What Hagrid said could have been true. James had almost won Lily early in their fifth year and they'd had some sort of falling out not even their closest friends seemed to understand. An unwanted pregnancy leading to a concealed baby could easily explain that - better than most ideas.
The one time she'd ever dared venture to ask Lily why she'd grown so fond of the boy only to hate him so suddenly she'd only received the answer "Because he's a jerk!" Which was not very informative.
So it could be.
However, she had fallen prey to pranks or misunderstandings before by being too trusting. Hagrid's word alone was one thing, but unsupported she was uncertain how much weight to assign to it. So she watched Dumbledore carefully as she led in the new crop of first years, and when she saw him spot the girl who was supposed to be Harry's sister, beam into a great smile and start nodding, she considered that matter confirmed.
Well, that explained why Lily had been so moody her fifth year.
Dumbledore, for his part, was glad to see that Hecate's heir had been able to make the adjustments to her life to properly attend Hogwarts, and began nodding absently as he calculated how this could fit into his plans for revamping House Slytherin. The great smile was in part due to seeing her close to Harry. Apparently they had made each other's acquaintance on the train.
Excellent, excellent.
Professor Sprout caught McGonagall's eye's and made a questioning face. The deputy headmistress paused to whisper something quickly in her ear before turning to collect the Sorting Hat and stool. Seeing Sprout had obviously been enlightened by the look on her face, Professor Flitwick nudged her lightly and got whispered the news, and so it passed on down the staff table, skipping Dumbledore who already knew and was lost in his thoughts in any case, on down to Snape, who when he overheard it began to scowl even more terribly at Harry Potter and what he'd been informed was his twin sister.
Just like Dumbledore to keep the brat a secret up til now.
Professor McGonagall had progressed, while this was going on, up to where she stood by the Sorting Hat with her attendance scroll, the one in Percy's handwriting (with a spot of scribbling from Ginerva on it) and began to give instructions to the newly arrived First Years.
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