I do not own Harry Potter, that honour belongs to the genius J.K Rowling.
DH spoilers, but if you call yourself a Harry Potter fan, then you have read the book and no excuses.
Huge thanks to beta, Aurorawhisperwind.
Lily Potter hugged Teddy Lupin and grinned weakly.
"I hate you for being so much older than me; Hogwarts would be much more fun if you were there too!" Lily took as step back and looked up at the grinning Teddy. "Now all I have to look forward to is Hugo and his girlfriend snogging each other and forgetting all about me"
"You'll be OK" Teddy said "Anyway, if I remember correctly, you were the one with a boy friend last year" he suddenly looked stern, like the thought of her with a boyfriend made him sick.
"Yes, but If I remember correctly, he was too afraid to talk to me after James hexed him so badly he had to spend a month in the Hospital Wing" she sighed, rolling her eyes.
"I think that must have been the proudest moment of my life" Teddy laughed, ignoring Lily's look.
"But it's not like I didn't spend time with Hugo!" Lily said, changing the subject. "He doesn't even talk to me if his know-it-all girlfriend is anywhere near"
"Like I said, you'll be OK", Teddy said and gave her a one-armed hug. "But you'll have to hurry up now if you don't want to miss the train"
He was right; the train had already started moving.
"Bye, see you at Christmas!" she yelled out of the window, waving to her parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and Teddy who stood on the platform waving back.
Finally, she was on her way back. Even though she had complained, she couldn't lie to herself; it felt extremely good walking through the corridor, looking for the compartment Hugo was sitting in, hearing people say: "Hi Lily!", "How was your summer?" and "We'll catch up later!". Even people she had no idea who they were was waving to her and asking about her summer, but that was just something you had to get used to if you were the daughter of Harry Potter.
After a while, she spotted the curly Weasley red hair of her cousin Hugo in a window and pushed the door open to the compartment.
"Hey, I was looking for you everywhere why didn't you..." Lily didn't finish the sentence.
Hugo was not alone in the compartment, in fact he was so busy with his company that he didn't even seemed to have noticed that she had walked in.
"Oh", was all she could get out as she looked at the scene in front of her.
She and Hugo might be best friends, but walking in on him snogging a certain Ravenclaw girlfriend of his wasn't something she'd put on her list of favourite things to do.
For a moment, Lily just stood there, frozen. But when the couple still didn't break apart she said, as loud as she could without screaming: "Oi! Are you glued together or something?"
Finally, they broke apart.
"Oh, Lils, hi!" Hugo said grinning awkwardly but still looking rather pleased with himself.
His girlfriend, Patricia Edgecombe, just sat there, arms crossed, looking extremely sulky.
"Err Lily if you could just..." Hugo cleared his throat, looking embarrassed.
"Oh, yeah... right", Lily said shocked. Hugo was asking her to leave?
She turned around and walked out of the compartment, not bothering closing the door.
It didn't take too long to find another empty compartment; of course, she could always sit with some of her other friends but after Hugo acting like the biggest git in the world, she just wanted to sit alone rather than tell people about her summer.
After a couple of minutes she calmed down a bit. So what if she wasn't sitting with Hugo? At least she was on her way back to Hogwarts. It didn't bother her at all, Hugo choosing his girlfriend instead of her (that they had sat together every trip to Hogwarts so far just made him an even bigger git, and she would probably be cold to him for at least a week), it didn't bother her at all.
Lily made a grimace towards her reflection in the window. A fifteen year old girl with red hair, brown eyes and freckles made the same face back at her.
"Well, well, well... what do we have here?" a drawling voice said from the door that she now noticed hadn't closed all the way.
In less than ten seconds, Lily had gotten up from her seat and had her wand out.
"Put that thing away Potter", Scorpius Malfoy said, smirking.
He had his usual gang of Slytherins with him: Nott, the Goyle twins and Zabini. All of them looked like they had grown at least three inches over the summer, which didn't help Lily much at all. It was not that she was afraid of them, but being alone with five Slytherin students who all were two years older than her was about as nice as walking in on Hugo snogging Patricia.
"What do you want?" she snapped, her wand still pointing at Malfoy.
"Didn't your perfect dad teach you not to be rude, Potter?" Malfoy drawled, still smirking.
The others laughed, which made Lily feel even more uncomfortable.
"Maybe you think you can do whatever you want to just because your surname is Potter", he said, taking a few steps closer to her.
She didn't take her eyes of Malfoy, but could still see that the others did the same thing. Zabini closed the door properly.
"I think it's up to us to learn her how it really works, what do you think boys?" Malfoy was smirking wider than she had ever seen him do before.
