A/N: So this is a story I started writing more than a year ago in Finnish. After finishing it, I thought why not translate it in English, so here it is! I'm far from being an expreienced translator and I don't even have a beta reader with this one, so I hope it doesn't have too many mistakes. Feel free to inform me, if you find any :)
And I know, the beginning is kind of slow, I don't know why I seem to suck with beginnings, but it will get better, I promise!
In this one, Lily is in sixth year and Scorpius is in seventh, so Lily is a year older than she should be, also McGonagall is probably far too old to teach at this point, and there's few other little things that are not like in the books but I hope you don't mind.
Hope you like it, and please please please leave a review and let me know what you think! :)
Disclaimer: To Lily and Scorpius: Roses are red, violets are blue, J.K. Rowling owns you. (That even rhymes, how awesome am I?)
Slytherin and his Gryffindor
1. Back to Hogwarts
"Lily! Hey Lily!" Kaitlin shouted trying to get her friend's attention to herself in the middle of all the young witch and wizards saying goodbyes to their parents and getting ready for the train trip. It took a while from Lily to locate Kaitlin, even though the girl's short lilac hair stood out from the crowd. On the other hand Kaitlin's quit short length caused her to get lost in the hundreds of other people.
"Kaitlin!" Lily cried and ran from her family towards Kaitlin. "What's up?"
"Nothing new," Kaitlin said laughing, giving Lily a quick hug. "We just saw like two days ago at Diagon Alley."
"Yeah… well two days is a long time," Lily grinned.
Kaitlin rolled her eyes. "Whatever."
"Well anyway, now I have to go. See you in the train; we'll save you a seat!" Lily said and waved at her friend quickly, before she ran back to her family.
When she got back, she noticed that the Weasleys had already joined her family.
"Hi Rose, hi Hugo," Lily greeted her cousins smiling. "Let's go take seats, before everywhere is full, shall we?" she suggested.
Lily, Albus, Rose and Hugo all took their trunks and owls to one of the few, still empty compartments and then went back to say goodbye to their parents.
Ginny wrested Albus into a tight hug first. "This is your last year already, darling. I can't believe how quickly the time flies!"
"Mom," Albus sighed. "You've repeated the same sentence every year. You know what, time just happens to go."
"Guess so, then," Ginny said and gave Albus an extra hug, before moving on to say goodbye to Lily.
"Bye bye, honey," she said and now took Lily into a tight hug. "Take care of yourself."
"Mom, I'll do just fine, as I've done before," Lily said, her tone little irritated, but still answered her mother's hug.
"Remember to behave yourself, don't get yourself into detention, write to us regularly and study hard," Harry remanded Albus, but only half-seriously, smiling at the same time.
All the 'goodbye's and 'take care's took some time, before all four of them had to ran into the rain, in the last minute. They went to their own compartment and bended over to wave to Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione as the train started to move.
"There you are," Kaitlin said after some time, when she had finally found the right compartment. Albus stood up and helped Kaitlin to lift her trunk onto the luggage rack.
"What the heck do you have here?" Albus puffed, "bricks?"
Kaitlin rolled her eyes. "You just haven't done enough sports lately."
"Well anyway, I have to go to Prefects compartment to give the advices to the new prefects," Albus sighed.
"Bye bye mister Head Boy," Lily grinned.
"See you later," Hugo said and raised his eyes from the Daily Prophet, he was reading.
After Albus had gone he folded the paper and left it on the bench beside him. "In fact I have to go too, I have some things with Luke and Nico," Hugo said and grinned as goodbye to the others. Nico and Luke where twins and Hugo's best friends, with whom Hugo always managed to get into some kind of weird scenes.
"Try not to get yourself into trouble before we're even at Hogwarts," Rose called after his little brother. Rose, Lily and Kaitlin stayed in the compartment together and spent the day telling each other's everything about their holidays and eating Cauldron Cakes.
"I'll go look for Jamie, we haven't had time to talk almost at all yet," Kaitlin said as she rose up when they were already almost at Hogwarts.
"Yeah, because of course you just want to talk with him," Lily said and winked to Kaitlin meaningfully.
Kaitlin threw cauldron cake's wrapping paper towards Lily. "Shut up."
"But you know I'm right," Lily said and grinned.
Kaitlin just shrugged before she left.
"I think I'll go find Ethan, I haven't seen him at all today," Lily said and rose up too.
"Hey! You can't leave me alone here," Rose protested. "Why everyone just keeps disappearing?"
"I'll be back soon," Lily sighed. Honestly she'd prefer to spend the time with Rose than Ethan, but Ethan was his boyfriend (or something like that) so guess it was her responsibility to be with him too.
"Is everything ok?" Rose said and frowned. "I mean between you two."
"Guess so, I don't know," Lily shrugged, thinking once again how well Rose could always read her. "Our relationship is just a little complicated. I don't want to talk about it right now, when I don't know even myself where we're going."
"Okay, we'll talk more later, right?" Rose gave one more worried look to her cousin, before she bent down to dig a book from her bag.
"Yeah, see you soon," Lily said before she left.
After some wondering around the corridor, Lily found Ethan from one compartment, where he was chatting with his friends. Ethan was ravenclaw, going to last year, so he was a year older than Lily. He had dark brown, curly hair and he was tall and muscular, the kind of that automatically scared younger ones, thought actually Ethan was really nice and fun to be with.
