LEGEND REWRITTEN by JKReviewer

Chapter four – Old friends, new friends

As he passed them Harry took a good look at every person at King's Cross Station. It was sort of a game to him, trying to guess if people were Muggle or Magic-kin. Some were obvious, like for example a small wizard with a green cloak muttering about 'Damn fairy potions', but others were either muggle or very good at masking themselves.

Some of course were just too imagination-less to be of Magic-kin – like a big beefy man mumbling about the troubles of the government – but all in all Harry had trouble guessing. It used to make him a bit depressed that he could see and analyze all these people, but he could never talk to them.

He ruffled his hair unknowingly, grazing the scar on his forehead. In today's occasion his mom had charmed his hair to look natural, but always cover up the scar. It was a habit of theirs whenever they went out anywhere.

Sometimes, when he felt really alone, he would do anything for people to notice him – but other times, when the 'Dark People' were near, it was a curse he had to bear.

Someone tapped his shoulder and he turned to face a girl about his height, bushy hair and a nervous look on her face.

"Excuse me…" she started, concealing any nervousness she might have felt almost perfectly. "How do I get onto the station?"

A faint smile appeared across Harry's face. He opened his mouth to answer, but just then he realized that she might be a muggle. She sure looked like it, he thought as he observed her. His mouth still open.

The girl seemed to take this as a fact that he didn't know, meaning he was a muggle and turned around with a scared look on her face.

"It's between platform nine and ten – go through the wall!" someone behind him suddenly yelled. Harry vaguely thought he recognized the voice, as he and the muggle-born girl spun around to face a familiar looking (at least to Harry) girl their age.

She beamed at Harry as she approached, and waved merrily like they were old friends.

"Hi Harry… Good to see you!" she began, and to Harry's great surprise she hugged him. Uncomfortably and awkwardly he hugged her back, and she let go after a few seconds. She smiled again, and leaned sideways to look at the girl behind him. The she leaned back again to stand face to face with him.

"Who's your friend?"

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Over by the entrance wall to platform 9 ¾ Lily could just make out, through the insanely large crowd of people, that Harry was already busy talking to two girls that look around his age. James nudged her gentle, and pointed to the exact spot she was looking.

"Nothing to worry about, eh? I told you…" he began with a smirk, but Lily silenced him with a nudge of her own.

Lily sighed contently and grabbed James' hand. This reminded her of her own days here. It had almost been the best day of the year for her – finally getting away from two months of Petunia. She shuddered lightly. She didn't want to think anymore of the Dursley's then she had too.

A shriek from directly behind her brought her out of her gloomy mood, and she was just about to spin around wand ready – when she recognized it. A big smile crept onto her face, ah the memories. That exact way of delighted screaming could only belong to one person. She turned around, knowing even before she had set eyes on the person who it was.

"LILY EVANS?!" a woman in her early thirties screamed, before enveloping Lily in a bone shattering hug. When she finally pulled away she was smiling like her face was frozen that way. James, who had been talking to an old friend from a Quidditch camp, had also turned around at this point.

"Oh Merlin, I can't believe I would see you here – after all those years!"

Lily still smiled. "Hi Evelyn. It's so good to see you too…" she said, followed by another hug. "What have you been up to… oh… the last thirteen years?"

"Well… A lot of things really" Evelyn said completely ignoring the sarcasm, looking thoughtful. "Well I got married to Michael Patil, you know that guy from Ravenclaw, and we have two girls together – they are starting Hogwarts today – and three years ago we moved to Ireland, but now we moved back – and life is always better here, right?" she paused only for air.

"And two months ago I got… Ohhh… Hi James!" she stopped completely this time, after realizing that James was here too. A tiny blush crept to her chins.

Lily rolled her eyes, noticing that HER husband looked very uncomfortable. Evelyn had been one of the 'James-and-Sirius-are-the-cutest-and-hottest-guys-on-earth" type of girl back at Hogwarts – but thankfully she had come around during sixth year and she and Lily had become friends.

"Yeah -- Yeah Evelyn… James is still here, and we are still MARRIED!" Lily said before James could reply, emphasizing the word 'married' as much as she could. Evelyn blushed a deep crimson – and started mumbling incoherently.

Just then Sirius appeared from behind putting his arms around James and Lily's shoulders. He looked happy, almost as if in a trance.

"Ah the station…" Sirius began, wiping an imaginary tear away. "Such fond memories!" He said with a snobbish accent – striking his goatee, looking thoughtful, before being silenced by a shark elbow in the ribs from Lily. James just shook his head. Evelyn looked like she had seen a ghost, again – but this time it faded quicker, only to be replaced by a doubting frown.

