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When they finally made it to the Great Hall most of lunch was gone. Lily picked a seat near Meg and Dylan. She piled her plate high with stew and poured herself pumpkin juice.
"Dylan, have you done your Transfiguration essay yet? I can't find ANY information on the Avifors spell. It's supposed to be handed in tomorrow."
One of Dylan's friends, Toby, complained about the essay. Dylan shrugged.
"That's funny, because I found plenty of info on Avifors. Did you try the library?" Dylan remarked, kidding around with Toby.
Lily flinched. She had forgotten all about the Avifors essay. Lily pulled Dylan towards her. She whispered in his ear.
"I forgot all about the essay. Help!" Dylan smiled. He knew Lily would forget. He nodded, ate the rest of his stew and stood up. "Well, lets go." He said, leading the way to the library.
On the way to the library, they ran into Fred and George stacking fruitcake in a nook besides the boy's loo. They waved nonchalantly at Lily and Dylan. She rolled her eyes, those two were always into something.
"Hi Lily!" said Fred, waving a fruitcake. Dylan gave him a curious look. George started to explain.
"We are trying out a new product. Spontaneously Combusting Fruitcake!" He waited for laughs. "It's not really spontaneous though. They'll explode at around 5-ish." He said. Lily shook her head. She made a mental not to be safe in the common room around 5.
After they passed Fred and George, they reached the vast library of Hogwarts. Lily sat down at a table while Dylan asked the librarian, Madam Pince to help find books on Avifors. She pulled down many books, slammed them on the table, and left to return to her desk.
For the next 2 hours, Dylan and Lily looked through what felt like the whole library. Lily found some valuable information on Avifors. Lily wrote her essay, and then some. Dylan sat with her while she finished. When she was finished, they headed back to the Gryffindor common room. Out in the hall, Lily looked down at her watch. The watch read 5:01. Lily quickly looked down the hall where the twins had been setting up the fruitcakes. The fruitcakes were still stacked in the nook. "Oh crap." She said. Dylan immediately looked down the hall. His eyes went wide. "Well, what are we doing here? Let's go" he said, his voice shaky. But at that moment, a loud ticking noise started. Lily looked horrified at the stack of fruitcake. The ticking sound stopped. Dylan ducked down and pulled his bag on top of his head. Lily squatted down beside him and followed him. She pulled her bad on top of her head too. The fruitcake blew up. Lily looked up at the hall. Total destruction. Pieces of fruitcake were everywhere. Lily looked at Dylan; his robes were showered in the cake. It was a spongy sticky mess. Part of Lily's hair was covered in the sticky substance. They stood up and brushed off as much fruitcake as possible. Lily and Dylan then made their way to the Gryffindor common room for the second time. When they finally got back to the common room, Lily dropped her bag on a table and stormed to the twins. They saw her coming and started to laugh. "You think this is funny?" she bellowed, taking her wand out. She pointed it at Fred and George. They pulled back, cowering together. "Yeah, actually, we did. But, I don't think we meant to get you caught in it. We're sorry. Spongifey!" said Fred, pulling his own wand out and cleaning Lily's robes. Lily lowered her wand. The twins leaned forward again. "Apology accepted. Next time, be more carefully where you place pranks." Lily said, pulling her bag onto the table. She pulled out her Animagi book and started reading. Fred and George looked at each other and continued working on homework. Fred, George and Lily met each other at Lily's sorting ceremony. They saw her interesting choice of socks (rainbow w/ pink baubles.) They liked her immediately. It was only till she told them who her father was did they befriend her. No one wanted to talk to her because Sirius Black was on the loose. Lily had met Dylan in her second year. Her had transferred from Beaubatons. He had had a French accent, but it died away. Dylan was one year ahead of Lily. "Lily! Wake up!" someone nudged Lily. She shook her head and robbed her eyes. Meg Demeter was looking down at Lily with a plate full of food. "You missed dinner. I brought you some though." She said, laying the plate of food down by Lily's stack of papers. Lily was horrified.
"Oh!" she said, amazed with herself. "How could I miss dinner? I was so hungry too. Thank you so much!" Lily said, eyeing the mashed potatoes gratefully. Meg smiled.
