"Salt Lick"
Disclaimer* Harry Potter is mine. My own. I was working for 2 years for $4.50 an hour when J.K Rowling stole my idea. I have made it my life's work to expose her in all her ugly glory. (by the way, if any of you believed that, you've got a gullibility problem.)
*This was written by my brother*
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Lily awoke from another dream breathing heavily. She swung her legs over her bed and went up to her bathroom to take a bath.
It was nice having a bath in her bathroom. She had a beautiful view of the stars. She had also been told by Minnie, who had the room before when she was at Hogwarts, that the glass of the dome could vanish with a spell, so one could listen to sounds of the night. There was also a anti-condition spell. No cold, rain, bugs etc. could get through the invisible barrier. Quite convienient.
Lily poured the hot water over her head. She was going to have to start taking sleeping potions to get rid of these nightmares. But taking too many of the potions to frequently would result in possibly never waking up for up to ten years. No, it would't work. She'd search for some safe spells in the morning.
Lily wrapped her dark cascade of hair in a towel and rubbed it dry. She was about to fall back into bed when she heard a bark. She was positive no dogs lived in the forest. She was too tired to care though and fell asleep before her head landed on her pillow.
Lily woke up in the morning and yawned long and loudly. It was the day before Halloween. Lily rolled out of bed and fell with an "Umph." on the floor. She looked up at her clock. "Holy hippogriff! I had no idea it was so late! Why didn't I set it!" Getting dressed in her Gyriffindor uniform in less than a minute, Lily hastily put a brush to her hair and put it down a stroke later. She picked up her wand and muttered a spell to make all her tangles disappear. However the spell was done muffled for her headband was in her mouth. Her hair was untangled, but everything that was twisted knotted, tied, locked etc. also came undone in her room, causing Lily to swear loudly. She was just pulling on her knee socks when she realized... It was a Sunday.
"Stupid!" she yelled at herself hitting herself on the head. "No wonder I didn't set my alarm!" Lily fell heavily back onto her bed and snoozed for a half an hour before Maria and Bella came bursting into her room and woke her up.
"Wake up Elle! Dumbledore put us on the decorating crew! Wake up! And why are you in your uniform? It's Sunday."
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The girls opened the door to the room where the decorations were stored. Maria shrieked as a spider scuttled across her foot.
"Whoa." said Bella.
The large room was cluttered with never-rotting jack-o-lanterns, dancing skeletons, huge fake spiderwebs, and real spiders, but Lily didn't think they were part of the decorations.
Bella pulled out a list. "We are the Gyriffindor decorators. We do the common room, dormitories, boy's and girl's, girl's bathroom 5th corridor...:" she went on. The girls had fun setting up the magical decorations. It took up most of the day, and by 3:00 they were on the boy's dormitories.
They entered the marauders room then immediately wished to go out. Dirty clothes were littered across the floor and...
"Ew!" Maria said in disgust, pointing at a molding roast beef sandwich. "How did they get food up here?"
"Phew it smells." said Bella casually, as if commenting on the weather. She put up an exploding pumpkin on a table and set the countdown timer for 5:30 in the morning, cackling insanely.
"Hey do that again." said Lily." I learned a charm in Standard Book of Spells that can record anything and play it back anytime you wish through any desired object."
"Cool!" said Bella and cackled again for Lily's wand. Lily scheduled the evil laugh to emit from the cuckoo clock that hung on the wall every hour.
Lily decided to put a rotting hand under James bed that shot out and would grab his leg whenever he got in or out of bed.
She lifted up the blankets hanging over the side and gasped. Maria and Bella ran over to her.
"Oh my..." Under James bed was as a big box of bouillon cubes and salt.
Lily grabbed it from under the bed and opened a bouillon cube. She popped it into her mouth. "Yum. Chicken." The two girls gave her a bewildered look.
"What?" asked Lily, genuinely confused.
Bella pulled something out of the box. It was a large leather-bound book. They opened it. It was a picture album. They flipped though moving pictures of little James and his family, cooing occasionally.
