Chapter Five: A Family Deal

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Lily woke up early the next day, so she laid in bed, looking up at the ceiling, the sunshine yellow curtains, pulled around her warm and comfy four poster bed. To her right was her friend, Cassie Malfoy, who in a short space of about twenty- four hours, seven of those hours which she slept, had already become her best friend and sister. To her left was Josephine Woods, a shy muggleborn who Lily thought was very patient with other people. Across from her was Leia Woods a pureblood, whose family had been in Hufflepuff for generations, since her maternal great grandmother didn't want to be a Ravenclaw. The last girl in the room was Alexandra Thomas, the daughter of Dean Thomas and Parvati Patil, and she seemed to be a magnet for trouble.

She got dressed into her robes, carefully doing up her yellow and black tie. She was going to send her parents a letter with her new snowy owl she had gotten especially gotten for Hogwarts, called Expelliarmus.

'Where are you going?' A voice asked. Lily jumped and the voice laughed and Lily turned to her friend, Cassie who was reading an extremely old book. She was already dressed in her robes.

'Want to come with?' Lily offered. 'I'm sending a letter to my parents.'

'Sure, I should do the same actually,' Cassie said, jumping off her bed. She grabbed some parchment and two self-inking quills. She walked over to Lily and grinned at her. 'Let's go sunshine!' Cassie raced her out of the dormitory, laughing her head off, and they raced down the hallway, and into the common room.

The Hufflepuff basement was near the kitchens. The corridor leading to the Hufflepuff basement, had pictures of famous witches and wizards, starting at Helga Hufflepuff and finishing at a famous Hufflepuff student, Hannah Longbottom, her godfather's wife. Just before Hannah, was two portraits that Lily was very interested in; Nymphadora Lupin and Cedric Diggory. To enter the common room they had to tap barrels to the rhythm, Helga Hufflepuff. The barrel, two from the bottom and middle of the second row, was the only one that opened.

After getting through the tunnel, the Hufflepuff common room was like heaven. The common room was large and round with low ceilings, and they had views of the Hogwarts ground from the windows. It was very cosy and so welcoming. It felt like the sun was always looking at them. To enter the dormitories, they had to go through big round doors in their common room, go through the hallway and there was seven doors, the first years being closer to the common room.

The common room with filled with stunning copper and there was so many fascinating plants, which hung from the ceiling or they sat near the windows. There was a rumour that Neville came into the common room and placed different plants in there. The overstuffed sofas and chairs where spread around the room and where in the Hufflepuff colours black and yellow.

'Did you know that the Hufflepuff common room is the only common room that my father hasn't entered?' Lily said, as they walked out of the common room and past the portraits on the wall.

'He's entered the other common rooms?' Cassie asked in surprise.

'Yeah,' Lily laughed, 'he entered the Ravenclaw Tower just before the Battle of Hogwarts to have look at Ravenclaw's Diadem. He actually entered the Slytherin Dungeon to integrate your father, because he thought that your dad was the heir of Slytherin.'

'Oh yeah!' Cassie said. 'Dad said that Crabbe and Goyle were acting funny that day! That's why! I have to tell him! Could I?'

'Sure!' Lily laughed.

'What are you two ladies doing?' A familiar voice asked. Cassie jumped and Lily laughed louder.

'Trying to find the Owlery, Uncle Nev- I mean Professor Longbottom!' Lily amended, looking at her godfather.

'Let me show you two girls the way.' Neville said. 'It hard to navigate the school in your first few weeks. I keep telling Minerva that we should get maps for the students but she tells me it's a part of the Hogwarts experience.'

'I'd appreciate a map,' Cassie muttered, 'and that's just on how to get out of the corridor leading to our common room.'

'It's not that hard, Cassie,' Lily said.

'Just because we can't all be smart like you Lily,' Neville said, smiling at the two girls. He led them to the Owlery, telling them stories about students getting lost in weird places, leaving the girls in stiches when they arrived.

'I must get going now,' Neville said, 'I trust you two can get to the Great Hall for breakfast by yourselves?'

