A/N: Hi! Sorry it's been awhile but with homework and all…. So, to answer
Slinkimalinki's question: Yes, Snape thought it was James that was the mind
reader, not Lily. But I'll write more about that in this chapter. Oh, and
you will find more about Dumbledore moving when Lily stopped time in the
very end. ALSO, it said in the first book that Lily has dark, red hair to
the person who asked. Thank you all my reviewers! ALMOST 100!!!! YEAH!!!!!
Cool, I'm so happy, well, on to the story!
THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO MANDY BROCKLEHURST!
Disclaimer: The plot is only mine!
Chapter 5: The News and a Friend
Dumbledore, drinking pumpkin juice, almost spitted out his drink in surprise as he saw Lily and James run into the Great Hall panting. Everyone in the Great Hall was shocked. What is James Potter doing with Lily Evans? Sirius, being who he is, did a catcall. This time it was James who made a mental note: kill Sirius.
They both ran to the Head Master and started talking at once.
" Calm down children! One person at a time, Lily you go first."
" Professor, we need to talk now!"
James nodded in agreement.
Dumbledore stood up and followed the two teenagers. Lily led the way to her room. Dumbledore didn't seem to mind this, he just smiled.
All three of them sat around the table in the middle of the room. James was in awe at the sight of how big her room was.
While James was checking out everything, Lily started explaining to Professor Dumbledore on how James found out she was a mind reader and all. Dumbledore listened amused and noticed that she left the part out of stopping time.
" Well," Dumbledore started once Lily was finished, " James you can not tell anyone about this, not even your closes friends."
James nodded mutely, still shocked on all of this happening in one day.
Dumbledore stood up and took out his wand and muttered something under his breath. Lily and James turned to where his wand was pointed and ran over to where a new door was planted.
Inside was a bathroom with a tub that could have passed as a swimming pool. Above the bath, but a little to the right, was a hot tub that had a waterfall going into the pool look-a-like. There were different kinds of tabs on them; which were different varieties of bubbles. By the bath, there was a toilette and in front that was a sink and a mirror.
James turned his attention towards another door and pushed it open. Inside was what James would call an ocean.
It was just like Lily's but…blue. A blue waterbed with fishes and dolphins (This made James snicker, remembering what Lily did to him) going across it was there instead of roses. His things were all in to.
James turned around to thank Dumbledore but only to encounter that Lily was the only one standing there, not Dumbledore.
[Weird, wasn't he here just a second ago?]
" I know," Lily said sighing. James looked at her confused but then remembered that she could read his mind and shuddered at the thought.
" Don't worry, I can only read your thoughts when I'm looking in your eyes."
Lily turned around to leave but James grabbed her arm.
" Wait! How will I get out of here?" Lily smiled way up at James.
" You'll just have to go through the bathroom and out my bedroom!"
" Well, Lily we need to get to our classes. I believe we have the wonderful Charms class first!" James said, sarcasm dripping in his voice.
Lily's smile, if possibly, reached even higher.
***
A week has passed since James moved in by Lily. They haven't talked since, of course it was because of the homework the teachers were piling on them because of the upcoming NEWTs.
James told his friends that Professor Dumbledore made him have his own room because of being 'Head Boy.' They didn't question him because he made it sound final.
Lily was having a ball listening to other people's thoughts. Some though, she didn't even want to think about.
James would never look Lily in the eye now, which bothered her.
But on that one evening something terrible happened.
James was just finishing his Potions homework when a thought came to him so suddenly that he fell off his chair.
Jumping up he banged the bathroom door open and a site came to him, which he would never forget.
There was Lily sitting in a tub, which was only filled to her waist, and everything else was…well, you get the picture.
Lily screamed like Bloody Mary and quickly dunked under the bubbles. James backed out of the bathroom slowly and fumbled with the door nub and walked out speechless.
Leaning on the door, James let out a deep breath.
"Lily!" James called, red in the face.
" Wait! I'll be out in a minute!" Lily squeaked.
James waited a while till Lily opened the door to James room, making it bang in the back of him.
" Oh my gosh! Here let me help you!" Lily bent down to help him up and James, by accident of course, saw a little more than needed because of the fact that she was only wearing a green towel.
James noticed, of what he could see, that all of her body was red from embarrassment.
" Now, what was it you wanted to tell me?"
Not knowing why, James started to fidget.
" Um, Professor Dumbledore said he wanted to see you. He sounded sad and depressed and it even looked like tears were in his eyes."
" Oh, well I'll just get dress and go to his office. Thank you, bye!" Lily rushed out of his room and into the bathroom, then closed her door behind her. Shaking his head, James grabbed a washrag and cleaned up the water on floor, totally forgetting the fact that he could have used magic.
***
Snape ran out into the Forbidden Forest.
