Chapter 2: Hogwarts

The first year Lily went to Hogwarts was complete torture. My mother and father dragged me out of bed to see her off. Lily, being the show off she was, walked through a wall several times to impress my parents. They were stunned and showered her with praise at being given this opportunity. Lily hugged me before she left and my parents gushed at how nice she was.

Mom and Dad didn't shut up about Lily for several weeks. Owls were constantly flying and hooting in our house and my parents would eagerly read her letters aloud and gush over her achievements. It wasn't like I wasn't doing all kinds of achievements. I had made honor roll that year. I actually had the highest grades out of anyone of my school. My parents didn't care. They just cared about what new trick Lily had learned or what grade she had gotten on what paper or test.

Lily came home for that Christmas. The house was in an uproar when she came home. My parents wanted to know every little detail of her school. I hated the school. I hated everything about it, from the talking portraits to the lake on the grounds. My parents were fascinated with the fact that Lily could do magic, the fact that she couldn't do magic outside of school only peaked their curiosity more. They thought she was such a goody goody. Please.I saw her when they didn't. She was constantly scribbling notes to friends. She was always producing all sorts of weird things from her pocket.

Christmas was the worst. I had knitted a sweater for my mother and built a spice rack for my father because he loved to cook. When Christmas time came, my mother opened my gift first.

"Oh Petunia it's beautiful. Did you ma-" She started to say but Lily got her off by shoving a bright colored box in front of her face. My mother opened it with delight. In it was a necklace. My mother gasped and clasped it around her neck.

"Its supposed to help the wearer of it to fight off illness." Lily said with a smile. My mother got tears in her eyes. Touché Lily, Touché. My father opened my gift and said

"Oh a spice rack. My old one broke. Why its beauti-" He started to say but Lily cut him off. She thrust a smallish box towards him. He quickly took it and ripped through it. He pulled out a small, ceramic man that held a spoon in one hand.

"It tells you recipes and warns you when your making a mistake." Lily said with a smile.

"Marvelous." My father said brightly. That was one of my most hated Christmases.

I had mixed emotions about Lily going back to Hogwarts. I wanted her to be gone and away from me again, but I didn't want her to go. If she went back to Hogwarts, she would learn more and be able to tell my parents more and more stories. My parents griped about her going back to school and how much they missed her.

When my birthday arrived in late May they went crazy over what Lily got me. Lily sent me a sweater. Not just any sweater but a purple one…and I hate the color purple. Lily wrote a big long letter to me telling me what a dear sister I was and how fortunate she was to have a sister like me. She always mentioned several times in the letter that she made the sweater herself and tired over it for days. Funny that. I could have sworn I made this sweater for Christmas to give to Lily. They never shut up about how sweet and self-less Lily was.


That summer Lily came home with a friend. I never knew her name, nor did I care to. Lily and her would spend hours talking about God knows what. Lily was often reading a magic book and practicing the hand motions with her wand. Her friend had a broom and could fly on it! How absurd! Flying on a broom! Who ever thought of such a thing? Well, anyways, Lily's friend would fly around for hours. She always flew at night so no one would see her and knew every trick that there was in the book. I remember she had this little gold trinket in her pocket. She would let it loose and catch it with lightening face speed. She wasn't very pretty either. She had very long brown hair and was gangly looking. She would often talk about some dumb game that was played on broomsticks. I would almost laugh at the idea. And if I did laugh, the girl gave me odd looks.

I was thrilled when Lily went to go stay with the girl and her family for a few weeks. I no longer heard the constant zip of that damned gold trinket nor Lily's high pitched giggle at any jokes that the girl told. I also didn't hear any magic words spoken. Things like 'lumos' or'muggle'. Now what in the hell was a lumos and what did a muggle do?


At the beginning of Lily's second year my parents again dragged me to go see her good bye. This time Lily wanted to impress my parents on what a considerate sister she was by showing me how to walk through the wall. My parents beamed at her and told me to go ahead. I didn't want to. No, REALLY, I didn't want to. Who wants to walk through walls? Honestly now! And how did I know that Lily wouldn't make me walk into a real wall?

I reluctantly walked through the wall with Lily. As soon as I walked past the wall a sea of people was before me. People lugged trunks onto a large scarlet train that looked more like a snake than a train. I looked around at the various people.

"Hey Lily!" A boy called. Lily turned and mumbled something that didn't sound nice. I turned to see the boy. He was tall and had jet black messy hair that went everywhere. He had thick-framed black glass that covered brown eyes. He came up to Lily with a large smile on his face.

"Hi James." Lily grumbled.

"James!" A voice called out and clamped a hand down on James's shoulder. The hand belonged to a boy that was taller than James. He had beautiful dark brown hair that hung in his eyes gracefully. He had a set of the prettiest gray eyes I had ever seen. And his smile. OH! His smile was gorgeous! I couldn't help but notice a sparkle in his eyes and dimples in his cheeks.

"Oh Hi Lily." The boy said noticing Lily.

"Hullo Sirius." Lily said. I stole a glance at Lily and noticed her smiling like a fool. Typical. Sirius seemed to brush Lily off and turn his attention back to James.

"Do you have the Quaffle?" he asked him.

"Yeah. Do you think the Slytherin team will ever want it back?" James asked with a smile and messing up his hair. He reached into his bag and pulled out a red ball. Sirius flashed his gorgeous smile and flipped the ball up in the air after taking it from James.

"Yeah they might. Hey…whose this?" Sirius asked noticing me. Lily looked like she'd been smacked in the face.

"Oh…this is my sister, Petunia." She said.

"Hi! I'm Sirius." He said with his smile and gorgeous hair falling into his face, trying to shadow his gray eyes. He extended a hand and I shook it.

"Pleasure to meet you." I said in response.

"Same here." He said with the same smile…actually…It might have grown brighter.

"Hey Sirius!" Someone called out. Sirius turned and a boy that was awfully short,with pale hair, threw his arms up in the air and said

"Throw it."

Sirius shrugged and chucked the red ball to the boy. The ball hit the boy in the stomach.

"Bloody idiot that Peter." Sirius said shaking his head in aggravation.

"Well…we have to be going." Lily said waving me off.

"Yeah. It was nice talking to you Petunia." Sirius said with a wave and then walked off. My god what a charmer.

Christmas that year my sister decided to stay at Hogwarts. I wondered if her decision had anything to do with the fact that Sirius might have also been staying for the holidays. I tried not to let it get to me and tried to enjoy a semi-normal Christmas with my parents. And Christmas that year was better. Lily wasn't around to try and out do me or suck up to my parents. They still missed her but I was able to distract them as best as I could.

Lily's letters still came constantly from school but they were definitely less from her first year. Her grades still were incredibly high and I again made the honor roll. Life was getting into a semi-normal routine. That is until summer rolled around.