Sunrise doesn't last all morning,
a cloudburst doesn't last all day.
Seems my love is up
and has left you with no warning.
But it's not always going
to be this grey.
All things must pass,
all things must pass away.
Sunset doesn't last all evening;
a mind can blow those clouds away.
After all this my love is up
and must be leaving.
It has not always
been this grey.
All things must pass,
all things must pass away.
All things must pass
none of life's strings can last.
So I must be on my way
and face another day.
Now the darkness only stays at nighttime,
in the morning it will fade away.
Daylight is good
at arriving at the right time.
It's not always
going to be this grey.
All things must pass,
all things must pass away.
All things must pass,
all things must pass away.
Lily sighed putting down her DADA essay. It wasn't that she wasn't good at or didn't like that subject, she just hated writing essays. She figured it was mostly because of that stupid quill/ink thing. Why couldn't she just use a normal ballpoint pen? She looked at her parchment, that was another thing, why parchment and not simple paper? 'Oh well' she thought, 'that'll just have to do, ink smudges and all, stupid quills'. Glad to be finished she looked around the common room to see how her friends were fairing. She smiled as she saw Peter asleep in front of the fire with a smudge of ink on his forehead. She looked towards Sirius and Remus; apparently they had finished as well because they were playing a game of exploding snap with their essays forgotten by their sides. She noticed James was still working on his and Belle was giving hers a last glance checking for mistakes with a smug smile on her face.
"Finished!" Arabella announced with a grin, expecting to be the first one done. Her smile faded as she saw Lily, Sirius and Remus smiling back at her all too innocently. "Awwwww!" she said with a pout, "I wanted to be done first!"
"Sorry old chum, but Remmi here beat you to it with wonderful me in second." Sirius said proudly
"Old chum? Since when do you call Belle 'old chum'? And don't call me Remmi, only girls can call me Remmi" Remus said with a cocky grin
Lily rolled her eyes and ignored their conversation about who was better at DADA than the other person and moved to sit next to James on the couch.
"Need help?" she asked quietly?
"No, but thanks, I'm almost finished. I'm so glad it'sChristmas Break. And look, we have all of our homework finished on only the second day!" James smiled at Lily, he wondered why she didn't go home over the Hols but he figured she would tell him when she was ready. "You all done Lil?"
"Yeah" she said stifling a yawn "Man am I beat, I think I'll head to bed" turning to Arabella she said "You coming Belle?" A smile quirked at Lily's lips as she watched Belle and Sirius who were sitting close to one another having a 'heated argument' about their essay. 'They are so flirting' she thought to herself.
"What? Yeah I'll be up in a couple mins," Said a distracted Belle as she turned back to her conversation with Sirius
Lily shrugged and walked over to Peter and gently shook him awake. "Peter" she whispered "you fell asleep why don't you go to bed, I'll walk up with you"
Peter groggily opened his yes "whhaaa? Where am I? Why am I so hot" This of course sent Sirius into fits of giggles
"Oh yeah!" Sirius said grinning "You are just soooooo hot! You hottie you! If I were a girl I'd want your body!"
"Knock it off Siri!" Lily said giggling. Turning back to Peter, "Come on, it's time for bed sleepy head" And with that Peter and Lily walked up to their respective dorms to sleep.
A few days later, it was Christmas Eve and Lily couldn't be more excited. She woke up at the crack of dawn when sunlight was just beginning to stream through the windows. She smiled to herself happily jumped out of bed and ran to Belle's bed and threw open her bed hangings, glad they were the only first years staying for the hols. "WAKE UP SUNSHINE!!!!! IT"S MORNING! HERE COMES THE SUN!" she practically screamed in Belle's ear.
Arabella woke up with a scream "What the bloody hell are you doing! It's" she looked at the alarm clock on her nightstand "only 6 bloody 30 in the bloody morning! You great prat! Go away and let me sleep you dirty git!"
"Wow Belle, you sure can swear in the mornings! Never knew you had it in you! Now get up! It's Christmas Eve Day and I wanna make the most of it no up!" With that, Lily yanked the blankets off of Arabella with a grin
"Fine fine" Arabella mumbled "I'm up you wicked girl, I'm up"
"Great! I'm off to wake up the boys!" Lily said all too cheerily. She crept into the boy's dorm as quietly as possible and silently climbed upon one of the empty beds. Taking out her wand she muttered "sonorous", opened her mouth and started singing as loud as she could "DECK THE HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLY FA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA! TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY FA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!" She laughed with glee as James fell out of his bed and Remus sat straight up while Sirius jumped out of bed shouting "Where's the fire mama! I'm comin!" And Peter screamed bloody murder. The boys noticed a hysterically laughing Lily on Frank Longbottom's bed and glared daggers at her.
"Lily!" They all shouted at once
"Sorry guys, well not really, now get up hurry! It's Christmas Eve!" She jumped off the bed and skipped back to her dorm to find a sleepy Belle, fully clothed sitting dazed on the floor. "Come on Belle! Let's wrap our Christmas presents!" The rest of the afternoon was spent wrapping gifts and just lazing around. There was a Yule Ball that night but only 4th years and up could attend so they group of first years just sat around the fire in the common room playing chess or exploding snap and telling stories of their childhood becoming even closer than before. Eventually the group reluctantly got up and went to sleep murmuring lots of "Happy Christmas" to each other and "sleep well".
