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The castle was very silent, if you leave the hospital wing, where 10 nurses were treating all the injured students, Lily never knew that the infantry had the magic to expand itself to meet the needs, there were about 40 wounded students and villagers, including Rosemarta.

Lily was lying on her bed, the curtains drawn around her, and a lot of lotions and pastes were applied all over her body, she was much more injured than she had thought, every 20 minutes she was given a potion to drink, because of the dementor attack.

When she reached the castle she found that many students and villagers had been attacked by dementors though they hadn't kissed anyone, but had just given them a taste of the worse. Dorcas Meadows was to thank for her quick wit, and skills as she immediately took action and started escorting students to the castle, and made sure that fewer and fewer people get injured.

The teachers arrived at the Hogsmeade for aid, but were stopped by death eaters, and thus were engaged in fighting them. The next news she heard was that there was another Deat eater attack, at the house of the Minister of Magic, her son was kidnapped and then killed in front of the ministry, and someone in the ministry has betrayed and joined Voldemort, the next attack was at Aurors office near the Ministry of Magic and Voldemort was there too. According to Professor Sprout, 4 Aurors, 1 trainee Auror, and 6 ministry workers were killed. Dumbledore was lured there, he was negotiating with Voldemort, so the Death Eaters decided to attack the students.

James has collapsed by the time they reached the castle, he has vomited twice on the way to the castle. Mary was shaken to her core, the dementor's attack was horrifying for her, but after being treated by the nurses she was asleep.

On her way back to the castle, she learned that Sirius and Marlene fought one Death Eater, there mostly injured because they came in contact with a blast and had saved three kids from the fire.

Remus and Peter were near Three Broomsticks, they didn't have to fight any death eaters, as Professor Murphy was there, and Remus and Peter were able to escape easily, though they fought off a dementor.

So, overall Lily had concluded that she and Mary had faced the worst after James, who has to witness a murder, Lily wanted to go and hold him but she was not in that condition and he too was asleep.

The nurse came and give her the sleeping potion at last, and she fell into a peaceful sleep, away from all worldly worries.

The next morning all the students were called into The Great Hall, the students were much quiet than usual, they didn't know about the death yet, the quietest table was of Gryffindor, all the students were sad, most of them heard about Amy's death, her friends were huddled together crying. Lily sat with the other six, her eyes watery, her head resting on James' shoulder, and she was holding his one hand tightly, while his other hand was around her shoulders. James' eyes weren't watery but were red, giving hint that he has cried before coming to the hall, his face showed no emotions. Marls and Mary were sitting together opposite them with grim expressions. Sirius and Peter were sitting beside James, talking in whispers and making sure to not disturb anyone, Remus was sitting beside Lily, holding Mary's hand from across the table.

Dumbledore entered and stood in front of the staff table to face the students, he cleared his throat and began speaking.

"Yesterday, was a sad day for Hogwarts," said Dumbledore, James closed his eyes. "Many students and people were injured, and we lost two of our people." The students gasped. "Professor Murphy who was present in Hogsmeade died protecting the students, she was a talented woman, who was courageous to fight for the right." Dumbledore paused for a moment as he looked at the Gryffindor table, "The other person who left us was Amy Glen," the students gasped, murmured and looked at the Gryffindor table in the hope to find Amy sitting there, but she wasn't there. "A brave Gryffindor student, known for her politeness and friendly nature, she was one of the lovable students. I would like you all, please, to stand, and raise your glasses, to Amy Glen, and Professor Murphy."

They did it, this time James and Lily included, Lily looked for Fiona but caught a glimpse of the Slytherin table where Avery was smirking as Snape said something to him, he too was smirking. Lily's fist clenched, James looked at her as his hands were crushed by hers, she was looking very angry, he followed her line of sight and saw Snape and Avery smirking.

"You all, I guess already know that the person behind this attack was Voldemort, a dark wizard whose intention is to rule over the wizarding world, and he takes the wrong means to achieve his goals, he and his followers think blood status defines who we are, but he is wrong, it is our choices that define who we are. So, make the right choices, it may be hard, and it may look sometimes that the other choice is easy but it is not, listen to your heart, it will guide you to the right path.

