Lily's Final Answer
Chapter 19 - The True Romeo and Juliet
Later on in the year.
The year has flown by very quickly. Remus proposed to Elise, Lily and James grew ever so closer to one another, if that was even possible, Sirius and Rosie are getting extremely serious, and well…Peter…no one really knows about him, he's been missing a lot lately.
It is the month of May and all of the seventh years are growing extremely agitated for the NEWTs testing is coming closer and closer with each passing day. Then, after that, they have graduation to look forward to. It was the Head's final responsibility to plan this entire graduation ceremony and the party afterwards.
"Merlin, I'm going to pull all of my hair out!" Lily screamed in the Great Hall while studying for NEWTs with her friends.
"Honey, calm down, you'll do great. You're top of our year; you're beautiful, sexy, and smart." James said.
"What does beautiful and sexy have to do with NEWTs testing?" Lily asked obviously confused.
"It doesn't have anything to do with testing, I just thought I aught to remind you." James said with a wink.
"You guys are so romantic." Rosie sighed dreamily.
Lily and James smiled.
"So, did you to decide upon a day for your wedding?" Sirius asked Elise.
"I was thinking at night, when the moon is full in July." Elise stated.
"Uhh…I don't know, maybe hun." Remus said kind of shakily to his wife to be.
James, Sirius, Remus, and Lily (Lily found out about his little secret around Christmas time.) looked wearily at one another obviously thinking the same thing.
Lily and James packed up their things an hour later and headed to their dorm room to plan the graduation in secret.
"Let's have a muggle-style graduation. It gives the students a cultural experience." Lily suggested.
"Lily, that's a great idea. And afterwards, for the party, let's just have everyone dress in comfortable clothing and just have a band come and play with snacks and drinks. I don't think we should have anything too formal." James stated.
"Good idea." Lily said.
"Lils, hun, babe, I've got something I want to talk to you about." James said in all seriousness.
"Sure. Is something wrong?" Lily said with a worried look plastered on her face.
"Come with me." James took her hand and led her to the balcony that led off of his room. There were candles lit everywhere (mind you, this is nighttime now), rose petals strewn all over the floor and a swinging bench. They sat upon it.
"Lily, I think it's time to talk about us." James said.
"What do you mean?" Lily was starting to look as if she was about to cry.
"What I mean to say is," James took her by the hand and got down on one knee. "Lily Marie Evans, will you do me the honor of taking my hand in marriage and putting up with me for the rest of our lives?"
Lily soon had one single tear slid down her perfectly soft cheek.
"Oh James…yes. I love you. Of course I will marry you." Lily said with a smile on her face.
James wiped the tear off of her face and smiled at her.
"But James, I don't want a big wedding; I think we should just have Dumbledore marry us. When do you think?"
"How about right now…tonight." James offered.
"That is a great idea." Lily got up.
James grabbed her by the hand and led her to the large gargoyle.
"Fizzing Whizbees" James said to the gargoyle, which then sprang to the side and revealed a staircase.
The two love-birds walked up the stairs and knocked on the door.
"Come in Mr. Potter and Miss Evans." Dumbledore's faint voice came from the other side.
They walked in and saw Professor Dumbledore sitting at his desk.
"Is there something I can help you with?" he asked them.
"Yes professor. We were wondering if you would do us the honor of marrying us right here, right now." James said to the wise, old man.
There was a twinkle in his eye, and he smiled.
"Of course I will." Dumbledore agreed.
After about 20 minutes, Lily and James Potter emerged from his office with Mrs. Lily Potter being carried by Mr. James Potter bridle style to their Head's common room. When they got there, they noticed something different about their common room. There were no longer two separate doors with a lion on each and their names on them. Now there was one door with a male and female lion on it and a golden plaque above it saying 'Mr. and Mrs. James Potter.'
They looked at one another and went into the room. It was the same as their other rooms only this time a bigger bed, a bigger closet, and all of their stuff was together. They were happy, they were married, and they were in love. Lily looked around at their new room as James went to the bathroom. Two seconds later James came running out with smoke behind him and grabbed Lily and ran back to Dumbledore's office.
They sprinted up the steps and said they were under attack. The Headmaster took quick action and summoned all of the prefects to take all of the students into the Great Hall.
Five minutes later everyone was in the Great Hall. Dumbledore made a quick announcement and told all of the prefects to entertain the students while all teachers and Heads must observe the damage to the school.
Lily and James went with Dumbledore. Half of the castle was blown to pieces.
"How could this happen? This school is protected." Lily said.
All of a sudden 10 Death Eaters swooped down on the teachers and Heads. One of the cloaked maniacs grabbed Lily and tried to get away. James was too quick and sent a stunning spell at him. He let go of Lily and then apparated. They fought against the Death Eaters and soon they were gone.
