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A/N: Ha, ha! I loved writing this chapter (though it took a long time) and I'm soooo happy! I received 7 reviews! Wow, that's a record (for me) but then I've only got two fics. Anyway, the thanks section is after this chapter. Now, the deal. (Smiles) For next chapter (stops to think deeply) I want… 13 reviews! If I don't get 13 reviews you'll have to wait quite a bit… come on… just 6 more! That's all. Enjoy this chapter, and review please!

Chapter 2: The Figg Family

"Is Lily awake?" whispered William. Arabella jumped. It was 8 o'clock in the morning, and she had found William waiting outside their door.

"What do you want?" she yawned.

"Is Lily awake?" repeated William. "We haven't introduced ourselves yet." Arabella raised her eyebrows.

"You were waiting outside our room just to introduce yourself to Lily? Couldn't you do that downstairs?" she asked. William shook his head violently.

"Of course not! Then Robert and David would take her all to themselves to show her Quidditch," he answered. Arabella rolled her eyes.

"Lily isn't awake yet. But I bet you'll give her a shock if she meets you outside the room when she wakes up!" she grinned.

"Will I really?" asked William anxiously. Arabella nodded, trying hard not to laugh.

"Then, then maybe it's best if I wait for her downstairs," said William, sounding depressed. Arabella nodded, and keeping a straight face, said,

"Yes, I think that's best. Now excuse me, I'd like to go and take a shower." And with that she pushed past William and ran to the shower, only to break into laughter when she arrived there.

An hour later, Lily opened her eyes, and immediately closed them again at the amount of light she found. Someone must have already opened the curtains. She opened her eyes slowly, and sat up.

She was in a strange room. At first she couldn't remember where she was, then everything came back to her at once. Her meeting with Mr. Figg, coming to live with the huge Figg family, talking to Arabella who had told her that today she was going to show her around the house, unpacking with Mrs. Figg, and finally going to sleep before the sun had even set. She had protested, of course, she disliked going to bed early. But Mrs. Figg had insisted that she must be 'extremely tired' so she had to go to bed at seven o'clock. She had stayed awake for a long time, thinking about her parents, when finally she had cried herself to sleep.

Now she was going to have to change her life. She was a witch, and she was going to start living in a family of witches and wizards. She wondered about this school she had just been accepted to. Hogwarts, wasn't it? What would they learn there? She supposed she could ask Arabella. And speaking of Arabella, where was she? Lily threw off the covers and got out of bed. She was in huge bedroom which had two beds, hers and Arabella's. She walked over to the wardrobe where Mrs. Figg had put all her clothes the day before. She put on a jeans and a t-shirt, and opened the door.

Lily looked around feeling lost. She couldn't see anyone, and she didn't have any idea where she could go to have breakfast. Suddenly, she saw a boy who looked slightly older than her walk quickly over to her.

"Hi," she began. "I suppose you couldn't tell…"

"Hi," he began quickly. "I'm William Figg, and I'm a year older than you. Would you like me to show you the way to the kitchen?"

"Yes, please," said Lily awkwardly. That was just what she was going to ask him.

"Come after me," he said breathlessly. He began walking in the direction from where he had come, and Lily followed him.

"So," he said. "You're Lily Evans, aren't you?"

"Yes," said Lily, wondering how much more this boy knew about her.

"And you're a first year at Hogwarts, aren't you?" asked William.

"I'm starting Hogwarts the coming September," answered Lily politely.

"I'm starting the second year there," said William. This was the first whole sentence William had said without asking her a question, and Lily didn't have any idea what she was supposed to say.

"Oh," she said finally. "I see." The started walking down the stairs, and Lily noticed a large portrait of a tall boy sitting reading on a chair. Suddenly she blinked. If she had seen rightly, the boy had just lowered his book and smiled at her!

"William!" she said urgently. "Did you see that portrait move?"

"Of course I did," said William, looking in the seventh heaven of delight that Lily had actually begun the conversation this time. "All portraits in the wizarding world move, didn't you know that? Why, at Hogwarts, the entrance to the Gryffindor common room is a portrait of a fat lady that asks you to tell her a password so that she'll let you enter!" This simple sentence had managed to befuddle Lily's mind. Gryffindor? A talking portrait of a fat lady? Passwords? How on earth was she going to get used to all of this?

"Lily! Good morning!" They had arrived in the kitchen, and Mrs. Figg had rushed over to hug her good morning.

"Good morning!" said Lily shyly. She hadn't been hugged like this for a fortnight. She remembered that her mother used to wake her up at exactly 8 o'clock… (flashback)

* * * * *

"Lily, dear, wake up!" Lily opened her eyes slightly, and saw her mother bending over her.

"What time is it?" asked Lily sleepily, as she sat up.

"Eight o'clock," answered her mother as she drew the curtains.

