~*THE SCARLET DAWN*~
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"It's hard to believe, all of my friends are going to Hogwarts and I'm sitting here, trying to learn it all out of a book. This isn't fair mom," exclaimed Remus Lupin, a young, handsome boy with sandy blonde hair, enraged with anger.
"Now honey, I know it's a hard thing for you to accept, but think about it. What if you bit someone? What if you just couldn't help yourself and killed someone. You know how it was with you, we thought that we'd lost you!" screamed his mother. They'd had this fight before.
"Mom, it's not like it's my fault that I was bitten! I couldn't have stopped it and you know it, you just want to protect your precious reputation. Sometimes I just can't believe that you get this way, I'm not going to bite anyone," replied Remus. His mother sighed.
"That's right, you're not going to bite anyone because you're staying here. I can't let you take that chance, you know that. Now, do you want to go with Sirius to say goodbye or do you want to stay here?" asked his mom softly. She knew it wasn't his fault, she hated to be so hard on him.
"Ok Mom, and I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to be so mean to you. Now we have to go, I need to say goodbye to Sirius. I'm going to Kings Cross station with him to see him off, right, or am I not allowed to now?" said Remus. His mother nodded yes that he was, indeed, allowed to see off his best friend, and then they headed out the door and walked down the street to Sirius Black's house.
"Hey Sirius, all ready? I bet you're excited!" exclaimed Remus as the good-looking brunette answered the doorbell. Sirius smiled.
"Oh yeah, Hogwarts is going to so different once I get to it, you better belive that. I have the world's biggest supply of Filibuster Fireworks, and no one even knows about it!" exclaimed Sirius, speaking the last sentance in a whisper so that only Remus could hear.
"Sounds like a lot of fun, I wish that I could go," said Remus with a sigh.
"Your aunt is still making you live with her in the south of France? Man, I'm so sorry, who would have thought that on the first year that we would be going to Hogwarts, we would have to be seperated by your stupid aunt. Stupid, stupid stupid!" yelled Sirius, and his mother gave him a look. "And I mean that in the most respectful way possible," he added, which earned him a smile from his mother. Remus laughed, he sure would miss his best friend.
Remus looked back on the day that he and Sirius had gotten their letters for Hogwarts, they had been so happy. They made lots of plans, from how they would pester all the teachers, to how they would be the most popular and best looking guys in school, to how they would learn so much and become co-ministers of Magic. That was, of course, before his mom told him that he couldn't attend school. That was before he told Sirius that he would be living with his evil aunt Gertrude in the south of France because his mom didn't allow him to tell anyone that he was a werewolf. Now he would be spending his time in the poor, Sirius free neighborhood, learning magic by a coorespondance course. His dreams were shattered an hour after they had taken flight.
"Hey Remmie, are you ok? You have that glazed over look again, why don't we get you some hot cocoa?" asked Mrs. Black. Remus nodded his head yes. Maggie Black had become like a second mother to him, sometimes he thought that she loved him more than his own mother did. His own mom never called him Remmie or made him hot chocolate. His own mother never told him how well he could sing or how smart he was. Sometimes he wished that Mrs. Black really was his mom.
"Come on boys, it's time to go now!" yelled Mrs. Lupin. She handed some floo powder to each of the boys and they quickly threw it into the fire. Then they were gone.
***
"Mother, how exactly does one get to Hogwarts?" asked James Potter, a handsome, young, black haired boy with deep chocolate eyes.
"Why the train of course. You've known that sense you were just a little boy." replied Mrs. Potter, smiling at her son.
"No mother, that's not what I meant. I was actually wondering how, exactly, one gets there after he disembarks from the train. It's raining and I haven't any rain clothes," explained James, as if this was obvious.
"I wouldn't worry about that son. There are carriages. And I'm sure that if there weren't any they would make an exception for you, me being who I am and all," said Mr. Potter, patting his son on the head. James frowned and fixed his hair.
