PAIRINGS: HarryxHermione, slight RonxHermione, HarryxGinny.
SUMMARY: What are Aunt Hermione and Dad hiding, and more importantly, why does little Lily look more like her aunt then Mum?
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter and other characters invented by the incredible mind of JK Rowling. They are hers and always will be.
RED WINE
Lily Potter was sitting in her room at Hogwarts attempting to get started on her homework but had only succeeded in day dreaming about the next day. This was the last day of term until Christmas holiday, and the professors, as always, had assigned last minute homework due the next day. The dormitory door swung open.
"Hey," said GeeGee Finnigan, appearing through it and throwing her book bag onto her four-poster.
"Hey Gee" Lily smiled, dipping her dried quill back into the ink well.
"Did Professor Trelawny give you that stupid monthly dream thingy to do over the break?" GeeGee made a face, and took out her own.
"No, I have Firenze, and he didn't give us any" replied Lily, making an attempt at one of the problems for arithimancy.
"Lucky,"
The room became silent aside from the scratching of the quills and the groans from the girls.
"Lily?"
"Yeah, GeeGee?"
"Shouldn't the other girls be back by now?"
It was true; they were missing Lindsay Thomas, Marianne Longbottom and Sami Woods.
"They're probably with the boys," said Lily in a melancholy voice, moving to the next subject, Potions.
"Oh, right," GeeGee was always rather sore about the subject of dating. With her large nose and terrible acne, everybody she had met and looked over her.
As for Lily, she had turned everyone down, not ready for a relationship.
"So, what did you think of the new teacher Oggert told us about?" GeeGee changed the subject.
"What do you mean?"
"Like, do you think he'll be cute, or ugly, stupid, smart, what?"
"How should I know? But, I don't think it'll be someone stupid, I mean, Professor Oggert can't hire someone stupid!"
"Well, Gilderoy Lockhart was hired, but by the old dead guy, Dumblebeee or something,"
"Dumbeldore," Lily corrected automatically. Her parents were always talking about him and how he was the greatest wizard alive.
"Whatever. The point being, a headmaster CAN hire someone incredibly stupid,"
"Yeah, my dad and uncle say he was the worst teacher ever!" agreed Lily, giving up on her homework. Slughorn could deal with the mess.
"What about your mum and aunt?" questioned GeeGee, also giving up on her homework.
"Well, almost every girl was in love with the jerk, he was incredibly handsome. My grandma has an old household guide book of his. He was cute,"
"Ew," said GeeGee.
"What?"
"Nothing," GeeGee smiled and took out her trunk and started packing.
Lily rolled her eyes. GeeGee, forever last minute.
The door swung open again and in walked Lindsay, Marianne and Sami.
"The boyfriends doing alright," smirked Lily, taking in the smudged lipstick.
"Lips still in shape?" GeeGee giggled, while the others blushed.
"I'll take that as a 'yes'" added GeeGee, shutting her suitcase.
The girls either ignored them or mumbled a "shut up." Lily glanced at her clock, which read 9:57pm. Was it really that late already?
"I don't know about you guys, but my first class is at eight, so, I'm going to bed."
"'Kay, we'll probably go soon," said GeeGee. Lily gathered her toiletries and made her way to the common room washroom.
"James!" she called to her eldest brother. She could see him start to turn red and his friends groan.
"What Lily?" he said quietly, when she was in ear shot.
"I just wanted to remind you that you have to take my trunk down to the train tomorrow night. Oh, and, we have to pick up Rosie on the way," she said.
"I know" he said through gritted teeth.
"And, were going home with Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron, and mom and dad are picking us up there "
"I know,"
"And, Albus has that condition on his face, and it's your turn to apply the cream,"
"I KNOW LILY!" James shouted, turning away from her and to his laughing friends. Lily laughed and continued on her way to the washroom. She loved bugging her brothers. After doing her business in the washroom she went back up to her dormitory where she found the other girls fast asleep. Lily crawled into her bed and fell asleep quickly.
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"GeeGee, wake up, we're late!" Lily shook her friend's shoulders and muttered 'agumanti' at her face.
"Huh, wha? I'm up!" GeeGee sputtered, shaking the ice water from her face and jumping around the room, pulling her robes on.
Lily franticly grabbed her homework from around the place and shoved them into her bag.
"Ready Gee?" asked Lily, opening the door.
"Yeah, let's roll," GeeGee walked through the door Lily held open.
In the common room, they met Hugo.
"Hey guys," he greeted, raising a hand in a hello.
"Hey Hugo," Lily greeted her cousin.
"Are we meeting Rosie in the Great Hall?" asked GeeGee, as the trio walked in unison through the halls. Lily's other cousin Rosie, was in Ravenclaw.
"Dunno"
They arrived at the Gryffindor table and dug into toast and porridge.
"So, what do you think you'll be doing for Christmas GeeGee?" asked Hugo, his mouth full of marmalade.
"I dunno, we always do something different, so its a surprise" replied GeeGeealmost inhaling her food. "What about you guys?" this directed to the cousins.
"Probably do a round of the relatives, visit, but we'll most likely stay together," answered Lily.
"You forgot going skiing with Grandma and Grandpa Granger," reminded Hugo.
"Right,"
"What's skiing?" asked GeeGee curiously. Lily was about to answer when the bell rang for class.
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"Okay class, seeing as it's the last day of term, all I want from you today is your homework, and for you to take any ingredients from the stock cupboard or your own stock and make your own potion!" said Professor Slughorn, clapping his hands, and having the homework float to his desk. Lily rolled her eyes. Slughorn was always getting them to do stuff non curriculum based. She was interested in the potions they were actually supposed to be learning.
"Is he ever going to get us to actually learn something?" whispered Lily, taking out her salamander spines and frog juice.
"Oh, Lily, you get high marks for everything, why do you care if there's one subject not making you work like a dog," said GeeGee exasperatedly, throwing random ingredients into her caldron.
"Yeah, Lils, cheer up, this is the one subject you can goof off to, so enjoy. Ol' Sluggie won't be around forever," added Hugo.
"Fine," said Lily curtly, shaking beetle eyes into her potion. She didn't even know why she said that. The last time they had talked about, it resulted in a three day fight. The classroom was filled with absent minded chatter about the holidays. Lily glanced at her watch. Only eight more hours to go.
A/N: So, what did you think? Please review and let me know! Oh, and I know this chapter might have been a bit short and boring, but I had to introduce the characters. Next chappie I promise more action! Thanks for reading!