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Chapter 2: Hi Ho Hi Ho Off To Gringotts We Go

Lily heard the flick of the light switch, quickly followed by a shriek.

"Lily, don't do that!" her mother exclaimed as she saw Lily sitting at the bench eating cereal. Lily raised her eyebrows as her mother leaned on the bench for support. Lily took the last mouthful of cereal, hopped off the bench and placed her bowl and spoon in the sink.

"Okay I'm all ready" she announced, leaning against the bench with her arms folded, eyeing her mother up and down and noticing her hair still in rollers, her night gown still on and her fluffy slippers on her feet. Lily knew what was coming next.

"Ready for what, dear?" Lily sighed

"Diagon Alley, you said you were taking me this morning" Lily reminded her, tapping one finger on her arm.

"Oh, I'm sorry dear, it completely slipped my mind! Hang on a minute, I'll grab a coat and meet you in the car" Mrs. Evans said, before turning and walking up the stairs. Lily let out a sigh of relief. She knew her mother would have forgotten but was afraid that she would change her mind. Thankfully, Petunia hadn't rotted the whole of her mother's brain. Yet.

Mrs. Evans met Lily outside next to the car five minutes later, as she had promised her daughter. As they got into the car, Lily saw their neighbor's nosy daughter peering out their kitchen window. Lily waved and plastered a fake smile on her face as she waved to her sister's friend, then, once out of her eyesight, stuck up her middle finger.

"Lily" her mother said and she hurriedly put that finger down so she wouldn't see it when she talked to Lily through the review mirror. As Lily was the youngest child, her sister had first dibs on the front seat, and chose it every single time they rode in the car so Lily just made herself comfortable in the backseat. Anyway, it was there she had her secret stash of wizard's sweets as they tended to freak Petunia out and get them taken of her. This way, it was a place where Petunia would never sit, unlike Lily's room which she suspected her sister raided, however much it disgusted her.

"Is it okay if I just drop you off at The Leaky Cauldron instead of walking in with you as I am still in my pajamas? I also forgot my wallet so I'll give you the key to your vault at the bank and so you can take some money out of that instead of changing the money over" her mother continued, oblivious to the finger Lily had held up.

"Okay, that's fine," Lily replied, putting her legs up to lay across the other two seats in the back.

Forty-two minutes later according to the clock in the car which Lily had been staring at, they pulled up at the Leaky Cauldron. Lily waited patiently for her mother to fiddle around in the car's glove box looking for her key before stuffing it into the depths of her back pack and stepped out of the car.

She walked up to the Leaky Cauldron and pulled the door open, the smell of alcohol hitting her in the face as she entered. However, the bar was empty due to the early hour minus three teenage boys who were sitting at a table near the back door which lead to Diagon Alley. Sirius Black was the first one to spot her.

"Hey hey! It's Evans!" he whooped, standing up and pushing his chair back with such force that it fell over.

"Hey hey yourself!" Lily grinned, punching knuckles with Sirius before he sat down again and landed on the floor.

"I see you got my owl in time" Remus stated, surprisingly not looking up from a book to talk to her "I wasn't sure if you would get it, Hannah's been sending mail to all her friends trying to be cool, but I think she's just freaking her all out" Lily nodded in agreement while the other two boy's just stared blankly at him.

"Why would her friends be freaked out by an owl?" James asked him, with a really puzzled expression on his face, which generally means trouble.

"Because all her friends are muggles, she's only starting Hogwarts this year. Though I think sending her friends mail by owl post is a test to see if anyone else is going to Hogwarts" he finished thoughtfully.

"Okay, shall was begin?" Lily asked them and they nodded with agreement and headed straight into the pub's 'backyard'. Remus, being the tallest, took out his wand and tapped the three bricks on the wall which opened up Diagon Alley. As they were entering their 6th year, they weren't as overly excited about this as they once were but magic always seemed to amaze Lily. She thought it was only because she was a muggle-born and because she hadn't been subjected to it all her life but she soon discovered that Remus was also a muggle-born. He and little sister Hannah were both magic folk but the middle child, Ruben, missed out on that gene.

"I need to go to Gringotts, I kinda spent all my holiday money" Sirius said sheepishly and everyone stared at him. They all knew that at the start of the holidays, Sirius had run away from home, finding refuge at James's house. Mr. Potter recommended that the boys take out some holiday spending money as now they were nearly of age his parents weren't going to buy things for him. And so Mr. Potter took them to Gringotts one afternoon to take out some spending money and they both nearly blew all of it that afternoon when they were let loose in Diagon Alley.

"I got to go too, though I need to go to my vault this time, Mum forgot her wallet" Lily rushed on, saving Sirius from the others.

"Okay, off to Gringotts we go, hi ho hi ho off to Gringotts we go!" James sung at the top of his lungs, grabbing Sirius with one hand and Lily in the other and skipped off towards the bank. Lily just had enough time to grab Remus's shirt and yanked him from a very colorful shop display before they got "lost" in the crowd though with James's loud singing, he could never be lost.

