Chapter one

G'day mate

It was raining the day we left the farm. I don't know if it was because we were leaving or a good omen of what was about to come. All I knew was that the change that was coming was big and maybe even life changing. What I did know was that if Lily and I didn't leave soon we were going to miss the train to Hogwarts! Shit.

It's quite unheard of when people in the wizarding world transfer schools, especially a drastic change from Australia to England. That like the opposite hemisphere to Australia! Literally the other side of the world. Since our old school in Perth, Blumont had closed because of a slight pest… problem, well if you consider your school being home to a man eating Manticore, with a man's head, a lion's body and a scorpions tail… many people were getting the hell out of there. Luckily Lily and I's names had been down for one other school, even if it was on the other side of the world. For me the biggest change would be the time difference and all, imagine trying to fall asleep at 2 in the morning when back in Australia it's 3 in the afternoon! Great. And because our parents wanted to give us the whole 'muggle' experience, we had a 21 hour plane trip to look forward to and then a 5 hour train ride to Hogwarts. Right after one another. There is one thing worse than a raging Manticore running around in your school. And that is a tired Lily. My cousin gets quite angry and… slightly terrifying when she doesn't get her full 8 to 10 hours sleep, whereas I just get a little hyper and happy, people just normally think I'm high or drunk. Since we both couldn't sleep on planes or trains it was going to be a long trip. One that we couldn't wait for to be over.

The plane trip ended up being a terrible experience for the both of us, luckily for our parents they slept soundly during the whole flight. Unfortunately for Lily, in our stopover in Singapore she just had to eat the chicken and get food poisoning. Even more unfortunately for me… I was the one holding her hair for 21 hours while she emptied the contents of her stomach. Aren't I just the best cousin? Once the plane finally landed in England we used one of the spells which made you look all refreshed so we didn't smell like shit when we went on the train. By this time it was 9 o'clock and we had only 2 hours to find our way to kings cross.

Yeah it took us the whole 1 hour and 50 minutes to find it. We probably looked like a bunch of headless hippogriffs running around the station trying to find the platform which clearly was not marked for tourists like us. Finally we found some wizards who were going onto the platform through the brick wall entrance. Like I said before… not clearly marked at all. Bloody poms. Saying goodbye to our parents was probably the hardest part… even harder than the time difference, we wouldn't be seeing them until the holidays and at our old school we went home every night for dinner, you can't go home at a boarding school. Only on holidays. At least Lily and I had each other though.

Hearing the train horn go off Lily and I realised that we should go and find a compartment and try to get some much needed sleep, which most likely would not happen knowing our luck. After stacking our suitcases onto the luggage compartment of the train we went and found an empty compartment. The compartments were nice and had a welcoming feeling to them, I chucked my backpack onto an empty seat next to me and pulled out a miniature pillow which I enlarged, using my wand. I saw Lily doing the same thing on the other side of the small room and smiled to myself. Even though we were cousins, we were closer than best friends and even closer than sisters. We had very similar personalities Lily and I, but out of the both of us… I was slightly more rebellious and she was more carefree and didn't really care about the whole bitchiness side to things. She was the only one who knew how to calm me when I was on a rampage… and trust me they are not a pretty sight. We were both similar, yet we could be so different. At times our personalities were identical and at other times we could tear each other's heads off, acting like a bunch of wild hippogriffs.

About 10 minutes into the train ride, a group of four boys walked past our compartment. One quickly dashed back and peered in, smirked then called over the other three waving at them frantically. The boy slid open the glass door and walked inside. Moments later his friends joined and he first boy asked if they could stay with us for the train ride. Seeing as we weren't going to be sleeping I quickly said that they could. When I reshrunk my pillow I carefully studied the new arrivals. The first boy who walked in resembled a god. Seriously. He was nearly perfect, he had quite long shaggy hair, similar to a dogs, and was tall and a little tanned but what really surprised me was his eyes. A mixture of a bluey-grey they looked like a perfect storm brewing. The only thing separating him from being perfect was the fact that he was wearing a top, from the shirt he was wearing any girl could tell he was fit. I mean I'm no pervert but he was mighty fine. The second boy was very nice looking as well. Similar height to the first he had messy light brown hair and hazel eyes underneath small round glasses. He was too was also slightly tanned. But out the two the first guy was more attractive but not by far. The third one to enter the compartment was just shorter than the other two and had a scars I immediately identified as from a werewolf. The size, length and shape of the scar made it quite obvious. Apart from the scarring on his face this one was also good looking although he looked quite closed off and like a closed book. He had dirty blonde hair which was shorter than the others but not by much. The last one to enter was very… different from the others. He was short and a little on the chubby side as if he hadn't lost his baby fat yet. He also resembled a rat.

The arrivals finally introduced themselves, the first ones names was Sirius Black, the second James Potter (who seemed quite taken by our young Lily here), the third Remus Lupin and the forth one Peter Pettigrew.

After Lily and I introduced ourselves they immediately picked up on our accents.

"So where are you guys from anyways?" the boy named James asked all the while never taking his eyes off Lily. That's cool man… I ain't here or anything. But hey I am defiantly not complaining because that meant that Lily wouldn't get the yummy looking one.

Glancing at Lily I realised that there was an opportunity here that was way too good to pass up. I mean… how often can one use their background to mess with a bunch of poms? Not that I don't like poms or anything, I find their accents to die for, but how many times could one do this in their lifetime?

"Aw yeah mate we're from down under. You know Australia mate." I answered with a straight face. My own acting abilities surprised me. I looked over at Lily and noticed that she too was playing along and keeping a straight face. This is why we are related. The boys looked both amazed and intrigued at us.

"Yeah it's a real shame we couldn't bring joey, he would have been the life and soul of the party here at Hogwarts" Lily said with a fake sigh that was surprisingly believable. We should actually look at becoming actors as a profession, it does not get better then this right here ladies and gents. The look of amazement was still imprinted on our companion's faces.

"Wait who's joey?" asked Sirius who looked unbelievably adorable with a confused look on his face.
I copied Lily and fake sighed, catching on to what she was hinting at.

"Our pet kangaroo of course, I'm going to miss that big fur ball."

Now I never exaggerate, so when I say the look on their faces was priceless, I should have defiantly taken a picture for future references. It took all of Lily and I's self-control not to burst out laughing, and trust me I have very little.

"Hold up. You have a pet kangaroo? THAT IS WICKED! Do you ride on its back everywhere?" James was practically bouncing in his seat from excitement. Lily snorted in a very unfeminine way and replied very matter of factly.

"Wow don't you know anything? I mean everyone knows that you ride in the pouch! Who rides a kangaroo on the back? That's just dumb." I nodded along agreeing with Lily. Even though we don't ride kangaroo's, if you did it would be in the pouch. I looked around at the others. Peter had fallen asleep and snoring lightly in the corner, Remus was staring at Lily and me skeptically. James was still bounding with excitement annoying Lily with stupid questions, whereas Sirius was quiet, and looked as if he were studying me. I raised one eyebrow at him and he winked and looked away, breaking our eye contact. Sigh.

Oh and if you didn't catch my name? It's because I didn't give it to you.

p.s. It's Jamie Evans ;)

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