"Wake UP James," Lily yelled at her older brother. "The train's going to be leaving soon."

"I thought the train didn't go," James said groggily as he woke up. "We were going to catch the Knight Bus."

"It's broken down," Lily said.

"It's magical, it doesn't break down."

"It does when it's cursed," Lily said. "Get up."

Thirty minutes later, Lily, James and Albus were getting dropped off at King's Cross Station, ready to catch the train. They surreptitiously slipped into Platform 9 ¾, boarded the train, and went off to find their friends. Well, James and Albus did. Lily went off to the prefect's carriage first. Being a prefect of Ravenclaw house didn't really mean anything special. It was just duty patrolling the corridors, and that was it.

"I have a special announcement to make," said the Head Boy, a Hufflepuff called Lupis Groal.

"Oh great," said a Slytherin prefect, who Lily constantly forgot the name of.

"What is it?" Lily asked Lupis, ignoring the Slytherin.

"A new student is starting today," Groal said. "Her name is Kim Hennings, and she's transferring from the Australian School."

Lily smiled a little bit to herself. "What year is she in?"

"Fifth year," Groal said. "Actually Lily, I was wondering if you could be the one to show her the ropes and everything. She's only just moved."

"Yeah, that's fine," Lily said. "Do you know where she is, so I can introduce myself?"

"She's in the compartment next door," Lupis said. "Go for your life."

Lily got up and left the compartment. She paused in the next compartment, wondering where Kim was.

"Lily?" she asked, and Lily turned around to face the girl behind her.

"Kim!" Lily said. "I didn't know you were a witch."

"I knew you were a witch," Kim admitted. "I didn't want to tell you though. I didn't know if you'd be angry."

Lily thought back to anything that might have tipped Kim off to her being a witch. Her mouth fell into a small 'o' as she realised what had done it.

"You saw me flying didn't you?" she asked.

"Yeah," Kim said. "So, is your older brother here?"

"Yeah," Lily replied. "But he's supposed to have left at the end of the last school year. He failed his N.E.W.T.'s, and because he wants to do something or other, he has to repeat seventh year. Except he's not allowed to do Quidditch this year."

"That sucks," Kim said. "I love Quidditch. Do you play?"

"Do I?" Lily said. "I'm the best since my father, and that's saying something."

"Cool. What's your team?"

"Harpies all the way girl," Lily said. "What about you?"

"Well, my favourite Australian one is the Perth Phoenixes. My favourite one over here is the Bats I think."

"Oh my God," Lily said. "My cousin got me tickets to the Harpies/Bats game!"

"Where is it?" Kim asked excitedly.

"I think it's in Hogsmeade," Lily said. It was going to be the first game in the new Hogsmeade Quidditch stadium: and it was on a Hogsmeade weekend. "Do you want to go?"

"Um, yeah," Kim said. Both of them jumped when the door to the prefect's carriage opened, and Groal came out.

"Wow, you're getting along already," he said.

"We already know each other," Kim said.

"Yeah, turns out she lives next door," Lily continued.

The two girls chatted and laughed all the way to Hogmeade Station, where they got the Thestral driven carts all the way up to the school. Lily couldn't see them, but she had a feeling that Kim could. When they got up to school, Kim was met by Professor McGonagall and led to a room off the hall. Lily continued into the hall, and sat down with her best friend Ariel Umbridge at the Ravenclaw table.

"Where were you?" Ariel asked, throwing her arms around Lily. "I was looking for you the whole train ride!"

"The whole train ride?" Lily asked, hugging her friend back.

"Okay, not the whole ride," Ariel said. "I gave up when I the sweets lady came around."

"I was up near the prefect's carriage," Lily said. "I've been given a special job to do."

"OOO What?"

"There's a new girl," Lily explained, just as the doors opened, revealing Kim Hennings. Lily's heart immediately went out to her, just imagining how she would feel if she was the one that was going up in front of the whole school. She shivered, and then she looked towards the sorting hat up the front.

Professor McGonagall made her usual speech, and then invited Kim to put the hat on her head.

The hat was quiet for a few minutes, but Lily knew that the hat was still talking to Kim. She crossed her fingers under the table, and wished that Kim would be in Ravenclaw. Her and Ariel had to share a room with Taria Smith, one of the most annoying and popular girls in the year.

"Ravenclaw," the hat said suddenly. There were roars from the table that Lily sat at. Kim found Lily and sat next to her.

"Oh my God that was embarrassing," she whispered under her breath as the applause died down. Lily looked over at the Gryffindor table, and saw James go red. She laughed silently under her breath as McGonagall continued her speech.

After the feast, Lily walked up to the Ravenclaw common room with Ariel and Kim. They were held up at the door when nobody could figure out the riddle that the raven had asked.

"Can you please repeat it?" Lily asked the raven.

What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?

Lily was stumped. The raven had never given out that one before.

"Death." Kim said. Lily looked at her, surprised, but didn't say anything as the door opened and everybody went into the common room. The Ariel and Lily showed Kim up to the common room where her things were waiting.

"How did you know the answer to that riddle?" Lily asked Kim.

"It wasn't that hard," Kim said. "Death has no end, and it ends all that begins."

"Hey Lily," Ariel said. "Do you remember where I put my divination book?"

"Your note book or your textbook?" Lily asked. She didn't do divination, and Ariel wouldn't do it either if she listened to her mother.

"Notebook."

"You took it home with you... why?"

"Because it's not in my bag."

"You must have left it at home."

"Yeah, I'll write to my dad tomorrow. Maybe he'll find it before mum does."

Lily shivered. Ariel's mum didn't like her. Well, her father more like. Dolores Umbridge had been taken into the forest by Harry Potter and Hermione Weasley (Granger back then), and she didn't like Harry after that. She hadn't liked Harry to begin with. But now Dolores Umbridge hated Lily's guts, because she was the daughter of Harry.

"Hey Kim," Lily said. "You can have that bed there," she said, pointing to the bed up the top of the dormitory. Kim was moving her stuff just as Taria Smith stumbled into the dorm.

"Oh my goodness," Taria said. "Nate is sooo fine."

"Great to know," Lily said, rolling her eyes. "Taria, this is Kim Hennings. The new girl."

Taria looked over Kim dissaprovingly. She had new robes, but her hair wasn't done up very well, and her face was thin. "Nice to meet you," Taria mumbled, before turning to her bed. She collapsed into the four-poster, and drew the curtains.

"Muffliato," Lily said, waving her hand in the direction of Taria's bed.

"Did you just do magic with your hands?" Kim asked.

"Yeah," Lily said, realising her mistake. Ariel was the only other person in their year that knew Lily could do that. "I've been able to do it for ages."

"That's weird," Kim said. "I can do magic with my hands too."

OOO Weird, no?

Okay, so this is my last update in two weeks... reason why?? I have exams. I'm not stressing about them much, but I don't really want to write during that time, because I don't want to fail these exams. Especially Human Bio, coz I'm top in the class.

Okay, that made me look big-headed. I'm not. Relatively small head over here.

So, sorry about that rabid readers. After two weeks is gone, I'm sooo updating.

Can I just ask one big favour of you?? Can I get at least ten reviews in those two weeks?? It's not too hard to ask for. I know you all read it, coz I check my traffic.

Love you heaps.

From Gabi xx

PS: You may have noticed that I've changed the story description, and the title. Yeah, it's now called 'the guardians'.