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Miss Hogwarts
It was Friday, the day when Miss Hogwarts would be chosen. The four of them trooped up some hours before the students would be allowed into the hall. The judges had called for a meeting. Their request was to talk to the four finalists in private to see how they behaved and to study their personality deeper. Lily only wore a pair of low-belly jeans and a tight top with long sleeves, but the judges promised them that they would get enough time to change. The judges split into three groups and brought with them one finalist each to private rooms, afterwards they circulated 'til everyone had met everyone. Then the four of them were released to their rooms next to the Great Hall where family and friend who were a part of their 'crew' met them.
Lily was propped into a creamy white dress, tight to her hips and then flared out nicely, after she had had a quick shower. Her hair was brushed over and over again before half of it was fastened in a bun on the back of her head. Strands of hair escaped the messy knot and trailed themselves down her forehead and cheeks. The bottom of the loose hair was carefully curled and a necklace-like thing with cream coloured pearls was adorned around her head and in the bun. A gentle touch of eye shadow in the colour of Chardonnay and Mocha was brushed across her eyelids and a clear lip-gloss caressed her perfect rosy lips. A gentle spray of a perfume containing fragrances from citrus and patchouli was added to her wrists and neck. Lily met Marilee, Desiree and Persephone outside in the light-filled hall and joined them in their march against the stage. Lily couldn't stop smiling when she heard the thundering applause that met them on the stage. The catcalls from Sirius was easily heard and she even caught a 'Go Lily, our Lioness!' from Remus.
"The judges have made their choice. In this envelope consists a list of the four finalists, the name of Miss Hogwarts placed on the top." Dumbledore addressed the envelope firmly clasped in his right hand. Carefully, so not to brake the envelope, he opened it and drew out a sheet of fine parchment.
"On 4th: Ravenclaw's Marilee Voulige!" Marilee stepped out of the line and accepted the diploma, the money prize consisting of a thousand Galleons and the hundred house points.
"On 3rd place: Hufflepuff's Desiree Cannes!" Desiree stepped out of the line and received the diploma, one thousand Galleons and two hundred house points.
"On 2nd: Slytherin's Persephone Malfoy, which means that Lily Evans of Gryffindor is Miss Hogwarts!" The applause thundered through the room and reached Lily's unbelieving ears. In a daze she stepped forwards into Dumbledores congratulating embrace. In the background Persephone received a diploma, two thousand galleons and three hundred house points. A beautiful tiara glinting of sliver and diamonds was placed on Lily's head.
As the applause eventually faded Dumbledore informed them that Lily, Miss Hogwarts and queen of next days ball, would receive her prices at the ball along with the announcing of Miss Congeniality and Miss Creativity. Lily spotted the Marauders working their way through the crowd and jogged to the end of the stage. Lily jumped off the stage and tossed herself around Remus' neck. Then she almost hugged Peter senseless before attacking Sirius. When she released Sirius James grabbed her by the waist and twirled around making Lily's hair go insane. She hugged him tightly whilst smiling so much that her cheeks hurt. James lifted her up and let Sirius levitate them up to Lily's crew. James let her down but still kept one arm around her waist. Lily hugged everyone present before falling hard down on a sofa.
The calls from the students in the hall quickly got her up and she levitated herself down to the crowd. Everyone from Gryffindor gave her almost bone-crushing hugs and she received hugs from all of her friends in Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Ravenclaw as well. When released from the Great Hall they streamed to their respective houses to get some sleep. Well, in three of the houses. In Gryffindor the partying went on with food and drink nicked from the kitchen under the control. Mundungus Fletcher. The party went on with the occasional "My girl's the hottest one ever!" from James, followed by a "Shhh" from Lily before she resorted to kissing him to silence.
I'm Miss Hogwarts. That was Lily's first thought when she woke up on the day of the ball. She took a quick peek at the clock only to be shocked with the information of the time, one p.m. She shot up and looked around in the dorm. Jennifer and Iris' beds were empty as was the rest of the beds except from Nina and Dani Wind's beds, but they always over slept after parties. In a hurry Lily removed her night-dress and slipped into a pair of baggy pants she had nicked from the boys dorms, she thought them to be Peters, and slipped a striking yellow T-shirt over her head that read: 'Don't drink water, fish fuck in it' along with a drawing of two fishes in a position that could not be misunderstood. She roughly awakened Dani and Nina and pushed them into a cold shower to wake them up. It actually worked. She then jumped down the stairs to find her friends tossed all over the common room.
"Hey! That's my pants!" Lily looked at Sirius and then down at the baggy pants she wore.
"Oh, I thought it was Peters…"
"And that's supposed to make it right?" Remus asked as she landed next to him in the couch.
