Chapter 14

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As I entered Snape's office, I squeezed Fred's hand, sharing the same scared look. I looked at Harry and he looked scared. "Sit," Snape spat, I sat down, so did Fred. "Dumbledore has figured out what will happen with the summer holi..." he stopped and sneered as Remus came barging in "Sorry I'm late," he gasped, holding a stitch. 

"As I was saying, Mr Potter and Ms Potter will both stay with the Dursleys for a week, then I will come and get Ms Potter, and Professor Lupin will get Mr Potter. They will stay with us for a week, and then we will drop them of at the Burrow." Harry and I both exchanged afraid looks. He started to complain but I cut across him, "But Professor..."

"Please Lily, I've told you before, Severus," Snape asked.

"Severus, Harry and I have never been apart before, except for our dorms," I explained with a sad look on my face, Fred gave my hand a slight squeeze, telling me it was ok. "I don't want to be separate from Harry for a whole week," I continued. Snape looked shocked.

"I'm afraid that there can't be any changes made, Professor Dumbledore has made this decision, you are now excused." Snape said.

Fred guided me to my common room, and then left for Gryffindor tower with Harry. As I jumped on my bed, I saw a small parcel on top of my cushion, next to the open window. I opened it and a note dropped out. It said: 'Place it close to your heart, it will protect your most dire moments'. I looked what was in the box and there was a locket, with the initials SB, I opened it, there was a picture of baby me and Harry, and my parents. I put it on and looked outside, there was a large black-dog howling to the moon, I smiled. I loved dogs and wolves.

As I stepped in transfiguration the next day, Professor McGonagall took me and Harry aside, "Why am I getting a detention? I haven't done anything wrong? Right?" I asked.

She gave me a soothing look, "This isn't about that, and you are not getting a detention by the way. This is about Sirius Black. He was spotted in Hogsmeade yesterday afternoon, and we think he was looking for you." she looked worried, "You both need to promise me not to get into trouble, ok?"

"Ok, we won't get into trouble," Harry and I recited.

"Good, now hop hop, get to your seats," she walked into the classroom.

This lesson went by so slowly, she was talking about animagi, but me, Sydney and Harry were all doing something else, we already knew everything about them, we were animagi! Hermione and Ron looked at her apprehensively, as if she would teach them how to do it today. "Now I will show you how it is done," before she could turn into her tabby cat, my hand shot up straight into the air. "C-can me, Sydney and Harry show them too...?" I asked.

"Ok," Everybody in the class looked at me with a weird expression on their faces. We all focused on turning into our animals until Harry broke into my mind: Look at yourself!!  I looked down and gasped, I wasn't the black panther I usually was, but I was a black shabby dog, the grim, I thought to myself, I focused my mind on turning into the black panther again but I heard an audible gasp, and I was a wolf, I tried again, I was the panther. I wondered, maybe I can turn into any animal?

I tried to be the tabby cat, it worked! "Miss Potter, please come to my office at the end of the day," Minnie requested, I nodded.

The day couldn't pass by any slower, with History of Magic, Professor Binns didn't make it anymore interesting. As the last minute ended, I jumped up, packed my things and almost, just almost, didn't sprint to McGonagall's office. "I need to tell you something, Miss Potter..." she stopped, "I figured," I mumbled under my breath. 

"You have a special gift, multiple to be exact. You are a very talented young witch, you are a parselmouth, an accomplished transfigurer, you can do charms and other magic well above your year ... and a animagie, very impressive I must say."

"You said it wrong, it is animagi, not animagie," I tell her. I expected something like, "yes, that is what I meant to say, of course. An old mind can make mistakes sometimes. The real answer was nothing like it. "No, I said it correctly. Animagie, is when a person can change into every animal at will." she said. I was shocked. I has thought that it was probably just a glitch, like a mistake in magic. That was wrong. "Well, all I have to say is, be careful Potter, there are dangerous people out there, who would want to use you for this. Now, of you go," 

As I left for Remus's office, I filled Harry in with everything that Minnie told me, "Wow, and I thought that being an animagi was being hard and impressive," I giggled. When we reached Remus's office, I knocked, and a familiar voice said, "Come in," we did.

"I got 3 things to say, 1, do you know what an animagie is?" I started.

"Yes I do, why?"

"Because I am one," I said. His expression was priceless.

"The other thing I wanted to say was that you promised to start giving us defense lessons against dementors." I say.

"Ok, this is a bit of very complicated magic that I am going to teach you. It is called the patronus charm. You need to think of a very happy memory and say the following incantation; 'Expecto Patronum', ok?" 

"Got it." Harry and I answered in unison.

"I looked around the castle and I found a boggart lurching in my desk drawer, so, we will use this. Harry first now," Harry stepped in front of me, as I took a step back, I didn't want to ruin this for Harry. He tried really hard, but most of the time there was only a silver mist coming out. Remus gave Harry a bit of chocolate, and then it was my turn. He said that he didn't expect any of us to be able to do this but I was confident, I was sure I could.

"Get ready Lily, think about your happiest memory," he encouraged me, I merely nodded, putting all my thoughts to the memory when Hagrid gave us our letter. He pulled the drawer open and the boggart took the form of a dementor with a loud whoosh.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!!" I bellowed, it worked. Out of my wand came a silver mist, which quickly to the form of a female deer, and it cantered at the dementor. "Ridikulus," I added as an afterthought.

Remus and Harry both stared at me with a look of incredible disbelief. "Take some chocolate," Remus thrust a whole bar of chocolate in my hand. I took it gratefully, making a patronus made me dizzy.

Harry started speaking, "If I didn't see what you just did, I would never have believed that you just made a fully corporeal patronus on your first try." I nodded, I wouldn't have believed it either.

As I headed back to Slytherin dorms, I made Harry promise that he would only tell Hermione and Ron about this, and that there weren't to tell anybody else. As I went to tell Sydney about what I just did, Corvus cornered me.

And what he was about to do, scared me to death...

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