Summary: Lily Evans has been accepted into Hogwarts, she's still young and
still so innocent, she just can't believe that a person could kill another;
she can't even kill a small spider. This is her story, from innocent kid
to hardened adult. How it happened.
A/N: I plan on writing this from the moment our darling Lily is accepted into Hogwarts to the day she dies, and just maybe there will be a little surprise for you when the last chapter is posted, and I might decide to write a sequel, it depends. Please review and tell me what you think.
Disclaimer: I own nothing at all except maybe a few peoples and a bit of the story line, not much I know, but that's all I get credit for.
Chapter 1 - Finding out a single truth
Lily Evans was having a rather odd dream. In her dream she was floating outside her sister's window, and she kept on taping the panel of glass, but no body answered, then suddenly she was falling, falling into complete and utter darkness, all around her she could hear laughter. She considered laughing alone with the others, but it didn't really seem appropriate as she was certain that the voices were all laughing at her and not with her.
Suddenly, the tapping sound that she had made earlier on her sisters window now applied to her, suddenly she was in bed again, she was certain that she could see her sister outside and tapping on the glass as payback for she herself doing it.
It took a while to notice that the tapping didn't go away, and as she slowly gained conscience, she realised that the tapping was actually in reality, not just a figment of her overactive imagination. She groaned and turned over, but the noise continued refusing to be ignored.
"Shut up!" she whispered, barely awake as she looked at the offending window. Through the fog of her unawakened mind she realised something: Today was her eleventh birthday, the sixteenth of July.
"What a wonderful way to be woken up on my birthday Mr. Window, now, why are you being tapped and by what or whom?" the tapping continued, no more or less consistent than it had been before. Grumbling, she grabbed her dressing gown from it's position draped over her desk chair, and pulled it on, advancing upon the lavender coloured curtains.
As she opened the window and owl flew in, but that was not all that strange. She smiled at it and petted it gently before whispering to it.
"I think you got the wrong room sweetie, my sister's on the other side of the house on the first floor, I'm Lily you know; I'm not magical!" she petted it some more, before carefully going over to her drawer and getting some of her sisters owl pellets and giving them to the owl, who cooed her delight.
"Off you go, why don't you go and wake my sister up, due revenge I think, after all, her letter woke me up and today is my birthday - " she trailed off as she looked at the owl before her.
"You're not for my sister" it was a statement "you're for me! Oh my god! You're for me! I'm - oh my god! I'm a witch too!" after much excitement and hugs to the owl, Lily stopped suddenly, she knew that Aurora Evans would be happy, she was not so sure about Petunia, or her father. She shuddered slightly at the thought of her father. He scared her, the way he treated Aurora, she was ashamed to admit that he really was her father.
She sighed, all traces of her previous good mood vanishing as she again patted the owl, imagining what life at Hogwarts would be like. If, that was, her father allowed her to go. She thanked the owl and slumped back onto her bed, staring at the ceiling of her room.
When she woke up, the letter still clutched in her hand, she could hear the sounds of breakfast going on down stairs, she yawned, and feeling her hand around something looked down, it was then that she remembered.
"AURORA! I GOT INTO HOGWARTS! I GOT IN! I GOT IN! I GOT IN! I GOT IN! OH MY GOD I GOT IN!" she ran down stairs, completely ignoring her father and second eldest sister.
"AURORA I CAN GO TO HOGWARTS WITH YOU! I CAN GO WITH YOU!" she jumped up and hugged her sixteen year old sister so tight that Aurora had to shout at her to stop, but she too was almost dancing around the kitchen in joy.
"Well done Lils! Well done! Hey! Are you trying to suffocate me or what?" laughing, Aurora swung the ecstatic Lily around the kitchen and couldn't help but smile at the bouncing eleven year old.
"I thought that when Petunia didn't get her letter that there was no way that I'd get one! But I was wrong! Look! Here read it!" Lily grinned, seemingly ignorant of the fact that a fuming Petunia and a father who still seemed a bit drunk from the night before were in the room.
"Ok, ok, hem, hem: Miss Lily Evans, 7 Jaun St, southeast bedroom, London, (it always amazes me how they know all of this stuff Lils, ok, ok, I'll keep one going!) You have been accepted into Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry (Oh well done Lils! But do I really have to go on? Fine, fine!)
