Chapter 1: Fights, Letters, and Diagon Alley
A/N: Whoa! Long chappie! Neways I'm not sure if there is bad language but you have been warned if there is. So here we go.
"You've been suspended again? It's only the second day!" Lily's dad growled at her, Lily just yawned. She had just given him the paper that explained how and why she got suspended. Once again she had gotten into a fight with another kid, an annoying boy named Jeremy Philips. He had been making fun of her saying that she was a boy pretending to be a girl and how know one liked her. So she did the one thing she knew would shut him up, she punched him in his nose.
"Go to you room!" Her father yelled. She missed what he had said earlier and she got up without a witty come back. She did roll her eyes as she passed him and climbed the stairs to her room. She entered her room and she was happy that she had moved out of her older sister's room two days ago. They had been sharing a room since Lily had been able to sleep in a 'big girl' bed, or so her mum called it. She had the smaller room but that made it easier to arrange her things the way she liked it. Her and her sister had once been friends but that ended about a year ago when Lily was ten and had found her own style. She loved all music except for pop, she hated pop music with passion. Unfortunately that was all her sister listened to.
Lily grabbed her flip-flops and opened the window, outside was a large tree. She slid herself on to the ledge and leapt to the nearest branch. Lily climbed down the tree and then slipped on her flip-flops. She cut through the trees in her back yard and arrived at Remus' house, he was the only friend she had at her school. Before ringing the doorbell she wiped her sweaty brow, it was the end of summer but still felt like July. The bell was answered almost immediately, by Remus. Lily smiled and said "Hi! How are you?"
Remus motioned her inside and said. "Fine, I was just about to go to your house to invite you to a party I'm having tomorrow night. Its formal." Remus said, looking at Lily as though she might explode.
Lily laughed and said. "Sure I'll come, Petunia is going to a concert and dad will be driving her. So I can stay as long as I like."
Remus led her to the kitchen and pulled out some cookies and milk. Remus poured some milk into two glasses and said. "So did I hear right? You got suspended?"
Lily smiled and said, proudly. "Yep! I beat up Jeremy again." Remus shook his head in disgust, but still smiling.
"And your proud?" Lily looked at Remus with one eyebrow raised.
"And you wouldn't be?" She asked.
Remus thought it over and said. "Your right, I guess I would be proud. What are you wearing to my party?"
Lily laughed and said. "You really know how to change the subject, don't you? I don't really know. Petunia's dresses are all to long for me."
Remus smiled and said. "Well you know my mum would love to dress you up. lets go find her."
He grabbed her hand, knocking a cookie from it and dragged her towards his mother's room. He knocked on the door and opened it. His mother was sitting on her bed reading a book. She put it down as soon as they came in.
"Mum, Lily would like you to dress her up for the party tomorrow." He said, pushing Lily forward. Mrs. Lupin looked Lily over for a second, jumped up and rushed over to Lily.
"Is this true? OK then lets get moving!" She grabbed Lily's hand and once again she was dragged off to another room. Mrs. Lupin pointed to a chair and said. "Remi, you sit there. And you have to tell us what you think. Lily I'll hand you the dress and you try them on in the bathroom. OK? Now go and take this one." She handed Lily a blue dress and pushed her into the bathroom.
Lily took off her baggy red pants and black tank top that she was wearing. She tried the dress on and hated it immediately, it was something Petunia would wear. It had so many ruffles Lily quit counting them as soon as she started. She walked out gave a quick turn and went back in with another dress Mrs. Lupin gave her. This one was purple and it had a pink train, another one Petunia would wear. Lily was sure Petunia had one like this in her closet. Lily walked out grumbling and said. "No!"
Mr. Lupin handed her another and Lily walked back into the bathroom. This went on like this for about two hours, until Lily just randomly grabbed a dress from the closet and tried it on. As Lily put it on she knew she had it. Zipping herself she turned towards the mirror and smiled. The dress was perfect! It was a light sea green dress that was tight at the top but flared gracefully from the waist down. It was u-neck, it had thin straps, and a dark green shawl to go with it.
"Lily are you having trouble?" Mrs. Lupin called. In response Lily opened the door and stepped out. Their mouths dropped in unison. Mrs. Lupin was the first to recover.
"That dress was simply made for you!" She said happily.
Remus nodded in agreement. "You are so gonna stun my friends at the party!"
"Yea like I'd want to empress some guys! Especially some of your dorky friends!" Lily said sticking her tongue out at him.
Mrs. Lupin laughed and said. "Why don't you go change and we'll figure out the hair tomorrow. Can you come over early?" Lily nodded and went back into the bathroom. She changed and left the dress on the bed.
She and Remus went down to the playroom and played video games until Lily said. "I gotta go home its already dark." Remus looked out the window and nodded. Lily followed him to the front door and left saying "See ya tomorrow!" she jogged home, slipped off her flip-flops and climbed up the tree. She jumped into her room and groaned. Her door, that she had left closed, was open. As if reading her mind her dad walked into her room.
"WHERE WERE YOU?" He bellowed.
"I was out! Got a problem with that?" Lily yelled back.
"Don't you talk back to me!" He raised his hand a hit Lily across the face, hard. Lily clutched her cheek and looked at her father angrily, but all she saw was red. Suddenly her father was thrown out of the room and hit his head on the wall. she heard him groan as her door slammed shut. Lily sat on her bed still clutching her cheek she looked at the door. She could hear her father getting up and walking down the stairs, and she could hear Petunia asking what had happened. Lily looked at the door and wondered. How did I do that? It always happens when I'm mad. I wasn't even near my dad, or the door when it shut. Maybe I'm telekinetic. She had been researching things on ESP and found out that she might be telekinetic. If she pointed and concentrated on something she could make it come to her, as long as it was small and didn't weigh much.
Lily sat on her bed thinking for quite a while, not noticing anything around. When she finally realized something was tapping on the window she jumped a mile in the air and fell off her bed. Lily now sprawled out on the floor, looked up at the window. She gasped, there perched on the ledge was a large barn owl. Lily climbed to her feet and held out her arm. The bid bird flew over to Lily, landed and held out it's foot. Lily noticed the letter clutched in the bird's claw, and she removed it. She placed the letter on the bed and picked up a piece of toast from earlier that day and fed it to the owl, who took it graciously. He gave a little hoot and flew out the window. Lily looked after it until she couldn't see it anymore, then she turned to the letter. I wonder what this is. Lily thought as she reached for the letter. She turned it over and read:
To: Miss L. Evans The smallest room upstairs 4 Privet Drive Little Whinging Surrey
Lily slightly puzzled flipped the letter over and on the back was a coat of arms with the letter 'H' surrounded by a lion, a badger, an eagle, and a snake. The envelope was thick and heavy and the writing was an emerald- green color. Lily opened the envelope and read the first paper. Lily gasped, read the paper again and gasped again.
"I'm a witch!" She whispered to herself. Lily ran out of her room and down the stairs, saying. Lily ran out of her room and down the stairs, saying. "Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad." She burst into the living room, her father and Petunia were watching TV. Petunia looked at her sister and snapped. "Stop saying that or you'll drive us all crazy!"
Lily rolled her eyes at her sister and handed the letters to he dad. He read it slowly, then looked up at Lily. "Is this real?" Lily nodded, she looked at the letter and noticed other papers.
"Dad let me see those other papers." Lily said and took the papers from her father. After scanning the papers, Lily asked. "Where is this Leaky Cauldron?" Her father shrugged and said. "Let me read the rest of the papers. You go up to your room and we'll talk about this in the morning, because you are still grounded." Lily rolled her eyes and ran upstairs to her room. She collapsed on to her bed and thought. For the second time that night, someone was tapping on Lily's window. Lily jumped up and held out her arm again, a small red owl flew over. "Hey there, Beautiful!" Lily said, taking the letter from the birds foot and let it sit on her bed. Lily opened the blank envelope and read the letter. It said:
Lily, Hey! I hope I didn't get you into trouble! When I got my letter I saw another owl fly down the road. So I had Sham (the owl) follow it and he found out it was going to you. So after we talked a little, I decided to write to you. You must be so confused! Well my family is a wizarding family so I know about everything. So if you need any help just ask your truly! My mum wants to know if you want to come with us to get your school supplies? We are going in a week from tomorrow, so go ask your dad right now! I can wait.. Stop reading and go ask!!!
