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A/N: I'm really really sorry about the delay, but my sister was home these past few days and she decided to take over the computer. So I've had no time to write. But here's the next chapter now! Yay!!

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Hermione woke up with a smile on her face, quickly turning into a frown, and thought My that was a good dream. Too bad it's over. She sighed, pulling back the covers and getting out of bed. She walked over to her bureau and took out a jean skirt and a light blue tank top. She walked to the adjoining bath and took a quick shower, shampooing her hair and then putting conditioner in.

Hermione put on a towel and quickly brushed her teeth, before searching for her brush. I must have left it in the living room yesterday, she thought before walking into her bedroom and then out to the living room. She couldn't find it there so walked into the kitchen and grabbed it from a counter by the door.

"Morning, Mione!" Hermione jumped and looked at the source of the voice, coming from in front of the refrigerator. It was…Harry.

"Mione?" Harry said, looking at her questionably. But…it was a dream. No! It's real! Without another thought Hermione ran to Harry and wrapped him in a fierce hug saying,

"It is real! You're back. You're back!" Harry hugged her back before stepping away and smiling timidly, saying,

"I thought we had established this last night, Hermione." She smiled at him slightly before saying,

"I er…thought it might have been a dream." She looked at the floor and realized that the only thing she had on was a towel.

"I'm just…wearing a towel, aren't I? Well then, I'll go." She quickly ran out of the room blushing, before thinking, I'm going crazy, aren't I? Harry's seen me in much less than just a towel. It's so weird, so different. He's back. Things are going to change. She walked back to her room and brushed out her hair before putting on her undergarments and then her shirt and skirt. She looked at herself critically in the mirror. There's something different. Something's changed already, what is it? The bags under my eyes are gone, but…they're sparkling! My eyes are sparkling again! She jumped up and down excitedly before casting a drying charm on her hair and walking into the kitchen.

When Hermione walked in, she saw Harry in front of the stove and heard something sizzling.

"What are you making?" She asked as she came up behind him. He turned smiled, saying,

"Bacon and eggs. Scrambled with cheese, just the way you like them." She smiled at him and said,

"I do hope you mean the eggs. I don't know how bacon would taste with cheese." He chuckled and nodded, saying,

"Yeah, it is the eggs. I could've just used magic but…I felt like doing it the old fashioned way." Hermione smiled her radiant smile at him and said softly,

"That was nice of you, Harry." They looked at each other for a moment before Harry jumping back around and, realizing the food was done, put the bacon onto one of the plates he had waiting, and the eggs on another. Hermione opened a cupboard and quickly got out two plates, and cups, before reaching into a drawer and getting two forks. She reached into the fridge to get the pumpkin juice and turned around, not finding it, to see Harry smiling, holding it in his hand.

"We always have pumpkin juice for every meal. I got it out already." They smiled at each other before Hermione walked over to the table and set the silverware and plates in front of Harry and her's places at the dinner table, as Harry set down the food and the pumpkin juice. She smiled at him weakly as she thought, It's weird, everything's so different and yet…the same. They both reached onto the plates and grabbed a piece of bacon and then piled some eggs onto their plates. Harry poured pumpkin juice into both of their glasses and they finished their breakfast in silence.

Hermione sighed, saying,

"I didn't eat that much, yet it feels like I've eaten a hippogriff." Harry smiled and said,

"I feel the same. I don't want to get up to do the dishes." Hermione raised an eyebrow at him and said,

"Has that eleven year coma made you completely forget magic, Harry?" She smiled at him teasingly before levitating all the dishes into the sink and casting a few cleaning and drying charms. Harry smiled his lopsided grin at her and said,

"So…what do you want to do today, Mione?" She thought for a moment before saying,

"Absolutely nothing at all." Harry smiled at her and said,

"Sounds pretty good to me." They sat for a moment before Hermione jumped up and said,

"Lily! She doesn't know! Oh, I have to owl her. And…and Dumbledore! He'll know what to do about telling the people, and he'll have to help us ease Lily into the idea of you being back. Oh there's so much to do!" She said all this very fast before bustling into the living room and grabbing parchment and a quill, quickly writing a note to Dumbledore telling him some of the situation and asking permission to visit Hogwarts to tell Lily about it.

