a/n Sorry, I was away this weekend, I couldn't update. I hadn't realized that I gave Lily two owls. I'm just gonna say that she will share one with her friends once she makes them and that with two owls, she could be sending and receiving at the same time. Okay? Enjoy!

Chapter 3, The Hogwarts Express

Lily's POV

"Mum! We've got to leave! I'll miss the train." Lily shouted down the stairs anxiously. She had just finished packing and was in the process of pulling on her shoe. Just then she noticed that she'd almost forgotten her jewelry, her birthday set plus a silver charm bracelet with two charms on it. Her grandparents had gotten it for her for her birthday. The charms were sterling silver identical to the bracelet. One was a perfect pentagram with a ruby circle incasing it and the other one was what they called a triquatra, three pointed ovals connecting together in the middle, which was also incased with a circle, though this was emerald.

This was the first time she'd wear the bracelet because her grandparents said she had to wait until her first day of Hogwarts. When she donned the jewelry, it glowed as did her eyes and hair. Her eyes and the emerald matched in a shade of neon green while the ruby and her hair were both a deep crimson. The colors quickly returned to normal but the power of the jewelry now flowed through the petite eleven year old. She felt strongly attached to them, almost as if by blood.

Lily quickly sprinted down the stairs and magicked her trunk into following her. (a/n-as she hasn't started Hogwarts yet, she isn't aware that she isn't allowed to do magic outside school. The Ministry didn't think that any pre-first years would be capable of real spells before starting school) Her mother was waiting for her by the door with two pieces of toast in her hand.

"You may eat in the car. Lets hurry! It's a good thing your grandparents told you how to gain access to the platform, I would have been clueless." Rose said as she led her daughter to the car where Trenton was waiting for them. The three of them drove hurriedly to the train station where Lily looked at the barrier nervously. At that moment she saw the arrogant boy from the bookshop strut up to the barrier, muss his hair, and just slip through it with an incredibly smug look on his face.

Lily, empowered by the fury that built up inside her, strode purposely towards the barrier and mimicked the boy's smooth movements, minus the smug smile. Her mother followed and hugged her daughter goodbye before returning to the muggle side of the barrier.

Lily quickly shrunk her trunk and proceeded to find an empty compartment, which only existed in the very last one. She sat down and enlarged her trunk before a tall girl with wavy, dark hair came in rather nervously.

"May I sit with you? Everywhere else is full of older kids." the shy girl asked.

"Of course. I'm Lily. What's your name?" Lily asked in an effort to be friendly to who was clearly a first year like herself.

"My name's Brandy." she answered, quickly losing her shyness and now surveying Lily with interest. "Do you like Quidditch?" she asked.

"I don't know. I learned what it was a couple days ago from my grandparents but both my parents are squibs so I didn't know it existed until a few days ago. It sounds rather dangerous though." she added, almost as an afterthought.

"Oh, well it is rather dangerous, but very exciting." Brandy replied eagerly. Brandy and Lily continued to discuss everything from things Lily's grandparents hadn't mentioned to the latest styles in both worlds to the cutest boys and what they looked for in relationships. Then the lunch trolley came. Lily and Brandy bought some of everything as this would be Lily's first dose of wizarding candy.

Just as they started opening their Pumpkin Pastries, three boys strode in looking as if they owned the place.

James' POV

James arrived at the station and, as his dad had explained everything about the platform, casually walked towards the platform with a look of arrogance that he was scarcely seen without, though, being a male hypocrite, had always denied it.

He arrived on the other side of the barrier and looked around. He shrunk his trunk and quickly found a compartment with two other boys in it.

"Ya mind if I sit here?" he asked, not really caring about the answer.

"No problem." one of the boys replied. He had dark hair that fell elegantly across his face and stormy blue eyes that made girls cue up to him in public. "Name's Sirius by the way, Sirius Black."

The other boy looked up at him too. "My name's Remus, Remus Lupin." he said. This boy had blond hair and looked very tired. He looked a bit shabbier than the other two boys. Remus had been reading a book and quickly returned to it after his introduction.