"Hi honey," Ethan smiled and got up from the bench, when he noticed Lily.
"Hi," Lily said, smiling a little. Ethan pulled Lily back to the corridor to have some more privacy.
"So, how did your summer go?" Ethan asked and wrapped his arms around Lily's shoulder.
"It was fine, nothing special. But it's good to be back at Hogwarts, though."
"Yep."
"But anyway how your holiday went?" Lily asked after a little break.
"Well yeah, It was ok, though little boring, 'cause I didn't see you at all," Ethan said and pulled Lily even closer to him.
"Yeah," Lily sighed and rested against Ethan. Somehow she always felt so safe here, between Ethan's warm arms. Maybe that's why she had ended up with Ethan in the first place; he was so familiar and comfortable.
"But now you're here again," Ethan said and bend down to press a light kiss on Lily's lips.
"And now I have to go again. I promised I won't leave Rose alone for a long time," Lily said.
Ethan pushed his lower lip forward, so that he looked like a winging child and made Lily laugh. "Don't go."
"I have to," Lily laughed. "I'll see you later," Lily said and kissed Ethan once again, this time little longer, before she left.
Rest of the day went fast and soon Lily and Rose were standing outside, in a little cold evening air, their school cloaks on, trunk in the other hand and owl's cage in the other.
"Hey Al and Hugo are there," Rose said and nodded toward the crowd and they hurried to them.
"Come on, let's get a wagon, before they're all taken," Hugo said and after a while of searching they found an empty wagon.
Soon after that Kaitlin came with Jamie and they got into the same wagon, so that it was uncomfortably full.
Kaitlin's boyfriend Jamie was also at the same class with Lily and Kaitlin. Lily had always got along with Jamie well. Jamie was just like what he looked like, nice and pleasant, he had light brown, short hair and blue eyes, which were full of joy and laughter, whenever he was with Kaitlin. Jamie was tall, so Kaitlin looked even shorter with Jamie by her side, but Lily thought that they were quite a cute couple.
Soon the thestrals started to drive the students to Hogwarts and Lily smiled at the thought that after just a little while she'd be back at Hogwarts and get to sleep in her dormitory with the other girls and eat in the great hall and play quidditch… Everything that she had missed during summer holidays. Because the truth was, that despite how much fun she'd had during the holidays she always longed back to Hogwarts after a while, it was like her second home.
"Look," Rose whispered to Lily and nodded towards Slytherin's table, when they finally got inside of the Great Hall. "Scorpius Malfoy fights with his girlfriend."
Lily turned her head at the direction, Rose had pointed. Scorpius Malfoy and his blond girlfriend seemed to really have some kind of a fight going on.
"Hah," Lily laughed mockingly. "That girl is even more horrible than Scorpius. She always looks everyone down, like she's so much better than everyone else."
"Yeah, if it's even possible to be more horrible than he is." Rose muttered.
"Hope he'll leave her," Lily pointed out. "That would be a welcome blow to her ego."
"Well anyway, I have to go now, see you later after the party," Rose said, before she vanished among other ravenclaws.
"Let's go sit, the shorting will start soon," Lily said to Kaitlin and grabbed her arm. They sat down at Gryffindor's table next to Albus and Hugo and waited for professor McGonagall to bring the new first-graders into the hall to get shorted.
Finally the Great Hall's doors opened and professor McGonagall stepped inside holding wooden stool and a worn out shorting hat, followed by number of little scared first class students.
McGonagall placed the stool on the floor and the hat on top of it. After that the shorting hat sang its song and the shorting begun just like every year.
The shorting passed quickly and soon all the new students were sitting at their house tables looking relieved and a little more relaxed. McGonagall took the shorting hat and the stool away and then sat down on her own seat in the teacher's table.
At that point Kaitlin whispered to Lily's ear: "Can't they just let us eat already, I'm starving!"
"Even after you ate half a dozen cauldron cakes in the train," Lily whispered back and then shut up, because the headmaster had stood up.
Pomona Sprout had been chosen to Hogwarts' new headmaster soon after the former headmaster Snape had died. Professor Sprout was cheerful and smiling and she was very liked in Hogwarts.
Sprout smiled to her students.
"Welcome to Hogwarts new students," she started her short speech, "and welcome back old students. I hope we can enjoy as nice and successful school year as the last one was. You've traveled a long trip and you all must be hungry, so let's eat." Sprout smiled and at the exactly same time as she stopped speaking the empty containers from each tables filled with more and more delicious-looking foods. Students obeyed their headmaster's request immediately and started to scoop food in their plates.
After the party everyone went to their own houses. Tired and filled with good food, Lily and Kaitlin climbed the spiral stairs into the girl's dormitory with the other same age Gryffindor girls.
When they got to the dormitory, everybody changed into their pajamas right away. It had been a long day and everyone was tired and they had to wake up early next morning to get their new time tables and go to their first classes.
Lily fell asleep almost immediately when she got to her bed. She had a little smile on her lips; she thought that it was nice to be at Hogwarts again. Again another year, when anything could happen, it was the best part of Hogwarts: you never knew what was going to happen.