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Wolfe: HEY!! My exams are finished at last!! I have read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It has unlocked a lot of things, and given me a whole new perspective for my story so, hopefully, no more writers block!! *_* Woo Hoo!!

 Can I also say that I have noticed that with each chapter I write there are less reviews, this either means people have stopped reading, or (and this is what I hope is the reason) that people are still reading but they just can't be bothered to review!!!!! If this is you, then please review even if it's only a couple of words!

 Oh and also I am only going to remind you to review at the end, as otherwise I think that by writing more it will spoil the atmosphere.

Chapter 12: Stunned!

  It had been almost a month since Lily's humiliation with Tom and the pupils at Hogwarts had been dropping like flies all over the school.

  "What do you think has caused it Lily?" whispered Chloe as they lay in their beds.

  "How am I supposed to know?" Lily replied in a harsh voice, "It's probably the marauders playing their stupid tricks again!" Lily wasn't best pleased with James since he told Sirius the story of how Tom had tricked her, and made out that he was some kind of hero, saving her from danger or something. She hadn't yet told Chloe about what had happened that night.

  "What's the matter with you? You've been having a lot of digs at those boys lately," said Chloe sitting up, "what's happened?"

 "Nothing!" Lily shouted, Jennifer stirred in her bed, "Nothing has happened," she whispered angrily, "I have a headache, I'm going to the hospital wing okay!" she pulled on her cloak and ran out the door,

 "Lily! Lily, tell me what's wrong!" called Chloe, but it was no use, she had already gone through the portrait hole.

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  Lily shivered as she walked down the corridors, it was cold as it was snowing outside and there was only two weeks until Christmas, she'd have to go to the hospital wing now even if she didn't have a headache, where else could she go?

  She started to think about what Chloe had said, "What has caused it?" she thought, "And what would be powerful enough to stun the pupils that badly?" she heard voices coming down the stairs,

  "Albus, I don't know what we are going to do!" it was Professor Dippet, "To have pupils stunned is one thing, we can revive them, but for a girl to die!"

  "Dead?" Lily thought, "Someone's dead?"

  "That's enough Professor, what's done is done, all I know is that this may very well be the end of Hogwarts," he sighed, "now if you don't mind there is a certain boy I would like to talk to,"

  "But…who?" he looked puzzled, "Oh you mean the Riddle boy, of course, if Hogwarts is closed…"

  "…He'll have nowhere to go," finished Dumbledore. The voices trailed off, Lily heard footsteps moving away from her,

  "Tom, with nowhere to go," she thought, "he deserves it,"

  "Lily?" she spun around, "Lily why are you up this late? You know the rules. It is much too dangerous for you to be wandering 'round at this hour."

  "P…Professor Dippet!" Lily stammered, "I…I was…what I mean to say is,"

  "Yes?"

  "Well, I have a headache," this was partly true, the news of a death had given her a slight headache, "and I was just on my way to the hospital wing and…"

  "Of course, although you really should have informed a prefect, that way you could have had an escort," he gave her a stern look, "I suppose you heard the conversation?"

  "Conversation?" Lily scratched the back of her neck nervously, "I don't know what you mean!"

  "So you did hear it then," Lily's face blushed scarlet,

  "I'm sorry, I didn't mean…"

  "It's quite alright my dear, I daresay everyone in the school will know by sunrise," he had a worried look on his wrinkled face, "everyone," he muttered.

  "Professor?" Dippet had a vacant expression on his face,

  "Oh yes my dear, let's get you to the hospital wing then," and of they went.

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  "Lily!" James yelled across the corridor,

  "What do you want?" she spat, he jumped backwards,

  "Okay" he smiled, "I was just wondering if you heard the news," Lily was puzzled,

  "What news?" she snapped, James looked hurt,

  "The news that Tom Riddle found the person who was stunning all those people, some bloke called Hagrid, and also that there was a killing last night,"

  "I already knew about the killing,"

  "What! But that's the big news! How come you knew first?"

  "Oh like you even care!" she shouted,

  "What's the matter with you?" he laughed,

  "What's the matter?" she mimicked, "I'll tell you what's the matter! You!!"

  "Me…ME!" James looked shocked, "What have I done!"

  "You have told Sirius all about the Riddle thing, why did you tell him, he humiliates me every time I see him now! I HATE YOU!!"

  "What! Calm down! Surely you knew I would tell him, he's my best friend! I mean you've told Chloe haven't you?" Lily was silent, "You haven't told Chloe?"

  "No I haven't, because I STUPIDLY thought that I would be the one to decide who knew and who didn't and Sirius and Chloe were on the DIDN'T list!!"

  "Fine be that way," he snarled, "what you don't realise is that everyone knows," Lily was shocked, "Oh come on Lily how can you be so naïve? Tom wasn't exactly going to keep it hush now was he?" Lily's bottom lip started trembling,

  "So now you are like Tom right! If he can blab you can blab, well in case, if you haven't noticed, I don't like Tom, therefore I obviously don't like you either, IT'S OVER POTTER!" and with that she ran away tears streaming down her face,

  "Lily!" James yelled, "LILY!!" he ran after her,

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  Lily was sat in a cubicle in the girls' toilets, her whole body shaking as she cried.

  "Hiya Lily!" Lily looked up, "What can be so bad that it has you in tears?"

  "Myrtle! What…why are you," she struggled to find the right words, because there floating in front of her was the ghost of a girl that, only yesterday, Lily had seen skipping to class,

  "Ooh, you don't keep up with the news now do you!"

  "What do you mean?" Lily asked,

  "The girl that died," Myrtle said, "That was me!"

  "You!! But how? Where?"

  "Right here, in this cubicle, but I really don't want to talk about it okay?"

  "Oh of course," Lily was shocked, "Do you want me to move?"

  "No," said Myrtle blankly starring at Lily through her glasses, "Why would you think that unless," she gasped, "You don't want to be near me!" she started crying,

  "No Myrtle, no. That's not it, I just thought you might like some time to yourself that's all."

  "Oh well that's okay then," Myrtle smiled, "Oh and look! You've stopped crying,"

  "So I have! Thank you Myrtle!" They both laughed, Lily had always gotten along with myrtle just fine, she didn't understand why everyone else called her moaning myrtle.

  Just then an owl swooped in through the open window,

  "Ooh," shrieked Myrtle, "I've never seen an owl in a bathroom before, how peculiar!" and she suddenly flew through the solid brick wall out of the toilets

   The owl that had come in was Herby, Lily ran towards him,

  "Herby hold still, I have to get this letter,"

  As Lily read it tears began to once again roll down her cheeks, she fell to the floor, in her hand was a necklace, hanging from it was a tiny rose which had engraved on the back,

 To my darling Rose,

 My love for eternity,

Harold

On one side of the rose hung a tiny lily flower, and on the other a petunia, this was her mothers necklace, a present from her father on their wedding day, which she had vowed to wear until the day she died.

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