Chapter Six: New Look
The four stayed in Dumbledore's office for quite a long time. Finally they went out. Their looks were still the same; Dumbledore had said that he couldn't remove the spells since she had placed an everlasting spell on them. He inform them that it would wear off in two weeks unless she removed it. They were told to forget about her and not to try to find her.
Once it was over, they ran to their dorm.
Dumbledore waited a few minutes. He heard a knock
"Come in."
The door opened and a quite mad Lily entered.
"Miss Evans, good job with these boys!"
"They deserved it! And I won't remove the spells, that'll teach them to mind their own business."
"Calm down, I wasn't about to say that."
Lily stood there, surprised and speechless
"I would like to talk to you about a few changes."
"Yes?"
"As Voldemort now knows that you live here, there are no reasons for you to stay hidden. I wanted to know if you'd accept to return to the dorm with the other girls and live as the rest of the students do."
"But what about my training? I can't stop it now!"
"Twice a week, you'll have a training session with one of the teachers, and you'll be able to go to the forest whenever you find It necessary."
"Ok, but I'll have to change my appearance, Potter and his friends will automatically recognise me and I don't want to have to answer to their questions."
"I quite agree on this point and I'm sure you can manage a Metaformio charm for your task."
"Yes, thank you."
She took her wand and said clearly Metaformio while thinking about the appearance she wished to have. She felt a few changes and look in a mirror; she was now shorter with shoulder-length straight golden hair and hazel eyes. - the only thing which hadn't changed were her pupils. She sighed; despite her powers, she was unable to hide the silver colour. I'll have to wear contacts, she thought.
"Good Miss Evans," cut Dumbledore, "Your skills have greatly improved."
"Thank you, Sir."
"Will you keep your name, or would you like to change it?"
"I'll keep it. No one knows that the red-head was Lily Evans, so there won't be any change."
"I will reintroduced you as Head Girl and warn the teachers that though you can be partnered, you'll have more difficult things to do."
"Thank you again, Headmaster."
"No need, now go move your belongings in the dorm. I believe it won't take too much time, so you should be able to attend classes this afternoon."
"I will. May I go now?"
"Yes, I will present your … new self at lunch."
"Ok, see you soon Sir."
With that, she passed the door and headed towards her dorm. She held up her wand and said Mobilusmobilie. Instantly, all her furniture had been moved to the dorm of the seventh-year girls. She then left the room which had been her refuge for a more than six years and reassigned her life to the seven year dorms. She sighed, but quickly grinned; maybe she'd be able to have a friend?
She got to her new dorm to see if everything was all right, entering and quickly scanning the room to make sure everything was perfect. After she was satisfied, she ran to the Great Hall where lunch had already started. She took a seat not bothering to know near whom she was. When all the students had finished eating, Dumbledore stood up.
"Attention please! A few people have come to me asking the name of the Head Girl. I'd like to introduce you to Miss Evans for a second time."
She stood up, hearing students whispering "Who is she?", "Have you seen her before?" and so forth. She sat down and kept a straight face, determined not to show any emotion. She turned to her right and what she saw made her gasped; of all the people possible, she had to sit near Potter and his friends! She then realised that Potter had asked her something..
"Sorry?"
"I said, what happened to the previous Head Girl?"
"The red-head?"
"Yeah."
"She asked to be replaced, I don't know why. "
"What's your name?" asked Remus
"Lily Evans."
Why hasn't anybody seen you before?" This was a question of the Sirius variety.
"I had special training," she replied coolly, "Now is this an interrogation?"
There was an awkward silence; The boys seemed a bit surprised by her outburst.
"Mute, lucky me," she muttered loud enough for them to hear.
They remained silent.
"Is this a new look?" She asked sarcastic. "It suits you well," she added sweetly.
"Doesn't it?" said Sirius ironically, "Alas, we are unable to find the author of this admirable work so she can remove it."
"You can't do it yourself?"
"She put an everlasting spell on it," said an angry James.
"That's all?" Lily asked with a faked surprise. She took her wand and said Nonne Eternia Finite Incantatem. The looks of the boys became normal again.
Then she got up and headed to her first class, leaving behind her four stunned boys.
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"She's hot," stated Sirius.
"Yeah, definitely hot," agreed James.
Remus saw that Claire didn't seem very pleased. Scared of concurrence? Remus didn't like Claire a lot, he thought she was mean and snobby. He preferred to hang out with Dany, Lizzie et Bella, even if Claire was James' current girlfriend and Elie, Sirius's. This Lily was strange, there was something familiar with her, but he couldn't find what.
"She's skilled, too," he added, quite amazed at her power.
"True, thanks to her we're handsome again," said James smugly.
