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Lily slowly walked down the stairs away from the suit of armor which guarded the entrance to the Ravenclaw common room. She ignored the world around her as she slowly walked into the great hall as she concentrated on trying to figure out why a sense of foreboding shadowed her thoughts.
Suddenly an ocher owl glided down in front of Lily. What's this? I never get mail. As Lily deftly opened the envelope a shock ran through body and a picture formed in her mind. A girl with red hair lay in a pool of her own life's blood; an emerald encrusted hilt jutting out of her chest, stark against the red of her blood and the navy of the sky.
She suppressed a gasp and then silently got up and half walked half ran out of the hall. No one noticed. Lily ran up stairs and down corridors until she had no idea where she was. Lily gazed out a window looking down on the Whomping willow as she calmed her thoughts and steeled herself to read the letter.
Slowly she smoothed the creases and read.
December 17th
Dear Miss Evans,
It is our regret to inform you that Jennifer Evans and Thomas Evans have been killed.
On December 10th Voldemort entered your parents' house and administered the killing curse to the aforementioned deceased. Your sister Petunia was not at the house at the time, however she called the muggle police. The funeral is being held on December 20th at the Presbyterian cemetery in London.
You must stay at Hogwarts over holidays. During the summer you will be staying with the Potter family while your sister will be living with you Aunt and Uncle. We wished to have you live with your sister, however due to your relatives dislike for magic we had no other choice.
We at the ministry are very sorry for your loss.
Sincerely,
Alabaster Knudle
Lily gasped at the thought of what all of this mess of word meant as she let herself be washed away with memories.
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A little girl with red braids running down her back laughed merrily as her father chased her around a playground.
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A thirteen year old girl looked out of a window in a castle. Her red hair streamed out of the window past her face like a banner. Through the cloud of hair the girl could see a boy being led to the Whomping Willow where he entered underneath the tree. Short minute's later three boys appeared beside the tree and transformed into three animals. A stag, a dog and a rat. They too entered underneath the willow. Moments later a wolf, stag, dog and rat exited the willow. Hours later the girl still standing vigil at the window saw the animals come back. The wolf went under the tree and the other three transformed back. A tuft of messy black hair could be discerned on one of the figures.
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A girl with blonde hair and blue eyes sneaked up behind her red haired sister and yelled "BOO" as her sister jumped in fright but then laughed as she saw who it was.
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A woman stood in a kitchen baking cookies with her red haired daughter. Both of their faces were covered with dough as if there had been a food fight with dough.
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A girl sat silently at the end of a long table filled with students. Three other long tables were surrounding her full of chattering students. Nobody noticed the little girl at the end of the table with a downcast face.
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A man hit his daughter with force enough to send her reeling back into a wall.
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A woman tended a girl's cuts.
Lily slowly sank down to the floor, overcome with grief. My life sucks. My parents are dead because of me. It doesn't matter that Dad hit me. I still love him… it was always just the alcohol's fault, not mine. And this… this is all my fault. If I wasn't a witch Voldemort wouldn't have killed them. It would have been better if I hadn't been born. Nobody would even notice if I wasn't here. I have no friends, no one would notice. With her mind made up Lily slowly got up and started walking as if in a trance. Lily followed the corridors up, always up, until she was at the tallest tower.
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A/n: I know it's a really short chapter but I'll update soon. This just was the perfect place to stop sorry! I'll probably update tomorrow or something. Bye peeps!
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