The Story of Lily Evans & James Potter – Chapter 2: Finally!

So James spent the night at mine. It was awesome! Although dinner was DREADFUL! Why? Because Petunia invited her boyfriend *gag* Vernon. Now Petunia doesn't like James and I but you should've seen Vernon! Talk about hate! Obviously Petunia had told him that we're "different" and from what I've seen, Vernon definitely doesn't like change.

Anyway, dinner was just plain awkward. It was awkward for Petunia and Vernon because James and I were there. It was awkward for Vernon and our parents because it was their first dinner meeting. It was awkward because James was staying over and overall, it was just plain awkward. It was silent until James decided to break the ice.

"This is wonderful potatoes Mrs Evans" James smiled brightly and shovelled some more potatoes into his mouth.

"Thankyou James and please call me Julie" mum smiled back.

"Yes, thankyou Mrs Evans" Vernon said cheesily. Mum didn't acknowledge him. James managed to hold back a laugh but I failed miserably. I snorted loudly and had to hide my face as I choked on my food. James patted my back as I coughed. When I stopped I looked up to see Petunia glaring at me and Vernon was purple in his piggy face. I swear if looks can kill I'd have been six feet under a long time ago. When we finished I stood up and James followed. We took our plates to the sink and excused ourselves.

We decided to hang around in James' room. He had brought his family photo album and his favourite book called Quidditch through the Ages. He also, as a suggestion from his mum, brought a book that would give me a lot of information about the world I was soon going to enter. The book was called Hogwarts: A History. We spent the time looking though the books and we, in particular me, learning about Hogwarts and about Quidditch and almost just about everything there is to know about the world I'm about to enter. When we finally went to bed it was about 1am.

That night, I dreamt that I was in a castle, Hogwarts. I was walking through the corridors with some other people, one of them James. I didn't know the others. The scene dissolved and a new scene appeared. I was in a grandstand, watching a game of Quidditch. James was there, playing the position of Chaser. He was holding the Quaffle and was flying at full speed towards the goal posts. He dodged a bludger, a chaser and finally the Keeper. He threw the Quaffle through the middle post and scored. Everyone was cheering. The scene disappeared. Another scene appeared. I was in someone's office, with James and a man I did not know. He had long white hair and a long beard. He was wearing extravagant robes of silver and was standing beside a large red phoenix. He turned towards us…

"Lily. Lily" I was shaken awake and the first thing I see is two bright hazel eyes framed with black, rimmed glasses.

"James? What the hell?" I leaned up slowly. "What's wrong James?" I heard a clicking noise coming from James' arm. I looked and saw a beautiful Tawny owl on his arm, holding a letter with a bright red wax seal on it. James had a massive smile on his face.

"It's from Hogwarts" he said simply, yet full of excitement.

"Where's mine? Do I get an owl?"

"No. They'd get a person from the Ministry to come and inform you, cause you're Muggleborn see and they'd have to tell your parents how to get into Diagon Alley and how to purchase your books and stuff. Oh and they'd have to find out how to contact you whilst at school, that sort of thing".

"Oh, okay. So what does it say?" I asked as James took the letter from the owl. As soon as it was freed of its load it took off, out of my open window.

"I dunno. Haven't opened it yet" he was fiddling with the seal. He brushed his hair with his hand. He was nervous, and James was never nervous.

"Well c'mon open it!" I was eager to find out what it said.

"I can't." I took the letter from him and brushed my finger over the seal before carefully opening the envelope. I took the light piece of parchment and unfolded it. Another piece of parchment fell out of the firs. One was a book list whilst the other was a letter from the school. I read it out loud.

Dear Mr Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress

"Wow." I was speechless. James was officially going to go to Hogwarts.

"Wow." James repeated. We were silent for a few minutes until we heard someone knocking at the door. We knew straight away why this person was here. We heard the door open and Petunia's voice asking who it was. At the same time, James and I bolted through my bedroom door and down the stairs. I was leading and stopped suddenly at the foot of the stairs. I heard the man ask Petunia "are you Miss Lily Evans?" when I felt James run into me. I fell forwards and was about to crash when I somehow slowed my progress down. When I finally hit the floor everything was silent. I looked backwards at James and saw his mouth opened wide and his eyes were flicking from me to the front door, back and forth. I looked over to the door and felt my mouth drop to the floor as well. There was a man. He was old and had really long, white hair and beard. What shocked me most was that he was wearing a bright purple suit and travelling cloak. We were silent until the man beamed down at me and spoke again.