An exhausting two minutes later by Remus's unfit standard, they arrived at the bank. Unlike all the other times Lily had visited the bank, there were only goblins there, sorting though piles of gold and giving them nasty glares as they walked passed, though Lily had never been afraid of them to begin with.

James reached the counter at the end first, as the rest of them had stopped running at the entrance but James had continued right up to the counter.

"Good morning old fellow! We would like to access our gold, if you will!" James smiled, showing off his perfect teeth and had the light of the candle's reflecting of his circular glasses. The goblin gestured to the tunnel off the right and ran off towards it just as the other's finally reached the front desk. By the time they reached the tunnel James was inspecting the carriages.

"Hmmm, you do realize that all your carriages are the same, dull brown colour. This sucks, I wanted to choose a purple one this time,"

"Hell no! Blue all the way!" Sirius shouted at him, sticking his tongue out in triumph.

"No way! Green is awesomer!" Lily yelled at him, having a turn herself of sticking her tongue out.

"You do know Lily, that there is no such word as 'awesomer'?" Remus stated. The room was so silent you could almost hear crickets. He sighed. "Whoop! Go orange!"

The others burst out laughing, with Sirius saying something like 'That's more like it' but it couldn't be heard over the bang of a stick on a cymbal.

"Are you going to access your gold or not? This is not a children's playground!" he slithered, sending goosebumps down Lily's back and they solemnly got into the carriage. Lily just had enough time to tie her hair up and out of her face before the carriage shot out at lighting speed. First stop was James's vault, one of the oldest still standing at vault 328. He took the lantern from the front of the carriage and went into his vault. He returned a few minutes later with nothing more then he came out with.

"Where's your gold?" Remus asked him over the howl of the wind as they shot off again. He answered as they pulled up at vault 930, the vault Remus and now his sister Hannah shared.

"I shrunk the bags, otherwise it would be too heavy" James shrugged, leaning back in his seat.

"That much, huh?" Remus asked but never received a reply as the goblin driving cleared his throat. He hurried out of the carriage, taking the lantern as he left and returned, like James, with what looked like with nothing. As soon as he was in the carriage, it shot off again, this time stopping at vault 280, Lily's own vault. Not needing the nudge she received from James, though getting it, she took the lantern and walked up to the tall, metal door. She felt the wall beside the door, finding the false wall. It slipped up easily to reveal a key slot. She took her key out of her bag; it inserted easily, and she turned it gently to the right, hearing the clicks that told her the door had been unlocked.

She pushed against the door and heard it creak as it slowly opened and revealed her piles, however small, of coins. She took one of her zip lock bags out of her backpack and scooped as many handfuls of gold she could fit into it before locking it shut and placing it to the side and starting on another. Once she was sure she had enough, she shrunk all her zip lock backs, unafraid of underage magic, and levitated them into her backpack before slinging it over her shoulder and returning the key into the inside pocket.

She returned to the carriage, returning the lantern to the goblin and taking her place between James and Sirius. The carriage shot off as soon as she sat down, stopping shortly after at vault 249, which took everyone's, except Sirius's, breath away. It was like one of those old Greek temples, with those tall, now grey pillars out the front with a grand entrance beneath it. Sirius jumped out and made his way over to the door, but instead of slipping his key into the key hole in the middle of the door, he walked over to the side of the door where Lily noticed a small door next to it which she hadn't noticed before. Sirius inserted the key into the wall and turned it, the small door opening wide enough for him to slip through. He came back a few minutes later, returning the lantern to the goblin and sitting back down next to Lily.

"I'm surprised she hasn't changed the locks yet" he muttered, Lily understanding who he was referring to. Nobody spoke again until the returned back into the artificial sunlight of the bank's entrance which now was filled with the buzz of busy shoppers waiting to access their gold. Once they reached the outside of the bank, they decided to buy school supplies first, before indulgences.

"Hey Lily, when's your birthday?" James asked on the way to Twilfitt and Tatting's. They had agree to buy all the robes while the other's bought the school books. Since Sirius and James were the same size and Remus a size higher, it was quite easy. Nobody knew Lily's size.

"June, why?" she asked him, puzzled as they continued down the street.

"Shit, I forgot to buy you a present!" James exclaimed, making Lily remembered that it was true, he was the only one of her friends that happened but she just thought of it as one of the many famous lapses of James's Potter's memory, though usually they started with him forgetting girls and ending with a slap.

"Yeah I guess you did, so?" Lily asked, not caring. She kind of felt like she had out grown presents on birthday's a while ago though she never told her friends, knowing the up roar that would endure.

"Remind me to get you something today" James made her promise as the reached the store, refusing to enter until she did. Seeing as it was the easiest and fastest solution, she agreed. Twenty minutes later, they had bought everyone's school robes but hadn't risked buying the dress robes on the list, and Lily saying that she wanted to put of that torture off as long as possible.

They met the others back at the Leaky Cauldron for a spot of lunch, or in Sirius's case, a three course meal. With their stomach's full and Sirius's eyes bigger then his belly, they headed back out into Diagon Alley to have fun. They all made a bee-line for Zonko's where they stocked up on itching powder and painful instruments. They then crossed the road alley to the Quidditch shop where they marveled at the Comet 260 and the Phoenix and Lily wishing she had something faster then her Lightningbolt, though considering she bought her broom last summer it wasn't really that old.

