Lily was sitting on her bed, studying. College was great, but not
like Hogwarts. She was really being challenged here. Not that Hogwarts
wasn't challenging, but she did not have to work half as hard there as she
did at RR's. The Rowena Ravenclaw's University only admitted the best: the
top five percent of any school. Then, once they had you, they pushed you
academically until you snapped. Then, once you snapped, they built you back
up again, and continued to push at the same pace. It was wild, it was
tough, and Lily was loving every minute of it.
Still, she missed some things. Eating in the great room, studying in the Gryffindor common room, staying up late at least once a week with Arabella Figg and Hazel Weatherby, her two best friends. Watching the Marauders playing pranks. The Marauders… James. She missed James most of all, and she had seen him only a week ago.
Not that she didn't have friends at RR's. She had Juliet, her best college buddy. Juliet Montague had gone to Aurea Divinia, a school of magic, like Hogwarts, in Verona. Jule was a bit out there. She was always lost in thought, always contemplating some mystery life or other. Juliet was a bit out there, raven haired, dark eyes, pale skinned, and always wearing black. She was majoring in divination, focusing in seeing, the use of divination without any apparatus.
Just then, Juliet walked in. "Hello, Lily," she said, walking over to the bird cage by her bed. She began to softly murmur to Lenore, her pet raven, as she fed her.
"Hey, Jule, what's up?" Lily asked with a smile.
Juliet didn't really turn to look at Lily as she answered. "Just waiting to see where fate takes me. Alea iacta est." The dice are cast, her favorite saying, by Julius Caesar. "You?"
"I'm starting to get sick of the dark arts training. It's so morbid, and I doubt I'll ever need it."
Juliet turned to face her, her dark eyes somehow looking at Lily without really seeing her, "Oh, we will all need it. Especially you, Lil, especially you."
Lily was chilled to the bone. "What do you mean?"
It was like she came out of a trance. "Hmm? Oh, I did it again, didn't I?" Juliet got visions sometimes, which were always a bit creepy to Lily. Lily saw the world in a more mathematical way, point A goes to point B on line C, while Juliet saw all the hazy, inbetween aspects of life and the universe.
"I love you like a sister, Jule, but you have to stop doing that."
"Hmm?"
Lily sighed. "Oh, nevermind." Lily went back to her homework. More charms, which was her major. Not the kiddie stuff she had done at Hogwarts. REAL charms. Like the one she was researching right now, the Fidelius charm. Serious magic. Putting a secret inside a soul, to be kept safe there until the bearer divulges it. REAL magic.
Still, she missed some things. Eating in the great room, studying in the Gryffindor common room, staying up late at least once a week with Arabella Figg and Hazel Weatherby, her two best friends. Watching the Marauders playing pranks. The Marauders… James. She missed James most of all, and she had seen him only a week ago.
Not that she didn't have friends at RR's. She had Juliet, her best college buddy. Juliet Montague had gone to Aurea Divinia, a school of magic, like Hogwarts, in Verona. Jule was a bit out there. She was always lost in thought, always contemplating some mystery life or other. Juliet was a bit out there, raven haired, dark eyes, pale skinned, and always wearing black. She was majoring in divination, focusing in seeing, the use of divination without any apparatus.
Just then, Juliet walked in. "Hello, Lily," she said, walking over to the bird cage by her bed. She began to softly murmur to Lenore, her pet raven, as she fed her.
"Hey, Jule, what's up?" Lily asked with a smile.
Juliet didn't really turn to look at Lily as she answered. "Just waiting to see where fate takes me. Alea iacta est." The dice are cast, her favorite saying, by Julius Caesar. "You?"
"I'm starting to get sick of the dark arts training. It's so morbid, and I doubt I'll ever need it."
Juliet turned to face her, her dark eyes somehow looking at Lily without really seeing her, "Oh, we will all need it. Especially you, Lil, especially you."
Lily was chilled to the bone. "What do you mean?"
It was like she came out of a trance. "Hmm? Oh, I did it again, didn't I?" Juliet got visions sometimes, which were always a bit creepy to Lily. Lily saw the world in a more mathematical way, point A goes to point B on line C, while Juliet saw all the hazy, inbetween aspects of life and the universe.
"I love you like a sister, Jule, but you have to stop doing that."
"Hmm?"
Lily sighed. "Oh, nevermind." Lily went back to her homework. More charms, which was her major. Not the kiddie stuff she had done at Hogwarts. REAL charms. Like the one she was researching right now, the Fidelius charm. Serious magic. Putting a secret inside a soul, to be kept safe there until the bearer divulges it. REAL magic.