Rating: PG-13 for extreme fluff, my anger and scariness in my author's notes, James, Harry, Lily, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione's immense and spectacular show of anger and extreme knowledge of hexes and curses.
Summary: In the end of Harry Potter's fifth year, he saw the painful death of his beloved Godfather, Sirius Black. He also saw the woman who killed him…his cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange. Sirius was both a father (in a way) and a best friend. Now all that has gone and faded away because of her. Now in his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry is finally getting revenge.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, let alone Harry Potter. The title, THE SWEETEST SIN, is the property of Lilypad-7879, not me! The only things that I own in this fan fiction are the characters Veronica Blackburn and Alyx Hayes.
WARNING!!! This chapter contains some fluff. So if you don't like it, how I did it, or whatever, just put it in your review or don't read this chapter at all.
PLEASE READ AND REVIEW
Stories to Read:
Harry Potter and the Dream come true, by- Grand Admiral Chelli! An awesome fic by an awesome author!!! If you don't read it, you don't know what you're missing out on.
All of Anatra's Stories! My favorite reviewer! Every time she reviews she gives me so much inspiration and makes me want to write more. Thanks! Please read her fan fic, she only has two reviews and she is so talented…I mean she EVEN has the fic in another language. Sorry Anatra if I get it wrong, but I think that it is French. I'm not quite sure though…
Any of Sexy Black's stuff! Sorry, I haven't gotten around to reading your fan fics, but I will! She was my first reviewer and keeps me motivated and humored.
The Sweetest Sin, by- lilypad-7879! I absolutely love this fan fiction! I'm so hooked on it and the author has this brilliant mind that makes you feel like you're actually right in the room with Lily and James. Can't you just feel the blood boiling? heh… I got the idea of the title of the romance novel Alyx reads from this fan fiction.
Being 16 isn't as easy as it sounds, Being 17 isn't as easy as it sounds, & Being an adult isn't as easy as it sounds, by- SMH! I am absolutely in love with these fan fics! They hit you close to the heart and SMH isn't afraid to throw you a curveball every once in a while.
Charmed Curses, by- Lady Geuna! Brilliant plot, a bit weird, but a very good story! Here's a little summary that the author wrote that will probably give you some incentive to read it. What if James Potter wasn't killed on Halloween, 1981? Voldemort devised the perfect punishment for his insolence. A curse that would cause James more pain than the Cruciatus Curse could ever. But things don't exactly turn out as planned, and fate takes a strange turn for those in the past, as well as the future.
The Last Laugh, by- Stardust! An awesome story and describes Sirius in perfect detail…almost too perfect! You must read this, this author is freakin' bloody brilliant! (Unlike Me! lol!)
AUTHOR'S NOTE!!! Oo me as dazed and confused as ever. Which means basically every day. The reason is that I'm now going to start writing longer chapters as you guys requested, that's the good news. The bad news is that I can't update as often because it usually takes me like a week to gather up my ideas and plot and all. I feel that I owe all of my reviewers AND readers who DON'T REVIEW (points finger at you shame, shame!) an explanation and apology for not getting this up quicker. Okay, I recently got with this girl who made me headmistress on Fidelius (great site by the way, nods) and we decided to make another site like Fidelius, except call it Phoenix Tears. Well, the design and layout and making the forums and putting up threads and getting members and all that fun stuff took a few weeks and a pretty big chunk of my time. But it was well worth the effort considering that we started the site on, I believe it was December 16, 2004 and now here we are on January 10, 2005, and we now have an estimated 48 members. YAY ME!!! But, on top of all that, I was constantly getting emails from people on Fidelius who had read this story (I posted it on there) and liked it and wanted me to read and review and help them with their chapter management and all. So, yet again, I got pushed back on the whole updating process. And with having to read and review, it ended up me reading/reviewing twenty-some odd fan fiction stories. Then some of my friends saw some of the stuff and designs I had done on Fidelius and Phoenix Tears and wanted me to do some stuff for them. I agreed, but this one girl kept asking what was wrong with her site and really had no idea how to be a webmistress. grrr… I kept saying I would do whatever she wanted me to do, but she would say for me to do things that weren't even possible for me to do and wouldn't even look good on her site. And she absolutely refused to change her layout, which was horrible by the way. The contrasting generally sucked. But, after all of that, my grades started to drop due to all the stress for good grades from my recruiting officer (GO ARMY!!! HUAH! It's an army thing!) , my parents for a better attitude, and from my best friend. Oh yeah, I found out that my best friend, I've known her since fourth grade, well, anyways, I found out at the beginning of December that she's in the hospital for self-mutilation and an eating disorder- anorexia nervosa to be exact. But, that's all of the stressful things that I've been having to deal with lately and it just is really great to get back to updating and receiving reviews from my LOVELY reviewers. AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE READING THIS BUT DON'T REVIEW, JUST KNOW THIS………I'M GONNA FIND YOU AND MAKE YOU WEAR A BUNNY SUIT AND REVIEW MY FAN FICTION!!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Please pardon my outburst I just had like four candy bars and I get really hyper and am easily, and I mean easily amused…not to mention confused. NOW ON WITH THE STORY!!!!
