Bittersweet
Ch.2- Finding Out
I try to make a sound but no one hears me
I'm slipping off the edge
I'm hanging by a thread
I wanna start this over again
So I try to hold onto a time when nothing mattered
And I can't explain what happened
And I can't erase the things that I've done
No I can't
How could this happen to me
I made my mistakes
I've got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
Simple Plan- Untitled
The next day, it became apparent what the horrible thing was that happened. The Daily Prophet had a disturbing article on the front page.
Death of Aurors in Death Eater Attack
In Death Eater attack last night on South Harborton, He Who Must Not Be Named murdered two highly respected aurors, Oliver and Madeline Potter, personally. The attack on the muggle town was unexpected, and the Potter's were the only aurors to respond. They died protecting many muggles, and took over 10 Death Eaters with them. There were no other casualties in this horrid event. The Ministry is being questioned about the lack of employees responding to the attack. The Potters died valiantly and there will be a memorial for them in the atrium next Saturday.
Remus Lupin had the Daily Prophet delivered to him, and then James and Sirius Black would read it. "So what's in the news today, Moony?" James asked. "Nothing," Remus said much too quickly, while trying to hide the Prophet from his friends. There are many ways to be told that your parents have died, and learning from a friend's newspaper that they died because they were the only ones to do their job was not an ideal one.
"Come on Moony, you know you are horrible at lying." Sirius said with a wicked looking his eyes. He pinned Remus's arms behind his back while James grabbed he paper.
"Ha! Now we'll find out what…" Sirius started, but stopped when he saw the headline. " Oh, no, Prongs, speak to me, please. Come on Prongs," Sirius begged.
Gregory Goyle came up to the four friends. Lupin said," We are preoccupied right now, gorilla, so leave before we die from the stench of your body odor."
"You know my friend Lucius Malfoy, right? He wanted to deliver this message to you, Potty." Goyle threw a bit of parchment on the table. James picked it up in a dreamlike trance.
Hello, Potter. I have had the great pleasure of helping kill your parents. I promise you, they did suffer. I made sure that they were tortured physically and mentally before the Dark Lord cast the horrid curse. They begged to Him, not for their lives, but for yours. He will come for you, and make you and everyone you hold dear pay for the lives of the servants your parents took with them.
James handed the note to Sirius. Sirius called Lucius Malfoy something that would have given him detention for a month. James's face showed no emotion. He got up and said only two words- tell Lily. He then walked out of the hall in a determinedly forced slow stride. Before the Great Hall doors closed, he had broken into a run.
James did the only thing he could do- run. He ran, and ran, and ran, until he could not run anymore. He went to the Room of Requirement. When he went inside, it had a big, fluffy, four-poster bed, and many fragile objects that looked as though they would break at the lightest touch.
James grabbed the nearest objects and threw them across the room. With a sickening crash, they shattered. James felt savage triumph as he could now control something in his crashing world. After several minutes, breaking things did no satisfy him. A small pocketknife appeared. He grabbed it, and sat on the bed. He cut his arm again and again. He smiled at the blood running down his arm, at the pain coursing through him. He sliced his arm again and again, until his eyes rolled to the back of his head and fell unconscious.
Sirius Black did not want to tell Lily why James was gone from the common room. As it was Saturday, they didn't have class, and it didn't go unnoticed that the Marauders were a member short.
"Hey, guys. Where's James? I need to ask him about something special we're planning as Heads." Lily asked.
"Erm… well…" Sirius started. The grief was too near to say that Mr. and Mrs. Potter were dead. It would make it final if he said it out loud. Sirius loved the Potters. They were his family. His cousins weren't his family. His brother and parents weren't his family. Remus and Peter and James and his parents were his family. Now they were gone.
"Lily, we don't know where James is. We know why he isn't here though." Remus said quietly. He handed her the newspaper and the note, hesitantly. "Oh, no. Remus you must know, you must. I have to find him. I HAVETO FIND HIM!!!" Lily screamed with tears running down her face. Remus shook his head somberly, and turned to Sirius.
"Sirius, if anyone deserves to know, she does. Get the map." Sirius got up and went up the dormitory stairs, coming down a few minutes later. He handed Lily a piece of parchment and muttered something while he tapped it. It showed James Potter in the Room of Requirement.
"Thank you Sirius, Remus," She hugged them and ran out the portrait hole heading towards the 7th floor.
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