Rating:
PG
House:
Schnoogle
Characters:
James Potter Lily Evans
Genres:
Action Romance
Era:
Multiple Eras
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Published: 06/07/2003
Updated: 01/08/2013
Words: 389,988
Chapters: 59
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Lily Evans: A History

Bethany

Story Summary:
A story of Lily's life from pre-Hogwarts to marrying James Potter. How she coped with growing up with Petunia to her friendship with the four boys that would change her life - and eventually the course of history - forever.

Chapter 16

Posted:
09/04/2003
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1,231
Author's Note:
Some interesting quotes from this chapter:

Chapter 16 - Of past choices that come a haunting
Life definitely took an upwards turn with Kassie around, despite
all the problems she brought with her. With her best friend in tow,
Lily was finally able to see the amusing side of her arguments with
Petunia. In fact, it was very much like they were back at school, and
Petunia was no more than an aggravating Slytherin.
	They laughed when Petunia would go ranting through the house,
muttering about freaks; which only made her angrier. And Lily nearly
couldn't breathe one night after Petunia came running down the stairs,
her hair an array of colors after the two girls had changed the bottles
of hair spray with a bottle of Millie's Magic Hair Colors (thoughtfully
provided by Sirius and James).
	And with summer taking such a grand look upwards, Lily honestly
never saw the trouble brewing in the room next to hers. Couldn't have
predicted that their lives would take such a drastic turn for the
worst, and in such a small amount of time. Lily could recall someone
telling her once that tragedies came in threes. It seemed she would be
no exception. And the first would come to a head that very evening,
only one week after Kassie arrived.
	"There's an owl," Kassie said, looking at the window. The girls
were sitting in Lily's room, working on the last of their summer
homework. Kassie got up, pushing the latch on the window and allowing
the bird to come in. "It's our Hogwarts letters," she added, taking the
letters from the bird and throwing Lily hers.
	Lily ripped the familiar looking letter open and pulled the
parchment out. The first letter read as normal; the Hogwarts Express
would leave Platform 9 3/4 on September 1st at 11am. Lily moved that
paper aside and began to look at this year's book list.
	"Hey, look at this," Kassie suddenly said, pointing to her
letter. "It's signed Minerva McGonagall as the Deputy Headmistress."
	"Well, it can't be Walsh anymore, can it? She's dead," Lily said,
picking up her first letter again and seeing the Transfiguration and
Head of Gryffindor House's signature. "I wonder who the Potions
professor will be?"
	"Don't know," Kassie replied.
	"Perhaps they won't have one," Lily added hopefully.
	"Doubtful," Kassie deadpanned.
	"Can't blame me for trying," the redhead retorted, stuffing the
parchment back in the envelope and putting it on her bedside table. She
shook her head as if to clear it of a thought. "That was so strange,
don't you think?"
	"What?" Kassie asked, still engrossed in her letter.
	"Professor Walsh, I mean," Lily clarified, looking at her own
parchment thoughtfully. "Do you think the Daily Prophet is right? That
she was spying on Death Eaters and they found out?"
	"We won't know until someone at Hogwarts confirms it, will we?"
Kassie replied. "And no one seemed eager to tell us anything. Probably
thinks we are too young or something."
	"Or wanted us to not worry about it and focus on our learning,"
Lily added, putting her letter up. She laid on her stomach, picking the
remote up and turning the television on. Kassie instantly sat down, her
attention diverted from her letter. Television had enraptured Kassie
from day one, since she hadn't had one at home because her mother was a
witch.
		
