This is the sequel for the Beginning. It's better to read the first part before, but I'll give you a little summary of the story: Lily met James, Remus, Sirius, Peter and everybody else from that time. She met the boy Snape too. You won't believe, but he was a little shy (at least in my story). She and her friends were in Gryffindor, Snape, of course, in Slytherin. It's their first year, and it's still beginning! I hope you enjoy this! Write reviews, please!!!!
The beginning – First year – Part 2
Lily woke up worried. It would be her first school day. The last one she arrived at Hogwarts. She looked to her timetable. The first class was going to be History of Magic with Slytherin. She remembered what Sirius said, that an old man, Professor Binns, was their History of Magic teacher. And after all, she had received a letter from Petunia, her sister. Actually, the letter was in her trunk. Petunia must had put it there.
Lily,
I know exactly what you're thinking! I'm better than Petunia! I'm the one! I'm the favorite daughter! But you're not! Do you think you're gonna date the most beautiful boy in the world? I say you're not! The best you can date is our disgusting neighbor, that fat git, Vernon Dursley! I think he likes you. Poor Lily! And I want to say that you're not a witch. You CAN'T be. Because you're not evil. But I can say something: I hope the old medieval days come back and you soon will be burned! I have another disgusting notice for you: I heard our mother saying to our father that she's going to buy an owl for you!!!! Hahaha! They don't like you, they'll give you THIS kind of pet! And they'll give to me a ring, a sapphire ring. You're a brat and I'm not! You have only 11 years old. I'm 13! Do you know what it mean? I am a teenager, you're just a brat!!!!! Oh! And I told your friends (specially Christina Dawson and Nathalie Ludlow) that you moved to the South Pole just to get rid of them!! I read some of your letters of this abnormal school and I discovered you can pass the Christmas there. I hope you to do it!
Petunia Evans
Lily read the letter and thought about Petunia. Her sister! Petunia was always jealous of her, always wanted what Lily had. But Lily agreed with Petunia in one thing: their neighbor Vernon Dursley, who was 15 years old, was really a disgusting and fat git.
Lily wasn't worried about her friends or about her parents love for her. She was worried for Petunia. Her own sister hated her that way! Why? Maybe just jealous because of Hogwarts. But Petunia was always that way: the Christmas day was her stronger example for this: if they both got a doll, Petunia used to say that Lily's was better than hers. Lily didn't hate Petunia. She couldn't'. Petunia was her sister, her older sister (Petunia was younger in mental age but I'm talking about their birth ages).
She had put on some clothes, and then black robes, and went downstairs to the common room, very bored.
Remus, James and Sirius were the only living souls there. It was very early. They smiled to Lily.
"Hi!" she said
"Hello!" they replied at the same moment.
"What are you doing here?" she asked
"I suppose it's the same thing you're doing!" Sirius answered
Lily had felt stupid with that question, but she didn't want to show it, so she said:
"I have insomnia, that's why I'm up so early. The sun hasn't rise yet."
"Ooooh! So we have insomnia too, it must be an epidemic!" Sirius replied sarcastically
James laughed and whispered something to Remus. They looked to Sirius and Lily and laughed together.
"Hey! Can you say out loud what you're gossiping? I really want to know!"
"Nooooothing, Sirius! Only that you'll make a nice couple: Mr. And Mrs. Sirius Edward Black! Lily Black, that's really a nice name!" James shouted laughing
Sirius stayed quiet. Lily glanced James and shouted:
"If you don't have anything good to say, please, keep your mouth shut. Better Lily Black than James Lupin or Remus Potter!"
"Hey, Lily! I didn't say anything! There's no point in offending me!" Remus complained
" Sorry, Remus! But Potter is making me crazy! I don't like to be teased!"
"Potter?! Two minutes ago you were calling him James!" Remus replied
"I won't call him James anymore! I only like calling people by their first name when I like them! James Potter isn't my friend, so I won't call him James, I'll call him Potter!" Lily explained
"Okay… EVANS!" James replied
"What's going on?" Lucia, who had already opened the first year girls' dormitory
"Nothing! I'm just going to the library!" Lily shouted
Lily left the common room.
"Now, can you explain to me what really happened?" Lucia asked
"Well, I thought she was too young to have PMT! She must be in THAT days! I'm sure Madam Pomfrey has a potion for it!" James said calmly
"I think you're in that days, James! But, anyway, why Lily is so upset?" Lucia asked
"Nothing important, Lucia, it's just that… I don't know exactly, but I teased her first. She asked us why we were up so early, and I said that we were doing the same thing she was, then she said she had insomnia, and I just said that it must be an epidemic, an insomnia epidemic, and she got bored! Then, Jamie teased her saying that I and her are going to get married, because we were fighting, and Jamie here loves to say that who fights today will marry tomorrow or vice-versa, and she got bored, but more bored. Frankly, I am used to hear James's jokes, and marrying Lily wouldn't be bad… but now… what a mood she has!" Sirius explained
"They make a nice couple!" James agreed
"Does she have a boyfriend? I mean… he must be very jealous, because… well, she made all this scandal only because of a joke?" Sirius asked
"Hey! I met her yesterday! How could I know? I think she doesn't have a boyfriend. She's just 11 years old!"
Vincent Sparrow entered the common room
"What's going on? It's still bed time! Hey! I know you're first years, but you must know that 4 o'clock in the morning is a little bit too early for children be awaken! Please, go back to bed!" Sparrow said coldly
"I'm not a child!" James complained
"Neither am I. I'm a teenager!" Sirius agreed
"Okay, whatever you want to be called, go back to bed!" Sparrow ordered
They went upstairs, back to their dormitories. Sparrow went to his.
