All right, everyone, now I'm going to introduce two new characters. As a result, my point of view might be changing a bit at times. I'll try not to mess the point of views up (like switching from 3rd person to 2nd person, etc), but I am definitely not perfect. So please let me know if I'm doing OK or if I need to fix some things!

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Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, and I DEFINITELY do not own the Hogwarts acceptance letter. Or any acceptance letter of any kind.

Chapter 2

New Friends and Letters

Lilly woke up to way too much sunlight. She groaned slightly and wondered if she should sleep for just a few more minutes. Judging by the sunlight, she decided not too.

She got up and rummaged in her suitcase for some good clothes. Lilly and her brother have been living in this place for almost a month now.

Lilly was putting on her jeans when she remembered she needed something. Absent mindedly, she pulled out a small red silk bag. In that bag contained some of her most precious possessions. She dumped all the contents; out fell a wooden flute, a tiny vial full of clear liquid, a bright red phoenix feather quill, and a necklace. It was a very pretty necklace; the stone was a round sapphire about the size of her palm, with a chain of diamonds and some sort of bird etched into the stone.

Lilly had a special kind of fondness for the necklace, but she never quite admitted this fact to her parents. Actually, she never admitted this to anyone, because no one in her family knew she even had this necklace.

None of the Grahams would ever admit it, but her mother's side of the family was a shady bunch. Her mother's uncle twice removed was especially dreadful, and was taken to Azkaban about three years before Lilly was born. Lilly never met the man, and whenever her mother had to mention him, she only referred to him as "Mortal Dread". Lilly always persisted what his real name was, but she never succeeded.

Lilly also had a cousin named Calicifer who was very big in black market deals in Knockturn Alley. As a result, he had many things that weren't very honorable.

Calicifer claimed that he did not steal that necklace, but since he also said it wasn't his, nobody really believed him. He was taken to Azkaban for some especially shady business, but as he was dragged away, he yelled that no one should touch the necklace, that he and his somebody else had orders to guard it.

Of course, the Grahams ignored him and within a few days of Calicifer's arrest, they prepared to burn down his house and most of his belongings. But Lilly always loved that necklace, so before her family got rid of everything, she snuck into the house and stole the necklace.

Lilly was surprised at how easy it was to steal it; the way her cousin went on about it, she figured it had all sorts of enchantments protecting it. Lilly had only been to Calicifer's house twice, but the necklace always remained etched in her mind.

Lilly had never stolen anything before, but this was a special case. Of all the claims her cousin made about this special piece of jewelry, one claim really stuck with her. She had to know if it was true.

There you go, daydreaming again and thinking about the past, Lilly told herself. You need to finish getting dressed, and quit it.

Now Lilly put on the necklace to see if it matched everything else she was wearing. She was wearing jeans, a white T-shirt with red short sleeves and a red star on it, and her ponytails were put in place with blue ponytail holders. The necklace looked good, as least, as good as it ever will on her. Lilly was actually quite pretty, but she never thought so.

Lilly walked out of her room and went over to the door next to hers. She knocked a strange sort of pattern on the door.

"Hey, big brother, it's time to get up." Kevin sometimes reminded Lilly that he was exactly a minute and a half older than she was; she never liked that, especially since he acted like the younger twin, but right now, she was just concerned with getting him up.

There wasn't a single sound in the room. Lilly knocked again.

"C'mon, Kevin, you need to eat breakfast. And what did you do to those numbers?!" Lilly just noticed that one of the 2's was upside down, so her brother was no longer in Room 22, he was in Room…. Well, something else, Lilly wasn't even sure anymore.

Kevin still wouldn't wake up. Lilly forgot that her brother was a deep sleeper and that if an atom bomb dropped nearby he wouldn't wake up. Well, then again, maybe he would. He always loved explosions, fireworks, and other kinds of practical chaos.

"Fine, be that way." Lilly stalked off to her room, and returned to her brother's door, this time with her wooden flute. Lilly took a deep breath and blew hard, hitting the highest note she possibly could on the flute. There was a yell from inside his room, and then a thud.