"Voldemort doesn't believe in love, friendships and family, to him his death eaters are just servants and nothing more, they are a means for him to rule. We will stop him, together, by the power of love and friendship.

I will ask you all to think before you make any decisions in the future, think of Amy Glen, an innocent who lost her life," James' fist clenched, his nails digging into his skin. "Think of Professor Murphy, a teacher who died saving the lives of students, and think of others who are losing their lives just because some of the people think blood purity and power is all that matter." He paused again for a moment. "I would like to thank all those students who take the mantle to protect other students and villagers, I would like to thank the Head girl Dorcas Meadows, Henry Foakes, Benjy Fenwick, Sirius Black, Lily Evans and James Potter, for helping others without hesitation, and for this I honour them."

The next week passed slowly, and the saddest part for Lily was seeing Fiona, after being informed about Amy's death she was really broken and Lily couldn't gather the courage to talk to her. She also was worried about James, he was shaken by the incident and was blaming himself for Amy's death.

"I wasn't able to get rid of that Death eater fast and then when I did, I got engaged in a duel with Bellatrix, and by the time I was able to throw her back and turn to Rodulphus he has his wand pointed at her, I...I could have acted fast and stunned him but I was late and he killed her," he said as the seven of them were walking to the greenhouse, for herbology and has just seen Minnie and Dumbledore talking to Amy's parents, her mother was crying.

"James, you did what you could have, it's not your fault," said Marls.

"But I think Potter is right, his late action led to the death," said a voice and they all turned to find Mulciber, while Avery, Snape and Synde were smirking standing beside him.

"But at least it was for a good cause, some dirt has been cleaned from this world, she was nothing more than a pouch of dirty blood," said Avery and all Slytherins laughed. Lily saw Snape snorting.

James, Sirius and Marls were about to shout at them but Lily beat them all to it.

"YOU! YOU FOUL EVIL DISGUSTING LOATHSOME DOUCHEBAGS, YOU ALL ARE SHITTY MOLES YOU SCUMS, DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT HER. I WILL KILL YOU ONE BY ONE JUST LIKE A FUCKING MOSQUITO," Lily shouted and in a blink of an eye her wand was out and the next moment the four Slytherins were on the floor.

Lily advanced on them angrily but James caught her by the waist, "No Lily, calm down!"

"Leave me, I will kill all of these fucking morons," she said angrily as she struggled to get out of his grasp, and tried to free her wand hand but James had made sure she can't. "Leave me!" All the while Lily was looking at the Slytherins, especially Snape with murderous eyes.

"No, Lily, first you calm down," said James in a calm voice.

Lily wasn't buying it, her wand hand may not be free but she knows how to do wandless magic, she could throw back James but she didn't want that, so she just attacked the Slytherins and their cloaks were put to fire and their skins were covered in boils, they all stood up and ran away.

"WHERE ARE YOU RUNNING YOU COWARDS, WHERE'S YOUR FUCKING PRIDE NOW?" she shouted at them, but they were already gone.

"Shhh... calm down, relax," said James in her ears in a soft voice and she took a deep breath and relaxed.

"Wow Lily! that was great, you scared them to their core," laughed Sirius. "You were looking as though you would have killed them if James hasn't held you. That was some great ass-kicking."

Lily threw him an angry look and he stopped laughing.

James pulled her into a hug, and she let her tears fall, this was the place hidden from everyone where she lets her guard down, she tightened her hold around him as more tears fell from her eyes.

"You all go and tell Professor Sprout we will come soon, make any excuses," said James to the others who left. "You okay, Lils?"

"No, and I know that you are okay too, it's really hard," she said sobbing.

James kissed the top of her head, "I know Lily it's hard, but we have to carry on, to make sure we can stop him, and I think I know what we need to do first."

His voice was filled with determination. "What?" asked Lily.

"Will tell you later, now we need to relax," he said as he pulled away only to take her to the wall, he sat and pulled her into his lap. She rested her head again on his chest, closing her eyes and he placed his hand around her, covering her face as tears fell through her closed eyes. He rested his forehead against the top of her head and closed his eyes.

"I want to stay like this forever," she said after two minutes when the tears had stopped, and she had relaxed inhaling his woodsy scent.

"Trust me I want it too," replied James.

