A/N- Hey people, I decide to skip the rest of Lily's summer. So, this chapter will be about her going to Platform 9 3/4 and that sort of thing. Also, Arabella might be a little rude in this chapter, but it's so that Lily will see her other friends. I've also decided to change the colors of Storm's (the owl) feathers. Now, her colors are scarlet, green, blue and yellow. (get the connection yet?)Anyway, Read and review!!!

The Hogwarts Express

Lily woke up and looked at her calendar. It was September First! She jumped up and ran to the bathroom. She jumped into the shower and shampooed and conditioned her hair three whole times. As you can see, Lily wasn't excited about going to Hogwarts at ALL. After she was done with her shower, she decided that she would go ahead and wear her Hogwarts robes and uniform.

After she had put them on, she discovered that the black robes really brought out her fiery red hair. She then blow-dried her hair because she decided that she would wear her hair down and curly. She loved her curly red hair, at least most of the time anyway. She loved her hair almost as much, but quite as much as she loved her emerald green eyes. She just couldn't get over the color of her eyes.

After she was completely ready except for her makeup, she made sure that she had everything packed. She looked down at her list.

Things for Hogwarts

Uniform X

Hair brush, Toothbrush, Tooth paste, Hair stuff X

Makeup X

Storm, Midnight, and Moony X

School stuff X

Regular clothes X

She had everything, so she decided that she would go ahead and put on her makeup. "What colors should I wear today," she said aloud to herself thoughtfully, "I think I'll wear my emerald green water-proof eye-shadow, black waterproof eyeliner, and black mascara." She decided that she should wear all waterproof stuff, just incase she starts crying or something.

She slipped her black, high heel combat boots on, and walked out of her room down the stairs to the kitchen.

"Good morning Lily," John said cheerfully, "Are you ready to go to the train station? Do you have all your things packed? What in the WORLD are you wearing?"

"Good Morning dad," Lily replied, struggling to remember all the questions, "Yes, Yes, my school uniform."

"That's your school uniform?" he asked amazed, "I wish we could have had those when I went to boarding school in London. What do you think of them Petty?'

Lily groaned inwardly at this question. She didn't really want to know what Petunia thought; because she knew she would say something mean and nasty.

"I think they look horrible and freaky. Just like Lily." Petunia replied, not expecting to be told off by her parents. Petunia had always thought that she was the favorite, and that her parents didn't really like Lily much. Which made Petty even madder since she didn't also get accepted to Hogwarts. Petunia was fifteen, and would have gotten her letter four years ago if she would have ever been accepted.

"Petunia Jana Evans," Rose said angrily, "Don't say things like that to your sister! Do you want me to ground you? Go to your tomb, ROOM right now!!"

At her mother's out burst, Petunia stomped out of the kitchen and up to her tomb, I mean room.

"Sorry Lily," her mum said sadly, "Anyway, we should leave for the station soon."

"Alright mom," Lily replied, "I'm already packed and ready to go."

"Good, We'll go after I tell Petty that we're leaving."

Lily then grabbed an apple and ran upstairs to bring her trunk full of stuff down. She dragged it down the stairs, having a few problems but getting down eventually. She sat down in an armchair and looked at her trunk. Rose had bought it for her as a going-away-to-school present. It was dark ebony, and along the sides were pictures of white lilies. On one end, Lily Evans was engraved into the trunk. It was absolutely gorgeous.

"John, Lily lets go. Petunia is going to stay home," Mrs. Evans called, "Lets get into the car."

All three of them went out the door, and all of them were carrying some of Lily's things. John carrying her trunk, Rose carrying Stormy Nights, and Lily carrying Moony and Midnight they all headed towards the Thunderbird. Lily was thankful that her mother had gotten the slightly larger Thunderbird, because if she hadn't they wouldn't have all fit inside with all of her school stuff.

After about twenty minutes of driving, they arrived at King's Cross. During the twenty minute ride, there was complete silence except for the radio. When they arrived, her parents asked her what platform the train she was taking was on.

"It's on platform 9 3/4," she replied, "Have you ever seen that platform before? Hey, maybe Arabella will know."

"Arabella is a witch also?" John asked amazed, shaking his head, "I feel sorry for your teachers, especially if you're both in the same class."

