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When Lily walked out of Professor Flitwick's office an hour and 15 minutes later, she was feeling pleased with herself. She had nailed every charm and was apparently at the level of a NEWT Charms student. Flitwick had invited her to join the Charms club, which mostly consisted of 7th years, a few 6th years, and only one other 5th year.

Professor Flitwick had told her that she could just leave early, since she obviously didn't need to review any of the charms. She started down the hallway, but realized that she had no idea where she was going. Oh well, she'd have to wait for everyone else.

"Hey Lily!"

Lily turned and saw Bellatrix and two other girls walking towards her.

"Hi Bellatrix! What do you have next?"

"Potions, I think. Should be the same as you."

"Yeah! I just had Charms. Flitwick let me out early, but I don't know where to go. Could I walk with you?"

"Yeah, sure. Let me introduce you to my friends," Bellatrix gestured to the girls on either side of her, "This is Narcissa, my sister," she pointed to a tall girl with long, blond hair, "and this is Emmeline Vance."

The latter was a very slender, stately looking girl with very long, white blond hair and pale green eyes. Lily nodded to each in turn, "Hi, I'm Lily Evans."

They started to walk down the hall as classes began to empty around them.

"What house are you in?" Narcissa asked.

"I'm Gryffindor."

Narcissa's eyebrows rose above her hairline as she turned to look at Bellatrix.

"Oh, come off it," said Bellatrix roughly, "she's not like the others. Augustus has vouched for her. Let it go."

Narcissa shrugged slightly.

Emmeline frowned, "Are you pureblood?"

Lily looked down at her feet, "To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure."

"Not sure? How--"

Bellatrix jabbed her sharply in the side.

Lily took a deep breath, "I'm adopted. No one knows where I came from. The Muggle police found me when I was just a few weeks old, hidden in the garden of an empty house."

"Why were they looking in an abandoned garden?"

"My parents had been missing for a few weeks, so they were searching for clues. I was the only one they found."

"So what happened? Didn't your family come get you?"

"No one claimed me. The Evans lived nearby and they offered to take me in."

Narcissa sighed, "That's so sad. Weren't you devastated when you found out?"

Lily shrugged, "I didn't find out until a couple of years ago. It was a shock, but I don't remember anything other then my life with the Evans. If my other family doesn't care about me enough to come and find me, then I don't want to see them," Lily said this last part with a trace of bitterness.

Bellatrix exchanged a look with Emmeline, "So, you can assume that at least one of your parents was magical."

"Yeah, I guess so."

"Did the police ever find anything out about your parents?"

"No."

The group entered the classroom and sat down at a table near the front. Lily noticed that the houses were again divided between sides, although there was a lot more hostility then there was with the Hufflepuffs.

Lily leaned over and whispered to Bellatrix, "Why are they so mad?"

Bellatrix glanced at the Gryffindors and shrugged, "They're always pissed at us. They're probably a little pissed at you too, for sitting with us."

"That's so ridiculous!"

Bellatrix shrugged again.

Lily looked around as Molly and Alice came in. They looked at her strangely and Alice sat down at a back table. Molly came up to Lily.

"Lily, would you like to come sit with me and Alice?"

"No, thanks though. I think I'm going to sit here for now, at least until we get our new seats."

Molly glanced pointedly at the Slytherins and said, "Are you sure?"

Lily, who was beginning to get a little pissed off herself, said forcefully, "YES, I'm positive."

Molly looked at her for a second, and then turned and walked away.

Bellatrix snorted, "Oh, Prewett always did hate Slytherins. But we don't really like her much either."

"Why? She's a great person! What is with all this interhouse hostility?"

Bellatrix gave Lily a long look before responding, "Wake up Lily. It's not hostility between houses, it's hostility against Slytherin."

Lily gaped at Bellatrix, who ignored her.

A stocky woman walked briskly into the classroom and set her stuff on the table.

