Lily Evans-Potter: World Wanderer

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Chapter 5: The Wrong Boy Who Lived, part 4

It was Lily who stopped the curse. The blast struck a red barrier she had conjured between her mirror son and the hellspawn. Jason Smith reacted instantly; disarming Adam. Dana and her friends immediately followed suit, removing the weapons of the entire Order.

It required Adina, Ainsley, Megan and Zachary to keep Dana from launching herself at her family and ripping them to shreds with her bare hands. "You pack of ignorant little shits! Harry finally killed that monster, and this is how you respond!?"

"Yes!" Cecile bellowed, raising her head and glaring at Dumbledore. "You can see the signs now, Dumbledore. YOU! CHOSE! THE! WRONG! BOY!"

"It's a trick!" James shouted back, the implied condemnation going straight over his head. He was convinced he had never done anything wrong. "The monster is using black magic to fool all of you."

"So all thirty something people here didn't see Voldemort's curse rebounding or Harry cutting him in half?" Lily asked with scathing sarcasm. "I suppose we all went blind? Or that we didn't see their wands lock and cause Priori Incantem? So you're both sadistic and stupid."

The Ministry folk were gathered around them in a circle. Reporters were muttering in a hostile manner, their eyes flicking between Harry and the people who he had called family for fifteen years. Dumbledore, clearly feeling the eyes on him, motioned for James to take a step backwards.

Lily Evans stared at Lily Potter.

The Potter wife looked incredulously at her mirror image, who stared straight back with scathing contempt. "Who the hell are you?" She demanded.

"Oh, no one special," Lily Evans said coldly. "I'm just who you could have been if you had something resembling a soul."

"How dare you insult my wife!?" James demanded.

"I dare!" Lily roared; with her magic, it filled the whole room. "I dare, because what coward hides behind their children when a monster comes calling!? What pathetic excuse of a woman abuses and mistreats her child because of the whispered, drunken words of an old fraud?! What coward allows their son to do whatever he pleases because he is 'special!?' There is no difference between you and Narcissa Malfoy, except that Narcissa doesn't pretend to be anything other than a Mafia princess! You, on the other hand, hide behind a veil of 'righteousness' and make excuses, all the while pretending that self same justice doesn't apply to you!"

Dana put a hand on Lily's arm. "Thanks, other mum," She said quietly, "But do you mind if we take the floor? They'll just ignore you, since you're a stranger."

Lily Evans paused her rage and smiled down at the redhead. "Of course, Dana. I just wanted to get that off my chest."

"Adina! Ainsley! What the hell are you doing over there with the horcrux spawn and his toadies!?" Sirius Black demanded. "Get over here at once! I raised you better!"

"You know, you sound an awful lot like Grandmother when you go off like this, father." Adina responded; her voice had a frigidness that would turn oceans to ice.

Sirius recoiled, staring at her with mingled rage and alarm. "Sounds like?" Ainsley asked, her voice growing louder with outrage. "Adina, you underestimate him. He's just like grandmother, just his cruelty takes the form of light instead of darkness!"

"How dare you talk to Sirius like that!" James bellowed, striding forward. Lily Evans flicked a finger, sending a shockwave that threw the man straight back on his ass. Lily Potter screeched and ran to his side.

"Children! Children!" Dumbledore shouted. "Please! There's no need for this. Your parents have made some mistakes, but they still love you?"

"Love!" Dana laughed outright at this. Her green eyes stared down both her parents and her headmaster. "You don't know what love is! You don't love me or Harry or even Adam. You let Adam grow up into a spoiled little shit with an entitlement complex that rivals Draco Malfoy. You know that's what they call him in school? Draco Malfoy with black hair. Though considering what you were like in school daddy, I can't say I'm too surprised! You don't love me, you just have me around as a means of validation, as bragging rights, look at us, we're the amazing Potters!" She mimicked a high pitched, snooty voice at this.

"Adam needed all our attention!" Lily Potter protested venomously. "Harry was the one who started planting those ideas-"

"Then cast finite incantatum, so I can clearly state for the record that I completely despise all of you on my own free will!" Dana spat back.

"How could you say that!? After how much we put into raising you-" Sirius had recovered his voice; though he was turning red at the face with anger.

