CHAPTER 1

LILY

Lily Luna Potter woke up early the morning of September first. "I'm finally going!" she whispered to herself. Then, she jumped out of bed and hurriedly got ready. Lily had packed her trunk weeks ago in anticipation of this trip. After making sure her owl, who she had named Hedwig after her father's owl, was in its cage, Lily ran into her parents room and started jumping on their bed. "Get Up! Get up!" she screeched as she jumped up and down. "I'm going to Hogwarts today!"

Her parents stirred sleepily. "Lily, its 6:00 the train doesn't leave till 11:00. Go back to sleep." Harry said.

"But dad!" Lily whined "I'm going to Hogwarts! I want to be ready and I don't want to miss the train!"

Harry and Ginny exchanged looks and sighed. "Alright flower," Harry sighed. "You win we're up."

"YES!" Lily yelled triumphantly.

"Why don't you go wake up your brothers Lily?" Ginny suggested.

"Ok!" Lily yelled running out of the room.

Harry turned to Ginny. "She reminds me of you." He chuckled. "So eager." Ginny laughed.

"AL! AL wake up! We're going to Hogwarts today!" Lily said shoving her brother.

"UH! Go away Lily! It's to early!" Albus groaned rolling over in his bed.

Lily seized a pillow from the other side of Albus's bed and started whacking him with it repeatedly. "Albus (whack) Severus (whack) Potter (whack)! Get up now!"

"Fine!" Albus groaned. "I'm up I'm up!"

"Yay!" Lily yelled as she darted out of the room and into her other brother's room.

As soon as she got into James's room she jumped onto his bed and started shoving him. "James! Wake up! We're going to Hogwarts today!"

James sat up groggily and looked sleepily at his sister. "Lily its 6:00 in the morning." he said kindly.

"I know!" Lily said impatiently "But, everyone else is a wake! Come on James! Get UP!" she whined pulling on his arm. Being fourteen he was too large for little Lily to actually move by pulling his arm. However, he was very protective of his younger sister and loved her. Even though he teased her quite often, James and Lily had a special bond.

"Alright Lils." he said smiling at her. "I'll get up. I remember I did this my first day so, I guess I owe you."

Lily ran out of the room smiling as her older brother got up.

When Lily got downstairs her parents were already up. Her father was sitting on the couch with a cup of coffee reading The Daily Prophet and her mother was in the kitchen making breakfast.

"Hullo flower!" her father said smiling as Lily ran over and jumped into his lap. " Let me see," he said rubbing his chin in mock concentration, "You can't be excited, can you?" Lily laughed and nodded her head vigorously.

"What would you like for breakfast dear?" Ginny asked.

"Pancakes!" Lily yelled at once. Ginny laughed as she set about making the pancakes.

At that moment Albus came dragging his feet down the stairs and into the sitting room next to the kitchen and sat down on the chair opposite Harry and Lily, still in his pajamas.

"Well, someone's a little tired this morning." Ginny laughed.

"Why do we have to wake up at six?" Albus groaned.

Harry looked at Lily and then said, "Well, your sister is a little excited and you haven't even packed yet so an early start won't do you any harm."

"A 'little' excited?" Albus groaned. "More like an annoying red-headed ball of energy and excitement. She woke everyone up!" he complained.

"Albus Severus Potter, you did the same thing on your first day and I don't remember Lily complaining." Ginny scolded. "Now go back upstairs, get dressed and pack your trunk. Oh, and try to comb your hair. Unfortunately you and your brother both got your father's hair so it won't lie flat."

Albus scowled but, stumped back upstairs.

"Well," said James as he walked down the stairs looking back at Albus. "He's not a morning person is he?"

Lily, James, and Ginny laughed while James poured himself some orange juice.

"Ginny, I've meant to ask you, have you seen the Marauders Map anywhere." Harry asked.

"No, why? Do you need a map to find a map?" Ginny asked.

"Very funny." said Harry rolling his eyes. "It's just; I have no idea where it is. It's not on my desk anymore and the last time I remember using it was James's first year.