"Your welcome. I figured you were too tired to get up. There's a bit a brownie there." She said, pointing to a stack of brown rectangles. Lily thanked her again and packed away he things. She was going to eat in the dorm. No one would bother her there.
When she went in to her dorm, several things happened. One, Guinivere, her owl, flew up to her with a letter. Two, Trixie, her mom's owl, came out of nowhere flying at Lily. Three, the dorm door slammed behind her.
Lily carefully placed her food on her bedside table before reading the letters. She took Guinivere's letter first, ripping it open with powerful speed. The letter had the Black family mascot. It was written in an unfamiliar curvy hand.
"Dearest Lily Black, I am writing to you because of our family resemblance. Blah, Blah, Blah. "Lily read the first part aloud, finishing silently. The letter was complete rubbish talking about how much Lily resembled her aunt. How Lily hated her. She threw the letter in the fire, gave Guinivere an owl treat and thanked her.
Next Lily read Trixie's letter. Her mom was writing about the holidays. And asking whether she had heard from Adam in a while. Yes, Lily was coming for the holidays. No, she hadn't heard from her brother in a while.
Lily threw that letter in her drawer. So nothing of big importance. She than flung herself on her bed, beginning to eat her now-cold dinner. She pulled out her Animagus book and began reading.
The book said a simple charm would do the trick of knowing excarly what animal you'll become. But, the book said, you have to really want to become an Animagus, to really want it- no second guesses.
She pulled her wand out, holding it at ready position. The book said the incantation was 'Animalia Showus.' Lily whispered the incantation. The result was a flashing blue light and a small husky dog illuminated by the blue light, was hovering above Lily's wand.
Lily smiled. She was going to be a husky dog. She waved her wand again, to cancel out the spell. The blue light immediately went out. Tomorrow, Sunday, she would devote to studying but she'd do it outside.
But now, was time for bed. It had been an extra long day.
The next morning, Amber Ashworth, a girl whom Lily never really met, awaked Lily. Amber was a red-haired smallish girl with lots of freckles. Amber shook Lily awake.
"Huh? What's going on?" Lily said stupidly, looking around for an emergency. It was Sunday morning and usually Lily didn't wake up for forever. Amber pointed to the common room.
"Something happened!" Amber said, exasperated. Amber pushed her red hair out of her eyes, sighing heavily.
"What happened? Tell me or I'm not going." Lily said, sitting up slightly, her purple hair very messy. Amber looked hurried.
"Okay, fine. Fred and George have duck bills and they say you did it." Amber squeaked, falling off Lily's bed, which she had perched on to tell Lily.
Lily threw her feet over the side of the bed, ready to get up. She couldn't believe what she just heard. Somehow, Fred and George had gotten duck beaks overnight and Lily had been blamed. Lily got up, and dressed herself quickly, clashing slightly and ran into the common room.
It was packed. There was a crowd circling around one of the tables. Lily pushed her way through to the center.
Sure enough Fred and George had duck beaks, but something was different. Lil hooked closer; they weren't real.
"Hullo, Wiwy!" said George, waving at the angered witch. She had been blamed for a joke.
"Evanesco!" Lily said, pulling out her wand and pointing it at the twins. The duck beaks vanished revealing their noses and mouths. The crowd thought it funny, Lily did not.
"So." She said, anger bubbling like boiling water. "So."
"So what?" an un-namable first year said. Lily ignored him.
"So you blame me for this?" she bellowed, throwing her arms down. Fred looked confused, he turned to George, who looked stumped.
"Lil, we didn't blame you for anything." George said, getting up walking to Lily. More anger bubbled.
"Amber." Lily said furiously. George looked confused again. Lily explained.
"Amber Ashworth woke me up, saying you had duck bulls and blamed me for them. Why? I don't know." Lily said, getting a littler calmer.
"Oh, I see what this is about." Fred said, rubbing where the duck bill used to be. Lily looked at him. The crowd slowly started to dispearse, leaving Fred, George and Lily sitting alone in the common room.
"You do, do you?" she said, rubbing a hand through her purple hair. Fred laughed mischievously.
