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Chapter 1: A New Start!

A girl with long red hair and piercing green eyes pushed her trolley laden with an odd assortment of items through Kings Cross. Her name was Lily Evans; she was 17 and was heading to Hogwarts to start her 7th, and final, year at school.

Lily looked around carefully before running at full speed towards the barrier separating Platform 9 and 10. She had always been a little bit unsure and afraid when it came to that barrier. She arrived on to Platform 9 ¾ to a loud cheer. Lily looked up in surprise and soon realised that it obviously wasn't for her but for some random trick that the marauders were showing off. Lily pulled her stuff off the trolley into the train and watched wistfully as a mother kissed her daughter goodbye. She smiled sadly and thought of her own mother who had just died and lugged her trunk and owl, Quasimodo (Quasi), into her usual compartment. Here Lily was actually greeted with cheers from her best friend Kaytlin. Lily smiled playfully and hugged Kaytlin after smacking a joking kiss onto her forehead.

Kaytlin was a brunette with honey coloured eyes and was seeker on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. She, Lily and Lily's cousin Alyssa had immediately bonded when they met each other in Hogwarts Express, and had been inseparable since. In their first year they weren't really that well-known but as soon as they got too 2nd Year Kaytlin, Alyssa and Lily were the most attractive girls in the whole school. They were intelligent, funny, nice, caring and pretty. Lily didn't know what she would do without her to best friends they were like her soul sisters. Alyssa was Lily's only cousin and was also the only other person in the family with magical powers. Alyssa had blonde hair with eyes like the sea. Depending on her mood they could switch from stormy green to calm turquoise. Her friends called her Dragon as a nickname sometimes to tease her. Alyssa was amazing with magical creatures; she could tame a dragon like it was a unicorn. In fact right now she was on a holiday in Romania with dragons and would be a week late returning to Hogwarts.

Suddenly Lily was awoken from her deep thoughts as Kaytlin ran in screaming after visiting the loo.

"Kaytlin? What happened? Are you ok?" asked Lily worriedly.

"Argh! Those damn Marauders….they broke the lock and then created an illusion…..so…." panted Kaytlin.

"Oh my god! No! Did someone come in or something!" said Lily.

"Umm, not really…but the door kinna drifted open and Alex walked past!" moaned Kaytlin.

"No! Did-" responded Lily.

"Well, I'd pulled up my –you know- but still he looked at me like what the hell!"

"Awww! Poor you after you've liked him for so long. Ok, well were going to get those dickheads back for what they did. Alright?" vented Lily.

"Alright honey, lets go kick some ass!" cheered Kaytlin.

Lily raised her eyebrows at Kaytlin," Kick some ass?"

"I spent my hols in America okay…" Kaytlin said ashamedly.

Lily shook her head and then they both set to find the Marauders. They found them in the last compartment talking about some girl called Jennifer who Peter apparently had the hots for and how to set them up.

The second James Potter, a boy who'd been asking Lily out since 5th Year, saw Lily he leapt to his feet while simultaneously messing up his hair and inviting the girls to sit down in a deep mature voice.

Lily had known James for a long time and had always hated him for the way he was arrogant and over-confident. He just strutted around Hogwarts as if he owned it and was always hexing people for the hell of it, it annoyed Lily non-stop especially the way he was with girls. He just played all the girls he could. James was good-looking….fine really good-looking…..okay okay he was seriously hot and he knew it. He was around 6ft with black messy hair, deep hazel eyes and he was good at everything he did, basically all the girls thought the marauders (apart from Peter) were the hottest guys at Hogwarts. James was also Quidditch Captain and was a chaser.

Sirius Black was James's best friend and another marauder. He had dark hair which elegantly fell into his eyes which were also dark. Sirius like James was good at everything he did and he was also a Chaser like James. Sirius was also considered as being incredibly hot, but in a completely different way to James. Sirius was exactly like James, he had a kind of attitude that literally screamed "Hi. I'm Sirius. I do what I want. I get what I want. Because I'm hot. H-O-T".