For the rest of the day Aurora took Lily out into muggle London, buying her nice cloths and things as a special 'treat' for getting into Hogwarts.
"Aurora, how did you get so much money? Daddy only gives Petunia pocket money" Lily asked as Aurora paid for yet another dress. Aurora grinned at her.
"I've got a job Sis, I get to tutor some of the younger years because I'm ahead in my year and some of the teachers just don't have enough time to do extra lessons, so I got hired, pretty cool huh?" Lily nodded enthusiastically imagining her older sister teaching other people magic.
"Tell you what Lils, I'll do you a deal, if you get me food from the kitchens, I'll tell you where they are, I'll teach you some extra stuff as well, though I doubt you'll be needing it! You're a really learner and listener, that'll give you extra brownie points at school. Do we have a deal?"
"We have a deal!"
"I'm glad, I almost starved last year, I was late to dinner, I was early to breakfast only because I had to leave early and I sometimes even missed lunch! I eventually found out where the kitchens were after going to much trouble to find out from the house elf's, annoying little green things that think your god's gift to the world, but even then I didn't have much time to go, helping out and all"
"That sounds so cool!" Lily was almost bouncing up and down on the small chair outside the café, she had already finished her vanilla spider and was so full of sugar Aurora was sure that she would be able to run around a football oval and not be at all tired.
"Uh huh, it is, Hogwarts is the best place on earth! I can't wait until September first! But right now I think we best had be getting back home, you know how dad is!"
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"Oh Lily well done! I am so proud of you darling!" Lily smiled, curled up tightly on her sisters lap, a huge smile still covering her peaceful features. "I wish that mum was here to see you" she stopped as Lily opened one eye and peeked up at her.
"Tell me" her soft spoken voice seemed commanding as she looked up into her sisters eyes that were so similar to her own. Aurora sighed, evidently not wanting to share the story, she had kept it locked up inside her for so long, she was used to the pain, she could live with it. So she thought.
"She was so happy when I got my letter, she told me that she was scared it would never come, told me that at Hogwarts I would learn so many things, have so much fun, meet so many people, and learn to love everything in the world, or hate it. I told her that I wanted to go to France when I was finished at Hogwarts, she scoffed at the idea as I remember, said that France was for people who were weak minded, who loved art and things that didn't help in life" Aurora sighed, slowly and stroked Lily's hair with an experienced hand.
"She told me that to understand who and what we are, we had to become one with the rest of the world. She told me to do anything for my dreams and not to let anything stand in my way. I've failed her there little Lily" she paused, waiting for the inevitable question.
"How so?"
"I said that I'd never love Lils; that I'd never give my heart to anyone, but I have, to two people actually, two people who mean more to me than my life. I would gladly give up living just to know that they were happy" a tear leaked from her eye as she looked down at the red head, who nodded sagely into her lap.
"I know what you mean. I love you so much, but I don't think I really love Petunia or Daddy, and I don't really remember mummy, I don't really have any friends at school, so that means I'd give up my life for you right? Loving someone means being, umm, 'totally devoted to you'?" Aurora laughed at the familiar song.
"Yep, that's right Lils, love means that your 'totally devoted to me'" she laughed at the scowling expression on her sisters face, and poked out her tongue mockingly, Lily frowned harder.
"What happened next?" Lily was not to be deferred on the subject of her mother, she only had vague memories of a vague woman who, although hazy, was very strict and forbidding, all she could remember of her mother was the way her eyes seemed to hungrily follow her older sister, waiting for her to leave for the magic school that was supposed to change her.
But it hadn't changed her.
"She got mad at me when I was sorted into Gryffindor instead of Slytherin or Ravenclaw, she told me that the people in Gryffindor were all fools, to weak and pathetic to understand and see what they really wanted, to have any real goals in life. She left. I haven't seen her since then"
"Oh"
"Yes"
"What's Gryffindor and Ravenclaw and Slythering?" Lily was frowning at the story, to her, her mother did not sound like all that nice a person.
