Hey so sorry to make all of you wait this long. I have just finished all of my applications for college so I can finally get back to writing. After this chapter will be the sorting and Hogwarts Express. Lily will have her first meeting with a couple of marauders in this chapter. See if y'all can figure out who the boy that knocked her over is, I tried to make it obvious with his description. I will try and update as soon as I can. I hope you will enjoy this chapter. Please REVIEW. Reviews are so encouraging and always help me to update faster!
Chapter4: Diagon Alley
Lily stared around her in awe as she followed Professor McGonagall through the barrier into Diagon Alley. There were shops for cauldrons, shops for brooms, magical books, even an owl post office.
"Come along Lily, let's start by getting your wand". Professor McGonagall said. Mr. Ollivander's shop was bit creepy with the dark dusty boxes of wands laying all about. There was one boy already talking to the wizard while his parents stood in the background.
"Good to see you Minerva" Dorea Potter called out to her when she noticed the Professor.
"Good to see you as well Dorea, I didn't know you had a son coming to Hogwarts this year. Hopefully he won't be as mischievous as you were Charlus, back in the day." she said to Mr. Potter.
"Well I'm sure Hogwarts would be quite interesting with James stirring up trouble" he laughed. "Who have you got with you, Minerva?"
"This is Lily Evans, a muggleborn, and this is her first time in Diagon Alley."
"Hello Lily, lovely to meet you." Dorea smiled at her just as the black haired boy turned away from Mr. Ollivander to look at who his parents were talking to. With a swish of the wand he was trying out in his hand everything suddenly changed.
"Ah, I'm purple!" Lily screamed. Things like this had never happened to her before. "What did you do?" She said looking at James with a glare. "Can you change me back please?" she asked Professor McGonagall.
With a swish of her wand Lily turned back to normal.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to, I couldn't control it, it wasn't the right wand." A slightly embarrassed James Potter said as Lily just glared at him.
Shortly James left with an 11 inch pliable Mahogany wand and then it was Lily's turn. It took her quite a while but she soon left with her wand, 10 1/4 swishy willow. McGonagall took her tim showing Lily around and even bought her an ice-cream at Florean Fortescues Ice-cream Parlor.
As Lily ate her ice-cream she noticed a group gathering around the window of the Quality Quidditch Supplies store. Just as she was walking over a boy with shaggy black hair and grey eyes rushed past knocking her down.
"Hey watch where you are going!" she yelled almost to the point of tears as she had scraped her knee.
The boy didn't even turn around to apologize as he rushed to the window to see the new broom, it was a Nimbus 1980, the newest broom on the market. McGonagall made a little he hem noise as she viewed the scene. She healed Lily's knee and they left.
Lily excited with all of her new supplies could not wait a week until she left on the Hogwarts Express. As soon as she got home she showed her parents all of her stuff and started reading her school books. Charms seemed the most interesting to her.
The whole time Petunia looked on with jealousy wondering why it had to be her sister who was the special one and not her. As she cried herself to sleep after receiving a decline from Dumbledore saying she couldn't go to Hogwarts, Petunia vowed that she would never be jealous again. Magic wasn't special it was something for freaks. Lily was no longer her sister, she was just a plain old freak like that Snape boy. From this point onward she would be forever cutting her sister out of her life just as if she never had existed.