The Clan

Lily looked around herself at Raheny, and smiled. The last time she'd been here had been when she was four years old for her cousin Evains' first change. Now it was time for her first change along with discussion about her future and her friends Evelyn, Ebony and Jada's future because for some strange reason they had all got accepted into Hogwarts. What the hell is with that name! I mean who wants to think about a skin condition of a hog? There was a lot of talk about the fact that magic (other then our own) had been springing up all over the place in the clan.

Mostly they were talking about me, because there had always been a fifty percent chance of other families in our clan to have magic, but it was nearly unheard of for my family to have magic because of a binding spell that had been put on us almost two thousand years ago. Also there was the fact that apparently I can talk to animals witch is strange and slightly disturbing because I've been getting headaches constantly since I developed this new "skill". I mean I love animals and everything, but seriously there is a lot of them and they wont shut up!

I wandered over to the waterfall, sat down and took out my list of supplies. I start to grin, being a witch was going to be seriously cool. I mean my friends are coming with me, I get to learn cool spells, my parents are opening a new account for me in the wizards bank, gringotts or something, and putting ten thousand dollars for me in it, they said it was supposed to be for my college education but now that I'm going to Hogwarts it hast to last me seven years for school stuff and then to get me a start in the Wizarding world, and I get to shop for cool magic stuff and stay in a huge magic castle for most of the year! Pranks will be so much easier now.

I smiled again when I remembered what had happened when I got to Raheny. I had got out of the car screaming to go and hug my four hundred and some relatives. I still have the bruises from that overly enthusiastic greeting. After that the adults in the clan had gone into grandpas' house to talk about me. I feel so special. How do I know they were talking about me you ask? Well I'm just gifted that way, well that and me and the rest of the younger clansmenbers that had mot been invited to the meeting listened in at the door. No I'm not guilty, for one everyone else was doing it two how the hell else am I going to find out what goes on around here, and no I will not wait!

So the adults were talking about the pros and cons of me and the other girls who had been invited to go to Hogwarts, of staying and going. They had just decided that we should go to Hogwarts when my oh so wonderful brain tumor kicked in and I shouted loudly "YES!" My friends glared at me and I slapped myself, hard. How stupid could I be? My mother then opened the door with a scary look on her face and said quietly, "Lily, what is the meaning of this?" Of course my brain tumor decided to chose that moment to at up again and I said "This, a pronoun referring to a specific thing or situation just mentioned, you can look up other meanings in the dictionary if you'd like!"

My mother opens and closes her mouth a few times (I swear that woman is going to have a coronary some day) behind mum my da and grandda were laughing their asses off. Mum spun around her red hair so like mine flying, fixed her silver gaze on my da (because apparently she didn't know what to say to me) and gave him a blistering lecture about not encouraging me or something like that, you see I wasn't really listening at that point because I was to busy trying to find a way out of the situation that my brain tumor had put me in, so by the end of mums speech me and da were looking scared and everyone else was laughing their heads off. Mum looked helplessly around herself, threw up her hands and said "I am surrounded by five year olds!" My dad smirked at her and said "but Rose my dear, if you are surrounded by five year olds that means that you married a five year old"

At this point I had decided that now was my time to escape, but then mum says "Not so fast young lady, just where do you think you're going?" I swear that woman has got eyes at the back of her head! How the hell did she know that I was sneaking off? "Err, to the loo?" (A: N I love English Words! That sounded weird.) Lily's mother snorted. "And what about the eavesdropping?" Lily looked at her mother blankly then rolled her eyes and said,"Mother how the hell is anyone suposed to get any information out of you adults if we don't eavesdrop? Not to mention the fact that the odds are 8 to 10 that YOU eavesdropped when you were my age!"

I have almost never in all of my 11 years seen my mother speechless! I couldn't believe that I had been the one to make her lose the ability to speak. Anyway besides the interesting start, nothing else has happened. The real fun will start tonight. I sigh wistfully, the only problem with coming here for my first change is the fact that I'm not allowed to eat, drink or sleep until it's time. I think I'll go ask mum to sing to pass the time

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Sitting around my mum's feet me and the rest of the girls and boys listened to one of the most heavenly sounds on this earth, my mother's voice. She sang with a gentle smile on her face as my da and grandda played the guitar and piano.

Buachaill ón Éirne mé 's bhréagfainn cailín deas óg
Ní iarrfainn bó spré léi tá mé fhéin saibhir go leor
'S liom Corcaigh da mhéid é, dhá thaobh
a' ghleanna 's Tír Eoghain
'S mura n-athraí mé béasaí 's mé n' t-oidhr'
ar Chontae Mhaigh Eo

Rachaidh mé 'márach ag dhéanamh leanna fán choill
Gan choite gan bád gan gráinnín brach' ar bith liom
Ach duilliúr na gcraobh mar éadaigh leapa os mo chionn
'S óró sheacht m'anam déag thú 's tú 'féachaint orm anall

Buachailleacht bó, mo leo, nár chleacht mise ariamh
Ach ag imirt 's ag ól le h'ógmhná deasa an tsliabh
Má chaill mé mo stór ní moide gur chaill mé mo chiall
A's ní mó liom do phóg ná'n bhróg atáim ag caitheamh le bliain

I smiled peacefully; mums songs always gave me peace, peace witch I hoped would last until tonight.

Ok look on on my profile to find the wedsite that you cas listen to this song on. Sorry for taking so long to update!