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the wonderful J.K. Rowling, I couldn't even hope to be as good as she is.
Chapter 1
Lily Evans was not having a good day. Some days can be bad, but this must be the worst possibly day in history. It was her 11th birthday and her sister Petunia had broken her brand new book bag for school. She realized that her mum would just replace it, but it still hurt that Petunia would do something like that and on purpose. She knew why Petunia did it, but that didn't make her feel any better about it. Petunia was 3 years older than Lily and hated the fact that Lily stopped her from being an only child. It didn't matter that Petunia barely even remembered life before Lily was born; it was the principle of it all. Ever since before Lily could remember Petunia had been awful to her. Lily in her younger years didn't understand that cruelty between sisters wasn't normal. Sure, other sisters fought, but not like her and Petunia. They not only hurt with words, they were violent. Lily remembered when Petunia tripped her as she was going down the stairs last week and landed Lily in the hospital with a broken leg. When they were in school homework and friends distracted them, but now that it was summer time, all hell broke loose.
"Lily, get your ugly ass red hair off the bathroom floor!!!!! I can't walk in here without your hair all over my feet!"
"Clean it up yourself you hag! Just because Mum cleans up your room for you, it doesn't mean that you don't have to clean anything. AND I CAN'T HELP IT, I SHED!"
"I never asked Mum to clean my room, she does it on her own!"
"Because if she didn't, something would be growing in there by now!"
"Ever since Dad left you have acted all superior, but you're not, get over yourself, your birthday is nothing special, and its not like Mum and Dad wanted you anyways!"
"Take that back!"
"I will not!"
"GIRLS! You are standing two inches from each other, why in the world are you yelling at the top of your lungs?" Asked Mrs. Evans as she walked into the bathroom looking at her two daughters with a grim expression on her face. It was a hard sight to see, Petunia was in the latest fashion trends trying to fluff up her flat blond hair, and Lily in her glasses, oxford shirt and skirt, leaning on her crutches looking up at Petunia with a look of deepest loathing. "Lily, of course your father and I wanted you, we dreamed about having another child ever since Petunia was born. Petunia, please don't say things like that to your sister, it's her birthday and she deserves to be treated that way. And I heard you say ass, don't let me hear that from your mouth again."
"BUT MUM!" They both yelled.
"No buts! And Lily dear, please try and clean up your hair from the bathroom floor. Petunia, clean your room! I can't even walk through it!"
The two girls walked away (or hobbled in Lily's case), each grumbling about how much they hated the other. Mrs. Evans did not know what she was going to do with them. She loved them both so dearly, but could not stand their fighting. If only her husband didn't travel so much for his job. He could help her play mediator between the two hot-tempered girls. Oh sure, he tried to come home whenever he could, but he was still only there for about 6 months of the year. Her nerves were fried and she still had to talk to Lily about a letter she received by owl that morning. How she was going to explain this, she had no idea.
Rose Evans was surprised to see the owl fly to her window that day, but deep down, she sort of saw it coming. Lily was sometimes able to make odd things happen when she was experiencing very strong emotions, exactly like Rose's sister could. Tulip received a letter delivered by an owl the summer of her 11th year and then she left and never came back. It was a hard subject for Rose to think about and right now she needed to think of how to tell Lily. "Well, I might as well get this over and done with." She thought to herself.
"Lily dear, could you please come in here and talk with me for a little bit?" She asked as nonchalantly as possible.
"Of course Mum, what's up?" Lily asked as her hopped back to the bathroom.
"Lily, what I'm bout to tell you is going to seem. somewhat odd. But I hope that you will be able to keep an open mind and believe me. Lily, this letter came for you today about the coming school year. Lily, you are a witch, which means that you can do magic and you have been accepted into a school of magic in northern Scotland. It is called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. My sister attended it, which is where I am assuming your magic blood comes from. Now I understand this maybe a lot to take in, but please try and think about if you would like to go study magic." Stated Rose Evans in a rush to get everything out at once before she lost her nerve.
"Oh my goodness, are you serious? I can't wait! Ever since Julie got accepted there I have been hoping to receive an owl soon. Mum, can we go to Diagon Alley right away to get all of my supplies?! I will need to exchange some muggle money into wizard money at Gringots, but then we should go to all of the stores and get my uniform, and my wand, and everything else I might need. Oh Mum, can we please go right now?" Lily exclaimed as her bright green eyes sparkled with excitement and laughter behind her glasses at her mother's expression.
"But.. but.. but.how do you know all of this already?" Sputtered Mrs. Evans.
"I told you Mum, Julie got accepted there as well. Ever since she told me about it I have been learning as much about the wizarding world as possible, hoping that all the weird stuff I can do was telling me I was a witch. Oh, I cannot wait to tell her about how I got my letter too. She has been so smug about it."
