Lily evans walked into kings cross station nervous and excited and sad all at the same time. Nervous because walking into kings cross station always made her nervous and she was never quite sure why. Excited because hogwarts was her favorite place in the world and after that summer that seemed to take forever she was finally going back. Sad because this was the last time she would walk into kings cross station with the intent of going to hogwarts. It seemed like forever ago and yesterday at the same time that she first walked through that large arch. But sadly, we all had to grow up sometime.
"Bye, mum. Bye, dad." she turned and gave them both a long lasting hug "i'll see you in june."
"Goodbye my lily." her mother kissed her on the cheek
"I'll miss you." her father gave her one more hug before she grabbed the cart with her trunk and walked onto platform nine and three-quarters.
There was an empty space on her cart where the cage for her owl used to be. It had died last summer and she didn't see the point of getting a new one when hogwarts had an owlery.
As she passed through the brick wall she thought how the platform never ceased to amaze her in its stark contrast to its muggle counterparts. Before she walked through the wall she saw muggles in suits with briefcases and small children with jump ropes and dolls in their hands, but as she walked through onto the platform she was engulfed by tall pointed hats and bright colored robes. She made her way to the train, looking around her for any familiar faces. She saw a few and waved at them, happy to be back on her way to her home away from home.
Lily walked onto the hustle and bustle of the hogwarts express, making her way to the compartment for the prefects and the head boy and head girl. She knew where it was because of her former prefect status. She walked through the doors expecting to see remus sitting there in his usual sweater eating chocolate or reading a book. Something unapologetically remus.
Instead the only people in the compartment were a few of the house prefects. Her head counterpart was nowhere to be seen. That was unlike remus. Oh well. She put her trunk in the back of the compartment and took a seat next to jamie liza, the fifth year prefect for hufflepuff. The two had never gotten along particularly great but her other option was sitting next to charles landson, a fifth year ravenclaw who always looked at her in a way that made her uncomfortable. His gaze was always a little too… my eyes are up here.
She sat in the compartment for a few minutes making polite small talk with jamie while the remaining members that belonged in the compartment trickled in. each one that walked in she looked up at, wondering where remus could be.
The door opened once more and lily looked up but to her surprise james stood there.
"James!" she exclaimed standing up and running to hug him. She had missed him much more than she realized "what are you doing here?"
"Well," he chuckled as she let go of him "would you look at this." he took a small silver badge out of his pocket with the letters "HB" on it.
"No way." she said grabbing it out of his hands "did you steal this from remus?" she raised an eyebrow at him
"Why do you assume that?" she simply stared at him "good point. No i didn't. For some god-forsaken reason i was appointed head boy."
"Well, well, well, would you look who's been reformed." lily smiled smugly at him
"Yes, well, it was only because of you, dear." he kissed her on the top of her head and lily smiled. It was good to be back.
