Chapter 3 ~*~ The Hogwarts Express
Lily woke up at half past seven the next morning, and immediately began to get ready to leave. By eight she had showered, dressed, checked her trunk, and managed to lug it to the front door. Today, Lily had dressed in tight flared jeans, and a plain black t-shirt, and she had left her hair down. She decided that she didn't want to have to mess with it that morning, because she was so nervous about the house she would be put in, and whether or not she would make friends.
After an hour of complete panic on Lily's part, it was finally nine, and Lily, Petunia, and Lily's parents, were loading her trunk in to the car, and then drove to King's Cross Station, in London. Petunia had basically avoided Lily all of vacation since the letter came from Hogwarts. Lily didn't really mind this at all, but when it caused her to see more and more of Petunia's boyfriend, Vernon Dursley, it got quite disturbing. So even being in the same car as Petunia didn't cause them to talk what so ever. They sat on opposite sides of the car, and never looked at each other.
Almost the whole hour and a half, during the car ride, Lily couldn't stay in her seat. She would keep bouncing up and down, or she would just keep on talking to her parents. When they were only fifteen minutes away, Lily began to get even more nervous than before.
"What if I fail? What if people hate me? What if I'm too ugly to make friends?"
That was the last stage for Petunia. She couldn't stand it anymore. "OH SHUT UP LILY! You know you're too smart, you know no one will hate you, and for crying out loud, you're FREAKIN GEORGEOUS TO MOST GUYS!"
Everyone fell silent at that last comment. Lily looked like she could start crying with happiness, and her parents were in total shock.
"Oh Petunia! Thank You!"
"Er.sure? Now get off me."
Lily had leapt at Petunia in the car and started hugging her, only seconds after the outburst. They both, for those few seconds, looked like they were going to get along, but it didn't last long.
"You're still a total FREAK! Now you're going to get out and go meet the rest of your FREAK friends, when we get there."
Everyone knew Lily was quite hurt, but Lily just turned around, and looked back out the window without another word. A good ten minutes later, they were at King's Cross, and loading Lily's trunk, and Alkik's cage onto a trolley. They rolled the trolley up to the barrier between platforms nine and ten. After saying their good-bye's, and all of Lily's promises to owl her mother twice a week, Lily's parents left to go find Petunia. Lily just stared at the wall for a minute. It was only half past ten, and she still had a half hour before the train left.
"Well.here goes." And with that, Lily ran at the barrier between platforms nine and ten, only to come out of the other side of the wall at platform nine and three-quarters.
"Wow!" Lily was breathless. "The Hogwarts Express? That must be the name." With that, Lily took off, and found an empty compartment near the end of the train. She had been right. There were very few people there so far, so she just lugged her trunk and Alkik's cage into her compartment, and sat down. She marveled at the splendor of the place. It was nothing like the trains she had ridden before, and she liked it quite a bit. Lily figured she wasn't really likely to meet anyone anytime soon, so she pulled out Quidditch Through the Ages. She really thought that quidditch sounded like a great sport, and was really interested in the chaser position.
When Lily finally looked up, and put the book down, she found that nearly two hours had gone by. Just then Lily heard quite a bit of giggling coming from outside her compartment, and then someone knocked on the door. Immediately, Lily opened the door, anxious to make friends. She opened the door, to see three girls.
"Is this compartment full? We sort of need a place to sit." The closest girl asked.
"Sure, come on in." Lily was amazed at how much the three girls were alike. They all had so much about each other that was the same, yet everything was so different.
The girl, who first asked to come in, held out her hand. "Hello, my name is Allison Sears." Allison had dirty blonde hair that was a few inches past her shoulders. Her eyes were a blue-gray, and Lily could see them twinkle with mischief. She was about 4' 8", and was quite skinny. All in all, she was very pretty.
"Lily Evans." Lily said, extending her hand as well.
"Great. These are my friends." Allison gestured to them, and in turn, they introduced themselves.
"Katie Grilliot." Katie was also blonde, but her hair was snot quite as dark. She had a great smile, and her eyes were a blue-green. She was also quite skinny, and was about 4' 9". Lily found that she liked Katie quite a bit also, and Katie seemed to be the nicest of the group.
