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Turning tides	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 6133 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter franchise, so obviously I'm broke since I don't make a dime. If I did, Ginny would have died instead of Fred. Since I don't, I'm going to have fun and write AU HP.

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Title: Turning tides
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: Preslash snupin and preslash JamesxLily
Notes: Marauder Era. AR/AU. Evil Dumbledore.
Summary: Lily and Severus recently learned they were twins and are now attending Durmstrang with fellow former Hogwarts student Remus Lupin. There they shall learn new subjects and make interesting friends. Durmstrang has a more lax view of Dark Arts and Dark Creatures. Who exactly is the author of their Dark Arts textbook?
A/N: I know I said that this would primarily revolve around James, Lily, Remus and Severus but I realised I skipped over plot points in my hurry to deal with the Horcruxes...
This is my attempt to rectify the oversight...

Chapter 4
December 18,1971
Lily had been writing James since her first week at Durmstrang, Remus had reluctantly written to him as well. Not that they were conscious of what the other wrote…
Lily, Severus and Remus had grown closer since all of their classes were together taught in lecture form.
They may still be in separate Houses but they were still close, they had acquaintances in their Houses.
Lily was close to the Highmaster’s granddaughter Anastasia, in fact they shared a room so that Lily could spend time with an equal while Remus was still rooming with the Frauwaz of House Hróðvitnir and Severus likewise was rooming with the Frauwaz of House Hogni.
Severus and Lily reluctantly bid Remus goodbye, their friend was going to spend the holidays with Greyback’s back.
Lily had been invited by James and his father Charlus to spend part of Solstice with them…
She was nervous about leaving Severus alone, not because she didn’t trust Aurelius or Alaric, Lily did trust them but she didn’t want Severus to feel abandoned by her.
Severus on the other hand guessed that despite James Potter’s early treatment of him, they were growing close via their letters and Severus was willing to ignore James’ mistreatment if he had turned over a new leaf and never mistreated him again. That didn’t mean he would forgive James Potter, it merely met that he wouldn’t stand in the way of Lily’s Happiness. Aurelius must have his reasons for agreeing to the match even if James Potter had equally made the elder wizard’s life miserable before he fell back into the past.
Severus was curious why he was going to be dropped off with Lily to spend time with the Evans…
What sort of memories did Aurelius have of Lily’s adoptive parents?
XooooooX
December 20, 1971
The two siblings were surprised to learn that Lucius and Andromeda were to take them to Diagon Alley to shop for solstice gifts the Monday following their return to Merrivale Manor.
“I’m going into Muggle London later this week and I will take you shopping for the Evans’.” Aurelius promised surprising them further.
Severus and Lily agreed to the shopping trips and were surprised to receive leather purses of money to purchase their solstice gifts.
Andromeda and Lucius arrived promptly at nine; the Slytherin prefects seemed to have changed little since their removal from Hogwarts.
Then again, Lucius seemed far more aware and indeed shy around Aurelius. Behaviour that his betrothed Andromeda was certainly not unobservant of…
The four then left via floo…
Their first visit was to Flourish and Blotts because of their mutual love of books with their guardian.
The shopping trip allowed them to learn from Lucius in Severus’ case about proper gifts and Lily was able to become closer to a British witch who was her social equal.
Their social friendships with Lady Andromeda Black and the Honourable Lucius Malfoy would likely have a positive influence in their future interactions with their social peers…
XooooooX
Soon after returning from shopping, Aurelius who was home alone at Merrivale took them out on the grounds in search of the perfect tree.
Severus had on rare occasions been invited to accompany the Evans on such an endeavour so it was Lily who knew the right sort of tree.
Given that the ceiling of the drawing room was much higher then those in the living room of the home that Lily spent her childhood in they could choose a much taller tree.
Once the tree was chosen, Aurelius used a spell to cut it down and they used a stasis charm to prevent it from littering needles everywhere. Likewise, Aurelius cast a spell to levitate the tree to hover at waist height as he accompanied Severus and Lily back to the Manor.
A place had been cleared in the drawing room and a tree stand was already waiting so that was where they placed their chosen tree.
Both Severus and Lily were taught charms to decorate the tree with strings of holly berries, fairy lights and conjured candles.
There were boxes arranged around the chairs that surrounded the tree stand along with side tables with steaming cups of chocolate and biscuits.
The odd family set about sipping chocolate and nibbling on biscuits while the sorted through the ornaments.
Given the natural perfectionism intrinsic to their characters, it was no wonder that they were all equally keen on creating the ‘perfect tree’.
