A/N: I started this a while ago, posted it and then removed it. Now I've altered it a little and I'm putting it up again.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, or things you recognise from J.K. Rowlings, Harry Potter books.
A tall, thin yet muscular thanks to many summer days spent playing quidditch, slightly scruffy looking thanks to the shoulder length black hair that hung in his dark blue eyes boy had just stepped through barrier leading to platform 9 ¾.
His name was Sirius Black and he was about to start his 7th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
A few seconds later another boy, slightly shorter than the first, also well toned thanks to quidditch, with messy black hair and hazel eyes stepped onto the platform. This boy was James Potter, best friend of Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. Together the 4 boys made up the Maurders. Known for their pranks, a reputation to get into trouble – at least Sirius and James did-, good looks (A/N all of them except peter) and their ability to sweep any girl off their feet (A/N peter excluded – he has a bit of trouble with girls, Remus has the ability, but doesn't abuse it, because he's so sweet).
Sirius and James pushed their trolleys which were stacked with luggage towards a tallish boy with sandy blonde hair flecked with grey, blue eyes and a thin build and a small slim girl with auburn-red hair that curled near the ends at around the middle of her back and emerald green eyes, standing on the platform.
These two people were Remus Lupin and Lily Evans.
"Ah Moony my friend it's good to see you again" Sirius said as he swung and arm around his friends shoulders "Evans have a good holiday?"
"Hey Sirius" Remus said "good to see you, you to James" as James joined them
"Good to see you Moony, alright Evans?" James asked, running his hand through his hair on the last words.
"Fine Potter" Lily said as she rolled her eyes at his action.
"Have a good summer?" he inquired.
"I did actually, and I have a prefects meeting to prepare for, so if you'll excuse me I have to go" she said and she walked away towards the scarlet train.
'Gods Potter is annoying, just walking over and acting like he owned the bloody platform' Lily thought to herself as she wandered to the back of the train toward the prefect's compartment
Lily sat on one of the seats in the compartment and was thinking about how awful her sister's boyfriend and all of his 3 chins were when there was a light knock on the door.
Lily stood and opened the door to the compartment. "The prefects meeting doesn't start for ½ an hour" Lily said.
Out side the door stood a thin girl who was just a little shorter than Lily, with wavy ash blonde hair and greeny-blue eyes and a rather dark tan.
The girl who stood at the door looked up at her, for she was even shorter than Lily.
"Ummm…I'm not here for a prefects meeting" she said hesitantly. "I'm a transfer student, and my letter said that I should come to this compartment and ask for…" she checked the piece of parchment in her hand "Lily Evens"
"Oh. I'm sorry; no one mentioned to me that you were coming. What's your name?" Lily said.
"Elle Smith" The girl said.
"Well I'm Lily Evens, and I'm head girl so I would love to help you with anything you…need help with" Lily said, stumbling through her words a little.
Elle laughed quietly, "Thanks" she said
Lily smiled "Your welc- what you doing here Potter" Lily stared past Elle at the boy who now stood behind the new transfer student.
Elle turned, to come face to face with someone's chest. A chest that she assumed belonged to 'Potter'. She titled her head up to see a the a handsome face with dark brown eyes and messy black hair staring down at her.
"Hello" he said.
"Potter this is the PREFECT'S compartment, what are you doing here?" Lily hissed.
"Well Lily flower" he began and reached into his pocket, Lily glared, "I happen to be Head Boy and I believe that mean I can be in the prefect's compartment"
"WHAT!" Lily exclaimed "Show me that badge"
He handed her the badge and she inspected it. "Fine, but I'm watching you Potter, you make one bad move and I'll report you to Dumbledore"
"What ever you say Lils. Who's this?" he said
"Potter this is our new transfer student Elle Smith, Elle this is James Potter."
"Hello" Elle said quietly.
"Hi. So do you know what house you're in?" James asked
"House?" she asked. "I'm sorry I really have no idea what you're talking about"
"Ok, uh what year are you in? 4th? 5th?" he asked
"7th actually" Elle told him
"Oh sorry, you're just don't look tall enough" James said
"It's ok, I'm hoping England will help with that" She laughed.
"Well the prefects meeting will be starting soon" Lily said "And I'd let you stay with me, but you're not a prefect so-"
"You can stay with Remus, and Sirius, and Peter" James interjected.