Lily put the letter down laughing and ran down stairs, into the living room. "Hey dad, Remus just owled me and he was wondering if I could go with him to get my school supplies. Can I? Please!" Lily asked. "Daddy don't let her go to that freak show school! It would be to embarrassing! And what would I tell my friends! DADDY!" Petunia complained in a shrill voice. Lily's father looked sternly at his eldest daughter, and said. "Petunia you sister is going and we'll find something to tell your friends. Yes Lily you may go with him, just tell me when your going." Lily smiled and said. "A week from tomorrow." Lily bounded up the stairs and finished reading her letter. Most of it was about the party tomorrow and what time she should come over. Lily took out a piece of paper and wrote him back. Telling him that she could go and she would be there tomorrow. She put the letter in an envelope and gave it to the little bird, who went off flying. Lily laid in bed and fell asleep immediately.
The next day Petunia woke the house screaming about how she didn't have anything to wear. Lily groaned and rolled over and promptly fell back to sleep. The second time she woke no one else was home, Lily smiled and put her favorite white and black baggy pants and her red tank top. She brushed her teeth and checked the clock, she was supposed to be over at Remus' house at Four thirty, it was now twelve o'clock. Lily went into the living room and watched t.v. until it was time for her to go over. Lily left the house at a jog, arriving at Remus' in no time. She knocked on the door, which was opened a second later by Mrs. Lupin.
"Hey, Mrs. Lupin!" Lily said stepping into the house. Mrs. Lupin smiled and said.
"Are you ready for a makeover?" Lily groaned, she really didn't like dresses, they were her sister's style. Lily had always preferred pants to skirts. But never the less she followed Mrs. Lupin up to the room they were in yesterday. Mrs. Lupin had the dress laid out on the bed, and a makeup desk with a big mirror on it next to the bathroom.
"All right we'll start with hair, then makeup, and then the dress. Why don't you sit there." Mrs. Lupin said, pointing to the chair in front of the desk.. Lily sat down and looked at her reflection. She had dark red hair that fell down to her butt, bright green eyes and a gorgeous tan from being at the beach every day for two weeks. Apart from the beach, the vacation was living hell with her Father and Petunia.
Mrs. Lupin was studding Lily, trying to figure out what she should do. Then it hit her, she clapped her hands in joy and made Lily jump.
"Don't scare me like that!" Lily said in mock anger. Mrs. Lupin only smiled and started to work on her hair. Lily turned away from the mirror, not wanting to see what was happening. After about ten minutes, which Lily thought was ten hours, Mrs. Lupin picked up some makeup, still not turning Lily around. It took a while to find the right shade of everything but Mrs. Lupin finally turned Lily around and said. "Done!"
Lily smiled, was that really her? Her dark red hair was up in a neat bun, with a few strands hanging down framing her face. She had black eyeliner around her eyes making them stand out even more, her lips were a light red color. Lily smiled at Mrs. Lupin, who smiled back and said. "Go put the dress on." Lily nodded, not knowing what to say, picked up the dress and went into the bathroom. She slipped into the dress and stepped out of the bathroom. Mrs. Lupin clapped and whistled.
"Honey you look great, come check yourself out in the mirror." She said, pulling Lily over to the mirror, Lily looked at her self and gasped. Is that me?!? Lily wondered. Lily saw Mrs. Lupin look at her watch and gasp. "Its time to go people are all ready showing up at the door." She said, while looking out the window. Mrs. Lupin turned back to Lily and said. "Would you like to come greet people with me?"
"All right." Lily said, and she followed Mrs. Lupin down the endless halls. They arrived at the door just as someone was ringing it. Mrs. Lupin opened the door and smiled.
"Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, How are you?" she said as a plump woman and a skinny man came in. the woman saw Lily and let out a little squeal. "Who is this beautiful young lady?" Mrs. Lupin smiled and winked at Lily. "This is Lily one of Remus' friends."
Lily smiled at the plump lady, and said. "Good afternoon, Mrs. Morgan" Just as she said that Remus came down the stairs, and walked over to the door.
"Excuse me ladies and gentlemen, I must take Lily to meet my friends. Excuse us." He said, gently pulling Lily away. "You would have been there forever if it wasn't for me!" Remus said after they were out of ear shot.
Lily smiled and said. "So are your friends really here?" She was excited to meet them, from what Remus told her they were big trouble makers. I guess I'll like them well enough, as long as they aren't antifeminist. Lily thought and Remus said. "No they're not here yet. But what's a little white lie. Right?" Lily smiled and shook her head. Remus continued. "I figured we'd wait in here, we'll hear them the moment they come in." They walked into an empty room and sat down on a sofa.
"Remus do they come over you house often?" Lily asked.
Remus looked over at Lily and said. "Not as often as you do. Why?"
"Well have you ever shown them our secret?" she asked.
Remus smiled and said. "No way! That is so ours, I don't even think the house elves know about it."
Lily's eyes sparkled and she said. "You know I still have yet to see one and you promised!"
Remus looked around and said. "All right follow me." He got up and left the room with Lily right behind him. He walked down a hall, then another. Finally they stopped at two very large double doors. Lily turned to Remus and looked at him questionably. Remus nodded at the door and Lily gently pushed it open. She gasped.
Inside were dozens among dozens of odd creatures, with big green eyes and large bat-like ears. They were bustling about cooking food and preparing it. One took notice in Lily and gave her sweet after sweet. Lily smiled politely, not trusting her self to speak, handed the sweets back to the elf and walked out.
"Remus. oh my god! That was so creepy!." She said as soon as the doors slammed shut.
Remus smiled and said. "Well you wanted to see them. Come on we better go."
Lily looked at Remus angrily and said. "Well you could have warned me!" She took off down the hall, walking angrily. She remember where to go because she had made sure she could get back to the party in case Remus decided to leave her. She turned a corner and walked into the party room, Remus was right behind her.
"Lily wait!" He called and grabbed her arm, making her face him. "Look I was just kidding, and I can see from your face you thought I would have left you. Right now I'm thinking its not such a bad idea."
Lily's eyes flashed and Remus gulped, he knew he went to far, Lily's own mother left her and her family when she was six. "Lily, I'm sorry." He said, Lily snapped her arm away, turned around and walked away quickly.
She didn't get to far before she ran into another person. They both fell to the floor and Lily looked over at the other person, she was already pissed couldn't everyone see that! She saw that the person who knocked into her was a fat boy about her age, with brow hair and light blue eyes.
"Watch where your going!" Lily hissed, her eyes flashing. The boy cowered back and mumbled something. The boy quickly climbed to his feet and offered his hand to Lily, at that precise moment two other boys appeared next to the one who knocked into her.
"Man Peter you really know how to get the girls! We must have mistaken you!" Said the boy with black hair and gray-green eyes while the other boy with black hair and green eyes laughed. Lily looked up at the boy named Peter and knocked his hand away. She flipped up landing on her feet and glared at the three boys, who were looking at her with mouths open.
"What?" Lily snapped. The boy with Gray-green eyes opened his mouth and closed it, nothing came out. Peter stepped closer to Lily and asked. "Will you be my girlfriend?"
Lily looked at him in disgust and said. "NO! Get the hell away, you creep! Ugh!" his friends laughed as Peter blushed, then he looked angry.
"You better be careful, if you piss me off I'll tell my dad and he's close with the head of the Ministry. God your acting like a muggle." He said angrily, but not nearly as angry as Lily was. His friends looked shocked at what he said, so Lily forced her self to keep calm and said.
"And you better be careful, that move I just did was after being in karate since I was four-"
"Who are you parents? They sound like they are pretending to be muggles!" Peter interrupted. Lily looked sharply at Peter and with a graceful movement she punched him in the nose. Crimson blood flowed from his nose which as it seems Lily had broken. He staggered backward and fell to the ground, landing on his butt. "I am a muggle, you pig!" Lily said very calmly, just then Remus came over.
"Hey Lily! It seems you met James and Sirius but where's Peter?" Remus asked glancing around, then he saw the blood on the floor. his eyes followed it and he saw Peter, still siting on the floor in a daze. Remus looked at Lily who was watching him with a slight smile on her face, she looked like after every fight she had been in, she was surprisingly calm.
"Lily!" Remus groaned, and he walked over to Peter and helped him up.
"Remus." Lily said in the same tone. Remus ignored her and told Peter to go find his mother. Peter hurried off looking for Mrs. Lupin and Remus turned to Lily.
"What happened?" He asked.
"Well he started making fun of my muggle family. So I had to teach him, he did seem to want to get into trouble when he tried to look cool in front of James and Sirius. What are you guys his followers?" Lily asked the two boys.
"On the contrary, Lily, he follows us." Sirius said. Lily rolled her eyes and said. "Whatever. So you boys care to do something? Anything?"
"We could go play some games." Remus offered. The others nodded and they followed Remus out of the hall and into the playroom. After they played a few games, the door opened and in stepped peter. Lily ignored him but the boys didn't.