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	"Girls! Dinner!" Christine called up sometime later.
	Groaning, Kassie pulled herself away from the comedy show she had
been watching and looked at the bed. Lily was sound asleep, her head
resting against her folded arms. Kassie poked her arm gently. "Lil,
wake up. Your mum is calling us for dinner."
	Half stumbling, Lily yawned and groaned as they descended the
stairs and came into the dining room. A large roasted chicken sat in
the middle of the table, as well as side dishes. Christine was putting
the glasses down when the girls tumbled in, followed shortly by
Petunia.
	Dinner commenced rather silently. Petunia was so ill with not
only Lily and Kassie, but the entire family, that she didn't even look
up from her plate. Not that they talked much anyway, but the silence
seemed thicker this evening. Petunia looked so much on edge with having
Kassie and Lily in the house that the two girls had decided it best to
leave her alone today, lest she blow up. And perhaps it would have
remained an uneventful evening, aside from that, if it hadn't been for
the owl.
	Kassie had just put her last bite of chicken in her mouth when a
large barn own came sweeping in through the kitchen doorway and landed
in front of her. Kassie threw a confused look at the bird that was
clutching the letter addressed to herself. Before she could do more
than reach for the letter, though, Petunia began shrieking.
	"That is filthy!" she spat, pushing her chair back and standing.
Petunia's anger seemed to have been building itself up for a week, and
came rushing out of her in bellowing tones. "Mum, how can you let them
have those things on the table while we are eating?!"
	"I'm sorry Mrs. Evans, I didn't expect..." Kassie began, picking
the bird up and moving away from the table. But Petunia wasn't done.
	"I'm sick and tired of not being able to eat a decent meal in
this house! Freaks! All of you! I--"
	Kassie's eyes were huge and as quickly as she could she took the
letter from the bird and allowed it to leave. Lily's mouth hung open
slightly as her sister's face turned an odd shade of red.
	"Petunia," Daniel Evans said, his voice ringing with warning.
	"--As if it's not bad enough for you to be what you are--"
	"PETUNIA!" Christine screamed, her face contorted with rage. Lily
shrank down in her seat then, trying to will herself not to draw any
more attention. As it was, she was exceptionally glad her mother's rage
wasn't centered on herself.
	"That is quite enough," Christine gritted out, banging her hand
down on the wooden table and causing the nearest plate to jump
slightly. "Go to your room where I will speak to you when I calm down."
	"But Mum, I'm not done eatin--"
	"I don't care," Christine continued. "You don't want to eat at
this table like a civilized young lady, you won't eat at it at all."
	Petunia's face was caught between a look of horror and disbelief.
For several seconds she moved her mouth, but no words came out, making
her appear like a fish with an extremely long nose. Suddenly she
stomped her foot in a childish tantrum and placed both her hands on her
hips.
	"Civilized?" she whispered. "You call sitting at this table with
those two freaks," she spat, jerking her head towards Lily and Kassie,
whose eyes widened, "civilized? Mother, as far as I'm concerned, you
are no better than them!"
	"Now see here!" Daniel thundered, rising out of his chair just as
Christine gasped in outrage. "You will not talk to your mother like
that! You'd better do some quick apologizing, young lady!"
	"NO!" Petunia yelled back, her face still gaining color by the
second. She looked like she might explode, literally, any moment. "I
will not!" And before either parent could say another word, Petunia ran
out of the room and up the stairs.
	Daniel and Christine followed and Lily and Kassie exchanged
glances before rising at the same time. "Oh my," Lily muttered, going
to the door just in time to see her parents disappearing up the hall.
She turned to Kassie. "Should we follow?"
	"I think that might be pushing our luck, do you think? Somehow I
think we may have caused this with our jokes...."
	"Perhaps," Lily replied, looking up the stairs again. "I can't
believe she just did that."
	The two continued to watch the hall and stairwell in silence, but
only a faint shuffling from upstairs and the occasional muffled voice
was the only indication anything was happening. Minutes seemed to tick
by slowly and Lily was almost about to give up when Petunia's bedroom
door crashed open and she came stomping out, carrying a suitcase.
	Lily's mouth dropped. "Where are you going?" she asked in a small
voice when her older sister came to the bottom of the stairs. Petunia
didn't even look her way and only answered when she had the front door