Everyone went back inside of the castle to see if all of the students were all right. Luckily, no one was seriously injured or killed. The mediwitch took care of all of those who were injured.
Dumbledore took Lily and James aside to speak to them.
"The war has gotten to the students. We need to have all of the fifth years and under go to the Room of Requirement to be protected by the house elves and on duty members of the Order. You two need to go into hiding. Lily, you are in danger, I cannot explain all here, but I can say that you are expecting a child. You may not understand because when a witch gets pregnant it is not the same as a muggle, they stay in their normal figure and the birthing process is not 9 months with witches. It is only 3. So, you will be expecting a child by the end of July. Now follow Professor McGonagall and she will take you into hiding. Who do you want to be your secret keeper?" Dumbledore asked quickly.
"Sirius of course." James said.
"No, James, that is too obvious. Make it Peter Pettigrew." Lily said.
"Fine, we want Peter Pettigrew to be our secret keeper." James said quickly.
"Very well." Dumbledore said.
Soon Peter was at James's side wondering why he was summoned to them. James and Lily explained everything and soon everything was prepared for their hiding place. They apparated there right away. Peter apparated too, but not to the secret hiding place, no one knows where.
The war raged on at Hogwarts, Many people were killed. Many injuries, and sadly, the Fantastic Four was no more. Elise was killed by Lucius Malfoy himself, Rosie was killed by Tobias Fortenson, Skyler was killed by Reagan Umberton, Sirius is no where to be found as well as Peter.
It was now July 28 and Lily started getting labor pains. Her baby was to arrive on July 31. Her pains increased and the war was still at its peak in London. On July 31, she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, named Harold James Potter.
A year went by and the war was still going on. They had heard from Dumbledore and their good friend, the game keeper, Hagrid. They also heard from Lupin, but oddly, from no one else. They grew more worried about Sirius and Peter. They were hoping they were safe. Harry started showing that he had magical powers at the age of only one year. He could extraordinarily levitate objects with his underdeveloped mind. It was amazing. They were so proud of their little Harry.
It is a cool night in August when a turn of horrible events happened. They were putting young Harry to sleep when a large purple light came from the door. Lily and James pulled their wands out and stood in front of Harry's nursery. James went towards the door, but then back off a bit when it burst open. In front of their very eyes, was the Dark Lord himself, Voldemort. James lifted his wand and attempted, but failed, to throw a spell at him. It didn't work. Voldemort said the spell that cannot be blocked and cannot be defeated. James was on the floor, dead. Voldemort looked at Lily and Lily ran over to Harry's crib but before she got there Voldemort said the same spell and sent Lily to the floor, dead. Harry was screaming now. Voldemort went over to his crib, picked Harry up then set him on the floor.
Harry was hysterical and in very loud cries for his mother. To bad his mother cannot come to his aid anymore. Voldemort laughed a high pitch laugh that nearly drowned out Harry's screams. Harry fell in an abnormal silence. Voldemort raised his wand, and said the exact spell he put on Harry's parents. Green light brightened up the room, but Harry was not the one who was hurt, Voldemort turned into a mere shadow is what it seemed like, when all young, baby Harry was left with, was a thin lightening-bolt shaped scar.
Voldemort escaped the house that was left in ruins and Peter was standing close by watching the whole time. Sirius arrived at the house on his enchanted motorcycle to find Peter.
Peter apparated to a crowded spot in London, Sirius found him only minutes later. Sirius was in such a state of anger, that he could kill a man. Peter did something weird just then as Sirius pulled out his wand. Peter pulled out his wand, bit his finger off, and sent a spell out that killed the block full of muggles. Sirius then saw his former friend turn into a rat and crawl into the sewers behind him. Before Sirius could act, Ministry wizards surrounded the scene and found only one live person, and that was Sirius. The wizards sent stunning spells in his direction. They took his wand, snapped it into pieces and dragged Sirius off to serve a life long sentence in the wizard prison, Azkaban.
Hagrid heard the news of the Potter's house and got there as soon as he could. He heard faint cries coming from the rubble. He found baby Harry, dirty, all alone without his mummy or daddy.
He picked up Harry and took Sirius's motorbike to find Dumbledore. Dumbledore told Hagrid to meet them at Number 4, Private Drive, Little Whinging. Surrey at approximately 9:00 pm with Harry. Hagrid nodded and took Harry to Hogwarts to get some food in him. At 8:30 pm, Hagrid left with the small bundle, which is Harry, to go to the specific location that Dumbledore had told him to go.
Hagrid passed over hundreds of parties on the way to the address. He didn't stop though because he had specific instructions and he was to follow them. He soon was in Surrey and found the address perfectly and saw Dumbledore with McGonagall. Dumbledore took Harry and set him on the porch to Number 4 with a letter explaining everything and another note specifically to Petunia about keeping Harry.
"Good luck, Harry Potter."
The End to the Story that was James and Lily.