Disclaimer: Harry Potter is not mine! But it will be. It will be..
Summary: Somewhere a boy is sending Lily Evans strange dreams. Lily starts to wonder who he is and why he looks so much like James. Together James and Lily will discover secrets about their future, and Harry's past. (Harry's 7th year) Ootp spoilers.
Daily Quote: Never underestimate the power of a woman and her credit card.
Quote from the book:
"Outside the pair's 4 best friends were watching them. They too didn't feel like smart remarks or badmouthing each other. Some things just spread. And the love in that room was one of them."
~Where Hope Lies: Chapter 1~
Review answers:
harrypotter's luvr: Thanks! I haven't got a review like that in a LONG time! Except when that one guy said I'm inspired to go puke somewhere. Yes his story did get a rather rude anonymous review later. Wonder who sent it.
babyjayy: Sorry for updating so late! I just have lots of ideas and never write them down. I am also used to writing small fan fics. This chapter alone was longer than my other story which has 6 chapters!
fan33: Thank you! No flames yet! * does a little dance *
Elisabeth Potter: Its simple I typed the word H-A-T-E. Wait. You weren't asking a literal question were you? Ah. My mistake. Thank you so much for the review! A few minutes or even seconds of your time means the world to me!
dolphingirl79: I HAVE A POTENTIAL! I HAVE A POTENTIAL! * dances around * I HAVE A POTENTAIL! I HAVE A POTENTIAL!
Bluie Twilight Star: You have to read to find out! So original aren't I?
--------------------------
Where Hope Lies: THE MEETING (chapter 2)
"Under the cloak!" whispered James urgently. A second later a soft, silky material, like nothing Lily had ever felt, was covering them. She looked down at her body but it was still there. It wasn't an invisibility cloak? Then what was it? James seemed to read her mind and whispered "If you're totally under the cloak you can see yourself. People outside the cloak can't." She nodded silently.
At that moment a rather plump woman with flaming red hair bustled into the kitchen. She began taking various items off shelves and tapping different things with her wand. It was only then did Lily realize where she was. It was a bright stone kitchen with a large fire burning in the corner and a scrubbed wooden table sat in the center of the room with extra chairs added on every side. She drew her attention back to the woman who was checking on a pot of boiling water.
"Oh goodness." She muttered checking her battered old watch. "They'll be here in ten minutes. Time does fly." She scurried out of the stone kitchen and shut the heavy door behind her with a bang and several odd creaking noises. As soon as her footsteps had died away James threw off the cloak.
"Who was that?" James muttered wildly messing up his hair. Lily slapped his hand away from it.
"I don't know." She murmured back. "Find a calendar. We've most likely gone somewhere in time." They immediately started their search of the kitchen. Lily opened a few rather questionable cabinets carrying things such as photographs of people she had never seen her life. Or had she. She stared at one picture of a woman leering unpleasantly at her. She was sure she had seen that woman before.
"Lily!" James yelled but quieted down at her expression. "This cup!" He pushed a silver cup with a crest carved skillfully into it. She stared at it.
"It's a cup James." She said flatly. "If you are thinking of stealing this I am not-" James hastily cut her off.
"This is no ordinary crest." He whispered with that arrogant air of understanding. "It's the Black Family crest! Every note Sirius' mother ever sent him had this on the back!" He pushed his finger harder onto the crest. Lily just stared at him as to say 'so?'.
"Its not that hard to put together." He snapped irritably turning the cup so the bottom was facing her. "We're in the Ancient and most noble or some sort of crap that his mother called it. The Black's house! And the date! It says 1264! We've gone back in time!" (A/N: I'm about to knock some common sense into that git)
"How do you know?" Lily demanded. "We might not have gone back at all! That woman back there was wearing a watch, James! People in the twelfth century didn't HAVE watches! Not even wizards!" James just stared at her stubbornly. "Did she look like a Black to you?" James shook his head sheepishly.
