"Bye Mum and Dad see you at Christmas" Lily Evens said waving good bye to her parents and running to the train to find her friends. It was a new year and Lily hoped that this year James Potter would finally give up and she would have a year in peace to do her N.E.W.T. Not like she didn't mind James asking her to go out every second. She hated the attention but maybe if James was a little bit more polite and stopped playing pranks she might go out with him.

"Lily over here" Lily's friend Bethany Jones said, she had long dark brown hair, brown eyes and was very tall. Lily nearly had to look up at her.

"Hey BJ have you seen Alice and Gemma any where?" Lily asked walking up to Bethany. Alice and Gemma where also Lily's friends but Alice was Lily best friend. They'd been writing to each other all summer, Alice normally saying things about Frank Longbottom, who she had a crush on.

"They're just saying good bye to their parents. How's your summer been?"

"Same old apart from Tuna's got herself a boyfriend called Vernon Dursley"

"Weird name" Bethany said "Gemma, Alice over here"

Alice Prewett and Gemma Smith ran over to them. Alice was also tall –but not as tall as Bethany- with short light brown hair and always had a friendly smile. Gemma had long dirty blond hair tied back in a pony tail and dark green eyes.

"Hey guys" Alice said "So Lily you going to go out with James this year?"

"Maybe" Lily said with a slight blush she had realized over the summer that she had a little crush on Potter.

Unfortunately for Lily, James Potter had heard everything they'd been saying. Normally he would shout something back at them to get Lily's attention but not this year. No. This year he was Head boy and he was going to act it. He had no idea why Dumbledor had chosen him to be Head boy. He wasn't even a prefect. Remus should be Head boy. He'd been a whole better behaved than himself and anyway Remus had told James that Lily would only go out with him if he was more polite and caring. How Remus knew he'll never know but he was willing to give it a try.

"So Prongs what's your plan on getting Lily-Flower to go out with you this year?" Sirius Black asked his best friend. As they got into a nearby empty compartment.

"Well you see Paddy my old mate I'm going to play it slow this year and I think being Head boy will help" James said sitting down by the window.

"Wait did you just say Head boy?" Peter Pettigrew asked his friend in disbelief.

James nodded.

"Good on you Prongs" Remus said sitting next to him

"Thanks Moony but I really thought you'd get it" James said. It was true everyone thought that Remus would get Head boy even the teachers thought he would get head boy. How shocked would they be to find out James Potter the prankster is now Head boy? James smiled at the thought.

"Yeah Moony-keeps-his-head-in-the-library-all-day why didn't you get it?" Sirius asked.

"Don't know but I do know who Head girl is"

"Who?" James asked with interest He hoped it was Lily. She was perfect for the role but seeing as Dumbledor had gone complete mad and made him Head boy it could be anyone. It could even be a boy! No, Dumbledor wasn't that mad.

"Lily"

"Come on girls lets get in the compartments before me and Miss Head girl here have to get to the prefect's compartment" Bethany said as they got into a compartment she was also a prefect like Lily had been the following year.

All the girls got into another empty compartment and Lily sat by the window just like James had done.

"So tell me girl's what have you been up to this summer?" Bethany asked she was very bossy when she wanted to be but she was also very funny.

"Well me and Frank went to my Mums garden and spent half the summer attacking a Bubotuber that had over grown" Alice said she loved Herbology and her mum had a whole garden full of magic plants. Lily had visited it once and nearly ended up in St Mungo's.

"So you and Frank are together then?" Bethany asked. She'd always assumed that if you're with a boy –specially if you have crush on said boy- and what made it worse was that Alice had a giant crush on Frank.

"What NO! We're just friends" Alice exclaimed.

"Right" Bethany said. Lily could tell she didn't believe a word Alice said.

"Leave her alone Bethany" Gemma said for the first time. Lily saw Gemma had got out her book and was reading already. Gemma was always one for reading any time there wasn't class or they weren't studying Gemma was stuck in a book.

"Oh you're one to talk, Miss-my-heads-always-stuck-in-a-book-so-I-have-no-time-for-boys." Bethany said.