"Effort!" Ainsley scoffed. "You mean getting drunk and picking fights with everyone who happened to look at you the wrong way? Great example to set, dad."

"Spending more time in front of a camera than taking care of us," Adina added. "Or using any problems or situations we ran into as an excuse to soapbox and shove your beliefs down everyone's throat. I'm not the one who publicly called a couple of eleven year olds 'next generation death eaters' just because they were Slytherins."

"That only happened twice!" Sirius snapped. His wife, Mallory, tapped his shoulder and raised up four fingers. "I only remember twice." He said.

"The other times you were roaring drunk." Adina noted. "I'm not surprised, since Bumblebore over there always shielded you from any consequences of your behaviour."

"Adina's hit the nail on the head." Dana said flatly. "I mean, Christ, no wonder Adam is such a hellion, he's a carbon copy of what you were like in school! You were a swaggering bully who got away with every horrible trick you pulled because you only focused on easy targets. Once you were out of school and Professor Snape had to put a whole ocean between himself and you, you just turned your attention to the next one – Harry, all because the Great Infallible Dumbledore thought, thought, not confirmed, mind you, that he might become dark in the future!"

"The Prophecy states-" Lily Potter started.

"If you had a real expert look at the magic, not simply accepting whatever drunken gibberish spilled out of Dumbledore's mouth, you would have known that Adam wasn't the chosen one." Cecile interrupted, regarding James, Lily Potter, Adam, Sirius and Mallory with a mixture of annoyance and contempt. "You would have realized that Adam's scar was simply the result of falling debris and not an actual curse scar."

"Why did you even believe Dumbledore in the first place?" Flora asked scathingly. "Because he always indulged you, so you thought he must be god? He's just a man, and not much of one if the rumours about him and Grindelwald are true."

Dumbledore went absolutely white at the face when the Slytherin girl uttered those words. Lily Evans saw the curse he was about to throw at the girl and disarmed him – he had a second wand, apparently. This one was significantly more ornate than the first.

"The tournament was when I gave up on trying to tell you," Harry said, speaking for the first time since Adam attacked him. His eyes had gone cold and empty. "You threatened me, abused me, and accused me of being a monster all the while I was trying to protect Adam from dying."

"Just knowing that magic alone-"

"Was the only thing keeping us alive while you threw yearly 'tests' at your hellspawn!" Flora spat. "Are you goat fuckers blind? Your sainted headmaster repeatedly invited a mass murderer into a school full of baby kids so Adam and his friends could play hero, never fucking mind what happened to the rest of us!"

"My dear, you were always perfectly safe." Dumbledore said with his trademark grandfatherly smile.

Dana looked ready to erupt like Mt Vesuvious. Flora had gone past the flames of rage and entered a pool of pure, calm fury. "Firstly," She said tightly, "never, ever call me that again if you'd like to keep your balls. Secondly, perfectly safe – perfectly safe! I suppose a starving Cerberus on a third floor with the smuck bait 'don't go up there' was supposed to be safe!?"

"How about leaving all the kids in a school with a basilisk, refusing to evacuate even after six kids were petrified?" Zach added. He had beef with that particular incident; after all, he had been one of the first victims and spent six months as a garden statue.

"Or how about never reigning in Draco Malfoy and his cronies, even when they seriously injured someone and kept throwing racial slurs around like he was being paid to say them?" Half blood Megan added bitterly. "Or stopping Adam from assaulting everyone who didn't worship him and the ground he walked on?"

"Or when you encouraged my parents to give me to Adam as if I were a toy?" Ginny threw in, glaring angrily at her sobbing mother and father in the crowd. "As if you had any right to sell me, like I'm some sort of mug?"

"Or those fabulously failed defences when another mass murderer got into the school?" Graham suggested acidically. "Really, Pettigrew got in under your nose when you already know his animagus form? Even someone going senile couldn't be that stupid."

"Or everything involved with the Tri Wizard Tournament? The Hufflepuffs who got maimed, Fleur Delacure, throwing Ginny and Ainsley into a freezing lake with inadequate protective charms, and finally attacking Harry when he came back with Cedric's body and Adam, having driven Voldemort off?" Dana finished up. "Is that supposed to be safe, Dumbledore?"

"I did what I felt I had to."