"Guess your right." He admitted. Lily rolled her eyes at his stupidity. Of course she was right. "So how do we find out in what time period we are in? We already know where. Or at least have a faint impression." Just as Lily was about to reply the foot steps in the hall returned. James threw the cloak over them just as the door opened.
A huge crowd pushed their way into the large kitchen making it seem much smaller than it had before. They both backed into a dusty corner as even more people poured in. He didn't recognize many of them at all. A few minutes later a group of redheads and some other kids walked into the room.
The man at front could be recognized as Aurthur Weasley, the prefect who he and Sirius had made tap dance in front of the whole school. The next kids he assumed were his children. Two were rather tall twins, both wearing Bright orange and green vests with the name 'Weasley Wizard Weases: Joke shop' written in purple on one side. He immediately reminded himself to talk to them about that.
The next kid looked about in her 6th year. She was rather short and admirably pretty with the same blazing red hair on her shoulders. She actually reminded him of Lily except for her eyes and freckles. The next two boys were quite a bit older. One had a fang earring and long hair and the other one had a shiny burn on his arm as though he had been working with dragons.
The next two kids looked about in their 7th year. One had red hair and freckles like the other and was with a bushy haired girl. They were talking in quiet whispers to someone. But James couldn't see from this angle and neither, apparently, could Lily.
"Come on you three." Commanded the woman they had seen earlier. "The meetings about to start. You're lucky someone of your age could come at all." The three kids walked through the door way and James held back a gasp.
The boy behind them looked exactly like him. He had messy hair and round glasses on his nose. His face was the exact same as James', but look rather tired and stressed. He heard Lily try to hold back a gasp and end up with a weird choking noise. The boy sat down between his two friends and looked over at Dumbledore with haunted green eyes.
"That's him." Lily whispered in James' ear so he jumped. "That's the boy I was telling you about." Lily had mentioned that they had the same appearance characteristics but he had not expected this.
"Did you see his eyes." He murmured to her. "Sorta of-" he looked for the right words to explain the lost and sad look in his eyes.
"Haunted." Lily gulped. He agreed silently with a nod of his head.
"THE ORDER OF THE PHEONIX WILL PLEASE COME TO ORDER!" shouted Dumbledore. He calmed as everyone's faces turned to him. "Lets begin." He began to talk about some recent death eater activities and other little things for about an hour. Every now and then someone would speak up and add something.
What Lily wondered the most was why she had not seen them or Sirius. It had always been their dream to become very involved in the fight against Voldemort. This seemed the place for action. What had happened? Or maybe they were. No she wouldn't think that. They were alive and just somewhere else. That was it. She was jerked out of trance by Dumbledore speaking.
"Harry." The boy who resembled James perked up. "Could you review any new information you have obtained about Voldemort to us." Lily held tight onto James' arm when he stood up. This young boy was a spy? The boy was now removing and enlarging a poster from a bag which her floated up into the air beside him.
"It seems." Harry began in a weak voice. "'That Voldemort." Lily and James flinched. "Has been looking for new ways to find and kill me." He said calmly. Lily stared at him. Voldemort wanted this boy, dead. He was a goner for sure. The redheaded boy in the corner snorted.
"Doesn't that git have a life?" he joked. "He's been doing nothing but that for the last 17 years of your life. In short since you were born. It's getting old" Harry gave a rather forced laugh though nobody else seemed to realize it.
"Yes I'm begging to think that he doesn't have a life." He agreed. "You'd think he would just want a strait foreword battle and hope I kick the bucket." The girl with the bushy hair cleared her throat.
"As amusing as it is to see you to mortally offend Voldemort, some people want to hear what important things Harry has to say." The boy with the red hair faked a look of hurt.
"Awwwww, Hermione where's the fun in that?" She glared at him, like Lily always had when he had done something wrong. Harry chuckled.
"She's right Ron." He turned back to the crowd of people in the room and pulled out his wand. He gave the poster a loud tap and lines began to form, very much like the Marauder's Map. It soon showed as castle, labeled Hogwarts and an over head view of Hogsmead with the surrounding landform. "So," he started making everyone's attention draw immediately to him. He seemed to have picked up on Snape's and McGonagall's talent of keeping a room silent without effort.
