Hi everyone!!! Sorry it took me sooooo long to get this chapter up, I've been experiencing a bit of writer's block, and I've been really busy with school...thanks to all reviewers! I LOVE you guys!!!

'Mentia of Insanity- I hadn't really thought about whether or not everyone knew that Lily was there illegally, and couldn't find a place to fit it in in this chapter, but I will try to explain in the next chapter or so...thanks for all your great questions!!! You're so good at reviewing!!! By the way, how is your story coming???



Chapter Five


September sped by in a blur of lessons, anti-trust, hope, dishonesty, love and confusion. In a big messy ball they entered into October. Quidditch tryouts were posted. Lily absolutely itched to get on a broom and try Quidditch, but she couldn't, because the Ministry could then spot her...

So during Quidditch tryouts, to get her mind off of it, Lily went to the Library. She was busy reading Hogwarts, A History, when in walked Harry. He smiled and came over to her, like they had been friends all along.

"Hey! Why aren't you trying out for Quidditch? *groan* Are you reading Hogwarts, A History???Why?"

"Hey! I can't try out for Quidditch, because the Ministry could spot me on a broom, and I'm illegally here, remember? Hermione told me to read this...but I think she meant some specific part, I just don't know what!"

"Oh...I think that she was a little confused on her books...I know what she wants you to read, but its in Wizarding World, A History....how 'bout I just tell you what it said? There were like three or four pages about you and your family and various other things..."

"About me?! Ok, I guess I don't care if I read it or someone tells it to me...why aren't you at tryouts though??"

"Gryffindor tryouts were yesterday! I'm seeker!"

"Of course!"

"Ok, so I'm telling it to you fairy tale style, because your life appears to really be a fairy tale...only you haven't gotten to the happy ending yet...Once upon a time, there was a normal, muggle family. A mother, Mary, and a father, Joseph, and a little girl, Lily. Lily was just out of her mothers womb, she was about one year old, when their normal muggle life spun out of control, and evil struck. Joseph had been having dreams. At first what he saw in them horrified him. Then he started to become numbed to their evil. One night he had a dream, a dream that struck him deeper, and with more terror, than ever before. Something evil was going to take his little girl. He pleaded with it, and it offered him an alternative. His little girl could stay with her mommy, but only if he came in her place. So he decided he would. He told Mary that he loved her, but that he had to save Lily, from a man named Voldemort. He said that he would go in Lily's place. Mary naturally thought he was insane. She cried and screamed, pleaded and begged, but he would hear none of it. He gave his life for his little girl, and in giving her all his love he gave her something more. He gave her the power to See, to See stronger, and more than anyone before. He laid in his little girls hands the power to defeat the man that had destroyed their family. A friend of Voldemort's, a Death Eater, came to "collect" Joseph. A man named Peter Pettigrew. And as he left he whispered something to Lily. No one knows what he said, though. Joseph had wizarding powers, which, in later years (surprisingly, after his death) were taken away. Along with taking away his wizarding powers, the Ministry of Magic banned anyone in his family from using magic, which, unbeknownst to them, was the best thing they had ever done to aid Voldemort. His mind was emptied and taken over by Voldemort, and he carried out some of the Dark Lord's most evil tasks, including helping to kill my father, James Potter. He was an empty shell. One day, something inside of your father fought back, and without the blink of an eye, the Dark Lord killed Joseph. Then he decided it was time to get you. Lily, you need to be careful..."

Lily was shaking and crying. She was feeling things, remembering things that she had blocked from her young mind, and she now knew why she felt she had to remember something in association with Pettigrew. Her awful dream in the hospital wing all made sense... Harry reached over and hugged her, both of them whispering "I'm sorry". Harry had given up. He was crying too. He was hugging the daughter of his father's murderer's accomplice's accomplice. But he saw that whatever Joseph had become, he was just an empty extension of Voldemort, he wasn't the Joseph that had given his life for his daughter.



Harry and Lily had sat in the library, shaking and hugging and crying and sharing painful past memories for at least another hour. Then they were suddenly interrupted by a bunch of loud Slytherins. While, two hours ago, they would have quickly stood up and been embarrassed, now it just seemed pointless to pretend. They hadn't been hugging when the Slytherins came in, just crying and talking and blowing their already very red noses. However, because they continued to cry and talk, all the Slytherins stopped and stared. Then Draco and Pansy walked in, and, wanting to see what everyone was standing around for, pushed their way to the front. They both stood shocked, Draco with a lead feeling in his stomach. He had failed his father. Harry Potter had gotten to her...

Pansy was the first to recover, and she went up to both of them and asked what was wrong. Harry was drying his eyes, and Lily was attempting to, but neither were about to speak. Draco stepped forward.

"Potter, what have you done to her?" he asked, even though he knew perfectly well that Harry had done nothing to harm Lily.

"He hasn't done anything to me, Draco. He has only revealed a large portion of my past, which I so cleverly had forgotten. And it has been a most heroic thing for him to do, because, in doing so, he has opened up some of his own emotional wounds. That's all." Lily said, matter-of-factly, before blowing her nose once again.

