Hm, a little more of drama in this chapter than humour. What a tragedy. I'm
more of a humour girl.
Longer than usual, but don't expect that to last long. Lily's relevant diary entries took up a bit more space than I would have liked.
SilverMoon ~ Here's more ASAP indeed! And some nice innocent truth!
fang-gurlie ~ Glad you think so!
shdurrani ~ Yeah, gotta love the evil cliffies! My first cliffie!
Heavenly222 ~ Loved it? Cool!
blue c ~ Gah! Not the puppydog eyes.....fine! Here! Read!
The Unknown and The Diaries
By: The Aussie Slytherin
Chapter Four
30th July, 1979
Dear Diary,
I found out some very disturbing information today. I am not a Muggle-born witch as I had thought. I was adopted at the age of three months from an orphanage, where my mother had left me two days before being killed.
She was a witch, and a pureblood from the line of Rowena Ravenclaw. Her name was Sarah, and she had been married to a man called Tom Riddle, who is my father and descended from Salazar Slytherin.
And Dumbledore just told me this today, my twentieth birthday. He also told me that my father, Tom Riddle, is know known as Lord Voldemort, the most feared and detested dark wizard in over a century. No one was this scared of even Grindelwald.
I'm scared, I don't think that Voldemort knows that I'm his daughter, or even that I exist, but I don't even want to think of what might happen to me or my friends if he finds out.
I had best leave this here, it's barely halfway through the day yet and my birthday party is due to begin.
Love Lily
Harry stared at the first entry. Voldemort was his grandfather??? He resolved to quiz Dumbledore about that little fact when he returned to school.
He looked back to his mother's diary, and to the next entry.
30th July, 1979
Dear Diary,
I was planning on waiting to write until tomorrow, but I can't sleep for the excitement. The most wonderful thing happened this afternoon!
REMUS PROPOSED!!! Yes, that's right, Remus J Lupin, love of my life, the werewolf who's Animagus form is a cat, asked me to marry him.
And I, of course, said yes. I can't wait to start planning the wedding; Remus is having trouble deciding between James and Sirius as his best man. I am going to have Sam as maid of honour, of course. It would be wrong to have it any other way.
I think I'll tell Remus to pick Sirius, because then the best man and maid of honour will be in love too.
Arabella, Katie and Sam are just as excited as I am, and they've been giving James, Peter and Sirius these Looks, trying to give them a clue. Remus said that none of them has gotten it yet.
Love Lily
Harry blinked in shock. His mother had been engaged to Remus? And James had dated Arabella Figg?
He had a feeling that things were just going to get weirder, but went to the next entry, a few days after the previous one.
10th August, 1979
Dear Diary,
Remus and I have been speaking to Dumbledore about wedding things, and he said that we should either wait until the war with Voldemort is over or have a small secret wedding in private.
We decided on the second option, and we'll have a big proper wedding after the war. The only people who are going to be present are the Marauders, Arabella, Katie, Sam, and Dumbledore.
Love Lily
He'd been right, much weirder. He wondered who Katie was, but guessed that she had been seeing Pettigrew.
15th August, 1979
Dear Diary,
Well, it's official! I am now Mrs Lily Marie Lupin. Lily Lupin. Some people might think it sounds funny (such as Sirius - Sam had to smack him upside the head to shut him up), but I think it's wonderful.
We didn't know what date to hold the wedding on, but James mentioned that since Remus proposed on MY birthday, we could get married on his. And we did.
I finally found out what that damned 'J' stands for too. Jeremiah. Remus Jeremiah Lupin turned 20 the same day he got married to Lily Marie Evans. Now Lupin.
I sound a little repetitive, but I'm so excited!
Love Mrs Lily Lupin
Harry stared in shock. Remus had been married to his mother? Was this what Samantha had wanted him to know? He had a feeling that there was much more.
Even more than being descended from Ravenclaw and Slytherin. He briefly wondered why he wasn't sorted into one of those houses.
