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only own the plot and a few characters you will be introduced to in the
next chapters.
Authors Note: This is my first story so don't blame me if it sucks! This story is basically your typical Lily and James story but it will show what I think would have happened if Lily and James didn't get killed. Its starts it the time of Lily and James's years at Hogwarts. So I'll stop writing and you can read!!!
Chapter One
* * * * * * * * It was a typical day at the Evans. It was July 7th and only two weeks away from Lillian Evans 11th birthday. Her sister Petunia (14) was at her friend Angoline's, therefore leaving the house pretty quiet. The only noise was of the occasional coffee cup being set on the table by Lillian's dad and the television a couple of rooms away where her mother was watching some soap opera. Lillian thought her life was sort of like a soap opera sometimes. Like she was rich beyond belief and always had boys dropping to her feet. Now every soap has a problem and this one does to. Petunia. Petunia was pure evil. Lily swore that her sister must have sold her soul to Satan because unlike Lillian she was uglier than a pigs rear end and had managed to get a boyfriend, Vernon Dursley.
Now shouldn't a girl be happy for her sister? Lillian was one of the nicest people you could ever meet, but when it came to Petunia Lillian just couldn't stand her! She was rude, conceited, and thought that magic was silly nonsense. This by far what Lillian thought. Lillian believed in a higher power, a secret world filled with magic. When she was younger she often galloped around the house on a broom with a witches hat on her head pretending she could fly. She also had dreams filled magic and a school that would teach students to make things fly instead of making numbers multiply. Her parents thought she just had a vivid imagination and didn't give the dreams a second thought.
That all changed July 21st when an owl dropped a rather peculiar envelope onto the Evans doormat.
It was Lillian's 11th birthday and she was having a large pool party in her backyard. Everybody from her private school was there, as well as her neighbors and her parents friends and co-workers. Lillian was floating carefree on a large air mattress when her mother called her to open presents. So Lillian had some kids push her to the edge of the pool where she climbed out completely dry.
Her presents were the usual, pretty dresses and clothes, expensive jewellery, a new piece of furniture for her room, tons of books, and when she thought she was done she noticed an ugly envelope sealed with the same coat of arms as the one in her dreams.
The shield consisted four animals-a raven, a snake, a lion, and a badger surrounding the letter "H". Lillian carefully opened the envelope and gently took out the heavy parchment. It read:
Dear Miss L. Evans, We here at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry are pleased to announce that you've been excepted to attend Hogwarts starting September the first. We await your owl by no later that July thirty-first.
Yours truly,
Professor Quiggly
Deputy Headmaster
Order of the Hippogriff
p.s. Included is a list of supplies needed. I will meet you at the Leaky Cauldron to take you to Diagon Alley to purchase these things. Lillian gasped and handed the letter to her mother. Mrs. Evans read it over quickly and handed it to her husband. Mr. Evans just sat there deep in thought for a few minutes before getting up and congratulating his daughter.
"Why Lillian this is fantastic! You're a witch just like you always dreamed!" Mr. Evans hugged Lillian before continuing. "This calls for an even bigger party! Lillian dear come and enjoy some ice cream, we have all Baskin Robins 31 different flavors! Its is amazing." Mr. and Mrs. Evans were as proud as pie to have a witch in the family. (a/n I know its lame but hey it's my story!) But Lillian was sort of, well completely terrified out of her mind. Lillian's mood must of shown because Mrs. Evans noticed.
"Lillian dear what's the matter?" Her mother questioned.
"Nothing. Well it's just not everyday you find out that you're a witch." Lillian replied.
"Honey it's nothing to get upset about. You sort of always did know. And I guess those dreams you had were sort of like visions."
"But aren't you afraid of curious or anything? Like come on your daughter just found out that she was a witch." Lillian said.
"I always knew you were going to be special and I guess this is how. If I have any questions I'll just ask this Mr. Quiggly when we go and meet him."
