry, what's your decision?" Voldemort called out, breaking his thoughts. Harry opened his mouth to tell Voldemort to shove off, but Ginny beat him to it, shouting obscenities and swearing at dark wizard but she was interrupted;
"Take me," a voice quipped up from behind Harry. His eyes widened with horror because he knew that voice only too well. It was the same voice that told him that she loved him every night as he tucked her into bed after telling her stories. It was the same voice he heard singing in the bathtub every evening and the same voice that giggled when he tickled her. The voice belonged to none other than his one and only baby girl; Lily's voice.
Harry whipped around and saw the small six-year old girl step out from behind himself and Sirius to face Voldemort with a determined look on her face. Eddie reached out and grabbed her arm, but she snatched it away roughly. Eddie looked like he was about to go after his best friend but Sirius held him back.
Voldemort stared at Lily with a triumph look in his evil, cold, red eyes that were narrowed. It made him look like a snake as they set on the tiny little girl in front of him; the same little girl that was destined to destroy him.
"You've made a wise decision, little one," he said smugly. Harry was in such a state of shock over Lily's behavior that he seemed petrified.
Voldemort grabbed Hermione, who gave a weak shriek and shoved her towards Ron roughly. Being pregnant and unable to fully control her balance, she stumbled and almost fell straight on her stomach, but her husband dashed forward and caught her before she even touched the floor. Ron successfully dragged Hermione to her feet and out of Voldemort's reach, despite her heavy weight. Distracted over Ron catching Hermione, Voldemort managed to grab Lily and drag her towards him, his hands practically around her throat. When Harry saw this, he came back to his senses and became enraged.
"Harry-!"
"LILY!" Eddie shouted as Sirius grabbed him around the waist and lifted him on his feet to prevent him for leaping for Lily and becoming hostage by one of the Death Eaters. "LEAVE MY BESTEST FRIEND ALONE YOU EVIL-YOU-!"
"GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF OF HER NOW!" Harry roared, literally shaking with fury, raising his wand and pointing it at Voldemort.
"Say good-bye to your precious little flower, Potter," whispered Voldemort whispered to Harry as he looked at Lily with a triumphant look on his face. Anger soared through Harry's bones like a dangerous, deadly poison and he had one choice. He did not like it, but it was the only way. He had to do it, to save Lily's life. Harry hurriedly took his glasses and ripped them off his face before closing his eyes, feeling the power inside him beginning to build up. Before anyone could do anything else, Harry's eyes snapped opened.
"VALOR!" Harry roared as loudly as he could; his voice was deep, firm, shaking, and filled with a trembling anger. A bright green light soared towards Voldemort as he gave a high, cold shriek. In order to avoid getting hit with the green light, he let the tight hold on the little girl he wanted to kill go and shoved her away before Apparating on the spot with his fellow Death Eaters, who were also panicking at Harry's course of action. Lily stumbled backwards from Voldemort's shove and directly into Ginny's awaiting protective arms. She leaned over, shielding Lily as Sirius did the same for young Eddie. Everyone covered the eyes due to the blinding green light and held their breaths.
When the light died down and everyone uncovered their eyes to survey the scene, they all breathed a sigh of relief when they noticed that Voldemort and his cronies had vanished. Lily was still wrapped in Ginny's tight grip, mumbling something about her bottom being sore. Sirius gave a breath of relief, letting go of Eddie, who jumped into the arms of his parents, and dashing over to Ginny who was still cradling Lily. He stroked her hair gently.
"Oh Lily," he muttered as he continued to push her hair away from her eyes so that he could gaze at her face. "Thank heavens you're alright!"
"I'm okay, Sirius," she whispered, hugging Ginny tightly. She seemed to be holding on to the little girl for dear life. Finally, they all ooked over at Harry, who had fainted due to the energy he had used performing Eyeluta to save Lily. Ron immediately rushed over to Harry's side and looked down at his best friend. Hermione was weeping quietly as she clutched tightly on to her son, sobbing into his bright red hair, completely shell-shocked about what had just happened. Remus walked over to her and embraced Hermione tightly, trying to comfort her.
"Daddy?" Lily whispered in a terrified voice after a long while of eerie silence. "What's wrong with daddy?"
"Daddy is sick," explained Ron as he used his wand to levitate Harry gently on to the couch. Lily took her face out of Ginny's shoulder and looked at her father, her eyes filled with worry and concern for her him.
