Chapter Seven
"Are you ready?"
"Yup."
"Do you have everything?"
"Of course."
"Any last minute things?"
"Nope."
"Are you positive?"
"Yea- wait, stop. Don't go to the train station yet. I have to get my trunk with all my food!" Lily cried out loud to the person in front of her. It was Dumbledore.
"Ok, hurry up," he said, his eye's glistened happily.
"Ok," she yelled down the stairs to him. She has at James' house. That was, after all, where she was living at the time. "Are Remus and Sirius ready yet?" she yelled again.
"I'm not sure, we're picking them up on our way to the station. How many trunks do you have?" He asked, yelling so that she could hear him.
"Only 7," she said, and then he could see her at the top of the stairs shrugging.
"Seven?" he asked.
"Food, clothes, more clothes, books for school, books for reading, stuff for Cauchmar, and some odds and ends and hair stuff!" she explained, and was dragging a trunk down the stairs.
"It's almost like your moving into Hogwarts, not schooling there," Dumbledore commented.
"Well, I'm not coming back for Spring break or Christmas break because you said I can't cause of Voldie or whoever he was."
"True, but you don't need all of this stuff. I know your have a room to your self but will it all fit?"
"Why I can't be with the other girls?" she asked and had just landed at the foot of the stairs.
"Because…" he was at a loss for words. How do you explain to an Eleven-year-old who was Queen of an entire country that she wasn't allowed to be in a room with other girls her age incase one of them was actually bad, evil, or much worse, "…" he was still thinking, "Because you can't fit seven trunks in a room with three other people," he responded. She was to young to know about a couple of things. He would explain later and he just hated lying to her.
"You're lying," she said blatantly and was dragging what looked like a very heavy trunk towards the front of the house.
"Not entirely," he said again.
"You shouldn't lie. It's bad." Lily didn't even seem that concerned over what he was lying about. She just didn't like the fact that someone was lying, but she continued with the dragging of her trunk.
"Your right. Would you rather I tell you that you're to young to understand?" he asked.
At this Lily stopped. "No. I can't be to young to understand unless you also tell me I am to young to be Queen. So you are directly lying to me now saying that I'm to young to understand something or you were lying to me before when you said I was ready to be Queen. Either way you're lying. Stop lying."
Damn, this girl was smart. Dumbledore sighed, "Can I just say you'll understand when you're older?"
"That doesn't work either."
He sighed again. "Let me help with that," he said and used some magic to make the trunk float to a parked car in front of the Potter's house.
"JAMES!" Lily screeched at the top of her lungs.
In about 30 seconds a boy with unruly brown hair was breathing heavily as he practically flew down the stairs. "Yes?" he questioned, panting for air.
"It's time to go," Lily said sweetly.
James smiled, "Are my trunks in the car," he said, eyeing the car hardly.
"Yup, and all of my trunks too. Let's go get Sirius and Remus!"
"K!" James replied happily. Dumbledore was quite amused at lily's randomness. First she was yelling at him for lying and now she was bouncing towards the car.
James and Lily got in the car. Dumbledore did too. They picked up a very happy Sirius who was complaining to Dumbledore about why he couldn't have a broomstick. Well, that is, he was complaining until Lily got fed up with his annoying chatter that she smacked him in the back of the head. James was in awe that this worked for her in shutting Sirius up. He had done that a million times, but Sirius kept on talking. Lily had the magic touch.
Remus, on the other hand, was quiet and subdued. Calm and collective and seemed extremely out of place with the three first years talking excitedly about Hogwarts.
"Remus, are you ok?" Lily asked concerned.
Remus was white and pale. "Um, yea, I'm fine," he replied.
Lily eyed him suspiciously. "You sure?"
"Completely," he responded.
"We're here," Dumbledore announced.
"The train station? I thought we were going to go to Hogwarts!" Lily exclaimed.
"You are, but you need to take the train to get there. Don't worry, Hagrid was already notified and he'll tell you guys how to get into the school. McGonagall is also there and she'll do the sorting," Dumbledore explained.
