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Life Sucks, or Does It?
After the Fat Lady had swung open and let Lily into Gryffindor Tower, she ran straight up the stairs and into her dormitory. When she got there, she changed in to a black tank top and white shorts that she used as pajamas. She then brushed her hair and teeth and then fell rather ungracefully onto her bed after tripping over her own shoe.
After lying there for only a few minutes, Lily quickly feel asleep, not knowing that by the next evening her life will have changed drastically, and not to her benefit or want.
Around midnight, she had a dream. It was rather strange for several reasons. One was that she didn't see anything, she only heard, and it wasn't in English-
"Lis, j'ai besoin de votre aide," a quiet snake-like voice said, "aujourd'hui, je veux que vous tuiez le potier de James," suddenly his voice got louder, and sounded poisonous and full of venom, "et si vous ne le tuez pas par 4:30 ce soir, je tuerai personnellement votre famille le moment où je découvre qu'il est encore vivant!"
Lily practically flew off out of her four-poster bad and landed on the floor on all fours like a cat. She jumped back up and quietly, but fervently searched the room for the owner of that ghostly hissing voice in her dream.
After fifteen minutes of searching, all she found was a pair of Arabella's dirty and smelly socks, and an electric pink quill. She threw the socks at Arabella's bed curtains and decided that she might as well keep the quill, she rather liked the obnoxiously bright color.
After her practically fruitless search, except for her the obnoxious quill of course, she knew that she wouldn't be able to fall back to sleep, so she decided to take a bubble bath, they always helped her to calm down.
When she got out of the bath, it was only 12:45, and she still had six and a half hours until breakfast started. She got dressed in black shorts and an electric pink shirt, just so that it would clash with her hair but match her quill. She loved it when her hair clashed with things she wore, although she wasn't sure why it was just something that she had always loved. After getting dressed, she went back in to the bathroom to do her hair, brush her teeth and put on some make-up to brighten up her face so that she wouldn't look so tired when breakfast finally came.
And during this whole time, Lily getting up, taking a bath, running water, and scrambling all around the dormitory, Arabella was STILL fast asleep. She sleeps like a log, but Lily was thankful for it. She didn't want Arabella to wake up and start asking her what Dumbledore had said, and why in the name of magic she was up at bloody one in the morning!
After finishing in the bathroom, she pulled on her school robes for warmth, since she figured the Common Room would be cold and grabbed a notebook to write in. she the went out of the dorm door and started walking down the many stairs. Her dormitory was at the very top of the Tower, and on her way down to the Common Room, she counted exactly how many steps there were from there to her dormitory. There were two hundred and eighty- six stairs. ~Well, at least no one can say I never exercise~ she thought to herself amusedly.
As she finally reached the bottom stair, she saw about ten little things running around the Common room cleaning. After looking at one a little more closely, she saw that they were actually house-elves. She would have been completely freaked out, except that she recognized them from a book she had been reading over the summer from Flourish & Blotts.
A house elf that was slightly smaller than the rest of them, with a big, squashed, tomato shaped nose, long, pointy ears, and big, lamp-like purple eyes, wearing a baby blue pillowcase as a toga, with a small metal medallion of the Hogwarts seal in the corner, instead of the parchment yellow pillowcases that the other house elves were wearing, walked up to Lily and said in fluent French, "Nous sommes désolés que nous devions nettoyer en votre présence mademoiselle, mais nous ne nous sommes pas attendus à ce que n'importe qui soit vers le haut à ceci temps dredfully tôt." (If you need a translation go to dictionary.com and click on translation, this is French)
"Gingevere," said another house elf with a heavy French accent, "'Dis is a "Ogwarts student, they do not speak French here, 'zey speak Englesh."
"I am sorry Mattimeo," the elf known as Gingevere replied, with a heavy French accent as well, and then turned back to Lily, "Plez' forgive me mademoiselle, I 'ave juzt transferred 'ere from Beauxbatons, and keep forgetting to speak in Englesh."
Gingevere then grabbed a lamp off the nearest table and started hitting himself over the head with it. (Remind you of anyone ()
"Stop," Lily cried out, she was afraid tat Gingevere's ear splitting yelps would wake up the whole Tower, if not the whole Castle as well, "It's fine, you may talk to me in either language, because I speak both. Now just hush up, and stop hitting your self with that lamp, I was gonna use it. Oh, and it was wonderful to meet both of you."
