They all stopped and looked around, and the voice continued, saying "Maybe some pink? Nah, how about blue? Nuh-uh, there's already lots of blues, hmm, yellow! Ew, no yellow in snow is yucky!" it chuckled, and sounded close to the three of them. Lily turned around, and screamed as she saw what looked like a short ghost! She accidentally kicked it's head off, which was flung at Remus, who yelped when he unintentionally caught it in his hands, and quickly tossed it to James, who held it for a second and the head said "Please don't toss me! I'm getting dizzy!" James said "Whoa!" as he quickly tossed it back to Lily, who freaked out for a moment, but then realized after looking at the small body (which was walking around aimlessly looking for its head), it was just a snowman. She giggled as she put the head back on "Sorry about that, I thought you were a ghost for a minute there!" The little snowman said "Aw it's okay, wait, what's a ghost?" Lily giggled again, and as she crouched down to his level, the little snowman said "Well let's restart here: Hi everyone! I'm Olaf, and I like warm hugs!" and held his twig arms outstretched. Lily gasped as she remembered why that sounded so familiar. Remus asked "What is it Lily?" She smiled tearfully as she grabbed Olaf and hugged him tightly "Olaf! I have missed you so!"
Olaf said "Yay a warm hug! Wait you missed me? I don't remember if we've met before," Lily smiled as she wiped her tears with her gloved hands, and James and Remus looked confused. Lily explained to them "When my brother and I were kids, we used to build Olaf," Remus and James nodded and smiled at the little snowman, and Lily said "Hmm, but there's something missing..." She dug through the bag of supplies they managed to salvage from the sled before it was destroyed. "Aha!" she said as she pulled a carrot out of the bag, and Olaf said to Remus and James "I don't remember being built by her, but she gives a really nice warm hug!" Lily said "Hold still and close your eyes, Olaf!" and Olaf said "Why?" but did as he was asked and Lily said as she stuck the carrot right where his nose should go, "Now you can look!" Olaf opened his eyes and said "What happen-Ohhh! I have a nose! I love it! Thank you, um, what did you say your name was again?" Lily giggled and said "You're welcome, and we didn't introduce ourselves: I'm Lily. This is Remus and this is James." Olaf said "Oh! Hi Lily! Hi Rames! Hi Jemus!" Lily fell over laughing, and Remus and James stared at the slightly disproportioned snowman, and Remus said as he tried not to laugh "No no no, I'm Remus, he is James." Olaf said "Yeah! Rames and Jemus!" Remus slapped himself in the forehead, and James chuckled "We'll have to let that go for now, Moony." Olaf said "Who's Moony?" James said "Oh, that's my nickname for him" Olaf looked confused "So is he Rames or Moony?" James and Remus groaned in frustration as Lily continued laughing, and Olaf said "I'll just call you James and Remus okay? I know you said Jemus and Rames, but I like James and Remus better." James and Remus looked bewildered, and Lily said as she maintained her composure "Olaf, did Siri build you?" Olaf nodded and said "Yeah, why?" Lily said "Do you know where he is?" Olaf again nodded, and said "Yeah, why?" Lily asked "Can you take us to him?" Olaf said "Yeah! Follow me!" Lily grinned as Olaf ran, and Lily said to the guys "You heard the snowman! Come on!" Remus and James followed her as she ran to catch up with Olaf.
They were walking through a path of pointy icicles, through which all of them had to duck and dive their way through. They were about halfway through, when James asked "So, Lily, how were you going to get your brother to call off this winter exactly?" Lily said "I'm going to talk to him." James looked at her as if she was crazy as he said "That's it?" Remus shot him a look as if to say "Don't push it." Lily said as she turned to him, her fiery hair swishing behind her as she did so, "Look, I know it sounds lousy but I've got to try. It's not like he did this on purpose! He was scared: As he ran across the water it froze, which in turn caused Gryffindor to freeze as well. I'm sure that we can figure this out together." With that said, she confidently turned around, and helped to put Olaf back together for the fifth time from getting poked through the head by an icicle. They all continued walking until they were out of the icicle path and reached a very steep mountain cliff.
Sirius had woken up from his slumber, and realized that he had slept for nearly a whole day! He jumped out of bed, and washed his face before he used a combination of magic powers to create his outfit for the day: It was a black uniform similar to his coronation outfit, with gold buttons with rubies in them, and a small red cape. He left his hair down in its dark brown slight waves that reached to his shoulders. He then realized how hungry he was, so he turned into his animal form, which was a scruffy-looking black dog, as he ran out of his palace and went to find some food. As dogs have a very keen sense of smell, he used his nose to sniff out some food, which led him into the woods near the palace, where he found a few apple trees. He turned into a human and picked off a branch of the light green apples, and then turned into a dog again and carried the branch in his mouth carefully back to the palace. When he arrived back inside, he turned back into a human and put the apples in his kitchen, and ate a couple. Once he was finished, he decided to walk to his living room and curl up by the fireplace as a dog. He couldn't sleep though; all he could think about is how Lily and the people of Gryffindor were doing. What was Lily doing at that very moment?
