Hikari Chan
Miss Hikari
Lily was prepared for another and hopefully last year at Hogwarts. She had packed everything she would need for her extra school year along with her favorite things: Her perfume, magical nail polish that Luna had gifted her, a couple of fashion magazines both from the wizarding and the muggle worlds, her pink diary with a pink heart locket that could only be locked up by a nonverbal magical spell. The diary was enchanted that it looked as if it only had contained 50 sheets, but it contained countless of sheets that never finished. She was feeling excited about the start of the school year and looking forward to the cooking of magic lessons. She arrived in time for the departure at the train station and since it was crowded as usual with students and their parents, she did not notice if the four odd students had arrived or not. She just went ahead to her first-class compartment which her father had arranged for her like the previous years. However, the difference this time was that she was travelling alone without Clarissa, Pegah and the twins.
…Well I am going meet Pegah at Hogwarts when I arrive... Lily thought excited. ...And my favorite professor Persephone Pyrites and my precious brother...and Luna will teach me cooking with magic. I feel so lucky!
For the first couple of minutes she sat still, taking in the view of the window scenery as the train departed. But then after only ten minutes she felt bored and picked up her magazines. She had just bought them some days ago, not only to keep up with the latest fashion but also to have something to entertain herself with on Hogwarts Express since she was alone in her compartment. The magazines kept her occupied for about two hours, since there were not much to read about but mostly to look at pictures. She found the muggle magazines boring since their pictures did not move like the pictures in the wizarding magazines. The reason that she looked in the former ones was because that she was interested in the clothes, accessories, make up and shoes. However, after two hours had passed, she tried to enjoy the window scenery, but after another ten minutes she was starting to feel restless and tired of sitting down.
...Ugh it is so boring to travel alone....why did I not bring a book with me...that lady with the trolley will pass by soon and arrive to my compartment...but I should not eat to much sweets....only one lollipop...just to kill time...
Five minutes later, Lily was sitting with a large colorful lollipop in her hand, trying not to feel guilty.
In the muggle world, such a kind of multicolored lollipop only had one sweet taste, but in the wizarding world every color of it had its own taste: Sourest lemon, peels of orange, sweetest cherry, sweetest pineapple, sweetest peaches, sourest kiwi and sweetest strawberry.
But ten minutes later she was bored of licking and licking her lollipop. She put a preserving charm on it and covered it with is wrapper to save it for later.
She tried to enjoy the scenery outside, but she was so bored that she wanted to scream. She tried to lay down and take a nap, but she could hardly fall asleep and ended up changing her laying position about hundred times to get comfortable, yet she could not find the perfect laying pose on the seats. She stood up and stretched her arms and decided to take a walk-in corridor but quickly changed her mind before she opened the doors to her compartment. ...The other students may think that I am lost and looking for an empty compartment or place to sit...I’m not so familiar with the rest of the Slytherins and there're probably a lot of annoying kids, starting their first year, everywhere in this train and then there are those four oddballs who never went to school and decided to retake the years they have missed. I hope they won't get sorted into my house and that none of them will take cooking with magic classes with me...I cannot stand them at all, especially that masked oddball......ugh I wish I could talk with Pegah or Clarry right now...Oh I could compose a letter to Clarry and send it to her when I arrive at Hogwarts. That's a perfect idea...Let's write letters to everyone I know and I may feel less bored...
"Line up everyone!" Macnair spoke aloud. He had casted the sonorus charm on his voice so that all students would hear him. "First years to my left , the second years...."
Lily did not bother to greet Stephan, Rosaleya, Athena or the masked student and just ignored them as if they were air and took her place where she was supposed to stand. ...We never had kind of this gathering before... She thought. ..It must be something new this year since the entire staff of this school changed...I wonder what we are going to do...Elias should have told me about this in beforehand...I don't like sudden surprises like this...
"We are going to examine your trunks and none is allowed to leave the Entrance Hall during the examination!"
