returning to hogwarts after the summer had always posed some kind of relief. ever since her sister, petunia, had discovered that lily was a witch, she’d seemed intent on making her life harder. now more than ever, since she’d turned seventeen & was officially allowed to use magic outside of hogwarts. she tried her best not to, knowing the squabble it would cause, but one simple household spell when she thought tuney wasn’t looking was enough to set them off bickering. her father & mother were her saving graces. & of course, her colorpoint ragdoll cat who she’d regrettably named fluffy when she was four years old, who hadn’t left her side since.
an overstatement, perhaps, seeing as the cat seemed to enjoy hogwarts even more than she did & was currently running away from her, sprinting between the students until she decided to settle on one, jumping at their leg.
“ fl –– florentina ! ” lily screamed the first fake name she could think of after the cat ( because after a while, having to explain the train thought of your four year old self got tiring ), even though she obviously wouldn’t listen, & ran towards the student who’d been attacked, removing fluffy from their leg. “ i’m sorry about her. she thinks she’s a dog sometimes. ”
“Oh, Lily, don’t say that, you’ll make me miss my dogs now,” Alice frowned as the cat was removed from her leg, genuinely disappointed. It had been over a week since Alice was very cruelly separated from Bonaparte, Baby and Kiwi -- the pictures in her dorm just didn’t have the same effect as her dogs did in the flesh. She missed them, wanting to bring up with Dumbledore, McGonagall, Slughorn, really, ANYONE who had power & would listen to her argument: that they needed to allow dogs at Hogwarts. Even though she didn’t have much time left, she’d be appreciative of ANY extra time in the year with her animals.
An idea flashed like a lightbulb in Alice’s head as she remembered that Lily was Head Girl. Maybe, just maybe, she’d have the power to let them have dogs in school. “You know, Miss Head Girl, I’m sure they’d listen to you if you suggested and brought up they allow dogs in the school. I’ll have your back in any way I can. I know at least one person that would help us. I could write a petition up?” Alice had become more and more animated as she talked, completely into the idea of making a petition, hoping Lily would back her up.
“Either way, Lily, the longer I suffer from withdrawals the more inclined I’ll be to steal your very fluffy very playful cat Florentina. Which is a LOVELY name for a cat, by the way. Especially this one. Can I hold her? Or d’you think she’ll make a run for it again?”
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