The Flower's Story chp18
"To change and to change for the better are two different things."
-Proverb


The first day of school went about the same as usual. They had the same teacher's as last year (Trewlany was still weeping over their "deaths") and the food was delicious. So now they were sitting in the common room studying for a simple exam being given by Professor Flitwick on Charms. Everyone was consulting Lily and Molly who were very good in Charms.

"Lily do I wave my wand like this or like this?" Remus demonstrated

"Hey Molly do I let the A hang or should I cut it off?" Sirius said

"Lil, where does this bloody word come from again? Is it Latin?" James asked

"Molly why are we even having this test? It's such a bother to all of us?"
Tasha declared

Lily and Molly exchanged glances and knew what they were thinking. They both packed up their bags, stood up, and walked out of the common room. They walked all the way to the lake, sat down, and started testing each other. IT didn't take a while being that they knew everything.

"Now what was hullabaloo all about?" Tasha asked, "We were only asking a few questions"

Back at the lake Molly and Tasha were talking about random things.

"NO! NO! A silverfish is an insect Lily!" Molly rolled her eyes

"If it's an insect then why isn't it called a 'Silverbug!' Huh?"

Molly threw her hands in the air "I give up Lil! Your completely impossible!"
She lay down on the soft grass

"So...Have you and James kissed lately?" Lily shot a glare her way

"No. But I don't mind, how bout you Molly? Remus and you are just friends?"

Molly went a light shade of pink.

"Yes, just friends. While we're on the subject of boyfriends I have to tell you something!"

"Oh do tell me please!" Molly sat up

"I'm seeing someone! Remus is the only one I told."

"But why couldn't you tell me?" Lily was slightly hurt

"Because I don't want anyone making a big deal out of it. He sort of..."

"He's sort of what?" she was confused

"He's sort of a nut! He's obsessed with muggle things and how they work and it's very irritating but other than that he's the most wonderful person I've ever met!"

"Well, what's his name then?"

"Arthur Weasley!" Molly waited for the explosion of laughter. But only shock came.

"A-Arthur Weasley? But he's in 6th year, are you sure..." Lily didn't want to sound like Molly's mother so she just smiled "I'm so happy for you Molly!"

They hugged and talked about yellow perch and silverfish.

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"Come on! I want to get this over with, it's to early in the morning and you Remus should be getting some sleep!"

"Oh don't get all motherly on us again Lil! That was too much to bear!" Remus said

She giggled.

"SSHH!" the boys hissed

It was 1:00 in the morning and Remus, Lily, James, Sirius, and a very tired Peter was walking up to the Astronomy tower. They had 2 little cauldrons floating behind them. The first cauldron had a potion in it with icy little plants and hairs of animals. The second cauldron had books and supplies they needed for the charms. The five fifth years were clumsily walking under the invisibility cloak and Lily had cast a charm on the cauldrons they would too be invisible.

"All right we're here lets start OK?" James looked at everyone

"Finally!" Lily said taking out the charm objects.

James walked over to her while the others practiced the incantation.

"Lil, I would appreciate it if you would give us some support here! Sirius, Peter and I are about to become animals, and we don't even know which animals we're becoming! SO please no sarcasm all right?"

He gave her such a look that it made her insides squirm. That hurt her a lot, 'it's as if I don't even care that they're doing this for Remus! I can't believe him!' she thought to herself.

"All right, first you all have to drink the potions, no matter how terrible it tastes, and then say the charm. I'm going to be saying something else while you saying the transformation charm all right?"

They nodded.

"Remember hold your wand like this" she demonstrated "And enunciate, we don't anyone being turned into a shrub! Let do it then!"

They all drank the disgusting potion, even though Sirius said it tasted like chocolate, and started saying their incantations. Nothing happened when they said it but when Lily started chanting something very strange in Latin their skin glowed a silvery white tinge.

James saw something in front of him. It was a horse of some sort in a glimmering pool of silver. No, it wasn't a horse it had horns! A dear maybe, a dear. No it was much larger that just a dear. A stag, yes the picture was clearer now it was definitely a stag.

Sirius was squinting and trying to look at the hairball that was standing in front of him. The thing was huge and black and hairy. It had a snout and pointed ears. 'A dog! I'm a dog! HA! Woof! Hey where did that come from ' Sirius thought to himself.

The figure that Peter saw was floating in front of him, but there were other figures standing with him nodding quietly. He knew who they were and that they were pleased with this transformation. But the small thing seemed to have a worm stuck up It's but. 'Oh no tell me I'm not a rat!' But he was a rat!

