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Chapter 1

The Hogwarts Express

Luna sighed. She was wearing a hoodie with her hood up to hide her hair and ears, but she was still getting looks for her neon green cat eyes. She heaved her trunk onto a trolley, which made it slightly easier to carry. She wheeled the trolley up to the wall which supposedly hid platform 9 ¾ from the normal people. She pretended to lean up against it, took a glance either side, then walked backwards.

She found herself on another platform, similar to the one she had just left, but this was filled with a lot more people her age and older. Also, the noise had changed. Among the smaller children's noises, there were squawks, meows and croaks. She wished she'd be allowed to have a pet, probably a cat, but the orphanage wouldn't let anyone have a pet. She pushed her trolley up to the scarlet steam train, and dragged her trunk off then onto the train. It was still quite early, meaning she'd have time to get a compartment to herself. She dragged her trunk to the end of the train, and sat in the empty compartment. She stuffed her trunk onto a seat, then sat next to it, resting her feet on the seat opposite.

She sat like that for a while, glaring at the people who looked at her, and they hurried away, scared of her eyes. She wondered if she should take down her hook to reveal her strange ears and midnight blue hair. She looked outside to see the time. It was 10:57. The train would be leaving soon. She looked around the platform, to see a family rushing their children to the train. There was a boy with dark brown hair and brown eyes, a boy with black hair and green eyes (though not as bright or neon as hers) and a girl of about her age with bright red hair, though obviously natural, and brown eyes.

"Pathetic, aren't they?" Luna whipped around to see a boy of her age, with black hair, pale skin and icy blue eyes. He was still watching the family out of the window. "Freaks." He looked down and noticed her eyes. "Although not as much as you." He started to back out of the doorway; apparently he'd changed his mind about her. She didn't care; she was used to being called a freak. She smiled, and waved at him as her left. She sighed with a mischievous grin and sat back. This was going to be easy.

"Excuse me?" A small voice interrupted her thoughts. She turned around. The girl from the platform was standing in the doorway to the compartment, obviously taken aback by the eyes, but stayed standing there. "Everywhere else is full." She said. Luna rolled her eyes, took her feet off the seats opposite, and moved her trunk to the floor. She noticed there was a girl a couple of years older, and a boy of Luna's age standing in the doorway with their trunks. Luna gestured them in, the turned back to the window.

"I'm Lily."
Luna turned her head.
"I'm Hugo" The boy introduced himself next.
"I'm Rose. He's my brother, she's my cousin." Rose seemed to have more confidence. Luna nodded.
"Luna."
"That's my middle name!" Lily said suddenly, then blushed. Luna smiled in a polite way, remembering that Rosewood Orphanage always said she had to be polite. She then turned back to the window to see the train was rolling past beautiful green hills.

"I heard it's a castle. I dunno though, cuz James and Albus always tell me lies. They're my brothers." Lily didn't think she needed to add the last bit on. They were all famous since before they were born.

"They sound nice. I'd love for them to be my brothers. I've always liked pranksters." Luna was just trying to stop the silence, because it would be awkward.
"Yeah, but the Daily Prophet reports everything they say or do, so it kinda gets annoying."
"Why would they do that?"
"You don't know? My dad's Harry Potter."
"Who?" Luna asked. Lily gaped at her.
"You don't know everything he's done?" Rose sighed. "You'll find out soon enough. In the meantime, we better get changed." Hugo left to find his cousins, while Rose, Lily and Luna changed into their robes. They sat back down, Rose stroking her cat, Lily reading a magazine and Luna just staring out of the window. Rose suddenly looked up.
"I think I hear only the hottest guy in our school down the corridor!" She smoothed down her uniform and hair, and walked out into the corridor.
"What's the deal with her?" Luna asked.
"Boy obsessed." Lily replied. "By the way, are you a metamorphagus?" She asked
"A meta-what-agus?" Luna asked, raising an eyebrow.
"A metamorphagus. Can change your appearance at will?" Lily answered.
"I wish." Luna muttered.

The sky was darkening rapidly. It was pitch black by the time the train started to slow down. Lily and Luna walked off the train, to a giant man calling "Firs' years, this way!" across a river in a boat, then up a long gravel path to a pair of oak front doors. The giant man knocked on the door, and everyone fell silent.

A/N

Do you like chapter 1? I certainly am proud of it, considering it's a chapter 1. Although I have written worse, and it's part of this story, so in a couple of chapter's time, you'll be reading thinking Have I read any worse? and I assure you, you won't in this story. Well, buh bye!

Edit: I added a line to make a bit more sense. Lily knows a metamorphagus so she'd obviously guess that Luna was one. There'll be more edits in later chapters, I'll explain them later. Adios!

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~Lil-Lioness-Cub