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August 2019

'It's here! It's finally here!'

Lily came rushing into her parents' bedroom, brandishing the envelope high above her head. Both Harry and Ginny were still in bed, asleep, so she placed the letter on the desk and flung open the curtains. Daylight streamed onto the bed, and Harry bolted up right.

'Lily!' he exclaimed while Ginny sat up and rubbed her eyes. 'What time is it?'

'It's half nine,' she replied, hurrying over to the desk and picking up the letter again. 'Don't go back to sleep, I'll just go get James and Al.'

Ten minutes later Lily returned with Albus, who was already up and dressed, and a sleepy, tousle-haired James, who was looking as unhappy at being woken up as his mum.

'What's up then Lily?' Albus asked her.

'My Hogwarts letter is here!' she replied.

'That's great!' Ginny said. 'We were wondering when that would get here. Have you opened it yet?'

'No, I was going to open it in front of all of you,' Lily told her, before slowly and carefully slitting the letter open and unrolling the pieces of parchment inside. With trembling hands she held up the parchment, and read out its contents.

'So when are we going to get my stuff?' Lily demanded when she finished reading the letter. 'Today?'

'Well, I guess so,' Harry replied. 'Do you want us all to come?'

'Yes please!' Lily said, before glancing at her brothers. 'If you two aren't doing anything...'

'No, I'll come,' James said happily. 'What about you, Al?'

'I guess so,' Albus sighed. 'I was going to see Rose and Scorpius.'

'We could go to Diagon Alley with Rose and Hugo,' Harry suggested. 'Since Hugo's getting his letter today.'

'And you could invite Scorpius along,' Ginny added. Harry did not look very enthusiastic at this, but said nothing.

'Yay, I've finally got an owl,' said Lily later that day, smiling at the snowy owl in the cage in her hands.

'Are you still going to call it Lilybell?' James asked her.

'No,' she replied. 'I think I'll call it... um... Athene!'

'That's a good name,' said Harry. 'So where do you want to go next? Do you want to get your wand?'

'Oh, yeah, let's do that next!'

'James Sirius Potter!'

The four of them - Harry, Ginny, James and Lily - stopped. Albus, Rose and Scorpius had gone wandering by themselves, and none of them had just shouted James's name. James turned around, and let a little laugh that sounded like a groan.

'Who is it James?' Ginny asked him.

'Hannah Crawley,' he groaned.

The girl called Hannah came striding over to him, glaring at him.

'H-hi, Hannah,' he stammered. 'Having a good summer?'

'Why did you avoid me on the Hogwarts Express at the end of term?' she demanded.

'I - I didn't avoid you,' said James. 'I was just - um - busy, that's all...'

'Is it because you know that I found out you've been dating Cherry Jones while you've been dating me?' she asked him, her eyes narrowed.

'James!' Ginny exclaimed. Lily had to stop herself laughing.

'I have not been dating Cherry Jones!' he exclaimed. 'I told you, I was busy.'

'Come on Lily, lets go buy your wand while James catches up with his school friend,' Harry said, leading Ginny and Lily away from the scene.

'Oh poor James,' said Rose with a small smile. She, Albus and Scorpius were sitting at a table outside the ice cream parlour, watching Hannah shout at James.

'I wonder who told Hannah?' Albus added. He and Rose both looked at Scorpius.

'What makes you think I told her?' said Scorpius. 'I don't even know Hannah Crawley!'

Albus and Rose were still looking at him, eyebrows raised.

'But Scorpius, James only told me about it,' Albus said. 'And I only told you and Rose.'

'Well,' he began with a sigh. 'I may have mentioned it to one of Hannah's friends, so it's not my fault that they told Hannah!'

And without further ado, he returned to his ice cream.

'Besides,' Scorpius said, when they had all finsihed their ice cream and were walking down Diagon Alley. 'I can't really have fun messing around with either of your love lives, they're non existent.'

Rose came to an abrupt stop, staring at Scorpius incredulously. 'Come on Scorpius, we're only thirteen! There's plenty of time for things like that!'

'Yeah, I'm far too young to be in a relationship,' Albus mumbled. Scorpius laughed.

'Alright, but by this time next year I expect you both to at least have had a crush on someone,' he told them, grinning.

'Ah, Scorpius, you can't force people...' Albus began.

'What about you then, Scorpius?' Rose asked. 'Have you ever had a crush on anyone?'

Scorpius said nothing to this. Meanwhile, outside the Owl Emporium, James had finally escaped from Hannah, and had found Harry, Ginny and Lily leaving the wand shop with Lily's new wand.

'I can't wait to go to school.' Lily told James happily. 'And when I'm there, I'll help protect you from Hannah Crawley, okay?'

James looked taken aback, but then smiled. 'Okay. Thanks Lily.'