5 years had passes since that sad day for Lily Evans. That means 5 years to
mature. 5 years to grow. And 5 years to forget. Now Lily hadn't totally
forgotten about her old neighborhood friend. The memories of him had simply
hidden themselves in the back of her mind.
2 years after the Potters had moved, Lily and her family moved as well. They were now currently living in a mansion sized house in London. Two weeks ago was Lily's 11th birthday. They had planned on going out for a nice family dinner that evening, but they received a bigger surprise. When Lily awoke that morning, she was startled to find an owl sitting on her desk, staring at her. Now two weeks later, Lily and her parents were getting ready to check out a place called Diagon Alley.
Lily's older sister, Petunia, who was now 16, had got even more annoying if possible. If she wasn't calling Lily a freak, she was avoiding her in fear that Lily may curse or hex her. The latter Lily didn't mind though. Petunia had always been jealous of Lily's charming personality and stunningly beautiful looks.
Though Lily may only be 11, she was quite the beauty. With her waist- length, wavy, auburn hair and sparkling mischievous emerald eyes, it was hard not to be jealous. Her porcelain skin was speckled with freckles that gave off a sense of preciousness. Lily was the apple of both her parents' eyes. She was always kind to people no matter what. She was outgoing and always charmed her father and mother's friends and business associates with her wonderful personality. Despite all this, though, Lily was a great prankster. She loved adventure and would constantly keep her parents young with all pranks she pulled.
"Lily, princess, are you ready to go yet?" her father called up the stairs.
"Yes daddy. I'll be right down." she called back from her room, where she was currently slipping on her green flip-flops. She was dressed in an emerald green spaghetti strapped tank top that matched her eyes. She was also wearing black capris and her hair was flowing down her back. With one quick look in the mirror, she bounced happily down the stairs.
Her father looked up and smiled. Lily's mother was in Rome on a business meeting so she wouldn't be able to come with and Petunia simply refused to come at all. So it was just Lily and her father to set off and look for this maybe made-up place called Diagon Alley.
"We'll stop and get some lunch afterwards, ok?" her father said.
"Ok" and with that they walked out into the car and started to drive to downtown London. They were driving around for about 20 minutes, and had yet to see a place called the Leaky Pub.
"Maybe this was all a hoax. Do you think?" Lily said, skeptically.
"I don't know. It might be. Let's drive around just a little longer. If we don't see it in ten minutes then we'll head on home." her father said, still keeping a look out for the pub.
"Ok." Lily said, staring out her window. "Wait! There it is. The Leaky Pub, right there." she shrieked.
"Oh yes... there it is. Could have sworn...not there a minute ago..." her father muttered to himself.
After they had met Tom, the bartender, and he had shown them into Diagon Alley, and told them about Gringotts, Lily and her father were staring at the wizardry version of a mini-mall, in awe.
"Wow." Lily whispered.
"Yeah. This is amazing." her father said quietly.
After 30 minutes, Lily had gotten her wand ('quite a strange experience', Lily thought), and she had gotten her books. All that were left was utensils and her robes.
"Ok Lily. You can go and get your school robes while I look around for a shop that sells quills and parchment. Meet me in 2 hours at...at...how about that ice cream parlor over there. " He said, pointing to a building. "You can spend some time looking around at the different shops if you have time. Here," he handed her a handful of coins," buy a couple of fun stuff while you're at it. I know how much you like those sorts of joke, prank, thingies."
Lily giggled. Then she took the coins from him and said, "Got it. 2 hours at that building right over there."
Lily walked into the robes store and was suddenly overwhelmed at the sight in front of her. Hundreds of robes and dress robes of all different colors and sizes were hanging up on racks. A lady probably in her mid 40s came up to her.
"Hello. May I help you, young lady?" she said, cheerily.
"Yes, I need some school robes." Lily said timidly.
"Ahhh. Hogwarts?"
"Yes"
"Well then, come right this way and we'll get you fitted." the lady said as she led Lily into a room.
