Disclaimer: hey you guys guess what it's finally Chapter 2! Aren't you
happy?? I
Hope so! It was actually kind of fun to write! Anyway I'll turn it over to
Lily now!
Lily-::grumpily pokes head out of computer::
Me-O did I not mention who was doing the disclaimer??
Lily-NO!
Me-Oh yes! That's right you get to do it my dear! Hee hee
Lily-Grrrr I hate you!
Me- Aw gee I love you too hun!
Lily-Yeah, Yeah, well alright..fine! This crazy git who writes all this stuff doesn't own me or any of my friends..
Me-Yes and I actually got this opening idea from Life is but a Dream2000
Lily-And Thank goodness that she doesn't own JKR's characters! Imagine what the madwoman would do to me if she did. OW!
Me-::quickly hides plastic bat:: Well anyway on with the story
~Pests and Pets~
Lily happily bounced into the kitchen with a big smile and her eyes closed. But her smile changed to a frown as she saw that her older sister Petunia sitting at the breakfast table grumpily eating her pancakes. Although Lily knew that deep down she really loved her sister, she also knew that Petunia, or Petty as Lily liked to call her, was not a morning person at all. Petunia looked Lily up and down, and seeing that her sister was already dressed and very much awake, and groaned.
"How did you get up so early?" which she asked with absolute disgust. Petunia didn't like it at all when her little sister did something before her. She seemed to think that it made her self look bad.
"Well," Lily started, leaning on the table, "I simply opened my eyes, stepped out of bed, put some clothes on, and walked down here" Lily smirked at her sister's reaction.
"Ugh," Petunia rolled her eyes, "You and your sarcasm!"
"Aw, gee Petty. You say that like it's a bad thing." Lily said while putting on a charming smile and walking towards the backdoor.
Lily stepped out into the garden just outside the kitchen. If she knew her mother, she was already outside picking out the terrible invaders of her garden, who multiply like rabbits, or as most people called them, weeds. Lily looked over to where a small row of flowers were surrounding a blue fountain.
There was her mother bent over and, sure enough, pulling weeds out from in between the flowers. Lily giggled as her mother began mumbling about different weed killers and their lies. Lily tapped her mum on the shoulder and, when she turned around to face Lily, handed her the letter.
"Oh, so now you're sharing?" her mother said as she wiped her forehead off with a cloth.
"Well, I'm in a pretty good mood, so I thought I'd let you have a peak." Lily rocked back and forth on her heals, as she watched her mother read the letter with interest
"So...can I go?" Lily asked hoping the answer was yes.
"Well, it seems like some kind of trick to me, but if it's real then we'll look into it." Her mother looked up from the letter and smiled. "Besides, it sounds like you'd have a lot of fun to me!" Lily jumped up in the air with excitement. She knew that anytime her mum said that she'd 'look into something' it basically meant that if Lily wanted to go she could. Lily sprang back into the kitchen jumping around and squealing with delight.
She looked over at the breakfast table to see that her older sister Petunia had been joined by her younger sister Violet. Violet looked up at Lily with a confused expression.
"What are you so excited about?" Lily just smiled and looked at her sister with an expression that clearly said 'none of your business', and skipped off to her room.
Lily opened her door to find the same old pale pastel pink room with a white canopy bed and far too many books for a child her age. But despite her parents' wishes for her to read more about the news and other historical things, Lily's room was filled with books of fantasy. Lily looked on her bed where a ginger striped cat with big green eyes that always had an expression of knowledge on them sat comfortably. She walked over to the cat, pulled it into her arms, and swung it around in circles.
"Guess what Malico? I might get to go to a school where they teach magic!' The, now very dizzy cat, looked at her with a quizzical expression. "Well, I guess it there's also the possibility that it's not even a real school, but if it is then I'll get to go!" Lily smiled at her pet and set it back down on the bed where it then plopped down and smiled lazily up at her.
"Say, do you want to come with me if I go?" Malico looked at his owner with horror. There was no way he wanted to be trapped in a school with Lily learning magic. She might use him for an experimental potion or something.
"Oh wait, that's right you don't like to travel. Well, they said we could have an owl as a pet so maybe I'll get one of those and bring it instead." Malico visibly relaxed and slumped down further onto the bed. Lily went to her bookshelf and ran her finger across the titles, until it found the sixth book on the shelf. She pulled out the Silver Chair and opened it up. She had been reading the Chronicles of Narnia recently, but she just couldn't seem to get past the beginning of the sixth book! Lily had only been reading for about seven minutes before there was a knock on her door. She looked up from her book.
