In actuality it was late December 1977, and the above song had been released two years prior. Since the song was sung by a Muggle singer, it didn't have much of a following at Hogwarts, beyond Lily Evans. Even Lily's friends (which included Severus Snape) only listened to the song because it was one of Lily's favorite.
Late December 1977 found Lily studying in the library. She wasn't alone, of course. No seventh year girl went around Hogwarts alone. One never knew when (or if) the seventh year curse would strike.
Some years the curse didn't strike. Or, at least, there was no report of any seventh year girls being shrunk. Lily wasn't too worried, though. She was madly in love with James Potter, and he with her. And everyone knew that the seventh year girls who were shrunk all suffered from unrequited love. Plus, Lily's one-time friend Severus had devised a complex mathematical model that predicted that no seventh year witches would be shrunk this year.
Lily was about to discover that assumptions and predictions were to be proven wrong.
When the seventh year shrinking curse struck Lily Evans, she was in a private study room with James Potter and
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