A/N: Well, this is my first chapter to my first ever real FanFiction. I realize the spelling, grammar, and the writing it's self, is awful, but I hope you enjoy it anyways. Yes, the chapter is short but it is a prologue. The next chapter shall be way longer, and hopefully, way better. -(Note: The next chapter will skip to a year later, I dislike writing pre-Hogwarts.)- I am thinking that this Fic will continue through all of Lily's years at Hogwarts, but that all depends on you guys and if it's even worth it in the first place. Title is also temporary, if you get any good ideas for a name please notify me at once! Now please read, enjoy, favourite, follow, and review! -(Note: I am only 13, please be easy on me! *Hides*)-
DISCLAIMER: Harry Potter belong's to J.K. Rowling, and this fanfic wouldn't be possible without her.
Prologue
I stepped out of our family's crowded car and onto the cracked cement road, immediately turning to the large and noisy train station. But this wasn't just any normal train station, this was Kings Cross Station. The station which contained a rather odd platform, a platform which could allow you to board a train that would take you to the best school for witches and wizards. This platform was called, "Platform nine and three quarters". You must be thinking that this sounds rather "cool" or "awesome", that there is such thing. But the truth is, I hate platform nine and three quarters, and really you shouldn't care about it either. It's not like you muggles have direct access to this platform anyways. Now you're probably wondering, if I'm a witch, and if I can access this platform, then why do I hate it so much? Well, the answer to your question is this.
I drag myself forward towards my obnoxious family who were already entering the station building, which I will remind you, is the station building I completely dread going to.
"Hurry up Lily, you are going to make your brothers late!" Shouted a tall redheaded woman with blue eyes the colour of the ocean.
"But mum-" I started, not wanting to go into the building.
"No but's! Now come on, the rest is waiting for us."
"Your mother's right Lils, we got to go." Spoke a thin man with jet black hair and eyes that could be mistaken for emeralds.
I sighed, I could never say "No" to anything my father said, my mum maybe, but not my father. "Alright then.." I said while scurrying back over to them, and then clutching onto my father's arm looking up at him with sad eyes.
"I know this hurts you to come here sweetie," He said while walking me further into the station. "But you have to be here for your brothers and as well as your cousins."
"I know daddy, but would it really hurt for me to stay home?"
"Yes, it would." He said simply.
"How?" I say confusedly. I never really got why I had to be there when all of my relatives, brothers, and family friends, boarded the train to Hogwarts.
"Because when you travel to a far away place and you don't get to bring the one's you will miss along with you, the last thing you want to see before you go is them." He said rather deeply as we approached the platform.
Yeah right, they won't miss me, they never do. They never even say a real good-bye to me before they step onto that ketchup coloured train, sure they wave from the window as it takes off, but that doesn't really count. Merlin's beard, I can't even remember receiving any letter's from them while they're at the school."They don't miss me." I stated as we made a stop in front of the wall of platform nine.
He bends down and plants a kiss on my forehead. "Lily, they love you."
"Okay but-" I say, but dad breaks me off and stands up straight again, looking down at me grinning.
"I thought your mother made it clear earlier that there were no "but"'s allowed." He said.
I rolled my eyes and continued to speak again. "I want to go to Hogwarts too daddy."
"I know you do sweetheart but you can't yet." He said as he gave my shoulder a light squeeze.
"Why not?" I say with frustration. I already know the answer to the question of course, I have for ten years, although I still continue to ask it.
"You already know the answer to that Lils," He said while pulling away. "And I have to go help your brothers now."
I scurry after him, pulling at his coat. "I can't wait any longer dad! Every year I watch them go and come back, and I am always left out!"
"Only one more year Lily Luna, and you can join your siblings and cousins. Now go find your mother before I send you over to her myself."
"But why does Hogwarts require us to be eleven anyways?" I knew the answer to this question too, It was because Hogwarts was a boarding school, and they don't want to take children away from there parents when they are youngsters, not that I'm a youngster…
He shot me an angry look and I defeatedly walked over to my mother who put a hand on my shoulder.
"Okay James, your trunk is secure, go right ahead." My father said as he pointed my oldest brother to the brick wall on platform nine.
James nodded and got a firm grip on his trolley, only moments later he broke out into a run and disappeared into the wall.
"Albus, you're up." My father said while giving my second brother a little push.
Right away Al zoomed into the wall and vanished from sight.
Mum interlocked our hands and exchanged a smile to my father before leading me into the wall as well, with my father right behind us.
As I reached the other side the air changed it's scent to something with a more magical feel to it. I walked away from the wall that now read "Platform nine and three quarters", and released my mother's hand. There were wizards and witches all around me, and the magical energy became exhilarating, making all my senses become so alert of everything going on near me.
