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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?

Chapter 6
January 1, 1972
Aurelius, Alaric, Severus and Lily had just sat down to breakfast when a Black elf, Kreacher actually, appeared.
Aurelius frowned, “Yes?”
Kreacher bowed, “Mistress order Kreacher to remind Lord Prince that there be little party for young masters and missies during Ball. Kreacher need to tell Mistress if we be expecting little ones.”
Aurelius turned to Severus and Lily, “Lucius and Andromeda will be at the ball but I expect that James, Narcissa, Sirius and his brother Regulus will be at the nursery party.”
Severus scowled but before he could reply, Lily spoke up.
“It would be interesting to see the others again. I missed the Solstice Ball because I was at the Abbey and I know Severus didn’t attend either.”
Aurelius had made a token appearance himself with Alaric because it was the proper thing to do. “I didn’t see the point of dragging Severus there if you weren’t going to be there, without James to distract him I was somewhat concerned that Sirius might forget himself and end up bullying Severus again.”
Lily grinned, “We ought to spend as much time with our social equals when we are in Britain since we no longer attend Hogwarts.”
Severus grumbled, “If we must...”
Aurelius understood perfectly that he was irritated about social events, after all they both despised them but they were Princes and sometimes sacrifices must be made for appearance’s sake.
So Aurelius informed Kreacher gruffly, the senile elf from his previous life wasn’t as annoying but he still disliked the elf’s engrating oily ways, to inform Walburga to expect the three of them.
Kreacher nodded and vanished, leaving them to their meal...
XooooooX
The ball was to begin at nine and so they had dined late but were expected to assemble in the front parlour to floo to Grimmauld at fifteen to nine.
Severus was the last to arrive but they still stepped out of the floo at Number Twelve at ten to nine.
Lady Walburga, Lady Cassiopeia and Andromeda greeted them politely.
Despite being welcome at the ball, Andromeda escorted Severus, Lily, the youngest Weasley brother, the younger Bones heir and James to the nursery.
James was surprisingly shy around Lily but he still introduced both her and Severus to his distant cousins Ethan Bones and Cador Weasley while they walked.
Sirius threw an arm around James’ shoulders in greeting soon after they entered the nursery parlour and winked at Lily before giving Severus a begrudging hand shake and introducing them to his younger brother Regulus.
Severus was surprised to find that he didn’t despise Regulus Black at first meeting like he had Sirius.
Unlike his loud brash brother, Regulus was quiet and bookish...
Severus was intrigued when he realised that Regulus already had an interest in the Dark Arts, this he discovered due to a book that was clutched in the younger Black scion’s hand. The title emblazoned on the spine of the book in gold script was a book that Severus had found in Merrivale’s library.
He nudged Regulus into conversation using the book as an opener only to discover that they had more books that they mutually had read so they had much to discuss...
Could Severus actually be friends with a Black?
XooooooX
Lily on the other hand was reintroduced to Narcissa, who was Andromeda’s youngest sister.
Narcissa was surrounded by her friends and social peers: Azalea Flint, Miranda Bulstrode, Richelle and Ravenna Lestrange, Karmel Smith and her sister Lucilla Belby but they not exactly Lily’s friends despite having been students at Hogwarts for the same few weeks. Narcissa and her friends with the exception of Karmel Smith who was a Hufflepuff, were all Slytherins while Lily had been a Gryffindor.
Lily and Narcissa soon discovered a mutual love for Charms and that led to Lily’s interest in Spellweaving as well as her enthusiasm for the elective that was offered at Durmstrang...
XooooooX
Due to it being still the winter holidays, the nursery New Year’s party was hosted officially by Sirius due to his being Walburga’s eldest son and Orion’s heir ended after eleven with the children returned home via house elf in staggering groups.
Due to their prolonged conversations with members of the House of Black; Severus with Regulus and Lily with Narcissa respectively they were among the last to leave.
James was the most distraught at Lily’s departure because they no longer attended the same school and after Lily’s joint birthday party next week, they likely wouldn’t see one another until Lughnasadh which was until the end of July.
Both of Remus and James’ birthdays took place during the school year in March so they wouldn’t be likely to see one another until after school ended and they returned home on the First of July.
They would still have letters but that paled in comparison to seeing one another everyday...
In James’ case, Absence did make the heart grow fonder...

What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?
Anon - Being a redhead and a Prince, Lily is stubborn and detirmined. I like that you called her 'utterly audacious and incredibly adorable'. That is the perfect description of the characterisation I was going for! I think she suspects that the ex-Dark Lord had as horrible childhood as the two Severus' and wants to help make things brighter for him. He needs to get used to birthdays and solstices since he is starting his own family with Lady Cassiopeia and he'll have step-children and grandchildren [Alaric will eventually be Luna's step great-grandfather among others like canon characters Daphne and Astoria.] to learn to deal with. Lily is just exposing him to wilful children though she always has his best interests at heart. Not that she realises it but she's digging the knife of guilt into Alaric. Knowing Lily as a person, oath or no oath the very idea of being responsible for Lily's death in any universe will upset him.
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