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The Return of Lily and James

Chapter 2: Hogwarts Again

The next morning, Lily and James awoke extremely excited and nervous, but most of all happy. After all, they would be living and breathing again in a few minutes.
They found Aurora easily, as she was waiting for them outside their beautiful house. She smiled brightly, her smile was contageous. Lily and James were wearing goofy grins. "Ok, you two, are you ready?" They nodded excitedly. "Alright, but don't forget that you can't tell Harry. Got it?"
"Yeah, we got it!" said James impatiently.
"Good! Come over here, close your eyes and..." Lily and James held hands and squeezed their eyes shut. "JUMP!" They jumped simultaneously.
When they opened their eyes, they were greeted with a familiar sight: the Hogwarts Express.
The scarlet engine was steaming, getting ready for the long journey that would take the children to another year of classes, tests, and adventures.
"Wow! Its so good to be back!" Exclaimed Lily breathlessly. Then she noticed that they were each standing with a trunk, owl, and a broom. Their things were identical, except for the gold nameplates that said "Emily Bennet" on Lily's trunk, and "John Bennet" on James' trunk. "Ja-I mean John, lets go look for him!"
James agreed and they set off through the crowd. As they were searching, James remarked, "Its so good to be 17 again! I wonder if the Gryffindor's need a new chaser?"
Lily shook her head, smiling. Is Quidditch all they think about? She thought.
"Look!" exclaimed James, "I see Harry!" They approached a family that was all red-heads, and Lily recognized them at once. They were the Weasley's, and Mrs. Weasley was as close to a mother as Harry had ever known, and for that, Lily was eternally grateful. Then the pair was greeted with the sight that they had wanted to see, in real life, for 16 years. It took everything Lily had to keep herself from engulfing in a huge hug.
Harry was about 6 foot at 17, although he was a few inches shorter than Ron, he was still tall for his age. James and Harry looked exactly alike-both had well toned Quidditch muscles, jet-black, messy hair, and black rimmed glasses. The only real difference was Harry's startling green eyes opposed to James' warm brown ones. My eyes, thought Lily, happily.
James walked right up to Ron and tapped him on the shoulder. Ron turned and saw James.
"Hi!" said Ron cheerfully. "Who are you?"
Lily pushed passed James before he could reply, and stuck her hand out to Ron. "I'm Emily and this is John. We are starting at Hogwarts this year."
Ron's smile widened and he shook Lily's had energeticly. "Cool!" he exclaimed. "I'm Ron Weasley, and this here is Harry Potter, in case you haven't noticed."
Harry glared at him and shook Lily and James' hands. He got a slight feeling that he had met them before, but he got over it. "What year are you?" he asked them.
"I'm a 7th year and Lil-er, Emily, is a 6th year." Replied James. Lily winced when he almost said her real name.
Just then, another red head stood up and walked over to the group. "Did you say you were a 6th year?" She asked Lily curiously, Lily nodded. "Oh, that's cool. I'm Ginny, Ron's little sister. I'm in 6th year, too."
So this is Ginny! Thought Lily. Wow, Aurora forgot to tell me how much we look alike! It was true. Once again, the only difference was the eyes. Lily's were green like Harry's, while Ginny's were chocolate brown.
Mrs. Weasley walked up just then and told them they had better get on the train. After being formally introduced to Lily and James, she kissed all her children and Harry, Lily was pleased to note.
When they got on to the train, Harry and Ron were looking around worridly. Probebly looking for what's her name...Hermione, I think it is?
The 5 found a compartment easily, and just as the train began to move, the door of the compartment burst open.
"Harry, Ron!" exclaimed Hermione breathlessy and she gave them each suffocating hugs.
"Hermione, where were you? We thought the train was going to leave with out you!" said Ron.
"Oh, I got here only 5 minutes ago! And I couldn't find you, so I looked through each compartment. I had a run-in with Malfoy to, now he is laughing hysterically on the floor with the Tickling Charm on him!" She giggled and turned around. She saw James, Lily and Ginny for the first time. "Hey Gin!" she said and gave Ginny a hug. "I don't belive we have met," she said as she looked curioulsy at James and Lily, "I'm Hermione Granger."
James stood up and shook her hand. "I'm John Bennet, and this is my sister Emily. We are new at Hogwarts this year."