Remus and Lily looked on in amazement. Even though Lily couldn't stop chanting she was dumbstruck. The three boys were now hovering in the air with swirls of silver, gold and red flying about them. Now they were being lowered to the ground, all of them on all fours.

Lily gasped at the sight in front of her. They were transforming in front of her very eyes.

"Do you think it hurts them?" Lily whispered when she was finished and now spraying some sort of dust on them

"No!" Remus just wanted to watch and not be bothered.

James was now getting larger and whiter. It seemed that Sirius black shaggy hair was growing around his body. Peter was shrinking, inch by inch. He soon had a little snout and a long skinny tail. Peter was now a rat.
Sirius had also grown a tail but he also had pointed ears, a long snout, and a large tongue hanging out the side of his mouth. Sirius was now a big black shaggy dog.
James' from was very large now. He had white short stubby fur and long gray horns. His tail was no larger than a walnut and he had a long snout. James was now a large white stag. The transformations were finally finished.

"Oh Great Wizards what have we done Lil?" Remus asked excited

"Oh we only did what very few very advanced wizards could do! We succeeded ha ha!" the boys who were animals had pranced around for a little while then changed back. It only took a few seconds for that to happen though.

"Remus! Lil! That was amazing, I don't know how we did it but we did!"
Sirius said excitedly.

"Yeah when I saw that stag in front of me I knew that's what I was!"

"IT was so strange seeing what it's like from a rat's point of view!"

After everyone had exchanged all the exciting things from their POV's, they dumped the entire potion into a nearby drain leading to the filters and headed back to the common room.

"Hey, Sirius?" Lily asked

"Yes dahling Lily?" Sirius bounced

"Why are you the animals you are?"

"Oh! Well the transformation changes you into what your personality suits."

Lily looked over at Peter.

"Rat huh?" Lily said

He laughed

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As the weeks went by the gang was anticipating the O.W.L's, and Remus' transformations. Lily had gone to Hogsmeade one day to get the things she needed for that charm that Dumbledore put on her. She had found out what it was called and that she could do it to herself.

"It isn't as advanced as it seems you know!" Lily pointed out as they all snuck to the Whomping Willow under James' cloak

"Really? And you're sure you can do it Lil. I mean I don't want you to become fish sticks while we're there!"

"But isn't that why you guys became Animagi?" she whispered "TO keep him in check right?"

"Also to have some fun but..." Lily rolled her eyes at Sirius.

They had gotten to tree and Peter transformed into a rat so he could press the knot by the trunk of the tree. They crawled through the whole and walked all the way towards the shrieking shack. The moon was fully out now and they had heard howling.

"We're close. You chaps go up ahead and I'll do the charm here OK?"

"OK. Hurry up! We would like see if it worked!" James pointed out

"So would I" Lily mumbled to their retreating backs

She took out her wand and did the charm. Again she felt that tickling sensation throughout her whole body. Her skin was glowing a red and blue tinge. It seemed as though water was gently caressing her body and that no gravity was pulling her down. She looked up the stairs to the Shrieking shack and started walking up them again.

When Lily walked along the strange corridor of the house. It was old, beaten and it seemed no one had lived there for centuries. She heard scurrying in a room nearby. She pushed open the door but then the strangest thing happened, her hand slipped through the door. Her hand went through the actual wood of the door. It was like her hand was part of the door.

"James? Sirius? Peter where are you three?"

She looked down at her foot and saw a rat crawling over it. She screamed but then realized it was Peter because it was actually pointing towards another door.

She followed him through the door to see Sirius curled up (in dog form) in a corner of the room and James (in stag form) looking at something under a table. Lily recognized it instantly as Remus. When Remus transformed he had a brown patch over his left eye.

Lily went over to a window and leaned against it. She watched James and Remus; they seemed to be communicating in some sort of way. She opened the window to get some air but Remus had noticed the window open. He rushed towards her but she jumped out of the way. Sirius jumped onto the bed she landed on and gave her a very Sirius look.

"You know you still look like yourself, even when you're a dog!"

He knew exactly what to do to that. He gave her a big slobbery lick on the cheek!

"Hey! I'm your best friend's girlfriend Sirius! Watch who your licking OK?"

Lily went back to her window after a while and heard a noise outside. She looked beneath the window and just saw some bush. But when she looked out over the town she saw a man in a cloak jump over the wall and head into the woods.

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Lily had gone back to Hogwart's by 1:00 in the morning. The boys wanted to stay with Remus the whole night but Lily needed to sleep. While she was changing on her bed with the curtains pulled she looked down at the led with the scar burns. It made her sick to her stomach to think about that night. It haunted her.