"Did I say that?"
"No, but…"
"There you see. I nicked them along with these socks here." Lily said placing her feet on the table.
"Those are my socks!" James said.
"But they're so warm and wholly..." Lily said and put on a sad and innocent face. James slumped back in the chair
"Argh. Where do she learn those faces?"
"I can keep them?" Lily said whilst her face glowed like a five year olds.
"Yes."
"Thanks."
"Come on Lils," Jennifer said and rose.
"We'll be going then." Lily looked at her wristwatch and nodded.
"Yup. Who's coming?"
"Well, us three," Jennifer said wile indicating herself, Lily and Iris,
"And Yvonne, Rowena, Feline, Aphie, Janet, the twins, Vicky…"
"I get the point." Lily said, braking her off.
"We'll be going to my bathroom then?" Jennifer nodded. The girls climbed up the set up stairs to gather together their stuff before heading out of the common room in a gathered crowd. They picked up a couple of girls from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff along with their things before heading towards Lily's Head Girl bathroom. Lily entered first to enlarge the bathroom before letting the other ones in. Lily, Jennifer, Iris, Yvonne and Rowena took a quick food raid down on the kitchen and returned with heaps of snack, both the healthy and the not so healthy type.
In the meantime the other girls had filled up several pools with different sorts of water, soap and such. They spent a good half-hour of soaking in the tubs before getting out. Then they had a good meal before the real thing began. They filled up some tubs with a skin care mix containing milk proteins, honey extracts and vitamins from fruits and flowers. Then they rubbed their skin clean with an almond cream to remove dead skin and freshen up the skin. They soaked their hair in hair cures before they quickly washed themselves in the showers and rubbed their entire body with lotions. They spent half an hour with facial masks before washing themselves once again. The girls helped each other with braiding each other's hair, putting in curlers or hair straitening lotion and such things. They had a light meal before slipping into their beautiful dresses for the celebration of Hogwarts one-thousandth year of existence.
Lily's dress was made of two pieces of long creamy white fabric sown together on each shoulder and fastened with a green and silver belt around the waist. The neckline was, against Lily's will and soon-to-be joy of young men, very low, her chest was decorated with a spider-web-like necklace adorned by deep green emeralds of the same colour as Lily's eyes as well as creamy pearls. Attached to each of her shoulders where pieces of a see-trough green fabric that was open on the top of her shoulders. The green fabric flowed down to her wrists where it was fastened with a simple silver band. The split in the dress showed her long legs, and she wore low-heel silver coloured shoes with lacing up her ankles and calves. Iris fastened silver and creamy pearls in her deep copper red hair and placed a beautiful diamond splinted with green on her forehead. Jennifer fixed Lily's make-up. Green eyeliner adorned her beautiful eyes and a touch of cream eye shadow rested on the lids. A gentle red lip-gloss added to her full lips brought a small contrast to her peachy-white and creamy smooth skin.
Iris had clad herself in a wonderful dress in a dark champagne colour. The gown was floor length, and held up by delicate spaghetti straps. The layers became lighter and lighter until the fifth layer of fabric in a light champagne tone. Her skin was lightly tanned and chestnut-mocha coloured lipstick had been added to her lips. A creamy-mocha eye shadow rested on her eyelids and her eyes, green specked blue, were circled in deep green eyeliner. Her hair was fastened in a posh sort of ponytail and the hair curled itself in a half-corkscrew way down her back.
Jennifer was wearing a dark blue dress that complimented her eyes. The dress framed her curved body perfectly. The neckline was neither too low or too high, but the back was definitely low. A knee high split ran up the front of the skirt of the dress showing off her perfect legs. Her hair had been gathered in a lovely bun on her head with strands of blond hair dangling down her cheeks. A misty blue eye shadow and bluish grey eyeliner framed her deep pools of blue. A light pink lip-gloss was added to her lips. The rest of the girls were dressed in wonderful creations as well.
They packed up their stuff as the ball closed in. They would leave their stuff in the bathroom to get it later. Lily placed the tiara on top of her head before they all left the bathroom. Lily was, to her surprise, met by applauding as she led the group of girls out to the hall. The doors to the Great Hall had not opened yet, and there were people waiting there. Lily glided elegantly down the set of stairs and landed securely in James's arms. As she kissed him gently at the lips, the doors opened, and the mass off people parted to let Lily and James through. They entered the Hall, and gasped in surprise. There were bands of gold and red dangling from the ceiling, something that made it clear Gryffindore had won. And casting a glance at the hourglasses they saw that there were clearly more red rubies than any other jewels. There were soft music flooding in the air, and pictures of Lily showed a Lily dancing to the music. There were hundreds of small tables in the room, but at the furthest end, there was a collection of tables.