"But Dad, so what if you are the head auror and next in line for the minister of magic? That really doesn't pertain to me now does it? It's not like they are going to give me any special treatment there, right? That just wouldn't be fair," said James.
"Life's not fair, you should use it to your advantage." explained Mr. Potter. "Go on outside, the ministry has some cars waiting for us."
"I don't understand why we can't just go by floo powder," said James. Mr. Potter sighed.
"People of importance do not arrive to special occasions by floo powder, they make an entrance. I don't want them to think that you are some average, run of the mill boy who can't afford to travel by private automobile. How many times do I have to tell you that?" asked Mr. Potter.
"And I don't want people to think that I am some stuck-up little rich boy who has to depend on his father for everything!" yelled James. Mrs. Potter sighed.
"James, we've had this discussion before, don't argue with your father. He's older and wiser than you are," said Mrs. Potter.
"And in order to be old and wise you must first be young and stupid, right?" asked James, dropping the regal tone. For this he got a glare from each of his parents.
"Go outside now. I've have the elf bring out your bags," said Mr. Potter. James walked outside of their mansion defeatedly. As he got to the end of the gates he spotted Severus Snape, who was his neighbor and would be arriving in the same car as the Potters. Snape glared at him and James returned the glare.
"So Potter, all ready to go to school now? I'm sure your father has fixed it so that you get perfect grades, you probably won't have to worry about anything. But with you being so stupid and all, I'm sure someone will catch on sooner or later." said Severus.
"Yeah right. You know that's not true." responded James. Severus chuckled.
"If that's the best you can come up with, you're even stupider than I thought!" exclaimed Severus. James quickly thought up a good argument to that statement.
"Stupider isn't a word you know." he replied.
"It doesn't matter. You'll see when we get to school, I'll have all the popularity and you will be the stupid git that no one likes. It's just the way that the world works. Sorry Potter," said Severus. James was about to reply when Adamus Snape. Severus' father, came up from behind and rested his hand on his son's shoulder.
"Arguing, boys? Tisk tisk tisk, wouldn't want you to get in trouble on your first day of school. That just couldn't happen now could it?" said Adamus in his husky voice.
"He started it," mumbled James, taking his eyes of Adamus. He turned around to see his parents coming from behind.
"Oh, greetings Adamus. My how Severus has grown since we last saw him. It is really a pleasure to see both of you again," said Mr. Potter, extending his hand.
"The pleasure is all mine." replied Adamus, taking Mr. Potter's hand and shaking it. "I'm sure we will enjoy our time together on the way to Hogwarts. Speak of the devil, here come our cars now."
"Shall we?" asked Mrs. Potter, motioning to the cars. The Potters and the Snapes climbed in and soon they were off on the way to King's Cross station.
***
Lily Evans , a small, shy girl with vibrant red hair and bright green eyes, surveyed the many bags and belongs that surrounded her. Sadly, she put them all in her rather large trunk and began to go downstairs to where her parents and sister were waiting for her. She couldn't believe what was going to happen today, couldn't believe that she was about to leave everything that she had ever known to learn witchcraft and wizardry. Three weeks ago, she hadn't even known that such a school existed. Now, as she had read the books that she had gotten from a wizard bookshop, she knew quite a lot about this new magical world, and she was even more sure that she would never fit in.
For one thing, she was always being bullied and mocked by her older sister Petunia and her brat pack. Lily was about a foot shorter than her sister and wasn't known for speaking up, and when she did she was normally regarded as a freak. It wasn't really her fault though. Due to some very unusual circumstances, she was never as normal as one would suspect an eleven year old to be. For one thing, she was very smart, she always liked to learn new and exciting things, to enter worlds that she never knew existed. For another, she was always making things happen. She didn't mean for the water to all empty from the swimming pool, or for her neighbor's dog to start floating in mid-air, but for some reason these things always happened to her.
