For the last week of summer between Lily Potter's fourth and fifth year, her and her massive family (and the Longbottoms as well), traveled to the West Coast of the United States. The two families located a small area in which other wizarding families resided.
The Potters and Weasleys (all of them, except for Molly and Arthur), stayed in a large mansion sized beach house that was literally on the beach. The Longbottoms stayed in the guest house that came with the large home. There was a long row of large houses and guest houses such as these along the beach that were all filled with wizards and witches. The neighborhood of homes was not visible to Muggles and could only be seen by wizards or witches with a secret password.
When Harry Potter had gotten out of the car that his best friend Ron Weasley was driving, he aimed his wand at an area of vacant beach and whispered, "Dumbledore". Then the large blue house and guest house appeared before him and his family and friends.
He smiled, then put his wand away and opened the door. His family followed after him and looked around.
"Girls, your rooms are on the right of the corridor on the left, and boys yours are on the right." Ginny spoke to all of the children in the family.
"What are we waiting for, let's GO!" Lily said,then ran up the stairs with her brothers and cousins following after her.
As she ran down the hall, she saw single letters written on each of the doors, showing whose room was whose. On the right side, each of the girl's first letters of their names was written in an elegant script on each of the white doors, and on the left, the boy's letters were written in block letters in different colors.
First on the right came a purple V for Victoire, next came a yellow R for Rose, then finally a green L for Lily, Lily burst through the door to find a beautiful green room with two windows. One looked at the house next door and the other one looked out over the beach.
Across from her room was her brother Albus' room, then her other brother James, then Teddy, then Hugo.
"You guys, we get our own bathrooms!" she heard Hugo yell from down the hall. The entire hall erupted with laughter from all of the kids.
Lily had just turned fifteen and was going into her fifth year at Hogwarts along with her cousin Hugo. Her oldest brother James was going into his final year at Hogwarts and had recently found out that he would be Head Boy. Her other older brother Albus would be entering his sixth year with her cousin, Rose. Her god-brother Teddy Lupin had been out of Hogwarts for three years along with her cousin Victoire.
Teddy and Victoire had been dating since their fourth year and she had good money on the fact that Vicky Weasley would become Vicky Lupin by the time she was twenty-one.
James was secretly dating Holly Longbottom for the last year, but all of the kids knew about it. The only reason it was a secret was because he didn't want Professor Longbottom to give him a bad grade because he was snogging his daughter. Holly's mother Luna had suspicions, but told no one.
"We got the big rooms Lil!" Al came into Lily's room and high-fived her. It was really shocking how much he looked like his father, the only real difference was that Albus didn't have the lightning bolt scar that his father had. And for that he was grateful.
While Albus looked like his father, Lily had a strong resemblance to her late Grandmother. Her long red hair hung well below her shoulders and her green eyes were always sparkling.
"Let's go downstairs. Mums making lunch." Al said, then walked downstairs with his sister in tow.