pulled opened. There was a beat up looking black car pulling into the
drive as she spoke; "I'm going somewhere where there are normal
people." And without looking back, she went out and slammed the door
behind her.
	Lily slowly sank down, sitting on the bottom most step. Silence
enraptured the house, broken only by the soft sound of Lily's mother
crying upstairs. She felt sick.
	"This is my fault," she whispered softly, her face buried in her
hands. "This has been coming since I got my first letter."
	"Hey now," Kassie muttered, sitting beside Lily and putting a
comforting arm around her. "This isn't your fault. Petunia is just...
well, she's a Muggle. As Muggle as they come, for that matter. It's not
your fault."
	"Yes, it is," Lily replied, tears filling her green eyes that she
tried unsuccessfully to blink away. "Petunia gave me a choice the day I
left for Hogwarts. She asked me to not go, but I went. And she
swore..." Lily buried her face further so that Kassie almost couldn't
hear what she said. "She swore she'd never be my sister again."
	"Lily Evans, if you step out of the house today and go to that...
that place! You will not be my sister anymore! I mean it!" The words
resounded dully in Lily's head.
	That was two years ago, but they still hurt. Sure they had argued
before Lily's letter arrived, but there had been moments when they
talked. Laughed. And sometimes Lily had hopes they could be real
sisters one day.
	But she had ruined that. And now it was driving a wedge between
her entire family. Petunia had gone, and it was her fault. Silently,
she stood.
	"Lily?" Kassie asked uncertainly.
	The red head didn't reply. Instead she walked up the stairs,
wiping the tears from her face as she went. Somehow... somehow she had
to make this right. She found her mother sitting on the edge of
Petunia's bed, staring around the room with wet eyes. She seemed
different than Lily ever remembered her mother being. For once she
didn't look in control, or calm. She looked crushed.
	"Mum?"
	Christine's eyes flickered at the sound, resting a moment later
on her youngest daughter. "Lily," she replied, trying to force a smile
but not being able to. "Come in."
	Lily walked slowly in the room that Petunia had sent her out of
more than once. She stopped before her mother, looking down at the
woman who had given up so much for her family. She gnawed on her bottom
lip for a moment, glancing at the evening sky through the closed
window. "Mum, I'm sorry."
	"Sorry?" Christine repeated. "Lily, you didn't do anything."
	"Yes I did," Lily insisted. "It's my fault, for being a witch.
But... but I wanted to tell you that Petunia will come back. Olivia,
James's Mum, told me that I could come stay with them anytime I wanted.
She'll take us to King's Cross Station for school. And then Petunia
will come back and everything will be okay again."
	"No."
	Lily sighed. "Mum, Petunia isn't going to come back with me here.
And school starts in a couple of days. If I leave now, you can go get
Petunia and talk to her. She won't come back with me here, you know
that."
	Christine looked up again, tears shining once more in her eyes.
"Lily, if I let you go..." She sighed heavily, suddenly looking much
more than her thirty-seven years. "I'm so scared."
	"Scared?" Lily repeated.
	She blinked, looking up at Lily with eyes so much like Lily's
own. "Yes. You--you're having these visions. And there is some dark
wizard in your world who is killing... In your world." She stopped
short, shaking her head as if just realizing something. "It's like you
don't belong to me anymore. You don't belong here."
	"I do belong here," Lily insisted. "But Hogwarts is... like my
extended home," Lily decided. "I belong there, too." Sighing heavily,
Lily sat beside her mother on the bed, looking at her clasped hands.
"If you don't want me to go to James's, I won't. School starts in a few
days and you can get Petunia then."
	"Daniel is going to get Petunia in the morning," Christine
mumbled, not looking at Lily. There was another silence between mother
and daughter, and Lily felt guilt ripping at her heart. The choices she
had made had put them here. Making her mother and father this upset,
disrupting their family.
	Christine sighed heavily. "Do you think... well, would Olivia
mind Kassie being with you?"
	Lily felt her heart flop in her chest, her hands shaking
slightly. "I don't think so. I can fire call her and ask."
	Suddenly Christine wrapped both her arms around her youngest, a
few tears escaping her already red-brimmed eyes. She squeezed Lily's
shoulders almost painfully tight. "Lily, I love you. I'm so proud of
you. No matter what your do, please don't ever forget that."
	"I won't," Lily promised, hugging her mother back. "I won't."

