The Evans' Secret
AN: I don't own any of the characters, except for Danielle and Jenny. This is a Severitus challenge, with a twist.
Chapter 1: First Year
It was towards the end of Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Danielle's first year at Hogwarts. Hermione and Danielle were excited that the Gryffindor Head Girl had chosen to have all of the first year girls together in the private room. They said hello to the other girls and sat down.
"Can you get me my Charms textbooks, Hermione," the head girl, Lucinda, asked.
Hermione opened the desk drawer, but as she did, another drawer had opened. She looked inside as the other girls stared in shock when she drew out an old journal. They were startled when her jaw dropped, but before any of them could ask anything, she shook her head at their questioning looks, but she turned the journal around so that Danielle could see the lettering on the front that clearly spelled out Lily Evans.
They stood up and Danielle said, "No one can ask us what this journal is. When the time is right, people will find out, but right now, we need to find out what this journal contains."
They left the room to find a private spot and Hermione started to read the journal. Danielle walked over to her, after observing the facial expressions on her friend's face. Before she could ask, Hermione closed the book and set it down. They looked up at the sound of a door opening and Ron walked in.
At their questioning looks, he said, "Harry is at Quidditch practice. What is going on, exactly?" He looked around and spotted the journal and realized that it was Harry's mother's journal.
"We don't know, or at least I don't know, what the journal says," Danielle said, looking over at Hermione.
She smiled gently, "Can the two of you give me a chance to read this book? I figure that it would take me about a week to read it."
The two of them agreed, just as Harry walked in. They explained to him about the journal and he agreed that Hermione should read it before they talked about the contents. Hermione went back to reading, while Danielle laughed at Harry's pathetic attempts at playing chess with Ron.
Six days later, Hermione had the others around her while she was explaining what she had read. They turned to stare at Harry to see what his reaction was. He stared at the journal in shock than said slowly, "We don't tell anyone about the information. According to what my mother wrote, I'm not supposed to find out until I am 15, so we can't let anyone else know about this. Danielle, I know that keeping this to ourselves is a dangerous thing to do, but someone is trying to get to the stone and after reading this, I don't believe that it is Snape. I may not like him or understand him, but he and my mother were friends. She trusted him, so I think that we should do the same."
Ron agreed, "What about the charms that had been placed on you? Sooner or later, they will wear off. The journal said that it would wear off when you found out. Does that mean that the charms will start falling now? If it does…"
Hermione picked up where he left off, "We need to find something that will keep the charms up until you are sure that you want other people to know about this."
They all agreed and after deciding that they would have no regrets, than they went to find out what they could that would help them to keep this a secret.