"Now Lily dear," Rose said looking at her daughter, "I want you to behave while you're at school. I don't want you to give your teachers any problems. And if I get any letters saying that you've been misbehaving, then you'll be home so fast that."

"LILY!!" Arabella shrieked, "I'm so glad you're here. Oh, good morning Mr. and Mrs. Evans."

"Good morning Arabella," they both said, "How are you today?"

"I'm doing well thank you," Arabella replied, "Do you need help getting onto the platform?"

"Yes," Lily answered quickly before her parents could talk with her friend anymore, "Where is it exactly?"

"It's right over here," Arabella replied leading them over to a very solid looking wall.

"You must be joking," Mr. Evans said confusedly, "That is a brick wall. Now, I may walk into walls on accident, but I definitely don't want to walk into a wall on purpose."

"Well," Arabella answered, "Only witches and wizards can get through this wall. Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Evans, you can't come with us."

Rose burst out crying. "Oh Lily, I'm gonna miss you so much! Have fun Lily, I'll see you after the school year is over." She then ran out of the station, crying her eyes out.

"Sorry about that Lily," John said, looking rather embarrassed, "You know how your mother can be rather, err, emotional. Well, I'll see you after your school year is over Lily. Have fun, and don't get into to much trouble."

John hugged Lily and walked out of the station, looking for his bawling wife.

"Come on Lily, we better get going," Arabella said after Mr. Evans had left, "Just run straight at the wall, you'll end up at Platform 9 ¾."

Lily pulled her cart around, and ran straight at the barrier, which supposedly separated Platform 9 ¾ from the muggle part of the station.

Moments after running into the wall, Lily found herself on a platform, crowded full of witches and wizards. Arabella arrived by Lily shortly after.

"Isn't this cool?" Arabella asked Lily, who had been very quiet ever since she had arrived at the station.

"Yes, this is SO groovy," Lily replied excitedly, "We had better get onto the train, it will be leaving soon. Maybe we'll see one of my friends that I met at Diagon Alley."

Arabella agreed, and helped Lily take her three pets onto the train, while Lily took their trunks. Lily was quite strong for a girl her age. After Lily had put up their trunks, they searched for a compartment. They decided that an empty one would be best, unless they saw one of their friends to sit with instead.

"Hey Arabella, come sit over here with us. I'm sure your friend can get another compartment to sit in," a voice called from inside a compartment.

"Ok, hold on a minute, I'm coming," Arabella called back. She turned back to Lily and gave her back her three pets, "I'll see you when we get to Hogwarts Lily. Bye."

With that, Arabella turned around, walked into the compartment, and closed the door. Lily stood staring at the door for several seconds, still not realizing what had just happened. She was only woken up from her stupor when Storm started hooting, Midnight started meowing and Moony started jumping around in his cage.

Once Lily had gathered her wits, she hurried down the train car to look for a compartment. To her relief, she found an empty compartment in less then five minutes.

Once she was in the compartment, she sat down, and let Moony, Stormy Nights, and Midnight out of their cages. She let Storm sit on her shoulder, and then Midnight and Moony sit on her lap. As she sat there, she wondered why Arabella just abandoned her like that. She'd never done anything like that before. Lily was starting to doubt that being a witch was really what she was meant to do. She figured that if her best friend for years wouldn't stick by her, then why would anyone else?

Suddenly the compartment door banged open, and in walked a rather short girl, with long, shiny ebony colored hair and dark brown eyes. Lily immediately recognized her to be Alana. But, how could it be her? Wasn't she a muggle?

"Lily!," Alana squealed happily, "How are you? I am so glad that Hogwarts is your boarding school. We're going to have so much fun this year! What's wrong?"

"It's good to see you too Alana," Lily replied, feeling a bit better now that she had a friend to talk to, but decided not to tell her about Arabella. She knew that Alana might go yell at Arabella. Alana was a good friend because she always stood up for people. "I'm just kind of tired, that's all. So, what have you been up to?"

"Nothing really," Arabella replied, still looking rather suspicious, "Just trying to enjoy my summer. What did you do this summer?"

"Mostly just fought with my sister, and read books in other languages," she answered, cheering up quickly, "Portuguese is a very interesting language. I'm working on Greek."

