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Chapter 3

Remus and Anna stood outside the barrier of platform 9 ¾. Because Anna is a muggle, she can't enter and they must say their goodbyes outside.

"You will be alright, won't you, dear?" Anna asks with tears in her eyes.

"Yes, mum, everything'll be fine," Remus said, faking the confidence he was lacking at that moment. He hugged his mother goodbye and she turned and left. As soon as she left, another girl appeared. She had a trolley containing her trunk and an owl so Remus knew she was a witch.

The girl pushed bright red hair out of her face and asked him nervously, "Um, sorry to bother you but, um, do you know how to get to Platform 9 ¾? My parents are muggles," She pointed over to a group of three currently talking to one of the employees. "And I'm not quite sure were it is..."

Remus smiled at her and pointed at the wall he was just about to go through. "Sure," he said. "All you have to do is walk through this wall. It'll take you straight to the train." He smiled at her until she started to glare at him.

"All I did was ask you a simple question, you didn't have to make fun of me!" She told him. She walked away before Remus had a chance to say another word. He sighed and looked at the wall.

"This had better work," he muttered before running into the 'solid' brick wall. "Wow," he muttered again. The Hogwarts Express was waiting, and families of all kinds were surrounding it saying goodbye to each other. Remus pulled his trunk with him and attempted to raise it into the train, unsuccessfully may I add.

A short, plump boy walked over to him and said, "Do you need some help, mate?" He startled Remus who jumped and turned around.

"If you don't mind..."

"Not at all! I'm Peter Pettigrew by the way," The short boy said as they lifted Remus' trunk onto the train.

"Remus Lupin," he answered shaking the shorter boys hand.

"I have to go find my friend so I'll see you around, alright mate?" Asked Peter as he looked around the station looking for the messy black hair.

"Sure, thanks for the help." Peter smiled at him and walked away. Remus sighed as he got on the train. He looked through all the compartments until he found one with only two young girls in it. One of them had her brunette hair in a pony tail and was leaning her head against the window. She looked pale, but it was most likely nerves, thought Remus. The other girl had her short light brown hair down and smiled at the boy as he opened the door.

"Do you mind," he asked. "All the other compartments are full..."

"No problem!" Replied the girl with the short hair. "I'm Shammy, by the way, and this is my cousin, Andy."

The other girl turned and smiled at Remus. She seemed to have just noticed he had entered the compartment. Remus sat down next to Andy and started answering the never-ending questions from Shammy. Andy smirked at Remus, poor boy, he'd never get away from Shammy's big mouth. Ah well, better him than me!


James Potter was walking down looking for a compartment or at least one of his friends. He was in the process of looking inside one of the windows when he fell to the ground after colliding with something...or someone.

"Sorry 'bout tha-" James started before being interrupted.

"Watch where you're going, stupid!"

"Hey, I just said I was sorry! What's your problem?!" Yelled an outraged James to a boy with greasy hair and an abnormally large nose.

"My problem is you," the boy got out his wand. Before he had a chance to do anything a boy with shoulder-length black hair punched him in the nose.

"Watch who you're trying to curse next time, grease-ball. It's bad manners to hex someone without a wand to defend themselves with," Said the other boy. By this time James had gotten up and walked over to the boy.

"Hey than-" he started before he was interrupted again.

"Don't thank me for anything. I just did it cause this slimeball messed with my little brother on the platform." He walked away and James watched him with a raised eyebrow as Peter came up behind him.

"Who was that?" Peter asked James since he had seen the fight from a ways down the hall.

"I have no bloody clue, Peter."

"But he just punched a kid..."

"Wicked," muttered a smirking James before turning around and going to find a compartment with Peter.


"Severus?" Called a concerned redheaded girl from down the train. "Severus," she exclaimed when she saw her friend walking towards her with a bloody nose. "What happened?"

"Some idiot punched me, that's what! I don't want to talk about it, let's just find somewhere to sit..." Snape said as he turned and walked next to Lily.

"You have to tell a teacher or someone when we get to Hogwarts, whoever did it will be in huge trouble!"

"I would but I don't think its a good way to start out the next seven years..."

Lily looked around as they reached the end of the train and sees only one more compartment, currently occupied by two first year girls. "This is all that's left, Sev, we better just go in here."

Snape wrinkled his nose before entering the compartment. Lily smiled at the girls and asked if it was okay if they sat with them and, of course, got a positive answer, before sitting down. One of the girls had shoulder length straight blonde hair and blue eyes. She smiled at Lily and introduced herself as Cassie. The other girl had long, wavy, black hair that went down the middle of her back. Her hair was a bit crazy and kept getting in front of her round, hazel eyes as she told Lily and Snape that her name was Angie Potter and asked them questions about themselves.


"JIMMY!" Could be heard over all the other noise when all the students got off of the Hogwarts Express. It came from the mouth of one Angie Potter when she spotted her cousin James.

"GEEGEE!" Was called out in reply after James or 'Jimmy' turned around to see his cousin running towards him. She jumped on his back and gave him a hug as she laughed and waved her new friends over. Lily and Cassie came but Snape, for some odd reason, decided to hang back a bit.

"Aw, Jimmy, I missed you old mate!" She exclaimed as she continued to stay on his back in a piggy-back ride.

"Geegee, I saw you yesterday," James said with a smile.

Angie ignored what he said and continued, "These are my friends, Cassie, Lily, and Lily's neighbor Sna-....hmmm, where'd he go?" She said with a furrowed brow, searching the crowd for Snape. "Ah well! We'll find him eventually!" She continued to talk to James, who was still carrying her as Lily searched the crowd for Snape.

"I wonder where he got off to," She said to no one in particular.

"I'm sure he's fine, Lily. We'll meet him at the castle," replied Cassie before being cut off by:

"First years, follow me!"