"Hey, you all right? Did my mum fix you up?" Remus asked, briefly looking up from the game of exploding snap.
Peter scowled and said. "Yea she fixed me. I had a broken nose, no thanks to her." Nodding towards Lily.
"Hey I'd watch it if I were you. You wouldn't want it to happen again would you." Lily said looking at her cards. She looked up, smiling, put her last card down and said. "I win!"
The boys looked at their cards which exploded with a loud snap, and cover the losers with dust. Lily laughed her self into hysteria. The boys looked shocked and then they laughed, all except for Peter. Who scowled and said. "Your mother, Remus, says its time for dinner." And with that he walked out leaving the others, who were desperately trying to regain their breath.
"What's so funny?" James said between fits of laughter and gulps of breath.
Lily looked at him and said. "I don't know" That caused them to crack up even more.
They regained their breathing and left the playroom. They joined everyone at the table, sat down together and ate dinner. They finished up with everyone else and followed the crowd into a ball room. Peter had been keeping his distance from Lily all evening, but tried to hang out with the boys as much as possible. They danced the night away, Lily danced with Remus, Sirius and James a couple of times and then later with some other boys. The boys seemed to flock towards her but she didn't seem to notice of care. All she did was hang out with Remus and his friends. They learned a lot about each other and while they were talking about Quidditch, Lily looked at her watch, it was a quarter to three. Lily gasped.
Remus looked at Lily and asked. "What's up?"
"What's up? Oh my god I lost track of time and now its two forty five!" Lily said, jumping up, she ran out of the room and into the room where she left her clothes. Quickly she changed out of her dress and hopped into the shower. She turned it off and rubbed the makeup and hair spray off. She jumped out of the shower and put on her pants and tank top. She ran down the stairs and over to Remus, Sirius and James. "Sorry about that but my dad said he'll be home at three. So I gotta go." Remus nodded but Sirius and James were staring at Lily.
"Something for you boys?" Lily asked. The two boys stammered over their apologies but Lily cut them off. "Yes, OK, whatever! I gotta go. Remi I'll see you later!" She ran out the front door and around the big house. She ran through the trees, arriving in her backyard, she sprinted into the house and up the stairs. Where she tore off her clothes, put her hair up in a towel and jumped into bed. Only to jump up again and turn off her light, she jumped in to her bed again. Just in time too! Lily thought as she glanced out her window and saw the car pulling into the driveway. Lily settled down in her bed and fell asleep, she did have a long day.
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The week passed quickly for Lily, she spent most of it in her room since she was still grounded. Finally the day came, the day she had been waiting for, the day she went to Diagon ally. Lily got dressed in her black and blue baggy pants and a white tank top and bounded down the stairs. "I'm leaving!" Lily called from the door.
"Do you have enough money?" her father called. "Yes, bye." Lily said as she pulled the door shut behind her. She ran through the woods and over to Remus' front door. She rang the door bell, which was answered by an elf the moment the ring had stopped.
"Hello Mrs. Lily. Mr. Remus will be here in a minute. Would you like something to eat? Ziffie will go and get you something, if that is what you wish." The elf babbled. Lily smiled at the elf and said.
"No thank you. I'll just wait for Remus down here." The elf nodded and left Lily in the entrance hall. Lily only waited a minute, which she spent looking at the pictures hanging on the walls, before Remus came down the stairs.
"Hey, ready for your official peek at the wizarding world?" he asked as he lead her into the living room.
"Ready! I can't wait to see this place!" Lily said happily.
Remus grabbed a pot off the mantel above the fire place and said. "All right. We'll be going alone, and by floo powder. Now you take this bit of floo powder and throw it into the fire place, then you say Diagon ally. All right? Make sure you say it clear and keep your arms and legs tucked in and close your eyes. Here you go." He handed her a pinch of glittering powder.
Lily stepped up to the fire, looked back at Remus, who winked, and threw it into the fire. "Diagon ally." Lilly said, and stepped into the fire. She felt a tug behind her navel as she pitched forward. Remembering Remus' warnings she kept her arms and legs tucked in, and her eyes shut. Suddenly she was thrown out and she tumbled to the ground. Lily whipped her eyes and opened them. She looked around trying to take everything in, when suddenly she was knocked down to the floor again. Lily groaned and tried to roll over, but someone was on top of her. Lily looked up and saw a black hair boy.
"Sirius get your dumb friend off me!" Lily said, chuckling. Suddenly there was another crash and more weight was placed on Lily. "Sirius! Stop laughing and get these people off ME!" Lily screamed. Sirius, laughing, grabbed Lily's arms and pulled her out from under the two people. Lily turned around angrily and looked down. James was now on the bottom and Remus was on top of him, both tangled up.
James looked up and said. "Help!" Lily looked down at the two and she couldn't hold it in any more. Lily busted out laughing, tears streaming down her face, she collapsed to the ground. Sirius started laughing as he looked around at the people staring at them. Sirius helped James and Remus up then he had to steady Lily because she was still laughing and couldn't hold herself up.
"So fancy meeting you guys here." Remus said while holding on to Lily. She shook her self lose of the two boys and looked at James.
"What were you doing? Were you playing football or something?" Lily demanded. James and Sirius looked at Remus curiously. Remus noticed he was being looked at and said. "Its a muggle game."
"So are you guys here to get your school stuff?" Sirius asked. "First off I'm NOT a guy and second yes we are." Lily snapped. "Touchy" Sirius replied with a smile. Lily smiled back at him and said. "Yea I know are you guys here for school too?"
"Yea, want to go together? No parents! I guess they figured out that we couldn't get into to much trouble." James said laughing.
"All righty then lets get moving. Where should we go first?" Lily asked, Remus looked around and pointed to a large white building called Gringotts. "There." He said as they headed off to the building.
Twenty minutes later the walked out of the bank with pockets full of money. They started wondering up and down the road looking at the shops when Lily suggested they go into the book store called Flourish and Blotts. They walked in and picked up all their school books first, then looked at the other ones.
Remus and James had to drag Lily and Sirius away from a book about bewitching your friends. They left the store and Lily said. "Lets go get our wands!" The boys agreed and they walked across the street to a store. 'Ollivanders: Makers of fine wands since 382 B.C.' in peeling gold letters was written above the door. The opened the door and somewhere the tinkling of a bell was heard. They stood at the door in silence, looking around at the columns of long boxes that reached the ceiling. Lily walked over to one of the smaller columns and pulled out a box. She opened it and found a long brown wand, she gently picked it up and turned it around.
"Lily! what are you doing?" Remus whispered. Lily turned to him and smiled. She lifted the wand and swished it around. The boys' eyes grew wide in wonder, as Lily felt warmth in her fingers and the wand lit up with sparks. Lily quickly brought her arm down when she heard clapping.
"Very good Lily Evans! It seems you didn't need my help at all." A man said as came out of the shadows. He was very old with pale shining eyes, he stepped up to Lily and took the wand from her hands. Then with a swish of his cloak he was behind the counter looking at the wand threw glasses. "Ah yes, Ten and a quarter inches, swishy, made of willow and unicorn hair. Perfect for charm work, it chose you well and quick if I might add." He said as he wrapped up the wand. "Now for your friends. James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin. Here." He said as he handed the each a wand. "Just do what Lily did."
The boys looked at each other and shrugged, James raised his am and swished it. Suddenly a loud boom sounded and several boxes flew off their self. Sirius followed and the same thing happened. Only Remus' lit up with sparks. "Ah yes. You've been chosen Remus. Twelve and a half inches, sturdy, made of pine and phoenix feather. Best for Defense against dark arts work." Mr. Ollivander said as he took the wand from Remus and wrapped it up. He then grabbed two other wands and handed them to James and Sirius.
They went through dozens and dozens of wands before both Sirius' and James' wands' lit up with sparks.
"James, yes you have Eleven inches, Mahogany and heartstrings of a dragon, pliable, great for transfiguration, I believe. And Sirius, you have thirteen and a quarter inches, made of dogwood and a phoenix feather, strong, also great for transfiguration." Mr. Ollivander said as he took the two wands and wrapped them up. "All right here you go." He handed James' and Sirius' wands back to them and they all paid for their wands.
"OK so where to next?" James asked.
Sirius looked around and said. "How about there." They walked into a store filled with cauldrons and the other things they needed. After buying every thing they need, then they headed up to Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions. Thirty minutes later they walked out of the shop and stood on the sidewalk.
"Can we got to the pet shop? I want to get a pet for school. I've never been allowed to have one. Petunia says she allergic to everything I like." Like said, the last part darkly.
"All right, I think I want a owl to send letters." James said. And with that they walked over to a small shop filled with different animals, normal muggle ones and exotic ones. Remus and James went straight to the owl section, while Lily and Sirius walked to the back of the shop to the exotic animals.
