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"Girl you don't know" ~ Thank you so much for being the first to review! And thank you for your enthusiasm. I hope I don't dissapoint you!

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Side Note: These are the ages for all of the young/important characters in my story! Thanks so much.

Teddy Lupin and Victoire Weasley - Graduated from Hogwarts

Lucy and Molly Weasley - Fifth Years

Fred Weasley, James Sirius Potter, Adora Nott, Oliver Cromwell - Fourth Years

Albus Severus Potter, Rose Weasley, Dominique Weasley, Scorpius Malfoy - Third Years

Roxanne Weasley and Louis Weasley - Second Years

Hugo Weasley and Lily Luna Potter - First Years

Getting Acquainted

That night after the sorting, the first year girls were unable to contain their excitement to get to know one another better. Although, as chance would have it, most of the girls (excepting Lily) seemed to be acquainted with eachother from years of attending Slytherin parties with their parents. But that didn't seem to matter as Lily slipped into their presence easily, a natural gift she had inherited from her Great Grandmother Potter.

"Nice to mee you, Lily. I'm Cleo Zabini." A small thin girl smiled as she sat at the edge of her bed, brushing her long black hair. Her voice was the same indifferent tone most Slytherin's seemed to have mastered, but her out-of-place smile gave her playful nature away.

"I don't see why we have to introduce ourselves." An avergae height blonde girl sniffed as she held her head high, her nose parallel to the cieling at this point. "Everyone that matters here knows eachother."

"What a perfect impersonation of Petty Rosier, Corliss. Except you forgot the glare she would've sent Lily there at the end." A tall, wiry girl with dark brown hair laughed as she smiled in Lily's direction slightly. "I'm Helena Burke." She grinned as she shook Lily's hand and pointed to Corliss. "And that is Corliss MacDougal."

"Sorry, I couldn't resist the temptation to impersonate her." Corliss grinned wickedly as she weaved her hair into a braid. "Trust me, you'll see when you meet her..."

At that exact moment, a slightly pug-faced girl stormed into their dormitory, a glare set upon her thin lips. "And what exactly do you four think you're doing keeping the rest of us up?" The girl tapped her right foot harshly against the ground. "Shut up and go to bed, or I'll be instating lessons so that you can learn how to be Slytherins..." She let her eyes flicker to Lily in disdain before slamming the door shut behind her.

The first year girls shared a look before their giggles ricocheted off of the stone walls. "I have to hand it to Petty,..." Cleo smirked in the darkened room. "Her predictability is unparalleled."

For Lily, the first day of classes was spent dodging her disgruntled family members in halls that she couldn't figure out for the life of her. That morning had proven that her family's sneak attack techniques were more finely tuned than she had given them credit for...

"Lily! Lily, over here!" Rose hissed as she pulled Lily into an abandoned classroom near the Slytherin Common Room before breakfast. The room was filled with her family. James and Fred were leaning against the wall clearly bored. While Dom, Roxy, Molly, and Louis sat on desks smiling at her. Hugo sat slumped in a corner, shooting nervous glances around the room; and Lucy sat on a chair inspecting her nails. While Albus and Rose stood front and center, apparently the ring-leaders of the whole affair.

"Now, we've already wrote Mum and Dad...but until we can get you out of the pit..." Albus started in a concerned tone, alternating between clenching his hands nervously and mussing his hair up...

Lily scowled as she wrenched her arm free of her cousin. "And what if I don't want 'out of the pit'?" She scathed as some of her family eyed her in disbelief and rest just smiled and shrugged as if to say, 'sorry Lil's, all their idea.'

"Lily, you have got to be kidding me! They're a bunch of criminals, all headed for Azkaban!" Rose cried in alarm, worry-lines etched across her forehead. Lily was quite certain she was going to go prematurely grey or lose her hair if she didn't loosen up a bit...

"Oh really! Well if they're headed for Azkaban, I suppose I am too since I'm one of them now!" Lily glared as James and Fred grinned, while Dom covered her laugh with a cough, and Roxy gave her two-thumbs up...it figured the four of them would find this amusing, considering they found everything hilarious.

"It was nice knowing you all. I'm going to slyther off to be with my life-long cell mates now though; so you're not tainted by my association." Lily huffed theatrically as she raced towards the great hall. "Toerags..." She muttered under her breath as Fred and James caught up to her and pulled her into some sort of akward line-hug. "What do you two want?" She bit her lip trying to keep her anger and tears in check.

