Lily leaned back against the tree she has been sitting under for the past hour or so now. She was reading a book recommended to her by her Aunt Hermione, Hogwarts, A History. Lily looked around and took in the peacefulness of Saturday. Students were milling around and chatting with friends. Some were reading, some were doing homework, and some were just staring off into space. Everything was so…calm.

"LILY!" Lily turned her head to see her brothers, James and Albus, running towards her. She groaned. Well so much for peace and quiet! She thought. "Lily!" James repeated, stopping in front of her.

"Hello James, Al." she said.

"We don't like you hanging out with that guy." James said, neither of them bothering to say 'hi'.

"What guy?" Lily asked.

"The guy you were with this morning!" Albus piped in.

"Yeah," James nodded, "that Malfoy kid." He sneered.

"What's wrong with 'that Malfoy kid'?" Lily asked, in an annoyed tone.

"Mum and Dad will tell you next year." James replied, just as annoyed as Lily. "Just do what we say."

"You're not the boss of me, James. You either Al. I can pick my own friends, I'm not stupid."

"My God, Lily! Why do you have to be so damn difficult?" he sighed. "Okay, don't tell Mum and Dad I told you, got it?" Lily nodded. "When dad went here, there was a guy after him." James started.

"His name was Lord Moldywart!" Albus exclaimed, and smiled triumphantly.

"No, his name was Lord Voldemort! Weren't you listening? Anyway, so one of his followers or whatever was also Dad's greatest rival here at Hogwarts. Do you know what his name was? Draco Malfoy. Malfoy. Get it? He tried to kill dad. More than once. So stay the hell away from his evil span!" and with that, he walked away. Al just stood there, looking around. James turned around. "AL!" he yelled, "Come ON!"

"Coming!" he yelled. Before he left, he whispered to Lily, "Personally, I don't really care if you are friends with him or not. You know James means well, he really does. Just be careful, okay?" He smiled at Lily. She smiled back and nodded. Al caught up with James.

"What was that all about?" Lily turned around the other way to find her cousin, Rose, standing there.

"James was being James." Lily replied shrugging. Rosie rolled her eyes.

"So," she continued, "I heard an interesting bit of news. You see, I heard from Jenny Cassidy, who heard from Victoire, who heard from Dominique, who heard from Molly, who heard from Roxie who overheard Missy Longbottom talking to Arden Woods that you have a boyfriend!" Rosie said all in one breath.

"Um…" Lily said, still processing the long, jumbled mess of words her cousin just spewed. "Not exactly…Jackson Malfoy-he's a boy from my house-is helping me in Potions, and I guessed he kissed me once, but-"

"He kissed you?!" Rosie exclaimed. "You've been here a week and a guy kissed you and you didn't tell me?"

"Well, I-"

"Wait, his name is Malfoy?" she cut Lily off again. "A Malfoy not in Slytherin? That's odd, very odd…"

"Why is it odd?" Lily asked.

"Oh come now, Lily, a pure-blood, Death Eater born wizard who would be a Slytherin legacy not placed in Slytherin. It's downright unheard of! Wait," She stopped and looked at me, "you do know the past between our family and the Malfoys, right?" she asked.

"Thanks to James' fit, sort of."

"And you don't care? I mean, his dad did try to kill yours."

"I haven't decided yet. Maybe he isn't like his father. He really is nice…"

"Well, just be careful, okay? And promise you won't do anything stupid, please?"

"What makes you think I'm going to do something stupid?" asked an offended Lily.

"Rose!" someone shouted. Rosie turned around.

"Sorry, Lily, I have to go. I'll talk to you later!" she said and ran away.

What do I think of that? Lily asked herself. His father tried to kill mine, but what if he isn't like his father? And I think I really do like him…Uncle George said that Hogwarts was loads of fun! It's just like Muggle school! Well, not really, but so far it isn't very fun…