"Okay. But what if this is some sort of joke and there is someone there waiting to murder us?" Lillian asked.
"Nothing lost, nothing gained." With that Mrs. Evans walked over to a group of her friends and began talking.
"So Lillian who was that letter from?" Lillian's friend Ashley asked.
"Oh... It was just my exceptance letter to my uh- boarding school." Lillian made up.
"Oh so what's it called?" Ashley wasn't making this easy for her.
"Uh.. I dunno. It's Europe I think though." Lillian replied.
"Oh you're so lucky my parents wont let me leave England, they're so overprotective. Sheesh."
"One day you'll be able to leave don't worry." Lillian concluded while walking to the diving board and making a perfect dive.
The next day
"Mom there's the Leaky Cauldron!" Lily pointed at a small grungy place that Mrs. Evans obviously over looked.
"Oh I guess I missed it. Come on we best not keep this Mr. Quiggly waiting." Mrs. Evans ushered her daughter into the dirty looking pub, only to find some of the most strangest things she had ever seen. There were people that ranged in height from two feet to about eight feet. Along with people that looked like hags and people dressed in long multi colored robes.
Lily and Mrs. Evans must have stuck out in their jeans and t-shirts because no sooner had they looked around an average looking man in dark blue robes approached them.
"Excuse me but would you be the Evans?" The man asked.
"Yes we are. I am Abbigayle Evans and this is my daughter Lillian." Abby stated as if she had introduced them a hundred times before.
"Yes, yes. Well we better get going to Diagon Alley to buy Lillian's things." Mr. Quiggly said. He led them to a back room. Abby couldn't handle the silence so she broke it.
"So Mr. Quiggly will you be teaching my daughter?"
"I believe that I will be teaching her Defense Against the Dark Arts, but I am not positive. The schedule wont be complete until after the thirty first of July." As he finished he drew his wand and tapped on a couple of bricks. Then before their eyes an archway formed leading to a road packed with what Lillian assumed to be witches and wizards.
They first went to Gringotts where Abby changed a hefty amount of money into golden galleons, silver sickles, and bronze knuts.
"Okay we should go buy Lillian's robes first. Madam Malkins Robes for all Occasions is just over here." Mr. Quiggly led them over to a medium sized shop.
A quaint looking woman approached them. "Hogwarts dear?" She asked.
"Um yeah." Lillian replied.
The woman led Lillian to a stool and a tape measure started to take her measurements. After about half an hour Lillian walked out of the store with ten uniforms and four different dress robes. Abby would settle for no less.
Next they went to buy potion supplies. Mr. Quiggly managed to get out of the store with only the basic supplies and a few things that were advertised for beauty treatments.
The rest of the stops were okay. Abby didn't make Lillian buy a million extra things, but Lillian did except some extra books to practice different beauty treatments.
When they were done shopping they went to the Three Broomsticks for something to eat. Lillian had so much stuff she needed two trunks and she had her owl cage that held her pure bred snowy owl Camille.
Soon after Abby and Lillian went home and Lillian properly packed everything except a beauty book and her wand, 11 1/4 inches, willow, unicorn hair. Mr. Ollivander said it was good for charms.
Three weeks later Lillian and her parents were waiting at Kings Cross platform nine and three quarters. (Mr. Quiggly had told them how to get onto the platform.) Lillian was dressed in a thigh length dark denim skirt with a green shirt that matched her eyes. Her hair had been done by her stylist in a messy bun.
People stared as they saw this eleven year old girl with two trunks and a huge owl.
"Now Lillian are you sure want to go? We can take you home and enroll you in Kristy's if you want." Tomas (Mr. Evans) said.
"No daddy its okay I wanna go. I'll see you guys at Christmas okay?" Lillian replied.
"Okay honey if your sure. Remember we're just an owl away." Abby said.
"Yes mom we went through this all already. I got it. But I have to go now or the train will leave without me." Lillian said getting impatient.