"I'm James." James quickly announced before sitting down beside Sirius. "Are you by any chance related to the Blacks?" he asked, uncharacteristically nervous as he had only heard bad things about that family.

"I'm Jenna Black's son." Sirius answered bitterly. "I hate the Dark Arts though, and I'll drop out if that stupid hat tries to put me in Slytherin." he finished. James breathed a sigh of relief. He was glad that the Blacks' Dark Arts legacy might end with this boy.

"I want to be in Gryffindor. I'll kill Voldemort one day, or die trying." James injected. He had always said the Dark Lord's name because he had always thought he was better than an Voldemort. He was convinced that he was invincible.

"I'd like to be in Gryffindor too." Sirius replied. "As does Remus, we were talking before he picked up his book."

"Let's take a walk around, see who else is here." James said. "I hope that damn Lucius Malfoy goes to Durmstrang. I definitely don't want him here." he added testily. James was one hundred percent against the Dark Arts.

"I agree. Lucius and his parents are always over at my house, my folks think that if I spend enough time with the son of a bitch I'll convert to their ways. They are so wrong. I've cursed Lucius a fair few times too." Sirius said, grinning wickedly.

James laughed and they made there way through the train. Sirius and James (Remus had opted to continue reading) got to the third compartment from the back and ran into the one person they were least pleased to make contact with, Lucius Malfoy.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Potter and good-boy Black." Lucius sneered at them.

"Shove off Lucius, or have you forgotten my skill with hexes?" Sirius said, shaking with anger.

"Oh, I haven't forgotten, I've brushed up on hexes myself since our last meeting. Or were you banking on this mudblood-lover helping you?" Lucius smirked. James and Sirius both drew their wands and held them at the ready.

"Just give us a reason, Malfoy!" James shouted, he hadn't noticed a small greasy-haired kid with a hooked nose sneak up behind him.

"Expelliarmus!" two voices shouted. Sirius and James both lost their wands and fell to the ground from the force expelled from the wands. James quickly recovered both wands and whipped around to see who had gotten him. He stared into Severus Snape's eyes with intense hatred. "Who are you?" he demanded, furious to have lost his wand.

"I am Severus Snape and I know more curses than you could begin to wish for." Snape answered coldly.

"I suggest you reiterate because I have been practicing magic with my father's wand since I was 18 months old. I turned one of my friends into a slug when I was five because he made me mad. I would hate to see what I could do to you." James smirked before hexing Snape into total body stiffness and proceeding to do the same with Malfoy.

James and Sirius left the compartment and continued to the end of the train. They stepped into the last compartment and were met by two girls, one glaring spitefully at James.

"Hello baby." James said casually, his typical smirk firmly in place. "In case I didn't mention it before, the name's James, but you can call me hun or whatever your sweet little heart desires." he said arrogantly.

"You can just shut it James! I want nothing to do with you! Didn't I make myself clear in Diagon Alley???" Lily asked incredulously.

"Please baby, give me a chance." James pleaded, using a mock pout.

"You lost all of the respect you could have earned when you walked into Flourish and Blotts calling me baby and sweet!" Lily retorted angrily before shoving the two out of the compartment with an angry glance and slamming the door to the compartment shut as well.

"Whoa, how'd I do that?" Lily asked herself aloud. For Lily Evans had not left her seat.

"You knew that babe?" Sirius asked bemusedly when they were safe from the Irish girl's wrath. "And you made the mistake of calling her baby on your first move?"

"Yeah" James said bitterly. "No girl had ever turned me down before and I'd never seen any girl so beautiful before…I kinda lost it." he finished heavily, regretting the way he'd acted.

A/N how's this chapter? I'll try to update my other fic too, I'm working on a novel too so I am in the middle of two fics on the net, one fic that I'll probably post in a couple months plus a novel that I'll eventually try to get published. Please bear with me and…..

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