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Poison Prince and Brave Princess Part I-Chapter 1

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The woman in the boy dormitory

After a night full of dreams about the books she was woken up by seldom pokes and whispers around her. She turned around lying on her back her eyes still closed.

“Woah...” she heard a very young male voice say.

“It...it’s a...a woman...” said another young male voice.

The whispers died out suddenly when she decided to squint carefully. There were five shadows around her bed. One second, five shadows around her bed? She quickly flung her eyes open and stared around. She wasn’t in her flat anymore. She wasn’t even sure to be anywhere close to home. The room she was in was circular and had a very high ceiling. The walls were built of greyish and old bricks that reminded of a castle. The five shadows around her bed were boys, maybe between 10 and 12 years old. One of them was black.

“Wow...” said a red-haired boy on the left side and eyeballed her not even trying to hide his curiosity. She knew this boy from somewhere but she couldn’t yet remember where from.

Lillian examined them all one after another feeling like an animal in the zoo and then gulped as she reached the last of them. That boy was slender with messy black hair, glasses and as green eyes as herself. But the thing that frightened her most was the scar on his forehead shaped like a lightning-bolt. It hit her like an anvil and her guts felt like they were knotting up in her body.

“H...Harry...P...Potter...” she stammered and gulped. Harry himself was totally caught by surprise so he didn’t answer, he just stared at her. Her eyes wandered from one face to the other quickly her face more and more a grimace of total astonishment. It was quite obvious that the other boys could only be his dormitory mates. The red-haired one was almost certainly Ron Weasley, Harry’s best friend.

“Who...who are you?” a shy voice finally asked her. It was the round-faced boy next to Harry and in her opinion that could only be Neville Longbottom.

She opened her mouth to answer but no words came out so she closed it again just to give it another try a few seconds later, again no success. She then slowly shook her head and pulled her blanket over her face, closed her eyes and breathed in and out deeply several times.

“It’s just a wicket dream, it’s a dream...” she mumbled and counted to ten slowly. Finally she moved the blanket away from her face again and then opened her eyes slowly. She was still in this room and there were still these boys around her.

“He asked you something” said Harry in a voice that told that he was trying to be very brave.

She looked at Neville and took a deep breath again. “My name is Lillian” she finally said with all calmness she was able to gather.

The boys looked at one another and then Harry nudged Neville and whispered something. Neville nodded slowly and turned around to leave the room. He went over to a spiral staircase and as soon as he was gone Lillian was able to hear a young female voice asking:

“Good Morning Neville. What happened, why are you so pale?”

“There...there is a woman...in...in our dormitory...” he answered with a trembling voice.

“A woman? In the boy dormitory?” asked the girl with a hint of suspicion and concern in her voice.

A minute later there were steps outside and a girl with bushy brown hair in black robes entered the room. Lillian now was totally lost for words. But so were the boys around her bed. Only the girl stared at her with a piercing look and then turned around leaving the room again without saying a word. Approximately ten minutes later there were steps again and a severely looking woman in a midnight-blue cloak and a pointed hat in the same colour entered the room followed by Neville and the girl with the bushy hair.

“Go down into the Great Hall – now!” she ordered the boys and the girl, who in Lillian’s opinion could only be Hermione Granger, and followed them down the spiral staircase. Apparently she wanted to make sure they really left the tower.

“But Professor can’t we wait in here?” Lillian heard Harry ask but the woman only said:

“No Potter – you will go into the Great Hall!”

After a short moment she finally returned, her wand drawn to stand at the foot of the bed. Then she suddenly dropped the wand onto the mattress and quickly picked it up again without taking her eyes off Lillian. Staring at her with a, for some reason, unbelieving expression on her face she eventually spoke, her voice was calm but Lillian could hear the worried undertone in her voice.

“Lily?”

