AUTHOR'S NOTE: I used another day's word in this chapter! See if you can find it. It's my favorite.

DISCLAIMER: Still don't own Harry Potter.

Word: outrance: the utmost extremity.

Characters: Lily Luna Potter

Genre: Family

Word Count: 304

Lily stared blankly at the Forbidden Forest before her. She sat with her legs crossed under her body and her brown eyes glue to the Forest. The forest was quiet tonight. It wasn't a full moon so the howling of the werewolves was absent. The unicorns that often came to the edge of the forest and looked at her carefully, didn't come to stare. The stampeding centaurs that could usually be heard for miles made no sound tonight. Hagrid's hut was dark and gloomy. However, the forest looked the most Cimmerian.

Lily dared not step into the forest. In fact, she sat a good distance away from it. She'd never been into the forest, and she didn't really plan on going into the forest now. Not when her father, the Great Harry Potter, thought that there was another war looming. She wouldn't dare walk into the forest. She could be kidnapped or eaten.

"Lily, why are you out here?" a voice called from behind her. She wasn't startled by it; she'd recognized it from the way that he'd said her name.

"I'm thinking, Al," Lily said slowly. She heard Albus sit down beside her and sigh. "Yes, I was thinking about the war."

"I figured that you would be," he told her. "What about it?"

"Do you think that they'll go for dad?" she asked quietly.

"James said that they would go for us," Albus said. He knew that it was stupid to hide things from Lily. Unlike James, he didn't see her as the little girl that she was fifteen years ago. She was their little sister, but she wasn't so little anymore. "They'd go for where they could hurt dad the most. They'd go after us and mum, then uncle Ron and aunt Hermione."

"James said that?" she asked her brother.

Albus nodded and sighed. They sat in silence for a while on the outrance of the of the forest, just staring at the trees. It was good to have someone there that just sat with her. James would never tell her anything about the war. Her parents pretended that the war wasn't going to happened. However, Albus told her the facts and then left her to mull over them. She liked that about him.

"Ready to go?"

"Yeah," she said as she stood and walked away from the forest with her brother.