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~The Aftermath~
'Huh? Where am I?' Lily asked herself when she woke up. It took her a minute for her eyes to focus and for her to realize that she was in the hospital wing at Hogwarts. She tried to sit up but the moment she made the slightest movement a pain shot through her entire body. Lily let out a groan.
"Well, It looks like sleeping beauty is finally away." Sirius said as her pulled the curtains back from Lily's hospital bed. Lily could see James, Cat, Remus, Jo, Sam, and Anna all looking over Sirius' shoulder at her.
"Hi guys." Lily said weekly.
"You know you beat my record." Sirius said.
"What record?" Lily asked confused. It was way to early in the morning for this.
"For hours sleeping." He said as if everyone knew this. "My record was 21 hours and 13 minutes straight. But you've been sleeping for 23 hours and 36 minutes. Damn it! She put me to shame."
"Oh Lily are you okay?" Jo asked ignoring Sirius' rambling. It was clear she was very worried.
"Yeah I'll be fine." Lily answered and tried to sit up, but that familiar pain shot through her body again as she dropped back onto the bed. Lily gasped at the pain. "I think I'll just lay here for a little while."
"As if Madame Graham would let you up anyway." Cat said mater-of- factly.
"As if Cat would let you up." Anna said and earned her a slap on the arm from Cat. "OW!"
"I guess we should tell Professor Dumbledore she's awake." Remus said bringing sense to the group. Lily noticed James hadn't said anything. She could tell he was worried from the expression on his face.
"So is everyone okay? How many people were hurt?" Lily remembered what had happened and why she was here.
"11 people were killed." James said solemnly. Lily's hand flew to her mouth in horror.
"That's terrible." Lily's eyes were filling with tears. Their struggle had been for nothing.
"Yeah. It sucks." Sirius said seriously (No pun intended).
"Yeah. 13 people were injured and are in St. Mungos." James said in the same solemn tone as before. It was kind of freaky because James was usually a happy-go-lucky guy.
"Well about 50 people made it away with any injuries." Remus said trying to look on the bright side.
"And you we were in the Daily Prophet Lily." Sam said trying to brighten the mood too.
"So I guess everything we did yesterday was for nothing then." Lily said glumly.
"No Lily!" Cat exclaimed kneeling beside to bed so she was eye level with Lily. "If we hadn't fought like we had then so many for people could be dead right now."
"And we sent those bast-"
"Sirius! Watch your language!" Jo interrupted him.
"Fine. We sent a lot of the death eaters to Azkaban." Sirius said.
"Well their going to trial." James said in a monotonous voice.
"Could you please be a little more positive please?" Sam asked annoyed.
"I'm sorry! I'm just trying to be realistic here." James said loudly. Everyone could tell that he was angry.
"James we are all a little angry at the events that occurred yesterday but I find that it does help to be little positive in these situations." A voice everyone recognized as Dumbledore's came from the door of the hospital wing.
"Yes, professor." James said looking down at his feet.
"No that Miss Evans is awake I would like to ask you four what happened yesterday at The Three Broomsticks." Professor Dumbledore said looking at Cat, Sirius, James, and Lily as he walked over to where everyone was crowded around Lily's bed.
"Yes professor." Cat said as Lily nodded.
"Ok, now I need to know what happened from the beginning." Dumbledore said.
"Well, we were all worn out from cleaning the Great Hall Friday night so we all ended up going to bed at like 6 o'clock and then we all woke up early on Saturday morning. Then we were all bored so we decided to go to Hogsmeade. We asked Remus but he said he had homework to do or some such thing so it was just the four of us, and so we-" Sirius started.
"Mr. Black, I know that the four of you snuck into Hogsmeade but I need to know when the death eaters arrived and what happened following their arrival." Professor Dumbledore said. Lily was suddenly very aware that Remus, Jo, Anna, Sam, and Madame Graham were listening very closely to their conversation.