"Isn't that odd." James said a little too innocently.

"James." said Harry suddenly stern. "Where is the map?"

"I don't know." James answered. Lily couldn't help but notice his eyes did not meet his father's. A sure sign he was lying.

"James." Harry said sharply "I want you tell me where that map is right now."

"I don't know!" James repeated. Ginny glared at him. "Wow mum! You could be Professor McGonagall in disguise!" He chuckled. "That glare is very Mcgonagallish."

Harry and Lily laughed but, Ginny continued to glare at James.

"James Sirius Potter you tell me where that map is this instant!" she yelled giving her son a deadly looking glare.

"My trunk!" James gushed after taking one look at his mother's livid face.

"And what is it doing in your trunk?" Ginny asked sternly.

"Er..." James looked around wildly like a cornered mouse.

"Bring it down here." she ordered. James rushed upstairs.

"How did you get him to listen to you?" Harry asked.

"It's a mom thing, Harry." she replied.

James came shuffling back into the room looking nervous and holding a certain piece of aged parchment.

"How long have you had this?" Harry asked.

"Er... I sneaked off your desk in my first year at Christmas."

"James – Sirius - Potter! How dare you-" Ginny started looking ready to explode.

"It's ok Ginny." Harry said. "I got this."

James looked from his mother to father deciding whether it was safe to say something.

"James." said Harry sternly but quietly. "I'm very disappointed in you. I expected you to set a better example for your siblings." James hung his head looking extremely ashamed of himself. "You are fourteen years old now." Harry continued. "I expect you to be better in the future."

"I will dad. I promise." James said.

"Ok." Harry said. "Next time you want something just ask. But, I'm going to let you keep this."

James looked up smiling. Harry laughed. "I don't think your grandfather, James, would like it if his grandson didn't find any secret passages out of the school."

"Cheers dad!" James said. "Shall we play a game of exploding snap?"

At 8:00 the four Potters stopped their game of exploding snap.

"Where is Al?" Lily wondered. "Shouldn't he be down by now?"

"That's what I was thinking." said Ginny it couldn't have taken him this long to get ready and pack.

"James, go check on him." Harry said.

Not wanting to cause another argument James quickly walked off to go find Albus. A few seconds later Lily heard James yell "Oi! Albus! Get up!" It seemed Albus had gone back to sleep.

A few minutes later the five Potters were sitting around their dining table eating Lily's favorite breakfast, pancakes.

"You know Lils," James said seriously. "They don't have pancakes at Hogwarts."

"They don't?" asked Lily looking stricken.

"Of course they do they have everything!" James laughed. "I was just messing with you." he said as he reached across the table to ruffle her hair.

The Potters reached Kings Cross Station at precisely 10:31. "That leaves half an hour to get you three settled." Ginny said as Harry unloaded the trunks helped by James and Albus while Lily bounced around happily.

The five Potters walked into the station wheeling trolleys. "Alright, James and Albus why don't you two go in first you're getting some looks because of Apollo and Cirrus." Harry said. "Then we'll follow with Lily and Hedwig."

"Right!" James called to his father as he ran towards the barrier. As soon as he passed through, Albus followed.

"Ready honey?" Ginny asked Lily who answered by nodding vigorously. "Ok here we go." Lily and Ginny ran towards the barrier with Harry behind them wheeling Lily's trolley. lily closed her eyes like she always did and when she opened them her eyes met the familiar sight of the gleaming, scarlet engine.

Lily looked around at all the people and suddenly felt shy. She moved closer to her father who put a protective hand around her. "You'll be fine flower." he said. Lily just nodded.

"There they are!" came a voice. " Mum, Dad, Rose they're right there!" Lily's cousin Hugo came running to them followed by Lily's Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione and her older cousin, Rose, who immediately went up to Albus and started talking to him. The Potters and Weaslys talked for a few minutes and then James came running up to them followed buy their cousin Fred.