"Aw isn't he cute." Lily said pointing to a little dog like creature curled up in a little ball. It lifted its head and looked right at Lily. "He looks like a little pug."
"A what?" Sirius asked looking at the dog-like animal. Which looked from Lily to Sirius and back.
"Its a muggle dog." Lily replied, the dog looked at Sirius and started growling.
"Whoa there." Sirius said as he started backing away. Lily laughed and looked into another cage, which held a baby griffin no larger then her two fists put together. "Hey this one is cute." Sirius said. Lily looked up from the griffin and saw Sirius pointing, Lily walked over to Sirius and gasped.
In the cage was a cross between a Unicorn and a Pegasus, curled up in a little ball. The little horse was a pure white with a gold horn. Lily nodded and walked past the cages to the darkest corner of the shop. Lily looked into the tanks, one had five pure red snakes, another had an animal that looked like a snake with two hind legs and wings, and yet another had a little lion with wings.
Lily looked into the last cage pushed farthest into the corner. A pure black falcon was sleeping in a huddled form, it's head beneath its wing, Lily made no sound as she leaned closer. The Falcon felt her eyes on him, it lifted its head and opened its red and gold eyes and stared at her.
Lily smiled slightly as the bird cocked it's head at her. "Hello." Lily said in a soft voice. The bird looked in Lily's eyes and cooed softly.
"Hey, who are you talking to?" someone said behind her. Lily jumped and whirled around. Sirius was looking at her oddly, and said. "What's wrong?" Lily was about to say something but the bird started screeching in a high pitch. Sirius dragged Lily away from the loud bird and said. "Wow that was loud."
Lily laughed and said. "You nearly scared me to death! Why'd you sneak up on me?" Sirius was now laughing and he tried to talk.
"I heard you talking to someone and I came over." He finally said. Lily looked back at the cage and smiled. "I think I found my new pet. Isn't he gorgeous?" Lily asked no one in particular. Sirius gave Lily a weird look but shrugged.
"All right we'll pick her up later, I want to pick up an owl before we go." Sirius said while pulling Lily away from the exotic creatures and over to the owlery. They glanced at the different owls before Sirius finally choose a medium sized screech owl. They went to the desk so Sirius could pay for his owl, there they met up with James and Remus. James had a medium large snowy owl while Remus had a medium sized Hawk-owl.
"Looks like you three think alike. All Medium sized owls, wow I feel out of place." Lily said as Remus was paying for his owl.
"Why?" Remus said absentmindedly.
"Well you'll just have to find out and Sirius don't you tell them." Lily said warningly. She stepped up to the counter and said. "Hi, I'd like the bird in the corner of the exotic creatures." The girl's, behind the counter, eyes got big but she nodded anyway.
"Neil, this girl would like number 13 in exotic creatures." The girl called to another worker not to far away. Neil nodded and beckoned for Lily to follow him. The boys followed Lily as she followed Neil to number 13 in exotic creatures.
"Now are you sure you want him? He is quite nasty, and he took a nice chomp out of a friend of mine." Neil said as he picked up a smaller cage and opened the cage door.
"Yea Lily are you sure you want him?" James said staring at the bird as Neil tried to get him in the cage.
"Yes I'm positive! Hey why don't you let me try." Lily said, the last sentence spoken to Neil. He handed her the small cage and stepped away from the bird. Lily stepped up and said. "Hey babe, time to take you home." Lily reached inside and the Falcon climbed onto her arm. She pulled him out and petted him a little before putting him in the cage. She turned back to the others, who were looking at her with large eyes. Neil was the first to recover.
"No one has ever gotten that close to him before without being bitten. That was just. Wow!" He said. Lily giggled and headed to the front of the store. She was finished paying by the time the boys decided to come to the front. They all left together, clutching their new pets.
"I'm getting hungry, you guys wanna stop at the ice cream shop?" Sirius said as they walked down the street.
"Yea! Lets go. Race you there!" James said as he took off running, Sirius followed, then Remus. Lily looked after the boys, wishing she could beat them to the ice cream shop. She closed her eyes as she stood in the middle of the road. When she opened her eyes she was standing next to a table, Lily looked around and saw a large sign with ice cream on it. She sat down on the chair and looked around for the boys.
Little did Lily know she could apparate with out saying the words or using a wand. Slowly she would become less apparent to the people around her, until they all just don't see her. Then she would transport herself to the place she wanted to go to, not needing a picture in her mind to do it either.
Someone tapped her on her shoulder, Lily looked up and found a boy with blond hair, and a pale, pointed face. He looked to be about her age, Lily gave him a small smile.
"Hello, I'm Lucius Malfoy. You might have heard of my family, we are very important people." Lucius Malfoy said.
Lily gave him a puzzled look but said. "Hi, I'm Lily Evans, and no I haven't heard of your family. I'd think someone as important as you should be well known but since I haven't heard of you family I might think that you aren't as important as you say you are, and that you just use that line to pick up chicks who aren't interested." Someone started clapping, Lily and Lucius both looked in that direction. James, Sirius, and Remus were standing behind Lucius.
"Go Lily! So Malfoy trying to hit on my muggle friend?" James said, he laughed as Lucius' face went red. He stomped off leaving Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus laughing.
"I hope not all wizards and witches are like him, I don't think I'll be able to handle the excitement. So are you guys hungry?" Lily said as the boys joined her at the table.
"YEA!" The three boys coursed together. Lily shook her head and motioned for the waiter to come over.
After they got their food and started eating it Lily rummaged through her bags and found her book, A Hogwarts History. She started reading the first couple pages then looked up. Sirius and James were starring at her, Sirius' spoon was hanging out of his mouth, and James' was half way up to his mouth.
"Who would have known?!? Lily a book worm?" Sirius mumbled over his spoon. Lily laughed and shook her head.
"And who would have known? One Hundred Thousand sperms and YOU had to be the fastest." Lily said mockingly. James dropped his spoon and turned red, Remus just laughed out. Soon followed by James, Lily and then Sirius.
"Good one Lily!" James said while laughing. Lily nodded towards him smiling and went back to her book. Sirius started up a conversation about the best Quidditch teams.
"No the Chudley Cannons are better so much better!" Sirius said.
Lily looked up from her book and asked. "What's Quidditch?" James and Sirius gaped at her of a few second before explaining loudly everything about Quidditch. Lily no understanding anything the two were saying went back to her book, James and Sirius didn't take notice.
"OK! I'm done and you can stop trying to explain your sport, its making no sense." Lily said interrupting Sirius' and James' argument on which place is better, Beater or Seeker.
"Yea I'm done too. Where do we need to go next?" Remus said as he dug out some money from his pockets, the other did the same.
Sirius looked at his piece of paper and said. "Looks as though we got everything. You guys ready to go to the Quidditch store?"
James looked excited, as did Remus. Lily shrugged her shoulders but allowed the boys to drag her across the street to a large shop fill with brooms. Lily's eyes grew large and round as she looked at all the brooms, she was very much obvious about where Sirius, James, and Remus were pulling her to. The came to a stop behind a large group of people, who were talking excitedly about something, Lily didn't quite catch it. They pushed their way up to the front, now Lily could see clearly. Her mouth dropped, as she stared at the broom being modeled. The broom was the greatest thing she had ever seen, it had a sleek handle, and the bristles were perfectly positioned for the faster flight, it was a Nimbus.
"That's the newest, fastest broom so far." Someone whispered in her ear, she turned and found James staring at her. Lily nodded and looked back at the broom. They finally detached themselves from the crowd and looked around the rest of the store. James and Sirius brought some wax for their brooms, Remus just shifted through posters of some famous teams and players, Lily stood beside him looking at the posters. After they'd all had their fill of the Quidditch shop the headed outside.
Sirius looked at his watch and said. "Well it's 2:38, I told my mum we'd be home by three so we got to get going. Remus we'll catch up with you later, and you too Lily."
"Highly doubtful, since I'm still grounded. I was lucky enough to come here but I did need my supplies but bye anyway." Lily said and James and Sirius started heading down the road.
Lily turned to Remus and he said. "Well come on lets get going, we're taking the floo back home." He lead Lily to a public fireplace and handed her some floo powder.
She threw it into the fire and said. "The Lupin's" she felt the tug behind her navel as she pitched forward. She stumbled out and moved away from the fire place as she dusted herself off. Remus showed up a second later and dusted himself off too.
"Time for me to go. I'll see you at Hogwarts." Lily said as they headed for the door.
"All right, I'll see you there. Bye." Remus said as Lily walked away.
