Disclaimer: Harry Potter does not belong to me. Only the characters that you don't recognize belong to me. Some aspects of this story are based off of a book called Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals.
A/N: Finally.
Summary: Lily is chosen to attend Hogwarts, a chance in a lifetime. Lily joins three other Muggleborns on their adventure to Hogwarts, but they soon realize what the label "Muggleborn" really means. They are taunted, abused and are cruelly treated by all purebloods. In the midst of bloodcism, Lily somehow falls in love with the most popular boy in school, a pureblood wizard, James Potter. Yet, does James Potter, the coolest pureblood in Hogwarts who by far is the most watched individual in Hogwarts, fall for her?
Chapter 1:
"Class, as you all read from the Magic Weekly Gazette, the Ministry of Magic will be performing an integration of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hopefully this will stop the bloodcist in our magical world." (A/N: Bloodcist, same as Racist, except with blood.) Everyone was quiet. "Luckily, Surrey Magical School is picked to let at least three students to join Hogwarts. As we all know, Hogwarts is one of the three greatest magic schools in the world. Only three of you will be chosen and move on to the interviews with the Minister himself. After that he will only choose one, only one of the three that would be most fit to go to Hogwarts."
The class was still silent.
A girl with red hair had green eyes twinkling at her thought of attending Hogwarts. She had a dazzling complexion, slender and was only 15 years old, a common Muggle-born witch attending a small magic school established in her local area.
"For those of you who wish to attend Hogwarts, you need to fill out applications and sign them. They are due tomorrow."
Lily gawked. What kind of last minute call was this?
Ms. Aki ignored Lily's shocked face. "The reason why this is last minute is because the principal felt that it would be best to lower our number of participants. If we do have a student chosen to attend Hogwarts, there is no doubt that the press will have a field day at our school. No less, we'll have protests and other large complications."
Lily shut her mouth and then crossed her arms in her seat. 'Figures,' Lily thought. 'The school doesn't want to risk any so called 'complications.' Then again, I don't blame him...with what the Ministry did and all...'
For a red-blooded, Muggle-born witch whose life goal was to soak up as much information like a sponge, this wasn't a rare thought. Lily could feel her anger boil under the surface of her calm composure. It was amazing, really, the past 50 years there had been signs of Muggle-born witches and wizards. At first, the purebloods were outraged at the fact that Muggleborns witches and wizards existed. How could two Muggles ever produce a witch and wizard with the ability to cast magic? It was against natural law, as they put it. Soon, Muggleborns began to overpopulate the purebloods, which only deepened purebloods' hate for them. It was then that the Ministry of Magic took care of it and wove out small magic schools around neighborhood areas for the Muggleborns.
Apparently, the Ministry and the rest of the Wizarding world felt that Muggleborns were not fit enough to attend the greater magic schools.
In any case, the purebloods have been against the Muggleborns ever since, creating bloodcism, the discrimination against witches and wizards who have Muggle blood running through their veins. Back when they established the schools, the Minister also felt the same as the purebloods, thus with low class schools installed in countries. Now, with a new Minister, he has decided to stop bloodcism, even if the protests and the popular opinion would go against that. Well, at least he was trying to.
"That would be the bell," Ms. Aki said when a shrill ring could be heard through out the whole building. "You may go. Students who want to go to Hogwarts, please stay so I can hand you the forms."
"Imagine going to Hogwarts!" a student breathed as he passed by Lily, who was packing up her bags. She smiled at the statement. It would be an amazing experience, attending Hogwarts. As students filed out the classroom, Lily hung behind, and then walked over to Ms. Aki.
"Ah, Miss Evans, I knew you would be interested. Seems to me, you're the only one that is," Ms. Aki said as she shuffled through her desk for the application forms.
"Now, once you have filled this out, turn it in the front desk and they'll owl it to the Ministry of Magic. I believe after two weeks, you will be interviewed by the Minister himself. And then, the rest is up to fate." Ms. Aki smiled and handed her the papers in one large purple-bluish folder.
"Thank you, Ms. Aki!" Lily said, and took the folder, putting it into her bag and walking out of the classroom.
"Watch out for the others!" Ms. Aki called out, just as Lily let the door shut.