"Eight o'clock! Mum, it's the first day of the holidays, can't I sleep for another hour?" exclaimed Lily indignantly.

"Afraid not," smiled Lily's mother. "I need you to help me with the housework, dear."

"But, but can't Petunia help you with that?"

"Lily, Petunia and I are in a little disagreement right now," her mother had answered while she tidied up Lily's desk. Lily remembered the row her parents had with her older sister the day before, and it certainly wasn't little. Petunia had stayed out till past midnight, and as she was still thirteen, Lily's parents didn't like her to stay out till after half-past ten. Petunia, being the idiot she was, had told them that she wished they were dead, then maybe she could stay out as late as she wanted. Lily had overheard all this from her room: her mother crying, her father shouting and Petunia yelling.

"Okay," said Lily. "I'm getting up." Her mother started walking towards the door, when suddenly she stopped and looked back at Lily, as if waiting for something. Lily smiled, got out of bed and hugged her mother tightly.

"Good morning mum," she whispered. Her mother smiled and hugged her back.

"Good morning, dear."

That evening her parents had died. (End of flashback)

* * * * *

"Hi Lily!" Two boys she hadn't noticed before had stood up, and one of them was grinning at William, who blushed and sat down.

"I'm Robert, and this is David. I'm a seventh year at Hogwarts, and Dave is a fifth year. I suppose William has already introduced himself?" The boy who had been grinning, David, laughed loudly at this. William frowned at him.

"I guess he did," said David. He had stopped laughing, because Mrs. Figg had been shooting him some angry looks, which could only mean, 'leave William alone'. "Anyway, Robert hasn't told you something. He's head-boy this year, so you'd better be careful of him!"

"Oh shut up!" Robert told David. "Anyway, sit down!" he said, turning to Lily. Lily noticed an empty seat near Arabella, who had been observing all this with an amused expression on her face. Unfortunately, on the other side of this seat sat William, who, when she sat down, blushed even harder if that was possible.

"So," began Mrs. Figg, as she put a plate in front of Lily. "What are you all going to do today?"

"I'm going to show Lily around the house," said Arabella, putting her knife and fork down.

"But we were going to show her Quidditch!" said David, frowning at Arabella.

"You can show Lily Quidditch this afternoon," said Mrs Figg quickly, to prevent an argument. "What about you, William?"

"I've got an essay that Professor Binns gave us," said William. "And I think I'll play Quidditch with Robert and David this afternoon."

"And Lily," said Robert grinning. "Lily's going to be playing Quidditch with us, remember?" William glared at him, and got up.

"I'm going upstairs to my room," he announced. As he left, Robert and David burst into laughter, Arabella grinned and Lily blushed, suddenly finding the table very interesting to look at.

"Now, now," said Mrs. Figg smiling. "Leave William alone."

"Yeah, we will," said Robert.

"Someday," added David, as he got up. Mrs. Figg's eyes flashed dangerously, and David grinned cheekily at her.

"Bye, Mum!" he said, going out of the kitchen. Robert left after him.

"Honestly, those two…" muttered Mrs. Figg.

"Lily, are you ready?" asked Arabella.

"Yeah, I'm coming!" said Lily, getting up. "Thanks," she added to Mrs. Figg, who smiled and wondered why her children couldn't be as polite as Lily. Arabella and Lily went out of the room, heading towards the sitting room where Arabella was going to start her tour.

* * * * *

"And this is the attic," said Arabella, opening the door. Lily stepped in, looking around.

"Your house is really huge, Bella," said Lily. Arabella had told her to call her that, as the rest of her family called her Ara, and she was sick and tired of that.

"You still haven't seen the secret passages," said Bella grinning.

"You've… you've got secret passages?" exclaimed Lily.

"Of course," replied Bella. "But I'll show them to you some other day, it takes a long time to see them all; and it will soon be time for lunch." At this, a loud gong was heard, and Bella grinned at Lily's startled expression.

"Mum rings that whenever it's time for lunch or dinner, so that she won't have to keep on calling us. It's got a spell on it, so that we'll hear it wherever we are," she explained.

"I see," said Lily. "Well, then we'd better go."

"Right," said Bella, and they ran down two flights of steps (it was supposed to be five, but they took a shortcut) to the kitchen.

"The two older boys and Mr. Figg were already seated, and William, who was helping Mrs. Figg, accidentally dropped a plate when Lily entered. Fortunately, the plate had a non-breaking charm on it, so it didn't break. When everyone had begun lunch, Mr. Figg asked Lily,

"So, have you settled in all right?"

"Yes, Arabella showed me around the house this morning, it's brilliant!" answered Lily smiling. Mr. Figg smiled back at her.

"I'm glad. What are you going to do this afternoon?"