"Merci," Gingevere and Mattimeo both said, their eyes shining the tears, "You are so nice and humble and great, we will be your personal house elves. Just call our names whenever you need us, and we'll be there."
With that, all the house elves disappeared with a faint pop and a flash of purple light.
Lily stood there for a moment, completely stunned that she had just gotten her own personal house elves, and then she plopped down into an armchair to write down her dream.
She pulled out her electric pink quill, green inkbottle, and started writing everything she could remember from her dream in her notebook that said, "Werewolves are people to you know," on the front with an angry looking man looking up at the almost full moon. Lily had like this notebook from the moment she set eyes on it at Diagon Alley because she knew that it wasn't there fault that they were what they were. Its not like they had wanted to be bitten and then go through painful transformations every month.
About an hour later she had finally finished writing everything she could remember from her dream and decided that she would write a letter to her parents since it was only 2:46am, and because her parents had been worried that she would be sacrificed, so she wanted to let them know that she was still very much so alive and well.
The finished letter read like this-
Mum, Dad, and Pet,
I was just writing to let you know that I got to Hogwarts okay (my freak school in Pet's words) and that I have not been sacrificed to the Devil YET! Just kidding, they won't try and sacrifice me.
I had an interesting dream last night, it was in French and all I heard was a voice, I didn't see anything though, it was really weird. When I woke up this morning, I found an electric pink quill, it's really cool, I'm writing with it at this very moment.
Well, I'm gonna go finish getting ready for school, I'll see you guys next summer!!!
Lots of love and fresh peaches,
Lily
It had taken her two hours to get the letter to be just the way she wanted it to be, so it was now quarter to five. Students were allowed out of their Common Rooms and in the library and Owlery at Five a.m. to finish homework or send an urgent letter. Lily had to wait for fifteen more minutes until she could leave the Common room and not get in trouble, so while she waited she thought about her dream
The snake-like voice in her dream had told her to kill James Potter, or to pay the consequences, or rather that her family would pay the consequences for her. As much as she didn't want to believe it, she knew that she should listen to the dream. After contemplating what she should do, she looked down at her wristwatch and saw that it was now 5:01. She got up and walked through the portrait of the Fat Lady and toward the Owlery. She decided that she might as well walk slowly and look at all the portraits and suits of armor so that by the time she was done at the Owlery, she might be able to go straight to breakfast.
She finally got to the Owlery at about seven, and then started looking for her color-changing owl. He wasn't that hard to miss though, since he changed colors constantly, all of which were quite bright.
"Stormy Nights," Lily called p to the currently scarlet owl who was up on the rafters between a tawny and a barn owl. "Will you come down here please, I need to send a letter to my parents."
"I suppose," Storm called back lazily, while slowly drifting down towards Lily's outstretched arm, "I've been rather bored, none of these owl can talk, and I don't have anything better to do."
Lily didn't answer back, only giggled slightly at his comment.
"Now, take this to mum and dad, and then come right back," Lily told him sweetly, "Make sure they get it."
Storm nodded curtly and flew out of the nearest window.
*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~* After Storm flew out the window, Lily headed toward the breakfast, since it was currently quarter 'till eight. She arrived a the Great Hall precisely at 8:15, and went to sit at the very end of the Gryffindor Table, since no one she knew was there yet.
She had been there for about five minutes when Arabella walked over to where she was sitting and plopped down next to her. Lily had already forgotten about how Arabella had left her alone on the train yesterday.
"Hey Lils, when did you get up this morning?" Arabella asked while shoveling scrambled eggs and bacon onto her plate, "When I got up this morning at seven, you weren't there. "
"I had a nightmare around midnight, and I've been up ever since," Lily replied after finishing he bacon, and looking up to see Professor McGonagall handing out class schedules, "Hey, I wonder what class we'll have first."
McGonagall handed them their schedules, although Lily got four instead of one, since she'd have a different schedule for every week. Their schedule for the day would be, Herbology, Transfiguration, and Charms.
