"I'm home!" Lily called as she gratefully stepped into the air-conditioned apartment. She dumped her book bag onto the floor and walked into the kitchen. Her brother's fiancé, Liz, was sitting in the living room, sipping coffee with her pinky stuck out. Lilly made a face, disgusted with the fact that Liz's bloated bum had found it's resting place in her mother's favorite chair. She was about to say something about it when Daemon walked out of the bathroom garbed only in a towel. He didn't even notice Lily, but immediately pranced over to where Liz was sitting and began to snuffle her ear. Not wanting to witness yet another episode in her sexually active brother's life, Lily grabbed an apple and bolted to her room.
Once behind the safety of a locked door, Lily flipped on her stereo so as not to hear any noises that might escape from the adjacent room. Gwen Stefani's voice filled the room as Lily pulled out her writing notebook.
"At least I can write stories about people with more interesting lives than me," she thought to herself as she began to write where she had left off yesterday.
She became so engrossed with what she was doing, that it took her at least fifteen minutes to realize that something was tapping on her window. She whipped around, wondering what could possibly be making noise on her third story window.
"Shit!!!" Lily was so taken aback by the large tawny owl sitting on her window sill that she toppled off her bed in surprise.
When she finally righted herself, the owl was still there, getting more and more annoyed with the fact that he was being ignored.
"Shoo!" Lily shouted. "Go away!"
This only made the owl more impatient and he began to claw at the window.
"Hey! Stop!" Lilly screeched as the owl started to scratch up the screen. She had no choice but to let him in. So, against her better judgment, Lily let the owl into her room.
As soon as it was inside her room, the owl calmed down and stuck out its leg, which, Lily noticed, had a letter attached to it. Without even removing it, Lily could read the address in shining green ink: Lillian Hullafax, Apt. 2D, Phoenix, Arizona, Bedroom Facing The Street.
Confused, Lily took the letter from the bird and absentmindedly stroked its head as she stared down at the address. She stood there for fifteen minutes without moving before the owl, losing its patience with this strange girl, abruptly took off, flying out the window and disappearing into the sea of rooftops.
The owl's flight shook Lily out of her dreamlike state and she began to open the letter with trembling fingers.
"Dear Miss Hullafax,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."