Disclaimer: All the characters, Hogwarts and Hogsmeadeare J.K Rowling's but Lily's friends Ami and Ruth are mine.
Lily sat on the windowsill, looking out the window of her room of 17 Cricket Alley, waiting for September the 1st to some around. She hated staying at home with her sister Petunia and Petunia hated every tiny part of Lily and her, 'abnormality.' Petunia said that Lily was a spoiled girl with their parents always letting Lily bring frog spawn and all those disgusting things back from her school.
Petunia was in the next room listening to music on her headphones and making a huge racket. She had been like this every summer holiday since six years ago, when Lily had received her letter from her school, Hogwarts, by owl. Petunia was jealous from the second Lily read out the letter at breakfast to her parents. Many times Lily thought back to that day that she had been informed that she was a witch.
Lily looked up into the blue sky, she saw a tiny black cloud, and she sighed. That was how she felt; she felt alone in the muggle world, not one person around had magical blood in their veins. The black cloud was growing bigger, mirroring exactly how Lily felt; for this was her last year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The cloud was still growing larger and larger by the second. Lily strained her eyes and could just make out two wings flapping. Her heart leapt, it was an owl, because she knew it was an owl from Hogwarts, telling her what books to buy for her next year at Hogwarts.
She opened the window to let the brown barn owl in and it soared over her head to her tidy desk, and lifted its left leg up. Lily slammed the window shut and scrambled over her bed and untied the letter from the owl's leg. She expected the owl to fly off, like normal, but it stayed there staring at her. Ignoring the owl, she opened her letter which was very light, lighter than usual and the back of the letter didn't have the Hogwarts seal. She opened the letter and read it.
Dear Lily,
How's your holiday, Petal? I hope Pootunia hasn't been giving you a hard time there. I'm fine here thanks and I've actually finished my homework early. I bet you haven't, but not to worry pretty one, you can copy my work no problemo.
Anyway, I've been meaning to ask you if the would like to come over for the rest of the summer so I can spend the rest of my blissful holiday with your beautiful emerald eyes and your pleasant insults.
(Lily snorted at this sentence and thought, 'as if! Pleasant insults…')
So how about it huh honey? Send you reply with Puke.
Love always,
James
James called Lily by her first name? He usually used her surname. Lily was too busy reading that she didn't hear a flump! Just outside her window.
'STUPID, BLOODY LILY! THERE'S A STUPID, BLOODY OWL OUTSIDE YOUR STUPID, BLOODY WINDOW. I BLOODY HOPE IT CRACKED ITS BLOODY HEAD OPEN!' screeched Petunia from the next room.
Lily wondered how Petunia heard it if she had her music on full blast, as she ran across the room, around her bed to the window. She pulled it open and carefully scooped up the grey barn owl and placed it on her fore arm where it swayed back and forth, then toppled forward and fell with another flump onto the floor.
She untied and left the owl to rest in a corner. She opened up her real Hogwarts letter and read through it reading the books and everything else she needed to buy from Diagon Alley. Her envelope was heavy so she emptied the contents and out fell a shiny scarlet and gold Head Girl badge. Lily squeaked with delight.
Quickly, Lily tumble turned on her bed to flip to the other side, scribbled-
In your dreams Potter! And yes, I have finished my homework, ages ago.
On the back of the letter James sent her and tied it onto Puke's leg and he took off out of the window.
Lily ran the downstairs, falling and rolling down the rest of the way from the third step from the bottom ('OW! That step really needs to be fixed!') shouting, 'Mum? MUM? MUM?' Mrs Evans poked her head from the kitchen door.
'No need to shout Lily,' she then saw the letter grasped in Lily's hand, 'oh! You've got your letter! We'll go to Diagon Alley first thing tomorrow morning.'
'Oh Mum, can you believe it, I'm Head Girl!'
'That's wonderful dear!' beamed her mother. 'You can buy something a bit more expensive for yourself in Diagon Alley and that would be my present to you for being making Head Girl!.'
There was a sudden crash, thump and a 'BLOODY LILY AND HER BLOODY HEAD GIRL BADGE FROM HER BLOODY SO-CALLED SCHOOL!'
Lily and Mrs Evans raised an eyebrow. 'Thanks Mum!' Lily squealed and kissed her mum on the cheek.
Five hundred kilometres away, James was sitting on his bedroom windowsill waiting for Lily's reply and his Hogwarts letter. An hour later Lily's reply was back and James stared at it crying his heart out at being rejected by Lily Evans, the most beautiful girl in the world.
He threw the reply into the bin and picked up the Hogwarts letter that had arrived on moments after Lily's. It felt unusually heavier than normal; he didn't know what was in it. He tipped it upside down and out fell a shiny scarlet and gold Head Boy badge. He stared at it.
'Me? Head Boy? There's got to be something wrong!' Then a smile spread across his face; 'wait' til Lily sees!'
Next morning, Mrs Evans drove Lily out to London. 'Now, you know my rules Lily. Don't go talk to strangers, don't-''
'I know Mum.'
'Well, ok then honey, I'll be back in two hours. And oh! I almost forgot, here's money to exchange for your wizard money. Bye-bye!'
Lily rushed into the Leaky Cauldron, greeting Tom the barman, and into the back courtyard and muttered as she tapped bricks with her wand, 'three up…two across…' immediately the bricks started to wiggle and a whole showed up, it grew bigger and bigger until Lily was finally able to slip through. She visited Gringotts' bank to exchange her Muggle money, and set off to buy her books in Flourish and Blotts.
While she was in there, a shop passing over her last book, Defence Against The Darkest Arts: For Advanced Students, she heard, 'Lily! Lily! Over here!' Her friends Ami and Ruth were calling for her. She paid for her books and made her way to her friends.
'Hi! Let's go get a sundae and talk about our holidays. They made their way to Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour and ordered 3 scoops of chocolate and caramel sundae each. It took no time for Lily to tell Ami and Ruth that she was the new Head Girl. They chatted about their holidays, Lily jealous of Ami and Ruth's holidays which they attended lots of magic festivals because they weren't muggle born until they heard a voice behind them.
'Oh there you are Lily my dear! I heard that you came to Diagon alley today. How come you didn't want to stay over at my place for the rest of the summer?' smiled James from behind and put his hands on Lily's shoulders.
Lily stood up so abruptly that half of what was left of her sundae splattered down her front. As she was 17, of age, she cleaned herself up and glared at James.
James had brown eyes and very messy hair. He was friends with Sirius Black, a black haired boy who was also a big trouble-maker, and Remus Lupin, a sandy haired boy who was a prefect but took no control over his two cheeky friends. Peter Pettigrew another friend was no where to be seen though but Lily took no notice. The group of four called themselves the Marauders.
'Yeah, Potter, like I'm ever going to like you, let alone go over to your place over the holidays. Why can't you just leave me alone?'
James put on an innocent, hurt face and wiped a fake tear from his eye. 'You hurt my feelings and break my heart Lily.'
Lily put on an oh-please-forgive-me expression and faced James's smirk, 'oh, really baby? I'm so sorry, here's something to go with your shattered heart,' and Lily chucked the rest of her sundae at them and stalked off to buy the rest of her Hogwarts needs.
'Lily, Lily wait! Won't you just go out with me?' James called after her. She didn't look back.
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