"Well Mr Potter and Ms Evans, as much as I want that your wishes fulfil and I hate to interrupt this moment but I have some questions for you, Ms Evans," said the voice of Minnie and both looked up to see a smiling Minnie but she immediately turned her face to her stern look.

"Yes, professor?" Lily asked still sitting and looking up at Minnie who noticed her red eyes and stains of tears on her cheek and her expression softened.

"Did you hex Mr Mulciber, Avery, Synde and Snape and put their cloaks on fire?" asked Minnie.

"Yes, I did and would have done more damage to them if James hadn't stopped me," replied Lily looking proud of her act.

"She is not lying, Professor," added James with a smug look.

"And may I ask why you did that?" asked Minnie.

"Well you see Professor, they insulted Amy, and laughed at her, and not to mention they all are already a death eater," replied Lily.

Minnie was silent for a moment.

"You should control yourself, Ms Evans, it was not the right thing to do, 10 points from Gryffindor," said Minnie.

"And?" asked Lily and James together.

"And you should go to your herbology class, it started 5 minuted ago."

"No detention?"

"No," said Minnie walking away and James could swear there was a smile on her face.

"We can afford to be late by 10 minutes," said Lily resting her head back.

"I think, I am not a good influence for you Evans," grinned James.

"No, you are not but then I myself have been a bad girl," grinned Lily as she kissed his neck.

"I think you are more of a bad influence on me," James moaned and then soon their lips met.

The potions classroom was filled with thick smoke, which was emerging from all the cauldrons as the students brewed Veritaserum or the truth potion, and its antidote.

Lily has used the book she has asked James to buy, and there was a tip in that about Veritaserum which fastens the process of brewing, she has taken the risk and here it was in her cauldron a finely finished Veritaserum. She looked at James who was still brewing the antidote, she glanced around and saw that everyone was busy in their cauldron and Slughorn has fallen asleep in his chair. The visibility wasn't good at all, as her own cauldron like others was releasing thick smokes and being sitting on the last seat, she thought to play with James.

She slid closer to him and then leaned in, nibbled his earlobes, and heard James stiffing, she grinned.

"Lils, what are you doing?" he asked still focusing on his potion.

"I have made my potion already and have nothing else to do," whispered Lily and then spoke in a husky voice, "And that kiss added fuel to the fire."

James gulped he was losing control but he shook his head and focused on the cauldron but it was hard when soft lips were kissing your neck.

"Lily," said James trying to sound tough but failed

"James," replied Lily in the same husky voice, she was grinning.

"I have to complete my potion and we are in a class for Merlin's sake," he hissed.

"So, it's good that there's smoke that has filled the room, and you can complete your potion, you don't have to do anything else," she replied as her hands rested on his thighs and she kissed his jaw.

"Lily, it's bad manners," said James putting Unicorn hair in the potion and stirring it carefully.

Lily knew that it was wrong and her work of playing with him was done so she pulled away.

"Fine, but I am meeting you later," she said.

"Today's full moon, Lils," sighed James.

"OH! sorry," said Lily apologetically, she cursed herself for forgetting it, that's why Remus and Mary were both looking put out.

"Don't be sorry," smiled James, "we will make up for it later."

Lily nodded and realized her hands were still on his thigh, there was something in his pocket, she slid his hand in it and took out a chocolate and a circular object, she opened the chocolate and started eating it while examining the object.

"Whas dis?" she asked placing it in front of James who took a quick look at it before focusing back on his cauldron.

"It's a joke item, you have to stretch it and then put it on the floor, and when someone puts a foot on it, their foot starts making funny noises with each step and you can't take it out for an hour. And mind you the foot really gets itchy."

Lily pocketed it, she then put her hands back in his pocket, in the hope to find other things.

"Stop doing that, it's more distracting," hissed James as Lily pulled out a crumpled paper.

"Control yourself," she said as she opened the paper, it was a note probably from other marauders with some pranking plan written on it, Lily put it back and then checked his other pocket, it was empty.

