Lily Potter

Lily woke up and dressed quickly, she was meeting Ian in the common room to walk down to breakfast together. He had been let out of the hospital wing early this morning and they had agreed to eat together. Lily bolted downstairs and ran straight into Ian who had been waiting for her at the bottom. Blushing that she had just run straight into him she apologized and turned to move around and collided with a large blond haired something.

"Oh! Sorry!" Lily exclaimed, bending down to pick up the potions book that they had dropped.

"It's ok." Scorpius said great fully taking the book from her and placing it on top of the pile in his arms. "Where are you off in such a rush to anyway?"

"Oh, just breakfast..." Lily trailed off when she looked into his eyes and suddenly the memory of what had happened the night before came rushing back to her. Blushing red, she gave Scorpius a pained smiled and grabbed Ian's hand and darted past him out of the portrait hole. Once she was free of the common room, Lily broke into a full speed run and shot off towards the Great Hall.

"Walk, Miss Potter, Mr. Summers!" Professor Jerkins reprimanded Lily and Ian as they shot past him into the Great Hall.

"Sorry Professor!" Lily called over her shoulder. She skidded to a stop and looked apprehensively at Ian, wondering if he had caught the awkward exchange between her and Scorpius in the common room.

"Weird morning?" Ian whispered into her ear.

"No! Um, I mean, well... Scorpiuskissedme." Lily mumbled, deciding telling Ian was better than him finding out some other way. "Please don't be mad." Lily pleaded.

" I didn't catch that." Ian replied, trying not to look too worried about what could have made things weird between Lily and Malfoy.

"Scor kissed me last night." Lily said looking at the ground, blush spreading like fire across her usually porcelain cheeks.

"Does that change anything between us?" Ian asked, trying not to be hurt.

"No! It won't happen again, I swear!" Lily said vehemently.

"Make sure of that." Ian said softly, kissing her soundly before heading over to the Gryffindor house table where all of their friends sat.

"Hey, Lily! How long have you known Ian?" James asked Lily. Lily gave him a suspicious look.

"Since first year.. Kind of, why?" Lily answered curiously.

"See! That's just as long as you've known me, Pen! If you know it's the right person it doesn't matter how long that you've known them for!" James said to Penelope who looked very uncomfortable.

"I would feel so guilty though, you're Lily's brother and Lily is my best friend!" Penelope answered.

"Lils doesn't care that I am seeing Albus, why would it be any different for you and James?" Clarice asked, Mary nodded in agreement, not able to speak since her mouth as full of blue berry muffin. Lily caught the drift of the conversation and joined in.

"Oh I don't know... I might have a problem if Pen and James start dating..." Lily said sarcastically. James gave Lily a That's-really-not-going-to-help-convince-her-to-go-out-with-me look. Lily blushed and mouthed 'sorry', but she couldn't stop the corners of her mouth from twitching up int o a smile.

"You and James would be super cute together Pen!" Mary gushed, James gave her a grateful look.

"Fine! I'll go out with you you annoying ass!" Penelope said, but she couldn't help smiling and blushing when James triumphantly put his arm around her shoulder.

"Hey, pass the rolls will you?" Lily asked Albus who was eating eggs like he was a starving man.

"Here you go!" Albus shoved the basket of rolls towards Lily and sprayed her with bits of chewed egg.

"Ew! Albus! Chew for once in your life!" Lily said, wiping bits of egg off of her face and arm.

"Look! Chelsea is coming around with the schedules!" Mary exclaimed, she watched eagerly as the prefect made her way closer to the small group.

"Potter... Lily?" Chelsea looked up from her stack of schedules and handed Lily hers. "Potter, James and Albus." Both the boys eagerly grabbed for theirs and ended up getting the schedules switched. "Summers, Ian?" Ian held up his hand. "Gratz, Mary. Clancy, Penelope and Desmond, Clarice." Chelsea handed the three girls the appropriate papers and headed off down the table to the next group of students.

"What do you have Mondays?" Mary asked Lily.

"Um, Transfiguration, History of Magic, Potions, and Muggle Studies. You? Lily answered, consulting her paper.

"Just Potions with you..." Mary trailed off looking disappointed.

"I have everything but Muggle Studies!" Clarice squeaked happily, the two girls beamed at each other. After schedules had been compared, the group of seven got up to leave but were stopped by the sight of their Headmistress rising from her chair and walking to the podium to address the school. With confused looks, they all sat back down again and listened to what their Headmistress had to say.

"As you may have noticed, we are missing a student among us today." Professor McGonagall started. "We, as a staff, are doing everything that we can to find this student. However, if any of you have any information about the disappearance, I advise you to talk to a staff member immediately. In the mean while, students will be escorted from class to class by a teacher and ALL students must be in their dormitories by eight o'clock. We advise you to not walk alone but always have a companion or two with you. You are dismissed." A clatter arose from people pushing back benches and gathering any supplies that they had brought to the meal.

"The disappearances must be worse than we thought." Lily whispered, watching in awe as students split to go to the teacher that was teaching their first class. Ian grabbed Lily's bag and walked her over to where Professor McGonagall stood, already surrounded by a few students.

"I'll see you after class, don't worry Lils, you'll be fine." Ian said and he kissed Lily on the cheek before heading over to where Professor Hurston stood, gathering Defence Against the Dark Arts students. Clarice grabbed Lily's arm as the class started on its way to the Transfiguration classroom.

"I feel bad for the poor Ravenclaw girl." Clarice whispered, linking her arm with Lily's.

"She was my Ancient Runes partner..." Lily whispered back. Clarice grimaced at her.

" Lily... You'll be fine. I'll make sure of it!" Clarice hissed. Lily rolled her eyes and shrugged.

"Either way, I just hope that she's alive." Lily said, her eyes distracted by two ghosts that were having a very serious conversation as the walked down the hall and through a solid door.

"I suppose." Clarice sighed. "So how long do you think Pen and James will last?"

"Oh, if it's up to Pen, forever. Sadly James gets distracted very easily, but he won't want her to get hurt. I can't really say how long... Pen has fancied him for forever." Lily said. Clarice didn't get a chance to answer because the class had just filed into the class room.