CuteSarah- I will add a lot of Sirius as soon as I can, he'll probably be introduced to Lily in the Diagon Alley scene (as soon as it gets written)

Tiger Girl- thanks for the encouragement!

Disclaimer: You know the drill, having seen it in many other fanfics... nothing belongs to me, except for a few characters and the plot; the rest belongs to JKR, one of the people who reviewed, or a singer/band that I decided to 'borrow' the music from. (Though the music factor will be decided on how brain dead I manage to get while writing this chapter.)

Thorns by Faerielights

Chapter 1: The Letter

Last Chapter: was a prologue, so I'm assuming that you don't really need a flashback on that... It's really not all that important, well kinda, it's like a little preview of what might happen, by means of Lily and James getting together, eventually.

"Mum!" An over-exuberant 11-year-old Lily Marie Evans screeched from her room. "Come look at what I just got!"

An owl had just appeared in the room, through Lily's open window, dropped an envelope on her bed, and flew out the same way it had entered, almost quicker than you could say "Wow!" Lily and Petunia had been having a fight over whether or not Lily was a freak, as Petunia claimed she was. Luckily for her Petunia had run screaming as though it had been a bat that entered the room and not an owl, thus leaving Lily alone to quiver in anticipation while she wondered if she should read the letter or not.

Elizabeth Evans hurried from the kitchen in their moderately sized mansion to get to her middle child's room to see what all the commotion was about.

"Lily, you and Petunia really can't go about your yelling like you've been the last couple of days, Nana is taking a nap right now, and she hates being woken up by you two."

Lily's mother continued to lecture her daughter, not noticing how Lily had tuned her out to read her letter, which she had in fact decided to open. The letter stated as follows:

HOGWARTS SCHOOL

of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. Of Wizards)

Dear Miss Evans,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31. Yours Sincerely,

Abiageal Cherrie

Abiageal Cherrie

Deputy Headmistress

(A/N: Abiageal pronounced like Abigail)

Lily's facial expression after reading the letter was a mixture of shock, excitement, anxiety and confusion. Mrs. Evans looked at her daughter's face, and immediately launched into a series of questions.

"What is it, honey? What's wrong? How come you're looking at that paper like that?" Mrs. Evans looked at the paper Lily was holding in her hand a little more closely. "Why how exquisite! That is parchment, I haven't seen anything like that since you're Aunt Jo..." her voice trailed off.

At the mention of her supposedly eccentric aunt, Lily's attention was torn from her letter. Aunt Jo was never mentioned in the Evans household, except for when her parents thought their children weren't paying attention. John and Elizabeth Evans dearly loved John's sister Jo, but they didn't mention her often in their house since John's mother lived with them and didn't tolerate anything that wasn't one hundred and ten percent normal (A/N: now we know where Petunia gets it from!), in fact, right after Jo had "developed" her abnormal-ness, she had been disowned by Grandmother Evans.

"Was Aunt Jo a witch, mum?"

"We'll discuss this later, honey. It's best if we wait until your father comes home from work, and that way your nana won't overhear our discussions. But, for now, why don't we look over your list for school? This way we can decide if you will be attending this school or not. We'll also need to figure out where to go and get the supplies from, if we do decide that you'll be attending this Hogwarts."

They then walked downstairs, Lily looking over the supplies list, while Mrs. Evans finished up dinner for their average sized family.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

UNIFORM

First-year students will require:

Three sets of plain work robes

one plain pointed hat (black) for day wear

One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)

One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)

Please not that all pupil's clothes should carry name tags

COURSE BOOKS

All students should have a copy of each of the following:

The standard book of spells (Grade 1) By Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling

A beginners' Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them by Newt Scamander

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble

OTHER EQUIPMENT

1 wand

1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)

1 set glass or crystal phials

1 telescope

1 set brass scales

Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad

PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICKS

A door opening and closing followed by the faint thud of a briefcase hitting the ground announced the arrival of Jonathan Evans. Lily rushed out of her bedroom and downstairs to meet her father in the front hallway.

A/N: I dunno what else to write for now, I'm kind of thinking about Lily's trip to Diagon Alley, but I don't really know what else I should have, I'm trying to figure out. The trip to Diagon Alley should be within the next 2 or 3 chapters, I'm also thinking about writing the next 1 or 2 chapters from James' point of view. If you have any suggestions for me, send them to me. Please let me know what you think of this so far, I'm trying not to be too cliché, but some things can't be helped... lol. I guess it's cuz most of us have developed the same theories regarding the Evans and Potters and all the other characters. Hopefully I will write and get out the next few chapters soon.

Also, does anyone have an idea for what my story could be called? I would hate to have it called "Untitled" for too long.