"You're not going to be there?" Lily asked.
"Nope, sorry, I have some things to do before hand. I'll be there in a few days though. Gives you some time to explore the castle."
"OK," Lily said with a shrug. "Um, I need help carrying my trunks," she said sadly.
"No problem," Dumbledore said and with a wave of his wand, each trunk became about the size of a stapler.
"Cool," Lily said. Her eyes wide open.
"OK, so just walk through that wall," he said gesturing to a barrier, and you'll see the train. You'll be the only ones on it except for the driver so don't pester her, got it!"
"Yes sir," Sirius said, saluting him like he was a drill sergeant. Lily giggled.
"Come on," she said and started at a dead run right for the barrier and quickly disappeared. Three boys soon joined her. "This is so awesome!" she exclaimed.
James just nodded and Remus smiled, remember what it was like last year for him. They all boarded the train and Lily did the only counter charm she knew. Finite Incantatem. And soon her food trunk and her reading book trunk were the right size.
"Ok. Everyone shut up while Remus tells us about Hogwarts," Lily exclaimed and stared intently and the blonde boy.
"Well, to put it right, it's extremely…magical?" he paused and thought, "You'll see in a few hours. What house do you guys want?"
"Gryffindor," James and Sirius said at the same time.
Lily giggled again, "I want…. Gryffindor too. It sounds good, but Ravenclaw doesn't sound bad. I just want to be with you guys." It became quiet all of a sudden and remained that was for a while. Eventually Lily picked up a book and started reading. Sirius was watching Lily read the book. It was the prank book. James was going through Lily's food trunk and Remus was busy with his own thoughts and was staring out the window.
That's why, when Lily suddenly said, "I'm bored," that they all jumped up. "Do something interesting."
"You can't make me!" Sirius announced.
"Well, I wasn't speaking specifically to you, but now I am. And yes, I can make you!" she stated.
"Nope," Sirius said defiantly.
Sirius was sitting at the moment and Lily rose and stood up. "Do something interesting." She announced, and loomed over him evilly.
"Um.. no," Sirius said. This time he wasn't sure.
"Why?" Lily asked.
Sirius was a bit taken aback by the comment. "I don't know what to do," he said.
"Anything, I'm bored!!!!!"
"Um, we could… play a game," he said.
"Ok, what game?"
"Exploding Snaps?"
"No I'll get messy and I don't want to lose my eyebrows." Lily reasoned.
"What about we play truth or dare!" James suggested. After Lily taught it to him while she was at his house, he had become positively obsessed.
"Fine," Lily said with a sigh. "You go first!"
"Ok, Sirius, truth or dare?"
"Neither, I hate this game," Sirius responded.
"Hey, I like it," James said.
"But it's so stupid."
"Is not"
"Is too"
"Is not"
"Is too"
"Is not"
"Is too"
"Is not"
"Is too"
"Is too"
"Is not"
"Haha, right you agreed!" Sirius announced.
"But hey, you cheated."
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did."
"Shut up," Lily said quietly at first and then repeated it much louder "BE QUIET!"
Sirius and James both shut their mouths. Lily smiled. "Look, it's the castle."
No one spoke.
They were all in awe. It was huge and magnificent.
"Let's go," Lily said breaking the silence. She then did a redo spell that made her trunks tiny again. Hehe, she giggled to herself and thought, 'I can do magic and they can't.' Just because she's a Queen doesn't mean she doesn't act like she's eleven!
"Come on," Lily said, hurrying them up!
They all walked out of the train and looked at the big castle. "Welcome to Hogwarts," Remus whispered.