"Bye." She called over her shoulder as she disappeared into the forest.
A/N: Whoa! Long chappie! Neways I'm not sure if there is bad language but you have been warned if there is. So here we go.
"You've been suspended again? It's only the second day!" Lily's dad growled at her, Lily just yawned. She had just given him the paper that explained how and why she got suspended. Once again she had gotten into a fight with another kid, an annoying boy named Jeremy Philips. He had been making fun of her saying that she was a boy pretending to be a girl and how know one liked her. So she did the one thing she knew would shut him up, she punched him in his nose.
"Go to you room!" Her father yelled. She missed what he had said earlier and she got up without a witty come back. She did roll her eyes as she passed him and climbed the stairs to her room. She entered her room and she was happy that she had moved out of her older sister's room two days ago. They had been sharing a room since Lily had been able to sleep in a 'big girl' bed, or so her mum called it. She had the smaller room but that made it easier to arrange her things the way she liked it. Her and her sister had once been friends but that ended about a year ago when Lily was ten and had found her own style. She loved all music except for pop, she hated pop music with passion. Unfortunately that was all her sister listened to.
Lily grabbed her flip-flops and opened the window, outside was a large tree. She slid herself on to the ledge and leapt to the nearest branch. Lily climbed down the tree and then slipped on her flip-flops. She cut through the trees in her back yard and arrived at Remus' house, he was the only friend she had at her school. Before ringing the doorbell she wiped her sweaty brow, it was the end of summer but still felt like July. The bell was answered almost immediately, by Remus. Lily smiled and said "Hi! How are you?"
Remus motioned her inside and said. "Fine, I was just about to go to your house to invite you to a party I'm having tomorrow night. Its formal." Remus said, looking at Lily as though she might explode.
Lily laughed and said. "Sure I'll come, Petunia is going to a concert and dad will be driving her. So I can stay as long as I like."
Remus led her to the kitchen and pulled out some cookies and milk. Remus poured some milk into two glasses and said. "So did I hear right? You got suspended?"
Lily smiled and said, proudly. "Yep! I beat up Jeremy again." Remus shook his head in disgust, but still smiling.
"And your proud?" Lily looked at Remus with one eyebrow raised.
"And you wouldn't be?" She asked.
Remus thought it over and said. "Your right, I guess I would be proud. What are you wearing to my party?"
Lily laughed and said. "You really know how to change the subject, don't you? I don't really know. Petunia's dresses are all to long for me."
Remus smiled and said. "Well you know my mum would love to dress you up. lets go find her."
He grabbed her hand, knocking a cookie from it and dragged her towards his mother's room. He knocked on the door and opened it. His mother was sitting on her bed reading a book. She put it down as soon as they came in.
"Mum, Lily would like you to dress her up for the party tomorrow." He said, pushing Lily forward. Mrs. Lupin looked Lily over for a second, jumped up and rushed over to Lily.
"Is this true? OK then lets get moving!" She grabbed Lily's hand and once again she was dragged off to another room. Mrs. Lupin pointed to a chair and said. "Remi, you sit there. And you have to tell us what you think. Lily I'll hand you the dress and you try them on in the bathroom. OK? Now go and take this one." She handed Lily a blue dress and pushed her into the bathroom.
Lily took off her baggy red pants and black tank top that she was wearing. She tried the dress on and hated it immediately, it was something Petunia would wear. It had so many ruffles Lily quit counting them as soon as she started. She walked out gave a quick turn and went back in with another dress Mrs. Lupin gave her. This one was purple and it had a pink train, another one Petunia would wear. Lily was sure Petunia had one like this in her closet. Lily walked out grumbling and said. "No!"
Mr. Lupin handed her another and Lily walked back into the bathroom. This went on like this for about two hours, until Lily just randomly grabbed a dress from the closet and tried it on. As Lily put it on she knew she had it. Zipping herself she turned towards the mirror and smiled. The dress was perfect! It was a light sea green dress that was tight at the top but flared gracefully from the waist down. It was u-neck, it had thin straps, and a dark green shawl to go with it.
"Lily are you having trouble?" Mrs. Lupin called. In response Lily opened the door and stepped out. Their mouths dropped in unison. Mrs. Lupin was the first to recover.
"That dress was simply made for you!" She said happily.
Remus nodded in agreement. "You are so gonna stun my friends at the party!"
"Yea like I'd want to empress some guys! Especially some of your dorky friends!" Lily said sticking her tongue out at him.
Mrs. Lupin laughed and said. "Why don't you go change and we'll figure out the hair tomorrow. Can you come over early?" Lily nodded and went back into the bathroom. She changed and left the dress on the bed.
She and Remus went down to the playroom and played video games until Lily said. "I gotta go home its already dark." Remus looked out the window and nodded. Lily followed him to the front door and left saying "See ya tomorrow!" she jogged home, slipped off her flip-flops and climbed up the tree. She jumped into her room and groaned. Her door, that she had left closed, was open. As if reading her mind her dad walked into her room.
"WHERE WERE YOU?" He bellowed.
"I was out! Got a problem with that?" Lily yelled back.
"Don't you talk back to me!" He raised his hand a hit Lily across the face, hard. Lily clutched her cheek and looked at her father angrily, but all she saw was red. Suddenly her father was thrown out of the room and hit his head on the wall. she heard him groan as her door slammed shut. Lily sat on her bed still clutching her cheek she looked at the door. She could hear her father getting up and walking down the stairs, and she could hear Petunia asking what had happened. Lily looked at the door and wondered. How did I do that? It always happens when I'm mad. I wasn't even near my dad, or the door when it shut. Maybe I'm telekinetic. She had been researching things on ESP and found out that she might be telekinetic. If she pointed and concentrated on something she could make it come to her, as long as it was small and didn't weigh much.
Lily sat on her bed thinking for quite a while, not noticing anything around. When she finally realized something was tapping on the window she jumped a mile in the air and fell off her bed. Lily now sprawled out on the floor, looked up at the window. She gasped, there perched on the ledge was a large barn owl. Lily climbed to her feet and held out her arm. The bid bird flew over to Lily, landed and held out it's foot. Lily noticed the letter clutched in the bird's claw, and she removed it. She placed the letter on the bed and picked up a piece of toast from earlier that day and fed it to the owl, who took it graciously. He gave a little hoot and flew out the window. Lily looked after it until she couldn't see it anymore, then she turned to the letter. I wonder what this is. Lily thought as she reached for the letter. She turned it over and read:
To: Miss L. Evans The smallest room upstairs 4 Privet Drive Little Whinging Surrey
Lily slightly puzzled flipped the letter over and on the back was a coat of arms with the letter 'H' surrounded by a lion, a badger, an eagle, and a snake. The envelope was thick and heavy and the writing was an emerald- green color. Lily opened the envelope and read the first paper. Lily gasped, read the paper again and gasped again.
"I'm a witch!" She whispered to herself. Lily ran out of her room and down the stairs, saying. Lily ran out of her room and down the stairs, saying. "Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad." She burst into the living room, her father and Petunia were watching TV. Petunia looked at her sister and snapped. "Stop saying that or you'll drive us all crazy!"
Lily rolled her eyes at her sister and handed the letters to he dad. He read it slowly, then looked up at Lily. "Is this real?" Lily nodded, she looked at the letter and noticed other papers.
"Dad let me see those other papers." Lily said and took the papers from her father. After scanning the papers, Lily asked. "Where is this Leaky Cauldron?" Her father shrugged and said. "Let me read the rest of the papers. You go up to your room and we'll talk about this in the morning, because you are still grounded." Lily rolled her eyes and ran upstairs to her room. She collapsed on to her bed and thought. For the second time that night, someone was tapping on Lily's window. Lily jumped up and held out her arm again, a small red owl flew over. "Hey there, Beautiful!" Lily said, taking the letter from the birds foot and let it sit on her bed. Lily opened the blank envelope and read the letter. It said:
Lily, Hey! I hope I didn't get you into trouble! When I got my letter I saw another owl fly down the road. So I had Sham (the owl) follow it and he found out it was going to you. So after we talked a little, I decided to write to you. You must be so confused! Well my family is a wizarding family so I know about everything. So if you need any help just ask your truly! My mum wants to know if you want to come with us to get your school supplies? We are going in a week from tomorrow, so go ask your dad right now! I can wait.. Stop reading and go ask!!!