"Come in" the door opened to reveal her sister Petunia standing in the doorway hands on her hips.
"Oh, it's just you." Lily said with a disappointed tone. She had hoped that it was her mother coming to give her some new info about Hogwarts.
"What do mean 'It's just me'?" said her sister in an annoying tone of voice.
"Oh, shut up, you know perfectly well my dear sister that I love ever so much" Lily said this last sentence carefully making it perfectly clear that she was in fact being quite sarcastic.
"Well, sorry to interrupt you from your childish little fantasy world, honestly it's as if you thought those stories of magic would come alive. But I was only wondering if you knew where my eyeliner was." Petunia looked at her sister with an expectant and almost accusing glare
"Well, how should I know? What, you think I took your stupid eyeliner? Lily of course was joking, but her sister looked at her with a serious expression.
"Well, I thought it might be a possibility!" at this Lily rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Oh yes, Petty! I stole your precious makeup because Malico and I have a date together. You see he's taking me to this lovely little fish café and I thought I might want to use it." At this statement Malico looked at Lily as if she was crazy, and Petunia just scoffed at her sister, and stomped her foot.
"Lily I'm serious! I just so happen to have a date with Vernon and I need that eyeliner."
"Oh, not him, He's so annoying! I honestly don't know how you put up with him."
"Vernon happens to be quite a respectable young man! And if you think he's annoying, then I'm afraid to see what you'll bring home when you're older!" Lily just rolled her eyes once more.
"Look I don't know where your stupid eyeliner or whatever is Okay?" Petunia just sighed in rage, and huffed off. As soon as her sister left Lily went back to her book. However, once she realized that her door was open she put it back down again. She got up from her bed and shut her door. Lily had a thing about it being open. Although, she didn't know why, she just didn't like her door to be open. Her sister's door on the other hand was always open, and because of this, the hallway was always filled with the never ending smell of perfume. Lily guessed that the whole door issue might have to do with her liking small spaces. She didn't know why she liked small spaces either. Perhaps it was the fact that she could see that whole area and not wonder what might be behind or around something. But then Lily had always been that way, imagining that something was around the corner or behind something in the dark. But that was her sister's fault. After all the ghost stories she had told Lily when she was younger, and all the scary movies Petunia had insisted they watch together. Who could blame her for being a bit jumpy in the dark? So Lily liked to sleep with her TV on, although not necessarily loud, just on. She liked having a little noise and light at the same time. It was just the way she got to sleep. Lily once again picked up her book and began to read where she had left off. Less than a few minutes later there was another knock on the door. Lily sighed and hoping it was not her sister back to ask where her powder might be this time said, "Come in." This time however, it wasn't her sister, but her mother who opened the door and came in with a smile.
"Oh, hi Mum" Lily sat up in her bed and almost hit the plump cat beside her when she tossed her book to the side.
"Hi Lily, I just got word from those people from that school and they said that they'd be sending someone over to talk to us very shortly. Lily couldn't believe her ears. This meant that the school must be real!
"Really?!" she asked with excitement.
"Yes, so you'd better brush your hair sweetie" and with that her mother left the room. Lily hurriedly brushed her hair into a ponytail, and ran down stairs.
Just as she thought they would, this person had indeed come very quickly and was now talking with her parents. She was an older woman who looked to be in her 50's. She had black hair, with a few graying strands, that was kept neatly in a bun.
When Lily came down the woman introduced herself as Professor Minerva McGonagall, her Transfiguration teacher. Professor McGonagall talked with her parents about the different magical activities, rules, and abilities. She also gave them directions to a place where they could get Lily's school supplies and other things.
"Just walk right in. The Pub's called The Leaky Caldron, Lily you can't miss it. I'll tell the Bar Tender that you'll be coming in sometime tomorrow. He's name's Tom, and you just tell him who you are and that you need to know how to get into Diagon Alley." All the names seemed so strange to Lily, and yet she was truly fascinated about it all when her parents shook her, soon to be Professor's hand who left with the swish of her wand. Lily spent the rest of the day thinking about her new school and talking absentmindedly to her cat. She couldn't wait until the next day. **********
Yes I remember now. I remember how excited I was that day. I just couldn't believe that I was actually going to learn magic. Of course, now I wondered that if I had known what I would get myself into...would I still have gone? I would hope that I would. After all, good things have come out of this as well. Like, learning magic in the first place, and meeting new friends, and him. He's still sleeping over there. And who could blame him? After all, he was up almost all night doing his summer homework. I looked out the window. There, soaring in the air, was a black peregrine falcon. I smiled as I remembered the day I found that bird.