Lucia wanted to say something, but she didn't want to put Lily in trouble. Sparrow looked like a strict prefect, and if she said that a first year was out that hour, he must tell a teacher.
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"He must be dreaming! Lily Black! Humph! Even in my worst nightmare it couldn't happen! No, it isn't my worst nightmare! My worst nightmare would be the one when I marry Potter! I would wake up breathless and scared!"
Hogwarts was very dark. Lily was in one of the halls. Suddenly, she saw something shadowy.
The shadowy thing came next to her and…
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Lily screamed
"Hey! Calm down! I'm not a ghost, and… even if I was one, there's nothing to be startled! Look! I have two arms, two legs, one head… I'm a person, just like you!" it was a boy
"I'm really, really sorry! I didn't want to scream, but… you know… I can't see anything, it's too dark. I can't even see your face! I'm Lily Evans!" she said
"Severus Snape!" the boy whispered, realizing who was the person next to him
"Nice to meet you. You're the son of that lady who gave me some information about how to enter in the platform 9 ¾, aren't you?"
"I think I am. Oh, yes! You asked my mother how to get through the train. I remember. Which's your house?" Severus asked pretending not knowing
"Gryffindor. You're at Slytherin, aren't you? Of course you are! I saw you with the Sorting Hat, and then Sirius told me how sure he was that you were going to Slytherin, because…" she said stoping to talk when she realized she was going to tell him too much
"Because I know more curses than half of the seventh year's students! You can say that! Black says so to everyone who wants to hear! It's true. I know many curses, but even my father thought it was important, since there's many You-Know-Who's supporters, we have to know how to defense ourselves. If we just cross our arms, they'll have the whole magic world. We HAVE to be able to fight against them."
"That's a good point of view. Do you want to be an Auror? I'm a muggle-born witch, but I've read pretty much things to know about magical professions."
"Yep! I'm not sure, though I'm just eleven, but if I had to chose now, I would be an Auror. How about you?"
"I don't have the faintest idea. I don't know enough to say what I prefer to be. Sometimes I think I want to be a teacher. Really! But I think I would lost some of my personal life. Sometimes I think I want to have a shop at Hogsmeade,… Well, I'm too young to think about this! I still have my whole life to!"
"A whole life… my father… he was a very good Transfiguration teacher. You had to see the quantity of owls he had from his students. They liked him. I liked him, but he hasn't got time to be with me. He was too busy and he had to sleep at Hogwarts. He died last Christmas…" Snape said and suddenly, a tear rolled across his face
Lily put her hand kindly on his face.
"Don't cry, Severus. Some things happens because they had to."
Snape glanced Lily angrily
"He didn't have to die! It was all You-Know-Who's fault. He killed my father! I know!" he shouted
"Calm down, Severus. I didn't want to hurt you. I just wanted to try to make you stop crying. I'm sorry. Please, don't be angry with me!" Lily said sweetly
"I'm sorry, Lily. I didn't want to be rude to you. Friends?"
"Of course!"
"So… now you can tell me why were you sad when I met you!"
"Well, I've got a letter from my sister…"
"Sister? That's nice. I mean… I have got one little sister, Orchid. She's 9. I've got also a brother, Harold. He's her twin brother. But they're too different, you can't imagine! Not just outside, but inside too. Orchid is black-haired like my mother, but she has my father's blue eyes. She is a kind of happy girl, but she's very disturbed. I think she has her own world. She's also too shy. Harold, my little brother, was named after my father. He's blond like my father, but he has my mother's black eyes. He's outgoing, happy… But… why are you so upset? Your sister must have wrote you bad news."
"It's not nice to have a sister, at least for me. Not like Petunia. She hates me! She offended me every line in her letter. She cursed me every word in her letter!"
"Why?"
"Because she hates me, because she is my big sister and she thinks I stole our parents love from her. I think it is this."
"I have never had this problem with neither Orchid or Harold. My mother isn't affectionate, so she doesn't actually has to divide love. My father was more affectionate, but he barely was in our house. He had to sleep at Hogwarts, you know… I used to see him only in holidays and in a few weekends."
"My parents don't cared for us in different ways. They love us in the same way. But for Petunia, it isn't enough. She wants more than I have, so for her, if we have the same, she's having less. Understand?"
"Yes. She must be selfish."
"She is." Lily whispered and a tear rolled across her face, and she handed Petunia's letter to Snape
He read it.
"Wow! And I thought that Orchid was disturbed… your sister really needs some professional help. I've read that in the Muggle World, people can have some help from some people named psychologists." He said
"She's a bit disturbed. But I don't think it's case of a psychologist. She's jusat jealous. But her jealous makes me sad. It's sad to have a sister who thinks you wants her bad and because of this paranoia, she wants you bad too. It's weird."
Suddenly a shadowy form walked towards them. It was…
To be continued
A/N – Did you like it? I know it's not good at all, actually it's rather bad, but remember that they're just in the beginning of their first year at Hogwarts and they're still too infantile. Please, review! You can say if you like or you can blame my story too. I like to read all the kinds of reviews! Thanks to everybody who reviewed the last part!
I know there must be many grammar mistakes, but don't blame me for this, since English is not my first language. I'm looking for a beta-reader, if you want to correct my stories' many mistakes, please e-mail me: herm_potter@yahoo.com
I'll be glad! I'm glad you read it through the end.