Summary: Lily Evans has never understood the reason behind James Potters tactics, and James has never understood why Lily always hated him. Everyone has changed because of Voldemort. Are these tragedies bringing everyone closer? or not? Plz review... i'm open to constructive critisism.
Discalimer: In my dream world, I own Harry Potter. There is no world hunger, and George Bush isn't President.... but guess what. This isn't my dream world. So unfortunately J.K Rowling owns Harry Potter, people are starving, and sadly.... George Bush is Presdient tears. So please don't sue, I have nothing of great importance, well except my lovely dream world and my friends. But you don't want those... you want money. The only money I can give you is my lunch money and the 20 dollars worth of change in my piggy bank and underneath the couch. So without further ado.... my horrible(at least i think so... but my friend told me to put it up anyways) fanficiton.
Misty: Thanks, I'll try to write more.... nothing really exciting happens or tragic as some might say until like chapter 3 or 4.
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A/N: I'll try to post more soon. But at the moment I'm having a bunch of problems with my computer so i'm trying to save everything on my mail account thingy. I should be able to use the school computers for awhile because my friends and i found out a way to get past fire walls and crap. But I'll be out of school by the 28th, so i'll try to keep my fingers crossed. Keep reviewing and I'll keep posting
Running Out of Days
Chapter 2
Dear Lily,
How has you holidays been? I hope Petunia hasn't been as awful as usual.
Can you believe that it's soing to be our last year!!! I don't want to leave
Hogwarts, I'm going to really miss it. My summer has been awful. Sirius Black
keeps owling me asking me when Heather, you and I are going to Diagon Alley.
It seems the stupid git has finally figured out that we all go together to
Diagon Alley. My mum has been gone most of the summer. They're working the
aurors really hard, especially since You-Know-Who is gaining more an more power.
The aurors have finally been given the authority to kill a Death Eater. There
was also a muggle family killed last week. They were about to call I think the
plelease--police men??? Well luckily, a wizard family lived next door so they
were able to get to the ministry there before muggles started swarming in. I'm
sorry, I wasn't sure if you knew.... oh and guess what the wizarding family was
Heather's. She owled me saying she was fine and asked me to tell you that she
was fine. She said if you found out you'd be worried sick. So, I have passed on
my rightful duty. Also, my rotten brother Zachary will be starting school this
year. I'm supposed to watch him and keep an eye on him, that'll be a hassle.
He's prone to get in trouble. Trust me, he's also got a few tricks up his
sleeves, and he should be able to sweet talk Professor McGonagall better than
Sirius... he talks my parents into or out of everything!!!! It's a true gift I
swear. If the Marauders meet him, I know he'll be a very valuable asset. Owl me
back soon!!!! I hope this post scared Petunia as usual...
Love
Liz
Lily was sitting criss-cross on her bed, reading the letter one of her best friends had just sent her. The letter that ahd ruin dinner, but to Lily it didn't matter. Well for one, dinner would have been ruined anyways by the Hogwarts owl, and two because Liz didn't know what she had done so.... But, Lily was so excited.... she was Head Girl!!! She'd finally be able to knock some sense into Potter, that bullying toerag won't get awy with anything now.
Lily got up to start writing her letter. She sat down at her old wooden desk her grandfather had made for her mother when she got into a boarding school here in England. Her mother fell in love with London and only goes back to Ireland to visit Lily's granfather... Lily always found it dissapointing that Petunia got the vanity set only because since Lily got to go to Hogwarts Lily go the desk.
Lily grabbed a bottle of ink, a quill, and a sheef of parchemnt. Two hours had passed since Petunia had locked herself in her bedroom, "I'd rather spend the rest of the holidays with Snape and Potter." Lily muttered under her breath, and she was being completely honest... well, only because she at least is allowed to get smart with them... even though Snape would call her a mudblood every chance he got.... and Potter would hex Snape if he called Lily a mudblood so it all just gets screwed up either way. Oh, and then Lily would hex both of them... quite fun actually.
Lily sighed, her and Petunia used to be the best of friends, well that was until Lily got accepted to Hogwarts. Now the only thing Petunia ever said to Lily was 'Freak, weirdo, or Don't ruin it....' and blah blah blah. Liz was basically Lily's sister. Liz wa always there to help Lily, especially when it came to telling off the marauders or revenge on cheating boyfriends.