**********
Lily smiled as she and her mother stepped out onto the crowed street. It had taken Lily sometime to get her Mum into The Leaky Caldron, which, was simply because, although Lily could see the little pub quite clearly, her mother could not. But all that mattered at the moment was that they were there and first stop was most definitely the huge, tall, white building before them, Gringotts. When they walked in the first thing to come out of Lily's mouth was a gasp. She couldn't believe it! These must be the goblins that Professor McGonagall had talked about, and Lily had never seen so much marble.
Lily was thrilled when they told her that her fault number was #1611. Lily's favorite number was sixteen and at the moment she was eleven years old. That way it would be easy to remember.
Lily and her mother exchanged their muggle money for wizarding coins, and had the goblins there deposit some for later usage as well. They both walked out of the bank. Lily, happy about the whole experience, and her Mum, happy about not having to ride in one of the mine carts. She had seen others go speeding off in the carts and when Lily had asked if they could go see her fault she flatly put her foot down.
The first store Lily went into was Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. Lily stepped inside and stood still on a stool as she was fitted for her school robes. While she was being fitted a tall boy who looked to be older than her with slicked back, coal black hair, and cool, calm, grey eyes walked in.
"Oh, and what year are you starting? Third, Fourth maybe?" The boy looked at Madam Malkin with a confused expression and in a soft voice answered that he would be starting his first year.
At the sound of this Lily's eyes grew to be quite wide. 'Where all wizard's that tall?' she thought to herself. After all she hadn't been that close to one before. Professor McGonagall, and Madam Malkin were both witches and the goblin's at Gringotts were certainly not humans.
He stepped onto the stool to be fitted and as he stood, and very straightly Lily might add, he sighed as if he's rather be somewhere else at the moment. Out of the corner of her eye, Lily looked this boy up and down. Well, he was tall no doubt about that, but there was something else about him Lily couldn't quite place .
She did however, notice that he had beautiful hands and very pale skin. This made Lily wonder if he just didn't go outside much or if the sun hardly ever shone where he lived.
But Lily didn't have time to examine him any longer. She was done being fitted and paid for her robes. Next stop was a book shop called Flourish and Blots. Lily had a jolly good time in there, picking out different ink colors and different types of quills and paper. And she was excited about the extra book her Mum let her buy.
It was a beginner's Charm guide. It looked like it had been there for a while, but Lily thought it looked useful all the same. So she bought the book with a look of happiness, and they set off for the potions shop.
The first thing Lily and her mother both noticed about this store was the smell. It was a mix of odd smells and odd things. Lily's Mum talked to the store owner about different school kits and whatnot while Lily looked around.
A quick visit to the back of the store and Lily found the same boy from madam Malkin's. He was absentmindedly running his finger over the labels on potions. Not much unlike the way Lily herself ran her finger across her books.
But Lily once again didn't have time to see this boy, for her mother had gotten her, her kit and had a mind to get away from that smell.
The next place they went was the one Lily had been waiting for. The wand shop! Lily looked up at the golden sign at the top of the store and excitedly went in. She was a bit shocked when the shopkeeper seemed to pop out nowhere with a wand for her, but she liked it all the same.
Lily managed to break a vase twice, change Mr. Olivander's hair green, "rearrange" the store selves and bust open a window before she found the right wand. Lily picked up her wand and felt as if it been hers forever. She instinctively twirled around and flicked the wand. And once she did a billion bright green sparkles came flashing out of her wand, all in the shape of butterflies.
Lily happily left the store with her wand which was made of willow, ten inches long, had a core of a unicorn hair, and as Mr. Olivander have told her "Good for Charms work". Now she was really happy about her book choice. It was only until after they were passing the pet shop that Lily remembered that she would need and owl. So she and her mother went inside the little shop. While Lily's mother looked over at a few barn owls Lily, once again wandered to the back. And boy was she glad she did. It turned out that you could teach other birds to deliver messages as well. There were falcons, crows, ravens, and even parrots. But a certain falcon caught Lily's eye. Its perch read Black Peregrine Flacon~Rare. Lily moved closer to the bird. It was sleeping so she was very quiet and slow as she moved. She was standing in front of the bird when it suddenly awoke. It looked her up and down talons clinched and eyes narrowed.