She sat back in her position thinking about what to do now and then decided to see what James has in his bag. She took it and opened it, there were books and notebooks in it, there was the cloak in there and on the base were a few chocolate wrappers. Lily shook her head at how unorganized he was then blushed remembering it was she who had put these in when she has found that her bag was already filled with these wrappers and other wastes. Then she found a notebook with white covers, she has seen him using it many times in between classes since second year, (it's not like she was keeping an eye on him, it was just... by mistake? he was looking at her so she looked back?. . . .okay fine she was looking at him because she was curious how he gets good marks, they were rivalry back then fighting to get top marks, though Remus used to beat them.)

So, this is the notebook, he uses to pass time in classes, she opened it and her jaws dropped.

There were several sketches of The marauders, a few of Marlene, a few of Minnie, Dumbledore, and a few other teachers, and then there were many not a lot of sketches of Lily, many having both Lily and James.

"James," she gasped, "all of these sketches are beautiful."

James turned his head to look at what she was talking about and saw his sketch notebook in her hand.

"Hey! that was a personal thing," he protested but didn't attempt to take it from her.

"Your personal things are mine too," Lily smirked and then she saw a funny sketch of Minnie and laughed.

James shot her a curious look, "So, what about your personal things?"

"You already have access to most of them and I don't think you would be interested in other things," said Lily as she continued looking at sketches.

"Then also, I want to know," said James as he added a finishing touch to his potion.

"Be my guest," Lily replied.

Once finished with his potion, James hugged her from behind resting his chin on her shoulder as he looked at the sketches with her. "This was the one when after we first kissed at the end of the second year, and this is from last year, you were writing an essay with me which I had already completed so I was just making your sketch while pretending I was writing an essay so I could spend more time with you."

"All of these are wonderful, in the second year I thought that you were making secret notes in it," she confessed.

"So, you were observing me," grinned James.

"Yes," whispered Lily her breath hitched as she realized what James' hand was up to. "I mean . . . you know, when we were study rivalry and . . . shit. . . when we used to compete to get top marks."

"That was what started my liking towards you," said James as his fingers worked in rhythm.

"You are . . . now acting like a bad guy," whispered Lily.

"I never said I was a saint or even a good guy," said James kissing her cheek.

"This reminds me of . . . when we used to. . . sneak around. . . or steal kisses. . . back when we were hiding it," said Lily.

"Yes, and remember when I put an invisible cloak on both of us in the middle of the corridor and started snogging, a first-year bumped into us and thought there was an invisible ghost and ran away,"

"And. . . once we were about to. . . bump into Minnie,"

"Just because we had to go to divination and you couldn't stay still,"

"Because . . . I was scared . . . that we will be late,"

"And now look at you, ready to be 10 minutes late in herbology class, teasing me in this class and now doing this," smirked James as Lily's eyes screwed.

"You. . . are . . . doing this," she managed to say.

"But you asked for it," James said in a husky voice, and Lily smiled and her lips met his.

"Class five more minutes are left for you to complete it," yawned Slughorn from his chair. "Hurry up."

"Hurry up, Evans," snorted James as Lily turned her to look forward, her face screwed.

"Shut up," moaned Lily before relaxing. "That was. . . hot," she said painting.

"My pleasure," grinned James giving her a kiss, as Lily pointed her wand at his fingers. "We are done sir," called James to Slughorn winking at Lily whose cheeks were flushed, she hit his arm.

"Perfect, Ms Evans, and Mr Potter, you could have done better, it looks like you made some mistakes in the last few steps," said Slughorn.

"I was a little distracted Professor," said James, Lily suppressed her laughter but James noticed it and pinched her when Slughorn turned.

"OW!" squeaked Lily but she was grinning. "Can I keep this notebook?" she asked picking his sketch notebook.

James snatched it from her, "It's mine, I need it to pass my time." Lily looked at him with puppy eyes, "No, Evans, that will not work." Lily pouted. "I will give it to you later when I am done."

Lily grinned and kissed him before collecting her instruments and books.

"Are you serious about this James?" asked Sirius, they were sitting in the shrieking shack waiting for the time when the moon becomes full and Remus transforms.

"Yes, I saw how to open it, I have talked to Hagrid too about his roosters," replied James

"Do you think a rooster will defeat the giant snake?" asked Peter confused. "Are you mad?"

"I think that he is mad too, mate how can a rooster kill a basilisk?" snorted Sirius.

