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how hard it is to come up with the words I own nothing? Much less actually
say, or write, them; it's very degrading)
Chapter 2 - A big red train
Lily Evans stood at the London train station. As far as she was aware that was all she stood at. She could see no mysterious looking wardrobes, no golden globes she had to walk through, no magic lolly pops she could lick and be transported to another world, there might have been some brick combination she could pat, but if there was she had no idea that it existed.
As of yet she was beginning to doubt the fact that the train to Hogwarts would just mysteriously 'appear' at one of the stations. She highly doubted that the muggles would find it at all normal; she also thought that the ministry of magic might have made a rule to stop such going ons.
Hard as it was, she sat patiently waiting for Aurora to turn up, she knew that her elder sister had gone somewhere, but had no idea where, she hoped that it had been somewhere where they sold food; she was starving.
"Lily! Come on! Hey I got you something to eat; you looked just a little famished as you were" Lily grinned at her sister, who winked back. Lily sat up and yawned, stretching her hands above her head. Grabbing her luggage and Scoop, she yawned again before setting off at a trot after her elder sister.
"So, oh wondrous sister of mine, how do we get onto this train? I've been looking around and so far have spotted no pubs that mysteriously appear when before no pubs have ever appeared before" she yawned again, not having got enough sleep the night before, the very idea of Hogwarts had kept her awake for quite a few nights.
Aurora gave her a slight frown as she waited for the other to catch up with her.
"Well, we have to go through this sort of wall, then when we're on the station, well we get on the train and go to Hogwarts, it's quite simple really" she stopped suddenly, noticing that her younger sister was not by her side. She turned around and faced the dazzling green eyes of Lily.
"What?"
"I'm really sorry Aurora" she paused, looking anything but sorry "but I just don't do the 'I can walk through walls thing' I'm just not going for the loony-house look, you know the 'I can see dead people' thing, you have to understand, I do have a reputation to keep up, Petunia you know?" She hid a smile behind her hand at the exasperated look that came over her sisters face.
"Poor you" Aurora grabbed Lily's wrist and proceeded to haul the struggling eleven year old through to platform nine and three quarters.
"I am warning you Rory! Don't ever, ever do that again! I could have run strait into that wall and do you know what I'd have then? I'd have a broken nose, among other injuries!" Lily glared at her smirking sister, evidently not the least bit pleased with her actions.
"Awww, I'm sowwy! Did I scare youuu little Lily? Did i? I'm sowwy!"
"Quit it already! You could have just asked me to walk through! No! Don't tell me; 'you did!'" Aurora Evans grinned at her younger sister and punched her shoulder lightly.
"Of course I did little Lily, and if I recall correctly, which I do, you stoutly refused to even consider walking through a wall, I might of course have tried to convince you, but I know you Lily, your just like a pig" she couldn't help snorting at the outraged look Lily had acquired "reason one, your stubborn, yes you are stubborn Lily, think about food, reason two, your stubborn about food"
"No fair! They're the same reason, you can't count that against me! Even if it is true" she smiled, she didn't really mind bad mouthing herself, just so long as the person she was talking to didn't play it out to much. She had picked the wrong opponent.
"Oooh! Finally admitting the truth are we, stubborn and food loving, you know, you almost remind me of Petunia, I SAID ALMOST!" she ducked as Scoops cage came flying towards her "you really should be careful of that cat! He's hardly a battering ram!"
"I dropped it!"
"Did not!"
"Dit too!"
"Did not!"
"Dit too!"
"Did not!"
"Dit too!"
"Did not!"
"Dit too!"
"Hey, um, sorry to disturb this wonderful argument and all, but do you think that it may be possible we could get on the train Rory, I mean we do have a meeting in the prefects carriage and it's usually best to get good seats. . ." the brunette trailed off, looking at Lily, "Hey, Rory, are you two related? You could almost pass for twins, almost mind you" she grinned at Lily who smiled shyly back at her, not quite sure what was going on.
"Yup, we're sisters, uncanny resemblance isn't it?" she laughed with her friend and Lily felt just a tiny bit left out as the two conversed about their summers.
"Um, I guess I'll just go and get a carriage then shall I? See you at Hogwarts Rory" she smiled at her elder sister, standing on tippy toes and kissing her sister on the cheek before turning to the red steam train.
"Oh no you don't! Come here Lily! Sorry for being so rude! This is my friend Sarah, she's in my year, a fellow prefect, but she's in Ravenclaw, rather sad really, we met on the train and we're still the best of friends, but anyway, Sare, this is my youngest sister Lily, she just got her letter!" Sarah smiled at Lily.