"Are you Miss Lily Evans?" he spoke to me instead of Petunia this time.

"Yes… yes sir" I said nervously just as my parents walked into the room.

"Lily get off the floor!" mum then noticed the man, "Oh I'm sorry, can I help you?" I stood up warily. The man kept smiling kindly at me.

"Mrs Evans, my name is Professor Albus Dumbledore, I am here to talk about your daughter Lily" he held his hand out to my mother.

"Julie Evans, pleasure to meet you. Please, come in" Petunia opened the door wider as the eccentric man walked through. Mum led him into the dining room and held out a chair. She sat down across from him looking nervous.

"Now Mrs Evans is your husband home?" he asked brightly.

"Oh yes, hold on" she stood up and speed-walked up the stairs to get dad. When she was out of sight James and I walked closer to the old man.

"Hello Lily" he said when he noticed James and I.

"Good morning Professor" I said quietly.

"Please, take a seat, for this concerns you".

"I'll wait upstairs" James whispered but the man heard him.

"James, this concerns you as much as Lily as you've both been asked to attend Hogwarts" he gestured for us to sit down. As we sat, mum returned with a very sleepy looking dad. Petunia sat down next to them looking wearily at Dumbledore.

"Good morning sir, I'm Adam Evans" dad held his hand to Dumbledore.

"Albus Dumbledore" they shook hands. "I am the Headmaster of a school named Hogwarts, and your daughter has been chosen to attend my school".

"My apologies Professor, but how could she have been chosen? She didn't apply for any schools".

"Your daughter has been on the list of attendees since birth. For you see, Lily is very special. She is very gifted and she is a witch. She has magical powers, which by the way, she can control very well."

"What? Lily, Lily's a witch? Darling what can you do?" mum turned her attention to me, which took me by surprise.

"Um well, I can control myself when I'm falling. I… I can make things fly, break, move and change colour, depends on what I'm feeling. Animals are attracted to me and I can make flowers move. Oh and I can heal quickly!" I ended enthusiastically. Dumbledore beamed at me. Until we were interrupted by Petunia.

"See I knew it was you who made my hair green! And smashed the mirror!" I glared at her and the cup she was holding smashed.

"Whoops" I said quietly. That's never happened in front of mum and dad before. How embarrassing.

"No, Lily, see it's a wonderful thing of what you're doing. This shows that you're special and a witch!" he turned his attention back to my parents. "Will you allow your daughter to attend my school?" I looked at my parents, they were happy. Well, mum was crying silently but I could see they were tears of joy. Mum nodded and kissed me on the cheek. I blushed at looked at James, he was grinning at me.

"Excellent!" he took out an envelope out of his suit pocket and handed it to me. Inside was the same letter that was sent to James, including the book list and official congratulations of entry. "Now I just need to give you some information regarding Lily's life at school. She will be able to return home for the Christmas, Easter and summer holidays. Lily will now not be allowed to do any magic at home otherwise there will be consequences by our Ministry of Magic. You will see in these pamphlets information on the Wizard Laws, the consequences for these laws and most importantly, information about my school" he handed us some pamphlets with lots of information. "Term starts on September 1 so you will need to purchase your books within the next few weeks. James" James jumped at being addressed too, "I believe that you'll be attending?"

"Oh yes Professor" James replied brightly.

"Well then if you and your parents could kindly escort Lily and her parents to Diagon Alley and also to Platform 9¾ I would greatly appreciate it"

"Of course Sir" Dumbledore stood up and made his way to the door. Everyone stood up and went to shake his hand.

"I will see you and Mr Potter soon, Miss Evans" he walked onto the front yard and suddenly disappeared with a loud 'pop'.

I, Lily Evans was a witch. I will be attending Hogwarts. I'm going to learn magic!