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"No-don't-"

Crash!

"JAMES!"

Two floors down, Jessie sniffed and said, "So I reckon James just tried to levitate his trunk down the stairs and failed…"


"James, Al, Jessie, HURRY UP! We're going to be late!" bellowed Harry, poised with one hand holding open the lid of the boot, the other gripping a box of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes fireworks, which contents had fallen out all over the ground.

Al and Jessie came hurrying out, each dragging a trunk and clutching an owl cage.

"James is just coming," Jessie informed Harry, slightly breathlessly.

"Yeah, once Grandma Weasley's stopped yelling at him for making another hole in the floor," added Al, shoving Niffler's cage under his arm as he pulled his trunk to a standing position.

"He's done WHAT?!" roared Harry, throwing the empty fireworks box away furiously and storming off towards the house.

"What's happened now?" asked Ginny, sticking her head out of the car window and looking at Al and Jessie.

"James tried to levitate his trunk down the stairs but failed and instead managed to succeed in making a rather large hole in the floor," clarified Al.

"Oh for goodness' sake, not again!" hissed Ginny, pushing open the car and getting out.

"See, mum," said Hugo to Hermione as Ginny ran to the house, "Aren't you lucky you've got me as a son – I've only made a hole in the floor once!"


"It's not my fault I'm not very good at levitating things downwards," sulked James as they sat in a queue on the M25.

"Yeah, and it wasn't my fault that I became the only person who could defeat Voldemort but I still took full responsibility for it," snapped Harry, glaring at the rows of traffic in front of him.

James narrowed his eyes.

"Gutted," sniggered Lily.


"Right, we'll see you all at Christmas," said Ginny, giving Jessie a hug as Al climbed aboard the Hogwarts Express.

"Unless you get a better offer," added Ron, shaking James' hand and clapping him on the back.

"But please let us know if you have," said Hermione, passing Al Niffler.

"Otherwise Grandma Weasley will overestimate how many turkeys she'll need to buy," smiled Harry.

"Like she doesn't anyway," snorted Hugo, grudgingly letting his mother kiss him on the cheek as the whistle blew.

"Right," said Harry, suddenly businesslike, "James, no fraternising with the students."

"Of course not, dad…"

Jessie snorted derisively.

"Lily, no more condoms."

"God, dad, you're such a loser," she said disgustedly, rolling her eyes in true Aunt Hermione-fashion as they all stood back so they could close the train door.

Harry ignored her.

"Al-"

"Have a nice time, and work hard," interrupted Ginny, dragging her husband out of the way so Ron and Hermione could address their children.

"Hugo, mate," said Ron, "Don't be a prat this year – throwing stones at the green houses to see if they have anti-breaking charms on them is not a good idea. Especially when they don't."

"And Rose, sweetheart, be careful with Liam," said Hermione, a look of understanding passing between mother and daughter.

"Sure, mum. See all of you guys soon," added Rose as the train began to move.

"Yeah, bye!" chorused Lily, Al, Hugo and Jessie, with a wave to their parents (and, in Jessie's case, her friends' parents). James had already been distracted by a blonde 7th Year, whom he'd followed into the next carriage, completely oblivious to the fact that her very angry-looking boyfriend was following right behind him.

Once their parents had disappeared from sight, Al, Jessie, Hugo, Rose and Lily all let out a sigh of relief.

"God, I thought they'd never leave," said Lily, rolling her eyes again. "Right, well, I'm off to find Terri and Jasmine. Catch you guys later!"

With a wave, she headed off into the carriage James had just gone into

"I'm gonna go check out the new chick Razor told me's starting," grinned Hugo, spying his mate Finch chatting up some blonde girl he'd never seen before.

The rest of them watched him go with sceptical looks on their faces; if Hugo had friends with names like 'Razor', they highly doubted he'd have any luck with the ladies.

Shaking her head and turning her attention back to the rapidly diminishing group, Rose said, "I'm going to find Liam. See you at the feast."

She too waved and left, leaving Jessie and Al on their own.

"Guess I ought to go and find Leanne – I couldn't see her on the platform," said Al, with a slight shrug.

Jessie nodded.

"Cool beans. Mind if I tag along?"

"No, Jessie – go and find your own girlfriend to hang out with," teased Al.

Jessie whacked him over the head with her bag.

"Ow!"


"…So yeah," James was saying, his arms behind his head and his legs resting on the opposite seat, "I'll be, like, your Professor. But not like McGonagall – she's such a stiff."

"Oh, god, I know," giggled the girl. "Like, take last year, for example – she totally blew a gasket, all because she caught me smoking in the toilets! I mean, how dumb is that? I'm seventeen, I'm totally old enough!"

James didn't like to tell her that you now had to be eighteen to smoke in Britain.

"But she was all like, blah! It's a fire hazard, blah!"

"Hey, Riah!" said an angry voice at the door, "Who the hell's this guy?!"

Riah and James whipped round to find a stockily built guy with a very maddened expression on his face.

Riah instantly leapt up and put her arms around him.

"Oh, Rex," she simpered, looking up adoringly at him, "Baby, we're just talking! James-it is James, right?"

James nodded, already planning his escape route.

"James was just telling me about how he's going to be a teacher at Hogwarts! Isn't that-"

"I know you, James Potter, and I know what you want," interrupted Rex with a growl. "But let me make one thing very clear. If you ever come near my girlfriend again, I will personally curse your-HEY!"


"Lily!" squealed Terri and Jasmine joyfully, jumping up from their seats and giving their best friend a hug.

"Hey guys!" laughed Lily, hugging them back. "What's up?"

"Oh, we've got so much to tell you!" grinned Jasmine, retaking her seat.

"Like what?" asked Lily, sitting down on the bench next to Terri.

"Like how Violet Brown's gone and got herself pregnant…"

"NO WAY!"


"Just keep running, just keep-"

"Potter, get back here!"

"Shiiiiitttt!!"


Rose had made her way to the end of the train before she finally saw Liam. And when she did, she felt her heart break.