Lily stayed absolutely still. When the bird relaxed slightly, so did she. It was then that she began talking to the bird in soft slow tones of ease. As she did this the bird seemed to relax even more. It in fact went from its perch onto Lily's shoulder before she knew it.
"There now, see I told you I wouldn't hurt you" she told the bird wile stroking its feathers. She then made her way to the front to of the shop, bird on her shoulder all the way.
As soon as the shop owner saw her he gasped in surprise.
"What?" Lily asked confused
"Well it's just that bird's never acted friendly towards anyone before. Please you must take him he won't go with anyone else" Lily's Mum shrugged her shoulders.
"Whatever you want Lily dear" Lily smiled
"I'll take him. I think he's a sweet bird..deep down." Lily once again stroked the bird's feathers. As Lily and her mother left the shop Lily tried to think of name for her new friend. She thought on the way out of the store, she thought on the way out of Diagon Alley, and she thought on the way home. It wasn't until they arrived at her house that Lily thought of a name for her new pet.
"I know! I'll call you Nuruku!" she set the bird down on the back of her desk chair and began getting ready for dinner.....
A/N There how was that? A little better? I tried to make it a longer chapter. I know it not as long as other peoples , but I wanted to get it long enough to post. (And I'm new at this) Special thanx, and big cookies go to Ash and Scheckie! You guys were my first two reviewers!
Ash-I'm really glad you reviewed! It was great having you start things off for me! And I hope you come back and read. ^__^
Scheckie- You know I love ya! And can you just imagine my excitement and joy when I found your review here?! And I enjoyed if VERY much by the way. (Made me laugh) And in answer to your question Lily's middle name come from my crazy, smart, yet insane little head. I've got middle name for all my characters! Including Sev. If you want to know more about them just drop me an e-mail. (Trust me, go ahead, the address is new so I need to fill up my inbox ^__~ it's in my profile)
Oh yes and special Thanx to Life is but a Dream2000 for letting me use her opening concept!
So who's this boy that our little Lily seems sooo interested in anyway? I don't think it's too hard to figure out, but whatever. Next time, It's off to Hogwarts we go! See you soon, Lils
Lily-::grumpily pokes head out of computer::
Me-O did I not mention who was doing the disclaimer??
Lily-NO!
Me-Oh yes! That's right you get to do it my dear! Hee hee
Lily-Grrrr I hate you!
Me- Aw gee I love you too hun!
Lily-Yeah, Yeah, well alright..fine! This crazy git who writes all this stuff doesn't own me or any of my friends..
Me-Yes and I actually got this opening idea from Life is but a Dream2000
Lily-And Thank goodness that she doesn't own JKR's characters! Imagine what the madwoman would do to me if she did. OW!
Me-::quickly hides plastic bat:: Well anyway on with the story
~Pests and Pets~
Lily happily bounced into the kitchen with a big smile and her eyes closed. But her smile changed to a frown as she saw that her older sister Petunia sitting at the breakfast table grumpily eating her pancakes. Although Lily knew that deep down she really loved her sister, she also knew that Petunia, or Petty as Lily liked to call her, was not a morning person at all. Petunia looked Lily up and down, and seeing that her sister was already dressed and very much awake, and groaned.
"How did you get up so early?" which she asked with absolute disgust. Petunia didn't like it at all when her little sister did something before her. She seemed to think that it made her self look bad.
"Well," Lily started, leaning on the table, "I simply opened my eyes, stepped out of bed, put some clothes on, and walked down here" Lily smirked at her sister's reaction.
"Ugh," Petunia rolled her eyes, "You and your sarcasm!"
"Aw, gee Petty. You say that like it's a bad thing." Lily said while putting on a charming smile and walking towards the backdoor.
Lily stepped out into the garden just outside the kitchen. If she knew her mother, she was already outside picking out the terrible invaders of her garden, who multiply like rabbits, or as most people called them, weeds. Lily looked over to where a small row of flowers were surrounding a blue fountain.
There was her mother bent over and, sure enough, pulling weeds out from in between the flowers. Lily giggled as her mother began mumbling about different weed killers and their lies. Lily tapped her mum on the shoulder and, when she turned around to face Lily, handed her the letter.
"Oh, so now you're sharing?" her mother said as she wiped her forehead off with a cloth.
