They entered the shop and Lily found herself surrounded by robes of every color imaginable. Robes which lined shelves and hung on racks (Moving according to where customers stood). Robes were even spilling out of drawers. An old woman came hurriedly out from the back of the shop and addressed Lily.

"Starting Hogwarts this year my dear?" She asked Lily in her sharp British tone. Without waiting for an answer she said, "Oh yes, you'll need all new ones then I expect?"

"Yes," Lily said confidently.

"Let's get you fitted then."

Lily followed her to the back of the shop where mirrors stood surrounding many stools. There were already a few students getting fitted. Lily hopped up on one of the stools and the lady waved her wand and immediately a measuring tape sprang into life and began measuring Lily everywhere.

A boy next to Lily was looking at her with a mild expression of surprise of his face.

"You might want to calm down a little so the tape measure can get accurate measurements," he said gesturing to Lily bouncing up and down on her toes. He smiled.

"Oh. Er... Yes," Lily said nervously. The boy had sandy blonde hair and silver eyes. "I'm Lily," she said boldly.

"Remus Lupin," the boy said.

"Nice to meet you Remus," Lily said kindly. "Are you starting at Hogwarts then?"

"Of course," Remus said smiling. "You?"

"Mhm," Lily nodded, and couldn't conceal the grin on her face.

"What house are you wanting to get into?" Remus asked, apparently extremely interested in the discussion of their school.

"Um.. I'm not quite sure what you mean," Lily said with a confused look on her face.

"Muggle born?" Remus asked. "There are four different houses in Hogwarts: Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor and Slytherin. We are somehow sorted into one of the houses when we get there. I'm hoping to get in Ravenclaw. I heard it's one of the best.

"Oh. Well I'm not sure then," Lily said. "How do you know all of that? And what is a Muggle?" She laughed.

Remus had a slightly amused expression on his face while saying, "It's a non-magical person. I just assumed that your parents were Muggles because you didn't know about Hogwarts' houses."

"Oh, right. Are there a lot of... erm... Muggle born's?" Lily said apprehensively.

Remus laughed. "It's not a bad thing at all. Yes there are quite a few Muggle born's. But mostly it's half and half. Half Witch, half Wizard. Then there are the pureblood's, who have magic in the entire history of their family."

"What're you?" Lily asked.

"Well, i'm not pureblood, but both of my parents have magic in them. My mum is Muggle born, see." Remus said.

"Oh, well that's interesting. You must know loads of people at Hogwarts then?"

"Well, no actually." Remus looked a little upset. "My family er... well we live out in the country. We aren't really around people too much."

"Oh, it's the opposite for me," Lily said warming up to her new friend immediately. "I live in the suburbs. My mum and dad are extremely social, we're always going to dinner parties and such. But obviously I don't know anyone at Hogwarts, or in the magical world at all," Lily then quickly added, "Besides you of course." She smiled sweetly.

"That sounds loads more fun," Remus said. Just then, the assistant helping Lily finished fitting her and gestured to the front of the shop where she was to pay.

"I'll see you later!" Lily said brightly. "Maybe we'll even be in the same house at Hogwarts!"

"Yeah, see you then," Remus said hoping desperately that they would be in the same house. He had finally somewhat made a friend.

Lily walked to the front of the shop with her robes in hand and found her parents backing away from a cart of robes creeping toward them slowly.

They paid and left Madam Malkin's in a hurry then strode off to the different shops to get the rest of Lily's supplies. After a long day of shopping and many galleons spent, they reached 12:00 and agreed on ice cream at Florean Fortesque's ice cream shop. Not five minutes after sitting down there was a corruption. Two boys were running down the street toward Florean Fortesque's while the owner of a nearby shop yelled after them.

"And stay out!" The shop owner finished. The boys had reached the point just by where Lily was sitting with her parents and looked around catching their breath. They saw the ice cream shop and entered.

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