"Come on Lils, it's time to go!" yelled Mr. Evans, smiling at his daughter as he handed her a travel mug full of hot chocolate. "My little baby is growing up, I can't believe you're going to be gone." he added, on a sadder note. Lily sighed, she didn't like to be called little, even if it was by her parents.
"Hey princess, are you all ready to go to your new school?" asked Mrs. Evans. Lily nodded her head, and she began to head out the door. They were nearly there when Lily's mother realized that a member of their family was missing. "Petunia! PETUNIA! Get down her now, your sister is leaving and you need to see her off!" yelled Mrs. Evans. Petunia, a scrawny brunette with too much neck bounded down the stairs to the living room.
"I still don't understand why I have to come," said Petunia with a sigh. Mr. Evans gave her the Look.
"This is one of your last days with your sister. Today she will be leaving and it will be quite awhile before you see her again. It seems as if she's leaving for good." said Mrs. Evans, with tears running down her face.
"Is that a promise?" asked Petunia under her breath so her parents couldn't hear her. Lily didn't say anything. "Coward." said Petunia.
"Ok girls, into the car!" exclaimed Mr. Evans.
"Wait, one last picture of my baby girl with her big sister!" said Mrs. Evans. She pulled out a camera and snapped a photo. Then they got into the car and left for the station.
***
"Where do you have to go?" asked Mrs. Evans as they pulled up to Kings Cross Station. Lily took out her ticket and looked at it.
"It says I need to go to platform 9 and 3/4," said Lily casually as she put her ticket back in her pocket.
"Platform 9 and 3/4? That doens't make sense, there's no such thing. You people really are stupid," said Petunia, who had been acting particularly sour all day.
"Well that's what it says. I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out once we get there." said Lily. She got her trunk out of the back of her car and started walking inside. They walked inside of the beautiful, old station and walked down to where platforms 9 and 10 were. Lily was sure she would be able to find platform 9 and 3/4, but now she wasn't as confident. She just saw the solid-looking barrier between platforms 9 and 10.
"See, I told you it doesn't exist. Why don't we just pack up and go home and you can forget about your stupid hocus pocus." said Petunia, turning towards the exit. Just then Lily spotted a boy who looked as if he was going to Hogwarts also. He had a packed trunk and sweeping black robes. Lily watched to see how he got onto the platform. He walked toward the barrier, leaned against it and- he just disappeared. Then it made sense to Lily.
"Oh, this is so obvious I can't believe I didn't think of it. Regular people can't just find out about Hogwarts, it would be horrible. The entrance is concealed, you have to walk through that barrier!" exclaimed Lily.
"Oh how could I have been so stupid! You have to walk through a completly soild barrier, why didn't I think of that?" said Petunia sarcastically. Lily didn't respond, she somehow knew that the barrier wasn't solid. She summoned her courage and then walked straight towards the barrier, closed her eyes, didn't stop and she was through. Her parents and Petunia looked, wide eyed, at the way she had disappeared, and then her parents swelled with pride.
"Oh, she really is magical! It is so great having a witch in the family!" they exclaimed as they hugged. Petunia, feeling very left out, tryed to prove that she was wonderful also. She walked towards the barrier, kept walking, closed her eyes and BOOM she slammed into the barrier.
"Oh...My...God! My nose, my nose, I think it's broken!" yelled Petunia as her nose started to bleed. Her parents didn't seem to care that much though. They easily walked through the barrier and left Petunia outside. It took her about 7 more tries until she could get onto the platform.
"You little...you are so horrible, you and your abnormality! Look at my nose! My plastic suregon specifically told me not to do anything to it for three weeks and now look! It's all your fault. I hate you, I wish that I didn't have a sister!" yelled Petunia. Lily shrunk at the words and then felt a tap on her shoulder.
"Excuse me, are you a first year too? Hum, I'll take your silence as a yes. Why did you just let her yell at you like that? I have a much better thing that you could do to her," said a tall, dark haired, handsome boy that looked about the same age as Lily. He took out a wand and muttered something. Suddenly Petunia's nose swelled up to about the size of a small watermelon. Petunia grabbed it in fear and then ran towards the platform so she could get back to the muggle world, and once again she ran into the wall. Lily laughed at her sister, she had never seen her so afraid before.
