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Chapter 5
Aboard the Hogwarts Express
Katie was the first to wake up on September the 1st and decided to wake Lily and Gemini up in her usual way. She leapt onto Gemini's bed and started jumping on it and screaming "GEM WAKE UP! THIS IS KATIE YOUR MORNING ALARM!" Gemini sat up and shouted, "WHERE'S THE FIRE?" Katie laughed and moved straight onto Lily's bed, where she started shouting and jumping. Lily didn't wake up though so she tried another method of attack, she shouted "JAMES POTTER! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN LILY'S BEDROOM?" and Lily sat up and started shouting, "GET OUT POTTER!" Katie started out in fits of giggles and the other two groaned there was no way she would stop now. Katie was red in the face and giggling like a maniac. The other two stared at her and Katie just waved a hand to say that she'd be ok. She managed to calm herself down by thinking of something serious, well something Sirius and then she imagined Sirius in pink robes and went back into her spasms of hysterics.
All three girls jumped when they heard a high pitched, girlie scream coming from next door. Katie bounded up to the window and saw James Potter, dripping from head to toe with water and Sirius Black grinning like a madman.
"Who screamed?" Gemini asked, looking puzzled, it was a very girlie scream.
"James! He screams like a girl!" said Sirius choking through laughter.
"Sirius, why did James scream?" Gemini asked her brother, looking at Sirius, still laughing, then to James, very wet and annoyed and then to a very sleepy looking Remus.
"Because I woke him up" Sirius said innocently. Well as innocent as Sirius Black can be whilst grinning and choking back laughter. It turned out that Sirius had chucked a bucket of very cold icy water over James and James had screamed and woke up. Katie, seeing that it was a very effective method of waking someone up, started to get ideas and smiled evilly, but was stopped when Lily said that if she ever used that method she would personally hex her. Katie pretended to look sad, but made up her mind to ask Sirius for more tips.
Mr Evans drove the three girls to Kings Cross-Station along with the three owls, Mr Fluffers, Orlando and Lily's owl Simba and all of the luggage. Katie, Lily and Gemini merrily chatted the whole time about their final year at Hogwarts. Lily was wearing her highly polished Head Girl badge and was wearing it with pride on her crisp, black robes. She smiled as they pulled up at the station and she saw all of the familiar faces.
Someone put their hands over Katie's eyes and said "Guess who" she laughed and said "hey Sirius! Wow, you guys are early for a change!" she said staring in fake astonishment at them.
"Yes, that's because I come bearing little brother! Katie, Lily this is Aries, my little brother!"
"And mine!" added Gemini "but he prefers Sirius and said he didn't want me to take him!" she said sulkily.
"Hello ladies!" Aries said to Katie and Lily, who laughed, he had Sirius' charm and they found it hilarious.
"Aaaaaaaaarrries! You can't hit on them! They're like way older than you are! And they're my friends! But nice work on the Sirimister charm!" Sirius winked at his brother and Gemini rolled her eyes. She had to tolerate Sirius giving Aries lessons at home and she thought it was pointless and stupid.
Aries walked up to Lily and kissed her hand, she tried to hold back her laughter.
"Hello, beautiful princess Lily, do you have a boyfriend? And if you don't can I be your boyfriend?" he asked hopefully and got warning glares from Gemini, who he stuck his tongue out at.
"Aries! That's sick! You're too young! Hit on some girl your own size!" and then added, seeing that he was looking at Katie "I meant age wise not height wise now go and make some friends!" and he shooed him away.
They walked through the barrier, taking care not to let muggles see them and found themselves on Platform nine and three quarters. They saw the scarlet train billowing smoke and were at once mobbed by James and Sirius' fan club. They laughed and tried to get rid of them. They got dirty looks from Kate Thompson and Robyn Howe, two evil Slytherins. Kate and Robyn had been trying to get them into trouble for as long as they could remember and they in turn had been trying to get them two in trouble.
They saw, to no surprise, that Sophia Stephanides and Laura Thompson had been made Ravenclaw prefects and they talked to them for a while. To all their surprises they saw that Kathryn Howe had been made Slytherin prefect, she was evil and most of what she said wasn't the exact truth, she liked to twist people's words. They met Anna Haigh and they talked to her for a bit, but then she saw Andrew Wood and went over to talk to him.