"Hello everyone! Good to see you again. I trust that you all had nice summer vacations? I'm sure that you've already heard about the assigned seats, so here we go. Nargott, Black. Vance, Black. Wait a sec, how many Blacks are there? Four, ok. Nargott, Regulus Black. Vance, Sirius Black. Lupin, Narcissa Black. Pettigrew, Malfoy. Potter, Bellatrix Black. Evans, Rosier. Who's Evans?"

Lily raised her hand, "I'm Lily Evans. I just moved here from the US."

"Right, I'm Dolly Trigit, head of Ravenclaw. Continuing, Prewett, Snape. Lestrange, you're by yourself. You're going to have to alternate working with different groups."

There was a bustle as everyone moved to their new seats.

Trigit set her hands down on her desk and surveyed the class, "Right, I know that you guys hate each other, but I don't want any of that in my class. Behave yourself and you won't get detention. Ok, today we're going to be making a Strengthing Solution. Not very hard, if you're paying attention. If it doesn't turn out right I'm going to assume that you were goofing off and points will be deducted. Get to work."

Lily turned to her seatmate, "That's not exactly fair!"

The delicate looking boy sitting next to her eyed her wairily, "Especially considering that everything she just said only applies to Slytherins."

"Why would she single out the Slytherins?"

"Because she's Ravenclaw Head of House."

Lily huffed, "You know, I think that you guys are a little paranoid. Why would everyone be out to get you?"

The boy turned to look at her, mildly amused, "You don't get out much do you?" he held out his hand, "Evan Rosier."

Lily shook her head, "Lily Evans. You did hear that I just moved here from the US, right?"

Evan closed his eyes and shook his head. too His thick, dark eyelashes stood out against his almost transparent skin. He opened his eyes again and Lily saw that they were dark, almost black.

"Am I that hot?"

Lily jumped, "N-no. I was looking at your eyelashes," she started to laugh as she realized how weird that sounded.

"What are you doing? You are such an idiot! Put that down!"

Everyone turned to look at Bellatrix and James. James had apparently been about to sabatoge the potion. Bellatrix looked about ready to tear his head off.

"Well, you weren't actually doing anything. Besides, what the hell do you know about Potions anyways?"

"Watch your language Potter. Black, 20 points from Slytherin. Don't shout in my classroom," Trigit had come up behind the pair.

Evan turned back to Lily and mouthed 'I told you so.'

Lily looked back at Bellatrix. She appeared to be shaking, but Lily realized why when she saw James's lips m ving and his eyes on Bellatrix's face. Bellatrix was probably trying to keep from gouging out his eyes. Lily frowned slightly and turned back to her potion. She found it fairly easy and let her mind wander a little.

The class mostly worked in silence for the rest of the period. Lily and Evan finished their potion pretty quickly and were told to sit at their desk without talking for the remaining time.

Lily looked around at the rest of the class and found herself wondering why everyone seemed to dislike Slytherins.

'There has to be a reason.' she thought, 'People don't turn on each like this for no reason. I think.'

She picked up her books glumly as class ended and started after Bellatrix, "Hey! Hey Bellatrix, wait up!"

Bellatrix turned on Lily as she came up and hissed at her, "Go hang out with your house, Evans. We don't want you here."

Lily stood in shock as she watched her walk away. She felt a hand on shoulder and turned to see Remus standing there, "Don't worry about it, Lily. They never spend much time with anyone not in their house anyways. They're cliche-y. No big loss. C'mon, I'll walk you to lunch."

Lily nodded mutely and followed him out of the room. Once they got to the luch room, she turned and looked for Bellatrix. She was sitting with Narcissa and Severus. Narcissa looked up at Lily and sneered.

Alice saw where she was looking, "Hey, just shrug it off. They act like that towards everyone. It's not a big deal."

"Yeah, I guess so. But what would make them turn on me like that?"

James shrugged, "Ehh, probably the fact that you're not pureblood."

Lily looked down and twisted her hands in her lap, 'Am I?'