Chapter 1
Lily Evans Pov
I was extremely excited for my third year at Hogwarts. My last two years were a blast but this year is going to be different, we're going to choose some of the classes we're going to take. I was so excited to have this option. I couldn't decide between 3 subjects, Athirmancy, Care for Magical Creatures, or Ancient Runes. In the end I decided to point to 2 random ones and now I am taking Care for Magical Creatures and Ancient Runes. Arthimancy is easy to accomplish in the muggle world so it would be alright.
My mom and dad, as usual, sent me off with warm and tearful goodbyes. Tuney\ didn't come since she still thinks I'm a freak and not useful to this world. Sometimes I wish she would get over her prejudice against wizards and me. It's not like I chose to be a witch and she doesn't. It happens on accident. Still, she doesn't take my word for it and ignores me whenever I'm at home. Oh well, I still had my cousin, Abi over. She knows that I'm a witch and she thinks it's pretty cool that I can do magic and things. I only could show her at the first day of summer, but lately random things had been happening. Like accidental magic around us. I know Abi can't do magic so it wasn't her. It must have been some young child who lives around us that set it off.
I was upset when Abi had to leave so quickly. It was depressing. Her parents had called the day before and said that they had shocking news for her. Abi had promised to tell me when she knew, but so far she hadn't responded to me yet. That or the letter got lost in the mail. It happened a lot so it was the likely solution.
Still my summer didn't go as planned other than the Tuney problem. For those of you that don't know, I absolutely LOATHE Potter. James Potter is his real name and he has some sort of a crush on me which makes him ask me out like a hundred times a day. He even sent me his stupid love letters through his owl. His poor owl, that owl shouldn't have to do that. I don't want them and the owl would rest easier. I hate putting owls to work so I own a cat named Snowball. She's a puff of white fur and absolutely adorable even though when my cat goes out in the winter I can't find her.
Anyways, once I boarded the train I started looking for my friends Alice and Reyne (Luna's mom) when I found them in a lonely compartment with their cats. All three of us have cats so we get along quite nicely. Us three bonded when we first came here since we sat next to each other in the train. However, I do agree with Alice and Reyne that we need a fourth girl to join our group. 4 is a powerful number. Then we could get back at the so call "Marauder" group that James Potter and his best friends Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew are in. If we get a fourth girl, then we could prank anyone we wanted and get away with it.
As soon as I had closed the door to our compartment Alice burst out saying, "We're getting a transfer student in our year! She's from America apparently so she has an English accent. What house do you think she'll be in? Will she be in Gryffindor? Do you think she'll like to join our group? What about you Reyne? What do you think?"
I was already overwhelmed by what Alice was saying but one thing she said had struck me; she was from America. Strange coincidence that my cousin is from that country isn't it?
I smiled at my friend's excitement at a new student, "Calm down Alice, we'll know as soon as we get there."
Reyne just nodded her head. She was the strange one in our trio. She was the one who wanted to test everything different with the spells. Most of her experiments ended with explosions in the classrooms. It was one way to avoid homework.
I could tell she had a huge crush on Xenophilius Lovegood who was a year above us. His dad started the newspaper The Quibbler. Sometimes it just made no sense, but that didn't matter. All I knew is that we had to get Reyne and Xeno together before he got with someone else. A lot of girls like him for his looks but that's it. However, if any other girl rather than me, Alice, and Reyne were given a chance with James Potter or Sirius Black, they would die and be their girlfriend. I could not see what they saw I either of them. They both had good looks but they're egoistical attitude just made everything worse about them. Maybe these girls were too stupid to see that. God, that means a lot of girls are stupid in our year or in our school.
The ride to school was quiet. We had no visits from Potter and his friends. Maybe they learned not to disturb us for once.
The ride seemed unusually quick this year. Maybe that's because there was a rise from Voldemort so they wanted to take precaution. It made sense….to me at least.
Alice, Reyne, and I exchanged what we did over the summer. We all had our average summers, nothing too exciting happened. Only that Alice got the hugest crush on Frank Longbottom still and Reyne on Xeno. Frank was usually an assistant Marauder and was in our year. He was the nicest boy from our year in our house. That was saying a lot about people from Gryffindor.
We had arrived at the castle right on time. It still looked as beautiful as it did when I first came during the boat ride. The castle was a place I could call home. I could see Alice and Reyne remembering our first year as we stepped inside the castle.
The Great Hall looked amazing as usual. Everyone started piling in when out of nowhere, a banner came across the Great Hall saying
Go Out With me Evans?
Your one and only James Potter
Idiotic stupid Potter, how many times do I have to tell him no! Doesn't he know that I do not want to go out with him? Ugh!
"No Potter," I growled to him as he passed me. He looked unconcerned as he said, "One day Lilyflower, you will realize that you are completely in love with me. One day very soon."
I growled mentally in my head. He really did not get it. I do not like him. How hard is that to comprehend? If I was like Abi, I would get violent, but I wasn't. I was the good girl Lily who never got in trouble. Abi always did and was proud of it. She loved doing pranks on people which was why I needed her now. She could help me get revenge without even me saying that I did it. She would always take the blame and gladly take the detention. Oh how I missed my favorite cousin. I wish that she did magic so she could come here.
Professor Dumbledore clapped his hands several times to quiet everyone's talking and turn his attention to him
"Let the sorting begin!" he bellowed across the Great Hall.
Everyone watched in interest as each first year got sorted into their houses. There were the usual ancestries like Sirius's brother Regulus and Rodolphus's brother, Rabastan get sorted into Slytherin. There were the usual that were sorted into their rightful houses, the usual Hufflepuffs, Emma Abbot and Amelia Bones, the usual Ravenclaws, Austin Chang, and Stephen Boot, and of course some of the usual Gryffindor's, Jessi Aleria (Seamus's mom) and Elizabeth Vane. Everyone else was sorted randomly who were either muggle-borns or different qualities than their parents.
Finally they had gotten to the part of the new student here at Hogwarts. Everyone was listening closely now. I saw Alice literally jump up and down in her seat. Reyne looked really excited for a first time and I could see the Marauders intrigued by this new student idea a lot.
Dumbledore began his speech about the new girl. He said, "This transfer student is very decent lady who is easily loveable. She is a bright young lady related to a witch already here at this school that the girl here at the school has proven her brightness to many kids here. She has grown up with her cousin knowing that magic existed but never realized that she gave off magic too. I'm afraid the schools in America are lacking their ability to find these young witches and wizards, so I have decided for the students that if the schools in America forget a student, then that student will immediately come here. Any year can expect to have a new student, but this student will join the third years in their journey."
Everyone started clapping for Dumbledore's speech while I felt queasy inside. Some of this sounded familiar to me. But surely it couldn't be?
Suddenly Professor McGonagall read out the name of the person who was joining us in Hogwarts. The person I had not expected before.
Professor McGonagall read, "New student, Abi Evans"
My eyes opened wide and Alice and Reyne turned to stare at me and then at the doors.
I was in complete total shock, Abi, a witch. It cou…couldn't be. I gasped one thing I could manage, "Co…cousin." Apparently James Potter heard me and turned to face me and compare Abi and I. No, it was really her, really coming to Hogwarts. Oh god.
All that I remembered was seeing Abi's face looking concernedly at me.