Pansy took pity and ushered all of the snickering and staring Slytherins out of the library.

"Lily, do you want anything to eat or drink? Are you gonna be alright? Remember that we are having a celebration in the common room tonight, and you are really expected to be there...it doesn't start for another three hours though...and you need to be in dress robes. It's a dance..." Pansy smiled, and dragged Draco away.

After Pansy and Draco left, Lily turned and smiled at Harry, answering all the questions running through his mind.

"They really can be ok. What I've realized is, Slytherins are people too. While a lot of them have a wicked side that they show mainly the Gryffindors, I have yet to see a Slytherin who doesn't have at least a little human compassion. I am, of course, only speaking for those in school now, I know very well that Voldemort has no compassion, but he isn't exactly human..."

"What shocked me was that Draco is even nice to you..."

"I think he has a little plan of some sort up his sleeve, his father being who he is, but I have no real proof of this, and I've talked to him about it already, so for now I'm feeling ok in Slytherin. I would still prefer to be in Gryffindor, but, alas, the Sorting Hat wouldn't answer my requests!"

"What did it say?"

"Just that I had a 50-50 chance of being in Gryffindor OR Slytherin, and while I wanted to be in Gryffindor, Slytherin needed me....*sigh*..."

"Wow! Yeah, it said that I could be a great Slytherin, but listened when I told it which house I wanted to be in...You should probably start getting ready for your celebration tonight. It sounds fancy, and like you need to dress up! So..." Harry smiled.

Lily grinned, and they clumsily got up, hugged each other, and just as Lily was about to leave, Harry called her back. "Lily! Wait! Come back here for a sec!" Lily turned around and came back, focusing on NOT reading his mind.

"Yes?"

Harry leaned forward and gave her a peck on the cheek "for good luck". Lily's heart was thumping, loudly and quickly, and she was speechless. She managed to grin and say thanks (for the good luck, of course).

When she got back into the common room she avoided the stares of all of the Slytherins, and went up to the dorm room, which smelled heavily of several kinds of perfume, and was filled with about five girls, all trying to look amazing, and succeeding. She came in and immediately felt dirty and not at all ready for the "celebration". Luckily, Pansy just needed a little help with her hair and makeup, and then was ready to help Lily.

"So, you have a date for tonight..." Pansy said matter-of-factly to Lily.

"WHAT?!! Who???"

"Draco! He told me to tell you...I'm sooo envious!"

"Ummm...can you just inform people that they are your date??? I didn't know that was done..."

"Dude! What are you complaining about? Draco is only the sweetest and hottest and smartest and richest guy in our grade! While I would kill to dance one dance with him, you're complaining about spending the whole evening with him! How weird!" Pansy laughed, as she painted Lily's nails black.

"Yes, but you have to remember that you like him, and I...I, well, don't. I mean he has been nothing but nice to me, but I'm just...not attracted to him...I'm too suspicious. Otherwise, I would probably totally like him..."

"*sigh*...I just don't get you! There is nothing to be suspicious of...don't worry! Just let yourself have fun tonight...you have clearly had a stressful day, and don't seem to want to talk about it..."

"Actually I do. I found out who my father was. My father helped kill Harry's parents. Except that it wasn't my father. It was his shell. Voldemort had taken him over, and do you know why??? Because my father gave his life to save mine. Voldemort wanted ME. And he still does..."

Pansy was speechless. "Oh, Lily, I'm so sorry...." Lily just sort of shrugged, and mumbled something about having a good time.

Pansy rubbed a bunch of stuff in Lily's hair to make it shiny and un-frizzy, and put a few finishing touches on her makeup.

"Voila! You look magnificent!" And Lily did. She was in her deep purple dress robes, with forest green ribbon draping everywhere, and her eyes were darker than usual, surrounded with dark eye makeup, and alluring. She smiled. Her hair curled in little ringlets like never before...she was stunning...she only wished Harry was there...


The Slytherins had had a magnificent feast with tons of butter beer and only the finest foods, and everyone was warm and fuzzy, and a few were slightly tipsy. Lily had had a little more butter beer than she had intended, but, for the most part, her wits were about her. It was almost 8:00, and she was roaring and ready to dance. She wanted to dance alone, but she figured she might as well humour Draco...

"May I have this dance?" He asked cordially, so that she was unable to resist. Pansy eyed her enviously. Lily could understand. Pansy was dancing with Crabbe.

"Why, certainly!" Lily smiled, and gave him her hand.

And so the game began.

Lily suddenly felt a strong urge to confide in Draco. She felt the need to have a real friend, someone she could really trust, and for some reason, she felt like Draco was the friend she was looking for. So as they were dancing, she started to just make a little small talk. Or something like that. "Hey, Draco?" she whispered.

"Yeah?"

"I just, uh, wanted to thank you for taking care of me in the hospital...you really didn't have to stay there all night...but thanks for doing that for me..." she grinned.

"No problem. You really scared me with your screaming. What was that all about?" he swallowed. The plan was definitely in action.

"I had a bad dream..."