"Thanks. I'm Lily Evans by the way," said Lily, extending her hand out to the boy.
"Sirius Black, pleased to meet ya!" said Sirius, shaking her hand. "So why did you let her yell at you like that? Why didn't you stand up for yourself?" Lily thought about that for awhile and realized that she didn't have an answer to that.
"I don't know..." said Lily. Sirius smiled.
"Look, she's coming back." he said, and Lily saw her sister, still clutching her nose. Then Lily decided something. She didn't want to be that shy girl that she always was growing up. She wanted to be someone better, someone who could be cool and spontaneous. She wanted to be the real her, the person she had always been afraid to be.
"Hey Petunia, you have some dirt on your nose. Here, let me help you with that," said Lily and, before Petunia knew it, Lily took out her wand and turned Petunia's nose bright blue. "Oops, I guess I'm not that good with my spells yet. Sorry!"
"You are just my kind of person!" said Sirius. "I'll save you a spot in my compartment on the train, ok? The last one. Toodles!"
"Lily, it's about time for you to get on the train," said Mrs. Evans. She pulled Lily into a hug.
"Good bye mum. I love you," said Lily. Then her dad hugged her.
"Now have fun. But not too much fun, okay?" said her father jokingly. Lily laughed.
"I'll be sure to keep the wild parties down to the bare minimum," said Lily. "Bye daddy, love you!" she yelled, and then she boarded the train.
***
"Excuse me, Mrs. Lupin? I would like to talk to you about your son's time at Hogwarts," said an older, white-haired man with a certain amout of charisma and an enigmatic smile. Mrs. Lupin came over to him and shook his hand.
"Why Professor Dumbledore, this is a pleasent suprise!" she exclaimed, happy to see her old transfiguration teacher. "Now, I told Professor Dippet all about the special, um, circumstances that will prevent Remus from going to school. Are you going to help on his coorespondance learning?"
"Whatever do you mean? Coorespondance learning? It was my knowledge that he was going to be staying at Hogwarts with everyone else!" said Professor Dumbledore. "It would be a shame for me to take down all the precautionary structures that were put up for his safety and that of everyone around him." said Dumbledore. Mrs. Lupin was suprised.
"But sir, Headmaster Dippet said that there was no possible way for Remus to attend Hogwarts. I don't understand." she said. Dumbledore smiled.
"Headmaster Dippet resigned. I'm the new headmaster, and I see no reason why Remus can't attend Hogwarts like any other student. Tell him to board the train at once, we don't want him to be late," said Dumbledore. Mrs. Lupin quickly went out and fetched her somber looking son.
"Remus, the new headmaster has arranged it so that you can go to Hogwarts!" she exclaimed. Remus' face lit up and he smiled at his mom.
"Really! Oh, this is great! I have to go and tell Sirius. I have to go, the train is about to leave! But my stuff, it's all at home, how am I going to get it?" asked Remus. Mrs. Lupin smiled.
"I'll make sure that it's taken to Hogwarts. Now go on the train, it's time for you to leave!" exclaimed Mrs. Lupin. Remus smiled at her once again, gave her a big hug, and then boarded the Hogwarts express
A/N-Well, there it is, the first chapter of The Scarlet Dawn. This is a prequal to Green Eyes, which is my other story, but really you don't have to read that one first. This story will span 1st through 4th years, and it will definatly NOT be cliche. Trust me, I hate cliches as much as you do. Also, don't expect too much fluff, especially in their first and second years. You have to figure that as 11 and 12 year olds they can't really have too much romance. Please review the story, I am a review junkie. They just make me really happy!
Disclaimer- Harry Potter and all the Harry Potter characters belong to J.K. Rowling. I don't own them, all I own is the idea. I'm not trying to pretend to be her. Please don't sue me!
