A/N:
Thanks to my great reviewers, it's because of you that this chapter is out.
"Dad! Do you have my wand?" Lily screamed franticly, running through the hallways of her house.
"No. Don't tell me you lost it! We're leaving in 15 minutes!"
Lily groaned. "Does anyone know where my wand is?"
"Yeah, I have it, Lily" Violet said quietly.
"Why on earth did you take it?"
"I wanted to use it" Violet said crossly, "Why else would I take it?"
"Can I have it?"
"Take it, nothing happens when I wave it anyhow"
15 minutes later, all the Evans' were piling into their car. All of them were in a bad mood. Petunia, because she was forced to come along even though she didn't want to. Lily was in a bad mood because Violet had taken her wand. Violet was upset because she knew Lily was upset at her, and she admired Lily very much. Mrs. Evans was sad because her dear daughter was leaving, and Mr. Evans was in a bad mood because everyone was being grouchy.
"Can everyone please cheer up?" Mr. Evans asked irritably.
"Talk to yourself, dad. You would also be angry if you were forced to see your freak sister off to her freaky school."
"Now Petunia. You should want to see Lily off to school. You won't see her for such a long time." Mrs. Evans said.
"And don't you call your sister and her future school 'freaky'" Mr. Evans said angrily.
"Shut up"
"Petunia! We're your parents!"
"We're there!" Violet squealed. "Look! Kings Cross Station!"
The family piled out of the car. Mr. Evans grunted as he heaved Lily's heavy trunk.
"Platform 9 & ¾, where's that? I see a platform 9 and a platform 10, no 9 & ¾."
"Um, excuse me?"
All the Evans turned to see a lady with flaming red hair, smiling at them.
"Yes?"
"Hi. I'm Mrs. Weasley. My Arthur graduated Hogwarts quite a while ago, and now Benny is going. He's in his 2nd year." She patted a tall redheaded boy on the head, who blushed. She smiled, and then continued, " Anyway, I heard you talking about Platform 9 & ¾, so I sort of assumed you have someone here who's going to Hogwarts. It sounded like you didn't know how to get there. You're muggles, aren't you? I mean, besides for the one who's going to Hogwarts."
"Mom," said Benny, "They don't know what a muggle is. And anyway, you know that they're muggles, so why are you even asking?"
"Sorry, guys," she said, grinning sheepishly. "I sometimes do that. A muggle means someone not magical, you know, like not a witch or wizard."
Mrs. Evans nodded. "So.can you tell us how to get through to Platform 9 & ¾?"
"Of course, that's what I meant to do before, but I just ended up talking for a while. That always happens to me. Why, only yesterday, I was- "
"Mom! You're doing it again! Just show them how to get through!"
"Sorry. All you do is walk through the barrier between 9 and 10. Benny, go through now and show them how it's done."
Benny nodded, and started to run with his trunk. In a second, he disappeared.
"Wow!" Violet gasped.
"Nonsense" Petunia said.
"How did that happen?" Lily asked Mrs. Weasley. "I mean, how did he just disappear into a solid brick wall?"
"That, my dear girl," Mrs. Weasley said, "is what magic is all about. Now you try."
"But I-"
"You can do it. Nothing bad will happen to you."
"Are-are you guys going to go through after me?" she said, gesturing towards her family.
"Of course, tiger. Go on now."
Lily took a deep breath. She bit her lip, squeezed her eyes shut, and ran. She ran for what seemed to her a lifetime. She didn't stop until she actually bumped into someone.
"Watch where you're going, girl."
"Oh!" Lily replied, startled. She looked up to see Benny Weasley. "I'm sorry, I was running with my eyes shut.did I actually go through?"
"Yeah, you went through. You're actually a little early, the train leaves in a half hour. I'm early because my parents are always early. I hate being early, but what can I do? They just can't come right on time; they always have to be early. Oh, Lily, there's your sister.
"Violet!" Lily squealed happily, "You did it! You went through!" She engulfed her sister in a huge hug.
"It was so cool! I just went right through! Wow! Look, here comes Petunia!"
