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She nearly burst into tears when she heard Ron mention that they had the Slytherins in nearly every class. He considered talking to McGonagall, but when he looked at the head table, it wasn't the Gryffindor Head of House he noticed, it was Snape, and the sad look he wore on his face.
Severus Snape sat watching the students. He noticed Draco came in, his fan club following him. Severus failed to see his dark haired daughter in the crowd. At first he was a little upset that Lilly had been put in Gryffindor, but he couldn't deny that he was glad she got into there. Once the shock wore off, he accepted her housing placement; he worked out that everything will turn out fine. The first Lily he knew, Lily Evans was in Gryffindor, and she turned out fine. He did think it was weird that Amarylis called herself Lilly, that being the name he would give a child if he had one. Severus made a mental note to ask her how she got her nickname.
When Lilly finally did enter the hall, he seen she was – despite all her attempts not to show it – upset and angry. Severus made a mental note to seek out Draco, to point out how he was hurting her, and Lilly, because Minerva had told him that Lilly was scared of his reaction to her house placement. He noticed she barely looked over her timetable, instead just sitting with her housemates appearing to be interested in the conversation. Her pitch black eyes told him otherwise.
Lilly looked up as someone put their hands on her shoulders. She turned to see Dimitri standing behind her. She hugged him; he was someone familiar who wasn't turning away from her. Even Imoen seemed to be having a good time with her new Ravenclaw buddies. Dimitri sat in the empty space next to her, drawing her attention away from the conversations around her.
"Lilly, you enjoying being a lion?" He asked casually, running a hand through his messy hair. He failed to notice how the girls glared at Lilly, and sighed as they stared at him. Lilly looked down, not answering her question. Dimitri gave her a half smile.
"Lilly, have you spoken to your father yet?" He enquired quietly. She shook her head. He looked up at the Professor who was trying his best to ignore the chatty Ruby beside him.
Severus got up from the table, heading between the Slytherin and Gryffindor tables. He shot a glare at Draco which quickly shut him up. He continued down, avoiding all the glares directed in his way.
"Lilly." Dimitri whispered. He indicated her father, walking down the aisle.
"Please don't stop...please don't stop" She chanted under her breath. She wasn't ready to talk to him yet.
"Lilly..." She heard him say. She sighed, turning around. She didn't say anything, just looking at him. Across the table Harry and Ron glared at Snape. Lilly sighed again, standing up.
"Lilly..." Both boys said at once. She turned to them, flashing a brilliant smile. She could tell both boys didn't like their Potions Teacher.
"I'll see you in..." She paused, looking down at her timetable, "Divination." The boys, along with the other Gryffindor students in their years said a chorus of 'goodbyes' and she gave a small smile as she followed her father out of the hall.
"Well done for getting in Gryffindor, Lilly." He managed to say. Lilly looked up at him surprised. They had stopped not far from the Hall, but away from the traffic of students.
Lilly looked at him sceptically as she asked, "you're not mad?" She sighed in relief as he shook his head.
"Lilly, to me it doesn't matter which house you are. Minerva will probably rub it in...But you're happiness is all that matters. And...The Gryffindors seem to like you..." He paused, thinking of Lilly's new friend. Of all the people she had to meet and get along with, it had to be Harry Potter.
Lilly picked up on Severus' thoughts about Harry. She frowned. "You honestly don't mind where I got placed?" She studied his face carefully, looking for any sign of lying.
"I don't mind. I would rather you weren't friends with Potter...but it's your choice." Lilly smiled in satisfaction when his face showed nothing but honesty. She threw her arms around him. He looked at her shocked. Then hugged her back.
"Won't people have seen that?" He couldn't help but ask. The way Lilly's green eyes twinkled told him she was up to no good.
"They had their attentions diverted for a moment." He nodded, guessing she had done something like that. "Oh, and I'm not going to stop being friends with Harry, at least he is nicer than Draco." She scowled as she mentioned the blond traitor.