"Aww.." said Maria closing the book. "He's so adorable! Only 7th year dormitories and we're done!"
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The Marauders, Lily, Maria, and Bella were laughing in the common room talking about the Hufflepuff vs. Ravenclaws game they had just been to.
"Really spectacular save by Crokitt, huh," said Sirius, sort of indecipherably due to a large piece of candy that was in his mouth." "Chocolate, James?" he asked, switching the ball of sugar to a corner of his mouth.
"No thanks." said James weakly.
Lily had just tried a sweet Remus had handed her. (his favorite) She chewed it slowly and her face screwed up in an expression of displeasure. She discreetly took it out and put it back into it's wrapper.
"What's wrong?" said Remus, a little put off.
"It's funny." said Lily quietly. "Sweets just haven't been the same lately. They taste, well..."
"Nasty." finished James. "Same here. Do you think Snape put a curse on us?"
"No, it started around the summer. And I was in France."
"Same here." repeated James looking at her strangely.
Sirius raised his eyebrows. "James," he whispered when the rest of them were occupied. "You know why sweets taste bad to you. The animagus side effect. Deer love salt, they must hate sugar."
"Why would Lily not like it though?"
"Do you think that she could also be a... nah."
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That night, Lily tossed feverishly in her bed, a cold sweat shining on her skin mingled with tears. She muttered something incomprehensible.
She was there again. At Beaxbatons Academy on that fateful night...
Lily was happily chatting with her friends at dinner about the incredibly handsome new librarian assistant who had been hired two days ago. Lily secretly couldn't wait until dinner was over so she could go try out her new animagus form again. As a child, she'd always wondered what it was like to become an animal, and now, after three years of toiling over self-transfiguration spellbooks, she had finally managed to achieve it, transforming for the first time just two weeks ago. She reached for a salt shaker while her friends rolled their eyes at her when the Hall doors banged open. A chilling sense of fear and recognition washed over her as all hell broke loose.
The students screamed as the black cloaked death eaters swarmed into the Hall. There were ten of them. The teachers frantically herded the hysterical children out of hall, while the muggle born students dropped with a flash of green light, their screams ending abruptly. There was no hope for them. They had no warning. Lily ran as fast as her childish legs could carry her. The screams of her friends echoed in her ears, strangely quiet. The sounds vanished in her ears, and all she heard was beating of her frantic heart, and her ragged breaths. She felt a hand clutch on her hair but she twisted and kept on running. Suddenly she heard the fatal cry of "AVANDA KEDAVRA!" and she was blasted to the ground. She slowly opened her eyes, unsure whether she was dead or alive, when she saw the body next to her. "Elle," she whispered. "NO!" Time seemed to slow as she knelt gasping, cradling her dead friend's head in her lap. A cold rage quickly built up inside her. The Death Eater was a mere fifteen feet away from her, admiring his handiwork, clearly enjoying himself. He raised his wand lazily intending to finish off his true target this time. Lily snatched her wand out of her pocket and bellowed "MORPHEUS ANIMANGUS!" A beam struck the wizard and attached to him, forcing him to drop his wand. She had him now, and there was no escape. She knew what could happen if an animagus spell was done without the potion beforehand. A half-transformation, and permanent damage. Nothing in her mind quelled to stop her from this inhuman revenge, her only thought was to cause that monster as much pain as he had caused her. She began to chant the spell, and the wizards eyes widened as he realized what she was going to do to him, and began to struggle. She muttered the last part of the immensely complex spell and watched. The death eater screamed in agony as his skin began to boil and patches of hair sprouted up from his skin. Lily could see in his gaping mouth how his teeth were growing longer and pointed, his spine hunched over, creating a hunchback. His fingers sprouted claws and his legs bent with a crack. Then it stopped. Lily finally realized what she had done. She dropped her wand and slowing stumbled backwards, away from horror she'd just created. He looked up at her with pain stricken eyes and moved a few inches before falling down again with a hiss of pain... The other death eaters pulled the monster away and fled the hall as ministry officials arrived. She felt some arms pull her up yelling a question at her. It was then that she had fainted.