"Yeah." He said, suddenly very calm. George grinned. Lily laughed at them.
"So..." she said, hoping that they would just spit it out, but Fed wasn't going to give in without a fight.
"Well, I think..." he paused, yawning hugely, "that..." Lily had had enough of his taking his time.
"FRED!" she yelled, sending the portraits hiding behind their frames.
"Get on with it!" Lily bellowed. Fed laughed again.
"Fine, I think that she's bloddy jealous of you. I mean, you've got the two best pranksters ever as friends. You've got a boyfriend, and you do great in schoolwork." Lily rolled her eyes. Like she'd believe that load of rubbish.
"Guys, hate to break it to you, but Amber's more popular than me. And, no offense, but she hates your guts. So, she couldn't possibly be jealous of me." Lily pointed out, thinking she had just brought down their whole plan. George raised his eyebrows when he heard the news of Amber hating them.
"Hating us??" They said, acting shocked. George put his hand over his heart; Fred put his hand over his open mouth. Lily giggled. The twins were almost the only ones who could make her laugh.
"Yes, she doesn't like you. She thinks you are full of yourselves. But, whatever..." Lily trailed off, talking to no one.
"Lil, Fred said, turning to look at George. "We think that she's jealous that you've got Dylan." Lily looked absolutely surprised.
"What?!" she said.
Just then, the common room portrait sung open to reveal Dylan Morris, Lily's boyfriend of two years. He looked around the room and spotted Lily with Fred and George.
"Lily, I've just been to the library and..." he stopped. Dylan looked at Fred and George and then back at Lily. "Can I say?" he asked.
Fred and George suddenly looked very suspicious. They grinned and then looked at Lily.
"If it's about Animagi yes, you can!" she said, smiling at Dylan.
"Well, this book said you had to really want to become an Animagi to find out what animal you'll become. Did you do that already?" he asked, Lily.
Lily thought, 'Well, yeah, I have, but I dunno if I should tell you or not.'
"Yes, I have." She said, her mouth overruling her brain. "I'm going to be a husky dog."
Lunchtime came and went. Lily and Dylan spent their lunch break in the back of the library, studying to become Animagi. Dylan did the Animal spell and found out that he would become a red-tailed hawk.
At dinnertime, Lily snapped her book shut. She was beginning to feel hungry and wasn't about to skip dinner.
"Okay, well, I'm done with studying for today. I'm going to dinner. You coming?" she asked, stacking books into her bag. Dylan look up from his book. There were bags under his eyes.
"Uhh, yeah. Meet you there though." He said, continuing reading.
Lily shrugged and made her way to dinner. She was very hungry and was exhausted from studying too much.
When she arrived at the Great Hall, it was apparent that Lily was not the only hungry one. She sat down at the very back of the Gryffindor table, leaning against the stonewall. Even though she was extremely hungry, Lily ate slowly.
"Lil, what's wrong?" Meg came over from up the table. She had seen the way Lily was eating.
"Just thinking. Don't worry. I'll be fine." She said, smiling. Lily ate a little faster and then went back up to her dorm.
But before she went back to the dorm, she made a quick stop at the owlery. Professor McGonagall hadn't given her Lupin's address for nothing.
The owlery was extremely quiet when she arrived. Guinivere was at the very top.
"Gwen, please come down. I have a letter for you." Lily called up to the snowy owl. Guinivere floated down and landed on Lily's shoulder. Guinivere stuck out her leg so Lily could tie her letter to it. Lily quickly tied the scroll and patted Gwen's head. The owl flew silently off into the night.
Lily sat in the owlery for quite a while after Gwen had left. It was a nice spot for thinking. Lily sat and thought about how much she missed her dad. It was almost pitiful. Lily hated being the one pitied. It made her feel low.
After about 25 minutes alone, Lily set off to the tower again. No one was in the common room, not even the Weasly Twins. Lily trudged up to the dorm and threw herself on her bed, fully clothed.
Lily slept through the night, hating the fact that she had to go back to school the next morning. Sure, she liked Defense against the Dark Arts, and Transfiguration, but that was about it. She didn't like Potions at all seeing as Snape and her dad didn't get along real well.