10th December 1979
Dear Diary,
I don't know what to think! Remy and I have been happily married for nearly four months now, and all this time there has been no new threats from Voldemort.
But today Dumbledore called me and James in and told us both a few things.
He told James about my heritage, and then told me about James's. Apparently, Gryffindor's most annoyingly Gryffindor student, as Sirius once put it, is indeed a Gryffindor. By blood. The Potter line dates back to when Godric Gryffindor's daughter married a man called Oliver Potter.
Then there was the big news. Voldemort knew that I was descended from Ravenclaw and Slytherin, and that James was descended from Gryffindor, and now wanted to kill us both.
Dumbledore gave us a few days to think it all over, and on the fourteenth we have to go back and decide on a course of action. He told James to go, saying that he wanted a private word with me.
He told me that Remus's mother was descended from a line of purebloods starting with Gryffindor's oldest son and Helga Hufflepuff's youngest daughter. Voldemort didn't know this, and neither did Remus.
Dumbledore said that any child Remus and I had would be extremely powerful, as they would be descended from all four founders, and that Voldemort would want to kill them if he ever found out.
He also said that I needed to think very carefully about what I was going to do about Voldemort. Then he said I could leave.
I don't know what to think. Surely he doesn't want me to leave Remus! I couldn't! But it WOULD be for his own protection.
Love Lily
Harry shook his head and thought on the fact that had his mother and Remus had a child it would have been very powerful.
~I wonder if maybe they did, and I have a brother or sister,~ he murmured in Parseltongue. ~No,~ he added. ~Too close to my birth date to be possible.~
Leith looked at him, then spoke. ~Perhapssss you should read ssssome more.~
Harry nodded. ~Good idea,~ he hissed.
14th December, 1979
Dear Diary,
We decided what to do today. James and I would break off any current relationships and marry each other, and the Fidelius Charm would be performed in a few months time.
I only hope that when the war is over, Remus and Arabella will forgive James and I for this.
Love Lily
Harry frowned. If that was true, then his mother wouldn't have slept with a man she didn't love, would she?
15th December, 1979
Dear Diary,
Sam surprised us all today when she proposed to Sirius. He was shocked, because he had just bought her a ring and was planning on asking her to marry him on Christmas Eve.
James broke up with Bella. They had only been engaged for three weeks. She was devastated, and spent the afternoon sobbing in her room.
I was shaking so badly, when Remus and I were alone. All I wanted to do was tell him the truth, and that I loved him, but....by doing that I would put him, James, myself, and everyone I loved at risk.
I told him that I loved him very much, but I had fallen for James and we were thinking about marriage. He went quiet, and then spoke. I'll try to quote him directly, but I was fighting tears the whole time.
"Lily," he said, "I love you more than life itself, and if James makes you happy then I'll have to let you go."
I started sobbing then, thinking that he'd just leave, but he comforted me, and told me that it was really all right with him. He even said that he'd come to the wedding.
I can't really go on any further.
Love Lily
Harry didn't know what to think after that. He turned to the next two entries.
20th December, 1980
Dear Diary,
Arabella forgave me today. She's still pretending that James doesn't exist, but I think her sentiments are a lot like Remus's; only she's not as forgiving.
Remus hasn't even been treating James the slightest bit different, and James feels so guilty. We talk a lot, because we are living in the same house.
I haven't been feeling well lately, and I have a feeling that I know why. I'm seeing a doctor about it tomorrow. I don't know what I'm going to do if I'm right.
My wedding to James is scheduled for the twenty-third.
Love Lily
21st December, 1980
Dear Diary,
I was right, the doctor confirmed my suspicions. I'm pregnant. With Remus Lupin's baby.
I keep remembering what Dumbledore said, and James and I have been talking about it.
He said that he refused to adopt the baby, and that the child's birth certificate would have its real father's name. I decided that we had to have a fake one as well.
We're going to pretend that the baby is James's, but I don't know how well that's going to go over.