Lily awoke in a flash drenched in sweat. The dream was still fresh in her mind, and the memory of causing so much pain, even deserved pain, still brought anguish to her. This recurring dream had been playing through her mind ever since the day that had changed life. She buried her head into her pillow and bit back a sob. It wasn't fair. She was supposed to die, not Elle. She sat up and wiping away the tears, thought "C'mon Lily, you're a big girl. Stop crying and go on living your life." She got out of bed and started to get dressed while she said aloud, "I need salt."
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Lily slowly walked through the forest as her human self, admiring the beautiful plant life, that was obviously wizardly. The magical version of the Venus fly trap was known to eat humans. She came to a clearing with a strange flat rock wall. "Must belong to the centaurs." she thought out loud. She had come across one, or rather he had come to her in curiosity, and had an intellectual conversation with it. His name was Bayinnze, and had a particular fondness sugar lumps, and had asked Lily to bring some next time she came into the forest. She went up to the wall and bushed back some vines to see some crude writing. MOONY, WORTAIL, PADFOOT, AND PRONG'S FIRST NIGHT ADVENTURE: HAD A RUN IN WITH GIANT SPIDERS 9-20 20
She frowned. That was certainly not made by a centaur. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. Wasn't that what the marauders called themselves as nicknames? She heard a rustling behind her. ""Bayinnze?" She spun around and froze. A werewolf, with red eyes, and yellow fangs was crouching twenty feet from her. The wolf leapt forward at her and she screamed.
Not a moment too soon she transformed. The werewolf stopped abruptly and starred at the quivering doe. Their heads both turned as a black dog and a stag bounded out of the bushes. The werewolf trotted over to them and Lily stared in a mixture of horror and amazement. The stag looked at her strangely and stepped forward at her curiously. Lily ran out of the clearing. She'd seen that stag twice before. She wasn't the only animagus at Hogwarts.
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A/N: Okay, sorry for the delay... Thank you for your reviews- keep 'em coming. My next chapter is already being written, so you shouldn't have to wait long.
Disclaimer* Harry Potter is mine. My own. I was working for 2 years for $4.50 an hour when J.K Rowling stole my idea. I have made it my life's work to expose her in all her ugly glory. (by the way, if any of you believed that, you've got a gullibility problem.)
*This was written by my brother*
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Lily awoke from another dream breathing heavily. She swung her legs over her bed and went up to her bathroom to take a bath.
It was nice having a bath in her bathroom. She had a beautiful view of the stars. She had also been told by Minnie, who had the room before when she was at Hogwarts, that the glass of the dome could vanish with a spell, so one could listen to sounds of the night. There was also a anti-condition spell. No cold, rain, bugs etc. could get through the invisible barrier. Quite convienient.
Lily poured the hot water over her head. She was going to have to start taking sleeping potions to get rid of these nightmares. But taking too many of the potions to frequently would result in possibly never waking up for up to ten years. No, it would't work. She'd search for some safe spells in the morning.
Lily wrapped her dark cascade of hair in a towel and rubbed it dry. She was about to fall back into bed when she heard a bark. She was positive no dogs lived in the forest. She was too tired to care though and fell asleep before her head landed on her pillow.
Lily woke up in the morning and yawned long and loudly. It was the day before Halloween. Lily rolled out of bed and fell with an "Umph." on the floor. She looked up at her clock. "Holy hippogriff! I had no idea it was so late! Why didn't I set it!" Getting dressed in her Gyriffindor uniform in less than a minute, Lily hastily put a brush to her hair and put it down a stroke later. She picked up her wand and muttered a spell to make all her tangles disappear. However the spell was done muffled for her headband was in her mouth. Her hair was untangled, but everything that was twisted knotted, tied, locked etc. also came undone in her room, causing Lily to swear loudly. She was just pulling on her knee socks when she realized... It was a Sunday.
"Stupid!" she yelled at herself hitting herself on the head. "No wonder I didn't set my alarm!" Lily fell heavily back onto her bed and snoozed for a half an hour before Maria and Bella came bursting into her room and woke her up.
