The store, as Anthony had guessed, was full of students. There was a line outside the building of many people, a line which they were at the end of. But unlike with her other friends, James, Sirius, and Remus were prepared to patiently wait in line.
After waiting for a few minutes, Lily got bored and decided to experiment with her powers.
The people in line in front of her seemed to be worthy targets.
Closing her eyes, she breathed in and out, trying to focus her mind and call a wind from its normal pattern. The ferocity of the wind was intense, but focused and blew the other people in line out of the way and down the street before stopping, but Lily and her companions without a hair out of place. Except for James, who had hair that was never in place.
"Woah, what happened?" Sirius asked, moving up through the empty line that was left.
While Remus and Sirius were looking around cluelessly, James had focused on Lily. He knew she had done something, her eyes had changed again, but differently. This time her eyes were completely blank, no color, no pupil, just white.
Slowly, her eyes returned to normal, and James decided not to say anything. Not yet at least.
"What kind of books are on your list?" James asked curiously. "I'm just wondering if you'll be in fourth year classes with us, or in first year classes."
"Hmm, why don't you just look," Lily said, handing him her schedule.
"Cool. You're in some of our classes and some of the beginning classes," James told her.
The clerk quickly loaded them up with a stack of at least seven books. One book for Charms, two for Potions, one for Defense Against the Dark Arts, one for Transfiguration, one for History of Magic, and one for International Relations, a trial course.
Immediately she missed Severus being around to lighten her load, but decided that it would be a very bad idea to say that out loud.
"What else do you need?" she asked instead.
"Nothing, but you still need those measurement things, and they're right there," Remus said, pointing to a little store.
It was a quick trip in and out, no one could get excited about buying measurement tools, it was weird. But, as she was leaving, she saw a boy about her age getting extremely excited about them, and it made her very sad.