::I do not own any of the charachters of this story (other than Anastasia). They all belong to J.K.Rowling. Otherwise someone else would've fallen through the veil in the Order of the Pheonix.::

Chapter 1: The Phantom

It was February 14, 1975. Anastasia Summers walked in to the Great Hall to find her best friend, Lily Evans, eating breakfast at the Gryffindor table.

"Happy Valentines Day, Lily!" Anastasia said as she walked up to her.

"Happy Valentines Day to you too!" Lily responded. Anastasia and Lily have never had any guy give them Valentines ever. So they decided that they would be each other's Valentines. After all, they were best friends and best friends could get away with anything.

Just then, the mail arrived. Everyone's attention was suddenly focused on 2 white doves that were carrying a package between them.

"I wonder what it is." Anastasia asked.

"It's probably for some girl." Lily said while staring up at the doves. Anastasia was just wondering who the lucky girl was when the doves suddenly dropped the package in front of her. Her mouth dropped open in shock.

"What the hell is this?" she queried.

"I don't know." Lily said faintly. Just then another dove dropped a letter in front of her. Anastasia opened it quickly and read:

"Dear Anastasia,

Do not open this package at the table. Open it in your dormitory. Happy Valentines Day.

Signed Sincerely,

The Phantom"

At that moment, another dove passed overhead and dropped a single red rose. Anastasia stared for a while. "The Phantom?" Suddenly she heard a loud "Ooooooh!" from the rest of the hall. She just realized that she was still on the Great Hall. Lily was there laughing her head off when she said, "Well, this sure as hell is different than usual. Listen, I'm going to go ahead to Transfiguration. I'll meet you there, all right?

"Yeah, okay."

And so she left and Anastasia was there in almost a catatonic state. Who could've sent this? It never happened before, so why now? She was pondering this as she came into the entrance hall.

Just then somebody came up behind her, pinned her arms to her back and started kissing her on the neck. Anastasia's eyes widened with shock at this sudden violation. She elbowed the person in the stomach, whipped out her wand, and brandished it at the boy who was far less welcome to kiss her neck than any other boy in school. Severus Snape was staring at her with a smug look on his face.

"Hey sweets," he said maliciously, "Happy Valentines Day. Why don't' you say we go celebrate? There's an empty classroom on the fourth floor." Snape started circling Anastasia, looking her up and down. Anastasia kept her wand pointed at him.

"I swear Snape, if you touch me one more time, I will curse your ass into oblivion." Anastasia said angrily.

"Oh yeah?" Snape sneered. He walked toward her. "Do it." They stared at each other menacingly then Snape laughed. "Heh. Just like a Gryffindor," he grabbed Anastasia by the wrist, "come on. Let's go."

At that moment something hit Snape squarely on the back of the head, knocking him to the ground. Next moment, lots of different flowers started growing out of the back of Snape's head. He let out a cry and turned to see The Marauders. James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew were standing in a huddle looking at Snape; James and Sirius both had their wands out, pointed at Snape.

"Leave her alone, Snivellus." James said.

"What are you going to do about it?" Snape snarled. Sirius then said,

"Do you want a tree to go with those lovely flowers of yours?"

"You two are going to pay for this!" Snape snarled.

"Oh, where haven't we heard that before," Sirius said sarcastically, "what are they gonna do, Sniviellus? Throw us in detention like always?" Snape just stared angrily.

"Go on, Snape. Go on, crawl back under your rock!" James said coolly. Snape gave one last piercing look and walked off.

"Thank you soooooo much, guys!" Anastasia said gratefully.

"No problem." James said, waving his hand.

"Yeah. You actually gave us the opportunity to try that curse on Snape." They all laughed and walked together to their Transfiguration class.

That day in class, they were turning their chairs into ladders. Professor McGonagall was observing their progress.

"Come now!" she said impatiently, "I haven't seen a single person who has made any difference to …"

"Tap. Tap. Tap."

"As I was saying…"

"Tap. Tap. Tap."

"Ahem. Once again I…"

"Tap. Tap. Tap."

"Alright, what is this utter nonsense?" she shouted shrilly.

"Tap. Tap. Tap." Everybody turned to see a white dove outside. Everyone looked at Anastasia and she blushed a deep crimson red. Professor McGonagall opened the window, the dove flew in and dropped another rose on Anastasia's desk. There was another loud "Oooooh!" from the class. Professor McGonagall quieted them and put them back to work.

It went on like that all day. Every class Anastasia had, she received a rose. By dinner time, she had a good few amount of roses. Lily was awed.

"Wow," she said as Anastasia sat down with her that evening for dinner, "who'd send all of these?"

"I wish I knew." Anastasia said. She couldn't wait to get upstairs to her dormitory and open her package. At about 6:30 that night, she and Lily were in their dormitory alone. Anastasia and Lily had the package in front of them.

"Well," Lily said excitedly, "open it!" And slowly, Anastasia opened the package with shaking hands and then gasped with delight and shock.

Inside the package, covered in rose petals, was a gorgeous black dress with a rose shaped pin, a pair of black shoes with a rose on each foot, rose scented perfume, a rose corsage, and best of all, there was a wonderful silver necklace with a rose shaped charm with rubies in it. Anastasia's eyes shone brightly as she stared at the gifts. She sobbed and put a trembling hand to her mouth

"Whoa!" Lily sighed romantically, "you are SO lucky!" Then she noticed something, "Look, there's a note." And she picked it up and read it aloud.

"Dear Anastasia,

Meet me in the Great Hall at 12 midnight. Don't be late. Wear the outfit.

Sincerely,

The Phantom"

The two girls squealed with delight. Anastasia couldn't believe it! Tonight she was going to meet her Secret Admirer. Her "Phantom!"

"Oh my gosh! I gotta get ready!" said excitedly. She ran to the bathroom in the girls' dormitory. Tonight, she was going to be knockout gorgeous!