Author: Kitty
Disclaimer: I own the plot (most of it) and the characters: Gemini, the triplets and their sisters, and anything you don't recognise, all the rest belongs to J K Rowling.
Letters by Owl
Gemini Potter walked to the door to get the post from her family's muggle (non-magic) friends. There were four letters: one for her, one for James, one for mum, and another for her.
Gemini walked into the kitchen and threw the letters that were not for her on the table.
Right! First letter;
Hey Gem!
Check this out, Ruby sent it to me; she got it from this book.
Luv ya!
Rachael
The letter was a bit longer because there was a long list of 'Things to do when you are bored.' Gem smiled as she looked at the list and a giggled at a few, especially '#5-during class discussion, or in a meeting, slowly drag your chair towards the door.'
Second letter. Gem looked at the fancy green ink. Turning over the envelope and recognising the emblem on the back, she was surprised at what she saw.
"Mum! You'll never guess what!" the eleven-year-old yelled upstairs.
Her mother called back, "No, you're right. You'll tell me before I have a chance!"
"I've got in!"
"To where?"
"To Hogwarts! … I think James did as well!"
"Oh, how wonderful! We better get going then, before there's a mad rush at Diagon Alley."
But first… Gemini thought to herself, and set about writing an owl to her and James' friend, Sirius.
Hey!
Gods! You'll never guess what came in the post this morning, two letters, both interesting, one extremely important…did you get one too? A Hogwarts letter, I mean. Can you believe it? They let me in!!!! I thought they'd never let me in!!!
Anyway…the other interesting letter may help make life interesting as well – 'top 10 things to do when you are bored!!'… Heh-heh
Anyways, See-ya (Owl back ASAP!)
Gems
Gemini called her tawny owl; not seeming the least annoyed at being woken up in the middle of the day, and tied the letter to its leg.
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Lily Evans thought this was possibly the strangest thing to happen to her in her life! She was starting at a witches school, would not be seeing her parents for a year and, looking at her ticket, had to get on a train, (The Hogwarts' Express), on Platform 9 ¾! Thoughts ran through her head as she flicked her red hair out of her emerald-green eyes; What on Earth was she doing? How would she cope being away from home? and Where the heck was Platform 9 ¾!
"You look lost."
Lily spun around to face the owner of the voice. A girl who looked her age was standing, ('jumping, more like' Lily thought), in front of two boys, one of which looked just as fidgety. The girl who had spoken had out-of-control black hair shoved into pigtails, although half of it had escaped, so there were long wavy strands of hair framing her heart-shaped face. Lily also noticed that she was also rather skinny. She had round black glasses, possibly a little too big for her, covering round, watery blue eyes.
The girl asked, "Hogwarts?" although she seemed rather distracted by the cat at her heels, (Lily had bought the tortoise-shell kitten in Diagon Alley, and named it Slippers).
"Yeah, I'm lost … where's Platform 9 ¾?"
"Oh, right, muggle-born aren't you? (Lily gave a rather confused look)…Thought as much… you just walk straight through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10, preferably without anyone else noticing," with that the girl, who hadn't introduced herself, walked into, no, through, the barrier!
"Don't worry," one of the boys said, "she always acts like people don't care that they don't know her name, I'm James Potter, by the way, her, *sigh*, twin brother, lucky me, huh? And that hyperactive dog over there is Sirius Black."
"Not excluding me from an important conversation, are you?" the boy called over and walked towards them.
Lily could understand that the girl and this boy, James, were closely related. They had the same messy black hair, the same face, and the same eyes: all the same.
The three walked through he barrier. The three children came through the barrier at a run, not noticing the girl on the other side and toppling over her, all in a heap.
"God, do you have stand in everyone's way!" her brother scorned. The girl, (still no idea who she is! Lily thought), green eyes glinting mischief, pigtails bopping, just put on a fake upside-down smile and gave him a mouthful of her own, (something along the lines of: "Why are you asking God? Honestly!"), before walking off.
'Weren't her eyes blue before?' Lily thought.
Lily hopped on the train, Slippers at her heels, and found a compartment. Thinking it was empty, she dragged her trunk in.
"Hello!"
"Not you again!" Lily replied sarcastically, "What's your name, anyway?"
"Gemini Potter. You?"
"Lily Evans … I can sit here, right?"
"Sure."
"BOO!" the boy called Sirius Black had crept round the corner. He now sat down.
Gemini giggled, then said sarcastically, "Yes, you can sit here, thanks for asking!"
James poked his head round the corner and sat down by Lily.
"What's your name?" he asked, "I don't think you told us"
"Lily. Lily Evans."
Having nothing else to do, Lily spent ages reading a dead-boring textbook, 'The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1'.
The lunch cart came passed, "Want anything?"
There was a yowl: Slippers, who had been on Gemini's lap, fell off, as the girl abruptly stood up.
"Ooh!" the girl took out a large handful of coins, "Hmm…"
Then, after she had finished choosing one of just about everything, Gemini turned around, "Want anything Sirius?"
"No."
"Lils?"
"No, ta'."
James opened his mouth to speak but before he could, Gemini had interrupted, "Get your own!"
"Fine. I was just reminding you that you already have a ton of sweets!"
"Yes," the girl replied, "for storage. Don't think they have a tuck shop at Hogwarts, do you?"
Gemini started eating out of a packet of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, inspecting each one before either popping it in her mouth or putting it back. After fifteen minutes, Lily couldn't contain her curiosity.
"What are you doing?"
"Eating."
Although Lily thought this was a reasonable answer, it wasn't the answer she wanted.
"I mean, why are you inspecting every single bean before you eat it?"
"Simple," Gem replied innocently, "I don't like half of them so I'm seeing what flavour they are before I eat them."
Lily was about ask how you would know what flavour the beans were when a voice chimed in:
"Can I have one?" Sirius had asked.
"What flavour?" Lily knew it wouldn't matter, since Sirius would probably not get what he wanted: Gem was probably just making sure of that.
"Anything … No wait," realising that 'Anything' was a bad idea when Gemini was in a mischievous mood, and probably meant dirt, or something equally tasteless, "Lime."
"Ok … here," after close inspection, she threw a green bean at him, still smiling.
After swallowing the bean, Sirius said, "That was disgusting, Gem … I never really did like grass!"
"You'll live! And I never got my owl from you…?" Gemini looked like she needed an explanation.
"Whoops, forgot, but I brought the list!" Sirius pulled out a piece of parchment with what looked like a long list of activities or similar neatly printed onto it.
I'm going exploring, anyone want to come?" no reply, "I'll go myself then!"
"We'll eat your food, seeing you've got tons left!" Lily was wondering whom the voice belonged to when she remembered there was a fourth person in the compartment.
"See, if I care, James!" was Gemini's response as she walked out of the compartment and headed for the other end of the train, knowing that everyone could see she would care if they ate her sweets!
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A/N: please review, I don't mind if everyone thinks it's a load of dung! If no one likes it I'll change it around, tell me what you want, and I'll see what I can do, k? Thanx in advance, Kitty