Chapter 1
"Mommy! Is she here yet?" asked a young redhead by the name of Lily. "We've been here FOREVER!"
"Hush Lily! You'll attract the attention of others in the train station," her mother, a blonde-haired, green-eyed, middle-aged woman replied.
"But mom," Lily said in that overly annoying voice that all mothers love. "I want to see Petty now!"
"Lily, you're ten years old! Start acting like it!" replied Emily, Lily's mom, while gently massaging her temples. They, Lily and her mom, had been at the train station for over an hour. Petunia, Lily's senior by three years, had neglected to tell her family what time the Hogwarts Express would be arriving home and so they decided to arrive at the same time they always did. Unfortunately, the Hogwarts Express had decided to come later this year, leaving Lily and Emily to wait on one of the uncomfortable, wooden benches that the muggle train stations provide. Also, the fact that they were in the middle of an early summer heat wave did not help matters.
The reason they were there in the first place is because Petunia attended a boarding school. At least that's what they told all their friends. In actuality, Petunia attended a magical school called Hogwarts. Hogwarts is untraceable and therefore the exact location is unknown. It is definitely located in Scotland though; at least that's what the high ministry officials say. Anyway, Petunia received her acceptance letter to Hogwarts when she was eleven, three years ago. It notified her of her magical abilities and asked her to consider attending Hogwarts where she would be allowed to train and perfect the magic within her. Of course, being the muggle-born that she was, Petunia's curiosity eventually won her over to the idea and she has been attending Hogwarts for the last three years, only coming home on holidays. It has taken her family the full three years to fully accept the fact that they had a witch in the family, since they are muggles, or non-magic folk. Actually, it has taken Lily and Emily those three years as John, Lily and Petunia's father, had left home as soon as he learned of Petunia's abilities. They haven't heard from him since.
This summer was to be an exciting summer for both Lily and Petunia as it was this summer that Lily would be turning eleven. They wanted to see if Lily got accepted into Hogwarts as well so that the Evans sisters could wreck havoc at that school together.
A noise off to the right of where Emily and Lily were sitting alerted them to the presence of other people near by. Lily immediately whirled around and sure enough, there were people coming out of the wall between platforms nine and ten, the location of the magical platform that would take the magical students to Hogwarts. Jumping up on the bench in excitement, Lily began to furiously scan the crowd for any sign of her blonde-haired, blue-eyed sister. She continued this activity for several minutes when, with an excited squeak, Lily jumped down from the bench and dove into the crowds. Emily sighed as she watched her youngest disappear from sight. She was used to this after three years but she still couldn't get over her worry for both her daughters getting lost in that crowd. Anxiously, she scanned the crowd, looking for both curly red hair and straight blonde hair.
Meanwhile, Lily was making her way through the crowds to where she had finally spotted her sister. As usual, Petunia was chatting with some blonde guy with an ever-present sneer on his face and another guy with the same sneer but with greasy black hair. Whenever Lily went to get her sister, she was always talking with them and they gave her the chills. Nevertheless, Lily always did her sisterly duty of greeting her sister. She finally broke out of the crowd and into some open space. Glancing around, Lily spotted her sister but a few yards away and started to head over to her. Before she had gone but two steps, a hand on her shoulder stopped her. She turned around only to see four boys standing there.
These four boys were the infamous Marauders. There was James, with his unruly black hair, glasses, and brown eyes, Sirius with his longer black hair, blue eyes and the trademark grin, Remus with his sandy-brown hair and gentle gray eyes, and Peter with his light brown hair and sparkling blue eyes.
"Excuse me miss, but I don't think you should be going towards those three," warned Remus. Since the Marauders had just ended their first year at Hogwarts, they did not yet know that Petunia had a sister, and that this sister was Lily.
"I know what I'm doing," Lily replied.
"No, I don't think you do. You see those three; well their icky, slimy Slytherins and they may give you some incurable disease if you get too close. Especially Snape, since I don't believe he has washed his hair in his lifetime. I don't even think he could wash his hair if you gave him an instruction manual that even the illiterate could follow!" said Sirius.
