Chapter Three
Practically Pampered
It had already been about three days that Lily was stuck in that little old shack with Cauchmar. Of course, there was a fridge and a house elf to help her, but honestly, Lily wasn't use to making her own food, and if anyone knows anything about cooking, you know that (1) it can be quite difficult and (2) it's even harder if your eyes are red and swollen. Lily, learned this the hard way, which didn't improve her mood.
After those three long days which seemed like an eternity, Dumbledore came back with someone else. It was a girl with long, straight, black hair, tan skin, and big brown almond eyes. "Hello, Lily dear," she said politely. Lily glared menacingly at her. "Sorry," she said and looked at her feet.
Lily stared up at Albus Dumbledore. Before Lily had a chance to speak he cut her off, "Lily, we need to get you some other clothes." Lily looked down at the sweaty, dirty, grimy clothes that she had worn in Diagon Alley.
Lily just nodded her head silently. In a quiet and small voice she said, "I have one other thing," and she looked at her feet.
Dumbledore was pretty shocked, "May I see it," he asked nicely. Lily handed him the bad with the clothing she was going to wear at the ball. "These are to formal to wear shopping," he said, "I had Allison bring some jeans, sneakers, and a t-shirt to shop in," Lily nodded again. So that new person's name was Allison. Allison looked over at Lily and smiled a pity smile, and then handed Lily a bad. "Go change, Lily," Dumbledore said sweetly, Lily nodded; she seemed to be doing that a lot recently.
She put on the blue jeans and t-shirt, which fit perfectly, then knelt over to tie up the laces on the shoes. She suspected it was magicked to fit her, but then again, almost everything she thought was magic, and almost every time she was right.
"Are we leaving now?" Lily asked suddenly.
It was Dumbledore's turn to nod. You need some regular clothes, clothes for school, and clothing for the ceremony in 4 days."
"Ceremony," Lily squeaked. Dumbledore nodded again. Lily bowed her head down in understanding, after her grandmother's death, her mother was given the crown exactly a week later, even though her mother was still devastated at the lose, it was for the good of Magid, and Lily knew this. Lily cried no more tears, she was all cried out, she couldn't even shed one at the memory of her grandmother's death, she just felt the bitter reality that she was all alone, she had no family anymore.
"Let's go," Dumbledore said ad took Lily's hand, he was talking quietly again, but he was just murmuring to himself so Lily couldn't hear him.
---------- * * * Diagon Alley Again * * * ----------
Dumbledore led Lily by the hand around Diagon Alley in fear that she would run away or just get lost, she wasn't use to this world, or that's what he thought. It was then Lily remembered something and stopped so suddenly even Dumbledore was surprised. "You said I had to get school things, right?" Dumbledore nodded, "What school am I going to?" she asked.
"The only place we can be sure your safe, Hogwarts of course. You won't be allowed to regular classes as soon as you get there, but after a few months we will know how safe you really are here, but if your safe anywhere, it will be Hogwarts." He said.
Lily smiled, it was a little smile that barely wrinkled her nose, but her lips twitched and Dumbledore saw it and got a twinkle in his eye, he knew what she was thinking.
"First things first, we need to get you regular clothes and school clothes, then we'll look at the fancier stuff for the ceremony. Lily looked up at the tall old man, "Can I wear the dress I already have?" she asked quietly, but he heard her.
"Yes, Lily, you can." And he led her into Madam Malkins Robes for All Occasions. This was, of course, the second time Lily had been there, but Madam Malkin knew what happened and was careful to stay away from the subject.
"Hello, sweetie," she said as they walked in the door. She had known they were coming, Dumbledore had owled in so she could have the place pretty much empty. "Lets see, I have your measurements and I have a few things that would fit you. Come on," she urged Lily into a dressing room, "Make sure that they all fit. Some are just for you and others are for Hogwarts. The Hogwarts ones are black and the other colored ones are basically casual wear. On the floor there are some shoes to try on and on a different hanger you'll see jackets and what not. O just try them on and see what fits," Madam Malkin urged again.
