don't know how I got the idea for this story, but I hope you enjoy it:)

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Of course, I kept my promise and spent the Sunday morning with Harry and Ron on the Quidditch Pitch. They were over the moon with Severus' broom, flying as fast as possible, doing small races between them with one on the Lightningbolt and the other one on Harry's Firebolt. After 3 hours of waiting I had enough, "Come on boys, can we go back to the castle?", I shouted at them, they looked at me, as if I was mad, but then came flying to me.

"What's wrong Elisabeth, why do you want to go back to the castle?", Ron asked, I rolled my eyes, Ron was so stupid sometimes, "You've been out here for three hours now, having fun and all, but all the time I've been waiting down here, until you guys were finished, I've enough for today."

"But nobody is holding you here, if you want to go back to the castle, you're free to go", Ron said, Harry shook his head, "You don't get it Ron, she's not leaving without the Lightningbolt, she's the one responsible for it now."

It seemed like Ron understood him, he handed me the Lightningbolt back and we made our way back to the castle. When we entered the castle I bumped into someone, "Sorry", I mumbled, continuing to the Gryffindor Tower, but a hand landed on my shoulder, "Not so fast, Miss Vinyal."

I didn't have to turn around to know who it was, Severus. Harry and Ron stopped also, looking at Severus. "Messrs Potter and Weasley and Miss Vinyal, what do you think you are doing here?", he said dangerously. Harry was the first one to speak, "We're on our way to the Common Room, sir, is there something wrong with that?"

I felt Severus' hand, which was still on my shoulder, pinch my shoulder, "Let see, you are muddy, and you will make the whole castle dirty", he waved his wand over us, casting Scourgify on us, "30 points from Gryffindor, now leave before I deduct more points."

His hand left my shoulder and I quickly followed Harry and Ron, "What a git, deducting so many points for a bit of mud", Ron said angrily.

"Well, he has a point", I said, "We are wizards, so it would've only taken 2 seconds to clean our robes."

"Why are you always defending that git, he's cruel to everyone who's not a Slytherin", Ron said. Harry nodded in agreement, "He's always playing nice with Malfoy, and we know Malfoy's dad is a Death Eater, same with Crabbe's and Goyle's dads, and Snape used to be a Death Eater himself!"

"Dumbledore trusts him and that's why I do that too. Harry people can change!"

Harry shook his head furiously, "Maybe Dumbledore trusts Snape, but I do not, I heard him and Malfoy talking when I was at Slughorn's Christmas Party, he offered his help to Malfoy, and I also believe Malfoy is a Death Eater himself, he even said that he made an Unbreakable Vow to Malfoy's mother!"

I sighed, "Harry, if you are not one-hundred percent sure about those kind of things, don't accuse people of things."

"Even if I don't have proof, I know it is true. See you later Elisabeth." He turned around and made his way to another part of the castle, I looked at Ron who shrugged, "He will come around again, he's just angry we don't believe Malfoy is a Death Eater, although I still think Snape's a git. Come on, lets go back to the Common Room."

While Ron and I made our way back to the Common Room and let my thoughts wander, Harry was in his looks and exact copy of James, except for his eyes of course, but his temper and behaviour reminded me a lot of myself, although I can't remember being so stubborn, I wish I could ask someone about it, but there's no one I could ask it, the only person who knew my real identity was Professor Dumbledore and I didn't want to bother him with something like this. Would Professor Dumbledore agree if I told Professor McGonagall about it, Dumbledore was getting old, and I don't know what's wrong with his hand, but it looked like a really nasty curse, and if he died, there was no one left I could talk to if something was bothering me about the past. I made up my mind, and decided to go to Professor Dumbledore when I had changed my robes.

I changed my robes, told Ginny I had to go to see Professor Dumbledore and made my way to his office. I greeted the Gargoyle and gave him the password and knocked on the door to Professor Dumbledore's office. I heard him saying 'Come in' and entered his office. "Ah, Miss Vinyal, how are you doing today?"

"I'm fine Professor, thank you, how are you?"

"Fine, fine, but I don't think you're here for a nice talk."

I nodded, "That's correct sir, I've been thinking and I would like to have your opinion about it."

"Of course, take a seat and tell me about your thoughts", he motioned to two arm chairs, I took place in one of them and started talking, "I've been thinking about my real identity, sir, I think we should tell someone else we can trust, since there's no telling what's going to happen to you, now Voldemort is getting more and more powerful."

Dumbeldore nodded, "I understand, do you have someone in mind yourself?"

"Yes sir, I thought about Professor McGonagall, she know's me as Elisabeth Vinyal for five years now, and knew me as Lily Evans for eleven years, she's a member of the Order of the Phoenix and my Head of House. I think she's the best person to tell it to."

"I agree, Minerva is probably the best person to tell it to, I have an appointment with her in ten minutes, if you want we can tell it her."

I nodded, "Thank you sir, that would be great." Dumbledore grinned, "Would you like to have some tea while you wait?" "Yes please, sir." Dumbledore summoned one of the House-elfs and asked him to bring some tea, the elf disappeared with a small plop only to appear a minute later with a tray with tea and some cookies. Dumbledore thanked the elf, who disappeared with a low bow, and handed me a cup of tea.

I'd just finished my tea when someone knocked on the door, Professor McGonagall entered the room and looked at me, "What are you doing here, Miss Vinyal?"