"A rooster can easily kill the basilisk," said Remus who was sitting on the bed resting his back against the wall and sipping hot chocolate, he was in pain but the chocolate and Poppy's potions were working for now.

"Don't talk much, Moony," said James, and Remus rolled his eyes. "And yes, a rooster crow is fatal for basilisk and is one of the few things that kill the basilisk."

"Why are you suddenly interested in killing it?" asked Peter.

"Because I now know how to open it and it will be revenge, the basilisk or the monster of the chamber of secrets is there to do the bidding of the Heir of Slytherin, so basically to kill muggle-borns and by killing it we make sure that no one gets killed like Myrtle. I want to kill it for Amy and for everyone who had suffered due to Voldemort," explained James.

"Yeah, we don't want another ghost like her, she is enough," said Sirius and received a glare from Remus.

"It's an important matter Padoot," said Remus.

"I will talk to Dumbledore about it, he will help," said James.

"Do you have any plans?" asked Peter.

"Yes, I have one that I am working on since the night of the attack," said James.

"What it is? And what my role is?"

"Your role is to sit in the common room," answered James. "None of you. . . "

"You lot better transform, it's starting, and we are going to the mountains today, it feels fresh," said Remus putting aside the chocolate as he felt his muscles tightening and aching.

"More like you like to howl there, and make us deaf," snorted Peter as he turned into the rat.

"Why did you have to do it there Marls when there was a high chance of getting walked in," said Mary as the three girls sat in the common room.

"It was a secret passageway, we didn't knew you would use it that way," argued Marls.

"I used it because Peeves was making havoc in the corridor because he was accused by Merula as someone has put his feet itching at the floor and Merula has stepped on it, and she thought it was Peeves. So, Peeves being Peeves used it as an accuse to spill ink at the passersby," answered Mary.

Lily snorted, she was hoping that some Slytherin put their feet on it, and her wish was completed. "That was me, I took it from James."

"You are turning into him," teased Mary. "Anyway, half the school knows about that passageway Marls, you should think before you do things in public."

"Just last week we have caught both of them on Astronomy tower," Lily said as she continued to look out of the windows, this was the first time she had known what exactly James use to do at full moons and she couldn't help but worry about him. She has found out that Marls has known about them practising to become an animagi since fourth grade, and that's why she used to stay late so that she could make sure the boys are okay, the boys decided to tell Mary last week after making her swear over Freddie Mercury, her biggest crush, that she will never tell about it to anyone. Marls was used to this and she was less emotional and bold.

"Hark who's talking! the girl who was doing it in the potions class," said Marls with a knowing look, Mary looked shocked and Lily's head jerked at Marls.

"No, I was not," she said truthfully, or half the truth, her cheeks has turned red.

"Yes, you were, I was sitting at the table ahead of you, and you and James were very quiet that usual, you were not bickering or flirting as usual, and then when we left you had that look on your face which confirmed my suspicions, not to mention James saying he was distracted, but you both were quiet and it's easy to put two and two together," said Marls looking at Lily daring her to contradict.

Lily thought of excuses but knew that she can't escape Marlene. "Fine, you are correct but wring too, it was just fingers," said Lily, her face turning redder to match her hair, and she looked away out of the window.

"I can't believe it, Lily Evans, crossing lines," snorted Mary.

"Don't make me start on you," said Lily simply. Mary busied herself with her essay.

"Have anyone of you talked with Fiona?" asked Marls.

"I talked with her, it's hard for her, but she's handling it well," said Mary.

"She is tougher than she looks," sighed Marls.

"I felt bad for her parents, imagine sending your child to a school you never heard of before and then finding out she is killed," said Mary with a grim face as she wrote more lines.

"Do your parents know about the war?" asked Marls.

Mary shook her head, "They won't let me come if they know about the war."

"Lily?"

"Mum and dad don't know but Tuney does," replied Lily.

"And what did she said?" asked Mary.

"She didn't show much interest, though I could tell she was worried, she hinted in her jealous way that I could leave all these behind and live like a muggle away from war," replied Lily.

"Well that's a good suggestion," Marls pointed out.

"No, it's not, the muggle world is as dangerous as the wizarding world," said Mary.