"There we go," she muttered. Lilly listened to the bangs, crashes, grunts, and other miscellaneous noises that came from Kevin's room. Within a few minutes, Kevin came bursting out of his room, wearing jeans and a wrinkled dark green T-shirt.

"It's about time!" Lilly said impatiently. Kevin looked slightly ashamed, and then ran back in his room to get something.

"What is that?" Lilly asked, puzzled. The thing her brother was holding looked like a foul smelling firework with mothballs all over it.

"It's my new Stink-Work! Like it?"

"Uh…. I don't really know." Lilly said politely. She tried to avoid the other people who stayed at the Leaky Cauldron; her shyness always got it the way of things.

"Hey", said a voice behind her. Lilly jumped, and tried to tell herself that it wasn't for her. Then she realized that the voice actually was addressing her.

Lilly turned around and was face-to-face with a girl & a boy about her own age. The girl was slightly taller than she was; her hair was the color of dark chocolate and had a bunch of purple butterfly clips in it. She was wearing a lilac-colored T-shirt, faded jeans, and her eyes were a light shade of violet.

"Hi", she said rather timidly. She really didn't like meeting new people, and this girl had a kind of harshness in her voice that she found quite intimidating.

"I'm Rebecca. Rebecca Fisher," she said, with a somewhat softer tone now.

"I'm Lillianna Graham. But most people call me Lilly. It's easier that way," she added, starting to relax a little bit.

"Lilly? That a… interesting name," Rebecca replied. Then she realized how rude that sounded. "I mean, it's a nice name, just-"

"When you hear my name you instantly think of Lily Potter. Yeah, I know, don't worry, I get that sometimes," she said. "Just remember that I'm Lilly with two 'L's."

"Ok, can do. And just remember that I'm Rebecca spelled the normal way," said Rebecca, grinning.

The boy just behind her was about similar height to her brother, had dark reddish-brown hair and was odd eyed; his right eye was light brown, the other was warm grey. He was wearing khaki pants, a navy blue T-shirt & a friendly smile.

"Hi, I'm Lilly," she said shyly.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Richard," he said warmly. "And personally, I think your name is very pretty."

Lilly was so stunned she wasn't sure what to say about that; she often had a hard time accepting compliments, especially since she never used her name and the word "pretty" in the same sentence.

"T-T-T-Th-th-th-"

"I think what my sister is trying to say is 'Thank you'", Kevin chimed in, while his sister blushed. It was remarkable, despite her having such pale skin, how red her face got when she was embarrassed.

"Well, she's very welcome," said Richard.

"I'm Kevin Graham!" Kevin said cheerfully.

Richard nodded politely. Rebecca smiled in almost a strained way and said "Pleasure to meet you."

"My brother's a little… intense at times." Lilly explained.

"Anyway, what are we doing standing around here?" asked Rebecca impatiently. "Let's go downstairs and eat something."

"Wicked!" Kevin said excitedly.

"Sounds good to me." Richard said, still smiling at Lilly.

Lilly blushed at Richard's stare, then said timidly, "Okay, sure."

"Great! Then what are we waiting for? Let's go down."

They all headed downstairs, with Kevin banging down the stairs. When they got down, they ordered some food. Rebecca had an English muffin, Richard had a crumpet and Kevin ordered a huge order of bangers and mash.

Lilly quietly spread some orange marmalade on her toast, her brother was talking with Richard, and Rebecca was reading a newspaper that had the words Daily Prophet on the front page. After a few minutes, Rebecca made an angry noise from behind the paper.

"What is it?" Lilly asked.

"Oh, nothing." But the tone of her voice clearly said it was not 'nothing'.

"Please, don't you want to tell us?" Lilly asked again.

"Oh, all right. I can never keep a secret long, anyway."

