Lily Potter and The Pearl of Fate

Chapter 5: Trains and Hauntings

Earlier in the morning, Hermione helped Steve to find his parents, and things seemed to go well - just for a day - but Lily was always thinking of the word deflarazion. She had a problem eating her breakfast, all she did was sitting back on the chair, as if she frozen; and even while they used floo powder to travel to Godric's Hollow so they could collect their trunks, she looked sullen and unreal.

Lily thought she was special- that might be correct. How about Steve? Was he too... special? Is deflarazion... a key point to first years? Or...? She had a mind full of questions, longing to be answered. Or should she follow George, try her best to ignore these thoughts, continue to live a normal life? She thought that might be a good idea, although she knew she wasn't normal.

Her expression told Hermione that something's up with her.

"Are you alright, Lily?" Hermione frowned.

"Yeah... I am fine..." Lily lied. She really wanted to ask Hermione this question, but she could ask Rose... for one second, she thought of Rose, her icy blue hair. "Auntie, is Rose feeling better?"

"Ron took her to St Mungo's today, because there is nothing I know to do about her."

Lily was astonished, she had never seen such huge matter like this before, although Rose could be annoying, but she felt sorry for her. It was too quiet here, without Rose, everybody seemed to be blue.

"Time to go to platform 9¾!" Harry exclaimed, trying his best to cheer everybody up.

Lily seemed to be lit up, she agreed to leave her thoughts - for a while - she scrambled for her trunk, never had she been so excited before. Then she realised it. Which house would she be sorted in? Would deflarazion be something possessing her, and would that cause her to be in Slytherin, just like how being a parseltounge can have a great chance of being sorted into Slytherin? Lily could not resist the thoughts of deflarazion and once again, those thoughts were haunting her.

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Lily stared. The mountains, the ponds, the sky. None of the beauty of nature could pull back the thoughts of deflarazion. "Hi." A voice snaps Lily back alive. She tries to forget deflarazion.

"I'm Maddison Dawndew. How about you?" The unknown girl next to Lily said. She had straight brown hair. "Lily. Lily Potter." She replied.

"Are you really? Daughter of Harry Potter!" Heads turned as the girl who was introduced as Maddison exclaimed. "Lily Potter!"

"So... What's so great about being the daughter of Harry Potter? Who are your parents then?"

"Oh... My parents are Cho Chang and Sebastian Dawndew. I have an older brother, who is James's best friend, Cedric."

Lily couldn't stand it. Being the daughter of Harry Potter and all, but this deflarazion thing is really freaking her out. She needed some quietness to brood about it, and with everyone staring at her and flying whispers across the room, it was not a great place to do so.

While Maddison wasn't looking, Lily crept out of this cabin. She finds an almost empty one with only one girl in it. She sat down, and almost laughed when she realised what the students in the previous cabin would say when they found out that the daughter of Harry Potter just vanished into thin air. But that didn't stop her. Deflarazion. Deflarazion.

"Hey Lily! I think I know why you moved here... It's the only cabin with only one person in it, and all the others are talking about your father... I'm Lila, by the way, Lila Finnigan. My parents are Parvati Patil and Seamus Finnigan."

Lily froze again, as if she were a statue..

"Lily? Lily!" Lila called. Lily opened her eyes. Why did Lila call her. Almost instantly she understood. A shadow was creeping outside the glass pane.

"Who is it?" Lila asked, obvious that a fright was in her tone. But Lily laughed. It's James Potter, of course. He had a new joke, and he has done that to her a million times already.

Lily still couldn't calm down. Humour, excitement, happy emotions glided through her body, but something - something not good - seemed hidden in them. This was really when the thought of deflarazion started haunting her. And nothing seemed to be able to cure it, and while Rose's icy blue hair seemed frightening, Lily thought that compared to this, Rose's hair was just a small worry. "Deflarazion..." A hiss was still in Lily's mind.