Where I Stood
Chapter 4: Putting her back on Destiny to Change their Fate
Lily and Sileni were walking back down to the normal floors as they both had History in an hour or so, and needed a head start before class as it would take a while to reach the normal levels. Lily had questioned what Sileni had meant about the cards, but she just waved a hand and told her to drop it; which Lily did, for now. Upon reaching the fifth floor a bell rang to signal the start of classes.
"My beautiful flower!" a voice ranged out in the hallway.
Lily groaned as Sileni pursed her lips together to keep from laughing. James had run over to them and placed himself between the two girls, putting an arm over Lily's shoulder and pushing Sileni slightly to the side. Sileni glares at James before rolling her eyes, fixing her bag as it fell off her shoulder from James' push.
"Well you please go out with me this coming up Hogsmeade." he asked with a wide grin.
Before anyone could say, or do anything, Sileni gasped in pain, a hand going to her stomach. She then cried out before anyone can ask her what was wrong, Sileni keeling over, dropping her bag in pain, continuing to cry out. As the group neared her, Luke went to grab her shoulders, making her gasped both in pain and surprise. Flashes of her and Luke's lives passed through her mind, traces of her and him fading into nothing right before her eyes. It went all the way until the time she and her brother woke up in Dumbledore's office.
Another pain passed through her before all she saw was darkness. As she fell forward, Luke caught her and yelling at to her to wake up. Professor O'Hare, who teaches Astronomy, rushes over to them and quickly floats Sileni to the Hospital Wing, followed by the Marauder's, Lily, and Luke. Madam Pomfrey immediately set to work on finding out what was wrong with the fifteen year old. But as she could not find out what was wrong, she fire called the headmaster whom came immediately through the fire to save time.
Luke was pacing up and down in the middle of the Hospital Wing, watching Dumbledore doing whatever it was with his wand. The Marauder's and Lily were nearby either standing or sitting in near the beds, looking ever concern for the unconscious Sileni. Looking over to his sister, Luke watched carefully with worry. Madam Pomfrey had told them to return to class but they all refused, especially Luke. Professor O'Hare took to letting Professor Binns know why they were not in class and to send their homework assignments with another classmate.
The headmaster suddenly moved his wand to Sileni's head and both he and Madam Pomfrey jumped back (something that Dumbledore never does) as Sileni sat up with incredible speed, screaming a high pitch sound. Everyone covered their ears in pain for only a few seconds as Sileni gasped for breath, looking around wildly with fear.
"What the hell happened?" Luke yelled angrily before anyone could say anything.
Sileni shook her head, placing a hand to her forehead. When a hand rested on her shoulder, she gasped once more, flashes of Voldemort killing James then Lily in their home. Sileni opened her eyes and looked up at Dumbledore looking at her in concern. Her own eyes were wide with fear and confusion, wondering why these visions keep coming to her when people touch her. A thought hitting her, she looks around the room, looking only for one thing.
"My bag!" she yelled at Sirius.
The boy handed it to her, Sileni quickly taking out her tarot cards and dropping her bag on the floor before quickly shuffling the cards. She then placed seven cards from left to right in an almost 'V' formation, flipping the card as she put them down. Everyone looks on in confusion as Sileni hovers her right hand over each card, frowning with worry as she passes the third card.
"What do the cards say?" Lily finally asks curiously.
She wondered if the first time that she saw Sileni doing the cards had to do with the pain and the unconsciousness that happened not twenty minutes ago. Sileni continued to look at the cards before only staring at the seventh card with both fear and worry.
"Sileni!" Luke finally yelled.
The said girl looked up sharply at her worried brother, inhaling shaky breaths. "We can never go home. But there's something that we need to do here." she inhaled another breath, "Before the one sacrificed passes on."
Luke stared at his sister as the others, except Dumbledore of course, frown in confusion.
"Pass on to where?" James asked confused.
Sileni shook her head, looking up at the headmaster. "We need to talk—now."
Dumbledore nodded with curiosity, knowing that she didn't want the other's to know what she meant by 'passing on'. Luke sits on the chair before his sister's bed, his head in his hands. What has their lives had come to? What was the reason for them to be here in this world?
As Luke looks up at his sister, Sileni now continuing to stare down at the cards, Madam Pomfrey ushered everyone out, along herself, at the request of Dumbledore. Sileni looked over the cards in careful depression.