Then the final girl held out her hand. "Hannah Santino." Hannah had the blondest hair out of the group. Her eyes were a crystal-blue, and Lily could see the same mischief she saw in Allison's. When Hannah smiled, Lily knew she'd have at least ten guys fall for that alone. She was the skinniest out of the three, and about 4' 6".
"It's nice to meet you all!" Lily cheered.
"So are you a first year Lily?" Katie asked. She was very into getting to know who could be in her house.
"Yep. How about all of you?"
"Uh-huh." Three voices echoed around the compartment, and they all burst out laughing at once.
"So what house do you all want to be in?" Allison asked, once they all calmed down.
"Gryffindor!" This time it was all four of them, and this caused them to laugh even harder than before.
Allison was laughing so hard, that she rolled off her seat and fell on the floor, causing even more laughter. Hannah soon followed suit, and was even rolling around. In the process of this, nobody even noticed three heads poke in to see what the commotion was about. Fortunately, Lily did see them all poke back out, and attempted recovery. So Allison, Hannah, and Katie continued on with their laughter, and just watched Lily walk to the door.
Lily was having trouble keeping a straight face. It was so hard after seeing their confused expressions. Lily opened the door, and peered out at the three boys. "W-Would you l-like to c-come in?" She said all of this through stifled laughs.
A boy with sandy blonde hair, and chocolate-brown eyes, answered her first. "Is it safe?" he joked.
At this, Lily burst out laughing, and Hannah came to her rescue. "Sure it is, we won't bite." And with that, she beckoned them all in, and flashed her smile.
Allison had gotten up by now, but was crying from laughing so hard, and was leaning on Katie's shoulder, who seemed to have calmed down.
"Allison, snap out of it!" Katie said, shoving Allison off her shoulder, and this seemed to calm her down. Lily was just having trouble figuring out how.
The boys were all, checking out the girls, and what damage their laughter did, or would have done to the compartment. Eventually after a few minutes of silence, the tallest of the three, introduced him self.
"I'm Sirius Black." Sirius was tall, and well built. He was about 5'1" to be exact. He had black hair that came down to his shoulders, and warm gorgeous gray eyes.
Then the next boy stepped forward, and stuck out his hand to Lily. "James Potter." He said. James had very untidy jet-black hair, and black glasses, that hid his sapphire-blue eyes. He was also well built, and was about 5' even. Lily actually found him to be quite attractive.
Finally, the boy that Lily and Hannah had spoken to before stepped forward. "Remus-", but he didn't get to finish.
"Lupin, right?" Allison had cut him off.
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"Professor McGonagall told me about you. My name is Allison Sears." Allison answered all of this with a very large grin, and she held out her hand to Remus, who took it and shook.
"Well I didn't think we'd meet this soon." Everyone noticed, that he to had on a huge grin.
"Nope. Neither did I."
"Well.now that you two have become acquainted." Hannah felt it necessary to cut in. She even looked a bit scared, as did Katie. "My name is Hannah Santino."
"Lily Evans."
"And I'm Katie Grilliot."
"Nice to meet you." Sirius said this to both Katie and Hannah, but he seemed to look at Hannah a bit more, before turning to look at Allison.
The seven of them continued on with their conversations ranging from classes, to houses, to quidditch (Lily was quite interested in what everyone had to say about this topic), to mischief. Allison, Sirius, Hannah, and Remus, turned out to seem more interested in this subject. At the one point when the lady with the food cart came by, nearly the whole cart was bought out. Sirius and Allison had at least twenty chocolate frogs each. Lily really didn't understand all the different candies. So while the boys dug in, the girls all had a fun time messing with the candy, and explaining it to Lily.
When there was only about ten minutes left, they all wished each other luck, and prayed they all got into Gryffindor, which is where they all wanted to go.
The girls watched the guys leave, and then they all began changing into their school robes. After they all had changed, and packed the remainder of sweets and other items back into their trunks (Allison, Hannah, and Katie had brought theirs with them), they all just sat back and began to talk, when the train slowed, and stopped.
"Good Luck," they all said as they stepped out of their compartment. Lily was terrified, as were the others. They were all thinking the same thing. `What if I'm in a different house?' Soon enough they were at the doors of the train. "Here goes," and with that they all stepped off the train.
