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Chapter 7: Hogsmeade

'Beep Beep'

"Hogsmeade," I mumbled. "First I have to get out of bed."

'Beep Beep'

"Shut off your stupid alarm clock!" Ashlee screamed.

'Beep Beep'

"Why don't you shut your stupid face!" I screamed back and just for kicks I walked out of the dormitory and into the bathroom without turning my alarm clock off.

'Beep Beep'

"Ugh, she is so annoying!" I heard Ashlee complain.

'Beep Beep'

"Totally!" Megan agreed.

'Beep Beep'

"Then turn her alarm off!" Ashlee ordered.

'Beep Beep'

"No, Becca turn it off." Megan argued.

'Beep Beep'

"No way."

'Beep Beep'

"Becca, do it now!" Ashlee screamed.

"Fine."

30 minuets later I was ready to go. I was wearing half my hair in a pony tail the part that was down I curled lightly because normally my hair is annoyingly straight. I wore a light pink cami with a gray v-neck shirt over it and dark jeans.

"Hey, James, do you know where Hugo and or Anthony are?" I asked when I went into the common room.

"No."

"I think they already went down to breakfast," Rose replied.

"Lily, you look so pretty," Amber shrieked running down the stairs from our dormitory.

"Thanks," I told both of them, "Let's go down to breakfast."

"Okay,"

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"Hey, Lily, wait up!" Ben called as I walked out of the great hall.

"Hey," I replied slowing down to allow him to catch up with me. "How are you?"

"Fine, you?"

"Great, I love going to Hogsmeade."

"Me too, where do you want to go first?"

"I don't really care, but I want to go to Honeydukes and Weasley's at some point, though.

"Alright, let's go to Weasley's first, your uncle owns the place right?"

"Yeah," I replied, "What do your parents do?"

"My mum stays at home to take care of my youngest sister, and my step dad is a congressman. (A/N I don't know if this is what they're called in England, because I don't know much about English politics, but whatever) What about your parents?"

"My dad is head of the Auror…"

"Well, obviously," Ben laughed.

"You asked. And my mum's head of the Muggle Protection office. She's planning on running for minister when Kingsley retires."

"Kingsley has been in office for a long time," Ben commented.

"I know, ever since the end of the second war and that was about 25 years ago."

"At the end of the second war were all the death eaters rounded up?" Ben questioned.

"Not all, but most. They at least did better than then did after the first war. That was when they began using pensives, Legilimency, and Veritaserum during trails."

"So why wouldn't all of the Death Eaters be caught with all the new policies? I mean wouldn't those prove who had done what?"

"There are ways of tampering with memories or siphoning them off as well as Occlumency and there is an antidote to Veritaserum, so if they're really smart and lucky they have a chance."

"Wow you know a lot about all of this."

"Well from my dad, and my mum's family are good friends with Kingsley and lots of other people who had a big role in the trails or putting regulations into place," I told him.

"Makes sense…"

"Wow, we're already at Hogsmeade," I commented, surprised at how little time seemed to have went by.

"Yeah. Hey, do you think you could like give me a tour of the place?"

"Weasley's? Sure, maybe I could even get George to give us a tour. There's a new line of products and I don't really know much about them." That wasn't entirely true…I really just didn't want to feel like the only one talking.

"What type of stuff is in the line?" Ben asked.

"Oh, trick pillows that turn into stuff like whoopee cushions when you lie on them. I think one turns into a snake. They also have a new fake wand that backfires the spells at you. That one took a while to make, because they know basically nothing about wandlore and they didn't want to be sued so they had to make that spells that were really bad wouldn't come back at you. George thinks that they should be cursed or whatever if they were planning on using them in the first place."

"Sounds cool," Ben exclaimed holding the door open for me. "Can you really get George to give us a tour?"

"Yeah, he's nearly always here for Hogsmeade weekends, wait one second. Oy, George!" I shouted.

"Hey kido, what's up?" George asked.

"Not much…"

"Giving you teachers a horrible time!?!"

"I'm trying; James and I pelted the History of Magic teacher with your paint balls the other day."

"That was you?" Ben questioned.

"Nice! Who's this?"

"Oh, right, George this is Ben. Ben, George. We were wondering if you could give us a tour."

"Sure, and if I were you I'd stay away from the three broomsticks today," George advised.

"Why do you say that?" I questioned.

"Your dad and other uncles are there. I'm joining them around one o'clock."

