TIGER LILY

A HARRY POTTER PLOTBUNNY

Lily Potter was in her cottage in Godric's Hollow with her husband, with Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew. They had a plan, have Peter be the Secret Keeper and in hiding, while Sirius acts like the decoy to throw off the Death Eaters. Lily was ready to cast the Fidelius Charm, raising her wand. However, something happened before she could finish. She grabbed her head and dropped to her knees as images filled her head.

The images were about a young boy whom looked like James...only with her eyes. Could it be...Harry? Is that her sister and fat walrus brother-in-law? It couldn't be, she would never let them near her boy. What were they doing? Beating him, starving him, treating him as an elf. No! She had clearly stated in her will to not have him go there...Where was Sirius, Alice and Frank Longbottom, Andromeda Tonks, Amelia Bones...one of them should have taken Harry.

She then saw flashes of Harry at school...at least he should be safe...wait, is that Severus? What is he doing to her boy? How dare he...A troll? A cerberus? A basilisk? Dementors? A freakin' Dragon? Wait, whom made that toad bitch of an Umbridge teacher? What the hell is Dumbledore doing? Absolutely nothing. What...He sent her son out to die...he didn't teach him anything, he didn't do jack shit.

His boy survived...But no, things weren't better, even with the Dark Lord gone the Wizarding World was so backwards, full of bigots and sheep...it was all for nothing. A new war with a new Dark Lord...exposing the Wizards to the Muggle world, a war of apocalyptic proportions...the images...his little boy...a warning from the future. He sent her a warning.

"Lily? Lily-flower? Are you all right?" James asked, worried for his wife, whom was down on her knees and looking quite ill.

But Lily recovered and she stood up, her teeth gritting in anger and her green eyes turned a Killing Curse-type of green. She raised her wands, but instead of the Fidelius, she cast a different spell at Wormtail. The sleeves of his arms were torn off, exposing the Dark Mark on his left lower arm. "I-I-I can explain." Wormtail stammered, the coward trying to save his arse. But it wouldn't work.

James and Sirius stood there in disbelief, before Lily started throwing non-lethal but very painful hexes at Wormtail, striking him down and pelting him over and over with the painful magic. "You bastard! You traitor! We saw you as a brother, but you have been selling us out." She said, repeating the word "Bastard a few times over as she kept sending painful curses at Wormtail. Sirius and James, while suprised to see Peter having a Dark Mark, knew better then anyone not to get in Lily's way when she was in 'Tiger Lily' mode.

After Lily was sure Wormtail was disabled, she stunned him, bound him in conjured ropes and created a Patronus. It was a tigress. It had changed to a doe after falling in love with James, but now due to her emotional state it had turned back into its original form. "Warn the Order. I want a gathering, and I want everyone there. There are a few words to be had." she instructed the giant ethereal feline, which shot off out of the house and into the distance.

"Lily-Flower, can you explain what the heck is going on?" James said, completely baffled.

"I got a vision...from the future. I know it sounds strange...But I saw what Peter truely was. I saw what he would do in the future. I see how his actions would lead to the suffering of our son." Lily said.

James and Sirius both knew Lily wouldn't lie or joke about the safety of little Harry. Sirius, whom hadn't spoken a word since the mess started, asked: "Can you please explain."

Lily explained everything she saw...at first she only had seen glimpses, but the memories of the future had now settled so she could more clearly recall anc access them. Everything from the betrayal, to her and James' death, Sirius being arrested and sent to Azkaban without a trial, Dumbledore's manipulations in sending Harry to the Dursleys, Harry's suffering at those monstrous Muggles' hands...his seven years of hardship at Hogwarts, jumping through hoops for Dumbledore's plans, Harry one time being praised, another time hated by the finicky public...the dark future that awaited them.

James and Sirius almost collapsed to their knees as well if they hadn't conjured chairs halfway through the tale. Both were taking it hard. None of them had interrupted Lily. But now she was more or less done, Sirius started to speak: "My brother...poor Regulus...he didn't die a Death Eater...he died trying to take out the Dark Lord's Horcrux..." Sirius always regretted being unable to save his little brother from his parents' teachings, the bigots. But Regulus had goodness in him. He died a hero.

But some other things started to catch up. Severus Snape...little Snivelus. Sirius had regretted picking on Snape and tricking him into seeing Moony in his werewolf form. Granted he didn't think Snivellus would be stupid enough to do so. But after what he heard, what the greasy git has done to his godson, how his last action was sending his godson to his death, those regrets faded as his anger started to overcome him. "I am going to kill Snivellus and the old goat protecting him!"