Lily had an interesting first day. Professor Clorox, who taught Herbology, was teaching them about Mandrakes, and Professor Clorox forgot to put on her earmuffs, and had to be taken to the Hospital Wing, even after she reminded them constantly to make sure they had their earmuffs on correctly.
Then, Professor McGonagall who taught Transfiguration, kept bursting into giggles whenever Sirius or James told a joke, and whenever someone couldn't transfigure their matches into pins. Lily, Alana McCoy, and Peter were the only ones who actually transfigured it correctly, and they each got 10 points for doing it correctly. And Sirius and James both got 15 points from her for n particular reason.
And then in Charms, oh dear, little, tiny Professor Flitwick toppled off the pile of books he had been standing on to see the class do their work, while squealing with delight whenever someone did the Levitating Charm correctly, which fortunately for him, only about five students did it correctly, including Lily.
It was 4:30 when Lily walked into the Great Hall for dinner. She was thinking about her dream, and that if what the voice had said was true, then Lily's family would die any minute, since she didn't kill James. She hadn't even talked to him yet. She thought wildly about maybe sticking a spoon down his throat to save her family, but then remembered that she wasn't quite that crazy.
She sat down at the table, and started putting food on her plate when Sirius, James, Remus, Peter, and Arabella all sat down around her and said "hi".
"Classes were very, er, interesting today, weren't they?" Lily said after taking a bite of her chicken potpie, then looking over at Sirius and James, "You two both have Professor McGonagall charmed."
"What are you talking about?" Sirius said sweetly.
"We would never do that," James added, grinning.
"Yeah right," Lily said chuckling, "You guys practically charmed her socks off."
Before Sirius or James could comment, a large eagle owl flew in with an important looking envelope in its beak that was dropped onto Lily's plate. It said Lily Evans on the front in large block letters. After delivering the letter to its owner, it flew back out of the Great Hall.
Everyone was whispering. Mail only came in the evening if something bad happened.
Lily gulped, hoping for the best, but expecting the worst, and took the letter. She opened it and one piece of parchment fell out, followed by another, smaller envelope, with "Lily" written on it in spooky, curled writing.
Lily read the letter first, it said-
Lily Evans, We are sorry to say that your parents were killed at 4:31pm this evening. We found this envelope at the scene, and thought you ought to have it since it might have been an unsent letter from your parents. You sister Petunia was at a friend's house, and is fine, just rather devastated by the news. Sincerely, George Green Minister of Magic
Lily was on the brink of tears. She was devastated as well, but didn't want anyone to see her cry. She then took the other envelope and opened it, knowing that it wasn't from her parents.
Lily,
Vous devriez l'avoir tué quand vous avez eu la chance. Je me suis personnellement débarassé de vous des parents. Vous étiez très imprudent d'm'avoir désobéi. Seulement les imbéciles désobéissent seigneur Voldemort !
Lily leaped out of her chair, and ran from the Great Hall as fast as her legs would take her. She ran out onto the grounds and climbed up into the nearest tree. She started bawling, and was whispering , "Life Sucks! Life Sucks! Life SUCKS!!!"
No one came out to look for her, and she knew that Dumbledore had told them to leave her alone. It was getting dark and she decided that she didn't want to go to Gryffindor Tower and be bombarded with questions, and instead she transfigured a leaf into a big blanket, and fell asleep in the highest branches in a thirty-foot oak.
She woke up while it was still dark, and decided that she should probably get back inside before she caught a cold, she hurried inside and then just walked into a broom closet instead of going back to the Tower, because she knew that people would be waiting up for her to ask her what's wrong.
* ( *( * ( * ( * ( *( * ( * ( * ( * After the death of her parents, Lily
was always depressed. She went home for the holidays. Although her new
home was her aunt's house, which was only minutes away from Diagon Alley.
During school and the train rides, she never sat by anyone and never
talked to anyone either. Five years went by, and Lily's attitude still
hadn't changed. During school, she always wore loose, baggy clothes, and
didn't care what she looked like. She still got the best grades in her
year, even if she never talked to anyone except the Professors. She even
asked for extra homework. She didn't let her friends talk to her, she
just walked away whenever they came up to her.
