"AAAAAAAH"! Lily Marie Evans had just opened her Hogwarts letter, and along with schoolbooks to buy and the usual welcome back letter, a shiny badge dropped out of the envelope that read, Head Girl.
"What happened sweetie"?
"What's going on? Have we been robbed"?
These were the responses that lily got from her parents upon hearing her scream. 'Wow, you'd think they would know me better, if we were being robbed, I would have stunned the burglar as I am now 17, and legally allowed to perform magic outside of school.'
"No, we haven't been robbed," Lily said slowly, dragging out the word no, "I've just been made Head Girl"!
Harriet Evans screamed and drew her daughter into a tight hug.
"Well, at least we know who you take after", said Lily's father Clive Evans, referring to the screaming.
"Come on honey, read the letter aloud", requested Harriet. By this time, Petunia had come down from her room and was looking on the scene with disgust.
"Freak", she muttered.
Lily and Petunia used to be best friends, but ever since Lily got into Hogwarts, Petunia had been jealous and put all her pent up jealousy into as much contempt as she could muster
"Go on, read your freakish letter", she spat.
Lily looked up with sad eyes at her older sister, but read on anyways. Nothing, not even Petunia could make her hide her excitement at being chosen head Girl.
'Dear Miss Lily Evans,
Congratulations, you have been chosen as Head Girl. This is a position of enormous responsibility and Professor Dumbledore and I believed that you would be the best for the job. On September 1, you will join the Head Boy in the prefect's compartment on the Hogwarts express and brief the prefects on their duties. You or the Head Boy must always be available to prefects during patrol hours on the train. You and the Head Boy will hold prefect meetings once a month and will be responsible for any balls that you wish to throw. You can take away points and give out detentions. If you abuse your position more than three times, you will be stripped of your badge and duties.
Hoping you are enjoying you summer,
Professor Minerva McGonagall
At the end of the letter, Petunia ran back upstairs, her jealousy getting the better of her, all the while thinking of her 'perfect' sister. Only Lily noticed her run away and she felt compassion for her sister while at the same time hurt that petunia wasn't happy for her.
MEANWHILE, AT THE POTTER HOUSE……….
Sitting in the middle of a huge coliseum sized kitchen in the Potter house, were four teenage boys reading their just arrived Hogwarts letters.
"Well, Moony, show us your big bad Head Boy badge", said Sirius Black in a mock-admiring voice.
"Oh, shut up Padfoot", replied Remus Lupin.
The other two boys shook their heads in agreement; peter, a little more hesitantly than James.
"Okay, I'm going to open the envelope now", said Remus in an overly-dramatic voice, "I'm not Head Boy", he whispered after a long pause.
The whole room went silent. The silence was then broken suddenly by Sirius saying loudly, "Well then, now that that's over, let's see what books we have to get", he said the word books with a shudder.
"Hey Moony! Oi! I found your badge, they put it in my envelope by mistake", said James.
Remus walked over quickly and said in a strained, surprised voice, "James, that's not my badge, it's yours, you've been made Head Boy".
"I don't want it!" screamed James, throwing it at Moony.
"But Prongs, it will impress Lily", added Padfoot.
"Give it back", shouted James frantically, snatching it back from Remus.
"What's all this screaming about"? inquired Elizabeth Potter amusedly.
"Prongsy's been made Head Boy"! shouted Sirius dancing 'round the kitchen looking at the badge a if it would bite him.
"Oh, I'm so proud of you honey", Liza said while kissing her son on the head, "Albert, come down her! Jamsie's been made Head Boy!"
"Good job son, you know, I my time, I was Head Boy too, "replied Albert.
"Yes, we all know the stories sweetie, but we have to get to Diagon Alley now", replied his wife sweetly.