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	The next morning dawned bright and cool. A wonderful breeze blew
through the open window as Lily sat up and glanced over at Kassie, who
was still snoring softly. Stretching, the red head got up and went to
shower and dress. By the time she returned, Kassie had woken and
repacked most of her belongings.
	"Have you seen my Potions book?" Kassie asked as Lily came in, a
towel wrapped around her hair. "I can't find it.... ah! Never mind. How
did it get under the dresser, I wonder?"
	Lily rolled her eyes, glancing around. She was completely packed,
but had been looking everywhere she went for anything she might have
forgotten. Kassie rushed out to shower and Lily brushed out her hair
and dried it.
	Twenty minutes later the two girls were finally completely
dressed and packed. Morgana's empty cage sat atop Lily's trunk since
she had told Morgana to fly on to James' ahead of them. Together Lily
and Kassie descended the stairs and entered the kitchen.
	Breakfast was a silent affair. Christine looked ready to burst
into tears at the drop of a fork and Daniel had hidden himself behind
his paper for most of the meal. Lily and Kassie ate silently and very
quickly, the former's ears perked and waiting for the tell tale whoosh
of the fireplace that would indicate James had arrived.
	Lily had no more placed her plate in the sink when she heard said
whoosh, followed by voices in the living room. Seconds later, James
came walking towards the kitchen. "Lily?"
	"In here," Lily responded as he entered the room. Olivia Potter
came in behind her son, wearing light silver robes. She smiled warmly
at Lily and Lily couldn't help but smile in return. "Hi."
	"Hello," Olivia replied.
	There was a moment of deep silence that Lily felt was so thick
with tension you could cut it with a knife. Trying desperately to avoid
such tension, she cleared her throat. "I'll just go get my trunk."
	"Do you want me...?" Olivia asked and Lily knew she meant use
magic. She nodded.
	Lily dashed out of the kitchen as fast as she could without
looking like she was fleeing. Kassie was right on her heels, followed
by Olivia. James, for reasons Lily didn't really want to know, had
stayed in the kitchen.
	They arrived in Lily's room and Olivia pulled her wand from her
robes. "Locomotor trunks," she commanded, giving a wave of her wand.
Kassie and Lily's trunks rose into the air. Lily grabbed Morgana's
cage. "Do you have everything?" Olivia asked.
	"I think so," Lily responded. Kassie nodded. "Olivia?"
	"Yes, dear?"
	"Thank you for letting us come over," Lily said, trying not to be
too loud so that her voice wouldn't carry downstairs. "On such short
notice, I mean. My sister... well, I'll explain later."
	"Anytime," Olivia replied, giving Lily a one armed hug since her
other hand was still holding the trunks in the air. "Absolutely anytime
you need to stay at our house, you are welcome to it."
	They descended the stairs, Olivia leading with the trunks.
Christine came in the living room just as Olivia deposited them near
the fireplace, Daniel right behind her.
	There was another moment of silence that was broken this time by
Daniel. He retrieved his wallet from his pants pocket, pulling some
notes out. "They haven't been to, erm, get their school things yet..."
	"Not a problem," Olivia said, smiling. "We can go this afternoon,
if they would like."
	Daniel handed the money to Lily and she put it in her jeans
pocket. "Thank you, Daddy," she muttered and hugged him.
	"I'm going to get Petunia," he said when Lily pulled away. "Are
you coming home for Christmas?"
	"I don't know. I'll write," Lily promised.
	Daniel left the room, leaving Lily facing her mother. James stood
just behind her, giving her a smile of encouragement. He had no idea
what had drove Lily to fire call him so late last night, or why she and
Kassie were coming over. But whatever it was, he was sure it was what
was making her entire family look on emotional edge.
	Lily smiled back as she hugged her mother. "Bye, Mum."
	"Be good, Lily," Christine said, pulling back. Suddenly she
wrapped Kassie in a hug, too. The black hair girl looked slightly
surprised for a moment. "You be good, too, Kassie. And come back
anytime you want."
	"Thank you, Mrs. Evans," Kassie replied, giving her a smile.
	"Olivia, thank you for letting the girls come over," Christine
said to the other woman. Lily glanced between the two and noticed for
the first time how different they were.
	Different, not because Lily's mother had deep brown, almost red
hair and Olivia had black. And not because Olivia was at least three
inches taller than her mother. It was more like they were from
different worlds. And it reminded Lily strongly of her conversation
with her mother the night before.
	They were in different worlds, now. And with Lily standing next
to Olivia, wearing a set of black robes over her jeans and shirt, she
never felt more distant from the Muggle world.
	"You're more than welcome," Olivia replied. She took a pouch from
her robes and held it open for James.
	He took a small pinch, threw it into the fire, and stepped
inside. "Potter Manor!" With a whoosh of emerald green flames, he was
