Sirius Black sat on the train with his black hair nicely combed back, waiting to see if the rest of the Marauders would come. His parents had decided to take them early to train station so they wouldn't have to worry about crowds and mixing with Muggles. Sirius didn't care about mixing. He had some friends that were Muggleborn and there wasn't a difference between them and the purebloods. He pulled out his wand.

They weren't suppose to do magic out of school and Sirius wanted to get caught up. He had found out some tricks and wanted to see how they worked out. He was about to perform a spell when something pulled him back to reality.

Outside the compartment he heard to voices arguing. It only took him a few seconds to recognize one as his closest friend, James Potter. The other was Lily Evans. They seemed to be having a fight about James being a bigheaded fool. Sirius laughed. He could agree with that at points.

James stood outside the non-official Marauders' compartment arguing with Lily. He was trying to get her to go out with him since it was the last year of Hogwarts. If they didn't start going out he would have no chance with her.

'Come on Evans, please?' James asked running his hand though his messy black hair as he talked to the pretty red-haired seventh year.

'No! You think that you are better then everyone and then putdown everyone who you think is below you. Do you think I would want to be seen with someone like that?' Lily yelled at him, not caring who heard. A few heads turned to see what was happening, when they saw it was James and Lily, most ignored it. The fight between Lily Evans and James Potter was an old joke.

'Well you're being seen with me now,' James replied. That was the wrong thing to say. Lily pushed him into the compartment and walked off. Sirius pretended to look at a watch.

'Five minutes, it's a record!' Sirius said. James gave a mock bow and sat down in a seat by the window. He looked out the window, his pride bruised. Sirius saw his friend was hurt and tried to be kind.

'Don't worry. There's still the rest of the year,' James nodded. Sirius sighed, 'I'm sorry, but you know I'm bad with words.'

James gave him a half smile, 'Look, I see Moony,' he said motioning to out the window.

Remus Lupin briskly walked towards the train. He looked the same as ever. His hair was neat and he was wearing somewhat nice robes. He was pulling his trunk while trying to read at the same time. He was doing pretty well so far, he hadn't walked into any solid objects, and of course people were a different matter. Now a lot of parents were annoyed at him. The kids just smiled and said, that's Lupin for you. The Hogwarts bookworm.

Remus made it onto the train. He paused and tried to remember where the compartment was. Left, he thought and turned left. He bumped into someone. It was a girl who looked lost. She looked about six-seventeen and was a bit shorter then him. The strange thing about her was she had black hair with green streaks. Remus looked at her again. The girl looked at the ground.

'Need a place?' Remus asked politely. She nodded. He led her to the Marauders compartment. He saw that James and Sirius were there.

'Hello guys, this is,' Remus paused, hoping the girl would say her name. The train started and their conversation paused for a moment.

'Oh,' she said realizing what he wanted, 'Charlotte Dunn.'

Sirius looked her over, 'Moony, why did you bring a girl?'

Remus looked at Sirius, 'Well Padfoot, Prongs,' he motioned to James, 'brings Lily all the time.'

'Yea, but Lily doesn't stay long enough for it to matter,' James said under his breath, still hurt by what had happened.

Charlotte raised and eyebrow, 'I'll leave if you want me to.'

Sirius turned to look at her, 'Stay, pull up a chair,' they all looked at him, 'ok, have a seat. Remus Lupin, James Potter, Sirius Black.' He said pointing as he said the names, 'Anyway, we need more girls.'

Charlotte sat down next to Sirius. She thought he cute, but was confused by what he was saying, 'What do you mean by that?'

'Well girls look more innocent. They can get away with more stuff.'

Remus sighed at what Sirius was saying, 'Is that all you ever think about?'

'Thanks, just use me,' Charlotte said hitting him gently on his arm.

Sirius nodded, 'You're welcome.' He turned to James and they started talking about spells they had learned over the summer. The compartment door opened and closed. They all jumped and looked up. A short guy was standing there, looking embarrassed for interrupting them.

'Wormtail!' Sirius said. He turned to Charlotte, 'Peter Pettigrew,' he said pointing to Peter. Peter sat down across from Charlotte. She sat there for a moment, a bit confused. Everyone had two names. Sirius: Padfoot, Remus: Moony, James: Prongs, Peter: Wormtail. It was confusing to her. She pushed it all back into a corner of her mind as she notice Remus was talking to her.

'Sorry about them,' Remus had ignored Peter's entrance and had gone back to what they had been talking about.

'It's ok,' she looked at the floor, 'I don't care.'

'What year are you?" Remus asked, "I haven't seen you around and you look a bit old for a first year.'

'Seventh year. I transferred.' Remus nodded. They both looked away and didn't talk for a while. Charlotte heard bits and pieces of James and Sirius's conversation.

'Incarcerous,' she heard them whisper and made out a few more words, '...thick rope...around...arms....' She looked at the floor. She suddenly realized they weren't talking anymore. James was looking up in thought. Charlotte wondered what he was thinking about.

James sat staring up at the ceiling of the compartment. He and Sirius had just had a conversation about curses and hexes. He still wasn't tired of making fun of Snape, and did it whenever he could. Even though Lily hated it when he did it. Lily, such a beautiful name, perfect for such a beautiful girl. James wondered what she was doing right now.

