Dear Miss Lily Luna Potter,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all nessecary books and equipment. Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl no later than 31 August.
Yours Sincerely,
Minevra McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
Dear Miss Lily Luna Potter,
Your situation is most definitely an odd one, but not an uncommon one. As I was reading more about the travel of time, once I received your letter, I began to notice a pattern. When people from the future went back in time, it was mostly children who didn't know what time travel was. These children were then stuck in a world that they didn't know. You Lily, are an exception. You traveled back in time knowing the consequences of changing the course of history and having knowledge of time travel. This allows me to conclude that you as an individual will be able to live in the world of your ancestors without changing the course of history. Furthermore, that is why you shall attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September. I will continue to conduct research on how to return a person back to their original time.
Sincerely,
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
"What did it say?" Sirius asked as he sat upon one of the many boxes in the attic.
"I've been accepted." Lily said, the joy not present in her voice. Sirius was shocked by this.
"Well, why aren't you excited? It's Hogwarts." Lily flopped herself onto one of the boxes across from Sirius.
"Yeah, well, I was supposed to celebrate this whole thing with my family, but they're not here." Sirius jumped of the box and started pacing. "What are you doing?" Lily questioned.
"I'm thinking." Lily rolled her eyes.
"I know that, but thinking about what?"
"How we can celebrate you getting into Hogwarts without Kreacher knowing." Lily gaped at him.
"You don't have to do that."
"It's my duty as owner of the house, at least for now, to celebrate you getting into Hogwarts. Plus we can try to make cake." Lily debated the pros and cons. The cons being getting caught, being kicked out, and living on streets homeless. The pros were cake, she could talk to Regulus again, and she can celebrate.
"Whatever. How are we going to do this?"
"So how about we destroy this room. Like throw trash everywhere and tell him that we found this secret room where it was dirty. We can sneak you out before we tell him. He'll won't be able to hear us because he's all the way up here." Lily thought for a moment.
"You know, that isn't half bad." Sirius smirked.
"I try."
The plan was set into motion. Regulus was distracting Kreacher so Sirius could sneak out Lily. Sirius would then tell Kreacher about the room.
"So just stay here until I give you the signal." Sirius told her as he walked out the room and locked it.
"Like I can leave anyway." Lily muttered while looking at the room she was stuck in. It was a pretty plain room with a large bed in the middle and a dresser on the side. Lily flopped onto the bed not caring whose bed it is, just knowing that she was tired and wanted cake.
It took Sirius twenty minutes to come back to get Lily. By that time, Lily was tangled in the sheets of the bed asleep.
"Lily! Lily! Get up! We're making cake!" Sirius shouted into Lily's ear. A groan came from Lily as she flailed her arms in the air, consequently slapping Sirius across the face. "I see how it is. You can stay there, Regulus and I will eat cake without you." Sirius said dramatically as he spun around and strutted out of the room.
Lily tumbled her self out of bed for the sake of cake.
As she walked down the stairs, she noticed how dark and gloomy this place was. Grimmuald Place in her time was a bright place, full of joy and rainbow colored walls from James' prankish tendencies. House elves heads filled up one section of a wall. Mom always said that house elves are equal to us, and should be treated with respect. Lily wondered why the heads filled up Grimmuald's walls.
Lily walked around the home, not knowing where to go. Opening and closing doors, Lily found a room with tree like branches across the walls. The spiraling branches connected and some points and ended at other. Each leaf was a person. 'Sirius Black', 'Regulus Black', 'Lucious Malfoy' we're just a few that she saw.
"LILY! GET DOWN HERE!" Sirius yelled up the stairs, in a dramatic, whiny tone. Lily followed her way down the stairs to a marvelous kitchen. Well, it would've been marvelous if the walls weren't covered in eggs and flour.
"How did yOU GET EGGS ON THE WALL!" Lily shouted. Regulus and Sirius looked at each other. Sirius had egg dripping down his moderately long hair, while Regulus could pass as a old man with the white hair he was displaying. They pointed fingers at each other.
"He started it by~"
"He's older he should know better~"
"I was just trying to be a nice pers~"
"We have more eggs~"
They both looked at each other then looked at Lily. Lily burst out laughing. Sirius was seriously confused.
"Yo-You have egg in your hair!" Lily laughed pointing at Sirius as he pouted.
"Shut up."
"And you," Lily pointed to Regulus. "We need to put you in a retirement home!" Sirius and Lily laughed as Regulus blushed red.
"I'm not old! I'm younger than both of you so ha-ha!" Regulus called out as he walked upstairs.
"I need to shower, I smell like egg." Sirius said to Lily.
"Alright, I'll clean up the kitchen so we can actually bake." Lily told Sirius as he walked up the stairs.
The mess wasn't as bad as it seemed for Lily, as she has had to clean up many of her pranks. Lily finally finished as she heard footsteps on the stairs.
"Sirius? Regulus?" Lily called out as she put the cleaning supplies away.
No answer.
"Sirius, if your trying to play a prank it's not funny!"
With a flash of smoke Kreacher appeared. He didn't look like all the house elves Lily knew, he looked tired. The house elf was holding a knife, but shaking while holding it.
"What do you need of Master Sirius and Regulus? And what are you doing in the Noble House of Black!" Kreacher screeched into Lily's face as she slowly backed away from him.
"I mean no harm. Sirius is just helping me to return home."
"And where is your home?"
"12 Grimmuald Place."
"What do you mean 12 Grimmuald Place! That's where we are!" Kreacher yelled stepping closer. Lily shrunk into the corner, hiding from Kreacher.
"I'm just trying to get home!" Lily yelled. Sirius stomped down the stairs and ran towards Kreacher.
"What are you doing!" Sirius yelled at Kreacher, taking the knife away from him. "This is our guest! She's from the... Potter family, she's pureblood! We're you trying to kill her?" Kreacher bowed his head towards Lily and Sirius.
"I'm sorry Master Sirius and Miss Potter." Kreacher scurryed out of the room and upstairs. Sirius sighed and offered Lily his hand.
"Thanks for that." Lily said to Sirius.
"No problem. Damn. I really messed up. How are you going to lie about being a Potter. Merlin." Sirius uttered, pacing around the room.
"Hey, no worries. Your letting me stay here so the least that I can do is lie about who I am."
"Well, alright. But it's one thing to fool Kreacher, but to fool my parents, it's a whole other story. For them to believe you you'll have to know the family history, etiquette, all the stupid junk us purebloods learn as a child." Sirius sighed, "We'll figure it out."
The next four weeks felt like hell for Lily. She had to learn thousands of years of history, memorize basic etiquette, learn the reason why she was here and not with her family, and how to answer questions that could be asked about her background. By the time Sirius' family was here, Lily felt that she knew everything there was to know.
Kreacher spent the day before cleaning the house to make it is as clean as possible for his Mistress and Master. Lily spent the day with Sirius and Regulus, mostly playing gobstones and wizards chess. By the time it was nightfall, Lily was panicking.
"What should I wear? Sirius! Are you even listening?" Lily shoved Sirius to wake him up.
"I'm up, I'm up. What?"
"Should I wear green or blue?"
"Definitely green. The blue clashes with your hair." Sirius rolled over, ready to go back to sleep.
"Sirius!" Lily hit him in the head with a nearby pillow.
"Stop." Sirius dragged on, taking the pillow from Lily and laying on it.
"Ugh." Lily sat beside him. "What time are they coming home?"
"Nine am." Sirius said, cuddling the pillow next to him. Lily stood up.
"Goodnight."
"Night."