"Well, I'm in a pretty good mood, so I thought I'd let you have a peak." Lily rocked back and forth on her heals, as she watched her mother read the letter with interest
"So...can I go?" Lily asked hoping the answer was yes.
"Well, it seems like some kind of trick to me, but if it's real then we'll look into it." Her mother looked up from the letter and smiled. "Besides, it sounds like you'd have a lot of fun to me!" Lily jumped up in the air with excitement. She knew that anytime her mum said that she'd 'look into something' it basically meant that if Lily wanted to go she could. Lily sprang back into the kitchen jumping around and squealing with delight.
She looked over at the breakfast table to see that her older sister Petunia had been joined by her younger sister Violet. Violet looked up at Lily with a confused expression.
"What are you so excited about?" Lily just smiled and looked at her sister with an expression that clearly said 'none of your business', and skipped off to her room.
Lily opened her door to find the same old pale pastel pink room with a white canopy bed and far too many books for a child her age. But despite her parents' wishes for her to read more about the news and other historical things, Lily's room was filled with books of fantasy. Lily looked on her bed where a ginger striped cat with big green eyes that always had an expression of knowledge on them sat comfortably. She walked over to the cat, pulled it into her arms, and swung it around in circles.
"Guess what Malico? I might get to go to a school where they teach magic!' The, now very dizzy cat, looked at her with a quizzical expression. "Well, I guess it there's also the possibility that it's not even a real school, but if it is then I'll get to go!" Lily smiled at her pet and set it back down on the bed where it then plopped down and smiled lazily up at her.
"Say, do you want to come with me if I go?" Malico looked at his owner with horror. There was no way he wanted to be trapped in a school with Lily learning magic. She might use him for an experimental potion or something.
"Oh wait, that's right you don't like to travel. Well, they said we could have an owl as a pet so maybe I'll get one of those and bring it instead." Malico visibly relaxed and slumped down further onto the bed. Lily went to her bookshelf and ran her finger across the titles, until it found the sixth book on the shelf. She pulled out the Silver Chair and opened it up. She had been reading the Chronicles of Narnia recently, but she just couldn't seem to get past the beginning of the sixth book! Lily had only been reading for about seven minutes before there was a knock on her door. She looked up from her book.
"Come in" the door opened to reveal her sister Petunia standing in the doorway hands on her hips.
"Oh, it's just you." Lily said with a disappointed tone. She had hoped that it was her mother coming to give her some new info about Hogwarts.
"What do mean 'It's just me'?" said her sister in an annoying tone of voice.
"Oh, shut up, you know perfectly well my dear sister that I love ever so much" Lily said this last sentence carefully making it perfectly clear that she was in fact being quite sarcastic.
"Well, sorry to interrupt you from your childish little fantasy world, honestly it's as if you thought those stories of magic would come alive. But I was only wondering if you knew where my eyeliner was." Petunia looked at her sister with an expectant and almost accusing glare
"Well, how should I know? What, you think I took your stupid eyeliner? Lily of course was joking, but her sister looked at her with a serious expression.
"Well, I thought it might be a possibility!" at this Lily rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Oh yes, Petty! I stole your precious makeup because Malico and I have a date together. You see he's taking me to this lovely little fish café and I thought I might want to use it." At this statement Malico looked at Lily as if she was crazy, and Petunia just scoffed at her sister, and stomped her foot.
"Lily I'm serious! I just so happen to have a date with Vernon and I need that eyeliner."
"Oh, not him, He's so annoying! I honestly don't know how you put up with him."
"Vernon happens to be quite a respectable young man! And if you think he's annoying, then I'm afraid to see what you'll bring home when you're older!" Lily just rolled her eyes once more.
"Look I don't know where your stupid eyeliner or whatever is Okay?" Petunia just sighed in rage, and huffed off. As soon as her sister left Lily went back to her book. However, once she realized that her door was open she put it back down again. She got up from her bed and shut her door. Lily had a thing about it being open. Although, she didn't know why, she just didn't like her door to be open. Her sister's door on the other hand was always open, and because of this, the hallway was always filled with the never ending smell of perfume. Lily guessed that the whole door issue might have to do with her liking small spaces. She didn't know why she liked small spaces either. Perhaps it was the fact that she could see that whole area and not wonder what might be behind or around something. But then Lily had always been that way, imagining that something was around the corner or behind something in the dark. But that was her sister's fault. After all the ghost stories she had told Lily when she was younger, and all the scary movies Petunia had insisted they watch together. Who could blame her for being a bit jumpy in the dark? So Lily liked to sleep with her TV on, although not necessarily loud, just on. She liked having a little noise and light at the same time. It was just the way she got to sleep. Lily once again picked up her book and began to read where she had left off. Less than a few minutes later there was another knock on the door. Lily sighed and hoping it was not her sister back to ask where her powder might be this time said, "Come in." This time however, it wasn't her sister, but her mother who opened the door and came in with a smile.
