Lily Potter and the Potions Professor
AN: This is the last chapter. Thanks for reading and reviewing. I hope you like how I've ended it. :)
Epilogue
Two Years Later
Lily Potter was standing at the mouth of Knockturn Alley, gazing down its dark throat, she was quite alone. No one who visited Diagon Alley would be caught lingering here and no one who visited Knockturn Alley would venture this far from its shadowy depths. She wore long black robes and her dark red hair fell freely all the way down to her waist. She always wore her hair like this; she had for the last two years. She knew that was how he liked it and even though she had not seen him in that time and did not know where he was she still wanted to wear her hair long and free because that was the way he liked it.
She pulled the hood of her cloak up over her head and allowed it to partially cover her face. Drawing her wand she stepped forward and began her descent into the shady alleyway. The buildings were close together with small gaps between creating narrow side alleys that witches and wizards meet in to conduct business of questionable legality. She ignored this, she was used to it and she knew that in a place like this it paid to mind your own business.
She didn't really know how it had happened but she had been drawn to this place and she'd made acquaintances here. She had somehow become a part of the Knockturn Alley crowd. She was by no means a Dark witch but she had long since abandoned any hope of becoming a prominent and admired member of the Wizarding community as so many had expected her to. She had given her father one allowance, one that had cost her the man she loved, and now she lived for herself and did as she pleased. No one would sway her anymore. Not that any of this meant that she had become estranged from her family. She still loved them all dearly, especially her father, but she had just made the decision to not let them make her decisions, or her mistakes, for her anymore.
Summer was almost over and Lily was feeling a strange emptiness knowing that when September came this year she would not be going back to Hogwarts. She would miss the old school so much yet she wondered why. She had spent seven years there and had not befriended one of the other students. She had spent most of her time either with her cousins and siblings or her teachers, Hagrid and Neville, who were her parents' friends. When she wasn't with any of them, she was alone except for...she found it hard to think about him yet he was all she thought of. Perhaps her plans for the year would benefit her more than she knew. She would be going to Romania to work with her Uncle Charlie and his dragons. Being away from home would probably do her the world of good.
Dismissing her thoughts she entered a dingy little shop and glanced at the counter.
"Is that you Lily?" asked a gruff voice that was not at all friendly.
"Yes," she replied quietly and equally as unfriendly.
The aging wizard huffed and returned to reading an article entitled The Dying Dark Arts in the Daily Prophet. His moody frown deepening as he progressed further through it.
Lily ignored him and continued her browsing. The dusty shelves were lined with rare and expensive potion ingredients as well as a small collection of pre-made potions. Locating the one she wanted; Dragon Breath Freshener, she picked it up and took it to the counter.
The store owner eyed it with disgust before speaking in the same tone as before.
"I only get that in for you y'know?"
"I know," she returned as she handed him the money and left the shop without another word.
She was looking down at the bottle of bright blue liquid she'd just purchased when she bumped into someone in the street. She lost her balance and began to fall but was suddenly stopped. The person that she had run into had caught her. She felt her heart beat quicken as they helped her regain a standing position. She pulled her hood away from her face in order to see who it was; her blue eyes met with some familiar grey ones.
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