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Ch. 9: My Job
Lily woke up the next day and remembered suddenly of what she found out the day before.
"I should go to Dumbledore during my break" Lily said to herself. Lily got out of bed and rushed into the bathroom. Lily got out of the shower and dressed and dried her hair with a quick swish of her wand. She went back to her room to gather her books and the file. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Lily turned.
"Yes?"
"Hey Lily would you like to go down to breakfast everyone's downstairs." James said in a calm tone. James was still a bit worried about Lily and annoyed that she wasn't talking about her outing the day before.
"Um yeah I'll be right there." Lily grabbed her bag and walked out.
"Ok guys don't mention of her outing I don't want her to get mad again." James whispered to the group they all nodded in response. Lily walked down the stairs and greeted everyone.
"Hey how are all of you?" Lily asked sweetly.
"Good, great, let's go eat." Sirius exclaimed. They all headed down to the great hall. Once at the table Sirius began to stuff his face.
"Is he always that hungry in the morning?" Lily asked James who was sitting next to her.
"Yup, always." James replied with a slight chuckle. James turned to Lily suddenly.
"Lily you have a free block after first right?"
"Yeah but I have to go see Professor Dumbledore though, which won't take long." Lily said before taking another bite of her toast.
"What for, your school?"
"Yeah unfortunately I have exams this year in the second week of January which I have to go to the school for. I can't take them on line."
"Oh. Well after you finish with Dumbledore could we talk in the Library?" Lily looked up from her toast.
"Sure." Lily gave a slight smile, finished her toast and went to class with the group.
First period ended quickly, it was charms. Once out of class Lily headed to Dumbledore's office.
"Chocolate Frog" The Gargoyle moved from the entrance and a spiral staircase came into view. Lily climbed the steps and before she could knock the door swung open.
"Please come in Ms. Evans" An Old wrinkle faced man with half moon spectacle said in a cheerful yet calm voice. Lily entered and settled herself into a seat in front of Dumbledore's desk.
"What brings you here Ms. Evans?"
"Um well I wanted to talk to you about something sir about my job."
"Do you?"
"Yes I have a few questions to ask." Dumbledore looked up at Lily with a questionable look.
"Well as you know I went to work the other night and I went to . . ." Suddenly Dumbledore pulled his wand out and silenced the room.
"Oh don't worry Professor the room is safe." Lily said pointing to her watch.
"Yes thank you but you can never be too sure." Dumbledore said with a slight smile.
"Well as I was saying I went to Denmark. While I was there I found something very surprising."
"Uh huh."
"Well . . . "Lily then pulled out the file. Dumbledore's eyes widened when he saw whose name was on the cover.
"It is a file on James sir. It has everything in it from birth records to who his parents were and what they did." Lily handed Dumbledore the file.
"Interesting, is this the only copy?" Dumbledore questioned with great curiosity.
"Um no I duplicated the file it's self to make a copy."
Dumbledore flipped through the thick file and stopped on the page lily had stopped at the night before. He skimmed the page and then looked up.
"Does Langston know of this?"
"No he is in the US with the CIA. He is returning tonight."
"I thought you could tell me a bit about James's father."
"He was a very intelligent man, very bright like Mr. Potter. I was aware of his agent status."
"So James Potter's Father was an agent. I have never heard of him at MI-5, I mean there is no picture of him."
"Yes the picture was taken down when they heard word of his death. The picture hangs on the third floor at MI-5 on the wall of agents who have died in service."
"oh, but sir it says that his father, meaning James's grandfather was or is Thomas Riddle am I mistaken by saying that?"
"NO you are not. You see Ms. Evans James Riddle was the son of Thomas Riddle. He had a sister named Amelia whom is now the guardian of James Potter. Amelia married Robert Potter. Amelia is James Potter's aunt. Her broth died when James was only one years old."
"Langston has been keeping an eye on James for the past sixteen years do to who his grandfather is and it has come to my realization that Mr. Potter (James) is a major target for Voldemort."
"But sir, why did Voldemort only kill James not Amelia?" Lily asked with confusion.
"James hated his father Thomas. You see Thomas was not the greatest father. James was against what he believed and for that Thomas treated him badly. Thomas was disgraced with him. James left home quite a lot, not being able to take any more of the arguing and yelling. Thomas and Maria, his wife split leaving Maria with Amelia, James just left. He was only sixteen when it happened. He stayed at the Hogsmead Inn until school started."
"In the file it said he was convicted of murder when he was 16 what was that about?"