"I remember when I got my letter, I mean you must have expected yours, after all your mum was a witch and everything, but I was so surprised, at first I didn't even believe it, until I was walking in London the next day with my mum and dad and I saw the leaky cauldron and, well, it was so cool!" Sarah was still smiling at the memory, but neither Lily nor Aurora looked particularly happy.
"Hmm" was all Lily could think of to say to Sarah "Um, should we be getting on?" she changed the subject hastily with a quick look towards her older sister, who taking the lead grinned and nodded.
"Your first time on the Hogwarts express, boldly going where no Lily Evans has gone before!" Lily frowned at her sister teasingly, before creasing her brow in fake thoughtfulness.
"But, theoretically I can hardly call myself the first Evans on board now can I! Sometimes I just wish you didn't exist Rory, (A/N: Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true, I hear that far too often) so much trouble could be bypassed, I mean I could say that I was the first Evans on board but noo! You're here!" she grinned at her grinning sister as she dragged the two older students onto the red train and down the corridor.
"Yup, the one and only Aurora Evans, first ever Evans to step aboard the Hogwarts express!"
"You say that like you're proud mudblood, I certainly wouldn't be proud if I were scum like you" Lily looked up to meet the harsh and grey eyes of a blond haired boy. The first though the cross her mind was in all truth rather inappropriate; 'cute' wasn't the best way to think of someone who had just insulted your only loving family member.
Of course Aurora Evans didn't need Lily's hot words that she felt sure would emerge as soon as she understood what the Malfoy kid had said. She could handle the little twerp on her own.
"Detention Malfoy" she yawned at him, showing him just how impressed she was. He growled at her, and she saw his hand twitching, she almost laughed at the control he was putting into not grabbing his wand and trying to hex the living daylights out of her "try and remember not to insult a prefect four years older than yourself, it generally ends in dire consequences, and not for the prefect" his grey eyes seemed to be trying to kill her, she didn't doubt that if he was ever given the chance then he would do his best, she would just have to make sure he was never given that chance.
"You will pay for this Evans, for all the insults you ever chucked at me" He glared at her, completely ignoring both Sarah and Lily, Lily didn't like being ignored, less if the attention was being focused on Aurora, even negative attention seemed to annoy her.
"Which one? Right now there are two Evans standing in this compartment, me and Rory" she paused, trying to remember what Aurora had called the blond haired boy "Mal-foil was it?"
He snapped around, this time focusing his energies on her, she twitched under his intense gaze and he smiled at her, before turning away and sweeping down the corridor. Aurora bust into fits of giggles that both Sarah and Lily found hard to resist.
"Oh my god! He is twelve and he thinks he owns the world, oh my god, he's like 'I'm-the-best-in-the-world-come-kiss-my-arse' what a loser, I feel sorry for you Lils, you have to put up with him for six years" Lily rolled her eyes at her sister, quietly wrinkling her nose in disgust, ergg!
"Come on my dear red heads, Rory and I have to go to the prefets carriage, perhaps you would like to find a carriage and we'll come and join you later, all we have to do is patrol a couple of times and stuff, we won't be too long" she smiled sympathetically at the flash of fear that suddenly crossed Lily's features, before she nodded.
"Yeh, sure, um, see you guy's later, oh but Rory, if you happen to see that guy who ran into me before, do you think you could do me a favour?" she paused and turned pleading eyes up to her sister, who sighed in a resigned sort of fasion.
"What?"
"Give him a detention or two from me! See ya Rory, Sarah" grinning she puled her trunk off in search of an empty carriage.
"That sister of yours is defiantly a worry Rory, who's the guy she ran into?" Sarah asked Aurora as they themselves dragged their trunks up to the prefect carriage. Rory shook her head, a small smile appearing on her face.
"Who else but our very own James Potter"
"YOUR BOYFRIENDS LITTLE BROTHER?! Oh god that is a classic! I bet after years of feuding they fall passionately in love and have millions of children and live until a rip old age!" Sarah smirked at the look on Rory's face.
"That would be way too weird, I mean, think about it, if I marry Cameron, and I plan on marrying Cameron, then they'll be brother and sister and then if they married then, yuck, I don't even want to think about it" She shook her head "come on, better go in, see who the new heads are and all, oh do you remember Diggory? Oh I wanted to murder him sometimes! The rules he came up with!"
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Lily was having little luck with getting a carriage, she was getting sick of carrying her trunk down the corridor, she had already passed several occupied carriages, and was not enjoying the idea that perhaps there were none left. She sighed, it looked like she would have to go to the very end, she did not really feel like sharing any carriages.
Opening the very last carriage of the train with a groan she dumped her trunk on the racks and flopped down on to the cushioned seats that were provided. With a sigh she turned to look out the window, not really sure of what she would see, the last she remembered was the busy London streets, but she felt sure that they had long since passed them.
