Prologue

"James!" Elaine Potter's voice rang sharply up the grand staircase. In his room James Potter rolled over in bed yelling a muffled whatever. " James Christopher Potter you get up right this instant!"

James rolled over again mumbling but this time he actually began making an effort to get out of bed. His mum was absolutely intolerable when she was angry, and she had been in a bad mood for the past week. His father, Alex, who was the Minister of Magic, had to escort one of the muggle born students to Hogwarts. This wasn't anything new, since each member of the ministry did so every year, but this year the student he was escorting would be staying with them for the week preceding the school year. So, of course, His mother had been insanely stressed out for quite a while now.

Suddenly, four little girls, all looking extremely like James, bounded into his room.

"James"

" Jamey get up"

" Up Up Up J-J" All the girls were speaking at once, the younger ones jumping on James's bed.

" Alright, alright, I'm up," He said, grumpily, with a smile spreading across his face. He stood up, swinging Sarah, the second youngest into his arms. She was 2 years old and positively adorable. She had curly brown hair and big brown eyes. Brenna, who was 4-months-old and the youngest of the Potter children, began to cry and Liz attempted to quiet her.

" Mum says we really should be going James," Said Elizabeth, oldest of the girls. She too had wavy brown hair and auburn eyes.

The middle child, Erin, who was 7, began tugging on James's arm." Come on Jamey! We have to go meet Lily."

" Yeah, yeah I know. Now, get out so I can get dressed!" He said putting Sarah back on the floor and chasing her and Erin to the door. Elizabeth and the baby followed. James pulled on the jeans and T-shirt his mother had iron for him and looked in the mirror, attempting to flatten his hair, which, like the girls, was brown and slightly wavy and always gave James the appearance of having just gotten off a broom. Not that he minded.

Satisfied with his appearance, he walked down the hall and slid down the long smooth handrail to the bottom of the huge staircase in the center of their home. Their house was extremely large, though it had only 2 floors. The main floor held the kitchen, dining rooms, living rooms, and other offices and such. The upper floor held the bedrooms, nursery, playrooms, and other sleeping and living spaces. James had a room to himself, while Elizabeth and Erin shared, and the two little ones both still slept in the nursery.

" I wish you wouldn't do that," scolded Elaine. But, Alex Potter just chuckled, which earned him an angry glare from his wife.

" I mean, you should...really listen to your mother James," He corrected stifling laughter.

" Sorry Mum," James replied, although he was far from sincere, he was quite a good actor and was able to hide that.

" Are your sisters ready yet?" asked Mrs. Potter, but before James could reply the girls came bounding down the stairway. " Oh good, let's go. We're 10 minutes late already." and with that the family proceeded outside and piled into the car. Though it appeared to be a normal muggle station wagon from the outside, it was magically enhanced to fit all 7 of them quite comfortably inside.

" Lils," Called Rose Potter up the stairs. " Are you almost ready?"

" Coming Mum!" she called. Lily Potter had beautiful wavy red hair and brilliant green eyes. She was just finishing packing her duffle. She was so excited to be going to Hogwarts, and to be meeting other witches and wizards. She had gotten her letter 2 weeks ago, and since then read the majority of the books on her school list. She didn't want to be behind just because she came from a non-magic family and the others didn't.

Having double and triple checked her stuff she finally decided she was ready to go. She picked up her duffle, cat, and owl's cage and ran down the stairway to where her mom was waiting. " Alright, lets go. Where's Petunia?" Petunia, Lily's older sister, had been jealous of lily since the day she got her letter. She took every opportunity to make Lily's life miserable. Lily couldn't wait to go to school and leave Petunia for an entire year. " Petunia!!" yelled Rose " We have to go!"

Petunia trudged down the stairs an annoyed expression on her face. As she passed by Lily she whispered, "Freak" so no one else could hear.

Lily attempted to ignore her. " No one is going to ruin my day. Not even Petunia," she though to her self. " In a few hours I will be rid of her for a long time." And with these thoughts Lily climbed into the back seat of the car with her stuff.

It was a nearly 2-hour drive to the train station, where Lily would be meeting the wizarding family that was escorting her to school. They arrived at Kings Cross with 15 minutes to spare. Rose hugged her daughter and told her, " Good luck at school sweetie. Make me proud," and with that kissed Lily on the check.

" Don't worry mummy I will. Love you," Replied Lily.

" Love you too sweetie." And with that Rose went back to the car.

Once her mother was out of earshot Petunia muttered, " Good riddance freak!" and went to catch up with her mother.

Tears began to fall gently down Lily's face and she brushed them away. Finding a vacant bench, She sad down and buried her face in the novel she'd brought along.