Lily Potter the Harry Potter After Years (BOOK #1)

Chapter Three:

Tara, Lauren and I all boarded the same small boat along with one of the teachers that would take us across the lake. The teacher was a giant. Literally. He was about the size of me times three! He had a big bushy beard, and a round tummy. He looked a bit like a nicer groomed troll, I would say. His name, he said, was Hagrid, and he seemed a little TOO excited to meet me. Making the boat rock under his feet as he hugged me and told me all kinds of things he and my dad had done.
Tara and Lauren looked at me sympathetically as Hagrid went on and on about one time when he had first met my dad and had taken him to Diagon Alley. I had already heard most of the stories, all of the stories, actually.
"So then I come back with your dads pet owl, Hedwig. And you should of seen the look on his face....I'm sorry, am I boring you bunch, I can stop."
"No , no it's just I've already heard all of the stories."
"Oh," Hagrid said seeming disappointed," have you heard the one where your dad went to gringotts?"
I nodded.
"What about the one where he got put under a spell by professor Snape? Or the one where he got into the womping willow, or, have you heard the one about him going into the chamber of secrets?"
"The what now?"
"The Chamber of Secrets. Don't tell me that Harry never told ya!"
I shook my head confused.
"Well then, I suppose there IS something I can tell you." Hagrid said turning to me, shaking the boat in the process making all of us shudder.
I stared silently at him, "proceed."
"So you know I'm sure about Voldemort, and his legacy," Hagrid said as I nodded," well he was the heir of slytherin, Salazar Slytherin, and could speak parsed tongue, so he found out about this chamber hidden in the castle, and set out to find it. He succeeded. He possessed Ginny Weasley, your mum, and made her do things for him, for he didn't actually have a body of his own if that makes any sense. So your dad was actually blamed for the attacks this giant snake that lived in the chamber of secrets would do, because he could also speak parsel tongue......"
"What's parsel tongue?" Lauren asked.
"The language snakes speak." Hagrid explained and we all nodded.
" So your dad decided to prove he was innocent, with the help of Ron and Hermione. They found the entrance and went in to find rons sister and your mom Ginny, who had been kidnapped and was in the middle of being killed, they got down there and long story short they saved Ginny and made it out okay."
Hagrid carefully rowed the boat up to the Hogwarts dock and stepped out. Tying the boat to the dock he helped all three of us out and onto shore.
"Why did my dad never tell me any of this?" I said mostly to myself, but Hagrid heard.
"I dunno Lily, but your dads a good man and I'm sure he has his reasons."
I nodded and then looked up the bank towards Hogwarts.
Hogwarts was gigantic. It was made of beige colored bricks with golden brown roofs and had giant colored windows all around on it. It was extremely pretty and glistened silver in the moonlight.
Tara saw me staring and giggled, "I know it's so big right! My mom showed me pictures she had of it and I was always so shocked at how big it looked! But now that I'm actually here........"
I nodded.
"Well come on you guys! You're gonna want ta see the inside if you like the outside enough."
I laughed and followed Hagrid, Tara, Lauren, and the rest of the new students up the winding road that led to Hogwarts.
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When we got inside everyone sectioned off, the older students went to the great hall after dropping their stuff off at the dorms, while the new students went straight to the dorms to get ready for the sorting ceremony. We had dropped our luggage off at the storage room so we could pick it up after we had finished the feast. Then we would go to whatever dormitory the sorting hat had sorted us into and unpack. For now, we all had to change in the Hufflepuff dorm because they had been ever so nice as to let us use their dorm to change in.
I was in the middle of hurrying up the stairs to the Hufflepuff room when the stairs shifted slightly, then moved to a whole different platform.
"What do we do now?" I asked gripping the staircase railing.
"I guess we could go into that room, there must be another way to get to the dorm through there." Lauren said.
"But we don't know that," another dark haired student said uneasily from behind us," it could lead to some monster, or a giant slug."
"Are you Neville long bottoms kid?" I asked turning to the boy.
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"Just a hunch." I replied turning back around to face Tara and Lauren.
"Well we can't stay here forever, come on we'll just have to go this way." Tara said promptly turning around and marching up the stairs.
Lauren, the other boy and I followed her reluctantly.
We approached the door and Tara knocked loudly.
"Hello! Anyone in there?" She asked loudly.
No reply.
Tara slowly pushed the door open and beckoned for us to follow her inside.
The hallway was dark but was instantly lit up by windows opening. At the end of the hall there was a large statue of an eagle.
"Where is this?" Lauren asked.
We all shrugged and slowly started to advance down the hallway.
We reached the statue and frowned.
"This is it?" Lauren exclaimed, " a statue?"
"Well we should go back now, the feast will start soon and we kind of have to be there to, you know, be sorted and all." The boy said. I hadn't asked his name.
"Okay let's go." Tara said reluctantly and started to walk back down the hall with us.
"I hope they have sherbet lemon, oops I meant lemon sherbet for dessert." The boy said dreamily.
Suddenly we heard a noise from behind us.
We all turned and gasped as the statue started to move, revealing a secret stairway leading up.
"You did it!" Tara exclaimed patting the boy on the back and running up to the stair case with the rest of us.
"What did I do?"
"Sherbet lemon must be the password!" Tara exclaimed reaching the staircase and starting to walk up, she stopped abruptly when she saw we weren't following her.
"You coming?"
I sighed and started up the staircase with her, followed by Lauren, and then the very hesitant boy.
When we reached the top we saw another door ahead.
"Go on, open it." Tara said to me as I approached the door.
I carefully twisted the knob and pushed open the door to reveal an office.
It was quite small, but was filled to the brim with books, magic potions and papers. In the corner there was a small bird ledge, nothing was on it however.
"You there!" Someone shouted making all of us jump.
We turned to see a large wizards hat, sitting up on a ledge, it was staring down at us with a slight smile on its........lips?
"Well well well, I've been waiting for the day you would come." The hat said grinning at me, then it turned to Lauren, Tara, and the boy, "you three as well, Lauren, Tara, and Connor."
So that was the boys name!
"It was nice to see you all, but you should best be leaving before the head master returns to get me." The hat said and I instantly recognized it as the sorting hat.
"Wait a second, you're the sorting hat!" Tara exclaimed speaking for me.
"The one and only," the hat said proudly, "now...."
Suddenly we heard footsteps in that hall, approaching the door.
"Hide." The sorting hat hissed at us.
"Where?" I whispered back as we began to panic.
Instead of replying the hat pointed his tip towards a small cupboard for potions.
We all dashed to it and ducked inside quickly, we had just shut the door when the office door opened.
"Are you ready for sorting some more students?" The headmaster asked the hat, getting him down off the shelf.
"Of course, I hear Lilly Potter is here."
"Yes she is, so is the Weasley's and Grangers other child Hugo."
"Another Weasley! Well well at least I know where to put him."
The headmaster laughed then left the room, shutting the door behind him.
A second later we carefully snuck out of the closet and went straight to the door, I grabbed the knob and pulled, and pulled.......and pulled again.
"Locked." I said shaking my head at the door frustratedly.
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