"Everything isn't black and white. Open your eyes Potter." Lily isn't sure of anything, especially her feelings but this is all part of growing up.

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*I have been revised :) Read and Review, Lots of love.


Chapter 1 – Little Lily

"Honestly, James, I don't understand why you have to be such a huge prat all the time!" A little girl with long, bright red hair yelled at her oldest brother as he ran into a train compartment slamming the door behind him. She sighed, not knowing where to go. She walked down the train not paying attention and she bumped into someone as she turned to look to her side.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" She squeaked, not wanting to upset anyone.

"It's fine; just watch where you're going next time, Weasley." She looked up to see a tall, slim boy with a pointy but soft face, maybe a year or two older than her, with shockingly blond hair and pale grey eyes looking down on her. Her face turned bright red with embarrassment.

"I'm a Potter. Lily Potter, actually," The small girl's voice came out in a squeak.

"Nice to meet you, Potter." And with that he continued his walk to a different compartment. Lily quickly slipped into the compartment next to her, where she found a tiny blond elf-like girl looking up at her with big, piercing, icy blue eyes.

"Do you mind?" Lily asked her with a huge smile. "There seems to be no more compartments."

"Not at all!" Lily noticed that the girl had a slight Irish accent as she took a seat across from her.

"Ivy Finnigan," The elf girl pronounced herself to be.

"Lily Potter," She smiled; she was very pleased that she had made a friend already.

"You're Harry Potter's daughter aren't you?" Ivy asked excited.

"Sure am." Lily smiled brightly at the strange girl.

"My Dad talks a great deal about him, Seamus Finnigan, he may have mentioned him?" Ivy looked at her hopeful. Lily actually did recognize the name from a few of her Dad's stories.

"He has actually, this is fantastic!" Lily giggled with her new friend.

Then the compartment door opened and a small, round, cream faced girl with chestnut hair tied into a long braid peaked her head around the door.

"May I?" She asked timidly, blinking her warm green eyes heavy with black lashes rapidly.

"Yes, of course!" Lily all but yelled at the rounder girl. Timidly the girl walked into the compartment.

"Thanks, all the compartments are full."

"Well, you're welcome here!" Ivy smiled a wide smile up at her. The nervous girl gave her a small smile and sat down beside Lily.

"What your name?" Lily asked her softly.

"I'm Kenda Jordan, Kends for short," She said shyly, and then the compartment door opened one last time. A gangly, slim, copper girl with jet-black hair walked through.

"Hi, I'm Raven, Raven Jenkins!" The tall girl announced herself as she walked into the compartment. "Are you all from wizard families? I'm muggle-born myself, parents were so shocked when I got my letter!" She continued to talk taking a seat beside Ivy like they had been friends for years. "They were so confused! Who is everyone by the way?"

"Lily,"

"Ivy,"

"Kenda,"

The girls continued to talk excitably all the way to Hogwarts about what they thought it was going to be like. They were inseparable from then on.

"Lily Luna, would you slow down!"

"Come, Kends, we told Raven we would meet her there like 15 minutes ago!" Lily yelled back at Kenda and Ivy, two of her best friends. Lily was running down Diagon Alley, her bright red hair blowing out behind her, on her way to Flourish and Blotts to meet the missing member of their clan.

"Come on, Liles, we'll get there when we get there." Ivy tried to reason with her as they jogged after her.

"You guys are being silly!" Lily was running backwards, trying to yell back, when she ran into someone. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't me…" she tried to continue but she was cut off by a tall, pale blond man with grey eyes.

"Don't worry about it, Potter." He chuckled, amused.

"I won't, Malfoy," Lily narrowed her eyes at Scorpius Malfoy. She hadn't seen him in an entire summer, which was just to her liking, but somehow he looked older. No longer was he the boy that she had once run into on the train. His face had slimed out, his pale blond hair now sported a messy look - instead of the shaggy one he wore last year - and he was by far a lot taller than he had been. Lily couldn't help but stare.

"Well then, I'll see you around, Princess," He snarled at her and she filled with rage. She hated when he called her that. She hated him.

"Snake," She hissed at him as he walked away with a smug smile across his face.

"Come on, Liles, don't worry about him today. You have all year to kill each other," Ivy giggled at her joke.

"Yeah, let's go get Raven before her parents get lost again," Kenda laughed as she spoke, well knowing that - even though they had done this for 5 years now - they would still get lost amongst the wizards. Lily laughed with her friends as they walked arm in arm to Flourish and Blotts.

When they finally walked in the little bell rang their arrival. They instantly spotted Raven and her parents arguing over the price of a book.

"Mum, you don't understand it's different from Euro's," Raven tried to reason with her mother.

"Ladies," Mr. Jenkins greeted the girls. Mr. Jenkins was a large man with cream-coloured skin; he had heavy black hair that had been pulled back with lots of gel. Meanwhile, Mrs. Jenkins was a petite woman with jet-black hair, copper skin and the same piercing, copper eyes as her daughter. Raven was completely a spitting image of her mother.

"Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, it's nice to see you again," Lily smiled at them and hugged her friend.

"Thank god you're here! Will you please explain?" She begged her friends. Ivy started to explain the difference between Wizarding currency and Euros as Lily went off to find her parents in the mess. She wandered around the store, looking at the various spell and potion books, until she finally saw a redheaded, average-sized woman, her mother, shuffling a couple books in her arm.

"Oh there you are Lily, would you help me dear?" Her mother asked as she slid The Standard Book of Spells Grade 5 by Miranda Goshawk and Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhard into Lily's arms.

"Sure Mum. Where did James and Albus run off too? I thought they were helping you,"

"Oh, those boys, running off somewhere, probably going to look at the brooms for heaven sakes!" Ginny ranted as she unloaded all the books to the counter to pay for them. Harry Potter came up behind his wife and kissed her on the cheek.

"How's it going, my girls?" Harry asked his wife and daughter with overwhelming pride.

"It's going good, Dad. Mum just lost the boys is all," Lily giggled at her mother.

"They ran off somewhere, both of them, just like their father," Ginny looked up at her husband with admiration.

"I'm going to go find James and Albus…" Lily quickly and awkwardly said, as she made her way for the door and set off to find her brothers. Lily headed over to Broomstix, where she knew her brothers would be looking at the latest model.

"Al, Slytherin would never have a chance if we had these!" James punched his brother in the arm. James was very tall and well built. With dark brown hair and brown eyes, he was the perfect mix of Harry and Ginny. Albus, on the other hand, was a spitting image of Harry. Lanky, with his messy dark hair and green eyes, he was the only Potter child that had gotten his grandmother, Lily, and Harry's famous eyes.

"What're you doing?" Lily called up behind her brothers and they both jumped a bit.

"Bloody hell, Liles, why do you always have to do that?" James pulled her under his arm. "We're just talking about how we're going to crush Slytherin this year in Quidditch, right Al?" With that he high fived his little brother.

"Right!"

"You never know, they beat you the last 2 years. Scorpius is a pretty good seeker," Lily said matter-of-factly. Even though she liked dirt more than Scorpius, she couldn't help but notice, coming from a Quidditch crazed family. Albus shot her a look, seeing as he was the seeker for the Gryffindor team. "Not that he is better than you Albus, I was just saying," Lily smiled sweetly at Albus, knowing that the last comment bugged him.

"You'll see, Liles. We'll get them this year!" Albus smiled at his sister.

"I'm sure you will, boys. I'll be there cheering for Gryffindor," Lily gave a playful fist pump and her brothers laughed at her.

"Come on, Mum and Dad are probably looking for us," James said, steering his brother and sister away from the brooms.