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Wolfe: Hi, does anyone know whether Madam Pomfrey was at Hogwarts when Lily was there?? And also as the Headmaster at Hogwarts was called Armando Dippet, I have called him Archie Dippet, so in order to be right I will simply start calling him Armando from now on okay?!
Chapter 13: Owl's Bring Bad News.
The letter read,
Dear Lil's,
I can't believe that I am writing this to you.
I am afraid that I have two lots of bad news for you, one is that your sister has run away from home, disowned the family, and we cannot find her, and the second my dear, is that sadly, your mother passed away…
Lily looked down at the necklace that she clutched in her hand, all she could think about was getting back to her father, they needed to be together at a time like this, she put on the necklace and continued to read,
…You may wonder how this happened, well, it was a car crash, your mother had gone out to see whether she could find you sister when a lorry came and…well, it was a car accident, I am on my way to Hogwarts now, I would like you to go to the headmasters office and wait for me there,
Your Father.
P.S. I have enclosed your mother's necklace, she was very proud of you and I am sure that she would have wanted you to have it.
Lily hadn't the faintest idea where the headmaster's office was, and even if she had known, she doubted that in this state she would be able to find it in the state she was in.
As Lily clambered her way out of the toilets, Myrtle floated passed,
"Oh dear, crying again are we?" Myrtle muttered, Lily held out the letter for her to read, "Oh my goodness!" she gasped, "Well you'd better go and wait in the headmasters office then hadn't you," myrtle went to place a comforting arm around Lily's shoulder only to find that it went straight through Lily, chilling her to the bone, this started myrtle crying to, "Oh Lily! Oh I'm sorry. Hurry Professor Dippet's office is this way,"
Lily followed Myrtle through winding corridors until they reach a giant statue of a bird, "Let me in you silly old statue!" shrieked Myrtle,
"D…does it have a…a password?" Lily sobbed,
"Of course it does, I just don't know it!"
"W…well could you…well…y…you know," said Lily, Myrtle gave her a funny look,
"Oh right! I keep on forgetting!" she finally caught on to Lily's idea and went through the wall, a few minutes later the statue moved aside to reveal a staircase with Myrtle floating above it,
"Come on, he knows you are coming,"
* * * * * * * *
After Lily had told him the whole story and shown him the letter the headmaster's face sunk into a frown,
"Lily, I am sorry, I don't quite know how to tell you my dear,"
"Tell me what Sir?"
"Kindly tell me the date on your letter Lily"
"Well it's dated five days ago,"
"Lily, I received a letter shortly before you came to my office, informing me that..."
Lily gulped, "Informing you what?" her hand reached up and took a firm grip of the necklace around her neck,
"That your father is missing Lily,"
"MISSING!" Lily yelled, "How can he be missing!"
"He is missing presumed dead Lily, he disapperated from his office at the ministry, but never apperated on the other side."
"What!"
"Matters like this are very rare, but we fear that he got distracted at the last moment and apperated into a place we call, dead space,"
"Dead space..."
"Once someone goes there they can never come back."
* * * * * * * *
Lily was in the hospital wing; she had fainted and banged her head quite badly on the side of Dippets desk,
"Lily, are you okay?" James asked,
"Why are you here?" she moaned, "I don't want to talk to you,"
"Now be fair Lily!" said Sirius, Lily groaned,
"Not you too! I suppose you are going to make a snide remark on how I shouldn't send James away because I need him to save me or something,"
"No Lil's I'm not, James said that it hurt you when I said those things, I am sorry I didn't mean it seriously, you know I can't be serious!"
"That's okay then, but only if you get down on your knees and grovel," Sirius leapt off his chair with such force that it flew to the other side of the room, he stopped for a second to fetch it and put it back in it's place, than he turned to Lily, grabbed her hand got down on his knees and started whimpering,
"I'm sorry, so sorry; can you ever forgive me Lily Evans ever can you?" Lily burst out laughing as did James and Sirius,
"You are forgiven Sirius, but not James," Lily shot him an icy stare, "he still has apologised,"
"Fat chance of it too!" he yelled jumping out of his chair, "I haven't done anything wrong!" he turned on his heel ran a hand through his messy hair and stormed out of the hospital wing.
Lily turned her back to the door and went to sleep.
* * * * * * * *
"Lily," whispered Madam Pomfrey, "Lily dear, you have to wake up,"
"Huh? What? Where am I?"
"You're in the hospital wing dear, remember,"
"Hospital wing," Lily muttered, "Banged my head in Dippet's office,"
"Yes dear, that's right," said Madam Pomfrey, handing her a glass of water, "your friend hasn't left you all day," she jerked her head towards a sleeping boy in the corner,
"SIRIUS!" Lily gasped, jumping at the sound of his name he looked up,
"I DIDN'T DO IT!" he shouted, before looking around the room, "Lily, are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine," she laughed, "Why are you still here?"
"When James left I stayed behind," he said with a grin, "I thought one of us should stay with you, you hit your head quite badly you know,"
"Thank you Sirius, but isn't it time to eat?" Sirius' stomach grumbled at the thought of food,
"Well," he looked up at Lily, "I didn't want to say anything but…"
"That's good timing Sirius!" sang Madam Pomfrey, "Lily here is ready to go downstairs now,"
"Okay, thanks Madam Pomfrey," Lily slid out of her bed,
"What on earth for my dear?"
"Oh just for looking after me, my mum always says to…" Lily began to cry; Sirius leapt from his chair and gave Lily a hug,
"Lily? Lily what's the matter?" Sirius looked worried,
"Well it's just that she won't say it ever again will she, I should have said my mum always said, but…" she fell to the floor, "I just can't believe it you know,"
"Can't believe what Lil's? What's happened?"
"You know," Lily looked up at him, "that my parents are dead. I have no family Sirius," Sirius jumped back from Lily, putting a hand over his eyes trying to think,
"No I didn't know Lily, Dippet hasn't told us anything apart from that you were in his office and that you hit your head somehow," he put his hand on Lily's shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes, "Are they all," he gulped, "Dead?"
"No, my parents are dead," answered Lily through the sobs, "My sister has run away and disowned me,"
"Sirius, perhaps you shouldn't go down to eat yet," said Madam Pomfrey trying to blink back the tears, she hadn't known about Lily's tragedy either, "Perhaps you should just take her to the Gryffindor common room, you will find some food waiting there, I will have a house elf bring it up," Sirius nodded,
"Okay," he turned back to Lily, pulling her onto her feet, "Come on," Lily hung an arm around his shoulders for support, still crying she whispered,
"Thank you Sirius," he turned to her with a puzzled look on his face, "you know, for staying with me," he grinned,
"Why on earth would I leave you Lil's? You're like a sister to me,"
There you are!
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