Speechless

Chapter One: A Wave Meant To Wash Me Away

"Please state your name, in its entirety, for the record."

"Lily Luna Potter."

"Thank you, Miss Potter. And your age?"

Lily straightened up deliberately in her seat. "Eighteen years and seven months."

"Your location of birth?"

"Islington, London, at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, back when my father, Harry Potter, owned it before he and my other father, Severus Snape, were married."

"Your Hogwarts House?"

"Gryffindor."

"And what classes are your best at Hogwarts?"

"Charms, Transfiguration, Potions, and Care of Magical Creatures."

"In that order?"

Lily found herself smirking. "Depends on the day."

The examiner pressed on. "You are the only daughter of Auror Harry Potter and Potions Master Severus Snape, correct?"

Lily chewed on her lower lip. "To my knowledge, that's true."

"One younger sibling—Albus Severus Potter. Is that correct?"

Lily nodded. "Yes."

"Your magic manifested at what age?"

"I was two," Lily responded.

"How did it manifest?"

"My hair turned red."

"Your hair turned red?"

Lily's brows knit together at that. "Yes."

"Are you a Metamorphmagus?"

"No."

"And how are you aware of that?"

"Auror Nymphadora Tonks informed my fathers of that fact after she examined me to determine whether or not I was one."

"And, it seems, you've kept your red hair?"

Lily lowered her green eyes, taking in the red hair she saw which grew down past her shoulders and halfway down her back. "I did, yes. No spell, potion, magical or Muggle medicine could revert it back to its raven color."

"And are you able to produce a Patronus Charm?"

"I am."

"Are you an Animagus?"

"Yes."

"Are you registered?"

"Yes. My fathers took me for registration during the Christmas holidays during my third-year at Hogwarts. I went unregistered for three months, with special permission from Headmistress Minerva McGonagall, so as not to miss any classes."

"Are your Patronus Charm and Animagus form the same?"

"They are."

The examiner raised up a sheet of paper wandlessly, and permitted it to float across the room so as it was suspended in front of Lily's face. "Is this your Animagus registration form, with the signatures of both your fathers, Headmistress McGonagall, and Minister of Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt?"

Lily peered at the document before her and nodded. "It is."

"Confirm that your Animagus form is correctly written on the document, please."

Lily scanned the document quickly, her green eyes quickly roving over the page before her, until the words Animagus Form stared back at her. She read what had been scrawled via quill into the line itself, before she nodded. "Yes, that is correct."