Chapter 2

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Lily was lying on her bed crying, she was so sure that Al would have told Scorpius, at least, Scorpius was after all Al's best friend. They had been friends since Al had been sorted into Slytherin with Scorpius. She had never imagined that Scorpius didn't know. She never knew that it would hurt her so badly, but not even tell your best friend the truth? That was a bit much, she thought.

The whole wizarding world thought she was home schooled. That was the lie her parents had spread to cover up for her being a Squib. Who would have thought famous Harry Potter's daughter was a Squib? Harry Potter who had beat the most evil wizard ever. Only their family, the Scamanders, the Longbottoms and the headmaster at Hogwarts knew, nobody else except James' current girlfriend and now Scorpius.

A soft knock at the door interrupted Lily's tears, she wiped her them away and said: "Yes?"

"Lily, it's James your favourite brother," James said, Lily smiled. "Can I come in?"

"Of course," she answered as he opened the door. He sat down next to her.

"I heard that Scorpius now knows," he said with a note of humour in his voice. "I did try to get Al to confide in Scorpius, but he was unsure how Scorpius would react. Don't be angry with him, give him a chance. He was considering telling Scorpius earlier, but I think Quiditch messed with his mind. It's not exactly what you say during dinner." He paused. "Give him another chance, will you?"

"I'll try, but I thought Scorpius knew. Al should have told me Scorpius didn't know."

"You're right Al should have warned you, but what's done is done. Dinner is ready in a moment."

"OK, just go ahead, I'll be down in a sec." When James left she quickly brushed her hair, and wiped the tears properly from her face.

Everybody else were seated around the table ready to eat, Teddy had joined them for dinner, he and James had been the most supportive of Lily when they found out she was a Squib.

"Hi, Teddy," she said. "I didn't know you were coming."

"Well he's here so often that it you should be more surprised when he's not here," James joked.

"James," Ginny said warningly. "How was your school year Scorpius?"

"We have constantly been reminded that this coming year is OWL year," he replied politely. "But Quiditch practises get me through the day." Boys and Quiditch, Lily thought, almost rolling her eyes.

"You're a Chaser right?" Harry asked. "I think Al mentioned it."

"That's right," a smile lit up Scorpius' face when he realised the Potters were Quiditch maniacs like him.

"Slytherin are bound to win the Quiditch Cup this year," Al said triumphantly, Scorpius nodded his head in agreement.

"Gryffindor are going to win for sure," James argued. "We have the best team." Emphasising the word team. "Slytherin only have one good Chaser and an extremely good Seeker, while Gryffindor have an amazing team." They continued arguing for a while, but Lily just tuned it out.

"Lily, who do you -" Albus started asking Lily, but stopped in mid sentence remembering Lily didn't go to Hogwarts and wouldn't know who's team was best. "Sorry." Lily felt tears beginning to form, so she quickly excused herself and left table without much food in her stomach.

She went out into the garden and sat down at her favourite spot, just between the roses and the lilies. She loved it there the smell of lilies and roses where soothing, and her favourite flower was a lily, funny enough.

She and Rose used to sit there, before they found out she was a Squib, just talking. Lily loved those talks, as her best friend, Hugo, and her brothers were boys it was nice to have a girl to talk to. Rose stopped those meetings the second she found out what Lily was, Hugo also started to spend less and less time with her when he found out, even though he promised it didn't matter what she was, even Lily's cousins had also started to avoid her when they could, she hated it. For Lily it normally took an age before she forgave anybody, this was no exception, but it didn't seem like they wanted her back, so she told herself it didn't matter. She disliked all her cousins except Victorie and Dominique, they had accepted her immediately, but she thought that was mostly because they were worried that Louis, their youngest brother, was a Squib too. Luckily he wasn't.

She didn't even look up when somebody came walking in her direction, she carried on sitting there with her legs up to her chest crying.

"Lily?" Scorpius asked surprised. She barely lifted her eyes to look at him. "What are you doing, hiding among the lilies?"

"I always come here when I want to alone with my thoughts, it's also calming amongst the flowers," she sighed. "I used to sit here with Rose, just talking, but then she left to Hogwarts and when I didn't follow she never spoke to again, unless her parents forced her to."

"Why is it so important to go to Hogwarts, Lily?" he whispered, as he sat down.

"I have dreamt of it as long as I can remember. First Teddy telling of his time there, my parents talking about all the things we would do and the adventures they had, James and older cousins telling of their adventures, Albus going and me knowing that I would join him in two years, then seeing Hugo leaving without me-" She broke off in sobs. "Hugo and I have always planned on being best friends, at Hogwarts we would be a little troublesome, but not as much as James and Fred, we were going to explore every inch of the castle and grounds, climb every staircase, visit every room, we were going to have so much fun, but then we found out what I am. Hugo became more and more distant, I think he started to avoid me, we didn't meet as often as we used to, only when his parents dragged him along did we see each other, even then he barely talked to me." More tears came rolling down her face. "I hoped it was just because of the shock he had when he first heard it, but that doesn't last three years. I still hope he will become my best friend again, but he must take the step back he has walked away from me, because I cannot take the step towards him."

"How do your parents manage to keep it a secret?" he inquired.

"I visit muggle friends or my grand-parents when they have guests. They retell the lie you have known: "Oh, Lily, she gets home schooled." I hate it, having to lie, but it is a miracle and mystery that nobody knows. I would rather everybody knew, think how easy it will be when everybody finds out, I can be at home and meet the guests, I can meet Al and James' friends, maybe my cousins would talk to me then." She drifted off into silence.

"When everybody finds out?"

"They will not manage to keep a secret for the rest of my life, they will wonder why I decide to go for a muggle carrier not wizarding. How will they manage to keep the secret?"

"Are you not going to help?" Scorpius sounded shocked.

"Not much, but I'm not going to sabotage it either. Why do we even have to lie?"

"Maybe your parents had a good reason to do it? They probably did it for your own good."

"My own good?" She laughed. "No, it was to keep their reputation up. It would be bad on their popularity. Think about it: "Harry Potter's only daughter is a Squib!" Nah, they wouldn't want that kind of attention so they hushed it up, shared it only amongst family." She looked at her watch. "I need to go before they think I have run away." She stood up and left Scorpius amongst the lilies.

~O-O~

For Lily it was sad to see her brothers and Scorpius leave on September 1st, but she comforted herself with the knowledge that they would be back for Christmas, and they would send her letters. It still made her sad. The three people her age who knew and still talked to her left her stranded.

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