Moony: Year 1

Hogwarts Express
Tuesday
1 September, 1971

Remus learned a lot on the train to Hogwarts, at least about Lily.

One was she was a muggle born, found out all about magic from Severus who lived near her and helped her understand her gifts. She had an older sister who didn't have magic, if she could have any pet she would want a dragon fly, and he favorite color was cyan at the moment though yesterday it was ruby red.

He also learned that girls like to talk, and he being a very quiet person without being able to reveal much and without knowing another child his age, let her blabber. He found it very nice, and amusing.

As well as this new information on her he found things about himself from her game of many questions.

One was he had no idea what his favorite color was, or that he was supposed to have on, he just said he was drawn to soft, or subtle colors. Earthy tones, his mother once called them.

Lily found that amusing.

She also thought the way he talked was funny, though he didn't think it was weird. The many voices around the train and the many accents and dialects were strange to him when he grew up around his mother's Southern-Welsh and father's Londener ways of speaking.

Eventually the game ended with Lily running out of questions and a nice looking woman with light hair and a kind smile, maybe a good ten years older than his parents.

"Anything from the trolley dears?"

Remus' eyes went over to the trolley, and they widened behind the hair that was mostly covering his face. There was more candy then he had ever really seen in one place on there.

From sugar quills, to every flavored beans, even chocolate frogs; he really hoped his mouther wasn't watering and he was acting like a normal human being.

"You guys want anything?"

Lily stood up and counted out a few coins from a change purse she seemed to pull out of nowhere.

"No thank you, Lily."

Severus stretched his legs out some more from where he was sitting and closed his eyes.

"I'm pretty sure I'm good for the journey."

The red head nodded and looked at Remus, who shook his head no even though he would be more than happy to have something right now. Maybe it would help with the nerves, he had skipped breakfast for the same reason.

"I wouldn't want to owe you any money."

"Come on, Remus, I insist. Call it a payback for running into you and then making you listen to me babble."

Remus bit his lip, but relented; standing up and moving over to the trolley with her and surveying his option. Weighing the process for the least expensive thing they had so Lily wouldn't have to pay for something too out of his range.

Just as he was reaching for the little chocolate frog a blond boy jogged over holding a bag and a bright happy smile on his boyish face.

"I found my money pouch miss, sorry about not having it right away."

The trolley woman smiled at him and handed Remus his candy before turning to the boy fully.

"It's alright, happens to the best of us. Now what did you want again."

Lily's cheerful mood seemed to almost evaporate when the boy came over, quickly handing her money over to the woman as she sorted the boy's large order with her other hand.

The red head walked back into the compartment, her arm latching onto Remus' at the last second and making him stumbled back in with her. She closed the door without another word, and huffed as she sat down onto her seat.

"The first day hasn't even started and I already don't like some people."

"Is that one of the kids in the compartment that was laughing when you were coming out?"

Lily sighed and swung her feet up onto the seat and onto Severus' lap, the dark haired boy not looking up from his book when she did so.

"Yes, Peter something, I don't really remember. We were just sitting in there, trying to make friends, and then Peter and the two other idiots in there start making fun of Severus because of what house he wishes to be in and his hair, and even his name."

Remus frowned, just by the sound of these kids he wanted to keep some distance between them. Though, some part of him could understand why they thought of Snape's hair in a joking manner, even if it was a cruel joke, the boy's hair did look like it needed to be washed.

Who was he to judge by appearances though, he had four scars on his face and more under his clothes. Problematic hair would be a blessing if he had to choose between the two.

"That's awful."

He shifted in his seat, and glanced out the window.

"At the same time, it is admirable you already have an idea on which house will be chosen during the sorting."

Severus, at that moment, looked up at him with his dark eyes. It was the first tie the hook-nosed boy had really acknowledged his presence since they say down in here.

The gaze was unnerving, but Remus still held his ground.

"It is an obvious choice, at least for me, none of the other houses have the qualities or appeal as Slytherin."

Remus made his face go blank at the mention of the house. In Hogwarts: A History it had explained all the houses' founders' beliefs and what the house strives for now. Slytherin had once strived for pure-blooded ways, now was supposed to be the house for the 'cunning', 'ambitious' and 'resourceful'.

One of the houses he could never see himself in.

"I hope you get into it then, personally I don't think I attribute to that house's traits."

Severus closed his book and leaned closer a little, Lily's feet still on his lap and a frown on his face. He seemed a little put off by Remus' well-wishings for him.

The werewolf leaned back in his seat a little, Lily chose then to break the tension that seemed to be building all because the dark haired boy stopped reading.

"Which house do you think you will be in then? Sev wants me to be in Slytherin and as much as I would like to be with him I don't think I would fit in very well there, I think my next best choice would be Ravenclaw."

Remus gladly brought his attention to Lily, she calmed him down with her smile and attitude; even her constant questions were a little comforting. He still hoped that soon there wouldn't be a lot of questions between them and conversations instead.

"I haven't really thought about it. Maybe Ravenclaw, my dad was in that house, if not I will settle with what I get. Really, I am just happy to be here."

Lily's smile widened.

"Me too, it's like a dream come true isn't it?"

Remus let a shy smile push onto his face, watching from the corner of his eye as Snape sat back in his seat.

"Yeah, it really is."

Night started to fall over the world outside the train as they three of them changed into their robes, both Lily and Remus had gone to do it in the lavatories on the train instead of in their compartment.

Remus looked at himself in the mirror over the sink and frowned, the shabby look just went great with his shaggy hair. He almost looked like a begger. After the third attempt to tie the black neck tie properly he gave up, leaving the room and heading back to his compartment.

On the way there his ears picked up laughing and talking from the compartments around him, all the noise was starting to give him a small headache.

Seven years of migraines and threatening a castle full of people once a month, joy.

He let his eyes close for a second before pushing the door open to the compartment.

Lily smiled to him; Severus said nothing.

He sent a small smile back to Lily and sat down, curling up in his robes and leaning against the window. His eyes closing, his body fully content on letting him sleep for the rest of the journey to Hogwarts.