Lily's first thought when she saw Diagon Alley was, Wow.
The shops were filled with people dressed in robes. There was an apothecary with strange ingredients out front, a books store with musty books in the windows, and a store called Ollivanders. Lily's favorite however, was a bright purple building, with orange lettering on the front that read Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes. Professor Longbottom saw her looking.
"That place is owned by a man who might be your uncle, George Weasley," the professor said.
Lily nodded.
"Gringotts is right this way," Professor Longbottom said. Lily looked where he was pointing and saw a white building with marble columns. Two creatures stood out front, bowing in visitors. "That's the wizard bank. There's only one, and it's under London. It's only been broken in and out of twice. Once by a dark wizard, who couldn't get out with anything, and once by your maybe dad, uncle, and the woman you just met, Hermione. They rode out on the back of a dragon."
A dragon?
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Once Lily had money, she and the professor went to buy her robes. When they entered the shop there were two boys and a girl getting fitted for robes.
"Albus," the girl said, "you don't need that many robes. Three will suffice."
"But Rosie!" The boy with messy black hair replied.
"Hello Rosie, Al, Scorpius," Professor Longbottom said.
The three kids turned.
"Hello Neville. How are you today?" the girl asked. She had curly auburn hair, and freckles dotting her nose and cheeks.
"Very well Rosie. Just helping Lily here collect her school things," the professor said.
The three kids turned to Lily for the first time. All three jumped upon seeing her.
"Hello Lily," said the boy with black hair, his voice sounding hoarse, as if he hadn't used it in a long time. "My names Albus Potter."
"Lily Flower," Lily replied.
"Cool name," the blond boy said.
"I was names for my bracelet. I was raised in an orphanage, and they didn't know my name." Lily showed them her bracelet.
The girl, Rosie, Lily assumed, frowned. "Neville, that looks just like-"
"The bracelet Lily was wearing when she disappeared. I know. I already tools her too your mother and had her do a DNA test. We don't have the results back yet though," Professor Longbottom said.
"Neville, are you saying that this might be my sister?" Albus asked.
"Wait, I might have a brother?" Lily asked.
"Two," said the professor.
Lily frowned. her parents abandoned her, but managed too keep two other kids? She didn't begrudge Albus. He looked only a year older than her, much too young to have any hand in leaving her on the doorstep of the orphanage, but this only made her hate he parents even more.
"Rosie! Albus! Scorpius! We're going back to the Burrow now!" a voice called, after the bell on the door tinkled.
Lily turned around to see a man with vivid red hair, much like her own, and sparkling blue eyes. His smile seemed carefree, and seemed to light up his whole face. It seemed odd to Lily, later when she thought of her first encounter with this man, that the last thing she noticed was the scars. After she saw them, they seemed to be his dominant feature. His whole left side of his face was covered in scars, making him look as if he had been attacked by a vicious animal. When he saw her, like so many others on that day, the man froze. He looked from Lily, to Professor Longbottom, to Albus, to Scorpius, to Rosie, and then back to Lily.
"What?" he asked.
"Hello Bill," Professor Longbottom said. "I met this young lady here while doing my rounds with muggleborns. She lives in an orphanage."
"But-she-Ginny-what?" the man, Bill said.
"I know. I think she may be Lily. Her name's Lily, she was found on a doorstep on exactly the right day, and she had Lily's charm bracelet that she was wearing when she was taken," Professor Longbottom said. "Now, all of you best be getting back to your family. I haven't told anybody else yet, besides Hermione, because I don't want to raise their hopes up, if she isn't Lily."
Bill nodded, and then motioned for the three kids to follow him.
"See you at Hogwarts Lily! See ya Lily! Make sure to be in Gryffindor Lily!"
"What's Gryffindor?" Lily asked, once they were gone.
"It's a house at Hogwarts. There are four houses. Ravenclaw, for the wise, Hufflepuff for the kind, loyal, and hardworking, Slytherin, for he ambitious and cunning, and Gryffindor, for the brave. Your whole families been in Gryffindor for generations."
"How do they decide which house yo go in?" Lily asked.
"The sorting. They put the Sorting Hat on your head, and it reads your mind. It decides which house you will do best in," the professor explained, leading her towards the shop called Ollivanders.
"Sounds like a boring hat," Lily said.
"Oh it does other things too," Professor Longbottom said. "Saved my lied once."
Professor Longbottom entered the shop, leaving Lily to trail behind him and wonder how exactly a hat could save his life.