A/N this is just a quickie chapter

Disclaimer- I don't own Harry Potter

Chapter 10 Lily POV

Usually I find my summers dull. I can't do magic, my friends are far away, and there's simply nothing to do!

This summer was particularly dull seeing as I wasn't allowed out of the house. So Sev and I spent our summer at my house (his parents were always fighting). My parents almost didn't let me go with Sev and his mother to go school shopping. At least, until I reminded them that his mother was a witch and I needed supplies and books.

It wasn't as much fun as previous years as with all the worry, we didn't linger. However, Sev did come over to look at our new books.

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It was a week later and Sev and I were in my room.

"Sev?" I asked.

"Yeah Lil?" he answered.

"D'you think you-know-who will attack Hogwarts this year?"

"Don't be a silly-lily." He said with a chuckle. "Hogwarts is Hogwarts. It's the safest place around and he-who-must-not-be-named would be stupid to try to attack."

I smiled at his reassurance.

A couple minutes later...

"Sev?" I asked again.

"Yeah Lil?" he answered in an amused tone.

"D'you think Potter will leave me alone this year?"

"Doubt it. Do you think he'll leave me alone?"

"Doubt it." We looked at each other and started laughing.

"I don't understand why he picks on you." I suddenly said seriously.

"Me neither." Sev said with a frown, but he quickly brightened up. "You know Lils, I just had an idea for something fun to do."

"What?" I answered wearily; he had that glint in his eye that meant we were going to do something that would undoubtedly get us in trouble.

"Petunia's out right?"

"Right." I answered suspiciously.

"C'mon I want to see what such a boring prick like her would have in her room."

"Don't call my sister a prick." I called but he was already crossing the hall. I sighed and followed. Petunia and our parents were out getting her some new school things.

I gasped as I stepped into her room. I had barely been in her room since I was 11.

"I dunno Sev..." I trailed off as I took in her pink walls and light brown furniture. Unmoving photos of her life without me were plastered to the edges of her mirror with tape and photo frames were hanging everywhere. There was even a family photo of her and our parents taken on her birthday while I was at school. All evidence that I lived was non-existent in her room.

"Hey Lils look!" he said with a grin. In his hand was Petunia's fluffy pink diary.

"Sev, maybe we should..." but one look around her room told me she strongly disliked, me. I wasn't going to go so far as to say she hated me. "Pass it over."

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Dear Diary,

My freak of a sister is home again. God I wish she would just stay in her world and leave me and my parents out of it. Oh and how they love her. It's sick, what with her being a freak and abnormal and just wrong. I do hope she spends her summer out of doors with her creepy little freak friend. Wouldn't want Vernon to get the wrong idea...

I flipped back a couple pages, curious (and a little stung) to see who this Vernon was.

Dear Diary,

Vernon finally took me on a date. We went out for a small dinner, then to the movies. He paid for everything and was so sweet. And best of all he doesn't suspect a thing about my freak of a sister. She ruins everything.

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I was still staring at her diary in horror. The entries I was mentioned in showed that she hated me, I ruined everything, and that I was a freak. Otherwise it was as though I didn't exist.

"Lily? You okay?" Sev asked quietly.

"Let's just go back to my room now." I said, throwing her diary back in her desk drawer.

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The last days of August came to a close as September 1 arrived.

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"Bye Lily sweetie." My mom said, hugging me goodbye next to platforms 9 and 10.

"Stay safe my little flower." My dad said, kissing the top of my head.

"Send us a letter and let us know if you are coming home for Christmas and if you're bringing anyone."

"We love you little flower."

I grinned and waved goodbye. I grabbed the handles of my trolley, took a deep breath and walked straight through the barrier of platforms 9 and 10.

I arrived on the other side to see steam leaking from the scarlet engine. I would never get over the sight of platform 9 ¾.

After loading my trunk and owl into the train, I set off to find the compartment my friends and I usually sat in. I walked in and saw Alice reading a book.

"Allie!" I cried, giving her a huge hug. She hugged me back.

"Thank Merlin you showed up! I was starting to worry I'd have to read all the way to Hogwarts." She cried as I chuckled.

"So how was your summer?" I asked.

"Andy was so annoying! Now that he's no longer fresh meat at Hogwarts, he thinks he's all that. The little prat." But she said this with a smile. I knew that deep down, Alice and Andrew were close. "How was your summer?"

"Oh the usual. Hung around with Sev, Petunia hates me, Parents are worried about you-know-who, I'm worried about you-know-who..."

"Ah. Yep, the usual." With that, we both started laughing.

"So where's Soph?" I asked.

"Right here!" Sophie answered, sliding the compartment door closed behind her. She swept her hair over her shoulder and sat down.

"You will never believe what I just saw." She said, her light green eyes sparkling.

"What?" Alice and I asked simultaneously.

"Somebody pulled off the best prank ever!" I rolled my eyes, one guess who did it.

"But check it out, it wasn't the marauders." I could feel my mouth drop open, next to me, Alice did the same.