20 minutes later, Lily came out of the shop with a couple of sacks in her hand. Since she had and hour and forty minutes to spare she decided to head into a fun looking store called Zonkos (a/n- I know that shop is at Hogmeades, but I just wanted it hear.) Upon entering, she was immediately aware of the smell of something nasty. (a/n- dung bombs) She looked around at the different items on the shelf and was quite intrigued with the Exploding Snaps and some kind of green goo. Lily heard the doors to the store open and also heard the sound of about 3 or 4 boys laughing and joking around. Lily just continued to look around for different items. When she was done with her purchases, she walked out of the store. ================================================================
Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter walked around Zonkos, stocking up on supplies their first year at a new school. Sirius was a tall boy, well built, and had longish brown hair with blue eyes. Remus was a little shorter than Sirius and he had light brown shorter hair with grayish-blue, caring, gentle eyes. Peter was a short, stout, chubby boy with light blond hair and beady, watery blue eyes. James had, like Lily, grown up over the last 5 years. He could have been Sirius' twin, if not for his jet-black, messy hair and chocolate brown eyes, framed by his wired-rimmed glasses. All the boys, with the exception of Peter, were all very good looking for their age. You could already tell they would be a very popular bunch at Hogwarts.
After James moved 5 years ago, his family and he went to live at the place they were staying at even before they lived next to the Evans'. James, like Lily, couldn't really remember his childhood friend all that well. He almost never even thought about that part of his childhood. When he went back to his original hometown at Godric's Hollow, he met his parent's old friends and their children, Sirius and Remus. Not long after that, the three met up with Peter when he moved in. Today, they are still as strong of friends as ever before.
"Oy Jamsie!" Sirius called, looking at some dungbombs.
James walked over to him. "What is it, Sirius?" he asked.
"I'm gonna go and buy these and then I going to the candy shop across the street. When you and Remus and Peter are done, meet me over there." Sirius said.
"Alright." James stated as he walked off. ===================================================================
Lily had just walked out of Zonkos when she suddenly bumped into someone.
"Umph." she said as she fell over, her packages dropping to the ground. Her head bent as she picked them up, she said apologetically, "Sorry about that. I guess I'm just in my own little world today." she got up, still not seeing the person's face and started to walk off when she heard the person speak.
"You should be sorry. Filthy mudblood, now I'll have to wash my robes again." the voice said.
Lily whirled around, insulted. She didn't know what the term 'mudblood' meant, but the way he said it stung her a little. She glared up at a boy no more than her age.
"Listen, I said I was sorry. Look, you didn't even get your packages knocked over so no harm done."
The boy continued to glare at her, not saying anything. Lily continued to look at him. He looked so familiar to her, but she couldn't place where she had seen him before. The boy had greasy hair, with a hooked nose and very black eyes. Her eyes widened in surprise. 'Greasy hair...' She suddenly laughed, disbelievingly.
"Snape!" she said, rudely. She hadn't seen Severus Snape in 3 years, since she moved. He had still been as dumb as ever when she left. Now three years later, she realized he hadn't changed a bit from the first time she met him, when she walked up to her and started to pick on her. After that day, though, he never picked on her, or spoke to her, again. Lily couldn't recall why he didn't continue to tease her, it was a blank.
Snape looked at the girl in front of him. He would admit, she was quite pretty, but something about her. He just didn't like her. For some reason, he hated her. She looked familiar to him, though. 'Red-hair? Hmmm. and green eyes?'. Then he realized. There was only one person who had that green of eyes and red of hair.
"Evan?" he said angrily. He glared, if possible, harder at her. She had stopped laughing by now. She had raised one of her eyebrows, smirked slightly and said, "Well well well. Severus Snape. Long time no see, eh?"
"Too bad it didn't last to long, mudblood." he growled.
She glared at him, "Trust me, Snape. The feeling is more than mutual.". She wouldn't sink so low as to ask him what a 'mudblood' was since he was obviously insulting her.
"This is just great. The amazing duo will be together again. You both had better watch your backs, Evans. If you know what's good for you." he said, threateningly advancing on her.
She stared to tremble slightly. Even though she would never admit it, she didn't do well with confrontation. And Snape was a lot taller than her, since she was short for her age. Just when her back was almost touching the wall and Snape was still moving forward, she heard another voice behind Snape.