"Come on guys!" he said. "Dominique, Victoire, Louis, Lorcan, Lysander, Frank, Sarah and Molly have already filled one compartment. Roxanne, Ally, Lucy, and Fred are waiting for us in another!"

"Ok. We're coming." Rose said. She and Albus said goodbye to their parents and ran off after Fred quickly followed by Hugo who took only a few minutes longer to bid his parents farewell. James however, stayed and looked at Lily.

"Ready Lily?" he said. "Come on you'll be fine." James reached out to take his little sister's hand.

Lily looked at her parents. "Good bye sweetheart." Ginny said giving Lily a hug and a kiss. "Go have fun and remember to write."

Harry also gave Lily a kiss and a hug. "Do your best." he whispered. "You'll have plenty of fun at Hogwarts. Don't worry."

"You'll write, right?" Lily asked.

"Of course we will darling." Ginny said soothingly.

"Ok." said Lily. Then she followed James who had her trunk and owl to the Hogwarts Express.

Harry watched as the engine steamed out of the station. He wasn't worried that harm would come to his children. He was however worried about how Lily would be on her own.

"I miss her already." Ginny said.

"Me too." Over the two years that Harry and Ginny had spent with just Lily they had never thought about what it would be like when their little flower was gone with her brothers.

On the Hogwarts Express Lily sat in between James and the window. She stared out the window while the others around her talked about different things. Albus and Rose were talking about Hogsmeade which they would be visiting for the first time. Roxanne, Ally Longbottom and Lucy who were all going into their second year, were giggling over the picture of a boy who Roxanne liked. Fred, Hugo and James were talking about quiditch.

"What's wrong Lils?" James asked suddenly.

Lily looked up at him trying to convey through her eyes what was really bothering her. "I miss mum and dad." she felt like saying but, she though that would make her look like a baby. Instead she said "I was just wondering what house I'll be in."

"Gryffindor of course!" James exclaimed. "We all are." It was true. Every child of the Potter-Weasly clan was in Gryffindor. Victoire, Dominique, Louis, Lucy, Molly, Fred, Roxanne, Rose, Albus, and James were all in Gryffindor along with Lorcan and Lysander Scamander and Frank, Ally, and Sarah Longbottom.

"Yeah!" said Fred. "Once you and Hugo get sorted into Gryffindor it'll be complete."

"Bet McGonagall will just love that." Albus said rolling his eyes while everyone laughed.

Then a terrible thought struck Lily. What if she wasn't in Gryffindor?

"How do you know we'll be in Gryffindor?" she asked James.

Even though the question was directed at James, Rose answered. "Well, if Hugo isn't brave he's not anything. He pushed me out of the way of a car when he was ten."

"And if you're not in Gryffindor then I'll kidnap Mrs. Norris and do the tango with her." James said laughing. "I know you'll be in Gryffindor because I know you like the back of my hand."

"I never did get that expression." Lily said thoughtfully. "I mean how well do you know the back of your hand?" Everyone looked at the back of their hands.

"You know." said Albus. That is an excellent point.

The topic of how well one does know the back of their hand carried them far from London and the conversation didn't stop until Molly came in.

"I just came to say hi. You guys should probably get changed now, we're nearly there!" she said.

"Blimey Molly! Your right." Fred exclaimed.

"Ladies first then!" James said stepping out of the compartment followed by Fred, Hugo and Albus.

By the time everyone was changed the train was pulling in to Hogsmeade station. The Potters, Weaslys, Scamanders, and Longbottoms all trooped out of the train and began to head towards the carriages after wishing Lily and Hugo good luck.

"Go on." James ushered Lily and Hugo toward Hagrid who was shouting,

"First years over 'ere!" over the general buzz. "Right, this way!" he said beckoning to the first years to follow him to a fleet of boats.

"This place is amazing!" Hugo whispered to Lily as he looked around the entrance hall.

Lily nodded in agreement not trusting herself to speak. Professor McGonagall, who she had met a few times, had just exited the room after explaining to them about the houses of Hogwarts. As soon as she came back, they were going to be sorted.