"Bloody fucking brilliant, Lil's!" Roxy grinned as she ran down the hall towards them. "I can't believe they had the nerve to encroach on our breakfast time..." She scowled as Fred slung his arm around her shoulders.

"What she said." Fred grinned as James patted her head.

"As long as the snakes are treating you like the most glorious person ever they've ever met because I mean clearly you are, then we're fine." James smiled warmly down at her. He had always been especially close to Lily since Albus had always been attached at the hip to Rose. "But, if they treat you badly..."

"They don't." Lily interrupted just outside the great hall. "And if they were to, I can handle things myself." She smiled a glint in her eyes as James sighed and ran a hand through his messy hair.

"Yes, yes, but if they do it is my brotherly duty to make their lives hell...and I fully intend on keeping to that duty." James grinned as he and Fred's partner in crime, Oliver Cromwell rounded the corner. "Anyways, we've got to be off..." James shared a smirk with Fred. "But, uhh, we'll see you later, Snakey-Poo!"

"Snakey-Poo?" Lily looked to Roxy in confusion as the older girl just giggled and shrugged.

"See you later, Lil's!" Roxy grinned throwing her hair into a ponytail. "I've got to eat if I'm going to have to try and stay awake for Binns' class, such a snooze-fest that one." She called as she made her way to the Gryffindor table.

...After eating breakfast and letting her temper simmer down a bit she'd decided to try and make nice with Hugo. After all, they'd always been close and it'd be silly to let a thing like houses come between them. However, after recieving the cold shoulder from him outside of the "Muggle Studies" classroom she had changed her mind.

"I'll be back." Lily smiled at Cleo before closing the distance and tapping her cousin on the shoulder. "Hey Hugo..." She smiled slightly as the taller boy turned slowly to face her. "We're okay, right?"

He stared back at her unsure of what to do. They'd always been on the same side in the past, but now that Lily and Rosie seemed to be on opposing sides he wasn't sure which to take. "Ermm, yeah, fine." He picked at invisible lint on his sleeve before speaking in a more confident tone. "But I'm busy at the moment talking to someone, so we'll uh just talk later then." And just like that he turned his back on her.

"Fine, Hugo Ronald Weasley!" She hissed beside his ear, so low that no one but they could hear. "See if I ever help you with anything again. Homework and duping Rosie included!" She huffed before making her way to her new friends.

Hugo had attempted to corner her after class, but had failed miserably because Lily was smaller and therefore better at weasling her way out of tight quarters. The down side however, was that she was now somewhere in the castle but she had no idea where she actually was. It was then that she decided Hogwarts was entirely too big...

As Scorpius looked around the Slytherin table and Great Hall, he couldn't find whom he was looking for. It appeared that Lily Potter was m.i.a. However, as the smell of dungbombs permeated through the hall interrupting his thoughts, he thought he'd figured out exactly why she had skipped this meal...the sodding Weasleys.

"Peevesies welcomes the wee ickle firsties to Hogwarts!" Peeves sang as he zoomed around the Great Hall laughing wildly. "Wee firsties are greenies and Peevesies pulled a smelly one on you, now you all smell like stinky-poo!"

"Baron!" Headmistress McGonagall called for the Slytherin ghost as she stood. Her voice was sharp with irritation as Peeves zoomed out of the hall laughing and calling after himself 'Peevesies One, Firsties None.' "Everyone, back to your common rooms..." She sighed as students began pushing their way out of the hall to get away from the invading odor. Perhaps banning Peeves from the sorting had made his prank worse this year...

"Thank you, Baron." Lily smiled as the rather creepy house ghost led her to the dungeons. The silvery blood all down his front really was quite disconcerting. But upon talking to him, she found that he was actually quite nice...if not somewhat amusing with his stuffy old-fashioned ways.

His voice was a slow, tired, soft-yet-deep baritone. "Miss. Potter, you really should stick to the main part of the castle. I don't like my students in harm's way..." He trailed off as Lily smiled and went to hug the cool air he occupied.

"I'll try not to wander off again." She smiled as she turned towards the wall. "Basilisk." She relaxed as she stepped into the warm (compared to the icy halls of the dungeon) abandoned common room and made her way towards the fire.

"Potter..." His silky smooth voice called as she jumped to face him, her face stricken with panick before realizing who it was. "Where have you been?" He pursed his lips together as she shifted away from him and towards the fire.

