The New Hogwarts Arrival

Lily Avens all-in-all was an average sixteen year old. She was good at academics with some athletic ability. She was slender with red hair falling to the small of her back, creamy-white skin, and beautiful green eyes.

There was only one thing that really set her apart from other her age. She was still obsessed with the Harry Potter series. Every spare moment she spent reading them, over and over. She never made friends at school because she never talked to anyone. She had permanent dark spots under her eyes from staying up late into the night reading.

Most people considered her beyond weird. Her parents worried that she had no social life. They of course, were right. Lily needed a push to face the real world; she was much more preferred the predictable world of Harry Potter. Her wish to join the world of Harry Potter was the only thing that was real to her. She knew it was impossible, but still she hoped. Then the dreams started.

For many nights in a row, she had stood in a cloud. Or at least that is what it seemed to be. Lily had heard a voice telling her that she was leaving her world. Telling her the rules, so to speak. The voice said that she was giving Lily her dearest wish: she was going to place her in the world of Harry Potter. Lily was not at all surprised when again, after the fifth book of Harry Potter fell from her hands, she was again in the cloud.

"Lily, Lily." whispered the voice. It seemed to echo in this place as if there were walls, somewhere out there in the misty darkness. "Lily," said the voice, a little stronger. "Here is the final rule: You may only tell one person at a time. Only one can know the truth about where you come from. Chose wisely." Lily nodded her acceptance.

"Who are you?" she said. The voice laughed kindly.

"You know who I am." A spot of green caught Lily's eye as she looked around, but it was gone the moment she looked back. She was not even sure that she had seen it. She sighed deeply and closed her eyes. "Spend some time in this world for a while." was the last thing Lily heard.

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The first sensation was one of lying on a hard, wooden floor. The second was a sense of belonging. This was strange because Lily had never been to the place she now lay. Then she opened her eyes. She saw a wooden ceiling that was not hers. She sat up and looked around. She rubbed her cold, bare arms and took in her surroundings.

Big, four-poster beds lined the walls. The hangings were red. Then a gasp made her turn sharply.

"Who are you?" asked a brown tousled-hair girl with bushy eyebrows. Lily blinked. She had never seen this girl before, but she she matched a particular description in a particular book that she had seen a million and half times.

"Hermione?" said Lily. She was here! She was really here!

"How did you know that?"

"I'm magical." Lily looked around again. "So this is the infamous dorm room that is never seen. Very nice. I can't believe that I am finally seeing it!" She looked around again.

"What is it Hermione?" Came a sleepy voice as another head poked out from in between the bed curtains. Her eyes focused on Lily.

"Who is she?" she said sharply.

"I don't know. She was here when I woke up."

"Should I get Professor McGonagall?" the other girl asked. Hermione nodded.

"I am perfectly harmless, I swear." said Lily after the other girl had left. Hermione made eye contact as Lily said this. She stared at the eyes that were twins to the ones that her best friend possessed.

"What is it?" asked Lily, self-consciously. "Do I have something on my face?" she rubbed at her cheek.

"Your eyes."

"What about them?" said Lily completely baffled. Hermione coughed and seemed to remember she was talking to a complete stranger who had appeared randomly on the floor of her dorm room.

"What's your name?" asked Hermione.

"Lily. Like the flower. Avens is my surname." said Lily.

"Lily Evens?!" said Hermione.

"No, not Evens, Avens." said Lily. "With an 'A'."

"I thought- but never mind."

"I have always liked having a similar name to Harry's mom. I even have some of the same physical appearances. It would be cool if I looked like her." Lily smiled. Just then, Professor McGonagall stepped into the dorm room and stared at Lily.

"Evens?" she said