Then, a dark shadow loomed over them. It was a huge shadow that took the form of a giant. All four of the small children looked up and before them saw a tall giant holding an umbrella. Lily squeaked softly and would have run away if her legs hadn't felt like jelly. She could tell that her friends felt the same because Sirius looked just as frightened as she felt. She was getting light headed from being so scared. Then she got really Dizzy, and finally, she collapsed on the ground in a dead faint from being so scared.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~Author's Note ~~~~~~~~~~ * * *
Hey people. Took about a month, but I've been BUSY. I promise to update almost weekly from now on. I hope I don't break the promise. Who was the guy looming over her? Was it Hagrid? Was it someone evil? Will Sirius and James run or help her? Is Remus afraid? Why didn't Dumbledore take the train with them? Why are there only two teachers at Hogwarts? Will Lily ever remember Voldies name? These questioned answered, partially answered, or at least brought up in the next chapter. Read and review. O yea…. Here goes to the thank yous!
SAKURAnTOKYO – thanks. I think it's cute too. Lol.
Sierra Sitruc – Hey Sierra's my doggies name. I luv it. Sorry that it's so sad. There is another part that's not for a little bit that's really sad and you'll cry definitely, but it gets happier until that point and then afterwards t gets happy again too.
TheRedFEatheryPlug – teehee. Puppy eyes. Lol, how can I ignore it. Sorry I just don't have time to update things so I hope you liked this. I tried to make it a bit longer considering it took me forever to write!
QueenOfTheQueer – Wow. I'm on four peoples favorites list. That's SO awesome. Hurray!
Satans Little Princeses – here's some more…!
DANA – sorry it's sad Dana, but I like using emotion and crud. You've read other things like my poems and you know how I am. Emotions are what I try to use to make a good story. Emotions and description and I know I have a lot of typos. So sue me.
Lily Potter – thanks for the compliment.
Rini – thanks for the compliment as well. Just email me at sesmile@yahoo.com so I can get your email address to send you story chapter. I'll probably send it to you about three days before I want to post it since I'm going to try and update pretty much weekly starting next week (since this week is spring break for me…) Read Sarcasm Queen's comment as well.
Sarcasm Queen – Wow, two people offered to be my beta reader. Not 100 (but that'd be SO cool) Just email me, and read what I said to Rini… I could probably use both of you and send the chapter to you two first so whoever finished first I'll have in case one of you is really busy one of the weeks.
"Are you ready?"
"Yup."
"Do you have everything?"
"Of course."
"Any last minute things?"
"Nope."
"Are you positive?"
"Yea- wait, stop. Don't go to the train station yet. I have to get my trunk with all my food!" Lily cried out loud to the person in front of her. It was Dumbledore.
"Ok, hurry up," he said, his eye's glistened happily.
"Ok," she yelled down the stairs to him. She has at James' house. That was, after all, where she was living at the time. "Are Remus and Sirius ready yet?" she yelled again.
"I'm not sure, we're picking them up on our way to the station. How many trunks do you have?" He asked, yelling so that she could hear him.
"Only 7," she said, and then he could see her at the top of the stairs shrugging.
"Seven?" he asked.
"Food, clothes, more clothes, books for school, books for reading, stuff for Cauchmar, and some odds and ends and hair stuff!" she explained, and was dragging a trunk down the stairs.
"It's almost like your moving into Hogwarts, not schooling there," Dumbledore commented.
"Well, I'm not coming back for Spring break or Christmas break because you said I can't cause of Voldie or whoever he was."
"True, but you don't need all of this stuff. I know your have a room to your self but will it all fit?"
"Why I can't be with the other girls?" she asked and had just landed at the foot of the stairs.
"Because…" he was at a loss for words. How do you explain to an Eleven-year-old who was Queen of an entire country that she wasn't allowed to be in a room with other girls her age incase one of them was actually bad, evil, or much worse, "…" he was still thinking, "Because you can't fit seven trunks in a room with three other people," he responded. She was to young to know about a couple of things. He would explain later and he just hated lying to her.
"You're lying," she said blatantly and was dragging what looked like a very heavy trunk towards the front of the house.
"Not entirely," he said again.
"You shouldn't lie. It's bad." Lily didn't even seem that concerned over what he was lying about. She just didn't like the fact that someone was lying, but she continued with the dragging of her trunk.
"Your right. Would you rather I tell you that you're to young to understand?" he asked.