In the dressing room, which happened to be quite large, there was tons of clothing of practically every color. On a hanger on the door were light windbreaker jackets to heavy winter ones. On a long yet thin piece of wood were what looked to be 20 pairs of assorted shoes. Dress shoes, dance shoes, sneakers, formal slippers... etc. In some hangers just on the wall, the robes were organized by color. On one hanger there were robes of different shades of red, on the next one was orange, then yellow, then greens, then blues, then purples, then pinks, then grays, then browns, and finally on the last hanger on the wall were rainbow colored ones that were tie dyed or stripped or plaid. She could tell that Madam Malkin new it would all fit, it was all her size, and Lily looked to a rack that was in the back and she saw some muggle clothing. Jeans, shorts, sweaters, t-shirts, skirts, dresses, jumpers, socks, (yes socks were on the hanger) and under that on a small corner table was
underwear. Lily blushed for no reason at all, Dumbledore was practically pampering her.
Lily walked out of the room, "Is that all mine?" she asked in wonder.
Dumbledore smiled and his eyes twinkled, "Yes, you needed a whole new wardrobe so I thought I'd hand that over to Madam Malkin." Lily smiled, not a small twitchy one, but a real smile, sure no teeth were showing, but it was still a real smile.
"What else do I need for school?" Lily asked.
"Well let's get your books next." Dumbledore said. She wasn't paying attention that she had gotten so much stuff, sure she was grateful and all, but she wanted to get ready for school. Lily nodded.
Lily walked without her hand being held this time, but she was right next to Dumbledore, oddly enough, not many people recognized her in Diagon Alley so people didn't bombard her. Lily was pretty grateful. They walked into the book store and she was awestruck. Sure, at her mansion she had a library with tons of books, but she was usually trying to sneak into the storage closest, or spy on the teachers, climb trees, or riding Cauchmar to pay attention to how big her real library was, so when she saw all of these books, she thought `Wow, I've never seen this many books.' Of course she was wrong, but who can tell, I mean, she never really actually looked at the books that the library had, so she had never seen them.
Dumbledore walked over the manager while Lily looked around. She was looking at books about Pegasus, she had read a few when she first got Cauchmar, but that was about it. She took the book and carried it with her. In the next aisle she saw practical joke books, Lily's favorite. Most of these she had actually read. There was one she didn't recognize and walked quickly over to the book to pick it up, but someone got there first.
A hand brushed against hers and in shock, Lily dropped her other book, looking down she knelt to the floor to pick up the book. When she looked up, the person smiled. "Hi Lily," he said. "Remember me," of course Lily remember him, someone that always talks is hard to forget, "Sirius Black, do you remember? Huh?" Lily smiled, he was to perky.
"Yes, I remember you," she said quietly looking down.
"I haven't seen you around Diagon Alley in a long time." Sirius stressed long.
"It's been three days." Lily said. What's up with this person? She thought.
"O, well three days, long time, you know, same thing." He said, Lily smiled.
"It's nice to see you again," Lily said and smiled.
"You know, James was right, you do look familiar." Sirius said sincerely.
"I just saw you three days ago silly," Lily answered. `If he finds out who I really am he'll be like everybody else and just ask me for stuff.
"Yea, I guess," he said skeptically.
"Lily, did you find anything," Dumbledore called.
"Um, yea two things," Lily answered and quickly grabbed the prank book from the shelf, leaving Sirius staring after her glaring daggers. Sirius walked out of that aisle to see who had called her. He gasped when he saw it was the Headmaster Dumbledore. `Why was she with him' Sirius thought. Did she do something terrible to already be followed around by the Headmaster? Cool!'
Lily handed Dumbledore the books and he paid for all of her school things. Lily looked up gratefully at Dumbledore, leaving an awestruck Sirius there. Lily and Dumbledore continued there shopping, which consisted of books, (got that,) clothes and wardrobe (got that), candy, (I'm hungry), basic necessities such as toothbrush, hairbrush, comb... etc., more candy (I'm very hungry right now!) and some other things that most other people have, except for the Pegasus stuff, because Lily bought some things for her. And she also bought a few pieces of simple jewelry such has (1) gold bracelet with (3) charms. One of a dragon, one of a centaur, and one of Pegasus. She bought (2) silver necklaces. One had a lily on the end of it, and the other had a rose. She also bought one gold plain necklace and a strand of pearls. She didn't have pierced ears, (she had refused so much that when her mother took her to get it done she bit the person with the ear gun, which usually isn't a good
idea.) so she didn't buy earrings.
"Mr. Dumbledore," Lily said.
"Yes Lily, you can just call me Professor Dumbledore, Mr. Sounds to old." He said.
