I've read a lot of fanfics where Lily seems to always know what's going on, and in one of my other fanfics, I had a glimpse of Lily having caused Rose and Scorpius to get together. So I kind of got an idea, although it's probably not totally original, of Lily helping with her relatives relationships, even from an early age. So this is what this fanfic is. It's my first time at writing a multi-chapter fic so be nice please :) Anyway, anything you recognise belongs to JK Rowling and not me. Enjoy :D

Chapter One

Lily had never realised just how special she was. For the first five years of her life, she was completely normal. Admittedly she showed signs of having magic but as the daughter to a witch and wizard, that was considered to be ordinary. She wasn't exceptional at anything, her two elder brothers were much better at playing Quidditch than she was, and she wasn't overly intelligent and able to read long Muggle classics like her cousin Rose could at her age. She was just Lily.

However, when she was six years old, she realised that maybe she was special and could excel in something. It all occurred at a Weasley gathering. That in itself was no strange occurrence, as they frequently happened, especially during the holidays when her older cousins were back from Hogwarts. However, this get-together was slightly different, as her Uncle Charlie was visiting from Romania. Lily could only ever remember meeting her Uncle Charlie a couple of times, but both times he'd been alone and Lily had always felt sorry for him that she had her family, whereas he had no one but the dragons he studied. This year, however, he was going to be bringing a friend along. Lily had been at the Burrow with her Nana, whilst Mummy was finishing off an article about the Chudley Cannons and Falmouth Falcons game that had took place at the weekend, when Uncle Charlie had flooed with the message that he was coming home for Christmas and was bringing a friend. Molly Weasley had become all flustered after receiving this message, and began to shout for Lily's granddad, Arthur Weasley. Although Lily didn't really understand what all the excitement was about, after all, why couldn't her Uncle bring a friend over for dinner? She'd had Lorcan and Lysander Scamander over numerous times and nobody seemed to be that bothered by it.

The day arrived that Charlie was coming home, and Molly Weasley had got all the family together to welcome him home. Lily and Hugo had spent the week painting a large bed sheet with the words 'Welcome Home Charlie!' and had got their parents to levitate it so that it was hanging on the wall opposite the door. There heard a crack as someone apparated into the garden, and a second later there came a knock at the door, and Charlie entered, a tall brunette beside him.

"Hey everyone, this is Uma. She's a colleague in Romania, and she's never been to England before so I thought she could come and visit the best Wizarding family in the country," Charlie greeted with a laugh.

Whilst everyone was welcoming Charlie and Uma, Lily felt strange. She'd been fine minutes before her Uncle Charlie and his friend appeared but now she felt peculiar, and didn't really know how to describe it. She wandered into the kitchen to get a glass of pumpkin juice, and felt the pulsing feeling in her stomach fade away. At the age of 6, she wanted to desperately tell her mum what had just happened, but she knew that it'd be passed off as a joke, or that she was just feeling ill. After all, Lily was totally ordinary. Heading back through to the living room where everyone was still greeting Charlie, Lily felt the funny feeling come back and as she went to greet her Uncle, the feeling seemed to become more intense, sending a buzzing feeling through her.

Turning to look at her brothers who seemed to be arguing over a chocolate frog card, the feeling died away, and Lily was confused. She turned her head to face different members of her family, and none of them caused the buzzing sensation that she felt when looking at Uncle Charlie. Except, looking at Uma, the feeling returned also.

Over the next week, Lily's peculiar feeling reappeared on numerous occasions, none of them being when Uncle Charlie and Uma weren't there. She took note of when the feeling returned in a notebook she'd asked Rose for, and Lily discovered that it was only when both Uma and Uncle Charlie were there that she felt strange.

As the next day was Christmas Eve, Lily knew that there'd be another family gathering at which she could watch her Uncle Charlie and Uma interact, in the hope that she'd understand what exactly was causing this strange sensation. Usually when she needed help, she'd either talk to her mum, Aunt Hermione or even Rose, but this time, something seemed to tell Lily that she needed to work it out for herself. She knew there had to be a reason that this feeling was there, but nothing came to mind when she tried to think up an explanation. She just didn't know why this was happening now.