"Oh Snapey. Bothering a young lady are we. Didn't your mother ever tell you, if you want girls to like you, don't talk to them because you'll probably just get them all dirty with all that grease in your hair?"
Snape whirled around and glared at the new person. "Black." he said in a low voice.
Lily stepped on her tippy toes and looked over Snapes shoulders. Standing right there was, in Lily's opinion, one of the cutest boys she had ever seen.
"That's right Snape. Now get out of here before I make you get out of here. And you know how I don't like to use violence in front of ladies." he said, looking over at Lily.
"I'd like to see you try, Black." Snape said, stepping forward.
The two boys were about the same height. Though the other kid, not Snape, was slightly more built. Lily was thinking that this will all cause a big scene right in the middle of the street. She covered her eyes, waiting to here the fighting, when she heard other voices.
"Hey Sirius I thought you were going to-... oh it's you, Snape." Lily lowered her hands and saw three other boys standing beside Sirius, who looked ready to kill. One had light brown hair with gentle blue eyes and was glaring at Snape, the other one was short and plump and looked incredibly frightened, and the last one, the one who spoke, had messy, jet- black hair with chocolate brown eyes, framed with glasses. She decided he looked the cutest of all of them. And, he even looked a little familiar to her, but that thought was pushed aside as they continued to speak to each other.
"Well well well, if it isn't Potty and his loyal companions. Here to start something?" Snape said.
"Snape, you better get out of here." the light brown hair boy said, quietly.
"And why should I?" Snape said, forgetting about Lily for the moment.
"Not much of a thinker, are you? Four against one? Well if you're up to starting your school year off a little late on account of being in the hospital, fine by me." the one with glasses said.
Snape glared at all of them, then turned back to Lily, who had pressed herself all the way against the wall.
"Would have figured he'd be the one to save you. History always repeats itself. Better watch your back this year." he said, loud enough for them all to hear. He stared at her a moment longer, then raised an eyebrow and walked off, shoving the one with glasses with his shoulder.
The four boys watched the retreating figure's back as he stalked down the sidewalk. Then they all turned back to the pretty, petite red head.
"You alright?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah I'm fine." she said, timidly.
"What'd Snape want with you?" the one with light brown hair asked, gently.
"Oh. I accidentally bumped into him on my way out of Zonkos and-"
"You were at Zonkos? So were we!" the fat short boy said, stupidly.
The other three turned to him, disbelievingly. Peter could be so dumb at times. Lily stared at him, brows furrowed and said, "Yeah. Well anyway, I bumped into him, I apologized, and I started walking off, then he insulted me, I guess, and I started to argue with him. Then I realized, he looked so familiar. That...greasy hair and the hooked nose. He looked like a kid who I used to know a while back. Well then, anyway I said his name and started to laugh. He always was a big git! That's where you found me. So how do you know him?" she asked.
"Our parents all work in the ministry together. All four of us, " Sirius pointed to his friends, "know each other since we all live on the same block. Jamsie-boy here has known Snape the longest though." he added.
"So Jamsie, how do you know him longer?" she asked.
"Oh I used to live on his street. And it's not Jamsie, it's just James." James said.
She looked confused for a moment. 'he used to live on our street?' She decided to continue on, despite her confused feelings. "Sooo. You all know each other. What are your names?"
"Oh yeah. Sorry about that. My name is Remus Lupin, he's Peter Pettigrew. That there is Sirius Black and he's James Potter."
'James Potter? James... Potter?... why does that sound so familiar?'
"What's your name?" James asked. James also thought she looked really familiar. 'Red-hair, green eyes... red-hair, green eyes...'
"Hmmm? Oh I'm sorry. I'm so rude. I'm Lily. Lily Evans." 'Lily Evans. It sounds so familiar. Where have I seen her before?'
"Well I better be going. My dad's waiting for me. I'll see you at Hogwarts I guess. You're in first year too, right?"
"Yeah. See ya later, Lily." Remus said as she walked off. He turned and looked at his friends. "She seems nice, doesn't she?"
"Yeah. And she's really hot." Sirius said.