Lily paced her empty compartment. The nerve of that James! He acted like she was suppose to fall at his feet when he snapped his fingers. 'I can't stand him,' she said to empty air. She didn't get a reply. She didn't want one. Lily sat down and stared out the window. 'What am I suppose to do? He's handsome; I would love to go out with him. If it wasn't for his big mouth, it's always got to be about him. How could I have a boyfriend who won't listen to me?' Lily leaned again the glass and pondered her questions. 'If only he would change,' she whispered as the movement of the train lulled her to sleep.

Sirius looked around. They were about halfway to the castle. James was still staring at the ceiling and Peter was watching everything to make sure he wouldn't mess up on anything. Charlotte asleep on Remus's shoulder, while he seemed to be absentmindedly staring at the door. Sirius smiled, Charlotte and Remus were cute together. But I'm guessing Charlotte has a crush on me, Sirius thought. Poor Moony, he had no chance with James and me around.

Charlotte woke up, and saw she had fallen asleep on Remus's shoulder. She blushed and turned around, noticing Sirius was looking at her. He looked away. She turned back to Remus.

'Have a question?' Remus asked, turning to her. Charlotte started to shake her head then changed her mind, 'Yea, what's Hogwarts like?' They spent the rest of the trip discussion the school, her old school, and many other things.

Once the train stopped Lily quickly got off. She got into one of the horseless carriages with some students she didn't know. She looked behind her and saw James, Peter and Sirius get into a carriage. Behind them Remus and a new girl got into a different one. Lily was happy when they reached the castle. The day was almost over.

Charlotte got out of the carriage and looked up at the castle. It was amazing. And big. Once she was inside, Remus pointed out the ceiling. It looked like the sky. Charlotte liked looking at the sky. Also, all around her were floating candles. She looked over and saw James grabbing a seat by a girl.

'Lily Evans,' Remus whispered, telling her the name of her, 'James's "girl".' Charlotte nodded and sat in the other seat next to Lily, guessing she would most likely need some support with James sitting next to her.

Sirius, Remus, and Peter sat across from James, Lily and Charlotte. Sirius noticed that Lily was about to tell James to move.

'Settle down, settle down,' the headmaster, Professor Dumbledore stood up. Sirius tuned the rest out, having heard it so many times. He looked over the tables. Well Snape's still here, he thought. It would be an interesting year. He waited until the food magically appeared then turned to Lily and James.

'Hey Evans, James is in Muggle Studies. You ought to help him since you live with a bunch,' Sirius said. Charlotte glared at him.

'What did you say?!' she snapped at him.

'What?' he was confused, 'Aren't you pureblood?'

Lily stood up, 'Stop it you stupid git!' she growled at him. Sirius looked amazed for a moment, his face changed to anger. He got up, grabbed some food, and stormed out. Dumbledore sighed but did nothing to stop Sirius. He was use to Sirius making trouble. Lily moved so she could talk to one of her friends.

Charlotte looked around. She had a frown on her face, and suddenly wasn't hungry any more. On more comment, she thought, and I'll kill someone. She looked over at Remus. He was staring at his plate looking a bit pale. Charlotte wondered if he was sick or something. Charlotte looked at the food. She really didn't want to eat. She looked once more at Remus, then back at her empty plate.

James had finished and he was sick of sitting at the table. He wanted Dumbledore to excuse them so he could go talk to Sirius. He looked over at Remus, few more days till full moon, he thought cheerfully. He looked at Peter; Peter was just sitting there, waiting patiently. James wondered how he could just sit there.

When Dumbledore finally excused everyone. James was the first up and ran to the common room. As soon as he got to the portrait he realized he didn't know the password. It didn't mater. James quickly found what he was looking for. He tapped the wall with his wand and whispered, 'Tromoenia Proftralis.' The wall opened into a passage. James quickly went into it and the passage closed behind him. He came out in the Gryffindor Common Room. Sirius was sitting in a chair by the fireplace when James and appeared. He nodded as James sat across from him.

Remus slowly walked to the Griffendor Common Room. Someone ran past him. Remus looked and saw it was Charlotte. He guessed she was going to try and talk to Lily. He sighed and continued walking. Sirius and James would be talking tonight and he thought it was too late to start think up pranks. It had been a long night.

As soon as he got into the common room, Remus walked past everyone and went upstairs. He could hear that his friends had pulled their first prank. It had seemed that one of the first years had annoyed them. Now that kid had lost all of his books. Remus looked at the ground. He knew that James and Sirius would want him to go down and congratulate them, but he just felt like silence. Remus pulled out a book and started to read.

Charlotte sat in one of the chairs, away from the Muggle-hater and his friend. She looked around the common room. Her other school had never been this nice. Charlotte looked up as Sirius laughed. She hoped they wouldn't notice her. She didn't really want a fight her first night at Hogwarts and she was grumpy enough to start one if provoked.

Charlotte gave up on staying down there. She walked up the stairs and realized she didn't know where to go. She heard footsteps behind her and turned around. Lily was walking up the stairs.

Lily looked at Charlotte, 'You don't know where to go, do you?' Charlotte shook her head Lily smiled, 'Just follow me.'

Lily led Charlotte to the dormitory Lily always slept in. Just as she thought, Charlotte's stuff had been set up next to hers. Her new friend sat down and looked up at her.

'Since I'm new, I want to know a few things,' Charlotte told her.

'Yes?' Lily asked.

'Like what do I need to know about this school?'

Lily sat down on her own bed, 'That's going to take a while.'