Away with the Summer Days

"Take that, Tuna fish!" shouted Lily Katrina Evans, as she threw a hex at her horrid sister, Petunia's face , and she slammed her bedroom door; Tuna fish, was a nickname she had recently made up for her. Nice, huh? It was the summer before Lily went back to Hogwarts for her 4th year, and while she missed her parents at school, she couldn't wait to leave Petunia behind.

"I'm telling Mum!" cried Tuna, who, by now, should be covered in hot blistering boils.

"See if I care!" replied Lily through the door. She had more important things to think about right now...like the fact that any minute now, a letter from the ministry of magic should be arriving on account of her "use of magic out of school"...and of course

there was always J--wait! What was she thinking...She knew exactly what she was thinking, actually. As if on que, she heard a peck on her window, and turned to see a handsome snowy-white owl trying to get in through her window. She opened the screen and let the owl in, curiously. She had no idea whose owl it was, until she read whom the letter was addressed to. Clearly printed in script balck ink, in the center of the envelope, which she had just plucked out of the owl's mouth, was "To my Lilykins." Lily rolled her eyes, grinning, and then ripped open the envelope.

Dear Lily,

Lily Evans? My Lily Evans? Doing magic out of school? On her sister? I've never been so proud of you! Sniffle, sniffle! Sirius n' I've had a bad influence on you...You're one of us Maurauders now! Don't ask me how I know, my Dad works in the Minsitry, so he told me and...Oh, don't you worry about a thing, my beautiful Lily-Blossom (Sirius made up the name for me ;-)), I'll be there at the hearing, cheering you on!

p.p.s.- maybe after the hearing, we could go out together to lunch?

xoxox, your boyfriend James Potter

Lily laughed to herself, and smiled. That James Potter. He was so funny, he could really make a girl laugh. He wasn't really her boyfriend, though he liked to think he was. Then all of a sudden her stomach dropped, as she remembered what James had said about a hearing, and another owl flew through her window. It looked very official. She nevrvously ripped open her envelope and read a letter that stated some boring information that she already knew, and that her hearing was this Sunday...this Sunday...James would be there! Oh No! What if she were banned from Hogwarts, or worse, and he was there to witness it! She hoped Sunday waould never come...

And it came. Too soon, for her liking. She woke up groggily at 7 a.m., an hour before the hearing was supposed to start, and was quite thankful that Dumbledore had called last night, to tell her that he would be escorting her to the meeting, along with 2 boys who also had a hearing to go to. After that, he would drop them off in London to get their school supplies. That was the only part Lily had told her parents about. The school supplies. Lily found it painful to imagine what her parents would they say if they knew that she was going to a hearing...they'd act just like James had, that was for sure, "Lily Evans? Our Lily Evans? Causing trouble? Going to a hearing?"...although she wasn't so sure her parents would be as delighted as James was, that their little Lily was turning into a criminal...okay, that was a little overboard, but...thing is that most people found the idea of Lily causing trouble, absolutely perposturous, which was kind of ridiculous in Lily's opinion, for she knew of numerous times that she had gotten into trouble, not on purpose of course...

Lily stipped off her nightgown, and pulled on a pair of blue jeans and a brightly colored, stiped turtleneck. She also brushed and pulled her hair up into a messy but cute bun, with a few strands falling out here and there, just the way she liked it. She would have taken more time to make herself a bit more presentable, like fixing her bun, perhaps, but she didn't have any to spare. It was already 7:30! Arrrgg, she had spent too much time daydreaming, again! Lily quickly threw on her emerald pendant neclace (which coordinated with her eyes, as they were the exact shade of green) with the script "L" made of imbeded diamonds, for it was her favorite neclace and was her good-luck charm too...not that she believed in luck but...it certainly couldn't hurt, especially today.

She checked her reflection in te left the room the mirror once more before she left, pleased to see that the pendant looked amazing with her turtleneck.

Ding Dong!

Oh, I'd better get the door, it must be Dumbledore and the two mysterious boys... thought Lily

She ran down the stairs, and shouted to her mom, "Bye Mom! You'll pick me up in London later, right?"

"Yes, Lily dear, see you later honey!"

"Have fun picking up your supplies, Lily!" shouted Mr. Evans, as Lily fought the urge to tell them about the hearing...she was such a good girl!

"Petunia, aren't you going to say goodbye to your sister?" asked Mrs. Evans

"Bye Lily dear," said Petunia in a sickly sweet mocking voice. Lily was glad then that Petunia didn't know about the hearing, otherwise, she'd be gloating about how Lily was getting paid back for the boils.

Lily picked up some spare change (sickles, knuts and galleons, of course) from her purse and stuffed it into her pocket before leaving. She opened the door to see Dumbledore standing there, his long white beard and hair in all it's glory.

"Good Morning Professor Dumbledore," greeted Lily "Who are the boys joining us today?"

"Why, I thought you knew, Lily." Dumbledore stepped aside to reveal two boys.

Two very familiar boys

"No! Not them!"