"Lily!" I heard my best friend's loud voice over the hoards of people on platform 9 and 3/4. I turned to see her charging at me.

"Hello Abi how was your holiday?" I asked as she bounced into my arms.

"It was great; Black, James and I spent lots of time playing quiditch in James's garden, and Black was officially adopted by the Potter's. Ummm what else happened, not much else really. I would have liked to see you more often, but apparently one comes second to a sister who can't seem to get her elongated head over the concept of being nasty!" I smiled at Abi; she was around 5ft 4 and had very short brown hair, she had the shortest fuse ever and if you annoyed her you were better off dead, she was also obsessed with quidditch, and she was a chaser on the Gryffindor team.

However, I was so glad to have her as one of my best mates. One of the reasons why is she is really loyal, no matter what stupid things you've done, she will always be there to fight your battles. I wonder if this is because of her older brothers… I'll have to ask one day.

She lives next to James and his family, his mum and her mum are very close so they see a lot of each other but I don't suppose she minds because he has a quidditch pitch and he is also her mate too… I don't see how.

Now usually I would never call him James, I just don't see what's going on in my head…maybe it's my brain turning to mush, my sister did say I must have been dropped on my head when I was born…not that I believe her. She was just trying to be insulting. I really need to explain the concept of insults to her.

"Hello, earth to Lily, OI LILY!" I stopped thinking of new reasons for why I called him James, So far it was a list of two things.

It was his name…

I'm allowed to call people different things in my head…

Not really a great list so far, but I think it can only get better.

"We should go grab a compartment, otherwise we will be stuck with the first years" she said dragging me by the hand onto the train. We marched up the train, well more she marched I was dragged, but anyway we were looking for a compartment, when we bumped into Emma walking down the corridor.

Emma was around 5ft 7 or 8, she had shoulder length blonde hair, she was very studious and clever, and sometimes I wonder why she wasn't put into ravenclaw. She, unlike Abi, was not interested in quidditch, though she came to every match to support Abi. So you can really see the phrase 'opposites attract' coming through there.

"Lily, WOW! Are you Head Girl?" she pointed to my badge shining on my top. Abi turned and poked it.

"For Merlin's sake! Why didn't you tell me? Were you unable to send any letters this year?" asked Emma.

"Well no its just I didn't want to bother you two" I babbled, trying to change the subject.

"Bother us, how would it bother us? Bloody hell you're Head girl, I have to go find Black, or would he be Potter now?" mumbled Abi.

"Why do you have to go find Sirius?" I asked curious, Abi wasn't best of friends with Sirius, he usually did something to annoy her and ended up almost always being killed by her.

"Well we made a bet, I said that you would be Head girl, but he said for some strange reason that I would be Head girl, dunno why, crazy boy" she turned to go find him.

"Well maybe because he fancies the pants off you" whispered Emma loud enough for Abi to hear her.

"WHAT IN MERLIN'S MOST BAGGY Y-FRONTS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" Abi came rushing back and grabbed Emma by her shirt.

"And why would he? He has pretty much every girl at his beck and call" I said after removing Abi's hands from Emma's shirt.

"Well it's kind of obvious, have you seen the way he looks at you?" said Emma straightening out her shirt.

"He does not look at me, in whatever way you are suggesting, and would you be so kind to tell me where Mr. Black is at this moment in time, because he owes me 20 galleons" Abi said once again grabbing my wrist and dragging me the way Emma pointed. She burst into the compartment, to be met with a gaze of uttermost evil.

"Ah Mr. Black, I do believe that you owe me money" she hand shoving her hand out.

The boy (formally known as Mr. Black) had long black hair, grey eyes that sparkled whenever he laughed and was quite tall. He was quite popular with the ladies at Hogwarts, which never really helped his relationship with Abi. He looked at her hand and smirked.

"Miss. Hunter, I do not think those were the terms of our agreement, nor do I think that you won." She looked at him shocked.

"Oh come on…Can you not see the bloody shiny badge pinned onto her chest…I AM NOT HEAD GIRL! So I won Black!" she spat out his name. He looked at her and gave her his best lopsided grin.

"I'm so, so glad to be back at school. I missed these fights. Don't you agree?"

"Bugger off Black..." before she could insult him again James had appeared behind her and accidentally (on purpose I think) shoved her into Sirius.

"I know I haven't seen you in a while but it was only a couple of days ago!" he said as he toppled onto the floor with Abi on top of him. She leapt up off him and turned to glare at James.

"I think this is a great time to run" I said turning to James.

"Cheers Flower, I'm glad to know you care" he said running his hand through his hair.

"I don't it's just if she kills you I have to clear up and to be honest I really don't want your guts on my clean uniform" Sirius burst out laughing, James gave me a hurt look before he turned and bolted out of the compartment, with Abi close on his heels.

"So Lily, are you Head Girl then?" asked Remus. He had dirty blonde hair and his nose in a book literally all the time, he was the third marauder, and he is meant to be the responsible one.

Peter is the last person in the marauders, though you wouldn't expect a very small boy to be friends with the marauders he is, he is also quite hopeless at whatever he does, but he tries I suppose.

"Yes I am. I was going to ask you actually Remus who is Head Boy? Because I thought it would be you but you're not wearing a badge, please tell me it's not a Slytherin?" he chuckled into his book and said "Why don't you wait until the meeting and find out"

"Good point, I think I'm going to save Potter from Abi – she is definitely going to be more violent than usual! Bye then Remus" I said waving.

"Sirius" I said nodding my head his way.

"See ya Evans!" he said sending a smile my way.

"Bye Lily, before you go... whoever Head Boy is, give him a chance" she looked at him confused, but shrugged and walked out.

But little did Lily know the Head Boy was going to need a huge chance.