At this Lily stopped. "No. I can't be to young to understand unless you also tell me I am to young to be Queen. So you are directly lying to me now saying that I'm to young to understand something or you were lying to me before when you said I was ready to be Queen. Either way you're lying. Stop lying."
Damn, this girl was smart. Dumbledore sighed, "Can I just say you'll understand when you're older?"
"That doesn't work either."
He sighed again. "Let me help with that," he said and used some magic to make the trunk float to a parked car in front of the Potter's house.
"JAMES!" Lily screeched at the top of her lungs.
In about 30 seconds a boy with unruly brown hair was breathing heavily as he practically flew down the stairs. "Yes?" he questioned, panting for air.
"It's time to go," Lily said sweetly.
James smiled, "Are my trunks in the car," he said, eyeing the car hardly.
"Yup, and all of my trunks too. Let's go get Sirius and Remus!"
"K!" James replied happily. Dumbledore was quite amused at lily's randomness. First she was yelling at him for lying and now she was bouncing towards the car.
James and Lily got in the car. Dumbledore did too. They picked up a very happy Sirius who was complaining to Dumbledore about why he couldn't have a broomstick. Well, that is, he was complaining until Lily got fed up with his annoying chatter that she smacked him in the back of the head. James was in awe that this worked for her in shutting Sirius up. He had done that a million times, but Sirius kept on talking. Lily had the magic touch.
Remus, on the other hand, was quiet and subdued. Calm and collective and seemed extremely out of place with the three first years talking excitedly about Hogwarts.
"Remus, are you ok?" Lily asked concerned.
Remus was white and pale. "Um, yea, I'm fine," he replied.
Lily eyed him suspiciously. "You sure?"
"Completely," he responded.
"We're here," Dumbledore announced.
"The train station? I thought we were going to go to Hogwarts!" Lily exclaimed.
"You are, but you need to take the train to get there. Don't worry, Hagrid was already notified and he'll tell you guys how to get into the school. McGonagall is also there and she'll do the sorting," Dumbledore explained.
"You're not going to be there?" Lily asked.
"Nope, sorry, I have some things to do before hand. I'll be there in a few days though. Gives you some time to explore the castle."
"OK," Lily said with a shrug. "Um, I need help carrying my trunks," she said sadly.
"No problem," Dumbledore said and with a wave of his wand, each trunk became about the size of a stapler.
"Cool," Lily said. Her eyes wide open.
"OK, so just walk through that wall," he said gesturing to a barrier, and you'll see the train. You'll be the only ones on it except for the driver so don't pester her, got it!"
"Yes sir," Sirius said, saluting him like he was a drill sergeant. Lily giggled.
"Come on," she said and started at a dead run right for the barrier and quickly disappeared. Three boys soon joined her. "This is so awesome!" she exclaimed.
James just nodded and Remus smiled, remember what it was like last year for him. They all boarded the train and Lily did the only counter charm she knew. Finite Incantatem. And soon her food trunk and her reading book trunk were the right size.
"Ok. Everyone shut up while Remus tells us about Hogwarts," Lily exclaimed and stared intently and the blonde boy.
"Well, to put it right, it's extremely…magical?" he paused and thought, "You'll see in a few hours. What house do you guys want?"
"Gryffindor," James and Sirius said at the same time.
Lily giggled again, "I want…. Gryffindor too. It sounds good, but Ravenclaw doesn't sound bad. I just want to be with you guys." It became quiet all of a sudden and remained that was for a while. Eventually Lily picked up a book and started reading. Sirius was watching Lily read the book. It was the prank book. James was going through Lily's food trunk and Remus was busy with his own thoughts and was staring out the window.
That's why, when Lily suddenly said, "I'm bored," that they all jumped up. "Do something interesting."
"You can't make me!" Sirius announced.
"Well, I wasn't speaking specifically to you, but now I am. And yes, I can make you!" she stated.
"Nope," Sirius said defiantly.
Sirius was sitting at the moment and Lily rose and stood up. "Do something interesting." She announced, and loomed over him evilly.
