Ever since getting back from Hogwarts, things were the way they used to be between Lily and I – things were right again. We were inseparable, barely ever seen apart, as her mother noted one morning when, as usual, we loped into their house for a mid-morning snack. Every morning immediately after breakfast, Lily and I would meet in the playground and spend the day roaming the town. Sometimes we'd catch a movie – a Muggle invention that wasn't so bad, really, it was just like reading without the words – sometimes we'd walk to the park and talk for hours as we circled around the pond, sometimes we'd just stay in the playground and have swinging competitions or races to see who could run the fastest or who could climb farthest up a tree – all things I would never do with anyone but Lily. And while part of me couldn't wait to get back out of Spinner's End, part of me never wanted to leave.