Lily Luna Potter and the Last Hallow
Chapter Two - Platform 9 and ¾
This chapter features some quotes from the epilogue in Deathly Hallows (They're in bold), I don't normally do that but it's just because this chapter is the epilogue from Lily's POV featuring her thoughts and some extra stuff I've added in. Lily is nine, Albus is eleven and James is thirteen.
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It never took the Potters long to get to Kings' Cross from 12 Grimmauld Placegetting the children ready on the other hand took an age. The car journey was filled with Albus' insistences that he would not be in Slytherin. James was being his usual cocky self and was aggravating his younger brother.
Lily Potter, the only Potter child to not be attending Hogwarts this year, spent the car journey sat in the back of the car with a look of annoyance on her face. Another year had past and she was still too young to go to Hogwarts. Life wasn't fair; why should she have to endure another two years at Dragon Prep, Ms Brown had never fully forgiven Lily after the incident that happened on her very first day.
The Potters were approaching platform 9 and 10 with Lily trailing sombrely behind her brothers.
"It won't be long, and you'll be going too," Harry told her.
"Two years," sniffed Lily. "I want to go now!"
Lily zoned out as her brothers continued their argument. She hated it when her brothers argued, James may be an egotistic jerk most of the time but underneath it all he was actually a good brother and Al was just really sweet in general. Lily walked through the barrier once again and was swarmed by the mist and vapour generated by the train.
Lily, though originally disappointed on arrival at Kings' Cross was now feeling excited as she imagined herself in Albus' position two years from now. As they made their way along the platform she searched the crowds for Crawford, whose elder sister Avery was in James' year. She couldn't find him but there was her cousin Hugo standing with his parents and his sister. She ran up to Hugo and hugged him as she saw her dad and uncle Ron take Albus' trunk up onto the train. "Just wait Hugo, soon it'll be us." she squealed.
"I know. What house do you think you'll be in, Lily?"
Lily thought as deeply as a nine year old could before answering, "Ravenclaw or Gryffindor, I think." she said with animated hand gestures.
Ron who had now returned from the train overheard their discussion. "If you're not in Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you." said Ron, "but no pressure." Lily and Hugo laughed while their mothers scorned Ron.
Lily started once again to try to find Crawford; her other best friend, Seth had no brothers or sisters so didn't come to Kings' Cross every year like they did. Still no success, she'd find after the train had left she decided. Out of no where and free of his trunk and owl James reappeared. "Teddy's back there," he said breathlessly, pointing back over his shoulder into the billowing clouds of steam. "Just seen him! And guess what he's doing? Snogging Victoire!"
He gazed up at the adults, evidently disappointed by the lack of reaction.
"Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked Teddy what he was doing-"
"You interrupted them?" said Ginny. "You are so like Ron-"
"- and he said he'd come to see her off! And then he told me to go away. He's snogging her!" James added, as though worried he had not made himself clear.
"Oh, it would be lovely if they got married!" whispered Lily ecstatically. "Teddy would really be part of the family then!"
Teddy had always been Lily's favourite family member even though technically he wasn't related to her. Teddy, being ten years older than her had often babysat Lily and her brothers. The things Teddy had got up to at Hogwarts, the stories he told her and the letters he'd wrote her all helped to fuel her longing for Hogwarts. If Teddy and Vic got married then he'd be her cousin-in-law as well as her god-brother. Even just the thought of it made her so excited that she missed the rest of the conversation until she heard her father say, "It's nearly eleven, you'd better get on board."
Lily watched on silently as students boarded the train, some for their first time and others for their last. Some faces she recognized like Victoire's with slightly smudged lipstick, James' looking smug until Hayley Wood whacked him over the head with her charms book and Avery McLaggen's smiling down at her brothers.
There was Crawford waving as his sister left to find her carriage. Lily ran over to Crawford and pulled a strand of hair till he turned round. It was with him that she watched her father talk in hushed tones to Albus and it was his hand she held as they raced after the train waving like lunatics to the family and friends who got to live Lily's dream.
