DISCLAIMER: Do I really have to say this?? I own everything you don't
recognize, okay? Oh and thank you reviewers all 4 of you…whelp at least
you all liked it, Um to answer one of your questions its really fun
writing about James not being a dad, I just write about him as a normal
person and try to block out the fact that he turns into Harry's father, but
it still plays a part in the story.WELP enjoy the story!!
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Chapter 5
Before anyone knew it First year was over, and they were on their way home for summer break. Lily was really going to miss the school; she had really grown to love it. She was going to miss her friends, but they decided to owl each other over the summer.
The best thing about the end of the year was the fact that Lily was at the top of her year along with James Potter. She'd worked really hard to keep her grades up. Apparently James did too. (A/N another similarity)
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On the train home Lily was sitting next to Jimena and the window was on her other side. Then James sat next to Jimena, and on the other side Sierra was across from Lily and Sierra sat by Sirius and then Remus sat next to him and poor peter was squished on there too. (Sirius and Sierra had been going out for a few weeks, and wanted to sit by each other.)
"I'm going to miss you all so much!" Jimena finally said, since everyone was quiet.
"At least you guys don't have to go home, just to be separated from everything that deals with magic; I'm going home to a muggle family where, if I needed help with my transfiguration homework, they'd be totally clueless!" Lily said, finally telling them what had been on her mind.
"Aw, poor Lily Willy." Sirius joked. Lily glared, he'd been calling her that all year, every since William Pike had asked her out, she'd said yes, but them being an 'item' only lasted 24 hours, before Lily went crazy over that stupid nick name.
"It's not funny; I'm going to be trapped! I can't even owl you guys because I don't have an owl!" (A/N I never gave her an owl did I?) Lily sulked in her seat.
"Cheer up Lily, we won't forget about you!" Sierra said from across the compartment.
"Yeah, I know. I just wish, my parents could understand me better, they try but…it's hard to deal with them. Last summer was hard enough, and now that I actually know something! They are going to freak! Out of all of us, I'm the only muggleborn!"
"Well, Lily, stop moping around and start having fun!" Remus said, and pulled out a game of Exploding Snap.
They had fun, for the rest of the train ride home, and Lily forgot her worries. Then it was time to go. They got off the train the three girls hugged goodbye, and even waved to Catty and Vanessa.
Lily went looking for them, in the process she bumped into James. "Oops, sorry!" She said at the same time as him.
"Looking for your parents?" He asked.
"Yeah. Look for some muggles who don't know what they're doing, and that's probably mine." She said sarcastically. She finally found them standing off to the side.
She went up and hugged them, and soon they were home. The whole way home Petunia sat as far away as she could from Lily. The car ride, needless to say, could have been more talkative.
As soon as Lily got settled she found a letter and an owl, waiting to carry her reply. It was from Sierra…
Hey Lils
I told you I wouldn't forget you! Your going to regret asking me to owl you, I will owl you EVERY day! No joke! I'm very good at keeping my promises. So look out! My younger brother is getting on my nerves! As soon as I got home, he was nagging me to tell him about Hogwarts, (he's starting next year) So look out for Steven Sitruc! You'll regret getting to know him…I sure did! Bye Owl back soon!
Sierra
Lily laughed, she'd heard plenty of stories from Sierra about her younger brother. They weren't going to have much fun next year, but then again, he could always make it more fun.
Lily sent her reply, telling her about the uncomfortable car ride. Then as Lily turned around she got another letter, this time from Jimena.
Lily
Just saying hi! Bye!
-Jimena
Lily knew that this summer would be way fun, especially if she got owls none stop. It's a good thing they all lived close together. They were planning on going to Diagon Alley together so she had a long wait to see them.
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Over the summer Lily and her friends continued to write letters everyday, which turned out to be a lot of work. The summer was almost over and Lily was going to stay at Jimena's house for the last week of vacation, and Sierra would be coming to. Lily was packing when her sister came in.
"Lily, mum sent me up to tell you that someone is waiting for you at the, err fire place?" Petunia half told half asked.
"Oh thanks." Lily raced out of the room to see who it was. When she got downstairs she was met by Jimena and Sierra. Who had apparently just flown from the fire, since they were covered with soot.
"Lily!!" They both screamed and hugged her.
"Its great to see you guys!" Lily said happily. "So do you want me to bring my stuff?"
"This is going to be the tricky part." Jimena stated. "How're we going to get your stuff through the fire?"
"There's a lot of it you know, all my Hogwarts things." Lily reminded.
"We are going to have to go through at the same time carrying it, I suppose." Sierra shrugged.
It turned out to be quite a task, and after about 20 minutes of figuring out how to work the situation, they finally arrived at Jimena's home.
"Wow, your house is so cool!" Lily complimented.