"Oh, hi Mum" Lily sat up in her bed and almost hit the plump cat beside her when she tossed her book to the side.
"Hi Lily, I just got word from those people from that school and they said that they'd be sending someone over to talk to us very shortly. Lily couldn't believe her ears. This meant that the school must be real!
"Really?!" she asked with excitement.
"Yes, so you'd better brush your hair sweetie" and with that her mother left the room. Lily hurriedly brushed her hair into a ponytail, and ran down stairs.
Just as she thought they would, this person had indeed come very quickly and was now talking with her parents. She was an older woman who looked to be in her 50's. She had black hair, with a few graying strands, that was kept neatly in a bun.
When Lily came down the woman introduced herself as Professor Minerva McGonagall, her Transfiguration teacher. Professor McGonagall talked with her parents about the different magical activities, rules, and abilities. She also gave them directions to a place where they could get Lily's school supplies and other things.
"Just walk right in. The Pub's called The Leaky Caldron, Lily you can't miss it. I'll tell the Bar Tender that you'll be coming in sometime tomorrow. He's name's Tom, and you just tell him who you are and that you need to know how to get into Diagon Alley." All the names seemed so strange to Lily, and yet she was truly fascinated about it all when her parents shook her, soon to be Professor's hand who left with the swish of her wand. Lily spent the rest of the day thinking about her new school and talking absentmindedly to her cat. She couldn't wait until the next day. **********
Yes I remember now. I remember how excited I was that day. I just couldn't believe that I was actually going to learn magic. Of course, now I wondered that if I had known what I would get myself into...would I still have gone? I would hope that I would. After all, good things have come out of this as well. Like, learning magic in the first place, and meeting new friends, and him. He's still sleeping over there. And who could blame him? After all, he was up almost all night doing his summer homework. I looked out the window. There, soaring in the air, was a black peregrine falcon. I smiled as I remembered the day I found that bird.
**********
Lily smiled as she and her mother stepped out onto the crowed street. It had taken Lily sometime to get her Mum into The Leaky Caldron, which, was simply because, although Lily could see the little pub quite clearly, her mother could not. But all that mattered at the moment was that they were there and first stop was most definitely the huge, tall, white building before them, Gringotts. When they walked in the first thing to come out of Lily's mouth was a gasp. She couldn't believe it! These must be the goblins that Professor McGonagall had talked about, and Lily had never seen so much marble.
Lily was thrilled when they told her that her fault number was #1611. Lily's favorite number was sixteen and at the moment she was eleven years old. That way it would be easy to remember.
Lily and her mother exchanged their muggle money for wizarding coins, and had the goblins there deposit some for later usage as well. They both walked out of the bank. Lily, happy about the whole experience, and her Mum, happy about not having to ride in one of the mine carts. She had seen others go speeding off in the carts and when Lily had asked if they could go see her fault she flatly put her foot down.
The first store Lily went into was Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. Lily stepped inside and stood still on a stool as she was fitted for her school robes. While she was being fitted a tall boy who looked to be older than her with slicked back, coal black hair, and cool, calm, grey eyes walked in.
"Oh, and what year are you starting? Third, Fourth maybe?" The boy looked at Madam Malkin with a confused expression and in a soft voice answered that he would be starting his first year.
At the sound of this Lily's eyes grew to be quite wide. 'Where all wizard's that tall?' she thought to herself. After all she hadn't been that close to one before. Professor McGonagall, and Madam Malkin were both witches and the goblin's at Gringotts were certainly not humans.
He stepped onto the stool to be fitted and as he stood, and very straightly Lily might add, he sighed as if he's rather be somewhere else at the moment. Out of the corner of her eye, Lily looked this boy up and down. Well, he was tall no doubt about that, but there was something else about him Lily couldn't quite place .
She did however, notice that he had beautiful hands and very pale skin. This made Lily wonder if he just didn't go outside much or if the sun hardly ever shone where he lived.
