Lily Potter and Neoma's Trance

Chapter Thirty-Six

"Dad," Lily called into the study. He was working on Auror business even during his vacation. It was typical Harry Potter for Lily. "Can I talk to you?"

Something had been pestering Lily for months, and she wanted answers about it. She wanted to fix it. She knew she had to make it right.

He looked up from his work and saw her standing through the door's window, "What do you need, Lily? I'm a little busy here."

"I've been thinking," Lily began as she entered into the peaceful study, "about Azkaban."

Her dad dropped his pen and dropped his current work on a messy stack of files that also sat on the white desk, "What do you need to know about Azkaban, Lil? I'm not sure if-"

"Nora Nott's dad," she interrupted him quickly. "He's being incarcerated there, correct?"

"Yes," he nodded with a skeptical expression playing on his stressed features. "That's where Theodore Nott was sentenced to; I'm certain of it."

"Nora misses him," Lily said, feeling the sympathy she had for Nora tugging at her heartstings. "I want to be her friend, but she just can't see past the fact that you and Uncle Ron put her dad in Azkaban. I want to help her."

"I'm sorry, Lily," her dad said with a shrug. "Her dad's been sentenced there for serious charges. I bail him out just because his daughter-"

"Can't she just visit?" Lily asked, hoping that her wish would be granted. "Minister Shacklebolt did away with the Dementors as soon as he took office. It wouldn't be dangerous if she and her mom got to visit him, would it be?"

"Prisoners who were charged with being in Voldemort's circle aren't allowed visitors," her dad sighed. "I'm sorry, but it looks like you and this girl just aren't meant to be friends, Lily."

"At this point, it doesn't bug me that she's not my friend. It bugs me that she misses her dad so much," Lily retorted. "If you were in Azkaban, I'd never stop missing you, regardless of what landed you there. Can't you make an exception for her? She hasn't seen her dad in years."

"It's out of my hands, Lil," he sighed exasperatedly, pulling his work back in front of him.

"You're Head Auror, Dad. You have to carry some authority around the British Ministry," she snapped before walking out of the study and up to the room she was sharing with Rosie and Dom. She flopped back onto her bed and was immediately jumped on by her two cats. She began to think about the past few days.

Two days had passed of the Easter holiday, and Lily hadn't even had an opportunity to open her new Greek books. She had spent the past days hanging out with her family, getting to know her new cat, and playing a lot of family Quidditch as a Chaser. That very night, all of the adults had decided to go out for dinner in Diagon Alley while the kids were left alone with each other and the beach.

"We're all going to go outside and play in the ocean," Rosie said to Lily, who was still lying on her bed and playing with her cats, hours later. "You going to come out?"

Lily was about to accept the invitation, but she remembered her Greek books, which she was hiding under her bed, and Neoma's Trance.

"I'm not feeling too well," she lied. "I might come out later, Rosie."

A concerned look fell across Rosie's feature, "Do you want one of us to stay in here with you? None of us want you getting sick while you're in here alone."

"I'm not going to get sick like that," Lily shrugged. "You can all go out! I'll come outside in an hour or so if I'm feeling up to it."

After Rosie gave her a skeptical look, Lily was able to shoo her out of the bedroom, which was then empty, asides from her and her two cats.