Getting RevengeChapter 9: Alyx and Veronica
Previously On Getting Revenge:
"Miss Evans, I'm sorry to see you in such a state, but I know something that can probably help that." Lily looked up in anticipation. "Miss Evans, I want you to tell me the names of either one or two of your friends from your time that you would like to have here in the present for the duration of your stay."
Lily already knew her two people. "Veronica Blackburn and Alyx Hayes" Lily said immediately.
Professor Dumbledore lowered his gaze and asked in a serious tone,
"Lily, are you sure that you want me to bring back those two girls?"
Lily turned to face Dumbledore and ceased her crying only to say, "Yes, Professor Dumbledore."
Professor Dumbledore removed his wand from within the folds of his midnight blue robes and muttered, "Ruxi La Shamai!" A second later, Veronica Blackburn and Alyx Williams appeared confused and dazed in front of a beaming Professor Dumbledore and a dumbfounded Lily.
A Few Hours Later
Lily woke up feeling quite refreshed; she looked at her watch and realized that dinner started in thirty minutes. Lily took her hand and wiped her brow which she discovered was drenched in sweat. She wished she could remember her whole dream; it was like her perfect world.
Lily's Dream
Lily was running down a winding staircase, rushing to her favorite class-Charms. She had stumbled across a bumpy part of the stone staircase and started to tumble right as she was nearing the end of the stairs. She had held up her arms to break her fall, when she hit something soft.
She looked up and saw that the "soft something" was none other than James Henry Potter. Lily allowed herself to forget their fight earlier that morning and just melted into his arms. James then lifted Lily's chin to look into her almond-shaped emerald green eyes. James' deep chocolate brown eyes stared intently into Lily's brilliant green emerald pools of her eyes. They stayed like this for several minutes until James finally broke the silence.
"Lily…you are the most beautiful woman I've ever met." James croaked out softly. "I- I… just want you to know that you are my precious flower and you always will be."
Lily just kept on falling for the "old Potter charm" as Sirius called it.
"Lily. I think that I'm- I'm in love with you." James finally choked out the words.
James, yet again gently lifted her chin so that she could easily look into his eyes and he leaned down with a casual-yet elegant grace and kissed her. It wasn't passionate or deep. It was simply gentle and heartfelt and both of them felt loved by another for the first time.
End of Lily's Dream
She looked around the girls' dormitory and saw Hermione sitting on her bed reading (already studying for her N.E.W.T.S.) her History of Magic textbook, two girls giggling and pointing at the wall where they had hung up some pictures of guys on broomsticks with no shirts on, Lily supposed that in this time McGonagall didn't inspect the girls' and guys' dormitories.
The two girls had their wands out and it seemed that the men's' pants started to melt off of them. Now the men had only their boxers on, one of the guys had on black ones with little golden snitches on them. Lily laughed at the girls' raising hormone levels. She turned around and saw Alyx reading- "Sweet Merlin! Does she bring those muggle romance novels with her EVERYWHERE?!?" Alyx was licking her lips while she was reading a muggle romance novel called, "The Sweetest Sin" by: Marilyn Walker.
Lily slapped her hand against her forehead in aggravation, she noticed that Veronica had discovered her private collection of books and was staring at them as if daring themselves to open. Veronica was never much of a bookworm and how she got twelve owls, no one knew. Veronica never, and I mean never turned in her homework, let alone the test papers given in class. But Lily knew that whenever one of the professors handed out a test or something of the like, Veronica immediately muttered a spell and lit the test papers on fire.
Veronica couldn't help that she was a pyro at heart. Lily motioned for Alyx and Veronica to come to her scarlet four-poster bed, as both girls headed towards Lily's bed, they looked at each other with wonder and just shrugged the odd feeling they had off.
