A boy came upon the hill. He was fair, with curls the color of wheat and eyes the exact color of the flowers Lily had picked and dropped a minute before.

Lily receives a nightly visit, but no one else believes her when she tried to tell them about the ghost that approached her when the lights were turned off. Making a second brave attempt at sleep she is once again visited by the ghostly remains of a man that had been, and this time she learns the true identity of her room's occupant.

A snowy owl delivers Lily's letters from Hogwarts, but to Ginny and Harrys' dismay there are a lot of letters to Marcus in the mail. Marcus gets the letters, but because he can't touch them, he can't read them.

He stares at the name on the envelopes longingly, but knows deep inside that the letters weren't meant for him, because the remarkable ghost isn't who he's said he was...

Marcus realizes that Lily is making him forget his life, his old memories, and though he wants to turn from her he can't.

Lily return to the Potter's Mansion and discovers through her drawings a clue to Marcus' identity, hidden in a cardboard box in a hitherto unknown attic in the house.

Marcus revisits his childhood home and Lily feels all alone in Potter Mansion. Luckily she still has Tom, and she still had a huge, unexplored attic above her room inside which Merlin knows what secrets might be hidden...