I awoke to my alarm droning on at some unholy hour just after dawn, the birds were chirping and the bright light was streaming into my room, as the curtains were charmed to open as the alarm went off. As I groggily rose from the bed a grin formed on my face, today was the last day of summer and my first day as a student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I was incredibly excited due to the fact I had attended Beauxbatons for the first 5 years of my magical education rather than joining my twin brother James at Hogwarts, my parents feared that the two of us together would cause so much mischief that the professors would be unable to cope! Finally I had convinced our parents to let me transfer with the guarantee that if any trouble occurred I would go back to Beauxbatons without a fight. James had no idea that I would be joining him, and I was looking forward to seeing the look of surprise on his face when I suddenly appeared, it was lucky he was so oblivious otherwise I never would have been able to fool him for so long.

I had only met one of James's friends a Sirius Black, who was nothing like any other Black I had met, sadly James didn't talk much about Hogwarts expect to gush over how brilliant it was and all the pranks him and his friends the Marauders had pulled. I couldn't believe the stupid nickname for his gang, it made me laugh whenever he mentioned it which may be why he didn't tell me much of the people there just key events.

I looked at myself in the mirror, I didn't really look like a Potter, my only distinguishing feature was the wild, untameable black as night Potter hair which I was cursed with, other than that I looked like any other 16 year old girl, I'm sadly only average height a miniscule 5'6 compared to my brothers towering 6'2, and puberty had struck me early much to my discomfort leaving me with curves that often got me much unwanted attention. And due to years of compulsory dance and gymnastics at Beauxbatons I was fairly toned, this I hoped would translate over to Quidditch fitness as I hoped to join my house team and either help James the Gryffindor captain win or thrash him with my house. My eyes were silver something I got from my mother's Black heritage along with the strong aristocratic lines of my face, it wasn't angular but my features were clear and suited me well from my silver eyes down to my rose tinted pouty lips. I was often told I was pretty but never really considered it after going to a school filled with Veela's for the last 5 years. I left my hair down but pinned back my long bangs to keep them out of the way, and then got dressed into very skinny jeans and a Ramones t-shirt, paired with a pair of DM's. Beauxbatons encourage shopping and fashion above all else, and as the school is only a short distance from Paris we often went shopping in the Muggle district mixing and matching our styles.

I called for our house elf Bubbles who took my trunk downstairs, I quickly followed grabbing some toast before flooing to the platform wanting to be well hidden on the train by the time James arrived, I found a compartment quickly as I was there rather early and called for Bubbles who put my trunk on the luggage rack and handed me my familiars cage before departing. I soon let Stark my Kneazle out of his cage, he was named after the muggle superhero Tony Stark I absolutely love muggle comics. The train soon started filling up as the clock struck 10am, and as I was settling down to read one of the recommended rune books my compartments door slammed open and in rushed a very frazzled looking red head dragging behind her a lanky hook nosed boy.

They had sat down before they even realized I was there both of them staring at me in shock before the girl asked brightly 'are you new? I don't think I've seen you before, my names Lily Evans and this is my friend Severus Snape.' I smiled at the way she spoke, it was so fast I was amazed I caught it all. 'Yes I'm new I transferred here from Beauxbatons, I'm starting my 6th year and my names Rose Potter, it's nice to meet you both.' The smile had dropped off Lily's face and Severus looked grimmer than before 'you're not related to James Potter are you?' she questioned, 'Yes he's my brother, is that a problem?' I replied not liking the nasty glare I was getting off of Severus. 'Well, it could be problematic if you a big headed, arrogant bully that makes everyone miserable with his gang of blundering Marauders' he drawled. I could feel the shock slipping onto my face 'what Potter didn't tell you that he likes to spend his time harassing anyone not in Gryffindor' he asked almost gleefully. 'No he didn't but thanks for letting me know, and I can promise you now that I won't be cruel to anyone.' The tone in my voice must of gave away the horror at learning my brother wasn't as noble as I'd always thought and that maybe his pranks weren't always harmless fun. Sensing my discomfort Lily quickly came to the rescue 'Don't worry we won't judge you just for being related to the prat, you already seem a lot kinder than he is,' 'Thanks, I'd hate to have come here only to have people dislike me because my brother can't control his pranking. When he spoke to me about them they never sounded malicious, or maybe he just left out the ones that did' I replied sadly. 'Not everyone would of disliked you, his pranks make him rather popular with those who aren't targets' Severus added in an attempt to comfort me which I felt was more than I deserved as he seemed very uncomfortable even talking to me. 'I'm guessing you two aren't the lucky ones then' I replied in an attempt to joke. ' No the marauders abuse poor Sev every chance they get, and Potter practically stalks me telling me that he will make me fall for his non-existent charms someday, as if!' she replied in disgust. 'Wait your Lily-pad his one true love' I snorted out between laughter as she glowered and blushed at the same time. 'He talks about you all the time and mopes when you never write to him, if I'm honest I thought he had made you up' I added causing both Lily and Severus to join me in laughter.