There, in the center of the forest, stood about twenty black, hooded figures circling none other than Lord Voldemort with his eyes gleaming red.
"Master," Snape said bending down on his knees, " I have news."
" Hurry up boy! I don't have all day," barked Voldemort. All the black, hooded figures known as Death Eaters cringed.
" Master, James Potter he's- he's a mind reader!"
" We can't have anyone who has powers of that great here on this world. We must get rid of him."
Snape smiled.
" But," Snape stopped smiling, " You disturbed my peace, crucio!"
***
After Lily finished getting dress and not even bothering to put on makeup since she would only see the Head Master, Lily headed towards Professor Dumbledore's office.
Once she said the password, Lily climbed the many stairs leading towards his office.
Before Lily got a chance to knock, a very choked up Dumbledore answered before she did, " Come in."
Lily walked in and sat on a chair near his desk.
A sense of deja ve came upon Lily.
" Lily," Dumbledore started, " This my really come to a shock but your parents are…dead."
Lily sat still for a very long time, looking at the wall behind Dumbledore with a blank expression.
Lily turned to Dumbledore and said with no emotion, "Was it Voldemort?"
" Actually, no it wasn't Miss Evans. A mad person from Mungo's Hospital escaped yesterday and somehow got a hold of a muggle gun. Came right towards your house and shot them in the head."
" What about Petu-"
" She was at one of her friend's house. She was informed today, I believe, of what happened, by Author Weasley. He is the head of the muggle department."
Lily stood up rather shakily and walked out the door not saying a thing.
Walking, not even knowing where she was going, Lily thought of everything.
How her parents always gave her anything she wanted and always made sure she was safe. How they helped her through with the being fat thing and told her it's what's inside that counts.
Tears ran down her face as she ran to the nearest classroom and locked the door behind her.
Lily sunk to the ground, choking with tears, hardly able to breath. There was a tapping noise at the dusty window. Lily looked up and saw her owl there with a letter.
Tumbling over to it, Lily opened the window, wind blowing in her face. Her owl flew inside of the cold, damp room.
Lily snatched the letter out of Wingardium's leg. The owl looked purely scandalized at this movement. Wingardium flew out, of the window shooting Lily a glare.
She slammed it shut making the glass break, cutting Lily's hand in some places.
Lily felt the pain, but it was nothing compared to losing her parents.
Lily opened the letter that was addressed to her and was in more tears when she finished it.
Dear Lily,
Don't you ever, ever talk to me you freak! Look what you did to mother and father, you killed them! You killed them! You and your stupid magic world! I hate you! Mom and dad were fine till your got into that retarded school! You will never be seeing me again, and I will let you know that I don't want to see your ugly face again!
Petunia
Lily could see tear stains on it and the writing was sloppy. Lily tears mixed in with the dry ones.
Could this day get any worse? Why her?
Lily came to a decision. No one liked her fat or not, everyone thought she was some kind of freak. She will do it tonight, yes, tonight was the perfect night.
***
Lily did not turn up for any of her classes that day, and she didn't show up for lunch or dinner. No one seemed to notice her absent.
But that night, Lily walked up to the North Tower; wearing her white nightgown her mother had given her with her hair down. She also was bare footed.
Tears were still rolling down her face and onto the cold floor of Hogwart's.
When she finally reached the tower, Lily stood up on the railing. As she looked down, she saw the green lawn way below her.
She might as well get this over with.
Bending down, to jump, she tripped, when someone yelled, " Lily!"
Lily was left hanging off the railing, legs swigging wildly in different directions.
A face of a seventeen year old came into view. Blond hair shined in the dark night and glasses reflected by the moon with brown eyes looking scared behind the glasses she wore, Lily recognized it was the face of Arabella Figg, a seventh year Ravenclaw.
" Lily, what do you think you're doing? Trying to kill yourself, really!"
" I- I," Lily was truly lost for words.
" I'm going to pull you up! Try and push a little up too!"
Arabella grabbed both of Lily's arms, making Arabella and Lily scream, frighten as they went down some way.
" I don't want to die now! Please help me!" Lily cried.
With all of Arabella's strength, she finally got Lily over the railing.
Both of the girls were crying now. Lily ran over to Arabella and hugged her to death making Arabella choke but not care at the same time because she hugged Lily back.
That night both Lily and Arabella became best friends; which was new to both of them.
Lily told all about her parent's death, her crush on James, how she tried to lose weight for him, but only wished she could tell her she was a mind reader. While Arabella told Lily how she liked Remus but thought he would think of her as a dork, how she was adopted, and even told Lily how to make peanut butter, oatmeal cookies.
