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Chapter One: The Letter
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It was the last day of school at Little Rock High School in London. Lily Evans was a freshman going on to be a sophomore. She had long dark auburn hair with flashing emerald green eyes; she was about 5'7" and a thin, beautiful girl. She hated school because she was different, strange and she didn't have any friends. Weird things always happened to her, one time she was in the cafeteria and some boys were making fun of her hair calling her carrot top, then all of a sudden all the boys food trays they were holding hit all of their faces. Many people at school were afraid of her. They called her a "freak". She really never understood why.
'Finally! 30 seconds till the bell rings and I'm out of this hellhole. I can get away form these snobby prats,' Lily thought just sitting in class staring at the clock, then all of a sudden RINNNGGGG!!! Everyone got out of class and Lily walked to the front of the school waiting for her sister Petunia to pick her up. Lily stood out there for two hours. A little blue car pulled up and it was Petunia who was driving. Petunia was two years older than Lily and was very mean to her. She had short blonde hair, bright blue eyes, about 5'8" and very thin. She looked like a horse. Lily really tried to like her.
"What took you so long? I was standing here for two hours!" Lily stood there with her arms crossed.
"If you really want to know I was with Vernon, FREAK! I just simply forgot the time," flashing Lily an evil grin, "Anyways, just get in! I want to go home!"
Petunia drove her home. As the two sisters entered the house, Mr. and Mrs. Evans ran up holding a letter and hugged Lily, "We are so proud of you!" Mrs. Evans said hugging on tighter.
Lily peeked up to breath some air, "Proud of what, mum?"
"Dear because of this," Mr. Evans handed her the letter.
Lily read the letter to herself:
Dear Ms. Evans,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. School will be starting September the first. I know that we should of sent you this a long time ago, but your magic ability wasn't showing just yet. To catch up we ask if you would be able to attend summer school at Hogwart. Summer School will be starting June the eighth and will end August the first. All you need to bring is a wand. We await your owl no later than a day after you've received this.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Albus Dumbledore
Headmaster
Lily just looked at the letter in shock, 'Me? A witch? I knew it! I'm not a freak after all!' thinking to her self.
Petunia grabbed the letter from her and read it. After reading the letter, she looked like someone had shot her, "I knew it all along you are a FREAK!" She shot one more glare at her and stormed to her room.
Lily didn't care at all what Petunia had just said. She was happy for the very first time, "Mum? Dad? Can I go?" She asked.
"Of coarse Lily! You'll be starting in two days. I already owled back to the school. They gave us a map to get your wand and other things before you start your fifth year," Mrs. Evans sliming at her daughter.
"Yes, now lets go out to dinner and celebrate! Come out Petunia were going out to dinner!" Mr. Evans shouted down the hallway.
Lily had a wonderful night with her family besides the fact Petunia kept on shooting death glares at her.
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Lily woke up. It was a beautiful morning. She couldn't wait to go to Hogwarts. She got dressed and went to the kitchen for some breakfast. She found her parents and Petunia already eating.
"Did my little witch sleep well last night?" Mr. Evans said while getting up to hug Lily.
"I slept wonderful dad," Lily chanted as if nothing could bring her down.
"Well, dear you better eat your breakfast so we can go get your wand," Mrs. Evans said while handing Lily some food.
Everyone ate their breakfast and headed out to the car. Petunia refused to go, she went out and to meet her boyfriend, Vernon.
"So, where are we supposed to go to get my wand?" Lily asked as they were driving to a London shopping center.
"Were suppose to go to a pub called the Leaky Cauldron and ask the bartender to help us get to a place called Diagon Alley," Mrs. Evans said sounding unsure of her self, "Here, why don't you look at the directions." Lily read it, was exactly how you mom explained it.
They headed to the Leaky Cauldron and asked the bartender for help, by tapping on a brick wall at the back of the pub in an unlikely order, they watch the bricks spilt to Diagon Alley. It was so amazing, there were so many witches and wizards shopping and walking around dressed in robes. Next, the directions said for them to head to a wizard bank called Gringotts to open a vault account. While exchanging muggle money for wizard she received numerous amounts of galleons, sickles, and knuts. As they left Gringotts, Lily looked at the directions for their next destination.
" Okay, the directions say we must go to a wand shop called Ollivanders," Lily told her parents.
They went down the alley and found the shop. They all went inside. A very old man came up from the back of the shop to greet them. "Hello there…" he stared at Lily for a while.
"Your not a first year am I correct?" the old man asked while eyeing her.
"Umm… No Sir… I'm going to start my fifth year, but I need a wand so I can go to summer school and catch up at Hogwarts," Lily said as she began to shake. The old man scared her just a bit.
