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Lily and Arabella's Hogwarts Life, Chapter 6: A Christmas Animagus Transformation
The school-weeks flew by and with the help of James, Sirius, Remus, Peter and Iris, Lily and Arabella fell into the routines of the school easily. After almost two months of school the Halloween party was ready to rock the school. As an extra touch, the prefects and Head Boy and Girl had made costume-code for the party. Everyone had to arrive in costumes, or the Head Boy and Head Girl would be allowed to transfigure their clothes into any costume they wanted. Lily came down to the feast in a demon suit, something which brought out her red hair, with angel clothed Arabella and Iris by her side. The Marauders had, on purpose, arrived without costumes, that way Sirius ended up dressed like The Pope, James turned into The Devil himself, as Peter entered the hall he suddenly popped into a bat costume, and Remus suddenly found himself looking like an old-fashioned ghost. Sirius used his time disguised as The Pope well; he groped innocent girls. Peter whined a bit about looking like the divination teacher, but Remus, thankfully, got him high on sugar. The students of the hall got themselves a laugh when the little angel Arabella, dressed all in white and golden, scared the life shit out of the red and black clothed devil in form of James by sneaking up on him from behind. At the end of the night all of the students had to wait for James to enter the common room, as he had changed the password (into ostentatious, don' ask me what it means...).
For Christmas a whole lot of students gathered in the Evans' huge hut in Norway. Except from Lily, Arabella, Iris, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter, Yvonne Chimera, Rowena White, Feline Longbottom, Aphelia Patil, Frank Longbottom and Mundungus Fletcher was there form Gryffindor 5th year. Rachel Wood, Madelyn Morris and Martin Wales from Ravenclaw 5th year. Gerry Bones and Catherine Douglas from Hufflepuff 5th year. And also Sam Bell, Patrick Patil, Tom Quinn, Sander Ollivander, Dennis Hughes, Martha Cannes, Hillary Wood, Jeannie Sanders and Tara Cedes from other classes in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. There were no Slytherins invited. The gang of youths skied, skateboarded, skated and played in the snow that covered the Norwegian landscape around the hut. Christmas eve a lot of boys were sent out to find a Christmas three, a female Gryffindor 6th year, Hillary, went with them to make sure they found a pretty tree. The rest of them gathered together all of the Christmas decorations for the tree and started on the dinner. By eleven o'clock, the twenty-six youths had decorated the Christmas tree, eaten their dinner and dressed up in their prettiest --- pyjamas. Even though, according to Norwegian tradition, they would open the presents on Christmas Eve, they decided to wait 'til the morning.
In the night to the twenty-fifth Lily tossed and turned in her sleep. A dream was slowly creeping in on her, and a dream dreamt in the Christmas night is often true. Lily looked around, but saw nothing but white. She made her way through the white masses that could have been snow. Could have been Had it not been for the fact that she felt no could. She felt that the masses diminished Lily took the step she thought would lead to safety, but tumbled into foaming masses of water. The cold hit her as knives. As she felt her mind darken, she also felt a pair of arms dragging her to the surface, to safety. Safely on the shore, Lily laid gasping for air. Finally she opened her eyes and looked upon a woman. The woman sat in the water, not noticing the cold, and looked at Lily.
"Lily, change." The woman whispered in a musical, unnatural voice. It sounded much like the sea. Lily didn't have enough strength to ask how she knew her name. "
You have to change Lily. Or you'll die."
"Change?" Lily stuttered.
"Into a--- wolf?" The beautiful young woman sadly shook her head. "
You do not have the strength. Change into the animal that is closest to your hear. The one you are born to be. The one you are named after." Lily shook her head in confusion.
"Named--- after?"
"It's in your soul, Lily. It's in your body. Tiger Lily... change..." Lily closed her eyes and immediately an image of a Siberian Tiger popped into her head.