My parents were exchanging hugs with my aunt Hermione, and my uncle Ron, and soon I was dragged into a hug by them as well.
"How are you Lily?" Said uncle Ron as he pulled away out of his hug with me letting aunt Hermione hug me too.
"Ron!" Hermione yelled as she now separated from me too.
"What?" Replied Ron quizzically.
"She's still not going to Hogwart's this year, why would you even ask her that!" She said while lightly slapping his arm.
"How was I supposed to know?" He said obliviously.
I laughed, I loved watching them fight like this, it's terribly funny.
"Hm… well the girl is your best friend's daughter… and she is the same age as our own son, Hugo…" Hermione said while rolling her eyes.
"Oh." Ron answered before my parents interrupted them.
"Where's your kid's? James and Al can't find them, and they were hoping to get on the train soon." Dad said curiously
"Oh Harry, Rose is on the train already, and Hugo is-" Hermione paused and turned to Ron. "Where's Hugo?"
Ron spun around searching his field of view for Hugo, not knowing where he could be.
"Don't fret, only a moment ago I saw him with the Longbottom's." Mum said calmly.
"Thanks Ginny, I don't know what I could do without you." Hermione said with a wink, before pulling Ron and herself towards the little Longbottom Family.
James and Albus came trotting back over to us, while shoving and yelling at each other.
"So what! Slytherin isn't that bad, we beat you at quidditch last year!" Albus exclaimed while pushing his older brother away from him.
"Let me remind you, you only beat Gryffindor because that stupid friend of yours jinxed my broom! He should've been disqualified, no seeker has that right!" Yelled James as he swatted at Al's arm.
"And I told you that wasn't true! Scorpius is an excellent seeker, there is no proof that he did such thing!" Albus whined.
"I saw him do it Albus! He's a bloody git that one is, I don't get how he's your only friend." James said back.
"Will you two stop it!" Ginny yelled, silencing her sons. "And for the record," Ginny glanced to her husband, to me, and back to James and Al. "No house is particularly better then another, understand?"
James shrugged. "I don't get it," He huffed. "I mean before Al was sorted into Slytherin, there was no one stopping anyone from calling his lot selfish gits."
"We're not selfish, and we're not git's!" Al proclaimed.
"Maybe not you, but I'm telling you man, Malfoy definitely is." James said before he threw his trunks into the luggage compartment and a boarded into the old steam train.
Albus scowled and purposely knocked over his trolley, which crashed into a group of redheads, more Weasley's most likely.
I saw Mum and Dad rush over to Albus to comfort him, while I sneak off to find Hugo.
I push my way through the large crowd, eyeing my aunt and uncle once again but this time as well as cousin Hugo.
Almost there. I shove past a few more people and-
"Watch where you're going kid, you're going to get yourself squashed." Says a boy with blonde hair and grey-blue eyes, about the same height-or maybe a little shorter-as Albus.
He helps me up and I tuck a loose strand of my orangey-red hair behind my ear nervously, as I see the taller man next him and recognize him as none other than Draco Malfoy. Draco Malfoy and my father were school rivals, but since the great war they have both proclaimed peace, but that doesn't mean Draco now loves us either
"Who's this Scorpius?" Said Draco as he examined me suspiciously.
"I don't know father, but she just crashed into me."
"Tut, Tut, Tut… You should be more careful missy." Draco lifted his shiny cane a bit in my direction.
"Sorry- I'll just leave." I say and take a step forwards.
Draco moves his cane in front of me, making me freeze in place. "Leaving so soon? And I didn't even happen to catch your name."
"That's because I didn't give it." I hissed as I pushed passed him and his son, making my way toward's Hugo.
"Hello there, Cousin." Nudged Hugo.
"Hello." I sighed and looked down to my feet.
Hugo sighed as well. "One more year, cousin. One more year and we will be on that train too. One more year and we will be learning magic like the rest at Hogwarts."
"I know…" I say quietly. "But I wish we could go now."
"So do I Lily, so do I." He pulled me in for a long hug.
Hugo was the closest to me out of all my cousins, probably because he is one of the only people my age. Well that's not true, Uncle Percy and Aunt Audrey's second born Lucy, Is our age too. And so is Alice, Neville and Hannah Longbottom's second born, but she's not a cousin. But Hugo and I were always known to be inseparable, we do just about everything together.
"Lily?" Hugo said as he let me go.
"Yeah?"
"You should go back, your parents are probably looking for you." He said with a frown.
"How do you know that? I could've told them that I came here." I put my hands on my hips and blow another loose strand of hair out of my face.
Hugo gives me a look.