"He is still not talking to you?" Lilly shook her head. Severus took a deep breath, "Lilly, you don't think your friendship with Potter has anything to do with it?" She looked confused. "Potter and Malfoy are enemies."
"So? What has that got to do with me? I can be friends with whoever I like." In her mind, that logic worked. Lilly couldn't see why the boys didn't like each other, let alone wouldn't like her for conversing with the other.
"Lilly, the guys might not see everything your way." Severus felt he had to point it out to her, before she did something drastic.
"Stupid guys." She scolded. Someone calling out her name took her attention for a moment. She smiled at her father once before dashing after the two Gryffindor girls she had been getting along with. She was halfway up the stairs before Severus noticed Lilly wore black ballet flats rather than the plain black shoes worn by anyone else. The sight of it made him chuckle, he had guessed Lilly would try and change her uniform. How did that girl get into Gryffindor?
Harry, Ron and Hermione left the Hall after seeing another of Draco's ridiculous impression of a fainting fit. Just outside the hall they noticed their Potions Teacher heading down toward the dungeon, laughing at something. Harry and Ron both watched him with their mouths wide open. Hermione made an impatient sound as she pulled both boys away.
Lilly was surprised when she entered the Divination classroom. She thought the room, with its clutter she thought it looked a bit like a gypsy caravan she once seen. Though, Lilly had only seen a caravan once, she couldn't really compare the classroom to anything she knew. It was quite a change from all the sterile cold classrooms she was used to. Her enhanced senses had picked up a perfumery scent well before she had entered the room, and upon entering she felt like she had been hit by a brick, the scent washed over her, sticking in her nose and in her throat, making it hard to breathe.
She sat on one of the pouffes, Lavender and Parvati sitting next to her. They had Divination with the Slytherins, but they hadn't noticed any of them in the room yet. The scent was hurting her head, and Lilly doubted she would be in the classroom for long. She was vaguely aware of other people entering, and the teacher speaking, but the fumes where hurting her head, throat and making her skin itch. Lilly silently scowled, wondering if there was some spell of potion to relieve her of her enhanced senses. Though, she wouldn't ever want to lose the senses; she liked being able to see in the dark and pick up on conversations on the other side of the room.
Lilly's thoughts didn't return to the planet until Harry put a teacup in her hands. Lilly screwed up her nose. Eww, do I have to drink this? She looked up, noting she must have said that out loud, because most of the people nearby were looking at her. Harry laughed, but she could tell he didn't want to drink it either.
"Harry, I'm serious. Do I actually have to drink this? It looks like thinned out mud." She whispered this time. A few students around her were drinking the muck, but she really didn't want to.
"Yeah, I believe we have to." He smiled as Lilly screwed up her nose, well one side of it. He'd never seen anyone do that before, and he thought it was quite cute. He tried the tea, and found it wasn't too bad. Lilly however was not drinking it. She gingerly took a sip, and to her disgust she found it tasted as bad as it looked. She checked no one was looking and she made the 'tea' vanish back into the big teapot. Harry started to laugh, and as he was drinking at the same time, found himself choke a few times. When he came right he finished with his cup quickly, switching with Lilly while he watched Hermione and Ron argue over their cups. Glancing around, he noticed Malfoy was watching Lilly's every move closely.
Lilly stared at the lumps in the teacup.
"What do you see, my dear?" The teacher came up behind her. Lilly swiftly turned to face the teacher, jumping when she noticed how large her eyes were. Lilly shifted away from the teacher, looking in the cup once more. The Professor remained behind her, so Lilly figured she had best say something.
"Uhh...this looked like a cross..." Lily trailed off. She couldn't see a cross in the cup. All she could see was lumpy soggy leaves. Before she could react the cup was snatched from her hands.
"Hey!" She turned to see the teacher peering into Harry's cup. Figuring her job was done, Lilly relaxed, crossing her legs elegantly, looking at her cute black ballet flats she was wearing. She hated the other shoes, and if a teacher noticed she could just cast some illusion or something, so she figured she was safe; rules and following them was not her favourite thing in the world.