"What are you reading Gemma?" Lily asked ignoring the snide comment from Bethany.

"Pride and Prejudice" Gemma said not looking up from the book. Gemma was a muggle born like Lily so she hardly ever read wizard books, she prefered muggle stories. Gemma had read Pride and Prejudice about fifty times since they'd been at Hogwarts.

"Cool where are you?" Lily said still ignoring Bethany who was now looking a little put out.

"Elizabeth's just met Mr. Darcy" Gemma said turning a page.

"Well look at the time" Bethany said grabbing Lily's wrist "We should really be going see you at the carriage guys" Bethany pulled Lily out of the compartment.

Once Bethany had let go of Lily's wrist, Lily snapped "What was that for?!"

"What do mean?" Bethany asked she looked confused.

"Why did you drag me away from Gemma you know she doesn't have many friends besides us"

"Well if you haven't noticed Lily, we should have been at the prefect's compartment five minutes ago" Bethany said walking towards the prefects compartment

Lily glanced at her watch Bethany was right, she was about five minutes late. Lily ran to catch up with her friend. Unfortunately she run into something hard and was knocked back.

"Oh sorry" Lily said, still on the floor.

"No it was my fault here let me help" Lily looked up to see James Potter holding out a hand. Lily took it and he helped pull her up for the ground even though she didn't really need any help.

"Potter what you doing here? I'd thought you'd be bullying first years by now or are you going to play a prank on the prefects" Lily said. She couldn't understand it. Why was James here? He wasn't a prefect.

James was about to reply when Remus interrupted "Hi Lily, James is here because he's Head boy"

"C'mon Sam" Jack Smith said. He was Gemma's younger brother he and his friend Sam McDonald where having a duel but just a practice duel.

"Err alright" Sam McDonald said "Locomotor Mortis" red light shot from his wand but it didn't hit Jack. No. It went right past Jack and hit a red-headed girl that was standing about 10-feet away from them.

Lily was about to reply to what Remus had said about James being Head boy it was preposterous. When her legs suddenly locked together and fell to the ground banging her head on the way down. She was knocked out cold.

"LILY?!" James shouted as bent down to check her for any injuries when she had mysteriously fell to the ground and knocked her self out. "Remus go to the prefect compartment and tell them that we can't make it or something" he told Remus.

Remus nodded and ran towards the prefect compartment.

He picked Lily up bridal style. This wasn't the way James had pictured Lily falling into his arms. He'd never expected her to literally fall into his arms. James carried Lily to a spare compartment which James had seen some prefects vacate earlier. He laid her down one of the seats and sat down on the seat opposite. He wasn't sure what else to do apart from wait. He looked at her the same girl he had fallen in love with in fifth year. He was a jerk back, then he'd nick the snitch from the quidditch pitch –which he still had- even if he was a chaser he'd use it to get the girls attention, he'd also mess up his hair but that was out of habit –even though it did attracted girls-.

Suddenly the door opened and Remus walked in with a brown haired girl James had seen with Lily. "Is she alright?" Remus asked sitting next to James

"I don't know" James said looking at Lily then he looked back at the girl only just realizing that he didn't know who she was. "Who's this Remus, your girlfriend?" he asked with smirk.

"Ew no. I'd never gone out with Remus. No offences Remus you're a nice and all" the girl exclaimed then she looked back at James "I'm Bethany Jones and don't bother telling me who you are I already know Lily talks none stop about you"

"Really?" James asked in disbelieve. She couldn't like him, she'd been saying she hated him for the past seven years why would it change now? They where probably all mean things anyway.

"Yeah she's got a huge crush on you" Bethany said smiling James got the impression that she was telling the truth even if he couldn't believe it.

He glanced at Lily she still hadn't woken up and he really didn't want her finding out that he knew she fancied him she would probably kill him. "how long has she had a crush on me for?" he asked without thinking.

"Err…I think ever since sixth year" Bethany said.

