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A Little Bit of Magic
11 o'clock and ever after
"OK Kiralee, I don't know about this darling. Are you sure It says 9 and ¾?"
"Yes Mum." Kiralee sighed "This is the magic world now."
Alas, 15 minutes later, Kiralee had given up trying to get to platform 9 and ¾.
"It was very lucky we got here early wasn't it"
"Yes Mum. You were right. That I will never live down."
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"Lily flower are you ready to go?"
"um…" Lily shouted back looking hurriedly around her room "Yeah…I think"
"OK come down now, it's getting late"
Lily dragged her trunk out of her room
"Watch where you're going, freak!" Petunia spat as Lily bumped into her "It's a pity you can't wave a magic wand to make you pretty. Or maybe you've tried that and that stick of yours exploded from the pressure"
"I'm going to school to learn how to wave magic wands. Then I'll be able to turn you into a toad for summer. Not that they'd be much difference"
"GIRLS!" Lily's mother screamed "Cut it out! Petunia, clean up your room! Lily, you'll be late! Go now. THEN maybe I'll have some PEACE!"
"Lily, Your Mother is right. Come on, we'll be late
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"Excuse me!" Lily and her gran as a voice addressed them.
"Are you going to Hogwarts" Lily asked, assuming it was safe as the girl had a trunk, an owl, and was standing between platforms 9 and 10.
"Yeah. Any chance you could help me?"
"Sure" Lily's gran answered, "Lily is off there too."
"Great" the girl smiled "I'm Kira by the way. Hang on; I'll get mum and dad."
A few moments later…
"I'm sorry Mr and Mrs White, muggles cannot come through on to the platform. I'll look after Kiralee"
"Kiri, have a great time. I'm sure you will. Oh, boarding school already. Write to us darling and have a great time"
"Mum, this isn't just a boarding school. And I'll be fine. See you at Christmas!
"Kiralee, make sure you do those maths exercises I suggested. We may have to get you some maths coaching in the summer holidays. I'm disappointed they don't have it in the school curriculum. Maths is very important you know. All the high paying jobs involve maths. Think about the…"
"Dad. I'm going now. Goodbye."
Lily's gran led the two girls towards the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.
"Kiralee, remember brush those teeth top and bottom, front and back, in a round circular motion." Called her father
Kiri took Lily's hand, and ran through the barrier.
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12 hours later
James Potter looked around platform 9 ¾. His parents were talking to some old friends, and . His thoughts were interrupted by a tug at his wrist. "NO Zach, NO!"
But it was too late. The enormous golden retriever had jerked out of his hand and was running like a maniac to toward a pile of people.
"Watch Out Peter!" A tall brown haired boy cried to his friend.
"Arhhh! A dragon" screamed Peter as Zach jumped on him knocking him to the ground, causing a trolley with two trunks to start rolling along the ground. An owl cage fell off, opening as it hit the ground and the owl started pecking Peter's Friend. As he was flapping his hands to get the owl off him, he knocked some books out of a 7th years hand.
"My Exceedingly Advanced History of Magic Book! Oh no! Its one of the rarest textbooks in England! The only book describing every hour of Rex the Rose rebel's Rampage with the Red, raging Runespoor restraint rally! Such an important moment in history! If Rex had succeeded, we could have Runespoors running round right now! Ripping their razor-sharp poisonous right fang into our right ring fingers."
The 7th year's history lecture was interrupted by a loud explosion of Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Fireworks that were in a bag Zach had slobbered on. A trunk caught on fire and melted the chocolate frogs that were in it. A brown slime oozed out of the trunk and on to the platform. An older wizard quickly extinguished it with his wand, however many people were covered with burnt chocolate. By this time, the trolley had crashed into a 'large' professor, and rebounded off his stomach. It was now heading for Peter who was unable to move because of Zach. At the last moment, the dog bounded off Peter, and into his friends legs, who was trying to battle the owl.
James realised that all this was probably his fault, and thought he should probably say something. The 7th year had run off, so James tuned to Peter, who had a trolley on the top of him, and was boxed in by trunks; and His friend who was being attacked by both an owl and Zach; and said,
"Hi, I'm James. How's it going?"
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Lily stood with Kiralee at the front of the great hall. A blur of faces were watching them. As the name Carol Derpent was called, Lily whispered to her new friend
"Why does my name have to be so close to the start of the alphabet?"
