Chapter One : Back to Hogwarts Again.

Here we finally were. King's Cross, Platform 9 and ¾. For the sixth time, I would be with my friends Hannah, Shona, Lily and my best friend ever, Anne for a whole school year, along with all those other students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizerdry. I felt great.

As we were a good ten minutes early, I put my trunk on the Hogwarts Express and went back to say good-bye to my mother. She's the witch in our family, but when Dad found out, he didn't want to live with us anymore. I missed him before but now I realise he bas just a jerk. And besides, I've still got Mum, who is really nice and always there for us, and my sister Lizzy who is going to Hogwarts this year !

She was already saying good-bye to Mum. I walked over to them and put my hand on Lizzy's shoulder.

' –be good, don't work too hard, tell me when you get detention-' Mum was fussing over Lizzy. 'You've got two spare robes, Wonky will be just fine in the Owlery…' Wonky is Liz's new iwk. Mum bought us both pets when we left for Hogwarts (I have beatiful cat name Snuffles) because she's allergic to animals. She finally finished lecturing and hugged us. Hard.

'Go on. I know you're dying to get back with Anne. Get a good seat Lizzy, and most of all : have a good time.' She kissed us and we both leapt on to the train. I started searching for Hannah, Shona, Lily and Anne – we had said we'd meet up and have a compartement to ourselves. However, before I saw any of them, I stumbled across the Four Inseparables : James Potter, madly in love with Lily since second year, Remus Lupin, a nice quiet prefect along side Lily, Peter Pettigrew, a pathetic chubby boy, and best of all, Sirius Black, the guy nearly every girl dreams of. Yes, including me.

As I hurridly shut the door to their compartement, James yelled at me :

' Hey wait a minute Martins !' I opened the door again.

' What is it Potter ?'I liked James OK, but it bugged me the way he called everybody by their surname. But he took the hint and smiled.

'Where's Evan-I mean, Lily ? 'he asked hopefully.

'No idea. I was looking for her. We're going to spend the train journey together.' I said, trying to make him see Lily didn't want to spend it with him.

' Oh. Well, we might pass by. Lily might have changed her mind about going out with me.' James stated hopefully.

' I doubt it,' I smirked,' she never did over the other summers.' I watched with pleasure as James went red and the others laughed, my stomach do a back flip as Sirius laughed… at my joke ! Once they stopped, I decided to go.

'See you around, Inseperables !' I slammed the sliding door shut and went to find the girls. James hollered after me :

'Hey hey Martins ! Tell Evans I love her … and say hello for me !' I rolled my eyes and kept moving.

I soon found them near the front of the train. I sat myself down, put my travelling bag down and stuck my head out the window. It was 10 :57. I sighed and sat down opposite Shona. Grinning, I inquiered about her summer.

'Oh, it was okay.' She said roughly, running her hand through her beautiful brown curls. I raised my eyebrows, making her giggle.

'Okay, it was the pits. My mum and dad don't understand that I can get a great wizard job. They … I dunno, they must think it's all just fun.' She sighed and I tried to look sympathetic. Shona's parents are Muggles and, unlike Lily's, they don't like the idea of her becoming part of the wizarding world…

The conductor blew his whistle and I stuck my head out the window again, and at the same moment Lily ran through the door, puffing and closely followed by Anne. We four stuck our heads out the window and waved good-bye to our parents, siblings and London station in general. By the time the train actually made it out the station, we were all laughing like crazy people.

We flopped down on to our seats as Hannah came through the sliding door, looking quite shocked. We greeted her by yelling 'Hannah !' at her, so maybe her expression was really quite justified.

'Hey ! ' I said, to try to stop her leaving immeadiatly, 'How come you're late.' She opened her mouth and sat down on my travelling bag before I could stop her. The was a loud 'MRAAWWW !' and she jumped up.

'Sorry, sorry… Snuffles is in there… I lost his cage over the summer.' I snatched my bag from under her behind and opened it. A black cat slinked out and came willingly into my arms.

'Okay, so, why were you late ?'

'I was ambushed by the Inseperables.' Lily rolled her eyes in time with Anne and I.

'Not you too !' We both exclaimed. Everyone burst out laughing.

'Yeah, James sends his love as always, Lily.' I confirmed. Anne and Hannah nodded, giggling.

'When is he going to understand ?'

'He's not that bad Lily. Honestly, a guy with eyes only for you ! What more could you want ?'

'One that isn't an arrogent berk 24 hours out of 24.'

We all agreed to this and started talking about the Four Inseperables, after a while about our OWL results, and other things amongst the laughter. I learnt that Shona had decided to keep going despite her parent's disencouragements. Hannah had failed one OWL that she needed to become a dragon-tamer, so she was going to pass again. Anne was all set to get a job in Diagon Ally in Madam Malkins but Lily and I still had no clue what to become. Well, okay, my dream was to be a Chaser for England, but it was just a dream.

The lunch trolly came and went, leaving us with light money bags and millions of wizard sweets. Soon after that though, James and Sirius sauntered through the compartement door. The only free seats were… Oh man ! Next to me and next to Lily. James automatically sat down next to Lily and put his arm around her, leaving Sirius to slouch next to me. He grinned an impish grin at me and looked around at James, who trying for the five hundredth and seventeenth time to get Lily to go out with him.

'So Evan-Lily, nice summer holidays ?' He inquiered politly. Lily tried to shrug his arm off, with no success and replied :

'Fine, fine. All day long insulting with my sister, and letters from you. How the hell did you find out where I lived ?'

'A brilliant owl. Peter doesn't like him though, does he Paddy ?' Padfoot was James's name for Sirius, and Prongs was James. I had no idea where these absurd names came from, nor did I care.

Sirius rolled his eyes and winked at me. I could feel my heart melting.

'Nope. Say Prongsie, how many girls did you try go out with this summer ?'

'Just one,' He anwered, looking for Lily's reaction. When she showed absolutly no feelings, he continued, 'This one right here. What about you ?' Sirius tried unsuccessfully to look ashamed of himself.

'I went out with no less than eleven girls. At the same time.'

Everybody scowled. Hannah stood up, and said :

'Hey, James, Sirius, could I talk to you a second ? Outside ?' She gave them such a pleading look that they both complied and walked out the door, looking puzzled. I exchanged worried glances with Lily. Hannah was renouned for her short temper.

She lingered at the door frame, then jumped back in, slammed the door and yelled :

'Colloportus !' The two boys were locked outside ! We all screamed with laughter. Sirius and James looked at each other, shrugged and decided to go back to Remus and Peter.

The train ride finished in (almost compleate) silence. Everyone was reading a book, except Hannah, who was studying, to everyone's utter surprise.

As they got out of the train, bags in their hands, trying to find a carriages. Suddenly Shona shrieked and pointed to the front of the carriage.

'It's … it's visible !' We all stared at her. Since when had Shona seen someone die ?

Read and Review please ! This is my first fanfic so I NEED to know what you think !

Most characters belong to JKRowling, as do the settings.

Thanks to the people who leant me their name, Hannah Steffox, Shona Candel, Anne Kennedy and Nelly Martin.