Her parents had always used to joke around that she wanted to be so many things before she became eleven.
"Oh Lily, at restaurants you'd tell the waitress that you wanted to become exactly what she was when you grew up!" Her dad would roar with laughter, slapping his thigh and taking a sip out of his wine glass when with guests. As the laughter died away, he would to speak again, the ghost of a smile on his graying face. "And now, look at you! You're off to become something great."
But now she knew. She could never become a waitress as she wanted to at the age of five, not the professional swimmer or tennis player or even a soccer player when she grew up. Not even a doctor, caring for little children like her. Even a simple lawyer or an artist would not do.
Why?
All because she was the one little thing, that one tiny detail. A witch.
And now when her daddy looked at her, his back seemed to become more hunched and his face turned away. All because of that one rainy day, the day she came back from her first year at Hogwarts.
"Daddy, can I become an Auror?" she had asked, her face bright.
"What's that?" he had gently returned the question to her.
"It's a Dark-wizard catcher. Like a policeman, but now I can help defeat You-Know-Who."
"Who?" his face had paled and his voice had shook with worry.
"You know, Voldemort." Lily had whispered in slight ecstasy.
She had one particular destiny to fulfill, that much she had known. She couldn't possibly leave that special world behind-not when it was so much trouble. She assured herself that she would come back to her parents when it was all over.
But now she couldn't. The troubles were far from over, and James' pompous words stood, ringing in her head.
"Once an Auror, always an Auror! That's what my parents say!"
Instead of becoming something great, she became an Auror and died.
That's how she would always remember it.
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This was
my first drabble, and I was inspired by the graduation
held
today since it was the last day of school. Please review and tell
me
how it was! I'll be adding more drabbles; the first few after these
will be related to this one.