"JAMES!" A small girl with long fiery red hair ran down the street of a quiet London neighborhood. She stopped in front of a rather large and magnificent looking house and entered threw the iron gate. She ran around to the side of the house and looked up to the second floor window. It was open slightly and a loud beeping noise could be heard.

"He would sleep through and earthquake." she said to herself with half smile as she tucked a thick parchment envelope into her pants pockets. She reached up onto the ivy covered white lattus that went up the side of the house and pulled herself up. Within a minute she was up to the window.

"James? You in there?" she yelled into the window knowing full well he was. She shook her head and pushed open the window and pulled herself through it. She landed with a 'thump' on a pile of disregarded books. "Owww! James couldn't you read your books instead of leaving them laying about?"

Lily looked up at the bed where her childhood friend James Potter lay sound sleep in his bed with a broomstick manual raising up and down on his chest and his glasses skewed, half way on his face.

Lily got up and walked over to his bedside table and turned off the annoying, beeping, alarm clock. She then removed the book and sat it on his dresser, then she removed his glasses and sat them next to the alarm clock. He made a strange noise but continued to sleep. Lily turned around and opened his bedroom door and walked out into the hallway towards the bathroom. On the way she met Mrs. Potter.

"Morning Mrs. Potter." Lily said as she entered the bathroom and filled a small paper cup up with ice cold water.

"Good Morning Lily dear." Mrs. Potter said as she stopped to talk to Lily in front of the bathroom door. Lily shut off the water and stepped out to continue talking to Mrs. Potter.

"I got my letter today!" Lily told her excitedly. She took a small sip of the water but left most of it in the cup. "I mean I was hoping to get one but I obviously wasn't expecting it."

"Oh sweetie that's great!" Mrs. Potter hugged Lily tightly for a minute before releasing her. "I knew you'd get one."

"Thanks. My sisters not to thrilled but I didn't expect her to be, oh well." Lily shrugged thinking about her sisters violent reaction that morning. "Well better be off, or James is likely to sleep all day."

"Alright. And Lily dear?" Mrs. Potter added before walking down the hallway to the steps. " Why don't you use the door next time? Hmm?"

" Alright if I remember!" Lily said before heading back to James' room.

"Alright James one chance today. WAKE UP!" She yelled into his ear. He rolled over and began to snore. "Okay I warned you1" Lily positioned the cup over his face and counted to three.

"AHHHHH!" James sat up as fast as he could and looked around the fuzzy room, his face dripping with ice cold water. He wiped his face on his shirt and looked up to see a person standing over him. Even without his glasses he knew who it was. One didn't need glasses to distinguish hair that bright. Besides she woke him up in this manner several times a week. "Lily, couldn't you just wake me up like a normal person, just once?" He reached over to his side table and retrieved his glasses, when he put them on Lily came into focus. Her bright red hair was pulled in a looses braid which cascaded down her back, her bright green eyes where huge and she was clutching an envelope against her chest.

"As if you wake up when I try to wake you up normally." She said before jumping up and down, causing her hair to whip violently behind her. "Guess what!"

"Hey watch it. That hair is a deadly weapon!" He said pulling at it. With a large grin on his face, she hated it when he teased her about her hair. "but what is it I'm guessing at?"

"Hey, get off! That hurts ya' know!" She said mock glaring at him. "Just look! I got it James. I really got it!" She handed him the Enveloped addressed to her.

His eyes lit up as he turned it over to see the broken Hogwarts crest. He opened it at once and took out the letter and read it to himself, his smile growing wider by the second.

"Lily this is bloody brilliant!" He hugged her briefly for a second and the looked back at the letter. "I was afraid that I would have to leave you behind here with that prat of a sister of yours. Oh I cant wait to take you to Diagon alley! And we'll get our wands, and hopefully we will both be in Gryffindor together. It will be so great!"

"I know. This will be the best seven years of our lives!" Lily said still blushing a little from the hug.

"And you'll teach me how to fly right?"