Harry walked into the room and saw Hermione with a panicked expression on her face, looking for the owl.

"Mione. Just…calm down, okay? Everything will be all right." He said soothingly as he wrapped her in his strong arms.

"But Harry! How will she react to having a father after all these years? How will everyone react, Harry? Everything's so confusing…" Hermione said before burying her head in Harry's chest and breathing in and out deeply.

"We'll work it out, Mione. We'll work it out. Today let's just…relax, okay?" Hermione looked up at his worried face and smiled slightly, whispering,

"Okay." Harry smiled back at her and gave her a quick peck on the lips. They wrapped themselves up in a warm embrace and turned their heads, alarmed, as a noise came from the fireplace. Luna appeared in the fireplace with Tammy in her arms, followed by a loud pop as Ron apparated over. He looked worriedly at Tammy and said,

"Was that okay, Tammy? It's all right if you were scared." Tammy jumped down from Luna's arms and yelled,

"It was fun! Aunt Hermy!" She said this when she turned and saw Hermione, running towards her to hug her legs. Hermione gulped worriedly as she saw Ron and Luna look in hers and Harry's direction. Both their mouths dropped open before they both promptly fainted.

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Lily's first days at Hogwarts had been amazing. She loved all her classes and had made many new friends. She had been sorted into Gryffindor, of course, along with Maggie and Matt. The other first years in Gryffindor included Emma Wood (Oliver Wood's, the famous quidditch player's, daughter), Maggie & Matt, Katie Anderson, Angie Jordan (Lee Jordan's daughter), Thomas Malfoy (More Draco and Ginny spawn), Sean Grant, and Michael Finnigan (Seamus and Lavender's son).

Emma Wood instantly became a very good friend of the trio. She had shoulder length blonde hair and was petite for her age. She went running every day and wanted to be a chaser. Angie Jordan and Katie Anderson were very energetic and seemed to be great pranksters. Thomas was nice and quite smart, Matt and him had always gotten along quite well, being the sons of the two youngest Weasleys. Sean Grant, a muggleborn, and Michael Finnigan were best friends instantly, almost like a younger Dean and Seamus.

Lily liked most of her teachers. She liked Potions a lot; Professor Snape was really nice to her and on the first day she had earned 10 points for Gryffindor by answering his questions. The Transfiguration professor, Professor Lawrence, was young and new. She was very funny and energetic. Professor Longbottom, the Herbology professor, was really nice to her and she found she liked this class a lot. In DADA, the professor was Professor Tonks, an old friend of her mother's. This class was one of her favorites. History of Magic was pretty boring, since the ghost Professor Binns still taught it. And Charms was still taught by Professor Flitwick, who was very energetic and excited.

On her fourth day of classes Lily was very excited, for it was the day they would have flying lessons! She woke up early with Maggie and Emma, who were also anxious to learn how to fly.

"I wonder how much we get to try today. I hope it won't be too boring, since Daddy has taught me a lot already," Emma said as she walked down to the common room with Maggie and Lily. Lily smiled at her, saying,

"It must be so exciting, having a famous quidditch player for a dad!" Emma nodded and said,

"Well, I get to go to all the games and stuff, but there's always people crowding him on the street and stuff, mostly girls. Sometimes I just want to yell, `He's married and has two kids! Lay off!'" Lily and Maggie both giggled as they met up with Matt and Thomas and started off to breakfast. Everyone being a fan of flying, they automatically got caught up on talking about their upcoming lesson with the Slytherins, quidditch, and the like.

"Dad was a Slytherin in Hogwarts, you know, but I'm glad I got Mum's house preference. The Slytherin's are so mean and…"

Matt cut in jokingly saying,

"Greasy?" Thomas and Maggie laughed at his reference to Professor Snape while Emma and Lily, both fans of him, glared at them.