Remus rolled his eyes, "There's Sirius for ya. Always the romantic." he said sarcastically.
With that, the four friends walked off, laughing and joking as usual.
2 years after the Potters had moved, Lily and her family moved as well. They were now currently living in a mansion sized house in London. Two weeks ago was Lily's 11th birthday. They had planned on going out for a nice family dinner that evening, but they received a bigger surprise. When Lily awoke that morning, she was startled to find an owl sitting on her desk, staring at her. Now two weeks later, Lily and her parents were getting ready to check out a place called Diagon Alley.
Lily's older sister, Petunia, who was now 16, had got even more annoying if possible. If she wasn't calling Lily a freak, she was avoiding her in fear that Lily may curse or hex her. The latter Lily didn't mind though. Petunia had always been jealous of Lily's charming personality and stunningly beautiful looks.
Though Lily may only be 11, she was quite the beauty. With her waist- length, wavy, auburn hair and sparkling mischievous emerald eyes, it was hard not to be jealous. Her porcelain skin was speckled with freckles that gave off a sense of preciousness. Lily was the apple of both her parents' eyes. She was always kind to people no matter what. She was outgoing and always charmed her father and mother's friends and business associates with her wonderful personality. Despite all this, though, Lily was a great prankster. She loved adventure and would constantly keep her parents young with all pranks she pulled.
"Lily, princess, are you ready to go yet?" her father called up the stairs.
"Yes daddy. I'll be right down." she called back from her room, where she was currently slipping on her green flip-flops. She was dressed in an emerald green spaghetti strapped tank top that matched her eyes. She was also wearing black capris and her hair was flowing down her back. With one quick look in the mirror, she bounced happily down the stairs.
Her father looked up and smiled. Lily's mother was in Rome on a business meeting so she wouldn't be able to come with and Petunia simply refused to come at all. So it was just Lily and her father to set off and look for this maybe made-up place called Diagon Alley.
"We'll stop and get some lunch afterwards, ok?" her father said.
"Ok" and with that they walked out into the car and started to drive to downtown London. They were driving around for about 20 minutes, and had yet to see a place called the Leaky Pub.
"Maybe this was all a hoax. Do you think?" Lily said, skeptically.
"I don't know. It might be. Let's drive around just a little longer. If we don't see it in ten minutes then we'll head on home." her father said, still keeping a look out for the pub.
"Ok." Lily said, staring out her window. "Wait! There it is. The Leaky Pub, right there." she shrieked.
"Oh yes... there it is. Could have sworn...not there a minute ago..." her father muttered to himself.
After they had met Tom, the bartender, and he had shown them into Diagon Alley, and told them about Gringotts, Lily and her father were staring at the wizardry version of a mini-mall, in awe.
"Wow." Lily whispered.
"Yeah. This is amazing." her father said quietly.
After 30 minutes, Lily had gotten her wand ('quite a strange experience', Lily thought), and she had gotten her books. All that were left was utensils and her robes.
"Ok Lily. You can go and get your school robes while I look around for a shop that sells quills and parchment. Meet me in 2 hours at...at...how about that ice cream parlor over there. " He said, pointing to a building. "You can spend some time looking around at the different shops if you have time. Here," he handed her a handful of coins," buy a couple of fun stuff while you're at it. I know how much you like those sorts of joke, prank, thingies."
Lily giggled. Then she took the coins from him and said, "Got it. 2 hours at that building right over there."
Lily walked into the robes store and was suddenly overwhelmed at the sight in front of her. Hundreds of robes and dress robes of all different colors and sizes were hanging up on racks. A lady probably in her mid 40s came up to her.
"Hello. May I help you, young lady?" she said, cheerily.
"Yes, I need some school robes." Lily said timidly.
"Ahhh. Hogwarts?"
"Yes"
"Well then, come right this way and we'll get you fitted." the lady said as she led Lily into a room.