"She's back!" whispered a boy excitedly.

Lily and Hugo followed the other first years into the great hall. As soon as they walked in Lily gave an audible gasp. She looked across the hall at the Gryffindor table and caught James's eye. He smiled encouragingly while Albus mouthed the words. "Good luck." Then they both focused on the hat as it burst into song.

After the sorting hat's song Professor McGonagall began to call names.

"Adwin, Edger!" she called as a small boy walked up to the front.

"HUFFLEPUF!"

"Boot, Lauren!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

On it went until finally, "Potter, Lily!" McGonagall called. The hall went quite everyone was staring at Lily as she slowly sat down on the stool and put the hat on.

"Ah..." a small voice said in her ear.

"Lots of knowledge you would do well in Ravenclaw..."

"Gryffindor, Please Gryffindor." Lily tried to think but, she wasn't able to think straight.

"Hmm. But, what is this? A thirst to prove yourself. Make yourself known." the voice said. "Well, better be..."

"SLYTHERIN!" the hat yelled out to the crowd of students.

Lily felt tears coming and tried to control her emotions. When she took of the hat she noticed everyone was staring at her. The only people clapping were Headmistress Bones and Professor Slughorn. Both quickly stopped.

James made to get up but, Roxanne pulled him down. She had never like Lily much and she was actually smiling. "Looks like you need to kidnap Mrs. Norris soon." she whispered and started laughing quietly accompanied by Lucy, Dominique and Rose. All four quickly stopped after catching one look at the glare James was giving them.

A buzz of conversation had started in the Great Hall. How could it be that the great Harry Potter's daughter was a Slytherin.

Lily slowly made her way towards the Slytherin table.

"It's ok." James mouthed to Lily as she walked slowly passed the Gryffindor table. Albus gave her a small smile. She just looked at her shoes.

When Lily reached the Slytherin table she looked around trying to find where to sit. A boy with dirty blonde hair on the end of the table moved over for her to sit. Lily quickly sat down and then looked down at the underside of the table as tears poured silently down her face.

"Well, yes..." McGonagall said trying to get things going again. "Quirk, Allison" she called.

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Roland, David"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Smith, Edwin"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

After a few more names, Professor McGonagall called, "Weasly, Hugo!"

Lily looked up. "Maybe Hugo will be in Slytherin too." she thought desperately.

"GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted to cheers and applause. Lily put her head down again feeling tears slide down her face again.

Lily hardly ate anything at the feast. She kept glancing at the Gryffindor table where all her family and friends were laughing, talking, and eating together. Except for James and Albus. They both seemed worried.

About an hour later Lily followed the Slytherin prefect down into the dungeon where the Slytherin common room was. As soon as the prefect had finished telling the first years all the details of being a Slytherin, Lily rushed up the stairs and went to the first year girls' dorm. She was unpacking when three other girls walked in.

"So," stated the one in the middle. "Would you look at this? A Potter! In Slytherin! Whatever will mummy and daddy think? I bet your father will have a heart attack!" she cackled.

Tears poured down Lily's face.

"You're a Slytherin?" the same girl laughed. "You?" Lily nodded. She had hoped her fellow Slytherins would at least accept her.

"Look here Potter, You will never be welcome here! In fact, you aren't even welcome in this dormitory! Go! Get out."

"But, I'll have nowhere to sleep" Lily stammered.

"I don't care." the girl mocked.

"Who are you to tell me to leave!" Lily stammered trying to sound brave.

"Who am I?" the girl asked laughing unkindly. "I am Kassandra Montague! And this is my dormitory. The only people around in it right now are, myself, Susan Harper, and Annie Jones." she said gesturing to the two girls behind her. "So, I want you out RIGHT NOW!" with that Kassandra shoved Lily causing her to fall out the dormitory door and threw her trunk and clothes behind her then slammed the door shut.

