The Original Order of the Phoenix

Chapter 1

It was her final year at Hogwarts and she boarded the train with mixed feelings. She was both sad that it was almost over, and excited to start her life as a Witch. She fingered her new Head Girl badge, she had reached her goal. Someone shouted her name, interrupting her thought.

"Lilly! How was your summer??" Liz said as she bounded up beside Lilly. "Have you seen James yet? He is looking gorgeous as ever."

"Very funny Liz," said Lilly laughing. James Potter was her rival. He was the school play boy, captain of the quiddich team, and resident trickster. In second year he had asked her out and she had refused. James didn't handle losing well, he had been asking her out ever since.

"Let's get on the train and find ourselves a compartment. I have to go meet with the prefects," said Lilly.

As they were getting on the train they ran into Zoe, their other close friend. They were all very different. In their first year they had become fast friends, and had been inseparable ever since. Lilly was the studious one with dark red hair and fair skin that showed off her intense green eyes. Zoe was fair skinned with a riot of golden blonde hair she reminded Lilly of a pixie. She was studious like Lilly, but very quiet. Zoe was not one to mess around with, she had a temper that rarely surfaced. Liz had long black hair, almost always pulled back to stay out of her way. She was very athletic, and was a chaser on the Quidditch team. Liz was well known for her quick temper and intense icy blue eyes. She tended to stop people in their tracks, much to her disgust. She had little time for "girly" girls, as she called them, and their pursuits.

They climbed onto the train and found an empty compartment. Liz and Zoe settled in. Lilly headed to the front to have the meeting with the prefects and head boy. She was reading her parchment of things to cover, as she walked down the aisle, she ran into a hard body. It was Snape, one of her friends from both home and school.

"Hi Snape! How was the rest of your summer?" asked Lilly. She had been gone on a holiday with her family at the end of the summer, and hadn't seen Snape since July.

"It was good, but I'm glad to be back at school. Home is taxing at times," said Snape.

Lilly nodded in understanding and said, "I'll talk to you later I have to meet the prefects up front. I got head girl this year." She lifted her badge to show him.

"Congratulations, I will talk to you later," said Snape and moved on down the aisle.

Lilly continued on her way to the front of the train. The last of the group came into the room as the train started to move. Frank Longbottom, the head boy, arrived as well. She did most of the talking. Frank wasn't the natural leader type, but he made friends easily and kept them. They would make a great team this year. Lilly discussed supervision, rules, schedules and brought the meeting to a close. She and Frank turned to leave to find their friends.

"How was your summer Frank?" asked Lilly.

"Good, how was yours?" asked Frank.

"Good, glad to be back, I can't believe its last year," said Lilly with a sigh.

"Me either," said Frank chuckling, "Did you hear the good news?"

"Other than us being head boy and girl?" Lilly said with a smile.

"I finally asked out Alice this summer!"

"I'm taking it she said yes?" Lilly laughed. Alice poked her head out a compartment, as she said this.

"What took you so long?" Alice asked Frank. "Hi Lilly, bye Lilly!" said Alice as she pulled Frank into the compartment.

"Bye Lilly, see you later." Frank said laughing as Alice pulled him in.

Lilly headed back to her compartment. As she approached she heard a large group laughing. The Maurauders had joined her friends. "How lovely", she thought sarcastically. The Maurauders were a group of four boys, which sadly included her nemesis James. The others were his three friends: Sirus Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Petigrew. She got on with the other boys most of the time, but James was another story. Liz was friends with James through Quidditch, so she had to put up with him occasionally. Lilly took a deep breath and entered the compartment.

"Lilly, love, what took you so long?" asked Zoe laughing at the antics of the boys.

The boys were playing with their travel version of Wizard Chess, laughing as one of the pieces was smashed to bits. James was on the end of the bench and sadly the only one able to move over enough to let her in. She sat down beside him. Maybe this year would be different they were older, surly he had matured…or maybe not.

"Lilly, my love, have you missed me?" asked James.

"That depends on what you say next," said Lilly.

"What do you think I'm going to say next?" said James looking at her innocently.

"You know what I'm talking about Potter," said Lilly.

"Lilly will you…ouch!" said James as he rubbed his ankle and looked at Sirus.

"Ouch?" said Lilly laughing, she looked at Sirus questioningly.

"Prongs and I discussed changing some of our behaviors this year." Lupin said, as Sirus laughed at James beside him.

"But that doesn't mean I'm giving up!" said James

"Could you be more specific on these behaviors? Is it just Potter's actions towards me, or all in general?" asked Lilly looking around at the boys.

"Mostly you," said Sirus laughing as James started turning red.

"You don't have to look so happy," said James almost pouting.

"This has the making of a fabulous year." Lilly said as the lunch trolley pulled up.