Disclaimer: I am not genius enough to have come up with such a great story as Harry Potter and its characters, J.K. Rowling is, though, and I'm so glad she is.

By the way, thanks to everyone being supportive to my first fanfic and this will be my continuation. I hope to have a whole story to this and I hope I don't decide that I don't like it and discontinue it (because I'm so disappointed when I never get to know what happens.)

Chapter 2: On the Hogwarts Express

Lily Potter sat down on the seat closest to the glass door separating the compartment from the rest of the train. She turned her head towards the door, since everyone else had gone to look at the window at the scenery that was so gorgeous.

She suddenly saw a boy with white-blonde hair wandering the hallway of the train, looking for a place to sit. Lily shifted uncomfortably, but didn't invite him in. Surely his fourth year Slytherin friends would have a place for him to sit. But when she saw Scorpius wandering through the hall again, she opened the door.

He heard the squeak the door made and looked up from the floor. "Umm, do you need a place to sit? We have space in here." Lily dropped her gaze from his face when she saw him turning a pale pink.

"Uhh," Scorpius peeked past her, glancing at her family laughing and James turning red at some embarrassment. "Will they mind?"

"If they do, they'll just have to deal with it," she stated firmly but then blushed, usually shy. She led him in and let him settle himself down before she turned to the curious stares of her family and murmured, "This is Scorpius Malfoy; he's going to sit with us."

Lily sat down beside him abruptly, her green eyes that were so like her father's staring down at her tiny hands neatly folded in her lap. She felt Scorpius shift uncomfortably at the stares.

Everyone else sat down, leaving a clear view of the green hills racing by out of the window. Most everyone had their hands folded across their chests. James looked the most intimidating with his black, unruly hair flying every which-way, and his green eyes narrowed menacingly. "James Potter," he introduced himself, "Prefect, so don't mess with any of us."

Albus held his hand out, more at ease with Scorpius. As they shook hands he said, "Albus Potter. I believe we've had some classes together over the years." The blonde boy nodded meekly, obviously very shy.

"Rose Weasley," the only other girl in the compartment said. She smiled, using her charms to make the other boy very flustered.

Hugo was polite and introduced himself while shaking Scorpius's hand. He smiled but said, "I'm Lily's cousin and friend. Trust me; I'll know if anything happens to her."

By the time the introductions had finished, Lily was turning a deep red, the blush as red as her hair, and Scorpius was successfully intimidated.

A stony silence filled the room until two boys burst gleefully into the room. Lorcan and Lysander harmonized, "Has Anyone seen a snorklup around here?"

A few shook their heads. Scorpius looked completely lost, but Hugo replied, "Nope, haven't seen any. How's your mum been?"

Lysander said, "Oh, you know Mum. She's still running the Quibbler. It's quite the paper these days. Mum says that there might be the possibility that Rita Skeeter will do another biography on Mr. Potter. I bet he'll mention you three again. You know he never stops talking about you three."

Lorcan took over, saying, "Well, if you find a snorklup, you should stun it; it has deadly stingers. Then you should come find us. If we got one of those to Mum, she'd immediately put it in the Quibbler. Dad would probably freak out, though."

Lily thought of Professor Longbottom's face when he saw what odd creature his young boys dug up. She giggled. Neville Longbottom and his wife Luna had helped her parents through quite a few sticky situations during the days when Voldemort had still been alive. Luna had often been referred to as 'Loony Lovegood' when she had been at school, and Neville hadn't had very much self-confidence before Luna.

The twin boys fled down the train after shutting the doors. As soon as they left, Rose erupted into laughter. "Snorklup? Those things couldn't possibly exist! They're as loony as their mother!"

Lily stopped snickering, although everyone else started laughing, except for the Slytherin who didn't have the faintest clue what was going on. "The twins are quite nice, actually," she said, extremely quietly. "They can be really funny sometimes."

Rose basically laughed in her face. "You just defend them because you got stuck with their mum's name. Now people can run around saying 'Lily Loony Potter!'"

"Shut up, Rosie," Hugo said, defending Lily who was turning red, partly from anger and partly from embarrassment. "You know Lily isn't like that."

Rosie's bubbling, bitter-sweet laughter still rang in the compartment. "Oh, Lily just happens to find the oddest of friends. It's really not her fault." She snorted.

Then Scorpius spoke up, detracting attention from Lily, much to her appreciation. "Who were they? I'm not familiar with them."

"Those are Professor Longbottom's children," Albus answered.

He took that and played with it a bit before saying, "But you were saying that they were as crazy as their mother. Who is she?"

"Mrs. Luna Longbottom," Lily answered quietly. "She was very… odd in school. Mum said that she always believed in these creatures that didn't exist. Most of them were these things that her father made up to blame for all of the world's problems. He owned the Quibbler back then, too, but now Luna owns it. It's supposed to be more reliable, or so my mum and dad say."

Scorpius nodded and dropped the subject. Lily returned to staring at her hands as the last traces of pink left her face. She let her curtain of soft coppery red hair fall between her and Scorpius. She listened as the boys began discussing who would win the Quidditch Cup this year. Even Scorpius was joining in the conversation. Rosie at one point commented that Hufulpuff just had to win. Her boyfriend was the captain of the team, of course.

James admitted, "I doubt we'll win this year, especially without Victoire as our Seeker."

"Victoire?" Scorpius asked. "You mean the blonde girl that reminded me of a veela?" He blushed, probably feeling very stupid.

Everyone laughed, even Lily. He turned to her with flaming red cheeks. "Am I missing something?"

Lily kept laughing but added nodding. Albus managed between giggles, "Actually Victoire's –what—great-grandmother was apparently a veela."

He was still red. Lily said, "Actually, her mother participated in the Triwizard Tournament with our father—"

"Yes, yes," Rose interrupted, "we all know that your father was some great miracle that appeared to both the muggle world and the wizard world. We don't need you flaunting it in our faces every opportunity you get. "

Lily hung her head, her mouth firmly shut. She didn't say a word until she stepped off the train as dusk was falling over the grand castle of Hogwarts late in the evening.

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