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"It's hard to believe, all of my friends are going to Hogwarts and I'm sitting here, trying to learn it all out of a book. This isn't fair mom," exclaimed Remus Lupin, a young, handsome boy with sandy blonde hair, enraged with anger.
"Now honey, I know it's a hard thing for you to accept, but think about it. What if you bit someone? What if you just couldn't help yourself and killed someone. You know how it was with you, we thought that we'd lost you!" screamed his mother. They'd had this fight before.
"Mom, it's not like it's my fault that I was bitten! I couldn't have stopped it and you know it, you just want to protect your precious reputation. Sometimes I just can't believe that you get this way, I'm not going to bite anyone," replied Remus. His mother sighed.
"That's right, you're not going to bite anyone because you're staying here. I can't let you take that chance, you know that. Now, do you want to go with Sirius to say goodbye or do you want to stay here?" asked his mom softly. She knew it wasn't his fault, she hated to be so hard on him.
"Ok Mom, and I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to be so mean to you. Now we have to go, I need to say goodbye to Sirius. I'm going to Kings Cross station with him to see him off, right, or am I not allowed to now?" said Remus. His mother nodded yes that he was, indeed, allowed to see off his best friend, and then they headed out the door and walked down the street to Sirius Black's house.
"Hey Sirius, all ready? I bet you're excited!" exclaimed Remus as the good-looking brunette answered the doorbell. Sirius smiled.
"Oh yeah, Hogwarts is going to so different once I get to it, you better belive that. I have the world's biggest supply of Filibuster Fireworks, and no one even knows about it!" exclaimed Sirius, speaking the last sentance in a whisper so that only Remus could hear.
"Sounds like a lot of fun, I wish that I could go," said Remus with a sigh.
"Your aunt is still making you live with her in the south of France? Man, I'm so sorry, who would have thought that on the first year that we would be going to Hogwarts, we would have to be seperated by your stupid aunt. Stupid, stupid stupid!" yelled Sirius, and his mother gave him a look. "And I mean that in the most respectful way possible," he added, which earned him a smile from his mother. Remus laughed, he sure would miss his best friend.
Remus looked back on the day that he and Sirius had gotten their letters for Hogwarts, they had been so happy. They made lots of plans, from how they would pester all the teachers, to how they would be the most popular and best looking guys in school, to how they would learn so much and become co-ministers of Magic. That was, of course, before his mom told him that he couldn't attend school. That was before he told Sirius that he would be living with his evil aunt Gertrude in the south of France because his mom didn't allow him to tell anyone that he was a werewolf. Now he would be spending his time in the poor, Sirius free neighborhood, learning magic by a coorespondance course. His dreams were shattered an hour after they had taken flight.
"Hey Remmie, are you ok? You have that glazed over look again, why don't we get you some hot cocoa?" asked Mrs. Black. Remus nodded his head yes. Maggie Black had become like a second mother to him, sometimes he thought that she loved him more than his own mother did. His own mom never called him Remmie or made him hot chocolate. His own mother never told him how well he could sing or how smart he was. Sometimes he wished that Mrs. Black really was his mom.
"Come on boys, it's time to go now!" yelled Mrs. Lupin. She handed some floo powder to each of the boys and they quickly threw it into the fire. Then they were gone.
***
"Mother, how exactly does one get to Hogwarts?" asked James Potter, a handsome, young, black haired boy with deep chocolate eyes.
"Why the train of course. You've known that sense you were just a little boy." replied Mrs. Potter, smiling at her son.
"No mother, that's not what I meant. I was actually wondering how, exactly, one gets there after he disembarks from the train. It's raining and I haven't any rain clothes," explained James, as if this was obvious.
"I wouldn't worry about that son. There are carriages. And I'm sure that if there weren't any they would make an exception for you, me being who I am and all," said Mr. Potter, patting his son on the head. James frowned and fixed his hair.
