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Chels-aka Razberrytwist-I now have reviews! I don't have to depend on you anymore! spins aroundroom happily
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Disclaimer- I want the 6th book of Harry Potter to come out! Guess what? The last word of the last book is scar! I don't own Harry Potter.
Chapter 3- Rebecca PotterI wonder what I could do... Lily was thinking what she could do when her magical schooling was finished. She was seriously thinking about bringing people, or animals, back to life. No, she wasn't thinking about her grandfather that died 13 years before she was born. She was mainly thinking about two people that she cared very much about.
First would be her dad, obviously, but she was still thinking about that one. She didn't want a rotting dad living in her house.
Second would be Lemiwinks, but he was never, or never will be, a person. He was a hamster. Although Lily wanted him back so badly, she didn't want him back either. He had lived his life, and it was time for him to go into the afterlife. She didn't want to take that bliss of heaven away from him. He was probably happier there than he ever was on this hellhole they call Earth.
Besides, she would make new friends at Hogwarts...wouldn't she?
What if she was the same loner she was here? What if kids beat her up, but this time with spells instead of punches? What if Professor Dumbledore got the wrong Lily Evans, and she would have to leave, while everyone at the school was laughing at her? What if she died while she was there?
Lily shook her head to get these questions out of her head. Whenever she was going to do something new, she always started asking these questions to herself. Like the time she was the lead role in the school play, she started saying to herself : I'm going to screw up. What if everyone laughs at me? What if....? Blah blah blah. It turned out that she was the best little actress there was on stage that night...according to her mom.
Lily knew that there had to be at least one person that would befriend her. Her life wouldn't be a living hell there, because no one knew her. Unless one of the bullies got accepted. Lily shuddered at the thought of having to deal with one of them.
She was pondering so much in her thoughts, she didn't notice her mom standing at the doorway. Abbie knocked and Lily's head snapped up.
"God, mom, you scared me!"
"Sorry, Lily" she held up what looked like a blanket draped over something. "Ah..I got you something at Diagon Alley that you didn't know about. Here. I don't want to hold it anymore..."
Lily took the blanket with a puzzled expression on her face. Slowly, she lifted the blanket. Lily let it drop to the ground as she gave a gasp of awe.
Standing beautiful and strong, in a cage, was a tawny owl. Lily looked over at her mom and Abbie smiled.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you a million times mom!"
"I hoped you would like him" Lily nodded so hard that when she stopped, she felt slightly dizzy. She felt so happy, she didn't know where to begin. Suddenly, she remembered something.
"I have to give you a name!" Lily looked at her mom, who was still standing exactly where she was a few seconds ago. "You said he was a he, right?" Her mom nodded.
"Ok then...Fred? No, that's stupid...um...how about, Andrew? No, too human...ok, I've got one...Kantu!" Lily smiled. She had always wanted a dog, or a lemur, and she would name it Kantu. It seemed fitting for the owl though.
Kantu was brown, with beautiful orange eyes and a few white feathers on his stomach. He also had small white feathers on the tips of his wings and on the very tips of his tail. Lily though he was beautiful. She walked over to the window and opened the cage.
"Lily, no! What are you doing? He'll fly away and you'll never get to see him again!" Abbie had wide eyes and a terrified look on her face.
"Relax, mom. I just want to see if he'll come back to me" Lily watched as Kantu glided out he window, swooped down and grabbed something off the empty lot across the street, and flew back to the window sill. When he came into the light of Lily's room, both of them noticed that Kantu had a squirming mouse in his beak. Lily reached out with a shaking hand and petted his glossy feathers. She was relived that he didn't bite her or anything.
"That's gross," said Lily's mother, looking at the now limp and dead mouse hanging from Kantu's beak. "Well, I guess he's well trained. You can keep him" Lily put Kantu's cage on her desk and sat on her bed. Her mother came over and sat next to her. Lily leaned against the warm body of Abbie and closed her eyes.
Abbie ran her fingers through Lily's hair. "I hope you do well at your new school" Lily nodded. Suddenly, she remembered something.
"Mom?"
