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This story begins with Lily's first year at Hogwarts. It will follow her journey through the Wizarding World.

Lily is conflicted, her heart is torn between the two worlds she so passionately belongs. Her political beliefs clash with those at the Ministry of Magic and as she graduates from Hogwarts her efforts attract the attention of Tom Riddle...

Lily's First Journey to Hogwarts

Chapter 1: The Hogwarts Express

'I think I am the most excited I have ever been in my life!' squealed 11-year-old Lily Evans as she pushed her trolley through the mid-morning commuters at Kings Cross station. Her parents were accompanying her with her older sister, Petunia who looked perturbed and unhappy sullenly sulking behind them. Lily could see Severus Snape black hair bobbing up and down about a hundred meters ahead of them, heading towards platform 9 and 10 with a tall thin woman whom Lily presumed to be his mother.

'Its only school,' Petunia said moodily 'just like anything else,'

'Oh but Tuney it will be,' then in a lowered tone Lily added her green eyes bright 'magic,'

Arriving at platform 9 and 10 Lily knew exactly what to do, Severus had told her all she had to do was run straight at the wall between platform 9 and 10 and she would be transported to platform 9 ¾. Her excitement was palpable. Lily held her father's hand tightly, her mother held back with Petunia and together the little family ran at the wall and onto the platform.

Lily's mouth fell open. Nothing had quite prepared her for the scene of witches and wizards that stood before her, dozens of animals in cages from owls to cats to monkey's breathing fire. It was more magical somehow than the entire of Diagon Alley, Lily suspected it was due to the fact she saw so many other young girls and boys her age performing magic, messing around with their animals all clambering into the carriages stretching the length of the platform behind a beautiful shinning red steam engine called the Hogwarts Express.

'Severus!' Lily called her hand waving madly as she broke from her parents and ran forward, her dark haired friend beamed as she said his name. She hugged him like as if she hadn't seen him in months. Severus smiled as they broke apart.

'Do you have your wand, your owl, oh Severus can you believe it?' Lily said talking quickly, Severus smiled bemusedly at her.

'Yes, yes and yes!' he said happily, she had not seen him smile like that since the day he had discovered Lily could perform magic. His mother who was standing a fair distance away now was in serious conversation with two blonde haired wizards, one looked to be of Hogwarts age and the other clearly older. The Hogwarts aged boy stiffened a smile in Severus and Lily's direction, Severus rolled his eyes to Lily.

'I forgot about him,' he grumbled. Mr and Mrs Evans had now appeared at Lily's side, Petunia appeared to be doing everything she possibly could do to look as unhappy and behave difficult as possible.

'Who?'

'That's Lucius, he's in his fifth year. That's his Uncle Thorus, he's married to my mum's cousin,' Severus said slightly apprehensive. Lily's mother was looking with an air of disapproval at Severus, something not unnoticed by Severus who shuffled his unclean shoes beneath his robe.

'Lily dear, please don't leave us like that. This is very new for us dear,' Mrs Evans scolded looking around the bustling platform. Lily was apologetic, but Mr Evans touched Lily's shoulder reassuringly.

'Your mum just doesn't want you to get lost Lily,' Mr Evans said, his dark suit and tie standing starkly out amongst the well robed looking people on the platform. Mr Evans worked in a high school in south west London teaching children English, he didn't start work till the following day as most muggle schools began on the 2nd of September, the 1st was normally a last minute holiday day.

'All your things Lily bear are in this trunk,' and Mrs Evans pointed to the dark blue cladded case on the bottom of the trolley. 'The other smaller trunk that has your food in, you have enough food for at least two weeks.'

'Mum but Severus says Hogwarts' feast is amazing. I won't need that much food,'

'Severus doesn't know everything Lily, he hasn't been to this school before either,' Mrs Evans scolded. She was an auxiliary nurse at a local hospital, St Mulligans and worked often with the local women's refuge centres caring for domestic abuse families. Her attitude towards Severus Snape had never been one of positivity, but for various reasons Mrs Evans would never go into more details than she had to with her youngest daughter about her new "friend".

Moments later Lily had found a compartment, Severus was saying goodbye to his mother and said he would join her in a moment. After she found a compartment there were two dark haired boys sitting together but no one else in the compartment.