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When they finally made it to the Great Hall most of lunch was gone. Lily picked a seat near Meg and Dylan. She piled her plate high with stew and poured herself pumpkin juice.
"Dylan, have you done your Transfiguration essay yet? I can't find ANY information on the Avifors spell. It's supposed to be handed in tomorrow."
One of Dylan's friends, Toby, complained about the essay. Dylan shrugged.
"That's funny, because I found plenty of info on Avifors. Did you try the library?" Dylan remarked, kidding around with Toby.
Lily flinched. She had forgotten all about the Avifors essay. Lily pulled Dylan towards her. She whispered in his ear.
"I forgot all about the essay. Help!" Dylan smiled. He knew Lily would forget. He nodded, ate the rest of his stew and stood up. "Well, lets go." He said, leading the way to the library.
On the way to the library, they ran into Fred and George stacking fruitcake in a nook besides the boy's loo. They waved nonchalantly at Lily and Dylan. She rolled her eyes, those two were always into something.
"Hi Lily!" said Fred, waving a fruitcake. Dylan gave him a curious look. George started to explain.
"We are trying out a new product. Spontaneously Combusting Fruitcake!" He waited for laughs. "It's not really spontaneous though. They'll explode at around 5-ish." He said. Lily shook her head. She made a mental not to be safe in the common room around 5.
After they passed Fred and George, they reached the vast library of Hogwarts. Lily sat down at a table while Dylan asked the librarian, Madam Pince to help find books on Avifors. She pulled down many books, slammed them on the table, and left to return to her desk.
For the next 2 hours, Dylan and Lily looked through what felt like the whole library. Lily found some valuable information on Avifors. Lily wrote her essay, and then some. Dylan sat with her while she finished. When she was finished, they headed back to the Gryffindor common room. Out in the hall, Lily looked down at her watch. The watch read 5:01. Lily quickly looked down the hall where the twins had been setting up the fruitcakes. The fruitcakes were still stacked in the nook. "Oh crap." She said. Dylan immediately looked down the hall. His eyes went wide. "Well, what are we doing here? Let's go" he said, his voice shaky. But at that moment, a loud ticking noise started. Lily looked horrified at the stack of fruitcake. The ticking sound stopped. Dylan ducked down and pulled his bag on top of his head. Lily squatted down beside him and followed him. She pulled her bad on top of her head too. The fruitcake blew up. Lily looked up at the hall. Total destruction. Pieces of fruitcake were everywhere. Lily looked at Dylan; his robes were showered in the cake. It was a spongy sticky mess. Part of Lily's hair was covered in the sticky substance. They stood up and brushed off as much fruitcake as possible. Lily and Dylan then made their way to the Gryffindor common room for the second time. When they finally got back to the common room, Lily dropped her bag on a table and stormed to the twins. They saw her coming and started to laugh. "You think this is funny?" she bellowed, taking her wand out. She pointed it at Fred and George. They pulled back, cowering together. "Yeah, actually, we did. But, I don't think we meant to get you caught in it. We're sorry. Spongifey!" said Fred, pulling his own wand out and cleaning Lily's robes. Lily lowered her wand. The twins leaned forward again. "Apology accepted. Next time, be more carefully where you place pranks." Lily said, pulling her bag onto the table. She pulled out her Animagi book and started reading. Fred and George looked at each other and continued working on homework. Fred, George and Lily met each other at Lily's sorting ceremony. They saw her interesting choice of socks (rainbow w/ pink baubles.) They liked her immediately. It was only till she told them who her father was did they befriend her. No one wanted to talk to her because Sirius Black was on the loose. Lily had met Dylan in her second year. Her had transferred from Beaubatons. He had had a French accent, but it died away. Dylan was one year ahead of Lily. "Lily! Wake up!" someone nudged Lily. She shook her head and robbed her eyes. Meg Demeter was looking down at Lily with a plate full of food. "You missed dinner. I brought you some though." She said, laying the plate of food down by Lily's stack of papers. Lily was horrified.
"Oh!" she said, amazed with herself. "How could I miss dinner? I was so hungry too. Thank you so much!" Lily said, eyeing the mashed potatoes gratefully. Meg smiled.