Lillian raised an eyebrow. Did this woman, who was obviously no one less than Minerva McGonagall the Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts and the Head of Gryffindor House, call her ‘Lily’? All of a sudden there were a lot of wild theories in her head about what this was all about but the only thing that was actually plausible was that this was a wicked dream. Slowly she sat up in her bed and looked around the room shortly before looking back at McGonagall again. She apparently really was in the first year boy dormitory of Gryffindor with its four-posters. Only she seemed to have her own bed with her that was standing where there was the most space in the room. She took a deep breath and began to speak.

“Yes and no.” Now McGonagall raised her eyebrows but remained silent. “My friends call me Lily yes, but my real name is Lillian Ellen Block. I can’t tell you why I am here and how it is even possible, but I know where I am and who you and the others are.”

She must sound totally hilarious the way she said this but it was the truth. McGonagall seemed to be lost for words. She just went on looking at her with this unbelieving expression on her face. After a while, as if she wanted to check if Lillian was telling the truth, she asked:

“Where are you and who am I?” Her voice was quivering with excitement.

“I am in the first year boy dormitory of Gryffindor within the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. You are Professor Minerva McGonagall the Head of Gryffindor House and Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts. The subject you are teaching is Transfiguration.” For some reason Lillian’s voice was totally calm as she said this. Actually she even sounded as if she had just read all this from an official letter.

McGonagall stared at her half excited and half worried then she breathed in deeply, swung her wand and a ghost-like creature shaped like a cat appeared. Lillian knew that this was a corporal patronus. The cat disappeared through the wall. No five minutes later a phoenix patronus appeared and said with the voice of a wise old man:

“Please meet me in my office and bring her with you.” Then the patronus dissolved in the air.

“Was that the patronus of Professor Dumbledore?” Lillian asked and with another worried and unbelieving look McGonagall nodded. “Well he said to bring me around with you to his office but I unfortunately have nothing but this pyjama to wear...” she continued and finally got up from her bed. Professor McGonagall took another deep breath, swung her wand once again and suddenly Lillian was wearing a common jeans, a common T-Shirt, socks and even shoes. Also her hair was brushed and flew softly over her shoulders.

“Follow me,” said Professor McGonagall and walked out of the dormitory down into the empty common room “and no word until we are there.”

Lillian silently followed McGonagall through the common room and the portrait of the fat woman through different corridors and down several staircases to the third floor where they stopped in front of the stone gargoyle that led up to Dumbledore’s office.



~(SPOILER) WARNING~

Please only read this story, when you are familiar with the Harry Potter books and Movies or when you don't mind being spoilered about their contents!

I suggest you do not read the story when you are under 18 years of age. While this is only the first part of the story, and contains only the mature content WARNING filter on some chapters, future stories might contain strict maturity. I have to bow to the dA policy for this even though I personally consider my hints on sexual topics to be minor. So if you are under 18 years of age you have to be aware of, that you might not be able to ever (fully) read other parts of this story though you are most likely able to read this one (as mature warnings leave you with the decision of viewing or not viewing).

~Grammar, Punctuation and Choice of Words~

I'm not a native speaker but decided to write this story completely in English. In the past I had a lot of issues to translate my stories to english without either losing the meaning or the beauty of the style. That is the reason I wrote this in English because I planned to submit it to dA. I will possibly translate it back to German someday but don't really hope for it to really happen.

The story is mainly written in British English but can partly contain American English words. Also please bear with any punctuation or grammar issues as I have no money to get this proofread properly. I know a few people who would do it but they won't do it for free and I can totally understand that as this story counts 44.895 words. My choice of words might also sometimes not be the best - partly because of not being a native speaker and partly because my writing style tends to be a bit off-the-natural at times.

If you have suggestions about better choice of words or want to correct grammatical/punctuation issues, please NOTE me about it. Seriously - I don't want Grammar-Nazi comments!

You may also want to forgive me that some chapters are longer or shorter than others. Please refrain from complaining about this little flaw :aww:

~About the (creation of the) story in General~

This is somewhat a love story. It mirrors MY personal views and opinions about the main characters and I develop them the way I consider appropriate.