"Petunia!" Lily called, grinning, "How does it feel to have done something magical? Like going through a solid brick wall!"
"Be quiet Lily. If you must know, it doesn't feel good to be doing something.something abnormal. Mom told me I must go through, otherwise I wouldn't have."
"I went through! Amazing! I can't believe this!" Mrs. Evans said, grinning. She went over to Lily and hugged her. "I have your owl, Golden. Don't forget to write often!"
"Here's dad!" Violet giggled, "look at how he's dragging Lily's trunk!"
"And there's still another trunk in the car." Mr. Evans said, "Honestly, Lily, how much did you pack? I mean, everyone else only brings one trunk. Why must you be special?" With that, he turned around to get her 2nd trunk.
Mrs. Weasly walked through the barrier.
"Hey mom" Benny said.
"Hi dear. How about helping me load your trunk onto a compartment?"
"Here. You hold one end; I'll hold the other. Right. Now one, two, three, lift!"
As the Weasly's got Benny's trunk into a compartment, Mr. Evans came with Lily's second trunk. "Ok, girls, one of you help me bring this trunk into a compartment, and two people bring the other one into a compartment."
"I'll do it with you, dad" Lily said, lifting up one side of the trunk.
"I'll carry the other trunk." Mrs. Evans announced. "Who's going to help me?"
"I will, mom"
"Thank you, Violet. One-" Mrs. Evans started counting
"Two-" Mr. Evans continued.
"Three-" Lily said.
"Lift!" Violet cried out happily.
4 pairs of hands heaved both trunks into a compartment. Petunia watched, without offering a word of help, although she actually looked as though she wanted to help, but held herself back.
"Now, we still have 5 minutes left before the train leaves." Mr. Evans informed them all. "Why don't we do something meanwhile?"
"Such as?" Violet asked.
"We'll all say our goodbyes!" said Mrs. Evans, "And Dad and I have gift for you, tiger."
"Really? Thank you so much! You didn't need to, you know, you already gave me an owl."
"You're going away for quite a while, we feel we must give you presents, sweetie" said Mrs. Evans lovingly. "Now, dear," she said, addressing her husband, "show Lily her present."
"Right," he said, "We're giving you something that we think will be useful.we saw it in Diagon Alley. It's.well.here." He handed Lily a sort of purse with a pretty design on it. "It's called a 'Fralvelle'. Look, see, you open it, and it looks like a regular purse. But it has lots of powers. For one, if you push this button, over there-" he pointed at a tiny button inside the purse, so small you could barely see it. "Then it let's a certain person know where you are. You pick who that person is, of course. It could be your mother and I, your headmaster in school, anyone. That way, if something happens to you, or if you get lost, someone knows where you are. Then there are millions of other powers it has. When you say 'Tonepu' and point your wand at it, you will have a supply of food forever, or until you point your wand at it again and say 'Liseefela'. Here's a book of all the things it does, and what you have to do to get it." He handed a book with the same design on the cover as the design on the Fralvelle.
"And I have a present too!" said Violet happily. "I saw it in Diagon Alley, and Mom bought it for me to give to you". She handed Lily a pretty necklace with an emerald. "The emerald matches both of our eyes, and it also has magical powers. All you have to do is to touch that part on the emerald--" she touched a certain part--"and it sings a phoenix song. I think it's a pretty necklace, don't you?"
"It's gorgeous! I love it! Thank you!" Lily hugged Violet, and after that she hugged her parents. She noticed Petunia looking slightly put out, so she threw her arms around her too.
"I will miss you, Petunia, no matter what you think. I'll miss you all."
"We'll all miss you too, tiger," said Mr. Evans.
Lily smiled. "I'll write lots of letters."
"Dear, you must get onto the train! It's leaving any minute!"
"So I guess this is it. Good bye all of you, I'll miss you tons! I love you!" She kissed them all on the cheek, gave them one last hug and ran onto the train, her long red hair flying behind her.