"Your welcome. I figured you were too tired to get up. There's a bit a brownie there." She said, pointing to a stack of brown rectangles. Lily thanked her again and packed away he things. She was going to eat in the dorm. No one would bother her there.
When she went in to her dorm, several things happened. One, Guinivere, her owl, flew up to her with a letter. Two, Trixie, her mom's owl, came out of nowhere flying at Lily. Three, the dorm door slammed behind her.
Lily carefully placed her food on her bedside table before reading the letters. She took Guinivere's letter first, ripping it open with powerful speed. The letter had the Black family mascot. It was written in an unfamiliar curvy hand.
"Dearest Lily Black, I am writing to you because of our family resemblance. Blah, Blah, Blah. "Lily read the first part aloud, finishing silently. The letter was complete rubbish talking about how much Lily resembled her aunt. How Lily hated her. She threw the letter in the fire, gave Guinivere an owl treat and thanked her.
Next Lily read Trixie's letter. Her mom was writing about the holidays. And asking whether she had heard from Adam in a while. Yes, Lily was coming for the holidays. No, she hadn't heard from her brother in a while.
Lily threw that letter in her drawer. So nothing of big importance. She than flung herself on her bed, beginning to eat her now-cold dinner. She pulled out her Animagus book and began reading.
The book said a simple charm would do the trick of knowing excarly what animal you'll become. But, the book said, you have to really want to become an Animagus, to really want it- no second guesses.
She pulled her wand out, holding it at ready position. The book said the incantation was 'Animalia Showus.' Lily whispered the incantation. The result was a flashing blue light and a small husky dog illuminated by the blue light, was hovering above Lily's wand.
Lily smiled. She was going to be a husky dog. She waved her wand again, to cancel out the spell. The blue light immediately went out. Tomorrow, Sunday, she would devote to studying but she'd do it outside.
But now, was time for bed. It had been an extra long day.
The next morning, Amber Ashworth, a girl whom Lily never really met, awaked Lily. Amber was a red-haired smallish girl with lots of freckles. Amber shook Lily awake.
"Huh? What's going on?" Lily said stupidly, looking around for an emergency. It was Sunday morning and usually Lily didn't wake up for forever. Amber pointed to the common room.
"Something happened!" Amber said, exasperated. Amber pushed her red hair out of her eyes, sighing heavily.
"What happened? Tell me or I'm not going." Lily said, sitting up slightly, her purple hair very messy. Amber looked hurried.
"Okay, fine. Fred and George have duck bills and they say you did it." Amber squeaked, falling off Lily's bed, which she had perched on to tell Lily.
Lily threw her feet over the side of the bed, ready to get up. She couldn't believe what she just heard. Somehow, Fred and George had gotten duck beaks overnight and Lily had been blamed. Lily got up, and dressed herself quickly, clashing slightly and ran into the common room.
It was packed. There was a crowd circling around one of the tables. Lily pushed her way through to the center.
Sure enough Fred and George had duck beaks, but something was different. Lil hooked closer; they weren't real.
"Hullo, Wiwy!" said George, waving at the angered witch. She had been blamed for a joke.
"Evanesco!" Lily said, pulling out her wand and pointing it at the twins. The duck beaks vanished revealing their noses and mouths. The crowd thought it funny, Lily did not.
"So." She said, anger bubbling like boiling water. "So."
"So what?" an un-namable first year said. Lily ignored him.
"So you blame me for this?" she bellowed, throwing her arms down. Fred looked confused, he turned to George, who looked stumped.
"Lil, we didn't blame you for anything." George said, getting up walking to Lily. More anger bubbled.
"Amber." Lily said furiously. George looked confused again. Lily explained.
"Amber Ashworth woke me up, saying you had duck bulls and blamed me for them. Why? I don't know." Lily said, getting a littler calmer.
"Oh, I see what this is about." Fred said, rubbing where the duck bill used to be. Lily looked at him. The crowd slowly started to dispearse, leaving Fred, George and Lily sitting alone in the common room.
"You do, do you?" she said, rubbing a hand through her purple hair. Fred laughed mischievously.