One professor was assigned to examine each class year of their belongings. ...Ugh, I wonder whose idea it was to assign this moron to examine my trunk... Lily thought annoyed when Flynn was about to examine her trunk. He had already gone through the trunks of Stephan, Athena, Rosaleya and the masked student and did not find anything suspicious. Flynn never opened anyone's trunk and only used his wand in case if there was something off while Macnair opened the trunks of the sixth years. To Lily's surprise, Flynn opened her trunk.
"What the bloody hell are you doing?" She nearly spat.
"I am doing my job, miss," He replied calmly. "Apparently you have liquids in your trunk..." He held up her perfume bottle and nail polish.
"That's just pure perfume and nail polish!" She looked shocked at him with wide eyes.
"We need to get these checked up to see if it is truly perfume and nail polish as you say and nothing else that you are trying to smuggle inside..."
Lily got nearly speechless and looked around as if she was expecting to see her brother. But he was not present at the moment and her eyes fell on Macnair who was examining one certain sixth year student's trunk where he found an adult magazine.
"Ohoo..." Macnair smiled naughtily as he turned some pages in that magazine before putting it back in the trunk.
"Hey! Wait!" Lily burst out. Her face was red of anger. "How can you allow students with dirty magazines but not perfumes or nail polish?! You fricking perverts of teachers!! I am going to write to my father about this!"
At that moment the professors and students who were close turned their heads towards her. Macnair had turned paler than a ghost.
"Of--of---of course you-you--you...are--are...a--a--a-allowed..." He stammered, looking from her to Flynn.
"I was just going to give these to Mulciber to have them checked," Flynn explained himself. "You know all liquids have to be confiscated and checked…that's the headmaster's orders…"
"Come on, if she says it's perfume, it's perfume..." Macnair tried to reason with him while giving him the look that said -You don't want to lose your job, do you-?
"Are you favoring her because her brother is the headmaster and your best friend?"
Macnair got speechless and did not know what to say. This time his face turned several shades of red.
"Write all you want to your father, miss, I am only following the commands of your brother, no more or less. I am going to hand over these bottles to professor Mulciber to have them checked if it's truly a perfume and nail polish before I give them back to you! Is that understood?"
Lily did not answer him and only gave him a murderous look before looking away.
When the assigned professors had finished to examine the trunks, it was time for the students to enter the Great Hall.
"Please line up, the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh years may enter the Great Hall!" August ordered the students.
"You four have to wait with the first years..." Flynn announced to Stephan, Rosaleya, Athena and the masked student. "It is because you have to be sorted into houses..." He explained.
…Well I am going meet Pegah at Hogwarts when I arrive... Lily thought excited. ...And my favorite professor Persephone Pyrites and my precious brother...and Luna will teach me cooking with magic. I feel so lucky!
For the first couple of minutes she sat still, taking in the view of the window scenery as the train departed. But then after only ten minutes she felt bored and picked up her magazines. She had just bought them some days ago, not only to keep up with the latest fashion but also to have something to entertain herself with on Hogwarts Express since she was alone in her compartment. The magazines kept her occupied for about two hours, since there were not much to read about but mostly to look at pictures. She found the muggle magazines boring since their pictures did not move like the pictures in the wizarding magazines. The reason that she looked in the former ones was because that she was interested in the clothes, accessories, make up and shoes. However, after two hours had passed, she tried to enjoy the window scenery, but after another ten minutes she was starting to feel restless and tired of sitting down.
...Ugh it is so boring to travel alone....why did I not bring a book with me...that lady with the trolley will pass by soon and arrive to my compartment...but I should not eat to much sweets....only one lollipop...just to kill time...
Five minutes later, Lily was sitting with a large colorful lollipop in her hand, trying not to feel guilty.
In the muggle world, such a kind of multicolored lollipop only had one sweet taste, but in the wizarding world every color of it had its own taste: Sourest lemon, peels of orange, sweetest cherry, sweetest pineapple, sweetest peaches, sourest kiwi and sweetest strawberry.
But ten minutes later she was bored of licking and licking her lollipop. She put a preserving charm on it and covered it with is wrapper to save it for later.