"They're houses, like you have Fraiser and Gippy and Queen and all of them, but the people in Gryffindor are meant to be really brave and strong, Ravenclaws are meant to be really, really smart and intelligent, Hufflepuffs are meant to be loyal and a bit dim, and Slytherins are meant to be sly and secretive. You should never trust a Slytherin they say."
"But if the Slytherins are meant to be mean and stuff, why did mummy want you to be put in there? I don't want to be, I want to be with you in Gryffindor" Lily declared with a smile at her sister.
"I don't know why she wanted me to be in Slytherin, but I'm glad that I'm not. Gryffindor is a good house Lily, you should try to get put in there."
"Ok, I'll try to get into the Gryffindor one, what colour is it?" she asked, hoping against hope that the colour would be blue, her old house colour and favourite.
"Nope Lils, it's not blue" she laughed at the look on her sisters face "I can read your mind you know? I just know you so well Lils! You are so transparent! But the colours are, drum roll Lils!" Lily rolled her eyes, put made the appropriate sound in her thighs, smacking them in a steady drum beat.
"RED AND GOLD!" she patted Lily on the back as the girl scowled again. "I hate red, it's the colour of death and blood"
"Nuh uh Lily, Red is the colour bravery and strength, of being able to resist blood shed" Lily rolled her eyes again.
"Whatever, I still reckon that the people in the house will all die" she paused, obviously considering something, "what happens if I can't make any friends at Hogwarts, do you think they'll just ignore me?" she sounded very worried Aurora noticed, hearing the quiver in her younger sister's voice. She shook her head.
"They'll love you Lils, you'll be the envy of the school what with me as your sister!" She grinned at the outraged expression on Lily's face, and burst out laughing when Lily simply shook her head, and rolled her eyes.
"Hey Lils I just thought of something!" Aurora's voice had changed from teasing to genuinely exited, she jigged her legs up and down until a grumpy Lily was forced to sit up, scowling more than ever.
"What is it?"
"We're going to have to go to Diagon Alley!" Aurora paused for the words to sink in on Lily, the effect was almost immediate, but not really what she wanted.
"Oh"
"Not just 'oh' Lily! Diagon Alley, they have pet shops where they even sell snakes! They have a wand shop, you'll have to get a wand you know! They have bookshops, Joke shops, Potion shops where you can buy made up potions or the ingredients, they have a bank run by ugly looking goblins, they have a quidditch shop, they have - huh?"
"What's quidditch?" Lily asked, rather curious about the insight towards the magical world that had for so long been her sisters alone, but that she now shared.
"Quidditch is a game played by wizards, they all have broom sticks and fly pretty high up too, it's really dangerous; heaps of players and referees used to disappear suddenly, only to turn up months and moths later with no memories, I love it!" Aurora seemed so eager to tell Lily about everything in the wizard world. She felt as if she really did fit in with her sister, like they were friends not just related like she and Petunia.
"Oh Lily! I just can't wait! When do you want to go to Diagon Alley?"
"Tomorrow!"
"Tomorrow? I don't know Lily, don't you want to wait a bit?" Aurora grinned at the reproachful look that was directed at her, and threw a teasing punch at her little sister. "Sure you don't want to wait a bit, there's still plenty of time! You don't get the train until September first you know!"
"NO! LETS GO TOMORROW!" Lily was almost jumping up and down, long since clambering off Aurora's lap in irritation as her sister described all of the wonderful things in the wizarding world that Lily had never heard of and could only get at the famed Diagon Alley.
"Ok! Calm down, we'll go tomorrow already! And have a great time I might add!" she was looking at the animated Lily with sparkling eyes, not un- similar to that of her famed headmaster, any previous thoughts of her mother no longer tormenting her.
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"Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up!" Lily's excited voice echoed around there two story house as she bounced on her elder sisters bed in an attempt to wake her up so they could get going to Diagon Alley.
Aurora however had different ideas.
"Lily we're going in an hour! Come back then and we'll go, not yet, it's too early!" she rolled over in a futile attempt to escape from her sister. But her sister seemed to be anticipating just that move and in a final try to wake up Aurora ripped the bed sheets off the bed, exposing a pale Aurora in pink pajamas.
"LILY EVANS!"
