Lily Luna Branches Out

Lily Begins her journey to her own person

Chapter four; Lily

Inside the bag from her uncle was a wand box. On it said 'my newest invention, a trainers' wand. It will work as a real wand but the Trace can't detect it. Enjoy -Uncle George.'

Lily took the wand and gave it a flick. Nothing happened. She sighed and placed it in the box. She looked at her new book shelf and saw an old red leather bound book that seemed like it belonged in the family library downstairs. She picked it up and looked at the front. It read Ancient and Forgotten Magic Spells.

"This'll work." She said to herself.

She flipped the pages until she found a simple color changing charm.

She pointed the wand at Pinky Puff's cage and said "Pastelum Switchacus." The cage turned bright yellow.

'Awesome!' She thought and grinned. The rest of the evening she practiced most of the spells in the book. When her mother called her down for dinner she replaced the wand in its case and hid it under the wardrobe.

"I don't want anyone to know about it." She whispered to herself.

Dinner was a quiet affair without James and Albus.

"Lily dear, you were trying to tell me something on the platform today. What was it?" Mrs. Potter asked.

"Don't worry about it Mum." Lily bit into her Shepard's pie.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes ma'am."

The rest of the meal went in silence.

"May I go back to my room? I was reading a new book that was quite interesting." Lily gave her father puppy dog eyes.

"Alright. Go before your mother tells you to do the dishes." He chuckled.

Lily bounded up the steps and slammed the door of her room behind herself. Retrieving her wand and spell book she flipped to a page she hadn't looked at yet.

"Metamorphagus maker. A spell that rarely works and can be a tragedy if done wrong." She read out loud, "Let's try it."

Having inherited her mother and father's love for adventure she muttered the incantation while pointing the wand at herself. It seemed as if nothing happened.

"Ok, think Flower. Ankle length hair." Screwing up her face in concentration she hoped the spell had worked. She looked in the mirror and saw that her hair was dangling just above the ground.

There was a knock on the door and she quickly made her hair it's normal length.

"Lily, it's time fore bed." Mr. Potter's voice came from the other side of the door.

"Ok dad. I'll see you in the morning." Lily called, "Kreacher!"

The elf appeared.

"I'll take the other elf." She whispered. He nodded and snapped his fingers and another elf appeared.

"Hi Winky. I'll be your mistress."

The little elf looked joyful. Soon she had cleaned herself up and was in a new tea towel dress. The elf proved dead useful at times.

The year passed and soon Lily found herself on the platform picking her brothers up.

"Hi Lily." Albus called at his little sister.

"Hi Al. Hi James. Wait till you see the welcome back decorations Grandmother Weasley has set up." Lily had to keep her excitement down. She had kept the secret about her being a metamorphagus a secret. Not even her parents knew. She was going to tell everyone that night at the burrow.