"I wonder what she had to train for," Remus seemed quite interested in this girl.
"I don't know," stated James,
"Guys, we'd better hurry, because are going to be late for Charms," noticed Sirius.
"Padfoot, since when do you care about being late?" asked James
"Since there is a sort of new girl in our class and I want to see what she is able to do."
"Good reason."
The boys raced to the classroom and arrived a few minutes before the beginning of the lesson. Lily was sitting in the back of the class. They sat near her just as Professor Flitwick started his lesson
"Today you will learn the Ilusi Charm. Does somebody know the use of this spell? Yes Miss Evans?"
"This charm is used to cast an illusion on something or somebody in order to hide it."
"Very good, Five points to Gryffondor. To cast it you have to think strongly of the illusion's form you want to create. Then you said Ilusi."
Suddenly, instead of the small professor, a giant man were standing in front of the students. With a "pop", the illusion disappeared.
"The counter curse is Revelia. So go on, you will be paired for this. Black and Lupin, Pettigrew and Tahel, Debb and Vanil, Hernan and Stan, Coppard and Figg, …., finally Potter and Evans." Lily groaned, an hour stuck up with Mr Ego-as-big-as-the-USA Potter. Flitwick approached her.
"Liliana."
"Yes sir?"
"You will work on this," he handed her few papers. "This spell is derived from the Ilusi, but used only on people so they appeared familiar to everybody. It's rather difficult to cast. Study it and try to perform it. I will come back later. "
"No demonstration sir?" asked Lily smiling.
"No, it'll be to easy for you."
"It's not fair."
"I know, now back to work."
"Yes, sir."
"It's good to see you in class."
"Thank you, sir."
As he went to help a student, James heard her groaned
"Why do they keep call with my full name, I don't like Liliana."
With that she start reading the papers.
"Why don't you work on the Ilusi charm?" asked a quite lost James.
"It's too easy for me," replied Lily carelessly
"Easy?"
"Yeah easy, E.A.S.Y."
Then she continue her lecture, then practice the spell and the movements. Meanwhile James had a few problems with his spell.
Flitwick came to see Lily
"So, Liliana."
"I think I'm done."
"Could you please demonstrate the charm for me?"
"Ilusi Famypersonna!"
She pointed her wand at her. Immediately her face started to change.
"Very well done. Five points to Gryffindor."
"Revelia. "
"Why don't you help Mr Potter, he seems to have a few problems."
"Yes sir."
"Congratulation, your skills have really improved."
"Thanks."
All of the sudden, the room was filled with an almost unearthly noise
"AHHHH!!!"
All the girls were screaming; a giant spider was standing near the blackboard.
"BLACK!!"
"Yes, Professor?" answered Sirius with an innocent look, which didn't suit him at all.
"Five points from Gryffondor and detention! Revelia"
James noticed that that Lily hadn't seemed afraid of the spider, there was even a little smile on her lips. She turned to face him.
"What's your problem?"
"I don't know."
"Show me once."
He tried to do it but he only obtain half of an illusion.
"I see, your movements are wrong, see?" She showed him the right movements. " - and you have to put the accent on the second syllable: Ilusi not Ilusi. Try again."
After few attempts, James succeeded in doing it.
The lesson was soon over. All the day went like this lesson. Every teacher seemed to know Lily and gave her special stuff much harder to do.
After dinner Lily went straight to her dorm and decided to have a rest to be prepared for a night training in the forest.
Little did she know that she was the conversation's subject of all the older Gryffindors.
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"There is something strange about her," said Remus, "I feel like I have met her before, but I can't remember where or when."
"Yeah me too," add Sirius.
"Have you ever seen her before?" asked James
"No," Claire was thinking, "but I thought I know everyone in our house."
"Me too, but apparently not."
"But who cares!" Burst Claire. "She is a nobody, a teacher's pet, a dork! We have talk about her for nearly an hour! She isn't worth it!"
"I don't know," cut Remus, "I have known her for only a few hours, you can't already judge her."
"Yes, you're right," add someone behind them. They turned and saw Lily, smirking.
She was dressed in black with a cloak. She headed towards the door. But before passing the door she stopped and turned to face the others.
"In fact, I wasn't allowed to become close to anyone due to my training, that's why nobody know me, and Claire if you have something to said to me, say it in front of me, not in my back. I know the teachers, because it's them who trained me. For the Marauders, and everyone for that matter, my belongings are charmed so that nobody can see or prank them. That's all, good night."
She passed the door and ran to the forest. One of the centaurs, Chiron, had accepted to train her.
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"What is she up to? You have seen her clothes?"
"She is really strange."
"Yep."
"Girls, I think we need to go," announced Bella. "Good night guys!"
"Good night!"
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