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Son of Proserpina:
Act- I: Pre-Hogwarts Arc
Chapter 01: Black's Ritual Catastrophe
In the depths of a forest in North-West England, during the hours of darkness with only sliver of light of the moon passing through the branches of the thick forest to guide them, present there was couple, surrounded by several ornaments and trinkets that depict the joy of spring, their body covered several markings, the forest floor which was usually covered by twigs and withered leaves, was now covered by various weird symbols and texts, which to a normal person who comes across it may think it as scribblings of a madman. But to those with eyes as sharp as eagles or those history buffs out there may figure out that these writing were indeed Latin.
The couple present there was not any ordinary human being, no, oh for gods' sake no, they are a wizard and witch. They were also not the regular witch or wizard you may come across Diagon Alley. Lord James Fleamont Potter, Earl of Godric's Hallow, was the man's name and title. Lady Lily Evans Potter, Countess of Godric's Hallow, was the woman's name and title. Both of them were 19yrs of age. What were two teenagers, some the highest ranking members of the wizarding world doing there in the middle of the forest on the eve of Spring Equinox of 1979, one may ask?
We must go back few years in time, to completely understand what and why they were doing this. It was the month of July of 1977, the Hogwarts Batch of 1976-1977 had just graduated, James and Lily were few among them. The couple had started dating at the start of their during their N.E.W.T's year in Hogwarts. Slowly but surely they had fallen head over heels for one another. They had tied the knot immediately after graduating. Some may ask, why they were marrying at such a young age, they had their entire lives ahead of them. The answer to that question would be that the entirety of Wizarding Britain was in middle of a civil war.
Yes, a war was going on across Magical Britain, unknown to the majority of the non-magical community. Even if they had come across some wreckage, they were made to believe it was due to fire accidents or storms. The war waged by The Dark Lord Voldemort, self-proclaimed Heir of Sytherin, on the basis of who he thought were superior by their blood status then a person's actual talent.
The followers of Lord Voldemort came to be known as Death Eaters. Everyone can easily find out if there had been a raid conducted by Death Eaters, because any place they attacked they would leave a mark floating in the sky. This mark consisted of a skull out of which snake comes out, this came to be known as the Dark Mark.
James and Lily were a part of a secret organisation known as The Order of the Phoenix. It was headed by their former headmaster Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Chief Warlock and Supreme Mugwump. What were two teenagers doing in this organisation one may ask? They were in that because, they both have big targets painted on their backs, since James had become the Lord of House of Potter after his parents death due to Dragon pox the year prior and Lily because she was a Muggle-born(whom Death Eaters considered of the lowest in Blood status).
During one of the Death Eater raids, the Order had deployed some of their best duellists to the location, James and Lily one among them. The attack was conducted by some of the inner circle members of the Death Eaters. When they arrived there, the raid had already started. The raid was being led Voldemort's Lieutenant, Bellatrix Lestrange and her husband Rodolphus Lestrange.
As soon they arrived they started duelling the Death Eaters. James was duelling Rodolphus, whereas Lily was in a heated duel with Bellatrix, both of them not giving an inch and fighting toe to toe with their opponents. When the duels were just heating up, they were distracted when they heard twin thump sounds. They later discovered that the sound was caused by the lifeless bodies of Fabian and Gideon Prewett falling to the ground, their lifeless eyes gazing the shimmering night sky.
Distracted by the sound, neither Lily nor James noticed the unknown curses flying towards them, fired by both Bellatrix and Rodolphus respectively. They both realised what was happening a second too late, as both of their bodies fell on the ground unconscious, their eyes giving into the darkness.
They both had woken up at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies a week later. The healers revealed to them, that the curse that they were hit by had caused both of them to become barren. To say that this news caused them to be devastated would be an understatement. Lily had been distraught for weeks at length, putting James effort to cheer her up to no avail.
Trying to be optimistic and not give into depression, they started to try having a baby. Try as they might, the result always had been negative. They had been trying for almost for two years by then. They had almost given up all hope to have a baby by then.
But that feeling was thrown out the window, when on one gloomy night in the cold winters of January of 1979, the door of their house had thrown open. Startled by the sound caused during ungodly hours in the night, both wondering what may have caused the sound, slowly withdrew their wands from the nightstand, crawled out of their beds, slowly opening the door and creeping silently down the hallway leading to their entrance hall.
They saw a man in black robes standing there, they almost assaulted him until they got a closer look at him and realised who he was. Both heaved a huge sigh of relief. Standing there, grinning like loon, smooth black hair flowing down till his shoulders, whistling to some random tune was, Heir Apparent to the Ancient House of Black, ironically black sheep of the Black family (most whom were Death Eaters) and most importantly the best friend and brother in all but blood (blood may also be said since both were cousins), Sirius Orion Black.
"For Merlin's sake Pads, a Patronus before showing up to our house at this ungodly hour would be appreciated. You gave quite the scare for both, we thought some DE attacked or something." said James exasperatedly.
"But where would the fun be in that Prongsie" said Sirius jokingly. To which he was handsomely rewarded with a smack to the side of his head courtesy of Lily.
"Ha, ha ever funny Pads, repeat this kind of stunts again, I will find a curse that will make you suffer from Blue balls for the rest of your poor doggy life" said Lily mock haughtily. Though her lips were slightly turning upwards.
"Ouch Lils! That was mean even for you" said James feigning shock, then kissing his wife's cheek. Turning to Sirius, who was making gagging face, James said "Anyway. So Pads what has gotten into you, to make you come here knocking our door out at this hour in the night?"