"Sirius?! Why are you here today? Don't tell me you are married and…"

"No I'm not married – I'm here to see of… Harry!" Sirius said - a ghost of a nervous sweat crossed his face. But he quickly regained. "I'm his godfather you know…"

Evelyn seemed satisfied with the answer, at least for now – but if anything Lily could remember about Evelyn Patil, formerly Evelyn Marshall – it was that she was an expert on gossip and she never forgot a thing. When, or if, the met again she would have a whole line full of new questions. Lily was actually shocked that she had only been asked a few questions so far.

"Oh so you are here with Harry…" she leaned in a turned her voice down to a whisper. "How is he handling being famous?"

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"Come on, grab your stuff – my brother is already waiting for us!"

"You have a brother?"

"Sure – a twin actually. Not that we look alike or anything. He's starting today too, and he promised me he would save us a compartment."

Harry looked over his shoulder to where his parents were; Sirius had arrived. He caught his mother's eye and made a gesture with his head to signal that he would wait for them on the other side. She nodded and whispered something in his father's ear. Harry turned and was about to follow Andi, who had already walked through, when someone put a heavy hand on his shoulder.

Harry panicked and he whipped around, wand held high. He breathed a sigh of relief when the smiling face of his godfather welcomed him. He looked at the wand and raised an eyebrow, which made Harry smile apologizing and put it away. For a second he wondered how Sirius could have made his way through a thousand people crowd in a matter of second – but in his godfather's case you didn't always want to know.

"Getting a bit paranoid these days aren't we?" Sirius said. A smirk suddenly crept across his face, and he leaned in close to Harry. His voice lowered to a whisper. "Who was that girl you talked to before?"

Harry couldn't help but get a little red in the cheeks from embarrassment. And as every eleven year old boy caught in the presence of a girl would do; he played dumb.

"What girl?"

Sirius rolled his eyes, and shook his head. He placed a hand on Harry's shoulder, and shook his head lightly. "Oh Harry… How many times have I not heard those exact words out of Moony's mouth! He would never tell us when he liked a girl." He paused for a moment, possibly just for air. "I even heard it from Prongs once too…"

Sirius stopped, smiled and the laughed – it was obviously a fond memory. Harry lifted an eyebrow, but his godfather just shrugged it of. "I'll tell you some other time…"

Harry's face fell a bit, but it quickly lighted up again, as he remembered that he could just ask his dad for the story. He'll tell me…

"But anyway, WHO was that girl? I only saw her briefly through the crowd…" he continued to whisper. Harry gave Sirius his most puzzled look, hoping it would discourage him – but no luck.

"Harry – you are my godson and I love you, but I swear I will hex you so close to being a pink rabbit, if you don't tell me anything." Sirius said, a jokingly smile played across his face. Even so, Harry didn't fell like taking any chances.

 "It was just a girl I met in Diagon Alley. She said she have saved me a seat…"

"Uhhh…." Sirius whistled, cutting in. "You and a girl all alone in a compartment!" His voice had now chanced to a sickly dreamy, implying voice. Harry's temper was rising. Sirius spotted this quickly though and backed of.

"Oww… There goes that red-haired temper again. I still don't know why you bother coloring it!"

Two minutes later Harry finally caught Sirius and gave him a well deserved punch. And then another one for the red-hair joke.

"Ok… ok, you can tell me who she is at Christmas! But you know I will find out eventually." Sirius said, his hands held high in mock defeat. He looked around and straitened his robes. Then a sad smile crept across his.

"I have to go now – Auror stuff – so I just wanted to say goodbye before you went through! Remember: If I don't see at least one owl carrying a letter saying that you have landed yourself a detention because of a prank, I will be very disappointed."

He grabbed Harry and drew him in, enveloping him in a big bear (or in Sirius' case; a dog) hug.

"I'm gonna miss you… But we will see each other soon I promise." He said with a strange, very serious voice. "And remember – and this goes for all your years at Hogwarts – there are some things that you can't ask your parents, but you can always ask me. Ok?"

Another bone shattering hug and his was gone.

Harry was left only a second to wonder before his parents showed up behind him and they all went through.

* * *

"Hey… Who's that girl Harry's is with?" Sirius suddenly said, interrupting the conversation – which he obviously hadn't been listening too.

'Oh boy, here we go! I knew Sirius would try to 'teach Harry some moves' – but he could at least have waited till fourth year or something like that.' Lily thought. No use in him being all "Sirius and James fifth year"-like at his first year. No, what am I thinking – he has after all inherited some of my perfect sense.'

Lily giggled out loud at her own thoughts just as Harry turned around, caught her eye, and made an "I'll-be-waiting-on-the-other-side" motion with his head.

"What are you laughing about?" James asked, looking a bit puzzled since the conversation had been kind of dull at the end.

"Oh nothing it's just…." She began her reply but then she became silent. Her mouth hung wide open as her hands slowly moved to the side of her head in a picture perfect "I don't believe it" face!