"Thanks." Jimena blushed. (A/N to make a long story short, its very similar to Ron's house in the books.) "It's just me and my parents, so there's enough room for you guys to have your own room…" Jimena proceeded to show them around the house, even though Sierra had already been there. Lily, Jimena and Sierra were blessed of not having to carry Lily's trunk up the stairs when Jimena's parents came in and helped.
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The first few days went by quickly. They were all sitting around talking excitedly about school, when an owl flew in Jimena's room. Jimena picked it up.
"Who's it from?" Lily asked.
Jimena smiled. "James and Sirius, they want to meet us in Diagon Alley tomorrow. So do you guys want to?"
"Um, I suppose so." Lily said "Will Remus be there?"
"I can only assume, probably Peter too." Jimena grinned. "Still have a thing for Remus?"
"Uh, I wouldn't call it a thing-"Lily objected.
"Let's not start this again." Sierra intervened. "Do you guys want to play around with quidditch? You never know, one of us might be good enough to get on the team!"
"Quidditch?" Lily asked faintly. Lily loved flying, but she'd never really learned how to play the game of Quidditch.
"Don't worry Lils, we'll teach ya!" Jimena said.
"Oh, I feel so…safe?" Lily said sarcastically, she was afraid of what would happen to her.
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They spent the rest of the day practicing, surprising enough; Lily was excellent at the game, though she wouldn't admit it.
"Lily, I seriously think your good enough to get on the team, there are quite a lot of positions open this year." Jimena said to Lily while they were taking a break.
"You think so?"
"Yes, you're great! You could be a really good chaser, maybe even a keeper."
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The day had been going great, and then they went inside the house. Lily had just walked into her room, when she heard a yelp from downstairs.
She hurried down the stairs as quick as she could. She found Mrs. Jenkins, crying and Jimena comforting her. Lily mouthed to her 'What happened?' And Jimena just shook her head sadly. Sierra came up behind Lily, and finally Jimena handed them a copy of The Daily Prophet. It was a special edition.
The letters on the front read in bold: "Another Attack From Voldemort!" Lily read on.
**
Late this afternoon there was another attack, on a family of wizards. The family was identified as the Pikes, a prominent and distinguished pureblooded family. Their neighbor Ms. Sanford went to see them and found them all dead, including their son, William, who was attending his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry…
**
Lily didn't want to read anymore. She'd known William from school. He was in Remus' dorm. He was the guy who had asked her out. It was awful to think that someone she knew had died. Then she wondered how Jimena's mum knew them. Jimena's mum was probably friends with them or something, Lily assumed.
Later, that evening Mrs. Jenkins had calmed down, and explained to her…as she said it "scene" she explained that she knew the woman (Patricia) from school, and they had been good friends. Lily wondered why they had been murdered in the first place, but thought it'd be better not to ask.
They went up to Jimena's room after that to talk about it, alone.
"That's awful, poor Will." Lily said, holding back tears, even if she hadn't known him, he was still a person.
"Yeah, what could they have done to get murdered like that? Not that I'm saying Voldemort needs a reason to kill someone, but purebloods are normally left alone, unless they are meddling with things…" Sierra's voice faded off. Lily and Jimena both knew that she was thinking back to her cousin. Sierra didn't talk about him much. Had his family meddled with things, like Sierra had said?
"He certainly is evil…I mean, what does he want world domination?" Jimena said after a moment's silence.
"Probably." Sierra said.
"You know guys; I feel kind of left out on this, and not living in the muggle world and I don't know much about anything. I know this probably sounds pretty stupid, but what all exactly has Voldemort done?" Lily said, she'd had enough of just playing off what people said about him, nothing much had happened that year for her to learn anything about him…
So Jimena and Sierra explained everything he'd done in the past few years. He'd killed a lot of muggles and good wizarding families. Anyone who threatened him was normally murdered. The only reason Sierra and Jimena ever felt safe was the fact that Voldemort, was in some way afraid of Dumbledore, the headmaster. The girls talked into the night, but remembered they were meeting the boys, and decided to get some sleep.
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The girls woke up to Mrs. Jenkins voice at 8am.
"Five more minutes Mrs. Jenkins." Lily mumbled into her pillow.
"Sorry, you have to wake up, Jimena is already downstairs. Plus, you don't want to miss seeing the boys today-." Lily shot up from bed.
"Okay, I'm up! I'm up!" Lily said, she really wanted to see Remus, and maybe even Peter, she wanted to see more people from school, she had been thinking about something, what if that last day on the train, had been the last time she'd ever see them, because they were murdered by Voldemort? She thought.
She hurried and got dressed, not knowing that when she got to Diagon Alley things would be different, from then on…
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(A/N okay what did you guys think?? Is this one longer then the last one?? I don't remember…oh well. I told you I'd post soon. This is just waaay more fun then my homework. Ha ha! Okay Read AND REVIEW!!! PLEASE!!!!)