- You don't like the way I develope the characters? Don't read any further then. And most certainly don't complain. Thanks

The story is taking place in the main timeline and follows the book contents as close as possible though I allowed myself to change minor happenings and might have a slightly different timeline of happenings here and there. Certain scenes might also include contents from the movies but ONLY if it wasn described differently in the books or if the books left room for these little changes. But I mainly focused on the book contents.

I also based this on facts that J.K.Rowling revealed in either interviews or exclusive material on pottermore.com. While I don't directly include exclusive content some of the things are losely based on that knowledge. I did a lot of research for this story to be as consistent as possible. You may forgive me if some things might appear to be a bit - strange.

- You find stories that happen during the main timeline boring? Ah well happens. Not my issue to be honest ^^ But I'd be happy if you gave it a read anyways. Maybe you end up positively surprised - who knows?!

This story somewhat support the SevLily/Sevilly pairing though I am definitely not someone who ships pairings in general. I just got carried away by the tragedy of the Snape&Lily thing so to speak. I've never been a "fan" ov Snape or any other character in the books. Neither do I consider myself a "fan" of the books or movies. I just enjoy them - that's about it. So this fanfiction is merely a tribute to a part of the story that has somewhat touched something inside of me. That doesn't happen often so it was something special.

- You don't support/ship SevLily/Sevilly? No problem. Each to their own. Look for another story to read then :aww:

The title was quite a challenge on its own :D It used to have another title but it didn't happen to really suit the story so I had a hard time finding a better one.

~The Music~

While writing this story I mainly listened to various pieces of the Harry Potter Movie Scores on youtube. I created my own Playlist for that pupose, you can listen to it here: [link]

Sometimes when I got sick of listening to the soundtrack over and over again I switched to another Playlist Series I created that contains only instrumental music such as Piano, violin, guitar but also electronic music with no vocals (or only very very few), Anime Themes, ... . You find the first part of the Instrumental Series here: [link]

Thanks to all the great musicians :aww:

~RULES~

- You may not display this story ANYWHERE!!! Period! No Exceptions!
- You may however add the Story to your group gallery.
- You may draw/paint Art about this story but have to credit it in your Artist's Comment.
- You may upload your FF-Art to Facebook/tumblr/etc. Please ask me for permission though and don't forget to credit me.
- You may submit FF-Art as a print on dA only!
- You may not use my Character "Lillian Ellen Block" in Lit-Submissions without my written permission! That goes for dA and outside-dA!

~Special Thanks and Credits~

All Harry Potter Characters and Places used in the Story are intellectual property of Joanne K. Rowling. I do NOT intend to infringe copyright or to make money with this.

Special Thanks go to:

~njp72 and `FarDareisMai for bearing with my questions about grammar, punctuation and choice of words ^^;
Please visit their galleries and show them some love :heart:

`mintyy for helping me sort my mind to come up with a better title :huggle:
Please also visit her gallery and show her some love :heart:

=RedPassion for inspiring me with her "The Beauty And The Bat" artworks. I have to admit that I never read the story so possible overlappings or similarities are pure coincidence.
But I strongly suggest you visit her gallery and show her some love - she deserves it! :heart:

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Thank you for reading this and for reading the story. I hope you enjoy it and would greatly appreciate it if you comment, add it to your favorites and/or recommend it to your friends if you do so. If you however do NOT enjoy/like it please refrain from trolling and hateful comments. :aww: I put a lot of work and effort into this.

Greetz

Rike
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Sansji's avatar
Well to start with, the introduction seems nice, as your writing style does that too. Not that I'm a huge potter fan, but still reading your fan-fiction reminds of ye old good time. ^-^ Sorry if I can't give any writing advice, I'm a kind of rookie on writing myself, so it would be wrong to give advice to someone who actually has experience XD

fav part in here: Lillian starts to notice where she is, and whit who~