Disclaimer: First off, incase you didn't know, I don't own the characters or setting that has been thought up by J.K. Rowling. While keeping canon in mind while writing this, creative licenses have been taken with many of the characters and some things have been changed out of canon. This story goes along with one called: Sins of the Fathers by RenMacKree. They are supposed to be read together in order to get the full story of what is going on. This version will follow the three Potter children, and the chapters will switch between them. Most of the time it will be one chapter done with just one Potter, but there will be chapters that might not happen in. Without further a due, chapter one.
Chapter one:
The Train Ride
Lily was excited. It was to be her first year at Hogwarts and currently they were sitting in the car, driving to the train station. She was finally eleven, and wouldn't be left behind again. Her older brother James had told her all kinds of stories about the things he did at Hogwarts. The brown haired fourteen year told was on the quidditch team, the seeker, and told Lily had well he did on in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. James had a lot of friends at school too, ones he had already told her she could go to anyone of them if she had problems at school, since she knew James was assuming she'd get into Gryffindor like he did. Lily wasn't sure she liked all of James' friends, though his girlfriend, also on the quidditch team, seemed nice enough. James had ran off during the summer to be with his friends without telling anyone, and everyone worried a lot about him. Lily figured he didn't mean any harm and was just wanting to see all of his friends.
Then there was her other brother. Albus, though she kept having to remind herself that he didn't like being called Albus and would rather go by Severus. Severus, while having natural brown hair, used some magic to turn it, and keep it, blond. It at least didn't make Lily stand out as being the only Potter child to have bright red hair, since it looked like they all had different hair colors. Severus was also the only one of them to have green eyes. She knew Severus didn't get along much with James, but she didn't think it was too bad. She knew Severus was in Slytherin, and James kept telling her that being in Slytherin was a bad thing. It couldn't be a bad thing though, since Severus was in it and even their father had made the commit about there being some good people from Slytherin.
Her father, James, and Severus had all found their best friends on the train, though in James' case he ended up hanging out with the Gryffindor Quidditch team right away but that still counted, so she was convinced she'd meet her best friend on the train too. It was going to be wonderful! She heard a noise behind her and turned around. Her black cat, Raya, had woken up. Both of her brothers had owls, Severus had a snowy white one and James had a brown one, and she wanted to different. Severus had bought this cat for her, and she loved it dearly. "Shh, you need to be quiet, we're almost there," Lily told her cat.
She wasn't even listening to what her parents or brothers were saying. It was probably best to say, what her parents and James were saying. Ablus was being quiet. No, it was Severus, right? She had a hard time remembering that because James and their parents always called him Albus, though she wasn't sure why since Severus wanted to be called Severus and not Albus.
When the car stopped, Lily wanted to just run out and go right to Platform 9 ¾. She couldn't of course, because she also wanted to stay good bye to her parents. This was going to be the longest she had ever been away from them. That would be okay though, as her brothers would be there with her. She hoped she got into Gryffindor. She even loved the colors that were there. Red and Gold. Much better than any other house, plus it was where James was. If she did end up in another house, she wanted to be put into Slytherin, because that was where Severus was.
It didn't take them long to get to the train, and the moment they were in sight and could get on Severus was gone. He had went right into the train, leaving them there. Lily didn't understand his need to get on so quickly. Maybe he was just as excited as she was and so he wanted to rush to get onto the train. That made the most sense to her. She turned to her parents, giving them both a hug. "Bye Mom, bye Dad!" She said brightly.
"I hope you have fun," her mother told her, giving her a big hug.
"I'm sure you'll do great," her father told her, giving her a hug as well.
"Come on Lily, let's get going," James said, grabbing her arm. Lily nodded and waved good bye to her parents one last time before getting onto the train with James.
It was only moments after they got on the train that Lily found herself alone. She suddenly felt panicked. Why would he just leave her here? There were so many people around and she didn't know where to go or what to do. She knew James wouldn't lose her on purpose, right?, so it had have been an accident. If he was going to end up somewhere, it would be with the Gryffindor Quidditch team. She didn't know where that was, and she didn't know where Severus had run off too either. She wished she knew were some of her cousins were, as Hugo was starting this year as well, or where her friend Avania Longbottom was. Avania was the daughter of Neivulle Longbottom and Luna Lovegood, and was a family friend. Avania would be starting this year as well. Why couldn't James wait to get on the train until one of them had gotten here instead of getting on the train and… oh right, she was sure James had done it on accident.
