A/N : In response to Kat Ducat's challenge, I own nothing. BTW time turners in the eighties could only go back not forward, because I claim artistic licence.
"Tell me again, why are you taking muggle studies?" my professor had then asked me. That was four years ago, or maybe a thousand years in the future. Today was the second of September and this morning I ate breakfast with the founders of Hogwarts.
I tell you James, that was a thousand years ago!
FROM THE JOURNEL OF LILLY EVANS
THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER
I guess I made a huge mistake. I forgot to pack something and was STUPID I tried to use the time turner on the train! Sombody bumped me and I accidentally flipped the centuries mark to ten. I am stuck now in the early years of hogwarts. I arrived at the place where kings cross station would eventually be built and decided I ought to go to the only place I know would already exist. I apparated outside the Hogwarts gates.
There was a Large crowd of kids outside the gates. I figured I had might as well join them, I could talk to the founders, maybe they knew how to get me home. I waited outside the gate like everyone else until a plump, beautiful woman came towards us and allowed us through. I later learned that this lady was Helga Hufflepuff.
Proffessor HufflePuff led us to the entrance hall, "Returning students, may enter and be seated. All of you newcomers, please wait here." I could have sworn she was looking at me when she said that, almost daring me to leave. I stayed where I was at. "You new students," she said once the doors to the great hall were closed. You will be sorted according to house and the year the sorting hat will put you in. if you are 16 and it decides you are only capable of handling the second year course work, then we enjoy your company for the next six years. Now line up single file." we all hurried to a line, Good now follow me." she turned and opened the doors.
I wondered if they would call out my name. I wondered if that parchment was magicaly updated. I wondered that at least until the line stopped at the front of the isle and annother woman, who I assumed to be Rowena Ravenclaw, was holding a wizards hat with a long tear in it that I knew acted as a mouth. The hat did not sing, like I had expected, but just went through with the sorting, calling out name's years, and houses.
When it was my turn, I was shaking harder than on the day of my first, (or initial?) sorting. I sat and felt the hat touch my head. I sighed when it did not cover my eyes, I couldn't hide behind it.
'Interesting' I heard the hat say. 'smart girl, coming back to hogwarts. I have a particular place for you Lilly Evans! seventh year! Slytherin!'
A/N: I think thats where I want her, for many reasons, but I can justify it by saying that the hat couldn't put her there in her time because of the prejudice against muggleborns, it didn't want her to get killed in her sleep!