CHAPTER: 2 -Freak and Friends
"What?!" Lily heard Petunia's shrieks from downstairs.
"Freak! I told you mum, she's a freak!"
"Petunia Jennifer Evans," began Mrs Evans sternly, "I will not tolerate your name-calling, go to your room this instance." Lily heard her sister stomping up the stairs and as she walked past Lily's room she muttered 'freak'. Lily just slammed the door shut and collapsed on her bed. She wasn't going to the same school as Petunia, she was going to a boarding school for witches and wizards. She was going to a boarding school for witches and wizards and Petunia wouldn't be there! She smiled to herself as she stared at the ceiling.
She turned to face her calendar, August 27th 1975, she had replied to her letter straight away; confirming her attendance. She had had her 11th birthday 12 days ago, and was going to go to Diagon Alley with her mother tomorrow.
"Lily dear, are you sure this is the right place?" Lily's mother inquired as she looked around the grubby old pub.
"Positive. It says to ask the bar tender." Lily said.
"Excuse me." asked Lily's mother.
"Hogwarts?" asked the bar-tender kindly, staring down at Lily, who nodded excitedly.
"Right this way." he led Lily and her mother out side and tapped five bricks with what Lily thought must be a wand.
"There you are, Diagon Alley!" and the bar tender left the pair to stroll around Diagon Alley.
"The letter says to go to Gringotts first -the wizard bank- and exchange muggle money for wizarding money." Lily explained as she walked with her mother into the white marble building.
Her mother exchanged some money and made inquiries about a vault. When they finally left Gringotts they had a vault full of one thousand galleons and pockets bursting with money waiting to be spent.
Lily bought all her books and equipment fist and entered the robe store opposite Flourish and Blotts.
"Hey, you a first year?" asked a tall brunette.
Lily nodded.
"Me too!" replied the girl enthusiastically.
"My names Ella, by the way, Ella McMorri. That's Stephanie, Emma, Emirial, Laura, and the short blondie over there is Lucinda." The girl pointed to the five girls behind her in turn as she said their names; all very quickly.
"We all hope to be in Ravenclaw." stated the girl called Emma.
"What about you? Which house do you want to be in?" inquired the girl called Lucinda.
"I-I don't know..." Lily muttered.
"You muggle-born then?" asked Ella frowning.
"Muggle?" asked Lily, feeling stupider by the minute.
"Non-magic people." explained Emirial.
"Er...yeh...I am." Lily said timidly.
"Don't worry about it, I am too." said Emma encouragingly.
"The four houses are; Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and," Lucinda shivered, "Slytherin."
"You don't want to be in Slytherin, horrible that is." said Laura.
"Everyone says the smart ones go to Ravenclaw." said Emirial proudly, flicking her long black hair over her shoulder.
"And I've heard that your supposed to be brave to be in Gryffindor." added Lucinda.
"My sister says that the Hufflepuff are a load of duffers, but Hufflepuff is fine if you ask me." said Laura shrugging. "Kirsten's her sister and she's a third year Ravenclaw." explained Ella, on seeing Lily's confused face.
"We better be going, we've all got our robes." said Emma.
"Yeh." agreed Laura and Steph.
"Well, cya at Hogwarts!" said Ella as she exited the store.
"Bye!" said the others.
"Bye." said Lily timidly as she began to walk to where she would get her robes fitted.
Once her robes were fitted Lily continued to Ollivanders, the wand store. She entered the store with her mother.
"I'll go buy you an owl, honey, while you get your wand, ok?" Lily's mother said.
"Yeh, I want a small brown one." Lily instructed her mother.
"Ok, dear." she gave her daughter a quick kiss, which Lily hastily rubbed off, and departed from the store.
Lily sat down in a small chair in a corner of the shop and waited, until an old man came out from behind one of the many shelves.
"Good day, Miss Evans." said the man.
"H-hello." said Lily quietly, wonderingly slightly at the fact that this stranger knew her name.
The man then proceeded to pull out four boxes off the shelves and place them on the front counter.
"Here." he held out a wand which Lily took.
"Well, give it a wave!" said the man impatiently.
Lily waved the wand and in the process broke the small vase next to the window. She hurriedly placed the wand back in the box on the desk.
"Not to worry, we'll find the right one. Here." he handed her another wand.
The moment it touched Lily's fingertips she felt warmth spread through her body and when she waved the wand it emitted red and gold sparks.
"Yes, yes, very good! Ten and a quarter inches, swishy, made of willow. Nice for charm work and very powerful, mind you." the man said as he put the wand back in the box and handed it back to Lily.
"Good day, Miss Evans." he said with a nod of his head and headed to the back of his store.
Lily exited the store carrying some of her packages and her new wand.
"Lily!" called her mother. In her left hand was a cage and inside was a small, brown owl, with deep blue eyes.
"Isn't she beautiful?" cooed Lily's mother. "What are you going to call her?"
Lily stared at the owl and then at her mother. "Hazel."
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