"The falcon...my dear, you have a deadly enemy" Professor Trelawney's voice interrupted his thoughts.
"But everyone knows that." Hermione whispered loudly. Lilly giggled and shot her a smile. The other girl returned the look. Ron and Harry stared at Hermione, leading Lilly to believe the girl was normally a bookworm; a well behaved teachers pets. Lilly frowned inwardly. She didn't like bookworms, much preferring to make up her own rules to suit herself, just like her shoes.
"The club...an attack. Dear, dear, this is not a happy cup..."
Lilly leaned in toward Harry, whispering, "How can a cup be happy? It's a cup." Harry coughed to cover the laughter.
"The skull...danger in your path, my dear."
"Or pirates..." Lilly muttered under her breath.
There was the sound of a cup hitting the floor and breaking. Lilly rolled her eyes, wondering why the woman didn't replace the china cups with something less...breakable. The Professor sank into a chair, holding one hand over her heart, her eyes firmly shut.
"My dear boy...my poor dear boy...no...it is kinder not to say...no...don't ask me..." Lilly and Harry both shook their heads at their teachers dramatics. Harry looked at his cup, unable to see anything in it, not even the club, the skull or the falcon.
"What is it?" Lilly asked nicely. She noticed all the people getting closer to see the cup, making Lilly feel claustrophobic. She gently pushed out an invisible shield, shifting people away from her and Harry. No one appeared to notice, they were too busy waiting to find out what was in the tea leaves.
Suddenly Professor Trelawney's eyes opened dramatically. "My dear...you have the Grim." Lilly and Hermione both rolled their eyes in synch.
"The Grim...reaper? Since when does he live in tea cups?" Lilly muttered with faux innocence dripping from her voice, making Hermione snort at her comment.
Above them, Draco had seen Lilly talking with the other Gryffindors. He was insulted she hadn't even looked at him. He grinned evilly as the Professor said that Potter had the grim in his tea cup. He could have some fun with that...or could have if he had Lilly with him. As it was, Lilly occupied all his thoughts, and he couldn't focus on anything, not even on bullying other people.
He watched as Granger proclaimed loudly that it didn't look like a grim. He watched the Irish Gryffindor, Finnegan was leaning over the cup, squinting and saying something under his breath that made Lilly laugh. Draco glared at them, deciding he had to get rid of Pansy and get Lilly back. Soon.
"It looks like a Grim if you go it like this..." Seamus squinted and looked at the cup from one side. He leaned to the other side, opening his eyes, "but it looks like a donkey from here....Some Grim." He made air quotes around the second 'Grim'. Lilly laughed, loving the people in her year. The perfume smoke was still hurting her head, but being with the people around her was stopping the pain from distracting her.
When they finally left, Lilly noticed some people, mostly Slytherins, took off very quickly. She walked down the stairs with Seamus at her side, talking to her constantly. She worked out quickly she smiled and nodded he wouldn't even notice that she wasn't listening. Her head still felt fuzzy from the smoke in the room.
An arm reached out in one corridor, pulling Lilly roughly by the front of her robes. She found herself being pushed up against the wall by a taller Slytherin girl. Her bob cut, smirk and dark eyes told Lilly that this was the girl who was crushing on 'Drakey'. The other girl, Pansy, she thought Draco had called her that, held a wand at Lilly's throat.
"Give me a reason to not hex you into oblivion." Pansy hissed in Lilly's ear. Lilly screwed up her nose at the other girl breathing in her hair. Somehow they had managed to get the attention of everyone else. Draco, though a little amused to see what Lilly would do, walked up. Behind him, his best friend, Blaise Zabini, noticed Draco was very amused at the thought of two girls fighting over him.
Lilly smirked, noticing Pansy did resemble a pug slightly. She felt her vision blur for a few moments, but as soon as it came back she giggled and wandlessly said some French words under her breath. Instantly Pansy lost her grip on Lilly. The students gathered around watched in surprise as Pansy shot down toward the ground, her skin darkening and her limbs shortening. Everyone burst into laughter when they realised what Lilly had turned Pansy into.
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