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A/N: Right, well I am aware that quite a few of you people who are reading this story want to get to Hogwarts some time soon. So I am going to try to get there with this chapter!! The last chapter I know was borderline short so I will try to make this one longer. Anyway author's notes are boring so on with the story.
Platform Nine ¾ and the Hogwarts Express
The rest of the summer holidays since her trip to Diagon Alley couldn't have gone any slower for Lily. She had read all of her books at least once and had started running down the stairs in her robes each morning singing along to the radio and waving her wand in time to the music.
Her father had been promoted in the ministry and he had bought Lily a Shooting star broomstick, which was the best at the time, and although she was all to aware that while she was wishing September 1st to come closer, she was also wishing away her time that she could fly her broomstick, as first years were not allowed them, in her back garden she still couldn't wait for her trip to platform Nine ¾ to catch the Hogwarts express.
The night before she was due to leave she packed and repacked her trunk with everything she needed and more.
"Dad, are you sure I have everything?" Lily called downstairs. Pop her father apparatus in front of her right into the middle of her trunk!
"DAD!" she yelled, "Watch where you're appearing!"
"Sorry love," said her father nervously, "I have one last thing I want you to have." He passed her a long silvery cloak.
"What is it?" she asked.
"An invisibility cloak," he went on to explain how it worked, "you see it has been passed through my family from father to son but as I don't have a son I am giving it to you, use it carefully. You better go to sleep, you have to wake up early tomorrow," and with that he left through the door, leaving Lily holding the cloak in the middle of her room.
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"LILY!" her mother roared up the stairs (I still need names).
Lily looked at her clock she only had one hour before the train left! Luckily they lived just down the road from Kings Cross Station from where she would shortly catch the Hogwarts express. "Wash hair, eat breakfast, and brush teeth, go!" she chanted to herself.
"Don't forget to get dress FREAK," Petunia sneered as she passed the door.
"LIL, you're going to be late at this rate!" her mother shouted again. The time it took Lily Evans to get ready was a world record and the whole family were soon at the station and through the barrier to wave Lily off.
"Look!" Petunia whispered excitedly and pointed…straight at Lucius Malfoy, "oh," she said longingly, "If only he wasn't a…a…you know."
"Freak!" Lily laughed and then she spotted a boy over at the other side of the platform he had the messiest black hair she had ever seen but some how it suited him and she couldn't quite tell from where she was but it looked like he had blue eyes. She said goodbye and gathered the courage to go over and talk to him, "Hi," she practiced, "I'm Lily Evans, no no, Evans, Lily Evans,"
she looked up to check she was going in the right direction and he was gone! She turned to her right and saw him with a group of other boys. She could never go up to him now. What if he was in the third year or something!
"Hi," said a voice behind Lily, "I'm Chloe Goldingham, I'm in my first year and by the look of your loneliness… so are you!"
Lily laughed, "Lily Evans," she smiled I think you are my new best friends. Chloe linked arms,
"Shall we?" she laughed and they boarded the Hogwarts Express.
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Onboard the Hogwarts Express Chloe and Lily were sat in there seats sharing life stories, it turned out that Chloe lived quite near to Lily, in the next town infact. She was an only child who lived with her two wizard parents in a large house.
"Hello Lily," said a voice the same purring voice from Madame Malkin's.
"Lucius," Lily smiled, she needed all the friends she could get right now.
"Do you mind if I join you?" he asked, rather too nicely for Lily's liking, but she brushed that aside.
"Of course!" she smiled, we're all friends.
"Yes, all pure bloods here heh!" he laughed.
"Well I am," smiled Chloe, "but the lovely Lily here is only half." Lucius choked on a chocolate frog,
"Half-blood you say!" oh well at least there is some wizarding roots eh!" and with that they pulled up at a station.
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After the boat ride across the lake they arrived in the great hall. The boy Lily had seen earlier was standing in the sorting line, "So he is a first year," she thought. They were all sorted into the various houses Chloe and Lily were both in Gryffindor, Lucius was in Slytherin, and the boy, whose name was James Potter, was also in Gryffindor.
Later that evening Lily was alone in the Gryffindor common room reading her book on transfiguration when she heard footsteps behind her, "Chloe," she thought, "bet she's trying to scare me."
"Nice try Chloe," she laughed, "But it'll take more than that to scare Lily Evans!"
"So you're Lily?" asked a silky male voice, "but I'm not Chloe!"
Lily spun around and there he stood…James Potter.
A/N: I'm sorry but it was too obvious who it was to leave it!!!!
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