Lily put the letter down laughing and ran down stairs, into the living room. "Hey dad, Remus just owled me and he was wondering if I could go with him to get my school supplies. Can I? Please!" Lily asked. "Daddy don't let her go to that freak show school! It would be to embarrassing! And what would I tell my friends! DADDY!" Petunia complained in a shrill voice. Lily's father looked sternly at his eldest daughter, and said. "Petunia you sister is going and we'll find something to tell your friends. Yes Lily you may go with him, just tell me when your going." Lily smiled and said. "A week from tomorrow." Lily bounded up the stairs and finished reading her letter. Most of it was about the party tomorrow and what time she should come over. Lily took out a piece of paper and wrote him back. Telling him that she could go and she would be there tomorrow. She put the letter in an envelope and gave it to the little bird, who went off flying. Lily laid in bed and fell asleep immediately.
The next day Petunia woke the house screaming about how she didn't have anything to wear. Lily groaned and rolled over and promptly fell back to sleep. The second time she woke no one else was home, Lily smiled and put her favorite white and black baggy pants and her red tank top. She brushed her teeth and checked the clock, she was supposed to be over at Remus' house at Four thirty, it was now twelve o'clock. Lily went into the living room and watched t.v. until it was time for her to go over. Lily left the house at a jog, arriving at Remus' in no time. She knocked on the door, which was opened a second later by Mrs. Lupin.
"Hey, Mrs. Lupin!" Lily said stepping into the house. Mrs. Lupin smiled and said.
"Are you ready for a makeover?" Lily groaned, she really didn't like dresses, they were her sister's style. Lily had always preferred pants to skirts. But never the less she followed Mrs. Lupin up to the room they were in yesterday. Mrs. Lupin had the dress laid out on the bed, and a makeup desk with a big mirror on it next to the bathroom.
"All right we'll start with hair, then makeup, and then the dress. Why don't you sit there." Mrs. Lupin said, pointing to the chair in front of the desk.. Lily sat down and looked at her reflection. She had dark red hair that fell down to her butt, bright green eyes and a gorgeous tan from being at the beach every day for two weeks. Apart from the beach, the vacation was living hell with her Father and Petunia.
Mrs. Lupin was studding Lily, trying to figure out what she should do. Then it hit her, she clapped her hands in joy and made Lily jump.
"Don't scare me like that!" Lily said in mock anger. Mrs. Lupin only smiled and started to work on her hair. Lily turned away from the mirror, not wanting to see what was happening. After about ten minutes, which Lily thought was ten hours, Mrs. Lupin picked up some makeup, still not turning Lily around. It took a while to find the right shade of everything but Mrs. Lupin finally turned Lily around and said. "Done!"
Lily smiled, was that really her? Her dark red hair was up in a neat bun, with a few strands hanging down framing her face. She had black eyeliner around her eyes making them stand out even more, her lips were a light red color. Lily smiled at Mrs. Lupin, who smiled back and said. "Go put the dress on." Lily nodded, not knowing what to say, picked up the dress and went into the bathroom. She slipped into the dress and stepped out of the bathroom. Mrs. Lupin clapped and whistled.
"Honey you look great, come check yourself out in the mirror." She said, pulling Lily over to the mirror, Lily looked at her self and gasped. Is that me?!? Lily wondered. Lily saw Mrs. Lupin look at her watch and gasp. "Its time to go people are all ready showing up at the door." She said, while looking out the window. Mrs. Lupin turned back to Lily and said. "Would you like to come greet people with me?"
"All right." Lily said, and she followed Mrs. Lupin down the endless halls. They arrived at the door just as someone was ringing it. Mrs. Lupin opened the door and smiled.
"Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, How are you?" she said as a plump woman and a skinny man came in. the woman saw Lily and let out a little squeal. "Who is this beautiful young lady?" Mrs. Lupin smiled and winked at Lily. "This is Lily one of Remus' friends."
Lily smiled at the plump lady, and said. "Good afternoon, Mrs. Morgan" Just as she said that Remus came down the stairs, and walked over to the door.
"Excuse me ladies and gentlemen, I must take Lily to meet my friends. Excuse us." He said, gently pulling Lily away. "You would have been there forever if it wasn't for me!" Remus said after they were out of ear shot.
Lily smiled and said. "So are your friends really here?" She was excited to meet them, from what Remus told her they were big trouble makers. I guess I'll like them well enough, as long as they aren't antifeminist. Lily thought and Remus said. "No they're not here yet. But what's a little white lie. Right?" Lily smiled and shook her head. Remus continued. "I figured we'd wait in here, we'll hear them the moment they come in." They walked into an empty room and sat down on a sofa.
"Remus do they come over you house often?" Lily asked.
Remus looked over at Lily and said. "Not as often as you do. Why?"
"Well have you ever shown them our secret?" she asked.
Remus smiled and said. "No way! That is so ours, I don't even think the house elves know about it."
Lily's eyes sparkled and she said. "You know I still have yet to see one and you promised!"
Remus looked around and said. "All right follow me." He got up and left the room with Lily right behind him. He walked down a hall, then another. Finally they stopped at two very large double doors. Lily turned to Remus and looked at him questionably. Remus nodded at the door and Lily gently pushed it open. She gasped.
Inside were dozens among dozens of odd creatures, with big green eyes and large bat-like ears. They were bustling about cooking food and preparing it. One took notice in Lily and gave her sweet after sweet. Lily smiled politely, not trusting her self to speak, handed the sweets back to the elf and walked out.
"Remus. oh my god! That was so creepy!." She said as soon as the doors slammed shut.
Remus smiled and said. "Well you wanted to see them. Come on we better go."
Lily looked at Remus angrily and said. "Well you could have warned me!" She took off down the hall, walking angrily. She remember where to go because she had made sure she could get back to the party in case Remus decided to leave her. She turned a corner and walked into the party room, Remus was right behind her.
"Lily wait!" He called and grabbed her arm, making her face him. "Look I was just kidding, and I can see from your face you thought I would have left you. Right now I'm thinking its not such a bad idea."
Lily's eyes flashed and Remus gulped, he knew he went to far, Lily's own mother left her and her family when she was six. "Lily, I'm sorry." He said, Lily snapped her arm away, turned around and walked away quickly.
She didn't get to far before she ran into another person. They both fell to the floor and Lily looked over at the other person, she was already pissed couldn't everyone see that! She saw that the person who knocked into her was a fat boy about her age, with brow hair and light blue eyes.
"Watch where your going!" Lily hissed, her eyes flashing. The boy cowered back and mumbled something. The boy quickly climbed to his feet and offered his hand to Lily, at that precise moment two other boys appeared next to the one who knocked into her.
"Man Peter you really know how to get the girls! We must have mistaken you!" Said the boy with black hair and gray-green eyes while the other boy with black hair and green eyes laughed. Lily looked up at the boy named Peter and knocked his hand away. She flipped up landing on her feet and glared at the three boys, who were looking at her with mouths open.
"What?" Lily snapped. The boy with Gray-green eyes opened his mouth and closed it, nothing came out. Peter stepped closer to Lily and asked. "Will you be my girlfriend?"
Lily looked at him in disgust and said. "NO! Get the hell away, you creep! Ugh!" his friends laughed as Peter blushed, then he looked angry.
"You better be careful, if you piss me off I'll tell my dad and he's close with the head of the Ministry. God your acting like a muggle." He said angrily, but not nearly as angry as Lily was. His friends looked shocked at what he said, so Lily forced her self to keep calm and said.
"And you better be careful, that move I just did was after being in karate since I was four-"
"Who are you parents? They sound like they are pretending to be muggles!" Peter interrupted. Lily looked sharply at Peter and with a graceful movement she punched him in the nose. Crimson blood flowed from his nose which as it seems Lily had broken. He staggered backward and fell to the ground, landing on his butt. "I am a muggle, you pig!" Lily said very calmly, just then Remus came over.
"Hey Lily! It seems you met James and Sirius but where's Peter?" Remus asked glancing around, then he saw the blood on the floor. his eyes followed it and he saw Peter, still siting on the floor in a daze. Remus looked at Lily who was watching him with a slight smile on her face, she looked like after every fight she had been in, she was surprisingly calm.
"Lily!" Remus groaned, and he walked over to Peter and helped him up.
"Remus." Lily said in the same tone. Remus ignored her and told Peter to go find his mother. Peter hurried off looking for Mrs. Lupin and Remus turned to Lily.
"What happened?" He asked.
"Well he started making fun of my muggle family. So I had to teach him, he did seem to want to get into trouble when he tried to look cool in front of James and Sirius. What are you guys his followers?" Lily asked the two boys.
"On the contrary, Lily, he follows us." Sirius said. Lily rolled her eyes and said. "Whatever. So you boys care to do something? Anything?"
"We could go play some games." Remus offered. The others nodded and they followed Remus out of the hall and into the playroom. After they played a few games, the door opened and in stepped peter. Lily ignored him but the boys didn't.