Lily walked into her compartment on the train and settled down. Suddenly, a pretty girl with straight black hair down to her waist and bright blue eyes walked in. She smiled at Lily.
"Hi, I'm Crystal. Do you mind if I sit here?"
"Go right ahead. I would have a boring ride all the way to Hogwarts if I were alone."
"What's your name?" asked Crystal, sitting down next to Lily.
"Lily Evans. I'm muggle-born, are you?"
"No. My great aunt is a squib, and my fourth cousin is a muggle, but besides for those two, our family is purely magical." She smiled, "of course, I don't think it makes a difference if you're muggle-born or not, but some people do." She shuddered. "The boys in the compartment in front of us care if you're a pure-blood or not. One of the boys name is Severus Snape, the other is Lucius Malfoy. I heard them talking, and, you wouldn't believe it, but they were calling muggle-borns mudbloods!"
"What does 'mudblood' mean?" Lily asked curiously.
"It's a horrible name for 'muggle-born'. It means like dirty blood, it's really horrible. I was absolutely shocked when I heard them saying it."
"I hope they're not in my house. What house do you want to be in? I really want to be in Gryffindor. I'd absolutely die if I were sorted into Slytherin."
"Yeah, I want to be in Gryffindor too. How do you know about these houses, by the way? I mean, if you're muggle-born and all."
"I read about it in 'Hogwarts a History'. Did you ever read it? It's really good."
"Oh, I don't read much. Mum is always telling me to read more" Crystal laughed. "So, which books did you read?"
"Oh, lots of books. 'A Study of Magic', 'With the Flick of a Wand', 'Recent Legends', 'Different Magical Schools', 'About a Phoenix', 'Going to-"
"Ok, I get it," Crystal cut Lily off, grinning, "Basically, you've read every book under the son. Correct?"
"Well, not every book, I just read, you know, a few interesting ones."
"Or maybe a bit more than a few, huh?" Crystal laughed. "It's good to read, though. I wish I read more, or at least had the brains to read these hard books, or the patience."
Lily grinned. "Ok, enough about reading. Do have any brothers or sisters that go to Hogwarts?"
"Nope, I'm an only child. How about you?"
"I have one older sister and one younger. They're both muggles, as far as I know. Unless, of course, Violet turns out to be a witch. That would be wonderful."
"Violet's your younger sister, right?"
"Yeah."
Their compartment door opened, and a cheerful plump lady walked inside, pushing a cart with her.
"Anything off the cart, dears?"
"Oh yeah," Lily said happily, "what is there?"
The lady showed Lily all that there was. She bought pumpkin pasties, chocolate frogs, Droobles best blowing gum and Bertie Bots every flavor beans.
"Want some?" she asked Crystal.
"Oh no, I'm on a health kick." Crystal smiled. "That's why I didn't' buy anything. My mum was always telling me to eat healthy, so I said I'd do it for a month. There's only 1 week left, though, and then I could eat whatever I like."
"Too bad. I can't eat this all myself."
The compartment door opened again. Four girls were standing there. One girl had shoulder length brown hair and blue eyes, one had black curls and gray eyes, another had long blonde hair and brown eyes, and one was a very pretty black with black hair and brown eyes.
"Hi, I'm Sheila." said the girl with the black curls." And these--" she pointed at the three girls with her--"are my friends, Melody, Stephanie and Tamara."
"Hi" Tamara, the girl with brown hair said, smiling.
"I'm Lily"
"And I'm Crystal."
"Right. Nice to meet you both. Anyways, we, I mean, Melody, Tamara, Stephanie and I were wondering if we could sit here. We were sitting with these horrible people who were making fun of muggleborns and talking about the Dark Arts. We didn't want to sit with them, so we went searching for somewhere else to sit. Mind if we sit?"
"Nope"
"Thanks"
Melody, the blonde one, and Stephanie started talking to Crystal, while Sheila and Tamara talked with Lily. Before long, the girls were good friends.
A/N Ok, sorry for not updating for such a long time. I'll try to update more often from now on, although I'm not sure that I'll be able to, because I have a pretty busy schedule now (homework and all that). I hope you liked this chapter!