'Yes, Professor Longbottom,' Cassie said, 'we'll be fine,'

'Enjoy your morning, Cassiopeia and Lily,' Neville smiled and he walked off towards the Great Lake.

'Can I borrow a quill and parchment?' Lily asked. Cassie handed her a piece of parchment and a quill and Lily stood at the desk in the Owlery.

Mum, Dad and the others because I know you are there :)

Hogwarts is simply amazing! The castle is huge and the food is only second best to Grandmas! I still miss you both of course! Everywhere I look, people are staring at me, wondering if that's really the chosen one's only daughter or the famous chaser's only daughter. I was annoyed with it at first but after a while, I just ignored it. What's the point in letting it bother me?

Oh I met this really nice girl on the train! Her name is Cassiopeia Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's daughter. Can you believe that? She's very nice. She says that she didn't even recognise me on the train at first until someone said my name, but we both know that it's because she didn't want to start with stereotypes.

Oh I got into Hufflepuff! The hat was stumped on where to put me. It took him almost six minutes, Cassie counted. In the end, it asked me what I'd used to get onto the other side of a valley, using one of the four elements and I said earth, which represented Hufflepuff. Frank got into Gryffindor and Hugo got into Hufflepuff as did Cassie, and she's worried that her family (Draco's father Lucius more likely from the one story she told me last night) will disown her, but I told her that they would be proud of her. Was that the right thing to say?

Anyway, I counted almost forty people who made fun of me on the train here to Hogwarts and- well I sort of ran off crying, because they were being horrible about it. Then this girl on the train, Rita Skeeter's daughter Zara, she asked me some questions which I stupidly answered. She asked how it was living with the chosen one and I said that you were just my father to me. She then asked if you mum loved dad and I said of course you do because it's real.

And you know how people are always asking if I was adopted and we always say no? I yelled at her angrily to leave and she said "that's a yes?" and I said "that's a no you cow!" and I guess I feel bad that I yelled at someone, even if I was defending myself.

Anyway, when Frank, Cassie, Hugo and I got off we got into an argument with some other kids in my year. Hagrid had called out for us to follow him and some boy called him and idiot! Well, Hugo turned around and asked if they called Hagrid an idiot and the boy laughed and said that he did. This other kid, Xavier Abbott, told his friend that that was Hugo Weasley, the son of that idiot Ron and the bad word for a muggleborn but before he could finish the sentence, I told the guy to watch his mouth, because that's Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron they're talking about and this girl, told me to butt out and to go away.

I told the girl that that's my aunt and uncle and that they deserve to be defended. The girl smirked and asked me what I was going to do because she wasn't afraid of us four. She said that it was your fault dad that many people died, including her mother and godfather. So Cassie had had enough and besides we had to get going, asked the girl who she was- it was Quinn Yaxley, the daughter of Peter Yaxley. Hugo said 'That asshole who almost killed my father had a daughter? What a surprise.'

Cassie and Frank dragged us away and she warned us to reign our anger in because we get a detention or if it had gotten out of hand, which I knew it was going too, getting expelled.

Despite all of that, I've made friends with the girls in my dorm and I finally feel like I fit into somewhere. Hufflepuff, is the house I was meant to be in. I know I have a lot of qualities of the other houses, but the Hufflepuff qualities are my strong qualities. I love Hogwarts and I love you all!

Love

Lily Luna

Lily folded the rather long letter and looked around for her owl Expelliarmus. She finally found her owl, looking down at her. She motioned for it to come down and it flew down to her. She tied the letter to its leg and patted its body.

'Harry and Ginny Potter,' Lily said and the owl looked at her in understanding and it flew off her arm and into the sky. Another two owls followed it and Lily looked around.

'Want some breakfast?' Cassie asked.

'Sure,' Lily said, 'who's was the other owl?'

'Oh that was mine, sorry!' A voice said, appearing around from the corner. The boy had to be in his fifth year and he had a muscular build and a pointed face. He had dark hair that was combed over to the right and he had cold grey eyes.

'The name is Victor- Victor Smith,' the boy said, 'I'm a fifth year Ravenclaw.'

'We're Cassie and Lily, first year Hufflepuffs,' Cassie said, slightly cold.

