Change
After hugging her parents goodbye she confidently strode through the barrier to platform nine and three quarters, her smile lighting up her entire face. I watched as her parents walked back to the car before following her through the barrier.
Once reaching the platform I looked around searching for her long red hair or her gleaming white smile, ignoring everyone else around me. It was our final year at Hogwarts and I was determined to make things right between me and Lily Evans.
Realising that she must have boarded the train I got on and wandered through the corridor peering into the compartments hoping to see her with a book out, lost in her own world. Gradually more and more people got onto the train, but there was still no sign of her.
I sighed, wondering if I should give up looking for her and go find my friends. But they weren't the same as Lily Evans. As I reluctantly made my way to my usual compartment I realised where she must be.
She had been a prefect the previous two years and was likely to be head girl this year, she would be in the prefect compartment, unconsciously I walked quicker as I headed towards the compartment. I stopped outside, not daring to look in and see if she was there. Instead I stood there waiting, waiting for them to finish and for her to come out so I would have a chance to talk to her.
Soon I heard movement in the compartment and the prefects filed out talking to each other, I watched carefully making sure I didn't miss her but she didn't come out. Wondering why she hadn't come out I peered into the compartment.
My eyes were instantly drawn to her pale, freckled face; her green eyes sparkled with astonishment and I wondered what made her so surprised. As my eyes glanced around the room I realised she was not the only one still in the compartment.
The boy stood before her was smiling charmingly at her, speaking to her as she gazed back at him in wonder. My jaw dropped and I clenched my fists in hatred as she smiled back at him nodding in answer to whatever he asked her.
How could she do that to me? She had told me she would always hate him. Yet here she was smiling up at him and his annoying messy black hair as if they were good friends. I stalked away furiously, maybe there was no way we could resolve our friendship if she was able to be friends James Bloody Potter.
Lily couldn't believe it, James Potter had actually changed! She was shocked and angry when he had told her he was head boy, but then in the meeting he was so organised, quickly and effectively sorting out the patrol schedule. Then he even apologised towards her, asking to start over and if they could even possibly be friends.
She had been in such shock the only thing she could do was nod and smile at him. His face had lit up so much, it was incredible, Lily couldn't remember a time she had ever seen him so happy. She couldn't believe how much he had matured over the summer, not to mention how tanned and muscly he had gotten.
Maybe Potter wouldn't make such a bad head boy after all.