"Apparently Voldemort is planning an attack on Hogwarts." Lily choked and looked over at Dumbledore. He was shocked. It took a lot of work to shock old Professor Dumbledore. Everyone else in the room burst in to frightened whispers. Harry carried on despite the noise, turning everyone to silence. "I have devised a map." He tapped the board. "Of Hogwarts and the surrounding areas. He is not going through Hogsmead I am sure of that." He put a giant X through Hogsmead.
"The people in Hogsmead would no doubt put up a fight and he could lose part of his army." A man in the back stood up angrily. He was about 5 ft, a head below Harry with a dull green cloak and rough skin. His eyes pierces through Harry like daggers but he did not flinch. "You wanted to say something Mr.?"
"Berk." He said in a proud voice, that was full of arrogance. "You didn't say anything about an army!" Harry raised an eyebrow at him.
"My mistake." Said Harry without emotion. "The lake is blocking the-" Berk stopped him again.
"Well what's in the army?" he barked out. "Or are you too stupid to comprehend a simple question like that?" Hermione slapped a hand to her forehead and Ron groaned. Several of the order members sat uneasily on the edge of the chairs and several gripped onto the table as though the room was about to explode. Harry walked around the table to where Burk was standing.
"Tell me Mr. Burk." said Harry fiercely. He fixed him with the penetrating stare of his blazing green eyes. Burk flinched noticeably. Lily gave a quiver at James' shoulder. "I can not choose what I see and the little I do can only tell us so much. If I have anything to say I will TELL you, Mr. Burk." Harry spun around and headed toward his original place, leaving a trembling Burk behind.
"Now." Said Harry speaking slightly more calmly, the fury still caught in his voice. "The south is protected by the lake. I believe that the Mer People have agreed to help correct?" Dumbledore gave a curt nod. "The east is protected by Hogsmead as we have already discussed." He sat Burk a sideways glance. "The west is protected by the thickest and most dangerous part of the Forbidden Forest. The south carries a bit of this protection as does the east."
"But that only leaves the South." Hermione cut in. "What's guarding that?" Harry hesitated for a moment before replying.
"The mountains give a little protection. The forest could be a problem, but if you have enough of an army I doubt that it would stop anything more than one or two trolls." Burk opened his mouth, but stopped under the furious look Harry gave him. "That means that the only thing that could stop him is the Heliopaths."
"The Heliopaths?" said a nervous looking woman with bright purple hair. "You mean they're- they're real?" Harry nodded at her.
"Yes. But if he can find a way around them." said Harry slowly.
"Wouldn't you-know- I mean Voldemort." Ron mused. "Try to round them up?" Harry shook his head.
"No, Ron." He assured him. "Voldemort tried. They don't want to take sides which is a very good thing. If he invades their territory it would be a problem and-" Harry stopped mid sentence. He started looking at every face on the room as though he was seeing something beyond their appearance.
"Harry." Squeaked Hermione. Harry started to get up and walked around the table checking for something unknown.
"Do you feel it?" asked Harry gravely looking at Dumbledore. The old man looked at him in surprise for a moment before nodding. He too got up and started looking around. Lily moved closer to James' arm and held on to him. She was starting to wonder if they had figured out if they were here.
"What is it Harry?" said a nervous Ron shifting in his seat.
"There's someone here who isn't supposed to be." Lily gasped and within a blink of an eye Harry had his wand pointed at them. "Show yourself!" he barked. "Before I have too hex you." Lily and James looked at each other in understanding.
Slowly and silently. James took of the cloak and let it drop to the floor. Making the loudest noise in a room full of at least 30 people.
"Oh my lord." Whispered McGonagall.
------------------------------------------------ A/N: ALL DONE! I just have to check that everything is okay and I can post this. I'm sorry it took so long but this is a lot of writing. If you have any suggestions for the next chapter I would be happy to hear them. I also need pairing help. Let me have your votes.
Harry/Ginny
Harry/Hermione
Harry/nobody
Harry/some other girl
RR! Thank you!
