Just a day, just an ordinary day. Just tryin to get by.
The girl rolled onto her side and sighed. She closed her eyes and started
to dream. She always dreamed, that's all she felt she had sometimes. Her
dreams.
Just a boy, just an ordinary boy.
She thought of him every night, he was just a dream. She would think of him
when she was sad. He was her comfort zone. But what she didn't know was
that he was always in her dreams when she was asleep. That's where his face
had come from. But she never remembered her dreams after she had woken up.
She let out a final sigh and she fell into subconscious. The girl saw
herself sleeping and realised with a shock she was dreaming of herself
sleeping! Music started playing in her head as she looked around.
She saw him.
Just a boy, just an ordinary boy. But he was looking to the sky, and as he
asked if I would come along. I started to realise, that everyday you find
just what he's looking for, like a shooting star he shines.
She realised she was the one that was singing, a song she had never heard of before, but she still knew the words. She looked at the boy and he sung to her. Take my hand; live while you can, don't you see your dreams are right in the palm of your hand. She kept thinking to herself unaware of the song coming out of her mouth. And as he spoke, he spoke ordinary words, although they did not feel, for I felt what I had not felt before, you'd swear those words could heal. And as I looked up into those eyes, his vision borrows mine. And to know he's no stranger, for I feel I've held him for all of time.
He grinned at her. Take my hand, live while you can. Don't you see your dreams are right in the palm of your hand, in the palm of your hand? His eyes pleaded as they connected with her.
Please come with me, see what I see. Touch the stars for time will not flee. Time will not flee. Can you see? He held out his hand and she stepped forward and as she placed her hand into his, she felt warmth between them and for once the girl felt truly happy, like she belonged somehow.
She sat up with a start, although she was still half asleep she tried to realise what happened. Just a dream, just an ordinary dream. As I wake in bed and the boy, that ordinary boy. Or was it all in my head? She was still singing softly to herself holding her legs
Did he asked if I would come along, it all seemed so real.
Just a day, just an ordinary day, just tryin to get by. Just a boy, just an ordinary boy.
But he was looking to the sky. The next minute she fell asleep again, unaware what happened or what it meant. She would not remember his face or the words she sung, but she would always have his words inside her forever.
Lily woke up with a shout. Then she realised she must have been dreaming. She felt her forehead and felt the sweat dripping down her face. She swung her legs across the bed and sat up taking a drink of water from the table next to her. Lily closed her eyes and realised she could still remember the dream she had. Which was unusual, as she never usually remembered her dreams. Lily tried to recount the dream, picking up more detail and finally wrote it down. Lily saw herself, walking in a dark forest. She really thought she was there. She could smell the cool crisp air of the trees. She looked up and gasped as the moon was in an eclipse cowering above her. She could even hear noises in the distance. She had kept walking along a dirt path between the tall trees. She came to a clearing and couldn't see. She muttered something and it was then Lily realised the Lily in the dream was carrying what she assumed was a stick, then the "stick" she had been carrying lit up and she realised it had to be some magical wand. She now could see what lay in front of her. There were about twenty of them. They all looked the same with huge black robes that draped over them with a hood covering their faces. She felt scared and frightened and Lily didn't know what was going on. They all pointed what appeared to be their wands at her. Then all Lily remembered was unbearable pain, she was screaming. Lily put the piece down and wondered if that was what had woken her up? Lily closed her eyes and suddenly remembered hearing a bang and a shout to be quiet. It had been Petunia who had woken her up. Lily started to scowl at the thought that she had experienced a horrible nightmare and all her sister cared about was that Lily had interrupted her precious beauty sleep. Hadn't she heard her scream for real? Obviously she didn't care. Lily sighed and tried to put the dream out of her mind, which was easy since all Lily could think about was how cold her sister was. Lily and Petunia were like all siblings one could say. But what was unusual, something that no one knew besides Lily and Petunia, was that Petunia had a strong dislike for Lily. More like hate. The feeling was mutual for Lily.