Lily woke up at half past seven the next morning, and immediately began to get ready to leave. By eight she had showered, dressed, checked her trunk, and managed to lug it to the front door. Today, Lily had dressed in tight flared jeans, and a plain black t-shirt, and she had left her hair down. She decided that she didn't want to have to mess with it that morning, because she was so nervous about the house she would be put in, and whether or not she would make friends.
After an hour of complete panic on Lily's part, it was finally nine, and Lily, Petunia, and Lily's parents, were loading her trunk in to the car, and then drove to King's Cross Station, in London. Petunia had basically avoided Lily all of vacation since the letter came from Hogwarts. Lily didn't really mind this at all, but when it caused her to see more and more of Petunia's boyfriend, Vernon Dursley, it got quite disturbing. So even being in the same car as Petunia didn't cause them to talk what so ever. They sat on opposite sides of the car, and never looked at each other.
Almost the whole hour and a half, during the car ride, Lily couldn't stay in her seat. She would keep bouncing up and down, or she would just keep on talking to her parents. When they were only fifteen minutes away, Lily began to get even more nervous than before.
"What if I fail? What if people hate me? What if I'm too ugly to make friends?"
That was the last stage for Petunia. She couldn't stand it anymore. "OH SHUT UP LILY! You know you're too smart, you know no one will hate you, and for crying out loud, you're FREAKIN GEORGEOUS TO MOST GUYS!"
Everyone fell silent at that last comment. Lily looked like she could start crying with happiness, and her parents were in total shock.
"Oh Petunia! Thank You!"
"Er.sure? Now get off me."
Lily had leapt at Petunia in the car and started hugging her, only seconds after the outburst. They both, for those few seconds, looked like they were going to get along, but it didn't last long.
"You're still a total FREAK! Now you're going to get out and go meet the rest of your FREAK friends, when we get there."
Everyone knew Lily was quite hurt, but Lily just turned around, and looked back out the window without another word. A good ten minutes later, they were at King's Cross, and loading Lily's trunk, and Alkik's cage onto a trolley. They rolled the trolley up to the barrier between platforms nine and ten. After saying their good-bye's, and all of Lily's promises to owl her mother twice a week, Lily's parents left to go find Petunia. Lily just stared at the wall for a minute. It was only half past ten, and she still had a half hour before the train left.
"Well.here goes." And with that, Lily ran at the barrier between platforms nine and ten, only to come out of the other side of the wall at platform nine and three-quarters.
"Wow!" Lily was breathless. "The Hogwarts Express? That must be the name." With that, Lily took off, and found an empty compartment near the end of the train. She had been right. There were very few people there so far, so she just lugged her trunk and Alkik's cage into her compartment, and sat down. She marveled at the splendor of the place. It was nothing like the trains she had ridden before, and she liked it quite a bit. Lily figured she wasn't really likely to meet anyone anytime soon, so she pulled out Quidditch Through the Ages. She really thought that quidditch sounded like a great sport, and was really interested in the chaser position.
When Lily finally looked up, and put the book down, she found that nearly two hours had gone by. Just then Lily heard quite a bit of giggling coming from outside her compartment, and then someone knocked on the door. Immediately, Lily opened the door, anxious to make friends. She opened the door, to see three girls.
"Is this compartment full? We sort of need a place to sit." The closest girl asked.
"Sure, come on in." Lily was amazed at how much the three girls were alike. They all had so much about each other that was the same, yet everything was so different.
The girl, who first asked to come in, held out her hand. "Hello, my name is Allison Sears." Allison had dirty blonde hair that was a few inches past her shoulders. Her eyes were a blue-gray, and Lily could see them twinkle with mischief. She was about 4' 8", and was quite skinny. All in all, she was very pretty.
"Lily Evans." Lily said, extending her hand as well.
"Great. These are my friends." Allison gestured to them, and in turn, they introduced themselves.
"Katie Grilliot." Katie was also blonde, but her hair was snot quite as dark. She had a great smile, and her eyes were a blue-green. She was also quite skinny, and was about 4' 9". Lily found that she liked Katie quite a bit also, and Katie seemed to be the nicest of the group.