But the thoughts were erased from her mind the minute her head hit the pillow.

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During the next few months Lily, James, Peter, and Sirius kept going to the Shrieking Shack with Remus each month for three months. The boys kept transforming and Lily kept using that charm. But the strangest things were happening every time she used that charm. She kept getting dizzy and feeling light headed. She always felt sick to her stomach, and she sometimes did get sick. But the weirdest things of all were these strange dreams and visions she's been having. Sometimes she would just go into a trance, or black out. Or sometimes she would get just a little bit mad and something would brake or fall off a table. She knew she had to ask Professor Dumbledore.

She went to the Gargoyle entrance for his office. She didn't know the password so she just waited for someone who did. She glanced down the corridor and saw Professor Dumbledore walking toward her.

"Good day Ms. Evan's." he said when he got to her

"Good day Professor." She smiled out of politeness at him.

"You wish to talk to me about something, true?"

"Yes."

He nodded "Well then let's go into my office shall we?"

"All right then!"

Remus had told Lily about Dumbledore's office. It was amazing. There were little doodads hanging around the walls. The room seemed to be the Gryffindor colors and when she looked towards his desk she could see a large bird. With a rich color of Red for feathers. And golden plumage.

"This is Fawkes, my pheonix. Fawkes this is Lily, a student in Gryffindor. Don't be so uptight about her will you? She's fine." The bird had started squaking "Now Lily what was it you wanted to talk about?"

She stared at him and the bird for a moment but shook herself out of it.

"Professor? Do you remember the charm you put on me when I had to stay the night with Remus last year?"

"Yes I do! That is a highly complex charm and is not to be tangled with."

Lily gulped "Why shouldn't it be 'tangled with'?"

"Well, for starters, the charm gives you the outline of Seers and Sorceress'. That charm is only for people who are in some way blood related to one of the most powerful Wizards or Witches in the Universe. If you use it too often It would increase your power to a painful level."

"But then I'm?"

"Yes. You are blood related to one of them!"

She gave him a look as if to ask if it was him.

"Oh no dear girl! You are not related to me and I am by far not one of the greatest Wizards in the world! But among them were the four who created this school! Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, Salazaar Slytherin, and Godric Gryffingor."

"How can I know if It's one of them?"

"Lily, this is going to be hard for me to say but, you are related to one of the founders of this school." He said gravely

She was very confused "How is that bad?"

"Lily, I don't know why the Sorting Hat has put you into Gryffindor but the moment I laid my eyes on you I knew you were related to Salzaar Slytherin! Don't be mad at for saying this but it's true. You have the green eyes, Your power is highly under estimated and you just might be able to tell the future!"

"A divinator? ME?"

"Why not? Slytherin highly believed in Divinator's and would trust any one that came upon him. There was a prophecy about him, though it was burned many centuries ago."

"But my power would only increase to a 'painful level' if I used the charm to many times!"

"Lily I know that you have been going to the shrieking shack every month to stay with Remus!"

Lily's jaw dropped. She wondered if he knew about the animagi transformations.

"Listen, I know you want Remus to feel safe. But he is, and I don't want you using that charm any longer! All right Lily?"

"Yes, all right!" she said relutantly. Lily knew she was going to miss a lot of fun over at the shack.

"Ms. Evan's I would like you and Mr. Potter to come here once a week to practise using and controling your power."

"Why does James have to come?" she looked up at him

"Lily Mr. Potter is also a blood relative from a very powerful wizard. And his power is beginning to get uncontrolable. With you using that charm I believe yours will start that too."

"But...who is James related to?"

"I'm sorry Ms. Evan's but that information is confidential!"

"Oh...all right so I'll see you next month then!" she smiled and thought to herself that she would ask James later anyway. She walked to the door and started to leave.

"Yes! Maybe even sooner!" he dismissed her and started to talk to Fawkes.

As she walked down the stairs and out the gargoyle to Gryffindor tower she had so many thought sturring inside her. She didn't even notice someone call her name.

Great Wizards, How could she be related to Salazaar Slytherin? This was terrible. She knew James wasn't related to him but who was he related to? She had to find out.

An: okey dokey I know you people are confused about why the last chapter was call the evil plan thingy but it'll be explained for the next one ok? Good now that we have that cleared up. I'm gonna have Arthur Weasley come into the picture more and stuff so that I can play with! So please R&R. And no flames.

Neena: Yes can you send me that song please? I wanna hear it! Thanx a bunch!

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