Chapter 1: Memories
It was a cold winter's day as she sat in the park, children all around playing and having fun. She began to reminisce her childhood before things got complicated. Her sister Petunia is five years her senior, she is very prissy, clean person opposed to anything magical, especially Lily.
They used to get along, that is before Lily got her acceptance letter from Hogwarts, she hadn't even applied. Petunia liked things to be normal and finding out her little sister was a witch wasn't exactly her idea of normal. The sisters became distant with each other over the weeks before Lily went to school.
Petunia was a sixth year at Ladywell Academy, the school Lily was going to attend. Petunia had lots of friends but none she could confide in, not even Yvonne her best friend. The day Lily had gone to get her school things, Petunia was confined to muggle London, their mother didn't want to take them both to Diagon Alley as they would just argue. Petunia found this unfair, even with her normalness she wanted to see the street, she was curious and jealous. Why didn't she get a letter? She was older.
Lily had been wandering along Diagon Alley with her mother when she spotted a tall, greasy-haired boy standing in the bookshop, nose pressed into a book. She thought he looked familiar, but carried on with her shopping. After purchasing all the things she required for school, she took her mother to Eylops Owl Emporium, where shehad bought her first pet. A large Tawny owl, which she named him Felix after the inventor of cheering charms, as they put a smile on her face whilst reading her books.
As the breeze chilled her she remembered going to Kings Cross Station and trying to find platform 9 ¾, she just had to go through a ticket barrier. Once on the platform she instantly noticed the pale boy she'd seen in Flourish and Blotts, he was standing alone or so it seemed. A woman and man, apparently his parents where standing a few feet away arguing about something she couldn't hear, although it sounded like the man didn't want his child to go to Hogwarts.
There where two other boys running up and down the platform, they looked like they to were just starting school. They were jumping over peoples trunks and yelling to each other. "Oi James, bet you a galleon you fall first", the first had shouted. The other, had replied "Your on Sirius mate", whilst distracting him with some simple hexes. Sirius then fell scattering a pair of giggling girls.
After boarding the train she took a compartment near the end. A few minutes later she was joined by the two boys Sirius and James, a mousy boy named Peter and a quiet boy named Remus. The journey was quite pleasant although she wished she knew more about this world. The boys where all of wizarding parentage and were filling her in on the world. It was nice to have someone to talk to for a change.
She became friends almost instantly with the boys. She like them was sorted into Gryffindor, the pale boy however was sorted into Slytherin. She now knew his name was Severus Snape from the sorting ceremony, she didn't know this boy but he intrigued her. She made friends with the girls in her dorm easily, two of them, twins, were like her muggleborn.
As her years at Hogwarts went past she became distant with the boys and began to think of them all except Remus as conceited gits. She didn't speak to James, Sirius or Peter till near the end of their fifth year when they stuck up for her against Snape when he called her a mudblood. Although she didn't admit it at first she was surprised they'd stuck up for her and her gratitude became apparent.