Pride before a fall

Lily was so happy. She had bought her willow ten inch wand and new robes yesterday. Madame Malkin was very kind and at Flourish and Blotts the assistant gave her a cheeky grin. She had read and re-read 'A History of Magic' by Bathilda Bagshot. She couldn't imagine the founders and everything. She had enjoyed buying her cat: Anne Boleyn. Everyone in the magical world was confused about it, but all her family, other than Petunia, had laughed. "I just hope she doesn't end up like her!" Lily laughed with her mother, about Henry VIII's ill fated second queen. Petunia was now being down-right horrible. She wore amulets and held her breath when Lily walked past. She called her 'insane' and whispered to her friends about her crazy sister.

Lily was walking happily down to the kitchen, and started making herself a sandwich. She twirled and danced around the tiled floor, padding gently from tile to tile. One of her favourite songs came on the radio and she sang along happily to it. "

"We, are never ever ever-"

"Going to see each other again?" Lily's sister Petunia had appeared, looking strangely sad.

"Don't be silly Tuney, of course we are. I'll come home for holidays and everything. We can write to each other and I'll tell you all about school-"

"No, Lily, you won't. Haven't Mum and Dad told you?" Now Petunia looked terrified.

"Told me what, Tuney?" Lily felt annoyed, why couldn't she just tell her?

"That I'm going to Boarding School. I'll never see you until the summer holidays and then I'm just going to go with friends. I will not live in the same house as you, you filthy anomaly." She said this simply, but with an undertone of bitchiness.

"What?" Lily said sharply.

"This will be the last time I talk to you."

"Petunia, so help me! You are my sister, I will not avoid you."

"Yes you will. I hate you and all of your freaks with you."

"Fine. I hope that you rot in hell, with your stupid world filled with stupid people. I curse you to marry a man who will spend his life as an underdog. Your child will be stupid, fat and his life will be unsuccessful. He will be regarded as a freak. If I could, I would give him the blessing of a magical life. How will you love him then. Goodbye, Petunia." She turned and marched back up to her room.

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