"Dad! Do you have my wand?" Lily screamed franticly, running through the hallways of her house.
"No. Don't tell me you lost it! We're leaving in 15 minutes!"
Lily groaned. "Does anyone know where my wand is?"
"Yeah, I have it, Lily" Violet said quietly.
"Why on earth did you take it?"
"I wanted to use it" Violet said crossly, "Why else would I take it?"
"Can I have it?"
"Take it, nothing happens when I wave it anyhow"
15 minutes later, all the Evans' were piling into their car. All of them were in a bad mood. Petunia, because she was forced to come along even though she didn't want to. Lily was in a bad mood because Violet had taken her wand. Violet was upset because she knew Lily was upset at her, and she admired Lily very much. Mrs. Evans was sad because her dear daughter was leaving, and Mr. Evans was in a bad mood because everyone was being grouchy.
"Can everyone please cheer up?" Mr. Evans asked irritably.
"Talk to yourself, dad. You would also be angry if you were forced to see your freak sister off to her freaky school."
"Now Petunia. You should want to see Lily off to school. You won't see her for such a long time." Mrs. Evans said.
"And don't you call your sister and her future school 'freaky'" Mr. Evans said angrily.
"Shut up"
"Petunia! We're your parents!"
"We're there!" Violet squealed. "Look! Kings Cross Station!"
The family piled out of the car. Mr. Evans grunted as he heaved Lily's heavy trunk.
"Platform 9 & ¾, where's that? I see a platform 9 and a platform 10, no 9 & ¾."
"Um, excuse me?"
All the Evans turned to see a lady with flaming red hair, smiling at them.
"Yes?"
"Hi. I'm Mrs. Weasley. My Arthur graduated Hogwarts quite a while ago, and now Benny is going. He's in his 2nd year." She patted a tall redheaded boy on the head, who blushed. She smiled, and then continued, " Anyway, I heard you talking about Platform 9 & ¾, so I sort of assumed you have someone here who's going to Hogwarts. It sounded like you didn't know how to get there. You're muggles, aren't you? I mean, besides for the one who's going to Hogwarts."
"Mom," said Benny, "They don't know what a muggle is. And anyway, you know that they're muggles, so why are you even asking?"
"Sorry, guys," she said, grinning sheepishly. "I sometimes do that. A muggle means someone not magical, you know, like not a witch or wizard."
Mrs. Evans nodded. "So.can you tell us how to get through to Platform 9 & ¾?"
"Of course, that's what I meant to do before, but I just ended up talking for a while. That always happens to me. Why, only yesterday, I was- "
"Mom! You're doing it again! Just show them how to get through!"
"Sorry. All you do is walk through the barrier between 9 and 10. Benny, go through now and show them how it's done."
Benny nodded, and started to run with his trunk. In a second, he disappeared.
"Wow!" Violet gasped.
"Nonsense" Petunia said.
"How did that happen?" Lily asked Mrs. Weasley. "I mean, how did he just disappear into a solid brick wall?"
"That, my dear girl," Mrs. Weasley said, "is what magic is all about. Now you try."
"But I-"
"You can do it. Nothing bad will happen to you."
"Are-are you guys going to go through after me?" she said, gesturing towards her family.
"Of course, tiger. Go on now."
Lily took a deep breath. She bit her lip, squeezed her eyes shut, and ran. She ran for what seemed to her a lifetime. She didn't stop until she actually bumped into someone.
"Watch where you're going, girl."
"Oh!" Lily replied, startled. She looked up to see Benny Weasley. "I'm sorry, I was running with my eyes shut.did I actually go through?"
"Yeah, you went through. You're actually a little early, the train leaves in a half hour. I'm early because my parents are always early. I hate being early, but what can I do? They just can't come right on time; they always have to be early. Oh, Lily, there's your sister.
"Violet!" Lily squealed happily, "You did it! You went through!" She engulfed her sister in a huge hug.
"It was so cool! I just went right through! Wow! Look, here comes Petunia!"