However, the next day, the answer became clear. Upon observing Charlie and Uma, Lily realised that it was painstakingly obvious that they loved each other, yet neither of them realised it. She assumed that she had to do something about it, to help her uncle find true love so that he could be as happy as her parents and all of her other aunts and uncles, so she began to formulate a plan. As a six-year old girl, she was filled with ideas and notions of fairytale endings, and considered that her Uncle Charlie should rescue Uma from a fire-breathing dragon. However, she realised that it wouldn't be very practical, and as Uma worked with dragons too, it was likely that she wouldn't need rescuing.

"Uncle Charlie?"

"Yes, Lily," he responded, looking startled that she'd followed him into the kitchen. "Do you need a glass for some juice?"

"Nope," she replied, popping the 'p'. "I just wondered, how long have you loved Uma for? You'd be perfect together."

Charlie turned red. "Erm, Lily, I don't… I mean, where did you get the idea…?"

"Uncle Charlie," she giggled, "It's obvious! You look at her with googly-eyes. So, how long? And why haven't you told her? It'd be such a fairytale!"

Charlie looked defeated. "A year, maybe longer although I didn't realise it. And Lily, not everything is a fairytale. Not everything works out like that, and the common dragonologist never ends up with the princess."

Lily didn't look put out. Her mind was working furiously to try and make her uncle realise that Uma loved him too. "But Uncle Charlie," she whined, "Uma isn't the princess. She's a dragonolly… a dragonolo… a dragon person too! So why can't two dragon people live happily ever after?"

"IT just doesn't work like that Lily-pad, come on, we better go back to the others?"

"And Uma?" she grinned.

"Yes, and Uma," he sighed.

Lily refused to give up though. So what if her Uncle Charlie refused to believe what was staring him straight in the face. Maybe she's have better luck with Uma. Later on in the day, Lily seized her opportunity when Uma went upstairs to the bathroom. Lily followed her up the stairs, and stood outside, waiting to pounce and ask questions. As soon as Lily saw the bathroom door open, she began her questions…

"You love Uncle Charlie? How long for? Do you realise he loves you too? What are you going to do about it? You'd be perfect together! You'd make him so happy, did you know that?"

Uma at this point was standing in the doorway, a look of surprise on her face. "Lily, is it? What are you on about, darling?"

The 'darling' threw Lily a bit. She'd not really heard anyone use it in general conversation.

"Well…?"

Lily bounded back. "You and Uncle Charlie! I know you love each other, and I tried to talk to him, but he just wouldn't listen. Mummy says he's a… one of those people who think practic… um, he just wouldn't believe me."

"A practical person? That sounds like Charlie, all right. So what are you saying? That Charlie loves me too?"

"Yes! Charlie loves you!" Lily bounced up and down, looking excited. "I mean, Uncle Charlie does. And it's great! You believed me. So are you going to ask him to marry you?"

"Lily, darling, I can't just ask Charlie to marry me."

"But… but… you said…" Lily's eyes began to water.

"Darling, I'll do something about it, don't worry. But you don't just ask someone to marry you, you date them first," Uma said soothingly.

"But I asked Lorcan to marry me, and he said yes. So did Lysander. We've just got to wait until we're all old enough."

"It's slightly different when you're a bit older Lily, but don't worry, one day I want your Uncle Charlie to be my husband. We just have to get there in stages."

"So you have to… date? What does that mean?"

"Dating? I'll ask your Uncle Charlie if he'd like to do something with me, whether it's going out for a meal, or watching one of those Muggle filmies? – oh, films – together. And then when the time is right, we'll get engaged and after that, we'll get married. And I promise you can be the flower girl, or bridesmaid. Would you like that?"

"Me? A flower girl? I've always wanted to be one!"

"Well, there you go then. Anyway, don't you think we should head down now? Your mum is probably worrying about where you've got to."

"Okay then," Lily said, putting her hand into Uma's as they descended the stairs.

Lily carried on watching carefully, to see if there was any noticeable change in the way that Uma and Uncle Charlie acted around each other that day, but she couldn't see anything. She really hoped that Uma would do something, because she just wanted Uncle Charlie to be happy, and it was obvious that Uma was the source of his happiness. Maybe Uma was planning on telling him as a Christmas present… yes, Lily thought, that would be perfect.

