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Trouble at Hogwarts

Chapter one - the train journey

"Come on Ellie we have ten minutes to get on the train and we're not even through the barrier yet"

A sixteen year old girl with fiery red hair was calling to a Blonde curly haired girl behind her who was pushing a trolley carrying a large trunk and had a cage which was occupied by a brown owl, under her left arm.

"Jeezo Lily we're nearly there - SHUT UP you stupid bird - wait up Lils stop running so fast"

The girl with fiery red hair turned and flashed her friend a mischievous grin and ran at the wall ahead of her and disappeared. Ellie stopped just before the wall and adjusted the cage before taking off at full speed towards barrier.

Both girls re-appeared on the same platform facing a huge red train which was filling the station with steam.

"Took you long enough! lets go see if we can find the others!" Lily started to push her trolley forward but soon collided with something, or rather someone.

"I'm so sorry, wasn't watching...oh it's you! Well then, no need for an apology, come on Ellie"

Lily tried to start off again but the boy in which she had collided with stopped her -

" Now Evans is that anyway to say hello to an old friend? hmm? I think not, Come here"

The boy grabbed Lily before she could escape and embarrassed her in a hug, which did not last long as Lily pushed him away.

"Potter if you ever touch me again I'll hex you into next year, now get lost!"

The boy was left standing laughing as he watched the two girls walk down the platform. He was tall for his age, had messy jet black hair which fell into his deep chocolate brown eyes - his name was James Potter.

"haha well done Prongs ol' man I see that the girls are all ready beginning to swoon or should I say flee!" said a boy with neat black hair and piercing grey eyes who was hanging out of a compartment window.

"Shut up Padfoot, she'll warm up to me soon enough, you'll see" he was now watching Lily and Ellie get onto the train. "Yeah mate maybe in another six year's or so, now get onto the train fool".

James had just stepped onto the train as whistling filled his ears and the train slowly began to move. He slid open the compartment door and entered, there was already two boys inside.

"Alright peter how was your summer?" James asked the Smaller boy of the three who had mousy brown hair and watery eyes.

"It was okay nothing special, how about yours?" he replied, James pushed his glasses up his nose a bit before replying

"ahh was not bad, had this git staying though" he said indicating to the boy by the window who had been watching the people on the platform like an excited dog as the train was departing.

"Oi I am not a git! and it wasn't that bad we had some good nights. I swear wormtail all I got all summer was Evans this, Lily that and oh how I lov...ahh don't bloomin' hit me" he said laughing.

James stopped hitting him with the daily prophet

"Get lost Sirius I didn't mention her THAT much, maybe once or twice in the passing... where is Remus?".

Both Sirius and Peter began laughing lightly,

"Remember last year when he got made a prefect?" Sirius addressed James as though he was talking to a small child.

"why Dumbledor ever made a marauder a prefect it's beyond me!." Sirius said still laughing.

James looked annoyed,

"yes I do remember, I just though he might have popped in before the meeting. ahh well old Dumbledor probably thought by giving one of us the badge the others might settle down a bit, I would like to see Moony try and put us two into detention. He wouldn't dare".

All three boys continued to laugh until peter got back onto the subject at hand,

"So you are STILL going to follow Evans about this year?" he asked James who was no longer laughing

" Yeah I'm not giving up on her, isn't it obvious that she likes me.. she cant resist me much longer!" he said with a slight hint of sarcasm in his voice.

"I say give up now mate she will never go out with you and what kind of marriage would it be if you couldn't touch your wife or she would hex you?? You know who was looking hot though her little blonde friend, what's her name? Ellie isn't it? she certainly has grown over the summer, if you know what I mean" Sirius said with a grin.

Just then the compartment door slid opened and in entered Lily who now had her school robes on. James looked as though Christmas had come earlie

"Ahh Evans I knew it wouldn't be long till you came to your scenes, can't get enough of me, want another hug?" he said to a highly un-amused looking Lily.

"Shut up Potter! I wouldn't even be near you if I wasn't a prefect and I know how much the almighty Marauders like to make trouble so I'm just here to spoil your fun!" she said to a now unhappy looking James.

"C'mon Evans we don't make trouble, you know we would never do anything to even promote the idea of trouble. so you can now go about you prefect rounds knowing that we are on hand as we - like you - don't stand for trouble. So on your way out give us a twirl and a smile!" Sirius said to Lily who had been glaring at James.

Lily turned on her heel and left, James got out of his seat and rushed out into the corridor,

"Oi Evans, Will you go out with me?" James shouted and many people looked out of their compartments to see what was going on.

Lily continued to march down the corridor with out answering him or looking back.

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"He drives me mad!" said lily to a compartment full of girls as she slammed the door behind her.

"Let me guess... tall, dark hair, nice eyes, extremely hot and goes by the name of Potter, right?" a girl with curly brown hair asked.

"Correct and that other stupid fool Sirius Black. Wait Louise did you say hot? oh my god you don't think potter is hot?"