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"Ok Lils, do we have everything yet? I want to get going and do some pleasure shopping, school supplies are just so boring to get!" Aurora yawned again, still rather annoyed at Lily for waking her up as she had.
"Um, we still have to get . . . a pet, a wand and quidditch stuff" Aurora frowned.
"a pet, a wand and quidditch stuff - hey! Give me that! It does not say quidditch stuff! Lily! If you want to go to the quidditch store then just say you want to go for fun!" Aurora handed the list of school supplies back to Lily, who grinned widely, balancing her cauldron and books.
"Ohh! Can we go to the ice cream place Rory? I love ice cream!"
Aurora grinned.
"I know you do!"
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"Isn't she pretty Rory? I love her so much! Thankyou so, so, so much!" Lily grinned in pleasure at the blue pet carrier that Aurora was holding. She looked up as she heard her sister asking her something.
"What was that?"
"I said what are you going to call her?"
"Oh, umm, I don't know, what's a good cat name? I mean there are ones like, blackie and sooty, and lucky and spotty and oh, I just don't know! I never really thought that I'd ever get a cat!"
"What about skittle?"
"No! I've got the best name!" She laughed at her sister "guess what it is! Come on! I bet you won't get it!" looking at the cat, and her future she thought it would be the perfect name.
"I don't know"
"TRY!"
"Ok, um, pebble, scrap, bluey, bubs, fur ball, Gemmy, sweetie, Happy, spot, dot, pot, snotty - "
"NO!"
"I don't know!"
"Ok, ok! Scoop!" Lily smiled happily, it was the best name her cat could have. Aurora looked at her carefully, wondering why she would name a cat 'scoop'.
"Because I'm going to be a journalist when I grow up! I'm going to write for the wizarding paper or whatever it is, I'm going to write the best stories and have the best time!"
"It's called the daily prophet but - "
"How did I know you were thinking that? Well I'm telepathic don'tchaknow? I can read you like I can a book! I - Oof!" she was knocked to the ground as a boy and his friend ran past, but both stopped as she hit the ground, dropping Scoop, her cauldron and all her books.
"Aaargg!" she let out an annoyed shout as she scrambled up, collecting her books and saying sorry to the passers by who all stared at her.
"WHO THE HELL DID THAT!" She turned around to the offending boys, and looked them over angrily, Aurora let out a laugh as she saw the two boys.
"James and Sirius isn't it?" she asked the two boys, who nodded at her before turning back to Lily.
"Sorry about that! We have to hurry, we sorta ran off from James's dad and I think he might be going into hysterics in about - "
"Two minutes approximately, that's how long it took him last time. He called the Aurors, and made them search the whole of Diagon Alley for him, it was so funny! They didn't see us of course, we had, um, well we got to go, sorry!"
He held out his hand for her to shake, she took it and frowningly shook it, suddenly her hand felt as if it was being vibrated to death, she yelped and looked to her sister for help, Aurora glared at the boy, who was laughing his head off, but Lily could detect a smile underneath her sternness, and admitted to herself that it would be quite funny, if it wasn't happening to her.
"I hate you! Make it stop you jerk!" she shouted into his face, it was beginning to hurt quite a bit and she could feel tears just underneath her eyes. He just laughed harder. She felt the unexplainable, or maybe not so unexplainable urge to punch him in the face.
"MAKE IT STOP!" He looked at her for a split second, before waving his hand. The shaking stopped instantly, but he and Sirius continued laughing at her.
"I won't forget this James - ?"
"Potter" supplied Aurora, who had only ever seen Lily this angry once before, and that had not even been for herself, she had been upset on her other sisters Petunia's behalf.
"I won't forget this James Potter" she grated out at him. He simply shrugged and laughed some more at her.
"So what? You'll probably end up being a slytherin anyway! Loser! Come on Sirius!" both he and Sirius turned and were quickly lost in the crowd.
She turned to her sister.
"I hate him, forever and ever that was so mean!"
"I know honey, I know"
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A/N: Tell me what you think, like I said before, I plan on making this a 'Life of Lily' first year up to seventh, even up to the fateful day where, well you know! I may skip some of it and all, but you'll pretty much get the whole picture. I hope to have the next chapter posted up next week, or in a couple of days, this is a new story for me so I'll try not to be to lax.