Which would take hours and much debate before Lolly called them to supper…
After supper was for slipping away to wrap gifts and ‘meditate’ on the importance of light according to their guardian…
The twin connection with Severus was strange enough to get used to but for Lily to feel that connection with both Aurelius and Severus who were over twenty years about in appearance as well as life experience was unnerving.
XooooooX
December 22, 1971
Waking up Solstice morning was a bit like waking up on Christmas for Lily…
The same sort of excitement filled her…
Yet for Severus and likely Aurelius, due to their cold affectionless childhoods they probably had few good memories…
Lily wanted to change that, while Aurelius was essentially her legal guardian if not acknowledged sire, he was in truth her twin just far older.
Buying for Aurelius wasn’t much different then buying for Severus, luckily Andromeda was keen at potions so she was exceedingly helpful in acquiring potion ingredients, books, cauldrons and other tools.
Lily hoped for Severus’ sake that when he officially decided to declare his intentions to be a Potions Master that Aurelius would promise to accept him as an apprentice…
Lily was so in love with Charms and it’s research that she was considering either Charms Research or Spell Weaving…
They were only eleven, until next month so they had time to choose…
Lily wrapped a warm green velvet dressing gown lined in silver silk around herself and slid her feet into matching slippers before heading down to the drawing room.
Her gifts for her ‘family’ and friends had vanished during the night and were likely under their respective solstice trees…
Lily had sent a few potions ingredients and tools that Andromeda had expressed silent interest in to her new acquaintance in hopes of furthering that acquaintance into a friend and perhaps female confidant.
Despite Lily’s best efforts, she had no real relationship with Petunia and her letter from Hogwarts had widened the gap. Learning that her protectiveness over Severus was due to his being her twin had explained a lot, Lily wondered which of them was older or it was it was just her nature to be protect over those she cared about…
Lily reached the Drawing room first and sat in what some of her more travelled fellow students at Durmstrang called ‘lotus style’ to wait for Aurelius and Severus.
She still had yet to get used to their similar mannerisms…
They weren’t morning people, they tended to get grouchy with those who didn’t appreciate or downplayed their genius and they equally didn’t like Sirius Black or James Potter for that matter.
In his letters James seemed so different then his persona in Gryffindor, he was more open and he told her everything from Dumbledore’s interrogation as to her disappearance, his blithe refusal to accept the reality of her relationship to the Prince Family much less her status as a pureblood had assured her that their transfer was the right decision.
After immersion in the lingua franca of Durmstrang, which was surprisingly Russian despite its location in Norway and the name of the school being German; Severus, Remus and Lily had a greater handle on the language as well as a spattering of other students’ home languages.
The Krums Branko and Bisera were half Serbian and half Bulgarian so they spoke both languages fluently as well as Russian.
Anastasia Tolstoy was most assuredly Russian but she too spoke a few related tongues, likely due to her grandfather being such an eminent scholar in regards to international Wizarding culture.
The comprehension spell they learned from Lucius’ father Abraxus was quite helpful in learning not only Russian but other languages as well since it immediately taught their brain connections between words they knew and the spoken words of the language they were exposed to. For someone as intelligent as Severus, Remus and even Lily herself, it wasn’t hard to figure out how to alter the incantation to comprehend other languages besides Russian.
Getting used to social norms was more stressful; most Wizarding persons Lily had met weren’t physically affectionate even among family members. Female friends or even acquaintances were even less so. While wizards tended to do the usual male bonding things like playfully slugging one another in the shoulder or throwing an arm around their shoulder.
Steaming cups of chocolate arrived with a silver service that had pots of more chocolate, tea and even coffee.
Thankful that the ward on Merrivale prevented anyone at the Ministry from being alerted by the trace, Lily floated gifts to Aurelius and Severus narcissistically starting with her own and chose a gift from Severus for herself.
Having grown up in a comfortable but by no means rich home in Cokeworth, Lily was nervous about having so much money on her at first. However when she saw things she wanted to buy for Aurelius and Severus, Lily was quite grateful for the sum she was allowed.
Inside her gift was a leather-covered peacock blue journal with a lioness and a snake standing back to back. It had a matching blue velvet ribbon that functioned very much like a bookmark. Curiously, it was identical with the exception of the leather cover to another gift for Severus that she purchased in Scribbulus
The excitement Lily felt from her ‘brothers’ was intoxicating to say the least as she reached to find another gift for herself.