After a few moments of just standing there, Lily went into one of the empty carts. Part of the reason she had been so excited to come to Hogwarts was because she wouldn't be all alone any more with everyone away at school. They all ran off every year, and she had wanted to go with them. Severus had changed since he had started coming here, and she didn't know why. He had been worried about getting placed into Slytherin, and that was where he had ended up. She still didn't see anything wrong with that. Hopefully, soon she would be sitting with some people and wouldn't still be alone even though she was going to Hogwarts…
Not long after she had been sitting there, what looked to be another first year student came into the cart. He had blond hair that looked to be gelled back, light skin, and grayish silver eyes. Those eyes were different and she wondered if she had seen any one with eyes like that before or not. He also had a white ferret with him, poking its head out from behind his clothes. "Hello, mind if I sit here?" he asked.
Before Lily could even respond, another blond came into the cart. This one, however, she knew. Avania. She was holding what looked to be a magazine in her arms, "Quibbler?" she asked, holding out a magazine to the blond boy she hadn't gotten the name of yet.
This was rather amazing. She had gone from being alone to having two people there! She bet one of them was going to be her best friend, because people always met their best friends on the trains, right? Right. She was already friends with Avania, but maybe she'd become best friends with this blond boy. That would be great! "Of course you can sit here. My name's Lily, it's nice to meet you," she said with a smile. It had been Severus that told her not to just throw the Potter name around. He said something about ending up like James if she did that, but she didn't understand what he meant by that. Still, she trusted her bother's words and only gave her first name. "Avania! It's great to see you! Aren't you excited to be going to school?" She then turned to the blond boy. "Oh, this is Avania, and Avania this is… um… the nice boy I just met." Maybe they'd all get into the same house or something. Wouldn't that be great!
"Scropius. Nice to meet you both," the blond boy said. He took out his ferret and held it out. "And this is Draconia." Scropius? That name sounded familiar, but she couldn't place it so she stopped thinking about it. It wouldn't matter. Could ferrets even be school pets? She didn't think they could, but that didn't mean they couldn't. It was so cute, and if she wasn't afraid it would bite her or something she would have pet it. She had heard that ferrets were mean, even though Draconia seemed really nice.
Avania smiled at Scropius and Lily, before taking a seat. "Hello, did you know that ferrets have magical properties? My mother said they turn into blonde boys..." she trailed off as she sat next to Lily and looked over to her. "But he is cute."
"Is this your first year?" Lily asked Scropius. The ferret was cute, she had to agree with Avania on that. She hadn't heard about the whole ferrets have magic properties. "I didn't know ferrets had magical powers," she said. She thought it would be fun to have a pet with magic powers, and wondered if her cat would have any magical powers. What kind of powers would a ferret have? Could it do something cool?
Scropius started laughing at that, and Lily didn't understand why. "I've heard that too, it's amazing what animals can do." He was laughing so loud and hard that it looked like he couldn't breath. She felt like she was missing something. Why was is so funny? She watched as he ran a hand through his hair and it seemed to be filled with hair gel. Once he had calmed down, "is this your first year too?"
She figured that answered her question. He was a first year. See they could be best friends! They just needed to end up in the same house and everything would be perfect! "It is my first year! My two older brothers are already going in here though. There names are James and Alb- Severus, he likes to be called Severus. Oh, and it's Avania's first year too!"
As the train started to move, she watched the door to open again. Wow, she really was popular! She wasn't alone or anything! She knew Hogwarts was going to be fun and she wouldn't be all alone! The people who had come in this time were her cousins Rose and Hugo. Hugo was a first year student. He had short, brownish/red hair and brown hair and on the thin side. Rose had red hair that was bushy like her mother's, and had green eyes. Rose was out going and in the same year as her brother Severus. Hugo was much more soft spoken than his sister, and Lily loved them both. "Hi Lily. I guess those stinky brothers of yours left you to the wolves. I'll just have to teach them to be nicer," she smiled brightly at Lily, "So who are your new friends?" she asked.
Lily figured that Rose and Hugo already knew Avania, so Rose had to be asking about Scropius. "Scropius and, Draconia" It looked like Scropius beat her to introducing him. That was okay, as long as everyone knew each other things would be good. "You can sit by me if you want." Scropius had already sat down during the time of discussing them all being in their first year and Rose showing up.
Avania looked up from the Quibbler she had started reading, "hello Rose, did you have a good holiday?" She then held out a copy of the Quibbler, "Care to read the Quibbler? There's an exciting piece about your mother's new potion on page 18."
Rose kept smiling, "I'm Rose. It's nice to meet you. I guess you're all first years," she laughed a little. "Don't worry about what house you get into or up holding the traditional attitude. Some people pride themselves on that bull." When Rose said that, Lily couldn't help but think she had someone in mind when she said that. "Just be yourself. Now, it doesn't look like there is enough room for everyone in here, so I'm going to go and bug someone else. You guys have fun." Lily watched Rose leave, and Hugo sit down.
