Sorry! I haven't updated in ages! I'm sooooo sorry!
After being discharged a few days after Dominique, Lily spent a two days at her parents' home in Godric's Hollow, before returning to school, via Floo into Professor McGonagall's fireplace on a Sunday evening at the beginning of February.
'Good evening Miss Potter,' Professor McGonagall said, 'I trust you are feeling better?'
'Yes, thank-you, Professor!' Lily chirped.
'Good, good. The house-elves have already taken your belongings up to your dormitory. Dinner is in an hour.'
Lily said goodbye and then stepped out of the office. She then began the long walk towards Gryffindor tower.
When Lily stepped into the common room, it was empty, save a few older students doing homework for the following day. She decided to go up to her dormitory to pack her school bag for Monday morning.
Having climbed the staircase, Lily arrived outside the dormitory that she hadn't entered for nearly two months. She opened the door and had a brief glance of the room around her before Rose and Annabelle had converged on her. Her roommates pulled her into a bone-crushing hug.
'Ow! Ow! Ow!' screeched Lily, her stomach was still sore.
'Sorry,' the two girls apologised and stepped back, looking sheepish.
'So, what's been going on?' Lily asked as she walked over to her bed, trying to get back into the swing of using French. Since she had been away, she had spent almost all of the time speaking English.
'Not much really... You missed one of Uncle Harry's lectures, though. It was a couple of weeks ago,' Rose explained.
'Oh yeah, Dad mentioned that. He gave me a copy of Albus' notes, it's somewhere in my trunk along with all of the other work I managed to do. I swear my brother turned into an owl while I was in the hospital!'
The other two laughed.
'So what's happening with the Tournament? Mum and Dad haven't told anything except that Louis won the second task and you,' Lily gestured to Annabelle, 'came second. I think they told Al and James not to say anything, as well.'
'Not much, really. They have announced the date for the last task: the fifteenth of March.' Annabelle explained.
'That early?!'
'Yeah. I think they just want to get it over with now, given what happened with the first task.' Rose said.
'That would make sense. This whole thing is just a publicity stunt, Dad said. Apparently the British Ministry had some sort of outburst at the rest of Europe a few months after the War about how they didn't support them against Voldemort. But it would have been rather stupid if they did support the Ministry during the War because the whole place was crawling with Death Eaters.'
Annabelle and Rose nodded as they, too sat down upon their beds. Lily's schoolbag lay forgotten as they chatted and gossiped for the first time in months.