"Okay we get the point. Bye honey." Tomas said as Lillian walked away.
Lillian found herself an empty compartment and started reading from one of the books she hadn't packed into her trunk. About fifteen minutes after the train had started a blond haired boy and a greasy black haired guy (a/n 3 guesses who!!!) walked into the compartment.
"May we sit here?" The blond asked.
"It's a free country, sit wherever you want." Lillian said not looking up.
"A feisty one, how great..." The black haired one said.
"I am Lucius Malfoy and this is Severous Snape." The blond one said.
"I am Lillian Evans and I'm trying to read so please hush!." Lillian said finally looking up before returning to her book.
"There's no need to read now, we'll keep you occupied. Wont we Snape?" Lucius said grabbing the book.
"Yes that's right."
"Give me my book back now or you'll be sorry!" Lillian commanded.
"And what if I don't? I am not scared of you!!!"
Lillian drew her wand and yelled "Perfectous Comaro!!!"
This caused Lucius to to change into a dress with his hair in pigtails causing both Snape and Malfoy to run out of the compartment leaving the book forgotten. "Accio book." Her book flew into her hands and then she noticed that she was being applauded.
"Bravo! Where did you learn to do that?" The first of three boys asked.
"Uhhh thanks. I learned it from my book he tried to steal. As for the summoning charm that's in Standard Book of Spells chapter one. And may I ask who you are? I already met Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape and if you are anything like them then I suggest you leave now or you'll be wearing a similar outfit to Malfoys!" Lillian said wand ready to cast a spell on them at anytime.
"Heck no! We're about as far from those freaks as Hufflepuff is from backstabbing their best friend in the back!" Another one of the boys answered. He looked very similar to the first.
"Hufflepuff is one of the houses right? And you still didn't say who you were!"
"Oh sorry, I'm Remus Lupin, this is Sirius Black and this is James Potter." The third one with sandy blond hair said motioning to each one as he said their name.
"Are you a muggle born? And yes Hufflepuff is a house. As is Ravenclaw, Slytherin and Griffindor where we wish to be placed!" Sirius informed.
"A muggle WHAT??? I come from a pure bred family of many riches!!! Call me another name and you'll wish you had never met me!" Lillian got close to yelling.
"Sorry I think you misunderstood, When Sirius called you a muggle- born it just means that your parents are non magical. A muggle is just a word we use to describe non magic people. And your name would be???" James asked.
"Oh okay sorry for yelling at you Sirius. Yes I am a muggle-born and my name is Lillian Evans." Lillian replied rather sheepishly.
"Well hello Lily." James said.
"My name is Lillian."
"Yeah but Lily is much more casual." James argued.
Sirius and Remus backed away because Lillian still had her wand drawn and was getting angry.
"I don't care how casual it is my name is Lillian."
"Whatever you say... Lily." James ducked behind a seat before Lillian's dress charm could hit him.
"Oh Lily just settle down can we not fight? I don't really want to be expelled before we even reach Hogwarts." Sirius tried.
"So I take it I am just going to have to get used to being called Lily?" She asked.
"Yep." All three boys answered.
"So Lily what house do you wanna be in?" Remus asked.
"I was thinking Ravenclaw but I guess Griffindor doesn't sound too bad." Lily answered.
"Why the changed of heart?" James asked.
"Well you guys are my only friends and I guess we'll have to help each other out." Lily declared.
"Help each other out with what?" Sirius asked skeptically.
"Well from what I gather from what you guys have said you're going to need alibi's and homework help and I need someone to help me understand the wonderful world of magic and to keep me level headed." Lily said without a problem.
"Okay..." Said James the now skeptical one. "But you better know how to pull a half decent prank."
"Malfoy's in a dress is he not?" Lily challenged .
"She's got you there James." Remus said.
About four hours later they reached Hogwarts. The four of them got into a boat and sailed to Hogwarts to wait.