"The muggles think all the attacks are the work of a big gang or some terrorists," said Lily.

"Well they are right," said Marls.

Lily nodded, "And also, we can't keep running from it, we have to face it, for our families, friends and future generations."

"Hmm, each day it's getting worse, it's like they all have become bloody lunatics, and killing for them is a game," said Mary.

And then portrait hole opened and the three boys walked in, Sirius grinned at Marls and pulled her into a kiss.

"Stay away, you dog, you are smelling of dung," said Marls pushing Sirius away who chuckled.

"Is Remus okay?" Mary asked.

"Yeah, he is fine, as of now he has gone to sleep, Poppy will take him to the hospital soon, you can see him in the morning," answered James.

"He was howling happily once he reached the top of that mountain beyond the lake and the dog accompanied him in the howling," grinned Peter.

"And you were squeaking, Wormy," teased Sirius.

"Well I am off to bed," yawned Peter and left, Mary left too.

Lily approached James and kissed him, he took her hand, and after making sure Sirius was not looking led her instantly to the boys' dorm and peaked in to see Peter fast asleep, before making his way to the bed.

"You should have gone to sleep," said James as he closed the curtains.

"I can't sleep with you out there. Now, are you injured?"

"No, just a little," said James his hands moving involuntarily to his shoulder.

Lily looked at him worriedly and then removed his shirt, there was a cut on his shoulder, and one cut was on his back. "Do you have any lotions? Or dittany?"

James pulled out a box from under his bed and opened it, inside it were three small bottles, one containing dittany, he took it out and put back the box and then was about to open the box but Lily took it from him and then lighted her wand to see his cuts clearly, and now she saw his torso in proper lightning after a long time, there were several old cuts on chest and few on the stomach, his back too was covered with cuts and many were fresh.

She applied the potion to the cut on his shoulder.

"Lily I can do it by myself, I have been doing it by myself since I became an animagus,"

"Shh, you no longer have to do it by yourself, you have me now," she said kissing him. "Lie on your stomach and I will heal all of them, they are not that deep."

"Your hands are soft and feel good," said James as she applied dittany on his back, hi cuts were closed now, looking several days old.

"I will heal them completely, wait," said Lily and pulled out her wand and pointed at the cuts muttering a spell on each cut, and they completely disappeared, soon his back was normal with no scratches.

"Where did you learned that?" asked James as he turned and lied on his back allowing Lily to completely heal the wounds on his chest and stomach.

"Sharing a dorm with Mary, whose notes are scattered all over the place has some benefits," said Lily. "You should have known these spells as you are prone to injury."

"I am not that smart, beside the dittany and the other two potions help enough," said James pulling Lily down so she was lying next to her.

"How does he look when he . . . you know transforms, I have read that it's the dangerous and scariest part."

"It's horrible and painful for him, we are still not used to seeing him transform," informed James.

Lily didn't say anything else, the thought was horrible enough.

Snape sat with other death eaters, Rosier was the head of them. He has sent the names of students to Malfoy.
"Why weren't we informed about the attack?" asked Regulus. "We could have been hurt."
Mulciber, Avery, and Synde agreed with him.

"It was Dark Lord's order not to tell anyone, and I came to know about it just today," replied Rosier.

"But why is Malfoy offering the invitation to that Potter?" asked Snape in a sneer.

"Because he defeated Rabastan and was giving Bellatrix a good fight and even succeeded in getting rid of her for a few minutes," answered Rosier. "And Malfoy believes Sirius will join too if Potter joins."

"Why didn't he offer him in Hogsmeade as he did to Medows, Turpin, Gooch, Foakes and others?" asked Mulciber.

"Because the DE who had gone to offer them were on the grounds before they could get the chance to offer them," replied Rosier. Regulus smiled internally.

"What about his mudblood girlfriend?" asked Avery, Snape clenched his fist at the word 'girlfriend' but saw a gleam of hope to get back Lily.

"Malfoy has given her name too, she will be offered too" answered Rowle, Snape's face brightened at the thought of working with Lily and then he will show his strength to her and she will come running to him.

The others however protested and Regulus froze in his seat.

"She is a mudblood," growled Mulciber.