Sirius got up, but Lily waved her wand and Sirius was forced back in his chair. "Sit down! In the vision you had your temper cloud your judgement and go after the rat, setting the events in motion that got you arrested." Lily noted. "I know I am temperamental myself, but we don't need Gryffindor brashness, we need Ravenclaw smarts and Slytherin Cunning to pull off what we're going to do."

"Yes, I'm sorry, I lost myself for a moment Lily." Sirius said, calming down.

James had taken a bit longer to process and would have given in to his anger like Sirius was if Lily hadn't put the old mutt straigth. "Lily, we are going to need plans, but you were always the brains of our duo. Where do we start?"

"We cast the Fidelius. Unlike what Dumbledore said, we don't need an outside, but we can be our own Secret Keepers. That way we will not be found when we make our preparations. And the next part is the meeting I have asked for. You are going to like that part, we are going to cause mayhem and chaos in the ranks, and I need you to tap into your Marauder sides for that."

"Lily, I love it when you talk like that and wants to make me ravage you right here, right now." James said with a grin.

"James, not with people around...and not when Harry can hear us. He is too young to be traumatized by tales about our sex lives. We need to do that when he hits puberty." Lily said. At least she felt hopeful for the future, enough to make a small joke. She turned to the bound, stunned and hurt Peter. "But first we need to deliver a rat to our friend Amelia."

In the next Order of the Phoenix meeting, hell would break loose. Dumbledore, in his standard (and to Lily's opinion obnoxious) grandfatherly persona, started to ask questions. "Lily, you called for a meeting, and said it was dire. What seems to be the problem?"

"The problem was that you lied to us about the Fidelius Charm." she said. This raised a few whispers and caused a few gasps of surprise. "You said the owners of the place under the Fidelius could not be Secret Keepers themselves. But we can be, and unless I tell anyone we will be hidden. But why the need to lie? We almost had chosen Pettigrew as a Secret Keeper...Until we found out he had the Dark Mark!" That caused even more uproar.

Dumbledore raised his hand to silence the crowd. "Now, Lily, I have not lied, merely implied it was best to pick someone but yourselves. Otherwise you'd never be able to leave. Besides, with the rumors of a Secret Keeper, Voldemort would follow up on them and would have him act in a more predictable fashion and allow him to play into our hands. As for Peter, I was not aware of his change of sides, and it is unfortunate to hear. I had high hopes for him." Dumbledore said calmly.

"Oh so you had a plan using us as bait? If you had a plan, didn't you see it fit to at least warn us to be part of it? If we are risking our lives we best have the necessary information. We are willing to risk ourselves for innocent people but we cannot do that when flying blind!" James added angrily.

"It was sensitive information and I needed everyone to act as natural as poss-" Dumbledore said, but he was interrupted.

"When it concerns us, the lives of our family, our baby!" Lily growled. "Even if you couldn't share it all, you could have dropped a hint! You want us to die for a needless cause? Is this about the prophecy, what are your plans for us, for our son?" Lily asked.

Dumbledore's lips thinned. Couldn't that obnoxious Muggleborn witch stop questioning him. He was Albus Dumbledore, he knows what is best. Sometimes his methods may seem cruel for the close-minded people whom are unfortunately not smart enough to see the big picture, but it would eventually result in a golden age? You have to break eggs to make an omelette after all. "I cannot go into that, because that information is too important."

"If we are to put our lives on the line, we cannot be kept into the dark, that is sending pigs to the slaughter. Yes, some info needs to be kept secret, but too little information is also the cause of many deaths in a war. You hold us back on info, you ignore that other people may have other ideas, you even tell us to hold back in a fight with Death Eaters. We aren't winning this war by stunning them, they just buy their way back out of prison. No, these people need to be taken down hard!" Lily basically shouted.

"Mrs. Potter, if you do that, you are as bad as them. To have no forgiveness is the first sign of turning dark!" Dumbledore argued.

"No it isn't. This isn't like with the Aurors where we just stun people whom trade in illegal means. This is an actual war. And the Death Eaters are murderers, rapists...do they deserve forgiveness? Forgiveness is given to those whom earned it, whom regretted their mistake and wish to atone. These bastards don't have the conviction to stand up for their beliefs and show their faces. They don't regret their mistakes, they relish in it." James added.

"But if we take the Dark Lord out of the picture then they are free from his bad influence and they can become upstanding members of society again..." Dumbledore argued.

