**July,2009: A/N-This story was written by me when I was in middle school, so the quality of the material is...less impressive than I thought it was at the time lol. It was one my first attempts at HP fanfiction writing and part of my past, so I've decided to leave it up instead of deleting it. This story will probably never be finished, but I hope you enjoy the little I did get done before my muse escaped.
Thanks,
Lily**
Potters Return Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters except the ones that aren't familiar to you. The plot is also mine. Please R&R.
Luv,
Lily Rose Moon
Chapter One
"Let's go," I, Lily Potter yelled to her parents as she dragged her trunk down the stairs. She was finally going to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was the school her parents, godparents, uncles, and her grandparents had gone to. She and her parents had gone to Diagon Alley to get the things on her list and to meet up with her godparents Ron and Hermione and their twin boys Todd and Tim who were also starting at Hogwarts. But that was over a week ago. "I made a bet with Todd that we would get there before them," I yelled again.
"We're coming," mother yelled from the upstairs hall, "Do you have everything? Your broomstick, James (Lily's owl), your books."
"I have everything," I called up before she started listing everything, "Dad!"
"Ya," he said from behind me as he pulled my hand off the trunk handle and hoisted it over his shoulder.
I jumped as he touched my hand, turned around and said, "Dad, you promised you wouldn't apparate behind me anymore just to scare me!"
"I wasn't trying to scare you, just get your trunk out to the car. You know we'll be late if you and your mother don't stop wasting time. I have a bet with Ron that we'll get there before them." He said walking out the door as mom came down the stairs.
"You two really should stop betting, my brothers got into lots of trouble with it," mom said walking out the door after dad.
"Which brothers, remember you five of them," I asked picking up James' cage, my broomstick, and my book bag, which was filled with stuff for the train ride.
"Fred and George. Now lets go, and don't forget to close the door behind you," mom yelled from the car.
"I'm coming, I'm coming. And Fred and George are two of the richest men in the wizarding world," I said as I walked out the door and shut the door behind me with a foot. I walked to our Chevy Avalanche (an American SUV), shoved my stuff into the backseat and climbed in after it. Dad started up the car, pulled out of the driveway, and headed off to King's Cross. It was a half hour drive to the station, so when we got there it was10: 30 and we had thirty minutes till the train came.
"Go get a cart Lily," said dad as he popped open the trunk and started unloading everything. When I got back Todd ran towards me and gave me a hug.
"How come every hot girl I meet is related to me?" Todd asked me sliding two sickles in to my hand, "You got here before us."
"Thanks. Uncle Ron don't you have to pay my dad?" I asked him slipping the sickles into my pocket with the money my parents had already given me.
"You are such a sweat girl Lily, never letting me forget a thing." Ron said putting two galleons into my father's outstretched hand.
"Why do you even bother with all this silly betting?" Tim asked looking up from his book.
"Tim you are more like your mother when she was your age every day," dad said loading my things onto the cart I had brought over.
"Betting isn't silly, it's a respectable way to make money," I said as I walked over to Tim and gave him a hug.
"Tim and Todd, go get your carts, or we'll be late," Aunt Hermione said pulling Tim's book away from him and pushing him toward Todd.
"That's okay Aunt Hermione, Todd and I can get them," I said pulling Todd off towards where the carts were.
"Alright, just don't take to long, remember the train leaves at 11 o'clock and its 10:45 now." Hermione responded.
"So what did you do this summer?" I asked Todd as we made our way to the carts.
"Well, Tim and I visited Fred and George, we got to visit Charlie in Romania and Bill in Egypt. We saw Grams and Gramps in July when they came to visit us and then we saw you." Todd replied as we walked. "Dad also made us visit Percy's grave on July 23. You know, the day he killed himself after losing his job."
As we reached the carts I said, "No one in this family ever forgave the Ministry after that. My mom and dad even left the Ministry to start their private aurors business," We each got a cart and walked back to our family in silence.
"It took you two long enough," mom said with fake agitation on her face, "did you look at every cart to find the perfect one?"
"Yes Aunt Ginny, that's exactly what we did." Todd said in an all too serious voice as we handed off our carts to dad and Uncle Ron. They loaded Todd and Tim's things onto the two carts and we started off to platform nine and three-quarters. When we arrived between platforms nine and ten Aunt Hermione got everything organized.
"Ok, we have ten minutes, Lily and Todd will go through first, then Tim, then Ginny and I, and last Harry and Ron. Now lets get going." She said in an orderly tone. As she listed we all made our way through the barrier in ones or twos by leaning casually on the barrier, then going all the way through. When we had all made it through we found an empty compartment on the red steam engine and stowed all of our stuff. Todd, Tim, and I stuck our heads out our windows to say goodbye to our parents.
There was a chorus of "Goodbye"s, "I love you"s, and "Don't get into trouble"s coming from my parents and my aunt and uncle. As the train started to move out of the station we brought our heads back in the compartment and closed the window. Todd and I sat on one side and Tim sat on the other.
"So what do you want to do?" I asked Todd. There was no use asking Tim, he was buried in his book and wouldn't stop reading for a while.
"I don't really know. Did you bring you CD player and CDs?" He asked reaching for my bag.
"Of course. I also brought a ton of batteries because, you know, the CD player, CDs, and batteries are all muggle things and they'd be impossible to replace until mom or dad sent them to me," I said putting my head on his shoulder as he picked out a CD and put it in the CD player. He put the headphones on and started singing to the music.
"I heard you're doing okay. But I want you to know, I'm a dick, I'm addicted to you. I can't pretend I don't care, When you don't think about me. Do you think I deserve this? I tried to make you happy. But you left anyway," he sang in his perfectly tuned voice. When the song ended he took off the headphones and asked, "Was my voice absolutely beautiful?"
"Absolutely," I said laughing. Todd put the CD player back in my backpack and looked out the window. We stayed in silence until the woman with a cart full of food and drinks knocked on our door and asked if we wanted anything.
"Definitely," Tim said as he jumped up and walked towards the door.
"You want anything?" I asked Todd, looking up at him.
"Sure. Let's go before she leaves," he said getting up. We got lots of every thing and brought it back to our compartment. While Todd, Tim, and I ate and talked it started to rain very hard. We talked about Hogwarts, our family, and Diagon Alley.
After a while a boy of about fifteen came into our compartment and said, "The conductor said that we will arrive in a forty minutes so you should get your robes on," and left.
"Oh crap, now we have to get the trunks down again," Todd said, standing up on the seat and reaching for my trunk.
"You don't have to get mine down, my mom made me put robes in my bag," I explained laughing.
"Oh fun, I still have to get down two trunks. Will you at least help me?" He asked using his puppy dog eyes.
"Fine, but you owe me," I said standing up on the seat across from him. It took us twenty minutes to get both trunks down, robes out, and trunks stored again. After we put our robes on over our clothes we had about ten minutes before we reached the station.
"We should probably clean up the compartment." Todd said looking at the mess that we had made then glancing out the window. "Cool, it stopped raining," He added, starting to pick up candy wrappers.
We had just finished picking up when a voice rang through the train, "We will be in the station in two minutes. Be sure to leave everything on the train, it will be put into your rooms."
A few moments after the announcement the train came to a stop and I could here the doors opening. "Let's go," I said standing up. We walked out of our compartment and off the train.
How did you like it? It took me six hours to write!!! The song that Todd sang was "Addicted" by Simple Plan. It's really good. Read and Review. I want all criticism!!
Luv Ya,
Lily Rose Moon