Love Lily
Harry double-checked the entry date, and then just stared blankly at the diary, before whispering to Leith, ~That would make Remus Lupin my father.~
Longer than usual, but don't expect that to last long. Lily's relevant diary entries took up a bit more space than I would have liked.
SilverMoon ~ Here's more ASAP indeed! And some nice innocent truth!
fang-gurlie ~ Glad you think so!
shdurrani ~ Yeah, gotta love the evil cliffies! My first cliffie!
Heavenly222 ~ Loved it? Cool!
blue c ~ Gah! Not the puppydog eyes.....fine! Here! Read!
The Unknown and The Diaries
By: The Aussie Slytherin
Chapter Four
30th July, 1979
Dear Diary,
I found out some very disturbing information today. I am not a Muggle-born witch as I had thought. I was adopted at the age of three months from an orphanage, where my mother had left me two days before being killed.
She was a witch, and a pureblood from the line of Rowena Ravenclaw. Her name was Sarah, and she had been married to a man called Tom Riddle, who is my father and descended from Salazar Slytherin.
And Dumbledore just told me this today, my twentieth birthday. He also told me that my father, Tom Riddle, is know known as Lord Voldemort, the most feared and detested dark wizard in over a century. No one was this scared of even Grindelwald.
I'm scared, I don't think that Voldemort knows that I'm his daughter, or even that I exist, but I don't even want to think of what might happen to me or my friends if he finds out.
I had best leave this here, it's barely halfway through the day yet and my birthday party is due to begin.
Love Lily
Harry stared at the first entry. Voldemort was his grandfather??? He resolved to quiz Dumbledore about that little fact when he returned to school.
He looked back to his mother's diary, and to the next entry.
30th July, 1979
Dear Diary,
I was planning on waiting to write until tomorrow, but I can't sleep for the excitement. The most wonderful thing happened this afternoon!
REMUS PROPOSED!!! Yes, that's right, Remus J Lupin, love of my life, the werewolf who's Animagus form is a cat, asked me to marry him.
And I, of course, said yes. I can't wait to start planning the wedding; Remus is having trouble deciding between James and Sirius as his best man. I am going to have Sam as maid of honour, of course. It would be wrong to have it any other way.
I think I'll tell Remus to pick Sirius, because then the best man and maid of honour will be in love too.
Arabella, Katie and Sam are just as excited as I am, and they've been giving James, Peter and Sirius these Looks, trying to give them a clue. Remus said that none of them has gotten it yet.
Love Lily
Harry blinked in shock. His mother had been engaged to Remus? And James had dated Arabella Figg?
He had a feeling that things were just going to get weirder, but went to the next entry, a few days after the previous one.
10th August, 1979
Dear Diary,
Remus and I have been speaking to Dumbledore about wedding things, and he said that we should either wait until the war with Voldemort is over or have a small secret wedding in private.
We decided on the second option, and we'll have a big proper wedding after the war. The only people who are going to be present are the Marauders, Arabella, Katie, Sam, and Dumbledore.
Love Lily
He'd been right, much weirder. He wondered who Katie was, but guessed that she had been seeing Pettigrew.
15th August, 1979
Dear Diary,
Well, it's official! I am now Mrs Lily Marie Lupin. Lily Lupin. Some people might think it sounds funny (such as Sirius - Sam had to smack him upside the head to shut him up), but I think it's wonderful.
We didn't know what date to hold the wedding on, but James mentioned that since Remus proposed on MY birthday, we could get married on his. And we did.
I finally found out what that damned 'J' stands for too. Jeremiah. Remus Jeremiah Lupin turned 20 the same day he got married to Lily Marie Evans. Now Lupin.
I sound a little repetitive, but I'm so excited!
Love Mrs Lily Lupin
Harry stared in shock. Remus had been married to his mother? Was this what Samantha had wanted him to know? He had a feeling that there was much more.
Even more than being descended from Ravenclaw and Slytherin. He briefly wondered why he wasn't sorted into one of those houses.
10th December 1979
Dear Diary,
I don't know what to think! Remy and I have been happily married for nearly four months now, and all this time there has been no new threats from Voldemort.