In the middle were a table with in red and gold, probably for herself and her guests, on the sides were tables she guessed to be the seventh years' tables. There were two in each colour, and the Slytherins were, wisely, far away from the Gryffindor tables. Lily and James walked in the front and seated themselves on the biggest table, Jennifer and Remus, Iris and Sirius, Peter and his date, Andromeda (Sirius' cousin and a good friend of Lily's) along with her date, and the Headmaster accompanied by McGonnagal seated themselves at that table too. Not long after Tara and Rowena along with their dates sat down there too.
Lily's 'crew' had spread themselves around in the hall, and was to be seen at the seventh year's tables as well as the other one's. Lily picked up her menu, read through it, and ordered lamb with lemon sauce and fried potatoes, along with soda water to drink. They sat talking and eating for some time, 'til everyone was finished.
Dumbledore rose, clapped him hands, and the tables moved to clear open dancing space. He entered the stage, followed by the Head of Houses. They started to call up seventh years, skipping Lily, and awarding them with their Hogwarts diploma. The diploma was rolled up in a roll, and bands in different colours were tied around it. For normal students there were two small bands in the house's additional colour and one thick in the house's main colour. Prefects had two small bands in the house colour, instead of one, and had a thick white band in the middle with printed animals (lions, eagles, badgers or snakes) in the house's additional colour (gold, bronze, black or silver), depending on which house you're in. The Head Boy and Head Girl had a Head Girl and Head Boy prints on their prefect's band between the animal prints. The members on the winning house team (Gryffindore, of course) would have an additional two bands in white, lined with the house colours, with printed bludgers for the beaters, quaffles for the chasers, snitches for the seeker and hoops for the keeper. The Miss Hogwarts winner would have a white band hemmed with the house's additional colour (golden, silver, bronze or black) and Miss Hogwarts sowed down the middle for the middle band instead of the major colour. In case of a prefect or Head Girl Band would there be an additional band on each side in between the house colours and the Head Boy/Head Girl or prefects band in white and hemmed with the house's additional colour (golden, silver, bronze or black) and Miss Hogwarts sowed down the middle.
When they had called up everyone and handed him or her their diplomas, they called up Lily. She kissed James quickly on the cheek before entering the stage. McGonnagal hugged her before letting her to Dumbledore. He handed her the diploma and shook her hand. Lily noted her diploma had two gold bands, two red bands, two white bands with red and golden quaffles, two white bands hemmed with gold and a Miss Hogwarts print and one thick golden band with a Head Girl print and a lion pattern in gold. Lily tossed her diploma at James, and turned herself at Dumbledore again.
"You have already received your Miss Hogwarts tiara, and we will now hand you the rest of your prizes. First a one-of-a-kind Hogwarts 1000 broom!" A broom came soaring out from a back room and hovered near Lily's hips.
"Do you mind?" she asked Dumbledore and gestured at the broom. He shook his head, and she mounted the broom, side-saddle. She flew the broom over the crowd a couple of times before landing safely at the stage again. She patted the broom fondly, and told it to fly down to the very eager Marauders at the foot of the stage. Now she was handed a very heavy bag containing ten thousand galleons, generously given by parents and sponsors. The four hundred house-points were already added, and was a part of the sky-high sum of points (near 1000, actually). Now a smiling lady with ebony coloured hair entered from the back room, levitating several boxes behind her. Dumbledore said she was Jenny from 'Jenny's Jewellery Jungle', and she was bringing jewellery as a prize. After that Madam Malkins from 'Madame Malkins's Robes For All Occasions' brought her so many robes and other things, that Lily thought she wouldn't need to shop for a century. There also came clothes from 'Melphina's boutique', and there came make-up from 'Miss Morris' Magnificent Muggle Make-up and Matchless Magical Make-up' and Aphrodite from 'Aphrodite's Accessory For All Occasions' brought the rest of what Lily would need the next century.
Lily was a shining star on the stage, but on the dance-floor, in the arms of James Potter, she was as radiant as the sun. Adored and beloved she touched the hearts of everyone she met.
She married James, the love of her life, not long after graduating, and soon a child, little Harry Potter, completed her perfect picture.
But life wasn't as easy as she had hoped it would be. Lord Voldemort and his followers were at their heel wherever they ran, and in the end they went into hiding, using an ancient charm.
But a traitor in their midst, Peter Pettigrew, handed them to the Dark Lord. He killed James, and he killed Lily, but when he turned his wand to little Harry something went wrong, and the wizarding world was rid of the plague that had haunted them for eleven years.
And when witches and wizards all over the country praised the young boy, the memories of his parents were still with those who knew them.
And the likes of Lily and James Potter will never be forgotten.
FIN