Lily was trying to climb the steep cliff that led to where Olaf said Sirius was, while Olaf had wandered off, and James and Remus were trying to convince Lily to come back down. "Lily, I know you want to find your brother, but that's not safe, and you have no climbing experience!" Remus said worriedly, and James was watching with a slight smile as she slowly climbed her way up, and he said "I wouldn't step there, or there…" Lily said, sounding exasperated, "Will you two stop fussing? I'm trying to concentrate here!" She hadn't gotten very far, when Olaf ran to them, saying "Hey guys! Guess what I found! A bridge! Follow me!" Lily smiled as she said "Woohoo! Hey one of you catch me!" as she fell and James caught her in his arms. She said "Thank you!" as he put her down and looked after her, somewhat adoringly, and he didn't notice the slight blush in her cheeks as she walked away. James was staring after her, and put his hand through his jet-black hair (something he often did when he was nervous) when Remus came up behind him quietly "It seems I'm not the only one the love bug has bitten on the arse," as he smirked and followed Lily and Olaf. James hissed at Remus "Shut it Moony."
Lily had just reached the other side of the bridge and made her way to the palace, and they all stopped and stared at the grand beauty of it: it was breathtaking, and made completely of ice. Remus whistled, and James said "This is seriously cool," as he chuckled at the puns he just made, and Remus and Lily looked at him with a slight smile. Lily said after a moment "I think it'd be best if you guys waited out here." Remus and James said "WHAT?" in unison, and Lily said "Well Siri might not be fond of me bringing two strangers in, and plus the last time I introduced him to a guy, he sort of freaked out and caused a weather change." Olaf grinned and said "Later guys!" Lily grabbed Olaf's twig hand and said "No, Olaf you should stay out here with James and Remus. Just give me a few minutes, guys. Please?" They all nodded reluctantly, and Olaf started counting down the seconds after she shut the doors behind her.
Sirius heard the doors open, and heard a feminine voice say "Siri? Hello?" he jolted up off the floor and into his human form once again. Lily was here? How? Why? He panicked, but then took a couple of deep breaths as he whispered to himself "All I've got to do is tell her that she must go back, and I belong here. That's good, yeah." He straightened out his uniform and walked out of the living room to the foyer.
Lily gazed in awe of where she was: There was a huge chandelier in the middle of the ceiling, the walls were decorated with snowflake patterns, and there was a beautiful staircase leading to upstairs. She slipped and slid on the icy floor as she made her way to the staircase, and she heard a man's voice, saying as it chuckled "You never were very good at ice skating." Lily gasped as she looked to the top of the staircase and saw her brother "Siri! You look so, um, relaxed! It suits you, and this place is, just incredible!" Sirius chuckled again as he said "I never realized I could do so much with my powers." Lily smiled and said "Look, Siri, I startled you with the whole blessing-my-marriage thing, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have sprang it on you right then, I was just so excited and-" Sirius noticed her trying to climb the stairs, and said "Lily, its fine. You can marry him, but you must leave, now. I'm not safe. Just please go." Lily looked hurt as she paused on the stairs, and said "But, Siri, your people need you, I need you!" Sirius looked hurt as he told her wearily "No, Lily. The people don't want me to rule them now that they know the truth about me." Lily was about to object when Olaf burst through the doors, and said "I waited a few minutes!" Sirius was frightened for a moment as he said "Who is that?" Olaf walked closer to where Lily was, and he said "Don't you remember? You built me yesterday, silly!" as he chuckled, and Sirius said, sounding amazed "Olaf, you're, um, alive?" Olaf looked at his twig arms and looked up at him questioningly as he said "I think so…Am I alive, Lily?" Lily giggled as she said "Yes, you are Olaf. See Siri? Your powers are good! You built Olaf; a wonderful memory from our youth. We were best friends so long ago; we can be like that again. I want us to be like that again." Sirius looked at her with a small smile, hope in his silver eyes, but then it turned to sadness and his smile turned into a frown as he remembered the fateful night that started it all: *"Lily! Slow down!" *cradles an unconscious Lily in his arms "What have I done?" as tears stream down his face* "Mother! Father! Help!"* He shuddered and said "No, Lily, it's time for you to go home." Lily said "Wait! Siri, you don't need to hide your powers anymore, I'm not afraid of you!"