A slow song started, and Draco pulled her closer. She was a little shocked, but she had to admit it was kind of nice. He smelled really good...she slowly ended up resting her head on his shoulder, but then abruptly pulled away, when she realized what she had just done. He just sort of smiled at her, in a laughing sort of way. She looked at him quizzically, like, "what now???" he pulled her closer again, his hand sort of rubbing her back.

Lily noticed Pansy looking at her with a sort of bemused expression on her face, but she could tell that Pansy was jealous.

"Hey Draco? I think that at the next slow song you should ask Pansy to dance..."

He looked at her, confused, and said, "Why would I want to do that?"

She sort of blushed, but continued. "Because Pansy would be eternally grateful to get away from Crabbe or Goyle or whoever it is she is dancing with. They keep stepping on her toes, and I think she would appreciate dancing with someone who really knows how to dance!"

"Yes, but then I would lose my wonderful date! Plus, Pansy can have pick of any guy in this room..."

Lily sighed. She felt very tangled up. She realized with a start that she liked both Harry and Draco! And Pansy liked Draco, too... It would make things so much easier if Draco would just like Pansy, Lily thought.

Draco realized that for the next few songs, Lily was sort of out of it. Different expressions kept crossing her face, but then she ended on one expression. He could only describe it as curiosity. She started to make mindless chatter again, and things were going great, until Draco "accidentally" stepped on her foot.

"Ouch!"

Draco apologized a lot, and swept her up, deeming her unable to walk.
She sort of laughed at this, feeling very adventurous, because the butterbeer was having its full effect. Draco carried her out of the Slytherin house, and carried her around for a long time, finally arriving...in the Slytherin boys' dorm!

"But, Draco...you've been carrying me around forever! We could've just gone up the stairs!"

"Ah, yes...but then everyone would know, wouldn't they???"

She giggled, and he went and got some ice for her foot.

"Want any butterbeer?"

"Wha---, oh, no...I've already had far too much, as you can see..."

He came, and gently slipped her shoe off, kneeling at her feet, looking up at her.

She smiled.

"Huh! I never would've guessed!"

"Hmmm?" Draco looked puzzled.

"Well, I just never would've imagined this scenario, not in a million years! I-I...oh...I don't even remember what I was saying..." She grinned sheepishly.

Draco scooped her up again, and carried her out of the boys' dorm, into a hidden room.

"Hey! Where are we???"

"That's a secret!"

He put her down gently on a little sofa, commonly known as a love seat. He sat down next to her, both of them sighing contentedly.

"A nice end to a hectic day..."

"Yeah...what were you and Potter talking about?"

"Lots of stuff...mainly the parents we never knew..." she sniffled.

He put his arm around her, and suddenly noticed that she had that funny, curious look in her eyes again.

"What?"

"I guess that you are so intriguing because I can't read your mind...do you have any idea how much I want to know what you are thinking??? I can't stand this total silence...how do normal people put up with it?"

"They think!"

"Are you, perchance, suggesting that I don't?"

"Oh no...why would I do that?" Draco's voice was dripping with a laughing sort of sarcasm.

She grinned, and then asked, "What are you thinking right now?"

"Well...I was thinking what a lovely girl you are...what are you thinking?"

"What a charmer you are...honestly, sometimes I think you're too smooth..."

He got a little ruffled at that, but swallowed, and kept his cool. He drew her closer, and drew a blanket around them. It was very warm, and very big, and...an invisibility cloak! Potter thought he was the only one in school who owned one, but he was wrong...

"What sort of blanket is this??" Lily asked, a little confused.

"Its an invisibility cloak! We can see each other, because we are wrapped in it, but no one can see us!"

"Oh, cool..."Lily had gotten quite tired from their escapades (also another butterbeer effect!) and snuggled up next to Draco, feeling quite calm, and safe, and tired... "G'night..." she sighed.

"Good night!" Draco practically sang. Lily was snuggled up to Draco and was asleep in a matter of seconds, but Draco didn't fall asleep for quite awhile. It was a Friday night, so they didn't have to worry about school tomorrow morning. He sighed contentedly. He had seemingly won her affections over Potter, but something inside him was worried.

Lily mumbled something in her sleep that sounded strangely exactly like what was worrying Draco. Apparently they shared the same fear.

"Pettigrew..."



End of Chapter FIVE!!!



Well...that's chapter five! Hmmm...why is Draco worried about Peter? Is Draco gonna be a nice guy or really evil??? (bwahahaha) Also, please tell me who you think Lily should end up with. I find Draco the most interesting character to develop, but I can't decide between him and Harry. Also, I'm thinking about pairing up a few other people (Harry, Ron, Hermione, Pansy, maybe Cho....) in later chapters. If you have any ideas on who should be with whom, please tell me. REVIEW!!!!!!!!! (please?) By the way, in case anyone is wondering, my name is not actually Lily Shouk. I wouldn't put myself in as the main character. I just couldn't think of a good pen name!!! I didn't mean to confuse anyone...

*All of J.K. Rowling's stuff is hers. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Dumbledore, Pettigrew, etc. However, the plot, and the main character (Lily) are mine!!! *