"Well I suppose that would work." Lily said slowly, "We'll walk you there and introduce you to them then"
The three walked down the corridor together, with only a little bit of bickering between Lily and James. They stopped at the compartment who's window was flashing lights and sparks. James slid the door open, and the lights stopped. In the compartment were3 of the maurders. Sirius was standing with his wand out, Remus was watching him from over his book and Peter was eating a chocolate frog whilst watching Sirius.
"Hello there" said Sirius, as he put his wand into his pocket.
"What have you lot been up to while I've been gone?" James asked as he reached down to the pile of chocolate frogs on the seat.
"Oh nothing much, just the usual really" Sirius said.
"You expect me to believe that Sirius?" James asked sarcastically as he unwrapped his chocolate
"I swear Mr. Head Boy we only hexed him once" Sirius said giving James a puppy dog look.
James chuckled. "Yeah well, me and lil's have got a meeting to run, and moony's coming to, so can you look after this little lady?"
"I resent that" Elle muttered.
"What? You are short" James said. "Elle this is Sirius, Peter and Remus. Guy's this is Elle"
"Hi" squeaked Peter
"Pleasure to meet you" Remus said as he put his book down and stood.
"Hello" Sirius said.
"I'll see you soon Elle, after the meeting." Lily said
"See you lot later" James said. And he, Lily and Remus left the compartment.
"Well are you gonna sit down, or stand there all day?" Sirius asked
Elle smiled and sat down in the space Remus had left.
"So, Ella was it?" Peter asked. "Where are you from?"
"Elle and I'm from Australia"
"Interesting" Sirius said "But not important Peter. 1st, remember her name, girls like that it makes them think you've been paying attention to them. 2nd remember some things they've said. 3rd the sooner you start kissing her, the sooner you get to stop listening to her talk about all the boring stuff, 4th ask the IMPORTANT things. You do it like this. Watch and learn" Sirius moved so that he was sitting next to Elle. "So Elle, you got a boyfriend?"
Elle shook her head.
"Really, I'm surprised. You're so pretty, I'm surprised all the guys aren't in here begging to go out with you –you need to compliment them Peter"
Sirius slipped his arm around her waist. "Well seeing as you're single, will you go out with me?" he then pulled her into his lap.
Elle smiled up at Sirius sweetly. Even sitting on his lap, she was still shorter than him. She pulled his hand off her waist. "Comfortable as your lap is Sirius, I don't think I will go out with you." She said as she stood up and sat back down on the seat. "Peter" she added "try to avoid being dumped in public".
Peter laughed. Elle giggled along with him. Sirius grabbed a handful of chocolate frogs and stared out the window. Elle picked up the book Remus had left and started reading it and Peter went back to eating the chocolate frogs.
Half an hour later the compartment door opened and James, Remus and Lily returned from their meeting.
"Well it think that went well" Lily said as they walked in.
"Yeah, you two didn't fight which was good" Remus chuckled.
The three sat down and glanced around the compartment. Peter had fallen asleep, Elle was immersed in Remus' book and Sirius was staring out the window.
"Hey you two" James said "What have you been up too?" neither looked up. James poked Sirius. Hs just ignored James. "Sirius mate, what's going on?" Sirius still stared at the window. James looked at Remus and Lily in a helpless way.
Remus reached over and shook Peter awake. While peter was rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Remus moved over to Elle and pulled the book out of her hands. Her head snapped up and looked at Remus, "Sorry, I didn't mean to… I didn't think you'd mind" she said quietly.
"That's fine" Remus said, "You were just ignoring us"
"Oh, sorry"
"Oh you guys should've seen it, it was so funny" Peter said, gaining their attention. "Sirius tried to, oh he" Peter started laughing again.
James, Lily and Remus shared a worried glance. When Peter's laughs subsided, he started talking again "SO funny, he asked Elle to go out with him and, pulled her into his lap and then she goes, what did you say? Something about even though his lap was comfy she didn't want to go out with him. You should've been there"
Remus laughed quietly to himself and shook his head. Lily laughed outright, and James grinned.
"Finally been rejected have you now Sirius?" Lily laughed.
Sirius continued to ignore them.
"Mate come on lighten up" James said. "You gotta admit it's pretty funny"
Sirius huffed "Peter chuck us some more frogs" he said as he turned back to the group.
They spent the rest of the train ride talking and joking around. It was fun, and by the end of trip they still had a rather large stack of chocolate frogs.