Chapter 7: The Stone
After we put away our schedules, we began walking to the door of Herbology. "Ow!" I exclaimed, as I rubbed my foot. "What's the matter?" Jade asked. "I must've stepped on something" I bend over and pick it up. "Woah, that looks like a jewel!" Jade exclaimed. I pick it looks like a precious stone. "What is this?" I wonder aloud. The door swings open to the greenhouse and we walk in.
"Welcome class, this year we will be learning an introduction to different types of plants, and how to protect against, or care for them." We were combined with the Hufflepuffs for this class. "Isn't he hot?" A girl in front of me muses. "Not really, he like an uncle to me. He's also the same age as my dad. "I clearly wasn't talking to you, was I." I stared at her in shock. "Do you have a problem, backstabber?" I look at her. "What do you mean Backstabber? I'm not a backstabber." She rolls her eyes and makes eye contact with her friend. "Oh yeah? First you backstab Hufflepuff and get sorted into Gryffindor, and then you backstab your own two best friends for someone you've just met." I could feel my anger bubbling up, I could faintly hear Jade telling me it wasn't worth it.
Neville was still talking. "At least I don't feel so bad about myself I have to make everyone else around me feel as sour as I am, Oh wait, that's what you're doing isn't it?" Her face turns red. "Lily, you really shouldn't have done that." Jade whispered. I was too worked up about everything to listen to her good senses and calm down. "At least my head isn't so big I'm floating away from the lack of brains." The girl retorted. "At least I have brains." I fired. Her eyes widened. Mine narrowed. She looked at me and said: "At least I'm not a disappointment to family of heroes. Oh wait, I could ask you and Albus how that feels." I exploded.
I jump out of my seat and yell, "At least I come from a family of heroes!" The whole class stared. Neville shook his head, clearly disappointed. I slowly sit back down, my cheeks burning. The girl, whose name i later learn is Veronica smirks and turns around, fake tears welling up in her eyes. "Professor Longbottom, Lily Luna Potter was being extremely rude and when Veronica tried to defend herself lily made fun of her." A girl sitting next to me calls out with a smirk on her face the whole time.
Neville looks around. "Students take out your books and read chapter one. Lily, come up front so I can talk to you." I stand up slowly, earning a look of pity from Jade. As I walk up there, I see Dominique hi-fiving Veronica. Lucy looked sad. I walk as slowly as I can until I reach the front.
"Lily, come with me." Neville says sadly. We walk outside the door. He crouches down. "Lily, why did you do this?" He asked softly. "I didn't do anything! You can ask Jade! All I did was tell Veronica that I didn't think you were hot because you're like my uncle and she was rude to me and called me a backstabber, and so I got mad and said the only reason why she's needlessly rude is because she must feel bad about herself which Dad told me once, and then she said my head is big and I have a lack of brains, so I said she didn't have any, and she said I was a disappointment to my family of heroes as well as Albus, and..you know the rest."
He looked like he was about to laugh. "Why did this all start?" He asked. I blushed. "Because I disagreed with her saying that you're hot. I mean you are, it's just, you're like an Uncle to me!" He snorts and looks down, I blush some more. "I didn't do anything wrong, I was just defending myself." He looks at me again. "This is a warning Lily, If you explode again in my class you will get detention, agreed?" "Agreed.
I walk back into class and everyone is quietly working. As I sit down Jade asks: "Did you get detention?" I look at her smile and say "No, I got a warning." She nods and looks back at her book. After we all finish reading it's time to go. We pack up and walk out the door.
Before I walk out the door, Veronica stops me. "Never talk to me again backstabber." She turns to go but spins around and smacks me. "Lily, let it go. Don't let her win. Be a better person." She said this all really loudly, to make sure Veronica could hear. Veronica spun around and said: "Oh, Lily could never be a good person like her father." This time Jade let go and didn't even try to hold me back. I walked right up to her a slapped Veronica across the face. I saw the pain flash through eyes before she turned to me and said: "Man, you could never be like your father, you're too weak." this time I didn't have to slap her. Jade did it for me.
"Girls!" Neville yelled pushing between us. We both make a start to scream whose faults it was when he sighed and said: "I already know. I saw everything, Veronica, I told you next time would be a detention, as well to you Lily. Both of you report to my office after dinner tonight." I nodded."What's our next class?" Jade asked. I unfolded my schedule. "Transfiguration" I answered.
Lying in bed that night, I was exhausted. Neville had made us reorganize the whole entire classroom to his liking. I almost collapsed when I finally got to bed. One thing that I had noticed was that the stone I had found earlier seemed very familiar. It gave me a feeling whenever I held it. After everyone else was asleep, Jade snuck over to my bed. I closed the curtains quickly, and we walked down the stairs to the common room. Luckily it was empty.
