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Back the memory trail

“Well that was a very interesting way of expressing your current thought process but, well nothing less was expected of Sirius Black, the prankster extraordinaire and Marauder magnifique.” Said another figure, just arriving.
“Brother dear. The job is done I presume.” Cassiopia asked. He nodded. “Now back to our talk, I shall introduce my people to you all, though your questions may wait for the end. I shall also show you everything after introduction in pensieve that I have acquired. The girl to my right is Hermione Black Malfoy. To my left is Draconis Malfoy.
He is Neville Longbottom. He has just returned from something I could have trusted on him only. The blonde girl with a dreamy look is Luna Lovegood Prewett. Next to her is Fleur Dleacour Pretwett. Then is Daphne Greengrass Zabini. Then we have Astoria Greengrass Nott and in the end is Susan Bones Wood. Next to Draco is Blaise Zabini, George Prewett, Bill Prewett,  Charlie Prewett, Viktor Krum Prewett, Theodore Nott and Oliver Wood. As you can see, we are mix of light and dark families. So what happened that they joined the Dark Lady? And why did a Potter, which is predominantly a neutral leaning towards light, become a Dark Lady? To know that, please go into the pensieve. I hope you know how to tell that a memory is fake or not?”

Dowager Longbottom nodded along with Lord Malfoy.
“Good. So go into the pensieve. When you come out, you may ask me questions. Severus Snape, you are a spy. More observant. I shall expect more questions and even answers from you. And before you sneer at me, I am not disrespecting you. An the contrary, I respect you quite a lot. You gave your life to save me.”
Severus Snape did not know how to react to it. He did not know how did the girl know him so well. So he just settled for a nod.

INTO THE PENSIEVE.
They were in a suburban muggle home. There they saw a small girl of barely three years of age mopping the floor. She had the dreadful Potter hair and the eyes the colour of the killing curse. It was Lilith Potter. Try as she might , she could not do it properly and in the process of trying, she broke a vase. The vase came down with a crash. Suddenly a huge man the size of a whale came out and saw the broken vase. He soon started to turn purple.
The girl started to whimper and scrambled back from were she was kneeling. “So.. sorry unca Vernon. I…I tried.” She said, tears leaking from her eyes.
“You freak. We feed you. Give you clothes. Give you roof to stay under and this is how you pay us back.” He grabbed her by her scruff and threw her. She landed on the glass and started bleeding. She was whimpering with pain.
“No food for you for two days. Clean it up and then you will be locked in your cupboard for two days. Good for nothing freak.” He spit on her ignoring the obvious oain the little girl was in.
She cleaned it quickly, or as quickly she could. Her hands cut more from carrying the glass pieces but she did not say anything. As soon the floor was cleared, the fat man again grabbed her and threw her in the cupboard under the stairs.
The girl lay inside in so much pain that it broke the hearts of those watching. She sniffed and cried -" Mum Dad why did you leave me. Why cannot anyone else look after me?” and broke down into tears.

They shifted to the new scene. They were in the same house, in the kitchen. Lilith was standing on a stool and did not look a day longer than four years. She was making scrambled eggs, but it looked like it was burnt a bit.
A horse like woman entered the kitchen. “ Make the eggs faster freak. My baby Dudders is hungry and needs is hungry. Wait. Have you burned it? You freak. How dare you burn my Dudders eggs? You are just jealous of him that he is such a marvelous child and you are freak. First your Mother goes and gets herself blasted and leave you on our doorstep. We give you so much and this is what you do. I will teach you what should happen with freaks like you.”
She took a pan and hit the child hard on her head. She was knocked of the stool.
“ No food for you for the next week. Freak.” She grabbed the girl and pushed her into her cupboard.
Little Lilith cried her heart out, wishing for someone to save her from the Dursleys.


The next scene started with Lilith running at full speed. Some boys were calling her freak and chasing her. But it seemed that Lilith was too fast for them.
Suddenly her foot caught on a rock and she fell. The boys were upon her in no time. The gang led by her cousin Dudley started beating her with punches and kicks.
After sometime they left, leaving a bloody and bruished Lilith behind.


The scene shifted to something similar. Lilith was running from her tormentors. She looked about five or six.
The boys were almost upon her. She was getting desperate and wished hard for somewhere safe.
Suddenly she felt as if she was being sucked in a tube. When she opened her eyed which had not realised that she had closed, she was on the top of a roof.
When her aunt and uncle came to know about it they ahouted on her for hours. Her uncle beat her black and blue. Or rather red. She was locked in her cupboard for two whole weeks.


It showed Lilith getting letter from Hogwarts, her adventures there. The war, deaths and destruction. It showed the death of Voldemort. (As in the movies with gender changes and instead of Golden Trio, the Golden four, Ron Weasley twin Scarlett Weasley. The love story is between Ron and Lilith)


It showed the Gringotts scene when they all came to know the truth. Then how the Shadows came into being with Dark Lady Morgana at it’s helm.
They saw the truth serum being given to Arthur and Molly and them spilling all the truths and secrets of Dumbledore. 
They saw The Shadows working for Lady Hecate.
They finally saw the scene when the final conversation with Lord Death took place before coming back to the past.
When they were ejected from the pensive Sirius ran to Cassiopia and hugged her.
At first she was shocked. No one hugged her ever because she did not like physical contact. But then realised that it was her father and hugged him back. She didn’t know why but her eyes were stinging and she felt safe from the world in his hands.
Others also looked quite shaken from what they had witnessed specifically the abuse the girl in front of them had suffered.
“Everything will be fine child. I will not let anyone hurt you.” Said Sirius
No one had ever said this to her. The walls that she had built around herself broke in her father’s arms and she allowed herself to do something she had not actually did since the final battle.
She cried.