"Hey, you all right? Did my mum fix you up?" Remus asked, briefly looking up from the game of exploding snap.
Peter scowled and said. "Yea she fixed me. I had a broken nose, no thanks to her." Nodding towards Lily.
"Hey I'd watch it if I were you. You wouldn't want it to happen again would you." Lily said looking at her cards. She looked up, smiling, put her last card down and said. "I win!"
The boys looked at their cards which exploded with a loud snap, and cover the losers with dust. Lily laughed her self into hysteria. The boys looked shocked and then they laughed, all except for Peter. Who scowled and said. "Your mother, Remus, says its time for dinner." And with that he walked out leaving the others, who were desperately trying to regain their breath.
"What's so funny?" James said between fits of laughter and gulps of breath.
Lily looked at him and said. "I don't know" That caused them to crack up even more.
They regained their breathing and left the playroom. They joined everyone at the table, sat down together and ate dinner. They finished up with everyone else and followed the crowd into a ball room. Peter had been keeping his distance from Lily all evening, but tried to hang out with the boys as much as possible. They danced the night away, Lily danced with Remus, Sirius and James a couple of times and then later with some other boys. The boys seemed to flock towards her but she didn't seem to notice of care. All she did was hang out with Remus and his friends. They learned a lot about each other and while they were talking about Quidditch, Lily looked at her watch, it was a quarter to three. Lily gasped.
Remus looked at Lily and asked. "What's up?"
"What's up? Oh my god I lost track of time and now its two forty five!" Lily said, jumping up, she ran out of the room and into the room where she left her clothes. Quickly she changed out of her dress and hopped into the shower. She turned it off and rubbed the makeup and hair spray off. She jumped out of the shower and put on her pants and tank top. She ran down the stairs and over to Remus, Sirius and James. "Sorry about that but my dad said he'll be home at three. So I gotta go." Remus nodded but Sirius and James were staring at Lily.
"Something for you boys?" Lily asked. The two boys stammered over their apologies but Lily cut them off. "Yes, OK, whatever! I gotta go. Remi I'll see you later!" She ran out the front door and around the big house. She ran through the trees, arriving in her backyard, she sprinted into the house and up the stairs. Where she tore off her clothes, put her hair up in a towel and jumped into bed. Only to jump up again and turn off her light, she jumped in to her bed again. Just in time too! Lily thought as she glanced out her window and saw the car pulling into the driveway. Lily settled down in her bed and fell asleep, she did have a long day.
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The week passed quickly for Lily, she spent most of it in her room since she was still grounded. Finally the day came, the day she had been waiting for, the day she went to Diagon ally. Lily got dressed in her black and blue baggy pants and a white tank top and bounded down the stairs. "I'm leaving!" Lily called from the door.
"Do you have enough money?" her father called. "Yes, bye." Lily said as she pulled the door shut behind her. She ran through the woods and over to Remus' front door. She rang the door bell, which was answered by an elf the moment the ring had stopped.
"Hello Mrs. Lily. Mr. Remus will be here in a minute. Would you like something to eat? Ziffie will go and get you something, if that is what you wish." The elf babbled. Lily smiled at the elf and said.
"No thank you. I'll just wait for Remus down here." The elf nodded and left Lily in the entrance hall. Lily only waited a minute, which she spent looking at the pictures hanging on the walls, before Remus came down the stairs.
"Hey, ready for your official peek at the wizarding world?" he asked as he lead her into the living room.
"Ready! I can't wait to see this place!" Lily said happily.
Remus grabbed a pot off the mantel above the fire place and said. "All right. We'll be going alone, and by floo powder. Now you take this bit of floo powder and throw it into the fire place, then you say Diagon ally. All right? Make sure you say it clear and keep your arms and legs tucked in and close your eyes. Here you go." He handed her a pinch of glittering powder.
Lily stepped up to the fire, looked back at Remus, who winked, and threw it into the fire. "Diagon ally." Lilly said, and stepped into the fire. She felt a tug behind her navel as she pitched forward. Remembering Remus' warnings she kept her arms and legs tucked in, and her eyes shut. Suddenly she was thrown out and she tumbled to the ground. Lily whipped her eyes and opened them. She looked around trying to take everything in, when suddenly she was knocked down to the floor again. Lily groaned and tried to roll over, but someone was on top of her. Lily looked up and saw a black hair boy.
"Sirius get your dumb friend off me!" Lily said, chuckling. Suddenly there was another crash and more weight was placed on Lily. "Sirius! Stop laughing and get these people off ME!" Lily screamed. Sirius, laughing, grabbed Lily's arms and pulled her out from under the two people. Lily turned around angrily and looked down. James was now on the bottom and Remus was on top of him, both tangled up.
James looked up and said. "Help!" Lily looked down at the two and she couldn't hold it in any more. Lily busted out laughing, tears streaming down her face, she collapsed to the ground. Sirius started laughing as he looked around at the people staring at them. Sirius helped James and Remus up then he had to steady Lily because she was still laughing and couldn't hold herself up.
"So fancy meeting you guys here." Remus said while holding on to Lily. She shook her self lose of the two boys and looked at James.
"What were you doing? Were you playing football or something?" Lily demanded. James and Sirius looked at Remus curiously. Remus noticed he was being looked at and said. "Its a muggle game."
"So are you guys here to get your school stuff?" Sirius asked. "First off I'm NOT a guy and second yes we are." Lily snapped. "Touchy" Sirius replied with a smile. Lily smiled back at him and said. "Yea I know are you guys here for school too?"
"Yea, want to go together? No parents! I guess they figured out that we couldn't get into to much trouble." James said laughing.
"All righty then lets get moving. Where should we go first?" Lily asked, Remus looked around and pointed to a large white building called Gringotts. "There." He said as they headed off to the building.
Twenty minutes later the walked out of the bank with pockets full of money. They started wondering up and down the road looking at the shops when Lily suggested they go into the book store called Flourish and Blotts. They walked in and picked up all their school books first, then looked at the other ones.
Remus and James had to drag Lily and Sirius away from a book about bewitching your friends. They left the store and Lily said. "Lets go get our wands!" The boys agreed and they walked across the street to a store. 'Ollivanders: Makers of fine wands since 382 B.C.' in peeling gold letters was written above the door. The opened the door and somewhere the tinkling of a bell was heard. They stood at the door in silence, looking around at the columns of long boxes that reached the ceiling. Lily walked over to one of the smaller columns and pulled out a box. She opened it and found a long brown wand, she gently picked it up and turned it around.
"Lily! what are you doing?" Remus whispered. Lily turned to him and smiled. She lifted the wand and swished it around. The boys' eyes grew wide in wonder, as Lily felt warmth in her fingers and the wand lit up with sparks. Lily quickly brought her arm down when she heard clapping.
"Very good Lily Evans! It seems you didn't need my help at all." A man said as came out of the shadows. He was very old with pale shining eyes, he stepped up to Lily and took the wand from her hands. Then with a swish of his cloak he was behind the counter looking at the wand threw glasses. "Ah yes, Ten and a quarter inches, swishy, made of willow and unicorn hair. Perfect for charm work, it chose you well and quick if I might add." He said as he wrapped up the wand. "Now for your friends. James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin. Here." He said as he handed the each a wand. "Just do what Lily did."
The boys looked at each other and shrugged, James raised his am and swished it. Suddenly a loud boom sounded and several boxes flew off their self. Sirius followed and the same thing happened. Only Remus' lit up with sparks. "Ah yes. You've been chosen Remus. Twelve and a half inches, sturdy, made of pine and phoenix feather. Best for Defense against dark arts work." Mr. Ollivander said as he took the wand from Remus and wrapped it up. He then grabbed two other wands and handed them to James and Sirius.
They went through dozens and dozens of wands before both Sirius' and James' wands' lit up with sparks.
"James, yes you have Eleven inches, Mahogany and heartstrings of a dragon, pliable, great for transfiguration, I believe. And Sirius, you have thirteen and a quarter inches, made of dogwood and a phoenix feather, strong, also great for transfiguration." Mr. Ollivander said as he took the two wands and wrapped them up. "All right here you go." He handed James' and Sirius' wands back to them and they all paid for their wands.
"OK so where to next?" James asked.
Sirius looked around and said. "How about there." They walked into a store filled with cauldrons and the other things they needed. After buying every thing they need, then they headed up to Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions. Thirty minutes later they walked out of the shop and stood on the sidewalk.
"Can we got to the pet shop? I want to get a pet for school. I've never been allowed to have one. Petunia says she allergic to everything I like." Like said, the last part darkly.
"All right, I think I want a owl to send letters." James said. And with that they walked over to a small shop filled with different animals, normal muggle ones and exotic ones. Remus and James went straight to the owl section, while Lily and Sirius walked to the back of the shop to the exotic animals.
