A/N: I am now back home from my trip to visit my family so I can write more often now that I'm back. Sorry it was a hard trip for me but it is over now and I am back to you guys. A thank you to everyone who has favorited or followed the story or myself I absolutely love when I get an email from fanfiction telling me someone likes my story. Thank you my amazing fiancée as always for being my beta. Thank you to pirate-princess1 I'm glad you are enjoying it and thank you for your support. Thank you to Annie2000 I'm glad you are enjoying the story so much. I promise that I will continue with this story after school has started back up but I can tell you that I am probably going to very busy so it is going to be hard to write on a regular schedule. Anyways please read and review I absolutely love getting emails telling me that someone has left me a review.
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Lily's Big Change
Chapter 7: The First Quest
Previously on Lily's Big Change
"Of course, we're in. We better get started if we are to surprise Evans." Sirius said excitedly, as he got dressed and headed for the seventh year Gryffindor dorm's door.
Lily was able to sleep in and when she woke up she felt refreshed but she realized that maybe she was just a little too hard on James the night before and wished that she could take everything she said back and that maybe just maybe James would forgive her. So she got out of bed and went into the adjoining bathroom where she quickly showered and then pulled on a pair of tight jeans and a tank top. Realizing that there was nothing more to keep her from talking to James, Lily opened her bedroom door and in the Head's living room there was rose petals leading from her door to the coffee table so she followed the rose petals and saw that there was a role of parchment on the table with her name on it so she decided to open it and inside it said:
Dear Lily Flower,
Good morning, Love. I hope you slept well once you fell asleep.
I have a quest for you if you are brave enough to take it on, of course.
If you are still reading then here is the first stage of the quest you must find
A lily and give it to Professor Dumbledore
Who will give you the next note telling you what the next quest is.
Oh and I hope you like the roses that lead you to this note
It is a petal for every day that I have loved you for a total of 1000 petals.
Good luck My Flower
Love Always, James
Lily loved scavenger hunts and that is exactly what this seemed like it was but her big question was how did James get Professor Dumbledore to agree to this silly game. Although Professor Dumbledore always seemed to enjoy James' antics and no one could deny that this was typical James. Lily was thinking and figured that she might as well go find a lily for Professor Dumbledore and Hagrid probably had one growing in his garden.
Lily wrote quickly on the same parchment saying, "it is on Potter make sure I don't get bored xoxo Lily" and left it unfurled on the coffee table. Then she left quickly to head down to Hagrid's hut.
Just as Lily had expected there was lilies in Hagrid's garden but Lily decided that it would be rude to just pick one of Hagrid's flowers and not ask if it was ok and not even say hello to Hagrid. So Lily went and knocked on Hagrid's door, when Hagrid answered he was positively glowing.
"Lily 'ow are yeh? 'Ow was yer summer? I hope that sister of yer wasn' too much trouble?" he said really excitedly.
"Oh, um I'm ok I guess. It was the worse summer and I only saw my sister for the first two days. But I just came by because James gave me a quest it seems like a scavenger hunt and I was hoping that maybe I could get a lily from your garden it is the first thing that I have to get before I can find out my next step." Lily said hoping that Hagrid wouldn't try to find more out about her summer.
"O' course Lily, and come by and visit later then, ok?" Hagrid replied.
"Thank you so much Hagrid and of course." Lily said running over to the lilies and finding the prettiest and picking it then she ran back up to Hogwarts to go find Professor Dumbledore. She looked at her watched and saw that it was five minutes till noon so maybe he would be at lunch in the Great Hall. Plus that way she could get some food because she was starving from missing breakfast. As Lily entered the hall she saw that Professor Dumbledore was indeed eating his lunch and she ran up to him.
"Aw, Ms. Evans it is always a pleasure to see you, did you enjoy the Head's Dorm and I was so saddened to hear of your loss it always hurts to lose ones loved ones." Professor Dumbledore whispered solemnly to make sure no one would hear other than Lily herself and maybe Professor McGonagall but McGonagall wouldn't say anything about it but Lily still looked down embarrassed by the fact that Professor Dumbledore knew.
"The Head's dorm is gorgeous and spacious, please don't mention anything to anyone about my loss, and I brought you this lily as a part of James' quest," Lily said giggling to herself.
"Aw, yes I heard all about this little quest and thank you for the lily Ms. Evans it is quite beautiful and here is the letter that James asked me to give to you once you gave me the lily." Professor Dumbledore said as we exchanged the flower and the letter,
"Thank you so much, Professor." Lily said as she turned to go to the Gryffindor table with the parchment held tightly in her hand.
Dear Lily Flower,
So I see that you gave Professor Dumbledore his lily.
Did you know that lilies are his favorite flower?
Funny enough they are mine too.
Anyways so your next quest is to
Talk to Sirius about your summer.
By the way, Lily if you did anything X-rated
He will make sure to embarrass the hell out of you.
Sorry but that's just the way he is.
Once you tell him he will give you a present
Then you will proceed to give the present to
Professor McGonagall.
Love Always, James
After Lily read the note she crumpled it up and thrust it into her pocket. She suddenly was no longer hungry and very upset, who would have thought that would be a good idea, of course, she couldn't blame James, and James didn't know that Lily had a really hard summer. But just then James walked in and Lily ran over to him with her hands on her hips.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING WITH THIS QUEST YOU CAN GO TO HELL AND WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WOULD TELL SIRIUS BLACK ABOUT MY SUMMER?" Lily screamed at James as he looked confused and scared.
"I'm sorry Lily but I don't know what is so bad about telling someone about your summer and Sirius is my best mates so figured that it would be ok if you told him." James said quietly.
"Did you tell Remus about this quest? He would have told you to do another quest using Sirius!" Lily asked.
"No, I didn't tell him about this quest I figured that it would be ok because I didn't know that anyone would know what happened during your summer. I can change who gives you the present to give to Professor McGonagall if you wouldn't mind but it can't be someone who already knows." James said feeling like an idiot.
"Fine, I will tell Sirius but he can't tell anyone else ok you have to make sure that he understands that ok." Lily said very seriously.