As the two girls sat on Lily's bed, Lily said in a dark voice, "It's Potter Time." Alyx and Veronica knew deep inside that they were later going to regret ever doing this, but they did so anyway. Alyx and Veronica looked at each other, and then at Lily and said together, "We're in."
James, Remus, and Sirius had left the Gryffindor common room for two reasons. One, being Harry yelling at Ron and Hermione to stop their bickering and just kiss each other, and two being they didn't think that when Lily left the girl's dormitory, the first thing she see be James. So, a part of the Marauders left the common room to roam the halls of Hogwarts. (With the Marauders' Map of course! )
James, Remus, and Sirius were bored so they finally wandered to the courtyard to talk. Sirius struck up some conversation, "Oy! Are we the Marauders or are we the Marauders?" Sirius shouted after quite a few minutes of silence.
James and Remus just stared at Sirius with an odd expression on their faces. This time it was Remus to speak to Sirius,
"Umm… Sirius, are you okay? Do you have amnesia or something?" Remus asked in a mock-concern voice. Sirius looked confused for all of three minutes (a bit thick, isn't he?) before he finally understood that Remus and James thought that he was crazy.
"Mates, don't you realize that we are single and there are TONS of single babes out there?" Sirius practically yelled in excitement. Remus and James then nodded in agreement and started to roam the hallways for their so-called "babes".
A Few Hours Later
By the time dinner rolled around, James, Remus, and Sirius had each snagged a girlfriend.
Remus arrived with a pretty fifth year Ravenclaw Prefect named Cressida Jamison, she had a fairly athletic build and James and Sirius later found out that she was a werewolf too. She had mid-back length wavy strawberry blonde hair, dark green eyes, and a pale complexion. Sirius had found a sixth year Gryffindor named Faith Boreadeux, she was on the Gryffindor Quidditch team and was a keeper. She was very tan, very fit, had dark brown eyes, and short curly brown hair. James on the other hand had gotten the worse of them all. He had gotten a seventh year Gryffindor Head Girl. She had sleek, smooth mid-thigh length raven black hair with thick highlights of platinum blonde and deep red. She had icy, cold blue eyes that could mesmerize anyone. She had a rather pale complexion and high cheekbones. Unfortunately, she thought that she was above everyone else and she made sure that everyone knew that she was a pureblood and that BOTH of her parents had graduated from the Slytherin House. Her name was Lily Rose Prouix.
Each Marauder sat at the dinner table in the Great Hall, with their respectable girlfriends of course. Lily introduced herself first and Lily Evans, along with Alyx and Veronica looked at Lily Prouix with absolute disgust. (Okay, from now on, Lily Evans will be called Lily Evans…how ironic? And Lily Rose Prouix will be called Lils or Lily) In the middle of his Steak and Kidney Pie, James grabbed Lily Prouix, who squealed and perched her in his lap. Lily Evans looked over at James and turned her nose up at James and Lily Rose Prouix having their "moment" together. Lily Prouix then turned herself around in James lap so that she was facing him and kissed him square on the lips, when she pulled back, all you could see was a very stunned expression on James' face.
Lily laughed a high-pitched laugh that to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny sounded like Bellatrix's laughter. Harry now found himself glaring at James Potter. Ginny looked over at Harry (she was sitting right beside him) and looked into his eyes, expecting to see a shimmering emerald color, but Ginny noticed that Harry's brilliant green eyes had darkened and were glaring at James. Ginny looked at James to see what could cause Harry so much anger and saw James snogging a petite, redheaded girl. Ginny thought that it was Harry's mother Lily Evans, but then saw how scantily dressed this girl was and knew that Lily would never dress like that. She saw that it was Lily Prouix, Ginny hated the woman already.
Ginny looked back at Harry and patted him gently on the back and whispered in a shaky voice, "Harry, I think I'm still in love with you."
To Be Continued…
Next time on: Getting Revenge…
How will Harry react to Ginny's statement?
Will Ron and Hermione ever date?
Will Harry discover newfound feelings for Ginny?
Will my readers review?
Author's Notes: Okay people, there it is…. Chapter number nine! I hope you guys liked it. Remember that constructive criticism is ALWAYS welcome. I really couldn't care less if you flame but please no cussing. ' TO MY REVIEWERS WHO KEPT BEGGING ME TO MAKE LONGER CHAPTERS AND TO UPDATE AND TO KEEP WRITING AND NOT ABANDONING THIS STORY: thank you so very much! You reviewers keep me going with your kind reviews. And remember if you want to be a character in my next chapter, I need you to answer these questions and send it to me in an email:
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