People always say, "what's in a name?" Well a lot can be in a name. A name can tell a person a lot about you. Lily Evans believed that thoroughly. As a Slytherin par excellence, there was a lot in a name.

Li aboard the Hogwarts Express

Lucius Malfoy was not a normal boy and never wanted to be confused with one. There was something degrading about being called normal, like you weren't good enough. That's what his teachers said his grades in school were, normal, and he hated it.

He didn't look normal and that he was glad of. You don't see a lot of boys with natural platinum blonde hair. It just doesn't happen, it wasn't normal. He and his best friend, Severus Snape, at six foot four, were both really tall, again not normal. Lucius and Severus looked very similar, excluding that fact that Lucius had blond hair and Severus had black.

Lucius sighed. It was another year beginning. Another year putting up the act of being tough and being evil. Normal people weren't evil. Lucius exited the train where he had been standing and went to search the station. The border to the other side was so obvious Lucius wondered why muggles didn't see it. That's another way Lucius wasn't normal. He was a wizard. He hated the 'normals' or what wizards called muggles. It was a shame that several good wizards were muggle born.

Lucius crossed the border to the muggle side and saw one of his friends getting out of a car. There was a good wizard to be that was muggle born. Li Evans caught sight of Lucius and waved him over.

"It's ok dad, Lucius will help me from here on out," Li addressed the adults that had been in the car. "I'll get on the train ok by myself."

"Ok sweetie," the man replied. Hearing 'sweetie' reminded Lucius that Li was indeed not a wizard at all, but a witch. That was the thing about Li, SHE never wanted to be reminded that she was indeed not a boy but a girl. Lucius and his friends always treated Li like another one of the guys, so they often forgot that she wasn't one. She even looked like a guy. She wore her red hair chin length, just as Severus and Lucius did or she would stuff it into her hat. People just assumed the chin length hair cut was something the three of them did, they didn't realize that one was actually a girl.

Li also had the body of a young boy, or she had, Lucius added to himself as he glanced at Li. You couldn't really make it out because of her baggy tee-shirt, but there was the hint of the maturing that had been taking place. She was most likely not going to be happy about this.

Li's father got back in the car and drove off, blowing a kiss to Li, who looked embarrassed and looked away. Lucius bent to pick up Li's trunk.

"What are you doing?" Li asked.

"Helping," Lucius replied.

"I can get it by myself, don't treat me like that," Li growled.

"Like what?"

"Like a girl," Li replied shuddering. "Go help Narcissa, I think she needs help."

"Look I'm sorry," Lucius apologized.

"If I wanted to be hassled, I would go home to my muggle sister," Li whispered bitterly. That last comment reminded Lucius once again of Li's muggle birth. She was the best example of a wizard/witch born muggle. Because of Li, Lucius' group of Slytherins had implemented a rule; you don't mess with a fellow Slytherin, no matter if they were pureblood or otherwise. Lucius inforced that your house was deeper than your blood.

"Let's go find Severus," Li suggested. "He told me that he would use Omnioculars to tape the cup for me. Mes parents wouldn't let me go."

"Sure," Lucius replied, glad that Li wasn't upset anymore. They quickly boarded the train that would take them to school, Hogwarts. It was a school for witches and wizards and considered one of the best in Europe.

"Severus has to pick the last cabin doesn't he?" Li complained as they searched the whole train for their friend. She stuck her head in the second to last compartment on their search.

"Well if it isn't one of the three stooges?" the boy in the cabin sneered.

"Back off Black," Lucius said, coming into the cabin.

"So we have Curly and Moe, but where is Harry?" another boy asked. This boy was sitting down on a seat near the window. He was long and lanky even in a sitting position, like he didn't know what to do with various limbs. His dark brown hair was messy as it always was and his thick glasses were slightly askew on his face. He had brown eyes that Li had heard girls in her dorm talking about, but had never and still didn't think were special. This boy was James Potter, the son of a long line of wizards.

"I never thought you could sink lower Potter, watching Muggle TV shows, tsk tsk, if I didn't know better, I would say you had a bit of mudblood in you," Li said meanly. Purebloods were so uptight about blood, it really didn't matter, but that didn't stop her from using it against those who cared.

"You want to fight?" the first boy asked. This boy was very much like his friend. He also was blessed with limbs that looked too long and with brown eyes. This one did not wear glasses and had black hair where his friend had brown. His name matched his hair color he was Sirius Black.

"Fighting Black? So crude, but then again, you are Griffindors," Lucius sneered.

"Get out of here you Slythering scum," came from the cowardly boy in the corner. He was pudgy and short. His skin looked like it should be falling off. He resembled a blond beach ball at times.

"Feeling brave Pettigrew?" Li inquired menacingly, brandishing her wand. Peter Pettigrew cowered in fear. "I feel we have associated with these," she paused. "Griffinors, long enough, don't you agree?"

"Quite," Lucius agreed. The two exited the cabin and went to the last compartment where they saw Serveus Snape in his makeshift potions lab.

"It's bad enough that you do this in our dorm, do you have to do this now?" Lucius asked.

"Of course I do! I've almost discovered something, it's a way to shake off the Impervious curse," Severus informed them.

"What would anyone need that for?" Li asked.

"Who knows? Just nice to know I have the way to throw it off. I also developed a more effective Truth potion over the summer, works much better that that old Verimus does."

"Maybe we can use it on Potter and co," Lucius pondered.

"Did you tape the cup for me?" Li asked impatiently.

"I was too busy to go," Severus replied.

"Severus!" Li yelled.

"If I didn't know you better, I would say you are a girl, you sounded just like one a minute ago," Murgatroyed Goyle, a particularly ugly Slytherin who was good for nothing except to carry out orders, laughed. Before anyone could move, Goyle was ten feet in the air.

