Author's Note: Heh, I just realized that I messed up Veronica's last name in the last chapter… And no, I did not mean for this chapter name to be the same as the last chapter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it just happened… somehow…
Title: Role Reversal
Rating: PG
Spoilers: There aren't too many spoilers in chapters 1-12. The whole story has some spoilers, but how else do you write a fanfic? The chapter with major spoilers is "Old Friends".
Summary: James and Lily make a bet. Lily has to pull a bunch of pranks and James can't do any.
Disclaimer: I, of course, do not own Harry Potter or its characters. If you're reading this, you should already know whom it belongs to anyway.
Setting: This story is set in MWPP years. If you don't know what that means, you probably shouldn't be reading this fanfic.
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italics - emphasis
-The Beginning-
"'Arry! It is good to see you again!"
"Hello, Fleur," Harry greeted the French girl.
"Hi, Fleur," Ron said, blushing.
Hermione rolled her eyes and said hello to Fleur as well.
"Fleur, since you are going to be here for a while, Professor Dumbledore thought we might as well show you something," Harry told her.
"What is it?"
"Come on."
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"You can transform now," Harry said to a large black dog.
The animal looked back and forth between Harry and Fleur, then changed back into a man.
The part veela girl stepped back. "Zat is Sirius Black! What—"
"It's okay, Fleur," Ron told her. "He's on our side."
"But—"
"Just trust us," Hermione said. "He's Harry's godfather."
"And my fiancé," Sarah said, approaching the teenagers. "Hi, I'm Sarah. Nice to meet you," she greeted the newcomer.
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Veronica and Sarah were standing in Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration classroom.
"This place looks exactly the same…" Sarah noted.
"Yeah, it does, doesn't it?"
"McGonagall never was one to change much."
The two women were observing the fifth years in the class. Harry looked up from his work and smiled at them.
"Amazing. He even has James's smile."
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(AN: Erm, since I couldn't think of anything else, here's a battle! Oh, I have no idea where this battle's taking place. Um… Albania? England? Somewhere in between? Just pick someplace.)
"Avada Kedavra!"
"Ah!" Remus dived out of the way as a Death Eater tried to curse him.
"Come on," Sirius said as he dragged him away from the hooded and masked wizard.
Mundungus Fletcher hit two Death Eaters with the same fireball. Sarah shot a bolt of lightning at another one. Arabella Figg was trying to fend off three Death Eaters at once. Other witches and wizards were doing everything they could to fight Voldemort's forces.
"Crucio!"
Veronica screamed in pain. "Help!" she managed to get out.
Sarah whirled around, searching wildly for her friend. "Veronica!" She ran to her as fast as she could, throwing all the curses she could think of at the Death Eater. The wizard finally backed off, seeing as he had things growing out of him and things missing…
Remus and Sirius rushed over to help.
"Crucio!" Another Death Eater had taken the other's place, and was attempting to perform the Cruciatus Curse on the four.
It didn't hurt Sarah as much as it should have. She had already suffered so much in her life. She was able to fight the curse long enough to administer a spell of her own. (AN: I have no idea if that's possible…)
Sirius didn't feel it quite as strongly as Veronica had. He had also been through a lot of pain in his life, and his many years in Azkaban had made it possible for him to deal with it. He pointed his wand at the Death Eater as well.
Remus was in less pain than Veronica was, but more than Sirius and Sarah were. He tried to raise his wand, but the pain was too great.
The Death Eater stopped the curse when he was hit with the combined force of the two spells.
"Come on! Let's go!" Sirius yelled. The other witches and wizards fought off Voldemort's forces as they made their way off the battlefield. Since they couldn't Disapparate to Hogwarts, they had to get as close to the grounds as possible, then continue traveling some other way.
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"Sirius! You—are you all right?" Harry asked in concern. He looked at Veronica, who was coughing up blood.
Dumbledore said, "We'd best get her and the others to Madam Pomfrey immediately."
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"What happened?" Harry asked after the adults had been treated by the school nurse.
"It was a tough battle," Remus said. "We barely got out alive."
"We're just lucky we didn't lose anyone," Sirius replied. "We're going to need all the people we have to win this war."
TO BE CONTINUED…
Author's Note: Yeah, I know, I'm evil for stopping here…