Disclaimer- I own nothing. The Seven Deadly Sins, I do not own. The plot idea is mine but not the actually sins and virtues.

New Resolutions III
Chapter 11- Seven Deadly Sins
By: Abbie Haven Snape

The rest of the night, Lily and Tommy were trying to figure out a way to get out of sight of their parents or a relative. It wasn't an easy task, considering they had someone talking to them at every second.

"Come on Lils…Let's go up stairs," said Sierra pulling on her arm.

"I can't. Someone will see me," said Lily, pulling her arm away.

"I don't see anyone now," she said. "I want to know who this person is."

"So do I but-"

"Lily, dear!" said a witch that Lily have never seen before. "My, you have grown up since the last time I saw you. Look so much like your father."

"Thank you ma'am," she said with a smile, and look at Sierra.

"Fine…point taken," she said rolling her eyes.

Lily smiled and nodded to the witch in front of her. This had gone on most of the night. People coming up to her that she had no idea who they were and talked to her as if they had known her forever.

Austin came into the room and walked up behind her. "How many people do you know?" he whispered as more people came up to her.

"Obviously a lot."

He looked away from her before a smile appeared on his face. "I have an idea. I will be right back."

Before Lily could even ask, Austin was gone. Lily rolled her eyes and Tommy came up beside her.

"Why do so many people have to be here?" he asked.

"I don't know! But we will eventually have had to met everyone," she said.

"Not soon enough," he muttered.

"My, don't we both look beautiful and handsome."

Both Lily and Tommy turned and saw Sirius standing behind them. "Siri!" they both exclaimed giving him a hug.

"Enjoying yourselves?" he asked, amused.

"Not really," said Tommy.

"Lily…"

Lily turned back around and saw Austin standing there again.

"Hey Austin. Oh, Sirius, this is Austin Blaine. Austin, Sirius Black," said Lily, catching Sirius' look.

"Ah, the famous Austin Blaine. I have heard a lot about you," said Sirius shaking his hand. Lily blushed and glared at Sirius.

"Good things I hope. I was wondering if I could share a dance with Lily. Would that be okay with you Mister Black," asked Austin, acting like the perfect gentleman.

"I don't see anything wrong with it. I'll cover for you if Harry or Leah asks," said Sirius.

"Thank you sir," said Austin taking Lily's hand and led her out of the room.

"This was your brilliant idea?" asked Lily. "Dancing?"

"Don't doubt me just yet Miss Snape," he said with a smirk.

"I am learning not to."

He smiled as the walked into the living room. Tons of people were dancing including Sierra, Christian, Cooper, and Nathan.

"Okay, what's going on?" she asked as Austin wrapped his arms around her.

"Well, when we dance our way over to the door and out with no one seeing, they won't know you have left. They will realize you are gone after we read that book," he said with a smile.

"And what about Tommy? He has a right to be with us."

He nodded to the door and saw Tommy slid into the room. "I figured that Sirius would want to watch us but he won't do it himself because then you would get mad at him so he would send Tommy."

Lily gave a little giggle and smile. "You know, you think like a Slytherin."

Austin smiled and nodded to the other two boys. They slowly made their way to the door that would lead them to Lily's room. In one second, the seven of them slid out of the room without anyone noticing. Well, all but one person.

The seven of them ran up the stairs and into Lily's room.

"Okay, get the book Tommy," said Lily sitting down on the bed.

"How did you find him?" asked Cooper

"Tommy did but he didn't read it when he did," said Austin glancing at Tommy.

"I'm sorry! I thought you would want to see it as soon as possible," he said sticking his head out from under the bed.

"Let's hurry up before my parents find me gone," said Lily.

Tommy threw the book to Austin as he came out from under the bed. Austin quickly turned the pages and laid the book out on the bed. The rest of them crowed around the room.

"Zachary Malone- Most famous for his creation of the Seven Deadly Sins. That is all it says," said Lily looking up at them.

"Seven Deadly Sins?" asked Sierra.

"I know these! Merlin I know I know these," said Lily running her hand over her eyes. "I have heard them before. I know I have."

"Pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and sloth."

Seven heads turned to the door, and they jumped up with a start. "Headmaster!"

Dumbledore gave them a small smile. "Please, do sit back down. I was wondering how long it would take the seven of you to figure something out," he said with a nod to Tommy.