Summary: Somewhere a boy is sending Lily Evans strange dreams. Lily starts to wonder who he is and why he looks so much like James. Together James and Lily will discover secrets about their future, and Harry's past. (Harry's 7th year) Ootp spoilers.
Daily Quote: Never underestimate the power of a woman and her credit card.
Quote from the book:
"Outside the pair's 4 best friends were watching them. They too didn't feel like smart remarks or badmouthing each other. Some things just spread. And the love in that room was one of them."
~Where Hope Lies: Chapter 1~
Review answers:
harrypotter's luvr: Thanks! I haven't got a review like that in a LONG time! Except when that one guy said I'm inspired to go puke somewhere. Yes his story did get a rather rude anonymous review later. Wonder who sent it.
babyjayy: Sorry for updating so late! I just have lots of ideas and never write them down. I am also used to writing small fan fics. This chapter alone was longer than my other story which has 6 chapters!
fan33: Thank you! No flames yet! * does a little dance *
Elisabeth Potter: Its simple I typed the word H-A-T-E. Wait. You weren't asking a literal question were you? Ah. My mistake. Thank you so much for the review! A few minutes or even seconds of your time means the world to me!
dolphingirl79: I HAVE A POTENTIAL! I HAVE A POTENTIAL! * dances around * I HAVE A POTENTAIL! I HAVE A POTENTIAL!
Bluie Twilight Star: You have to read to find out! So original aren't I?
--------------------------
Where Hope Lies: THE MEETING (chapter 2)
"Under the cloak!" whispered James urgently. A second later a soft, silky material, like nothing Lily had ever felt, was covering them. She looked down at her body but it was still there. It wasn't an invisibility cloak? Then what was it? James seemed to read her mind and whispered "If you're totally under the cloak you can see yourself. People outside the cloak can't." She nodded silently.
At that moment a rather plump woman with flaming red hair bustled into the kitchen. She began taking various items off shelves and tapping different things with her wand. It was only then did Lily realize where she was. It was a bright stone kitchen with a large fire burning in the corner and a scrubbed wooden table sat in the center of the room with extra chairs added on every side. She drew her attention back to the woman who was checking on a pot of boiling water.
"Oh goodness." She muttered checking her battered old watch. "They'll be here in ten minutes. Time does fly." She scurried out of the stone kitchen and shut the heavy door behind her with a bang and several odd creaking noises. As soon as her footsteps had died away James threw off the cloak.
"Who was that?" James muttered wildly messing up his hair. Lily slapped his hand away from it.
"I don't know." She murmured back. "Find a calendar. We've most likely gone somewhere in time." They immediately started their search of the kitchen. Lily opened a few rather questionable cabinets carrying things such as photographs of people she had never seen her life. Or had she. She stared at one picture of a woman leering unpleasantly at her. She was sure she had seen that woman before.
"Lily!" James yelled but quieted down at her expression. "This cup!" He pushed a silver cup with a crest carved skillfully into it. She stared at it.
"It's a cup James." She said flatly. "If you are thinking of stealing this I am not-" James hastily cut her off.
"This is no ordinary crest." He whispered with that arrogant air of understanding. "It's the Black Family crest! Every note Sirius' mother ever sent him had this on the back!" He pushed his finger harder onto the crest. Lily just stared at him as to say 'so?'.
"Its not that hard to put together." He snapped irritably turning the cup so the bottom was facing her. "We're in the Ancient and most noble or some sort of crap that his mother called it. The Black's house! And the date! It says 1264! We've gone back in time!" (A/N: I'm about to knock some common sense into that git)
"How do you know?" Lily demanded. "We might not have gone back at all! That woman back there was wearing a watch, James! People in the twelfth century didn't HAVE watches! Not even wizards!" James just stared at her stubbornly. "Did she look like a Black to you?" James shook his head sheepishly.
"Guess your right." He admitted. Lily rolled her eyes at his stupidity. Of course she was right. "So how do we find out in what time period we are in? We already know where. Or at least have a faint impression." Just as Lily was about to reply the foot steps in the hall returned. James threw the cloak over them just as the door opened.