gone.
	Kassie took her trunk and a pinch of the Floo Powder from within
the bag. Throwing it into the fire, she followed James and, in seconds,
was gone. Lily stepped forward, the Floo Powder in one hand and the
handle of Morgana's cage in the other. As she let the powder go, and
the flames turned green once more, Lily stepped into them. The flames
tickled her face, licking around her ears and warming her hands. She
waved once to her mother, called "Potter Manor!" and everything began
to spin.
	The first thing Lily saw when she stopped in James' fireplace
were three heads of black hair. Blinking, she stepped out and away so
that Olivia could follow.
	"Hi, Lily!" Sirius said as soon as she put the cage down and
brushed some of the soot from her robes.
	"Hi, Sirius," she replied, sighing. A part of her really didn't
want to leave her mother, no matter how much the act may help with her
sister. There was a deep sense of foreboding resting in her stomach and
she couldn't shake it.
	"James," Olivia Potter was suddenly standing behind Lily and she
hadn't even heard the flames rise. "Sirius, help the girls take their
belongings up to their room and then come straight back down. They
haven't been to Diagon Alley to get their school books yet and I
thought we'd go ahead and get it out of the way."
	Nodding, Sirius took Lily's trunk from Olivia and James grabbed
Kassie's. Lily, having been to James' rather huge house the summer
before, was completely unscathed by her surroundings. Kassie, on the
other hand, looked at everything in awe as they walked each hall.
	Finally they arrived at the room Lily had used the summer before,
only now there were two smaller beds in the room, rather than one
large. Kassie immediately claimed the bed closest to the window and
Sirius placed Lily's trunk at the foot of the other.
	"Wow! Look at this view!" Kassie squealed, leaning out the
window. Sirius went over to show her the finer points and Lily sat on
her bed.
	For the first time since seeing him in her house, Lily took a
good look at James. He had grown, again. His frame was lanky, but he
wasn't terribly skinny, just slim. His black hair was, of course,
sticking up at many angles and his brown eyes were forever stuck behind
round rimmed glasses.
	"What?" he asked suddenly, breaking the silence. Lily felt
herself blush slightly. "Nothing. You just--grew."
	James laughed. "You're not so short yourself, you know."
	"Yeah, I know," Lily replied. Her last check-up at the doctor had
proved she had added four inches to her height since starting Hogwarts.
But James was still two or three inches taller than herself.
	From the looks of Sirius, James wasn't the only one who had hit
an early growth spurt. Only Sirius seemed broader than James, if only
slightly, and definitely weighed more. His black hair still fell over
his head with an elegance that James would probably never achieve and
his eyes had a sparkle of mischief in them.
	"Young Master!" a voice suddenly squeaked. Lily's head whipped
around to see Tator the house elf standing in the doorway, shaking her
head. "Young Master, your Mother says you'd better be getting
downstairs!" she demanded and with a pop, disappeared.
	"We've been summoned, it would seem," James mumbled, walking
towards the door. To Lily it seemed that it was on the tip of James's
tongue to ask something, but he had changed his mind with the arrival
of the house elf. "Oy! Sirius, let's go."
	Trying to shrug off the feeling of tension the unasked question
had presented, Lily forced herself to laugh when Sirius swung Kassie
over his shoulder and took off out the door.
	"PUT ME DOWN SIRIUS BLACK!" Kassie's voice boomed through the
halls ahead of James and Lily.
	"Not doing it!" Sirius quipped back, followed quickly by a crash
and then; "Ow! What did you do that for?"
	James shook his head dejectedly and hurried to see what Kassie
had done. Lily followed, a slight frown on her face that was quickly
gone as soon as she seen the state Kassie had left Sirius in. He was
bent over, rubbing his lower back and moaning. "I won't be able to walk
for a week!" he complained loudly.
	"Too bad she didn't impair your ability to talk, as well," Olivia
said from the end of the hall where she must have came to see what the
noise was about.
	Lily, James and Kassie laughed appreciatively as Sirius scowled.
James patted him on the head as he passed. "Come on, surely you can see
the humor in this? Someone finally got you, and it was a girl to boot!"
	Sirius straightened, looking like a thought had just struck him
square in the face. Coughing fakely into his hand, Sirius dropped onto
one knee before a very surprised Kassie. "Marry me!" he declared.
Kassie dropped her head into her hands and shook with either laughter
or embarrassment, Lily wasn't sure which. "No way!" she replied,
turning and taking off down the hall.
	"Please?" Sirius called after her. He sprang up, following the
shorter girl as she ran as fast as she could down the halls of Potter
Manor. "Come on, Kassie! I swore the girl that could get the best of me
would be my soul mate!"
	Olivia sighed dramatically. "No one said it wasn't interesting
around here."
	"Too true," Lily replied.

