"Must you take every course imaginable?" Hugo was pretty sure that his sister was crazy. Rose was just like their mother in the sense that she was to smart for her own good.

"Yes actually! I don't want to end up like SOME people who decide that Hogwarts is not about learning how to use our magic, its about getting into all the cool parties and hooking up with any girl he lays his eyes on!" Rose slapped Hugo over the head with her papers, stalking off to go and join her own friends.

"Sheesh what's eating her?" Hugo rubbed his head of messy red hair.

Lily just shrugged her shoulders looking at her own course list. Potions, Transfiguration, Muggle Studies, Defense against the dark arts, Charms, Lily shook her head. Why was she not able to pay attention? She glanced around looking for the reason.

"Hello? Earth to Lily? Who are you looking for?" Hugo turned around jumping up and down to get a better look. Hugo looked exactly like his father, which meant that He and Lily looked like brother and sister even thought they were only cousins.

"I'm not looking for anyone." She lied quickly moving her attention to the Prefects who were telling all the Gryffindor's the new password. Nunquam- how original Lily thought.

"Ya okay. Come on let's go I'm tired." Hugo grabbed her arm and started pulling her up the steps moving her to the left and the right to avoid the trick ones.

Lily knew that she was being a little dramatic but she couldn't help it. She had looked threw the Slytherin table hundreds of times. He wasn't there. She even looked at all the faces lining all the other tables. He wasn't there either. He had disappeared much to her annoyance.

"What's up with her?" Jessica asked absentmindedly walking gracefully beside them.

"No idea. You going to tryouts?" Jessica and Hugo started chatting about the Quidditch team try-outs completely forgetting about Lily. Which suited her just fine. Sneaking out was so hard when people were following you around.

By the time Jessica had slumped into a moth eaten couch beside the fireplace and Hugo had joined her Lily was gone.

Slipping out of the crowded common room was easy for Lily. After all she was Harry Potter's daughter.

She avoided the main hallways and stuck to the near deserted ones. All the while trying to talk herself back to going to the common room. She had this nervous energy that flowed within her. It caused her not to be able to sit still-she had to be doing something-anything to get her mind off of him. Even if it meant looking for him.

"What am I doing?" she whispered to herself. Looking around perhaps? No, of course not I'm looking for him. Lily calmly walked the length of the hall looking for any hint that he might have been there. She then went to the dungeons, Slytherin's hallway and by half past one she was so exhausted that she fell asleep in the library.

Jessica was exhausted. Her over bearing mother had sent four letters already. She nudged Hugo awake and glanced around. Crap.

"Where's Lily?" She poked him in the stomach to hopefully get a response from him. Had they seriously fallen asleep in the common room?

"Whua askfein mie?" He mumbled not opening his eyes.

"Does she have to go exploring every night?" Jessica huffed.

"We have to go and look for her."

"Fine." Hugo knew that Jessica was over reacting-like always. But he might as well go look for his cousin now that she had woken him up past the point where he could fall back asleep.

They heaved themselves up and went out into the halls. A few minutes into their half hearted explorations they came face to face with a tall dark haired boy who seemed very eager to help them find their friend.

"How did you manage to get in here? I thought that the librarian-what's her name-kicked everyone out."

Lily heard the voice as if it was coming from a million miles away. Slowly she attempted to regain conscience-and recognize the voice threw the fog in her mind.

"Did you forget the password or something? No what am I talking about your brother is a Prefect and you were probably with him. Hello sleepy are you alive?"

The deep voiced person brushed some hair off her face.

"Hi." She sat up so fast when she recognized who it was that all the blood rushed to her head.

"Hey." He smiled. "Glad to see you're alive."

He grabbed a seat beside her. She immediately tried to straighten herself out to no avail-she still looked like a mess.

"So how did you get in?" He asked her again.

"Brother-Head Boy- not Prefect swiped the keys from him on my way here."

"Your brother has keys to the Library." Tom sounded impressed.

Lily smiled a little and just concentrated on not reviling that the only reason she was here was because she was trying to find him.

"He's nearly always here so McGonagall just gave him the keys so he could study without waking everyone up moving around the common room all the time."

"Wow special treatment." He smirked.

Lily forgot how cute he was and forgot how much she had wanted to talk to him. He sounded like he was making fun of her family. Now it was personal.

"What do you mean by that?" She said it in a monotone voice.

"Well your dad's Harry Potter right?" he said it like a question but she knew that he didn't mean it like that. He already seemed to know allot about her.

"Ya, so?"

"Harry Potter," He said the name like he was speaking of the Gods. "Obviously his children get special treatment. Key to the library?" He was talking to her like she was five.

"Ohh this thing is barely used and the restricted section is gone anyways McGonagall would give a key to anyone who asked." She rebutted now wondering what could have gone threw her mind to make her want to find him last night.

"Doubt it." He grinned leaning back in his chair.

"What do you want?" Lily thundered standing up suddenly.

"You were trying to find me last night." He yawned.

"No I wasn't." Lily's mind was screaming at her. HOW DID HE KNOW THAT?

"Yes you were."

"You couldn't possibly know that." She was frozen in place. Something about him made her want to run screaming but that other part of her wanted nothing more than to forget her classes and stay here. She concluded that that was the little irrational part of her.

Tom smiled this little secret smile that made Lily want to be able to read his mind.

"Your friends were looking for you. So I helped them only to find you here asleep and talking in your sleep."

No. Ohh crap! Lily bit her lip and winced.

"Seriously?" She whispered.

"Ya something about a dumb, black haired hotty."

Lily didn't trust herself to be able to come up with something to say to that. Waving to him and mumbling something about got to get to class she high tailed it out of there. Running into Jessica she made something up about her having to do some last minute stuff…about what Lily couldn't remember. She had just promised to explain it all later.

"Lily?" Jessica asked her before they parted ways.

"Have you ever heard of he who must not be named?" Jessica asked her friend. IT was something that she had heard her parents talk about and since her friend seemed to know everything Jessica was sure that Lily must have at least heard the term. But apparently not because Lily just shook her head and smiled before running off to Potions.