AN: And the next one. This time: Emma and Luke Lupin.

The compartment was bigger than Emma had expected. She had heard so many stories about this train that she had thought she'd almost know it, but now sitting here, she realized that she had been wrong. But that was just as well, she thought, if everything is bigger than expected that could only be good. She looked to her twin brother Luke who was looking around in awe like she had. She knew he was thinking the same as she did, they were twins after all. Even though they were not completely the same as Uncle Fred and Uncle George had been, with them being a girl and a boy and Luke not being a Metamorphmagus and all, but they still always knew what the other thought.

Luke's eyes found hers and she knew that the grin on his face was matched by the one on hers. They were finally going. After years of stories, of listening to Teddy and Tommy and Mike and Chelsea and Victoire they were finally going to go to Hogwarts themselves!

The door opened. A boy with black hair and green eyes stepped in. It was a nice shade of green, Emma shortly considered morphing her eyes to match, but decided against it. Her eyes matched Luke's today, and she wanted to look like him. At least a bit. (Her hair was pink like her mother's.)

"Can I sit with you guys?" The boy asked. He looked to be their age and was looking at the compartment with similar wonder as they had only moments ago. Probably a first year like us, then, Emma concluded.

"Sure, come in." She said. They helped him put the trunk away. She noticed him looking at her hair curiously and flicked it out of her face smiling. She was not Teddy who had needed years to be comfortable with standing out because of his hair color. Her father always said that she was to much like her mother for that, she wanted to stand out, to be noticed.

Luke looked at the boy, too, and raised an eyebrow. "I'm Luke", he said, "and that is my twin sister Emma." Emma smiled at the boy and let her hair become a bit darker. The boy blinked.

"I'm Marcus. And did your hair just change color?" He looked very interested.

"Yep. I'm a Metamorphmagus, means I can change my appearance at will. My mum's one too, and my older brother and my little sister." She grinned. "And I'm the odd one out." Luke shrugged. "Well, me and dad. And grandma."

"That is... pretty cool, I guess." The boy – Marcus - said. He looked as though he wanted to say more, but the door opened again. This time it was a girl with chestnut colored hair and gray-blue eyes. She wore jeans and a blue shirt with a bit dirt on the right side.

"Can I sit with you? Everywhere else is full or people so obviously older that I didn't want to ask. Could you help me with my trunk? It's really heavy and I've dragged it here all way from at least three wagons that way." She pointed right, without stopping to talk. "I'm Lyla Warren, by the way. And your hair is amazing." She said looking at Emma.

It took them a moment to react after this wave of speech, but eventually Emma stood up, grinning brightly, and helped Lyla put away her trunk. "I'm Emily Lupin, but call me Emma. Everybody does. That over there with the mouth hanging open is my brother Luke, and the other one is Marcus. And look at this", she concentrated and changed her hair to an acid green and back again.

"That's like the coolest thing ever! How do you do that?" She asked excitedly.

"Metamorphmagus. Means I can change my appearance at will. It's pretty awesome, because my parents can't tell me not to have a certain hair color. Of course, they wouldn't either way, because my mum has her hair pink usually, too." Emma said.

"So your family is all magic?" Lyla asked. "Mine isn't. Are you related to Professor Lupin? He was the one to come and explain things to my father. He also took me to Diagon Alley. He's pretty awesome." Lyla talked with an impressive speech, and the boys were still looking rather dumbfounded.

"He's my dad. And yep, he is awesome." Emma beamed. She was very proud of her father. After all, he was a member of the Order of the Phoenix, a war hero, he had an Order of Merlin first class, he was everybody's favorite professor and the head of Gryffindor and he was also a role model for so many children who were affected by lycantrophy. How could she not be proud?

"He explained everything to me with was great, 'cause I think I'd be lost without it. I totally never expected there to be a whole wizarding world! Magic is absolutely awesome!" Lyla grinned. Emma grinned back. Luke and Marcus looked a bit uncomfortable.

"Did you guys read all the books? Because someone at Flourish and Blotts said they would, but I didn't really read everything. Like, it's really interesting and all, but especially in transfiguration they lost me quite quickly, I just didn't get what the book was trying to tell me." Lyla asked, looking around.

"Nah, of course not. I read through it a bit, because some teachers like to ask questions and you can get house points for the right answers, but that's it. Of course, my aunt Hermione knew the books by heart before entering Hogwarts, but nobody else in my family did and they all turned out fine." Emma answered.

Lyla nodded and turned to the boys. "And you guys?" She asked.

Luke shrugged. "Like Emma. Read a bit, but not to much. That's what the teachers are for, isn't it?" He looked at Marcus, who shrugged too. "I've read a bit more, because mum says it can never hurt to know what's in the books. But I certainly didn't read them all." Marcus said.

Lyla breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank god. I was a bit worried I'd be behind to much. Do you guys have any good games? I've got cards, but nothing else. Do you guys play cards?" The speed of her speech had not slowed down the whole time, which Emma didn't mind, because she usually spoke so fast, too, but seemed to confuse the boys a bit.

"I've got Exploding Snap." Marcus said.

"Cool! I've never played it. Can you explain the rules to me?" Lyla asked. And so they played for the rest of the train ride.

AN: I know it's a bit shorter than the others, and I'm not really content with it, mostly because I don't really have a grasp of Marcus yet, but I hope you liked it anyway. Please leave a review!