"But Dad, so what if you are the head auror and next in line for the minister of magic? That really doesn't pertain to me now does it? It's not like they are going to give me any special treatment there, right? That just wouldn't be fair," said James.
"Life's not fair, you should use it to your advantage." explained Mr. Potter. "Go on outside, the ministry has some cars waiting for us."
"I don't understand why we can't just go by floo powder," said James. Mr. Potter sighed.
"People of importance do not arrive to special occasions by floo powder, they make an entrance. I don't want them to think that you are some average, run of the mill boy who can't afford to travel by private automobile. How many times do I have to tell you that?" asked Mr. Potter.
"And I don't want people to think that I am some stuck-up little rich boy who has to depend on his father for everything!" yelled James. Mrs. Potter sighed.
"James, we've had this discussion before, don't argue with your father. He's older and wiser than you are," said Mrs. Potter.
"And in order to be old and wise you must first be young and stupid, right?" asked James, dropping the regal tone. For this he got a glare from each of his parents.
"Go outside now. I've have the elf bring out your bags," said Mr. Potter. James walked outside of their mansion defeatedly. As he got to the end of the gates he spotted Severus Snape, who was his neighbor and would be arriving in the same car as the Potters. Snape glared at him and James returned the glare.
"So Potter, all ready to go to school now? I'm sure your father has fixed it so that you get perfect grades, you probably won't have to worry about anything. But with you being so stupid and all, I'm sure someone will catch on sooner or later." said Severus.
"Yeah right. You know that's not true." responded James. Severus chuckled.
"If that's the best you can come up with, you're even stupider than I thought!" exclaimed Severus. James quickly thought up a good argument to that statement.
"Stupider isn't a word you know." he replied.
"It doesn't matter. You'll see when we get to school, I'll have all the popularity and you will be the stupid git that no one likes. It's just the way that the world works. Sorry Potter," said Severus. James was about to reply when Adamus Snape. Severus' father, came up from behind and rested his hand on his son's shoulder.
"Arguing, boys? Tisk tisk tisk, wouldn't want you to get in trouble on your first day of school. That just couldn't happen now could it?" said Adamus in his husky voice.
"He started it," mumbled James, taking his eyes of Adamus. He turned around to see his parents coming from behind.
"Oh, greetings Adamus. My how Severus has grown since we last saw him. It is really a pleasure to see both of you again," said Mr. Potter, extending his hand.
"The pleasure is all mine." replied Adamus, taking Mr. Potter's hand and shaking it. "I'm sure we will enjoy our time together on the way to Hogwarts. Speak of the devil, here come our cars now."
"Shall we?" asked Mrs. Potter, motioning to the cars. The Potters and the Snapes climbed in and soon they were off on the way to King's Cross station.
***
Lily Evans , a small, shy girl with vibrant red hair and bright green eyes, surveyed the many bags and belongs that surrounded her. Sadly, she put them all in her rather large trunk and began to go downstairs to where her parents and sister were waiting for her. She couldn't believe what was going to happen today, couldn't believe that she was about to leave everything that she had ever known to learn witchcraft and wizardry. Three weeks ago, she hadn't even known that such a school existed. Now, as she had read the books that she had gotten from a wizard bookshop, she knew quite a lot about this new magical world, and she was even more sure that she would never fit in.
For one thing, she was always being bullied and mocked by her older sister Petunia and her brat pack. Lily was about a foot shorter than her sister and wasn't known for speaking up, and when she did she was normally regarded as a freak. It wasn't really her fault though. Due to some very unusual circumstances, she was never as normal as one would suspect an eleven year old to be. For one thing, she was very smart, she always liked to learn new and exciting things, to enter worlds that she never knew existed. For another, she was always making things happen. She didn't mean for the water to all empty from the swimming pool, or for her neighbor's dog to start floating in mid-air, but for some reason these things always happened to her.