"Petunia!" Lily called, grinning, "How does it feel to have done something magical? Like going through a solid brick wall!"
"Be quiet Lily. If you must know, it doesn't feel good to be doing something.something abnormal. Mom told me I must go through, otherwise I wouldn't have."
"I went through! Amazing! I can't believe this!" Mrs. Evans said, grinning. She went over to Lily and hugged her. "I have your owl, Golden. Don't forget to write often!"
"Here's dad!" Violet giggled, "look at how he's dragging Lily's trunk!"
"And there's still another trunk in the car." Mr. Evans said, "Honestly, Lily, how much did you pack? I mean, everyone else only brings one trunk. Why must you be special?" With that, he turned around to get her 2nd trunk.
Mrs. Weasly walked through the barrier.
"Hey mom" Benny said.
"Hi dear. How about helping me load your trunk onto a compartment?"
"Here. You hold one end; I'll hold the other. Right. Now one, two, three, lift!"
As the Weasly's got Benny's trunk into a compartment, Mr. Evans came with Lily's second trunk. "Ok, girls, one of you help me bring this trunk into a compartment, and two people bring the other one into a compartment."
"I'll do it with you, dad" Lily said, lifting up one side of the trunk.
"I'll carry the other trunk." Mrs. Evans announced. "Who's going to help me?"
"I will, mom"
"Thank you, Violet. One-" Mrs. Evans started counting
"Two-" Mr. Evans continued.
"Three-" Lily said.
"Lift!" Violet cried out happily.
4 pairs of hands heaved both trunks into a compartment. Petunia watched, without offering a word of help, although she actually looked as though she wanted to help, but held herself back.
"Now, we still have 5 minutes left before the train leaves." Mr. Evans informed them all. "Why don't we do something meanwhile?"
"Such as?" Violet asked.
"We'll all say our goodbyes!" said Mrs. Evans, "And Dad and I have gift for you, tiger."
"Really? Thank you so much! You didn't need to, you know, you already gave me an owl."
"You're going away for quite a while, we feel we must give you presents, sweetie" said Mrs. Evans lovingly. "Now, dear," she said, addressing her husband, "show Lily her present."
"Right," he said, "We're giving you something that we think will be useful.we saw it in Diagon Alley. It's.well.here." He handed Lily a sort of purse with a pretty design on it. "It's called a 'Fralvelle'. Look, see, you open it, and it looks like a regular purse. But it has lots of powers. For one, if you push this button, over there-" he pointed at a tiny button inside the purse, so small you could barely see it. "Then it let's a certain person know where you are. You pick who that person is, of course. It could be your mother and I, your headmaster in school, anyone. That way, if something happens to you, or if you get lost, someone knows where you are. Then there are millions of other powers it has. When you say 'Tonepu' and point your wand at it, you will have a supply of food forever, or until you point your wand at it again and say 'Liseefela'. Here's a book of all the things it does, and what you have to do to get it." He handed a book with the same design on the cover as the design on the Fralvelle.
"And I have a present too!" said Violet happily. "I saw it in Diagon Alley, and Mom bought it for me to give to you". She handed Lily a pretty necklace with an emerald. "The emerald matches both of our eyes, and it also has magical powers. All you have to do is to touch that part on the emerald--" she touched a certain part--"and it sings a phoenix song. I think it's a pretty necklace, don't you?"
"It's gorgeous! I love it! Thank you!" Lily hugged Violet, and after that she hugged her parents. She noticed Petunia looking slightly put out, so she threw her arms around her too.
"I will miss you, Petunia, no matter what you think. I'll miss you all."
"We'll all miss you too, tiger," said Mr. Evans.
Lily smiled. "I'll write lots of letters."
"Dear, you must get onto the train! It's leaving any minute!"
"So I guess this is it. Good bye all of you, I'll miss you tons! I love you!" She kissed them all on the cheek, gave them one last hug and ran onto the train, her long red hair flying behind her.
Lily walked into her compartment on the train and settled down. Suddenly, a pretty girl with straight black hair down to her waist and bright blue eyes walked in. She smiled at Lily.