Christmas morning arrived, and Lily woke up bright and early – almost as early as Rose who woke up at 5am no matter what. Wanting to wake everyone up so that she could go and open her presents, she quickly got dressed into her favourite dress – navy blue, with a white collar and sash – and put her Muggle 'Pepper Pig' slippers on.

Once everyone had been woken up by Lily – Rose had chosen not to help, and sat quietly at the top of the lowest staircase reading one of Shakespeare's plays – it took another half an hour until the whole family were seated in the living room, ready to begin opening presents. Lily was so excited. As the youngest members of the family, she and Hugo were allowed to open their presents first, and Lily loved everything. She'd received a purple pygmy puff from her parents, which, despite her mother's persistence that she should call it 'Arnold II', she named Bertie. The rest of her presents were fairly ordinary, nothing that would help her excel in a particular area, whether Quidditch or learning, and the only other present of interest was a necklace that had sapphires set into a silver lily, with a note that read In advance: thank you Lily – I know I'll owe you, Uma x.

Lily kept the note hidden, and thanked Uma for the present. Ginny tried to insist that it was really too much to give a six-year old, but Uma refused to take it back.

"I saw it prior to coming over here, and I was apprehensive that it wouldn't be right, but upon meeting your lovely daughter, I could never take it back. It's perfect for her."

Lily felt ever so special wearing it, as she skipped happily around the house cuddling Bertie, and wishing everyone a Happy Christmas every time they met. Victoire, Bill and Fleur's daughter, was jealous as at the age of 14, she felt she should have received something as pretty and as delicate as that. Instead, from Uma, she'd received make-up and a book on beauty – presents that she felt she didn't need due to her 1/8 veela heritage.

Later that evening, after Christmas dinner had been eaten – her Uncle Ron managing to eat twice as much as everyone else – and games had been played, Molly Weasley decided to tune the wireless, fortunately (or for everyone else, unfortunately) just in time for Celestina Warbeck's A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love. This year, however, was slightly different. Although Aunt Fleur was moaning about the awful wailing, and everyone else was trying to tune out Molly's singing by holding whispered conversations, Uma – having never heard the song before – decided to take a chance, and asked Charlie to dance.

This provided the onlookers to be surprised, however, they were thankful as Molly decided that this was a good idea, as she pulled Arthur up from the armchair – where he'd been having a conversation with Hermione about Muggle computers – and stopped singing. Lily was happy, seeing her Uncle Charlie happy at dancing with the woman he loved. Looking around, everyone seemed unaware that a love story was being written right in front of their eyes, and Lily didn't understand how no one else seemed to be bothered. Still, when her Uncle Charlie leant down and kissed Uma in front of them, they all took notice of what was happening, appearing to be in shock.

Seeing Hugo look at her curiously, Lily rearranged her expression of glee, to one of surprise, in the hope that no one else would notice that the youngest member of the family appeared to not be astonished at the events that had just occurred unexpectedly. After her Uncle Charlie pulled back from Uma, she turned her head slightly to Lily and winked, smiling happily.

Molly recovered from her amazement the quickest, and began to bombard her second eldest son with questions. Charlie looked embarrassed, suddenly realising that the kiss he'd performed had been in front of the whole family, and looked helplessly at his father, hoping that he could stop the onslaught of questions that were continuing to head his way.

Arthur put a hand on his wife's shoulder, "Molly dear, that's enough. Give them a bit of space. I'm sure Charlie will explain everything to us when he's ready."

As the women of the family went to hug Uma, as a way of welcoming her into the family – now that it was in front of them, they could see that it was meant to be – and as Lily went up to hug her soon-to-be-Aunt, Uma leant down and whispered, "It'll be our little secret Lily."

It was only later, when Lily was about to succumb to sleep, that she realised that the buzzing feeling that she'd been trying to ignore, had intensified during the kiss, and then ceased to exist. Sleepily, she supposed that it must be because they'd found true love, and so they no longer needed her to help them figure it out. Lily also decided that night, that if the buzzing ever occurred again, she'd do whatever she could to ensure that the people it was referring to, would live happily ever after together. It was her secret, and it made her feel special, even if no one else knew about it, she realised that she could help her brothers and cousins find their true love, so that they could live in happiness.

So, that's the first chapter for my story Matchmaker Lily :) I hope you all enjoyed it, and please review, as I'd love to know how to improve my story or what you thought of it :)

Much love,

DracoMalfoy94