Lily picked herself up and packed her things back into her trunk. She walked down the steps to the common room which was mercifully empty. She put her trunk in a corner and lay down on the closest to the fire. Hugging herself for warmth Lily fell asleep.

Dear Mum and Dad,

You guys always said the first night at Hogwarts is amazing. It is not. Please don't disown me but, I have become the first Potter, Weasly, Scamander, or Longbottom child to not be placed in Gryffindor. I'm really sorry for disappointing you guys but, I'm a Slytherin. Please don't kill me... or disown me, I hate it too. But, I'll deal with it.

Love,(Even if you don't love me anymore.)

Lily Luna Potter

Lily watched Hedwig disappear with the not. She had spent her morning eating toast outside by the lake. Then she had popped in the Great Hall to get her time table and had decided to send her parents the note before Potions. It had taken a surprisingly long time to write the not considering how short it was. Lily had written quite a few drafts. The first few were long and had listed everything that had gone wrong and how miserable she was. Then, she had decided that it would be better not to tell her parents how bad she felt. Lily was afraid they would pull her out of Hogwarts if they thought she was miserable.

A few minutes later Lily walked into potions. She walked across the room to an empty table without looking at anyone. No one joined her table. She ignored everyone else and just listened to Professor Slughorn and made a perfect forgetfulness potion. She didn't talk at all other than to decline Professor Slughorns invitation to lunch. She did the same thing through all her classes. She spent her break and lunch reading a book her mother had bought her or reviewing notes.

Lily was walking around the lake a little before dinner when a voice behind her sneered "So, here is the Potter girl." Lily looked around to see a tall dark haired boy followed by three other boys.

"Who are you?" Lily stammered.

"I'm Jack Flint. This is Jonah Bole, Calvin Vacey, and Steven Pucey. Why do you care?" Jack said glaring at her.

"I-I just wanted to get to know my fellow Slytherins." Lily stammered out lamely.

The four boys laughed. They looked older than Lily by atheist two years.

Lily screamed as suddenly, Jack charged forwards and pinned Lily to a tree by her collar.

"Look Potter," he sneered. "You will never be one of us. You will always be an outcast no matter what you do. So, why don't you do us all a favor and leave?"

"Let me go!" Lily gasped.

"Let her go Flint. We don't want her to suffocate then we'd be chucked out." Pucey chuckled.

"Yeah." Vacey agreed.

Jack let go of Lily's collar so she fell to the ground in a heap. For the second time she picked herself of the ground. Lily looked at the four boys who were smirking at her or laughing. Anger filled her and before she knew what she was doing she had pulled out her wand and was aiming it at Flint. Before she could think of what to do as she didn't know any spells, Bole had pulled out his wand and muttered something. A wall of power slammed into Lily knocking her to the ground. Lily scrambled back up and began to run but, Vacey tripped her knocking her into Flint who gave a mighty shove. Lily stumbled trying to steady herself. However, Flint was to strong and Lily fell backwards into the lake with a huge splash. Her bag split sending all her things into the murky water. Lily gasped as she struggled to get her things and get back onto land, but she saw the boys heading towards her with their wands drawn presumably to push her further into the lake.

"Leave her ALONE!" called a voice and out of nowhere a boy rammed into Flint sending him toppling to the ground. "What did she ever do to you?" the boy yelled. Lily recognized him as the boy who had moved over for her the night before.

Pucey, Bole, and Vacey advanced upon the boy with their wands drawn followed quickly by Flint.

"Do you want to take a plunge to then Malfoy?" Bole sneered. The boy, Malfoy, looked around and Lily was reminded of James when her father caught him when he admitted to stealing the Marauders Map what seemed like a hundred years ago. Malfoy quickly drew his wand.

"No. She didn't either, and if you did push me into that lake I will hex you into a thousand pieces."

"Oh," Pucey said with a look of mock concern. "Has wittle Scorpius's daddy taught him some dark magic that he's going to use on his fellow Slytherins?" Lily suddenly realized that she had heard of Malfoy before. Two years ago when Albus had been going to his first ever year at Hogwarts. Her father and Uncle Ron had pointed the same boy out at the train station and warned them not to get too friendly. She wasn't sure whether or not they were joking.