The remaining six boarded the train and bagged a compartment for them. Remus got out a book and started reading it, Gemini was off talking to Anna Haigh about something or other, Lily was teaching Sirius how to use a muggle c.d. player and James and Katie were talking.
"So, what was your boyfriends name again Katie?" James asked her, getting a glare from Sirius.
"Oh, we broke up" she said shrugging, not seeming bothered, getting out some exploding snap cards and dealing them between her and James.
"Oh, ok!" James said smiling at Sirius and started to play the game. They played for a while and then Robyn Howe and Kate Thompson came to the door.
"Oh yay! My favourite club! The mudblood and the marauders!" Robyn said sarcastically and she and Kate smirked. She leaned against the doorframe looking inside.
"Go away," said Katie with little interest still playing exploding snap with James.
"We don't want to, do we Kate?" Robyn drawled looking at Kate and then back at them.
"Not yet anyway" Kate said, "so, heard about that Voldemort guy?" she said peering at the six of them.
"Yep, what are you two, supporters? Do you go around killing muggles?" Sirius asked glaring at them, they really were troublemakers and they were certainly evil enough to be deatheaters.
"No! Mubloods silly! Not muggles!" Kate said, smiling sweetly at Lily, who was glaring at them.
"Blasterious" James said, getting up and pointing his wand at the two Slytherins, who were blown out of the room he then muttered "firmus" and the door closed. He really didn't like anyone being horrible to Lily, except himself of course, but he wasn't evil to her, he just wound her up a little.
"They didn't mean it did they?" Lily asked, looking slightly worried at the others.
"I don't know," said Sirius who was messing around with the c.d. and sticking his finger through the hole in the middle. Small, weird things like that amused Sirius.
The journey carried on and Gemini came back from Anna's compartment and joined this one. About ten minutes later Sophia Stephanides came in and told Lily and James to go and see Professor Williams about their Head Boy and Girl duties. They got up and left in silence, leaving VickGemini, Katie, Sirius and Remus alone. Remus was still absorbed in his book and Sirius was pressing all of the buttons trying to make it work. He smiled and looked up at the others when James and Lily left.
"Right you guys, we need a plan" he said smiling madly. Sirius liked plans. "We need to get them to at least talk to each other! Oh! I've got an idea! Let's lock them in a room together! Yay! That'll be fun!" the others laughed. Sirius always came up with the daftest of plans. They said they'd try it, though it probably wouldn't work. The girls would tell Lily that a teacher wanted to talk to her about some work in a room and the guys would tell James that they had a plan to wreck havoc in the Slytherin common room and that they should all meet in a room and lead him to the same room as Lily. Then they would lock them in and not let them out until they talked to one another. It was one of the most stupid plans that they had ever heard but stupid enough that it might just work. Then Gemini came up with a better plan.
"They have head duties together so they'll end up talking to each other there so I think we should just leave them to it" she said and the others agreed but Sirius put on a fake sulk
Lily and James walked in silence up to the front of the train. Neither of them trusted themselves to speak. They walked down the passage and saw Aries surrounded by girls. James groaned and Lily laughed.
"Hey look! It's Princess Lily and James the servant boy!" said Aries as the two walked by. The girls, new first years, looked wide eyed as they saw that Aries was on speaking terms with the Head Boy and Girl.
"Shut up Aries" said James and carried on walking, dragging Lily with him. He didn't particularly like Aries because he always wanted to be friends with him and Sirius and he was really arrogant.
Lily said goodbye to Aries and allowed herself to be dragged off by James. Aries Black reminded her of Sirius and James in many ways. They were all conceited, arrogant and charming. But Aries should grow out of it, she though, Sirius and James did, eventually.
Lily and James walked right to the front of the train. Stopped halfway by James' fan club. But they ploughed through it. James and Lily arrived at the teachers' carriage and knocked before walking in. Professor Williams looked in annoyance at them holding hands. They both went red and dropped them at once, they hadn't noticed that they were still holding hands and were both embarrassed. Even James even though he was rarely embarrassed. They were told their duties and went back to their previous compartment, where everything was how it had been before they left.