"At the time the muggle world as you know was dealing with raids and attacks in south America. James was sent on a sting and unfortunately he caught in a duel involving two gang members along with innocent by standards. Two of those people were accidentally killed due to false information that was given to James. He was said to have been guilty but was soon found not guilty."
"Oh."
"I understand that the party is still being held in Germany Tonight?"
"Yes sir."
"Remember what I have said about scouts. Also I would give Langston this file tonight when you see him."
"Certainly, Thank you sir for you time. Oh Professor this year I will be having my. . ."
"Yes I' am aware of your exams you have my permission to leave." Dumbledore said before lily could finish.
Lily took the file out of Dumbledore's grasp and put it in her bag and left.
Lily headed to the Library to meet James. Hopefully he was there for her meeting with Dumbledore took a bit longer than she thought.
Lily entered the Library and found James sitting on the sofa in the far corner waiting for her. She walked over. James looked up at Lily and walked over to her.
"Hey how was it?" James asked.
"Good."
"Here come with me." James grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her to the restricted section of the library the walked to the back of the room behind the last shelf.
"What did you want to talk about?" Lily asked.
"I'm sorry for getting angry with you the other day. I just worry about you and with what's been going on with the attacks and all I just got a bit worried when I saw that Ben was a death eater. And then you vanished into the wall which scared the crap out of me."
Lily looked up at James.
"I should just tell him" She thought to herself.
"James, Ben is not really a working death eater. He works for Dumbledore as a spy for the Order of the Phoenix, a special group Dumbledore has formed to fight against the dark Lord. He does go to the meetings but he is only pretending to be as if he is one."
"Really he is?" James asked
"Yes. James yesterday when I vanished into the wall, it is a portal that leads to the muggle world. I have a job in the muggle world to pay for school. I go every now and then. I'm sorry if have worried you but this job is important to me along with school and I need you to understand that." James looked into Lily's emerald eyes.
"I do, I'm sorry. I just care about you that's all, so much." Lily hugged James.
"I care about you to . . ." Lily said into James's chest. James embraced Lily a bit tighter. Lily pulled away now with tears in her eyes.
"That's why I have to ask you to promise me something." Lily said now looking into James's Hazel eyes.
"Anything." James replied.
"You can't tell anyone of my portal or my job. Not even the marauders nor Emily or Alicia. Can you promise me?"
"Yes." James said as he leaned in and kissed Lily on her forehead. Lily hugged him once more
"Thank you" Lily whispered.
"Lily, where do you work?" James asked as they pulled away from each other. Lily froze. She looked up at him
"I work as an intern at a Law Firm in London." Lily lied.
"Oh that's nice."
"We should get to class!" Lily exclaimed now looking at her watch.
"Oh my gosh it is half over I guess we lost track of time. We need to go."
"By the time we go we will only have half an hour worth of class. We can go back during lunch." James said now realizing just how much time they had been in the library.
"Oh alright, well lets go back to the dorm." With that Lily and James headed to their dormitory.
"Quidditch" James said. The door opened and they stepped inside. They put there things down and went over to the couch to sit.
"Oh and James . . .?"
"Yes Lily?"
"I have to go to work tonight so please don't wait for me I will be back by at the least ten o'clock in the morning."
"What about your classes?"
"I have talked with my teachers already along with Dumbledore."
"Oh well that's good." James moved closer to Lily. To his surprise Lily gave him a gentle kiss on the lips.
"Not that I didn't like it or anything but what was that for?"
"For Understanding, I thought you wouldn't."
"Wouldn't understand what you job?"
"Yes and my school and everything that I have going on."
"Well I do understand except one thing."
"What don't you understand?"
"Why are you at University if you are here at Hogwarts, don't you like it here?"
"Of course I like it here, I love it here, but ever since I was a little girl I have always wanted to have my formal education and go on to university to become and art history professor. Both my parents are Professors but they are Professors of Medicine. My mum is the chief ER Attending at The Cambridge University Hospital and my father is the Chief surgeon at the Cambridge University Hospital. They both also teach med students three times a week."
"Wow, so they are what you call dotors?"
"I think you mean Doctors, yes. They are actually fascinated with healing they really want to observe the on goings at St. Mungos Hospital, so I might take them one day."
"Oh right sorry. That's cool. My mom was a healer but then she went back to Kent to get aurorer training, so now both my mum and dad are aurorers.
"Oh are they that is nice. Your parents, meaning the Potters?" Lily asked in a slightly nervous tone.
"Yeah who else would I be talking about?" James asked with a laugh
"Oh I don't know sorry."
"Right well we should get to class."