Lily Luna Potter and The Golden Owl

If you check my profile you can see the picture of the golden owl! Which I just made, like literally I was typing the title and I was all like omg I should get a picture of the golden owl so you guys can see what it looks like! So I did, you may now bow before me in gratitude of my amazing greatness :)

Disclaimer: All things you notice from Harry Potter belong to JK Rowling not me… duh but the site says I have to say it soo expect this every chapter I write muhahahaha.

Diagon Ally

Lily jumped out of bed an hour before usual, which means around 9. She quickly threw on her clothes out of excitement. She was wearing jean shorts and a tight black shirt that had odd designs on it. She normally wore muggle clothes but since they decided to go to Diagon Ally with a car, her whole family had too. Lily didn't mind it though, she liked wearing both muggle and wizard clothes. She skipped down the stairs singing under her breath, "I'm getting a wand today, I'm getting a wand today." Her whole family was already up and dressed eating breakfast. "What are you singing?" exclaimed her brother, James. Lily stopped singing and put her hands on her hips, "I wasn't singing anything…maybe you're just hearing things…" James crossed his arms "I'm not just hearing things! You were defiantly singing." Lily shook her head, "nope…no I wasn't." Al looked up, he didn't usually get involved in Lily and James' fights but he just couldn't resist, "Actually I heard you singing too." Lily glared at Al and James, "I. Was. Not. Singing!" Albus smirked at her, "Yeah you were." James nodded in agreement, "It sounded something like 'I'm getting a wand today, I'm getting a wand today,' seeing as how you're blushing I'm going to say I'm right." Lily, now completely red in the face, grabbed some pancakes and began to eat.

Their mum gave the boys a long, silencing glare, "You guys shouldn't be making fun of her for being excited about getting a wand!" Albus looked at his mother very sincerely and apologized. James however gave a very unbelievable apology when his turn came, which resulted in him being threatened to not go to Diagon Ally. Threatening him was the only way to get him to do the right thing. Their father stood up and said "Well, if everyone is all fed and full we must be off!" James groaned, "Dad! It's only nine thirty! Can't we just eat a little longer?" Mr. Potter smiled and shook his head, "You're just like you're Uncle Ron, you never stop eating! Any way we are taking a car so it takes longer than flu powder." James groaned again. "Then why don't we just take flu powder?" questioned Al. Their mother laughed and said, "It's only because you're father just got his driver's license and a car."

Everybody laughed except Lily, "I want a driver's license! Can I get one now?" At this her father looked down at her, "Lily, how many times do I have to tell you before you understand? You can't until you're 16." James laughed even harder, "If it took Dad this long to get his imagine how long it's gonna take you!" She frowned because it was probably true. Her mum put her arm around her and whispered, "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be a great driver, anyway there are more convenient wizarding ways to travel." Lily thought about what her mother said before replying, "Yeah, you're right."

Everyone hopped into the car. "Wow," muttered their mother, "you didn't even put an expanding charm on it, like my father did!" The children giggled remembering the story of their grandpa's flying car. They drove down to London smoothly; they were completely fine in the whole ride. This resulted in James having to give Albus 3 galleons, James bet they would at least crash into one thing. Lily didn't take place in the bet though because she had complete confidence in her dad's driving and thought it rude to gamble about it (the other reason was she didn't have enough money to bet with anyway).

They parked around the corner of where Diagon Ally was hidden. They each got out of the car to see people not staring at them. This meant they were absolutely in the muggle world. In the Wizarding World everyone would look at them and whisper about how their Dad was the Boy Who Lived/ the Chosen One/ the person who killed the Dark Lord. Lily was ok with it most of the time, since she had grown up with that happening, but when people just stared at them it creeped her out. One time when she was eight they were out buying James' items for his first year at Hogwarts and a group of about 15 people standing outside of Flourish and Blotts, a book store, were staring at them. She disliked going out in public a little bit after that.