"Yes, that's right Lily. Change!" Lily concentrated on the image she saw, and suddenly she no longer felt any cold. When she opened her eyes again she found the woman smiling at her. 'How can I repay you? Lily wanted to ask, but without the human voice box, she couldn't. "
If you bring me what lies in a chest, in a cabin, in a forest close to your hut, I will be forever grateful, and nothing needs to be repaid. I will give you a gift, and all is paid back." The woman smiled and rose.
"I'll see you around, Tiger Lily." She said before she dived into the foaming masses and disappeared.
Lily didn't wake up after the dream. She just drifted away into other dreams, and when she had awakened, she had forgotten all about it.
Dumbledore had let some of them use magic in the vacation, as they were all alone out there, and Lily was one of them, as she was considered smart, ad was a prefect. She used this ability to wake up all of the people in the hut and got them all down to the huge tree. There they spent many pleasurable hours opening gifts. After this Lily and the others awarded with magic made a huge breakfast before everyone packed themselves up in clothing and headed outside. Lily, Iris and Arabella skied in a forest close to the hut when they found a little wooden cabin in-between the tall trees. They carefully skied over to it and found the door unlocked. As they looked into the dust filled cabin glimpses of something Lily couldn't quite remember came to her.
If you bring me what lies in a chest, in a cabin, in a forest close to your hut, I will be forever grateful, and nothing needs to be repaid. I will give you a gift, and all is paid back."
Lily kicked of her skies and stepped into the hut. The dust blew up around her feet with every step. She soon spotted a chest. Maybe the one mentioned in the words that still rang in her head? She went over to it, ignoring the questions that hailed from behind, and kneeled infant of the chest. She lifted the squeaking lid only to reveal a worn bag. She peeked inside it and saw some kind of fur. As the images from the dream came back to her, she tied the bag tightly and went out of the cabin again. She fastened the skies without a word and hurriedly made for the water she knew laid somewhere nearby. Arabella and Iris abandoned her at the hut and watched her ski her way across the white landscape.
Soon Lily came to the lake like thing she remembered from the dream and carefully dropped the little bag on the snow. Where is she? As an answer to Lily's question a head popped up from a hole in the now icy water. She hoisted herself up on the ice and walked lightly over to Lily. The woman twisted the water out of her deep brown hair and fixed her deep pools of brown on Lily.
"Did you find it?" Lily nodded and tossed the bag at her. The woman's eyed glowed as she lifted the sealskin out of the bag.
"Oh thank you!" she exclaimed and hugged Lily.
"Well, then I'll be..."
"No! I promised you a gift remember?" The woman placed a warm hand on Lily's cheek and closed her eyes. Lily felt a tingling sensation spread through her body. The woman removed her hand, slipped into the sealskin and crawled out in the water. In a moment of inspiration Lily focused hard on the image of the seal and heard a little popping sound. She looked around at the landscape around her, and found it all to be in a different perspective. She looked down her body only to see the smooth skin of a seal. Lily focused on herself and thankfully popped back into herself. She hurried back to the hut, ignored the funny glances the other sent her and pulled Arabella and Iris into a room inside the hut. Lily made sure that nobody could see in and turned to her two friends.
"Iris, I'm an Animagus." Iris gasped.
"What!" Lily didn't bother with explaining anything further, just popped into a white wolf. As Lily tussled around in the room, she could hear Arabella explaining.
"A wizard—Salem—Me too" Before the smell of a new animal flushed trough the room. Lily turned to the red cat and popped back into herself.
"Arabella, get back here." The red cat popped into Arabella.
"There's more."
"More?"
"Yes. Look." Lily concentrated again and this time became a seal. She heard Arabella and Iris' exited squeals and turned back. Without explaining further she popped into a Siberian Tiger as well.
"A tiger? Aww, Lily, you're cute." Iris said petting her fur. Lily popped back.
"I hoped I would manage that one."
"Hoped? What haven't you been telling me young lady?" Arabella said and stepped a threatening step forwards. Lily opened her mouth and out spilled the story about the dream and the young woman.