Ah, especially when it came to cheating boyfriends. Last year during patrol duty with Remus, Lily had caught her boyfriend Mitchell Finch snogging with Melinda Worthers in the 3rd floor corridor. It was funny, because Lily and Remus both hexed him and he ended up with green skin and sprouting tentacles all over his body. When Lily went back to her dormitory to tell Heather and Liz, they both stormed off to teach him a lesson... When Lily finally found them, Heather was suspending Mitchell in mid air while Liz was throwing various hexes and curses at him. Luckily, near the end of this, Remus came in. He threw the worst hexes you can imagine at him... when they were finished Remus did this complicated memory spell so when Mitchell went to the hospital wing, all he could tell Madame Pomfrey was that "Purple and orange flying monkey with vainy wings and red chef hats came flying out of this cabinet in an unused classroom and they threw potions at me...." It was too funny, and of course Madame Pomfrey suspected the Marauders, but Sirius and James were being punished by Professor McGonagall because they had turned Snape into a drag queen.... it was quite hilarious actually but Lily would never tell them that.
Dear Liz,
My holiday has been horrible due to the fact that Petunia
had the ability to suck the happiness out of everything. I wish it
wasn't our last year. I don't want to leave either. I'm going to
miss Hogwarts too!!! Especially the hidden rooms and staircases.
Ahh, but at least we won't see the marauders anymore... well, I
might miss Remus, he was sweet. Especially last year it was a good
thing he knew that memory spell otherwise all of us would have
gotten in trouble, though I'm sure you would have thought it was
worth it. Sirius is bound to find out when we're going, so tell him
Sunday and we'll go Saturday. Why do you call him You-Know-Who,
Dumbledore tells us to call him Voldemort, he said we shouldn't fear
his name. It's sad about that muggle family, Heather probably knows
them, even if they were just neighbors. I'll probably owl her or something
tomorrow anyways.Your brother can't be worse than the marauders, even
if he is a pain in the arsem he'll be fine. Oh also, guess what!!! I'm Head Girl!!!!
I have a feeling Remus will be Head Boy or that ravenclaw Micheal Swalters.
At least now Potter can't get away with anything. If you want, after Diagon
Alley, you can come spend the rest of the holidays over here. My mum
says it'll take my mind off of Petunia for awhile. It's pretty much boring except
for Petunia calling me a freak or shrieking and then yelling at me whenever
post comes. Owl me back soon!!!
Love
Lily
Lily reread her letter, making spelling corrections where needed, and underlining Head Girl. Lily beckoned her sleeping owl out of its cage. "Take this to Liz." She said while taking a bit of twine and tieing the letter to Circe's leg. She unlatched the window and watched Circe fly out into the night sky. Lily was startled when there was a lite rap on her door. "Come in" she croaked, her throat was dry. She planned on going down to the kitchen to get somehting to drink after she finished her letter to Liz.
The door creeped open to reveal Mrs.Evans holding two glasses of water. Lily grinned and got up to help her mum. She took one of the glassesof water and thanked her mum ." Thanks, you saved me a trip to the kitchen." Her mother smiled... one of those rare smiles, one of the smiles that always lifted Lily's heart. "I wanted to talk to you about Petunia." At this, Lily's smile faded as she flopped down onto her bed leaning against her pillows.Her mother sat near the end of the bed wrapping her free arm around the bed post.
"I don't want you to let Petunia get to you."
"She doesn't get to me."
"Yes she does."
"No, she just annoys me."
Mrs.Evans rose a thin eyebrow, clearly not believing her youngest daughter. She knew that Lily took Petunia's words and actions to heart, and Lily knew it too. Lily sighed and gave in... " Wh-why does she ha-hate me soo much???" Lily asked, her voice quivering more with each word.
Mrs.Evans attempted to move closer to Lily and comfort her,but Lily stood up and started to turn down her covers.
"I think I'll just go to bed." Christine nodded and gave her daughter a small kiss on the cheek. "Petunia's just jealous... give her some time." She gave her daughter a small smile and went out into the hall, shutting the pale colored door behind her. She could already hear the sound of crying coming from behind the door.
A/N: So, umm.... what did you think??? Well.. if you agree with me and think it sucks... press that little button in the left hand corner that says GO, and if you don't agree with me and you happen to like it.... then tell me so by pressing the button and telling me your opinion. YAY!!!! It's the last week of school!!!! I get out on May 28th.... and hopefully I didn't fail all of my exams.... (which I probably did).