Rebecca slammed the paper down angrily. "I should warn you, though; I tend to get angry pretty easily about things that are no big deal to most people. But sure, I'll tell you. It just this piece of crap that calls itself a paper made another Harry Potter jab, and they poked fun at Dumbledore, too."

"How to you know they're lying?" asked Richard uncertainly. Rebecca gave him a murderous glare, her eyes flashing. "I mean," Richard continued, "Sure, they might be exaggerating a little bit about Dumbledore, but how do you know for sure that this Harry Potter is telling the truth about- "

"He is telling the truth because Dumbledore believes him. End of story."

"If you say so", Richard muttered. "You shouldn't try to argue with Rebecca, as least, not if you can help it." He explained to the twins.

"Wait-what?" said Lilly. "Will someone please tell me what's going on?"

"Haven't you been reading the Prophet lately?" asked Rebecca. Lilly shook her head. "Well… For a while now, the Daily Prophet has been making jokes about Harry Potter and Dumbledore. You do know who Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore are, right?"

"Yeah, we're purebloods," said Lilly

"Okay. Well, the Prophet has basically been saying that Harry is going mad, and Dumbledore is cracked too, which is just a bunch of rubbish. Dumbledore is the greatest wizard that ever existed. And how can Harry be going mad?"

"Why do they think he is?" asked Lilly.

"Because Harry claimed that he saw You-Know-Who come back. I think it started about a month ago, and I'm pretty sure it was the…24th of June when Harry said You-Know-Who came back. Well, I'm positive it's true. He was bound to come back, and I'll bet those stupid cowards are just to afraid to accept the truth, those flobberworms-"

Rebecca kept going on, ranting and raving, while Richard played with his breakfast uncomfortably. However, Lilly was hardly paying attention anymore.

June 24-her birthday. That also happened to be the day that she and her brother ran away from home, the day they were forced to be separated.

Lilly remembered the horrible feeling she got, the feeling that something bad has happened, but she had been so sure that it was the fact that she was in danger. Now, however, Lilly wasn't so sure….

Her thoughts were interrupted by a large owl flying through a window that Tom opened. It glided thorough, and landed on their table. The owl had four identical letters, all with the same seal.

"What's this?" asked Richard.

"I think I know what these are," said Rebecca in a hushed voice.

They all took a letter; Lilly taking the one addressed Miss L. Graham, Room 21, The Leaky Cauldron, London and opened it. When she finished reading it the first time, she read it again several more times to make sure it was true.

Dear Miss Graham,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of

Witchcraft and Wizardry. Enclosed is a list of school supplies. Term starts on September

1. We await your owl no later than July 31.

Lilly was going to Hogwarts. Her grandmother told her all sorts of stories about Hogwarts before she moved to France last year. Ever since she heard her grandmother's stories, she longed to go there.

In all the confusion Lilly had gone through, she had completely forgotten that she was now the proper age to go to the Wizarding School. Now, it was happening. She was going to Hogwarts.

She looked up and saw the owl that delivered the letters was gone. Lilly looked around as if the owl was hiding under a table or something.

"I sent the owl back saying that we'd all like to attend Hogwarts and we'll see them on September 1," Rebecca explained. "With the help of this idiot who claims he's your brother, we took your stunned silence and amazed expression as a sign that you wanted to go. Were we right?"

"Yes, yes you were." Lilly laughed very quietly, still not quite believing what was going on.

"Great." Rebecca said, smiling. "Then we should buy our stuff tomorrow. I've been to Diagon Alley before, so I can lead the whole lot of you."

"Brilliant." Lilly decided that she needed to be alone, even from her new friends. "Well, I'm gonna go upstairs now."

"See you, Lilly." Richard waved.

"Bye." She got up as if in a trance, still reading the letter.

Lilly walked up the stairs, reached her room, and closed the door behind her. When she was sure no one else was around, she jumped up in happiness, squealed and fell backwards on her bed.

It was now official. She knew that if her family knew about this, they'd be proud, especially her grandmother. She, Lilly Graham, was going to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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