I am not blond, nor have I written any books. Please take this as my stating that I do not own Harry Potter.

I do hope that you enjoy my fan fiction.

In this story the plural of Horcrux is Horcrux

Lily Evans was not your typical teen; she was a witch and had been all her life. She hadn't known until she had met her friend Severus Snape, Sev for short. Together they had read most of his mother's books on magic, so when she started Hogwarts she knew much more about magic than any other muggle-born student. If only she could get that James to leave her alone.

Christmas vacation was going slowly. Lily had finished all her homework, Sev was out of town visiting relatives, and her sister Petunia was being mean to her. Not that Petunia being mean was new, she had been that way for quite some time. Petunia was very upset that Lily was a witch and she wasn't. She was also upset that Lily got to go away for school, never once thinking that Lily might be a little lonely and homesick from time to time. Petunia resented Lily for being a witch and for her parents still loving her.

Lily went up to her room to read one of her school texts. When she opened her trunk she found a box, tied shut with string. It had Lily Evans' School Trunk on it, and strangely enough today's date. She almost didn't open it worried that James Potter's group was pulling a prank on her, but then realized that they couldn't be anywhere around. Furthermore, she decided that if they were pulling a prank that it happening in a muggle household would get them into a fair amount of trouble, and perhaps they would study instead of prank. She opened the box and read the note from a girl named Hermione.

Lily spent the next few days reading the eight books that were in the box. The first six were about a son that she and James Potter would have while he went to Hogwarts. The seventh was a book on him searching for Horcrux, ending just after he killed Voldemort. The eighth book was by far the most interesting. Hermione had written it. It told some of what happened after the seventh book, but also told many other useful things, like potions and spells.

She hadn't wanted to believe the books, at first, but she actually knew who Vernon Dursley was, and while Petunia was too young to date him it didn't surprise her that it would happen. Hermione asked that she try and change some of this, because Harry was her best friend and she couldn't stand to let him go through this sort of pain.

Lily thought long and hard about everything that the books had said. She couldn't imagine herself married to James but supposed that he might be nicer than he seemed. Sure she could change some of it by not having any children, but then some other poor child would end up having to go through these manipulations. Alice was one of Lily's friends and she knew that Alice liked Frank Longbottom a boy just one year ahead of them. Lily couldn't let that happen to them either. Sev turning out like he had really scared her, she had to change things.

Lily started to work. When Sev came back she talked him into getting all of his mother's books, which she read and took notes on. Some they had never read because they were old family books that contained dark spells and potions, now she read them. She didn't tell Sev why she needed this information, while she liked him, she could see how he was becoming what he one day would be. She hoped to change that but didn't want any future Death Eaters to know what she knew. In fact she had decided that no one would ever know what she now knew.

Lily was not considered a potion prodigy for nothing. She slipped Vernon a potion under the guise of helping one of the neighborhood girls sell hot chocolate for a little spending money. The potion made Vernon want to drink his least favorite beverage. The original potion would have let him stop after his third glass the variation she made didn't. It had never occurred to her how this would play out.

Vernon found Sev's dad outside the liquor store and paid him to go in and purchase vodka. Sev's dad tried to run off with the vodka, after taking Vernon's money. So Vernon knifed him, dragged him behind a dumpster, and proceeded to drink seven bottle of vodka while the man bled. Both died, Mr. Snape bled to death, and Vernon from a combination of Alcohol poisoning and exposure.

She felt very sorry for Sev; although his father was an alcoholic and not a nice person, Sev had loved him. Another strange thing that came out about the deaths was that Petunia had secretly been dating Vernon. The police had made them come in to the station and talked to her parents and Petunia. Needless to say, that between consoling Sev and listening to her parents yell at Petunia, Lily was very happy to get back onto the train to Hogwarts.

She cornered James on the ride, and begged him to lay off of Sev for awhile. After finding out why he agreed. She thought that perhaps he was nicer than she gave him credit for. Sev wouldn't be back for a few more days, because of the funeral.

The first morning back from Christmas Break, most of the students received a late Christmas present. Many owls, in fact all of Hogwarts' owls delivered notes to various students.

To those that would like history

We have stood by for too long and let the ghost bore us to death.

Happy Hunting

Attached was the spell to get rid of a ghost. Lily read the letter and listened to her friends talk about it. She hoped that someone would take the initiative, but if not then it would be hard to prove just who had cast the spell. She could hear James and his friends going on about how they wished that they had thought of this.

Many people around the room were memorizing the spell. The Ravenclaws, because they wanted to know every spell. They Slytherins, because they realized how useful it would be to keep a ghost from reporting their activities. The Gryffindors, because they wanted to be able to play tricks. The Hufflepuffs were the only house that memorized it because they were sure that the Professors would soon be taking all the paperwork away.

Even with so many owls delivering mail the staff never even noticed. It started, not with the History Professor, but a Slytherin deciding to get rid of the Gryffindor ghost. By the next evening small gangs of students were exploring long forgotten passages looking for new ghosts to vanquish. It perhaps helped that someone was running a game complete with a betting pool. Some smart student, from Ravenclaw, finally looked up a spell to call ghosts and won the whole thing.

Lily found the whole thing amusing; she had gotten rid of the History Professor, the ghost named Binns, without ever going near him. She had taken the time while everyone was looking elsewhere to explore the Room of Requirements. It was a treasure trove of stuff. Besides the Horcrux she found lots of robes, trunks, and other things. She had even found a small pouch, like the one that the books came in, that allowed a large number of items to be carried in a small amount of space.

Hermione had been very kind to send her a bottomless pouch, around the size of a galleon; it had a lightning bolt embroidered upon it, to hide the books. There was another magic pouch, but it was plain. To hide both pouches she had also sent a Mokeskin Hide Pouch; anything inside of it no one but the owner can get out. Every book in the Room of Requirements was stolen the first night.

She had lucked out and found quite a bit of money. Together with old robes and other things that she could sell, she expected to be able to purchase new items next year. The extra coin would also help with her travel and potion expenses. She also spent a lot of time closing off her mind. The room helpfully provided many books. While she had been learning the technique with Sev, she now believed that her life depended on mastering it. The room, helpfully, provided a book which had spells that would slow down the other person, even some that would give any that continued a blinding headache, she cast them all, and repeated them daily.

Sev finally came back, but he seemed to have changed. It seems that with his father dead his Grandparents had agreed to take his mother back into the family. He was expected to act like a pureblood from now on. Since his dorm mates would report him, they had to sneak around to see each other. Luckily they had been assigned together in Potion class. There was even talk of him changing his last name to Prince, since he was now an official member. Sev even had new robes and everything.

Sev had even informed her that he and his mother were moving; in fact his mother was moving everything this week. Lily promised that she would write him. She had been very sad that she had accidentally caused the death of Sev's father. Her mother had even found her crying, but had accepted that she was worried about her friend. Now she wondered if his father's death was leading Sev more towards his Death Eater persona.