<div class="floatleft">(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j480/Erion2451/Emma-Roberts-emma-roberts-7048797-307-462.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lily Ackerly<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Ravenclaw Table, Dining Hall<br/><strong> Tagging:</strong>Leah, anyone<br/><hr/>Lily was as excited as she had been when she had first arrived at Hogwarts.  The school was familiar, yet it had changed since her previous stay.  The train, Hagrid, and a number of other familiar faces had helped make Hogwarts feel like the same place she’d been pulled out of halfway through her first year.<br/><br/>Lily had spent most of the summer fretting over being a seventeen year old third year student, but as she began receiving letters by owl from some of her classmates, it didn’t seem like that was going to be as drastic a thing as she was making it.  As the weeks before school slowly dwindled away, her excitement had grown.  She was happy she wasn’t returning to Beaxbatons.  Hogwarts was so much better in her opinion.  She couldn’t wait for Quidditch practices to start, and she wondered if she would fit into Ravenclaw any better than she had her first year.  There was still a nagging question in the back of her mind when it came to the Sorting Hat’s decision; although, in truth it had been her decision, after all.  Jeremy had been a Slitherin and she most definitely didn’t want that.  The hat had claimed that she was smart enough for Ravenclaw, though her focus had always been on Quidditch and boys, in that order.<br/><br/>During the Sorting ceremony, Lily had cheered for each of Ravenclaw’s new members and whispered with her friends, guessing where each new student would go, and welcomed the new first years like an older sister.  It was odd to see a new student her own age, and she was reminded of her own insecurities of being a seventeen year old third year, not to mention her experience of being a new student at Beaxbatons’ Academy of Magic.  When she saw the girl’s smile vanish at the mention of someone being the oldest first year in the history of Hogwarts, Lily moved from her seat and approached the girl.<br/><br/>”Hey, I’m Lily Ackerly, do you want to come eat with us?” Lily asked Leah and nodded to a group of girls and Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team before giving the new girl a friendly inviting smile.<br/><br/>As Lily waited for Leah to reply to her invitation she eyed the boys at the Hufflepuff table until hazel blue eyes rested on Leah’s brother.  She hoped Leah would take her up on her invitation.  It seemed like the conversation had already swung around to her brother, but with a bit of vigilance Lily might be able to smile and wave at him when he glanced to see where his sister was and who she was sitting with.<br/>