'Can I sit here?' she posed. The boy with the short dark hair turned from his fellow and looking her up and down said

'Sure, if everywhere else is full,'

'I haven't checked,' Lily admitted 'but this is the first seat, and I need to save one for my friend. Would you mind?'

'No, free country,'

Lily shuffled in, choosing the vacant seat by the window. The two boys went back to flicking through a selection of cards in their hands, Lily swore she saw the photos on the cards vanish and reappear.

'Agrippa – oh – have you got Flamel,'

'What are you playing?' Lily asked curiously

'Playing?'

'Yes, what are you playing she repeated

'You must be muggleborn,' the long haired boy said, he seemed to brighten up even more 'whats it like?'

Lily blinked at him, unsure at how to answer.

'What do you mean?'

'I'm Sirius,' the boy said, Lily found him rather rude. 'And I want to know, do you really not know how to use magic?'

Lily ruffled her nose crossly

'Of course I do,' she lied forcefully 'do you?'

Sirius snorted. James elbowed him in the ribs.

'I'm from a big wizarding family, you won't have heard of us I hope. For merlins sake I wish I hadn't heard of them sometimes,' Sirius explained turning his full attention to Lily, his dark blue grey eyes looking her over. 'Anyway what's your name?'

'My name is Lily Evans, and yes. I am muggleborn,'

'I'm James,' the other boy said but Lily seemed uninterested and had gone back to staring at the window. This seemed to ruffle him, it appeared this boy did not like to be or was not use to being ignored.

Severus pulled open the compartment door and shuffled in himself, smiling at Lily.

'Petunia hates me, Sev,' Lily said moodily. Severus leaned back into the carriage seat studying her face closely. They continued to talk and it wasn't until Severus mentioned the Hogwarts houses that James and Sirius turned their attention back to Lily, they had thus far ignored Severus instead looking at their moving picture cards.

'Slytherin?'

'My whole family have been in Slytherin,' grumbled Sirius

'And I thought you sounded alright mate,' James said

'Narh, I might break the tradition,' Sirius smiled 'where are you headed?'

'Gryffindor where the brave of heart dwell, like my dad,' James said

Severus snorted

'If you'd rather be brawny than brainy,' Severus said

'And you're clearly neither,' pointed out James.

Lily and Severus then left the compartment, Lily flouncing past James she fixed him with a stern glare but James just smiled at her, teasing her icy stare infuriating her more. The train had now been underway for a good hour and at the very end of the train there was an empty compartment bar an older looking wizard and a pale looking student who looked terrified and excited all at the same time to be on the train.

'Hello, can we come in here,' Lily asked 'the rest of the train- and the boys we were with well, can we sit here please?'

The boy nodded, looking apprehensive at first but welcomed them in with a wry smile. The older wizard was softly sleeping his horn rimmed glasses askew, his dark brown hair hanging in ringlets around his shoulder. Above his head in the luggage rack was a large black suitcase with the letters LHL on it.

'I'm Severus, this is Lily,'

The boy shifted in his seat uncomfortably as if he were hiding something.

'My name is Remus Lupin, and that's my dad,'

Severus brow furrowed, looking curiously at the adult wizard across from him.

'Why is your dad coming to Hogwarts with you?'

Remus sighed. Lily looked at Severus.

'He's coming to see Dumbledore, I'm a first year you see'

'That's unusual,' Severus pointed out.

'I wish my mum and dad could come to Hogwarts,' Lily interjected dreamily 'I already miss them. I really miss my dad.'

Remus removed his cloak and folded it onto his knees, Lily noticed his legs were quite long for someone their age. The train was trundling along the countryside now, blurred fields of golden yellow and dark ebony landscapes streamed past the windows. The three young students had an enjoyable afternoon, Remus had brought jelly slugs and Lily had brought Coco-cola, something Remus had never tried. His father spent the majority of the journey sleeping, despite Severus and Lily then playing an enthralling game of exploding snap whilst Remus read a book, History of Magic.

'I think I can see something Sev, Remus look,' Lily said standing up she slid the compartment door open and watched as the train trundled across a huge viaduct. Lily flew out of the compartment door and was drawn to the train window. Lily saw rolling dark hills being illuminated by late afternoon sunshine, and peeking out over the tallest hillside were a few black and purple turrets.

'Lily sit down! We'll be there soon,' Severus pointed out 'we'll be at the Great Feast before you know it!'

AN: Next Chapter coming tomorrow. Thank you for reading x