"Someone or something wanted us here; to change the events that are to come." she told them once the door closed behind Pomfrey. "But in the process someone's gonna die."
Luke shook his head in confusion. "But what the hell does that have to do with what happened earlier?"
"Whatever brought us here started to erase our memories, along from our friends and family; leaving no trace that we were ever born." Sileni looked at her brother. "I think the pain was an accident as you didn't feel it."
"Why now?" Dumbledore asked confused.
Sileni shook her head, trying hard to remember the Marauder era. Than all of a sudden a flash from a prank gone awry in the fifth Harry Potter movie came to mind.
"Because thanks to a stupid prank from James and Sirius, Lily and Severus' friendship is destroyed," Sileni explained.
"How do you know this?" Dumbledore asked suspiciously.
"This time I think you should put up a silent charm." Sileni told him.
Once that was done, she goes to tell him of the Harry Potter books and little information of the past that was gathered from the books, as well as what happened before and during Harry's life. Sileni was grateful that whoever brought her to this world didn't place a charm on her memory so that she wouldn't be able to tell Dumbledore all that she just said. Hopefully she will be able to save more lives than the main character's. As the old wizard thinks this over, Luke frowns at his sister.
"But I thought we couldn't...?" he trailed off in confusion, knowing his sister will understand.
"Normally, we couldn't; but given that the cards are saying something gives me an exception."
Luke nodded, thinking this over. Sileni then looked over to the headmaster, who was looking at her with both in question and wonder.
"If you're thinking about what I'm thinking, than I will join but not my brother."
Dumbledore smiled slightly, Sileni knowing that she was right. Luke just looked confused and lost, wondering what was going on.
"If one thing's for certain it's I can change the card's predicament, and it's too dangerous for him to join now." she sighed tiredly. "I know for a fact I won't be able to stop him when he's older, but I rather have Luke decide then being pushed into it."
"Very well," Dumbledore nodded in acceptance. "Tonight you will meet those that are in the front line. Maybe then you can explain these Horcruxes to us?"
Sileni nods, gathering and putting away the tarot cards. "Fine, but when I come from work tonight."
"Very well, just floo to my office."
Sileni nods once more, takes her bag, and walk out with her brother in tow, ignoring the questions from the Marauder's and Lily, and Madam Pomfrey's orders to return to be looked over.
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Bidding goodnight to Tom as she entered the Leaky Cauldron, Sileni just went straight to the fireplace. Stumbling out of it, Sileni tripped over her feet and landed on her knees, coughing. She somehow inhaled the soot as it also went down her throat.
"God I hate the floo network." she mumbled, standing up. Sileni dusted off her work uniform, obvious to the group looking at her in amusement. "Sorry I'm late, my Muggle boss is an asshole and made me clean up a mess that someone else started." she said, looking up with a huff.
There were eight unknown wizards, four unknown witches, and Mad-Eye Moody standing around Dumbledore's desk, the headmaster leaning against the front of his desk.
"You sure that's really her, Dumbledore?" Mad-Eye asked suspiciously.
"Always the paranoid one, Alastor Mad-Eye Moody," Sileni said with a roll of her eyes, dropping her bag to the side. "Not to mention a pain in the ass when it comes to missions that you have to do everything twice as long to get people to safety!"
The twelve other adults laughed as they knew this, Dumbledore looking at Sileni over his glasses, the girl blushing slightly in mild embarrassment. Mad-Eye, however, was a bit unnerved by how this young girl knew who he was when barely anyone didn't know who he was; at least not that time.
"Sorry headmaster." she mumbled quietly.
"Quite all right. I do believe Moody took a liking to you."
"She has spunk, that's all." Mad-Eye defended his nature of being Mad to the world.
"Yes, well, shall we go on to why I'm here, now that I'm part of the Order?"
"WHAT?" they all cried in shock surprise.
They turned to Dumbledore as Sileni gave him a look. The headmaster merely smiled, his eyes twinkling in mischief.
"Yes, she is now part of the Order as she has useful information to bring Voldemort down."
Sileni shook her head as everyone except Mad-Eye flinched at the name. "It's just a name! It's only fearful if you make it, which you are!" she told them annoyed. "Besides, it's not like he's gonna pop up if you say it! Voldemort! Voldemort! Voldemort!" she said to prove her point.
