Title: My Best Friend's Sister
Disclaimer: The Harry Potter characters are not mine, they all belong to J.K Rowling!
Summary: Lily/James fic! (Not Love/Hate) Lily is a year younger than James. When Sirius meets his friends the Marauders (James, Peter, and Remus). They meet Sirius's little sister... who just happens to be Lily. They all think of her as just a little kid, but things change as the years progress. AU (Some things are changed to fit the story) - Rating: PG-13
(A/N: This chapter starts when all the students are getting off the Hogwarts Express)
Chapter 3: Lily's Arrival At Hogwarts
As Lily walked out of the Hogwarts Express she felt a sense of happiness flow through her. She couldn't believe her eyes, she was actually at Hogwarts.
"Wow! This is more beautiful than I imagined" Lily said sounding as though she was dreaming.
"It looks even better than in the pictures" replied Jane, who had been Lily's best friend sense she could remember.
They were cut off by a large, hairy man, who introduced himself as Hagrid.
"Follow me First Years, right this way" he said, trying to get their attention, which wasn't very difficult.
They followed him and they were all placed in to row boats heading to Hogwarts. Lily was placed in a boat with Jane and Hagrid, since Hagrid was the size of about five students (A/N I'm trying to be mean or anything, we all know that Hagrid is a giant!)
"What are your names?" asked Hagrid, looking at Lily and Jane.
"I'm Lily Evans and this is Jane Sanders" Lily answered for Jane since she was kind of speechless at the sight of Hagrid.
"Nice you meet you two" replied Hagrid politely.
"Say Lily, do you by any chance have a family member that attends Hogwarts, cause you look quite familiar?" asked Hagrid curiously.
"Yea, Sirius Black" answered Lily, surprised that anyone even noticed that they looked anything alike.
"Oh is that so" Hagrid suddenly frowned, "He's not too fond of me"
"I don't know what reason he could have, your one of the nicest people I have met" said Lily, ashamed of her brother for not liking someone just because of their appearance.
"Why thank you" said Hagrid back to his usual cheery self.
"Well here we are students" Hagrid said so all the first years could hear him, "Watch the step, when you get off".
All the students got off one by one and now there was a clear view of the entire school. The first years walked to the front entrance still memorized by the view.
"Well bye Lily and Jane. This is where I leave you" said Hagrid
"Bye, see you later" replied Lily and Jane together.
When they finally got to the entrance they were met by a professor, that introduced herself as Ms. McGonagall. She led them to the Great Hall where all the other students were already seated and anxious to eat.
"Line up there and wait for your name to be called, then go sit on the chair and place the sorting hat on. When it calls out what house you belong to, go sit at that table" said Professor McGonagall.
Everyone in the hall quieted as a worn out hat was put up on the chair in front of everyone.. All the first years were surprised when the hat started to sing a song about the 4 houses. When it finally did stop singing, Ms. McGonagall called out the first years names, one by one.
"Bennet, Ashley" A pretty brown haired girl came up.
The hat yelled "Ravenclaw", after a few seconds.
"Brown, Sasha"
"Hufflepuff"
"Chang, Annie" A tall girl came up and put the hat on, at once it yelled out,
"Gryfindor" and the Gryfindor table started cheering.
Finally after a few more first years Ms. McGonagall called out,
"Evans, Lily" Lily went up. Nervously, she places the hat on her head and the hat started talking to her.
"No need to be nervous, I will place you where you belong" said the sorting hat so only she could hear.
Lily relaxed a little and the hat immediately yelled out...
"Gryfindor" At once the Gryfindor started cheering, Sirius being the loudest of them.
Everyone quieted down again, as Lily sat down at the Gryfindor table.
The names continued...
"Hanson, Taylor"
"Hufflepuff"
"Isbell, Bryan"
"Gryfindor"
"Kim, Molly" A short, fat, brunette walked over to the sorting hat. She was already deeply in love with Malfoy. She placed the hat on her head and at once it called out..
"Slytherin" She walked over to the Slytherin table and sat right beside Malfoy.
Lily didn't pay attention until Jane's name was called:
"Sanders, Jane"
"Gryfindor"
She stood up right away and cheered along with the rest of the table.
Finally the last first year was called up.
"Zapata, Glen"
"Ravenclaw"
After this Professor Dumbledore came up and gave his opening speech and after he was done the food appeared.
"Finally" yelled Sirius.
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Everyone finished their dinner and went up to their common rooms.
Lily felt like the whole school was sound asleep except for her. She couldn't sleep and was lying awake in her bedroom. She decided to go downstairs to the Gryffidor common room.
Coming down the stairs she thought she was alone until she saw someone sitting on one of the couches in the room. Lily couldn't recognize who it was because the only light was the fire, but when she stepped closer the figure of James Potter came into view.
"Lily?" asked James surprised that she was up this late.
"Ya, it's me."
"What are you doing up so late?" asked James
"I couldn't sleep." replied Lily
"Me either" as he said this Lily came and sat down next to him. (A/N: Don't get any ideas their only 11 and 12)
"I don't think I can ever get used to it here. It's so different from home" Lily said
"You'll get used too it, soon you'll think of Hogwarts as your home" he said, trying to cheer her up.
"I hope so. I'm so scared about my classes. What if I'm not cut out to be a witch?" Lily asked.
"Don't worry. You'll do fine. From what Sirius has been telling me, your the smart one in the family."
"Well yeah obviously compared to Sirius, anyone is" she said jokily. "Thanks James, for making me feel better"
"Any time Lily, We're practically family" he said sounding sleepy.
With that they both walked off to their own quarters and went to sleep peacefully.
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A/N: The Net part won't be posted until after I come back from vacation, which should be in about a week. But the next part will be very long. It will take place in the future, where Lily is in her 5th year and James will be in his 6th year. Through that whole time they will have a brother/sister relationship, but it will turn into more than that. So please Review because I have been really busy lately and I need motivation. So I'm hoping for 30 reviews when I come back. Thanks for reading!