"Moldyshorts was not the first Dark Lord and won't be the last, and most of his Death Munchers were Dark even before joining the Dark Lord. The only thing the Dark Lord did is giving them more aggressive methods to further their agendas. I can know, I know my cousins Bella and Cissy, they were always rotten, and they are rotten now. Sometimes people are just evil because that is what they are, not everyone will seek redemption when offered. And we'd rather protect the innocent, not sacrifice them to forgive the guilty." Sirius barked, harder then he was in his Animagus Form.

"Enough!" Dumbledore roared. "It may seem hard to think any of these Death Eaters as misguided souls but anyone deserves a chance and my methods may seem questionable, but everything I do is for the Greater Good and if you can give me the benefit of the doubt and ask you to trust me."

"Unlike the rest of the Wizarding World, your word is not enough for us." Lily said. "I quit the Order of the Phoenix, and I will start my own group, one that will do what you are unwilling to do and put an effective end to this war."

"As do I!" James said, standing by his wife.

"And me as well." Sirius said.

Dumbledore kept calm but was seething inside. "I cannot force you to stay, but I am warning you, you are all going down dark paths and I hate for us to be on opposite sides."

"Because we refuse to be your puppets doesn't mean we are dark. And maybe you should ask if you aren't blinded by your own Light you don't see your own darkness, old man!" James spat.

"I am quitting too!" the voice of Frank Longbottom sounded.

"And me too! The prophecy...It could have gone about my little Neville. And with that traitor of a rat so close to them...it could have been my boy whom was in danger. No, I won't be risking our son and his future for you." Alice Longbottom added. James and Lily smiled, they could count on the Longbottoms to do the right thing.

The Prewett twins, Fabian and Gideon also spoke to each other. "What do you say, Gibian, work for the Tiger Lily and actually get shit done instead of listening to the whiskered old wanker?"

"You read my mind, Fadeon, my less intelligent and handsome twin." Lily was reminded of the Fred and George in the future from her visions. She was sure they got their jokester spirit and sense of right from the Prewett twins.

"No, I forbid you!" Molly Weasley, née Prewett said. "How dare you turn your backs on Dumbledore? He is a great man, he knows what is best. If he says it is for something good whom are we to question that?" Unlike her brothers she was a huge Dumbledore supported and though the sun shone out of the old man's arse. While Lily remembered her being on the side of the Light from Harry's vision, she was overbearing, bossy and thought she and Dumbles were always right, never considering other's opinions. Also she has spoken so casually about love potions that made Lily scared and worried. No wonder her oldest sons left the country as soon as they were or age and employed.

"Molly, your brothers are adults, they can form their own thoughts and opinions." Arthur Weasley told his wife. Lily remembered while he was mild mannered, he was much fairer and reasonable then his wife. "And they have a point. I have lost my parents and my brother Bilius to the Death Eaters...I cannot let them rampage as they do, just sit here and do nothing."

"Arthur Septimus Weasley, don't you talk back to me..." Molly growled at her husband.

"I normally don't...to keep the peace and because I love you, Molly. But that doesn't mean I agree with you, and I will not be bullied in standing down while the monsters whom have killed my family are still out there and my family honor demands satisfaction. I don't want them to go after our kids too, so I'll strike back before they can do."

"But Dumbledore..." Molly argued.

"Is just a man. A powerful and smart man, but still human. And any human can be wrong. I'm sorry Molly." Arthur said as he left her side and now joined the group that was forming behind Lily and James. It now consisted of the Potters, Sirius, the Longbottoms, Arthur, the Prewett brothers, Aurors Alastor Moody, Hestia Jones and Kingsley Shacklebolt and a few others.

There was one more James, Lily and Sirius hoped to have things see their way. "Remus...Moony...Old friend. I hate to ask you to choose. But please, pick what is right, instead of easy." James begged Lupin.

Lupin was torn. James, Sirius and Lily were like family. But he owed so much to Dumbledore, the man whom gave him a chance at education when no one else wanted the young werewolf at Hogwarts. And Lupin felt Dumbledore gave him purpose. It was so difficult but so close. "I'm sorry James, Lily, Sirius...But I can't..."

The Potters' faces and Sirius' hardened. They already had witnessed the betrayal of one brother, the betrayal of a second was hard, but for some reason unsurprising. Lily had seen the future, and Remus was prevented from seeking out Harry at the Dursleys just because Dumbledore asked him to not interfere,a nd he complied. He also didn't tell Harry during his third year what his real relation to James and Lily was until later. Remus had put Dumbledore's orders above Harry's well being and they couldn't unfortunately trust him because of that. Maybe that's why the betrayal didn't hurt as much this time. "We understand Mr. Lupin." Lily said coldly, no longer referring him with any familiarity.