"Yes"
"I've never told you this, but at school...I got bullied a lot..." Lily's voice trailed away. She looked at her stuffed bear sitting on her pillow.
"It must have been tough on you...I mean, with your dad dead, your hamster gone, and now you've been getting bullied at school...what kind of mother am I?" She said that last sentence to the roof. Lily smiled.
"I think you're the best mom on Earth. And besides, when I come back, I can always threaten them with magic!"
"Yes you can. Now get into bed, it's almost twelve!" Abbie shooed Lily into bed. Once she was under the covers, Abbie turned off the light.
"G'night mum"
"Goodnight, Lily."
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The next morning Lily realized with horror that tomorrow she was going to Hogwarts, and she didn't have a wand yet! She went flying down the stairs at about 50 miles an hour, and came screeching into the kitchen. Petunia dropped the armload of plates she was carrying with a scream. Pieces of glass went flying all over the floor.
"Petunia!" Her mother said sternly. "What is it Lily?"
"MOM! WE FORGOT TO GET MY WAND!" A look of horror identical to Lily's spread across her face.
"Come on! We have to get to Diagon Alley" With a whoosh Lily and her mom were in the car speeding towards the Leaky Caldron. Once inside, they got an old wizard to open the gates for them. The almost ran to a shop called Ollivanders and they almost knocked down a pile of wands. A man came from the back of the store and looked at them.
"Hello, here for some last minute shopping?" Both of them nodded.
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An hour later Lily and her mom walked out of the store, certainly leaving a wreck behind them. It took Lily at least 8 times to get the right one. She had broken two windows, knocked down three shelves and smashed three vases. Finally, the 10 and a quarter inch, willow wand with had chosen her. Mr. Ollivander told her it would be very good for charm work. He had also said it was swishy. Lily felt happy and sad at the same time. She was going towards a new life, but she was leaving behind the people she loved. On the car ride home, Lily started asking herself the 'what if' questions again. Finally, they pulled up on their driveway, and calm was restored to the house once more.
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That night at about eleven, Lily snuck out of her room to the kitchen. She took out the paper bag that Lemiwinks was frozen in and walked out the door. She had called for a taxi and had $50.00 ready. When the taxi got to her house, she silently got in and asked to go to the graveyard. 30 minutes later, Lily got out of the car and asked for him to stay and wait for her.
Lily had never found walking in graveyards at night scary in any way. She walked over the dead people's graves with out fear. Once she got to her dad's grave, she kneeled down.
"I'm sorry, Lemiwinks, but I can't bring you back to life. I don't think you can bring the dead back to life ever, even with magic" She wiped her tears away and dug a small hole in the dirt just above where her dad was buried. Lily took the frozen figure out of the bag and dropped it into the hole. Then she covered it up. Lily took one last glance at her two best friends, and then went back to the taxi.
"How can you go in there?" asked the taxi driver as she got in.
"I've never been afraid of graveyards at night" she replied.
"Oh," he said lamely.
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The next morning was a haze for Lily. People running this way, people running that way, packing, eating, trying to find Kantu, and finally leaving. Petunia didn't come, obviously. She was too scared.
Once they got to the train station, they went through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10, as instructed by another wizarding family. When they were on the platform, Lily's mother hugged her goodbye.
"I expect to see Kantu every other week at least" Abbie warned.
"Ok" The whistle blew. "I'd better go. Bye mom!" Lily waved and clambered on the train just as it started moving.
Luckily, Lily found a compartment to herself. She put her book beside her and looked out the window at the rolling landscape.
She almost jumped out of her skin when she heard someone come in. Oh no, someone has come to torture me, she thought.
"Excuse me?" asked a voice. Lily turned around. Standing in the compartment doorway was a girl Lily's age with beautiful brown locks hanging down to her shoulders and deep brown eyes.
"Is this seat taken?" she asked, pointing to the seat across from Lily.
"Uh...no, go ahead" The girl sat down and looked at her.
"My name's Rebecca Potter, what's yours?"
"Lily Evans"
"Hi Lily, do you want to be friends?"
Someone wants to be my friend, Lily thought with wonder.
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(A/N) Yay! Lily got a friend! Well, please R/R! Thanks!