Authors Note: This is my first story so don't blame me if it sucks! This story is basically your typical Lily and James story but it will show what I think would have happened if Lily and James didn't get killed. Its starts it the time of Lily and James's years at Hogwarts. So I'll stop writing and you can read!!!
Chapter One
* * * * * * * * It was a typical day at the Evans. It was July 7th and only two weeks away from Lillian Evans 11th birthday. Her sister Petunia (14) was at her friend Angoline's, therefore leaving the house pretty quiet. The only noise was of the occasional coffee cup being set on the table by Lillian's dad and the television a couple of rooms away where her mother was watching some soap opera. Lillian thought her life was sort of like a soap opera sometimes. Like she was rich beyond belief and always had boys dropping to her feet. Now every soap has a problem and this one does to. Petunia. Petunia was pure evil. Lily swore that her sister must have sold her soul to Satan because unlike Lillian she was uglier than a pigs rear end and had managed to get a boyfriend, Vernon Dursley.
Now shouldn't a girl be happy for her sister? Lillian was one of the nicest people you could ever meet, but when it came to Petunia Lillian just couldn't stand her! She was rude, conceited, and thought that magic was silly nonsense. This by far what Lillian thought. Lillian believed in a higher power, a secret world filled with magic. When she was younger she often galloped around the house on a broom with a witches hat on her head pretending she could fly. She also had dreams filled magic and a school that would teach students to make things fly instead of making numbers multiply. Her parents thought she just had a vivid imagination and didn't give the dreams a second thought.
That all changed July 21st when an owl dropped a rather peculiar envelope onto the Evans doormat.
It was Lillian's 11th birthday and she was having a large pool party in her backyard. Everybody from her private school was there, as well as her neighbors and her parents friends and co-workers. Lillian was floating carefree on a large air mattress when her mother called her to open presents. So Lillian had some kids push her to the edge of the pool where she climbed out completely dry.
Her presents were the usual, pretty dresses and clothes, expensive jewellery, a new piece of furniture for her room, tons of books, and when she thought she was done she noticed an ugly envelope sealed with the same coat of arms as the one in her dreams.
The shield consisted four animals-a raven, a snake, a lion, and a badger surrounding the letter "H". Lillian carefully opened the envelope and gently took out the heavy parchment. It read:
Dear Miss L. Evans, We here at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry are pleased to announce that you've been excepted to attend Hogwarts starting September the first. We await your owl by no later that July thirty-first.
Yours truly,
Professor Quiggly
Deputy Headmaster
Order of the Hippogriff
p.s. Included is a list of supplies needed. I will meet you at the Leaky Cauldron to take you to Diagon Alley to purchase these things. Lillian gasped and handed the letter to her mother. Mrs. Evans read it over quickly and handed it to her husband. Mr. Evans just sat there deep in thought for a few minutes before getting up and congratulating his daughter.
"Why Lillian this is fantastic! You're a witch just like you always dreamed!" Mr. Evans hugged Lillian before continuing. "This calls for an even bigger party! Lillian dear come and enjoy some ice cream, we have all Baskin Robins 31 different flavors! Its is amazing." Mr. and Mrs. Evans were as proud as pie to have a witch in the family. (a/n I know its lame but hey it's my story!) But Lillian was sort of, well completely terrified out of her mind. Lillian's mood must of shown because Mrs. Evans noticed.
"Lillian dear what's the matter?" Her mother questioned.
"Nothing. Well it's just not everyday you find out that you're a witch." Lillian replied.
"Honey it's nothing to get upset about. You sort of always did know. And I guess those dreams you had were sort of like visions."
"But aren't you afraid of curious or anything? Like come on your daughter just found out that she was a witch." Lillian said.
"I always knew you were going to be special and I guess this is how. If I have any questions I'll just ask this Mr. Quiggly when we go and meet him."