Rose was slightly taken aback by how much her daughter knew, but she was very pleased, this made her part a lot easier. "Ok dear, go get your shoes on and tell Petunia we are going shopping and then we will head out for London!" As soon as the words were out of her mouth, Lily was out the door so quickly; you wouldn't even know that she was on crutches.
Once they had parked the car Lily headed directly for the music store, but towards the side of it. Rose was very confused, why was Lily trying to get to a store that would never sell the types of things she needed? As she watched with amazement, Lily evaporated in to the side of the building. At this Rose was able to figure out that there was a building there that she could not see because of being a muggle. Waiting for Lily to figure out that her mother was not behind her, Rose decided to take in her surroundings. She didn't have much time for that because before she knew it, Lily was pulling on her hand trying to get her to move quicker.
"Mum! Please try and be quicker! I am a gimp and I'm moving faster than you are!" Lily said finally letting go of her mother's hand.
Rose picked up the pace as she walked towards the buildings. "Now Lily, you are going to have to be patient with me, seeing as I can't see where we are going." Lily did not even act as though she heard her, she just kept on moving straight towards the wall, which by Rose's standards, looked very solid. She closed her eyes waiting to be pulled into a brick wall, but when she opened her eyes after feeling no pain, she was in a dingy pub. "Bloody hell." She said softly to herself looking around at all of the patrons of this particular bar.
"Mum! I can't believe you just said that! You never swear!" Lily stated looking at her mother with awe.
"I'm sorry dear, it's just. I never knew there were so many different creatures out there in the magical world, that were so close to us!" Rose murmured, still looking around the bar with wide eyes.
"May I help you ladies?"
The voice snapped Mrs. Evans out of her reverie.
"Yes, sorry. My daughter is starting Hogwarts this year, could you please tell us where to buy her supplies?"
"Right this way. You'll want to go all the way down the street and stop at Gringots to exchange your money." The man with the missing teeth told her. "Then just go to the stores that seem to carry the items she'll be needing that are on her list." He said as he started tapping another brick wall with, what Mrs. Evans could only assume to be, a wand.
"Thank you very much for your help." She stated while walking through the arch the wall had arranged itself into.
As they headed off down the street, Rose remembered that she was the adult there, and she had to stop looking like a child in a candy store, she had to take some authority. "Alright Lily, Gringots it is." She stated as they approached a large, white, marble building. If you asked her, the building seemed very menacing.
A/N: Ok, so that's it! My first chapter of my first story! It isn't very long, but I wanted to get the first chapter out there as soon as possible. Please tell me what you think!
Chapter 1
Lily Evans was not having a good day. Some days can be bad, but this must be the worst possibly day in history. It was her 11th birthday and her sister Petunia had broken her brand new book bag for school. She realized that her mum would just replace it, but it still hurt that Petunia would do something like that and on purpose. She knew why Petunia did it, but that didn't make her feel any better about it. Petunia was 3 years older than Lily and hated the fact that Lily stopped her from being an only child. It didn't matter that Petunia barely even remembered life before Lily was born; it was the principle of it all. Ever since before Lily could remember Petunia had been awful to her. Lily in her younger years didn't understand that cruelty between sisters wasn't normal. Sure, other sisters fought, but not like her and Petunia. They not only hurt with words, they were violent. Lily remembered when Petunia tripped her as she was going down the stairs last week and landed Lily in the hospital with a broken leg. When they were in school homework and friends distracted them, but now that it was summer time, all hell broke loose.
"Lily, get your ugly ass red hair off the bathroom floor!!!!! I can't walk in here without your hair all over my feet!"
"Clean it up yourself you hag! Just because Mum cleans up your room for you, it doesn't mean that you don't have to clean anything. AND I CAN'T HELP IT, I SHED!"
"I never asked Mum to clean my room, she does it on her own!"
"Because if she didn't, something would be growing in there by now!"
"Ever since Dad left you have acted all superior, but you're not, get over yourself, your birthday is nothing special, and its not like Mum and Dad wanted you anyways!"
"Take that back!"
"I will not!"
"GIRLS! You are standing two inches from each other, why in the world are you yelling at the top of your lungs?" Asked Mrs. Evans as she walked into the bathroom looking at her two daughters with a grim expression on her face. It was a hard sight to see, Petunia was in the latest fashion trends trying to fluff up her flat blond hair, and Lily in her glasses, oxford shirt and skirt, leaning on her crutches looking up at Petunia with a look of deepest loathing. "Lily, of course your father and I wanted you, we dreamed about having another child ever since Petunia was born. Petunia, please don't say things like that to your sister, it's her birthday and she deserves to be treated that way. And I heard you say ass, don't let me hear that from your mouth again."
"BUT MUM!" They both yelled.
"No buts! And Lily dear, please try and clean up your hair from the bathroom floor. Petunia, clean your room! I can't even walk through it!"