Then the final girl held out her hand. "Hannah Santino." Hannah had the blondest hair out of the group. Her eyes were a crystal-blue, and Lily could see the same mischief she saw in Allison's. When Hannah smiled, Lily knew she'd have at least ten guys fall for that alone. She was the skinniest out of the three, and about 4' 6".
"It's nice to meet you all!" Lily cheered.
"So are you a first year Lily?" Katie asked. She was very into getting to know who could be in her house.
"Yep. How about all of you?"
"Uh-huh." Three voices echoed around the compartment, and they all burst out laughing at once.
"So what house do you all want to be in?" Allison asked, once they all calmed down.
"Gryffindor!" This time it was all four of them, and this caused them to laugh even harder than before.
Allison was laughing so hard, that she rolled off her seat and fell on the floor, causing even more laughter. Hannah soon followed suit, and was even rolling around. In the process of this, nobody even noticed three heads poke in to see what the commotion was about. Fortunately, Lily did see them all poke back out, and attempted recovery. So Allison, Hannah, and Katie continued on with their laughter, and just watched Lily walk to the door.
Lily was having trouble keeping a straight face. It was so hard after seeing their confused expressions. Lily opened the door, and peered out at the three boys. "W-Would you l-like to c-come in?" She said all of this through stifled laughs.
A boy with sandy blonde hair, and chocolate-brown eyes, answered her first. "Is it safe?" he joked.
At this, Lily burst out laughing, and Hannah came to her rescue. "Sure it is, we won't bite." And with that, she beckoned them all in, and flashed her smile.
Allison had gotten up by now, but was crying from laughing so hard, and was leaning on Katie's shoulder, who seemed to have calmed down.
"Allison, snap out of it!" Katie said, shoving Allison off her shoulder, and this seemed to calm her down. Lily was just having trouble figuring out how.
The boys were all, checking out the girls, and what damage their laughter did, or would have done to the compartment. Eventually after a few minutes of silence, the tallest of the three, introduced him self.
"I'm Sirius Black." Sirius was tall, and well built. He was about 5'1" to be exact. He had black hair that came down to his shoulders, and warm gorgeous gray eyes.
Then the next boy stepped forward, and stuck out his hand to Lily. "James Potter." He said. James had very untidy jet-black hair, and black glasses, that hid his sapphire-blue eyes. He was also well built, and was about 5' even. Lily actually found him to be quite attractive.
Finally, the boy that Lily and Hannah had spoken to before stepped forward. "Remus-", but he didn't get to finish.
"Lupin, right?" Allison had cut him off.
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"Professor McGonagall told me about you. My name is Allison Sears." Allison answered all of this with a very large grin, and she held out her hand to Remus, who took it and shook.
"Well I didn't think we'd meet this soon." Everyone noticed, that he to had on a huge grin.
"Nope. Neither did I."
"Well.now that you two have become acquainted." Hannah felt it necessary to cut in. She even looked a bit scared, as did Katie. "My name is Hannah Santino."
"Lily Evans."
"And I'm Katie Grilliot."
"Nice to meet you." Sirius said this to both Katie and Hannah, but he seemed to look at Hannah a bit more, before turning to look at Allison.
The seven of them continued on with their conversations ranging from classes, to houses, to quidditch (Lily was quite interested in what everyone had to say about this topic), to mischief. Allison, Sirius, Hannah, and Remus, turned out to seem more interested in this subject. At the one point when the lady with the food cart came by, nearly the whole cart was bought out. Sirius and Allison had at least twenty chocolate frogs each. Lily really didn't understand all the different candies. So while the boys dug in, the girls all had a fun time messing with the candy, and explaining it to Lily.
When there was only about ten minutes left, they all wished each other luck, and prayed they all got into Gryffindor, which is where they all wanted to go.
The girls watched the guys leave, and then they all began changing into their school robes. After they all had changed, and packed the remainder of sweets and other items back into their trunks (Allison, Hannah, and Katie had brought theirs with them), they all just sat back and began to talk, when the train slowed, and stopped.
"Good Luck," they all said as they stepped out of their compartment. Lily was terrified, as were the others. They were all thinking the same thing. `What if I'm in a different house?' Soon enough they were at the doors of the train. "Here goes," and with that they all stepped off the train.