Lily was, well different. She always had been. They were both skinny girls but while Petunia and their parents, and most of their family in fact, had blonde hair and brown eyes. Lily on the other hand had long dark red hair with bright brilliant green eyes. Lily also had a nice and pretty face, while Petunia had a hard face and had an extremely long neck. Lily had just turned fifteen while Petunia had turned seventeen.
Lily sighed and rubbed her eyes. She was so glad it was the holidays so she didn't have to go to school. She swung her legs around and sat on the edge of the bed yawing. She looked up at her bedside table to the photo of her friends and tried to smile. Lily had many friends and was very popular in her year. But Lily didn't seem to think she fitted in with them. Lily looked at the time and almost screamed. "Ahh damn" she cursed as she rushed off her bed and quickly changed. Just as she put on her swimsuit she heard a hoot from outside. Lily quickly rushed down the stairs calling out to her mum "Remember to pick me up this afternoon mum!" she heard her father laugh and Petunia cry out about something. Lily pulled the door behind her and saw three girls looking up at her. They were all dressed in swimmers and sunglasses and yelled out at her. "Look, Lily cleans up nice" her friend Constance taunted. "Yeah her head out of a book for once" laughed Sarah. "Haha, very funny guys" she said sarcastically hopping into the car. "Lets go already" Kate yelled at her mother who just sighed and drove off. She took them to the pool where they immediately saw the rest of their friends. They all swam for a bit and then decided to sunbake. Lily was having a blast until her friend Ben started tickling her. Lily was screaming and trying to run away. "This means war", she yelled at him and thought urgently how she could get him back and noticed his board shorts lying loose on his waste, she desperately wanted them to come undone but she couldn't reach it while he was tickling her. Suddenly Constance screeched made Lily realise Ben was no longer holding her, but in fact rather embarrassingly pulling his shorts up. "Whoa didn't realise they were so lose, weird." he muttered looking very red. Lily shocked that she appeared to be psychic, or "Did I make it happen?" she thought to herself. Lily quickly forgot about it when Ben picked her up and jumped into the pool. Later on Lily's mum picked the girls up and Lily went home and flopped on her bed. She sat there for a while until she saw a piece of paper. Lily laughed as she read the details. "What an odd dream" she thought shaking her head. Her father had once got her a dream book where she could write down her dreams. So far Lily had written three that she could remember in almost a year. The book also had a section on what the dreams meant. "Ok Magic.Any form of magic in a dream predicts unexpected changes, could be a change in your affairs, a transformation or an uncontrolled power or fear.Moon- you will have many small vexing troubles but still reach what you aim for" she stopped and saw the word eclipse. "If you dream of the moon in eclipse then you will befriend someone with a contagious disease" Lily wrinkled her nose. "Forest- if you dream that you got lost in a big forest it is an omen of financial gain" Lily smiled and put the book down rubbing her temples. She decided to make the most of the holidays and went outside to play football with her dad.