"Wake up Elle! Dumbledore put us on the decorating crew! Wake up! And why are you in your uniform? It's Sunday."
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The girls opened the door to the room where the decorations were stored. Maria shrieked as a spider scuttled across her foot.
"Whoa." said Bella.
The large room was cluttered with never-rotting jack-o-lanterns, dancing skeletons, huge fake spiderwebs, and real spiders, but Lily didn't think they were part of the decorations.
Bella pulled out a list. "We are the Gyriffindor decorators. We do the common room, dormitories, boy's and girl's, girl's bathroom 5th corridor...:" she went on. The girls had fun setting up the magical decorations. It took up most of the day, and by 3:00 they were on the boy's dormitories.
They entered the marauders room then immediately wished to go out. Dirty clothes were littered across the floor and...
"Ew!" Maria said in disgust, pointing at a molding roast beef sandwich. "How did they get food up here?"
"Phew it smells." said Bella casually, as if commenting on the weather. She put up an exploding pumpkin on a table and set the countdown timer for 5:30 in the morning, cackling insanely.
"Hey do that again." said Lily." I learned a charm in Standard Book of Spells that can record anything and play it back anytime you wish through any desired object."
"Cool!" said Bella and cackled again for Lily's wand. Lily scheduled the evil laugh to emit from the cuckoo clock that hung on the wall every hour.
Lily decided to put a rotting hand under James bed that shot out and would grab his leg whenever he got in or out of bed.
She lifted up the blankets hanging over the side and gasped. Maria and Bella ran over to her.
"Oh my..." Under James bed was as a big box of bouillon cubes and salt.
Lily grabbed it from under the bed and opened a bouillon cube. She popped it into her mouth. "Yum. Chicken." The two girls gave her a bewildered look.
"What?" asked Lily, genuinely confused.
Bella pulled something out of the box. It was a large leather-bound book. They opened it. It was a picture album. They flipped though moving pictures of little James and his family, cooing occasionally.
"Aww.." said Maria closing the book. "He's so adorable! Only 7th year dormitories and we're done!"
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The Marauders, Lily, Maria, and Bella were laughing in the common room talking about the Hufflepuff vs. Ravenclaws game they had just been to.
"Really spectacular save by Crokitt, huh," said Sirius, sort of indecipherably due to a large piece of candy that was in his mouth." "Chocolate, James?" he asked, switching the ball of sugar to a corner of his mouth.
"No thanks." said James weakly.
Lily had just tried a sweet Remus had handed her. (his favorite) She chewed it slowly and her face screwed up in an expression of displeasure. She discreetly took it out and put it back into it's wrapper.
"What's wrong?" said Remus, a little put off.
"It's funny." said Lily quietly. "Sweets just haven't been the same lately. They taste, well..."
"Nasty." finished James. "Same here. Do you think Snape put a curse on us?"
"No, it started around the summer. And I was in France."
"Same here." repeated James looking at her strangely.
Sirius raised his eyebrows. "James," he whispered when the rest of them were occupied. "You know why sweets taste bad to you. The animagus side effect. Deer love salt, they must hate sugar."
"Why would Lily not like it though?"
"Do you think that she could also be a... nah."
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That night, Lily tossed feverishly in her bed, a cold sweat shining on her skin mingled with tears. She muttered something incomprehensible.
She was there again. At Beaxbatons Academy on that fateful night...
Lily was happily chatting with her friends at dinner about the incredibly handsome new librarian assistant who had been hired two days ago. Lily secretly couldn't wait until dinner was over so she could go try out her new animagus form again. As a child, she'd always wondered what it was like to become an animal, and now, after three years of toiling over self-transfiguration spellbooks, she had finally managed to achieve it, transforming for the first time just two weeks ago. She reached for a salt shaker while her friends rolled their eyes at her when the Hall doors banged open. A chilling sense of fear and recognition washed over her as all hell broke loose.