"Yeah, John's a 7th year like us and Emily is a 6th year," put in Harry.
"Oh," replied Hermione. "Its nice to meet you both. What brings you to Hogwarts?"
Lily and James shared a quick look and Lily said, "Our dad is an Auror. His job takes us all over the United Kingdom."
"Cool!" Said Harry excitedly. "I want to be an Auror!" Lily smiled at his enthusium.
They sat in silence, until Harry asked James, "Do you like to play Quidditch?" James' face lit up.
"Do I? I was practically born on a broomstick! I play Chaser!"
"Really? We need a Chaser for this year!" exclaimed Harry. The three boys began to talk eagerly.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Great now Quidditch is all we are going to hear about!" The girls laughed. The 6 quickly became good friends, and talked about everything. They compared the resemblance between Harry and James, and Lily and Ginny.
When the train came to a stop at Hogsmeade Station, they had become good friends. After a bumpy ride in the horse-less carriges, James and Lily found that Dumbledore was waiting for them in the huge Entrance Hall.
"Ah! You must be our new exchange students!" he beamed at them. They smiled back and Dumbledore explained to them how the sorting would go. Then he directed them to the line of nervous first years. They said goodbye to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny.
When the sorting of the first years was over, Dumbledore stood up.
"Welcome," he began, "to another wonderful year at Hogwarts. Now, before I make the usual start-of-the-year announcements, we have two new students joining us this year. Emily Bennet, who is a 6th year, and John Bennet, who is a 7th year. I trust that you will make them feel welcome."
He gestured to Professor McGonagall who stood up and said, "Bennet, Emily!" Lily walked up to the stool and put the hat on her head.
Hmm, came a voice in Lily's head, Potter now, huh? I knew you would find a great love in Gryffindor... well this is not a very hard decision to make...I see you are on a mission...well better be in GRYFFINDOR! Shouted the hat loudly. The Gryffindor table errupted into applause, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny cheering the loudest. Lily took a seat beside Ginny, who had saved her one in case she got in to Gryffindor. Both Ginny and Hermione gave her hugs and congratulated her. She watched James strut proudly up to the stool and put the hat on his head. It had been on his head for all of 2 seconds when it shouted GRYFFINDOR! The Gryffindor's were beside themselves with glee. James sat down next to Harry, smiling widely.
Dumbledore stood up and made the usual announcements. Then he told every one that Remus Lupin would be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Lily and James were surprised, but happy noe-the-less. When he was finished, food appeared on their plates.
"Great job, you guys!" Said Harry, smiling.
"Yeah," added Ron. "You must have set a record, John! The hat was on your head for like a millisecond!" John laughed.
"Well I knew that we were going to be in Gryffindor," he said.
They looked at him curiously. Lily was mentally slapping him. "Oh, well, what he means is we thought we were going to be because our whole family was!" she said hastily.
They still looked a bit curious, but dropped the subject.
"So-er-Harry, when are Quidditch tryouts?" asked James, eager to get away from the subject.
"Oh, well, we haven't set a date yet, but it'll be sometime soon. I really want to kick Slytherin's butt this year!" The others agreed.
They stuffed themselves until they were about to burst. Then Hermione proudly led the way up to Gryffindor Tower and told everyone the new password (torchlights), because she was Head Girl. (a/n: surprise surprise! lol)
The common room was exactly the way Lily and James remembered it, but they didn't take time to look closely, for all they wanted to do was to sleep. Ginny led the was to the 6th year girls room and Lily met the other girls: Jenna-a very pretty girl that had dark brown hair and crystal-clear blue eyes. She was very nice and Ginny's best friend. Katherine (or "Kat" as she liked to be called) was slightly plump and short, and she had curly black hair and brown eyes. Lastly, Laralie who was blonde and very tall.
After being introduced, Lily got into bed and fall asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow, and the same went for James. They had a big mission ahead of them, and were ready for it.

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