Lily stared at the dorm. Because of sneaking around to avoid the prefects seeing Jessica, she was late. She was Too late too save the room, which was now covered with pink frilly objects, and pictures of stars, both Muggle and wizarding. Veruca Ann, wearing a pink miniskirt and a shirt that barely covered what a shirt was intended to cover, took a look at Lily.
"I see someone who needs a makeover!" Lilies' eyes widened in fear, a primordial instinct rushing up in her. "No way!" She exclaimed. She ran and started putting up her own type of pictures- of her friends, like Julie Santana, of her pets, like Jessica and Magic, and of her favorite animal- tigers. She put up picture after picture of tiger after tiger, until about thirty tigers from all over her side of the room stared down the cute little pictures of kittens in bonnets. Lily's tiger photos were Muggles photos, but even they caused the Wizard kitten photos to mew fearfully and run away into a picture of Orlando Bloom, who started sneezing.
"I'm allergic to cats, goddamit!"
Lily laughed. She stared at the plain white bedsheets and quilt. Once they learned Charms, if you were good enough, they could change the texture and colors of the bedsheets- Lily couldn't wait. She hated the bed's lack of any personality whatsoever.
Veruca Ann, though, stuck pink frilly lace pillows all over it. Lily's only pillows that she brought were Jessica and Magic. Jessica would sometimes let Lily use her as a pillow, if Jessica could then sleep on the bed. And if not, there was always Magic, although it wasn't always the best idea to rest too much weight on her.
She turned to Veruca Ann. "Hey, do you have a pet?"
She muttered angrily. "Yeah, just old Horus," she said, pointing to an old scraggly whiskered screech owl. "I like wanted a kitten, but like mom wanted me to have an owl so Dad gave me this like old owl." Horus slumped sadly, looking depressed and bedraggled. Veruca said, "Oh wait, I forgot his bonnet!" She took out a horrifically pink lacy bonnet and stuck in on Horus's scruffy head. Veruca then walked out, her excuse being that she wanted to 'like take a shower.' Lily took out Horus, petting his grizzled feathers. He didn't seem to be used to attention and loving care. She took off the bonnet, and let out the owl (he looked like he hadn't been let out for a long time), with strict instructions that he come back in ten minutes. He came in, almost exactly ten minutes later. He looked full. He also brought back a present for her- a gray rat. Lily asked, "What's this?" She saw the rat was still alive. It looked familiar, almost like-
"Norvie?! Are you alright?" When his name was mentioned, the rat poked his head up. "I wonder what you were doing outside." Then, Norvie tried to jump out of her hands, trying to run toward a dark shape right outside the window. Horus screeched furiously, valiantly attacking the dark shape tirelessly, which Lily realized was a giant bat- the largest she had ever seen! The bat's talons struck the owl, spraying Horus's blood everywhere. At this, Lily blew up. She ran up right next to the bat and shook her fist at it. "To shame, you spineless bastard!" The bat saw her full face, and looked shocked. Its wings folded up, and it started to faint, to fall, and fall, and fall…
Norvie jumped onto it from the window dauntlessly and bit it, bringing it back from the planes of unconsciousness, and it flew up, up, up, and away, far away at that.
She bandaged Horus's wound. Five minutes later, Veruca returned, and she was so oblivious she noticed nothing. "Aah, that was like the nicest shower!"
"That was forty-five minutes!" Protested Lily! "So?"
Exhausted, Lily read a book while Veruca Ann changed, and then she turned out the lights.