But today Dumbledore called me and James in and told us both a few things.
He told James about my heritage, and then told me about James's. Apparently, Gryffindor's most annoyingly Gryffindor student, as Sirius once put it, is indeed a Gryffindor. By blood. The Potter line dates back to when Godric Gryffindor's daughter married a man called Oliver Potter.
Then there was the big news. Voldemort knew that I was descended from Ravenclaw and Slytherin, and that James was descended from Gryffindor, and now wanted to kill us both.
Dumbledore gave us a few days to think it all over, and on the fourteenth we have to go back and decide on a course of action. He told James to go, saying that he wanted a private word with me.
He told me that Remus's mother was descended from a line of purebloods starting with Gryffindor's oldest son and Helga Hufflepuff's youngest daughter. Voldemort didn't know this, and neither did Remus.
Dumbledore said that any child Remus and I had would be extremely powerful, as they would be descended from all four founders, and that Voldemort would want to kill them if he ever found out.
He also said that I needed to think very carefully about what I was going to do about Voldemort. Then he said I could leave.
I don't know what to think. Surely he doesn't want me to leave Remus! I couldn't! But it WOULD be for his own protection.
Love Lily
Harry shook his head and thought on the fact that had his mother and Remus had a child it would have been very powerful.
~I wonder if maybe they did, and I have a brother or sister,~ he murmured in Parseltongue. ~No,~ he added. ~Too close to my birth date to be possible.~
Leith looked at him, then spoke. ~Perhapssss you should read ssssome more.~
Harry nodded. ~Good idea,~ he hissed.
14th December, 1979
Dear Diary,
We decided what to do today. James and I would break off any current relationships and marry each other, and the Fidelius Charm would be performed in a few months time.
I only hope that when the war is over, Remus and Arabella will forgive James and I for this.
Love Lily
Harry frowned. If that was true, then his mother wouldn't have slept with a man she didn't love, would she?
15th December, 1979
Dear Diary,
Sam surprised us all today when she proposed to Sirius. He was shocked, because he had just bought her a ring and was planning on asking her to marry him on Christmas Eve.
James broke up with Bella. They had only been engaged for three weeks. She was devastated, and spent the afternoon sobbing in her room.
I was shaking so badly, when Remus and I were alone. All I wanted to do was tell him the truth, and that I loved him, but....by doing that I would put him, James, myself, and everyone I loved at risk.
I told him that I loved him very much, but I had fallen for James and we were thinking about marriage. He went quiet, and then spoke. I'll try to quote him directly, but I was fighting tears the whole time.
"Lily," he said, "I love you more than life itself, and if James makes you happy then I'll have to let you go."
I started sobbing then, thinking that he'd just leave, but he comforted me, and told me that it was really all right with him. He even said that he'd come to the wedding.
I can't really go on any further.
Love Lily
Harry didn't know what to think after that. He turned to the next two entries.
20th December, 1980
Dear Diary,
Arabella forgave me today. She's still pretending that James doesn't exist, but I think her sentiments are a lot like Remus's; only she's not as forgiving.
Remus hasn't even been treating James the slightest bit different, and James feels so guilty. We talk a lot, because we are living in the same house.
I haven't been feeling well lately, and I have a feeling that I know why. I'm seeing a doctor about it tomorrow. I don't know what I'm going to do if I'm right.
My wedding to James is scheduled for the twenty-third.
Love Lily
21st December, 1980
Dear Diary,
I was right, the doctor confirmed my suspicions. I'm pregnant. With Remus Lupin's baby.
I keep remembering what Dumbledore said, and James and I have been talking about it.
He said that he refused to adopt the baby, and that the child's birth certificate would have its real father's name. I decided that we had to have a fake one as well.
We're going to pretend that the baby is James's, but I don't know how well that's going to go over.
Love Lily
Harry double-checked the entry date, and then just stared blankly at the diary, before whispering to Leith, ~That would make Remus Lupin my father.~