And there they were, just as she had expected them to be. The gangs of purebloods, who were always lurking in some kind of corner in the street, just so they could jump a few Muggleborns on the way home.
Lily scuffed her feet on the pavement and pondered whether or not to walk slowly and coolly, or to make a break for it. Lily eyed at the stone wall that was pretty far from where she was. She could get there easily, but she wasn't so sure about the purebloods. They were mostly wizards, her age, she believed, ones who didn't have enough wizard money to go into a better magic school. Grimly, she took a few steps, cautiously and looked behind her to check up on them.
One boy, who seemed of the Spanish descent, eyed her warily, and put his hands on his hips, and smirked, daring her to make a run for the wall.
Lily could feel her face turn hot red. She brandished her wand, even if she didn't know as much as the purebloods, it still made her feel safe. Even if underage magic was illegal.
"Okay, Lily, they're just like you, only, you know, with an ego the size of the universe. Breathe calmly, walk calmly and get to the door calmly," Lily said quietly to herself as she walked slowly.
Lily walked past them like she didn't even know they were there, shuffling her feet on the ground quickly to the stone wall on the other end, her exit and her salvation to the Muggle world.
A few feet away, her ears picked up multiple sets of footsteps marching towards her. Lily choked on her breath in alarm, now running to get to the end of the street.
"Go home, Mudblood!" A shout came from behind.
"MUDBLOOD!" A kid said, picking up some rocks.
"Go back to where you belong!"
Lily groaned, and her heart quickened its beat. How many times did her mom warn her not to stay late after school, even if it was only five minutes? How many times did her father tell her to always try to leave early, just in case anything like this might happen?
Why hadn't Lily just asked Ms. Aki to escort her to the door! But it was too late, she was already being chased and the stone wall seemed so far away.
"Mudblood! Mudblood! Mudblood!" They taunted, laughing hysterically as they grabbed rocks to throw at her.
Lily ducked and picked up her school bag to use as a shield. 'If only I could just use magic!' Lily thought.
"You don't belong in this world!"
"Go back to your filthy Muggle parents!"
Lily ran and took a sharp turn. The boys still followed her. 'Ahhh! I can't lose them!' Lily thought. She dragged her book bag and held it with two hands. She whipped around, anger striking her face,
"If you take another step, I swear to Merlin that I'll whack you with this!" she growled.
The boys smirked. It seemed that a couple of silly girls tagged along with them because instead of smirking, they were giggling.
"What makes you think that we can't just hex you?" The Spanish boy asked.
Lily's green eyes narrowed at him. "You should know, underage wizardry isn't allowed," Lily hissed, raising her bag a little higher.
The boy took a step closer. "You know, if I were you, I would watch out, because He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named might come after you. After Muggle-lovers, he's going to come after you Mudbloods," he leered, his face nearly six inches from hers.
Lily's face was contorted with anger. She took the her bag and whacked his face with it and then turned around and sprinted for the wall, all the while taking out her wand and pointing at it as she heard the footsteps of the crowd come closer and closer.
"Even if you get out there, you Mudblood, we'll still be able to catch you!" the boy said, this time he took out a knife. Lily's eyes widened. 'Who in the hell will carry a knife if you're a wizard!' she thought crazily as she yelled out the spell to open the wall.
"WRENTH!"
Her stomach did a flip-flop as she neared the entryway that the wall opened up, revealing a small, quiet neighborhood. She ran as fast as she could, the entryway could only be open for so long. It was timed so that Muggles could only see it for a fraction of second and then look back, only to see it wasn't there.
Already she could see it closing up, the gray color of the wall began to swirl into a circle, as if it was a portal.
She looked behind her to see how far she was from the crowd. Even if the crowd had split up and was far behind, that boy…
"AH!" she shrieked as she saw the knife swipe only a few inches away from her face, causing her to trip and fall to the ground. Lily groaned and then got up, grabbing her book bag for another defense mode.
The boy made another swipe but Lily stepped back, her book bag so heavy it swung around her, causing her to lose a little balance. "Ahhh-hh!" She leaned forward to regain her composure, but she didn't have time. The knife swung at her again and she flung the bag over her face. There was a sound that made Lily know her book bag was torn. She opened her eyes and found that the knife made a huge tear in her book bag, and it also cut open slits in her fingers, already bleeding.