The two girls walked away (or hobbled in Lily's case), each grumbling about how much they hated the other. Mrs. Evans did not know what she was going to do with them. She loved them both so dearly, but could not stand their fighting. If only her husband didn't travel so much for his job. He could help her play mediator between the two hot-tempered girls. Oh sure, he tried to come home whenever he could, but he was still only there for about 6 months of the year. Her nerves were fried and she still had to talk to Lily about a letter she received by owl that morning. How she was going to explain this, she had no idea.
Rose Evans was surprised to see the owl fly to her window that day, but deep down, she sort of saw it coming. Lily was sometimes able to make odd things happen when she was experiencing very strong emotions, exactly like Rose's sister could. Tulip received a letter delivered by an owl the summer of her 11th year and then she left and never came back. It was a hard subject for Rose to think about and right now she needed to think of how to tell Lily. "Well, I might as well get this over and done with." She thought to herself.
"Lily dear, could you please come in here and talk with me for a little bit?" She asked as nonchalantly as possible.
"Of course Mum, what's up?" Lily asked as her hopped back to the bathroom.
"Lily, what I'm bout to tell you is going to seem. somewhat odd. But I hope that you will be able to keep an open mind and believe me. Lily, this letter came for you today about the coming school year. Lily, you are a witch, which means that you can do magic and you have been accepted into a school of magic in northern Scotland. It is called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. My sister attended it, which is where I am assuming your magic blood comes from. Now I understand this maybe a lot to take in, but please try and think about if you would like to go study magic." Stated Rose Evans in a rush to get everything out at once before she lost her nerve.
"Oh my goodness, are you serious? I can't wait! Ever since Julie got accepted there I have been hoping to receive an owl soon. Mum, can we go to Diagon Alley right away to get all of my supplies?! I will need to exchange some muggle money into wizard money at Gringots, but then we should go to all of the stores and get my uniform, and my wand, and everything else I might need. Oh Mum, can we please go right now?" Lily exclaimed as her bright green eyes sparkled with excitement and laughter behind her glasses at her mother's expression.
"But.. but.. but.how do you know all of this already?" Sputtered Mrs. Evans.
"I told you Mum, Julie got accepted there as well. Ever since she told me about it I have been learning as much about the wizarding world as possible, hoping that all the weird stuff I can do was telling me I was a witch. Oh, I cannot wait to tell her about how I got my letter too. She has been so smug about it."
Rose was slightly taken aback by how much her daughter knew, but she was very pleased, this made her part a lot easier. "Ok dear, go get your shoes on and tell Petunia we are going shopping and then we will head out for London!" As soon as the words were out of her mouth, Lily was out the door so quickly; you wouldn't even know that she was on crutches.
Once they had parked the car Lily headed directly for the music store, but towards the side of it. Rose was very confused, why was Lily trying to get to a store that would never sell the types of things she needed? As she watched with amazement, Lily evaporated in to the side of the building. At this Rose was able to figure out that there was a building there that she could not see because of being a muggle. Waiting for Lily to figure out that her mother was not behind her, Rose decided to take in her surroundings. She didn't have much time for that because before she knew it, Lily was pulling on her hand trying to get her to move quicker.
"Mum! Please try and be quicker! I am a gimp and I'm moving faster than you are!" Lily said finally letting go of her mother's hand.
Rose picked up the pace as she walked towards the buildings. "Now Lily, you are going to have to be patient with me, seeing as I can't see where we are going." Lily did not even act as though she heard her, she just kept on moving straight towards the wall, which by Rose's standards, looked very solid. She closed her eyes waiting to be pulled into a brick wall, but when she opened her eyes after feeling no pain, she was in a dingy pub. "Bloody hell." She said softly to herself looking around at all of the patrons of this particular bar.
"Mum! I can't believe you just said that! You never swear!" Lily stated looking at her mother with awe.
"I'm sorry dear, it's just. I never knew there were so many different creatures out there in the magical world, that were so close to us!" Rose murmured, still looking around the bar with wide eyes.
"May I help you ladies?"
The voice snapped Mrs. Evans out of her reverie.
"Yes, sorry. My daughter is starting Hogwarts this year, could you please tell us where to buy her supplies?"
"Right this way. You'll want to go all the way down the street and stop at Gringots to exchange your money." The man with the missing teeth told her. "Then just go to the stores that seem to carry the items she'll be needing that are on her list." He said as he started tapping another brick wall with, what Mrs. Evans could only assume to be, a wand.
"Thank you very much for your help." She stated while walking through the arch the wall had arranged itself into.
As they headed off down the street, Rose remembered that she was the adult there, and she had to stop looking like a child in a candy store, she had to take some authority. "Alright Lily, Gringots it is." She stated as they approached a large, white, marble building. If you asked her, the building seemed very menacing.
A/N: Ok, so that's it! My first chapter of my first story! It isn't very long, but I wanted to get the first chapter out there as soon as possible. Please tell me what you think!