Far away from the safety of Hogwarts and the sleeping children, a large house sat on a hill with a massive orchard behind it. Because it was winter, what fruit the trees in the orchard produced was unrecognizable. Inside the house was the perfect picture of a family. A tall man with unruly black hair and round-rimmed glasses with blue eyes sat in an over sized green armchair. He looked up from the book he was reading and smiled at his wife sitting in the chair across from his. She looked so beautiful to him, with sparkling, deep brown eyes and chestnut colored hair. She had a dimple in her right cheek when she smiled. She noticed him looking at her and she smiled back, but her gaze roved to a picture of their eleven-year-old son on the mantle above the fireplace by which they were sitting. She smiled fondly at the picture and the picture waved and smiled back. The woman looked over to the man and saw him looking at the picture with pride. He was their son, their only son. They had a daughter once, but lost her before she turned two to an illness not even the best magical or muggle doctors could cure. She would have been eight by now. Their son wrote home often, telling of his many escapades he and his friends went on. He mostly wrote about a girl he called his best friend and how they shared everything and did everything together. The parents were filled with joy and pride for their son and were thankful he had made such wonderful friends.
Looking at the clock, the couple smiled at each other and decided it was time to sleep; they were planning on visiting their son the next morning as a surprise for Christmas and had to be up early. The woman began her ascent to their bedroom when a heavy knock was heard on the sturdy oak door. She looked questioningly at her loving husband who stood up to open the door. 'Who would be calling at this hour on Christmas Eve no doubt' he wondered. As he walked towards the door, not in any rush to open it, the door burst open and splintered pieces of broken wood were scattered among the house. The man heard his wife scream as three black cloaked figures stepped into their warm home. He looked past the men and saw what appeared to be a Skull with a snake protruding from its mouth in green smoke floating far above their well-manicured lawn. He looked at his wife as the three men raised their wands at the same time, with exact precision. He looked at her sadly and she looked back in fear and he simply said "I love you" as all three figures spoke the most deadly words that could be spoken "Avada Kevdara" and he fell to the floor in a heap with a peaceful look on his face. The wife looked on in horror as her beloved husband dropped from life and without thinking she lunged at the closest cloaked man, but never reached him. She too fell with a loud thud as the same evil words were spoken with even more malice than before. Silently the men turned to go. But one man, turned around right before he exited through the shattered door frame, he looked directly at the picture of the dead couples son, the smile gone from his terror stricken face, and the cloaked man smiled and said to the picture "you're next boy" and left.
Lily awoke with a start drenched in cold sweat. She had the most horrible dream. That man looked just like James, and that woman had his eyes. With a sinking feeling in her stomach she jumped out of bed and ran barefoot to the boy's dorm. She silently looked at James's bed and saw it was empty with a blanket carelessly thrown on the floor as if in haste. Lily knew, somehow she knew her dream had been real. She turned and ran to the common room and found a sobbing James crouched in front of the fire clutching a tear-stained note in his left hand. Without words Lily went up to him, took his right hand and led him from the common room to a secret place she had found a few weeks before hand. It was a little courtyard, although she didn't really think it was outside because it was always green and warm flowers constantly growing. She led James down the corridors to her secret place, it was just a portrait of a beautiful garden, and all she had to do was say "Eden" and the picture opened for them. The far end of the room was nothing but a glass wall facing east, the direction of the sunrise.
Still holding his hand, Lily sat James down underneath a weeping willow tree to be sheltered, sat down beside him and drew him up into her arms where he could weep for his parents undisturbed. After what seemed like hours, when in fact it probably was, Lily noticed James wasn't crying anymore, or at least not as much and the sun was slowly beginning to rise. Despite their situation, she couldn't help but marvel at its beauty. Softly she began to sing a verse from her favorite song to James hoping it would make him feel better.
Little darling I feel the ice is slowly melting
Little darling it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun do do do do
Here comes the sun and I say
It's all right
Here comes the sun do do do do
Here comes the sun
It's all right
It's all right
She ended in a whisper and realized that James was clinging to her like he'd fall and die if he let go and was sobbing again. She smiled sadly and held him closer, vowing to herself that she would make it better someday, that she would help him though this tough time in her life and that she would always no matter what be there for him.
A/N: Well another fixed chapter :) Though like I said before most of the big changes don't happen until Lily's back at Hogwarts. Ummmm I must say I had hoped for more people to read this…I mean I DID have well over 300 reviews on the original :-P But it's fine lets me be more able to reply to my reviewer anyway :-D
Shelly- thanks for reviewing! I'm really glad that I managed to keep the interest of at least one person who has read the original. I decided to rewrite it because there are a lot of things that I am not happy with at all later. I don't feel that I developed the characters well enough at all. I want to spend more time delving into the emotions of my characters and not just have action scenes. But most of that comes later. Does that help? Thanks bunches again!
Disclaimers: JK Rowling owns all things Harry Potter…
The song "All Things Must Pass" is by the Beatles…anyone noticing a trend. As well as the snippet of "Here Comes the Sun" both, coincidentally written by George Harrison :) my personal favorite Beatle
Please review!! I'll update sooner!!