A few days later, after more fun with her dad, Lily was in her room writing in her diary. She looked out at the starry sky and sighed. Suddenly she saw something flying at the window. She squinted and noticed it was a bird, she realised it was flying right at her and that it was going to smack into her window, she fretted for one second as she thought "I have to open the window" and just at that moment it flung open and just in time for the bird to fly in. the bird kept flying around the roof hooting and Lily watched in amazement. She had never seen an owl before, and in her room.. how did she open the window? But then she looked at something that was even more stranger. The owl actually had an envelope and it dropped it on her bed, hooted and sat on the window ledge. It was rather a thick envelope she noticed as she picked it up. She read the formal scrawl on the front
Lily Evans 4 Privet drive Little Whinging Surrey
She quickly turned it over to discover an unusual seal of a H with a snake, lion, crow and a beaver. Lily opened the letter to read:
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Miss Evans, We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31st July
Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
Lily was shocked. But somehow believed it. She sat thinking for a while. If strange things hadn't happened to her she would never have believed it at all. What would everyone think, should she go? What about everything she had here. . Lily smiled. Did she really have to answer that question? Sure she did love being here, but something was wrong. The letter she held in her hand. It was what felt right. Like she belonged and wasn't a freak like Petunia thought she was. She was different for a reason. It seemed rather fascinating. She a.witch?? Lily raced down the stairs. "Mum, dad, I need to show you something" she said when she noticed Petunia wasn't in the kitchen. Her dad looked up at his paper and she handed him the envelope, her mother wiped her hands on her apron and walked behind her husband. They read it in silence and Lily looked at them waiting for an explosion of some kind. Finally Lily's dad asked. "Lily dear, I have to ask, is this a joke?" "No, dad, an owl actually brought me a letter, funny hey. I think the owl is still in my room, waiting for my response, it's like he knows.." her voice trailed off and her father looked at her mother. "Honey, I believe her, don't ask me how, but I just do" her mother said putting a hand on Lily's shoulder. Lily's dad went up stairs just to see the owl and sighed. "I just don't like the idea of it, I don't want you to go to a boarding school Lil, what about our football games?" he grabbed her and hugged her. "There are always holidays, I need to see what its like, strange things have been happening to me dad and this all makes sense, that I'm apart of something" she grinned at him and he half smiled. "Well don't forget you belong here too," he told her and Lily noticed he had a tear in his eye. Lily left telling Petunia up to her parents. She wouldn't understand or believe what happened, Lily betted. She ran upstairs and wrote on a piece of paper that she would gladly accept.
Way out of the city in the bushlands in a small street, a boy smiled as he saw an owl fly over to him and landed on his shoulder. The boy gave the owl a pat and took the letter landed on the ground and ran inside holding the thick envelope. He walked into his house but this wasn't an ordinary house like the Evans house, there was an area for brooms, bookcases and bookcases of hundreds of thick and tattered books, and there were photographs all over the house that would wave or smile at you. A pretty woman put her wand down and ruffled the boy's hair. She had the same eyes as the boy, extremely dark brown eyes with light tinges. "Hogwarts" he said yawing. "James, now I want to tell you that now since you are going into your 5th year at Hogwarts, I want you to stop this nonsense you have with Sirius and Remus. James nodded at her and looked up at her with his young face with very messy dark hair. He was rather lanky but you could tell he was just starting to grow more and was becoming more study like his father. He started pulling obscene faces at her. "I'm serious James," she laughed making onion peel hurl at him. "Oh I'm serious James," he taunted quickly missing the peel. "And anyway Dad told me about you being quite the prankster, said I get it off YOU, not him" he laughed merrily "And you believe your father who constantly hexes and teases you?" she smiled as the onions went into the pot. "Who used to constantly hex and tease me" James muttered. "Anyway" James said changing the subject. "I'm in my 5th year now" he said smugly and I'm." he was tearing open his letter at this point and finished "..A prefect?" he said dumbfounded. His mother started laughing. "They made you a prefect after all the nonsense you get up to?" she said looking over his shoulder. "Yeah" he muttered. "Won't your father be proud?" his mother said obviously proud. "You will need some new robes and things then, who else got prefect?" she added. "Okay lets see, oh no, Malfoy" he quickly moved on skimming names, "Remus, Jwvyan .blah blah.what.. It says that a new student will be in our year, Lily Evans? Who in the hell is that?" he asked his mother who returned it with a blank look. "Why is she coming now."he