I think this story is going to be 30 chapters, and then I'm going to be done. So anyways here's chapter 26.
A week has passed since James and Lily said goodbye for good, and Lily has been crying herself to sleep ever since. Now, she's decided that she has to pull herself together and stay strong for Final Examinations coming up soon.
After Transfiguration, her last class on Friday, she decided she needed a walk by herself to clear her head. She walked around the school and into the courtyard, which was empty because everyone was in the great hall eating dinner. The courtyard was dark with nothing but the moonlight shining down on her.
Suddenly she heard something in the bushes. She turned around quickly but there was nothing there. She decided that she was being paranoid.
She walked over to the fountain and sat on the edge and looked into the water. It was dark but she could see her reflection. Her face was drained of all color and her eyes lost their sparkle. She looked sad and she felt sad. Then, over her shoulders was a shadowy figure.
Someone was behind her, someone was going to attack her. But before she could turn around, everything went dark.
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The next morning when she woke up she was in her bed. There was a throbbing pain in her head, and when she reached up she felt a slight bump.
"Are you alright?" Asked Ruth.
"Yes, I'm fine." She replied.
"I was worried about you after what happened last night." Ruth said.
"You were?" Lily was utterly confused, because she couldn't remember anything at all.
"Yeah, you were...strange...last night." Ruth said.
"How so?"
"You...asked a lot of questions."
"Questions...Ruth I don't remember anything that happened last night."
"Well I suppose you wouldn't. I don't think you were yourself last night. It's like...it's like you were...posessed."
"Posessed?"
"Yeah..."
"What happened last night Ruth? Tell me."
"Alright well...you weren't at dinner, so Kate and I came upstairs looking for you. We found you in your bed. We asked you to take a walk with us but you said 'no.' Then suddenly...you...turned on Kate or something."
"What do you mean?"
"You started asking her questions like...who her parents were, where she lived...those types of questions you know?"
"Yeah...so..."
"And then you asked...stranger questions like..."
"Like what?"
"Like...I...I don't even remember...but it was like you were interrogating her. Like she committed a crime. Like...where she was on a certain day. What was her wand made out of. How often she sends out letters to certain people."
"Oh no...I have to go apologize...I don't know what I did."
Perfect timing, because Kate came in the door, but stayed away from Lily.
"Kate...whatever happened last night...I'm sorry. I don't remember anything, I...I think I bumped my head..."
"Alright..." She said...but it was obvious Kate was not accepting Lily's apology, because she left right away.
Lily tried to chase after Kate, but was stopped by James in the common room.
"Lily Dumbledore needs us...now..."
"What's wrong?" She knew from the tone of James's voice that something terrible has happened.
"Remember 'his blood is at Hogwarts' ?"
"Yes..."
"Well...whoever he is...he killed someone."
Lily was trying to take it all in but she just couldn't believe it. "What?"
"A 5th year muggle-born was killed last night." James said. "He was the Hufflepuff prefectRobbie Hess."
"Oh my goodness...a prefect was killed?" Lily was shocked.
When they arrived at Dumbledore's office, he sat the two of them down and said "We have a serious situation on our hands."
"Dumbledore...how was he killed?" Lily asked.
"Avada Kedavra..." Dumbledore answered.
"So that means that..." James said.
"A deatheater." Lily finnished.
"There's one at Hogwarts." Lily said.
"I don't believe it was any deatheater." Dumbledore said.
"What do you mean?" Lily asked.
"James here has reason to believe that it was a blood relative of Voldemort." Dumbledore answered.
"Is this true?" Lily asked James.
"Yes...and I think you'reher next target." James replied.
"Her?" Dumbledore said.
"Yes...it's a she." James answered.