A/N – Hi! This is my first story, so please go easy on me. I apologise in advance for the slowness and shortness of this chapter, but it will get interesting very soon… So, without further ado, here's the first chapter!

Disclaimer: Sadly, everything here belongs to the wonderful mind that is J.K. Rowling. Only the storyline is mine.

I dragged my suitcase through the crowds of students saying goodbye to their parents. I felt tears prickle in my eyes and hastily wiped them away with the back of my hand. My parents were already at work, probably doing something extremely boring. I felt a smile creep up, though, when I saw that black hair through the crowds of people. I hurried to catch up with him, only to be disappointed that he was already with his friends, the idiotic, infamous pranksters known as the Marauders. Why he even talks to them Merlin knows. Don't get me wrong, Remus and Peter were fine, most, if not all, of my hate of them was because of a certain James Potter. He is the most annoying, arrogant, self-obsessed bully I had ever met in my entire life. His partner in crime, Sirius Black, however, was an entirely different story in my opinion. He was quite smart, funny, charming and not to mention the most handsome guy at Hogwarts. Ignoring James completely, I run up to him.

"Hi Siri!" I smiled, falling in to stride beside him.

"Hiya beautiful" he grinned, slipping his arm around my waist and kissing the top of my head.

"How was your summer?" I had intended this as a light question, but as soon as the words came out of my mouth I felt dreadful. "Sorry!" I squeaked, horrified with myself. Merlin! I had only been speaking to him for 5 seconds and I'd already messed up. Imagine how shocked I was, then, when he just laughed.

"Why are you sorry? I loved my summer! I mean, apart from my family constantly going on about how 'Purebloods are not getting enough recognition nowadays' and 'Muggle Borns should be killed the second they're born'. But apart from that, I got six whole weeks to annoy the hell out of them!"

"Huh, sounds like you had a better summer than I had." I replied, laughing a little. Sirius winced and looked at me apologetically.

"That bad, huh?"

"Well my mum and dad were at work every day, leaving me alone with my sister and her whale of a boyfriend, Vernon. But other than that, no, my summer was absolute paradise." I grinned, pulling my luggage on to the train. When we'd all got on, we went on the hunt for an empty compartment. Luckily, we'd got here early and it wasn't too hard. We sat down and talked about our summers for a while until I checked my watch to see that it was 5 minutes until the train left.

"Well, I better go and find Alice. She should be here by now." I said, standing up and leaving the compartment. I had just stepped out and closed the door when out of the shadows came none other than Severus Snape. I felt those tears come back again, and I blinked them away, silently begging them not to fall.

"Lily, can we talk?" he whispered, a tiny glimmer of hope in his black, cold eyes.

"I don't think we can, Severus." I replied coldly, stepping around him and checking the other compartments.

"How many times will I have to say I'm sorry? It just-"

"Slipped out? It's too late, Sev. You obviously don't want to be friends with me anymore, since you called me…that. Now, do me a favour, and never talk to me again." I snapped, briskly walking down the corridor, checking the compartments as I went. I felt a horrible feeling welling up inside me, but I pushed it to one side, knowing that what he said was not my fault. He'd chosen his path, and I'd chosen mine. We couldn't possibly be friends anymore. But I still felt bad for yelling at him. He was only trying to apologise…again. All these thoughts got pushed out of my head, however, when I looked through yet another compartment window and saw Alice sitting there. I opened the door and suddenly I was surrounded by three girls, all rapidly asking me how my summer was. I laughed and gently pushed them away so I could sit down next to Alice. Alice was quite short, with short black hair and dark eyes.

"So…are you looking forward to being Head Girl?" Marlene McKinnon said, trying, and failing, to hid a chuckle behind a hand. Marlene was tall, with curly, blonde hair and hazel eyes.

"Yes…why, shouldn't I be?" I asked cautiously, beginning to think that there was something they weren't telling me. This thought was confirmed when Emmeline Vance started laughing uncontrollably. She was mid-height, with long, natural, brown hair and dark blue eyes. I looked over at Alice, only to find she was shaking with the effort of trying to stifle a laugh.

"Alice…" I warned, glaring at her.

"You wouldn't happen to know who the head boy was, would you, Lily?" Emmeline sniggered.

"No…Do you?" I asked, immediately getting curious. The letter I had received from Dumbledore was very short, just explaining that I should go to the Head's Compartment when the train was halfway through its journey and that I would be staying in a separate dorm near the Head Boy's. It hadn't mentioned who the Head Boy actually was. Thinking this, I felt increasingly uncomfortable. What if it was a Slytherin? Worse, what if it was Potter? I refrained myself from laughing out loud at this. Potter? Head Boy? Dumbledore was many things, but he was not insane. The girls had stopped laughing now, and I let the Head Boy topic slide, wanting it to be a surprise. You never know, it could be someone I actually liked. Maybe even Sirius. Ok, that would never happen, but still, a girl can dream, can't she? The time passed quickly, filled with us gossiping about everything and anything we thought of. But all the time my thoughts kept going back to who the Head Boy was. It had to be someone smart, someone who was popular with everyone, someone who could get through to everyone… but who could be that amazing? Finally, after what seemed like years of Alice and Marlene chatting endlessly about Amos Diggory, a handsome Ravenclaw in our year, the trolley came by, signalling that the train journey was at its half-way point. Practically jumping out of my chair, I ran through the door, before poking my head round it again.

"Oh, and save me a pumpkin pasty." I smiled at Alice, before sprinting off down the corridor.

I skidded to a halt in front of the door to the Head's Compartment. Taking a deep breath and telling myself that nobody was truly that bad as long as it wasn't Potter, I swung open the door and stepped inside…then almost died on the spot right there and then. There, sitting down with an amused expression, looking at my shocked and slightly frightened expression with one of those 'I-knew-you-were-going-to-look-like-that-and-it's-hilarious' smug look, was none other than James bloody Potter. Well, on the bright side, I thought, at least it's going to be an interesting year…

A/N – Ok, I know this isn't the best chapter in the world, but it's going to get better, I swear. This was just that chapter where you get a first glimpse of the characters and stuff like that. But please review, constructive criticism is always welcome XD