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	The trip to Diagon Alley was, in and of itself, rather redundant.
Or as redundant as things got so far as Sirius was concerned. No rats
turned colors this year, but Lily was sure that was because they didn't
go into the Apothecary. Or it could have had something to do with
Olivia escorting them to each shop. They didn't waste much time, just
gathered their new books and relished other supplies such as quills,
parchment and potion ingredients.
	Perhaps it was because it was the last weekend before school
started, but they didn't spot the usual crowd of students from Hogwarts
wandering the shops. In fact, the only person from Hogwarts that Lily
did see was Hagrid, the grounds keeper. He didn't stop to talk long,
however, just said he was buying fertilizer for his garden and would
see them in a couple of days.
	The four of them traveled back to James's by Floo Powder and
Kassie and Lily went to put their supplies away. Lily was still having
a hard time shaking the feeling of dread in her stomach, but was doing
an admiral job of it when there was a knock on the bedroom door.
	Kassie pulled it open and found James standing in the doorway
with Sirius. "Yes?" she said, eyeing Sirius like the larger boy was
suddenly going to throw her over his shoulder again.
	"Can we come in?" James asked.
	"Sure," Lily replied before Kassie could. The two boys came in,
Sirius shutting the door behind them after checking the hall. Both of
them looked rather serious about whatever they were there for and Lily
couldn't help her hands from twitching. "What is it?"
	James leaned against the dresser and Sirius fell into the chair
by the window. "We just wondered what happened," James suddenly said
into the silence of the room. Sirius nodded his agreement.
	Lily glanced across to the bed opposite of hers at Kassie,
wondering how much of the truth they wanted to tell. Kassie surprised
her by launching into the story from the moment that she arrived at
Lily's house. A few minutes after finishing, Kassie tried to shrug off
her part of the story. "So I ran away and came to Lily's. We played a
few jokes -- harmless, really -- on Petunia and she sort of, well,
exploded at dinner last night."
	Lily tried to keep her voice light as she picked up the story.
"And since I knew there would be no way Petunia would come back to the
house while I was there, I fire called your Mum last night and here we
are."
	James nodded thoughtfully, but the reaction that surprised Lily
the most was Sirius's. He grinned madly. "You ran away from home,
Kassie?" he asked, looking impressed for some reason.
	"To an extent, yes," Kassie replied carefully. "I mean to say,
I'm sure that Aunt Grace knows where I am. In fact..." Kassie jumped
off the bed, throwing her trunk open. "I know she does. The owl that
started the mess at Lily's last night was from her."
	"What did it say?" Lily asked.
	Kassie rummaged through her belongings, looking for the paper. "I
don't know," she said as she searched. "I didn't get much of a chance
to read it, did I?"
	"Suppose not," Lily replied, shrugging.
	Her best friend suddenly sat back on her knees, a triumphant look
on her face and a starch white envelope in her hand. "Found it!" she
confirmed, ripping the envelope open. The four of them sat in silence
as Kassie unfolded the paper and began reading. As she read, Lily
noticed the color draining slowly from her face.
	Lily stood up, coming near Kassie, who suddenly looked like she
might faint any moment. Tentatively she put a hand out. "Kassie...?"The
black haired girl allowed the paper to fall from her hand as her other
hand came up and covered her mouth. James took a step forward and
Sirius rose from his chair worriedly.
	Lily, her hand shaking, picked up the paper and turned it over as
Kassie let out a small scream into her hand and began crying. Looking
confused, Sirius awkwardly put an arm around Kassie as Lily began
reading:

Kassandra,

I hope you are happy now. I received word from your mother's sister
last evening that she was attacked by Dark wizards from your filthy
world. She is dead.

Do not bother to come collect your siblings, I have sent them off to
proper orphanages where they belong. Do not come back, lest I do the
same to you.

Grace

	Lily looked from the letter to her best friend, who was still
sobbing on Sirius's shoulder, and felt her chest contract. If tragedies
came in threes; what could possibly be worse than this?

And there you have why it took me so long to write this chapter. Please
note that I do not like this chapter at all. I'm not very happy with
it, but there is also nothing I can do about it. Sometimes you have to
do what you have to do, and I had do to this. But that doesn't mean I'm
happy with it. It's a bad chapter, and therefore shorter than the
others. I like writing humor more than drama. And this is exactly why
chapter 17 is so hard for me to write. But I'll get it done :)

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