Chapter 1

"Daddy, how come I haven't gotten my Hogwarts letter yet?"

"I don't know princess. I'll go talk to Headmaster Sullivan tomorrow."

"Okay, but it's just not fair. Hugo and Lucy have already gotten their letters, they got theirs ages ago."

Lily Luna Potter was sitting on the kitchen table drinking her hot chocolate. The eleven year old girl was obviously distraught that she hadn't gotten her Hogwarts letter. She had been looking forward to going to Hogwarts ever since her father had told her about all the adventures that had happened there.

Harry Potter, her father, was looking at his daughter. He knew why she hadn't gotten her Hogwarts letter. Lily was a squib. He had always been curious as to why she had never displayed any use of magic even when she was no accidental magic, she couldn't ride a toy broomstick and to top it off she couldn't come through the barrier at Kings Cross Station without holding onto someone who was magical. He just didn't know how to break the news to her.

"Come on, Lily Luna." He whispered, picking her up "Time to get you to bed."

Harry carried her to her bedroom, set her down, tucked her in and gave her a kiss on the forehead "Goodnight princess." Lily didn't answer so Harry thought that she was fast asleep, all that crying must have tired her out.

Harry ran his hands through his hair as he walked to the living room.

"Ginny, I don't know how to tell her. How do you tell your own daughter that the reason she isn't going to Hogwarts, the place she had been looking forward to going her whole life, is because she is a squib? How do you tell your little girl that?"

"I don't know Harry, I don't know." Ginny patted the sofa next to her, gesturing for her husband to sit down.

"I'm a squib?" a quiet voice asked. "Why didn't you tell me before? Why didn't you tell me, so I didn't have to get so worried about not having my letter and not going to Hogwarts?"

"Lily, we didn't know how to break it to you..." Ginny trailed off.

"So you thought the best thing to do was to wait until the day before I was supposed to get on the Hogwarts Express to tell me, wait scratch that. You didn't tell me, I had to find out myself." Lily said harshly

"Lily we-"

"You know what, I'll just go and tell Louisa that I'm going to St Peters anyway. It's nice to have one person, you know, who hasn't lied to you, your whole entire life." Lily interrupted. "Goodnight mother, goodnight father."

Lily turned around and stomped up the stairs to get to her room which was at the top of the house. She slammed the door shut and the vibrations could be felt from the living room.

"We messed up big time Gin. We really messed up."

"James Sirius Potter, if you don't get in this car right now, we are leaving without you." Ginny yelled.

James raced out the house, slammed the door shut and got into the car in record timing.

They were halfway to Kings Cross Station why James finally realised that Lily wasn't in the car with them.

"Hey mum."

"Yes James?"

"Where's Lily?"

Ginny froze, she was hoping to avoid this question but she knew how much James cared for his younger sister. Lily being a squib was a disgrace to the Potter Weasley family. How can a family so strong and powerful produce a squib?

"Lily's not going to Hogwarts James."

"Is she going to Beauxbatons instead?"

"No James. Lily is not going to Beauxbatons; she's not going to any magical school. She's going to St Peters secondary school."

"But why would Lily go to a muggle school, nobody in a wizarding family goes to a muggle secondary school unless their squib," Realization struck James "Lily's a squib isn't she?"

"Yes James, she's a squib."

"Well, she really is a disgrace to this family. I mean what am I supposed to tell my friends?" voiced Albus. "They all knew that she was coming this year. Why does my sister have to be such an embarrassment?"

"Tell them what you know Albus, tell them the truth," their father "Lily is not and will never be a disgrace to this family. Is that clear?"

"Yes dad." James and Albus muttered together.

They spent the rest of the car journey in an awkward silence.

"Out we get." Harry had parked in a side road.

Everybody got out of the car and walked through the station to the barrier, it felt weird walking through Kings Cross Station without Lily chattering along. It was strangely quiet even with all the noise.

"Okay, James, Albus and Lil-"Harry cut himself off "James and Albus you two go first. We will follow through."

The boys gave solemn nods, still smarting over their telling off in the car, they weren't even bickering over who pushes the trolley like they normally do.

As the adults went through the barrier they were greeted with the sight of the Hogwarts Express, a train that carried many memories for them and a train that Lily will never get to go on. They walked together as a group where they meet with the whole Weasley clan year after year.

"Oi Harry!" Shouted Ron in his raucous voice. Which they heard, even with all the noise surrounding them. Harry looked to the left and saw Ron and Hermione leading their children Rose and Hugo to their meeting place.

"I can see with my pair of normal looking eyes two Potter children, where is the third?" George's said from behind them making them jump, following him where the rest of his family.

"Let's just wait until Percy and Bill arrive and then we'll tell you."

They talked of nothing with any significance waiting for the rest of the Weasley family to arrive.

"Ok since everybody's here, you may have been wondering where Lily is. But the thing is, Lily isn't coming to Hogwarts. She's not going to any magical school because," Harry took a deep breath "Lily's a squib."

There was a shocked silence that followed until Ron being his usual blunt self said. "How is that possible?" She is a mix of two powerful families." He shook his head "It just can't be right, take her to St Mungo's to get her tested or something!"

"No one knows how Ron. It's like how no one knows how muggle-borns come about; no one knows how squibs come about. Taking her to St Mungo's will not be any better either, they won't be able to magically make her not a squib!"

They all thought about what Harry said, but they still couldn't believe that Lily was a squib.

"Alright people, on the train or you'll miss it." Hermione ordered.

After the last goodbye hugs and kisses, the students of Hogwarts were on their way. But by know everybody knew that they were missing one particular Potter. Lily Potter and everyone knew the reason why.