A/N This is my first story. Don't offend me if you think this stinks. I also revised this chapter. I noticed that James didn't come up much, so I put in two points of views; one from Lily, one from James.

Disclaimer: I don't own the familiar characters. I only own the ones you've never heard of.

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James and Lily



Chapter One: The Journey to Hogwarts

Lily Evans, 11 years old was standing in between Platform 9 and 10. "Hmmm. Where could Platform 9 ¾ be? " Thought Lily.

Lily Evans was a pretty girl who had beautiful red, waist long hair and stunning emerald colored eyes that attracted the attention of every boy who got lost in them. She had been getting out of bed when she had received the letter that would change her life forever. Lily had been accepted to the Magical schools of Hogwarts! She was very happy. Her parents had not believed a single word of this, but Lily had begged them to at least try getting in. Asking a strange bartender in London, they had been able to enter the magical world, Diagon Alley. She had bought all her school stuff there, and her parents had even bought her a beautiful snowy white owl, which she named Snow White.

Lily was sweating by now. The train would leave in 5 minutes, and she still hadn't even found the train. She walked around the platforms, looking and looking. Then, WHAM! She had hit a boy with messy black hair and thin round glasses.

"Oops. Sorry. Did it hurt? Here, let me help you up." The boy said and gave her a hand. She rubbed her head and took it gladly. Snow White was making a great racket in the crowd. Lily also noticed that another owl was making a huge racket along with Snow White.

"Hey, Brownie, shut up and let me get your cage." Said the boy after helping her up. He grabbed the cage and then straightened up his cart. The boy said again with a sly, mischievous grin, "See you at the Train. We don't have a minute to lose." With that, he ran into the brick barrier that divided platform 9 and 10. Lily gasped. Could it be? She slowly approached the solid looking barrier and sidled through it. She gasped. She was in an unknown place. There was a huge train labeled, 'Hogwarts Express'.

She then spotted the boy who she had crashed into earlier. He was loading his trunk into the train and was chatting with another boy who had black hair and blue eyes. (A/N Sorry. I didn't know what Sirius's eyes color was, so I just made it up)

The boy spotted me and said, "Hey, great crash earlier." I turned scarlet and the boy put out a hand. "James Harold Potter. Nice to meet you. This is my friend Sirius Black." Sirius nudged James in the rib and said in a baby voice, "Has Jamsie Boy found a new girl already?" James turned scarlet and kicked him in the ribs. He grinned at me and said, "Best go on. Or all the good seats would be taken." James dragged Sirius into the train and disappeared deep into the trains.

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I quickly found a seat next to a nervous looking girl. "Hi. Can I sit here? There doesn't seem to be much seats left." I asked her. She nodded nervously and bit her lip. I could see the poor girl was really scared. I stuck out a hand to her and said, "My names Lily Evans. How 'bout yours?" She shook her shaking hand and answered, "M-Maria L-Lestrod. N-nice to m- meet you." She quickly looked a way.

I immediately knew I would have to put in a lot of work to speak to her. "So, Maria, are you a muggle or a pure blood? I'm a muggle, but when I got my letter, I was so happy! Of course, I've practiced and stuff. And I learned about the four houses. Gryffindor sounds the best. I hope I'll be in Gryffindor. Of course, I won't say no to Ravenclaw, and definitely no to Hufflepuff or Slytherin. I would go mad if I had to go to Slytherin. And I wonder how we get sorted? Do you think were going to do a test?"

The girl looked a little amused at how Lily went blabbing on. "We-el, I'm a muggle. I have studied a tiny bit about the houses. I think I would like to go to Gryffindor. But maybe not. 'Cause Gryffindors are the brave ones. I'm definitely not brave! But I would definitely say no to Slytherin." She said, full of thoughts and wonder. Just then, some one popped up from behind the seat. Lily and Maria jumped about a mile.

The girl giggled and asked, "Hello. I'm Arabella Figg, and I just couldn't help listening to your conversation. I'm sitting by myself here, all alone and sad," Lily and Maria giggled. "I just couldn't help it. And just incase, I am a pure blood." Lily and Maria gave amusing looks to each other. "Don't worry, I'm not a muggle hating Slytherin. Both my parents were in Gryffindor at Hogwarts. So I'm absolutely positive the hat will place me in Gryffindor." Maria piped up, "Sorry to interrupt, but ahem, do you mean by 'the hat will place me in Gryffindor'?" Arabella giggled. "We- el, you see, an old, patched, frayed, talking hat chooses where you're supposed to go to. And you two don't worry about going to Slytherin. Slytherins hate muggles, so there are absolutely no muggles in there. I think you both will be in Gryffindor like me. We pure bloods can tell where people can be by the looks. Ooh! Looky, it's the food cart! Here here!" cried Arabella.