The summer before sixth year, she finally decided that her parents would
have wanted her to have a happy life, and not to be depressed all the
time. Even though she had not talked to any of her friends, they all sent
her at least three owls per holiday.
When she got her school supply list from Hogwarts, she decided that she
would go, and that she would change everything about her. She was going
to talk to people this year, have fun, and look good while doing it.
Before she went to Diagon Alley, she went to the mall first, so that she
could get an entirely new wardrobe, because currently her wardrobe
consisted of black baggy shirts and pants. She also got her nails done
and got a makeover.
She then dropped off her new clothes and shoes at her aunt's house, and
then headed off towards Diagon Alley. She got all her supplies, except
her new robes, she wanted ones that actually fit her this year, instead
of being three sizes too big. She also needed to get some dress robes
since there was supposedly going to be a ball.
She went into the shop and told Madam Malkin what she needed and what
size she needed it in. She decided on tightly fitting school robes, and
then a black dress robe (I'll describe it when she goes to the ball/dance
thing).
When she walked out of the shop, she saw George Davies walking around
doing nothing in particular, and she hurried over towards him.
"Hey George," Lily said when she was finally by him.
"No, I will not go out with you, please just leave me alone," George said
unexpectedly, and then started walking again. You see George was a very
good-looking guy with his golden hair, bright blue eyes, tall figure, and
Quidditch toned muscles.
"George," Lily said again, laughing this time, "It's me Lily, Lily
Evans."
"Lily?!?" George said, his eyes bulging, "But I thought you didn't talk
to any of us anymore?"
"Well, I do now. I decided that life will be better with friends," she
replied, smiling brightly, "I'd love to chat more, but I really must be
going. I'll see in the train though. Save me a compartment?"
"Of course I will," he answered, smiling as well. And then he leaned
forward and hugged her. "It's nice to have our bright and happy Lily
back."
"I'm glad to be back," she said back brightly, then letting go of him she
said, "I'll see you on September first. If you see Alana McCoy, tell her
I said 'hi'!"
"I will, bye!"
"See ya later," she said waving, and then walked back to the Leaky
Cauldron, and then to her aunt's house.
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Life Sucks, or Does It?
After the Fat Lady had swung open and let Lily into Gryffindor Tower, she ran straight up the stairs and into her dormitory. When she got there, she changed in to a black tank top and white shorts that she used as pajamas. She then brushed her hair and teeth and then fell rather ungracefully onto her bed after tripping over her own shoe.
After lying there for only a few minutes, Lily quickly feel asleep, not knowing that by the next evening her life will have changed drastically, and not to her benefit or want.
Around midnight, she had a dream. It was rather strange for several reasons. One was that she didn't see anything, she only heard, and it wasn't in English-
"Lis, j'ai besoin de votre aide," a quiet snake-like voice said, "aujourd'hui, je veux que vous tuiez le potier de James," suddenly his voice got louder, and sounded poisonous and full of venom, "et si vous ne le tuez pas par 4:30 ce soir, je tuerai personnellement votre famille le moment où je découvre qu'il est encore vivant!"
Lily practically flew off out of her four-poster bad and landed on the floor on all fours like a cat. She jumped back up and quietly, but fervently searched the room for the owner of that ghostly hissing voice in her dream.
After fifteen minutes of searching, all she found was a pair of Arabella's dirty and smelly socks, and an electric pink quill. She threw the socks at Arabella's bed curtains and decided that she might as well keep the quill, she rather liked the obnoxiously bright color.
After her practically fruitless search, except for her the obnoxious quill of course, she knew that she wouldn't be able to fall back to sleep, so she decided to take a bubble bath, they always helped her to calm down.
When she got out of the bath, it was only 12:45, and she still had six and a half hours until breakfast started. She got dressed in black shorts and an electric pink shirt, just so that it would clash with her hair but match her quill. She loved it when her hair clashed with things she wore, although she wasn't sure why it was just something that she had always loved. After getting dressed, she went back in to the bathroom to do her hair, brush her teeth and put on some make-up to brighten up her face so that she wouldn't look so tired when breakfast finally came.
