Past Love, Present Miracle.
Summary: James Potter had a tattoo on his chest, right on the middle of his heart: 'L E'. But it never stood for Lily Evans, ever.
Pairings: JP/OC, SB/HG, RL/OC, SS/OC, PP/death! (Okay, maybe not death, maybe torture, I'm in a good mood today.) The main focus is JP/OC, but the others will have their chance at love (except Pettigrew, for obvious reasons, specially that he framed my black star!)
AN: Hey everyone before the fic starts I'd like to say a few words...
Sirius: Okay you already said your few words, now on with the fic.
Mel: Sirius Black! You have five seconds to go back to bed and the first four don't count! Now let me give this Author's Note so the fic can go on! HemHem.
Sirius #eyeing Mel suspiciously#: Who are you?! Mel doesn't do that! Just...just... Okay Umbridge, show yourself! #Sirius grabs his wand#
Mel #tipping#: Sirius listen to the radio playing 'Nightwish' and starts dancing and takes his T-shirt off, showing Mel his well toned torso.
Sirius #Listening Nighwish and taking off his T-shirt while dancing#: Okay, you convinced me now make me stop.
Mel: Umm, okay, after I give the AN #Sirius keeps dancing and...well let your imagination fly#. Okay, back to the point, This fic is NOT slash and it is NOT a James/Lily fic. The thing is I wanted to see some JP/OC fics and as I didn't find any, I decided to make one of my own, so don't expect titanic things, I'll do my best, I promise. This is a time turner fic (the best thing I thought to keep the things like in the book) and I'm making 2004 the base date for the fic. And for those who read this and are reading 'Brotherhood of Light' (warning: slash) I'll continue the fic, it is just that the idea of a JP/OC keeps getting on the way, so I will start this one to clear my ideas while I type again the 13 pages my computer deleted (darn thing! Burn! Burn! Burn! Okay, don't burn, I need you baby), but I'm almost finished so, expect the next chapter soon. Also, the rating of this fic here may go up, I don't know it will depend on how I'm feeling. Now I have to take care of a certain Mr. Black, and if anyone knows about any fic that has JP/OC and that is not slash, please, tell me. Other than that, on with the fic.
"blahblahblah" speaking
'blahblahblah' thinking or mentioning something
Friends from across the Atlantic.
Hogwarts 2004
"C'mon hurry up you three, we're gonna be late!" Shouted a red – haired teenager about sixteen. She had an athletic body, a thin face, full ruby red lips and emerald green eyes. Her skin was creamy with a few freckles and her hair reached below the waist, although it was tied in a high ponytail.
"I surely don't know why you care Lynnette, you are a top student without even studying!" Shouted a thin, brown haired girl about the same age, Hermione Granger, running, and jumping up two or three steps at time, trying to keep up with the girl.
"How does she get it is still a mystery, even to us, believe me Herm." Answered a black haired girl catching up with Hermione. She was pretty much like the red haired girl, apart from the hair, which was the same lenght as the red haired one, and the navy blue eyes.
"Well, if you don't know how she does that, Lyndsey, then I'll never figure it out" replied Hermione.
Finally they all came to a stop.
"Gee Lyn, how can you run so fast? We still have five minutes before classes start!" exclaimed a blonde girl, just like the two girls who looked like each other, but this one had, apart from the golden hair that also reached below the waist although hers was braided, grey-blue eyes, no freckles and her lips were more rosy, not so red.
"Well, we just have five minutes because we ran all the way here Linda" replied Lynnette, or rather Lyn.
In fact the three girls were triplets, the blonde being five minutes older that the red haired who was seven minutes older than the black haired one and their best friend was a certain Hermione Jessica Granger. Sure they were also best friends with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, but, there were certain things that just a girl can understand.
They had met on their third year, when the girls had just transferred from the Brazilian Academy of Magic.
Hogwarts, 2001, Welcoming feast
After the sorting of the first years, Dumbledore stood up for what everyone thought to be the warnings of the beginning of the year, but instead he just said that there were transferred students who needed to be sorted.
Professor McGonagall then exited the Great Hall just to come back moments later with three girls no older than thirteen, that, apart from the eyes and the hair, could be mistaken for the same person. She, then motioned for the girls to form a line in front of the Sorting Hat and then she called out their names:
"Everett, Linda Clarissa."
The blonde girl made her way to the hat and sat on the stool, the hat clearly too big for her childish head.