"Oh, I've been getting quite a few of you here, well onwards, we need to find you a wand," the old man said staring at a wall, " Which is you wand hand?" Lily put out her right hand.
It took about half an hour to find Lily's wand. All of the wands seemed to make things explode or shot out of her grip while holding the wand. Once she had found her wand, red sparks shot out all over the place.
"Ahh… Yes, Willow, 10 ¼ inches, and swishy. A very good wand for charms. That will be seven sickles," the man said handing Lily the wand.
Lily paid the man and right before she left the shop she heard the old man say something under his breathe, "She will be a excellent witch indeed, maybe stop him once and for all," Lily just stopped for a brief second to respond to the old man, but she just shook her head, ' I must be hearing things,' and headed out.
They left Diagon Alley and headed back home. Tomorrow she would have to go to Kings Cross and get onto the Hogwarts Express for her first day at Hogwarts.
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"Today's the day!" Lily said as she got dressed and went to the kitchen.
Everyone ate their breakfast went to the car, except for Petunia. They drove to Kings Cross. Once they had got there, Mr. Evans handed Lily her ticket. She looked at her ticket puzzled as if this was some kind of joke.
"Umm… dad?" Lily muttered.
"Yes dear?" Mr. Evans replied.
"Is this a joke because the ticket says 'Platform 9 ¾'," Lily said still looking at the ticket in amusement.
"Oh …Yes, the directions said that you have to run through barriers nine and ten," Mr. Evans said.
Lily just looked at her dad as if was crazy. She said her goodbyes since only witches and wizards can only go through and ran between barriers nine and ten. She thought she would have crashed, but she made it to the end of the barriers with her eyes closed. As she opened her eyes and sighed in relief that she didn't crash, she spotted a scarlet red train and looked up at the sign labeled Hogwarts Express "Platform 9 ¾."Lily headed on to the train with her luggage and found an empty compartment. As Lily sat there she heard the compartment door slide open and a girl about her age struggled to come in while pulling her luggage.
"Here let me help you," Lily said while helping the girl pull her things into the compartment.
"Thank you so much! I thought I was going to die. I'm sorry. I didn't know anyone was in here, but can I stay here with your for the trip?" said the girl, " Hi, I'm Selena Stone," extending her hand out, while trying to breathe correctly again.
"Lily Evans," she said while shaking Selena's hand. " Yes, please stay I need some company."
Selena had long black hair with big dark brown eyes, she was about 5' 4 and she wasn't thin nor chubby she was just in the middle. To Lily she spoke kind of weird. 'She must be from America,' Lily thought.
"Do you live in London?" Lily asked.
"Umm… not exactly. I was born in London and lived there till I was 3 years old. Later, my parents spilt and I moved to America with my mom. My dad lives in London. That's why I probably sound weird to you." Selena told Lily.
"Are you going to the summer school too?" Selena asked.
"Yes," Lily responded.
"Cool! What year?" Selena asked.
"Umm… I'm starting fifth year," Lily said.
"That's awesome! I am too," Selena said and jumped up. Lily just laughed.
"Selena, do you know anything about the wizard world?" Lily asked kind of embarrassed of her self for asking.
" Yeah. You're a muggleborn?" Selena asked, which made Lily confused look on her face.
"A what?" Lily asked.
"Oh, it means you were born from non-magical parents," Selena told Lily, "As for myself, I'm half blood cause my moms a witch and my dad is a muggle."
"A what," Lily asked. She looked very confused.
"Oh yeah, I forgot you didn't know anything," Selena said, " I'll explain everything."
Selena explained what she mostly knew about the wizard world from a sport called quidditch, to lifestyles, Voldemort, a powerful that had gone bad, and anything Lily asked. They talked through the whole train ride. They really hit it off. For once, Lily had a friend for the first time. As they were still chatting the train stopped and everyone headed out the train. As the two girls got out, a huge and very tall man with a big black bushy beard came out. He was maybe about 8'0" tall. Lily and Selena just stared at the man for a while.
"Come on! Everyone come with me!" The man shouted, "Me names Rubeus Hagrid, just call me Hagrid!"
All of the students followed him, there was about forty of them there. All of the students followed Hagrid to a lake with ten boats lined up. " Alright! Four to a boat!" Hagrid shouted. All the students did as he said. Lily and Selena got into a boat together. As two other people got into the boats. The boats started to move across the lake. Once the boats got to the middle of the lake you could see part of a gigantic castle, 'That must be Hogwarts,' Lily said to herself. They got to the castle and moved up a flight of stairs while everyone admired the castle. As they stood in front of the castle a young lady with black hair, she had it in a tight bun, walked up in front of the group of students.