And during this whole time, Lily getting up, taking a bath, running water, and scrambling all around the dormitory, Arabella was STILL fast asleep. She sleeps like a log, but Lily was thankful for it. She didn't want Arabella to wake up and start asking her what Dumbledore had said, and why in the name of magic she was up at bloody one in the morning!
After finishing in the bathroom, she pulled on her school robes for warmth, since she figured the Common Room would be cold and grabbed a notebook to write in. she the went out of the dorm door and started walking down the many stairs. Her dormitory was at the very top of the Tower, and on her way down to the Common Room, she counted exactly how many steps there were from there to her dormitory. There were two hundred and eighty- six stairs. ~Well, at least no one can say I never exercise~ she thought to herself amusedly.
As she finally reached the bottom stair, she saw about ten little things running around the Common room cleaning. After looking at one a little more closely, she saw that they were actually house-elves. She would have been completely freaked out, except that she recognized them from a book she had been reading over the summer from Flourish & Blotts.
A house elf that was slightly smaller than the rest of them, with a big, squashed, tomato shaped nose, long, pointy ears, and big, lamp-like purple eyes, wearing a baby blue pillowcase as a toga, with a small metal medallion of the Hogwarts seal in the corner, instead of the parchment yellow pillowcases that the other house elves were wearing, walked up to Lily and said in fluent French, "Nous sommes désolés que nous devions nettoyer en votre présence mademoiselle, mais nous ne nous sommes pas attendus à ce que n'importe qui soit vers le haut à ceci temps dredfully tôt." (If you need a translation go to dictionary.com and click on translation, this is French)
"Gingevere," said another house elf with a heavy French accent, "'Dis is a "Ogwarts student, they do not speak French here, 'zey speak Englesh."
"I am sorry Mattimeo," the elf known as Gingevere replied, with a heavy French accent as well, and then turned back to Lily, "Plez' forgive me mademoiselle, I 'ave juzt transferred 'ere from Beauxbatons, and keep forgetting to speak in Englesh."
Gingevere then grabbed a lamp off the nearest table and started hitting himself over the head with it. (Remind you of anyone ()
"Stop," Lily cried out, she was afraid tat Gingevere's ear splitting yelps would wake up the whole Tower, if not the whole Castle as well, "It's fine, you may talk to me in either language, because I speak both. Now just hush up, and stop hitting your self with that lamp, I was gonna use it. Oh, and it was wonderful to meet both of you."
"Merci," Gingevere and Mattimeo both said, their eyes shining the tears, "You are so nice and humble and great, we will be your personal house elves. Just call our names whenever you need us, and we'll be there."
With that, all the house elves disappeared with a faint pop and a flash of purple light.
Lily stood there for a moment, completely stunned that she had just gotten her own personal house elves, and then she plopped down into an armchair to write down her dream.
She pulled out her electric pink quill, green inkbottle, and started writing everything she could remember from her dream in her notebook that said, "Werewolves are people to you know," on the front with an angry looking man looking up at the almost full moon. Lily had like this notebook from the moment she set eyes on it at Diagon Alley because she knew that it wasn't there fault that they were what they were. Its not like they had wanted to be bitten and then go through painful transformations every month.
About an hour later she had finally finished writing everything she could remember from her dream and decided that she would write a letter to her parents since it was only 2:46am, and because her parents had been worried that she would be sacrificed, so she wanted to let them know that she was still very much so alive and well.
The finished letter read like this-
Mum, Dad, and Pet,
I was just writing to let you know that I got to Hogwarts okay (my freak school in Pet's words) and that I have not been sacrificed to the Devil YET! Just kidding, they won't try and sacrifice me.
I had an interesting dream last night, it was in French and all I heard was a voice, I didn't see anything though, it was really weird. When I woke up this morning, I found an electric pink quill, it's really cool, I'm writing with it at this very moment.
Well, I'm gonna go finish getting ready for school, I'll see you guys next summer!!!