***
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A/N: I AM FINISHED WITH THAT CHAPTER! YEAH! Please review! I'm almost to 100! Thank you all!!! Oh, I'm sorry it came out later than I planned but now I'm done! I hope you like it now that Lily has a friend. I planned to make her get one later, but then everyone was reviewing on how they wanted Lily to have a friend soon. But it all planned out!
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine except the plot.
THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO MANDY BROCKLEHURST!
Disclaimer: The plot is only mine!
Chapter 5: The News and a Friend
Dumbledore, drinking pumpkin juice, almost spitted out his drink in surprise as he saw Lily and James run into the Great Hall panting. Everyone in the Great Hall was shocked. What is James Potter doing with Lily Evans? Sirius, being who he is, did a catcall. This time it was James who made a mental note: kill Sirius.
They both ran to the Head Master and started talking at once.
" Calm down children! One person at a time, Lily you go first."
" Professor, we need to talk now!"
James nodded in agreement.
Dumbledore stood up and followed the two teenagers. Lily led the way to her room. Dumbledore didn't seem to mind this, he just smiled.
All three of them sat around the table in the middle of the room. James was in awe at the sight of how big her room was.
While James was checking out everything, Lily started explaining to Professor Dumbledore on how James found out she was a mind reader and all. Dumbledore listened amused and noticed that she left the part out of stopping time.
" Well," Dumbledore started once Lily was finished, " James you can not tell anyone about this, not even your closes friends."
James nodded mutely, still shocked on all of this happening in one day.
Dumbledore stood up and took out his wand and muttered something under his breath. Lily and James turned to where his wand was pointed and ran over to where a new door was planted.
Inside was a bathroom with a tub that could have passed as a swimming pool. Above the bath, but a little to the right, was a hot tub that had a waterfall going into the pool look-a-like. There were different kinds of tabs on them; which were different varieties of bubbles. By the bath, there was a toilette and in front that was a sink and a mirror.
James turned his attention towards another door and pushed it open. Inside was what James would call an ocean.
It was just like Lily's but…blue. A blue waterbed with fishes and dolphins (This made James snicker, remembering what Lily did to him) going across it was there instead of roses. His things were all in to.
James turned around to thank Dumbledore but only to encounter that Lily was the only one standing there, not Dumbledore.
[Weird, wasn't he here just a second ago?]
" I know," Lily said sighing. James looked at her confused but then remembered that she could read his mind and shuddered at the thought.
" Don't worry, I can only read your thoughts when I'm looking in your eyes."
Lily turned around to leave but James grabbed her arm.
" Wait! How will I get out of here?" Lily smiled way up at James.
" You'll just have to go through the bathroom and out my bedroom!"
" Well, Lily we need to get to our classes. I believe we have the wonderful Charms class first!" James said, sarcasm dripping in his voice.
Lily's smile, if possibly, reached even higher.
***
A week has passed since James moved in by Lily. They haven't talked since, of course it was because of the homework the teachers were piling on them because of the upcoming NEWTs.
James told his friends that Professor Dumbledore made him have his own room because of being 'Head Boy.' They didn't question him because he made it sound final.
Lily was having a ball listening to other people's thoughts. Some though, she didn't even want to think about.
James would never look Lily in the eye now, which bothered her.
But on that one evening something terrible happened.
James was just finishing his Potions homework when a thought came to him so suddenly that he fell off his chair.
Jumping up he banged the bathroom door open and a site came to him, which he would never forget.
There was Lily sitting in a tub, which was only filled to her waist, and everything else was…well, you get the picture.
Lily screamed like Bloody Mary and quickly dunked under the bubbles. James backed out of the bathroom slowly and fumbled with the door nub and walked out speechless.
Leaning on the door, James let out a deep breath.
"Lily!" James called, red in the face.
" Wait! I'll be out in a minute!" Lily squeaked.
James waited a while till Lily opened the door to James room, making it bang in the back of him.
" Oh my gosh! Here let me help you!" Lily bent down to help him up and James, by accident of course, saw a little more than needed because of the fact that she was only wearing a green towel.
James noticed, of what he could see, that all of her body was red from embarrassment.
" Now, what was it you wanted to tell me?"
Not knowing why, James started to fidget.
" Um, Professor Dumbledore said he wanted to see you. He sounded sad and depressed and it even looked like tears were in his eyes."
" Oh, well I'll just get dress and go to his office. Thank you, bye!" Lily rushed out of his room and into the bathroom, then closed her door behind her. Shaking his head, James grabbed a washrag and cleaned up the water on floor, totally forgetting the fact that he could have used magic.
***
Snape ran out into the Forbidden Forest.
There, in the center of the forest, stood about twenty black, hooded figures circling none other than Lord Voldemort with his eyes gleaming red.
"Master," Snape said bending down on his knees, " I have news."