'Ah, someone from the land of the Indian warriors, a Brazilian girl. It has been a while since I last sorted one, but I see that the traits of that brave people didn't change. Bravery, loyalty, kind heart, a bit of cunningness, I see. Where shall I put you my dear?' The hat whispered inside the girl's head
'Well, I don't know about the sorting here so I'll leave it up to you.' The girl replied inside her head.
'Why thank you. I believe that with all your traits you should be...' "GRYFFINDOR" Shouted the hat for everyone to hear.
There were applauses from every table, most from Gryffindor, in which some boys were even whistling.
Linda took of the hat and hurried to the table where a bushy brown haired girl was waving to her.
"Hi, I'm Hermione Granger, this is Harry and this is Ron" the girl said pointing to each boy in turn.
"Ahm, I'm Linda, nice to meet you all" Linda replied shyly.
"Hi, Nice to meet you." Answered both boys.
Linda noticed that the brunet, Harry that was, seemed anxious about something that she couldn't figure out and that the red haired one, Ron, seemed to be quite friendly if you were not on his wrong side.
"Everett, Lyndsey Beatriz" called Professor McGonagall again.
"That is my youngest sister, quite nice she is, if you don't get her on a bad mood" Linda said to Hermione, smiling.
"She seems quite nice indeed." Replied Hermione.
"She is, she is very helpful too, if you get to be her friend, she does anything for you but if you get to be her enemy... I don't even want to think." Whispered Linda, looking at her sister.
"Hope I get to be her friend then." Hermione replied, smiling.
"Don't worry, you will, you are very nice, not a stuck up pure blood like some jerks we met on the train." Linda said back.
"Bet it was Malfoy and his cronies." Whispered Ron from across Hermione.
"I guess it was. A blond guy with two gorillas beside him." Linda answered looking at him.
"Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle. Don't worry, they won't harm you, specially you being new here." Said Harry.
"I hope so." Linda told him.
This time the black haired girl made her way towards the Hat.
'Well, what do we have here? Bravery, loyalty, good nature... cunningness? Interesting, very interesting. You should do well in Slytherin, but you are a muggle born, and they will never accept you there. Well, I see that your bravery in face of the danger outstands your cunningness. I know the perfect house for you.' "GRYFFINDOR"
Lyndsey followed her sister's steps to where she was sat, where her sister introduced her to her new friends.
"I knew you wold make in here Lindy!" Linda said hugging her sister. "By the way, this is Hermione, this is Harry and this is Ron. They are very nice." Linda said pointing to each of the people she was talking about.
"Hey Li, air would be great, you know. Besides, I want to see where Lyn will be placed" Lyndsey said to her sister, smiling and grabbing her sister's hand.
"Everett, Lynnette Vanessa" Called McGonagall
The red haired made her way to the stool and sat down.
"Where do you think she will be sorted, Lindy?" asked Linda.
"Well Li, if I was sorted into Gryffindor, guess she will too." Answered Lyndsey looking around her.
And true to her word, she was. Lynnette sat across from her two sisters who introduced her the people they had just met.
"Hey Lyn, guess what. The guys you hexed on the train have names." Linda said excitedly.
"You hexed them?" Ron asked amazed. "Wow!"
"Yeah, I did. He was a real jerk back there and I'm not sorry." Lynnette answered to Ron. "So, Li, what are their names? If I'm hexing someone I at least want to know their names."
"The names are Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle." Harry told her. "And don't worry, we don't like him anyway, there is no need to be sorry. In fact I wish I had seen it."
Lynnette blushed like mad at this. True the blond guy was a git, but she didn't want to start a reputation so soon, she was good with hexes, and a real troublemaker mind you, but it was too soon in the school year to be so known for hexing someone.
"I take that Malfoy is the blond. I remember his name started with 'Ma' something." Joined Lyndsey.
"Guess it was. I remember him muttering something about 'Stupid Granger' and 'Saint Potter' when he invaded our compartment, then he introduced himself, said something about mudbloods, tried to make us leave the compartment, then I hexed him. I don't like people acting like this around me, y'know." Lynnette said looking amused.
"Don't worry, she is crazy." Linda whispered to Hermione.
The conversation was paused by Dumbledore giving the warnings for the upcoming year and they only resumed their conversation in the Gryffindor Common Room. They of course didn't notice two of the professors looking at the new girls strangely.
That year was the year that they were taught by Professor Lupin and the three newbies, coming from a school where the education began at an early age (the kids were just seven when they started their education), were way ahead the Hogwarts students.
"Why did you three moved in England?" Asked Hermione one night while the three were studying in the library.