Lots of love and fresh peaches,
Lily
It had taken her two hours to get the letter to be just the way she wanted it to be, so it was now quarter to five. Students were allowed out of their Common Rooms and in the library and Owlery at Five a.m. to finish homework or send an urgent letter. Lily had to wait for fifteen more minutes until she could leave the Common room and not get in trouble, so while she waited she thought about her dream
The snake-like voice in her dream had told her to kill James Potter, or to pay the consequences, or rather that her family would pay the consequences for her. As much as she didn't want to believe it, she knew that she should listen to the dream. After contemplating what she should do, she looked down at her wristwatch and saw that it was now 5:01. She got up and walked through the portrait of the Fat Lady and toward the Owlery. She decided that she might as well walk slowly and look at all the portraits and suits of armor so that by the time she was done at the Owlery, she might be able to go straight to breakfast.
She finally got to the Owlery at about seven, and then started looking for her color-changing owl. He wasn't that hard to miss though, since he changed colors constantly, all of which were quite bright.
"Stormy Nights," Lily called p to the currently scarlet owl who was up on the rafters between a tawny and a barn owl. "Will you come down here please, I need to send a letter to my parents."
"I suppose," Storm called back lazily, while slowly drifting down towards Lily's outstretched arm, "I've been rather bored, none of these owl can talk, and I don't have anything better to do."
Lily didn't answer back, only giggled slightly at his comment.
"Now, take this to mum and dad, and then come right back," Lily told him sweetly, "Make sure they get it."
Storm nodded curtly and flew out of the nearest window.
*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~*~~* After Storm flew out the window, Lily headed toward the breakfast, since it was currently quarter 'till eight. She arrived a the Great Hall precisely at 8:15, and went to sit at the very end of the Gryffindor Table, since no one she knew was there yet.
She had been there for about five minutes when Arabella walked over to where she was sitting and plopped down next to her. Lily had already forgotten about how Arabella had left her alone on the train yesterday.
"Hey Lils, when did you get up this morning?" Arabella asked while shoveling scrambled eggs and bacon onto her plate, "When I got up this morning at seven, you weren't there. "
"I had a nightmare around midnight, and I've been up ever since," Lily replied after finishing he bacon, and looking up to see Professor McGonagall handing out class schedules, "Hey, I wonder what class we'll have first."
McGonagall handed them their schedules, although Lily got four instead of one, since she'd have a different schedule for every week. Their schedule for the day would be, Herbology, Transfiguration, and Charms.
Lily had an interesting first day. Professor Clorox, who taught Herbology, was teaching them about Mandrakes, and Professor Clorox forgot to put on her earmuffs, and had to be taken to the Hospital Wing, even after she reminded them constantly to make sure they had their earmuffs on correctly.
Then, Professor McGonagall who taught Transfiguration, kept bursting into giggles whenever Sirius or James told a joke, and whenever someone couldn't transfigure their matches into pins. Lily, Alana McCoy, and Peter were the only ones who actually transfigured it correctly, and they each got 10 points for doing it correctly. And Sirius and James both got 15 points from her for n particular reason.
And then in Charms, oh dear, little, tiny Professor Flitwick toppled off the pile of books he had been standing on to see the class do their work, while squealing with delight whenever someone did the Levitating Charm correctly, which fortunately for him, only about five students did it correctly, including Lily.
It was 4:30 when Lily walked into the Great Hall for dinner. She was thinking about her dream, and that if what the voice had said was true, then Lily's family would die any minute, since she didn't kill James. She hadn't even talked to him yet. She thought wildly about maybe sticking a spoon down his throat to save her family, but then remembered that she wasn't quite that crazy.
She sat down at the table, and started putting food on her plate when Sirius, James, Remus, Peter, and Arabella all sat down around her and said "hi".
"Classes were very, er, interesting today, weren't they?" Lily said after taking a bite of her chicken potpie, then looking over at Sirius and James, "You two both have Professor McGonagall charmed."
"What are you talking about?" Sirius said sweetly.
"We would never do that," James added, grinning.
"Yeah right," Lily said chuckling, "You guys practically charmed her socks off."
Before Sirius or James could comment, a large eagle owl flew in with an important looking envelope in its beak that was dropped onto Lily's plate. It said Lily Evans on the front in large block letters. After delivering the letter to its owner, it flew back out of the Great Hall.
Everyone was whispering. Mail only came in the evening if something bad happened.
Lily gulped, hoping for the best, but expecting the worst, and took the letter. She opened it and one piece of parchment fell out, followed by another, smaller envelope, with "Lily" written on it in spooky, curled writing.