"Hi, I'm Crystal. Do you mind if I sit here?"
"Go right ahead. I would have a boring ride all the way to Hogwarts if I were alone."
"What's your name?" asked Crystal, sitting down next to Lily.
"Lily Evans. I'm muggle-born, are you?"
"No. My great aunt is a squib, and my fourth cousin is a muggle, but besides for those two, our family is purely magical." She smiled, "of course, I don't think it makes a difference if you're muggle-born or not, but some people do." She shuddered. "The boys in the compartment in front of us care if you're a pure-blood or not. One of the boys name is Severus Snape, the other is Lucius Malfoy. I heard them talking, and, you wouldn't believe it, but they were calling muggle-borns mudbloods!"
"What does 'mudblood' mean?" Lily asked curiously.
"It's a horrible name for 'muggle-born'. It means like dirty blood, it's really horrible. I was absolutely shocked when I heard them saying it."
"I hope they're not in my house. What house do you want to be in? I really want to be in Gryffindor. I'd absolutely die if I were sorted into Slytherin."
"Yeah, I want to be in Gryffindor too. How do you know about these houses, by the way? I mean, if you're muggle-born and all."
"I read about it in 'Hogwarts a History'. Did you ever read it? It's really good."
"Oh, I don't read much. Mum is always telling me to read more" Crystal laughed. "So, which books did you read?"
"Oh, lots of books. 'A Study of Magic', 'With the Flick of a Wand', 'Recent Legends', 'Different Magical Schools', 'About a Phoenix', 'Going to-"
"Ok, I get it," Crystal cut Lily off, grinning, "Basically, you've read every book under the son. Correct?"
"Well, not every book, I just read, you know, a few interesting ones."
"Or maybe a bit more than a few, huh?" Crystal laughed. "It's good to read, though. I wish I read more, or at least had the brains to read these hard books, or the patience."
Lily grinned. "Ok, enough about reading. Do have any brothers or sisters that go to Hogwarts?"
"Nope, I'm an only child. How about you?"
"I have one older sister and one younger. They're both muggles, as far as I know. Unless, of course, Violet turns out to be a witch. That would be wonderful."
"Violet's your younger sister, right?"
"Yeah."
Their compartment door opened, and a cheerful plump lady walked inside, pushing a cart with her.
"Anything off the cart, dears?"
"Oh yeah," Lily said happily, "what is there?"
The lady showed Lily all that there was. She bought pumpkin pasties, chocolate frogs, Droobles best blowing gum and Bertie Bots every flavor beans.
"Want some?" she asked Crystal.
"Oh no, I'm on a health kick." Crystal smiled. "That's why I didn't' buy anything. My mum was always telling me to eat healthy, so I said I'd do it for a month. There's only 1 week left, though, and then I could eat whatever I like."
"Too bad. I can't eat this all myself."
The compartment door opened again. Four girls were standing there. One girl had shoulder length brown hair and blue eyes, one had black curls and gray eyes, another had long blonde hair and brown eyes, and one was a very pretty black with black hair and brown eyes.
"Hi, I'm Sheila." said the girl with the black curls." And these--" she pointed at the three girls with her--"are my friends, Melody, Stephanie and Tamara."
"Hi" Tamara, the girl with brown hair said, smiling.
"I'm Lily"
"And I'm Crystal."
"Right. Nice to meet you both. Anyways, we, I mean, Melody, Tamara, Stephanie and I were wondering if we could sit here. We were sitting with these horrible people who were making fun of muggleborns and talking about the Dark Arts. We didn't want to sit with them, so we went searching for somewhere else to sit. Mind if we sit?"
"Nope"
"Thanks"
Melody, the blonde one, and Stephanie started talking to Crystal, while Sheila and Tamara talked with Lily. Before long, the girls were good friends.
A/N Ok, sorry for not updating for such a long time. I'll try to update more often from now on, although I'm not sure that I'll be able to, because I have a pretty busy schedule now (homework and all that). I hope you liked this chapter!