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Chapter 5
Before anyone knew it First year was over, and they were on their way home for summer break. Lily was really going to miss the school; she had really grown to love it. She was going to miss her friends, but they decided to owl each other over the summer.
The best thing about the end of the year was the fact that Lily was at the top of her year along with James Potter. She'd worked really hard to keep her grades up. Apparently James did too. (A/N another similarity)
*~*~*~*~*
On the train home Lily was sitting next to Jimena and the window was on her other side. Then James sat next to Jimena, and on the other side Sierra was across from Lily and Sierra sat by Sirius and then Remus sat next to him and poor peter was squished on there too. (Sirius and Sierra had been going out for a few weeks, and wanted to sit by each other.)
"I'm going to miss you all so much!" Jimena finally said, since everyone was quiet.
"At least you guys don't have to go home, just to be separated from everything that deals with magic; I'm going home to a muggle family where, if I needed help with my transfiguration homework, they'd be totally clueless!" Lily said, finally telling them what had been on her mind.
"Aw, poor Lily Willy." Sirius joked. Lily glared, he'd been calling her that all year, every since William Pike had asked her out, she'd said yes, but them being an 'item' only lasted 24 hours, before Lily went crazy over that stupid nick name.
"It's not funny; I'm going to be trapped! I can't even owl you guys because I don't have an owl!" (A/N I never gave her an owl did I?) Lily sulked in her seat.
"Cheer up Lily, we won't forget about you!" Sierra said from across the compartment.
"Yeah, I know. I just wish, my parents could understand me better, they try but…it's hard to deal with them. Last summer was hard enough, and now that I actually know something! They are going to freak! Out of all of us, I'm the only muggleborn!"
"Well, Lily, stop moping around and start having fun!" Remus said, and pulled out a game of Exploding Snap.
They had fun, for the rest of the train ride home, and Lily forgot her worries. Then it was time to go. They got off the train the three girls hugged goodbye, and even waved to Catty and Vanessa.
Lily went looking for them, in the process she bumped into James. "Oops, sorry!" She said at the same time as him.
"Looking for your parents?" He asked.
"Yeah. Look for some muggles who don't know what they're doing, and that's probably mine." She said sarcastically. She finally found them standing off to the side.
She went up and hugged them, and soon they were home. The whole way home Petunia sat as far away as she could from Lily. The car ride, needless to say, could have been more talkative.
As soon as Lily got settled she found a letter and an owl, waiting to carry her reply. It was from Sierra…
Hey Lils
I told you I wouldn't forget you! Your going to regret asking me to owl you, I will owl you EVERY day! No joke! I'm very good at keeping my promises. So look out! My younger brother is getting on my nerves! As soon as I got home, he was nagging me to tell him about Hogwarts, (he's starting next year) So look out for Steven Sitruc! You'll regret getting to know him…I sure did! Bye Owl back soon!
Sierra
Lily laughed, she'd heard plenty of stories from Sierra about her younger brother. They weren't going to have much fun next year, but then again, he could always make it more fun.
Lily sent her reply, telling her about the uncomfortable car ride. Then as Lily turned around she got another letter, this time from Jimena.
Lily
Just saying hi! Bye!
-Jimena
Lily knew that this summer would be way fun, especially if she got owls none stop. It's a good thing they all lived close together. They were planning on going to Diagon Alley together so she had a long wait to see them.
*~*~*~*~*
Over the summer Lily and her friends continued to write letters everyday, which turned out to be a lot of work. The summer was almost over and Lily was going to stay at Jimena's house for the last week of vacation, and Sierra would be coming to. Lily was packing when her sister came in.
"Lily, mum sent me up to tell you that someone is waiting for you at the, err fire place?" Petunia half told half asked.
"Oh thanks." Lily raced out of the room to see who it was. When she got downstairs she was met by Jimena and Sierra. Who had apparently just flown from the fire, since they were covered with soot.
"Lily!!" They both screamed and hugged her.
"Its great to see you guys!" Lily said happily. "So do you want me to bring my stuff?"
"This is going to be the tricky part." Jimena stated. "How're we going to get your stuff through the fire?"
"There's a lot of it you know, all my Hogwarts things." Lily reminded.
"We are going to have to go through at the same time carrying it, I suppose." Sierra shrugged.
It turned out to be quite a task, and after about 20 minutes of figuring out how to work the situation, they finally arrived at Jimena's home.
"Wow, your house is so cool!" Lily complimented.
"Thanks." Jimena blushed. (A/N to make a long story short, its very similar to Ron's house in the books.) "It's just me and my parents, so there's enough room for you guys to have your own room…" Jimena proceeded to show them around the house, even though Sierra had already been there. Lily, Jimena and Sierra were blessed of not having to carry Lily's trunk up the stairs when Jimena's parents came in and helped.