A huge crowd pushed their way into the large kitchen making it seem much smaller than it had before. They both backed into a dusty corner as even more people poured in. He didn't recognize many of them at all. A few minutes later a group of redheads and some other kids walked into the room.
The man at front could be recognized as Aurthur Weasley, the prefect who he and Sirius had made tap dance in front of the whole school. The next kids he assumed were his children. Two were rather tall twins, both wearing Bright orange and green vests with the name 'Weasley Wizard Weases: Joke shop' written in purple on one side. He immediately reminded himself to talk to them about that.
The next kid looked about in her 6th year. She was rather short and admirably pretty with the same blazing red hair on her shoulders. She actually reminded him of Lily except for her eyes and freckles. The next two boys were quite a bit older. One had a fang earring and long hair and the other one had a shiny burn on his arm as though he had been working with dragons.
The next two kids looked about in their 7th year. One had red hair and freckles like the other and was with a bushy haired girl. They were talking in quiet whispers to someone. But James couldn't see from this angle and neither, apparently, could Lily.
"Come on you three." Commanded the woman they had seen earlier. "The meetings about to start. You're lucky someone of your age could come at all." The three kids walked through the door way and James held back a gasp.
The boy behind them looked exactly like him. He had messy hair and round glasses on his nose. His face was the exact same as James', but look rather tired and stressed. He heard Lily try to hold back a gasp and end up with a weird choking noise. The boy sat down between his two friends and looked over at Dumbledore with haunted green eyes.
"That's him." Lily whispered in James' ear so he jumped. "That's the boy I was telling you about." Lily had mentioned that they had the same appearance characteristics but he had not expected this.
"Did you see his eyes." He murmured to her. "Sorta of-" he looked for the right words to explain the lost and sad look in his eyes.
"Haunted." Lily gulped. He agreed silently with a nod of his head.
"THE ORDER OF THE PHEONIX WILL PLEASE COME TO ORDER!" shouted Dumbledore. He calmed as everyone's faces turned to him. "Lets begin." He began to talk about some recent death eater activities and other little things for about an hour. Every now and then someone would speak up and add something.
What Lily wondered the most was why she had not seen them or Sirius. It had always been their dream to become very involved in the fight against Voldemort. This seemed the place for action. What had happened? Or maybe they were. No she wouldn't think that. They were alive and just somewhere else. That was it. She was jerked out of trance by Dumbledore speaking.
"Harry." The boy who resembled James perked up. "Could you review any new information you have obtained about Voldemort to us." Lily held tight onto James' arm when he stood up. This young boy was a spy? The boy was now removing and enlarging a poster from a bag which her floated up into the air beside him.
"It seems." Harry began in a weak voice. "'That Voldemort." Lily and James flinched. "Has been looking for new ways to find and kill me." He said calmly. Lily stared at him. Voldemort wanted this boy, dead. He was a goner for sure. The redheaded boy in the corner snorted.
"Doesn't that git have a life?" he joked. "He's been doing nothing but that for the last 17 years of your life. In short since you were born. It's getting old" Harry gave a rather forced laugh though nobody else seemed to realize it.
"Yes I'm begging to think that he doesn't have a life." He agreed. "You'd think he would just want a strait foreword battle and hope I kick the bucket." The girl with the bushy hair cleared her throat.
"As amusing as it is to see you to mortally offend Voldemort, some people want to hear what important things Harry has to say." The boy with the red hair faked a look of hurt.
"Awwwww, Hermione where's the fun in that?" She glared at him, like Lily always had when he had done something wrong. Harry chuckled.
"She's right Ron." He turned back to the crowd of people in the room and pulled out his wand. He gave the poster a loud tap and lines began to form, very much like the Marauder's Map. It soon showed as castle, labeled Hogwarts and an over head view of Hogsmead with the surrounding landform. "So," he started making everyone's attention draw immediately to him. He seemed to have picked up on Snape's and McGonagall's talent of keeping a room silent without effort.
