Chapter 1:
It was Lily's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and she could hardly wait. Although the train departed at eleven o'clock, she had woken up at five in anticipation of the upcoming day. Not only had she woken up at that ungodly hour, but she had accidentally woken her sister, Petunia, as she tripped over her newly-bought school supplies as she walked out of the room that they both shared.
As you can imagine, Petunia wasn't happy about this. Lily could only imagine how much her sister would love it once she moved out and Petunia could have their old room all to herself. Lily knew she would miss Petunia, although she doubted whether her and her sister would miss her. They had never gotten along very well, even for sisters. Petunia was always more interested in make-up and boys, while Lily was more interested in her friends, football, and her schoolwork.
If their opposite personalities didn't make you think that they weren't twins, their lack of identicalness certainly would. For twins, they didn't look anything alike—you wouldn't have even guessed that they were related. Petunia was tall, boney, and horse-faced, with short brown hair, an upturned nose and big brown eyes—her prettiest feature. Lily, however, was short, average-weight, and had a heart-shaped face, long red hair, a straight, classic nose, and emerald green eyes.
"What the hell did you wake me up for?" Petunia asked sleepily.
"I'm so sorry! I woke up and I couldn't get back to sleep, so I decided to go down and watch some television." Lily apologized.
"It's like the middle of the freaking night! There isn't gonna be anything on, moron." Petunia said, clearly annoyed.
"It's not the middle of the night, it's five o'clock, dimwit." Lily protested.
"We'll excuse me if I don't get off my ass a look at the clock when I've just been aroused at five o'clock in the damn morning. Still, I rest my case. There isn't gonna be a thing on. Now will you excuse me? I'm going back to sleep!" With that, Petunia turned on her side to face the wall and didn't say another word.
Lily walked downstairs quietly, so as to not wake her parents up. She crept past the kitchen, into the living room and searched for the remote. After finding it, she turned the TV on and turned the volume down low. Much to Lily's dismay, however, Petunia was right, there wasn't anything on. She supposed that not many people woke up and watched TV at five in the morning.
She sat down for a few minutes, thinking of what to do. She resolved that she would look through her school things, for the hundredth time, and maybe learn a new spell. She had read the first few chapters in all of her schoolbooks and decided that she liked working with charms the best. She deciphered that they were the most useful, since you could use them to fix things, clean things up, make people happy and do a lot of other useful things. The other class that seemed utterly pointless, in Lily's mind, was Defense Against the Dark Arts. For although it was useful to know how to protect yourself against unwanted spells, her History of Magic textbook had said that the Ministry of Magic had officials who protected the wizarding world against bad witches and wizards.
She sat down and tried to learn the repairing charm. Its incantation was "Repairo!" However, Lily had so much energy bundled up inside of her, that she couldn't learn anything. She figured that she had plenty of time to learn it, since they wouldn't be working on it in class until second term. Instead, she decided to go outside, and say good bye to the neighborhood that she wouldn't see again until Christmas.
It was nearly ten fifteen and Elizabeth Potter was frantically running around the house trying to find her son. Nearly five minutes later, she found him asleep in bed.
"James! What are you doing? I woke you up an hour ago!" She asked indignantly.
"Sorry mum! Must've dosed off again…" James claimed sleepily.
"Well get up, you need to make sure you have anything." His mum said.
"Don't worry mum, I packed last night. I have everything I need for school." James replied.
"That's what you said when we went to France last year! You weren't very happy about wearing the same boxers for a whole 2 weeks! How would you feel if that happened now, only you had to wait until Christmas to get more from home?" Mrs. Potter exclaimed.
"Mom, I learned my lesson in Paris nothing like that is going to happen again. I got it all covered." James tried to calm his mother down.
"If you've got everything under control, why haven't we left yet? We should be half way to the station by now." His mum cried.
"Okay mum! I get it! Now leave so I can get dressed."
With that, Elizabeth Potter left her son in his room, praying that he wouldn't miss the train.
Having riding a train to Scotland many times previously, Lily knew that there was no Platform 9 ¾. During her trip to Diagon Alley, when she received her ticket, she pointed this out to Rubeus Hagrid. Although Hagrid was new at his job, he knew how to answer that question. For he himself had completed three years at the school. He simply told me to walk in between barriers 9 and 10 at the station.
However, when staring at the barrier, Lily became unsure of what Hagrid said. The brick seemed completely solid, and Lily didn't think that it was possible, even for a witch to walk through it. She just stood there for a minute staring at it. Petunia finally broke the silence.
"Are you gonna leave already? Or are we gonna be stuck with you for another damn year?" She asked.
"Petunia, darling, you know I don't like it when you use that sort of language. But Lily dear, Petunia's right, you might want to hurry up so that you can find a good compartment on the train." Her mother said pleasantly.