"What did you find out?" I asked. She had been studying about it in the library while I was in detention. "Nothing really, It could be a lot of things, they don't describe things very well." "They really don't do they? Shame they don't have pictures or something."
"I know what it is." We jump as startled as can be. We look around for who the third voice could be when all of the sudden a figure appeared on my bed. "Who is that?" Jade whispers. "I don't know, but she looks familiar." "She looks like you" Jade said. I suppose she did. She had my red hair, freckles and face shape. Her eyes were green though, and they looked strangely familiar.
"We can hear you." Another voice says. I look around. "Dad!" I almost shout. They both laugh. "I'm not your Dad, I'm his dad though." I stare at them. "You're expecting me to believe that you are Lily and James Potter?" "Who" Jade asks. "My grandparents." I answer. All of the sudden people started appearing all around me. A man with long dark hair, a couple who looked a bit like Teddy, a man who the dark haired man and my grandfather looked at with distaste, who looked a bit like a rat, a man who looked exactly like Uncle George who had floated through the wall, another man with long black hair, except his was greasy, and a man with a long white beard, whom I immediately recognized.
Jade and I both looked around confusedly. "I guess we should introduce ourselves, seeing how confused you are, I'm Al-" "You're Albus Dumbledore." I say, interrupting the man with the long white beard.
"Ohh, do me next!" The Uncle George lookalike said. "Uncle George?" I ask tentatively, He looks at me. "No wait, you're Fred! His twin! Fred and George." The last part said mostly to myself. I heard you float around the castle, but I haven't seen you yet." He looked at me confusedly. "I was in the common room after dinner tonight." I sighed, "I wasn't there, I had detention." "You had detention? On your second day? Who was it from? What was it for?" Before I can begin the story Dumbledore stops me. "Fred, we have more important matters on our hands, but first let the rest of introduce ourselves." I look along the line.
The couple begins, "My name is Nymphadora, but I hate it so call me Tonks, and this is Remus. We're Teddy's parents." I nod and look at Jade to make sure she knows who they are. She seems to know who they are so we move on.
"I'm Sirius Black, Harry's godfather." says the first man with the long dark hair. "My dad" I whisper to Jade. She seems to be understanding everything so far.
"Peter Pettigrew at your service." Everyone looked at him full of distaste. I look at him with kindness. I know his story, I know what had happened, But I also know how he had helped my dad in the end. Although I wouldn't trust him with anything, he helped my father defeat Voldemort and that had to count for something right?
At last we came to the last person. "Severus Snape" He also got a few dirty looks. "My brother's named after you." I told him. He looked taken aback, if not a little touched. Everyone else looked surprised. "Do you all really not know our names?" Some of them looked guilty, some of them assured they knew our names.
"Well, for those of you who don't know, my parents have four children. First one is Teddy, but he's really your son" I said nodding at the Lupins. "Next is James Sirius, named after you two." I said pointing to James, and Sirius. "After that is Albus Severus, named after you two" I said looking at Snape and Dumbledore. Snape merely looked surprised this time, but I could tell he was touched. Dumbledore had tears in his eyes. "And there's me. Lily Luna Ruby Potter. I was named after you," I said gesturing towards my grandmother. "Luna Lovegood" There were a few eyerolls at that one. "And Rubeus Hagrid" Everyone looked very surprised.
"And this is my Best Friend who I have backstabbed people for, Jade Adler." She waves. "So why are you here?" Jade asks. "We are here to tell you what this stone is, and of what is to come." Dumbledore answered. "The stone is a Deathly Hallow, you know the story Lily. The other Lily said. I looked shocked, and then I looked over to Jade to make sure she knew the story. She looked just as shocked as I was! "I came across it while reading, but I thought it wasn't possible."
"We also thought it would be best to tell you why else we are here. As you know, you have Voldemort's wand core." Said Albus Everyone looked shocked. I looked over to Jade. "It's fine," She said, "I know now."
"I have been watching for signs of something I had suspected. You had a cat yes?" He asks my grandmother. She nods. "There is a good chance that your father wasn't alone in the house when Voldemort killed your grandparents. I told your father that the reason he was a Horcrux is because Voldemort's fragmented soul flew into the nearest living thing. There is a good chance it went into two living things. What I am trying to say is...I have good reason to believe that Voldemort is coming back, and you have his wand."
AN:Sorry for the lack of updates, there were final, and then I had camp, but I'm back now! Also, There won't be a poll anymore because for some reason they aren't working. So please comment who you would like Scorpius to end up with. Also, this new development with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is a popular fan theory that I do not own at all. All credits go to whoever created it. Please comment questions, comments, and constructive criticism. I love to see your comments, they make my day! Sorry I've been so absent. Have a Great Summer!