The food cart was quite a sight. It contained many kinds of never before seen snacks. Arabella was carefully choosing some snacks for herself as we watched the food cart with big round eyes. "Hmmm. Let's see, I'll take three pumpkin pasties, a Chocolate Frog, and maybe a Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. Oh! And a Sugar Quill! I wonder, from when did they put Hogsmeade stuff in here?" Arabella cried and quickly paid for her stuff. She saw us staring at her.

"Here, have some Pumpkin Pasty. And here, some chocolate frogs. Don't let it get away!" she cried as Maria's Chocolate Frog jumped out the window. "Oops." Was all Maria could say. They feasted on their snacks and soon Arabella carefully took out a bean from Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean. Lily quickly grabbed a Green one, convinced that it was her favorite flavor, green apple. She quickly covered her mouth. It had a disgusting taste. It tasted like. Grass! Arabella laughed. "Oh, Lily, you have to be careful on these. When they say Every Flavor, the MEAN every flavor! See," She took out a Dark Grey one with black spots on them. "This must be pepper. You have to sniff it and make out the color." She explained.

They had fun picking out the good beans and the bad ones. Soon, there was a five-minute call. "Ooh. Were almost there!" shrieked Lily. Then a Prefect walked in. She was dressed in Hogwarts robes already. "You guys better get dressed. Were almost there." She sneered at them with great dislike and walked off. "Boy, she has a bad temper, not to mention bad breath." Whispered Arabella to them. They giggled and after making sure there were no boys in the compartment, they changed.

They were there, and Maria was now totally pooped out. "Aaah! Were here!" she shrieked shrilly. And indeed, they saw a huge castle encircled in a lake that could only be Hogwarts. They were there at Hogwarts at last!

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Meanwhile, James was sitting in the compartment with his friend Sirius. He stared out the window, his mind only focused on one thing; Lily Evans, the girl he had collided with at the other side of the barrier. Her beautiful emerald eyes that shined like a real emerald. Her smooth, wavy, long flaming red hair. She had the perfect look, but the only problem was the inside. But by the way she talked to her, he could tell she would be in Gryffindor and have a kind heart.

"Earth to James! Come out of Dream Land!" Sirius yelled at James, waving his hand in front of his face. "W-What? Sirius, what are you laughing at?" James demanded, seeing him giggling like a girl. "Stop it. You're making me sick." James snapped. Sirius fought through his laugh and answered, "Why, James, you had the most funniest expression on your face. Staring out the window like you were in love." He stifled a laugh. "Why, why, why. Sirius, why do you have to be so. Observant? Oi, Food Cart! Here!!"

"Hmm. I'll take two chocolate frogs and a pumpkin pasty." James said and paid the lady his money. "So, Sirius, have the Dung Bombs? Our first step to annoying the Slytherins. Remember, we have to annoy the Slytherins as much as we can. Did you also get the 'A Guide to Hex and annoy your fellow Enemies'?" asked James to Sirius. "Check, check, check. I got the last 'A Guide to Hex and annoy your fellow Enemies', lucky me. They said it was going like crazy. I also wanted to test the 'Jelly Legs' on someone. Have anyone I think I can test 'em on?" Sirius asked with a twinkle in his eye.

Just then, the compartment door slid open and a nervous looking boy walked in. "Er. Mind if I sit here? There were some other seats, but they were mostly filled with mean guys who refused for me to sit with them." James nodded and answered, "Sure. We don't mind. My names James Harold Potter and this is my best friend Sirius Black. Here, have a chocolate frog, you don't look good." The boy slid onto the seat and while munching on a chocolate frog, he said, "My names Remus Lupin. And I am not a muggle. People keep on mistaking me as a muggle."

The compartment door opened again, and this time two pretty mean looking boys entered. "So, who do we have here? We thought we'd have this compartment to ourselves. So I suggest you get on the move. Now." Snarled the boy with blonde hair and a smirk on his face. Sirius stood up and said, "I think that the compartment is open for all of us, and we have been here before you so I suggest you leave now." The slimy, greasy haired one spoke up with a snarl, "I can tell you guys will be Gryffindors. Such losers! So leave now, we don't want any Gryffindors messing around with us." Sirius looked like he lost it. He raised his wand, pointed it at the greasy haired one and muttered something. His feet began to wobble. They were now jelly! The greasy hair shrieked and tried to run off, but he couldn't quite do it, now that his legs were wobbling like jelly. Sirius nudged James on his ribs and he got the message. This time, James raised his wand and pointed it at the blondy as he muttered something. Blondy's leg locked together and blondy gave a huge roar and bunny hopped his way to the other compartment.

James and Sirius roared with laughter and soon Remus joined too. Sirius roared, "WHAT-AN-IDIOT!!! Did you see his stupid face? He looked like he could go cry for his mommy!" They were laughing hard for a while and then finally found there way to their school robes and dressed. Then Remus began jumping up and down. "Looky! Were here! Finally!" And indeed, they saw a dark castle surrounded by a lake from their window. They were finally here.

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Ok, so this isn't the best story ever. But at least I tried. And I'm sorry it was so short. I couldn't help it. And yes, Maria is a complete fake one, so that is my character I think.