The lady spoke, "Welcome to Hogwarts! My name is Professor McGonagall I am the Deputy Headmistress. I see that we have a little group this summer. Follow me as we enter the great hall."
All of the students followed. Not all were around the same age. They entered into the Great Hall it was huge. There were four long tables. The group of students sat in the front of the hall to see other professors sitting in a long table to facing thing in a row shoulder to shoulder. There was a man in the middle, he was very old looking. He had a silver shoulder length beard and was peeping through his half moon glasses with his eyes twinkling at each and every one of the students. He got up from his seat and spoke.
" Welcome to Hogwarts! My name is Professor Dumbledore and I am Headmaster of Hogwarts. I am sorry for this short notice, but you will have to bare with us. We will spilt you into groups depending on what year you will be starting. We would sort you but we shall wait till the starting of the term with the first years. Every week you will have an exam. So that we can get you to catch you with your year," he paused for a minute, " Ahh… Yes… there are some rules. We don't want you to go into the Forbidden Forest especially at night. You are not to wonder around at night on the campus grounds and that is all," he sat down, "As I can see you must be hungry," he waved his hands and food appeared in front of everyone.
Lily, Selena and the rest of the students started to eat along with the other professors. Everyone was full. Dumbledore stood up again. And told everyone to follow him so she could spilt the students into groups according to what year they're in then, show them where they would be staying. There were only three fifth years which were Lily, Selena and a Mexican American girl named Maria Lopez she had long curly chestnut brown hair with hazel eyes, she was bout the same height as Selena and kind of chubby. She didn't talk to them when they walking to their room. She seemed snobby, ' Just what I need is another snobby prat here," Lily told herself. They were lead to their room.
Once Lily, Selena, and Maria got into their room they looked around, it was so beautiful. The room was circular with three beds placed by a window and was decorated all other with moons and stars. The ceiling looked like the midnight sky. All Selena could do was just look up at the ceiling in amazement. Then, Maria turned around to Lily and Selena.
" Ok! For now on, I don't want you two to talk to me! I need to catch up this summer and I don't need you whores to bother me with my studies! So, if you please just act like we don't know each other the whole summer!" Maria said and sat on her bed.
Lily and Selena were furious, and then all of a sudden they heard something. Both of them turned around to she that Maria fell flat on her face onto the floor! Lily and Selena couldn't stop laughing.
"OH MY GOSH… CAN'T… STOP… LAUGHING! MY TUMMY HURTS!" Selena tried to say while laughing, "Next time make sure you ass is above the bed before you sit on it, so maybe you could make it look graceful some how!"
Maria turned all red and stood up. She made sure this time she was on the bed. She went to sleep without saying anything. Lily and Selena slept very well that night.
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Lily and Selena woke up to find that Maria had already left.
"Guess she didn't want us to see her run into a wall this time." Lily said.
"Probably not cause I wouldn't be able to get up from laughing so hard next time!" Selena said while have a wide grin on her face.
Lily and Selena got up to go take a shower one at a time, got dressed and went too the great hall. They ate their breakfast; it was kind of weird because about ten percent of the great hall was filled students. Professor McGonagall handed out their schedule, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Transfiguration, History of Magic, Charms, Astronomy, Herbology, and a chose of two other classes. Lily and Selena both picked the same classes, Divination and Care of Magical Creatures.
For the past couple of weeks they went to all their classes and learn so much within the remanding time. Lily and Selena never spoke to Maria the whole summer just as she wished. It seemed as if Maria was never there in their room.
Lily found out she was very good in her Charms class just as the man in the wand shop when he told her wand was good for charms. As for Selena, she was excellent in Transfiguration she had the best marks in the class. They had a wonderful time there and got even closer than before. It had reach the end of summer school and all the professors felt that they were all ready for the starting of school. Everyone packed up and went to Hogwarts Express and headed back to Kings Cross. As they got off the train, the two girls made plans to meet each other at Diagon Alley to go shop together for their materials. Afterwards Lily and Selena parted ways, and said goodbye to one another.
"Bye Selena! I'll see you in a couple of weeks!" Lily shouted across the station.
"Later Lily, and remember if Petunia messes with you can show her what you learned at summer school," Selena said winking at Lily while walking away.
'This is the best summer yet and I can't wait to go to Hogwarts!' Lily said to herself as she spotted her parents, but Petunia wasn't there.
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Hey guys! I changed some things to the fic. I know this chapter was boring, but I was planning on going till Lily's seventh year. So, please bare with me. And in the next chapter Lily will meet the Marauders! This was my very first fanfic so please leave some REVIEWS and BE NICE! : ) Thanx!