"Yeah, yeah, fine-okay." I say as I wave a good-bye and stroll back to where I last saw my parents.
"Lily where did you go?!" My mother shouted in surprise as she wraps her arms around me. "We were worried sick."
"With Hugo." I choke out.
She pulls away and looks at me disapprovingly. "You should've told me."
"Or me." Harry blurts in.
"M-hm, I guess I could have. But I didn't, so let's go now."
Harry rolls his bright green eyes and pulls me close to him as we walk back through the platform wall and appear at the other side.
"Can we please hurry? I have things to do-"
"Things to do? I hope those things include cleaning your room, because it's a pig's-sty I'm telling you." Ginny added.
I scowl as we pick up our pace, and head out the station.
I look up from my book when I hear a light tap coming from the other side of my old bedroom door. "Who is it?" I grunted.
"It's me, honey." Said a soft caring voice, my mother.
"Go away." I shut my book and hide it carefully under my pillow, not wanting my mother to know that I stole her year 4 book of defence against the dark arts.
My door opens slowly with a loud creak, I wince and hide under my ivory quilt which has orange lilies embroidered all over it.
"I know that you're upset," Mum said slowly as she came into my room fully and shut the door behind her. "But there is nothing we can do about it, I wish we could, but it just can't be done." She sat on the edge of my bed now.
"Lies." I mutter as I roll over onto my side, trying to get comfortable under this now hot quilt.
"Just because your father is the Minister of Magic doesn't mean he can change the Hogwart's code, that right belongs to the headmaster." She said cooly.
I sniffled and felt my eyes go watery. "Maybe not," I came out from under the covers. "But what if I was excused?"
Mum stood up swiftly and looked up at me angrily. "I can't believe you Lily," she paced around my bed making unruly hand gestures. "You can be so selfish…sometimes I can't even believe you're our daughter!" She shouted and then an expression of guilt appeared on her face.
My stomach twisted as I sit up in my bed uneasily. "I…you… you don't mean that!" I say in that hiccupy voice people get when they are trying to stop themselves from balling.
"You're right, I'm so sorry Lily. I'm sorry I shouldn't have-"
"No," I say giving her a glare that could shatter glass, or maybe even make the dead blink. "You should have."
"W-what?" She said shakily.
"You should have said it, seriously." I said loudly. "I finally get to know the truth about what you think of me, but I must say, this is not what I was expecting." I growled.
"Lily I didn't mean-"
"Stop, just stop." I wave her pointless apologies away. "I get it, I honestly do. My dad is the boy who lived, the chosen one, and now he's even the Minister, and you are his beautiful, gorgeous, and absolutely perfect wife. It is completely impossible for me to live up to your expectations, especially because your expectations are for us to be exactly like you and him."
"No, not at all. Lily please-"
"It's true! Albus was so ambitious to live up to his name he accidentally made it in the Slytherin house, and James, he even wears a duplicate of dad's glasses! And he doesn't even need glasses!" I state.
"Lily, I had quite enough. Get up and leave, now." Mum said with teary eyes, she looked like she was going to collapse any moment now. I have never seen her this upset before, and it was because of me.
I take a deep breath, trying to settle down. "Let I remind you this is my room, if anyone leaves, it'll be you."
"That's it!" She snapped, as she threw the quilt off me angrily.
I squealed nervously and clutched onto my pillows, wanting something to hold, or rather, something to absorb all my tears.
"Get up! Go!" She now tore my pillow away from me revealing the text book I stole from her earlier.
Great, just great.
"What is this?" She picked up the book and skimmed through the pages. "You know you aren't allowed to read these! They are way to violent for you!"
"Too violent for me? What, you think I'm weak now? So you think I'm selfish, weak and… Right, you sometimes question if I'm your own daughter! Well guess what! Just because you are my mother, doesn't mean I am you. And unlike James and Al, and a bunch of other random people, I don't want to be you!"
I got off my bed and ran down the stairs to find my brothers, and father, staring at me with shock. "What?!" I shout embarrassedly, wiping away tears.
James takes a few steps towards me. "Lily-"
"No, just leave me alone. All of you." I scurry down a floor to the guest bedroom, leaving my sobbing mother upstairs, and my terrified brothers and dad alone in the foyer.
A/N: Sorry about the spacing and paragraphs, I suck at that stuff so I just left it as is. -(I should really consider getting a beta)- PLEASE REVIEW, I WORK BETTER WITH ENCOURAGEMENT. FOLLOW SO I KNOW YOU WILL CONTINUE READING. FAVOURITE SO I KNOW YOU LOVE ME AS MUCH AS I LOVE YOU, AND I DO LOVE YOU.