"We're all going to play Quidditch," said Robert. "Can Lily borrow your broom? She doesn't have one yet."

"Of course," replied Mr. Figg. They ate in silence, then Mr. Figg began discussing a Defense Against Dark Arts essay with David, while Lily asked Bella,

"Where does your father work?"

"In the Ministry of Magic. He works in the Department of Magic and Muggle Corporation," replied Bella. Lily narrowed her eyes, and frowned slightly.

"Department of what?" she asked.

"Department of Magic and Muggle Corporation," repeated Bella. "It's a Department where they take care of Muggle happenings that mi with magical ones. For example…" here Bella stopped, and bit her lip.

"Go on," said Lily.

"Well, like… like your case. You see," here she lowered her voice. "Your parents were muggles, but they were killed by a wizard, so…"

"WHAT?" shouted Lily. Everyone turned to look at her.

"Sorry," she muttered.

"What's the matter, dear?" asked Mrs. Figg anxiously.

"Nothing. Umm… Bella was just explaining something to me, and… and I was shocked at a piece of information that she gave me, that's all," explained Lily.

"Oh, I see," said Mrs. Figg, and though still looking suspicious, continued to talk with Robert and William.

"Sorry, I didn't know that my parents were killed by a wizard," whispered Lily.

"That's okay," said Bella. "I didn't know you didn't know that. Anyway, as… as your parents who were muggles, which are non-magic people by the way, were killed by a wizard, then Dad's department had to go in the case. When they found that you were a witch, they wanted you to start living in a family that could explain… explain everything, you know, about Hogwarts and so on, a wizarding family. So after Dad filled some forms and stuff, it was decided that you were to live with us." Lily looked at Bella in silence.

"I suppose you don't know anything about magic, do you?" asked Bella. Lily shook her head. "Well, then I guess we'll have to explain everything to you. Hogwarts is a school where we learn witchcraft and wizardry. We have lessons like Potions, Transfiguration, Charms…"

"Excuse me," Lily interrupted her. "What do we learn in… in these lessons?" Bella smiled.

"You take it from their names, actually. In Potions we learn how to brew potions, in Transfiguration we learn how to transfigure things, and so on. You'll learn about those eventually. Anyway, we stay at Hogwarts for seven years, that means that Robert is in his last year. When we arrive at Hogwarts, we're supposed to be sorted in houses…"

"Sorted?" asked Lily. "How?"

"I don't know. I asked, but no one will tell me. William said that as no one had told him, now he didn't want to tell me. Anyway, there are four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. All my family was in Gryffindor - they say that's the best – except Dad and Talitha, who were in Ravenclaw. I hope we're in the same house," finished Bella. Lily hoped so, too.

"What about Quidditch?" That's what we're going to do this afternoon, isn't it?" asked Lily.

"Yeah, we'll explain it to you then. But for now I'll tell you a few things. Quidditch is a sport played on broomsticks with four balls. There are two teams: seven players in each team. We'll teach you the rules later on."

"But, what do you mean, on broomsticks?" asked Lily. "We… we don't fly?"

"Of course we do!" replied Bella. Lily gasped. This wizarding world was full of surprises! They finished eating in silence, occasionally saying things like,

"Pass the salt," or "Want any more sauce?" When they finished, they all went outside into a huge courtyard filled with turf, with the exception of Mr. and Mrs. Figg who stayed inside watching 'The Wizarding World News'.

* * * * *

"Settled in nicely, hasn't she?" said Mr. Figg as he went to the window. She was in deep conversation with David, he was probably explaining Quidditch to her.

"Yes, she certainly has," replied Mrs. Figg, glancing at the kids. Now they were all showing her how to mount the broom that she was standing near. They all had Shooting Stars, which were the latest brooms that had come out. Lily mounted her broom and kicked off.

"Wow, she's quite good!" commented Mr. Figg. Lily had landed, grinning as Robert clapped her on her back and William shook her hand. Wait, shook her hand? Mr. Figg frowned lightly, and shook his head. Was William still on Lily? Shaking her hand… the absurdity… Suddenly he laughed. He should really give William some lessons on how to make girls notice him, if he was that desperate. But Mr. Figg immediately shook himself mentally and turned away from the window. They were still too young…

Mr. Figg sat down near Mrs. Figg who was watching the news.

"And now we have some flash news that have just been owled to us…" Suddenly Mr. Figg gasped, and Mrs Figg screamed and promptly fainted. Mr. Figg ran to the door.

"Robert, David, Lily, all of you! Come in her straight away! Hurry!"

A/N: Cliff-hanger! Am I not evil! Don't you want to know what happened that made Mrs. Figg faint and Mr. Figg panic? You think I'm gonna tell you? WRONG! Next chapter! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that. Remember, I need 13 reviews for next chapter. Now the thank-you section.

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