"And fuck the rest of us, huh?" Dana snapped. "So it's finally out in the open. You lot only cared about your own egos and shaping the world to be something pleasing to your eyes. HEY! PERCIVAL WEASLEY!"

Percy Weasley, the least liked of this generation from that family and loyal Ministry toady yelped and took a few steps forward.

"You do all the recording for dumbass hat over there, right?" Dana didn't wait for Fudge to sputter out a response – or for Percy to open his mouth. "I hearby extend my resignation from Hogwarts, effective immediately. My big brother, too."

"Mine as well." Adina added.

"And mine!" Ainsley declared.

"You can count in me, Megan, and Graham as well." Ginny said with an angry scowl.

"I will also be withdrawing Zach from the school." Jason said coldly.

Dumbledore, who understood the implications of what was coming, whitened even further. "Please! You must reconsider. The Light needs-"

"You are not the sole representative of the Light, Dumbledore." Jason interrupted. His wife laughed at the Headmaster's expression when he heard this. "Contrary to what you seem to believe, there are other people in this country who wish to keep the innocent safe – something you have consistently failed at for nearly seventy years now. That stops today."

"My husband and father in law have a family history that dates back over a thousand years ago, to our ancestor Helga Hufflepuff." Cecile said patiently, as if speaking to an exceptionally slow child. "We have more money, favours and debts backed up than the Malfoys, Blacks and Potters combined.'

She arched an eyebrow. "The reason our family isn't sitting on a throne, ruling your world with an iron fist? Because we are Hufflepuffs. That isn't our way. Unlike you and Riddle. You know, that's why you never received Owen Smith's support – he said that he had hoped you would be a true Light Lord after your defeat of Grindelwald, but you turned out to be a 'delusional crackpot revoltingly prone to playing favourites."

Dana laughed. James's face turned green, while Sirius sputtered incomprehensibly. Cecile shrugged delicately. "His words, not mine." She said.

"Grow up." Jason said flatly, glaring contemptuously at the Potters. "Your hellspawn isn't the chosen one. Harrison is."

"I prefer Harry, sir." Harry murmured.

"Ah, my apologies." Jason gave the real boy who lived an awkward smile. "Force of etiquette habit. Dana, I believe you weren't quite finished?"

Dana nodded and smiled. "Yes. Today, I also disown myself from the Potter family. I refuse to acknowledge James Charles Potter and Lily Rose Evans-Potter as my parents."

"I do the same." Harry said simply.

"WHAT!?" James and Lily Potter sputtered in concert. "You can't do that!" James shouted, reaching out a hand for Dana.

"I. Just. Did." Dana said coldly, turning her back on him. "You no longer have any authority over me. And I can just say, sir, I have been waiting a long time to say that."

"I've put in the paperwork to adopt both of you." Jason said. "You have my support for dealing with Voldemort and what remains of his followers."

Lily felt her amulet glowing. Placing her hand on it, she noticed that her form was fading out. She could feel her magic resonating.

It's time to go, soon. You've done your part in helping them.

"I hearby disown myself and my twin sister from the Black family. Neither I nor Ainsley acknowledge Sirius Orion Black or Mallory Michelle Black as our parents." Adina threw her two cents in.

Cecile called, "Mr Shackabolt? To coin a muggle phrase, 'you have the floor now'."

The tall black auror tipped his head to the Smith matriach before declaring in his booming voice, "James Potter, Lily Potter, Sirius Black, Mallory Black, you are all hereby under arrest for child abuse, public indecency, and aggressive civil disturbance. Albus Dumbledore, you are under arrest for malicious child safety breaches at Hogwarts, child abuse via proxy against Harry Hufflepuff-Smith, and obstruction of justice."

Lily Evans faded out as the Potters and Dumbledore were slammed in cuffs and hauled away.

Harry and Dana saw her leave, and her comforting smile would follow them for the rest of their days.

**~Elsewhere~**

"Ashley!" Lily laughed and swept her cat – no, Familiar – up in her arms. "Oh, you silly thing. Of course I wasn't leaving you behind! I just didn't think you wanted to swim."

The short haired cat mewed. "I like being contrary to expectations, Lily. I love swimming."

"Is that so?" Lily petted her companion on the head. "Great. Then you can decide where we go next."

End Chapter

This is what I wanted dearly to say to every single version of Lily and James Potter in the WBWL stories.

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