Harry Potter: And the Mothers Sacrifice

Disclaimer: I am not J.K.Rowling, I don't own or work at Bloomsbury, and as such I hold no rights over the Harry Potter stories short of the fact I own a splendid set of Harry Potter books that I enjoy reading. What I do own is a idea that I am allowing you the reader to read, I am not receiving any money or rewards from this, what I hope to gain though is a peace of mind that my idea is out of my head and somewhere it will only annoy me if I want it to, and hopefully reviews from you the reader.

Warning: a bit of swearing in this chapter, not overly offensive words but I thought I should warn you. Oh and Severus makes a apperance finaly in this chapter hope I write him well

Chapter 6: Walks and Meetings

When they arrived at the school gates Sirius had to catch Lily before she fell over while she was still holding Harry.

"Thank you Sirius"

"No problem Lil's, just making sure you don't make a Harry pancake there" He gave her a reassuring wink to indicate all everything was ok.

"Ok Black Lilly, I'm going to take James 'ere to green hose number 5, Professor Sprout recently acquired a Bewahrung tree, and well as its in bloom now it should keep James preserved for a week or two, not that he will need to be kept that long I imagine that a… Why why so young, and he didn't do any 'ing wrong or 'uthing" Hagrid had burst into tears again and Lily watched on in horror as Hagrid hugged the limp body of her deceased husband to his chest and cried.

"Its ok Hagrid, just take James round to the green house, while Lily and I make our way up to Dumbledore's office, just please calm down" the last bit was said in desperation as with Hagrid hugging James's body there was that chance again that something may break, and Sirius didn't think he would be able to keep his diner down if Hagrid broke one of James's bones.

" I'm sorry Sirius, yes your righ' you two should be getting of to see Dumbledore, the passwords cherry grasshoppers, and well you both know were the headmasters office is don't you?"

"I'm sure that the amount of times that Sirius has had to make his way to see the headmaster he should know were it is, and if he doesn't remember I needed to know were it was being head girl, so I think we should be ok Hagrid." Lily smiled sweetly up at Hagrid, making sure he new they would be fine. "Just, Um Hagrid, just look after James for m..us wont you?"

"SoK Lily I'll make sure his safe. Oh let me take your bags for you." And with that Hagrid reached down, took the two bags from Lily, and pushed the gate open and started to make his way to the green houses.

Sirius and Lily started to walk towards the castle, while Sirius sent Hagrid's disappearing silhouette a longing look, "you know Lily, I've never been in Dumbledore's office before without James by my side. The one time I was supposed to see the headmaster by myself James snuck in with me under his invisibility cloak and swapped Dumbledore's lemon drops, for our own versions that made the old man grow lemons in his beard for a month."

"That sounds like Jam… Wait just one second, I remember that, it was in our seventh year, James was supposed to be head boy, he was supposed to… who am I kidding I'm sure he was involved in a million other pranks that he didn't get caught for during the year. It wouldn't have been very Marauder'y of him wouldn't it Padfoot?" Lily sent Sirius a small smirk, and Sirius started to laugh, in his very dog like fashion.

"No I don't think James could resist a exiting challenge of creating just a bit of mischief, I'm not entirely sure why Dumbledore gave James the position of head boy, I believe that the old man must have been damaged in the head when our Christmas cracker hat accidentally exploded on him." The memory set Sirius into another set of dog like laughs, while Lily looked horrified at him.

"That was you guys who replaced the Christmas crackers, I always thought that Zonkos sent a faulty batch."

"Yes well that's probably why McGonagall never yelled at us for it," he snickered a bit at the thought.

"Yes well someone could have seriously gotten hurt, what if that explosion or one of the many others that happened shortly after had actually blown someone's heads off." Lily glared a bit at the prankster in front of her.

Becoming a bit nervous in the direct line of Lily's glare Sirius thought that he ought to change the subject, and a highly good subject changer appeared in the shape of a large door way leading into Hogwarts castle.

"Hay look Lil's were here," he stated hopefully.

Lily looked up in surprise at the large door way and exclaimed " OH, so we are, that was a quick walk wasn't it?"

As he started to open the doors Sirius pointed out something that he had found through his many years of mischief making "Lily Hogwarts has a way of speeding things up a bit when you find you really need to be somewhere, how do you suppose that in 10 or less minutes a Gryffindor who has slept in can make it from their bed to the dungeons for Potions?"

