Harry Potter Next Generation-Lily's first year

Gaining Information

It's been 2 days since they got home for winter holiday and today Lucy and Alice are taking Lily ice skating. Lucy and Alice walk up to the door and Lucy knocks on the door. Ginny opens the door "Hullo girls."

"Hullo aunt Ginny" Lucy says at the same time Alice says "Hi Mrs.P" Ginny opens the door and lets them in. Lucy steps in and smells sugar cookies. She also just then notices Ginny is wearing an apron "Making cookies?" Lucy asks.

"Oh! Yes I am. They are just cooling down. If you want, before you go I can get you some" Ginny says smiling. Alice and Lucy nod. "Lily is still upstairs. Looking for her skates I think. If you want to speed up the process girls you can go on up and help her"Alice and Lucy nods then walk up to Lily's room. Alice knocks on Lily's slightly open door and they hear a faint "come in". They walk in and see Lily pushing around in her closet.

"Hi Lily" Alice says.

"Lils almost ready to go?" Lucy asks.

Lily rolls her eyes.this is going to be a long day, Lily thought to herself. She finally finds a hidden box and pulls out her ice skates. She stands up "Yeah I finally found my skates"

"Good because I'm ready to ice skate" Lucy tells her.

"Me too!" Alice exclaimed. Hopefully we could get some info out of Lily and maybe some hot cocoa!

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The three of them made it to the ice skating rink about 10 minutes later, being that the ice skating rink is down the street. It was a particularly warm winter so far. Still cold but warmer than most. They still were all bundled up in coats, scarfs, hats and gloves. After getting in their ice skates they step on the rink and start skating. Alice and Lucy talking and laughing about school, siblings or something else. Then Lucy notices how quiet Lily is being. "Hey Lils you ok? You're never this quiet." Lily just shrugs then Lucy spots a boy who looks about Lily's age "Lils look he's cute isn't he?You should talk to him since apparently you and Sander aren't dating anymore.I've been meaning to ask you what happened with you two anyway?" Lucy asks and Alice perks up to see if she would answer.

"It was nothing" Lily says shortly.

"You sure? You always told me you really liked him" Lucy asks suspiciously.

"Oookay....How have your powers been they're not acting out are they?" Alice speaks up trying to help.

"No. I have training." Lily responds.I did not mean to say that, Lily winced at what she said.

"With Minnie?" Alice asks.

"Ha!No she can't help me!" Lily says rudely.

"Then who?" Lucy chimed in.

"No one you know and frankly it's none of your business"

"Lils that's a bit rude and also I'm your cousin so I care about you so I wanted to know and once upon a time we were besties" Lucy said with a sympathetic smile.

"You guys promise you won't tell anyone?" Lily asks.

"I promise" Alice says smiling.

"Weasley swear" Lucy said.

"Okay.... her name is Delphi and she has similar powers to mine, she can fly without a broom!How cool is that?!" Lily exclaims. Immediately Alice pales and Lucy tries to think back to when she heard that name. Alice realizes where and when she heard that name. It was that crazed lunatic from Albus' first year. Lily was 9 at the time so the grown ups thought she was to young to know the full details. She just knew Al and Scorp got in trouble and a bad person went to Azkaban.

Where did I hear that name, Lucy thought and turned to Alice but by the look on her face she knew where and who that was. "Cool!" Lucy states.

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After about an hour and a half they were done and left to the Potter's. They stopped in the kitchen and got hot cocoa then Lily went up to her room. Alice looks at Lucy and nods then they run to Albus's room, pull him off his bed and away from his book then into James' room. "What is this about Alice? I was reading" Albus asks sitting next to his brother who also looked perplexed. Alice and Lucy were standing in front of them.Lucy puts a finger on her mouth to signal for him to be quiet. She looks outside the door then closes it and locks it.

"I think I know what Lils is doing in the ROR" Alice tells them then sits on the floor and Lucy follows suit and sits next to her.

"What?! Really?! Tell me!" James practically yelled and Lucy shushed him again.

"She's training with her powers! By Delphi!" Alice tells them and Albus pales.

"B-But She-She's in Azkaban!!" Albus stutters clearly upset and scared even though he wouldn't admit it.

"Yeah clearly not! We need help and have to tell someone!" Lucy tells them.

"No we can't!" Albus says and everyone look at him confused "I know how she works if we tell an adult or Lily that we know it could get worse especially for Lily so we can't tell adults but that doesn't mean we can't get help from other people."

"Like who?" James asks.

"Scorp for starters he also went up against her" Albus states leaning against the wall behind him.

"Won't he tell Rose? And she's bit of a tattletale" Lucy asks.

"He's my best friend he won't tell if I ask him not to but also since he's my best friend I got leverage on him so..." Albus trails off and gives a shrug.

"If he doesn't listen your gonna blackmail him?!" Alice exclaims and James laughs but stops when Alice shots him a glare.
"whipped" Lucy says in a hushed voice and only Albus hears her and chuckles.

"Technically yes but I don't think it will come to that he knows how dire the situation is" Albus informs them.

"If you say so" Lucy chimes in.

"I do say so"Albus sassed.

Lucy rolls her eyes and scoffs "Okay why don't you go owl him why we actually think of a plan"

"Woah Luce woke up on the wrong side of the bed?" James asks surprised at how rude she was. Lucy was the 'nice cousin'.

Lucy smacks his arm. Hard. "James!This is serious! Al go owl Scorpius"

Albus stands up "ok ok I'm going." Albus said. He left the room and went to his room to write Scorpius using his owl Avalon. After a minute or two Albus returned and sat back down next to James. "There I did it happy?"

"Yes thank you" Lucy responded.

"What exactly did you write him?" James asked.

"Told him it's urgent and for him to come over as soon as he could"

"Cryptic much?"James said and Albus just shrugged.

"We need to think of a plan" Lucy states.

"Well that's going to be hard seeing people don't even know Delphi escaped and we can't get in the ROR." Albus told them.

"Luce and Longbottom could get us in. Lily trust them." James said sitting up.

"How are we supposed to do that?" Alice asks.

"I don't know just get her to trust you and tell you what Delphi has planned"

"She might not even know what Delphi has planned" Albus pointed out. He sighed and layer down on the bed.

"I don't know! We just might have to interrogate her at the Christmas Eve party!" James exclaimed frustrated.

"We'll figure something out we got time. And Scorpius could help us too when he comes" Luce said hopefully.

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