Imaginable ^_^
A/N: I plan on writing this from the moment our darling Lily is accepted into Hogwarts to the day she dies, and just maybe there will be a little surprise for you when the last chapter is posted, and I might decide to write a sequel, it depends. Please review and tell me what you think.
Disclaimer: I own nothing at all except maybe a few peoples and a bit of the story line, not much I know, but that's all I get credit for.
Chapter 1 - Finding out a single truth
Lily Evans was having a rather odd dream. In her dream she was floating outside her sister's window, and she kept on taping the panel of glass, but no body answered, then suddenly she was falling, falling into complete and utter darkness, all around her she could hear laughter. She considered laughing alone with the others, but it didn't really seem appropriate as she was certain that the voices were all laughing at her and not with her.
Suddenly, the tapping sound that she had made earlier on her sisters window now applied to her, suddenly she was in bed again, she was certain that she could see her sister outside and tapping on the glass as payback for she herself doing it.
It took a while to notice that the tapping didn't go away, and as she slowly gained conscience, she realised that the tapping was actually in reality, not just a figment of her overactive imagination. She groaned and turned over, but the noise continued refusing to be ignored.
"Shut up!" she whispered, barely awake as she looked at the offending window. Through the fog of her unawakened mind she realised something: Today was her eleventh birthday, the sixteenth of July.
"What a wonderful way to be woken up on my birthday Mr. Window, now, why are you being tapped and by what or whom?" the tapping continued, no more or less consistent than it had been before. Grumbling, she grabbed her dressing gown from it's position draped over her desk chair, and pulled it on, advancing upon the lavender coloured curtains.
As she opened the window and owl flew in, but that was not all that strange. She smiled at it and petted it gently before whispering to it.
"I think you got the wrong room sweetie, my sister's on the other side of the house on the first floor, I'm Lily you know; I'm not magical!" she petted it some more, before carefully going over to her drawer and getting some of her sisters owl pellets and giving them to the owl, who cooed her delight.
"Off you go, why don't you go and wake my sister up, due revenge I think, after all, her letter woke me up and today is my birthday - " she trailed off as she looked at the owl before her.
"You're not for my sister" it was a statement "you're for me! Oh my god! You're for me! I'm - oh my god! I'm a witch too!" after much excitement and hugs to the owl, Lily stopped suddenly, she knew that Aurora Evans would be happy, she was not so sure about Petunia, or her father. She shuddered slightly at the thought of her father. He scared her, the way he treated Aurora, she was ashamed to admit that he really was her father.
She sighed, all traces of her previous good mood vanishing as she again patted the owl, imagining what life at Hogwarts would be like. If, that was, her father allowed her to go. She thanked the owl and slumped back onto her bed, staring at the ceiling of her room.
When she woke up, the letter still clutched in her hand, she could hear the sounds of breakfast going on down stairs, she yawned, and feeling her hand around something looked down, it was then that she remembered.
"AURORA! I GOT INTO HOGWARTS! I GOT IN! I GOT IN! I GOT IN! I GOT IN! OH MY GOD I GOT IN!" she ran down stairs, completely ignoring her father and second eldest sister.
"AURORA I CAN GO TO HOGWARTS WITH YOU! I CAN GO WITH YOU!" she jumped up and hugged her sixteen year old sister so tight that Aurora had to shout at her to stop, but she too was almost dancing around the kitchen in joy.
"Well done Lils! Well done! Hey! Are you trying to suffocate me or what?" laughing, Aurora swung the ecstatic Lily around the kitchen and couldn't help but smile at the bouncing eleven year old.
"I thought that when Petunia didn't get her letter that there was no way that I'd get one! But I was wrong! Look! Here read it!" Lily grinned, seemingly ignorant of the fact that a fuming Petunia and a father who still seemed a bit drunk from the night before were in the room.
"Ok, ok, hem, hem: Miss Lily Evans, 7 Jaun St, southeast bedroom, London, (it always amazes me how they know all of this stuff Lils, ok, ok, I'll keep one going!) You have been accepted into Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry (Oh well done Lils! But do I really have to go on? Fine, fine!)