"Um.. no," Sirius said. This time he wasn't sure.
"Why?" Lily asked.
Sirius was a bit taken aback by the comment. "I don't know what to do," he said.
"Anything, I'm bored!!!!!"
"Um, we could… play a game," he said.
"Ok, what game?"
"Exploding Snaps?"
"No I'll get messy and I don't want to lose my eyebrows." Lily reasoned.
"What about we play truth or dare!" James suggested. After Lily taught it to him while she was at his house, he had become positively obsessed.
"Fine," Lily said with a sigh. "You go first!"
"Ok, Sirius, truth or dare?"
"Neither, I hate this game," Sirius responded.
"Hey, I like it," James said.
"But it's so stupid."
"Is not"
"Is too"
"Is not"
"Is too"
"Is not"
"Is too"
"Is not"
"Is too"
"Is too"
"Is not"
"Haha, right you agreed!" Sirius announced.
"But hey, you cheated."
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did."
"Shut up," Lily said quietly at first and then repeated it much louder "BE QUIET!"
Sirius and James both shut their mouths. Lily smiled. "Look, it's the castle."
No one spoke.
They were all in awe. It was huge and magnificent.
"Let's go," Lily said breaking the silence. She then did a redo spell that made her trunks tiny again. Hehe, she giggled to herself and thought, 'I can do magic and they can't.' Just because she's a Queen doesn't mean she doesn't act like she's eleven!
"Come on," Lily said, hurrying them up!
They all walked out of the train and looked at the big castle. "Welcome to Hogwarts," Remus whispered.
Then, a dark shadow loomed over them. It was a huge shadow that took the form of a giant. All four of the small children looked up and before them saw a tall giant holding an umbrella. Lily squeaked softly and would have run away if her legs hadn't felt like jelly. She could tell that her friends felt the same because Sirius looked just as frightened as she felt. She was getting light headed from being so scared. Then she got really Dizzy, and finally, she collapsed on the ground in a dead faint from being so scared.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~Author's Note ~~~~~~~~~~ * * *
Hey people. Took about a month, but I've been BUSY. I promise to update almost weekly from now on. I hope I don't break the promise. Who was the guy looming over her? Was it Hagrid? Was it someone evil? Will Sirius and James run or help her? Is Remus afraid? Why didn't Dumbledore take the train with them? Why are there only two teachers at Hogwarts? Will Lily ever remember Voldies name? These questioned answered, partially answered, or at least brought up in the next chapter. Read and review. O yea…. Here goes to the thank yous!
SAKURAnTOKYO – thanks. I think it's cute too. Lol.
Sierra Sitruc – Hey Sierra's my doggies name. I luv it. Sorry that it's so sad. There is another part that's not for a little bit that's really sad and you'll cry definitely, but it gets happier until that point and then afterwards t gets happy again too.
TheRedFEatheryPlug – teehee. Puppy eyes. Lol, how can I ignore it. Sorry I just don't have time to update things so I hope you liked this. I tried to make it a bit longer considering it took me forever to write!
QueenOfTheQueer – Wow. I'm on four peoples favorites list. That's SO awesome. Hurray!
Satans Little Princeses – here's some more…!
DANA – sorry it's sad Dana, but I like using emotion and crud. You've read other things like my poems and you know how I am. Emotions are what I try to use to make a good story. Emotions and description and I know I have a lot of typos. So sue me.
Lily Potter – thanks for the compliment.
Rini – thanks for the compliment as well. Just email me at sesmile@yahoo.com so I can get your email address to send you story chapter. I'll probably send it to you about three days before I want to post it since I'm going to try and update pretty much weekly starting next week (since this week is spring break for me…) Read Sarcasm Queen's comment as well.
Sarcasm Queen – Wow, two people offered to be my beta reader. Not 100 (but that'd be SO cool) Just email me, and read what I said to Rini… I could probably use both of you and send the chapter to you two first so whoever finished first I'll have in case one of you is really busy one of the weeks.