But Lily didn't have time to examine him any longer. She was done being fitted and paid for her robes. Next stop was a book shop called Flourish and Blots. Lily had a jolly good time in there, picking out different ink colors and different types of quills and paper. And she was excited about the extra book her Mum let her buy.
It was a beginner's Charm guide. It looked like it had been there for a while, but Lily thought it looked useful all the same. So she bought the book with a look of happiness, and they set off for the potions shop.
The first thing Lily and her mother both noticed about this store was the smell. It was a mix of odd smells and odd things. Lily's Mum talked to the store owner about different school kits and whatnot while Lily looked around.
A quick visit to the back of the store and Lily found the same boy from madam Malkin's. He was absentmindedly running his finger over the labels on potions. Not much unlike the way Lily herself ran her finger across her books.
But Lily once again didn't have time to see this boy, for her mother had gotten her, her kit and had a mind to get away from that smell.
The next place they went was the one Lily had been waiting for. The wand shop! Lily looked up at the golden sign at the top of the store and excitedly went in. She was a bit shocked when the shopkeeper seemed to pop out nowhere with a wand for her, but she liked it all the same.
Lily managed to break a vase twice, change Mr. Olivander's hair green, "rearrange" the store selves and bust open a window before she found the right wand. Lily picked up her wand and felt as if it been hers forever. She instinctively twirled around and flicked the wand. And once she did a billion bright green sparkles came flashing out of her wand, all in the shape of butterflies.
Lily happily left the store with her wand which was made of willow, ten inches long, had a core of a unicorn hair, and as Mr. Olivander have told her "Good for Charms work". Now she was really happy about her book choice. It was only until after they were passing the pet shop that Lily remembered that she would need and owl. So she and her mother went inside the little shop. While Lily's mother looked over at a few barn owls Lily, once again wandered to the back. And boy was she glad she did. It turned out that you could teach other birds to deliver messages as well. There were falcons, crows, ravens, and even parrots. But a certain falcon caught Lily's eye. Its perch read Black Peregrine Flacon~Rare. Lily moved closer to the bird. It was sleeping so she was very quiet and slow as she moved. She was standing in front of the bird when it suddenly awoke. It looked her up and down talons clinched and eyes narrowed.
Lily stayed absolutely still. When the bird relaxed slightly, so did she. It was then that she began talking to the bird in soft slow tones of ease. As she did this the bird seemed to relax even more. It in fact went from its perch onto Lily's shoulder before she knew it.
"There now, see I told you I wouldn't hurt you" she told the bird wile stroking its feathers. She then made her way to the front to of the shop, bird on her shoulder all the way.
As soon as the shop owner saw her he gasped in surprise.
"What?" Lily asked confused
"Well it's just that bird's never acted friendly towards anyone before. Please you must take him he won't go with anyone else" Lily's Mum shrugged her shoulders.
"Whatever you want Lily dear" Lily smiled
"I'll take him. I think he's a sweet bird..deep down." Lily once again stroked the bird's feathers. As Lily and her mother left the shop Lily tried to think of name for her new friend. She thought on the way out of the store, she thought on the way out of Diagon Alley, and she thought on the way home. It wasn't until they arrived at her house that Lily thought of a name for her new pet.
"I know! I'll call you Nuruku!" she set the bird down on the back of her desk chair and began getting ready for dinner.....
A/N There how was that? A little better? I tried to make it a longer chapter. I know it not as long as other peoples , but I wanted to get it long enough to post. (And I'm new at this) Special thanx, and big cookies go to Ash and Scheckie! You guys were my first two reviewers!
Ash-I'm really glad you reviewed! It was great having you start things off for me! And I hope you come back and read. ^__^
Scheckie- You know I love ya! And can you just imagine my excitement and joy when I found your review here?! And I enjoyed if VERY much by the way. (Made me laugh) And in answer to your question Lily's middle name come from my crazy, smart, yet insane little head. I've got middle name for all my characters! Including Sev. If you want to know more about them just drop me an e-mail. (Trust me, go ahead, the address is new so I need to fill up my inbox ^__~ it's in my profile)
Oh yes and special Thanx to Life is but a Dream2000 for letting me use her opening concept!
So who's this boy that our little Lily seems sooo interested in anyway? I don't think it's too hard to figure out, but whatever. Next time, It's off to Hogwarts we go! See you soon, Lils