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Chapter 18
The Great Battle of Hogwarts
Things carried on like that for ages with Katie making sarcastic comments about Sirius and Sirius going everywhere with Kate. Lily felt very left out as Vicky and Katie seemed to be leaving her out. She had been going around with James until they'd had another one of their famous arguments where James had called her 'carrothead' and she'd taken offence. The only way she could possibly feel better was to go outside and sit by the lake.
She sat and gazed out onto the lake. It was amazing and never the same. The texture and colour was always different. Lily sighed as she thought about all of the recent events. She remembered about her parents and started to cry again. She let the tears slowly roll down her cheeks. She couldn't help it. She buried her head in her hands but looked up when she felt something nudge her arm. She saw a stag. It was a beautiful creature with hazel eyes that she was sure she'd seen somewhere before. It sat beside her and she felt comforted. She wiped away the tears with the back of her hand and set off back to the castle.
She stopped abruptly in the middle of the grounds though. James watched her, still in stag form as she began talking to herself.
"So mudblood, where did you see those eyes before?" the voice asked her.
"What? Oh no! Not you again! What are you going on about?" she asked the voice.
"The stag's eyes mudblood, where have you seen them before?" she wondered, she definitely had seen them before.
"The dark lord will rise and anyone who stands in his path shall fall" a dark voice said in Lily's head.
"Oh no not another one!" she groaned. James looked on in amazement. He quickly transformed and ran up to her and put his arms round her shoulders.
"Get rid of him!" the second voice hissed. Lily shrugged him off and ran again. But he caught up with her.
"Lils what's wrong?" he asked. She wriggled free and ran into the castle.
"The dark lord is coming to Hogwarts now! The one that killed your parents! Run! Hide!" the second voice, said.
"Where? Where shall I hide?!" she asked, she was frightened and her breathing was fast.
"Go to the dungeons, no one will find you there!" one of the voices said, she didn't stop to think which one. She ran to the dungeons and hid in the corner of a room.
James had just come into the castle and saw Lily run down to the dungeons. He knew that something was wrong, she'd become really snappy and had started insulting him when he joked about her having red hair. He was about to find her when Rachel Mainprize, a seventh year Hufflepuff came bursting through the main doors screaming "DEATHEATERS! IT'S A DEATHEATER ATTACK! THEY'RE HERE AT HOGWARTS! TELL DUMBLEDORE!" then she collapsed showing everyone the enormous slash in her side and there were pools of blood on the floor. Everyone who was there screamed. James tried to keep everyone calm but it was no use, there was utter chaos.
James bolted up to Dumbledore's office but found Dumbledore talking to a painting on the second floor.
"Sir!…Dumbledore….deatheaters..They're here!" James panted. Bending over and putting his hands on his knees and trying to catch his breath.
"James, send everyone to the great hall, round up the seventh years and send him or her to the entrance hall along with the staff and I will meet you there" Dumbledore told him. James told everyone he saw to go to the correct places and found people to alert people in the other common rooms and he went to Gryffindor to round everyone up.
They all went to the right places and James and the other gryffindors went to the entrance hall.
" Now I must ask you all to stay calm. The school is indeed under attack and we need to defend it until the aurors arrive. The ministry have been owled. Now James and Lily…Where's Lily? Where's Lily Evans?" Dumbledore asked looking around.
"I think I saw her go down to the dungeons sir" said James worriedly.
"Then you should go and take Sirius, Remus, Katie and Vicky with you and do your best to find her before it's too late" Dumbledore explained. He looked around for others that were missing. There was Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Kate, Robyn, Chris and Peter he had a good idea where they were though but just didn't say anything.
Lily was terrified and was talking to the voices in her head.
"Where are the deatheaters?" she asked.
"Oh they won't bother you here," the second voice said.
"Who are you anyway?" she asked them.
"That would be telling wouldn't it mudblood" said the first voice. She was quiet for a while before asking; " do I know you?"
"SURPRISE LILY!" said Chris Lumistella as he burst through the door in his deatheater robes, closely followed by Kate and Robyn.
"CHRIS? CHRIS! YOU'RE A DEATHEATER?" she shrieked. "How did you know I was down here?" he walked towards her. "You would have to have been one of the…you were one of the voices!"
"How clever of you mudblood!" he smirked and laughed with Kate and Robyn. Lily couldn't help but feel sorry for Sirius at this point. Poor Sirius, it would break his heart, he really loved Kate.
At this moment James and the others burst through the door and saw Lily being cornered by the deatheaters.
"Oi! You!" James shouted and they span around.
"CHRIS?" Katie shouted.
"KATE?" Sirius shouted.
"See I told you they were evil!" they both said at once.
"This isn't the right time guys!" Remus said.
"Aw, sweet Evans. Your friends have come to save you. Well they'll die in vain. But I'm sure they'll put up a good fight!" Chris advanced towards the group leaving Lily free. James tried to signal to her with his eyes but Chris spotted him. "Stop it Potter! Petrificus Totalus!" he shouted at Lily who froze James ran towards her. "Looks like we'll need reinforcement hey girls. Mosmordre" Chris shouted and a green skull flew out of his wand. Sirius shot a beam of purple light at Chris but he dodged it. Almost straight away they heard footsteps behind them and a dozen more deatheaters turned up. Chris was showing off and laughing with Robyn and Kate at how he'd dodged Sirius attempt. He was so busy that he didn't notice Sirius fire another beam of light at him and it hit him square in the chest. He fell to the floor. Sirius went to join Katie and Remus who were firing random spells at the deatheaters.
Meanwhile James was trying to help Lily who was edging into the corner. She kept muttering "but I don't want to kill him! Please don't make me kill him!"
"Lily! Lily what's wrong?" he asked. She clutched her hands to her head and began shaking violently.
"Leave me alone! Go away!" she screamed.
"It's telepathy James! I recognise the symptoms!" Remus shouted who was still firing spells at the deatheaters who's numbers wee gradually decreasing.
"Oh right! Antitelepathmos!" James said. A pink light shot out of James' wand and encircled lily's head. It hovered for a while and then disappeared. Remus turned round to see if she was ok just as a deatheater said "silvarlamus" and it hit Remus. Being a werewolf he was allergic to silver and doubled up in pain he fell to his knees and then onto the floor. Lily and Katie screamed as they heard more footsteps along the corridor.