Malfoy's face turned even paler than it already was. "No." he answered curtly. "But, unlike you Pucey, I study and read which is something I'm not sure you are capable of. Either of you." he added. Malfoy's eyes widened in fear when he realized what he had said. Obviously, he thought what he said was a big mistake.

Lily watched struggling to get loose of a piece of seaweed that had wrapped around her leg as Flint tossed his wand aside and ran towards Malfoy his fists clenched and punched him.

Malfoy raised his wand but, it was four against one.

"Expelliarmus!" Vacey yelled and Malfoy's wand went flying out of his hand.

"Ligatis!" Pucey yelled as ropes came flying out of his wand and wound their way around Malfoy's torso and arms. Bole picked up Malfoy holding his hands behind his back. Flint advanced towards Malfoy his fist raised. Before he could do anything, Malfoy had kicked at Flint knocking him over and made a run for his wand. He quickly muttered the word "Finite." which released his bond. Then before any of the boys could recover from their surprise he pointed his wand at each one of them and yelled. "Expelliarmus!"

Soon enough all four boys' wands were in Malfoys hand. "Leave and you can have them back." he said. Grumbling the four boys grabbed their wands from Malfoy and walked away.

"You ok?" Malfoy yelled to Lily wading into the lake.

"My leg's caught!" Lily yelled back.

With Malfoy's help Lily managed to pull her leg free and gather all of her supplies that weren't damaged and got back on land. "Oh no!" she moaned. "My Transfiguration homework is ruined. McGonagall is going to kill me."

"Hey, you're the Potter girl right?" Malfoy asked.

"Please don't hurt me! I'll leave!" Lily said quickly gathering her stuff as tears pooled in her eyes. "I should have realized he wouldn't really be nice to me. He just didn't know who I was." she thought.

"Why would I hurt you?" he asked confused. Lily looked up at him and burst into tears.

"Oh!" he exclaimed and hurriedly patted her on the back. "What's wrong? If it's the transfiguration essay than I can help you re-do it."

Lily looked up at him. "You don't hate me?" she asked.

"Well, I don't really know you so; I don't think it is possible for me to hate you."

"But, every Slytherin hates me!" Lily sobbed.

"Tell me." he said.

Lily didn't know why she was telling him everything. All her emotions had been so pent up inside her, she guessed, that she just needed to let it all out."

When she was done Malfoy looked at her. "What you need is a good rest." he declared.

"I wish I could just sleep but, the common room couch isn't comfortable and it's freezing down there and, Kassandra, Susan, and Annie won't let me in the dorm!" Lily said.

"I'll talk to them." Malfoy said.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" Lily asked.

"Because, I have no reason not to and you need help." Malfoy replied. "Besides, I think you'd make a great friend."

"You want to be my friend?" Lily asked.

"Yep. I would introduce to mine but, I don't have any."

Lily laughed. "Thank you so much-" Lily paused realizing that she didn't know his first name. She thought she'd heard Pucey say it but, she had been preoccupied.

"Scorpius." he said.

"Lily." Lily beamed. She had made her first ever friend outside of the family.

Scorpius

Scorpius walked toward a group of girls. One of them had shoulder length blonde hair with pink streaks. She was the one who had kicked Lily out of her dorm. Scorpius thought about Lily for a second. Little did Lily know, but she was his first ever friend. "Don't get off track Scorpius." he thought to himself. He walked up to the girl and said, "Are you Kassandra Montague?" he asked politely as she turned around.

"Well, hello!" she said. "If you've come to ask me out your answer is Saturday night at 5:00. It would be 6:00 but, you're cute."

"Excuse me?" Scorpius spluttered. "I do not want to go out with you."

"Oh." Kassandra didn't look disappointed at all. "Then why are you here?"

