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Chapter Three

Potter and Black, meet Evans and Lupin

Kings Cross was busier then usual. People were hurrying around, trying to catch their trains.

"Run straight at the barrier between platforms nine and ten." Was what her mother had told her, but she didn't really feel like doing it alone. She stared at it, trying to stop her stomach from doing dances.

Two boys passed her. They were carrying an owl and trunk each and chatting animatedly. "-Can't believe you got in Sirius." One of them was saying. He was short and scrawny, with circle glasses and hair that was black and stuck up at the back.

"You're sure to be sent back James. You look too short to go to Hogwarts." The other replied. He was only slightly taller then the other boy, with straight black hair and black eyes.

Lily moved closer to see if they would really run at the barrier. They leaned on it casually and then, disappeared. Lily gasped and then moved slowly forward. She stared at the barrier, and just as a group of people passed her, she slipped through to Platform Nine and Three Quarters.

The scarlet train was packed. Lily quickly jumped on the train, pulling her trunk and Eleanor (her owl) onto the train and finding a compartment. Stowing her luggage, except, Quidditch Through the Ages which she opened to the page about the players.

The whistle of the conductor ran down towards her ears and then the slamming of doors. People were hanging out of windows saying good bye, but Lily sat there, wondering why her mother would appear in public.

There was a knock on her door and then it slide open. "I don't think-" a voice said and the boy from the muggle side of the platform appeared. He looked at Lily, his blue eyes intense. "Oh, I'm sorry." He said, "Look, there's no where else to sit on the train, mind if me and my friend hang out in here?"

"No." Lily replied, covering her face with her hair and bending back to her book.

"Oh, thanks." The boy said. "Oy Sirius, we can be in here!" he called out to his friend.

They entered and sat opposite to Lily. "So—what's your name?" the boy with the glasses asked.

"Lily Evans." Lily replied. "You?" she glanced up at them, revealing her startling eyes.

"James." The boy with the glasses said not taking his eyes away from her eyes. "James Potter."

"Nice to meet you James." Lily said, then glanced at the other.

"Sirius Black." The other boy said.

"Nice to meet you Sirius." Lily said.

"So—" James started lamely. "What house do you want to be in Lily?" he asked.

"Oh—" Lily's mind darted to Hogwarts, A History that was at the bottom of her trunk. She hadn't started it. "Well, I'm muggle born," her mother had told her to say that, to be safe, "So I don't know. I mean my mother got me Hogwarts, A History but I haven't touched it yet. I'm committing to memory the rules of Quidditch."

"Oh you like Quidditch?" James asked excitedly.

"I haven't seen it played but it sound exciting." Lily admitted.

"James here is quite a chaser." Sirius put in.

"Really?" Lily asked interested.

"Yep." Sirius replied. James punched him. "Ow. Wha'smatter James?" James glared at his friend.

"Are you first years?" a quiet voice asked at the door way.

"Yes." All three of them replied looking up to see a boy with mouse brown hair and tired bags under his grey, flecked with amber, eyes.

"Mind if I sit in here?" he asked.

"Sure." James said, offering the seat next to Lily. Lily didn't contradict him, even though she would have liked to.

The boy sagged into the seat and closed his eyes. "Are you a first year?" Lily asked quietly.

"Yes, I am." The boy said, opening his eyes and flashing them a wolfish smile. "I'm Remus Lupin." He said, offering his hand to Lily.

"Lily Evans." She replied shaking his hand.

"James Potter."

"Sirius Black."

"I'm sorry, I have to get some sleep. Terribly sorry, this seemed to be the quietest compartment." Remus said.

"Sure." Lily said. "I'm just reading." She gestured to her book. "I should get my other, but—" she trailed off. Remus was already asleep.

"Wonder why he's so tired." Sirius said.

"Probably couldn't get any last night. We couldn't." James replied.

"Yeah, but we don't look like that, now do we?" Sirius replied.

"Well, if you were smart you would realize he wouldn't want you to talk about it. If he wants you to know, he'll tell you." Lily snapped. She wanted to read.

Sirius and James looked at her. "Sorry." She muttered.

"No, it's okay." James said, looking at Lily's eyes.

"So, James, are you trying out for seeker?" Lily asked, to lighten the mood.

"Can't." he replied.

"What?" Lily exclaimed, but quieted down when she looked at Remus.

"Nope, first years aren't allowed to play. I'll try out next year though." James nodded.

"Sirius do you play?" Lily asked.

"Not as good as James. I'm a beater." Sirius replied. Lily nodded and went back to her book.

Midday came and Lily looked up to see James and Sirius playing cards. "What are you playing?" she asked.

"Exploding snap." James replied, concentration hard.

"How do you-" Lily was cut off as the compartment door opened and a woman with a trolley stood there.

"Anything off the carts dearies?" she asked.

James sighed and reached into his pocket, "Can I get some chocolate frogs, pumpkin pasties and Bertie Bott's every flavor please? For this amount." He handed her two sliver coins, that after a moment Lily remember was a sickle.

Remus stirred and looked up; he pulled some coins out of his robes and bought a few things. Lily dug in her pocket and produced some copper coins. She bought a chocolate frog and then took out her sandwich. James, Sirius and Remus stared at her. "What?" she asked.

"You're not eating sweets!" Remus cried.

"I don't know any of these sweets, I prefer to stay with what I know." Lily replied.

The boys piled in and handed her a lot of sweets, forcing her to eat them.

By that night, Lily was wishing she hadn't eaten so much. She felt very sick. She had slipped out of the room to put on her robes, while the boys put on theirs and pulled out Hogwarts, A History.

She quickly read the section on the houses and the ceremony of sorting and then smiled.

She quickly changed and went back to the compartment. She was about to knock when she heard James saying "Did you see her eyes?"

"No." it was Remus's voice.

"Well they're bright green."

"So?" this time it was Sirius.

"The same color as Sytherin's house colors." James said. Lily held her breath, wondering if she should leave.

"Why would it matter James?" Remus asked.

"Well, you know Sytherin—" he stopped because Lily knocked at that time. "Come in." James said.

Lily entered and she noticed Remus looking at her eyes closely, she looked down and settled down in the corner seat again. "So Remus, what house do you want to be in?" she asked, to keep the pause from being to awkward.

"Gryffindor." Remus replied, smiling. "My mum and dad were in Gryffindor, they expect me to be in Gryffindor."

"James?"

"Gryffindor." James replied stoutly. He was avoiding her gaze though. Lily wished he wouldn't. "My mum and dad were both Gryffindor too."

"Sirius?"

"I want to be in Gryffindor, but my mum was in Ravenclaw and my dad was in Hufflepuff." He made a face.

"What about you Lily?" James asked.

"I want to be in Gryffindor, those Slytherins sound like a nasty bunch." Lily replied. "I guess Ravenclaw wouldn't be too bad. And Hufflepuff is okay to, but I would rather be in Gryffindor. I think my wand agrees." Lily pulled out her wand and did what she did in Ollivander's, creating the sparks of gold and scarlet. James glanced at them, but soon his gaze was on her eyes again.

"How do they sort people?" Remus asked.

"Why? Surely your parents told you?" James asked. Remus went red.

"Oh, my mother was ill just before I came and we didn't think I would be coming. She got better though." Remus lied. Lily looked at the other two to see if they had picked up the lie. Neither of them seemed to have got it.