After leaving both those shops, their money bags were considerably lighter from when they entered, which sure was saying something due to the fact their money backs were shrunken. After finishing their sundae's under the brightly coloured umbrella's outside Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour, James's turned to Lily and said

"Remind me"

"Umm, okay. You had to buy me a birthday present?"

"That's the one!" James said, leaping of the chair, grabbing Lily's arm and pulling her into the store across the road. Once inside, Lily looked around at her surrounding and surprised to find herself in what muggle's would call a pet store.

"Choose anything, anything you like and it's yours!" James grinned, knowing full well that Lily had always wanted a pet, yet never received one.

"Oh James, are you sure?" Lily asked, suddenly nervous. Pets were quite expensive.

"Duh! Don't tell me you're getting soft on me" he smirked and Lily shouldered him.

"As if"

"Okay, we'll have fun. Hmmm I'll think I'll go and have another sundae," he said thoughtfully, leaving Lily in the care of the shop keeper.

"Looking for anything in particular dear?" the young women asked. Lily shook her head

"No thanks, I'll just have a look around" The lady nodded, and headed out to the back of the shop. Lily walked along aisle of owls, and cats but they were so common that she didn't really want one. Anyway, she could use school owls to write letters and cats were just so pesky. Lily soon found herself in an aisle surrounding her of toads. She bent down and peered at one which was second from the bottom. It's beady eyes stared at Lily through the bars. It suddenly shot its tongue out towards Lily and she quickly pulled her head back.

She continued down the aisle of toads, then headed down the one with rats and mice. She was neither a fan of rats or mice, however cute they were and so she walked with a quick pace for the remainder of the aisle.

The last aisle however, was quite miscellaneous and Lily thought that she couldn't find something here; she wouldn't find anything at all. She peered through the cages, coming face to face with rattle snakes and rabbits. In the middle of the row, she peered through the cage but couldn't see anything. She looked at the tag at the bottom of the cage which read

Australian Green Tree Frog

Usually found in the rainforests of Northern Australia

Powers Unknown

Lily felt around for the handle on top of the cage and pulled it out from the shelf to get a better look. She held the cage up to the light and looked at the frog within. It laying in the corner, its smooth, green back was shinny and its eyes were closed as if it were sleeping. Lily opened the lid of the cage and carefully slipped her hand under the cool body of the frog and picked it up. She lifted the frog to her eye level and looked into its eye lids.

Suddenly, his eyelids flew open, revealing his black eyes but Lily didn't flinch in surprise. She had seen the glint in the corner of his eyes and knew he was the one for her. With the cage in one hand and the frog still in the other, she returned back to the counter, the witch apparating as soon as she placed the empty cage on the bench.

"Ahh the Green Tree Frog. Good choice, if I do say so myself," she said, the cage disappearing as she spoke. "And how will you be paying today?"

"Please debt the vault 328" Lily said, remembering the vault they visited early that day when James didn't show up to pay. The witch nodded, and then gave her instructions on how to look after the tree frog. After sending the food and accessories back home, Lily carefully placed the frog in the pocket of her jacket and left the shop and headed back to the ice-cream parlor, where she assumed Sirius was already on his third sundae, James just finishing his second and Remus with his nose in a book. They all looked up at her as she approached them at the table.

"Oi, where's your pet?" James demanded as she sat down at the table. Lily put her hand into her pocket and gently closed it around the frog, pulled it out and placed it on the table.

"Awesome!" Sirius exclaimed "But, uh, what is it?"

"Its an Australian Green Tree Frog" Remus answered when he looked up from the book and spotted it on the table.

"And our walking, talking encyclopedia comes to the rescue yet again!" James joked and Remus shrugged.

"What are you going to call it?" he asked, ignoring James's and Sirius's encyclopedia jokes. He bet they couldn't even spell the word.

"Fred" Lily said, as the frog woke up and looked at her with glistening eyes.

"Fred it is then. Fred the Green Tree Frog" James exclaimed hailing a waiter "Chocolate chip sundae's all around!" but the look on Sirius's face turned them all of the food. Lily thought it must have been the green colour of his face.

A/N: Okay, chapter 2 done already! So SO sorry to my Parisian Romance fans, I know its just the one chapter left to go but I'm having some issues. As Grey Mustang would say, I have trouble with mountains and she'd be right. Aka I know what I'm doing, I know how it finishes, I just gotta write it! But you'll just have to wait a little longer I'm afraid! Anyway, thanks to mylife'ssobuen, marie, BrazilianPrincess, tm7, Mad Over Mooney, Grey Mustang, CASOCCERCHIC02, keyga1, and golly g willikers for reviewing!! Also thanks to yourheartsdesire for your review, and in answer to your question it depends what happens in deathly hallows! If you enjoyed this fanfic, please review! Critisim appriciated and it takes 3 seconds!

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