When they arrived at Madam Malkins for uniforms, they found at least a dozen students in line.
"This is going to take forever!!!" Lily screamed.
Lucius, Anthony, and Severus smiled at each other.
"Oh ye of little faith!" Lucius cried.
Severus tapped on the boy's shoulder in front of them. When the boy turned around, he immediately gasped and ran away.
After Severus had 'coaxed' several students out of line, Lucius joined in the festivities while Anthony just stood there with an arm over Lily's shoulder.
Some of the people in line needed a little convincing, or a quick curse, to get out of line, but it took only seven minutes to come to the front of the line.
"That was great, guys!" Lily said, excitedly.
"It was fun. The pathetic part is a couple of them were sixth years," Severus said snickering.
"Lily, there is something different about you," Anthony started.
Before Lily could respond, Madam Malkins came back and measured them both, then piled them up with threes sets of black work robes, a pointed hat, dress robes, green for Lily and black for Anthony, and a black cloak.
When they got outside, they decided to get a scoop of ice cream while they were waiting for the other two. Lily went with plain old vanilla while Anthony got vampire cherry surprise.
Lily passed on tasting his, it was rumored that the surprise was human blood.
As soon as they got back to the uniform store, they found Severus and Lucius standing there with a tiny bag hanging from their pinkies.
Lily stared at the bags, "Is that your uniforms?"
"I told ya I knew a spell. This is better than the reducio spell because this makes them stick onto your finger until you remove the spell. This way you don't lose the bags," Severus explained.
"Brilliant!" Lily said. "Could you do mine, I think my arm is going to fall off."
"It'd be my pleasure," Severus mumbled and reduced Lily and Anthony's bags to stay on their smallest finger.
The group quickly decided not to go for books yet, and so they decided to get parchment and ink first.