"Come on Lils, it's time to go!" yelled Mr. Evans, smiling at his daughter as he handed her a travel mug full of hot chocolate. "My little baby is growing up, I can't believe you're going to be gone." he added, on a sadder note. Lily sighed, she didn't like to be called little, even if it was by her parents.
"Hey princess, are you all ready to go to your new school?" asked Mrs. Evans. Lily nodded her head, and she began to head out the door. They were nearly there when Lily's mother realized that a member of their family was missing. "Petunia! PETUNIA! Get down her now, your sister is leaving and you need to see her off!" yelled Mrs. Evans. Petunia, a scrawny brunette with too much neck bounded down the stairs to the living room.
"I still don't understand why I have to come," said Petunia with a sigh. Mr. Evans gave her the Look.
"This is one of your last days with your sister. Today she will be leaving and it will be quite awhile before you see her again. It seems as if she's leaving for good." said Mrs. Evans, with tears running down her face.
"Is that a promise?" asked Petunia under her breath so her parents couldn't hear her. Lily didn't say anything. "Coward." said Petunia.
"Ok girls, into the car!" exclaimed Mr. Evans.
"Wait, one last picture of my baby girl with her big sister!" said Mrs. Evans. She pulled out a camera and snapped a photo. Then they got into the car and left for the station.
***
"Where do you have to go?" asked Mrs. Evans as they pulled up to Kings Cross Station. Lily took out her ticket and looked at it.
"It says I need to go to platform 9 and 3/4," said Lily casually as she put her ticket back in her pocket.
"Platform 9 and 3/4? That doens't make sense, there's no such thing. You people really are stupid," said Petunia, who had been acting particularly sour all day.
"Well that's what it says. I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out once we get there." said Lily. She got her trunk out of the back of her car and started walking inside. They walked inside of the beautiful, old station and walked down to where platforms 9 and 10 were. Lily was sure she would be able to find platform 9 and 3/4, but now she wasn't as confident. She just saw the solid-looking barrier between platforms 9 and 10.
"See, I told you it doesn't exist. Why don't we just pack up and go home and you can forget about your stupid hocus pocus." said Petunia, turning towards the exit. Just then Lily spotted a boy who looked as if he was going to Hogwarts also. He had a packed trunk and sweeping black robes. Lily watched to see how he got onto the platform. He walked toward the barrier, leaned against it and- he just disappeared. Then it made sense to Lily.
"Oh, this is so obvious I can't believe I didn't think of it. Regular people can't just find out about Hogwarts, it would be horrible. The entrance is concealed, you have to walk through that barrier!" exclaimed Lily.
"Oh how could I have been so stupid! You have to walk through a completly soild barrier, why didn't I think of that?" said Petunia sarcastically. Lily didn't respond, she somehow knew that the barrier wasn't solid. She summoned her courage and then walked straight towards the barrier, closed her eyes, didn't stop and she was through. Her parents and Petunia looked, wide eyed, at the way she had disappeared, and then her parents swelled with pride.
"Oh, she really is magical! It is so great having a witch in the family!" they exclaimed as they hugged. Petunia, feeling very left out, tryed to prove that she was wonderful also. She walked towards the barrier, kept walking, closed her eyes and BOOM she slammed into the barrier.
"Oh...My...God! My nose, my nose, I think it's broken!" yelled Petunia as her nose started to bleed. Her parents didn't seem to care that much though. They easily walked through the barrier and left Petunia outside. It took her about 7 more tries until she could get onto the platform.
"You little...you are so horrible, you and your abnormality! Look at my nose! My plastic suregon specifically told me not to do anything to it for three weeks and now look! It's all your fault. I hate you, I wish that I didn't have a sister!" yelled Petunia. Lily shrunk at the words and then felt a tap on her shoulder.
"Excuse me, are you a first year too? Hum, I'll take your silence as a yes. Why did you just let her yell at you like that? I have a much better thing that you could do to her," said a tall, dark haired, handsome boy that looked about the same age as Lily. He took out a wand and muttered something. Suddenly Petunia's nose swelled up to about the size of a small watermelon. Petunia grabbed it in fear and then ran towards the platform so she could get back to the muggle world, and once again she ran into the wall. Lily laughed at her sister, she had never seen her so afraid before.