Avania turned to Hugo. "Would you like to read the article? There is a very fetching picture of your family, however I think you are blinking." She handed him a copy of the Quibbler. Lily felt she should read it too. She had hear about her aunt's new potion and thought it was great that her Aunt was so smart. Rose was smart too, and she figured she had to have gotten it from her mother. "What about you Scropius? Fancy a Quibbler?"
Lily took a copy too when both Hugo and Scropius took one to read. "Aren't you exited about finally coming to school Hugo?" she asked as she quickly flipped to the article about her aunt. Hermione Weasley has done it again! Of course her aunt had done something amazing; she always seemed to be doing things like that. There was even a picture of Hermione, Ron, Rose and Hugo in it. Hugo was blinking, but she didn't see the problem with that. Looking through the article, she noticed her father was in the article too. Harry Potter, Hermione and Ron's brother in law, says, "Hermione has always been cleaver, it just took time for everyone to notice." She was even in the article! That was so cool! Potter's three children, James, Albus, and Lily will be joining their cousins at Hogwarts this year."
Before she could finish reading everything in it, Scropius looked up from the paper. His eyes wide, and she felt something had to be wrong. "Lily, you're a Potter?"
Lily was quiet a moment. Was it a problem she was a Potter? Severus had told her that people might treat her differently just because of her name. It didn't seem fair if that was the case now. Scropius was supposed to be her best friend, or at least become her best friend because he was the first person she met on the train, but he looked like he was in shock or something and it made Lily a little nervous. "Um, I'm a Potter. Lily Luna Potter."
Scropius suddenly had a big smile on his face, before putting the paper down and leaning forward. "There's no problem, no problem at all. I'm a Malfoy, is that a problem?" Lily almost missed it, but Scropius shuddered when he said his last name. Did he not like his name or something? She didn't understand why a person would dislike their name. Did he think she wouldn't like him because of his name or something? "Don't worry about names. Rose by any other name would smell as sweet," he muttered.
Avania looked at Hugo and then at Lily and smiled. ""I agree with Scorpius, I don't particularly like last names. Nargals like to hide in them. My mother warned me about them." she leaned in to whisper the last part as she fingered her charm around her neck. "If you want, I could give you one of my charms to protect you. Draconia would want to be protected too."
Scropius gave her an odd look, but Lily felt if Avania said Nargals liked to hide last names than it was true. "I don't think there's any problem with your last name," she shook her head. Wasn't the Malfoy family someone James had told her to watch out for after hearing their father's stories about his name here? The Malfoy family weren't supposed to be good people, but Scropius was so nice! She'd have to tell James sometime that he was wrong about his thoughts.
Scropius looked like he was going to responded, but they were cut off by a witch with the snack cart came around. Instead of saying something, he took out a giant wad of Galleons and Sickels. "I'll take the whole lot please, and extra cauldron cakes and sugar quills." He then looked at everyone else in the cart, "I love sugar quills."
Lily went into her pocket, wanting to by something too, but she quickly remembered that James had been given the money to hold onto for the three of them. He had forgotten to give her any, so she couldn't get anything. She was half tempted to go and find him to remind him he was supposed to give money to Severus and her, as if he forgot to give it to her he probably forgot to give some to Severus as well. She was having fun right now, and she'd probably end up lost if she went looking for her brother. She'd just go and talk with him once they got to Hogwarts. It wouldn't be hard to find him, she'd just have to look at the Gryffindor table, and Severus had told her James was almost always with the quidditch team. "You're going to sick if you eat all of that," she teased Scropius with a smile.
Scropius smiled brightly, "I bought enough for everyone. Father never let me have too many sweets, so I can't handle a lot." That was nice of Scropius, though it was a bit sad he was able to have a lot of sweets. Well, there were times that her father had stopped her from eating a lot of sweets, but that was because he didn't want her to get sick. She was sure it had to be the same for Scropius. She took a cauldron cake and some of Bertie Bots Every Flavor Beans. She liked the beans, and normally got only good flavors and only once in a while got one a little bad, but never a horrible flavor. Scropius took his shoes up and crossed his legs on the seat. "My father told me a Malfoy never gives anything away for free," he said grinning. Lily wasn't sure why he would say that, but she decided not to think too much into it. She popped in a bean and smiled. Strawberry.
"Thank you Scropius," Anavia said. "I'll repay you with kindness." Anavia had beat to her saying thank you, but that was okay. Anavia opened a chocolate frog and bit off it's head. "Oh look, I got a Harry Potter card." She held up the card showing Harry on it, waving frantically. She flipped it over and read the information on the back. "Harry James Potter: Savior of the Wizarding world, at age 17 he defeated He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. In school, he was the Gryffindor Seeker and was rivaled only by Draco Malfoy, Seeker for Slytherin." She paused a moment. "Your dad's Draco? And Draconia is a white ferret?" Anavia started to giggle. "Didn't your dad tell you about him?