Remus Lupin was another Marauder and was also their best friend. Remus had chestnut brown hair with natural honey highlights which brought out the light brown in his coal black eyes. Remus was the nicest of the Marauders he never tried to stop Sirius and James from doing what they did but he never joined in or encouraged them. Remus was, typically, also considered hot.

Peter Pettigrew was possibly the most unlikely marauder ever, maybe it was because of the way he was dependent upon the more popular boys or the way he wasn't good at anything or the way he wasn't typically 'marauder' hot or maybe because there was just something about Peter that had always bothered Lily though she could never pin it down.

Anyway, that's the Marauders but although throughout the whole of 5th and 6th year James had been constantly trying to get Lily to go out with him, he hadn't even asked her out once yet and she was surprised. Lily was not only surprised about James's behaviour but also her own because when she saw James she suddenly couldn't say anything. Her knees began to tremble and she sat in the nearest seat while Kaytlin glanced at her confusedly. Lily couldn't fathom why she was doing this and what was wrong with her. She smiled at Kaytlin reassuringly, while she was actually nervous. The whole compartment had gone dead silent.

Lily stared hard at her shoes as sudden images flashed through her mind. Her first day at Hogwarts, meeting Kaytlin, Quasi, her mother when she'd died, James….

Lily cleared her throat then looked up to confront the Marauders, then her eyes met James…she was lost…. she'd never noticed how beautiful his eyes really were…

..Lily snap out of it, what's wrong with you. You know what James is like…come on girl you're going to kick some ass remember…I know that's Kaytlin's phrase but oh well..

Lily dragged her eyes away from his and completely avoided looking at him while ranting about what had happened to Kaytlin. After she'd finished James looked confused whereas Sirius had a sly smirk on his face.

"SIRIUS! I am so going to get you back!" screamed Kaytlin as she dived onto him.

Sirius caught her by the wrists and held her off, laughing at her feeble attempts to hurt him.

"Aw damn….can't believe I missed the sight darling" joked Sirius dryly.

"And I never knew you were crushing on Alex." said Sirius in an undistinguishable tone.

"You-"retorted Kaytlin but Sirius covered her mouth before she swore.

"You know Kaytlin, you're eyes are beautiful" murmured Sirius.

To Lily's surprise after Kaytlin had freed herself from his clutches she was blushing faintly and there was a small smile playing on Sirius's lips. Lily felt her face unintentionally split into a huge smile.

"Come on Kaytlin, we got better things to do, lets go" said Lily.

As Lily slid the compartment door shut she made eye contact with James once again and immediately broke it before she drowned in those hazel pools.

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Soon enough the Hogwarts Express came to a stop and the two best friends climbed out the train and waved to the familiar figure of Hagrid before moving towards the coaches. Suddenly, Lily stopped, there seemed to be black leathery kind of horsey things puling the coaches which had never been there. Kaytlin who hadn't realised Lily had stopped, looked back.

"Lily! What are you doing? Come on we need to get a coach" called Kaytlin over the noise of the crowd.

"But…what are those..."said Lily quietly almost to herself.

"What! Listen I can't hear you...tell me afterwards!" Kaytlin shouted back as she was getting pushed forwards by the crowd.

Well if Kaytlin hadn't noticed the horses maybe Lily should just not mention it. Lily shook herself mentally and then looked around to see if anyone had noticed, she caught Snape staring at her but he hurriedly looked away and disappeared into the crowd. She was a bit disturbed by the intensity of Snape's stare and the unusual absence of hatred. However, she didn't have the time to think over it as Kaytlin grabbed Lily by the sleeve and pulled her through the slow sluggish moving crowd to a coach. Lily climbed into the coach after Kaytlin and she went over everything that had changed since the last time she'd been here; her changed feelings toward James, her mother's death, the reptilian horse things, Kaytlin and Sirius and Snape. Ironically, she thought to herself, "A new start!" as the coach stumbled to a stop outside Hogwarts.

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