2. Platform 9 ¾
The traffic to the station was unbelievable! We used at least twice the usual amount of time it took for us to reach the station. When I finally stumbled through the gate to platform 9 ¾, something hit me at full speed.
"Lily! Where have you been? I told you to get here early! By now all the seats have been taken" I realised it was Alice speaking to me.
"Sorry Alice, the traffic was terrible, you should have seen it!" I told her, while rubbing the shoulder she had bounced in.
We quickly gathered our things and headed for the train. We soon found out that as Alice had predicted all the seats were taken. We had checked through the entire train and now only one compartment was left to check.
"I don't care if there are twenty people sitting on top of each other in this compartment!" she angrily exclaimed, "I'm going to sit down now!"
She threw open the door and thumped in. Dragging my trunk behind me, I entered the room backwards and with a tired sigh sat down in what I thought was an empty seat. I completely froze when I realized the seat was definitely not empty.
"Hello Evans, how was your summer?" A whispering voice said seductively in to my ear, "Did you miss me?"
I turned slowly towards the person I was sitting on, and found myself face to face with James Potter. Horrified I jumped out of his lap and started dragging my trunk out of the compartment.
"We are going to find a different compartment Alice!" I said. I felt my face flush with embarrassment. Alice sighed, "Ahw, c'mon Lily, there are no other compartments, and there is room for us here!"
I stole a quick glance around in the compartment, and realized she was right. To my astonishment only Sirius Black and James Potter were there, besides us.
"Where is Lupin and Pettigrew?" I blurted out.
"Um… Remus went on some prefect business, and to find Sarah Johnson. I and think Peter is trailing somewhere behind the trolley lady," James filled in with some amusement, apparently he had noticed the prefect badge on my chest (of course that would be the first place he would look; my chest).
"Oh darn! I'm also supposed to be at that prefect business! Guess we'll stay in this compartment after all" I said, leaving my trunk as I ran of to find the other prefects.
About half an hour later I stumbled back into our compartment, and it all came back to me. How did I agree to share a compartment with James Potter? I can't take him. I looked over at Alice; she was sitting on somebody's lap, Frank Longbottom! Oh my GOD!
"Alice, can we please find another compartment now?" I whined very jealous of my friend.
"But Lily, Frank just moved all his stuff over to this one!" she said, winking. Well doesn't this beat all! I'm stuck here. I sat down as far away from Potter as possible, he just sat there smirking.
"So how was your summer Lily?" Frank asked, he was so charming. Why couldn't James be like that, I wouldn't have minded any of his attentions if he had been just a little less self absorbed.
"It was great!" I answered, "I heard you and Alice got to spend some time together?" I was practically dying of curiosity, how did Alice get together with Frank Longbottom? She has fancied him since second grade! Oh, how I envied her! Wish there was someone like that for me…
"Yes we did! But to be honest Lily, I have no idea how!" Alice said, "You know I told you about me going to France? Guess who my next door neighbour was? And France was amazing, Lily you should have been there…" Alice blabbered on about how she had spent her summer.
I started to get dark outside; we had all eaten our food, plus a little candy from the trolley lady. Potter and Black had been abnormally considerate, and almost hadn't bothered us at all, except for the one time when Black had started talking loudly about how he was going to help Potter get a date with me; fortunately Frank had turned their conversation quite quickly over to some less dangerous topics, before I exploded… I don't think that little compartment would have survived that.
Soon we were sitting around the familiar tables in the great hall. My stomach grumbled loudly. Only three more to be sorted now… I remember in second and third grade, I still used to pay attention to the sorting then… I spotted Sarah some seats away from me; she was also a fifth year, shared a dorm with me and Alice and Caroline, another fifth year, though we didn't spend too much time with them. Sarah was the beater on the griffindoor quidditch team and was definitely in to Remus Lupin. Luckily for her he obviously fancied her too. Seemed everybody had boyfriends this year! Well, good for them! Ah, finally food!
At breakfast the day after arriving we got our timetables. Oh great! We are having both transfiguration and potions with the slytherins this year, that's just perfect… Starting with double transfiguration right after breakfast.
Some time later that day…
"POTTER!"
"yes, Lily dear!"
This seems familiar, how did I get in this situation again? Oh right, that stupid ignorant pile of shit someone thought to give a name, just charmed my robes to lift right up to my armpits, in the middle of the entrance to the great hall.
"Oh, Lily dear is that lace-underwear I'm spotting?"
I think I'm going to die of embarrassment. I need a plan… okay, stun people everywhere maybe they'll think they dreamed when they wake up again. Like someone would dream of me in my underwear…haha…well, it's worth a try!
"Stupefy, stupefy, stupefy, stupefy!" Now run…
I'm sitting in my dorm and I'm starving. And it is all James Potters fault! Oh, I'm going to kill him. Or at least hex him pretty badly.
