CHAPTER 3: James and Co. stage an attack at the death eater meeting, not without serious consequences. Lucky someone is there to save them.
Making their way into the shrieking shack from beneath the Womping Willow, all three boys prepared to apparate to Riddle Manor.
"Know what to do?" Remus confirmed, "O.k. lets go."
James arrived a few seconds before Sirius and Remus and stared around him at the bleak surroundings. A dark, spooky grave yard, blocked the entrance to a imposing mansion. Remus and Sirius, now arrived, they crept towards the castle, beneath the invisibility cloak. "They'll probably have intrusion alarms", Remus muttered, "I'll try the disengaging charm and see if it works when it's not being pointed directly at the source of the alarm, I think…"
"Just do it Moony", James whispered back. Muttering the incantation, all three drew back in surprise when a faint haze glowed, then disappeared.
"Awesome Moony", Sirius muttered, "let's get in there."
Once inside, James drew the others aside. "Get your costumes on", he muttered, "we'll be a lot less conspicuous if we look like death eaters. We'll enter the room, strike up a conversation with those two, try to get them into a corner, stun them and curse them, then apparate them to the ministry. Hopefully the death eaters won't notice until it's too late. If anything goes wrong, use disillusionment and get out of here, o.k?" When James noted their agreeance, they all moved into the room.
The Death eaters all stood around the room drinking wine and cocktails. It didn't take long to identify Motley and Reseptus. Their masks were half exposed, and revealed Motley's straggly hair and Reseptus' lengthy scar down his neck. James, having lost Sirius and Moony in the crowd made his way over alone, and instantly struck up a conversation for the rest of the night, and at the end they surprisingly agreed to leave the room with him. He had invented a lie about a rare seed pod he had discovered, which had great poisonous properties, and knew they would fall for the bait. Shutting the door behind him, he drew out his wand, and hit Motley with a disarming curse. "I'm going to make you pay for what you did to my family", he yelled, sending a cruciatus curse towards him. Motley roared in pain, as Respetus spun around and began to attack James. "It's the Potter boy", he yelled, "You don't know what you're dealing with boy. I've killed in your family once, and I'm more than capable of doing it again." James broke off the cruciatus and leapt out of the way, as Reseptus sent a killing curse at him, just missing by inches. Snapping Motley's wand quickly to avoid it being retained, he dodged another curse, by inches, as Motley was finally starting to come around. He now tried to grab James, holding onto his body whilst Reseptus sent torture curses toward him. James was now writhing in pain, as he attempted to disarm his opponent. He finally hit Reseptus with Avada Kedavra who fell limply to the floor. Meanwhile, Motley had released his hold, and had grabbed the fallen wand of Reseptus, and drew a slashing motion with the wand. James felt his chest rip open and blood beginning to pour out, as Motley stood over him angrily. "You stupid, traitorous pure-blood boy. I could kill you now, I suppose, but that would not be satisfying enough. Instead, I'll let you bleed to death, to let everyone know that I am not to be messed with. Farewell to the last of the Potters", he grinned triumphantly as James' breathing became shallow and withered.
Meanwhile, Sirius and Remus had been searching the mansion frantically for James, and instead, had come across Malfoy, Nott and Lestrange. They were locked in a fierce duel, when suddenly; all three fell flat to the floor, in a full body bind curse. In shock, they looked up, as Lily Evans removed her disillusionment charm.
"Thanks Lily", Sirius gasped, "But how did you…"
He was broken off by Lily's furious voice, "What the hell were you retards thinking? A fully fledged death eater meeting? I know you guys think you're invincible but attacking death eater meetings for thrills, what is your problem? You guys are the biggest idiots I have ever seen in my life. Thank god I caught you going to the Womping willow and heard you say the Riddle Manor. You could have all been dead!"
"We didn't do it for thrills Lily", Sirius said quietly, "We were here to cast revenge on those who killed Prongs' family; Motley and Reseptus. These three losers simply got in our way."
"Still stupid", she said, "Come on you two, lets go. Where's James?" she questioned as a male scream echoed from the storey above. Lily paled, and rushed up the stairs, all the while ranting at the two of them, "He went after the two of them himself? And you let him? Are you guys into murder or something? Those two are like you know who's top agents. She burst into the room, stunning Reseptus and placing a semi conscious spell upon him, a she noticed a lifeless lump in the corner. Preparing herself for the worst, she crept over and saw, with relief, it was Motley. She turned to them, about to point out their luck, when she noticed another figure, covered in blood, Sirius and Moony frantically checking a pulse. She ran over, and there was her James, lying unconscious and bloody, with a gaping wound on his chest. Suppressing sobs, she choked out instructions. "Sirius, apparate the other two to the ministry, make sure you reach the right people, we can't afford corruption, Remus, go to Dumbledore. Password is Liquorice Mice. I'll apparate to St. Mungo's with James." Silently obeying her instructions, the two boys disappeared, and Lily bent over James, taking off her cloak and wrapping it tightly around the wound. She kissed him gently on the lips, and clutched him close to her as she made her way to St. Mungo's.
Remus had, by now, arrived at the castle, and burst into the professor's office. "Dumbledore, It's James. St. Mungo's, Death Eaters, Lily said he had a pulse but it's weak, and Motley's dead but Reseptus is just unconscious. Sirius is taking them to the ministry now, and Malfoy, Nott and Lestrange are all under the body bind curse at Riddle Manor."
The Minister for Magic, Professor Slughorn, Mad eye Moody and Professor McGonagoll, all stared at him, as Remus realised his mistake. But Dumbledore leapt up, "Lets go", he said, "Minister, you had better go to the ministry and charge the two criminals Mr. Black is bringing in for the Murder of the Potter Family. Come on Remus, you can explain on the way", as they ran from the castle grounds.
"Sir, It was all me and Sirius' fault, we told him about the meeting, I found out because Sirius' mum was talking about it on the weekend, and we thought James would want to wreak some revenge. Thank goodness Lily turned up or we all would have been done for. It was pretty much too late for him anyway."
Dumbledore looked at him, "Is he in a bad way?"
"He had a huge gash across his chest dripping blood when I left. Lily was taking him straight to St. Mungos."
"Right. We'll head straight there", Dumbledore replied as they grasped hands and apparated.