"Congratulations, might I say. You've officially become Animagi, Heather Potter, however, will need to continue training, for the ability to overcome the barrier that will keep the phoenix powers from her, is very far away, but this is just the first step." McGonagall said. "You will register tomorrow, so be prepared." The three girls left the Transfiguration classroom, and headed down to the Great Hall, where Gryffindor was currently located due to the damage, that even over 3 months, had still not been repaired. They had found, after clean-up, that the blast had weakened the walls, and so they were still waiting for someone to come and fix that. When they got to the hall, however, they were met with a scene of people grabbing stuff, and moving out. James, Sirius, and Remus came up to their girlfriends, upon seeing them.
"Gryffindor Tower has been fixed, we can go back in, but there will be more wards, which will prevent people from sneaking in." Sirius said to Heather, who looked relieved that it was finally done.
"Good, a nice rest on that four-poster bed will be nice, especially after the three months that they made us sleep down here." She said. She kissed Sirius, and they grabbed their stuff, and practically ran all the way back to the Tower. It was there that they were saw Peter who had his mouth wide open, and his eyes in shock.
"Hey Pete, you okay?" Sirius said.
"H . . . He took it." Peter stammered out.
"Who took what?"
"Filch . . . got the map." Said Peter. That sentence got Sirius into a raging fit.
"You let Filch get the map!" Sirius yelled. James and the others came up behind them.
"What did you say?" James asked him.
"Peter let Filch catch him with the map, and Filch confiscated it." Heather explained before Sirius could open his mouth.
"Filch finally got it. Oh well, maybe some future pranksters will nick it out and figure it out." James said.
"James, that was our masterpiece, and you're just going to give up on it?" asked Peter.
"No, maybe we will get it back in the future, but for now, we have too much on our hands, with the NEWTs and all." James said. Everyone else agreed, and they turned to the portrait. Sirius still mumbling about Filch and the map.
"Ah, the illustrious Head Boy and Head Girl have returned, do we have a new password set by the Headmaster?" the Fat Lady inquired. Lily pulled out a piece of paper, and read it out loud.
"Bravery's Pride." She said. The Fat Lady seemed to accept this, and opened up. Once inside, they immediately headed up to their dorms, and put their stuff away.
"So nice to be back up here." Lily said, "My back was getting stiff from sleeping on the floor." Heather looked at her, before collapsing on the four-poster bed beside her.
"I think her Animagus transformation wore her out." Lily said, "She has so much more to concentrate on, with having her forms the way they are. I could handle two forms, but I don't think I could handle the magical form." Hermione nodded before climbing into the bed beside her. Minutes later they heard Heather begin to mumble in her sleep.
"Lily!" she said upon seeing her friend. Lily Evans showed no sign of hearing her, but continued to cook at the stove in the kitchen. A few minutes later, the fireplace roared and emerald-green flames shot up. Out stepped a woman followed by none other than Sirius Black.
"Heather, what's up?" Lily said upon seeing who it was.
"Nothing, just came by for a visit, geez can't a girl visit her sister-in-law?" the woman said.
"I still can't believe it, the baby's due in a month, and Dumbledore tells us that ridiculous prophecy. Why would Voldemort attack us, we have done nothing to him except survive."
"That's just it, he doesn't want anyone who could possibly kill him to survive, and this prophecy just makes you a more likely target. You don't know, you could have him a full month early."
"Yeah, right." Lily said. Heather looked at the woman next to Sirius Black. This apparently was herself. She looked pregnant as well, a bit further along than what Lily was. Her older self began to laugh, before reminding Lily of the food on the stove, which was burning.
"Oh, hell! All that food, wasted, can't wait till James gets paid, then we can stock the house with food again." Lily said seeing the blackened food. She cut it up and put it in the cat food dish on the counter. As if on cue a white cat jumped up and began to eat the food. Heather began to laugh as well, before noticing her older self in a little bit of pain.
"Heather, are you alright?" Lily asked.
"Just get me to the goddamn hospital, now!" she yelled. Sirius, seeing the pain she was in, grabbed her and with a crack disappeared.
"Hate to be him when they get there." A voice said from the doorway. Lily looked up and Heather noticed an older version of her brother in the doorway.
"I know, and just think, you'll be in that same position in about a month." Lily said.
"Heather, is that a good dream?" Lily Evans asked, from her position by Heather's bed. When Heather had started mumbling something about a sister in law, she had come over to wait for her to wake up. The young girl suddenly woke, and looked around at her surroundings.
"Just a dream, it was just a dream." She said.
"What was it about?" Lily asked startling her.
"I saw us, you were cooking dinner, and I guess me and Sirius were married, and so were you and James, and when we came over, you got distracted by talking to me and burnt the food, so you gave it to your cat. But it was what we were talking about that scared me." Lily saw a look on her face that was filled with pure fright.
"What were we talking about?"
