Lily Evans was a pretty girl, prettier than most, James had never thought that he'd have a crush when he was eleven, but that goes to show what he knew. Remus knew better. Remus knew that James would fall for Lily the moment they met.
It was 10:20, and Remus had walked up to the barrier between platforms nine and ten. He remembered what his mother had told him about this particular barrier.
'Remus, you must go through the wall without fear. If you are afraid, the wall will reject you, and you will never go to Hogwarts because you were afraid of a wall. Do you want that to happen?' His mother had always encouraged him to be brave, especially at certain times of the month. At those times of the month, Remus could hardly be brave, he couldn't be afraid, he was just too tormented to have any strong feelings other than anger or pain. Remus was a werewolf, and his transformation during the full moon was often too much for his eleven year old mind. He reached inside his owl's cage before he remembered that she bit to stroke his pretty, mean, brown, gray owl. He had laid awake at night listening to her hoot and wondering why she was called "gray". The owl bit him.
"Ow!" Remus was brought back to earth and remembered his task: being brave so the wall would let him go to Hogwarts. He saw a pretty red-haired girl being lead around by a pair of obviously muggle parents. A tall, thin, blonde girl was cautiously following. She walked up beside him and stared at the barrier.
"Er, hello." Remus said.
"Hi." She seemed a bit distracted. He noticed that her parents had left.
"I'm Remus, and you?"
"Lily, Lily Evans."
"Nice to meet you. You do know how to get through the wall?"
"Not exactly," she said.
"Just follow me, and don't be afraid." Remus gathered his courage and walked up to the wall and through it. Lily followed behind him. Around them was an assortment of chilren, parents, cats, and other miscellenia. The scarlet train was a few feet before them, and they were cut off from it by a tall signpost that read, "Platform Nine and Three~Quarters. Remus walked up to the train and started to drag his bags and trunk with him. In all, he had five muzzles, a leash, and a chain rope, all for the other students peace. His father had spoken with Headmaster Dumbledore and had set up a room for his, ahem, "transfigurement". Lily had watched him and tried to copy his movements, but his superhuman strength sort of made that a bit impossible. She couldn't lift her trunk one inch.
"Need help?" Remus had gotten his bag to the first compartment and was resting a bit.
"Yes, if you don't mind, that is."
"No problem." Remus got out again and walked over to her. He tried to lift her trunk and got it all of one foot before it fell to the ground.
"What on earth do you have in there?" He asked.
She shrugged and said, "Uh, a few mischievious items."
"It seems more like a thousand."
"I think that's about right. Mum and Dad set me free in Diagon Alley, and I couldn't resist." Remus motioned for her to help him lift and they got it to the doorway where it stuck. The conductor helped them out and they got it in the compartment Remus had left his. A few minutes later, a pair of male brunettes walked in. They were talking quietly to themselves, but one Remus recognized.
"Oy! Sirius!"
"What? Oh, Remus! You've been holding out on me." Sirius looked at Lily admiringly. "She's pretty."
"I'm not a inanimate object you know!" Lily said while she punched Sirius in the nose. The blood flowed freely as she said, "I have feelings too".
"That you do," the other boy said. Lily apparently felt too angry at Sirius to stay so she left, and her offender introduced the other boy to Remus.
"Hey, Remie, this is James. We met outside of the barrier."
"You two know each other? I thought I was your first, friend that is." James was pretending to be insulted. "That girl was pretty, what was her name?"
"Lily." The three boys sat around talking waiting to the train to finish loading, and in walked a thin boy.
"Hi," he began nervously," I'm Peter and I'm a first year. Who are you?"
"We are seventh years." Sirius said ungrinningly. "And we are particularly fond of beating up first years."
"Uh, just kidding, I'm really a second year." The boy said, even more nervously. "Wait, I've never seen a seventeen-year-old that was so short. I bet you're really first years."
"You're right." James said. Then he ducked from Sirius' punch and went to find that girl, Lily.
Remus liked Peter. He was nice, if not a bit ungainly. He seemed adept at the simple spells they practiced, but he didn't preform them with much confidence. Sirius didn't like him very well, but the kid Remus knew from primary school was still friendly to him, if not a bit of a trickster.
'Like Lily,' he thought, remembering the stuff she said had been in her trunk. Soon the train started off, and by then there was a number of girls surrounding Siriues. Most of them were first and second years filled by puppy-love, but a few seemed big and intimidating enough to be fourth and fifth years.
"A little help here, old friend?" Sirius was beginning to look unworthy of this trial. So Remus snuck to Sirius' trunk and pulled out a few fireworks. Walking casually around to Peter he slipped him some. They tapped a bunch with their new wands, and they threw the sparking fireworks at the mobbing girls. The fireworks exploded, but they didn't seemed fased. When it sunk in that their preciously curled hair was on fire they ran screaming from the compartment.
"Thanks, guys. They were being a bit too much for even me."
"Amazing, the Sirius Black is in over his head, and out of his league." Remus liked to be sarcastic when it was Sirius he was mentioning. The train had been traveling for about thirty minutes when the food cart came in.
"Hello, boys. Do you want anything from the cart?"
"Hmm, a chocolate frog carton, some gum, ice mice, and jelly beans." Remus was hungry.
"That's five Sickles." Remus handed over the money while Peter decided what to get. The train steamed on, and rain began to fall. Remus soon fell asleep looking at his Chocolate frog card which read; Agrippa: the one who created and first mastered the Polyjuice Potion. Although he was a poor brewer, he is famous for his discovery of a potion that will hourly transform one being into another. He completed his task with the first class Potions Mistress, Severlina Snape.
Disclaimer- I came up with the idea for the Chocolate frog card about Agrippa(see The Trio), but everything else is Joanne Kathleen Rowling's:)