Lily was thinking that he was old but didn't say anything, "Professor Dumbledore, can I sleep somewhere else tonight? I don't like the little shack."
"We weren't planning on you sleeping there again tonight. We found a family that would take care of you until School started in 3 months. I'll pick you up in 4 days of course for the crowning, they know you're the princess, and I'd like to keep it to only them know, and they won't tell anyone else." The last part he said more sternly, then his expression changed a little. "Just be careful, and they have a room ready for you and I'll send your clothes over. They have a nice sized house, pretty big but smaller than you old one. They have a boy about your age actually, so you'll have a friend. You can't go by your last name Evans; considering that's not a very common name, you can go by Lily though. What should I tell them your last name is?"
"Craigs," Lily responded fast, "That was my father's last name." She hated saying that in past tense.
"Ok," Dumbledore agreed, and "I expect you to be on your best behavior. I'll tell them to call you Lily Craigs."
"Whom, exactly am I staying with?" Lily asked.
"A very respectable and a very well known magical family." Dumbledore replied.
"Who?" Lily asked again.
"Why, the Potter's of course." Lily gulped, didn't she meet someone named James Potter who she lied to about her real name. Wait a minute, Potter was a very common name, maybe it was someone else, Lily thought. Hopefully, someone else.
---------- * * * Author's Note * * * ----------
Hurray! chapter three is up in three days. Are you not all proud of me! And I'm pleased to say that this story is now on two peoples favorite story list, so I'm happy and I'm getting all good reviews. Remember, if you want something to happen, just put it in the review and I'll consider it. No promises, but you never know, and I'll give you credit at the end of the chapter in my little Author's Note thing. So did you like this one, next chapter is kind of odd, Lily isn't actually at the "Potter's" and I'm saying now that he ISN'T mad that Lily lied, because it was for her own protection (I'll let him believe what I want him to believe so there) but the next chapter is entitled "The Crowning" so Lily might start crying and Sirius finds out who she really is. Ok, so I gave it all away but theres one HUGE thing I didn't tell you and it is.................READ THE NEXT CHAPTER AND REVIEW SO THE NEXT CHAPTER COMES OUT SOONER.
Practically Pampered
It had already been about three days that Lily was stuck in that little old shack with Cauchmar. Of course, there was a fridge and a house elf to help her, but honestly, Lily wasn't use to making her own food, and if anyone knows anything about cooking, you know that (1) it can be quite difficult and (2) it's even harder if your eyes are red and swollen. Lily, learned this the hard way, which didn't improve her mood.
After those three long days which seemed like an eternity, Dumbledore came back with someone else. It was a girl with long, straight, black hair, tan skin, and big brown almond eyes. "Hello, Lily dear," she said politely. Lily glared menacingly at her. "Sorry," she said and looked at her feet.
Lily stared up at Albus Dumbledore. Before Lily had a chance to speak he cut her off, "Lily, we need to get you some other clothes." Lily looked down at the sweaty, dirty, grimy clothes that she had worn in Diagon Alley.
Lily just nodded her head silently. In a quiet and small voice she said, "I have one other thing," and she looked at her feet.
Dumbledore was pretty shocked, "May I see it," he asked nicely. Lily handed him the bad with the clothing she was going to wear at the ball. "These are to formal to wear shopping," he said, "I had Allison bring some jeans, sneakers, and a t-shirt to shop in," Lily nodded again. So that new person's name was Allison. Allison looked over at Lily and smiled a pity smile, and then handed Lily a bad. "Go change, Lily," Dumbledore said sweetly, Lily nodded; she seemed to be doing that a lot recently.
She put on the blue jeans and t-shirt, which fit perfectly, then knelt over to tie up the laces on the shoes. She suspected it was magicked to fit her, but then again, almost everything she thought was magic, and almost every time she was right.
"Are we leaving now?" Lily asked suddenly.
It was Dumbledore's turn to nod. You need some regular clothes, clothes for school, and clothing for the ceremony in 4 days."
"Ceremony," Lily squeaked. Dumbledore nodded again. Lily bowed her head down in understanding, after her grandmother's death, her mother was given the crown exactly a week later, even though her mother was still devastated at the lose, it was for the good of Magid, and Lily knew this. Lily cried no more tears, she was all cried out, she couldn't even shed one at the memory of her grandmother's death, she just felt the bitter reality that she was all alone, she had no family anymore.
