"Lily, are you ready yet?" Ginny yelled upstairs at her daughter. "We have to be at the train station in an hour. You don't want to be late for your first day of school!" Being the only daughter in a large family, Ginny inherited the Burrow, which is where she grew up and where her three children would also grow up.

"Mom, I'll be fine," she shouted back. "I just need to finish doing my hair!"

"You don't want to be late. It would set a bad example for first-year students."

"I should look my best. I need time to style my hair! Especially on the first day. Besides, it's not like I'm a prefect or anything."

"Oh, I guess you're right," Ginny admitted, but she still was not pleased. It took almost an hour to get to King's Cross Station, and Albus and James were waiting for their sister to get ready.

"Mom, make her get ready faster. I'm tired of waiting. I just want to get there already and finish seventh year already so I can be an Auror like Dad," James complained.

Harry, their father, replied, "You can't just expect to get a year done and become an Auror. You need to learn so you can be prepared for anything. As an Auror, this is the most important thing. You can't just finish school and get a job. You have to actually know about it."

"I know, Dad. You've told me twenty times before," James replied. Finally Lily came downstairs, her auburn hair perfectly curled. "It took over an hour to do that?" James remarked.

"You would understand if you were a girl," Lily retorted as she started to walk out to the car.

"Good thing its not a flying car like your grandfather had," Harry remarked. Ginny chuckled, remembering how it got destroyed in the Whomping Willow.

Albus was in awe of his father. "Grandpa Arthur had a flying car? How come you've never told us about it?"

"Yeah!" said James. "Tell us!"

Harry started his story. "You know, for a sixth and a seventh year, you sound really immature, but I'll tell you anyway. When your Uncle Ron and I were in second year, we missed the Hogwarts Express. The only way we could think to get to school was to borrow Grandpa Arthur's flying invisible car. When we got to Hogwarts, we crashed into the Whomping Willow. The car was destroyed, and Uncle Ron's wand was snapped in half." The boys stared in awe at their father.

"Wow, can we have a flying car, too?" Albus asked.

"I bet I could beat the Whomping Willow in my first year," said James.

Harry laughed. "Of course not. That was just us being immature," Harry said, looking at his wife, who gave him a smile.

"Come on, let's go! We're going to be late!" Ginny hurried them along, and they all got into the car and started driving. When they were on the highway, almost to King's Cross Station, the unthinkable happened.


I wrote this about a year ago, along with a few more chapters, and I'm finally putting them on here! I'll update it every few days or so, but I'm usually pretty busy. I might not be able to update it as much as I'd like, but I will try!

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Thanks for reading! :D