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Once in A Blue Moon


Lily Sullivan watched her mother glance down at the parchment again. Lily could almost hear her mother's thoughts. 'Platform Nine and three quarters?'
Lily herself was a bit anxious, as it was (a glance at her watch confirmed this) 10:52, and the Hogwarts Express left at 11:00 from the King's Express. She bit her lip, and glanced around to see if anyone looked as confused - or nervous- as she did. Her eyes landed on a rather tall boy with startlingly brown eyes. "Mom!" he complained loudly as an older woman squeezed him.

"James, please behave yourself. I don't want any notes from Dumbledore about you..." the woman rambled on, while the boy heaved a melodramatic sigh.
"I don't cause any trouble mom, it's Sirius- Ow!" Another boy had appeared at the first boy's (James?) side, and punched his shoulder.
"Hello Sirius," the woman smiled kindly down at the other young boy, whose hair was dark brown, and his eyes were so dark they were almost black.
"Good morning Mr. and Mrs. Potter. Fancy meeting you here," he said, and this caused both boys to double over with laughter.

'Maniacs,' Lily thought. But they seemed like maniacs that were going to the same place she was going, so she watched them carefully.

"Boys," the man said seriously. "Have fun and learn something, will you?"
The boys nodded, and grabbed their bags, and the boy called James grabbed a cage that held .... an owl! A silent, beautiful tawny one, that seemed to be in a peaceful sleep.
"Race you," the boy, Sirius said to James, and they took off at a run for the platform nine....or ten? Lily watched, horrified as they drew nearer to the barrier, still racing at top speed. They were about to crash...and they disappeared.

They disappeared?!

"Mom...Mom," Lily yanked on her mother's arm, because her mother was still quite absorbed in glaring at the parchment, willing it to give her an answer. "I know how to get on the train. I just watched two boys do it."
"How?" Lily was about to answer her mother, when a glance at the clock that hung above them, scared her. 10:56.
"Mom! I have to go! Look at the time. I love you," she mumbled as her mother hugged her. "I'll write or something when I get there."

Her mother sniffed as she watched the younger of her two daughters grab her bags, and walk defiantly into a ... wall?!

Lily opened her eyes to find herself standing in front of a rather large scarlet train, on a platform with some very odd looking people. Lily found herself gaping again, at the owls, the steam that bellowed from the train, the people. She pressed her way through the crowd, and stopped at an almost full compartment near the end of the train. She was heaving her overstuffed bags, when a voice asked,

"Need help?"

Lily glanced up and saw that it was the boy, James, standing above her, with his hand held out to grab the bag, and a smile on his face. She nodded mutely, and he helped heave everything into the compartment. There were two other boys, the one she had seen with James, and a new boy with light brown hair and gray eyes.
Lily smiled self consciously at them. The boy with almost black eyes leapt over his seat, and almost crashed into the floor. He had a very mischievous smile that lit his whole face.
"I'm Sirius Black, who're you?"
Lily sank into a seat, and said "Lily Sullivan."
"James Potter, m'lady," the first boy introduced himself comically. "And that's Remus Lupin," he said in a very high voice, gesturing to the boy with an equally large smile on his face as Sirius.
"Where are you from?" Remus asked, settling himself down, while Sirius began jumping around, rather noisily around the compartment.
"Liverpool."
"Are you a full blood, or what?" James asked. "My parents are both wizards, although I think we have a third cousin on my father's side whose a please man."
"Full blood one what?" Lily asked, confused.
"You know, wizard. Are you a full blood wizard?" Sirius asked, standing on his head at the front of the compartment.
"Oh, my mother isn't a…she doesn't have…"Lily trailed off, unsure of what to say.
"Your mom's a muggle? Someone who has no magic in them? What about your dad?" Remus prodded.
"Yeah, I guess she is. And I don't know about my dad, although I think he was a … muggle….too. He died when I was a baby."
"Sorry," all three boys chorused
"S'okay." She blushed

They continued talking, and in James and Sirius places, continued to cause mayhem on their side of the bus. Hours after lunch, when James was told off by a rather old witch for crashing into her cart holding every sort of candy imaginable, the train came to a halt.

They were at Hogwarts.



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