'What's your real name?' Lily asked, examining the boys' facial features. He looked vaguely familiar.

'What do you mean?' The boy lied and Lily glanced slightly at her friend and back at the boy.

'I'm a human lie detector as my parents call me,' Lily said coldly, 'and you're lying. What's your name?'

'It's Victor Smith!' The boy said angrily.

'My "power" has never failed me, and I've heard good lies, so tell me the truth. We don't care,' Lily said, annoyed.

'Nott!' A voice yelled out and Cassie grabbed Lily's wrist.

'Shit!' Cassie muttered. 'Shit! Lily, we need to get out of here.'

'You idiot!' Victor yelled, turning on his friend. Cassie pulled on Lily's arm but she didn't need more convincing and they both bolted for the door. They heard Victor's angry yell and they didn't stop running until they reached the Entrance Hall.

'We need to see my brother,' Cassie said, letting go of Lily's hand, 'come on!'

'That's Pansy Parkinson's son, isn't it?' Lily asked.

'Yes and Theodore Nott's son.' Cassie said. 'Dad warned us about him. His parents are Death Eaters who are acting in the name of Voldemort. They want to bring the terror back that your father tried to stop!'

'Why do we need to tell your brother?' Lily asked. 'He's only the son.'

'No he sympathises with the Death Eaters because like his father and his godfather, he believes that it's your father's fault that his mother died, when it wasn't.' Cassie explained.

'How do you know this?' Lily asked.

'I was able to read his letter.' Cassie said, quietly, looking around.

'How it was on the other side!' Lily believed.

'No, he was in the same part as us, then he walked over there,' Cassie said, 'I only read a few lines before he went to go find an owl and that was all I needed.'

'What did it say?' Lily asked immediately.

'It said that the mission was going to be slower than expected because she was smarter than they originally seemed.' Cassie said. 'I don't know who the she is! Who could it be?'

'We'll ask Rose!' Lily said. 'She could help us!'

'No you won't,' a cold voice said. They both looked at each other and turned around slowly. Victor Nott was standing there, his arms folded, flanked with the friend they could only assume was the one that revealed Victor's last name.

'What do you want?' Lily asked and Cassie grabbed her elbow and gripped it tightly.

'Lily,' Cassie said horrified, 'Lily, you're the she! You remember why Pansy died? Your dad was trying to protect you and-'

'And she accidentally used magic and my mother fled,' Victor finished coldly, 'and the famous Harry Potter shot a spell at my mother and she was hit in the back of the head with a tree branch and she was killed instantly.'

'No!' Lily said. 'That's not what happened!'

'I'm going to make you two ladies a deal,' Victor snarled, 'come alone, to the Trophy room in one weeks' time, and I won't have to hurt you two.'

'Alone?' Cassie asked.

'Yes,' Victor nodded, 'alone.'

'Done,' Lily said, glancing at Cassie quickly and she told her silently to follow her lead, 'done, Nott, what time?'

'Midnight,' the friend said.

'It will be a deal,' Victor said, 'a family deal as to say.'

Lily watched as the two boys left and she turned to Cassie.

'What do we do?' Cassie asked.

'They said come alone,' Lily said, 'so I guess we tell my dad,'

'They're going to watch us Lily.' Cassie said, rolling her eyes.

'Us, not your friend in your house,' Lily smiled.

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Apollo's Hufflepuff Girl: I'm on Australia Eastern Coast time zone, and as I was re-reading my last chapter, you left this review. I've come to realise that staying up late after a five hour shift and waking up early is not so good for this story so don't worry, I'm going to slow down and take a chance to re-read the chapters properly! Also, you don't sound like a Ravenclaw, you are helping me in improve which is greatly appreciated, so thank you! Don't worry, I'm a Hufflepuff as well, on Pottermore I had a choice between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw and chose Hufflepuff.

I put Hugo, Cassie and Lily in Hufflepuff because I think it just goes with their personalities and I know that not all Slytherins are bad guys like Scorpius and Albus. I still wanted some bad guys in Slytherin because you can't really have a bad guy in Hufflepuff could you? Thanks so much for reviewing! It's much appreciated!