For the rest of the day Aurora took Lily out into muggle London, buying her nice cloths and things as a special 'treat' for getting into Hogwarts.
"Aurora, how did you get so much money? Daddy only gives Petunia pocket money" Lily asked as Aurora paid for yet another dress. Aurora grinned at her.
"I've got a job Sis, I get to tutor some of the younger years because I'm ahead in my year and some of the teachers just don't have enough time to do extra lessons, so I got hired, pretty cool huh?" Lily nodded enthusiastically imagining her older sister teaching other people magic.
"Tell you what Lils, I'll do you a deal, if you get me food from the kitchens, I'll tell you where they are, I'll teach you some extra stuff as well, though I doubt you'll be needing it! You're a really learner and listener, that'll give you extra brownie points at school. Do we have a deal?"
"We have a deal!"
"I'm glad, I almost starved last year, I was late to dinner, I was early to breakfast only because I had to leave early and I sometimes even missed lunch! I eventually found out where the kitchens were after going to much trouble to find out from the house elf's, annoying little green things that think your god's gift to the world, but even then I didn't have much time to go, helping out and all"
"That sounds so cool!" Lily was almost bouncing up and down on the small chair outside the café, she had already finished her vanilla spider and was so full of sugar Aurora was sure that she would be able to run around a football oval and not be at all tired.
"Uh huh, it is, Hogwarts is the best place on earth! I can't wait until September first! But right now I think we best had be getting back home, you know how dad is!"
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"Oh Lily well done! I am so proud of you darling!" Lily smiled, curled up tightly on her sisters lap, a huge smile still covering her peaceful features. "I wish that mum was here to see you" she stopped as Lily opened one eye and peeked up at her.
"Tell me" her soft spoken voice seemed commanding as she looked up into her sisters eyes that were so similar to her own. Aurora sighed, evidently not wanting to share the story, she had kept it locked up inside her for so long, she was used to the pain, she could live with it. So she thought.
"She was so happy when I got my letter, she told me that she was scared it would never come, told me that at Hogwarts I would learn so many things, have so much fun, meet so many people, and learn to love everything in the world, or hate it. I told her that I wanted to go to France when I was finished at Hogwarts, she scoffed at the idea as I remember, said that France was for people who were weak minded, who loved art and things that didn't help in life" Aurora sighed, slowly and stroked Lily's hair with an experienced hand.
"She told me that to understand who and what we are, we had to become one with the rest of the world. She told me to do anything for my dreams and not to let anything stand in my way. I've failed her there little Lily" she paused, waiting for the inevitable question.
"How so?"
"I said that I'd never love Lils; that I'd never give my heart to anyone, but I have, to two people actually, two people who mean more to me than my life. I would gladly give up living just to know that they were happy" a tear leaked from her eye as she looked down at the red head, who nodded sagely into her lap.
"I know what you mean. I love you so much, but I don't think I really love Petunia or Daddy, and I don't really remember mummy, I don't really have any friends at school, so that means I'd give up my life for you right? Loving someone means being, umm, 'totally devoted to you'?" Aurora laughed at the familiar song.
"Yep, that's right Lils, love means that your 'totally devoted to me'" she laughed at the scowling expression on her sisters face, and poked out her tongue mockingly, Lily frowned harder.
"What happened next?" Lily was not to be deferred on the subject of her mother, she only had vague memories of a vague woman who, although hazy, was very strict and forbidding, all she could remember of her mother was the way her eyes seemed to hungrily follow her older sister, waiting for her to leave for the magic school that was supposed to change her.
But it hadn't changed her.
"She got mad at me when I was sorted into Gryffindor instead of Slytherin or Ravenclaw, she told me that the people in Gryffindor were all fools, to weak and pathetic to understand and see what they really wanted, to have any real goals in life. She left. I haven't seen her since then"
"Oh"
"Yes"
"What's Gryffindor and Ravenclaw and Slythering?" Lily was frowning at the story, to her, her mother did not sound like all that nice a person.
"They're houses, like you have Fraiser and Gippy and Queen and all of them, but the people in Gryffindor are meant to be really brave and strong, Ravenclaws are meant to be really, really smart and intelligent, Hufflepuffs are meant to be loyal and a bit dim, and Slytherins are meant to be sly and secretive. You should never trust a Slytherin they say."
