Daisy | The Marauders Era

Year One: Diagon Alley

❀

    Lily's return made it all too real now for Daisy, as her sister would be returning as a witch and not the normal person she was a year before. She'd hear that Daisy too was a witch and would be accompanying her to school. Mr Evans left a short while ago to pick up from the train station, and Daisy was in bed feeling too overwhelmed with the butterflies in her stomach to move. She had no idea how Lily had been so calm after finding out about the magic world.

    It was as if she already knew.

When Lily returned, Daisy forced her legs out of bed that could hardly hold her weight and stopped at the top of the stairs, peeking to see Lily pulling inside a trunk. Mr Evans behind her with a little shopping bag from Tesco.

Her sister looked happier than ever. Lily's eyes seemed to shine and her face glowed as if she'd been in the sun for hours at the beach. Daisy could assume that her sister enjoyed her time at Hogwarts.

"We have a surprise for you." Mrs Evans squealed leading Lily into the living room. "Daisy- oh where is she?" To which the youngest had finally decided to walk downstairs and greet her older sister who had grown quite a bit from the last time that they had met. They used to be eye to eye but now it's more eye to mouth.

    "A surprise?" Lily asked, and Mrs Evans gave Daisy a nudge with her elbow. It must have been about the letter, nothing else exciting had happened besides graduating from primary school, but of course Lily would have known that already.

    So Daisy told her the news, and the corners of Lily's mouth twitched downwards, then back up quicker than they fell.

"Wow that's great!" She said, and Daisy huffed with a shrug of her shoulders, still not having came round to the idea.

    "She'll love Hogwarts won't she Lily?" Mrs Evans looked hopeful, and Lily nodded her head.

    "Yeah... she will it's good." The older girl trying to hide her worried feelings which she wouldn't dare show in front of her family, especially Daisy as she wanted her younger sister to go into that school with her head held high. Higher than Lily had done.

    "Did you have a nice year?" Daisy asked Lily who jumped, having no idea her sister had followed her to their bedroom.

    Having spun around so quickly, Daisy had saw the tired eyes of a girl who hardly slept.

    "It was alright."

    "You look tired."

    Lily slammed her nightgown onto the bed. "Of course I am! It's like a six hour train ride and now you won't leave me alone!"

    "I've been here two minutes!"

    "Leave me alone to unpack."

    "This is my room-"

    "Out!" And before she knew it, Daisy had been pushed out and had the door closed in front of her face.

    "We'll it's good to have you home!" She yelled sarcastically at the white wood.

    Despite the ill feelings, Daisy received Lily's gift, a handmade beaded white and pink necklace.

    Maybe Lily was just tired. Daisy had looked forward to seeing her, she missed her. But it seemed that Lily just couldn't wait to be far away from her again. Perhaps her getting into Hogwarts wasn't the great news her parents thought it was.

"We'll have to go to Diagon Ally to get some supplies." Mr Evans told a grumpy looking Daisy who slumped over the newspaper doing the daily sudoku puzzles on the back page.