"Bethany is that you?" Lily asked steering "I just had the strangest dream Potter was Head boy and-" she looked around and saw James and Remus sitting next to Bethany. Apparently it wasn't a dream. Lily blushed a deep red "Bethany we're out of here" she grabbed her friends arm got up and dragged her out of the compartment.

"Bye James, Remus it was nice to meet you" Bethany said before Lily slammed the compartment door shut.

"Why didn't you take me back?" Lily said she was still blushing a deep red.

"What?"

"Why didn't you take me back to our compartment with Alice and Gemma?" Lily was frustrated. Why did Bethany have to leave her unconscious with James and Remus? Who knows what they could have done to her? Although she trusted Remus.

"Well I would have but I only just got there when you woke up" People where beginning to get out of there compartment to see what was going on "C'mon lets go"

They walked back to their compartment in complete silence. Once there had got to their compartment Lily entered to see Alice reading Gemma's book and a yellow Labrador sitting on one of the seats watching Alice with big puppy dog eyes. Lily knew the dog was Gemma she was a registered Animagus. Her Mum and Dad had forced her to learn it but Gemma had never told Lily or anyone why.

"Alice I think you should give Gemma her book back before she attacks you" Lily said.

Alice looked up from the book "You're back early" she said then just as she wasn't looking Gemma jumped grabbed the book then turned back into her human form and began reading. Alice glared at her.

"We had an incident." Lily said sitting back down next to the window.

"What type 'incident' did you have?"

Lily tells Alice and Gemma –who was listening but didn't look it- about what happened with James and how she woke up in a compartment with him, Remus and Bethany.

"Who do thing knocked you out?" Alice said after listen intently to Lily's explanation.

"What do you mean?" Lily asked. She had never thought that someone might have knocked her out.

"Well for what you tell me it sounds like someone hit you with a spell –probably a Leg locking jinx- to make you fall over and knock yourself out" Alice explained she had always been good at finding things out. Lily knew that Alice would make a great Auror.

They spent the rest of the train journey talking about who might have tried to knock her out or use a leg locking jinx on her. They'd had came to the conclusion that it was ether: Sirius Black trying to get her to fall for James, a silly second year or first, Malfoy or one of the other 'Death eaters' trying to get rid of her for being a muggle born. Then the train had stopped and they had to stop.

On the platform the girls where heading towards the carriages when Lily accidentally walked into a girl with long bushy hair.

"Oh sorry" Lily said for the second time today.

"Don't worry" the girl said then Lily realized she hadn't seen this girl here before. The girl had long bushy hair and brown eyes she looked like she was in her seventh year.

"I'm Lily by the way Lily Evens" The girl looked at her shocked. Lily didn't understand was there something wrong with her name? Had Potter done something to her? "If you don't mind me asking are you new?"

"Yes I am new my names Hermione, Hermione Granger" the girl Hermione said.

"Nice to meet you I have to get the carriage now would you like to join me and my friends?" Lily asked, looking around only then to realize that her friends had left her.

"Err…well I'm sort of waiting for-" Hermione started but she was interrupted by someone shouting her name.

A tall red haired boy was running up to Hermione. He had blue eyes and also looked in his seventh year. Lily concluded that he must be new too seeing as she hadn't seen him around ether.

"'Mione you'd never guess who I'd just me-" then he saw Lily and his face also went into shock "Bloody-"

"Ron" Hermione snapped before Ron could finish giving him a sharp glare. "Sorry Lily we need to get going. C'mon Ronald we need to find Ginny" Hermione grabbed the red-headed boy Lily had figured was Ron towards the carriages.

"Lily" someone behind her shouted. She could see Bethany coming towards her with Alice and Gemma following. Gemma still had her head in the book Lily wandered sometimes how she walked around without banging into anyone. "Lily we've been looking for you c'mon" Bethany grabbed Lily wrist much like Hermione had grabbed Ron's and dragged her towards the carriage.

On the carriage Gemma was still reading her book whilst Alice and Bethany chatted about boys. Lily couldn't help but think about the two new seventh years she had met. This was going to be a very interesting year.