The students screamed as the black cloaked death eaters swarmed into the Hall. There were ten of them. The teachers frantically herded the hysterical children out of hall, while the muggle born students dropped with a flash of green light, their screams ending abruptly. There was no hope for them. They had no warning. Lily ran as fast as her childish legs could carry her. The screams of her friends echoed in her ears, strangely quiet. The sounds vanished in her ears, and all she heard was beating of her frantic heart, and her ragged breaths. She felt a hand clutch on her hair but she twisted and kept on running. Suddenly she heard the fatal cry of "AVANDA KEDAVRA!" and she was blasted to the ground. She slowly opened her eyes, unsure whether she was dead or alive, when she saw the body next to her. "Elle," she whispered. "NO!" Time seemed to slow as she knelt gasping, cradling her dead friend's head in her lap. A cold rage quickly built up inside her. The Death Eater was a mere fifteen feet away from her, admiring his handiwork, clearly enjoying himself. He raised his wand lazily intending to finish off his true target this time. Lily snatched her wand out of her pocket and bellowed "MORPHEUS ANIMANGUS!" A beam struck the wizard and attached to him, forcing him to drop his wand. She had him now, and there was no escape. She knew what could happen if an animagus spell was done without the potion beforehand. A half-transformation, and permanent damage. Nothing in her mind quelled to stop her from this inhuman revenge, her only thought was to cause that monster as much pain as he had caused her. She began to chant the spell, and the wizards eyes widened as he realized what she was going to do to him, and began to struggle. She muttered the last part of the immensely complex spell and watched. The death eater screamed in agony as his skin began to boil and patches of hair sprouted up from his skin. Lily could see in his gaping mouth how his teeth were growing longer and pointed, his spine hunched over, creating a hunchback. His fingers sprouted claws and his legs bent with a crack. Then it stopped. Lily finally realized what she had done. She dropped her wand and slowing stumbled backwards, away from horror she'd just created. He looked up at her with pain stricken eyes and moved a few inches before falling down again with a hiss of pain... The other death eaters pulled the monster away and fled the hall as ministry officials arrived. She felt some arms pull her up yelling a question at her. It was then that she had fainted.
Lily awoke in a flash drenched in sweat. The dream was still fresh in her mind, and the memory of causing so much pain, even deserved pain, still brought anguish to her. This recurring dream had been playing through her mind ever since the day that had changed life. She buried her head into her pillow and bit back a sob. It wasn't fair. She was supposed to die, not Elle. She sat up and wiping away the tears, thought "C'mon Lily, you're a big girl. Stop crying and go on living your life." She got out of bed and started to get dressed while she said aloud, "I need salt."
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Lily slowly walked through the forest as her human self, admiring the beautiful plant life, that was obviously wizardly. The magical version of the Venus fly trap was known to eat humans. She came to a clearing with a strange flat rock wall. "Must belong to the centaurs." she thought out loud. She had come across one, or rather he had come to her in curiosity, and had an intellectual conversation with it. His name was Bayinnze, and had a particular fondness sugar lumps, and had asked Lily to bring some next time she came into the forest. She went up to the wall and bushed back some vines to see some crude writing. MOONY, WORTAIL, PADFOOT, AND PRONG'S FIRST NIGHT ADVENTURE: HAD A RUN IN WITH GIANT SPIDERS 9-20 20
She frowned. That was certainly not made by a centaur. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. Wasn't that what the marauders called themselves as nicknames? She heard a rustling behind her. ""Bayinnze?" She spun around and froze. A werewolf, with red eyes, and yellow fangs was crouching twenty feet from her. The wolf leapt forward at her and she screamed.
Not a moment too soon she transformed. The werewolf stopped abruptly and starred at the quivering doe. Their heads both turned as a black dog and a stag bounded out of the bushes. The werewolf trotted over to them and Lily stared in a mixture of horror and amazement. The stag looked at her strangely and stepped forward at her curiously. Lily ran out of the clearing. She'd seen that stag twice before. She wasn't the only animagus at Hogwarts.
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A/N: Okay, sorry for the delay... Thank you for your reviews- keep 'em coming. My next chapter is already being written, so you shouldn't have to wait long.