"But she is a good fighter, she defeated Rowle and Karkaroff that day, and Master doesn't want her to join Dumbledore," said Rosier. "Not to forget she kicked all of your asses twice."

"Who suggested her in the first place?" asked Synde.

"Snape did," said Rosier. "He wrote to Malfoy and then the mudblood proved her worth in Hogsmeade." Regulus sat silently pitying Snape for how low he has gone just for power and lust.

"Are you still in love with her Severus?" asked Mulciber.

"I am not in love with Li. . . that mudblood," answered Snape instantly.

"It's his desire to get her for once," said Avery.

"We can arrange it for a night, Snape, you can complete your desires," smirked Mulciber.

Snape smiled at the thought but shook his head, "I don't want to, and Potter will join if she joins, thus we will get three or to say 5 of them on our side." Though Snape only wanted Lily to join, but he has to give excuses so as not to show his feelings. He was just waiting for tomorrow night and Lily will be standing by his side, and even if Potter comes along, that arrogant git will be lower than Snape and thus Lily will leave Potter and choose Snape.

James stood among crowds there were several people, to his right was Tom Riddle, he has graduated from Hogwarts by his looks. Tom was looking at two people who were standing in a position to a duel, with great interest. James followed his gaze and recognized one of the men immediately. It was a young Dumbledore, and the man standing against him was a handsome man with blonde hair, Grindlewald.

"Finally we met, old friend," smiled Grindlewald.

"It's nice to see you again too," answered Dumbledore in a calm voice. "But I was hoping the circumstances would have been different."

"It would have been if you wouldn't have turned your back on me," said Grindlewald spinning the wand by his fingers.

"We all make mistakes, but now I am here to correct my mistakes," said Dumbledore.

"Then let's get over with this," said the blonde man sending several jets of blue rays at Dumbledore who with a flick of his wan destroyed all of the rays. The force was so strong that people standing around had to hold on to their hats to stop them from being blown away.

"That was a cool one," smirked Tom his black hair flowing with the wind.

"By the way, Grindlewald is dominating, it looks like Dumbledore is going to the heavens today," said a man next to Tom Riddle.

"That old man is evil, he will go to hell just like you lots," said Tom, the other man laughed though James noticed he looked nervous.

"What about you?" asked the man

"I am above such things as death, I am on my way to immortality," replied Tom and the man gasped.

Soon there were thunders as Dumbledore's and Grindelwald's spells collided midway, making a big hole in the ground beneath. A flurry of pointed weapons emerged from Dumbledore's wand while the ground around Grindlewald raised to stop the weapons from hurting Grindlewald.

And then a big fiery Phoenix erupted from Grindelwald's wand and circled around Dumbledore trying to hurt him each time but Dumbledore quickly escaped the attacks and then the phoenix turned into a hippogriff and rose above in the sky before diving to attack Grindlewald, who raised his wand at it and brown ray erupted from his wand colliding with the hippogriff and slowing it down but failing to stop it.

Dumbledore flicked his wand again at Grindlewald, green thick roots emerged from beneath the ground and started grasping him, and then his free hand, while the hippogriff continued to move towards Grindlewald fighting the brown ray.

A few men tried to enter the area to help Grindlewald but they couldn't enter as red and purple flames circled the two men.

Dumbledore started advancing at Grindlewald who struggled to stop the hippogriff before finally destroying it into smoke, but soon there was another winged animal advancing at him which emerged from Dumbledore's wand and took the place of the hippogriff.

And then Dumbledore hit Grindlewald with a spell and he fell to his knees, and soon his wand flew out of his hand into Dumbledore's hand, and then Grindlewald was locked in a cage.

"I have to talk to him," said Tom Riddle and the scene changed.

A few hours have passed and James was standing in front of Dumbledore who was eyeing Tom Riddle curiously.

"I am quite surprised to see you here Tom, how is it to work at Boggins and Burkes?" asked Dumbledore.

"It's relaxing. Sir, I have a question for you," said Tom. Dumbledore motioned him to ask. "Did you try to revive Ariana Dumbledore from death?"

Dumbledore looked shocked but regained his composure, but sadness was still visible on his face, "Yes, I did try, I am a man, a foolish and curious man. I thought there must be a way, but there wasn't, no magic can bring a dead one back to life. Are you thinking of bringing back your mother?"

