Here is the new and improved White Icing and Marzipan! I was looking back over chapters 1-4 and I realised that the quality of some of the writing was absolutely awful - so I've re-written the whole thing! Please read and review. Also - 7 years in MWPP time is terribly long - and this story is going to be pretty boring without some sub-plots - if you have any ideas or requests please post them in the reviews. Thank-you! Hope you enjoy my story xx Lyana xx
White Icing and Marzipan
Chapter 1 - The Train
Lily Evans stood alone on Platform Nine and Three Quarters. Her parents, being
muggles, could not pass through the enchanted barrier onto the platform. After a
tearful goodbye, Lily had been left by herself. The platform was milling with children
who all seemed to know each other. A large steam train was puffing out large clouds
of smoke above the students. With great difficulty, Lily dragged her extremely
heavy school trunk onto the train. About halfway down the corridor Lily found an
empty compartment, she heaved her stuff inside and sat down near the window,
feeling very overwhelmed. A mother was talking loudly to her daughter outside.
"Well, goodbye dear. Have fun and for heavens sake BE GOOD"
"Bye Mum!"
A moment later a girl with long dark brown hair and startlingly blue eyes walked
in. She was wearing jeans and a green t-shirt and was carrying a cage with a large
fluffy owl in it.
"Hey, can I sit here?" She asked.
"Yeah sure." Lily replied. "Are you in first year?"
"Yep," the girl replied, beaming "I'm Cassiopeia Blackthorn, call me Cassie."
"I'm Lily Evans. I love your name, mine's so boring." Cassie gave a wry smile.
"All my family is named after stars. My Dad's called Orion and my brother's
called Pegasus, I suppose I'm lucky compared to them." Lily laughed.
"Do you come from a wizard family then?" She asked.
"Yep. The Blackthorns go back centuries. I'm guessing you're muggle born."
"That's right. It's all so confusing." Cassie smiled,
"I'm sure you'll get used to it."
The compartment door slid open and a boy came in. He was tall, with shaggy
black hair and a wolfish grin.
"Hey Ladies, mind if I join you?" He flopped down next to Cassie. "I'm Sirius
Black." Cassie gave an involuntary jerk when she heard his name, and Lily wondered why for a moment, but Cass quickly masked the look of shock and suspicion that had come across her face and smiled.
"This is Lily and I'm Cassie. Cool name by the way"
Sirius snorted. "You have no idea what it's like to be named after a star"
"Excuse me mister. You're talking to Cassiopeia Blackthorn the fourth." Cassie
retorted.
Sirius gaped. "Are you telling me you're the daughter of Orion Blackthorn?"
"Yep"
"The famous one?"
"Yep"
"The auror?"
"Yep"
"Whoa! I bet he teaches you loads of really cool curses!"
Cass wrinkled her nose, "I wish. I keep telling him I want to be an auror too, but he knows that
Mum would go mad if he showed me anything. She thinks I'm too young."
Lily looked between them in confusion, "What's an Auror?" she asked.
"Oh, you must be muggle born" Sirius looked at her, fascinated. "Well, not all
witches and wizards are good. Some are just prats, naturally, but occasionally
you'll get one who turns really evil. There's one at the moment that the Ministry
of Magic is particularly worried about. His name's Voldemort, but loads of our
kind don't like his name mentioned." Cassie broke in,
"Anyways, Voldemort has been steadily gathering followers for a couple of years
now, and they're starting to get dangerous, you know, killing muggles,
torturing that kind of thing." Lily shuddered involuntarily; Voldemort sounded
a lot like people she heard of on the news at home, terrorists, except he had magic.
She had heard enough to know it was pretty powerful stuff.
"So you're both from good wizarding families who don't support Voldemort I hope?", Lily joked. Sirius stood up abruptly, his face stormy, and Cassie looked at the floor, her cheeks pink. Lily didn't know what she had said wrong but the atmosphere had turned extremely uncomfortable. They stayed that way in silence for what seemed like hours then Sirius relaxed and sat back down. He smiled ruefully at Lily,
"Sorry. It's just that I come from a family who are renowned for being dark wizards. They all expect me to go into Slytherin house, that's where all the dark wizards tend to go, and then either join with Voldemort or get a nasty job like making poisons. My parents pride themselves upon being one of the most respected wizarding families, but unfortunately not respected by the kind of people I would like us to be. The approval of the slimy sorts of dark wizards who my family associate with mean nothing to me." Sirius glanced at Cassie, who was gazing at him in a calculating manner. "Thank-you for not judging me when you heard my name, Cass. I'm not like the rest of them, I swear. I hate them." Lily saw a kind of invisible understanding pass between the two of them. Though the atmosphere in the compartment was no longer so tense, it was still heavy and Lily thought that a change of subject would help,
"You still haven't told me what Aurors do." Sirius grinned suddenly, and it was as if the last few moments had never happened.
"Typical redhead. We're getting there. OK, so we've got all these bad guys
running around the country doing dastardly deeds. Someone's got to stop them.
"That's where the Magical Law Enforcement Squad comes in. Aurors and Hit Wizards."
"Elite forces."
"A bit like secret agents, then?" Sirius and Cassie were looking at Lily strangely
when a boy with blue eyes and mousy blonde hair knocked shyly on the door of the
compartment.
"You don't mind if I sit in here, do you?" He collapsed on the seat next to Lily and
grinned apologetically. "None of my family are magic so I'm a bit confused." He looked around at them nervously,
"You are first years aren't you? I just ran into some third years who threatened to hex me."
Lily smiled at him understandingly. "I'm muggle born too, and yes we are first
years. I'm Lily Evans, and these pureblood elitists are Cassie Blackthorn and
Sirius Black." She grinned cheekily
"My name's Peter, Peter Pettigrew."
The four of them spent the journey talking and laughing and Sirius, along
with Cassie's help, explained the finer points of the wizarding game, Quiddich. In
the late afternoon, a tall boy with a shock of brown hair and a shiny prefects
badge came in and introduced himself as Mundungus Fletcher. He told Lily and
Peter about each of the four houses; Griffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin and
Ravenclaw. Judging by his opinion, all the brainy people went in Ravenclaw, the
'duffers' in Hufflepuff, all the horrible people in Slytherin and all the wonderful
people in Griffindor, his own house.
When the sky outside had turned silky black and stars were starting to strain
through the clouds, the train finally started to slow and an echoing voice
announced that they would soon be reaching Hogwarts.
Lily took a deep breath. This was it.