"Aw isn't he cute." Lily said pointing to a little dog like creature curled up in a little ball. It lifted its head and looked right at Lily. "He looks like a little pug."
"A what?" Sirius asked looking at the dog-like animal. Which looked from Lily to Sirius and back.
"Its a muggle dog." Lily replied, the dog looked at Sirius and started growling.
"Whoa there." Sirius said as he started backing away. Lily laughed and looked into another cage, which held a baby griffin no larger then her two fists put together. "Hey this one is cute." Sirius said. Lily looked up from the griffin and saw Sirius pointing, Lily walked over to Sirius and gasped.
In the cage was a cross between a Unicorn and a Pegasus, curled up in a little ball. The little horse was a pure white with a gold horn. Lily nodded and walked past the cages to the darkest corner of the shop. Lily looked into the tanks, one had five pure red snakes, another had an animal that looked like a snake with two hind legs and wings, and yet another had a little lion with wings.
Lily looked into the last cage pushed farthest into the corner. A pure black falcon was sleeping in a huddled form, it's head beneath its wing, Lily made no sound as she leaned closer. The Falcon felt her eyes on him, it lifted its head and opened its red and gold eyes and stared at her.
Lily smiled slightly as the bird cocked it's head at her. "Hello." Lily said in a soft voice. The bird looked in Lily's eyes and cooed softly.
"Hey, who are you talking to?" someone said behind her. Lily jumped and whirled around. Sirius was looking at her oddly, and said. "What's wrong?" Lily was about to say something but the bird started screeching in a high pitch. Sirius dragged Lily away from the loud bird and said. "Wow that was loud."
Lily laughed and said. "You nearly scared me to death! Why'd you sneak up on me?" Sirius was now laughing and he tried to talk.
"I heard you talking to someone and I came over." He finally said. Lily looked back at the cage and smiled. "I think I found my new pet. Isn't he gorgeous?" Lily asked no one in particular. Sirius gave Lily a weird look but shrugged.
"All right we'll pick her up later, I want to pick up an owl before we go." Sirius said while pulling Lily away from the exotic creatures and over to the owlery. They glanced at the different owls before Sirius finally choose a medium sized screech owl. They went to the desk so Sirius could pay for his owl, there they met up with James and Remus. James had a medium large snowy owl while Remus had a medium sized Hawk-owl.
"Looks like you three think alike. All Medium sized owls, wow I feel out of place." Lily said as Remus was paying for his owl.
"Why?" Remus said absentmindedly.
"Well you'll just have to find out and Sirius don't you tell them." Lily said warningly. She stepped up to the counter and said. "Hi, I'd like the bird in the corner of the exotic creatures." The girl's, behind the counter, eyes got big but she nodded anyway.
"Neil, this girl would like number 13 in exotic creatures." The girl called to another worker not to far away. Neil nodded and beckoned for Lily to follow him. The boys followed Lily as she followed Neil to number 13 in exotic creatures.
"Now are you sure you want him? He is quite nasty, and he took a nice chomp out of a friend of mine." Neil said as he picked up a smaller cage and opened the cage door.
"Yea Lily are you sure you want him?" James said staring at the bird as Neil tried to get him in the cage.
"Yes I'm positive! Hey why don't you let me try." Lily said, the last sentence spoken to Neil. He handed her the small cage and stepped away from the bird. Lily stepped up and said. "Hey babe, time to take you home." Lily reached inside and the Falcon climbed onto her arm. She pulled him out and petted him a little before putting him in the cage. She turned back to the others, who were looking at her with large eyes. Neil was the first to recover.
"No one has ever gotten that close to him before without being bitten. That was just. Wow!" He said. Lily giggled and headed to the front of the store. She was finished paying by the time the boys decided to come to the front. They all left together, clutching their new pets.
"I'm getting hungry, you guys wanna stop at the ice cream shop?" Sirius said as they walked down the street.
"Yea! Lets go. Race you there!" James said as he took off running, Sirius followed, then Remus. Lily looked after the boys, wishing she could beat them to the ice cream shop. She closed her eyes as she stood in the middle of the road. When she opened her eyes she was standing next to a table, Lily looked around and saw a large sign with ice cream on it. She sat down on the chair and looked around for the boys.
Little did Lily know she could apparate with out saying the words or using a wand. Slowly she would become less apparent to the people around her, until they all just don't see her. Then she would transport herself to the place she wanted to go to, not needing a picture in her mind to do it either.
Someone tapped her on her shoulder, Lily looked up and found a boy with blond hair, and a pale, pointed face. He looked to be about her age, Lily gave him a small smile.
"Hello, I'm Lucius Malfoy. You might have heard of my family, we are very important people." Lucius Malfoy said.
Lily gave him a puzzled look but said. "Hi, I'm Lily Evans, and no I haven't heard of your family. I'd think someone as important as you should be well known but since I haven't heard of you family I might think that you aren't as important as you say you are, and that you just use that line to pick up chicks who aren't interested." Someone started clapping, Lily and Lucius both looked in that direction. James, Sirius, and Remus were standing behind Lucius.
"Go Lily! So Malfoy trying to hit on my muggle friend?" James said, he laughed as Lucius' face went red. He stomped off leaving Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus laughing.
"I hope not all wizards and witches are like him, I don't think I'll be able to handle the excitement. So are you guys hungry?" Lily said as the boys joined her at the table.
"YEA!" The three boys coursed together. Lily shook her head and motioned for the waiter to come over.
After they got their food and started eating it Lily rummaged through her bags and found her book, A Hogwarts History. She started reading the first couple pages then looked up. Sirius and James were starring at her, Sirius' spoon was hanging out of his mouth, and James' was half way up to his mouth.
"Who would have known?!? Lily a book worm?" Sirius mumbled over his spoon. Lily laughed and shook her head.
"And who would have known? One Hundred Thousand sperms and YOU had to be the fastest." Lily said mockingly. James dropped his spoon and turned red, Remus just laughed out. Soon followed by James, Lily and then Sirius.
"Good one Lily!" James said while laughing. Lily nodded towards him smiling and went back to her book. Sirius started up a conversation about the best Quidditch teams.
"No the Chudley Cannons are better so much better!" Sirius said.
Lily looked up from her book and asked. "What's Quidditch?" James and Sirius gaped at her of a few second before explaining loudly everything about Quidditch. Lily no understanding anything the two were saying went back to her book, James and Sirius didn't take notice.
"OK! I'm done and you can stop trying to explain your sport, its making no sense." Lily said interrupting Sirius' and James' argument on which place is better, Beater or Seeker.
"Yea I'm done too. Where do we need to go next?" Remus said as he dug out some money from his pockets, the other did the same.
Sirius looked at his piece of paper and said. "Looks as though we got everything. You guys ready to go to the Quidditch store?"
James looked excited, as did Remus. Lily shrugged her shoulders but allowed the boys to drag her across the street to a large shop fill with brooms. Lily's eyes grew large and round as she looked at all the brooms, she was very much obvious about where Sirius, James, and Remus were pulling her to. The came to a stop behind a large group of people, who were talking excitedly about something, Lily didn't quite catch it. They pushed their way up to the front, now Lily could see clearly. Her mouth dropped, as she stared at the broom being modeled. The broom was the greatest thing she had ever seen, it had a sleek handle, and the bristles were perfectly positioned for the faster flight, it was a Nimbus.
"That's the newest, fastest broom so far." Someone whispered in her ear, she turned and found James staring at her. Lily nodded and looked back at the broom. They finally detached themselves from the crowd and looked around the rest of the store. James and Sirius brought some wax for their brooms, Remus just shifted through posters of some famous teams and players, Lily stood beside him looking at the posters. After they'd all had their fill of the Quidditch shop the headed outside.
Sirius looked at his watch and said. "Well it's 2:38, I told my mum we'd be home by three so we got to get going. Remus we'll catch up with you later, and you too Lily."
"Highly doubtful, since I'm still grounded. I was lucky enough to come here but I did need my supplies but bye anyway." Lily said and James and Sirius started heading down the road.
Lily turned to Remus and he said. "Well come on lets get going, we're taking the floo back home." He lead Lily to a public fireplace and handed her some floo powder.
She threw it into the fire and said. "The Lupin's" she felt the tug behind her navel as she pitched forward. She stumbled out and moved away from the fire place as she dusted herself off. Remus showed up a second later and dusted himself off too.
"Time for me to go. I'll see you at Hogwarts." Lily said as they headed for the door.
"All right, I'll see you there. Bye." Remus said as Lily walked away.
"Bye." She called over her shoulder as she disappeared into the forest.