Chapter One: Meeting the Marauders
Lily Evans sat on her bed thinking about her life so far. Most people thought that Lily was your average eleven year old girl, but that had changed when she got a letter a week ago on her birthday. Lily was a witch, some people thought that this was an easy thing to tell, especially her sister Petunia Evans who hated her sisters beautiful red ringlets and her sparkling green eyes that almost everyone fell in love with. Lily was reading a book about the Salem witch trials when she saw her mother walk past her room in her robe and then back track.
"Morning Lily." Mrs. Evans said.
"Morning mom, are you making dads lunch and all that?" Lily asked as she closed her book.
"Yeah, wanna help?" She asked.
"Yeah." Lily said smiling. The two, mother and daughter walked down the back stairs to the kitchen so that they could make the man of the houses lunch and breakfast. Lily was an exact replica of her mother, but she was daddy's little girl. When Lily had been younger and hadn't attended school, her and her mother would get up early and they would make his lunch and breakfast and then Lily and Mr. Evans would race for the first piece of pancakes or waffles. Then the tradition stopped because Lily started school, it only took place during the summer. When they reached the kitchen Lily went to the fridge and got out everything she needed to make her fathers favorite lunch. When she was finished she sat down at the table and drank orange juice until her mother put the food on the table.
Mr. Evans stood out of sight of either of his daughter and wife's view and smiled at the two of them. Mr. Evans loved his girls, especially Lily and Dayna. Petunia was always rude to her little sister but he couldn't see why, she was nice and she never caused any trouble for Petunia at school or at home.
"Morning, Lily, morning Dayna." Mr. Evans said as he came in to the kitchen and kissed his wife and then sat down next to his daughter.
"Morning, dear." Dayna said smiling.
"Mornin' daddy." Lily said smiling as she grabbed the first pancake off the plate as Dayna went to put it on the table.
"You cheated." her father said.
"But you used to do it, Harry dear, it wasn't cheating then." Dayna said smiling slyly as she sat down across from her husband.
"Yeah daddy." Lily said smiling just as her mother had.
"I don't know what I'm going to do with the two of you." He said as he brought his plate over to sink and then grabbed his briefcase and lunch bag.
"Bye, dad, I'm gonna play some basketball today." Lily said. "Well before the game tonight." Lily said smiling as she raced upstairs and to her bathroom. When Lily was done in her shower she went into her room and grabbed a baggy t-shirt and baggy shorts and put them on. She grabbed her brush and put her short ringlets in a ponytail and put her baseball cap on her head before she grabbed her basketball and went downstairs to play for a bit.
"Lily, we don't have time for that." She heard her mother say from the living room as she went to go out through her fathers study.
"Why?" Lily asked as she headed towards the living room mad.
"Because we're going to get your things today, so you need to go and get your list." Dayna Evans said as she grabbed her bankcard and keys and went to the kitchen. Lily ran back up the stairs to get her list of supplies for the school year and get her disc man. She came back down and hopped into the car with her mother. The entire way to London, Lily listened to her Walkman. Their first stop was at the bank and then they went down a couple of streets and they were in front of a dingy looking pub by the name of the Leaky Cauldron. The two of them walked in and when the door closed all the way they saw that it was filled with all sorts of different looking people.
While Dayna Evans went to talk to the bartender, Lily sat down at a table with an older couple.
"So the both of you went to Hogwarts?" Lily asked.
"Yes dear, that's where we met." The woman said.
"We were prefects for our house as well." The man said smiling.
"I think that I want to be a prefect and then become Head girl." She said smiling.
"Are you muggleborn?" The lady asked.
"What's that?" Lily asked.
"Means that you were born from two people that aren't magical." She said.
"Oh yeah, my mom grows vegetables and all that and my father is a doctor." Lily said.
"What is a doctor?" The lady asked.
"That's someone who helps sick people." Lily said. "He works in the ER and that's the emergency room, so it can get really busy sometimes." Lily said smiling.
"Dear I hate to interrupt you but your mother looks like she wants to get going." She said smiling.
"Alright bye, I hope I'll see you sometime again." Lily said.
"Bye dear." The lady smiled as she waved goodbye to the girl. Lily and Dayna Evans went to the back storage room with the bartender who's name was Tom and they watched as he tapped three stones, and the wall turned in to an archway for them to go through.
"We have to make our first stop at Gringrotts which is the wizarding bank." Dayna Evans said. The two of them followed the road that was covered in people running in and out of shops, until they came to a big pearly white building that read Gringrotts. They walked up the steps and through the doors, when they reached the second set of doors they saw the creatures that stood there and became a bit uneasy as they walked in to the building. They went to the first creature that was free and they set up Lily's account. Half an hour later they were back out in the busy streets of Diagon Alley.
