Lily stepped on the train, looking for an empty compartment, "Oh hi Lily," said a voice from behind her "come sit in here, I'm on my own"

"Okay then," she said, dragging her trunk behind her she stepped into Hugo's compartment.

"I'm really excited, aren't you?" But before Lily could get a word in Hugo spoke again, "I hope I'm in Gryffindor, what house do you want to be in? But I suppose you'll want to be in Gryffindor too."

"No actually, I don't mi..."

"And you'll want to be on the quidditch team, I suppose there'll be another play off for seeker like when Al arrived, but he wasn't very good..." Hugo carried on like that for what felt to Lily like hours, but stopped immediately when the woman with the sweets trolley came past, buying one of everything.

By what Lily thought must be the end of the journey, she was getting very tired of Hugo's endless talking and said, "Can you go outside? I need to change into my robes,"

"Okay then," he said and stepped outside. It didn't take Lily long to change, but she hung around for a while on her own, cherishing the silence.

After about five minutes of doing this, she got bored and decided to let Hugo back in, just as she went to open the door the boy walked past, Scorpius. He looked very different from how she remembered him, he no longer had his hair slicked back, sticking to his skull, or the tight black jacket buttoned to the top, in fact he looked really nice. His hair was spiked up at different angles on his head, and his robes hung loosely on him, the shirt underneath only buttoned just enough that you would not see his chest underneath. Then she noticed his tie, not even close to being done up, just hanging round his neck, the Slytherin tie, the one she so wanted to wear, the one she longed to wear.

Lily opened the door to let Hugo in, she stepped out to let him get changed, but she suddenly noticed that he was already wearing his Hogwarts robes. "You got changed then?" she asked

"Yeah, I got bored waiting and went to find Al's compartment so I could get changed."

"Oh right," she said and stepped back inside, "I was about to let you in."