"Okay. But what if this is some sort of joke and there is someone there waiting to murder us?" Lillian asked.
"Nothing lost, nothing gained." With that Mrs. Evans walked over to a group of her friends and began talking.
"So Lillian who was that letter from?" Lillian's friend Ashley asked.
"Oh... It was just my exceptance letter to my uh- boarding school." Lillian made up.
"Oh so what's it called?" Ashley wasn't making this easy for her.
"Uh.. I dunno. It's Europe I think though." Lillian replied.
"Oh you're so lucky my parents wont let me leave England, they're so overprotective. Sheesh."
"One day you'll be able to leave don't worry." Lillian concluded while walking to the diving board and making a perfect dive.
The next day
"Mom there's the Leaky Cauldron!" Lily pointed at a small grungy place that Mrs. Evans obviously over looked.
"Oh I guess I missed it. Come on we best not keep this Mr. Quiggly waiting." Mrs. Evans ushered her daughter into the dirty looking pub, only to find some of the most strangest things she had ever seen. There were people that ranged in height from two feet to about eight feet. Along with people that looked like hags and people dressed in long multi colored robes.
Lily and Mrs. Evans must have stuck out in their jeans and t-shirts because no sooner had they looked around an average looking man in dark blue robes approached them.
"Excuse me but would you be the Evans?" The man asked.
"Yes we are. I am Abbigayle Evans and this is my daughter Lillian." Abby stated as if she had introduced them a hundred times before.
"Yes, yes. Well we better get going to Diagon Alley to buy Lillian's things." Mr. Quiggly said. He led them to a back room. Abby couldn't handle the silence so she broke it.
"So Mr. Quiggly will you be teaching my daughter?"
"I believe that I will be teaching her Defense Against the Dark Arts, but I am not positive. The schedule wont be complete until after the thirty first of July." As he finished he drew his wand and tapped on a couple of bricks. Then before their eyes an archway formed leading to a road packed with what Lillian assumed to be witches and wizards.
They first went to Gringotts where Abby changed a hefty amount of money into golden galleons, silver sickles, and bronze knuts.
"Okay we should go buy Lillian's robes first. Madam Malkins Robes for all Occasions is just over here." Mr. Quiggly led them over to a medium sized shop.
A quaint looking woman approached them. "Hogwarts dear?" She asked.
"Um yeah." Lillian replied.
The woman led Lillian to a stool and a tape measure started to take her measurements. After about half an hour Lillian walked out of the store with ten uniforms and four different dress robes. Abby would settle for no less.
Next they went to buy potion supplies. Mr. Quiggly managed to get out of the store with only the basic supplies and a few things that were advertised for beauty treatments.
The rest of the stops were okay. Abby didn't make Lillian buy a million extra things, but Lillian did except some extra books to practice different beauty treatments.
When they were done shopping they went to the Three Broomsticks for something to eat. Lillian had so much stuff she needed two trunks and she had her owl cage that held her pure bred snowy owl Camille.
Soon after Abby and Lillian went home and Lillian properly packed everything except a beauty book and her wand, 11 1/4 inches, willow, unicorn hair. Mr. Ollivander said it was good for charms.
Three weeks later Lillian and her parents were waiting at Kings Cross platform nine and three quarters. (Mr. Quiggly had told them how to get onto the platform.) Lillian was dressed in a thigh length dark denim skirt with a green shirt that matched her eyes. Her hair had been done by her stylist in a messy bun.
People stared as they saw this eleven year old girl with two trunks and a huge owl.
"Now Lillian are you sure want to go? We can take you home and enroll you in Kristy's if you want." Tomas (Mr. Evans) said.
"No daddy its okay I wanna go. I'll see you guys at Christmas okay?" Lillian replied.
"Okay honey if your sure. Remember we're just an owl away." Abby said.
"Yes mom we went through this all already. I got it. But I have to go now or the train will leave without me." Lillian said getting impatient.