"I think that we would get this done faster if we split up." Lily said.
"Yeah, you get your robes and wand. I'll meet you at the wand shop and then we'll talk about your pet." Dayna said grinning.
"Alright." Lily said as she took the money that her mother handed her the money that she supposed she would need and told Lily how many robes that Lily needed.
They headed in different directions; Lily went in to the shop that she had seen when she and her mother were walking. She heard the bell jingle when she walked in and she saw that there were three other boys in the back room.
"Why don't you go and join them?" An old lady that had been behind the counter said as she came from out behind it.
"Alright, thanks." Lily said as she headed back towards where the boys were. Lily went to the last stool and stood up on it and looked at herself.
"What's your name?" The boy on the other end of the group of them asked. He was taller with long messy black hair.
"Lillian Evans." She said smiling.
"That's a weird name for a guy." He said grinning at her. "Just kidding, my name's Sirius Black." He said. "This is my lifetime pal, James Potter and our new friend Remus Lupin."
"Hello." They all said to each other.
"So are you muggleborn?" Remus asked. "I haven't heard of the Evans'." he said smiling.
"Yeah, just found out a week ago." She said smiling.
"Where are your parents?" Remus asked.
"My father's at work and my mother is off getting my books and everything." Lily said.
"How does she know where everything is?" Sirius asked.
"My mother is an experienced shopper much to her disappointment." Lily said.
"I thought women liked to shop." James said.
"Some do, particularly the ones that don't care about anything but money and being respectable to everyone no matter what, that would be my sister and why my mother knows how to shop." Lily said.
"Well kids, you're all done for now." Madame Malkin said as she handed them all their bags of robes and they paid for them at the counter as a bunch of other kids came in to get fitted. The group of them made their way out into the sun and they split up to do the rest of their shopping. Remus and Lily both went to the wand shop as it was the last shop that either had to go. When they walked into the shop, they saw that their parents were there and they were talking heatedly.
"Hey mom." Lily said as she put her parcels down by her mother.
"Hey dear." Dayna said smiling at her daughter.
"Mrs. Evans this is our son Remus Lupin." The lady said pointing to Remus.
"This is my Lily." Dayna said.
"Lily this is Jason and Debrah Lupin." Dayna Evans said.
"Hello." Lily said smiling at the people that Lily liked almost instantly.
"Remus this is Lily's mother Dayna Evans." Jason said introducing the other lady to his son.
"Hello, hey Lily lets get our wands while they talk." Remus said smiling as they went up to the counter to leave their parents alone.
"So Remus are you a pureblood?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, my mother and father aren't both from reputable families though. Well my mother wasn't, but my dad loved her anyway. I have two older sister too, they're both at Hogwarts as well." Remus said.
"My sister is a weird one, she freaks my mother and father out sometimes too." Lily said.
After Lily and Remus paid for their wands the group of them left the shop and went to the pet shop to get the two children pets. After looking around for an hour, Lily settled on an orange tiger striped cat and a snowy white owl with pale green eyes. Remus got a black cat and a tawny owl that matched his sandy brown hair.
"Well it was nice meeting you, and I hope that we can get together again sometime but Lily and I should really be going." Dayna said.
"Yeah, well we should get together for dinner sometime." Debrah Lupin said smiling.
"Yes we should, bye." Dayna said as they split up in the Leaky cauldron. Lily and Dayna went out the muggle way while the Lupins went into the back rooms where they could floo back home, which Remus had explained all about when they had been searching for their pets. Remus had explained a lot about the wizarding world when they had been together for such a short time and she didn't know how she was going to learn any of the books as she picked one up to read in the car while she was taking care of her owl and cat.
When they pulled into the driveway and all the way up into the garage Lily grabbed a few packages and headed into the house through the kitchen door. Her mother brought everything else as she read more about the spells.
"Lily, I have to go to town to get some groceries and I thought that you would like to stay home and read up on Hogwarts and all that more. I got you a few extra books for you to read as well. See you in a bit." She said smiling as she went back out to the garage.
Lily put the book down long enough to bring her things up to her room and find places for them, she also got her cat and owl settled in, then she curled up on her bed with her cat and her owl. She finished the first book, which was about some charms, and she tried some as well, she got the first charm in the book right off the bat. It was the levitating charm and she showed her mother as soon as her mother stepped in the door. She sat down in the living room with her mother and practiced more spells. Her mother read some of the books that she had gotten her and lily smiled that her mother was so interested.
This was how Harold Evans found them when he came home.
"What are you two doing?" Harold Evans asked as he walked into the living room and took off his coat.
"Lily's got some of the charms down." Dayna Evans said like a girl in a candy store. He smiled and then sat down with them to see what his daughter had accomplished that afternoon.