Chapter Seven: James would die for the people he loves.

It was time for Ronald Weasley to tell Lily everything about the future. Maybe this is the only way it was meant to be. Maybe he was not messing with the timeline. He close his eyes took a sharp breath and thought about Harry, Hermione and rest of his family. It was time.

"Lily." He mumbled slowly eyeing her carefully.

"Yes dear." She replied sending him chills down his spine. This was the mother of the 'Chosen one' who would die before seeing what his son was going to achieve.

"Mrs. Potter, I am sorry I have to call you that. You have my best friend's mum." He said hugging her all of her sudden and began to cry on her shoulders.

Lily didn't mind him calling her Mrs. Potter, it must be important for him to call her that. She gently patted on his shoulder. "It's alright, dear. Take your time." She whispered into his ear.

''It shouldn't have happened this way. You and James shouldn't have." Ron stopped in mid sentence and began to cry even more than before.

"What shouldn't have happened? Please don't make this hard for me." Lily said grabbing Ron's shoulders and making him face her.

"I'm making this hard for you? You know how hard is this for me? Ron asked angrily.

"Calm down, please." She whispered rubbing his shoulder. He looked a lot older than her but she could feel the innocence in his eyes.

"How strong is Voldemort right now? Has he started to recruit Death eaters from school? Has Snape joined them?" Lily winced when she heard Severus' name. She closed her eyes and imagined him for a moment, imagined how he had changed a lot over the years. "How did you know about Sev joining the death eaters?" She asked him.

"Do you remember what happened last summer after DADA the OWLs exam?" Ron asked her slowly.

"Do you mean the nasty fight between the marauders and Sev?" She asked eyeing him carefully.

"Yes and why do you still call him Sev when he used the M word to you?" Ron muttered to her.

"How do you know all these details? It's like you were there. Did you time travel there too?" Lily asked afraid of Ron.

"Calm down, Harry told me. Obviously he went into Snape's memory pensive and found his worst memory." He said to her.

"How did Harry end up with a pensive, I thought only Dumbledore had access to a pensive?"

"It's a long story."

"I am listening, right?" She replied impatiently.

"Well after Voldermort's return." Ron began.

"What do you mean by his return? Where did he go in the first place?" Lily started to question him again.

''Mrs. Potter, calm down for heaven's sake. If you are going to ask me so many questions at a time, I will forget what I am going to tell you. Please let me continue, I will tell you later where Voldemort went." Ron said breathing heavily.

''Please continue." Lily muttered turning red.

''As I was saying after Voldemort's return, Dumbledore wanted Harry to learn Occulmency. Harry was having dreams of Voldemort and it was hurting him. Dumbledore didn't want Voldemort to know what Harry was doing or thinking." Ron held up his hand when Lily was about to ask him a question and Lily backed off. "So Dumbledore though Snape would be best suited for that job, he said he didn't want Voldemort to know about the relationship between Harry and him. So in our fifth year after the Christmas holidays, Snape started to teach Harry Occulmency. To safeguard his worst memory, Snape began to store them in the pensive. One fine day, when Snape was not there, Harry dived into the pensive and found out his worst memory. He saw how the marauders treated Snape especially how James Potter bullied him and he also saw how you came to defend Snape and Snape using the M word. And he also saw you rejecting James when he asked out, Harry was genuinely concerned about his parents. He thought James had somehow tricked you into marrying him." Ron took a deep breath but before he could continue, Lily said."Potter is not that bad, he is a great friend and he never would or could trick me into doing anything."

"That is what Sirius and Remus told Harry. They said once James saved Snape for Remus."

"Even though James is arrogant, he would die for the people he loves."

"Actually he did, Mrs. Potter."