This one was from Aurelius and was the other half to her own; Lily had taken to wearing it beneath her uniform rather then keeping it in her trunk. It was on a matching silver chain and when Lily clasped it around her neck, the two chains immediately braided together and the pendants were magnetically drawn to one another so it became a circular pendant with a gold phoenix and serpentine dragon facing one another. Also in the box was a silver key…
Lily swallowed, “Aurelius?”
Her guardian looked up from his massive box of potions things, “Yes? Oh you found the pendant already. They belong to the first and second born daughters to the house of Prince, they will remain yours until Severus or I have a daughter. Unless you join blood and magic to another House.”
Lily blushed, “Like the House of Potter?”
Aurelius sighed, “Yes, like the House of Potter…the key is to your trust vault. There is a secret compartment behind your locket that hides your key. I had to remove both Eileen and Evelyn’s key before I gave it to you. Eileen gave you her own pendant and kept her sister’s storing their vault keys in the later. You have Evelyn’s vault registered to you, while I returned Eileen’s key as well as an exchange book so she could pay to acquire a proper wardrobe and any other expense beyond the usual food which he have plenty of given that the house elves went on as before only without Princes to care for.”
Lily nodded; her mother left her both Prince pendants. While she didn’t know Eileen, Lily was grateful for her leaving her at the church and asking for a good family to take her in.
Knowing Severus was her twin, it made sense of why she was so drawn to him and always wanted him treated like one of the family. That was one less thing to question about her supposed freakiness…
Lily shivered, having to deal with Petunia’s jealousy made her wary of returning to Cokeworth…
It was nearly half past ten when Alaric appeared yawning, “I smell coffee.”
Lily rose at once and poured it from the silver coffee pot, “Milk, cream or sugar?”
Alaric snorted, “None, I’ll take it black.”
Immediately, Lily handed him the china cup, “Would you like your gifts?”
The elder wizard frowned at her, “Gifts Miss Prince?”
Lily nodded, “There are half a dozen gifts here with your name on them…”
Alaric blinked, “Why?”
Lily blushed, “You are living here at present and you seem to be Aurelius’ friend, I thought it was only proper. Have I done something wrong?”
Alaric coughed, “No…I’m just unused to having gifts…”
Lily counted them out, “One from myself, another from Severus, two from Aurelius, here is one from an Oran and another from Renard?”
Aurelius blinked, “Oran and Renard?”
Alaric sighed, “Two of my closest friends from Hogwarts, Oran became a prefect our Seventh Year because I was made Head Boy…”
Lily handed over Alaric’s gifts shyly, “I hope you like them…”
Alaric seemed nervous as he opened them.
Renard and Oran, whoever they were had sent him rather thick books.
Knowing that Aurelius and Alaric were often working on magical research, the exact details were usually not divulged to her or Severus had them buying work journals, scrap parchment and self-inking quills.
They weren’t exorbitant gifts but rather they were useful, they didn’t know Alaric well though they knew enough to realise that he was courting a relative of Sirius, a widowed witch a few years his senior.
Alaric seemed rather decent for a man who was supposedly some insane Dark Lord who would have killed her…
Alaric reluctantly pulled out gifts from his robe, “I don’t know much about young witches but Lady Cassiopeia was kind enough to help me shop for you…”
Lily thanked Alaric, Lord Slytherin politely and was surprised to find a silver bracelet that was a snake with green jewelled eyes very much like her own.
“Brutus assured me that the emeralds would glow if potions were present in your food or drink. The bracelet will also manifest a shield for you if anyone attempts to curse you.” Alaric muttered.
Severus accepted his gift with quiet thanks and was surprised to find a ring not unlike Aurelius’, “Sir…”
Alaric grumbled, “The ring was more masculine then her bracelet but it should serve the same function. While I doubt your food or drink will ever be poisoned, given your status as unbetrothed heir and heiress respectfully, there may be those who hope to use something like Amoritia to cause you to want to be bonded to their child if only to claim your inheritances.”
Aurelius chuckled, “Thank you, I should have considered that myself.”
Aurelius received a thick book on obscure poisons in some language that neither Lily nor Severus recognised.
“What is this?” Aurelius frowned.
“Oh just a book on Merlin’s potions, I found it in one of my vaults and persuaded Myron to copy it for me in exchange for allowing him to place one in his reading room.” Alaric shrugged.
Since all of their gifts had been opened, they had them taken to their rooms for later perusal before heading to breakfast in the morning room.

What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?
Anon - I'm glad. I hope that the Solstice chapter is as enjoyable.
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