Her First Day
Lily Evans's first day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She's rather nervous too, since she doesn't even know where platform nine and three quarters is. Oops.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. If I did, I probably would've let Lily and James go out in their first year. Okay, maybe not, too immature back then. But anyways, I don't own anything. On with my story...
The Surprise and the Platform
Lily Evans was extremely nervous about her first day at her new school. You might say everyone is nervous about a first day at a new school, but Lily had a special case. She was going to a school for wizards and witches.
And she had never known there were such people. Initially, she had been rather stunned, as anyone would have been, but then she realized all the physics she studied over the summer probably would not be of much use. So she read her arse off, figuring out what this school was about.
Too bad Lily couldn't find anything on magic until she went to Diagon Alley, late in August. She had to rely on the Snape boy from Spinner's End for any information on Hogwarts and magic in general.
She wondered why she was a witch when her older sister, Petunia, was not. Of course, Petunia could not make flowers at the Spinner's End playground open and close their petals. Petunia had been more frightened than awed, but Lily was proud of herself. She had wondered if there were such powers in the world… that she possessed. She had also thought Petunia would have some form of them, too, since they were sisters—very close and loving sisters at that. But that had all changed once Petunia realized she couldn't go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with her sister.
The two of them had worked studiously, writing to the headmaster of Hogwarts, asking whether Petunia could go also. The deputy headmistress, addressed as Professor Minerva McGonagall, informed Lily that Petunia could not go if she did not demonstrate a witch's powers. From then on, Lily tried to teach Petunia how to open and close flower petals, but to no avail.
Lily had thought Petunia would understand. She would miss her dear sister also! She never expected her Tuney to turn a cold shoulder on her. Once Petunia realized she did not have Lily's powers, she became extremely horrid to her, first ignoring her, then even calling her a freak. Lily was not sure if she could ever find someone at her school who was as close to her as Petunia was.
She even spent a while deciding whether to go or not. However, she had already accepted. And Petunia would not take back her words, for she was rather stubborn.
So Hogwarts, it was.
Lily had not really stopped to think about her new classmates. All she could think about was leaving Petunia behind… and how in the world to get to Platform 9¾ at King's Cross Station. She had been there many times, never seeing a Platform 9¾.
Since her parents had dropped her off early, to her request, she had time to sit at Platform 9, contemplating. She stared intently at everyone around her, trying to determine wizard from Muggle.
Finally, she saw a boy with messy dark hair and his family. He was obviously really excited about something or another but trying to cover it up with a cool look. He bade his parents goodbye and ran through a wall…
Wait.
He ran through a wall?!
She tried blinking really hard.
One minute he was there… and the next, he was gone. And yes, he had been running with a cart of boxes and suitcases at the wall.
The boy's parents were going past her now, off towards the direction they had come from. Apparently, there was nothing wrong with their son running through a wall. Maybe they could help her out.
Lily quickly stood up and pushed her cart after the couple, eager to ask them about the wall. They turned, she followed.
And then they were gone.
The entire hall was empty. It wasn't like the boy's parents could hide in a crowd or something. Perhaps they had ran through a wall too… although Lily swore she had heard two faint cracking sounds as she had turned the corner. And it wasn't like she wanted to try running into random walls.
Glumly, Lily headed back to Platform 9. She had forgotten which wall the boy had ran through. She paced about, not straying far from her cart, which was parked against a wall. She decided pacing would not help and went back to her cart. Frustrated, she leaned against the wall, arms crossed.
Lily screamed suddenly as she landed on a cold, hard floor. Actually, her lower body was on the cold, hard floor. She had tumbled into someone as she had gone through the wall accidentally, letting that poor person break her fall.
"Uh…" a voice below her muttered. "Oh crap, must be a Muggle by accident."
Lily lifted herself off the person below, not hearing the murmurs. "Thanks," she said.
The boy yelled, "DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW HOW TO DO A MEMORY CHARM?"
A/N: This is not my first stab at a fanfic, but I decided to post this one before my KBOW one because (1) Lily was my first favorite character, (2) I was so excited about this, and (3) I don't have a title for that one... tehe. This will be about four chapters long (not very long, I know, but I'm working on two KBOW oneshots, so it's longer than those!) about Lily's first day of Hogwarts. It was originally intended to be a oneshot, but I couldn't stop writing... Reviews would be appreciated; constructive criticism encouraged.