"Well is that so," Lily said calmly. "I'm so glad you told me all of that because the girl over there just happens to be my…."
"LILY!" came the shrill voice of Petunia. "Get away from those stupid Gryffindors right now!"
"Coming!" Lily yelled back. She turned to the Marauders. "Sister," she said, finishing her sentence from before.
"Oh," commented Sirius. "Sorry mate."
With that, the Marauders turned to walk away, but didn't fail to shoot dirty looks at Malfoy, Snape and Petunia.
Lily sighed and turned to begin the trek to her sister. As she came close to her sister and her gang, Lily caught a glimpse of Snape's hair and let out a little giggle, thinking about Sirius' comment of course. Snape, being the dense Slytherin that he is, immediately thought that Lily had a crush on him. Of course, Snape was a very desperate man since the girls at his school avoided him like the plague. His greasy hair was an immediate turn-off. He began the utterly disgusting action of flirting with Petunia's little sister.
Totally freaked out, Lily grabbed Petunia's hand and dragged her through the crowd to where she had left their mom. "Lily, why did you do that? I still had to finish planning where to meet them next year!"
"Petty, did you see the way Snape was looking at me? Ew! Besides, you'll meet them in the very middle compartment of the train, as usual. Come on! Mom's waiting."
A few minutes later, Emily relaxed as she saw a shock of red hair dragging a blonde behind her. Her daughters were safe as usual and they could finally go home for the rest of the summer.
For the sisters, the first couple weeks of summer took forever. They couldn't wait to see if Lily received an acceptance letter from Hogwarts. These couple of weeks were filled with stories upon stories of Petunia's experiences at Hogwarts. Finally, the awaited day arrived. Both Petty and Lily were up at five (in the morning) and sitting at the breakfast table, staring out the window for the familiar figure of a flying owl. They were still in this position when Emily walked down the stairs two hours later.
"Oh my Goodness! You two nearly gave me a heart attack!" Emily exclaimed, holding a hand to her heart. "Normally, you would still be in bed for a few more hours! What are you doing up this early anyway?"
"Hogwarts letters," came Petunia's short reply.
"Ah, I see. And have you two had breakfast yet?"
Lily and Petunia both turned around and stared at their mother. Making breakfast in the summertime; was she mad? They turned to each other, shrugged, and continued to look out the window.
Emily sighed. She should have known better. She turned to the fridge and grabbed some eggs and bacon, preparing to yet again whip something up for her darling daughters to eat, seeing as they were too lazy to do it themselves. Oh well, she thought with a sigh, this is the thanks that I get for giving birth to those ungrateful kids!
An hour later, after Lily and Petunia ate their breakfast and were forced to do the dishes by none other than their mother, an owl appeared on the horizon. The long awaited moment had finally arrived and the girls could not take the suspense any longer. They got up, ran out the door, and attempted to meet the owl halfway. This of course confused the owl, since he was supposed to deliver it to a Lily and Petunia Evans who were supposed to be in the kitchen. Anyways, the owl did recognize Lily and Petunia Evans (he had delivered to this house before) and decided that it wasn't worth flying all the way to the house if they were running to meet him. He dropped from the sky to land on Petunia's out stretched arm.
Lily squealed and carefully, but quickly untied the letter from the owl's foot. She ripped it open and out fell what looked like 2 different packages, one labeled to Lily and the other to Petunia. She smiled and shouted, "I'm a witch!" at the top of her lungs. Petunia quickly put her hand over her sister's mouth, whispering, "Lily I wouldn't be yelling that unless you want to find yourself at the stake!" Petunia skillfully guided Lily into the house where Lily ran off to tell her mother the good news. The owl was given food and drink and two acceptance letters and then was off on its way back to Hogwarts.
"Girls!" Emily exclaimed, "Looks like we're going to Diagon Alley!"
And a couple weeks later, they did indeed head off to Diagon Alley.
Disclaimer: In the beginning.
A/N: A new chap… all in one day. Though those of you that follow me know that I don't usually update so quick, but I'll try to be better.