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Chapter Three

"Hey, Hermione. How was your summer?" Harry said, hugging her as they entered their compartment.

"Good. We went to Egypt to visit the pyramids, and I learned tons on all the ancient Egyptian wizards, it was all very interesting." Hermione replied, hugging Ron before sitting back down in her seat.

"Wicked. How long were you there for?" Ron asked, taking a seat next to Hermione.

"Not very long. Just about a week," she replied back. Then she remembered something that she wanted to ask them. "Before the train left the station, and you all came here, did you all, by any chance, feel the ground shake and a cold wind blast through the train earlier?"

"Why, yes we did." Harry said, remembering it.

"It was rather odd, really." Ron said, also remembering it. "Although it didn't just happen apparently through just the train, it did the same throughout the station as well."

"I wonder what it was. Earthquakes don't usually come around these parts. Oh,well. I guess we'll never know." Hermione said, shrugging.

They all nodded, and there was a paused silence between the three friends.

Then, Harry looked at the compartment door just in time to see a girl about his age with fire-red hair pass his door.

//Who is that?// he wondered. //I've never seen her before.//

Harry got up, looked down the hall just in time to see her turn into a compartment. //Oh,well,// he thought, sitting back down in her seat.

"What's going on, Harry?" Ron asked, curiously.

"Oh, nothing. I just thought I saw someone new, and I tried to get a peek to see if they were or not."

"Well? Were they?"

Harry just shrugged. "They turned quickly into an compartment. I only got to see a glimpse of her hair. That's it."

They all nodded again, and then decided that they should play something to make the train ride go faster, so they played several games of Wizard Chess.

About two hours later into the train ride, Fred and George joined them. Fred was wearing a sticker that said 'George', and George was wearing a sticker that said 'Fred'. They laughed at their stickers, but they could tell which one was which. They had spent too much time with them to be able to distinguish themselves to the three.

Hello you all, fine people. What'ca doing?" the twins chorused, taking the unclaimed seats.

"Trying to find stuff to do." Harry and Ron replied, but Hermione was reading the newest school books, so she was quite content.

"Hmmm..."the twins whispered quietly to each other for a few seconds. "Well, what would you all say to some excitement within the whole train?"

When the twins smiled their famous 'mischievous' smile, Harry and Ron nodded enthiuscantly, wondering what they were planning on doing.

The two twins smiled and pulled out 9 Filibuster Fireworks. They went into the hallway, and set them off quickly, before returning inside.

Hermione shook her head at the boys, but you could see a smile peeking out from behind the Transfiguration book she was now reading.

In a matter of seconds, there were people screaming.

Their compartment thought it was extremely funny, and couldn't stop their laughing.

From then on, they entertained themselves with jokes and some more games(with a few more pranks here and there).

Then the train intercom came on. "Attention all Hogwarts students. The train arrives in ten minutes time. Ten minutes time. Those who are not already dressed in their official uniforms, please do so now at this time."

They all looked at each other and smiled. This would be the first so-called 'normal' year. No more Voldemort, no more DeathEaters to worry about.

Just magic, spells. Everyday normal stuff to them.

Oh. How they were wrong.

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Lily entered the train and went to her and the Marauders regular compartment, which had always been in the back of the train. She entered to find three of the Marauders, just settling down themselves into seats.

"Hey Lilers! What's going on? How'd your summer go?" Sirius asked upon seeing her.

Lily sat down next to Remus. "Fine, fine. Hey, where's Peter? Doesn't he usually sit with us going up to the school?"

James went to sit down next to Sirius. He shrugged. "We don't know where he is. We waited for him, but he never showed up at our regular meeting place."

"Ah, okay. Did you notice how many new people there are this year? I looked in almost each compartment on this side, and I recognised nobody." Sirius said.

"Same here. Maybe they imposed a new rule that this part of the train is just for the first years?" Remus said, pulling some home-made pumpkin pastries out of his pocket. His mum was always making them something to eat. "Here you go. Courtesy of my mum."

"Oh. Yum. Thanks Remmy." they all replied, eating them quickly. When then noticed that Remus didn't eat one himself, they were curious why he didn't. "Remus?"