She tried to enjoy the scenery outside, but she was so bored that she wanted to scream. She tried to lay down and take a nap, but she could hardly fall asleep and ended up changing her laying position about hundred times to get comfortable, yet she could not find the perfect laying pose on the seats. She stood up and stretched her arms and decided to take a walk-in corridor but quickly changed her mind before she opened the doors to her compartment. ...The other students may think that I am lost and looking for an empty compartment or place to sit...I’m not so familiar with the rest of the Slytherins and there're probably a lot of annoying kids, starting their first year, everywhere in this train and then there are those four oddballs who never went to school and decided to retake the years they have missed. I hope they won't get sorted into my house and that none of them will take cooking with magic classes with me...I cannot stand them at all, especially that masked oddball......ugh I wish I could talk with Pegah or Clarry right now...Oh I could compose a letter to Clarry and send it to her when I arrive at Hogwarts. That's a perfect idea...Let's write letters to everyone I know and I may feel less bored...
"Line up everyone!" Macnair spoke aloud. He had casted the sonorus charm on his voice so that all students would hear him. "First years to my left , the second years...."
Lily did not bother to greet Stephan, Rosaleya, Athena or the masked student and just ignored them as if they were air and took her place where she was supposed to stand. ...We never had kind of this gathering before... She thought. ..It must be something new this year since the entire staff of this school changed...I wonder what we are going to do...Elias should have told me about this in beforehand...I don't like sudden surprises like this...
"We are going to examine your trunks and none is allowed to leave the Entrance Hall during the examination!"
One professor was assigned to examine each class year of their belongings. ...Ugh, I wonder whose idea it was to assign this moron to examine my trunk... Lily thought annoyed when Flynn was about to examine her trunk. He had already gone through the trunks of Stephan, Athena, Rosaleya and the masked student and did not find anything suspicious. Flynn never opened anyone's trunk and only used his wand in case if there was something off while Macnair opened the trunks of the sixth years. To Lily's surprise, Flynn opened her trunk.
"What the bloody hell are you doing?" She nearly spat.
"I am doing my job, miss," He replied calmly. "Apparently you have liquids in your trunk..." He held up her perfume bottle and nail polish.
"That's just pure perfume and nail polish!" She looked shocked at him with wide eyes.
"We need to get these checked up to see if it is truly perfume and nail polish as you say and nothing else that you are trying to smuggle inside..."
Lily got nearly speechless and looked around as if she was expecting to see her brother. But he was not present at the moment and her eyes fell on Macnair who was examining one certain sixth year student's trunk where he found an adult magazine.
"Ohoo..." Macnair smiled naughtily as he turned some pages in that magazine before putting it back in the trunk.
"Hey! Wait!" Lily burst out. Her face was red of anger. "How can you allow students with dirty magazines but not perfumes or nail polish?! You fricking perverts of teachers!! I am going to write to my father about this!"
At that moment the professors and students who were close turned their heads towards her. Macnair had turned paler than a ghost.
"Of--of---of course you-you--you...are--are...a--a--a-allowed..." He stammered, looking from her to Flynn.
"I was just going to give these to Mulciber to have them checked," Flynn explained himself. "You know all liquids have to be confiscated and checked…that's the headmaster's orders…"
"Come on, if she says it's perfume, it's perfume..." Macnair tried to reason with him while giving him the look that said -You don't want to lose your job, do you-?
"Are you favoring her because her brother is the headmaster and your best friend?"
Macnair got speechless and did not know what to say. This time his face turned several shades of red.
"Write all you want to your father, miss, I am only following the commands of your brother, no more or less. I am going to hand over these bottles to professor Mulciber to have them checked if it's truly a perfume and nail polish before I give them back to you! Is that understood?"
Lily did not answer him and only gave him a murderous look before looking away.
When the assigned professors had finished to examine the trunks, it was time for the students to enter the Great Hall.
"Please line up, the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh years may enter the Great Hall!" August ordered the students.
"You four have to wait with the first years..." Flynn announced to Stephan, Rosaleya, Athena and the masked student. "It is because you have to be sorted into houses..." He explained.