All the girls looked at Louise and laughed. Louise was not bothered by all there giggling

" Yeah I mean c'mon Lils you are not blind, he may piss you off to the max but that boy has one fine ass and ..." she was cut off by Ellie

"Yeah no denying it but Black is the hottest Marauder by far" and with this the girls set off into a long talk about boys.

A few hours later All of them had decided that Lily fancied James, all of them except Lily that is. Lily was wiping away tears of laughter from under her emerald green eyes when the door slid open. William Davis the Ravenclaw quidditch captain stood at the entrance, all the girls looked up at him smiling, he returned the smile

"ehh Lily could I talk to you for a minute, please?"

all of the girls started to laugh until Lily shot them all looks that could kill.

"Yeah sure Will" Lily stood up and went out into that corridor with him, she could hear her friends laughter even with the compartment door closed. She ignored them and smiled up at him,

"sooo" Lily said.

"I was just wondering if you would go out with me?" He said quickly looking nervous.

Lily was taken aback and tried to hide her shock but it was no use,

"go out with you? I don't know Will I mean I hardly know you, maybe if we got to know each other first?"

Will looked like he was going to burst with happiness

"yeah that's fine Lily. how about we go on a date then?"

She smiled at him "sounds great, just give me a time and place okay"

William ran his fingers through his short blonde hair "okay great, I'll get back to you with that, see you later lily" he bent down and kissed her on the cheek then walked away.

When she returned to the compartment all of them looked at her in silence,

"so what did big blonde want?" Louise said after a minute or so.

Lily started laughing "big blonde wanted to go out with me" she said still laughing.

"and what did you say? what about James?" asked a beautiful girl with short black hair who's name was Madison.

Lily looked annoyed "what do you mean what about James? nothing about James, all I said earlier is that he is rather hot and then made it clear that I hate him! and I said no and suggested we get to know each other, so we're going on a date, he is gonna get back to me"

Madison looked a bit annoyed and took out a magazine and started to read.

Ellie had been staring out of the window into the dark ness for the last half hour, she always liked to be first to spot the castle. So when the train stopped abruptly all the girls looked at Ellie in surprise as she normally shouted at the first glimpse of Hogwarts.

"You could have told us we were nearly there Ellie! I'm not even changed yet" Madison sneered at Ellie.

Ellie however had her nose pressed against the window still looking outside,

"guys" she said without looking away "I don't think we're near Hogwarts!"

Lily looked at her as she slowly turned from the window, Ellie could see the fear in her best friends green eyes,

" what do you mean you don't think we're at Hogwarts? If we're not then why the hell has the train stopped?" All of the girls were pressed against the window trying to see why they had stopped.

The door of the compartment slid open with a bang all four girls turned around with their wands drawn and began throwing curses. The marauders were thrown backwards into the hall and lay in a heap. The girls started to laugh, James and Sirius were laughing too as their legs were jiggling about as they lay on top of Peter and Remus who were unharmed by the girls curses as the other two had entered first.

The girls done the counter curses and helped the boys up all of the laughing.

"Potter why the hell are you here?" Lily demanded as he closed the door behind him,

"We were getting ready to get off the train but realised that this wasn't Hogsmeade, so we decided to come check on you lovely ladies, can't have my future wife duffed up ehh Evans?" he said looking into Lilys green eyes.

Lily began to laugh, James smirked and winked at Sirius who was sitting across from him,

"You guys were scared! haha that's why you came because then there would be more of us … oh Potter you are a hoot! now take your arm from my shoulder or I will break it!" she said smiling at him.

James look slightly pissed off as he folded his arms over his chest,

"we weren't scared Evans, that is we weren't until we came in here and seen you lot. what are you doing Ellie? it's pitch black out there" Sirius said,

Ellie had her nose pressed against the window again. Remus stood up "I'm going to talk to the driver" all of them looked at him in shock

"oh no you're not mate sit back down, god only knows what's down at his end and you've not been well" James pushed his friend back down into his seatand took his place next to Lily.

They sat there for a good ten minutes until Remus sat up straight looking very alert, his golden brown eyes looked over to the window. Everyone followed his gaze, all were silent whilst staring out into the darkness. Ellie cleared her throat and was about to talk when the lights went out. Everyone in the train screamed. Lily held onto James' arm

"what's happening? you don't think it could be ..." Lily was cut off by a very faint slow tapping noise.

"what's that?" Madison said in a whisper.

Everyone reached for their wands, Ellie was still pressed against the window as her eyes were now adjusting to the darkness. The tapping grew louder, but not much

"its coming for outside" peter said what everyone was thinking.

Everyone looked towards the window just as it happened.

BANG

"BOO"

the face of a woman with wild black hair and pale skin had just appeared at the window. holding her wand next to her face to provide a light. Everyone inside the compartment screamed. The woman laughed they all light their wands promptly.

"Hello Kiddies" and with that she was gone, they could still hear her laughter.

Loud screams began to fill the air along with bangs and crashes. Madison began crying.

Lily finished her sentence " Death Eaters"

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A/N: Hope you liked it, will up date soon! Please review, it's my birthday tomorrow! I'll be 18 - woohoo - to the pub!