"I would like to talk to you about kicking Lily out of the dorm." Scorpius said in his most business-like manner.

"Who's Lily?" asked one of the girls.

"I think he means Potter, Annie." said a girl with black hair and blue eyes.

"Oh. Thanks for clearing that up Susan." said Annie.

"Why do you care if I kicked her out of my dormitory?" Kassandra narrowed her dark blue eyes.

"Because she's my friend." he said curtly.

"That has friends?" Annie cackled.

Scorpius blinked not knowing what to say. "That's beside the point!" he exclaimed glancing at Lily who was busy re-doing her transfiguration essay in a corner.

"Well, she's not allowed in our dorm." Kassandra said glaring at him.

"Yeah!" Susan agreed.

Scorpius opened his mouth to say something but, before he could a voice called to him.

"Oi, Malfoy! We've got some unfinished business stop bothering the girls!" It was Flint. Scorpius pulled out his wand but, before he could do anything Vacey disarmed him.

Scorpius stood there in the middle of the common room with three girls and four boys against him not knowing what to do. "Opprimere!" Flint yelled his wand pointed at Scorpius. A wall of force slammed into Scorpius sending him flying across the room. He slammed into the wall and groaned.

"That was for the girls." Pucey sneered.

"Levicorpus!" Vacey said. Scorpius yelled as he was lifted into the air and hung there from his ankle.

"Let me down!" Scorpius yelled.

"Ok." Vacey sneered. "Libracorpus."

Scorpius dropped straight down and fell in a crumpled heap on the floor.

Flint raised his wand to cast another spell but, an angry little voice burst out. "Leave him alone!" Lily yelled.

"Oh," Bole sneered. "Malfoy saves Potter and Potter atempts to save Malfoy."

"Would you look at that people?" Flint yelled to all the Slytherins in the common room who had stopped what they were doing to watch. "It looks like Malfoy finally found a friend! What a surprise."

Scorpius, who had picked himself of the floor, blushed and looked at his shoes.

"I said leave him alone!" Lily yelled again.

"Or what Potter?" Flint sneered.

"I'll- I'll jinx you." Lily said drawing her wand.

"No! Lily are you mad?" Scorpius yelled horrorstruck. Lily caught his eye and nodded her head slightly to Flint. Scorpius nodded understanding what she was doing.

While the boys were fixed on Lily, Scorpius sneaked around to Flint who was holding his wand. Without warning before anyone noticed him, he pounced on Flint knocking him over. He grabbed his wand and Flint's then disarmed Pucey, Vacey, and Bole.

"Well boys," he smirked "here we are again." Now, would you rather I jinx you or will you take your wands and get up to our dorm?"

The boys headed back to the dorm room they shared with Scorpius and everyone else went back to their own business.

"Are you ok?" Lily asked concerned.

"I'm fine." Scorpius murmured rubbing his arm which was bruised from his fall. "It's a pain sharing a room with them. Literally"

"Atheist you have a room." Lily sighed. "I have nowhere to sleep."

Scorpius looked around. "Can you keep a secret?" he whispered to Lily. She nodded.

"Get your trunk and meet me by the door." he told her.

Scorpius rushed to the quite stone staircase.

"Accio bag." he whispered. The bag came zooming down the stairs and stopped next to him. He picked it up and summoned his pajamas and clothes. Then, he went downstairs to meet Lily at the door.

"Quite now." he whispered to her. The two of them sneaked out of the common room and into the dungeon. Lily followed Scorpius through the school.

"Here we are." Scorpius said. They had reached a blank stretch of wall on the seventh floor corridor.

"Huh?" Lily asked puzzled.

"Give me a second." Scorpius walked past the wall three times thinking, "We need a place to sleep."

Lily gasped as a door appeared. Scorpius pushed it open and they walked into a large room with two four poster beds, a little sitting area, and a door that Scorpius assumed lead to a bathroom. A fire roared in a grate bathing the room in a pleasant light and filling it with warmth.

"You change in the bathroom and I'll change here." Scorpius told Lily who nodded to surprised to speak.