"At least you weren't first. Poor Miranda Arten.
"Lily Evans" called Professor Roget
Lily walked slowly over to the sorting hat, her legs shaking like an under-done pancake. She pulled on the hat and closed her eyes so she wouldn't have to see everyone looking at her.
"hmmmm" a voice spoke as Lily nearly fell off her chair. "Difficult. It's hard to see your brain for all this dandruff."
"PEEVES!" the male voice shouted. You will not interrupt the sorting ceremony"
"Just telling the truth Rogy! A wise man once said 'always tell the truth'. A other one said 'if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all', but since he had a pet Fwooper, I tend to forget that one"
"Go away Peeves! And sorry Miss Evans, take your turn in the hat again"
"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted
A few minutes later, Kiralee joined her at the Gryffindor table
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James was now seated in a compartment with Peter and his friend, Remus. Zach was lying curled up in a corner of the compartment, pretending to be a mat so if any prefects came in he wouldn't have to explain why he had a dog when the list stated quite clearly that only cats, owls, and toads were allowed.
"James, one day someone is going to discover you have a dog. You can't keep that big slobbering thing disguised forever"
"You know what my big master plan is, Remus? I plan to excel at transfiguration. I'll study day and night, and learn to transform Zach into a toad"
At this precise moment, Zach pricked his ears up and growled
"I don't think he likes the thought of being a toad" Peter translated
"OK, well a cat then"
Zach jumped up and growled ferociously.
"OK, well something! A broomstick maybe."
The conversation was suddenly interrupted by a crash on the roof of their compartment. James jumped up and opened the sunroof to see what happened, and saw a boy dangling, from a piece of metal sticking up o the carriage roof, with a broomstick in one hand. James grabbed the boy's hand and pulled him into the compartment.
Oi! Don't let that owl in!" Shouted Remus
The savage owl who attacked Remus on platform 9 ¾ flew in the sunroof and started flapping around the compartment. It spied Remus and swooped down.
The boy got up off the floor, and brushed himself down
"Hi. I'm Sirius."
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"Welcome Gryffindors, follow me to your tower!" A familiar voice called.
Lily glanced up, and saw no other than Tamekia
"Hello there Lily, Welcome to Hogwarts. OK Gryffindors, your password is armadillo, and see you in the morning"
Lily was very tired, after having a long day, however, she stayed awake long enough to meet her roommates.
"OK, hi every one, I'm Tara" Said a dark haired girl jumping up on the bed. I'm pureblood, 167cm tall, have a older brother Mike, love singing, my favourite food is toffees, just broke up with a guy called victor, have a stuffed elephant named Fred, and yeah, other random stuff. Who's next?"
"Hey people, I'm Melody, and unlike Tara, I'm going to stop for breath once in a while. I'm pureblood too, not that it matters. I like music, and play the Dyonhte, which as I've learnt from muggle music theory lessons, is sort of like an oboe crossed with a trombone crossed with a saxophone for the muggle-born's here. Um that's about it."
Kiralee stood up.
"Mornin' everyone, my name's Kiralee, just call me kira, kiri, kirlee, lee, or whatever. Just as Melody's musical, I love sport. I play softball, soccer, and basketball"
"Softball?" asked Tara
"Soccer?" queried Melody
"Basketball?" enquired Diana, the 5th Gryffindor.
"What you guys are missing!" exclaimed Kiri. "I'll tell you all about them later. Anyway, I'm muggle born, sure I'll fail 1st year, and am guaranteed to explode at least one potion by the 1st week. Also, I'll get lost, lose my books and will probably fall into the lake. Oh, and I'll turn some professor's hair pink. The rest will be all accidental."
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"One question, Sirius," Remus said, "I know I'm new to the magic world and everything, but isn't the conventional way of boarding a train standing on a platform, then walking through a door? I mean, even James managed it, and though a sure quite a few people would've preferred that he wasn't there, I'm wondering why you sorta 'dropped in' on us?"
"My mother wouldn't take me to the station, so I tried to fly, but cos it was dark and everything, I got lost"
"Haven't you ever heard of the four point spell? James asked
"Shit."
"Or Lumos?"