20 minutes later, Lily came out of the shop with a couple of sacks in her hand. Since she had and hour and forty minutes to spare she decided to head into a fun looking store called Zonkos (a/n- I know that shop is at Hogmeades, but I just wanted it hear.) Upon entering, she was immediately aware of the smell of something nasty. (a/n- dung bombs) She looked around at the different items on the shelf and was quite intrigued with the Exploding Snaps and some kind of green goo. Lily heard the doors to the store open and also heard the sound of about 3 or 4 boys laughing and joking around. Lily just continued to look around for different items. When she was done with her purchases, she walked out of the store. ================================================================
Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter walked around Zonkos, stocking up on supplies their first year at a new school. Sirius was a tall boy, well built, and had longish brown hair with blue eyes. Remus was a little shorter than Sirius and he had light brown shorter hair with grayish-blue, caring, gentle eyes. Peter was a short, stout, chubby boy with light blond hair and beady, watery blue eyes. James had, like Lily, grown up over the last 5 years. He could have been Sirius' twin, if not for his jet-black, messy hair and chocolate brown eyes, framed by his wired-rimmed glasses. All the boys, with the exception of Peter, were all very good looking for their age. You could already tell they would be a very popular bunch at Hogwarts.
After James moved 5 years ago, his family and he went to live at the place they were staying at even before they lived next to the Evans'. James, like Lily, couldn't really remember his childhood friend all that well. He almost never even thought about that part of his childhood. When he went back to his original hometown at Godric's Hollow, he met his parent's old friends and their children, Sirius and Remus. Not long after that, the three met up with Peter when he moved in. Today, they are still as strong of friends as ever before.
"Oy Jamsie!" Sirius called, looking at some dungbombs.
James walked over to him. "What is it, Sirius?" he asked.
"I'm gonna go and buy these and then I going to the candy shop across the street. When you and Remus and Peter are done, meet me over there." Sirius said.
"Alright." James stated as he walked off. ===================================================================
Lily had just walked out of Zonkos when she suddenly bumped into someone.
"Umph." she said as she fell over, her packages dropping to the ground. Her head bent as she picked them up, she said apologetically, "Sorry about that. I guess I'm just in my own little world today." she got up, still not seeing the person's face and started to walk off when she heard the person speak.
"You should be sorry. Filthy mudblood, now I'll have to wash my robes again." the voice said.
Lily whirled around, insulted. She didn't know what the term 'mudblood' meant, but the way he said it stung her a little. She glared up at a boy no more than her age.
"Listen, I said I was sorry. Look, you didn't even get your packages knocked over so no harm done."
The boy continued to glare at her, not saying anything. Lily continued to look at him. He looked so familiar to her, but she couldn't place where she had seen him before. The boy had greasy hair, with a hooked nose and very black eyes. Her eyes widened in surprise. 'Greasy hair...' She suddenly laughed, disbelievingly.
"Snape!" she said, rudely. She hadn't seen Severus Snape in 3 years, since she moved. He had still been as dumb as ever when she left. Now three years later, she realized he hadn't changed a bit from the first time she met him, when she walked up to her and started to pick on her. After that day, though, he never picked on her, or spoke to her, again. Lily couldn't recall why he didn't continue to tease her, it was a blank.
Snape looked at the girl in front of him. He would admit, she was quite pretty, but something about her. He just didn't like her. For some reason, he hated her. She looked familiar to him, though. 'Red-hair? Hmmm. and green eyes?'. Then he realized. There was only one person who had that green of eyes and red of hair.
"Evan?" he said angrily. He glared, if possible, harder at her. She had stopped laughing by now. She had raised one of her eyebrows, smirked slightly and said, "Well well well. Severus Snape. Long time no see, eh?"
"Too bad it didn't last to long, mudblood." he growled.
She glared at him, "Trust me, Snape. The feeling is more than mutual.". She wouldn't sink so low as to ask him what a 'mudblood' was since he was obviously insulting her.
"This is just great. The amazing duo will be together again. You both had better watch your backs, Evans. If you know what's good for you." he said, threateningly advancing on her.
She stared to tremble slightly. Even though she would never admit it, she didn't do well with confrontation. And Snape was a lot taller than her, since she was short for her age. Just when her back was almost touching the wall and Snape was still moving forward, she heard another voice behind Snape.
"Oh Snapey. Bothering a young lady are we. Didn't your mother ever tell you, if you want girls to like you, don't talk to them because you'll probably just get them all dirty with all that grease in your hair?"