"Well, you know our parents are muggles and our dad works for a multi- national company and he received a proposition. It was really great, he always wanted this job and our mom could prepare herself better, being a doctor and all, it is not every day you have the chance to improve your education in a country like England, so our parents talked to Professor Julian Solo, our headmaster, and he got everything ready for us, besides he is a real old friend of Professor Dumbledore and he really recommended us to Hogwarts, although it would slow our education, but he said that, as in Brazil we have one more year after Hogwarts students finish their education, we could come back and catch up on what we lost as our parents didn't want the family to be apart all the times." Answered Linda.
She was, by far, the more trusting and opener of the three while Lyndsey was the more closed and the quieter. The problem was Lynnette, the perfect troublemaker, causing almost as much mayhem as certain Weasleys twins and that was saying something. You never knew what she was up to with that innocent smile and twinkling green eyes.
"You know that the seasons here are different from there, so while we wold be enjoying our summer holidays, our parents would be working non-stop during the winter and while we were on school they would be enjoying nice summer days, and so on, so the entire family came to England." Added Lynnette.
Hermione nodded. Of course she knew that whenever it was summer in the north hemisphere it was winter in the south and vice-versa.
"Hey girls, about that essay Snape assigned us, do you think he did that for a reason?" Asked Hermione cautiously.
"Yes." The girls answered in unison.
Then the four girls looked at each other, realizing that they had already figured out the same thing about the reason behind the essay on werewolves: a certain DADA professor.
The three years passed quite in a hurry, but no year was worse than the fifth, with the 'Umbridge toad' and Sirius death. They, of course, were there, fighting against the Death Eaters, and of course Sirius death had affected them really much, specially Harry and Lynnette, the first, because Sirius was the closest link between him and his parents, the second because no adult had understood her like him, being an adult and a prankster at the same time, he told her a lot of things and the short time they spent together made them great friends. Both Harry and Lynnette had overcome the grief for his death but it still hurt them to think about him and always would.
For their sixth year, Dumbledore had hired Professor Lupin again, seeing that he had been the only competent DADA teacher they had had in the past years, since Professor Maureen Melody had retired, nine years ago, to 'enjoy her husband' as she would always say. Of course, most of the school applauded Professor Dumbledore when he said that Professor Lupin was back.
Hogwarts, 2004
"So, shall we come in? Or are you girls too comfortable panting there?" asked Lyn amused.
"Sod off, Lyn, you are the reason we are out of breath." Replied Li.
"Me? Oh I'm speechless" said Lyn faking a very unconvincing act, putting the back of her hand on her forehead and throwing her head back, and then walking in the classroom. "Morning, Professor."
"Good morning Miss Everett, I see you are in a good mood." Replied Professor Lupin, looking from the top of some papers on his desk, obviously essays.
"Yep, sir, always in good mood for learning." She answered walking to her seat, and after giving Harry and Ron a kiss on the cheek, she sat down behind them.
"That is really good to know, so I may ask you any question today." Replied Professor Lupin light hearted.
"Yep sir, you may, I just don't know if I'll know the answer." Lyn answered back, in her well-known good mood.
Professor Lupin laughed but slowly stopped and followed Lyndsey with his eyes until she sat down beside Hermione, who was sat down beside the boys. "What have you been smoking Lyn? Share some." Whispered Linda, who was sat beside Lynnette, amused, to her sister.
"Loosen up Li, day is beautiful..." Linda just looked out of the window where she could see dark clouds covering the sky and rain pouring down mercilessly and looked back at her sister.
"What? Even a rainy day can be beautiful. Besides, you should be the one saying this; you saved Gryffindor at least twenty points for taking the blame on Neville's potion. I don't know why Snape never takes point from you and you are not even a Slytherin." Came the lighthearted reply.
Li just looked at her sister in a way that others wouldn't know but they being sisters meant clearly 'shut up or do you want everyone thinking I'm shagging him?'
How Neville managed to be on Snape's advanced class, no one knew. Maybe his good grades in the written test had covered his abysmal grades in the practical one and with the DA, he finally developed some confidence, enough to make him pass on DADA. Transfiguration and Herbology were never a problem to him, so he managed to make his way into most the class the other Gryffindors were.
"Okay everyone, today we will be learning a reflective charm, used to block even the Cruciatus and the Imperius curse. The charm is very simple, although it requires a certain level of control over magic, that is why it is just taught on your sixth year. You just have to swing your wand in order to form a semi circle around your body and say clearly: 'Reflectio'. Everyone, say with me 're-FLE-ctio'. Very good, now lets practice in pairs." Professor Lupin went on with his lesson and two hours later the four girls were heading to the great hall for lunch, while Harry and Ron stayed behind to talk with Professor Lupin.
And there is where everything began.
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