"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" Aunt Marie was crying like a little girl. Lily didn't understand. Was it the feeling of being overwhelmed by your last husband? Never being remarried? Somehow Lily knew this wasn't the reason. Her aunt Marie had been asked to do something she didn't want to do. And it made her look like this? As guilty as Lily knew she would be later, she couldn't help but being happy. Did she know this was how she made Lily feel? Lily doubted it. The man, Terry, his wand was lying on the table. And next to it was another stick, sorry, wand. Wait. One of them was Terry's, so who did the other one belong to? And it dawned on Lily that it was her aunt's.
Aunt Marie was a witch! Lily was about to think that she wasn't that surprised, witches were evil, and then she remembered Headmistress Lavender Brown's letter. Witches were just female wizards. Did Daniel know? Was Daniel a wizard too? What was going on? Was everyone a wizard but her?
Scratch that, Lily knew she was a wizard. She could just cast a spell!
Lily pointed her finger at aunt Marie and was in the middle of saying "ABRA CADABRA" when Terry heard her. He squealed like a little girl and ran to Lily to block her mouth. His hands reeked more than his breath.
"WOAH! What do you wash your hands with?"
Lily never did find out what he washed his hands with, because just seconds later, she couldn't talk anymore. And looking to her right, she saw her aunt. Holding her wand. At her. Terry also seemed surprised by this, but then he looked in aunt Marie's general direction, too, and he immediately understood.
"Langlock?" squeaked Terry
Marie nodded her fat little head.
"Don't ask any questions!" Screamed aunt Marie.
"Fwaw? Fwaw faith thee thoo thoo smee?"
They both just stared at Lily.
"I think she said 'What did you do to me'."
"Wah Ha,"
With the flick of Terry's wand, Lily's tongue was released from the top of her mouth. She started to massage her mouth. What was that? Lily was about to say this out loud, but decided against it, for fear that they would "Langlock" her again. What was that? She had to ask.
"What was that?"
She immediately covered her mouth right after she said it. Aunt Marie raised her wand, and Terry screamed "Expelliarmus", and her wand was gone.
"Come, Wiwy. We've got to go. Dis is your howme, thow, I'll give you two minutes to get packed up. Ecxactly two. Now, get out of here." said Terry.
Lily ran up to her room. There wasn't much to pack, she didn't really own anything.
"HA! Take that, aunt Marie! I am going to a boarding school in London!" She whispered just to herself.
And then she realized.
Neville Longbottom was the Herbology teacher at Hogwarts.
But she tried to block that out of her mind.