The Potters walked around the corner and up the street till they saw a grubby looking pub called the Leaky Cauldron. They walked into the pub and saw their giant friend looking ready to leave. "Hagrid!" all three Potter kids yelled as they ran up to him. "Hi guys," he smiled, "lemme guess Lily is here to get her supplies for her firs' year at Hogwarts?" Lily nodded excitedly. Hagrid grunted, "well wish I could stay but I gotta help McGonagall and Brocklehurst ge' the school ready." She understood "It's ok Hagrid I'm gonna see you in a few days anyway!" Hagrid nodded and said good bye to the family before leaving.

Lily bounced up and down a bunch of times, "Can we get my wand now?" Harry chuckled at her excitement, "We have to find you're cousins and Ally first remember?" She stopped bouncing at once and started looking for them. "Where could they be?" she wondered aloud. Her mum looked at her, "Did you tell them where to meet us?" Lily thought about it for a while before realizing she hadn't. "You didn't? Didn't you?" teased James. Lily gave him a sour look before saying, "I told them to meet me in Diagon Ally at least." James laughed, "Oh well that makes them so much easier to find especially because it's huge and crowded with people." Lily narrowed her eyes then slapped James in the arm. "Lily don't slap your brother," scolded her mother. "Guys fighting isn't going to help us out of this situation," stated Al firmly. "Very insightful Al, but I think you three are over exaggerating a bit," sighed their Dad.

"There she is!" yelled Lily's friend Ally. She ran over and gave her red-headed friend a hug. "Ally! We were just looking for you!" exclaimed Lily happily. "Why hello there Alcedonia," snickered James. Ally put her hands on her hips, "I told you a hundred times not to call me that!" Lily laughed and whispered, "Don't worry we'll get him back at Hogwarts." Ally smiled evilly and responded, "I like that idea." Al saw the two of them smiling and whispered, "Whatever you two are smiling about I want to be part of it." Lily gasped, "Mr. Goody two shoes wants to be part of our revenge?" Albus looked up at them, "If it's against James, then yes I would love to be part of it." Ally and Lily exchanged looks, "Ok I guess you're in then," Ally confirmed.

The three of them were so busy whispering that they hardly noticed their cousins coming over. Their Aunt and Uncle went to go talk to their Mum and Dad and Neville and Hannah, Ally's parents. Rose and Hugo joined the group of kids. "Sorry if were late for meeting you but the note didn't say where or when to see you," apologized Rose. James, Al and Lily just laughed at this and told her it was ok. "Did I miss anything?" Hugo asked Lily and Ally. "Nope I just got here too," replied Ally. "Well actually, we were discussing ways to get back at James when we get to Hogwarts, you in?" whispered Lily. "'Course I am," he replied.

"Can we get my wand now?" Lily asked her father rather impatiently. "Yeah, can we?" asked Hugo and Ally together looking up at their parents. "Alright let's go," said Lily's dad. All three of the first years darted to Olivander's wand shop. "I call going first!" yelled Ally as she made her way up to the counter. There were wands everywhere. Each stacked on top of one another up to the ceiling. "Lily?" her dad asked. "What?" she replied. "Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom are going to stay with you guys while we go help Albus, James and Rose get their stuff and your supplies." Lily nodded at her dad, a little hurt that neither of her parents were going to see her get her wand like they had done for her brothers. Her mum saw the hurt look on Lily and Hugo's face. She turned to the rest of the adults to tell them what she saw on her daughter and nephew's face, so she and Aunt Hermione stayed at the wand shop, while Uncle Ron and Lily's dad went with James, Al and Rose. Suddenly a man appeared from behind a shelf stacked with wands. "Why hello children, I am Mr. Olivander." All the future wand owners looked up at him in amazement. "It seemed like this young lady right here wanted to go first, am I correct?" asked Mr. Olivander while he was looking at Ally. "That is right, sir," said Ally confidently.

Mr. Olivander took out a measuring tape that measured all parts of her body. He then pulled out a box off of one of the shelves. "Why don't you try this one?" Ally picked up the wand and gave it a wave. All the wands on one shelf fell off. "Sorry," she muttered as she put the wand back in the box. "It's ok my dear that was obviously not the wand for you, ah… try this one." Ally picked up the wand and gave it a wave, a bunch of purple sparks came out of the end. "Now that is the wand for you." said Mr. Olivander excitedly. She looked down at her new wand and smiled wide, "What kind is it?" Mr. Olivander made a face, proving that this was his favorite part of 'a wand choosing a wizard' as he put it, "That is an 11 inch birch with unicorn tail as the core!" Ally was very excited about this, she wanted a unicorn tail core most of all. She quickly paid for her wand then backed up for Hugo to go.

