A/N:: And I managed to get another one out!! YAY!!! Though I was slightly sugar high from all the candy I ate at the movies tonight. It's also daylight savings time of instead of it being 1 in the morning, it's 2 in the morning... not good considering that this means I will want to sleep in very late tomorrow... ah well, I'm past the making sense point at this point so I think that I will end this here and get on with the show. *throws dancing candies at you all* mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*cough* *sputter* *gasp* wahahahahahahahahaaaaa...... I'm done now....

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            The rest of August passed by in a blur.  Before she knew it, it was August 31st, and she was finishing packing.  Since she got her school things, she read all of the course books, and already knew some of the spells, even if she couldn't do them yet.  She also, though quite unintentionally, had memorized s few of them.

            On September first, Lily woke up earlier than usual, at about 8.  She didn't have to be at the train station till eleven, but they were going to meet up with the Potters at about 10:30, so they could show her how to get on the platform.  All they would say about it was that it was a bit different from doing it the muggle way.

            Lily was an early riser, and had managed to wake up her parents and a very grumpy Petunia by about 8:30, no matter how quiet she was being… or at least attempting to be.  Her trunk was packed, and checked ten times by now, to make sure that she had everything that she would need.  Finally at 10:00, they left.  It only took about twenty minutes to get to the train station from where their house, so they were a bit early.  They only had to wait five minutes before the Potters found them.  They exchanged quick greetings before getting down to business.

            "Well, I'm afraid that only parents can come onto the platform, unless of course you're a wizarding family.  Otherwise we would have muggles falling in all of the time.  Is it alright if you wait outside Petunia?" said Mr. Potter courteously.

            "Better out here than on that platform with all of the freaks."  She mumbled as she leaned against a wall.

            "Right… anyway… to get on the platform you have to run right through there, the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.  Now, don't worry about it, you aren't going to run into it or anything, unless you aren't with a witch or wizard.  Then you would.  But look, James and Lily go through first, then my wife and Marie, and then me and Richard.  Alright then, James you've done this before, would you kindly escort Miss Lily through to the platform?"  James just rolled his eyes at his dad but took lily's hand all the same.  They started to run to the wall and lily almost thought they would hit it when they passed right through it.  They walked in, gave their tickets to the witch that asked for them, and waited for their parents.

            When they were all finally on the platform, they decided that it was best if they left and got settled in, with their things some where do that they could talk to their parents without having to worry about getting their things on at the last moment.  It wasn't too long before Sirius caught up with them, as they were looking for a compartment.  They picked one in the middle of the train, the first empty one they came to.  Since Sirius didn't have anyone to go and say goodbye to, he offered to stay on the train and watch their things.

            After goodbyes were done, the train was about to leave, so James and Lily ran to get back to their compartment.  As soon as they got back, they settled themselves in, and started talking about what they had done over the summer.

***

            It had been a while on the train, and so far, their trip had been relatively uneventful.  They got on, bought some food when the trolley came around, and talked.  The three were becoming fast friends, and had tons of things to talk about.

            About half-way through the trip, a boy wandered into their compartment.

            "Hey, would you guys mind if I sat in here with you, I got kicked out of my other compartment."  Said the fair-haired boy.

            "Of course not, come in.  My name is Lily, this is James and Sirius."  She said pointing to each boy in turn.

            "I'm Remus Lupin."

            "Why were you kicked you out of your compartment?" asked James, curious about the new boy.

            "No idea."  Replied Remus.  They just shrugged and started asking him about himself.

            They talked with Remus for fifteen minutes, and were just debating over some Quidditch teams, when a magnified voice interrupted the conversation.

            "We will be reaching the school in fifteen minutes.  Leave your things on the train they will be taken up separately.  "

            "We aren't even changed yet!"  Lily said, grabbing her robes and going out the door.  "I'll be right back."  The boys just looked at each other and proceeded to get changed in the compartment.

            Once they got outside of the train, they heard a loud voice calling all of the first years over to him.  They walked over; once everyone was there they started walking to a lake.  There were all these boats on the water, and could seat about four people.  They all got in and the boats started forward.  They rode for a minute or so, and then they saw the castle.  Everyone was starting at it, and before they knew it, they were outside the doors.