"Let's go," Dumbledore said ad took Lily's hand, he was talking quietly again, but he was just murmuring to himself so Lily couldn't hear him.
---------- * * * Diagon Alley Again * * * ----------
Dumbledore led Lily by the hand around Diagon Alley in fear that she would run away or just get lost, she wasn't use to this world, or that's what he thought. It was then Lily remembered something and stopped so suddenly even Dumbledore was surprised. "You said I had to get school things, right?" Dumbledore nodded, "What school am I going to?" she asked.
"The only place we can be sure your safe, Hogwarts of course. You won't be allowed to regular classes as soon as you get there, but after a few months we will know how safe you really are here, but if your safe anywhere, it will be Hogwarts." He said.
Lily smiled, it was a little smile that barely wrinkled her nose, but her lips twitched and Dumbledore saw it and got a twinkle in his eye, he knew what she was thinking.
"First things first, we need to get you regular clothes and school clothes, then we'll look at the fancier stuff for the ceremony. Lily looked up at the tall old man, "Can I wear the dress I already have?" she asked quietly, but he heard her.
"Yes, Lily, you can." And he led her into Madam Malkins Robes for All Occasions. This was, of course, the second time Lily had been there, but Madam Malkin knew what happened and was careful to stay away from the subject.
"Hello, sweetie," she said as they walked in the door. She had known they were coming, Dumbledore had owled in so she could have the place pretty much empty. "Lets see, I have your measurements and I have a few things that would fit you. Come on," she urged Lily into a dressing room, "Make sure that they all fit. Some are just for you and others are for Hogwarts. The Hogwarts ones are black and the other colored ones are basically casual wear. On the floor there are some shoes to try on and on a different hanger you'll see jackets and what not. O just try them on and see what fits," Madam Malkin urged again.
In the dressing room, which happened to be quite large, there was tons of clothing of practically every color. On a hanger on the door were light windbreaker jackets to heavy winter ones. On a long yet thin piece of wood were what looked to be 20 pairs of assorted shoes. Dress shoes, dance shoes, sneakers, formal slippers... etc. In some hangers just on the wall, the robes were organized by color. On one hanger there were robes of different shades of red, on the next one was orange, then yellow, then greens, then blues, then purples, then pinks, then grays, then browns, and finally on the last hanger on the wall were rainbow colored ones that were tie dyed or stripped or plaid. She could tell that Madam Malkin new it would all fit, it was all her size, and Lily looked to a rack that was in the back and she saw some muggle clothing. Jeans, shorts, sweaters, t-shirts, skirts, dresses, jumpers, socks, (yes socks were on the hanger) and under that on a small corner table was
underwear. Lily blushed for no reason at all, Dumbledore was practically pampering her.
Lily walked out of the room, "Is that all mine?" she asked in wonder.
Dumbledore smiled and his eyes twinkled, "Yes, you needed a whole new wardrobe so I thought I'd hand that over to Madam Malkin." Lily smiled, not a small twitchy one, but a real smile, sure no teeth were showing, but it was still a real smile.
"What else do I need for school?" Lily asked.
"Well let's get your books next." Dumbledore said. She wasn't paying attention that she had gotten so much stuff, sure she was grateful and all, but she wanted to get ready for school. Lily nodded.
Lily walked without her hand being held this time, but she was right next to Dumbledore, oddly enough, not many people recognized her in Diagon Alley so people didn't bombard her. Lily was pretty grateful. They walked into the book store and she was awestruck. Sure, at her mansion she had a library with tons of books, but she was usually trying to sneak into the storage closest, or spy on the teachers, climb trees, or riding Cauchmar to pay attention to how big her real library was, so when she saw all of these books, she thought `Wow, I've never seen this many books.' Of course she was wrong, but who can tell, I mean, she never really actually looked at the books that the library had, so she had never seen them.
Dumbledore walked over the manager while Lily looked around. She was looking at books about Pegasus, she had read a few when she first got Cauchmar, but that was about it. She took the book and carried it with her. In the next aisle she saw practical joke books, Lily's favorite. Most of these she had actually read. There was one she didn't recognize and walked quickly over to the book to pick it up, but someone got there first.