"But if the Slytherins are meant to be mean and stuff, why did mummy want you to be put in there? I don't want to be, I want to be with you in Gryffindor" Lily declared with a smile at her sister.
"I don't know why she wanted me to be in Slytherin, but I'm glad that I'm not. Gryffindor is a good house Lily, you should try to get put in there."
"Ok, I'll try to get into the Gryffindor one, what colour is it?" she asked, hoping against hope that the colour would be blue, her old house colour and favourite.
"Nope Lils, it's not blue" she laughed at the look on her sisters face "I can read your mind you know? I just know you so well Lils! You are so transparent! But the colours are, drum roll Lils!" Lily rolled her eyes, put made the appropriate sound in her thighs, smacking them in a steady drum beat.
"RED AND GOLD!" she patted Lily on the back as the girl scowled again. "I hate red, it's the colour of death and blood"
"Nuh uh Lily, Red is the colour bravery and strength, of being able to resist blood shed" Lily rolled her eyes again.
"Whatever, I still reckon that the people in the house will all die" she paused, obviously considering something, "what happens if I can't make any friends at Hogwarts, do you think they'll just ignore me?" she sounded very worried Aurora noticed, hearing the quiver in her younger sister's voice. She shook her head.
"They'll love you Lils, you'll be the envy of the school what with me as your sister!" She grinned at the outraged expression on Lily's face, and burst out laughing when Lily simply shook her head, and rolled her eyes.
"Hey Lils I just thought of something!" Aurora's voice had changed from teasing to genuinely exited, she jigged her legs up and down until a grumpy Lily was forced to sit up, scowling more than ever.
"What is it?"
"We're going to have to go to Diagon Alley!" Aurora paused for the words to sink in on Lily, the effect was almost immediate, but not really what she wanted.
"Oh"
"Not just 'oh' Lily! Diagon Alley, they have pet shops where they even sell snakes! They have a wand shop, you'll have to get a wand you know! They have bookshops, Joke shops, Potion shops where you can buy made up potions or the ingredients, they have a bank run by ugly looking goblins, they have a quidditch shop, they have - huh?"
"What's quidditch?" Lily asked, rather curious about the insight towards the magical world that had for so long been her sisters alone, but that she now shared.
"Quidditch is a game played by wizards, they all have broom sticks and fly pretty high up too, it's really dangerous; heaps of players and referees used to disappear suddenly, only to turn up months and moths later with no memories, I love it!" Aurora seemed so eager to tell Lily about everything in the wizard world. She felt as if she really did fit in with her sister, like they were friends not just related like she and Petunia.
"Oh Lily! I just can't wait! When do you want to go to Diagon Alley?"
"Tomorrow!"
"Tomorrow? I don't know Lily, don't you want to wait a bit?" Aurora grinned at the reproachful look that was directed at her, and threw a teasing punch at her little sister. "Sure you don't want to wait a bit, there's still plenty of time! You don't get the train until September first you know!"
"NO! LETS GO TOMORROW!" Lily was almost jumping up and down, long since clambering off Aurora's lap in irritation as her sister described all of the wonderful things in the wizarding world that Lily had never heard of and could only get at the famed Diagon Alley.
"Ok! Calm down, we'll go tomorrow already! And have a great time I might add!" she was looking at the animated Lily with sparkling eyes, not un- similar to that of her famed headmaster, any previous thoughts of her mother no longer tormenting her.
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"Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up!" Lily's excited voice echoed around there two story house as she bounced on her elder sisters bed in an attempt to wake her up so they could get going to Diagon Alley.
Aurora however had different ideas.
"Lily we're going in an hour! Come back then and we'll go, not yet, it's too early!" she rolled over in a futile attempt to escape from her sister. But her sister seemed to be anticipating just that move and in a final try to wake up Aurora ripped the bed sheets off the bed, exposing a pale Aurora in pink pajamas.
"LILY EVANS!"
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"Ok Lils, do we have everything yet? I want to get going and do some pleasure shopping, school supplies are just so boring to get!" Aurora yawned again, still rather annoyed at Lily for waking her up as she had.
