AN: Wow, it's been a while. I can't really explain why. A lot of things have been happening in my life recently, and I haven't really been up to writing. I did however, go to the London Breaking dawn part 2 movie premiere in November, and I was 5 ft away from the three of them :) plus I got a huge free poster out of it. Just thought I'd brag that to the world. I have a free moment in my hectic schedule between revising, plus I got the Harry Potter box set for Christmas, and I'm currently watching Goblet of fire, which is giving me inspiration to write. Anyway, I'm taking a slightly different angle on this chapter; yes I'm going for a Harry point of view. This should be fun. Enjoy!
Well surprisingly, I do not own Twilight or Harry Potter, as much as I wish I did.
HPOV
It was surreal having Bella back by my side again. It's like she never left. But she did. She left both for her own safety, and the need to find Voldemort's horcrux. She really didn't want to go. But Dumbledore warned her before he died, that if she stayed in England, it would not be long until Voldemort found her, and then use her to get to me. So, Bella and I both skipped our final year at Hogwarts. She moved abroad to Forks, because we knew this was the area the diadem was in, plus our step mum Renee, had a friend Charlie, who lived there and could pose as Bella's Father. While she spent both her 6th and 7th years in an American high school, I spent my 6th year in Hogwarts, before skipping my final year in order to find the remaining horcruxes. After that, me, Ron and Hermione had been on the run for the past two years. Now, at the age of nineteen, all four of us were back at Hogwarts. Throughout the past two years, I'd kept in touch with Bella through owl mail. It had been hard for her, because she told me that she was trying to hide the fact that she was a witch from her 'new boyfriend'. Bella didn't mention until much later that her boyfriend was actually a vampire. AND that her best friend was a werewolf. I may have been born a matter for 5 minuets earlier than her, but she was still my little sister.
This was the reason I was so nervous when walking towards Dumbledore's office. What would Snape's last memory reveal? Would it answer all of our unanswered questions? Bella must have been pondering this too, because she suddenly asked;
"Do you think it will change things? This memory?"
"That's exactly what I was thinking" I replied. Bella smiled slightly, but without taking her eyes off the floor.
"I've missed you" she whispered.
"I've missed you more" I replied. "I never realised before you left, but I really need you to keep me on the straight and narrow. Poor Hermione was about to have a mental breakdown dealing with both me and Ron at the same time" I laughed. She laughed too.
"Well, I couldn't exactly come back to you, for obvious stalker reasons" she shivered. "As well as the fact I can't be away from Edward for too long without both of us having panic attacks" she laughed. "Though it was a lot worse when I was human"
"Well you were really clumsy as a human Bella, I'm not surprised he didn't want to leave you unsupervised." I laughed. "You really love him don't you?"
"More than my own life" she nodded.
"I've never seen you like this before." I continued. "I mean, you're so different when you're around him. The way he watches you. It's like he's willing to take a bullet for you or something."
Bella burst out laughing. "You know Renee said exactly the same thing when I first introduced him to her?" she laughed.
"Well, I guess I don't have many previous relationships of yours to compare to compare it too." I chuckled. "There was you and Fred of course, but then you also had that thing with Cedric Diggory in your third year, WHO may I add looked surprisingly like to your husband" Bella's mouth popped open.
"Cedric looked nothing like Edward!" she cried, though she was trying not to laugh. "Besides, Edward is much more handsome than Cedric ever was. AND much more mature" she bragged happily.
"Whatever you say" I laughed.
Both our smiles disappeared though when we stopped in front of the head masters office door. I took Bella's hand in mine, before pushing the large wooden door open. Bella lead me straight to the pensive, before nodding at me. I poured the wispy contents of the small vile into the circular pool, before taking Bella's hand once more, and together, we lowered our heads into the pool.
I felt like I was falling, before a world materialised around me. The only thing I was certain was real was Bella, as I was still holding her hand. In front of us, I could see two young children conversing. One was a red headed girl, and the other a dark haired girl. I instantly recognised the red-head, as she was the image of Bella, with the exception of the hair and green eyes of course.
"Mum?" Bella whispered, but she knew that the child version of our mother could not hear us. We watched intensely, as young Lilly opened up her palm, revealing a flower dud that bloomed into a daisy in front of our eyes.
