"Well, come one then! There's something I need to show you" Lily smiled and took Lyra by the hand to her room. Lyra had agreed to stay for some more time at the Potters' house and while James and Al had invited her to watch the season three of some muggle TV show (that had a lot of action, blood, fights and all the other awesome things according to them) with them, she politely declined and instead joined Lily in her room.

"You won't believe what I found in the attic the other day" Lily said, her back to Lyra, as she rummaged for something in a trunk below her bed. Lyra sat beside Lily on the floor, "Ah! It's so dusty. What are you searching over there?"

"Aha!" Lily exclaimed, grinning. She held a something wrapped in cloth and told Lyra to stand back as she finally looked up from the trunk, a victorious look on her face.

"It'll fit you perfectly!" she said. Lyra was still unaware of what was in the wrapped cloth and asked Lily, "What is in the-WHOA!" her eyes widened to twice their normal size as Lily finally unwrapped the cloth to reveal the most beautiful evening gown Lyra had ever seen. It was a periwinkle-blue dress, slightly crumpled as it had been folded, but beautiful nevertheless. Lyra stared at it for five seconds completely before saying, "what is that?!"

Lily, grinning even more, said, "I found it last week while I was up in the attic. You know, just going through stuff, to see if I could find anything ineteresting. This was tucked in at the bottom of a box"

"It's...so wonderful" Lyra said, running her hand over the smooth fabric of the dress.

"Well, try it on!" Lily insisted.

"No. How can I just try it on?" Lyra said, not quite truthfully. Infact, even as she spoke, she tried to imagine herself in the dress, her hair tied in a knot.

"Oh come on now. Just put on the dress already?" Lily said, shoving the dress in Lyra's hands. Lyra took one look at Lily's encouraging face, and one at the dress. "Okay fine" she smiled.

Lily made a great show of sucking in her breath and looked positively startled when Lyra finally put on the dress. Even she hadn't known that the dress would look so beautiful on her friend. Lyra, on the other hand, couldn't stop smiling.

"This dress was made for you. Trust me!" Lily said, her green eyes, still amused Lyra's appearance in the dress.

"Well, it is rather nice looking, I reckon" Lyra smiled at her reflection in the mirror.

"We have to show it to Mum and Dad. Oh and James of course" Lily meaningfully smirked at Lyra.

In an instant, Lyra's cheeks were the color of bright red apples. She hadn't thought about it yet, but now that Lily mentioned it, she wanted for James to see her in the dress. She shook her head slightly. Calm down, she told herself.

"Oh yeah, stop blushing at the thought of James being dumbstruck to see you in that dress and let's go downstairs to see it happen in actuality!" Lily practically bubbled with excitement.

"I am not thinking about James's reaction" she barely managed to get it out while trying not to smile.

"Okay,first" she held up her finger, "you are very bad at not blushing, and second" she snorted, "right. You totally weren't thinking about James" Lily rolled her eyes.

Lyra gingerly made her way down the stairs, careful to not step on the hemline of dress. Lily had jumped down the last several steps and pulled out the plugs of the television even before the boys could protest. She just held out a hand to stop her brothers from groaning and pointed at something behind them.

For a moment, James was lost as to who the lady wearing the blue ballgown was. His jaw settled nicely on the floor once he realized it was none other than 'Lys' who was looking no less beautiful than a Veela.

No matter how hard Lyra tried biting her cheeks from within, she knew she was blushing furiously.

Al was the one to speak first, "Wow! You look stunning, Lyra!"

Lyra murmurred a thanks and looked expectantly at James.

"Wow" he finally whispered, "You look...you look gorgeous"

Lyra was pretty certain her voice came out as a squeak when she thanked him. Lily coughed theatrically and James shook his head as if coming from a trance. Lyra stood suddenly self conscious and awkwardly tucked her hands behind her back.

Lily opened her mouth to say something when the back door clicked and Harry and Ginny Potter made their way into the house; both with wand in their hands, levitating the dishes from the dinner into the kitchen.

One look at Lyra, and the plates managed by Harry had clattered on the floor with a loud noise. Everyone was startled by the noise except Harry, who was transfixed to his spot. Ginny managed to slowly levitate her plates on the floor without crashing them and exchanged a look with her husband. The surprise on their faces mirrored each others'.

Lyra was horrified that it was probably a mistake that she had worn the dress. What if the dress belonged was a gift to Mrs. Potter and was gifted by Mr. Potter when they were young? Or worse, what if the dress belonged to Lily Evans?!

All the kids in the rom were looking at each other when Ginny asked, "where did you find the dress?"

"I found it in the attic when I was just rummaging for stuff" Lily said, surprised by her parent's reaction. She had planned to surprise them with Lyra wearing the dress, but she was too stunned to even be slightly excited at the moment.

"I am sorry" Lyra stared, "I was just-"

"No. No need to apologize Lyra" Harry finally managed to say. He smiled weakly at his wife. Lyra thought it was a trick of light that she saw his eyes glimmering. Ginny smiled at Lyra and said, "well. The dress belonged to a friend of mine"

"Belonged?" Al asked with a quizzical look on his face.

"Uh..." Ginny looked at Harry before replying, "she left the country. She gave me the dress before we finished school"

"She looked so much like her!" Harry let the tears fall down, "she had smoothened her hair on the day of the Yule Ball and Lyra..."

Ginny gently patted Harry on his back and put said quietly, "she would have loved to see Lyra in the dress"

"Yeah" Harry nodded, "Better not let Draco see the dress yet" this time, Ginny nodded, "Most certainly not when he's alone. We don't know if he can handle that head-ache he had in hospital again"

"I still don't know why he had that head-ache. He had it once when he saw her torn jacket but the other time?" Harry creased his forehead. "He was asking something about some lady with brown hair who'd come to visit but his vision was blur due to the meds"

The lines on Ginny's face were stretched, making her look much older than she was "But Harry, we know that's not possible. Hermione died in that accident"

A/n:

The dress Lyra was wearing was same one Hermione wore to Yule ball. I've stuck with the blue book version rather than the one in movie.

And Al is going to be a Slytherin.

Also, I've written an OS on Harry and Hermione's FRIENDSHIP. It's titled Together, Until The Very End. I would joyfully sing to the birds if you actually read that and told me how it is.

And for no solid reason, rather just because I want to, I would like to share this quote I saw in Ed Sheeran's music video All of the Stars,

Life goes on, days get brighter.

Having said so, can anyone give some music recommendations? I am in a need to update my playlist. (no hard rock and heavy metal stuff) just some nice songs with good music? Thanks!