"You're always working on something like that during the summer," Alana said exasperatedly, "Why don't you do something more fun. Like watch Anime instead, and practice drawing it. It's really fun, you should try it sometime."

"I got grounded for most of the summer, so I couldn't watch the TV," she replied, "And even if I was allowed to watch TV, Petunia was watching it all summer anyway. That, and obsessing about her boyfriend to her friends over the phone."

"That sucks," Arabella said, "Maybe you can come to my house sometime and we can watch Anime, but first you might want to learn Japanese, because some of it is in Japanese."

"That would be cool," Lily answered, "I already know a little bit of Japanese, I'll just need to practice a little more, and then I'll be good."

"Oh brother Lily, you are really very strange.

"Thank you for that compliment Alana."

"Anytime. Hey look, here comes the food cart lady."

Lily poked her head out the compartment door and saw the lady coming with food. When the lady got to their compartment, Lily took out her bag of money and bought two of everything on the cart, so that Alana could have some too. After eating her half of the food, she said that she was going to search for some of her other friends, and left Lily alone again after saying 'bye'.

Once Lily was left in silence again, she put her three pets on the seat facing her and started talking to them. She knew that they couldn't answer back, but decided to talk to them anyway.

"I wish Arabella hadn't of abandoned me," she said to the trio sadly, "Now I don't have anyone to talk to."

"Yes you do," said a deep but quiet voice indignantly, "You can talk to us three. We aren't mute or anything you know."

"What?" Lily said. She was quite shocked. So shocked in fact, that she fell off her seat and landed face-flat on the ground. She had never been talked to by a rabbit before. She still wasn't sure that the rabbit had actually talked to her though. "Who said that?"

"Moony did of course," a louder voice said, "I don't really like that Arabella girl much. Do you Midnight?"

"Not particularly," the cat answered in a purring voice, "She was awfully ruff to us while she brought us onto the train. I was starting to get sea-sick. And it wasn't very polite to just leave you. I would give her the cold shoulder for a while. Maybe she'll apologize if you do."

"You three are pretty smart you know that," Lily said after getting over the shock of being talked to by three animals, "I'm glad I have you three. Now I'll never be lonely while I'm at Hogwarts. Anyway."

Suddenly, the door banged open and in walked a rather tall girl, with long blonde hair, and friendly blue/green eyes. Lily didn't recognize her as anyone she knew and wasn't sure what to say.

"Who were you talking to?" the blonde girl asked, "By the way, my name is Rachael Gomez."

"I was just talking to myself, since I didn't have anyone else to talk to," Lily replied quickly, "My name is Lily Evans. Nice to meet you."

"I'm in Gryffindor," Rachael said happily, "I'm going into my second year. The prefect down the hall wanted me to tell everyone that we are almost to the station, so you might want to make sure you're ready to go. I'll see you in the great Hall, Bye."

With that, Rachael Gomez walked out of the compartment and into the next one, to give them the message.

"She was quite a pretty girl, nice too," Moony said trying to break the silence, "She seems like someone you could use as a friend, since she's a second year and already knows her way around Hogwarts."

"I agree," Stormy Nights replied, "And that Alana character, she seems like someone you would want as a friend, and not an enemy. She looks rather fierce to tell the truth."

"Rachael does seem rather nice, doesn't she," Lily said, trying to get her pets to be quiet. "and yes, Alana, is definitely not someone you'd want as an enemy. Well, you three had better get into your cages since we'll be there soon. Come on, in you go."

"Good luck!" The cat, owl, and rabbit said together, "We know you'll do great, see you after the feast up in the dormitories!"
After making sure that Moony, Storm, and Midnight were all securely in their separate cages, she fixed her robes, and got ready to get off the train the moment it arrived at the station. Right then she felt like she could take on anything that the world threw at her

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Auteur Note- So, did you guys like this chapter? It's my longest chapter yet. But that not really saying much, because all my chapters are short. I hope you enjoyed it. Please review, I would really appreciate it. Also, I probably won't be able to update for a while, because I'm moving up to Washington in just a few days. I've been at my grandparents, and now I'm finally gonna go up to Washington. Well, I'll update ASAP! Love you all! Peace!

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