The Potter's Daughter

The other hero

   "What a beautiful morning to start my first day at Hogwarts..."

It was my first thought as I started opening my eyes. Then I remembered what had happened. Maybe it was still happening. By that thought my eyes were already wide opened and I sat down trying to remember where I had passed away even though my back was aching really bad because of the sudden move. Maybe my friends were still there wrapped and locked with Death Eaters.

   Wherever I was tough, someone had moved my sleeping body because I remembered to be somewhere big, with space for all the students and professors. The place were I was however, was full of beds. But not like in my dormitory, the beds were white and all standardized. Some of them had curtains in a square shape around it, the one in front of me had a boy with white hair laid. I couldn't recognize him and when I tried  to my vision blurred again, like it did yesterday but as I shook my head it came back to normal. 

   As I kept inspecting the place I saw a big hole in the wall in an arch shape: the exit. Unfortunately, when I tried to unwrap myself off the sheets  to get out of there my arms didn't manage to lift up the surprisingly heavy blankets. I was so surprised that my arm started hurting after my second tentative on getting out of bed that I only noticed the tall figure walking towards me when it was about three feet away. I immediately started shivering and my heart beats accelerating.

  I was even more surprised tough when I unconsciously smiled and sighed in relief when I saw green eyes under arched eyebrows. "Dad!" I said, then we hugged a very relieved and warm hug. I thought that it couldn't be better but then my mom entered in the hug too. I felt tears in my face but they weren't mine. Neither the were my dad's, my mom was crying. I'd never even seen her get sad in front of me. Crying was simply something way out of boundaries. I looked up to her face, worried of what could have happened to make her cry. But she was smiling. She looked prettier than ever even with tears all through her cheeks and neck. 

   Dad seemed as surprised as me but when we parted I didn't give him the chance so say anything to mom. "Where is everybody? Are they ok?" I asked, Harry sighed and sat on one side of the bed. My mother did the same. "Lilly do you have any idea of what happened yesterday? Do you have any idea of what you did yesterday?", when my dad finished the phrase I thought my head would blow because of such a headache. "Yes, I have an idea father...I've got paralyzed with the Petrificus Totalus spell and then I passed away. I'm not a hero but I want to know if the others are ok!" I said. My eyes were watering, I couldn't believe my dad was so disappointed with me only because I didn't save the day. "She doesn't remember!" My mom said laughing, "she saved the whole school and doesn't remember!" She covered her face and started laughing. But it was a different laugh. It was the laugh she used when some player in her matches went against the rules and nobody else noticed. A seeking-revenge laugh. Something was telling me that whatever the Death Eaters had done yesterday my mom wasn't happy with it, at all. 

  "Honey," She said, putting her hands down and looking at me, "If you aren't a hero, I honestly don't know who is." And just like that, they both told me about what had happened not yesterday but two days ago. I've been sleeping for more than 48 hours! "No, you're lying to me... You don't need to tell me stories...I don't remember doing all that and unless I'm a sleepwalker I didn't do all that you're saying. But thanks for trying..." My parents looked at each other and seemed to be talking through their eyes. Then, my dad looked at me and with a very soft voice said: "remember the first man who...who cursed you? Well, it looks like that wand wasn't his and when he tried to apply a spell in your headmaster it split and went half to the nearest person and half to poor Minerva..." then as if they had practiced many times, my mom continued. "Lee, you were the person laying on the ground, the nearest person to him. And-and the spell was...the spell was Obliviate".

  Then I understood. After being tortured three times straight erasing my memory is the best that guy could do? For some reason, I started to laugh and suddenly the memories of the attack started to come back. "It's true! I remember! I actually did what you said, I freed the professors and...wow...what happened next?". I asked and my worries came straight back, "They almost didn't make it...but then one student of your house, dear, he made his move and all the others followed him! And together the Slytherins freed the other students and they all helped...Like, like a..." I interrupted my dad, "like a family"he took his eyes out of the wall and faced me, and mommy, "Yes Lee, like a family" she said.

   Everything was perfect! Until of course, the blond guy in the bed in front of me decides to wake up. "You're awake!" he shouts and then I recognize him by his annoying accent: Scorpius. "So here's our other hero!" My dad said happily. I thought it was a joke. It had to be! Scorpius? being nice? Never! Mainly with me and besides, he's the most annoying person I've ever met in my whole life! Including Albus...

  "Are you guys kidding me?" I asked in the most bitter tone I could project, "Whatever you say, Potter, I'll  call James and the others, they were expulsed from the infirmary...". The second he stepped out I looked at my dad's face, he couldn't be serious, my look said everything. "Lil, come on! Without him...we don't know what could have happened. He acted the best way he could and we must be thankful..." Harry said, "what about me?" I asked unhappily "I was the one cursed! He just chose the side he wanted to stay, not a big deal!". 

   However, this was my mom's turn to interfere "Lillian Potter! Is not up to you to measure someone's attitudes! Besides, me and your dad already decided: you are definitely in great danger in this school since the DeathEaters sons and daughters are now allowed to attend Hogwarts" she stopped for a moment, looked to my dad, they talked through their looks and he raised one eyebrow as if saying sorry for something. She quickly returned to her speech, "And you need someone that isn't being chased by them to protect you". That was it for me. I wouldn't tolerate having a person walking behind me 'protecting me'. If there was someone who did not need that it was me. 

   "No." It's all I said, she knew I wouldn't accept it. She herself had the experience of  being treated as someone incapable of protecting herself and knew how bad it was but above all, I was her little woman, she loved me from the moon and back and if to keep me safer she would have to have me mad at her, it was a cheap price to pay. The worst part was that she knew I knew that. And she would pay it. "Lee, don't make it harder ok? Maybe it will be fun! Besides, he's your friend isn't he?" Dad said, breaking a long exchange of looks between me and mom. Of course we weren't friends, we never got along, I always thought he didn't like me, but had to bear me because of Alb... "If you are going to keep going with the idea that I need a protector why can't it be one of my brothers? Or anyone else? Why does it have to be him?" I desperately said, empathizing the word 'him'. 

  "Because, Moony, now you're at the same house, it's easier for him to keep a look on you..." Someone answered but I didn't listen to the phrase. From the word Moony on my eyes were wide open once again, there was only one person in this big world to call me Moony, and I knew exactly who it was: "ROSE!"I immediately looked to the entrance and shouted. Then she jumped in my bed. We hugged for minutes, maybe hours, I surely could stay there forever. I had missed her so bad last summer when she left to Beaxbatons that it took me a couple of minutes to actually believe she was there, with me. 

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