"Well, we were eating well, drinking, butterbeer of course, at The Three Broomsticks. We were sitting at a window seat so we could see the whole street." Cat said.
"And what time do you think that the death eaters arrived?" Dumbledore asked.
"12:30 about. Right?" Lily said unsure. She didn't have a watch.
"12:46." James said. "I remember looking down at my watch when Madame Rosemerta brought the drinks."
"And that was when the death eaters appeared?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yeah right after the drinks came." Sirius confirmed. "We were all looking out the window."
"You could hear people, the death eaters, apparating outside." Cat said.
"Then we saw green flashes of light flying back and forth across the street and random people." Lily added.
"Then I pushed Lily under the table when I saw a group of them come into The Three Broomsticks." James said.
"Yeah we all stood up in front of the table." Sirius said.
"You, Miss Watson, and Mr. Potter I presume." Dumbledore said.
"Yeah. Then I crawled out from underneath the table and stood up next to James and saw the death eaters." Lily said then moved, with great effort, so she was laying on her side so she could look at Dumbledore.
"Then they walked over to us and the started talking to James about his Dad." Cat said. "I guess because a auror."
"Yes, that would make sense." Dumbledore added.
"Then Prongs disarmed the death eaters in front of us before the could do anything to any of us." Sirius said.
"Yeah and then Sirius Stupified them and a bunch more kept popping up." Cat said.
"There were so many of them." Lily agreed.
"So we started dueling them." James said.
"We had to. In order to stay alive." Sirius explained.
"I see." Professor Dumbledore said calmly.
"Then they cast the crucio curse on Lily." Cat said softly. Jo gasped and James couldn't bring himself to look at Lily. For some reason he felt it was his fault. He dragged her to Hogsmeade. If he hadn't then this wouldn't have happened. He should have at lease been able to protect her. He couldn't even do that.
"Then you came sir." Sirius said.
"Ahh yes." Professor Dumbledore said softly. "Well, thank you for letting me talk to you. NO doubt this information will be useful in the trial. I'll let you rest no Miss. Evans."
"Thank you professor." Cat said.
"And we're so sorry for going to Hogsmeade. We know it was wrong. It won't happen again." Lily said. She felt so guilty.
"I think you four learned a very valuable lesson." Dumbledore smiled slightly. The twinkle in his eye was back. "Leaned better than any punishment I would give."
"Yes Sir." The four chorused.
"And Miss Evans you have quite the stack of fan mail. You might want to get started on them now. You could be reading them till next Tuesday." Dumbledore said and then left the hospital wing. Silence fell over the group of friends.
"OK well, Miss. Evans needs her rest." Madame Graham said trying to shoo Lily's friends away.
"Madame Graham please let them stay. As Sirius said I've been sleeping for a very long time and I'd feel much better if my friends were hear to keep me company." Lily said with puppy dog eyes.
"Ok for a little while." Madame Graham gave in. "But you need your rest."
"Thank you." Lily said and Madame Graham left.
"Oh Lily!" Jo, Anna, and Sam tackled Lily and pulled her into a group hug. Lily gasped from the pain.
"I'm ok. Really. You can put me back down." Lily said tightly and they let her back down on her bed carefully.
"OK now pass all my so called fan mail over here." Lily said with a smile to brighten the mood. "This should be interesting." Lily saw that this worked for everyone but James who was frowning and looked to be deep in thought.
"Yeah, James, Kitty Cat and I already read all of ours." Sirius said and indicated their beds in the hospital wing. Their beds were covered in get-well cards and obviously cards from people who had read the article in the Daily Prophet. Lily noticed for the first time that Sirius, James, and Cat were all in their pajamas.
"So there was really an article in the news paper?" Lily asked. She didn't believe it. Well, she believed that there would be an article about the attack but it wasn't very likely that she would be mention in it.
"Yeah read it!" Sam said handing her a copy of this morning's edition of the Daily Prophet.
"Wow." Lily said as she read. "What does everyone in school think?"
"Well, you got a get-well card from every student in school except from the Slytherins." Anna said.