Each time she said the name the group flinched, but nodded nonetheless. With a sigh, Sileni looked over to Dumbledore.
"Did my brother give you the books?"
The headmaster nodded, turning to his desk. Picking up a stack of seven books, the top one the last of the Harry Potter series, and moved towards the young girl.
"I was not able to finish it all, however. I only read up to the fifth book."
Sileni nodded, taking the books and putting them down on the floor. She kneeled and begun to put them away in her bag.
"Well, you really don't need to know Harry's life during his sixth year at Hogwarts. Now, about these Horcruxes; there are only six known that is spoken in the seventh book, the seventh is unknown. However, it is thought that it could have been Harry when Voldemort tried to kill him as a baby, than the second time when he finally got a body during the Tri-wizard tournament."
"Who in Merlin's name is Harry? And why is he so important?" the youngest, unknown, wizard asked curiously.
"He is the son of James Potter and Lily Evans." Sileni answered them. "Despite Lily's hate of James, she soon falls in love with him during their seventh year at Hogwarts. But I believe my brother will try to make them closer sooner." she said with a roll of her eyes. "Now, the Horcruxes: Marvolo Gaunt's ring is in the ruins of his house, Slytherin's locket is in a cave Voldemort visited on a day-trip as a child, Hufflepuff's cup is in the Lestranges' vault at Gringotts, Ravenclaw's diadem is actually in the Room of Requirements here at Hogwarts."
Sileni took a breath.
"Now, for the two toughest to get; the diary of Voldemort, which is either given to Lucius Malfoy where he gives it to Ginny Weasley during Harry's second year at Hogwartsor it could be here at this school or it could still be in Voldemort's possession. Then there's his basilisk snake, Nagini, whom is always with her master. Except once during Harry's fifth year when he attacks Arthur Weasley at the Ministry before Christmas and the other when he visits the home town his parents die. Those who are going to be Death Eaters—Voldemort's followers—are the Malfoy's, Black's, and Lestranges. I can give you names, but there just too many and who gets married with who. I only know from those characters in Harry's life, that's it."
The group looked to Dumbledore for orders, wondering what to expect now. The headmaster was deep in thought, taking in the information that was just given to him.
"We will meet again in two days to figure out how we are to retrieve these Horcruxes." he then nodded to Sileni, "And keep her under wraps so Voldemort will not get his hands on her. It could be possible for him to use her for information of the future as we are."
Sileni smirked. "Well, just call me Phoenix."
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Sileni walked into Gryffindor Tower after two in the morning tired, but wide awake. Those that she just met had taken a liking to her, all except the oldest unknown witch. But the fifteen year old didn't care so long she can save those characters she had come to love from the hands of both death and Voldemort.
"Sileni?" a voice said from the darkness.
The said girl turned in that direction, nodding in greeting to the Marauder's, Luke, and Lily. Despite of not wanting her brother to be involved, Luke had forced what was going on from her. He had promised in not doing anything stupid until he was of age so long as she told him what was going on.
"Well?" Luke asked, walking forward.
"Dumbledore's issuing an order right now," Sileni whispered, moving herself and her brother away from the others. "Hopefully Voldemort will fall before much damaged is done in this era."
Luke nodded, looking up at the tall ceiling. "What about the one sacrifice?"
"Don't worry about that now. It's going to be a long time before that issue comes up." Sileni told him, not meeting his eyes.
"No," Luke whispered. "No! You're not going to sacrifice yourself to Voldemort!" he said angrily, a bit louder than he expected.
"What?" the other's cried, walking over to them.
"What the hell is going on?" James asked.
"Who exactly are you two?" Peter asked curiously.
Sileni looked at Peter and narrowed her eyes. He seemed to be analyzing her and her brother, trying to see all their secrets. Sileni' eyes widen in shock before narrowing in anger, wanting to beat the crap out of the rat until next week.
"You've already been talking with Vol—I can't believe it was this early!" Sileni rambled, everyone frowning in confusion. "Be advised you are not going to get away with this! Because I will be watching,"
Peter gulped down the fear, seeing a threat in her wording. Looking at them all, Sileni walked away, tired and sleepy. She didn't say a word to them, knowing that she will give them away, and she didn't need that right now. She needed to be close to them, to trust her, so she can save their lives; both in the first war and the second.
A/N: All right you guys, PLEASE review and give me your thoughts on the story thus far; thanks!