muttered confused. James decided to see his neighbour and partner in crime. He quickly flew outside and jumped the fence in a breeze. He opened the door "Hello Mrs Black" he yelled as he flew up the stairs. "Hi James" she called out. James ran past all the pictures waving at some of Sirius dead relatives till he came to the attic. James pulled the stairs down and climbed up. In the room was a boy with thick jet-black hair who looked pretty simular to James but was a bit burlier. "Get a letter?" he asked as soon as he came in the room pulling the door up. "Yep, how'd you go in your exams? I did not too shabby eh after all the time we've had away from school," he laughed, "I did good," James laughed. "Ohh you smarty" Sirius said poking him. "I spose you got prefect then?" Sirius asked looking up at him. "Yeah I did, but its not going to change anything," James quickly said looking at Sirius's disappointed face. "Oh no, you just have to set examples and all that" Sirius said pulling faces. "No I don't, I got prefect even though all the stuff we have done because I did well in the exams, so I'm not changing just because I wear a badge" James grinned. "So what are you up to?" James asked him "I'm fixing the Wireless, you know how mum is if she can't listen to the Wizard Wireless Network" Sirius said laughing. "Haha yeah" James joined in laughing. "So are we going to meet up at Diagon alley?" Sirius asked James. "Yep if you wanna, me and mum are going tomorrow" James smiled and then continued "Dad might even come" his smile growing even more.. "Excellent" Sirius said smiling. He knew James's dad was always busy. "Hey wanna go play Quidditch?" Sirius asked "Yeah I'm a bit out of practise," James admitted. "What Gryffindoor's Chaser not ready" Sirius mocked. "Hey I've been busy!" he laughed. "With what?" Sirius demanded. "With hanging out with you and the gang" James pointed out. "Oh yeah" Sirius laughed. "So Quidditch?" Sirius asked again. "Oh wait I had to show you something" James showed him his letter. "Whoa go Remus.. is that it?" Sirius asked. "No! Look at the last part, we have a new student" James told him "Lily Evans? Hmm wonder if she's cute," Sirius pondered. "Maybe she's from overseas" "Maybe she's in danger and they are hiding her at Hogwarts" "Or maybe she's a muggle who started slow" James finished. "Nah that's not fun, let's go," he said tugging James's arm. They ran down the stairs and grabbed James's old Quidditch set.
Back at the Evans house, Lily's parents decided to tell Petunia about Lily. It was about time as well seeing she knew something weird was going on and why Lily was acting all happy. "Petunia, honey, can you come down stairs?" Lily's mum asked poking her head around the doorway up the stairs. Petunia looked freaked and Lily was silently laughing. She knew she must have thought that it had to do with being caught with Vernon in her room. "Eww" Lily thought about the situation and went back to re reading her letter for the 40th time. She was still sitting there imagining everything when she head "You're joking right?" Petunia laughed. She heard muffled talking and then.
"No, what? Are you serious, that's not possible, there isn't such a thing as magic" Lily heard her parents starting to get worked up. Lily dropped her letter and creeped to the stairs to hear more of the conversation. "Lily will be attending this school in September, and listen here young lady, you will not put her down because you feel differently, Lily is your sister" her mother said fiercely. Petunia paused and spat out. "I will not have a freak as a sister" "But you can't stop Lily from going, we want her to go" her father said angrily. "Well it's simple then" Petunia said. Her parents stared at her, Petunia looked right at them. "I have no sister" she replied. Lily frowned and went back to her room. She stepped out her window and climbed down the pipe. She climbed up her favourite tree, a huge tree with lots of arms. Lily leaned back on the tree and sighed. Sure she didn't get on well with Petunia, they were always different and never bonded, but Lily would always resort to the, "She's my sister and I'm sure I love her in some way". But Petunia disowned her, all because of something she was. Lily was going to become a witch, and Petunia couldn't stop that.
Later that day Lily finally left her tree and as she walked down the hallway Lily almost ran into Petunia. Petunias face fell into a snarl, as if by touching Lily was poison. Lily glared back at her. "I was right all along, you are a freak" Petunia spoke icily. "Well if I am a freak, I am glad I am not normal if normal means being someone like you" Lily laughed. Petunia glared and turned to walk away but Lily stopped her. "Look I know we never have ever gotten on, but I am your sister, don't you care about me at all?" Lily pleaded. "If I did" Petunia sniffed. "It was a while ago, you're different and wrong, and I'm embarrassed to say I have a sister like you," she said truthfully. Lily stared at her and Petunia looked like she was about to apologise for a second, then composed herself and walked away. Lily sighed and went to her room. "Am I weird?" she asked herself looking into her mirror sadly. She expected silence as she stared at her long body with flowing hair, but a voice came through her head. She had no idea where it came from, but she got the strangest feeling of Déjà vu.