"You think that's funny Goyle? You think that's funny? Well how funny do you think it would be if I were to send you zooming out the window? How much do you think it would hurt to have glass through your head? Would that be Goyle?" Li threatened. Goyle shook his head.

"He didn't mean anything by it, honest. He was just joking," Jasper Crabbe stuttered.

"Let him down Li," Lucius instructed.

"Not until he's learned his lesson. Have you learned your lesson Goyle? You never call me a girl. You got that?" Goyle nodded furiously. Li brought her wand down. Goyle quickly fell face first on the floor. "He better have been joking," Li uttered. She went to go sit down and read. Crabbe quickly helped Goyle back to his feet and took him to a corner to apparently lecture his friend about whom you joke about and whom you don't.

"Don't be so sensitive Li, gonna kill someone some day. Anyway, I actually did tape the cup; I forgot I had," Severus said.

"Thank you. It's not my fault people haven't learned not to make me angry," Li grumbled.

"You have to work with people occasionally," Lucius told her.

"I don't want to."

"Not everyone has it as easy as you do," Richard Lestrange told her.

"This is coming from the boy whose parents send him galleons by the bag full? I'm supposed to listen to you? Whatever, I'm going to find the food cart, later," Li said raising her hands.

"Later," Severus and Lucius replied as Li walked out the door.

Who do those prats think they are to question me? Li asked herself. Why should I listen to them? They are nothing! Nothing! She was so absorbed in her thoughts that she didn't notice the person she had run over.

"Sorry man," said the cheerful voice of the boy she had knocked over. "I wasn't looking where I was going." The boy, probably a Hufflepuff, Li thought scornfully, gave her a hand up and went on his way.

"How dare he!" Li muttered.

"How dare he what? Knock you over? From my vantage point, you were the one who ran into him. He was just smart enough not to accuse you of it," Remus Lupin told her.

"You want to go flying?" Li asked him. She was good at Charms, especially at ones that had to do with flying. Remus Lupin looked down at her. Once again, Li cursed her height. She was tall for a girl, but from a boy's point of view, she was just average height at five eight. Even Remus Lupin, who wasn't especially tall, looked over her head.

Remus Lupin was a bit of a mystery to all Slytherins. They knew something was up with his monthly visits to his 'sick mother,' but it was considered below them to care to find out that it was he was doing. Who cares what a stupid Griffindor is doing missing school? Remus was slightly taller than Li and had honey-brown hair. His similarly colored eyes hinted at intelligence.

"Not really, I like my feet on the ground where they are," Lupin replied.

"Would you are your friend like anything dear?" the woman who pushed the snacks cart asked them.

"I would like some chocolate frogs. You'll have to ask him what he wants separately," Remus told the lady politely. Li smiled to herself when she heard him and he. "Thanks you ma'am." Remus quickly took his stock pile of candy away leaving Li all alone.

The corridor down to the cabin where his friends were was littered with little kids; all getting in the way and just generally causing trouble. Remus held his hoard of sweets trying not to spill any. Why did his friends have to pick one of the last cabins?

"Looked kinda strange don't you think?" he heard the voice of Sirius say. Remus entered the room and poured his Chocolate Frogs onto the ground for the friends to share.

"You all owe me a knut for all of this," he informed them. "What were you talking about?"

"Li Evans. Seemed a bit off. I think he was wearing an even baggier shirt, if possible. Ever wonder what his real name is? No good Englishman names their son Li," James pondered.

"Let's do a good prank to get back for barging in on us," Sirius said excitedly.

"Like what? What haven't we done before that we can do?" James asked.

"Besides, I don't want to go flying," Peter whispered.

"You can't tell me you are afraid," Sirius cried.

"Of course not, we just like our feet on the ground, our dignity in tact and our hair its normal substance and color," Remus replied matter-of-factly.

"This is what the Marauders have become!" Sirius exclaimed in a defeated voice.

"Maybe we should pick our battles more carefully," Remus said.

"He might as well have called you a mudblood and you aren't going to respond!" Sirius shouted.

"Why should I? It's not like I care," James retorted.

"Let's set it up so they all are wearing dresses and sing I will Survive. We can give Evans the first solo in return for calling you a mudblood. You guys in?" Sirius first looked at Peter knowing he would agree with anything Sirius proposed. Peter nodded predictably.

"I'm in," James said.

"Might as well make it unanimous," Remus told him. He sighed inwardly, here went another year of fighting with the Slytherins. "Let everyone who cares know that I was against starting another year of interhourse pranking."

"Remus, you say that every year! Can you get a new phrase for once? Honestly, if this was a muggle high school, they'd put that as most often says for the yearbook," Sirius complained. Remus threw the nearest thing at Sirius, which happened to be a cat. Said cat wasn't too happy about being thrown. The cat, which was James', spread its claws and landed on Sirius with a yowl. James quickly snatched his cat out of Sirius' grasp as the angry, scratched marauder was about to throw it back.

"HEY!" Sirius protested that his weapon of mass destruction was taken away from him.

"Throw something other than my cat," James told him.

"But, but, but," Sirius whined.

"You sound like a broken record," Peter informed him.

"No buts, can't use my cat as a missile, that goes for you as well, Mooney," James said. "Now, what transfiguration spells will we need, better get out the book, we're about to get pranking."

Another year begun, another fight between Li, Lucius, Severus and James, Remus, Sirius. Anther battle between Slytherins and Griffindors, continuing the ever on going war between good and evil, but which side is evil? Which side is right, and which side is wrong? You don't know everything yet, so don't decide until it's all been said and done.