"Thanks. I'm Lily Evans by the way," said Lily, extending her hand out to the boy.
"Sirius Black, pleased to meet ya!" said Sirius, shaking her hand. "So why did you let her yell at you like that? Why didn't you stand up for yourself?" Lily thought about that for awhile and realized that she didn't have an answer to that.
"I don't know..." said Lily. Sirius smiled.
"Look, she's coming back." he said, and Lily saw her sister, still clutching her nose. Then Lily decided something. She didn't want to be that shy girl that she always was growing up. She wanted to be someone better, someone who could be cool and spontaneous. She wanted to be the real her, the person she had always been afraid to be.
"Hey Petunia, you have some dirt on your nose. Here, let me help you with that," said Lily and, before Petunia knew it, Lily took out her wand and turned Petunia's nose bright blue. "Oops, I guess I'm not that good with my spells yet. Sorry!"
"You are just my kind of person!" said Sirius. "I'll save you a spot in my compartment on the train, ok? The last one. Toodles!"
"Lily, it's about time for you to get on the train," said Mrs. Evans. She pulled Lily into a hug.
"Good bye mum. I love you," said Lily. Then her dad hugged her.
"Now have fun. But not too much fun, okay?" said her father jokingly. Lily laughed.
"I'll be sure to keep the wild parties down to the bare minimum," said Lily. "Bye daddy, love you!" she yelled, and then she boarded the train.
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"Excuse me, Mrs. Lupin? I would like to talk to you about your son's time at Hogwarts," said an older, white-haired man with a certain amout of charisma and an enigmatic smile. Mrs. Lupin came over to him and shook his hand.
"Why Professor Dumbledore, this is a pleasent suprise!" she exclaimed, happy to see her old transfiguration teacher. "Now, I told Professor Dippet all about the special, um, circumstances that will prevent Remus from going to school. Are you going to help on his coorespondance learning?"
"Whatever do you mean? Coorespondance learning? It was my knowledge that he was going to be staying at Hogwarts with everyone else!" said Professor Dumbledore. "It would be a shame for me to take down all the precautionary structures that were put up for his safety and that of everyone around him." said Dumbledore. Mrs. Lupin was suprised.
"But sir, Headmaster Dippet said that there was no possible way for Remus to attend Hogwarts. I don't understand." she said. Dumbledore smiled.
"Headmaster Dippet resigned. I'm the new headmaster, and I see no reason why Remus can't attend Hogwarts like any other student. Tell him to board the train at once, we don't want him to be late," said Dumbledore. Mrs. Lupin quickly went out and fetched her somber looking son.
"Remus, the new headmaster has arranged it so that you can go to Hogwarts!" she exclaimed. Remus' face lit up and he smiled at his mom.
"Really! Oh, this is great! I have to go and tell Sirius. I have to go, the train is about to leave! But my stuff, it's all at home, how am I going to get it?" asked Remus. Mrs. Lupin smiled.
"I'll make sure that it's taken to Hogwarts. Now go on the train, it's time for you to leave!" exclaimed Mrs. Lupin. Remus smiled at her once again, gave her a big hug, and then boarded the Hogwarts express
A/N-Well, there it is, the first chapter of The Scarlet Dawn. This is a prequal to Green Eyes, which is my other story, but really you don't have to read that one first. This story will span 1st through 4th years, and it will definatly NOT be cliche. Trust me, I hate cliches as much as you do. Also, don't expect too much fluff, especially in their first and second years. You have to figure that as 11 and 12 year olds they can't really have too much romance. Please review the story, I am a review junkie. They just make me really happy!
Disclaimer- Harry Potter and all the Harry Potter characters belong to J.K. Rowling. I don't own them, all I own is the idea. I'm not trying to pretend to be her. Please don't sue me!