A hand brushed against hers and in shock, Lily dropped her other book, looking down she knelt to the floor to pick up the book. When she looked up, the person smiled. "Hi Lily," he said. "Remember me," of course Lily remember him, someone that always talks is hard to forget, "Sirius Black, do you remember? Huh?" Lily smiled, he was to perky.
"Yes, I remember you," she said quietly looking down.
"I haven't seen you around Diagon Alley in a long time." Sirius stressed long.
"It's been three days." Lily said. What's up with this person? She thought.
"O, well three days, long time, you know, same thing." He said, Lily smiled.
"It's nice to see you again," Lily said and smiled.
"You know, James was right, you do look familiar." Sirius said sincerely.
"I just saw you three days ago silly," Lily answered. `If he finds out who I really am he'll be like everybody else and just ask me for stuff.
"Yea, I guess," he said skeptically.
"Lily, did you find anything," Dumbledore called.
"Um, yea two things," Lily answered and quickly grabbed the prank book from the shelf, leaving Sirius staring after her glaring daggers. Sirius walked out of that aisle to see who had called her. He gasped when he saw it was the Headmaster Dumbledore. `Why was she with him' Sirius thought. Did she do something terrible to already be followed around by the Headmaster? Cool!'
Lily handed Dumbledore the books and he paid for all of her school things. Lily looked up gratefully at Dumbledore, leaving an awestruck Sirius there. Lily and Dumbledore continued there shopping, which consisted of books, (got that,) clothes and wardrobe (got that), candy, (I'm hungry), basic necessities such as toothbrush, hairbrush, comb... etc., more candy (I'm very hungry right now!) and some other things that most other people have, except for the Pegasus stuff, because Lily bought some things for her. And she also bought a few pieces of simple jewelry such has (1) gold bracelet with (3) charms. One of a dragon, one of a centaur, and one of Pegasus. She bought (2) silver necklaces. One had a lily on the end of it, and the other had a rose. She also bought one gold plain necklace and a strand of pearls. She didn't have pierced ears, (she had refused so much that when her mother took her to get it done she bit the person with the ear gun, which usually isn't a good
idea.) so she didn't buy earrings.
"Mr. Dumbledore," Lily said.
"Yes Lily, you can just call me Professor Dumbledore, Mr. Sounds to old." He said.
Lily was thinking that he was old but didn't say anything, "Professor Dumbledore, can I sleep somewhere else tonight? I don't like the little shack."
"We weren't planning on you sleeping there again tonight. We found a family that would take care of you until School started in 3 months. I'll pick you up in 4 days of course for the crowning, they know you're the princess, and I'd like to keep it to only them know, and they won't tell anyone else." The last part he said more sternly, then his expression changed a little. "Just be careful, and they have a room ready for you and I'll send your clothes over. They have a nice sized house, pretty big but smaller than you old one. They have a boy about your age actually, so you'll have a friend. You can't go by your last name Evans; considering that's not a very common name, you can go by Lily though. What should I tell them your last name is?"
"Craigs," Lily responded fast, "That was my father's last name." She hated saying that in past tense.
"Ok," Dumbledore agreed, and "I expect you to be on your best behavior. I'll tell them to call you Lily Craigs."
"Whom, exactly am I staying with?" Lily asked.
"A very respectable and a very well known magical family." Dumbledore replied.
"Who?" Lily asked again.
"Why, the Potter's of course." Lily gulped, didn't she meet someone named James Potter who she lied to about her real name. Wait a minute, Potter was a very common name, maybe it was someone else, Lily thought. Hopefully, someone else.
---------- * * * Author's Note * * * ----------
Hurray! chapter three is up in three days. Are you not all proud of me! And I'm pleased to say that this story is now on two peoples favorite story list, so I'm happy and I'm getting all good reviews. Remember, if you want something to happen, just put it in the review and I'll consider it. No promises, but you never know, and I'll give you credit at the end of the chapter in my little Author's Note thing. So did you like this one, next chapter is kind of odd, Lily isn't actually at the "Potter's" and I'm saying now that he ISN'T mad that Lily lied, because it was for her own protection (I'll let him believe what I want him to believe so there) but the next chapter is entitled "The Crowning" so Lily might start crying and Sirius finds out who she really is. Ok, so I gave it all away but theres one HUGE thing I didn't tell you and it is.................READ THE NEXT CHAPTER AND REVIEW SO THE NEXT CHAPTER COMES OUT SOONER.