***

            They had gotten all the way into the castle without trouble, and were now happily sitting at their house tables.  Lily, James, Sirius, Remus had been sorted into Gryffindor.  There were 2 other girls, Arabella Figg, and Maria Caraway, sorted into Gryffindor, and one other boy, Peter Pettigrew. 

            After dinner, the Headmaster, Professor Dumbledore rose, gave his usual start of term speech, and sent the prefects to take up the first years,

            Their astonishment was renewed as they walked through the halls, looking at all of the paintings, and secret passageways that they went through.  They went into the common room and were directed to their respective dormitories, and went to bed, promising to wait for each other before breakfast.

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            The next day, Lily once again rose unusually early, along with Arabella.  They both got dressed and went down to the common room to wait for the guys, who came down about ten minutes later, with James, Remus half-asleep and Sirius slightly hyper.

            "I take it you're a morning person Sirius?"  Lily said, looking at the murderous faces on James and Remus.

            "He threw cold water on us!  Both of us, and I was getting up!"  James yelled at them.  Lily and Arabella looked at each other and burst out laughing as they walked out of the common room.  Sirius echoed their laughter and followed them, leaving two very annoyed boys upstairs.

            By the time James and Remus got down to the Great Hall, they were considerably cheered up, both wearing mischievous grins as they sat down next to Sirius.

            "Hey James, hope you're not too mad about the whole waking up thingy this morning..." said Sirius after they sat down.

            "Nah, it's alright."  Said James, reaching over Sirius' plate to get some bacon.  No one saw anything strange about this, except Lily, who had been watching from the other side of the table.  No one else had seen James sprinkle some unidentified powder on Sirius' food.  But judging by the looks on Remus and James' faces, it was going to be interesting.

            They continued eating and talking, they got their schedules from one of the Prefects and spent some time discussing that as well.  Just as breakfast was about to end, there was a loud pop as Sirius' hair turned neon pink.  Everyone around them burst out laughing, making other people look over as well.  They had to start heading to Transfigurations though, so they got up and left, promising Sirius that the pink hair would only last for an hour.  As they started to look for the Transfigurations classroom, they had to resort to asking a few older students how to get there.  Eventually they found it and realized they were some of the first people there, the teacher wasn't even there yet.  They sat sown at four desks in the front of the room, and looked at the teacher's desk.  There was a tabby cat sitting on top of the desk looking at them.  The rest of the class arrived shortly after that, and they all sat there talking, not entirely sure of what to do, since the teacher wasn't there.

            All of a sudden, the cat jumped off of the desk, changing its form before it hit the ground.  There stood the witch who had leaded them into the school the previous night.

            "Hello everyone.  My name is Professor McGonagall, and I am your Transfigurations teacher.  This year we will be covering basic transfigurations.  Such as making my desk," she said, gesturing at her desk, "... into a penguin."  She waved her wand and her desk became a penguin.  Another wave and it was back to a desk.  The class applauded politely at this, and she continued.  "For today however, you will be copying down these notes."  A flick of the wand and the board was covered with notes.  "And towards the end of the lesson, you will try to turn these matches into needles."  She said, distributing the matches amongst the students.

            The notes alone took about fifteen minutes to copy, and then they were allowed to try and change the matches into needles.  None of the students was very successful with the matches.  Lily managed to make her match silver, but that was all?  Sirius and Remus both made a pointy match, but the color didn't change at all.  James however completely transformed his needle on the first try.  They were the only ones that had made any progress, and won 20 points from McGonagall for doing such a good job.

            Their next class was charms with the Ravenclaws, and it was pretty much the same as transfiguration.  They took some notes and Professor Flitwick let them attempt to levitate a feather.  This time Lily was the only one that managed to get her feather three feet off of the desk.  James managed a few inches, and Sirius managed to catch his on fire.  They won another 10 points for Gryffindor, and headed off to lunch, talking about all of the things that they had done in class.

            As well as their classes that morning had gone, their afternoon classes were just as bad.  First off, they had to go to Potions with the Slytherin, and as soon as they got down there, they knew that it wouldn't be too fun.  Professor Parfer seemed nice enough, but it was clear she favored the Slytherins over everyone else. All they did in that class was take notes the whole time, because she didn't think that they should try anything the first day. All in all, it was a very boring class, so they were happy to get out of there, finally.