"How do you know?" Alice asked.

"I was with them the whole time." She answered. I gave her a funny look, why was she with them?

"What was this great prank anyways?" Alice asked.

"The entire front of the train is multicoloured. Like every two compartments is a different colour. And everything inside. Like one was a hideous hot pink and when you went in, all the seats, walls, floor, ceiling, windows, even the people were that colour. Like your skin changed colour and your hair. It was pretty awesome."

"Even if you were with them, how do you know they didn't say the spell earlier?" I demanded.

"Uhhh because Lily. I came to the station with James and Sirius."

"WHAT!" Alice and I almost shrieked.

"Yeah, he lives just outside the town of Wimbleton, where I live, and our parents were best friends, at least until we moved to France when I was 8. Anyways, so his parents gave me a ride, and just outside the station, we ran into Remus and Peter. We were a little late so I went to their compartment and was about to come here when we heard a bang and saw the colourful compartments. I even heard Remus whisper to James that, and I quote, 'we should have thought of that.'"

"Well then." Alice said, pretty much summing up my thoughts exactly.

"They truly aren't all that bad." Sophie said, Alice nodding in the background.

"Yes they are. They just have everyone else fooled." I said.

"It seems only you Sev and most of the other Slytherins think that. Everyone else, us included think they're pretty brilliant." Alice said.

I rolled my eyes and turned out the window. Behind me, I could still hear Sophie and Alice chatting. 'Oh they're so clever' or 'They're so handsome." Finally one got my attention.

"If they didn't play that prank, then who did?" Alice asked.

"I dunno... May-" but Sophie was interrupted by a voice in the train corridor.

"Anything from the trolley dears?" The kind plump witch asked, stopping by our doorway.

"Yeah, a bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans and 15 chocolate frogs for me." I said, counting out some coins.

"Umm, 6 liquorice wands and a package of Drooble's Best Blowing Gum." Alice said. "Anything for you Soph?"

"Yeah. I'll take 3 sugar quills, a package of treacle fudge and some Fizzing Whizzbees."

With our treats bought, we settled back down. We made a pile of our treats the way we always do.

"Hey Sophie, pass me a piece of gum please." I asked, and she tossed me the bag.

"So who did pull the prank?" Sophie asked, bringing up our last conversation.

"I think that's about to be answered." Alice replied, biting the head off a chocolate frog.

I looked outside our compartment where there were the marauders and a new boy.

"Hey Lily-flower." Sirius greeted as he sat down and grabbed a liquorice wand.

"Hey Evans. This is my older cousin Jeremy, but he goes by Jem. He taught me all about pranking. He's starting Hogwarts for his final year. Did ya see the awesome prank he pulled off?" James said in a rush a huge grin on his face.

Jem was tall like James, with slightly lighter hair (dark brown), chocolate eyes and glasses as well.

"yeah, somebody's got to take credit for unleashing these guys on Hogwarts." He said grinning.

"Where did you go to school?" Sophie asked.

"I started at Hogwarts, but part way through my second year dad got relocated to far up north so I started Durmstrang. But, now I'm back."

"What does your dad do?" I asked, trying to be not too interested in Potter's family.

"He was in muggle relations for the ministry. He was sent to study our muggle neighbours to the north."

After that, quiet chatter started up. Everyone seemed to be getting along.

Remus was reading a book by the window, Sophie and Jem were chatting near the door, and in the middle, Potter, Black, Peter and Alice were having an exploding snap tournament. I turned to my window and watched the passing landscape. Suddenly, I remembered that I had forgotten to see Sev.

I excused myself as Frank Longbottem came in and sat next to Alice to watch her play. I spotted a slight blush come to her cheeks and bit back a giggle as I stepped out of the compartment. I headed towards Sev's usual compartment.

"Lily!" Sev said in surprise as he stepped out of hi compartment as I was about to knock on the door.

"Sev!" I said, giving him a hug.

"Did you see that stupid prank? Only the marauders." He said rolling his eyes.

"Close. It's Potter's cousin. He's as bad as the others, well maybe a little bit better. He's starting here for his last year. He'll be in my house, lucky me." I said, rolling my eyes at the last part.

"No way, you have the marauders and two Potters?" Sev chuckled.

"I better get back and change. See you later Sev." I said with a wave.

When I got back into my compartment, Remus was still reading, but now Alice and Frank were having a game of wizards chess, and everyone else was watching James and Sirius play a very explosive game of exploding snap.

There was a cheer as the cards exploded in Sirius' face and James claimed victory.

"Ok everyone. Out. We have to change, we'll be at Hogwarts in ten minutes." I said, shooing everyone out.

"Bye Lily-Flower!" Sirius called as he strolled down the corridor.

We quickly changed as the train pulled into the station.

"Lily! Hurry up!" Alice called from the doorway of the carriage. I smiled at her and ran to the carriage, relaxing as it pulled us towards the castle.

A/N Ok so much for a quickie chapter! When they got on the train, I decided to draw it out a bit and wound up writing a lot! Haha