*~*~*~*~*
The first few days went by quickly. They were all sitting around talking excitedly about school, when an owl flew in Jimena's room. Jimena picked it up.
"Who's it from?" Lily asked.
Jimena smiled. "James and Sirius, they want to meet us in Diagon Alley tomorrow. So do you guys want to?"
"Um, I suppose so." Lily said "Will Remus be there?"
"I can only assume, probably Peter too." Jimena grinned. "Still have a thing for Remus?"
"Uh, I wouldn't call it a thing-"Lily objected.
"Let's not start this again." Sierra intervened. "Do you guys want to play around with quidditch? You never know, one of us might be good enough to get on the team!"
"Quidditch?" Lily asked faintly. Lily loved flying, but she'd never really learned how to play the game of Quidditch.
"Don't worry Lils, we'll teach ya!" Jimena said.
"Oh, I feel so…safe?" Lily said sarcastically, she was afraid of what would happen to her.
*~*~*~*~*
They spent the rest of the day practicing, surprising enough; Lily was excellent at the game, though she wouldn't admit it.
"Lily, I seriously think your good enough to get on the team, there are quite a lot of positions open this year." Jimena said to Lily while they were taking a break.
"You think so?"
"Yes, you're great! You could be a really good chaser, maybe even a keeper."
*~*~*~*~*
The day had been going great, and then they went inside the house. Lily had just walked into her room, when she heard a yelp from downstairs.
She hurried down the stairs as quick as she could. She found Mrs. Jenkins, crying and Jimena comforting her. Lily mouthed to her 'What happened?' And Jimena just shook her head sadly. Sierra came up behind Lily, and finally Jimena handed them a copy of The Daily Prophet. It was a special edition.
The letters on the front read in bold: "Another Attack From Voldemort!" Lily read on.
**
Late this afternoon there was another attack, on a family of wizards. The family was identified as the Pikes, a prominent and distinguished pureblooded family. Their neighbor Ms. Sanford went to see them and found them all dead, including their son, William, who was attending his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry…
**
Lily didn't want to read anymore. She'd known William from school. He was in Remus' dorm. He was the guy who had asked her out. It was awful to think that someone she knew had died. Then she wondered how Jimena's mum knew them. Jimena's mum was probably friends with them or something, Lily assumed.
Later, that evening Mrs. Jenkins had calmed down, and explained to her…as she said it "scene" she explained that she knew the woman (Patricia) from school, and they had been good friends. Lily wondered why they had been murdered in the first place, but thought it'd be better not to ask.
They went up to Jimena's room after that to talk about it, alone.
"That's awful, poor Will." Lily said, holding back tears, even if she hadn't known him, he was still a person.
"Yeah, what could they have done to get murdered like that? Not that I'm saying Voldemort needs a reason to kill someone, but purebloods are normally left alone, unless they are meddling with things…" Sierra's voice faded off. Lily and Jimena both knew that she was thinking back to her cousin. Sierra didn't talk about him much. Had his family meddled with things, like Sierra had said?
"He certainly is evil…I mean, what does he want world domination?" Jimena said after a moment's silence.
"Probably." Sierra said.
"You know guys; I feel kind of left out on this, and not living in the muggle world and I don't know much about anything. I know this probably sounds pretty stupid, but what all exactly has Voldemort done?" Lily said, she'd had enough of just playing off what people said about him, nothing much had happened that year for her to learn anything about him…
So Jimena and Sierra explained everything he'd done in the past few years. He'd killed a lot of muggles and good wizarding families. Anyone who threatened him was normally murdered. The only reason Sierra and Jimena ever felt safe was the fact that Voldemort, was in some way afraid of Dumbledore, the headmaster. The girls talked into the night, but remembered they were meeting the boys, and decided to get some sleep.
*~*~*~*~*
The girls woke up to Mrs. Jenkins voice at 8am.
"Five more minutes Mrs. Jenkins." Lily mumbled into her pillow.
"Sorry, you have to wake up, Jimena is already downstairs. Plus, you don't want to miss seeing the boys today-." Lily shot up from bed.
"Okay, I'm up! I'm up!" Lily said, she really wanted to see Remus, and maybe even Peter, she wanted to see more people from school, she had been thinking about something, what if that last day on the train, had been the last time she'd ever see them, because they were murdered by Voldemort? She thought.
She hurried and got dressed, not knowing that when she got to Diagon Alley things would be different, from then on…
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(A/N okay what did you guys think?? Is this one longer then the last one?? I don't remember…oh well. I told you I'd post soon. This is just waaay more fun then my homework. Ha ha! Okay Read AND REVIEW!!! PLEASE!!!!)