Lily felt she was missing something, as Scropius had laughed at that, but didn't respond. Was there something about Scropius' father and a white ferret she didn't know about? Well, she knew next to nothing about Scropius' parents, only what she knew about his father was what her father had told her about him during their school days. Before she got a chance to ask about it. "Scropius, what house would you like to get into?" Hugo asked. It was the first thing he had said since Rose had dropped him off there. Lily did like Hugo, but he was so quiet.
Scropius turned to Hugo and let out a small chuckle. "I'd love to be in Gryffindor."
"Oh! I want to be in Gryffindor too! It would be awesome if we both got into Gryffindor. My older brother James is in Gryffindor, and so is Hugo's sister." She wanted to be in the house with most of her family. Well, Ablu- Severus was in Slytherin, but that okay. It wasn't as though it actually mattered what house they were in all, she was sure they would be friends. Though, James had told her that being in Slytherin was a bad thing. It couldn't be though, as Severus wasn't a bad person and he was in Slytherin. Oh, right! "Thank you for sharing Scropius, and it's sad your father won't let you have a lot."
Hugo smiled. "I hope to get into Gryffindor too, but I'll probably be put into Hufflepuff. I'm a little too quiet, but you never know. If I end up in Gryffindor, I'd be around Rose a lot. I love being around her, but she's too protective. I swear she gives mom a run for her money, but I know she means well she just hasn't gotten over what happened last year." Last year. Lily wasn't told much about what happened last year, just that something horrible had happened to Rose and one of her friend had gotten killed at school. Rose seemed fine now, and she was sure her cousin was even out there selling her uncle's tick candy and all that stuff that she was aloud to sell. Rose did seem to take of her uncles a lot.
Scropius looked over at Lily and shrugged. "My father believed sweets would make me soft. Can't have a soft person in the family, now can we?" he shrugged. That was so stupid. Sweets didn't make a person soft. They were just something that was good to eat. "Nothing bad happens to people who are quiet. You're good just the way you are." Lily noticed now happy Scropius seemed to be, and she was happy too. See, she was already friends with Hugo and Avanis, and now she was positive that Scropius and her would be best friend.
After listening to Hugo she smiled again and leaned forward."I'm going to be in Hufflepuff. My father says he feels my mother and him out balanced each other. Since he was a Gryffindor and she was a Ravenclaw. So middle ground is Huffle. We could swap secrets if you wanted to; I know a lot about Herbology and History." She turned to Lily and tilted her head. "Maybe we could all get along together and show the world that being from a certain family group doesn't mean we can't get along." she paused and smiled. "And we can raise Nargal awareness." See, Avania was thinking the same thing! This was great!
Lily nodded in agreement to what Scorpius said. "That's right! You should be yourself! Besides, I like you being quiet, it'd be odd if you weren't," she said with a nod. She enjoyed Hugo the way he was, though it would be nice if he did talk a little bit more. She never understood why people wanted to force themselves to change for some reason. Her parents had always told her to be herself, and she liked to think that everyone followed the same ideals. She did like Avania's plan of them getting along and showing that what family you were from didn't matter. "I agree! We are all getting along now, so we should just continue to be friends!" she paused a moment, "and you'll need to explain to me more about Nargals."
As they started to get close to school, Rose came back into their cart. She looked around before laughing. "Did you get enough candy?" Lily smiled at Rose and nodded, before explaining that Scropius had bought them the candy. Lily's eyes didn't stay on Rose for more then a minuet, her eyes were soon looking out the window.
"Look! I can see the school!" she nearly screamed, jumping up. "Aren't you guys excited! This is going to be amazing!" They were so close! Soon they would get sorted, with hopefully both Scropius and her ending up in Gryffindor, and then they could start school! She was sure they would have all kinds of fun things happen to them, as didn't it always happen to people? From what she had heard about her father's time at school and what her brothers had told her, it was going to be just amazing! There was no chance it would be anything else.
"I'm excited too. You all should get your robes on," Rose said.
Oh! That's right, she needed to do that! Lily pulled her robes out of her bag and quickly started to get dressed, she watched as Hugo, Avania and Scropius started to do the same. As they got dressed, she heard Scropius mutter, "Oh goodie,. Daddy didn't pack my black tie." She saw him holding a green and silver tie. She was thankful that her parents had packed her bags for her so she didn't forget anything. She didn't understand why Scropius' parents didn't do the same. He finished getting dressed, without a tie on.
"I like your style, very devil may car," Avania told Scropius. She was dressed, including the Nargal charm that Lily could see she was wearing. Lily was able to get dressed quickly as well, without any problems.
Once everyone was dressed, and the train stopped, Lily smiled brightly. "Come on! Let's go!" She then started off the train with her friends.