Lily Luna Potter is a very curious girl, in many ways. Some say that she acquired this curiousness from being around her Aunt Hermione. Others say that it was a natural curiousness. Lily is also a very smart girl, who knows many things. This, once again, is said to be because her favourite Aunt is Hermione Granger, the girl who loved the library. Lily knew that she was named after her father's mother and one of her mother's friends. Both of whom, died protecting her father. Lily Luna knew exactly how Harry's mother died, but she didn't know how Luna Lovegood died.
Some say that knowledge and curiousness is a very dangerous combination. For Lily Luna this was exactly the case. She knew that there was something strange surrounding the death of Luna Lovegood, something that she wanted to find out. Lily knew the only place where she could find something, a little hint, of what could have happened, was in the Hogwarts Library.
It was dark so Lily had no problem roaming the halls of Hogwarts. The darkness, plus the fact that she sneakily acquired the invisibility cloak from her brothers trunk. She found it amusing how her brother could sleep like a rock, even when she had tripped most ungratefully over his potions books and made, what she thought was a rather loud crash as she hit the floor.
Lily turned the corner and crept into the library. She had been researching this for weeks before she knew exactly what she was looking for. The only reason she had come to the library in the dead of night under her brother's invisibility cloak, was because the book that included information on whats she was looking for, is in the restricted section.
She recalled a conversation she had with her best friend a few weeks ago, when Elizabeth had found Lily cooped up in the library, once again immersed in yet another book.
"Lily, for Merlin's sake, you've been in the library every weekend for weeks! Will you come outside and play some Quidditch?" Lily looked up at her best friend and smirked, she loved playing Quidditch.
"Maybe in a little while." She said, flicking the page of her book. "I have to look for something first."
Elizabeth, who had become very impatient with her friend, sat down and opened the next book on the pile. "So, what are we looking for then?"
"Something that explains how somebody can disappear, completely, leaving nothing that explains where they have gone or how." She said, smiling up at Elizabeth. "It is very taxing, you won't like it."
"If it gets you out playing Quidditch, I'll do it."
Lily smirked and hurried to the restricted section. She casted 'Lumos' and held her wand high so the glow fell over the spines of the hundreds of books. The book in question, Unexplainable curses, hexes and jinxes by Ermine Griswold, happened to be sitting on the topmost shelf of the third row of book cases. Lily decided that it would not be wise to clamber up the shelves, considering she was never very good at climbing, and she was quite clumsy without being six feet in the air. A quick summoning charm brought the book to her hands without the clamour and noise climbing the bookshelf would have brought.
She then sat and flicked through the pages, scanning the chapter pages until she came across the one she wanted. The Between Worlds Curse. Lily sat and read through the chapter, realising after every sentence that this had to be what happened to Luna Lovegood all those years ago. She slammed the book shut, drew the invisibility cloak up over her head and hurried back towards the dorm that she shared with Elizabeth and a few other girls.
Elizabeth was not very happy when she was shaken awake by a very excited Lily Potter. She groaned, threw the covers back and slid out of bed, following her friend down to the common room as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "This better be good," She mumbled, letting a yawn escape.
"I've found it!" Lily said excitedly, practically shoving the book into Elizabeth's arms. "It's called 'The Between Worlds Curse' and it's very simple to learn-" Elizabeth's half-tired laugh cut Lily off in her explanation.
"Hold on, it sounds as though you are telling me to use this," She said, chortling as she flicked through the pages. She stopped however when she saw Lily's very serious gaze staring back at her. "Oh Merlin, you're serious." Lily smiled weakly and plopped herself down on the sofa.
"Will you do it? The book says it's simple."
"Lily, you're my best friend, and I know that you want to find out what happened to Luna Lovegood, but this is just ridiculous. You don't even know what world you will be transported to or if you can get back. How do you even know there will be wizards in this other world?"
Lily huffed and pointed to a line in the book. "Honestly, don't you read? It say's right here. 'The curse transports the victim to a parallel universe.'" Elizabeth slammed the book shut in frustration.
"Are you mad!?" She half-yelled half-whispered. "How will you get back? What will your parents say? What will James and Albus say? Your entire family will hunt me down and murder me if I agree to this!"
"They won't even know I'm gone." Lily sighed, "You're worrying too much, and I know exactly what I am going to do." Lily put her hand in her robe pocket and drew out a golden necklace, in the centre was a tiny hourglass.
"A time-turner! But they were-"
"All destroyed." Lily smirked. "The one in Professor McGonagall's cabinet wasn't." Lily dropped the time-turner back into her pocket and smiled at Elizabeth. "Beth, please. You know how much this means to me."
"I don't even know if I can get it right. What if it hurts you… what if it does worse?"
"You're the best spellcaster I know. You can do it." Lily pleaded.
Elizabeth let out an irritated sigh and turned her head down to the book. "Fine, but this was your idea, not mine."
Elizabeth practiced ten times before Lily had grown so impatient that she threatened to hex her friend if she didn't curse her soon.
Lily stood at one end of the common room; Elizabeth faced her on the other. Lily smiled at her friend as she raised her wand. "Don't you dare do anything stupid over there." Elizabeth said.
"And this doesn't qualify as stupid?"
"No. This qualifies as crazy." Lily nodded with a small smirk and then closed her eyes as Elizabeth said, "Ad alium locum."
Lily felt the blast hit her chest and she knew no more.