Lily Luna Potter trailed behind her parents and brothers, plaiting her ginger hair as she walked. She couldn't wait! Today, she was going to enter her fifth year, and reunite with her boyfriend, whom she had been away from for six whole weeks. She could just imagine walking straight into his arms, exchanging words of love...
"Lily, can you walk a bit faster please? Otherwise, we're going to miss the train!" her mother, Ginny Potter's, voice rang in her ears. Lily immediately sped up. It was out of the question to miss the train this year.
"Lily, your Mother said hurry up!" her dad said, sighing and taking the trolley off her. Tinie, her owl, hooted demandingly. Did she forget to feed her this morning? Never mind, she would have more than enough food in the Owlery at Hogwarts. "Ooh, is Lily daydreaming about little Scorpius?" James teased, pinching her elbow.
"Shut up!" she screamed, kicking him in the shins. He grabbed his leg and hopped on the spot, giving Lily the chance to push him over. She pushed, and he landed on his trolley.
"Can you two stop fighting for one minute?" Harry sighed, pulling James out of the trolley and patting his head. Lily grunted and made a run for the column that stood between Platforms Nine and Ten, and that was a passageway to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. She closed her eyes and she ran through the wall, and opened them to find herself on the overcrowded platform. She looked to her right and saw the gleaming, scarlet Hogwarts Express, and felt a smile forming on her face. In a hour, she would be sat on the train with Scorpius, her head rested against his shoulder...
"Lily, the train's leaving in ten minutes. Get moving!" she heard her father say behind her. Was this have-a-go-at-Lily-day? Sighing, she pushed the trolley forward. Standing by the door, saying goodbye to his parents, was Hugo Weasley. "Hello," she said as she walked past him. "Hi," he replied, following her along with his trolley.
"Lily, you've forgotten something," her mother called out. Sighing, she turned around.
"What now?" she moaned, leaning on her trolley.
"Goodbye, love," she said, moving to her and embracing her in her arms.
"Mum!" Lily shouted. Could this get any more embarrassing? "Go on, then. Me and your Dad love you very much. Don't you ever forget that," she pulled back, stroking her daughter's hair.
"Yeah, sure. Bye," Lily said, breaking into a run so she could reach the train without any more embarrassing interruptions. Her and Hugo climbed onto the train, entering the first empty compartment they could find.
"Sit down," Hugo said, gesturing to the seat opposite him.
"What is it?" she said, growing increasingly worried. Surely he could just spit it out?
"Well," he started, "last night, I heard my mum and dad arguing. I wasn't spying!" he added, spotting my eyes, "anyway, they were talking about our dads. My mum kept saying that they should tell the Minister something, but my dad kept saying no. I was worried, and went in and asked them what they were talking about. They just went all 'oh hunny, never you mind'. Then they pushed me out of the room! but as soon as I got upstairs, they started arguing again. They said something about a wand. Said it was an 'Elder' wand, or something. What do you think it is?"
She opened her mouth to speak, but as soon as she did, the door to the compartment creaked open.
"No Skorpy yet then, Lily?" James asked smugly, sitting down next to her.
"Shove off, James," she sighed, pushing him off the seat.
"Aw. Is someone missing ickle Skorpy?" he continued, pulling himself back up. Albus and Rose entered, sitting down as well.
"Leave her alone," Albus sighed, punching James' arm.
"Hey, Albus. Aren't you meant to be playing with your little Slytherin friends? You know, the evil ones with the snakes on their arms?" James retorted, punching Albus back twice as hard. Albus' face cracked, and he stalked out of the room. "Well done, James. I really hope you're happy now," Lily spit at him, following Albus.
"Albus!" she shouted, running to catch up with him, "can you tell Scorpius to meet me in the compartment we were in?"
"Sure," Albus grunted, then continued walking.
"Ignore James!" she yelled, before turning back and re-entering the compartment.
"Just tell her, Hu," Rose said. Everyone turned to Lily and went quiet.
"Tell who what?" she said, looking at Hugo, "c'mon, who d'you fancy?"
"It doesn't matter," he said immediately, turning a violent shade of red, matching his hair colour, "anyway, where's Scorpius?"
"I don't know. I told him to meet me here, but he hasn't," she smiled sadly, looking to her feet. Changing the subject, she said, "I wonder what the Elder wand is."
"Ooh, I know," Rose said, practically jumping into her bag and pulling out a battered copy of 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard, "I took this from my mum's library. When I was reading through it, I noticed some notes she had made. 'The Deathly Hallows. The Elder Wand.' That's it! There's more, 'The invisibility cloak.'"
"I've got an invisibility cloak!" James almost screamed, causing me to smack him across the nose.
"There's more! Stop interrupting! 'The Resurrection Stone.' There's a tick next to the invisibility cloak and the Elder Wand, but next to the Ressurection Stone, it says 'somewhere in the forbidden forest.' That must mean the Forbidden Forest next to Hagrids' Hut at Hogwarts!" she looked up at the others, "you can talk now."
"Maybe we could find the Ressurection Stone!" Hugo smiled, "Imagine all the people we could bring back to life! We could bring Grandma Molly and Grandpa Arthur back!"
"Don't be silly, Hu!" Rose scoffed, "Mum said that there's no spell to reawaken the dead. That would be impossible. Our mother probably wrote this when she was very young. Anyway, I have to go to the Prefects' compartment. Bye."
With that, she stalked out of the room.
"She's been grumpy ever since dad told her that he didn't expect her to get full marks on her O. before he opened the letter. She keeps saying that he thinks she's dumb, when he only said that because he wanted to spare her feelings," Hugo shrugged, taking his money out and going over to the Food Trolley Lady as she walked past.
"I'd tell her not to worry," James said as he went to the Trolley as well, "Al only got four O.. Mum had a go at him, whereas Dad only laughed. We thought Mum was going to hit him, but in the end she grounded Al and whacked Dad across the back of the head. He stayed late at work that night."
"James, don't forget she banned Al from going to Hogsmeade this year," Lily laughed as she too joined them around the trolley, "but he said he's going to sneak out. James, can you buy me a Chocolate Frog? I only brought enough money to buy a Pumpkin Pasty and a packet of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans."
"Here, Lily. My Dad gave me loads of money. Since Mum got that promotion, Dad keeps giving us loads. He even brought us new broomsticks. But, even though it's slower, I prefer my old broom. I think he expects me to play Quidditch like he did when he was young, except I don't want to," Hugo sighed, "I'll buy you a carton of Pumpkin Juice too."
"Thanks, Hu," Lily said, bending down to give Hugo a kiss on the cheek. Hugo froze momentarily, and then continued paying for his purchases. "I wonder what the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher will be like," Hugo wondered after they had stuffed them self full of the delicious food, changed into their robes and James had disappeared into a another compartment.
"Her name's Professor Chang. I told my dad about her, and he said he used to go to school with her," Lily said, then she leaned close to Hugo, "he also said that he used to fancy her. Don't tell anybody; I wasn't meant to," she finished with a smirk.
"Wow," Hugo said, nodding, "my mum said that my dad used to fancy the lady that runs the Three Broomsticks."
"What, that old cow?" Lily replied, completely shocked.
"My dad said she used to be nice," Hugo half-smiled, "I say my dad has had something hit his head one too many times."