Snape whirled around and glared at the new person. "Black." he said in a low voice.
Lily stepped on her tippy toes and looked over Snapes shoulders. Standing right there was, in Lily's opinion, one of the cutest boys she had ever seen.
"That's right Snape. Now get out of here before I make you get out of here. And you know how I don't like to use violence in front of ladies." he said, looking over at Lily.
"I'd like to see you try, Black." Snape said, stepping forward.
The two boys were about the same height. Though the other kid, not Snape, was slightly more built. Lily was thinking that this will all cause a big scene right in the middle of the street. She covered her eyes, waiting to here the fighting, when she heard other voices.
"Hey Sirius I thought you were going to-... oh it's you, Snape." Lily lowered her hands and saw three other boys standing beside Sirius, who looked ready to kill. One had light brown hair with gentle blue eyes and was glaring at Snape, the other one was short and plump and looked incredibly frightened, and the last one, the one who spoke, had messy, jet- black hair with chocolate brown eyes, framed with glasses. She decided he looked the cutest of all of them. And, he even looked a little familiar to her, but that thought was pushed aside as they continued to speak to each other.
"Well well well, if it isn't Potty and his loyal companions. Here to start something?" Snape said.
"Snape, you better get out of here." the light brown hair boy said, quietly.
"And why should I?" Snape said, forgetting about Lily for the moment.
"Not much of a thinker, are you? Four against one? Well if you're up to starting your school year off a little late on account of being in the hospital, fine by me." the one with glasses said.
Snape glared at all of them, then turned back to Lily, who had pressed herself all the way against the wall.
"Would have figured he'd be the one to save you. History always repeats itself. Better watch your back this year." he said, loud enough for them all to hear. He stared at her a moment longer, then raised an eyebrow and walked off, shoving the one with glasses with his shoulder.
The four boys watched the retreating figure's back as he stalked down the sidewalk. Then they all turned back to the pretty, petite red head.
"You alright?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah I'm fine." she said, timidly.
"What'd Snape want with you?" the one with light brown hair asked, gently.
"Oh. I accidentally bumped into him on my way out of Zonkos and-"
"You were at Zonkos? So were we!" the fat short boy said, stupidly.
The other three turned to him, disbelievingly. Peter could be so dumb at times. Lily stared at him, brows furrowed and said, "Yeah. Well anyway, I bumped into him, I apologized, and I started walking off, then he insulted me, I guess, and I started to argue with him. Then I realized, he looked so familiar. That...greasy hair and the hooked nose. He looked like a kid who I used to know a while back. Well then, anyway I said his name and started to laugh. He always was a big git! That's where you found me. So how do you know him?" she asked.
"Our parents all work in the ministry together. All four of us, " Sirius pointed to his friends, "know each other since we all live on the same block. Jamsie-boy here has known Snape the longest though." he added.
"So Jamsie, how do you know him longer?" she asked.
"Oh I used to live on his street. And it's not Jamsie, it's just James." James said.
She looked confused for a moment. 'he used to live on our street?' She decided to continue on, despite her confused feelings. "Sooo. You all know each other. What are your names?"
"Oh yeah. Sorry about that. My name is Remus Lupin, he's Peter Pettigrew. That there is Sirius Black and he's James Potter."
'James Potter? James... Potter?... why does that sound so familiar?'
"What's your name?" James asked. James also thought she looked really familiar. 'Red-hair, green eyes... red-hair, green eyes...'
"Hmmm? Oh I'm sorry. I'm so rude. I'm Lily. Lily Evans." 'Lily Evans. It sounds so familiar. Where have I seen her before?'
"Well I better be going. My dad's waiting for me. I'll see you at Hogwarts I guess. You're in first year too, right?"
"Yeah. See ya later, Lily." Remus said as she walked off. He turned and looked at his friends. "She seems nice, doesn't she?"
"Yeah. And she's really hot." Sirius said.
Remus rolled his eyes, "There's Sirius for ya. Always the romantic." he said sarcastically.
With that, the four friends walked off, laughing and joking as usual.