"Professor McGonagall. I know you have a great deal of respect for Dumbledore, but I like to believe that you also always do what is right. Where do you stand?" James asked. James was told by Lily that while McGonagall cared for Harry, she always was easily manipulated and dissuaded by Dumbledore to do things like not stopping Snape from bullying students, not give heed to the warnings about the Philosopher's Stone or object Harry's placement with the Dursleys hard enough.

McGonagall didn't even answer, unlike Lupin had done earlier. James had looked up as a role model to the woman, moreso when he learned to become an Animagus, but that respect had vanished as that proud and ferocious woman had been reduced to a lapdog (ironic because of her Animagus form) of Dumbledore.

"You do what you deem right, as misguided as it may be, but I'll do what I deem right." We work towards the same goal, and for that I hope to not be enemies. But if you involve or sacrifice innocent people for your little schemes, Albus, we will have a second target besides Voldemort." James said, no longer afraid to speak his name, as they have learned more about how a pathetic little tool he was through Lily's visions of the future.

With that, Lily's new faction gathered up, and mass apparated out of the HQ. Dumbledore was seething on the inside despite his calm exterior. He dismissed the rest of the Order, as for himself...he had to rethink several strategies now. He had to put things back on track for his Greater Good.

Lily, James and Sirius had gathered back in their cottage at Godric's Hollow. He had given the address to the members of the new faction, and they wouldn't be able to tell Dumbledore of it due to the Fidelius. They would gather for their first meeting of their new independant Order that still needs a name. But they were wondering about what to do during thier first meeting.

"Can we all tell them about the visions of the future?" Lily noted. "They may not believe us, and if they do, how do we know Dumbledore or Voldemort would pick it from their minds?"

"Very simple. We make a magical vow so they will have to believe us. The members are required to do the same, and perhaps learn some Occlumency so that the secret is safe. If they take the vows it means that we can trust them with our lives. If they don't we'll have to respectfully let them go." James suggested.

"That can work. I don't want to be like Dumbledore, keeping secrets that may have kept others alive, or put myself on a pedestal above them. No, I want it to be an Order of equals." Lily noted.

"Then you are already doing better then the old barmy coot." Sirius assured them. "He may have been the leader of the Order but he only took the responsibilities that benefitted himself and his twisted vision for the Greater Good. We won't be like that."

"What is the first order of business?" James wondered.

"Sirius, in the visions I saw you could still command Kreacher, so you were not formally disowned by your family, you could still take head of House position. Now is right, without Regulus, and the rest of your family unaware as of yet...It would give us access to the Locket Horcrux and the one in the Lestrange vault." Lily noted.

"It wouldn't put it past my family. Three things they were notorious for were their love of Dark Magic, most of them being blood bigots and that they were awful at paperwork, especially the one to formally cast me out. I will go to Gringotts as soon as I can for that." Sirius assured them.

"The snake Horcrux wasn't created yet, but we need a way to get to the Gaunt shack, the Malfoy Manor and Hogwarts' Hidden Room for the other ones." James pointed out.

"We will find a way. Somehow. I will not allow a future where that Dark Wanker and the Whiskered Old Wanker have the world gone to hell. I will not let a future happen with my baby boy as a sacrificial lamb. Lily said as she turned around, seeing her little baby boy Harry play with the blocks, using his innate magic to levitate them, as the toddler giggled and clapped at what he did.

"We won't let it happen. He will grow up happy, surrounded by people he loves, where he will not be ignorant, and he is prepared. He will have a loving family and has a long and prosperous life." James assured.

"I will gladly put everything on the line to make that happen." Sirius finished.

This marked of a new freedom fighter group, fighting for the future of the Wizarding World.

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Another Plotbunny, not as light hearted as the last one.

I just had this idea that lily recieves visions from the future and doing everything to prevent that.

Despite my disagreements with Dumbledore's methods I was willing to give him benefit of the doubt in some stories and make him not as antagonistic, maybe just misguided or senile. here he seems darker, but I'll say beforehand, this Dumbledore thinks he is doing the right thing, but has gone arrogant and cannot admit he is wrong about something hence his difficulty to work with or dissuade.

That is going to be explored more if I ever continue this. I am quite satisfied with it for the moments though.

Though maybe odd to see Molly, Lupin and McGonagall on the opposite sides of the Potters, in canon those three are loyal to Dumbledore, maybe too loyal to see his flaws. I kept that here, and it would be something different for a change.