Take my hand, live while you can. Don't you see your dreams are right in the palm of your hand? In the palm of your hand Please come with me, see what I see. Touch the stars for time will not flee. Time will not flee. Can you see?
She realised she was the one that was singing, a song she had never heard of before, but she still knew the words. She looked at the boy and he sung to her. Take my hand; live while you can, don't you see your dreams are right in the palm of your hand. She kept thinking to herself unaware of the song coming out of her mouth. And as he spoke, he spoke ordinary words, although they did not feel, for I felt what I had not felt before, you'd swear those words could heal. And as I looked up into those eyes, his vision borrows mine. And to know he's no stranger, for I feel I've held him for all of time.
He grinned at her. Take my hand, live while you can. Don't you see your dreams are right in the palm of your hand, in the palm of your hand? His eyes pleaded as they connected with her.
Please come with me, see what I see. Touch the stars for time will not flee. Time will not flee. Can you see? He held out his hand and she stepped forward and as she placed her hand into his, she felt warmth between them and for once the girl felt truly happy, like she belonged somehow.
She sat up with a start, although she was still half asleep she tried to realise what happened. Just a dream, just an ordinary dream. As I wake in bed and the boy, that ordinary boy. Or was it all in my head? She was still singing softly to herself holding her legs
Did he asked if I would come along, it all seemed so real.
Just a day, just an ordinary day, just tryin to get by. Just a boy, just an ordinary boy.
But he was looking to the sky. The next minute she fell asleep again, unaware what happened or what it meant. She would not remember his face or the words she sung, but she would always have his words inside her forever.
Lily woke up with a shout. Then she realised she must have been dreaming. She felt her forehead and felt the sweat dripping down her face. She swung her legs across the bed and sat up taking a drink of water from the table next to her. Lily closed her eyes and realised she could still remember the dream she had. Which was unusual, as she never usually remembered her dreams. Lily tried to recount the dream, picking up more detail and finally wrote it down. Lily saw herself, walking in a dark forest. She really thought she was there. She could smell the cool crisp air of the trees. She looked up and gasped as the moon was in an eclipse cowering above her. She could even hear noises in the distance. She had kept walking along a dirt path between the tall trees. She came to a clearing and couldn't see. She muttered something and it was then Lily realised the Lily in the dream was carrying what she assumed was a stick, then the "stick" she had been carrying lit up and she realised it had to be some magical wand. She now could see what lay in front of her. There were about twenty of them. They all looked the same with huge black robes that draped over them with a hood covering their faces. She felt scared and frightened and Lily didn't know what was going on. They all pointed what appeared to be their wands at her. Then all Lily remembered was unbearable pain, she was screaming. Lily put the piece down and wondered if that was what had woken her up? Lily closed her eyes and suddenly remembered hearing a bang and a shout to be quiet. It had been Petunia who had woken her up. Lily started to scowl at the thought that she had experienced a horrible nightmare and all her sister cared about was that Lily had interrupted her precious beauty sleep. Hadn't she heard her scream for real? Obviously she didn't care. Lily sighed and tried to put the dream out of her mind, which was easy since all Lily could think about was how cold her sister was. Lily and Petunia were like all siblings one could say. But what was unusual, something that no one knew besides Lily and Petunia, was that Petunia had a strong dislike for Lily. More like hate. The feeling was mutual for Lily.
Lily was, well different. She always had been. They were both skinny girls but while Petunia and their parents, and most of their family in fact, had blonde hair and brown eyes. Lily on the other hand had long dark red hair with bright brilliant green eyes. Lily also had a nice and pretty face, while Petunia had a hard face and had an extremely long neck. Lily had just turned fifteen while Petunia had turned seventeen.