"You were saying that the baby was due in a month, and Dumbledore told you a ridiculous prophecy, about Voldemort, and possibly your baby. But after that, I apparently went into labor, and yelled at Sirius to get me to the hospital. It was then James walked in and said that he would hate to be Sirius when we got there. Then you told him it would be about a month before he would be in the exact same position."
"So both of us were pregnant? Wow, maybe you are a seer." Lily said.
"I doubt it; they're possibly dreams about what the future could be like, with the war the way it's going right now. Probably just happened because I was tired."
"You know, there is a way we can protect our minds, so that they won't be able to get information that way from us."
"How?"
"Occlumency." Heather sighed, she had read the books on that particular subject, just after she had the first dream about the possible future, it didn't sound like something she'd enjoy doing.
"I don't think so, its something I don't think I'll enjoy learning."
"What about to keep the you-know-what secret safe." Lily said, as she had heard footsteps on the steps outside the door.
"I'm feeling a bit refreshed, but I'm going to give it a few days, just to have my full energy when working on this. I have to learn to use the powers as well; otherwise I won't be able to use them." Lily nodded, "Anyone up for sneaking to Hogsmeade?" They all groaned at her.
"Did you have to suggest that?" Hermione asked as she had woken up.
"Well, it did seem like a good idea . . ."
"We'll go ask the boys." The door opened, and admitted the other seventh-year girl to the dorm. She didn't spare them a glance, before she slumped on her bed, and immediately fell asleep. Lily, Hermione, and Heather left the room, and headed down to the common room, where the boys were at.
"So, up for a trip?" James asked all of them.
"Does this have anything to do with Hogsmeade?" Lily asked. The boys looked at them inquiringly, before answering.
"Yes." Sirius said, "Why?"
"Heather just suggested sneaking to Hogsmeade." Hermione replied.
"Family thinks alike, now doesn't it?" Sirius said.
"I just hope Filch hasn't figured out how to use the map." Peter said.
"He can't, he's a squib, but he might use a detention to have a student figure it out for him." Sirius said. The girls agreed with that, and went to sit down next to their boyfriends. Peter looked nervously at them, before rubbing his left arm, which no one noticed.
"So, how are we going to get there, I mean, it won't be too much longer, and it will be curfew, and we won't be able to get back in with all of the security Dumbledore set up." Lily said. They looked at each other, before realizing that she was right.
"Maybe we should do it next weekend?" Sirius asked.
"Next weekend is a Hogsmeade weekend." Heather said, smacking him on the back of the head.
"So, how about we go and figure out . . ."
"Never mind, let's stay here, I mean we're going to have to wait till at least tomorrow." Sirius said. They all looked at him odd, but agreed none the less.
It was later that night, when Sirius pulled Heather aside and walked with her out of the common room. Both had forgotten that they wouldn't be able to get back in until morning.
"Sirius, I'm surprised, you know, James used to say that you had quite the reputation around here."
"As a ladies man?" Heather nodded. "Well, none of them seemed right, especially after I did start dating them. But you, you're different from the rest." He sighed before continuing. "I feel comfortable being with you, you just seemed to never want me."
"That's not true." She said, "Ever since my first ride on the express, I've been in love with you. I just didn't seem to think it was that, I always thought it was something else." He actually laughed at that.
"What's so funny?"
"You're just like Ev . . . Lily used to be. Always defiant, never seeming to realize that she was in love with James, we all could see it, even James, that's why he never gave up; he knew she would realize it eventually." Sirius explained. Heather inwardly laughed, and continued to walk next to him. They came to a window, and noticed that it was pretty dark.
"It's beautiful, you know, even when it's full." Heather said after a few minutes of staring at the moon.
"Remus says that too, I mean, since we've been with him on the full moon, he can remember stuff, and he says that it's been nice."
"Peter, he's been acting odd lately, didn't you notice?"
"Yeah, but, I think something has just been going on at home, and with the war, he's worried that his mom and dad will be next to go." They looked at each other, and before long, they began to kiss. Before it could go too deep, they were interrupted by light footsteps.
"Mrs. Norris." Sirius quietly said, "Quick back . . . bloody hell!" Heather looked at her boyfriend worried.
"What's wrong?"
"The common room is sealed off until morning. To the Room of Requirement." They turned into their dog forms, and quickly made their way to the wall opposite the tapestry with Barnabas the Barmy. They turned back at no sign of Filch or Mrs. Norris, and Sirius walked past the wall three times, with a door appearing after the third pass. He wrenched it open, and they both climbed inside, barely missing the glance of Mrs. Norris. The door disappeared, and they breathed a sigh of relief.
"That was close." Sirius said, before taking a proper look at the room. The room had transformed into a room resembling the common room, but with two beds against the far wall. Heather walked toward the couch that was in front of the fireplace. She sat down, and pulled her wand out of her pocket.
"Incendio." She said, lighting a fire. Immediately warmth began to fill the room. She looked over at Sirius, who was still looking around the room. After a few minutes, he came to sit on the couch beside her.
"You tired?" he asked.
"No, you?"