"I think that might be aunt Petunia" Bella whispered.
"Really?" I replied, before taking a second look at the dark haired girl. I didn't really need to look again, as the young Petunia started screaming.
"Freak! I'm telling mummy!"
Bella and I had lived with the Durselys up until the age of 10, before we both decided to run away from their home and been adopted by Renee as of consequence. We hadn't seen or heard from our only muggle relatives since.
Suddenly, Lilly ran off up the hill. Petunia followed, bellowing;
"You're a freak Lilly! Come here!"
Her cries suddenly cut off, when a young boy about the same age as Lilly appeared from behind a tree at the top of the hill. Petunia seemed scared by this, and ran off. Bella looked at me the same time as I looked at her.
"Snape" we both mumbled. Suddenly, the memory changed, and the young Lilly and Snape were lying on the grass together by a lake.
"She's jealous, because she's ordinary, and you're special" Snape told Lilly.
"Don't be mean Severus" Lilly frowned.
Suddenly, the long leaves started to fall rapidly off the willow tree hanging above the children. Lilly smiled, as the leaves started to magically fly away across the lake.
The memory changed again, and I held onto Bella's hand slightly tighter so I wouldn't lose her. This memory showed our mother being sorted into Gryffindor when she first joined Hogwarts. As she went to sit at the table, Bella gasped.
"It's dad!" she cried, and sure enough, a miniature version of me sat clapping at the Gryffindor table. Meanwhile, Snape stared at the pair of them across the room from the Slytherin table, looking even more unhappy than usual.
The memories where changing much quicker now, and each was from Snape's point of view. It showed James knocking Lilly's books over before smiling back at her in their first year. Then it cut to Mum and Dad when they were happily married, but the feeling of the memory was great jealousy and pain. Snape was truly jealous of our father.
"No don't kill me!" I heard an adult Snape cry, and the black mist subsided to reveal him on is knees in front of Dumbledore. Dumbledore didn't sound too happy.
"The prophecy did not refer to a woman. It spoke of twins born at the end of July."
"Yes, but he thinks it's her babies." Snape whimpered. Bella gasped. "He intends to hunt them down, to kill them"
"Hide her, hide them all. I beg you" Snape whimpered once more.
"He tried to protect them" Bella whispered.
"And what will you give me in exchange Severus?" Dumbledore asked. Snape looked up to him willingly.
"Anything"
"My babies, my babies you are so loved. So loved" Our mother's voice cut through the darkness like a knife. Bella started trembling. We were staring down a wrecked hallway, with our mother's voice whispering to us.
"Bella, Harry, mama loves you. Dada loves you" Our mother whispered to us through the cot bars. We could see her clearly now. Bella sobbed.
"I remember her voice." She whimpered. "I remember this"
"My babies be safe, be strong."
"Avada Kedavra!" Voldemort's voice ripped through the scene, followed by our mother scream.
"NO!" Bella screamed, but she and I both knew we could not do anything. It was just a memory after all.
"They're dead!" Snape's voice rang out. We were back in Dumbledore's office. "You were supposed to keep them safe!"
Dumbledore was standing by the window. He spoke slowly;
"Lilly and James put their faith in the wrong person Severus. Rather like you." Snape's face was tear stained. He was the most emotional I had ever seen him.
"The twins survived."
"They don't need protection, the dark lord is gone" Snape bellowed.
"The dark lord will return" Dumbledore explained. "And when he does the twins will be in terrible danger." Snape still did not react. "He has her eyes. And I'm positive she is going to be the image of her mother. If you truly loved her-"
Snape cut Dumbledore off before her could finish.
"No one can know"
"I shall never reveal your destiny Severus. You will risk your life every single day to protect them both Severus."
Then the memories came in short bursts. Bella and I both being sorted into Gryffindor, Snape commenting how I was just like my father, and how Bella took after him much more than she did her.
"He possesses no measurable talent, his arrogance rivals that even of his father and he seems to relish his fame, and she is nothing like her mother ever was."
"Don't you say a word against my father" My voice echoed through the memories. Just then, we where shown a flash of a memory, showing our father, dead at the top of some stairs. Bella whimpered.
"James Potter. Lazy. Arrogant" Snape's voice droned. We were now being shown the memory of when he was trying to teach me and Bella how to block out Voldemort.