"Um, we still have to get . . . a pet, a wand and quidditch stuff" Aurora frowned.
"a pet, a wand and quidditch stuff - hey! Give me that! It does not say quidditch stuff! Lily! If you want to go to the quidditch store then just say you want to go for fun!" Aurora handed the list of school supplies back to Lily, who grinned widely, balancing her cauldron and books.
"Ohh! Can we go to the ice cream place Rory? I love ice cream!"
Aurora grinned.
"I know you do!"
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"Isn't she pretty Rory? I love her so much! Thankyou so, so, so much!" Lily grinned in pleasure at the blue pet carrier that Aurora was holding. She looked up as she heard her sister asking her something.
"What was that?"
"I said what are you going to call her?"
"Oh, umm, I don't know, what's a good cat name? I mean there are ones like, blackie and sooty, and lucky and spotty and oh, I just don't know! I never really thought that I'd ever get a cat!"
"What about skittle?"
"No! I've got the best name!" She laughed at her sister "guess what it is! Come on! I bet you won't get it!" looking at the cat, and her future she thought it would be the perfect name.
"I don't know"
"TRY!"
"Ok, um, pebble, scrap, bluey, bubs, fur ball, Gemmy, sweetie, Happy, spot, dot, pot, snotty - "
"NO!"
"I don't know!"
"Ok, ok! Scoop!" Lily smiled happily, it was the best name her cat could have. Aurora looked at her carefully, wondering why she would name a cat 'scoop'.
"Because I'm going to be a journalist when I grow up! I'm going to write for the wizarding paper or whatever it is, I'm going to write the best stories and have the best time!"
"It's called the daily prophet but - "
"How did I know you were thinking that? Well I'm telepathic don'tchaknow? I can read you like I can a book! I - Oof!" she was knocked to the ground as a boy and his friend ran past, but both stopped as she hit the ground, dropping Scoop, her cauldron and all her books.
"Aaargg!" she let out an annoyed shout as she scrambled up, collecting her books and saying sorry to the passers by who all stared at her.
"WHO THE HELL DID THAT!" She turned around to the offending boys, and looked them over angrily, Aurora let out a laugh as she saw the two boys.
"James and Sirius isn't it?" she asked the two boys, who nodded at her before turning back to Lily.
"Sorry about that! We have to hurry, we sorta ran off from James's dad and I think he might be going into hysterics in about - "
"Two minutes approximately, that's how long it took him last time. He called the Aurors, and made them search the whole of Diagon Alley for him, it was so funny! They didn't see us of course, we had, um, well we got to go, sorry!"
He held out his hand for her to shake, she took it and frowningly shook it, suddenly her hand felt as if it was being vibrated to death, she yelped and looked to her sister for help, Aurora glared at the boy, who was laughing his head off, but Lily could detect a smile underneath her sternness, and admitted to herself that it would be quite funny, if it wasn't happening to her.
"I hate you! Make it stop you jerk!" she shouted into his face, it was beginning to hurt quite a bit and she could feel tears just underneath her eyes. He just laughed harder. She felt the unexplainable, or maybe not so unexplainable urge to punch him in the face.
"MAKE IT STOP!" He looked at her for a split second, before waving his hand. The shaking stopped instantly, but he and Sirius continued laughing at her.
"I won't forget this James - ?"
"Potter" supplied Aurora, who had only ever seen Lily this angry once before, and that had not even been for herself, she had been upset on her other sisters Petunia's behalf.
"I won't forget this James Potter" she grated out at him. He simply shrugged and laughed some more at her.
"So what? You'll probably end up being a slytherin anyway! Loser! Come on Sirius!" both he and Sirius turned and were quickly lost in the crowd.
She turned to her sister.
"I hate him, forever and ever that was so mean!"
"I know honey, I know"
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A/N: Tell me what you think, like I said before, I plan on making this a 'Life of Lily' first year up to seventh, even up to the fateful day where, well you know! I may skip some of it and all, but you'll pretty much get the whole picture. I hope to have the next chapter posted up next week, or in a couple of days, this is a new story for me so I'll try not to be to lax.
Imaginable ^_^