And with that in mind to ponder Lily followed Sirius through the doors and into Hogwarts castle.


It was almost 11 O'clock, almost 2 hours ago his dark mark had seared him with a pain that he could only describe as a concentrated Cruciatus Curse. But when he had looked down upon his arm he had found nothing. His dark mark had almost completely disappeared except the faint outline of the skull, and unless you had known what it used to be you may never have guessed what it was.

To say the least Severus Snape was confused, he had tried to see Dumbledore to ask his opinion on what may have happened, but the old man had been out at the time, and when he had cheeked again the main office door would not open at all leading Severus to believe that Dumbledore was back from wherever he had gone but was currently indisposed. So for the last hour and a half Severus had been billowing around the corridors of Hogwarts, trying to relive his stress, and thinking on what this could mean.

The conclusion he had come to was that some how the Dark Lord had been weakened. At first he thought the slimy snake faced basted had been defeated, but then why would there be reminisce of his dark mark left? And who would have enough power to defeat such a powerful being? Maybe Dumbledore, but it could not have been him because Severus had seen him half a hour before the event at the Halloween feast. And well who else had as much power as the Dark Lord and Dumbledore.

So currently Severus was walking down a hallway on the sixth floor contemplating how the Dark Lord may have weakened himself so much so that his mark had almost completely disappeared. He was in the middle of mentally going through all the different types of potions that may have been consumed to gain strength in the long run by temporarily weakening the drinker first when he heard the faintest noises of whispering and footsteps.

It was defiantly past curfew so he could relive some stress by hopefully taking some points and giving a few detentions, so as silently as he could he moved towards the offending noises.

"Shush it" a feminine whisper caught his ears before he rounded the corner.

"No need to bother, You should know that its past…Lily?" He had built such a wondrous speech up in his head to scorn the offending pupils, but in their place he had found the glowing green eyes of Lily Ev..Potter and sodding Sirius Black.

"Piss off Snivilus, as you can see we're not students and we are in a bit of a rush so if you would kindy move your over sized nose about 6 steps to the right, I think we should be good."

Before Severus could reply to the insult Lily intervened.

"Sirius that was unnecessary and uncalled for. Professor Snape was just trying to do his job by patrolling the halls, and making sure that no students were out of bed past curfew." It hurt him more when Lily called him by his title, than any insult that the toe fungus Black could through at him, he had made one mistake all those years ago, would he never be able to repent for his sins?

"Lily he's a greasy basted who obviously has nothing better to do with his time than torment those younger than him.

"And you Black are a immature, pile of feces that the world would be better of without." He snarled back.

Sirius was about to comment when Lily grabbed him with her free hand and started to walk around Severus.

"Sirius we don't have time, you children can fight later, for now we shouldn't keep Professor Dumbledore waiting any longer" And with that said, he watched as she dragged Black in the direction of the stair case that would lead to the seventh floor not even turning her head around to look back upon him.

AN

Hello all sorry about the wait (it was less than a week) I know I said Id get to Hogwarts last chapter but I'm writing this story as it builds in my head and I have time to write it. I know that James's has just died but I feel that Sirius was the type of person who could bounce too and from emotions.

I have just found that my work load schedule is going to drastically increase in the next 6 weeks. I will do my best to keep a average of at least one chapter a week up but if I cant honestly Im not going to overly stress about it. This is not my main priority in life at the moment, school, work, and reading all come before this and if I can fit a social life in the middle of those then that to.

As always if anyone wants to rip my story off feel free to do so, I would love to read something along these lines, you can even ask me were this is going so you have a general idea on were Im heading with this, although at the moment I have two ideas of were its going, one version has Lily staying at the school maybe as a caretaker (much nicer than Filch, and I can see Harry substituting as Miss Norris,nah not really) the other side and this was my first thought Lily go's back to Spinners end.

Oh and for everyone worried about Lily and Severus jumping straight into a relationship don't stress to much, I would have Lily wait at least three years before she even starts to think about moving on to a new relationship, that doesn't mean I wont rekindle a friendship, but Im seriously not sure what Im doing with the finer points of the story.

Ok hope you all had fun reading and thanx to all my reviewers.