"Sorry mum. But Lily seriously, GO! We'll see you at Christmas, alright?" Petunia said, growing impatient.
That's when it truly hit Lily how long she was going to be gone until. Christmas. She was going to be gone for nearly four months. She wouldn't see her family for four months. The longest that she'd ever been gone in the past was a weeklong summer camp. Even then, she had to call her parents every day to save herself from getting home sick. She ran up and hugged both of her parents one last time.
"I'm gonna miss you!" she cried into her mom's shoulder.
"I'm going to miss you too, honey." Her mother replied. And for the first time, in as long as Lily could remember, she saw a tear running down her mother's cheek.
With that, Lily turned around and headed towards the barrier. When she got there, she still wasn't sure. Just to make sure, Lily reached out her hand to touch the brick. Only, Lily didn't feel anything but the air on the other side of the barrier. With a new rush of confidence, Lily ran through the barrier and onto the platform.
At ten thirty, eleven-year-old James potter was running around his home trying to find his wand.
"I told you to check twice! I knew you would forget something—but your wand of all things! How could you loose your wand?" Elizabeth asked, stunned.
"I didn't loose it, I just misplaced it!" James said, "I was using it last night down by the table I know I was. Alan probably took it!"
"What would your brother want with your wand? He doesn't know any spells!" Elizabeth asked.
"I don't know! Ask him!"
"ALAN! CAN YOU COME HERE FOR A MINUTE?"
"SURE MUM!"
With that seven-year-old Alan came running into the room. "Yes mum?" he asked innocently,
"Did you take your brother's wand?"
"No, mum."
"Are you sure honey?"
"Mummy, I swear I didn't…"
"…DON'T LISTNE TO HIM! HE DID, I SWEAR HE DID!" James interrupted.
"NO I DIDN'T" Alan yelled back.
"YES HE DID"
"DID NOT"
"DID TOO"
"DID…"
"…QUIET! The both of you. Now settle down so we can figure out what happened to James' wand. Alan, are you positive you don't know where it is?"
"Yes mummy."
"No your not, just give me my damn wand."
"JAMES! You know I don't like it when you use that word! Alan, will you help us find James' wand?"
"Sure mummy." Alan said. With that he ran off to do God knows what.
"James, are you still looking for your wand?" James' father, Thomas Potter, walked into the room, holding his wand.
"Dad! My wand! Where did you find it?"
"In your brother's room, under his bed. Don't get mad at him now, you have to hurry if you want to make the train.
When Lily got through the barrier, she looked up to see a magenta train with "The Hogwarts Express" printed on the side in gold lettering. She quickly boarded the train and found an empty compartment—she didn't want to disrupt anyone. She just sat there, staring out of the window, not being able to wait to see what happened next.
A few minutes later, a boy with blonde hair came into her compartment, followed by a greasy-haired with a hooked nose. They were obviously having an argument.
"For the last time Severus, NO, I do NOT think it would be funny to curse Peter Pettigrew." The blonde haired one said.
"But Remus, he's an insult to the pure-blood name. Waddling around the school, loosing everything, hanging out with those who can protect him." Said the hook-nosed one, or Severus as the other boy called him. "Come on. It could be fun."
"No, I don't think so." Said Remus, "See, unlike you, I don't have fun hurting people just for the hell of it. Throwing a couple of stink bombs is one thing, or turning him into a frog, but actually cursing him. No. Severus. Not even I am that mean."
Remus turned and looked a Lily. "Hi. I'm Remus Lupin and this is Severus Snape. You are?"
"Lily" she answered, somewhat taken aback that they had even noticed her at all. To her, they had seemed pretty into their own conversation. "How long have you guys been going here?"
"This is our first year." Said Remus.
"Your first year? How do you already know all about magic?" Lily asked.
"See we grew up in wizarding families. I suppose your parents are muggles?" Remus asked.
"Yep." Lily said. Hagrid had told her that wizards referred to non-magic people as muggles.
"Mudblood" Severus muttered and Remus elbowed him.
"What?" Lily asked confused
"Never mind." Remus said.
"How do you guys know each other?" Lily asked.
"We met in Diagon Alley the other day. Have you met anyone yet?" Remus asked.
"No it didn't really cross my mind that there would be other people from Hogwarts in Diagon Alley." Lily said. "I didn't even ask."
"Oh well, we just…" Remus started, but he stopped after the train stopped quite suddenly and two boys came running, clearly out of breath, into their compartment.
A/N: Well. That's the first chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed it! I know it might seem weird for Remus and Severus to be friends, but…
…let's just say I have a plan for that.
Just to warn you guys, the next update may not be for a couple of days. I'm going to try and write a couple more chapters before I update again. I just want to be on top of things! Please read and review! I promise, if you're not enjoying it now it will get better!