"Wow." Lily said again. "That's... wow." She repeated as Jo and Remus dumped piles of letters on Lily's bed.
"That's what I said too." Cat said picking up the nearest letter and opened it. "Just want to Thank You for your bravery shown yesterday. With that kind of bravery we can overcome these hard times. Please Get well soon. Thanks, The Bradley Family." Cat read aloud. Everyone looked at Lily and saw she was blushing. They all broke into laughter. Even James cracked a smile.
"Well, I guess they all say pretty much the same thing then?" Lily finally said.
"Yeah pretty much." Remus said.
"Well, except for prongsie here." Sirius said smiling. "He got a howler from his mum. You should have heard here. She was furious. Actually I'm surprised it didn't wake up the entire castle." Sirius broke down laughing.
"Thanks Padfoot. That makes me feel great." James said.
"SO what did she yell about?" Lily asked curious. She had never received a howler.
"How I shouldn't have been in Hogsmeade in the first place." James said feeling guilty again.
"What's weird is it sounds like someone knew you were going to be there." Remus observed.
"Yeah he's right." Cat said.
"Yeah, He walked right up to James like that's who he was looking for. Remember?" Lily asked.
"Yeah that is weird." Anna said.
"Who would have known that we were going to Hogsmeade besides the four of us and Remus?" Sirius asked.
"I don't know." Sam said.
"We know none of us old anyone and Remus was in the library with Jo." Lily said. "Plus, he would never tell on us."
"Well obviously some heard us talking about it in the common room and told Voldemort." James said.
"But who?" Cat asked quietly.
^Lily^: You have really got to stop reviewing like that. I don't think I can blush any redder. And I normally don't blush. Anyway it's an honor that you think so much of my writing. Please keep reading and reviewing.
DOJ: is my fic sounding like a Jedi move good or bad. I don't read or watch star wars. I wouldn't know. I know I'm a freak for not having seen the movies. So kill me. Anyway, Glad you liked that chapter.
The all mighty and powerful*M: Yes, we know all death eaters suck. We all hate them. Here's the next chapter. There are no death eaters in it.
Lizzard: Hey! Yeah I still hate you. I cannot believe you got your permit! Yeah, I hate you. Here's the next chapter you evil person.
Greek Witch: Brenna is not the only person who needs mental help. I think we all do. Well, I do anyway. I love the OLAC think! Funny!
~The Aftermath~
'Huh? Where am I?' Lily asked herself when she woke up. It took her a minute for her eyes to focus and for her to realize that she was in the hospital wing at Hogwarts. She tried to sit up but the moment she made the slightest movement a pain shot through her entire body. Lily let out a groan.
"Well, It looks like sleeping beauty is finally away." Sirius said as her pulled the curtains back from Lily's hospital bed. Lily could see James, Cat, Remus, Jo, Sam, and Anna all looking over Sirius' shoulder at her.
"Hi guys." Lily said weekly.
"You know you beat my record." Sirius said.
"What record?" Lily asked confused. It was way to early in the morning for this.
"For hours sleeping." He said as if everyone knew this. "My record was 21 hours and 13 minutes straight. But you've been sleeping for 23 hours and 36 minutes. Damn it! She put me to shame."
"Oh Lily are you okay?" Jo asked ignoring Sirius' rambling. It was clear she was very worried.
"Yeah I'll be fine." Lily answered and tried to sit up, but that familiar pain shot through her body again as she dropped back onto the bed. Lily gasped at the pain. "I think I'll just lay here for a little while."
"As if Madame Graham would let you up anyway." Cat said mater-of- factly.
"As if Cat would let you up." Anna said and earned her a slap on the arm from Cat. "OW!"
"I guess we should tell Professor Dumbledore she's awake." Remus said bringing sense to the group. Lily noticed James hadn't said anything. She could tell he was worried from the expression on his face.
"So is everyone okay? How many people were hurt?" Lily remembered what had happened and why she was here.