A shriek even Evelyn couldn't produce escaped Lily's lips, making James jump back in fright. What was going on – was she possessed…again?

"RIA?!" Lily shouted. "MARIA WINTERS?" Lily began running towards an unknown person in the crowd, as said person slowly turned eyes wide as well.

"Lily…?"

Two minutes later, the two grown up women were still giggling and speaking at the same time – their conversation completely topic-less. The seemed more like two fifteen year old teenage girls who hadn't seen each other all summer and now had too catch up. Actually this wasn't as far from the truth as one could imagine.

James, who had caught up with Lily seconds before, fearing that it had been her temper that had gotten the better of her. He was now standing a little of, with a clueless expression on his face.

The ramblings of the two girls had finally died down. People in the vicinity breathed a sigh of relief. Lily and the one she had shouted at, a medium height, black haired witch turned to James.

"So James… Not as happy to see me as Lily is I suppose!"

James mumbled something incoherently.

"What's that?" Maria asked, a grin on her face showing that she had heard every word. But nothing having it repeated.

"I said… It's good to see you Ria!"

Surprisingly, most of all to James – Maria closed in and hugged him like he was an old friend. James hugged back, surprised – after all they had not always been good friends. Back in fifth year they had actually been enemies when Maria did everything she could to stop Lily from going on a date with James. Luckily she had come around sometime during their sixth year and he remembered that she had at one point actually helped him "win over Lily"!

James smiled – maybe she could be counted as an old friend.

Maria noticed his face changing attitude every few seconds. "Ahh… Come on James, your still not angry with the speech at the wedding are you?"

Then again – maybe she couldn't.

A warning smile to all who knew, crept across James' face as he searched for his wand. The two women were already walking towards the semi-solid wall that lead to the station.

"We have so much to catch up…" Ria squealed, totally out of character.

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"Where can they be?" Harry mumbled to himself, getting quite annoyed with his ever slow parents. Truthfully he was getting a bit worried too.

Andi turned to him and smiled encouragingly. "Don't worry about it – from what I'we heard your mum and dad can handle themselves!"

Harry opened his mouth to agree, but stopped. How did she know about his parents? He just met her a week ago and they didn't even exchange last names.

"How did –"

"Oh there he is. Hey Orio… Over here!"

A boy – standing some twenty feet away with a searching look on his face – turned towards the two and walk towards them with a confident smile. He was just about Harry's height with dark, almost bluish hair. He walked like he owned the place, never taking his eyes of Harry and Andi. Surprisingly he dropped the cocky grin, and extended his hand to Harry- who shook it, frowning all the same.

"Harry Potter..." he nodded, smiling like Christmas had come early. "You and me…" and then he laughed, starling a nearby red-haired woman and her two kids. He shook his head, still smiling big. "Hogwarts won't know what hit them!"

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Ok I know I promised to have it out earlier but I just can't do this fast enough. So every two weeks would be a good outline for the rest, but you never know – I might surprise you. This was the last of the introduction chapters… The good stuff will soon begin.

Just read my own first chapter again today – it's gotta be the best I have ever written! Go me… :D

And remember: This is gonna be an epic (which is my term for a very very long story) All the years (not as long as the HP books – and when I'm done with this I think about writing "Prelude to Legend"! Hope you can stay hungry…

Responds to reviewers of earlier chapter:
Logical Raven - Don't worry or should i say worry - it wont all be peaches and pie for Harry but dont you think he deserves some happiness - atleast when he is a child?
:: Cho 24/7 - Well i took your advice! Here is more! :) ::
Holydak1 - I don't really know about that, depends on what the Readers want i guess
:: CyberdogZ - Yeah yeah whatever! :) There is ofcourse a reason why i haven't told everything about the "change of fate"! Little bits of info will be dropped once in a while, but there are generally going to be a lit of unanswered questions. SOme will be answered later in tehs story, some will be answered in Prelude to Legend (whenever that one showes up! :)
:: Chibi Plotu - Thanks a lot! I try to write my best but obviously i wont outdoo the prologue for a while, that one took over three weeks because i kept getting new ideas! Let's see how you like Andi's personality when we get there!
:: Hippyman69 - I plan to dedicate a chapter to you at a later pojt but since some of your reviews have been wack (no offense) i think i will wait a while. Hopåe it's okay! :)
:: kitsu black & Anaxandra & hp4all & LZSHPR - Thanks all! And like i said above - this is gonna be an epic, you cant get everything at once! :D Hope you like the new chapter!
:: Erica Lea T - Best AU ever? Wow that's praise if i ever seen it! Thanks a lot, it means a lot to me... Different houses eh? Wait and see, is all i can tell ya! If you have some interesting ideas for Ron and hermione - let me know okay?

Thanks too all my reviewers… love you all! All of you who read this would you please review this chapter – if only so that I can see how many readers I actually have. Thx