"Joy…Thanks for the heads up."

George showed us around and we both bought some joke stuff. After that we went to Honeydukes. They had lots of new candy, one of then that caught our eyes was edible parchment and ink, 'Perfect for passing notes, just eat it then no one else can read it.' They also had these muggle truffle things, they are amazing. My favorite was the dark chocolate one's with mint on the inside. I bought a bag of the truffles and a couple other things.
Now it was a quarter to one, we were just looking around at the shops now.

"Do you want to get something to eat?" I asked.

"Sure…where do you want to go?"

"I don't know. Hey, do you recognize that place?" I asked pointing to a little shop on one of the side streets.

"No, I think it's new," he replied, "Do you want to go there?"

"Sure, why not."

It was a little bakery with really good food. I got a ham, bacon, and cheese sandwich on a croissant with a peanut butter cookie and Ben got a chicken and ranch sandwich on a roll with a chocolate chip cookie.

The rest of the day we walked around window and normal shopping. We also stopped by the shrieking shack, which is where we are now

"Everyone's so afraid of this place," I noted.

"What, you're not?" Ben questioned skeptically.

"No, for one it's been silent for nearly 50 years, besides it was never really even haunted."

"Sure," Ben replied. "I think you're just trying to cover up how scared you really are."

"Yeah, that's it," I said sarcastically rolling my eyes. "Do you want to go to The Tree Broomsticks and get a butterbeer, I bet my family has left by now, it's nearly a quarter to six."

"Fine by me," Ben replied.

"Hey Lily, come here," I heard Amber shout from the front of The Three Broomsticks.

"What?" I called back.

"Just come here."

"Go in there, it's so funny Hagrid, Professor Granger, and some other people are in there and they're drunk, it's so funny!"

"Please tell me that my parents aren't in there!"

"They are," Hugo groaned coming out of The Three Broomsticks with Anthony. "It's your parents, my parents, George, Bill, Fleur, and Audrey. They're making total fools out of themselves, it's disturbing!"

"I think it's pretty funny," Anthony laughed.

"Oh, shut up," Hugo snapped.

"Wait, did you say Audrey is drunk? As in Audrey, Percy's wife, little miss goody two shoes!?!?!?"

"Yep, talk about unexpected!" Rose said walking out of The Three Broomsticks looking as though she was going to puke.

"What's unexpected?" Lucy asked coming from Weasley's.

"Your mum is drunk," I informed her.

"What!?!"

"Yep, so are my parents, Lily's parents, George, Bill, and Fleur," Rose told her, "Go see for yourself."

"Oh God…" Lucy replied as we all walked in tentatively.

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"Never, never, never again," Roxanne moaned. She, Lucy, Rose, Hugo, Anthony, Fred, James, and I were walking back to Hogwarts around 6:30. Ben had met up with some of his friends eairlier and went back with them/

"I'm officially scarred for life, I never thought I would ever see mum drunk. Ever!" Lucy exclaimed.

"Aren't we all…" James replied.

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Sunday: around 7:30

"I love the sunset, don't you?"

"Yeah, it's very pretty, kinda like you," Ben replied.

"Only kinda?" I asked pretending to be hurt.

"Yeah," He replied, "you're much prettier."

"Aww, thanks," I replied smiling.

"It's simply the truth."

At that point I didn't know what to say so I just smiled and hugged him. When we pulled apart neither of us dropped our arms. He was getting closer, and closer, and closer, and…

"Shoot! I forgot, I never finished my Transfiguration essay, it's due tomorrow first period." With that I just took off running. I ran all the way up to the seventh floor, into the common room, up the stairs to the girls' dormitory, through the fourth door where I collapsed on to my bed and just broke down. After a minuet or two I had calmed down some, I grabbed my diary and a quill and pulled the hangings shut around me.

9/15/22
I AM AN IDIOT!!!! So I'm going out with Ben…obviously, and so tonight we were walking around the grounds watching the sunset and he was going to kiss me, but I panicked and told him that I needed to finish my Transfiguration essay which I actually finished Wednesday night. Then I just ran, I ran all the way until I got here (my bed). Ben probably thinks I'm a baby now…I ruined EVERYTHING!!
~Lily~

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Hope you liked it…=-] Next chapter is The Goblet of Fire! Yay I finally got there lol =-]… plz, plz, plz review =-]

~You Go Girl~