"11 people were killed." James said solemnly. Lily's hand flew to her mouth in horror.
"That's terrible." Lily's eyes were filling with tears. Their struggle had been for nothing.
"Yeah. It sucks." Sirius said seriously (No pun intended).
"Yeah. 13 people were injured and are in St. Mungos." James said in the same solemn tone as before. It was kind of freaky because James was usually a happy-go-lucky guy.
"Well about 50 people made it away with any injuries." Remus said trying to look on the bright side.
"And you we were in the Daily Prophet Lily." Sam said trying to brighten the mood too.
"So I guess everything we did yesterday was for nothing then." Lily said glumly.
"No Lily!" Cat exclaimed kneeling beside to bed so she was eye level with Lily. "If we hadn't fought like we had then so many for people could be dead right now."
"And we sent those bast-"
"Sirius! Watch your language!" Jo interrupted him.
"Fine. We sent a lot of the death eaters to Azkaban." Sirius said.
"Well their going to trial." James said in a monotonous voice.
"Could you please be a little more positive please?" Sam asked annoyed.
"I'm sorry! I'm just trying to be realistic here." James said loudly. Everyone could tell that he was angry.
"James we are all a little angry at the events that occurred yesterday but I find that it does help to be little positive in these situations." A voice everyone recognized as Dumbledore's came from the door of the hospital wing.
"Yes, professor." James said looking down at his feet.
"No that Miss Evans is awake I would like to ask you four what happened yesterday at The Three Broomsticks." Professor Dumbledore said looking at Cat, Sirius, James, and Lily as he walked over to where everyone was crowded around Lily's bed.
"Yes professor." Cat said as Lily nodded.
"Ok, now I need to know what happened from the beginning." Dumbledore said.
"Well, we were all worn out from cleaning the Great Hall Friday night so we all ended up going to bed at like 6 o'clock and then we all woke up early on Saturday morning. Then we were all bored so we decided to go to Hogsmeade. We asked Remus but he said he had homework to do or some such thing so it was just the four of us, and so we-" Sirius started.
"Mr. Black, I know that the four of you snuck into Hogsmeade but I need to know when the death eaters arrived and what happened following their arrival." Professor Dumbledore said. Lily was suddenly very aware that Remus, Jo, Anna, Sam, and Madame Graham were listening very closely to their conversation.
"Well, we were eating well, drinking, butterbeer of course, at The Three Broomsticks. We were sitting at a window seat so we could see the whole street." Cat said.
"And what time do you think that the death eaters arrived?" Dumbledore asked.
"12:30 about. Right?" Lily said unsure. She didn't have a watch.
"12:46." James said. "I remember looking down at my watch when Madame Rosemerta brought the drinks."
"And that was when the death eaters appeared?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yeah right after the drinks came." Sirius confirmed. "We were all looking out the window."
"You could hear people, the death eaters, apparating outside." Cat said.
"Then we saw green flashes of light flying back and forth across the street and random people." Lily added.
"Then I pushed Lily under the table when I saw a group of them come into The Three Broomsticks." James said.
"Yeah we all stood up in front of the table." Sirius said.
"You, Miss Watson, and Mr. Potter I presume." Dumbledore said.
"Yeah. Then I crawled out from underneath the table and stood up next to James and saw the death eaters." Lily said then moved, with great effort, so she was laying on her side so she could look at Dumbledore.
"Then they walked over to us and the started talking to James about his Dad." Cat said. "I guess because a auror."
"Yes, that would make sense." Dumbledore added.
"Then Prongs disarmed the death eaters in front of us before the could do anything to any of us." Sirius said.
"Yeah and then Sirius Stupified them and a bunch more kept popping up." Cat said.
"There were so many of them." Lily agreed.
"So we started dueling them." James said.
"We had to. In order to stay alive." Sirius explained.
"I see." Professor Dumbledore said calmly.
