Title: The Lily's Curse
Author: Evil-Angel-911
Summery: Lily's mom lost a bet with a witch in Diagon Alley. The bet was on Lily's beauty. Lily, the prettiest girl in all of Ireland's School of Witchcraft and Wizarding, was stripped of her beauty and popularity. She is dropped into Hogwarts in England and to break the curse, some one must fall in love with her and see her inner beauty. Until then… she remains the same. Read on.
Disclaimer: I am not the genius that is JK Rowling. Any character you recognize is completely hers.
Chapter: 2 – Sorting
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(I want to thank you all so much for all the reviews. I'm really surprised you guys liked it. It's very weird when this got 7 reviews within a few days of it being up with one chapter. Well, thanks to all my reviewers. I will do a small thanks to specific reviewers at the bottom! Well enjoy. Yet again I'm working through a writers block.)
Lily took her seat with the first years on the boat to Hogwarts. She felt very stupid being almost double the height of the 11 year olds. She gasped at the sight of Hogwarts. Her school was so much smaller compared to this. She looked at this as her chance to start a new. No longer the pretty girl, she would be the nice one.
She got off the boat and entered the room waiting to get sorted. She was ready for whatever task she was set. She was the smartest witch of all of Ireland's School so not much could surprise her. She kept her hair hanging in her face to cover her face. She wore a turtle neck sweater to cover up to her eyes. She looked gorgeous to most because she blocked her flaws. If she could keep them hidden from most, she would be safe.
A strict looking professor called them in and told Lily to stay back until she heard her name called. Lily nodded and took a seat on the floor.
In the great hall, the marauders watched as the first years filled in. They didn't see Lily. Remus, Sirius, and Peter were a bit scared of Lily but in the carriage they had seen the picture of Lily.
James always kept it with him for good luck. Maria was a beautiful girl, just how Lily had described her. She was like a muggle super model you saw in magazines. Long, straight, blonde hair and a shape of a goddess, Maria held an air of perfection. Light blue eyes that were like a clear ocean, you thought they were glass when the sun hit them. She just wasn't what Lily was in the picture. The picture was of them hugged by a steam outside their school. Lily had a smile that could knock your socks off. Long, curly auburn hair halfway down her back. Her green eyes held you to the picture. The lily in the picture would occasionally spin around in circles in delight and then run and jump into Maria's arms who would spin her around and fall down to the ground, both girls laughing. Lily was nothing shot of perfect. Very carefree. If it hadn't been for Lily's eyes and hair, the other boys would not have believed it was the same girl.
They were surprised not to see Lily walk out with the first years.
"Where is she?" whispered Remus watching the first years parade past them, looks of pure fear and amazement on their faces.
"I don't know. Maybe she was left behind?" said Sirius stupidly.
"Doubt it." James said as the last first year was sorted but Professor McGonagall did not move the hat but Dumbledore stood. The hall went silent.
"Welcome all new and old students. Through many years this has not happened but we welcome the occasion with open arms." Said Dumbledore to the hall, "We have a new 5th year student joining us this year from Ireland's school of Wizardry. Please Welcome, Lily Evans."
The door opened Lily walked through the doors. She walked gracefully down the long aisle. It felt like it was taking forever to walk. All eyes were on her, trying to read her as if she was an open book. She saw the four boys gazing upon her, giving her encouraging smiles. Ahead of her the tall old head master was standing. Oh, how kind he had been to let her come. They wouldn't let Lily back into her school, afraid she had lost power when she lost her beauty. What rubbish. Lily felt the same and when she had received her letter got so angry that the letter blew up into flames.
The hall was silent except for a few whispers. It was un nerving. Lily finally made her way up to the stage and stared at the hat and stool ahead of her. She sat on the stool and placed the hat over her head and it came all the way down to her eyes.
'Such a pretty girl you are Miss Evans' Lily heard a voice say.
Who are you? she thought to herself.
'I am the sorting hat. I will look into your mind and if I can, your future, to tell you where you belong. Smuggle born I see, Slithering is out. We don't want you dead. Not bubbly enough to be in Hufflepuff, you're too good for that. Intelligence, yes, such strength, bravery is outstanding. Where to put you! Oh! But there is something else. You will be powerful one day. Only one choice!'
WAIT! How will I be powerful?
"GRYFFINDOR!" called the hat to everyone as Professor Dumbledore removed the hat from her head. Lily looked out to see that no know had cheered. Her hair had moved, as had her shirt, only the boys from her car were clapping. Lily slowly made her way to her seat in shame as people snickered. She took her seat.
"Oh and one more announcement before we eat!" said Dumbledore suddenly. "Let us all congratulate Miss Evans for becoming the Gryffindor prefect!"
Lily's mouth flew open. PREFECT? She was just sorted! How'd he know she would be in Gryffindor? Well people say Dumbledore knows all so she decided to just stare at her plate and blush as the hall made polite applause. She didn't try to cover herself up the rest of dinner. People had already seen her and she tried to ignore the stares. When dinner was over, Remus, the other Gryffindor prefect led her and the first years up to the Common room. She ran up to bed as fast as possible. It was too much shame. Tommorrow was Sunday so no classes thankfully. She collapsed onto her new bed and fell asleep instantly.
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Sorry about this chapter. Like I said Writers block. I'm so happy you guys reviewed. I just want to thank a few of you.
charm12() – Thank you for all your reviews. Ha ha now I got you back for all the review you did for me. I'm happy you liked them all.
Horsecrzy – Yeah I'm gonna make this go kind of slow she should get her beauty back in like chapter 10 because 2 people maybe 3 will have both fallen in love with her by then but her true love will be the one to break the curse hehe. I'll try to slow it down.
SquorpionLady – Don't worry. This does follow the OotP. I only write stories that have all the facts in them so if anyone sees a mistake in the story, tell me, you will see it changed lol.
Thanks to all my other reviewers. These were just the more detailed reviewers. Who can make the longest review? I wanna know lol. Sorry I hadn't updated in a while but as you know writer block. Check out my other fan fictions too.
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