"Yeah." He said, suddenly very calm. George grinned. Lily laughed at them.
"So..." she said, hoping that they would just spit it out, but Fed wasn't going to give in without a fight.
"Well, I think..." he paused, yawning hugely, "that..." Lily had had enough of his taking his time.
"FRED!" she yelled, sending the portraits hiding behind their frames.
"Get on with it!" Lily bellowed. Fed laughed again.
"Fine, I think that she's bloddy jealous of you. I mean, you've got the two best pranksters ever as friends. You've got a boyfriend, and you do great in schoolwork." Lily rolled her eyes. Like she'd believe that load of rubbish.
"Guys, hate to break it to you, but Amber's more popular than me. And, no offense, but she hates your guts. So, she couldn't possibly be jealous of me." Lily pointed out, thinking she had just brought down their whole plan. George raised his eyebrows when he heard the news of Amber hating them.
"Hating us??" They said, acting shocked. George put his hand over his heart; Fred put his hand over his open mouth. Lily giggled. The twins were almost the only ones who could make her laugh.
"Yes, she doesn't like you. She thinks you are full of yourselves. But, whatever..." Lily trailed off, talking to no one.
"Lil, Fred said, turning to look at George. "We think that she's jealous that you've got Dylan." Lily looked absolutely surprised.
"What?!" she said.
Just then, the common room portrait sung open to reveal Dylan Morris, Lily's boyfriend of two years. He looked around the room and spotted Lily with Fred and George.
"Lily, I've just been to the library and..." he stopped. Dylan looked at Fred and George and then back at Lily. "Can I say?" he asked.
Fred and George suddenly looked very suspicious. They grinned and then looked at Lily.
"If it's about Animagi yes, you can!" she said, smiling at Dylan.
"Well, this book said you had to really want to become an Animagi to find out what animal you'll become. Did you do that already?" he asked, Lily.
Lily thought, 'Well, yeah, I have, but I dunno if I should tell you or not.'
"Yes, I have." She said, her mouth overruling her brain. "I'm going to be a husky dog."
Lunchtime came and went. Lily and Dylan spent their lunch break in the back of the library, studying to become Animagi. Dylan did the Animal spell and found out that he would become a red-tailed hawk.
At dinnertime, Lily snapped her book shut. She was beginning to feel hungry and wasn't about to skip dinner.
"Okay, well, I'm done with studying for today. I'm going to dinner. You coming?" she asked, stacking books into her bag. Dylan look up from his book. There were bags under his eyes.
"Uhh, yeah. Meet you there though." He said, continuing reading.
Lily shrugged and made her way to dinner. She was very hungry and was exhausted from studying too much.
When she arrived at the Great Hall, it was apparent that Lily was not the only hungry one. She sat down at the very back of the Gryffindor table, leaning against the stonewall. Even though she was extremely hungry, Lily ate slowly.
"Lil, what's wrong?" Meg came over from up the table. She had seen the way Lily was eating.
"Just thinking. Don't worry. I'll be fine." She said, smiling. Lily ate a little faster and then went back up to her dorm.
But before she went back to the dorm, she made a quick stop at the owlery. Professor McGonagall hadn't given her Lupin's address for nothing.
The owlery was extremely quiet when she arrived. Guinivere was at the very top.
"Gwen, please come down. I have a letter for you." Lily called up to the snowy owl. Guinivere floated down and landed on Lily's shoulder. Guinivere stuck out her leg so Lily could tie her letter to it. Lily quickly tied the scroll and patted Gwen's head. The owl flew silently off into the night.
Lily sat in the owlery for quite a while after Gwen had left. It was a nice spot for thinking. Lily sat and thought about how much she missed her dad. It was almost pitiful. Lily hated being the one pitied. It made her feel low.
After about 25 minutes alone, Lily set off to the tower again. No one was in the common room, not even the Weasly Twins. Lily trudged up to the dorm and threw herself on her bed, fully clothed.
Lily slept through the night, hating the fact that she had to go back to school the next morning. Sure, she liked Defense against the Dark Arts, and Transfiguration, but that was about it. She didn't like Potions at all seeing as Snape and her dad didn't get along real well.
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