The light shone through her bedroom windows, she looked around at her studio cum apartment in wonder, how could she have gotten this? She was trash. Thinking back on yesterdays encounter with James Potter, Quidditch Star, she knew he only helped her up as he was being polite. No one in his or her right mind would help her up, she was a freak. As it is, people only knew her paintings, not her. She appeared at two of her exhibitions once, one magic and the other muggle, both times, people complimented her work while staring at her with disgust, as if saying, how could they let that filthy brat into such a place as this.

Lily sighed; she thanked the stars that the next day was the day she went back to Hogwarts. It was her last year there, she really didn't know what to do after Hogwarts, she could go on painting in the shadows or she could take the teaching job at Hogwarts, as Professor Dumbledore told her that Professor Cage, the charms professor was retiring that year. She shook her head in disgust, she thought 'Why in the world would anyone want me as a teacher anyway, I mean even if I took the job, no one in class would listen to me anyway, due to the fact that I'm semi-invisible.'

At that moment, an owl flew through her open window. She opened the parchment on the owl's leg, it read:

Dear Miss Lily Marie Evans, I am pleased to inform you that you are Head Girl. You will be working with Head Boy and fellow Gryffindor James Taylor Potter. Your badge is enclosed with this letter.

Sincerely, Albus Dumbledore Headmaster of Hogwarts

She looked at the letter in utter disbelief, SHE was Head Girl? She shook her head and sighed, looking at the shiny badge in her hand, she contemplated the many duties that she would have to have, all the Head Girl duties as well as Head Boy, due to the fact that she just knew that James Potter would not do his duties and just play pranks, he was infamous for them. She just knew it.

She looked around her and decided to cheer her self up, and generally what cheered her up was ice-cream and painting, but as she looked out of her window, she decided that today looked too good to paint, so she proceeded to Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream parlor for ice-cream.

She changed into a muggle shirt and jeans, before walking out of the art gallery and into the busy streets of Diagon Alley. She walked straight to the ice-cream parlor and ordered a banana split without chocolate ice-cream and double strawberry (A/N: I don't care if any of you think that she should like chocolate ice-cream! I don't and her choice is my favorite ice- cream.)

Fortunately for her, that day was uneventful, a sort of peace and calm she liked. After she ate ice-cream, she went to the Magical Menagerie to look at the assorted animals; that calmed her down considerably and lifted her spirits. She then went back to the gallery and studied for Hogwarts even thought she had finish reading all the books, practiced all the spells and potions several times over.

--------------- Fangboy:- This is an incentive for you to review!! More reviews means more chapters faster ^_^. Anyway, I know you guys are disappointed that she didn't meet the Mauraders but no fear, she'll meet them soon, on the Hogwarts Express in fact ^^. By the way, there is NO Peter in this fic, I think he's a bloody prat so no Peter.

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