"Then they cast the crucio curse on Lily." Cat said softly. Jo gasped and James couldn't bring himself to look at Lily. For some reason he felt it was his fault. He dragged her to Hogsmeade. If he hadn't then this wouldn't have happened. He should have at lease been able to protect her. He couldn't even do that.
"Then you came sir." Sirius said.
"Ahh yes." Professor Dumbledore said softly. "Well, thank you for letting me talk to you. NO doubt this information will be useful in the trial. I'll let you rest no Miss. Evans."
"Thank you professor." Cat said.
"And we're so sorry for going to Hogsmeade. We know it was wrong. It won't happen again." Lily said. She felt so guilty.
"I think you four learned a very valuable lesson." Dumbledore smiled slightly. The twinkle in his eye was back. "Leaned better than any punishment I would give."
"Yes Sir." The four chorused.
"And Miss Evans you have quite the stack of fan mail. You might want to get started on them now. You could be reading them till next Tuesday." Dumbledore said and then left the hospital wing. Silence fell over the group of friends.
"OK well, Miss. Evans needs her rest." Madame Graham said trying to shoo Lily's friends away.
"Madame Graham please let them stay. As Sirius said I've been sleeping for a very long time and I'd feel much better if my friends were hear to keep me company." Lily said with puppy dog eyes.
"Ok for a little while." Madame Graham gave in. "But you need your rest."
"Thank you." Lily said and Madame Graham left.
"Oh Lily!" Jo, Anna, and Sam tackled Lily and pulled her into a group hug. Lily gasped from the pain.
"I'm ok. Really. You can put me back down." Lily said tightly and they let her back down on her bed carefully.
"OK now pass all my so called fan mail over here." Lily said with a smile to brighten the mood. "This should be interesting." Lily saw that this worked for everyone but James who was frowning and looked to be deep in thought.
"Yeah, James, Kitty Cat and I already read all of ours." Sirius said and indicated their beds in the hospital wing. Their beds were covered in get-well cards and obviously cards from people who had read the article in the Daily Prophet. Lily noticed for the first time that Sirius, James, and Cat were all in their pajamas.
"So there was really an article in the news paper?" Lily asked. She didn't believe it. Well, she believed that there would be an article about the attack but it wasn't very likely that she would be mention in it.
"Yeah read it!" Sam said handing her a copy of this morning's edition of the Daily Prophet.
"Wow." Lily said as she read. "What does everyone in school think?"
"Well, you got a get-well card from every student in school except from the Slytherins." Anna said.
"Wow." Lily said again. "That's... wow." She repeated as Jo and Remus dumped piles of letters on Lily's bed.
"That's what I said too." Cat said picking up the nearest letter and opened it. "Just want to Thank You for your bravery shown yesterday. With that kind of bravery we can overcome these hard times. Please Get well soon. Thanks, The Bradley Family." Cat read aloud. Everyone looked at Lily and saw she was blushing. They all broke into laughter. Even James cracked a smile.
"Well, I guess they all say pretty much the same thing then?" Lily finally said.
"Yeah pretty much." Remus said.
"Well, except for prongsie here." Sirius said smiling. "He got a howler from his mum. You should have heard here. She was furious. Actually I'm surprised it didn't wake up the entire castle." Sirius broke down laughing.
"Thanks Padfoot. That makes me feel great." James said.
"SO what did she yell about?" Lily asked curious. She had never received a howler.
"How I shouldn't have been in Hogsmeade in the first place." James said feeling guilty again.
"What's weird is it sounds like someone knew you were going to be there." Remus observed.
"Yeah he's right." Cat said.
"Yeah, He walked right up to James like that's who he was looking for. Remember?" Lily asked.
"Yeah that is weird." Anna said.
"Who would have known that we were going to Hogsmeade besides the four of us and Remus?" Sirius asked.
"I don't know." Sam said.
"We know none of us old anyone and Remus was in the library with Jo." Lily said. "Plus, he would never tell on us."
"Well obviously some heard us talking about it in the common room and told Voldemort." James said.
"But who?" Cat asked quietly.