"No, I was just curious about it whether you tried it or not and what it leads to,"

"The first connection any person feels is with his mother, the connection is made even before he is born," sighed Dumbledore. "There is a tale of a stone only, but no other thing and that tale also don't bring back a dead to life, it just brings a shadow more like a ghost.

"I regret going into that branch of magic, I was fooled by grieve and pain, and by the time I realized that it was not possible that I found how deep I am into it, I was locked in my room for years to just find a way to get back her, but some things are beyond magic. So, I would advise you not to go into it, but as you are no longer my pupil, I can't ask you to stop looking for it."

Tom stood looking at Dumbledore for a moment before he left and the memory ended.

James woke with a start, someone had made some strange noise which has woken him, it was dawn time and something heavier was put on his leg, he sat up and heard a groan as Lily's head fell on the bed from his head, she put her arm around his waist holding him. James summoned his glasses and put them on and looked around Lily was asleep and then he looked at a black rectangular envelope was attached to his leg, he lit his wand to look at it properly, it was just black, he picked it up, and looked at it's back, no mention of any name or anything, just a green seal with an odd skull shape on it.

He looked that a similar envelope was attached at Lily's leg but she was a heavy sleeper and didn't notice, he tried to pick up her envelope too, but it was attached to her leg and suddenly turned hot when he didn't release it.

Lily groaned again and sat up sleepily, "James stop playing with my legs." She hold his hands and rested her head on his shoulder yawning and looking around sleepily.

James looked back at his envelope, and then to hers, "There's an envelope attached to your leg, just like it was attached to my leg but I am not able to touch yours, it looks like only you can touch it."

"Is this your prank or trick to wake me? Then be ready for being hexed," said Lily picking up the envelope easily. "It has no name on it."

James now opened his and pulled out a letter from it and began reading it while Lily was still looking at her envelope lazily. She looked up at James to ask what it was about and saw in the wand light as James' face became white as a ghost. Lily immediately knew that it was something terrible and panicked opened her envelope and started reading her letter. Fear, anger, horror, and shock rose inside both of them.

Lily read James' letter and he read hers' letter.

James Potter,
Your talent and skills are extraordinary, The Dark Lord offers you a position among our ranks, among death eaters. You will be awarded power, riches and safety.
You are a pureblood and the dark lord values blood purity. You will be of great use in establishing wizarding domination and cleaning our society.
Don't be a fool like your parents and uncle, or you will have the same faith as your uncle.
Join us, and their lives will be spared, failure to do so will result in their death and yours too.
Join the winning side.
Write your response on the back of this page and send it with an owl.

Lily Evans,
The Dark Lord is kind-hearted, he values talents and powers. You, have proven yourself, and have impressed the dark lord.
Despite being a muggleborn, the dark lord offers you a position among the death eaters. You will be considered as one of ours, you will be awarded powers, riches, and safety.
The dark lord never forgets his supporters and you will be a great addition to his side, you will be a great help in establishing wizarding domination.
Join us as not many get the chance to be offered a position by the dark lord himself, especially not muggleborns, but you have been given the offer which many strive for.
Join us and the life of your families will be spared, failure to do so will have terrible consequences for both you and them.
Join the winning side.
Write your response on the back of this page and send it with an owl.

"I am . . . Why. . . me. . . I am a muggle-born than also they . . . how could they . . ." Lily couldn't find words, she was shocked and terrified.

James crushed his letter in his fist and then looked at Lily, she was scared, terrified especially by the lines regarding her parents and James' parents. She gripped his hands tightly as she reread the letter hoping it was different.

"This was his plan, to find out which students are best for becoming his followers, he wanted to see them, to see us fighting," said James.

"James, I don't want to join them, I will never join them, but I am afraid for my parents," said Lily terrified.

"Neither will I Lily, neither will I and as for our parents, we will ask Dumbledore to give them protection," said James, and Lily nodded, but she was still worried and could easily tell James was too. He pulled her into his lap burying his head in her shoulder and she did the same.

"We will be together in this and fight them," said Lily.

"Yes, we will, until the very end," said James. "And the basilisk will be killed soon, for Amy."

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