"Hm?"

"Why aren't you eating one?" they asked.

"Well, if I eat one, then I'll want another one. And then, I will want another one after that. And then, by the time we reach the school, I won't have enough room in my stomach to eat all those delicious foods they serve."

They all laughed, nodding. Halfway through the ride, they were starting to get a bit tired and bored.

Lily took a glance at Sirius, and laughed inside of her head. //He has one of those mischievous looks again. Like he's thinking about doing something prankish...// she thought, burying her face into her newest Muggle fiction book, Sense and Sensibility. She had received it in the mail during the summer from a secret admirer.

After reading a few chapters and starting to feel the consequences of reading while in a moving train, she set away her book to come to see the faces of three scheming boys.

She shook her head, barely making out single words, like: Filibuster, water, shampoo, that Slytherin; but she knew what/who they were talking about.

The Marauders/Gryffindors hated the Slytherins, and the Slytherins hated the Gryffindors/Marauders.

Sirius reached into his luggage and pulled out a few Filibuster Fireworks, smiling rather evilly. Sirius was about to set them off in the hallway, when something exploded, flying past their door.

"Damn. Obviously somebody had the same idea we did," Sirius pouted, putting the fireworks back where they came from.

Lily smiled, patting his back. "There, there, Siri. Don't worry. You'll get your chance soon enough."

This perked him up, and he smiled.

They played a few games of Wizard Chess, and a game or two of the Muggle game of Poker, which Lily tried to teach them.

After a while, they become tired again, and were awoken by two things. Their growling stomachs, and by the Intercom that told them that they would be arriving in ten minutes.

They yawned, and got ready.

"So..you all ready for another year?" James asked, cleaning up their mess that they made.

"Not really." they all mumbled, getting their uniforms on.

James laughed. "Me neither."

They laughed, as they felt the train slowly come to a stop.

Remus glanced at his three friends. "Ready?"

They nodded. "Ready."

They sighed once, before leaving their compartment.

They were half-way down the hall-way, when a compartment door to their right opened suddenly, and a group of people ran out quickly, colliding hard with them, knocking them all to the ground.

'Ow!' they all yelped, as they fall on top of each other.

James hated to be fallen on, and got quite angry when someone fell on himwho wouldn't?. "Hey, why don't you--" He stopped short when he saw something that made his stomach lurch.

It was James. But not. I mean, himself. A mirror image of himself, staring back at him with just as much disbelief on his face as he was sure was upon his own face. His mirror-image copy had the same colour of hair, same type of hair at that, and the same type of glasses that he wore. The only difference was his eyes. They reminded him of someone. It reminded him of Lily's eyes. It shrugged it off, as he stared again at the image in front of him.

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A/N: Okay, Okay. I hope this wasn't too bad. I really hadn't wanted them to meet on the train, but in the school. BUT, people asked me(whoever DID review) to do it on the train, so I did it. I just had this dream that James and Harry were circling each other poking each other, to see if the other one was real or not. Oh,well. It probably worked out well in my head....just probably not on paper though. Anyways, I have 2 pages written for the next chapter, and I really need to start writing some more, don't I? I hope so, because I don't want this story to be sucky and I am wasting time on it when I don't need to be. Please give comments. And also, to one of my reviewers, who had pointed out what she thought JKR would of thought, and I have thought about it. I have decided to eventually change the story so that it could fight into the regular story line, but not for a while. I'd like to write atleast a few more chapters, and then I can go back and revise them. How's that? Anyways, PLEASE review and tell me what you think. Laters.

P.S. PLEASE read my 'How come you never saw me?' story. I have the next two chapters up(sucky ones), and no one has reviewed yet. I don't care what type they are, just do so. I like to get reviews no matter what they say. *pouts* Please? o.o

P.P.S. You'll have to get used to be saying that ALL my stories are sucky, because I really do see them that way. I am EXTREMELY surprised when people review them and say that they are good. When they say 'okay story', I nearly have a heart attack and have to double check that they reviewed the right story, and accidentally got my story instead. Okay, that's all I got to say...for now.