The Muggleborn Witch

Chapter 1: Muggle or Witch?

Lily swung the kitchen door open with a crash, "Mom! Dad!" Her mother looked over at her.

"Yes Lily, dear?"

"There's someone here! He said he wanted to see you! Come see what he's wearing!"

Her parents followed her out into the living room, where a man with an extremely long beard, and half moon spectacles was waiting. He was wearing what looked like a bathrobe, covered with stars, and a tall pointed hat. He stood.

"Ah, Mr. Evans, Mrs. Evans." He held out a hand, which Lily's parents shook in turn. "I am Albus Dumbledore. I am assuming you are wondering why I am here."

Her mother nodded.

"I am here on school business. I am the headmaster of Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and wizardry. It has come to our attention, that your daughter, Lily, is a witch." Here he paused.

"Preposterous!" He father bellowed. "How rude! Our daughter, a WITCH?"

Dumbledore nodded. "Quite right!" He beamed at Lily's parents, but Lily wasn't thinking about that. Instead she was remembering something.

She was swinging on the swing, high above the bar, laughing, and smelling the cool wind in her hair.

"Don't do it!" Petunia was yelling from down below, but it was too late. Lily launched herself into the air, suspended for many more seconds than most could even imagine, and then dropped to the hot asphalt, landing as lightly as a feather.

"Mummy told you not too!" Petunia was saying, but Lily wasn't listening. She ran over to the grass and picked up a daisy. She put it in her palm, and watched the petals slowly open and close, like a weird, many toothed oyster.

"How are you doing that?" Petunia was staring.

"It's obvious, isn't it?" Severus stepped out from behind a tree. "You're a witch."

Severus had always seemed strange to Lily. He said the vaguest things and his long dark hair covered most of his face. But she had liked something the boy from Spinnet's End. He was funny, and he had an air about him, that all her other friends at school didn't. She had always avoided him though, because Petunia hated Severus, and Lily always followed Petunia's lead. Now she was wondering if it was all true. But what did it mean to be a witch?

"Well, that's not a very nice thing to say to someone! Come on Tooney. Let's go!" and the pair of them had stormed away, laughing as they heard Severus call out, "Wait! That's not what I meant! Come back!"

But now Lily knew it might all be real. Her father snorted. "Magic. Prove it." Dumbledore smiled, and then he was suddenly he burst into flame. Her mother screamed, and just like that, the fire went out, and there sat the strange man, perfectly unharmed. Lily looked him up and down, but there were no signs of any kinds of burns. He handed Lily a letter, and then turned and bowed to her parents.