Lily swung her book back at him again, this time he was the one who stepped back. She looked up to see if the portal was shut already. It was almost there, just swirling smaller and smaller.
Lily lunged for it.
She plunged onto the ground, feeling the road scrape her back painfully as her book bag toppled beside her, its contents spilling out and scattered across the pavement. She looked up and saw the boy through the portal as it was closing up, he was yelling at her, something in Spanish, and he was holding the knife up, its blade coated with her blood and then as he screamed out, "MUDBLOOD!", the portal closed, muffling his yell.
Lily let out a breath of relief and sat there, panting. She hugged her knees together, but then winced as she did so. She looked down to find that her left knee had been cut. That boy managed to take a swipe at her knee as she lunged for the portal. Well, Lily now was sitting there with cuts on her hand, and a cut open jean leg with blood pouring profusely, staining her jeans. Lily soaked up the blood with her green t-shirt and wiped it away gently. She looked at her wound. It was deep. And not at all good.
Lily sighed again, looking around the block to see if there were any people who had seen her jump out of from nowhere and land like a maniac.
There was no one in sight. Breathing slowly, Lily collected all her scattered papers and books and stuffed it into her bag, even if it had a large tear. Instead of carrying it by the handle, she carried it in her arms.
'I can't believe…that boy…managed to take…a swipe at me!' Lily thought angrily as she tried to get up. She crashed on to the floor again. 'DAMN!'
She pushed herself up and then sort of hopped on her right foot, and lightly stepping on her left foot. "Okay…" she breathed. 'Mom and Dad are SO going to kill me!' she thought as she slowly and painfully walked toward her house.
When she finally reached there, she rested her head on the door, still hugging the books to her chest. She sighed, glad to make it home in one piece and opened the door. She dropped her books onto a nearby table as she entered the house and into the kitchen.
"Lily? Are you home?" A voice called out from upstairs.
'Oh, damn! Mom's home! She can't see my cut!' Lily thought frantically as she rummaged through drawers to find the first aid kit.
"Lily?" Her mother called out again.
Lily let out a strained reply, "Yes, I'm home."
"Oh, good! I have something to show you!"
Thunder rumbled through Lily. 'Shit! She can't see me or else…or else…' Lily thought about how she was going to be taken out of magic school. The thought chilled her heart. Quickly, she began to slam some drawers, and opening them, trying to find-Ah ha!
"Lily, what are you doing?" Her mother called, she was already halfway down the stairs.
"Uh…nothing, I'm just looking for something!" Lily called, grabbing bandages and the first aid kit. She ran for the bathroom just as her mother took the last step.
She dropped all the contents on the floor and then slammed the bathroom door and locked it. She fell on top of the toilet seat, waiting for her mother's reply.
"Lily?"
"In the bathroom, Mom!" she called out. She leaned forward and started opening the first aid kit, treating her wounds.
"Oh, okay."
"Ugh," Lily groaned as she pealed her jeans off to clean up her knee wound. Lily applied some alcohol onto a cotton ball, knowing that she was probably going to scream in pain if she put it on her knee.
"Lily!"
Her mother's voice made her jump a few feet in the air. "JESUS CHRIST!"
"LILY!" Her mother cried scandalously.
'Dammit, Mom!' Lily thought as she gritted her teeth and lightly tapped her wound with the cotton ball.
"Sorry!" she called out.
"Lily, what happened to your school bag?"
"Umm….it just got…torn I guess. I mean, I did carry a lot of books," Lily lied. "I'll have to get a new one."
"Alright, honey."
Lily let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding. She rolled her eyes and then grabbed the white bandage roll. She quietly wrapped her knee and cleaned up her hands. There wasn't much she could do to hide her wounds, but she did her best. After putting bandages on the angry red slits on her fingers, she cleaned up her area and stuffed the first aid kit in the drawers of the bathroom, so that her parents didn't suspect anything if they used it.
Then Lily flushed the toilet and turn the faucet on, letting both run for a while to fool her mother thinking she really was using the bathroom.
Lily walked out of the bathroom, shutting the light and the faucet. She could see that her mom was bent low over the kitchen counter, scribbling some stuff down.