The seven of them slowly sat back down near the book and just stared at the Headmaster.

"Of course. You told me about them when I was little," said Lily with a small smile. "No wonder I couldn't remember them. It has been a while."

Dumbledore gave as small smile and sat down in one of Lily's chairs. "Now, I will explain this to you but I ask you not to tell anyone. It could be dangerous if other knew."

They all nodded, waiting.

"About one thousand years ago, around the time Hogwarts was founded, a wizard by the name of Zachary Malone created the powers of the Seven Deadly Sins- pride, greed, lust, anger, sloth, envy, and gluttony. The sins become more of curse than a great creation.

"After his death, each sin left his body to find someone else to inhabit. For a couple hundred years, the sins keep going around from person to person. Finally, the wizarding world became knowledgeable of the sins. When a person had one of the sins inhabited them, special type of Aurors were sent to capture the sins. Soon, they were able to capture all of them. The ministry placed then in vaults at Gringotts.

"But the vaults were attempted to be broken into regularly by wizards that wanted the powers. Having one of them made a person even more power than they were but they had to live with the sin in their body. We would normal commit this sins but not at the magnitude they do. Most of the time, when someone had one inside them, the normal would kill themselves just to make it leave. But some wizards didn't care.

"Finding Gringotts not safe, they moved it to the only other safe spot in the wizarding world- Hogwarts. They were barred deep into the ground, marked only by a tombstone. What the Ministry didn't know was that the sins had a mind of their own and in Zachary Malone diary he wrote that even if you try to stop them, every five hundred years, they would escape from where ever they were barred at."

"And it has been five hundred years, hasn't it?" asked Austin.

"Yes."

"But how can you get rid of them?" asked Cooper.

"Ah. Just a little but ago, a potion was created to make the sins leave your body. The only problem with the potion it only works if a person is caught with the curse in 72 hours. After that, the sin is there to stay until the person dies."

"Is there anyway to make sure you won't get one of them?" asked Nathan.

"No. But you can be mark so to speak as one of the victims. Close to a year before the sins are to be released, said in Malone diary, anyone who would go near them will be marked so to speak."

Lily and Austin glanced at each other and then to Sierra and Nathan.

"There is no other way of getting rid of them?" asked Lily.

Dumbledore slowly nodded. "Yes. There is one other way but I do not know if they ever were truly made. The Seven Contrary Virtues."

"What are they?" asked Tommy.

"Each one will cancel out one of the Deadly Sins."

But it wasn't Dumbledore who said it. Harry walked into the room, looking between the eight of them.

"Hi Daddy," said Lily, offering a smile.

"You had to tell them, didn't you Albus?" asked Harry.

"We figured it out Daddy. Headmaster was just giving us the history on them. Why didn't you tell me?" asked Lily.

"The fewer people who knew about it at Hogwarts the better. And the Ministry wouldn't allow it," he said.

"But if you would have told us we wouldn't have done near it."

"Wouldn't have?" asked both Harry and Dumbledore.

"Oops," said Lily biting her lower lip. "We seriously didn't mean to. We were walking around the grounds and weren't paying attention to where we were going. But you put repealing charms around them, didn't you?"

"Yes, we did but it doesn't matter. You were told not to go near them," said Harry.

"It wasn't her Mister Snape," said Nathan quietly. "It was me and Sierra. The rest of them didn't go near it."

Harry shook his head. "You have a less chance at being marked but we aren't completely sure where they are even barred. Over the years, the tombstone as disappeared."

"The Seven Contrary Virtues, what are they?" asked Christian.

"Humility, kindness, abstinence, chastity, patience, liberality, and diligence," said Dumbledore.

"Where would they be if they really were created?" asked Lily.

"We aren't sure. Rumor has it that they are in a vault at Gringotts. Others say in the same chambers as the Deadly Sins, in another country, or that they weren't even created."

"But if they were, they would be able to send the sin out of the person right?" asked Lily.

"Yes. They would if they are real, Lily. We don't know," said Harry.

"So basically we are flying without a broom?" asked Austin.

"Something like that."

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a/n- so sorry it has taken me forever to get this chapter up. I have rewritten over and over again and I am still not sure it if turned out right. If you have any questions about my plot now, feel free to ask and leave your email address and I will send more information to you.

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