Lily sighed and rubbed her eyes. She was so glad it was the holidays so she didn't have to go to school. She swung her legs around and sat on the edge of the bed yawing. She looked up at her bedside table to the photo of her friends and tried to smile. Lily had many friends and was very popular in her year. But Lily didn't seem to think she fitted in with them. Lily looked at the time and almost screamed. "Ahh damn" she cursed as she rushed off her bed and quickly changed. Just as she put on her swimsuit she heard a hoot from outside. Lily quickly rushed down the stairs calling out to her mum "Remember to pick me up this afternoon mum!" she heard her father laugh and Petunia cry out about something. Lily pulled the door behind her and saw three girls looking up at her. They were all dressed in swimmers and sunglasses and yelled out at her. "Look, Lily cleans up nice" her friend Constance taunted. "Yeah her head out of a book for once" laughed Sarah. "Haha, very funny guys" she said sarcastically hopping into the car. "Lets go already" Kate yelled at her mother who just sighed and drove off. She took them to the pool where they immediately saw the rest of their friends. They all swam for a bit and then decided to sunbake. Lily was having a blast until her friend Ben started tickling her. Lily was screaming and trying to run away. "This means war", she yelled at him and thought urgently how she could get him back and noticed his board shorts lying loose on his waste, she desperately wanted them to come undone but she couldn't reach it while he was tickling her. Suddenly Constance screeched made Lily realise Ben was no longer holding her, but in fact rather embarrassingly pulling his shorts up. "Whoa didn't realise they were so lose, weird." he muttered looking very red. Lily shocked that she appeared to be psychic, or "Did I make it happen?" she thought to herself. Lily quickly forgot about it when Ben picked her up and jumped into the pool. Later on Lily's mum picked the girls up and Lily went home and flopped on her bed. She sat there for a while until she saw a piece of paper. Lily laughed as she read the details. "What an odd dream" she thought shaking her head. Her father had once got her a dream book where she could write down her dreams. So far Lily had written three that she could remember in almost a year. The book also had a section on what the dreams meant. "Ok Magic.Any form of magic in a dream predicts unexpected changes, could be a change in your affairs, a transformation or an uncontrolled power or fear.Moon- you will have many small vexing troubles but still reach what you aim for" she stopped and saw the word eclipse. "If you dream of the moon in eclipse then you will befriend someone with a contagious disease" Lily wrinkled her nose. "Forest- if you dream that you got lost in a big forest it is an omen of financial gain" Lily smiled and put the book down rubbing her temples. She decided to make the most of the holidays and went outside to play football with her dad.
A few days later, after more fun with her dad, Lily was in her room writing in her diary. She looked out at the starry sky and sighed. Suddenly she saw something flying at the window. She squinted and noticed it was a bird, she realised it was flying right at her and that it was going to smack into her window, she fretted for one second as she thought "I have to open the window" and just at that moment it flung open and just in time for the bird to fly in. the bird kept flying around the roof hooting and Lily watched in amazement. She had never seen an owl before, and in her room.. how did she open the window? But then she looked at something that was even more stranger. The owl actually had an envelope and it dropped it on her bed, hooted and sat on the window ledge. It was rather a thick envelope she noticed as she picked it up. She read the formal scrawl on the front
Lily Evans 4 Privet drive Little Whinging Surrey
She quickly turned it over to discover an unusual seal of a H with a snake, lion, crow and a beaver. Lily opened the letter to read:
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Miss Evans, We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31st July
Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
Lily was shocked. But somehow believed it. She sat thinking for a while. If strange things hadn't happened to her she would never have believed it at all. What would everyone think, should she go? What about everything she had here. . Lily smiled. Did she really have to answer that question? Sure she did love being here, but something was wrong. The letter she held in her hand. It was what felt right. Like she belonged and wasn't a freak like Petunia thought she was. She was different for a reason. It seemed rather fascinating. She a.witch?? Lily raced down the stairs. "Mum, dad, I need to show you something" she said when she noticed Petunia wasn't in the kitchen. Her dad looked up at his paper and she handed him the envelope, her mother wiped her hands on her apron and walked behind her husband. They read it in silence and Lily looked at them waiting for an explosion of some kind. Finally Lily's dad asked. "Lily dear, I have to ask, is this a joke?" "No, dad, an owl actually brought me a letter, funny hey. I think the owl is still in my room, waiting for my response, it's like he knows.." her voice trailed off and her father looked at her mother. "Honey, I believe her, don't ask me how, but I just do" her mother said putting a hand on Lily's shoulder. Lily's dad went up stairs just to see the owl and sighed. "I just don't like the idea of it, I don't want you to go to a boarding school Lil, what about our football games?" he grabbed her and hugged her. "There are always holidays, I need to see what its like, strange things have been happening to me dad and this all makes sense, that I'm apart of something" she grinned at him and he half smiled. "Well don't forget you belong here too," he told her and Lily noticed he had a tear in his eye. Lily left telling Petunia up to her parents. She wouldn't understand or believe what happened, Lily betted. She ran upstairs and wrote on a piece of paper that she would gladly accept.