"Our father was a great man!" Bella yelled.
"Your father was a swine!" Snape bellowed as he threw me into the chair.
The black smoke next showed us Tom Riddles ring, before showing us Dumbledore's blacked hand.
"Drink the rest. It will contain the curse to your hand. For now, but it will spread." Snape instructed Dumbledore.
"For how Long?" Dumbledore asked.
"Maybe a year" Snape shrugged.
"Don't ignore me Severus. We both know Lord Voldemort has ordered the Malfoy boy to murder me. But should her fail, I should presume the Dark Lord will turn to you." Snape's face turned to horror. "You must be the one to kill me Severus. It is the only way. Only then will the Dark Lord trust you completely."
Snape, telling me and Bella to keep quiet under the astronomy tower, before going up the stairs and killing Dumbledore. But Dumbledore knew he was going to do it. He had asked him to. Our head master, tumbling down the astronomy tower after a jet of green light from Snape's wand hit him.
Dumbledore's voice called out over the memory.
"There will come a time, when both Harry and Bella Potter must be told something. But you must wait until Dumbledore is at his most vulnerable."
"Must be told what?" Snape asked. Two memories began to play simultaneously, one of the two of them in Dumbledore's office, the other or Snape, stumbling down the destroyed corridor we had seen earlier. We could hear Dumbledore's voice;
"On that faithful night, when Voldemort went to Godrics Hollow to kill the twins, and Lilly Potter cast herself between them, the curse rebounded." Once again we watched as our mother was killed. We were back in the office memory now. Dumbledore continued speaking.
"When that happened, two pieces of Voldemort's soul latched themselves onto the only two living things they could find, Harry and Bella themselves. There's a reason they can both talk to snakes. There's a reason they can look into Lord Voldemort's mind. A part of Voldemort lives inside both of them"
"So when the time comes, they both must die?" Snape questioned.
"Yes. They must die" Dumbledore replied solemnly.
The memory now turned painful, as we saw Snape, finding our mother dead on the floor, and breaking down next to her. I could almost feel his pain as he cried. It cut back to Dumbledore's office.
"So you've kept them alive so that they can die at the proper moment." Snape sounded digested. "You've been raising them like pigs for slaughter."
"Don't tell me now that you've grown to care for them both." Dumbledore said quietly. Snape didn't say anything. Instead, he muttered the words;
"Expecto Patronum" and a silver doe sprung from the end of his wand.
Like Bella's.
Like Mum's.
I gasped. He was the person who put the sword in the frozen pond, back when we where on the run. Dumbledore's face mirrored my amazement.
"Lilly? After all this time" he gasped. And we were back in our baby room. Snape was holding our dead mother in his arms whilst he wept uncontrollably. It then cut to Snape in the office.
"Always" he murmured.
"He never stopped loving her." Bella whispered. I squeezed her hand.
"So when the time comes" Snape repeated. "They both must die?"
"Yes." Dumbledore agreed. "And Voldemort himself must do it. That is essential."
And with that, the memories ended, and we both lifted our heads from the pensive. I looked at Bella as she looked at me. We were both breathing slowly. She had a very sad look on her face.
"I think I've known for a long time" she whispered. I nodded.
"Renesmee is going to grow up without a mother" she whimpered, before she started sobbing uncontrollably, but no tears left her eyes. She composed herself very quickly though.
"Harry, if we are going to go, we need to go now." She said quickly.
"What?" I asked her.
"Alice will have a vision of us going to him soon. We need to get down there now before they can stop us. Also we need to find some way of keeping them locked away until," she paused. "Until it is done. They will come after me and I can't let them get themselves killed" she whispered.
"Okay" I whispered "Okay Bella, we'll go now, but we've got to see Ron and Hermione first." She nodded, before taking my hand and leading me out of the office for the very last time.
AN: WHOA! Well this was a complicated chapter. What do yall think? PLEASE REVIEW! I'm not sure when my next chapter will be up, but probably not for a while- I've go exams in January but I'll try to update as much as possible after that. Oh, who liked my little Cedric Diggory joke eh?
Btw, HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR! Hope it was a goodun. YOUR CHRISTMAS PREZZIES TO ME CAN BE YOUR REVIEWS! THANK YOU!
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