When Lily came out Scorpius motioned towards the sitting area. "I'll help you finish the essay if you'd like."

"Thank You Scorpius." Lily said. Then after a slight pause, "Scorpius, are we in The Room of Requirement?"

Scorpius looked at her startled. "How did you know?"

"My dad told me about this place!" Lily said excitedly. "He said it burned down though. I guess it didn't."

Scorpius nodded. "Most people think it burned down. I think we're the only people who know about it."

"How did you find it? Did your dad tell you?" Lily asked.

Scorpius looked at his shoes. "Er, no. I found it by myself. I was running from Flint and Vacey in my first year and I needed a place to hide and the wall just appeared so, here I am. I use it to hide from them sometimes. Or, to stay the night if I don't want to go up to the dormitory." he paused. "Sometimes, I just come here to get away from everything if you know what I mean."

Lily nodded.

"We should probably get to your transfiguration essay." Scorpius said. Scorpius and Lily spent half an hour finishing the essay as neither of them was very good at transfiguration. Afterword's, they both scrambled into their beds.

"This is so comfortable!" Lily gasped.

"Told you." Scorpius smiled. They stayed up talking for a while but, eventually Lily fell asleep.

"Good night Lily." Scorpius said as he lay down in his bed.

Lily

The next morning Lily woke to see Scorpius in the bed next to hers. "Morning sleepy head." he yawned.

Lily laughed. "Look who's talking."

"What time is it?" Scorpius asked.

"You have a watch." Lily mumbled.

"Oh, yeah." Scorpius checked his watch then jumped out of bed.

"What?" Lily asked confused.

"It's 9:45! Classes start in 15 minutes!"

"Yikes!" Lily yelled.

They both got ready at top speed and bolted into the Great Hall. No one noticed they were late except for James who ran up to Lily.

"Lily are you ok? Where were you? I'll kill anyone who harms you!" he yelled.

"James I'm fine." Lily mumbled.

James looked relieved. "I thought you were hurt when I didn't see you yesterday and you weren't on the marauders map."

"I ate breakfast outside, skipped lunch and ate dinner later than you." Lily said to her brother. "As for the map, you could not have been looking hard enough."

"As long as you're ok." James said. "Well, I'm going to go eat breakfast now." he said after a slight pause in which Lily and James just looked at each other.

As he walked back to the Gryffindor table Lily turned back to Scorpius and found he wasn't there. Her eyes travelled to the Slytherin table and found him sitting there. Lily quickly walked over and sat next to him. "Why did you leave?" she asked him.

Scorpius looked down at his shoes and muttered. "Your brothers don't really like me."

"Oh." said Lily. Scorpius realized that she was looking worried. "It'll be fine." he hurriedly assured her. "If you still want to know me that is."

"Of course I do!" Lily looked surprised. "Why wouldn't I?"

"She didn't." Scorpius nodded his head towards Rose who was walking across the hall.

"Rose? When did you ever talk to Rose?"

"On the train. When we were going to Hogwarts for the first time. I tried to sit with some people that my dad knew but, they chucked me out because I had some very anti-Slytherin views and... My dad is about as popular as yours in Slytherin. Since he was... you know a death eater. Anyways, she was walking by and she didn't recognize me so she said "You want to sit with me?" so I did and we talked and decided we were going to be friends. Then Albus walked in and said "Rose, why are you sitting with Malfoy?" and she jumped out of her seat and told me she hadn't known me or she wouldn't have talked to me and left. Ever since then she's hated me."

Lily looked at him. "If it makes you feel better, she doesn't like me much either. It's odd she didn't know who you were though. Our fathers pointed you out to us and warned us not to get too friendly."

"Is that so?" Scorpius raised an eyebrow at her.

"Don't worry. I don't care." Lily answered. And so, Lily and Scorpius became friends.

A/N: Please no hate on the whole Rose not getting along with Lily or Scorpius thing. I thought it would make a nice conflict.

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