Way out of the city in the bushlands in a small street, a boy smiled as he saw an owl fly over to him and landed on his shoulder. The boy gave the owl a pat and took the letter landed on the ground and ran inside holding the thick envelope. He walked into his house but this wasn't an ordinary house like the Evans house, there was an area for brooms, bookcases and bookcases of hundreds of thick and tattered books, and there were photographs all over the house that would wave or smile at you. A pretty woman put her wand down and ruffled the boy's hair. She had the same eyes as the boy, extremely dark brown eyes with light tinges. "Hogwarts" he said yawing. "James, now I want to tell you that now since you are going into your 5th year at Hogwarts, I want you to stop this nonsense you have with Sirius and Remus. James nodded at her and looked up at her with his young face with very messy dark hair. He was rather lanky but you could tell he was just starting to grow more and was becoming more study like his father. He started pulling obscene faces at her. "I'm serious James," she laughed making onion peel hurl at him. "Oh I'm serious James," he taunted quickly missing the peel. "And anyway Dad told me about you being quite the prankster, said I get it off YOU, not him" he laughed merrily "And you believe your father who constantly hexes and teases you?" she smiled as the onions went into the pot. "Who used to constantly hex and tease me" James muttered. "Anyway" James said changing the subject. "I'm in my 5th year now" he said smugly and I'm." he was tearing open his letter at this point and finished "..A prefect?" he said dumbfounded. His mother started laughing. "They made you a prefect after all the nonsense you get up to?" she said looking over his shoulder. "Yeah" he muttered. "Won't your father be proud?" his mother said obviously proud. "You will need some new robes and things then, who else got prefect?" she added. "Okay lets see, oh no, Malfoy" he quickly moved on skimming names, "Remus, Jwvyan .blah blah.what.. It says that a new student will be in our year, Lily Evans? Who in the hell is that?" he asked his mother who returned it with a blank look. "Why is she coming now."he muttered confused. James decided to see his neighbour and partner in crime. He quickly flew outside and jumped the fence in a breeze. He opened the door "Hello Mrs Black" he yelled as he flew up the stairs. "Hi James" she called out. James ran past all the pictures waving at some of Sirius dead relatives till he came to the attic. James pulled the stairs down and climbed up. In the room was a boy with thick jet-black hair who looked pretty simular to James but was a bit burlier. "Get a letter?" he asked as soon as he came in the room pulling the door up. "Yep, how'd you go in your exams? I did not too shabby eh after all the time we've had away from school," he laughed, "I did good," James laughed. "Ohh you smarty" Sirius said poking him. "I spose you got prefect then?" Sirius asked looking up at him. "Yeah I did, but its not going to change anything," James quickly said looking at Sirius's disappointed face. "Oh no, you just have to set examples and all that" Sirius said pulling faces. "No I don't, I got prefect even though all the stuff we have done because I did well in the exams, so I'm not changing just because I wear a badge" James grinned. "So what are you up to?" James asked him "I'm fixing the Wireless, you know how mum is if she can't listen to the Wizard Wireless Network" Sirius said laughing. "Haha yeah" James joined in laughing. "So are we going to meet up at Diagon alley?" Sirius asked James. "Yep if you wanna, me and mum are going tomorrow" James smiled and then continued "Dad might even come" his smile growing even more.. "Excellent" Sirius said smiling. He knew James's dad was always busy. "Hey wanna go play Quidditch?" Sirius asked "Yeah I'm a bit out of practise," James