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Okay, here is the next chapter. Sorry abut the misspelled name (Sirius) in the last chapter. I realized that right after I put it on the website. So please forgive me. Hope you enjoy this chapter.
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The first hour of the train ride the four kids spent learning about each other and just talking about their summers. Sirius finally got tired of this and asked if anyone wanted to play exploding snap. "What in the world is exploding snap?" asked Lily. Sirius then went on to explain to her what exploding snaps was. "Sounds fun," replied Lily after he got done, "lets play." So they played for the next hour.
They started to talk again and James started talking about Quidditch. "Quidditch?" asked Lily, "what is that?" " Well," James started, "it is a game that wizards play on brooms and you have three different kinds of balls that are used for different things in the game." Just as he started to explain to Lily what the three balls were, their compartment door slid open and two boys stepped in. One had greasy black hair and the other had long blonde hair. Both of them looked quite scary, and they were frightening to Lily. She went through all of the houses at Hogwarts( she had studied about them) and decided they would probably be put into Slytherin.
One of the boys spoke and said, " Hey Potter, we heard you had a mudblood in your compartment, so we decided to come check it out." James, Sirius, and Remus all jumped out of their seats and Sirius said, " Snape, You take back what you just said to Lily, or I am going to make you wish you were dead. The two boys laughed and the one with blonde hair said to the other boy, "Yep, they do have a mud blood in here, but she is definitely not one of those ugly mud bloods." The other boy agreed ant they both sent Lily a look that chilled here to the bone. " You better apologize Malfoy AND Snape," said James, " Unless you want to experience pain like you've never known before. The one they called Malfoy just laughed and said, "You couldn't hurt us Potter and you know it, come on Severus let's go before the mud blood's germs get on us. Sirius lunged for him, but James and Remus held him back until the two boys were out of site. "I can't believe what they called Lily," said Sirius through gritted teeth, "they are going to pay for that."
All three boys immediately went over to Lily and asked her if she was all right. " Of course," she replied, "I'm just a bit frightened because they looked at me in a sick way." "So your not mad that they called you a mud- um, what they called you?" asked Remus. " No," she replied, " I don't even know what it is so I have no reason to be mad." "Oh right, I forgot that you wouldn't know what it is," added James, " A mud blood is a word that some wizards use for non-magical people. It is considered bad and VERY offensive. It's mostly used by wizards who don't like muggles, or non-magical people." "The reason that Lucius and Severus use it is that they don't like muggles one bit." They sat there and let Lily digest what they just told her. After a moment of silence, Lily finally got it and started crying. The three boys went up to comfort her, but Lily only let Remus hold onto her. She cried for fifteen minutes, then looked up at Remus and told him thanks for letting her cry on him. He told her it was no problem and that she could do it anytime she needed to. With Lily over the incident, the four started talking again, and they got onto the subject of James dressing like a girl.
"Why do you do it?" asked Lily. " It was a dare from Sirius," replied James, "he didn't think I would be able to go to Diagon Alley and Kings Cross Station dressed like a Girl without people realizing I was not what I looked like. I told him I could, so I got a dress, a wig, and some makeup, and set out to prove him wrong. It was working fine until I met you and you spoiled it for me." Lily, Sirius, and Remus busted out laughing and Lily said in between laughs, " I'm sorry I ruined it for you, but I doubt you had to pay him much for losing." " I guess if you called fifteen galleons a little bit of money than your right," replied James. " Fifteen GALLEONS?" asked Remus. "Yep," said Sirius, " It was SO good to hear that I had won, because I didn't have fifteen galleons and mum would have killed me if I took it from her." They all had a good laugh at this. Lily looked at her watch and realized that they would be at Hogwarts soon and they still needed to change into their robes.
She shooed the boys out so she could change, then waited out in the hall for them to get changed. After they were all changed they played exploding snaps until they got to the Hogwarts station. Lily was getting a little bit nervous about school. She wasn't actually nervous ABOUT school, she was nervous about the sorting ceremony. She didn't want to get sorted into a house she didn't want to be in.
They got off the train and were met by a big man named Herman who told them to get into a boat if they were first years. Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus all piled into a boat and the boat started going across the Lake. They soon got their first glimpse of the school they would be spending the next seven years at. " Wow, it is so big and beautiful," said Lily. The others agreed with her and they couldn't wait to be able to go inside it and see how great it really was.
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Well there was that chapter. I hope you liked it. I know it's kind of boring, but that's how train rides are, long and boring. Please tell me what you think. I'll write more tomorrow.
-Katie