            "So, interesting day, isn't it." Sirius said, as they left Herbology, having helped to repot some odd fuzzy flowers.

            "Well, it hasn't been too bad. Aside from Potions, that is." Lily replied.

            "Yea well, don't expect it to get too much better. I hear she always favors the Slytherins over everyone else, and hates Gryffindors." James added.

            They entered the castle and made their way to dinner. Remus however, just looked at his watch and stopped.

            "You know, I'm really not feeling too good, I think that I am going to go to the Hospital wing, I'll catch up with you guys tomorrow. Bye!" he said as he hurried away.

            "That was weird; he didn't look too bad to me.  I wonder what's wrong with him..."  Lily mused as they walked into the hall.

            "I wouldn't worry about it. He'll probably be fine. Anyway, let's go eat dinner!" Sirius bounded away. Lily and James exchanged amused looks before following him in.

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            "James, I know I said that we shouldn't worry about it, but I am. He wasn't looking too good since we got to school."  Sirius said once they got back up to their dorms.

            "Yea, I was thinking the same thing myself. What do you say we ask him when we see him later?" James replied.

            "Seems like the best way. Anyway, I guess we should get to sleep, see you in the morning."

            "Yea, and no more rude wake-up calls!" James said, answered only by snores. Little did they know that in the girl's dormitory, a similar conversation was taking place.

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            "Arabella, have you noticed anything strange about Remus?" Lily questioned.

            "What do you mean?" she responded.

            "Well, he went to the hospital wing and hasn't come back yet. He didn't look that sick to me, but I don't know."

            "Huh, I noticed that too. I wonder what the problem is... Lets ask him when we see him next. Better than wondering what's going on."

            "Yea, that makes sense... ok, I think I'll go to sleep now. Night."

            "Night" and they both fell into a deep sleep.

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            They next day, the girls and the guys both woke up early, hoping to be able to sneak down to the hospital wing to see what was wrong with Remus.  They ran into each other as they got to the portrait hole, and decided that they would all go together, since they were all worried about him.

            They managed to get into the hospital wing itself, but were ambushed almost immediately by Madame Pomfrey.

            "What do you think you are doing in here this early!  My patients need rest.  Out, out!"  She whispered, pushing them out into the corridor they had come from.

            "Well, that was a success."  James said, sarcastically.

            "Yea, well maybe he will be at breakfast.  Or we can just ask him the next time that we see him."  Lily reasoned.  The rest nodded, and they made their way to the great hall for breakfast.

            About halfway through, Remus came walking through, rather slowly, and looking much worse than he had the day before.

            "Remus, what happened?  Why didn't you come back upstairs last night?"  Sirius asked him as soon as he sat down.

            "Um... I wasn't feeling well, so I decided to stay in the hospital wing for the night.  And Madame Pomfrey insisted."  He added.  There was a pause, and then everyone moved on to talk about more everyday things.  However, Lily wasn't too convinced, and decided that she would talk to him later. 

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            After morning classes, defense against the dark arts with Professor Fisher and charms, Lily decided that she should talk to him, imagining what it could be only made it worse with Lily's imaginative mind.  So before they went to lunch, Lily managed to corner him away from the other boys.

            "Remus, can I talk to you for a second?'  Lily asked him as they started on the route to the great hall.

            "Sure, what about?"

            "You said you were sick last night, but you looked fine that day.  You also look much worse today."  Lily pointed out calmly.

            "Well... it was one of those 24 hour things, but I'm doing better.  It's nothing, really."

            "Well, that's good I guess."  Lily replied, but she still had a feeling that Remus wasn't telling the truth.

            "Yea.  Well, we have to get to lunch.  We'd better get down to the great hall."  Remus said, walking down the hallway.  Lily just nodded, and told her self to forget about. 

            'He'd tell us if something was really wrong.'  She thought as she followed him down the hallway.

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A/N: Thank you all for reading the second lovely chapter of this wonderful story and make sure to review. Don't care if you think it's good or bad, all input is appreciated and I love when people find things that I mess up on or could do better, then I know what to fix and what to do better!! Haha, that said, I shall go now, Nightnight!!

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