KnM- I'm back!!

Sirius- Oh no.

KnM- What was that?

Sirius- Oh nothing...

James- Don't you two start fighting again...

KnM- Who's fighting?

Lily, James, and Sirius- No one!

KnM- Good! Now, someone say the disclaimer!

Lily, James, and Sirius- ...

KnM- Anyone??

Lily, James, and Sirius- ...

KnM- OK, fine. I'll just have to pick someone... Inky, binkie, bonky. Daddy had a donkey. Donkey died, daddy cried, inky, binkie, bonky!

KnM- Lil, you have to say the disclaimer, sorry.

Lily- Damn it, Miko. -sigh- KnM does not, under any circumstances, own Harry Potter or anything directly related to him. She does, however, own the plot.

KnM- Now that wasn't so hard was it?

Lily- No glares

KnM- Good! James, it's your turn next! Now on with the story!!

James- WHAT?!?

KnM- ON WITH THE STORY!!

As all of the students descended the steps of the train, a middle aged man appeared.

"First years to me please," he called out.

All of the first year students made their way to him.

"I am Professor Dumbledore," he told all of the students. "Transfiguration teacher here at Hogwarts. If you will all kindly follow me to the lake, we will begin our crossing to Hogwarts.

"I hear this is a tradition. That first years cross the lake on their first day to get to the school," James whispered to his friends.

"Oh sounds interesting," Remus said in a monotone.

Sirius grinned, "Look." He pointed. "Only one empty boat."

The four of them pushed through the crowd of students still trying to get into boats and hopped into it.

"Oh," said a voice from behind them on the shore. The boys turned to see the redheaded girl and her two friends standing there.

The redhead cleared her throat. "Can we ride with you?" she asked. "All of the other boats are full."

James and Sirius looked at each other and grinned.

"Oh course you can ladies," James replied smoothly, in a deeper, more mature voice.

Lily smiled as she and her friends climbed into the boat. "Thank you very much, you're so kind," she said sweetly.

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'He's so polite,' Lily thought to herself. 'I definitely like him a lot, I just hope he doesn't turn out to be a git. His hair is adorable, it looks like he just finished flying.'

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'She's adorable, I figured she was cute, but she's got a nice voice too. Her eyes are gorgeous, l've never seen eyes so green before.' thought James.

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"So Lily, what are your mates names?" James asked.

Lily looked at him surprised. "You know my name?"

He grinned. "Yes, I saw you on the train. I'd heard about you somewhere."

Still looking at him with her green eyes wide she replied, "This is Molly and this is Bellatrix."

"Bella?" came Sirius' voice from the other side of the boat.

"Sirius? Is that you?" Bellatrix inquired.

"So it is you…" Sirius replied.

"You know her?" Remus asked.

"Ya, she's my cousin."

"Well don't sound so happy to see me Sirius," huffed Bella.

"I won't," Sirius replied.

AHEM. "As I was saying, this is Molly Schfrin and this is Bellatrix Lestrange. Though I suppose one of you has already met her. And I am Lily Evans. Who are you all?"

"I'm James Potter," James replied with a slight bow which made the girls giggle, "my mates are Sirius Black, who we all now know is Ms. Lestrange's cousin, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew."

"Nice to meet you all," Molly piped up.

"Molly, why is your hair still black?" Bellatrix asked.

"Oh, is it? I'd forgotten I'd changed the color," she said simply as she pulled her wand out of her robes and tapped her long straight dark hair. Suddenly, it changed from dark and straight to wavy and bright orange. "Is that better?" she inquired.

"There you go dear," Bella replied.

"I see you've been practicing your spells," Remus commented.

The girls giggled. "Yes, I'm actually getting pretty good at some of them," Molly said.

James looked at Sirius and nodded, they had been practicing a special 'magic act' just in case they had needed to impress someone with their skills.

Sirius and James pulled out their wands and conjured their smoke puppets. They had found a way to turn wisps of smoke into shapes and had made a little show. It was a quiddich match, two little players, chasing after the quaffle. They zoomed around in the air after the small red ball, tossing it back and forth, trying to score it in the goalposts at either end of the smoke field.

Lily, Molly, and Bellatrix stared at the small smoke scene with wide eyes. When one of the quiddich players dove, pulled up quickly, and rose again, the girls gasped and began to applaud.

James and Sirius finished up their show when one of the smoke players scored goal and red sparks shot around the smoke field.

The girls laughed and clapped and the two boys took a bow.

"That was wonderful!" Lily said as she looked at James smiling.

"Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked it," he replied taking another bow.

"She's right, that was very good," Molly agreed nodding.

"They better have liked it," Sirius mumbled to Remus, "it took us the better part of the train ride to put it together."

Remus grinned, "So that's what you and James were doing when you were huddled together in the corner of the compartment. I'd wondered."

"Yea," Sirius grinned back.

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Well, I hope you like it. I promise it will get better.. much better. lol Please RR! Thanx, KnM.