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Chapter one: kings cross

September first, 1976 Kings Cross

It was a beautiful September morning at Kings Cross Station when a family of four walked over to the barrier right in between platforms 9 and 10. The oldest woman, Mrs. Evans had dark red hair, green eyes and a kind smile she and her daughter, Lily looked very similar. They had the same hair, eyes, and smile. Meanwhile Mr. Evans and his daughter, Petunia looked very similar as well, they had dark brown-almost-black hair and brown eyes.

Mr. and Mrs. Evans hugged Lily and her mother said "Take care of yourself Lils."

"I will." Lily replied.

Mr. and Mrs. Evans turned to leave when Mr. Evans asked "Petunia dear, do you have something to say to your sister? "

Petunia forced a smile and walked over and awkwardly hugged Lily, "I'm doing this for them not you, you know." Petunia whispered in her sisters ear

"Love you too." Lily replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

When her family left, Lily charged straight towards the barrier between platforms 9 and 10 when a certain dark haired boy with round glasses, who was almost 6 feet tall named James Potter blocked her path. "Evans!" The boys friend, Sirius Black yelled, he had shaggy black wavy hair, grey eyes and was the same height as James.

Lily stopped next to them and said "Black. Potter." she glared up at them.

Lily never was very fond of these boys, they always seemed to get in her way, especially James who'd fancied her since 3rd year. James had asked her out hundreds of times. He was quite annoying until the end of 5th year when he ruined her relationship with her best friend, not to mention humiliated her in front of half of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He had felt bad so he apologized via owl and stopped his annoying behavior but never stopped his feelings. He became acquaintances with her in 6th year which was a step up considering she hated him.

"Hey..." ,James said staring at the ground.

Sirius sensed the awkward silence coming so he said "Oh for the love of Merlin, will you two just snog already!" And then ran through the barrier before James or Lily had the chance to slap him.

James and Lily stared at each other for a minute or two until Lily, who was blushing broke her gaze and said "Well I guess we better go get on the platform."

James replied "Yea...sure." Lily then walked through barrier and onto the platform.

While James watched her disappear, he sighed and then said to himself; "Wow." and with that he ran through the platform without a look back.

When Lily Evans arrived on platform 9 3/4 she sought out her best friend, Marlene Mckinnon. She had straight, light brown hair, a skinny figure similar to Lily's and was slightly shorter than her at 5'2. Lily looked over and saw her talking to Sirius Black, this was shocking because they were having what seemed to be, a civilized conversation. Lily had only ever seen them scream at each other, they were known to hate each other and they had many shouting matches in the great hall.

Once Marlene saw that people were staring she yelled "YOU PIG!" and then smacked him upside the head. Marlene stalked away towards Lily who followed her into the train and into an empty compartment.

Marlene slammed the door and sat down looking dizzy and pale. "Lily?" She said.

"Yea?" Lily replied sounding worried.

"How was your summer?" Marlene asked.

"Er good, you?" Lily asked.

"Great" she replied.

"Are you ok Mar? your acting a little, er off." Lily asked.

Marlene sat up "I think Sirius Black was just flirting with me." Lily's jaw dropped right when the door opened.

Speak of the devil "Hey, can I talk to Mckinnon for a moment...er alone?" Sirius asked.

"Whatever you say to me you can say in front of Lily. " Marlene said sounding surprisingly confident.

Lily cut in, "Actually I was just about to go find Mary ..." She got up and Marlene gave her a pleading look before leaving the compartment.

Lily found Mary, a fellow muggle-born witch with dirty blonde, wavy hair, hazel eyes and is about 5'3. In the same compartment as James Potter, from the platform; Remus Lupin, a nice, smart bloke who keeps James and Sirius under control with sandy hair and nice, kind brown eyes; Peter Pettigrew, a chunky, shorter quiet kid with brown hair and eyes. They, plus Sirius make up the Marauders, a group who practically rule the school.

Lily walked in and sat down next to Mary "What's going on?"Lily asked.

"Trust me we are just as confused as you are." Remus admitted

"Ok well, I've got to go to the heads compartment." Lily said.

"I should go to the prefects compartment too." Remus said, the two got up and headed towards the front of the train.

Lily sat down in the heads compartment thinking about who the head boy could be. She came to the conclusion that it was most likely a Ravenclaw when James Potter walked in.

"What are you doing here?" Lily asked.

"Same as you."James replied with a grin. Lily raised her eyebrows

"You're kidding?" she asked.

"Nope." He pointed to the head boy badge gleaming on his chest. Lily's eyes widened her jaw dropped and she shouted "Dumbledore's gone mad!"

"That was my exact reaction." James replied still grinning.

"How did this happen?" Lily asked in disbelief.

James shrugged "Why do you sound so surprised, Evans?" Lily looked as though he asked her the most obvious question in the whole world.

"Because you're James Potter for Merlin's sake you've pranked almost everyone on this entire train!" Lily said a little too loudly. "Ok, you're not wrong but, minus all the prank stuff I think I'm a pretty good student."

James wasn't wrong either but Lily wasn't ready to admit it so she rolled her eyes and said "Whatever. I've got to go change I think the trains slowing down. See ya Potter."

"See ya Evans." James replied looking a bit disappointed.