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A/N: Thank you for pointing out Lily's last name. I couldn't find it anywhere!!
I will try and make this chapter longer as I know the others are annoyingly short!!!
Another thing, I know Lily was meant to be muggle born but in this story I have decided that her father (who I have called Harold) is not a muggle ok!! ^_^
On with the story
Her Father's secret
"Hogwarts is a school of magic," boomed a voice. Lily turned around to see her father in the doorway.
"What are you doing dad?" Lily laughed. (Her father doesn't have a booming voice which is why Lily was so surprised by it).
"Sorry…it was for effect," he replied, going slightly red in the face. "Lily, you know those stories I told you when you were little."
"Yes," she said slowly trying to recall them.
"Well they were true!" he revealed.
"I'm sorry dad, I don't actually remember! I just didn't want to hurt your feelings" said Lily, it was her time to blush her face turned the same colour as her hair.
Lily's mother laughed, "MUM, it's not funny!" she screamed, "Dad's trying to tell me something here."
"I'm sorry," she replied, gasping for breath, "it's just that it was going perfectly. You remembering all the stories your father about to drop his bombshell and then…you said that!" (Her mother had a very strange sense of humour).
"Yes, w...well as I was...erm…saying," her dad interrupted, staring at his wife, trying to regain some of the mystery of the moment, "as I was saying when you were little I used to tell you story's about a place called Hogwarts, with Quidditch games and potions lessons…" he looked at Lily trying to find some trace of recognition on her face then suddenly…
"I remember with…with quaffles and bludgers and…oh what were they?" her face was beaming, as was her fathers.
"SNITCHES!" he shouted.
"Yes snitches!" she laughed, "they were great stories."
"But they weren't story's Lily…it's all real!" her father pressed, but Lily wasn't listening.
"A…and how, if I supported a Quidditch team, I would support, ooh who was it?" she scratched her head in thought, "the Wimbourne Wasps."
"LILY!" her father shouted. Lily jumped back, shocked at the volume of her fathers voice.
"W…w…what?" she stammered.
"I'm sorry love, you can just get carried away sometimes." His face was in an apologetic smile, "Lily, it's all true!"
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After that particular episode Lily had just collapsed on her bed out of shock. It tuned out that her father had been working for the ministry of magic for quite sometime and was highly thought of in the wizarding world. Only her father was a wizard, her mother was a muggle and didn't have a drop of magic in her. Everyone had left her on her own in the room thinking that she was upset. In reality she was quite excited. The thought of all those fabulous stories being true, the fact that there was a secret world just waiting to be explored (Lily was a very adventureous girl) and all those amazing people that she was going to meet!
"Lily?" it was Petunia, "Lily, you awake?"
"Yes! I suppose so," Petunia stormed into the room and slammed a cup of lukewarm tea on Lily's bedside table, sending waves of the stuff all over her bed.
"Mum told me to give you this." She squeaked. Lily felt the tea on her arm.
"Did she, by any chance, tell you this an hour ago? It's cold," Lily complained, she didn't often moan but in the circumstances…
"Actually it was only half an hour ago," Petunia commented, and with that she turned on her heel and left the room.
Lily got up, fetched the Hogwarts letter from her dressing table, and re-read the letter,
"I'm not sure about the sound of this Archie Dippet," she thought, "although Albus Dumbledore sounds friendly enough"
"We await your owl…what on earth does I mean by owl?" she decided to ask her father later because she had just found her list of equipment. As she scanned down the list she suddenly shouted "Where on EARTH do I get this lot from?"
The list had read:
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY
Uniform
First-year students will need:
1. Three lots of plain black work robes.
2. One plain black pointed hat for day wear.
3. One pair of dragonhide protective gloves.
4. One black winter cloak cloak with silver fastenings.
All pupils clothes should be named.
Books
All students need one copy of:
Grade 1 book of spells by Mildred Annings
A History of magic by Bathilda bagshot
Theory of magic by Adalbert Waffling
Transfiguration for beginners by Jonagol Merry
One thousand magical herbs and fungi by Phyllida Spore
Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger
The Dark forces: A guide to self-protection by Quentin Trimble
Other Equipment:
1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter standard size 2)
1 set of glas philes
1 telescope
1 set of brass scales
Students may also bring an owl OR a cat (no toads after a peculiar mix up last year with the potions laboratory toads which caused upset to a particular student)
FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED BROOMSTICKS
Suddenly, in response to her shout no doubt, Lily's father just, well appeared!
"You called?" he dad asked, seeing the confused look on his daughters face he explained, "I just apparated dear, it's very common among us wizarding folk!" he grinned broadly which calmed Lily down.
"Can I do that?" she asked,a look of horror spread over her fathers face,
"Don't even think of trying it! Anything could happen you could end up splinched!"
"What?"
"Where you are split up, eyeballs everywhere, very nasty."
"Okay then, never mind dad," she told him, she wasn't going to try that anytime soon.
"So what were you shouting about?" he asked.
"Oh, that," she replied, "I was just wondering where I as going to get this from!" and she handed him the list.
"Oh, that's easy, we'll go to London tomorrow, we'll flue there," he smiled happily, he was still glowing over the fact that Lily had got in, although slightly confused that Petunia didn't get in aswell, but it didn't matter because, although it was never said, Lily was his favourite child.
"You can get all this in London?" she asked.
"Oh yes, but only if you know its there!" he answered, "you coming down for dinner?"
"Dinner? Is it dinner time already?" she was amazed how quickly the day had gone.
"Yes, you were asleep for most of the morning after you late night film watching," he chuckled.
"How did you…" but she didn't get to finish.
"Well I am your dad. I know these things!"
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After dinner Lily re-read her letter and equipment lists over and over again, she was still finding it hard to believe. A whole secret world that most muggles didn't have a clue about! Her father had given her some of his old books. She read the daily prophet (the wizard newspaper) to catch up on all the latest happenings, and she read a book about Quidditch, there was a player in the Wimbourne Wasps called Ludo Bagman who Lily thought was quite cute!
She got an early night as she was going to a place that her father called Diagon Alley in the morning. All that night Lily dreamt about flying onn broomsticks and weird and wonderful creatures. She couldn't wait to get to Hogwarts.
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