"Okay we get the point. Bye honey." Tomas said as Lillian walked away.
Lillian found herself an empty compartment and started reading from one of the books she hadn't packed into her trunk. About fifteen minutes after the train had started a blond haired boy and a greasy black haired guy (a/n 3 guesses who!!!) walked into the compartment.
"May we sit here?" The blond asked.
"It's a free country, sit wherever you want." Lillian said not looking up.
"A feisty one, how great..." The black haired one said.
"I am Lucius Malfoy and this is Severous Snape." The blond one said.
"I am Lillian Evans and I'm trying to read so please hush!." Lillian said finally looking up before returning to her book.
"There's no need to read now, we'll keep you occupied. Wont we Snape?" Lucius said grabbing the book.
"Yes that's right."
"Give me my book back now or you'll be sorry!" Lillian commanded.
"And what if I don't? I am not scared of you!!!"
Lillian drew her wand and yelled "Perfectous Comaro!!!"
This caused Lucius to to change into a dress with his hair in pigtails causing both Snape and Malfoy to run out of the compartment leaving the book forgotten. "Accio book." Her book flew into her hands and then she noticed that she was being applauded.
"Bravo! Where did you learn to do that?" The first of three boys asked.
"Uhhh thanks. I learned it from my book he tried to steal. As for the summoning charm that's in Standard Book of Spells chapter one. And may I ask who you are? I already met Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape and if you are anything like them then I suggest you leave now or you'll be wearing a similar outfit to Malfoys!" Lillian said wand ready to cast a spell on them at anytime.
"Heck no! We're about as far from those freaks as Hufflepuff is from backstabbing their best friend in the back!" Another one of the boys answered. He looked very similar to the first.
"Hufflepuff is one of the houses right? And you still didn't say who you were!"
"Oh sorry, I'm Remus Lupin, this is Sirius Black and this is James Potter." The third one with sandy blond hair said motioning to each one as he said their name.
"Are you a muggle born? And yes Hufflepuff is a house. As is Ravenclaw, Slytherin and Griffindor where we wish to be placed!" Sirius informed.
"A muggle WHAT??? I come from a pure bred family of many riches!!! Call me another name and you'll wish you had never met me!" Lillian got close to yelling.
"Sorry I think you misunderstood, When Sirius called you a muggle- born it just means that your parents are non magical. A muggle is just a word we use to describe non magic people. And your name would be???" James asked.
"Oh okay sorry for yelling at you Sirius. Yes I am a muggle-born and my name is Lillian Evans." Lillian replied rather sheepishly.
"Well hello Lily." James said.
"My name is Lillian."
"Yeah but Lily is much more casual." James argued.
Sirius and Remus backed away because Lillian still had her wand drawn and was getting angry.
"I don't care how casual it is my name is Lillian."
"Whatever you say... Lily." James ducked behind a seat before Lillian's dress charm could hit him.
"Oh Lily just settle down can we not fight? I don't really want to be expelled before we even reach Hogwarts." Sirius tried.
"So I take it I am just going to have to get used to being called Lily?" She asked.
"Yep." All three boys answered.
"So Lily what house do you wanna be in?" Remus asked.
"I was thinking Ravenclaw but I guess Griffindor doesn't sound too bad." Lily answered.
"Why the changed of heart?" James asked.
"Well you guys are my only friends and I guess we'll have to help each other out." Lily declared.
"Help each other out with what?" Sirius asked skeptically.
"Well from what I gather from what you guys have said you're going to need alibi's and homework help and I need someone to help me understand the wonderful world of magic and to keep me level headed." Lily said without a problem.
"Okay..." Said James the now skeptical one. "But you better know how to pull a half decent prank."
"Malfoy's in a dress is he not?" Lily challenged .
"She's got you there James." Remus said.
About four hours later they reached Hogwarts. The four of them got into a boat and sailed to Hogwarts to wait.