"I like Professor Snape a lot, you guys. He's perfectly nice. Remember the ten points to Gryffindor?" Lily said defiantly. Matt raised his eyebrows slightly and said,

"As opposed to the twenty points off of Gryffindor?" Emma glared at him and said,

"That was all your and Thomas's fault. You should not have dumped your cauldron on that poor Slytherin boy. He still has the boils." While Thomas snickered at that, Matt gaped at her and said,

"It was his own fault for being mean to Lily. And he's the most evil of all of them, stupid rat-faced whiny…" He rambled off on how much he hated the Slytherin's, while Lily smiled at him and said,

"It was perfectly nice of you to stick up for me like that," she gave him a peck on the cheek and he blushed, "but you didn't have to give him irreversible boils. Although…it was a little funny." They all cracked up as they walked into the great hall and took their seats at the Gryffindor table and started eating. With their mouths full of food Matt, Thomas, Michael, and Sean began talking about quidditch. Katie leaned forward towards Emma, Lily, and Maggie so her straight long red hair fell onto the table and said,

"Don't tell anyone, but Angie and I have found a secret passageway already. It's behind the portrait of Douglas the Doomed. It leads to-" Fred and George had just come to the table and sat down beside their two new favorite partner's in crime as George cut in saying,

"It leads to the teacher's dormitories! We didn't find that till last year, as second years!" George hugged the black-haired Angie and yelled loudly,

"This here is one of my new best friends!" Angie giggled with Katie as Fred hugged her. They let go and George turned to his cousin, Lily, and Emma and said,

"You girls excited for your flying lesson?" This started the three girls on talking about quidditch with Fred and George for the rest of breakfast.

On the way to their flying lesson the five children were practically bouncing off the walls from excitement. They reached the quidditch pitch where the Slytherins already were and Madam Hooch started talking about the dangers of flying. Right before they were going to try going up in the air, Professor Dumbledore walked onto the field. The children, who most had not yet seen him up close, gasped in awe as he came down.

He walked up to Madam Hooch and showed her a note. She gasped slightly and her eyes widened as they glanced towards Lily. Dumbledore said something to her quietly and she nodded. He then smiled and said,

"Lily Potter, if you could come with me please." Her eyes widened and she looked helplessly towards her friends. Maggie shrugged and patted her on the shoulder as she walked past her and after Dumbledore. This is going to be about the dungbombs Matt and Thomas put off, isn't it? I told them not to do it! She was so scared as she walked after Dumbledore that she wasn't even that amazed as he said the password to his office and the stairs appeared. She stepped onto them silently and also was too scared to be in awe of his office. She smiled slightly at the phoenix she saw, though.

"Sit down, please," Dumbledore said with a smile as he looked down at her through his half-moon spectacles. She sat down before his desk and he sat down behind it, clasping his hands together on top of it and smiling, saying,

"Well, Lily, how have your first few days gone? I am most sorry I've pulled you out of your flying lesson." She swallowed and said, her eyes wide and fearful,

"That's okay, Professor Dumbledore…Sir…. My first days have er…gone good. I like all my classes. But well, Professor, if this is about the dungbombs, I swear to you, it w-wasn't me that set them off." Dumbledore looked confused for a second before he chuckled quietly and said,

"No, that's not it, Lily. I'm sure it wasn't you though, anyway. I just am talking to you to tell you that your mother will be visiting in a couple of days. She has a…well…a surprise for you, that I'm sure you'll be most happy about. You may return to your lesson now." Lily was surprised at something so mild as this to be called to the headmaster's office, but stood up and said,

"Well, er…thank you then. Goodbye." She walked out the door and onto the staircase, wondering about what surprise would be big enough for her mother to come all the way here. She thought about it all through her flying lesson, and for the rest of the day.

A/N: Well…there was a sort of boring chapter. I could have written more but I figured you had waited long enough for the next chapter. So please review! And if you're going to say something bad about it, please tell me how I can improve on the part you didn't like. On another story I received the worst review a person could get, just being mean about it! It got me a bit angry, so…well…be nice about it, please? Review!!!!

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