We sat and chatted for a while, the ice well and truly broken, I could see myself being great friends with Lily and Sev after about 2 hours I excused myself to go find my brother, we clearly needed a little chat after I had been filled in on some of his crueller escapades. It didn't take me long to find a compartment with laughter and smoke coming out of it, this I deduced must be where the marauders were hiding.

As I made my way towards the compartment I was wondering what I could do, what I would say but when I heard one of the boys say the name 'Snivellus' I snapped and barged in jumping straight onto my unsuspecting brother with a battle cry that would make the Gods proud. 'Get off me you freak' he shouted before shoving me on the floor 'James Charlus Potter, how dare you be such a bully I've never been more ashamed to call you my brother' I screeched rendering the compartment silent, the drawn wands frozen in mid-air. 'R-r-rose' he stuttered out seeing my furious expression. 'Don't you Rose me, I've been hearing about all the disgusting cruel exploits you've hidden from me all these years, it makes me sick to know what a bully you are' I shouted 'The first people I spoke to almost kicked me out of their compartment when they learnt my name, and after them explaining why I understand completely. How could you treat people like that James' I sighed the anger leaving me when I saw James's devastated face. 'We only treat the people who deserve it like that' Sirius answered for him 'So they deserve it for being sorted anywhere but Gryffindor, what would you do if I was sorted in Slytherin, cover me in chicken feathers too, attack me in the corridors' I retorted, the horror then dawned on James faces that the scenario I was describing could easily happen as I magically I was more dark grey than the light of most of my family. 'Rose I'd never attack you' he said solemnly 'but it makes it okay to attack other people who had no choice in where a stupid hat placed them' I could see the others thinking about my words too. 'Your right, like always' he replied with a smile which I returned softly. 'So you'll tone it down abit unless they actually deserve it for like attacking you first' I asked gently 'for you I'd do anything' he replied pulling me into a hug.

'Now that's sorted out, how on earth did you get into Hogwarts without telling me' he said with a sly grin as he started to tickle me 'That is for me to know and you to figure out' I replied in fits of laughter before jumping away and tripping into a quiet blonde boys lap. 'Sorry about that' I said as I scrambled to get off his lap, while a blush rose up on his cheeks as the others laughed hysterically. Once upright and sitting in between the gorgeous blonde and Sirius 'now why haven't you introduced me to the rest of your little gang Jamesie' I asked with a cackle as he blushed at the nickname 'well the bloke you so happily sat on is Remus Lupin, and the one next to me is Peter Pettigrew and you already know Sirius from this summer.' 'That I do, and it's nice to meet you both but I'm off now as I need to get changed before going to back to Lily and Sev, she'll have kittens if I'm not back soon' I replied before getting up to leave 'wait you friends with Snivellus' Sirius asked with a sneer while James merely uttered 'Lily-pad.' 'Yes I am and I see no problem with it as he has been perfectly nice to me this entire time' I retorted before leaving and looking for the changing room Lily said I could use instead of the compartment.

I spotted a tall blonde boy with a prefects badge so I decided to ask him for help 'Hi, excuse me I don't suppose you could direct me to the changing rooms please, I'm an exchange student and have no clue where I'm going' I said very nicely while flashing my biggest smile, he looked me up and down before replying with a blunt ' Yes down there, through the door to the right, it will have a woman on the door, is that all I can assist you with' he asked before leaning down and kissing my hand 'that's all thanks, but if I get lost at least I know who to call' I replied with a wink before walking rather slowly in the right direction, it didn't take long for me to change into my uniform of a plain white silk shirt, plain tie, black pleated mini skirt, black knee highs and DM's. I made my way back to Lily and Sev with no fuss, and retold what happened at our little family reunion, and we continued to get to know one another until the train arrived at its destination.