"Not really, that run from Mrs. Norris woke me up a bit, and now I can't even seem to think that I will get back to sleep." She laughed at that, and then they began to kiss again, this time uninterrupted. After a few minutes, they retired over to the beds.
"See you in the morning." She said. She climbed into bed, and quickly fell asleep.
"I would have to say that last night, was the worst night of sleep I have ever gotten." Lily said approaching the boys in the common room.
"Why's that Lils?" James said, which got him a smack across the head.
"You did know your sister has been having weird dreams right?" she asked, when no one nodded, she sighed.
"What do you mean?"
"She's been having dreams, and it started back at the beginning of this year, right after, you know . . ." Lily trailed off, as the Potters deaths were still a sore spot for both James and Heather.
"What were they about?"
"Well the first one, she said, that she saw You-Know-Who, and he had gone to a house to kill a baby, only the mother died protecting the baby, or at least that's what it looked like, but it put blood protection on the baby. She then watched as an older version of her came in, and seemingly revived the mother."
"The mother was you wasn't it?" James asked, Lily tried not to answer, but nodded nonetheless.
"Yes, and we were married." She said. It took James a few minutes to comprehend what she was saying.
"WE WERE MARRIED!" he yelled. Thankfully Lily had non-verbally put up a silencing charm on the room. After a few minutes, he finally calmed down.
"And Heather and . . . wait where did those two lovebirds go? I mean, Heather wasn't in her bed, but I would have known if she'd snuck out."
"Maybe she did it before the common room wards activated, because Sirius was gone as well." Lily looked around to make sure they weren't in the common room.
"Maybe you're right, but the wards don't go down for another half-an-hour, so unless we want to alert the rest of the Gryffindors we'll have to wait till then." The subdued group of 5 waited for what seemed like an eternity, before Lily said they could go. They left the common room, and as they approached the room where they figured they would go, found they couldn't get in.
"Maybe they wanted to be alone, so the room won't let anyone else in." Remus said, "We'll have to wait for them to come out."It was only a few minutes later that the door opened.
"Did I hear someone trying to get in?" a laughing voice said.
"Honestly, Siri, I won the bet we made last night." Another laughing voice said. The 5 students looked around the opened door to see Sirius Black, and Heather Potter. Sirius was muttering about how girls always get the best of him. Blushing, Heather quickly kissed her boyfriend to get him to shut up.
The couple than headed out of the room, and closed the door behind them. The door then faded, and they were left by an empty wall.
"So Heather, Lily said you've been having odd dreams." Her brother said. Heather rolled her eyes at Lily.
"So what if I have?"
"I think we should get it checked out first of all, it can't be coincidence that you're having these dreams." Lily said, "Plus I'm worried about you."
"I'll be fine Lily, just give it some time." She said. The group of 7 then headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
The rest of the school year seemed to fly by, and with Sirius finally dating a single girl for so long, Heather felt that his old girlfriends were constantly trying to steal him away from her. She'd even caught them once but before she could hex them into oblivion, they had run off.
It took about a month straight of practice after being able to transform into her phoenix form, to start to be able to use its powers. Surprisingly, the healing tears came first, and it was only after that, that she realized that she had a knack for Healing.
"Well, I guess it does compliment you," Sirius said, after she had come up to the tower after practice one night. She blushed, and thanked him, before giving him a kiss, and heading up to bed. The dreams continued, but were happier than the first one. She had more about the kid she and Sirius had had in the dreams, and then of Lily and James' a boy named Harry.
Overall, she had been doing very well, and before she knew it, graduation was upon them.
The ceremony was short and simple, as people were scared that Voldemort would attack at anytime, so it wasn't long and drawn out like it usually was. It was just as she reached the stairs to go get her diploma that she realized that she was officially an adult, not just over-age, she was an adult.
"Goodbye, Hogwarts." She whispered, as she reached for her diploma, shook hands with Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall, and then sat down at her seat again. She barely noticed when it was over, until James put his hand on her shoulder.
"So sis, still planning on becoming a Healer?" he asked, startling her out of her memories.
"I might, I still would have a lot of training, but it would be worth it, right?" she asked.
"I just wish Mum and Dad could have lived to see this day."
"They would have been happy." Heather said, "Still planning on becoming an Auror, to avenge them?" James looked lost in his thoughts for a minute, before he finally said something.
"Yeah, but not only them, but everyone else who has died for no reason." Heather didn't know what to say but just then Lily and Sirius came over.
"Family talk?" Sirius asked. James nodded, before turning and walking away with Lily. Heather watched her brother for a while before it was clear that he was going with Lily somewhere special. She stood up, and summoned her belongings which were sitting over by the lake, before looking at Sirius again.
"I'm going home, to rest, it's just been a tiring day." She said.
"I'll come with you."
"No, its fine, I just, want to get some sleep, I haven't been sleeping well lately."
"I'm at least accompanying you home, I live there too, remember." She chuckled at that. She shook her head, and walked to the edge of the wards so she could apparate. Sirius watched as she went and as soon as she was gone, followed her straight there.