Lily read the letter first, it said-
Lily Evans, We are sorry to say that your parents were killed at 4:31pm this evening. We found this envelope at the scene, and thought you ought to have it since it might have been an unsent letter from your parents. You sister Petunia was at a friend's house, and is fine, just rather devastated by the news. Sincerely, George Green Minister of Magic
Lily was on the brink of tears. She was devastated as well, but didn't want anyone to see her cry. She then took the other envelope and opened it, knowing that it wasn't from her parents.
Lily,
Vous devriez l'avoir tué quand vous avez eu la chance. Je me suis personnellement débarassé de vous des parents. Vous étiez très imprudent d'm'avoir désobéi. Seulement les imbéciles désobéissent seigneur Voldemort !
Lily leaped out of her chair, and ran from the Great Hall as fast as her legs would take her. She ran out onto the grounds and climbed up into the nearest tree. She started bawling, and was whispering , "Life Sucks! Life Sucks! Life SUCKS!!!"
No one came out to look for her, and she knew that Dumbledore had told them to leave her alone. It was getting dark and she decided that she didn't want to go to Gryffindor Tower and be bombarded with questions, and instead she transfigured a leaf into a big blanket, and fell asleep in the highest branches in a thirty-foot oak.
She woke up while it was still dark, and decided that she should probably get back inside before she caught a cold, she hurried inside and then just walked into a broom closet instead of going back to the Tower, because she knew that people would be waiting up for her to ask her what's wrong.
* ( *( * ( * ( * ( *( * ( * ( * ( * After the death of her parents, Lily
was always depressed. She went home for the holidays. Although her new
home was her aunt's house, which was only minutes away from Diagon Alley.
During school and the train rides, she never sat by anyone and never
talked to anyone either. Five years went by, and Lily's attitude still
hadn't changed. During school, she always wore loose, baggy clothes, and
didn't care what she looked like. She still got the best grades in her
year, even if she never talked to anyone except the Professors. She even
asked for extra homework. She didn't let her friends talk to her, she
just walked away whenever they came up to her.
The summer before sixth year, she finally decided that her parents would
have wanted her to have a happy life, and not to be depressed all the
time. Even though she had not talked to any of her friends, they all sent
her at least three owls per holiday.
When she got her school supply list from Hogwarts, she decided that she
would go, and that she would change everything about her. She was going
to talk to people this year, have fun, and look good while doing it.
Before she went to Diagon Alley, she went to the mall first, so that she
could get an entirely new wardrobe, because currently her wardrobe
consisted of black baggy shirts and pants. She also got her nails done
and got a makeover.
She then dropped off her new clothes and shoes at her aunt's house, and
then headed off towards Diagon Alley. She got all her supplies, except
her new robes, she wanted ones that actually fit her this year, instead
of being three sizes too big. She also needed to get some dress robes
since there was supposedly going to be a ball.
She went into the shop and told Madam Malkin what she needed and what
size she needed it in. She decided on tightly fitting school robes, and
then a black dress robe (I'll describe it when she goes to the ball/dance
thing).
When she walked out of the shop, she saw George Davies walking around
doing nothing in particular, and she hurried over towards him.
"Hey George," Lily said when she was finally by him.
"No, I will not go out with you, please just leave me alone," George said
unexpectedly, and then started walking again. You see George was a very
good-looking guy with his golden hair, bright blue eyes, tall figure, and
Quidditch toned muscles.
"George," Lily said again, laughing this time, "It's me Lily, Lily
Evans."
"Lily?!?" George said, his eyes bulging, "But I thought you didn't talk
to any of us anymore?"
"Well, I do now. I decided that life will be better with friends," she
replied, smiling brightly, "I'd love to chat more, but I really must be
going. I'll see in the train though. Save me a compartment?"
"Of course I will," he answered, smiling as well. And then he leaned
forward and hugged her. "It's nice to have our bright and happy Lily
back."
"I'm glad to be back," she said back brightly, then letting go of him she
said, "I'll see you on September first. If you see Alana McCoy, tell her
I said 'hi'!"
"I will, bye!"
"See ya later," she said waving, and then walked back to the Leaky
Cauldron, and then to her aunt's house.
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