"Apparently Voldemort is planning an attack on Hogwarts." Lily choked and looked over at Dumbledore. He was shocked. It took a lot of work to shock old Professor Dumbledore. Everyone else in the room burst in to frightened whispers. Harry carried on despite the noise, turning everyone to silence. "I have devised a map." He tapped the board. "Of Hogwarts and the surrounding areas. He is not going through Hogsmead I am sure of that." He put a giant X through Hogsmead.
"The people in Hogsmead would no doubt put up a fight and he could lose part of his army." A man in the back stood up angrily. He was about 5 ft, a head below Harry with a dull green cloak and rough skin. His eyes pierces through Harry like daggers but he did not flinch. "You wanted to say something Mr.?"
"Berk." He said in a proud voice, that was full of arrogance. "You didn't say anything about an army!" Harry raised an eyebrow at him.
"My mistake." Said Harry without emotion. "The lake is blocking the-" Berk stopped him again.
"Well what's in the army?" he barked out. "Or are you too stupid to comprehend a simple question like that?" Hermione slapped a hand to her forehead and Ron groaned. Several of the order members sat uneasily on the edge of the chairs and several gripped onto the table as though the room was about to explode. Harry walked around the table to where Burk was standing.
"Tell me Mr. Burk." said Harry fiercely. He fixed him with the penetrating stare of his blazing green eyes. Burk flinched noticeably. Lily gave a quiver at James' shoulder. "I can not choose what I see and the little I do can only tell us so much. If I have anything to say I will TELL you, Mr. Burk." Harry spun around and headed toward his original place, leaving a trembling Burk behind.
"Now." Said Harry speaking slightly more calmly, the fury still caught in his voice. "The south is protected by the lake. I believe that the Mer People have agreed to help correct?" Dumbledore gave a curt nod. "The east is protected by Hogsmead as we have already discussed." He sat Burk a sideways glance. "The west is protected by the thickest and most dangerous part of the Forbidden Forest. The south carries a bit of this protection as does the east."
"But that only leaves the South." Hermione cut in. "What's guarding that?" Harry hesitated for a moment before replying.
"The mountains give a little protection. The forest could be a problem, but if you have enough of an army I doubt that it would stop anything more than one or two trolls." Burk opened his mouth, but stopped under the furious look Harry gave him. "That means that the only thing that could stop him is the Heliopaths."
"The Heliopaths?" said a nervous looking woman with bright purple hair. "You mean they're- they're real?" Harry nodded at her.
"Yes. But if he can find a way around them." said Harry slowly.
"Wouldn't you-know- I mean Voldemort." Ron mused. "Try to round them up?" Harry shook his head.
"No, Ron." He assured him. "Voldemort tried. They don't want to take sides which is a very good thing. If he invades their territory it would be a problem and-" Harry stopped mid sentence. He started looking at every face on the room as though he was seeing something beyond their appearance.
"Harry." Squeaked Hermione. Harry started to get up and walked around the table checking for something unknown.
"Do you feel it?" asked Harry gravely looking at Dumbledore. The old man looked at him in surprise for a moment before nodding. He too got up and started looking around. Lily moved closer to James' arm and held on to him. She was starting to wonder if they had figured out if they were here.
"What is it Harry?" said a nervous Ron shifting in his seat.
"There's someone here who isn't supposed to be." Lily gasped and within a blink of an eye Harry had his wand pointed at them. "Show yourself!" he barked. "Before I have too hex you." Lily and James looked at each other in understanding.
Slowly and silently. James took of the cloak and let it drop to the floor. Making the loudest noise in a room full of at least 30 people.
"Oh my lord." Whispered McGonagall.
------------------------------------------------ A/N: ALL DONE! I just have to check that everything is okay and I can post this. I'm sorry it took so long but this is a lot of writing. If you have any suggestions for the next chapter I would be happy to hear them. I also need pairing help. Let me have your votes.
Harry/Ginny
Harry/Hermione
Harry/nobody
Harry/some other girl
RR! Thank you!