"Lost..." She muttered. Of all of the people to catch her, it just had to be him. She sighed as he studied her face. "The Bloody Baron found me and umm helped me back, and well, here I am." She finished lamely under what she felt was his intense scrutiny.

"Why?" Scorpius leaned forward in his chair as her eyes clouded over in confusion and her nose scrunched up slightly.

"Why did the Bloody Baron help me?" She asked and continued without waiting for his reply. "Because he's a nice ghost I suppose...?"

He couldn't help but snicker at her naiivete. "No, Potter! I mean why were you lost?" He said each word with exaggerated slowness as her cheeks flamed ever-brighter red.

She was positive her cheeks were a flaming red. This was really much too embarassing for her to handle. Hadn't her pride been hit hard enough today? "Oh, that. I was trying to dodge my way out of talking to Hugo...my cousin." She added as her stomach groweled. Please Merlin, just let the floor open up and consume her now.

He smiled as her face flushed once again. He'd never met someone that he found quite as amusing as he found her. She stumbled on her words and blushed a lot, but it was somehow endearingly cute on her... "Come on." He said standing up and heading towards the door as she stared at him, unmoving. "Are you hungry or not?"

Damn her stomach for growling at that moment. "Only a little." She frowned as he snickered and led her though the deserted corridors. "Scorpius, where are we going?" She felt as if they had been walking forever.

"The kitchens, of course." He couldn't help but shake his head. He'd figured that she'd be all-knowing about Hogwarts considering how many people she had that'd no doubt shared stories with her. "Peeves interrupted dinner so I'm a bit hungry myself."

"Oh." She felt so stupid as she nodded lamely. That was until he started tickling a portrait of fruit. What in Merlin's name was he doing? She couldn't contain her giggles that escaped as the portrait swung open.

"Something funny to you, Potter?" He grimaced slightly, knowing he was the butt of her amusement. Damn portrait.

"Lily." She smiled as he offered her hand and helped her into the kitchen. She blushed as he cocked his head to the side in consideration. "It's just you keep calling me 'Potter,' which is my last name. But James goes by that sometimes...and we're friends, aren't we?" She smiled as house elves bustled about them bringing over trays of food and pitchers of pumpkin juice.

"Sure." He offered as he bit into a sandwhich, interested to see where the little girl was going with all of her uncharacteristic rambling.

"Well then, you can just call me Lily." She smiled before biting into some chicken and sighing contentedly. "This is great. Thanks yet again." She smiled sheepishly as she kicked her dangling legs back and forth. "I might as well start saying 'thank you' to you as soon as I see you...it'd just be easier."

He couldn't help but laugh at her comment, his ego being boosted just slightly. "Well, I wouldn't be opposed to that." He smirked as he winked one grey eye at her charmingly. "Whatever pretty ladies wish, pretty ladies should recieve without protest." He smirked as she blushed and shook her head, rolling her eyes bemusedly.

"I never thought I'd see the day where Scorpius Malfoy tickled a picture..." She grinned, hurriedly changing the topic as his cheeks flushed ever so slightly. "And a picture of fruit at that..."

Apparently she just gave ego boosts to knock you back down to your original peg... "Right, shall we call it even then?" He offered her a hand as she shook it her smile resembling a smirk ever so slightly.

"Sure thing, Buddy..." She covered a yawn as he chuckled and pulled her to her feet.

"Alright, off to bed Baby Lily." He grinned at her frown as they made their way to the dungeons.

"You know, I do have two older brothers and lots of cousins...and I wasn't exactly put into Slytherin without just cause...I'd watch it Buddy. A tired Lily, is not a Lily to be messed with." She teased smirking at his taken-aback appearance before pulling him into a tight hug at the bottom of the stairs leading to the girls' dormitories. "Thanks again Scorp. I actually kinda had fun." She smiled, leaving the older boy to stare after her in bewillderment. There was no doubt that Lily Luna Potter was full of surprises he'd never even considered...

AN: Thanks for reading! I'd love to hear your feedback! :) I wasn't completely happy with this chapter, but I felt like it was necesary to set the stage for my characters and to sort of forge a bond between Lily and some of her housemates.

Also, any guesses as to who parented Petty Rosier? (insert snicker and smirk here)

Chapter Three Teaser: In chapter three I'll be giving you a look at how the adults in Lily's life feel about her being a Slytherin...Kreacher...A link to the Potter past...And, I'll be giving you a special peak into life at Malfoy Manner! :)