"Fear not Prongsie, I Sirius Orion Black have arrived to your humble abode, to relieve you of all your pain and suffering, with the solution that may bring everlasting joy in both of your lives" said Sirius and doing an exaggerated bow. Both of them rolling their eyes at his antics. After straightening himself, he shoved his hand inside his robes and retrieved an ancient looking tome.
Lily slowly took the tome away from Sirius to look what it was. Upon further investigation, Lily asked Sirius "The inside the book is obviously Latin. But how come a mutt such as you come upon such an ancient text like this?"
"My dear Lily, but you seem to forget that I fortunately or unfortunately come from the Ancient House of Black. And the geezers have been lounging here since the time of the Romans. But the idea did not come to me right away, but as last resort I went into that horrific place my family calls a library. I had been searching there for almost a day and had almost given up. I was making my way out of there when I tripped on something and fell down. I was about the throw the book on which I tripped, when its title caught my eye. So I brought it here so you my dear friend may find the thing required to help you have your happily ever after" said Sirius.
Lily looked at the book full of hope and joy. It was titled "Rituum et Exsecrationes Antiquissimi". It was the name of the book's author that shocked Lily the most causing her eyes widen beyond what was thought humanely possible. Calming herself down, she asked Sirius with shock evident in her voice "How the heck did you come across such an ancient tome? This is written by Cumae, The Sybil herself. The author of the Sibylline books which predicted the entire history of the Roman Empire from its rise to fall. This is one of the, if not most valuable book in wizarding history one may find and you are saying that you were about to throw it out like a piece of garbage" she finished almost hysterically.
"Only you Padfoot, only you!" said James chuckling. To which Sirius did another one of mock bows. All the while Lily ignored the two goofs and admiring the book with awe, then suddenly it made sense what Sirius was trying to say all along.
Lily whipped her head towards the two goofs and started marching towards them, then she asked Sirius " So what you are trying to say is that this tome may contain a curse or ritual that may curse barren curse in both of us?" with hope evident in her voice.
"Finally figured it out didn't you? Yes, that is the purpose of this visit. Not only that but I also found the ritual that help you regain your fertility and introduce Prongsie Jr. to the world" Sirius replied, with the crooked grin plastered back on his aristocratic face.
Upon hearing this, Lily lunged at him. Startled by her sudden movement, thinking that he was about to get a whacking on his head for his comment about Prongs Jr., Sirius tried to move away, but upon seeing the distance between them he resigned himself to his fate. His was immensely surprised to see her hugging him like there was no tomorrow. He felt the back of his robes get wet, when inspected it, he saw that she was crying. "Hey, hey, what happened Lily? Why are you crying? Did I say something wrong? If so, you have my heartfelt apology" said Sirius, thinking that he may have said something inappropriate.
He was rewarded with a slight smack at the back of his head. "Hey, what is it with you continuously hitting me today, do I look like target practice or something?" asked Sirius with mock irritation.
"That is a wonderful idea you have there, but sadly no. To answer your first question, I am not sad you dummy, these are tears of joy. After the past two years I had all but given up hope of having a child on my own. And now you show up here, that to in the middle of the night, with the solution to our problems. Is there any reason I should not be happy mutt?" asked Lily with a smirk on her tear covered face.
After she got out from the hug with him, he was immediately pulled into another hug by James. "Thank you so much Pads" said James. And with one final pat on the back James released him from the hug.
"On the same note, Pads would do the honor of being Prongslet's Godfather?" asked James. Sirius was shocked by his dear friend's request. When he looked at Lily, who had joined the conversation, standing to the right side of James, her left hand looping with his right, nodded her head, showing that she too approved the choice of Godfather for their child. To say Sirius was ecstatic would be the understatement of the century. He was like a child on Christmas morning.
Later that night, Sirius explained to them how to conduct the ritual to make them both fertile again. Now we the reason for what and why they were doing this ritual. Five minutes till the clock 12 at midnight, the ritual was almost complete. They were in the final stages of the ritual.
At the dead of night, as the clock struck 12 the ritual was completed. Grave silence was what followed the completion of the ritual. Nothing in their surrounding had any changes. There was no signs showing that the ritual had worked.
"James, if that mangy mutt thinks this has his idea of prank, I will hunt him down and skin him alive for even giving me false hopes" Lily said to James angrily.
James was about to reply, when there was a bright flash of light in front of them. They closed their eyes immediately because had they not closed their eyes it would have blinded them and it would not an exaggeration to say that it would have also killed them.
When they opened their eyes, standing before them were two humanoid figures, looming over them at a height of 20 feet. One of them was male while the other was a female. The male appeared to have pale white skin, straightened black hair and obsidian black eyes. It must be their imagination or something, because every time they looked him the eye, they see scenes of death. He gave out a deathly aura, at the same time there was hint it had divine origin. He was dressed in fine black silk robes.
The woman next to him, seemed to be his polar opposite. Her skin looked lively with a slight tan to it, she had long golden locks and the darkest shade of emerald green (even darker than that of Lily's), she gave a pure divine aura, though there were slight hint of death in it. If looked into her eyes on may witness sight of the joyous event of the spring. She was dressed in a robe with multitude of colors, with several floral patterns throughout it, changing every now and then. Lily was in too much of a shock to do anything. It was James who wonderfully articulated the question running in both of their minds.
"Who the hell are you people?"
Author's Note: Hi everyone. Please read this story and leave your reviews and suggestions. I have already created a skeleton of the story based on which the story will take place. I will read all your reviews and if I like I may use in the upcoming chapters in the story.