"Is he okay?"
"He'll be fine, Lily," said Ron, smiling reassuringly. "He's just tired, that's all. Using that power makes your daddy very tired." He turned towards Hermione and strode over to her, pulling her to him as tightly as he could. He continued to let Hermione cry into his shoulder while he patted her curly hair gently, whispering soothing words into her ear.
"Why do I hear crying?" a voice groaned from the couch. Lily turned and saw Harry moving slightly, rubbing his forehead as though he felt he had a headache coming on. Seeing her father awake, Lily immediately began to struggle in Ginny's arms.
"Daddy!" she cried. "Down, Ginny, down!" Ginny giggled.
"Impatience is a virtue you certainly inherited from your father," said Ginny with a smile as she put Lily on the ground. The six-year old dashed over to the couch and threw her arms around her father and held on tightly. Harry let out an "OMPH!" as Lily's weight landed heavily on his own, but he hugged her back nonetheless.
"Lily Julia Potter, what were you thinking?" asked Harry once he regained his composure and got his bearings together. "You could have died! Don't you ever do that to me again, do you hear?"
"But daddy," started Lily, looking a bit crestfallen, "I knew I wouldn't die." Harry looked at the other adults in the room, but no one responded. They looked just as confused as he felt. Instead, Harry turned back to Lily.
"What do you mean, sweetheart?"
"I knew you would save me," she said with a shrug. Harry stared at her for a long moment into her emerald depths. "Voldmort not going to kill my godmummy and I knew that you couldn't save her. You were too scared; I saw it in your eyes. Your eyes always go this weird color when you're scared. So I saved her because I knew you save me."
Everyone stared at Lily completely astonished. She just smiled and hugged Harry tightly, burying her face into the crook of his neck. Harry stared at his friends wide-eyed, not believing Lily's words. The trust she had in Harry, the love she had in herself to be brave enough to risk her life to save Hermione was truly remarkable for a six year old girl.
"You're amazing, Lily. You've got the heart of a lion," whispered Harry, stroking her hair with fatherly affection. Surprisingly, Lily looked up and groaned.
"I don't want no heart of a lion," she whined. Everyone raised confused eyebrows. "I want to have the heart of a…a…a tiger!"
"What?" Ron blurted out incredulously. Ginny smacked him over the head.
"A lot of peoples have the heart of a lion, but do you know any peoples who have the heart of a tiger?" asked Lily smiling with a delightful little twinkle shining in her bright, emerald green eyes.
"No, I don't," said Remus honestly, an amused laugh in his voice. Sirius and Ginny caught each other's eye and shared amused smiles. Hermione was smiling as Ron scratched the back of his head in confusion. Harry just stared intently and lovingly at his daughter.
"Well if it's the heart of a tiger you want, then you've got it!" said Harry, ruffling her messy, golden blonde hair. She giggled and hugged Harry. "From now on, I'm going to call you, 'Tiger Lily,' because you've got the heart of such a tiger."
Lily giggled again and leapt off of the couch. She looked over at Eddie, who had been watching the entire scene intently and smiled. He smiled back before dashing forward and sweeping the small girl into a tight embrace.
"You almost die Lily," he whispered.
"I'm safe," she said simply.
"But, if you die, I think- I think I'd feel…weird without you living with me," said Eddie as he held his best friend close to him. "Who would I share my oath with?"
"We'll always share that oath, Eddie," said Lily as she hugged him and he hugged her back before they each spit into their hands and shook. Hermione grimaced.
"Well that's classy," murmured Ginny dryly, though she was grinning and winking at Harry, who blushed.
When the two children finished their best friend handshake, they screamed, "CAKE!" in unison before dashing to the kitchen. Harry, Sirius, Remus, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all looked at each other and smiled, clearly entertained over the two children's antics.
"Well I suppose it's time for cake…"
A note from the Jitterbelle. I really hope you enjoyed this chapter because I had a blast writing it and then revising it. I love writing flashback scenes and in the original version, Ginny was not in this scene. But, concerning her 'relationship' with Harry and her future relationship with Lily, I thought it was important and crucial to include her. I hope you all feel the same. Please enjoy the story and please, please, PLEASE don't forget to review! I greatly appreciate them!
Coming in Chapter 17 - Lily finds out how Eddie really feels about her by time-traveling back to her fifth year while she's in the hospital wing…hehehehe….
