Author's Note: Sorry. English project. Need I say more? Oh my gosh, this is the last chapter! It's the end! Say, does anyone else think it's weird that I put the chapter called "The End" before "The Beginning"?

P.S. By the way, I'm not putting any Harry romance in here because I can't decide if I like Harry/Hermione or Ron/Hermione better. Please don't tell me which one you like better in your reviews…

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.

!!! = setting change

italics= emphasis

bold = death-speak

-Final Battle a.k.a. Role Reversal-

"No. No, no, no. This can't be happening," Sarah whispered to herself. She was crouched on the ground, looking out at the witches and wizards on the battlefield. How could one person who wasn't even really a person anymore cause so much pain and destruction? The number of deaths was getting higher. And not just on her side.

Why was this happening? Sarah wished that she could turn back time and make it so that this war wouldn't have happened. She, her friends, and everyone else would be happier, in theory. Of course, in theory. Always in theory. Technically, there was a way to do it. But she couldn't take the risk that something else important wouldn't happen if she changed history.

Sarah's normally nice, clean hair was now filthy and matted. Her clothes weren't in a much better state. She was going to either start crying or throwing up. She didn't know which, but she knew that she had to wait until this battle was over. She could mourn later. This wasn't the time. And somehow, she knew that this was the final battle.

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Pain. That was the only thing Remus could think of at the moment. How could a single curse make you feel like you wanted to die? Pain. Unbearable pain. Agony.

The Death Eater who had been attacking him was stopped by Veronica. She helped him up. "You okay?"

"Yeah," he said weakly. They moved to a safer place.

"I can't take this anymore. He has to be stopped."

He nodded. "Yeah. But how? Harry's the only one who's ever been able to even weaken him. And he doesn't have Lily's protection anymore."

"If only they were here to help us."

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Sirius was fighting. He could barely think. He was acting on instinct—blocking here, shooting there. He was seeing and hearing, but not comprehending. He had retreated to his most primitive self. The part of him that he had relied on when he had escaped from Azkaban.

He saw a flash of black hair. Familiar hair—the kind of hair that had belonged to someone he had known years ago.

He finally remembered. James. But that wasn't possible. James was dead. So it had to be Harry. What was he doing here? They had forbidden him to come, hadn't they? Oh. Of course. He was James Potter's son. Breaking rules came naturally to him.

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Harry looked around. The adults had told him not to come, but he knew that he had to. He had had a weird dream the night before. His mother and father had told him something. He still wasn't quite sure what it was, or what he could do here, but he knew that he had to come.

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Sarah stared fearfully up at Lord Voldemort. He'd destroyed Lily and James. He could definitely kill her. She wanted to scream, to do something other than just lie there on the ground, helpless. I guess this is the end, she thought, as a blinding white light filled her field of vision.

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Harry was doing something strange. A white light was coming out of the end of his wand.

Veronica, Remus, and Sirius ran toward him. Only three people mattered to them at the moment. Everything and everyone else were irrelevant.

What was that? A misty-looking image was forming around the light. Two images, in fact. They looked familiar.

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Voldemort was dead. Harry lowered his wand and stared at the corpse, not believing what had just happened. How? A fully-grown wizard whose name was feared by so many people defeated by a seventeen-year-old boy who wasn't even finished with his education? Impossible. But it had happened. He dropped to his knees.

Sarah crawled over to him. "Harry. Harry," she called, bringing him back to reality.

"What?" he said softly, never taking his eyes off Voldemort's body.

"Thank you. You saved me."

"I killed him."

"Harry—"

"I—I can't believe I killed someone."

"He was evil. He had to be stopped."

Veronica reached them first. "What—what happened? What was that?"

Harry looked at Sarah, then shifted his gaze up to look into Veronica's wondering blue eyes. Remus and Sirius appeared behind her.

"What was that light? I saw a kind of mist. It—it was like looking at a ghost," Sirius said.

"I saw them. They—" Sarah tried to remember. "Lily. James. It was them," she said, looking at each of her friends. "They did it. They gave him the power to defeat Voldemort."

"How?"

"I don't know. I—" Sarah began, then fainted.

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Lily asked, How? How did that happen? Did we do that?

I don't know, James replied.

I can't believe it.

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Sarah opened her eyes. Sirius was looking down at her. "Hi," she said, looking around and realizing that she was in the hospital wing.

"Hi."

"Where's Harry? Where's everyone else? Veronica? Remus? What—"

"Slow down. They're fine. Everyone else is fine. Everyone who survived, that is," Sirius said solemnly.

"I saw them. Lily and James. They were there. They really were. I could feel them."

"I could too. All of us could."

"Do you know how Harry did it?"

"No. And I don't think we'll ever know."

"I can't believe it's over." Sarah took a breath and began to cry. "Why do people have to die in war? So many people. Good people. People who just wanted to help and do the right thing."

"I don't like it either, but that's the way it is."

The blonde cried silently for a few minutes.

Sirius watched her. "Sarah, remember what I said to you before we came back here?"

"Yeah."

"You still want to?"

"Sirius Black, I have waited almost twenty years to marry you. I'm not going to give up now."

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"You'll be going home then?" Remus asked Veronica.

She smiled. "Yeah."

"Say hello to your family for me."

"I will."

"It's been a long fight."

"Uh-huh. I'm finally going home. I get to see my kids again. I've probably missed so much."

"Yeah, but you being here gave them a chance to do those things."

"I'll miss you," Veronica said. "You have to visit again."

"I will. But not for a while." He smiled. "I promise I will, though." He got up.

She hugged him. "I wish things could have been different."

"So do I," Remus said sadly.

"But they're not, and I have a different life than the one I would have had if we had been together."

"Goodbye, Veronica."

"Bye." She left to say goodbye to Sirius and Sarah.

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[Summer after Harry's 7th year]

Sarah went out onto the porch to where Sirius was sitting on the porch swing. "Hey."

He glanced at her and motioned for her to sit next to him. She sat. They didn't say anything for a while.

Sarah looked at her left hand. She and Sirius had gotten married a month ago. Harry was living with them. Lily had finally gotten her wish. Her son was being taken care of by her best friends.

Sarah leaned on Sirius's shoulder as he put an arm around her. "You know what?"

"What?" The look that had been in the man's eyes ever since he had escaped from Azkaban had finally left him.

"I think… I think we've changed somehow. Reversed our roles."

He sat up straighter and looked at her with interest. "What do you mean?"

She bit her lip. "I don't know. It's just that we used to be so different. Carefree. We didn't really worry about much. But then, Lily and James were killed, and everything changed. You became the so-called traitor. I became depressed. Veronica became a mother. Remus, well, I'm not exactly sure how he changed, but he did."

"I think I understand."

"It's hard to explain."

"Yeah." He smiled. "I love you."

"I know you do." Sarah sighed. "I know things are fine now, but do you think we would have been happier if all of it hadn't happened?"

"I don't know. We'll never know." Sirius leaned down and kissed his wife.

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Did we do good? Did we make a difference? James asked.

Yeah, James, Lily replied. We did 'good.' Everything's okay.

I love you.

I love you.

THE END

Author's Note: Well, what'd you think? I think I did a pretty good job on this ending. Better than some of my other fics, anyway. Oh, I hate that I had to end it, but it did have to end.

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