╔《 Lily Evens 》╗
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Lily had learned that Hogwarts was rarely quiet.
There was always a portrait arguing with another portrait, footsteps echoing down corridors, someone laughing too loudly from around a corner. Even the library had its own particular sort of noise — parchment turning, quills scratching, whispered conversations that weren’t nearly as quiet as their owners believed. Yet tonight, she had found a rare pocket of silence.
She sat beneath one of the windows overlooking the grounds, a book open across her knees but largely forgotten. The sunset had painted the glass in shades of gold and rose.
Then she heard footsteps. Lily didn’t look up immediately “if that’s Potter,” she murmured, turning another page, “I’m going to throw this book at him” a pause “…and if it’s not Potter, I suppose I’ll owe someone an apology.”