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I Love You, But I Hate You, I'm Stuck On You

Chapter Eleven: I Believe in a Thing Called Love

"Just for that," said Voldemort, in a low quiet voice, "you're going to die first." James reached in his pocket for his wand, but Voldemort had already said, "Accio wand!" and James's wand came flying out of his pocket and into Voldemort's hand.
James looked up at Voldemort, and Lily could see a bit of fear in his eyes. "Defenseless now, aren't we?" Voldemort said.
Tears of anger started to well up in Lily's eyes. She wasn't going to let Voldemort ruin her life, and kill James. She slowly, slowly pulled her wand out of her pocket, making sure it wasn't noticeable.
"Leave him alone you filthy thing!" Lily screamed at Voldemort. Voldemort looked at her and smiled. "Be quiet, Lily. You're next," he said, grinning like a maniac.
With that, he turned to James and said, "Get ready to feel pain that you have never felt before!" screamed Voldemort, and with that, he rose up his wand, and shouted a spell.
To Lily, time had seemed to slow down as she saw the spell aiming towards James. She ran in front of him, screaming "No! Not James! Take me instead!" Then, she shouted the only spell she could think of at the time.
Lily felt excruciating pain as they spell hit her in the chest. She knew this must be the end, and that she was going to die. She couldn't hold on any longer.
The last thing she saw before the world blackened around her was Voldemort screaming, and falling to the ground. Two black circles were floating in mid-air. Lily could hardly see them, however, because they were very blurry.
There was something moving underneath them, and sound was coming out. She heard the words "Lily!"
Lily blinked several times. Slowly the vision of James came into focus. "James?" she asked, uncertainly. She thought for a moment that she might be in Heaven.
James smiled. "How are you feeling?" he asked. "Numb," Lily said. Then she looked at her surroundings, and observed that she was in the hospital wing. She also noticed James was in hospital robes, as was she.
"James what is going on? Why are we in the hospital wing? What happened?" Lily asked him.
James laughed. "Slow down, slow down. I can't answer all your questions at once," he said.

"Sorry," Lily said smiling.
"So what happened James? Are you alright?" Lily said. James opened his mouth to speak but the hospital wing doors opened and Dumbledore walked in.
"Ah, Miss Evans! I'm delighted to see that you're okay!" said Dumbledore walking over to the two students.
"Thanks, Professor," said Lily, "but I'm a little confused about what happened." Dumbledore smiled. "That is why I am here Miss Evans. Now get comfortable, this might take a little while."
Lily inhaled a breath, and prepared to hear what Dumbledore was going to tell her. "Well as you now know, Voldemort is trying to gain followers, and rise to power. One of his followers made a prophecy about you two," Dumbledore said, looking at Lily and James and smiling. "The prophecy said that you two would stand up to Voldemort and defeat him, and that you would prevent him several times from rising to power. You probably already know this, since Voldemort told you." The couple nodded.
"Well," Dumbledore went on, "one of his servants- I don't know who- put a spell on the portal, for they knew you would be going to the Ministry of Magic. The portal was to take you two, and you two only, to a forest, where he was hiding."
Lily was speechless about this, as well as James, who hadn't known about that either. Who could that servant have been?
"Well Lily, James was lucky to have someone like you that loved him so much, that you were willing to give your life to save his. When you jumped in front of him, you received the full blast of that spell. But I believe you shot one at him as well. What was it again?" Dumbledore asked.
"I don't really remember, Professor. I just shot the first one that came to mind, but I can't even remember what it is," said Lily.
"I remember," James spoke up. "It was Punctilious. Lily when you shot that at him, it somehow caused him pain. He screamed in pain and then he just collapsed onto the ground."
Lily was stunned. "How could that have happened? All that spell does is cause a person to feel lightheaded," she said.
"Yes this I know," said Dumbledore. "But there was more behind the spell you cast on Voldemort than that," Dumbledore said. James and Lily both looked at him strangely. He smiled.
"You see, Lily, when you cast that spell on Voldemort, behind it was all the love that you had for James. You didn't want him to die so you used all your power to protect him. And his love was so strong for you also, and he was really worried when you jumped in front of him. That's how you defeated Voldemort. He has nothing but hate inside of him. When that spell came towards him, it was so full of your love to each other that it caused him horrible pain," Dumbledore concluded.
Lily and James were both speechless. Dumbledore smiled at their faces. Then Lily had another question.
"Professor," she said.

"Yes, Miss Evans?" said Dumbledore.

Lily hesitated. "H-How come that spell didn't kill me?"
"Well," said Dumbledore, "I believe it caused you lots of pain? Yes? However, Voldemort's spell couldn't kill you because you had just sent your spell to him, that was full of love for James; the love was still inside you when the spell hit you. And James's love for you was also giving you strength. You see, Voldemort's spells are full of so much hate; and because of this, his spells are very powerful. But the only thing that can hurt Voldemort is love, Lily, and you had plenty of it inside of you."
Lily smiled at Dumbledore, and then smiled at James. She was so glad that he was here with her, and that he was okay, and James was thinking the same thing about Lily.
"So what happened after that?" Lily asked.

"Well," said Dumbledore, "I'm sorry but I have an important meeting to get to. I'm sure that Mr. Potter can explain the rest to you. I'll see you two later. I must go tell Madame Pomfrey that you're okay now, Miss Evans. Goodbye," said Dumbledore. And with that, he left to go inform Madame Pomfrey that Lily was awake.
James grabbed Lily's hand as soon as Dumbledore was out of sight, and kissed her. Lily smiled. "What was that for?" she asked.
"For saving my life," said James, looking serious.

Lily smiled. "Anytime," she said, jokingly.

"So, what happened after that James?" Lily asked him.
"Well, Voldemort fell to the floor and he didn't move. Some of his followers got scared, I guess, because they ran off. Some of them started coming near us, though, so I just shot off spells at the top of my head. " said James, as Lily shuddered.
"I dodged it though, don't worry. I just sent more spells at them and finally they got scared off. After they left, this greenish portal thing appeared. So I picked you up and went through the portal. When we got out the other side, we were in this secret wizard part of the airport again, and there were hundreds of people standing around. Then Will, Sirius, Kristin, Remus, and Audrey came running at us. The wizard guards (police men) had to hold everyone else back. Dumbledore was there too, and he looked really worried," said James.
"What happened after that?" Lily asked. "Sirius came running up asking if we were alright. He told me they had all gotten really worried when we didn't come back as planned. But then the Auror who I was talking to in the office, ... he had followed us. He went through right after us, worried. He said this scene of a dark forest flashed for a second before he landed in the muggle area of the airport. Then a medical wizard car came and they carried you out on one of those stretchers since you were still unconscious. Everyone was worried sick. So the rest of us, and Dumbledore rode back to Hogwarts in this car thing and they carried you up to the hospital wing. And now, you're awake," James finished.