Hugo stepped to Mr. Olivander and gulped, "Hi I would like to get a wand" Ally and Lily laughed at Hugo's obviousness. "My dear boy it's not you who chooses wand! It's the wand that chooses you. Surely you knew that?" Hugo grimaced and said, "Yeah… of course I knew! I was just kidding." Mr. Olivander gave him a look then took out his measuring tape. After he measured him he grabbed a silver box. "Try this one out." Hugo picked up the wand expecting it to do something bad but as he waved it he realized the wand was perfect. It puffed out blue and green sparks. "Interesting… I haven't got the wand right on my first try in some time now." Hugo smiled proudly at this, "So what is it?" The old man smiled, "The wand you have right now is a 10 inch ash with a dragon heart string core." Hugo paid for his wand and went to go show his mum it.

Lily walked up to the counter nervously. She had a funny feeling it would take her ages to find her wand. The measuring tape measured her quickly. Mr. Olivander grabbed about 5 wands off the shelf. "Try these, doesn't matter what order." Lily was about to pick up one of the wands when she stopped suddenly, "Why did you give me all these wands to try at first when Hugo and Ally only had to try 1 at a time?" Mr. Olivander looked at her sincerely and sighed, "Your measurements are all over the place so we are going to try as many wands as we can at a time." Lily sighed, for some reason she had expected that. She picked up the first wand and waved it, this caused a few lamps to fall over. She waved the next one which caused some chairs to tip over, including the one Ally was sitting in which caused her to scream in surprise. The third one caused a few wands to fly out of the shelf. The forth wand had knock over the cash register. The fifth one, however, did absolutely nothing. Lily looked up at him hopping it meant something but he just shook his head and continued to give her more wands.

She had been trying all different types of wands for an hour before Ally and Hugo had to leave. Her mum, dad, James and Al were just sitting there waiting for her to find a wand. Mr. Olivander dropped 10 more wands on the counter for her to try. For what seemed like hours Lily waved wands and failed until her dad said, "Lily we still have to get you're robes, want to come back here afterwards?" Lily nodded sadly as she walked out of the wand shop. James looked like he wanted to say something badly but his mum just glared at him every time he opened his mouth. Getting her robes took no time compared to how long it took her to get her wand.

As she opened up the door slowly she noticed Mr. Olivander was smiling at her and had something behind his back. Lily smiled too hoping he had her perfect wand behind his back. As he removed it from behind his back she quickly grabbed and gave it a wave. The whole room grew brighter while orange and pink sparks came out the wand. "How did you know?" asked Lily amazed. I've had this wand for some time now, I made it about forty years ago, I tried to sell it but it didn't seem to want to connect with anyone. So, I kept it in the back just in case its perfect owner would come," he looked at Lily and smiled at her, "I had completely forgotten about it until you had just left the store, so I quickly ran to get it and saw you had the perfect measurements for it." She was taken by complete surprise at this and was thus speechless. "Now I suppose you want to know what it is. It's a 13 inch oak with a dragon heartstring core, but you may wonder what makes this one so special and I right?" Lily nodded quickly. "It is special because the core is from a Hungarian Horntail, an extremely hard dragon to get the heartstrings of. This is why it is so rare." Lily's dad nodded in agreement; after all he did have to get past one when he was only 14.

"Well I think we best get going, come on guys," said Lily's mum. The all walked out of the shop, out of Diagon Ally, out of the Leaky Cauldron and hopped into the car. The whole ride home Lily stared at her wand, proud that it belonged to her, proud that it waited forty years for her. When they got home Lily went straight to bed. 'Who would have known waving wands all day could really wear somebody out' she thought to herself. She cuddled up comfortably on her bed and fell into a deep sleep that wasn't disturbed by dreams, or even her mother yelling at James because he had just said some bad things about Lily. Yup, it was a relaxing night.