" Hurry up boy! I don't have all day," barked Voldemort. All the black, hooded figures known as Death Eaters cringed.
" Master, James Potter he's- he's a mind reader!"
" We can't have anyone who has powers of that great here on this world. We must get rid of him."
Snape smiled.
" But," Snape stopped smiling, " You disturbed my peace, crucio!"
***
After Lily finished getting dress and not even bothering to put on makeup since she would only see the Head Master, Lily headed towards Professor Dumbledore's office.
Once she said the password, Lily climbed the many stairs leading towards his office.
Before Lily got a chance to knock, a very choked up Dumbledore answered before she did, " Come in."
Lily walked in and sat on a chair near his desk.
A sense of deja ve came upon Lily.
" Lily," Dumbledore started, " This my really come to a shock but your parents are…dead."
Lily sat still for a very long time, looking at the wall behind Dumbledore with a blank expression.
Lily turned to Dumbledore and said with no emotion, "Was it Voldemort?"
" Actually, no it wasn't Miss Evans. A mad person from Mungo's Hospital escaped yesterday and somehow got a hold of a muggle gun. Came right towards your house and shot them in the head."
" What about Petu-"
" She was at one of her friend's house. She was informed today, I believe, of what happened, by Author Weasley. He is the head of the muggle department."
Lily stood up rather shakily and walked out the door not saying a thing.
Walking, not even knowing where she was going, Lily thought of everything.
How her parents always gave her anything she wanted and always made sure she was safe. How they helped her through with the being fat thing and told her it's what's inside that counts.
Tears ran down her face as she ran to the nearest classroom and locked the door behind her.
Lily sunk to the ground, choking with tears, hardly able to breath. There was a tapping noise at the dusty window. Lily looked up and saw her owl there with a letter.
Tumbling over to it, Lily opened the window, wind blowing in her face. Her owl flew inside of the cold, damp room.
Lily snatched the letter out of Wingardium's leg. The owl looked purely scandalized at this movement. Wingardium flew out, of the window shooting Lily a glare.
She slammed it shut making the glass break, cutting Lily's hand in some places.
Lily felt the pain, but it was nothing compared to losing her parents.
Lily opened the letter that was addressed to her and was in more tears when she finished it.
Dear Lily,
Don't you ever, ever talk to me you freak! Look what you did to mother and father, you killed them! You killed them! You and your stupid magic world! I hate you! Mom and dad were fine till your got into that retarded school! You will never be seeing me again, and I will let you know that I don't want to see your ugly face again!
Petunia
Lily could see tear stains on it and the writing was sloppy. Lily tears mixed in with the dry ones.
Could this day get any worse? Why her?
Lily came to a decision. No one liked her fat or not, everyone thought she was some kind of freak. She will do it tonight, yes, tonight was the perfect night.
***
Lily did not turn up for any of her classes that day, and she didn't show up for lunch or dinner. No one seemed to notice her absent.
But that night, Lily walked up to the North Tower; wearing her white nightgown her mother had given her with her hair down. She also was bare footed.
Tears were still rolling down her face and onto the cold floor of Hogwart's.
When she finally reached the tower, Lily stood up on the railing. As she looked down, she saw the green lawn way below her.
She might as well get this over with.
Bending down, to jump, she tripped, when someone yelled, " Lily!"
Lily was left hanging off the railing, legs swigging wildly in different directions.
A face of a seventeen year old came into view. Blond hair shined in the dark night and glasses reflected by the moon with brown eyes looking scared behind the glasses she wore, Lily recognized it was the face of Arabella Figg, a seventh year Ravenclaw.
" Lily, what do you think you're doing? Trying to kill yourself, really!"
" I- I," Lily was truly lost for words.
" I'm going to pull you up! Try and push a little up too!"
Arabella grabbed both of Lily's arms, making Arabella and Lily scream, frighten as they went down some way.
" I don't want to die now! Please help me!" Lily cried.
With all of Arabella's strength, she finally got Lily over the railing.
Both of the girls were crying now. Lily ran over to Arabella and hugged her to death making Arabella choke but not care at the same time because she hugged Lily back.
That night both Lily and Arabella became best friends; which was new to both of them.
Lily told all about her parent's death, her crush on James, how she tried to lose weight for him, but only wished she could tell her she was a mind reader. While Arabella told Lily how she liked Remus but thought he would think of her as a dork, how she was adopted, and even told Lily how to make peanut butter, oatmeal cookies.
***
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A/N: I AM FINISHED WITH THAT CHAPTER! YEAH! Please review! I'm almost to 100! Thank you all!!! Oh, I'm sorry it came out later than I planned but now I'm done! I hope you like it now that Lily has a friend. I planned to make her get one later, but then everyone was reviewing on how they wanted Lily to have a friend soon. But it all planned out!
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine except the plot.