Lily sighed. 'That…was so…close.'
She went upstairs to change her jeans and t-shirt. If her mom saw the blood stains all over, she would definitely freak. On the way up, she grabbed her school stuff and decided it was best to stay cooped up in her room until dinner, trying to minimize the time to spend with her family, in case they notice the limp in her walk.
Lily fumbled through her books until the purple folder with silver lettering tumbled in front of her. It opened up to the first page. Silver letters began to magically appear.
It is wonderful, Ms. Evans that you have decided to apply for the Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. This folder will guide you through your application
form and will give you all the information you need
regarding Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
This is a great opportunity and should not be missed. Hogwarts is indeed,
a wonderful school.
I am looking forward to meeting you,
Ms. Lily Evans.
Sincerely,
The Minister
"Cool…" Lily breathed.
'Hmm…Let's see….What compels you the most to do well in?' Lily thought, her mouth holding a pencil by the end. She had one hand propped against her cheek and was lying flat on her stomach, her legs kicking in the air as she took out a scratch piece of paper and began to jot down ideas for the short answer question in the Hogwarts application.
'Anything that interests me, of course!' Lily thought and rolled her eyes. That wouldn't be a suffice answer though.
Lily sighed and then flipped through the contents of the application forms. Something magically appeared at the tips of her fingers one the page she was currently working on.
It would be best, Ms. Evans, that you should focus on Question number 3
Rather than flipping endlessly through this guide book.
It will tell you nothing of what you should write.
After all, it is not your brain.
Lily rolled her eyes and groaned. She really wanted to write back to the book, it was really tempting to disfigure it too. Like doodling a tree on the edge or a snotty nosed witch or you know, knives or maybe even a little grafitti art. But that, Lily decided, would not be wise to put on the application form. She sighed again, tugging at her white t-shirt and blue boxcar shorts. She had peeled away from her bloody clothes and stuck them somewhere in her bathroom, so that her parents wouldn't see it.
Lily watched the words magically disappear and come back saying,
Ms. Evans, it is highly advised that you begin your writing your short answer.
You only have about 20 minutes till dinner, 30 including your sister nagging you
And about 2 hours till your parents force you to sleep at 9:30.
It is in your best interest to start jotting ideas.
Lily wanted to stab the book. Lily took her pencil out of her mouth and threw it down as hard as she could at the book.
Abusing your guide book will get you nowhere, my dear.
Was all wizard forms like this? Lily thought. Because if it was, she really needed to own a lighter. If, that is, the book wasn't magically fire-proof.
"You know what," Lily began, obviously fed up with the comments the guide book was making, "I think I'll just wait my half and hour till my sister comes and bugs me to get to dinner and call me a homework freak. In fact, I will close this guide book and come back to work on it, even if I have to stay up late!" She said frustratingly. With that she began close the book, only to catch the silver lettering come up, protesting,
If you shut me up, you won't be able to finish it in time!
But it was too late. Lily already shut it, letting it slam. The book made a creaking and a thud sound, as if a door was slammed and the sound echoed in the halls.
'What a way for the book to make a finale.' Lily thought, shaking her head. She flopped onto her bed, staring at the ceiling until her sister came barging into her room.
"Gee, Petunia. Have you ever heard of knocking?" Lily said as she sat up, glaring at her.
Petunia only rolled her eyes and said one word. "Freak."
"Same with you." Lily shot, even if it wasn't a good comeback. Lily lied back down on her bed. "What is it now?"
Petunia sniffled. "Mom and dad want you down for dinner." She eyed Lily for a second and then looked at the floor. It was peculiar; she had never seen a purple book with spooky silver lettering on it as one of Lily's magic textbooks.
"Hey what's that?" Petunia started, and walked towards the book.
Lily's eyes grew wide and then bolted out of her bed, her hand outstretched to snatch the Application book away.
"Hogwarts Applications…" Petunia read, her fingertips were just inches away from the cover.
Lily dived for it, falling out of her bed---
"OH MY GOD!"
Lily winced.
A/N: And so ends the first revision of the first chapter! God this is so frustrating. I absolutely hate what I wrote back in 8th grade. Review please, if you like.