I was about to answer when Professor Dumbledore spoke, "We've a bit of a problem, Minerva, and we were hoping you could help us."

Professor McGonagall looked concerned, "You haven't done anything stupid with Messrs Potter and Weasley, have you?"

I shook my head, "No ma'am, I'm not that stupid, no there's something we, I have to tell you, it is that I am not really who I pretend to be."

Professor McGonagall looked confused, "What do you mean, that you are not really Elisabeth Vinyal?"

I nodded, "That's exactly what I mean, well for a part I am Elisabeth, but I used to be known under a different name, before I was killed. I am really born on 30 January 1960 under the name of Lily Evans."

Professor McGonagall grasped for breath, "What do you mean, Lily is dead."

I shook my head, "That's not true, Ma'am, I am really Lily Evans, somehow my soul broke apart from my body, just before Voldemort hit me with the Killing Curse. As I grew up again as Elisabeth Vinyal, I didn't know it in the beginning, but as I grew older more and more memories returned to me, and by the time I turned eleven I remembered everything. Mr and Mrs Vinayl told me that I barely survived as a baby, that my hart stopped and the doctors thought I wouldn't make it, I think that that was the moment my soul attached itself to Elisabeth Vinyal's body."

Professor McGonagall's face had become as pale as one of the ghost, "Are you – are you serious?"

I nodded, "Yes Ma'am, why would I joke about those kind of things?" Professor McGonagall looked to Professor Dumbledore, "You knew?"

He nodded, "Yes, it was in the first week after she came back, she told me the whole story and I didn't believe her first, but then she showed me her memories, which made me believe her."

"And you… you never considered telling someone else?"

She looked from Professor Dumbledore to me, "At first, no", I confessed, "But four years ago it was safe, no Voldemort or active Death Eaters, but that all has changed, and now Professor Dumbledore got this curse in his hand, and we don't know what it will do to him. I talked about it with Professor Dumbledore, and we both agreed that you would be the best person to tell the truth, Professor McGonagall."

Professor McGonagall sat down in the other chair, closing her eyes and sighed, "It's just too much to get my head around at once, I don't even know how to call you, Miss Vinyal, Miss Evans or Mrs Potter"

"Miss Vinyal would be fine since we can not tell anyone else about the truth, although Professor Dumbledore calls me Miss Evans sometimes", I said, handing Professor McGonagall a cup of tea.

"What about Harry, are going to tell him the truth?"

I shook my head, "I don't know, maybe one day, but I could never act as his mother, I am fifteen now and he is sixteen, it's a bit strange for a son to be older then his mother. Maybe I'll tell him when all of this is over, when the day comes that Voldemort is gone, but for now I'll keep it to myself."

Professor Dumbledore nodded, "It may be useful that you have that bond with him, even though he doesn't know about it."

"Elisabeth… Lily… Do you know how your soul left your body?"

I shook my head, "No, but I have a theory about it."

Both Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall looked at me, "Can you explain it to us?", Professor Dumbledore asked.

"You both know that Severus Snape and I grew up together", they nodded, "Severus was the one who told me I was a witch. I didn't believe him in the beginning, but he showed me a bit of his magical abilities and it was the same as the things I could do. I became really curious about the magical world, and saw Severus almost every day, by the time we were both 10 we used our magic for all kind of tricks on each other. One day Severus showed me a book he had found in the attic of his parents' house, I think it was his mother's. It was about Wicca, a thing that some muggles belief in as magic, it showed a ritual about friendship, the 'Friendship Blessing Ritual'. Severus and I were so close to each other that we decided to perform the ritual, but we added some things on our own. We decided to perform the ritual in the middle of the night, when it was full moon. I didn't require a lot of things, we had to draw the circle and clean it, we burned 4 candles, blue, green, red and brown, to represent our Zodiac sign. We said the incantation that was required and made a cut in our thumbs. We had to press our bleeding thumbs against and our blood mixed with each other, then we promised we would never leave each other. We waited until the candles were burned and then got rid of any evidence about what we'd done, I was sure my mother wouldn't agree with it, we said good night to each other and went home. I remember not feeling any different then before but I think our magic acted somehow on the promise we made."

Dumbledore nodded understandingly, "I sounds like blood-magic, because of your age, you can have bursts of magic at random moments, but because both of you had magical abilities, and there was a full moon also, it is very believable that you two did actually more then you intended to do. If you had been one or two years older, and had learned to control your magic, I think this wouldn't have happened, the same is if both of you, or only one of you had been a muggle. But because you both had magical abilities more happened than you actually wanted."

"I was thinking along those lines too, but I couldn't find that much information in the Library about it, maybe it's in the Restricted Section, but the I had to have a permission slip, and if Professor Dumbledore signed it Madame Pinch would probably ask me why he did it, and not one of my teachers, and I couldn't tell any of them the truth."

Professor McGonagall nodded understandingly, "That's true, but if you are in need for a permission slip to do some more research about it, you can always ask me, since I know the truth now."

"Thank you Professor, both of you, but I think I have to head back to the Common Room now, I promised Ginny to help her with her Potions essay."

"Very well then, Miss Evans, I will see you on Tuesday then", Professor McGonagall said, I left the office and made my way back to the Common Room. I felt much better then I had been for a while, now Professor McGonagall knows the truth about me too.

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