"Shut up! But a muggle could've seen that"
"Just use 'nox' to turn it off"
"Is anyone else confused?" Remus asked
"No" Replied the others"
"Oh"
"Don't worry, that you're muggle born, all you really need to know is Obliviate if you do something stupid, Furnunculus to make slytherns get boils, and Avis. I mean, who wouldn't want a flock of small twittering birds?"
"At least next year we get the 11 am train, and the girls get stuck with the near midnight one!"
"WHAT! 11am? You mean I have to get up that early?"
The cabin exploded with laugher.
"Sirius, even though I've known you for five minutes, you're as mad a fwooper choir conductor."
"Thanks James. That I pride myself in being."
"I'll think we'll get on well"
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Hey James
I've seen your Lily.
If you see her again, go easy on her. Poor thing; Peeves, our resident Poltergeist insulted her while she was being sorted. The sorting ceremony is stressful enough without something like that. Speaking of, how did yours go? Made the family proud by becoming a lion? If you got in hufflepuff, I'm never to let you live that down, you do know that don't you?! Ok better go now, apart from falling asleep, paperclip is about to go hunt for mice so if I don't send this now in won't be able till tomorrow. Oh wait today. Ok really sending this now, 2:31 is not a cool time. Not when I have potions first tomorrow TODAY! Why couldn't it be division, of History of magic or something that I could sleep in? OK this time sending it.
Luv Belle
(3rd bed from door, 5th floor (Ha! I'm a 5th year!), Gryffindor tower, Hogwarts, somewhere unplottable, Britain. You know the rest)
P.S Of course I remember Gregory. He spoke to me sometime last year, when I was putting my mascara on in front of his mirror. I got such a fright, a managed to stab myself in the eye, and got black smudges all over my face, including my nose. A few seconds later, Terry (awh) walked in the door. Not something you forget in a hurry.
Annabelle tied the note to paperclips foot, closing the window so he wouldn't fly out.
"Just one more, Clippy" she whispered
Dear Lily
That James sounds absolutely awful! Well done for putting up with him for so long. Boys can be so immature can't they? I'm back at school now, what about you? Oh, I was meaning to tell you. The last letter you wrote me was the only one in 3 years that you haven't mentioned you cat, Felicia. Just thought you would've wanted to know. Don't worry about James, You probably won't see him for a long time. It's very strange meeting people who your parents say 'you'll get on great with'. Once that happened to me, and the person was 8 years older, and spent all night on her mobile. Sorry this is so short, I'm really tired so I better go, I'm really tired and my prefect hates light being on after lights out. Please write back soon, I love your letters
Luv Anna.
Annabelle put Lily's letter in an envelope and tied it to Paperclips foot. She would have to send it her mum, who would give it to her dad to post the muggle way to Lily's house who probably owl posted it back to Hogwarts.
If Lily really is at Hogwarts, I could just walk down five flights of stairs and hand it her. Thought Annabelle. Note to self: Find out.
She then tossed her tawny owl out the window and Paperclip flew off into the night.
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(A/N) Sorry that took a while to get up, but
Ten Reasons why I didn't get this up sooner
~Clicked 'Edit with Microsoft word about 10,000 times as it was being slow, so 10 mins later, it froze and couldn't even restart
~I got distracted looking at pictures of the French rugby team
~Hands were numb* while writing the James stuff, so now spending ages fixing up typos
~Was forced to help dad plant broad beans
~I'm writing this list while waiting for the computer to defrost, instead of thinking for ideas
~I keep getting distracting on baby name websites to find good names for these characters
~Talking about hatching toothpicks instead of proofreading
~At one stage I was writing the approx 8th chapter instead of this one
~Bloody thunderstorms=me not being able to use the computer
~I am way too, unhealthily addicted to my thesaurus. Did you know razor-sharp is the only word meaning sharp starting with r?
* Yes, while I was typing most of James part, I had these huge silver numbing patches on my hands so I wouldn't feel an injection. So it was hard to type, but I couldn't really do anything else. That's why some of this might sound a bit crazy. Also, the part with James on the platform was written after I came back from the dentist after being sedated. So that part is crazy, but don't blame me, blame midazolam, alfentanil, and propofol. Not my fault at all. So anyway, I'll just upload this now, and stop typing.
In the next chapter, Lily & James will both be older, about 15/16. and from then on, it gets really interesting. They will meet again, however, do they know? find out in the next chapter coming to fan fiction in November.
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(OK, really uploading this now. I promise)
Luv Marion