admitted. "What Gryffindoor's Chaser not ready" Sirius mocked. "Hey I've been busy!" he laughed. "With what?" Sirius demanded. "With hanging out with you and the gang" James pointed out. "Oh yeah" Sirius laughed. "So Quidditch?" Sirius asked again. "Oh wait I had to show you something" James showed him his letter. "Whoa go Remus.. is that it?" Sirius asked. "No! Look at the last part, we have a new student" James told him "Lily Evans? Hmm wonder if she's cute," Sirius pondered. "Maybe she's from overseas" "Maybe she's in danger and they are hiding her at Hogwarts" "Or maybe she's a muggle who started slow" James finished. "Nah that's not fun, let's go," he said tugging James's arm. They ran down the stairs and grabbed James's old Quidditch set.
Back at the Evans house, Lily's parents decided to tell Petunia about Lily. It was about time as well seeing she knew something weird was going on and why Lily was acting all happy. "Petunia, honey, can you come down stairs?" Lily's mum asked poking her head around the doorway up the stairs. Petunia looked freaked and Lily was silently laughing. She knew she must have thought that it had to do with being caught with Vernon in her room. "Eww" Lily thought about the situation and went back to re reading her letter for the 40th time. She was still sitting there imagining everything when she head "You're joking right?" Petunia laughed. She heard muffled talking and then.
"No, what? Are you serious, that's not possible, there isn't such a thing as magic" Lily heard her parents starting to get worked up. Lily dropped her letter and creeped to the stairs to hear more of the conversation. "Lily will be attending this school in September, and listen here young lady, you will not put her down because you feel differently, Lily is your sister" her mother said fiercely. Petunia paused and spat out. "I will not have a freak as a sister" "But you can't stop Lily from going, we want her to go" her father said angrily. "Well it's simple then" Petunia said. Her parents stared at her, Petunia looked right at them. "I have no sister" she replied. Lily frowned and went back to her room. She stepped out her window and climbed down the pipe. She climbed up her favourite tree, a huge tree with lots of arms. Lily leaned back on the tree and sighed. Sure she didn't get on well with Petunia, they were always different and never bonded, but Lily would always resort to the, "She's my sister and I'm sure I love her in some way". But Petunia disowned her, all because of something she was. Lily was going to become a witch, and Petunia couldn't stop that.
Later that day Lily finally left her tree and as she walked down the hallway Lily almost ran into Petunia. Petunias face fell into a snarl, as if by touching Lily was poison. Lily glared back at her. "I was right all along, you are a freak" Petunia spoke icily. "Well if I am a freak, I am glad I am not normal if normal means being someone like you" Lily laughed. Petunia glared and turned to walk away but Lily stopped her. "Look I know we never have ever gotten on, but I am your sister, don't you care about me at all?" Lily pleaded. "If I did" Petunia sniffed. "It was a while ago, you're different and wrong, and I'm embarrassed to say I have a sister like you," she said truthfully. Lily stared at her and Petunia looked like she was about to apologise for a second, then composed herself and walked away. Lily sighed and went to her room. "Am I weird?" she asked herself looking into her mirror sadly. She expected silence as she stared at her long body with flowing hair, but a voice came through her head. She had no idea where it came from, but she got the strangest feeling of Déjà vu.
Take my hand, live while you can. Don't you see your dreams are right in the palm of your hand? In the palm of your hand Please come with me, see what I see. Touch the stars for time will not flee. Time will not flee. Can you see?
