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LILY WOWED IN amazement as she watched cedric diggory, victor krum, fleur delacour, and harry potter fight off a dragon.

well, not exactly fight, but they had to steal the golden egg from the dragon so that they could move onto the second phase.

cedric's performance was probably the most entertaining for little lily since he turned a rock into a dog and that gave her the impression that once she became a witch, she could give herself multiple puppies.

victor krum somewhat scared her when he had blinded the dragon and when fleur had put her dragon to sleep, she had to hold in a laugh when the lady's skirt caught on fire.

harry's performance had probably made her worry the most, as the boy literally went up against the most ferocious dragon.

not only that, but the horntail literally broke free from its chains and chased after harry, who was on his firebolt.

"lily, would you like to get ready with ginny and I before the yule ball?", hermione asked as harry had just passed the first phase.

"really?? can I??"

"of course!! we can do your hair and makeup too!!", hermione excitedly said.

the girl grew up as an only child, but that didn't stop her from wanting a little sister like lily to take care of and dress up with.

"oh, well papa's going to do my hair, but I'll come after", lily smiled.

"professor snape? doing hair??"

"mhm! he's very good at it. he can do buns, twists, braids, curls, anything really!", lily proudly boasted.

hermione nearly snorted as she imagined snape doing little lily's hair. she could not imagine such a thing, but then again, who would've thought that he'd have a little girl.

"I see. well I'll be expecting you in the gryffindor room then".

"okay!!"

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lily was in her frilly cotton white dress with a red overlay on the sleeves and part of the gown while snape stood behind her, doing the girl's hair.

"are you done papa?? I've been sitting here for 7 hours", lily whined, fiddling with her frills.

"it's only been 48 minutes", snape corrected, though he had just finished.

"do you like it?"

lily looked up at the mirror seeing her black curls dazzled with a few rosy red and white flowers.

"YES!! thank you papa!!! I'm gonna go see hermione and ginny now. I'll see you later!!", lily shouted as she hurried to the gryffindor room.

snape just sighed as he still couldn't understand how his daughter was always so happy. he took off his cape that he usually wore and wore a black coat instead.

lily had insisted that snape wear some colors, but no amount of persistence could change his mind about wearing all black.

lily was welcomed into hermione's room as she awed at how beautiful the two girls looked.

"you look just adorable!!", hermione gushed.

"thank you!! you both look amazing! by the way, who are you two going with?", lily asked as she curiously watched ginny put on some lipgloss.

"neville", ginny answered.

"victor krum", hermione replied.

"VICTOR KRUM?! LIKE THE BULGARIAN SEEKER VICTOR KRUM?!", lily gasped.

hermione chuckled.

"yes, that one".

"but I thought you liked ron? or he liked you? I'm not really sure; I don't really know how relationships work", lily confessed.

hermione then let out a pitiful laugh.

"it's quite alright. we should be heading down. I'm sure they're waiting", hermione said as she let lily borrow some of her lipgloss.

lily cheered as she held onto hermione's hand with ginny following behind.

the three girls walked down the stairs, catching the attention of their dates and a few others.

"GEORGE!!", lily yelled, now successfully catching the attention of everyone.

"oh my! well don't you look like a cute little strawberry", george smiled as he opened his arms for lily to jump into.

lily wrapped her little arms around the boy's neck as he spun her around, making her feel like she was flying.

george and fred wore a white button with a brown vest and a black cape. lily thought the brown was a nice touch and was about to compliment george until ron had showed up.

"doesn't ron look stunning?", george asked, clearly mocking the boy.

"he...yes", lily responded, hiding her face on the crook of george's neck so that she would stop herself from bursting into laughter.

"anyways, let's go watch the champions and their dates", george said as he carried lily into the wintry decorated ballroom.

"woah....".

lily was utterly bewildered. she waved as she saw her father standing on the side of the dance floor with the other professors.

snape just robotically waved back as he watched the champions walk in.

"it's cedric!! it's cedric!!", lily cheered, making the male laugh and wave at lily.

after cedric was fleur delacour and her date. lily had heard that ron was rejected by her, and although the girl felt pity for him, she didn't understand why ron didn't just ask hermione in the first place.

hermione and victor were next with harry and one of the patil twins walking proudly next to him.

the four couples started the dance as neville then entered the dance floor with ginny.

"shall we dance?", george asked.

"YES!!"

lily had felt quite bad that she was so short and george had to dance with a child. but the boy assured her that it was fine.

george twirled the little girl around as she happily spun like a princess.

the two danced until someone had interrupted.

"I believe that I deserve a dance with my own daughter", snape said, making george hand lily over.

lily waved george goodbye as she held onto snape's hand, trying her best not to step on his toes.

"papa, how do you dance so well?", lily asked, nearly feeling her neck snap as she had to look up a lot to see the stoic man.

"practice", snape shortly replied.

"with who?"

the girl knew that snape must've practiced with someone, as there was no way you could dance alone formally. well, you could, but the girl assumed it would've been plenty awkward.

snape hesitated to answer.

"myself".

"oh".

after snape and lily's slightly awkward father-daughter dance, lily was about to go find george until she saw hermione and ron fighting in the halls.

ron swiftly left while hermione sat on the stairs that she had so elegantly walked down from.

lily ran over as she tapped on hermione's shoulder.

"mione?? why're you so upset?", lily softly asked, taking a seat beside the teary girl.

"it's nothing", hermione sniffled, putting on the best smile she could muster.

"well, papa always told me that when girls say it's nothing it's actually something that they don't want to talk about. I have some honeydukes best chocolate, would you like some?", lily offered, pulling them out of her pockets.

hermione lightly laughed.

"sure. thank you".

"mhm! I always give some to papa when he's sad too. and he tells me I give the best hugs!", lily exclaimed as she snuggled her way into hermione's embrace.

hermione slightly smiled as she placed her cheek on top of the girl's head.

"he's right. you do give the best hugs".

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