Slowly, little bit by little bit, her eyelids shut and she floated of into the sleep that had eluded her for days.
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"Hey Jamsie! Look!"
"What?"
"Remember that girl that we knocked over at Diagon Alley before? Well she's in the last carriage"
"So?"
"Well, I was thinking - "
"What were you thinking?"
"Well, you know how she sort of looked like your brothers girlfriend, maybe she is"
"You are sick Sirius, she was eleven"
"Well, you know that potion, um, polyjuice or something? Well - "
"Sirius, get a life, she might be related to Aurora, but I highly doubt - "
"You never know James - "
"Sirius how do I get you to shut up?"
"You should know that by now James, I'm disappointed"
"Fine, we'll go and talk to her! But if we get into trouble or you do anything to her, it is all. Your. fault."
"Why would we get into trouble for trying to make new friends?"
"You can escape the words of rules Sirius, but they have a meaning"
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Amy had yet to find a seat, she had yet to sit down and eat chocolate frogs with the rest of the first years, she had yet to meet any first year she thought was worth knowing, they were all blond idiots. (No offence to blonds intended, I have a generalisation problem, sorry ^_^) Amy Gehlder was starting her first year at Hogwarts, she was the eldest child in her family, so had no sisters or brothers who had come to Hogwarts, but next year, her little brother would be, she had looked forward to going to the famed wizard school from the moment her mouth had been able to form the word 'magic', and now she was on her way.
Amy was a very wealthy pure blood witch, her mother was assistant minister and her father was *the* minister. She lived in a huge house, large enough to hold the whole of London, or so she told her father when she asked a friend to stay and received his routine answer of 'there's not enough room honey, and anyway, you don't have any friends'. She hated him for that. She hated him for even existing. She hated him so much, he was such a cruel person, of course he never spoke to her like that in front of her mother, but whenever he could, with out observation from her brother, maids or over protective mother, he was a total bastard.
Not that Amy had grown up without a loving family, not at all, her real father had died when she was seven, leaving behind a grieving widow, a lonely daughter and a six year old child. Her mother had withdrawn, her baby brother had been confused and she herself had been mad. At the man who had killed her father . . . in effect. If it had not been for the minister of magic, then her father would be alive, her father would be waving her off at the platform and her little brother joyfully asking him when he was going to Hogwarts.
But it wasn't that way, and it never could be. She cursed her step-father again, if he hadn't made the aurors stay. . . she wasn't going to think about it, right now she needed somewhere to sit.
Still burrowed in her thoughts she reached the end of the train, and realised that not one of the carriages had been empty, she sighed, and opened the door to the one in front of her, it didn't have many people in it, just one girl who looked like she was a first year to.
Lily looked up at the sound of the door being opened and smiled faintly at the brunette who entered, before going back to her textbook. Amy sat down across from the girl not bothering to put her trunk up on the racks, she sighed again and stared out the window.
"So, um, what's your name? I'm Amy Gehlder" she smiled at the other girl again, who was looking up owlishly from her transfiguration book. The other girl smiled shyly back at her.
"Lily Evans, nice to meet you Amy" she put down the transfiguration textbook and focused all of her energy on the person in front of her, Amy looked nice; she didn't have any makeup on (which made her superior to the other girls in Lily's eyes), she had dark brown hair that was tied up in a loose fitting pony tail, wisps of it hanging down and framing her tanned face, she a few freckles, not nearly as many as Lily, and bright, clear blue eyes. This surprised Lily; she had never seen a brown haired person with such light blue eyes, and she almost fell from her seat in shock when the girl grinned and laughed at her.
"I get it from my dad, his eyes were so light they were almost white, or so my mum tells me, I don't remember him all that much" she looked down, trying to picture her dads eyes, but she couldn't, slowly the memories were fading.
"I'm sorry for you, what happened to him?" she asked softly, seeing the hurt in the other girls eyes, not wanting to even think how horrible it would be to loose someone you loved.
"He died when I was seven, I remember him a bit, not much though" Lily nodded, it was the same with her mother, she could hardly remember the woman, and from Aurora's description, she wasn't sure that she wanted to.
"I'm sorry" she patted the other girl on the knee uncomfortably, not really wanting to pry, not really wanting to know.
"He was investigating a lead into a case at the ministry, he, and six others had been sent to some remote forest to look for some idiot called 'Voldemort' something like that anyway, but the guy's wizards knew they were coming and surrounded them, they tried to get out, but the minister wouldn't let them, even though they were outnumbered three to one, saying that 'they could still win if they tried'" she paused for a moment and sniffed "He killed all of the others, but not dad, dad had to stay and watched as he killed them, one, by one, then you know what he did?" she paused and looked up.
Lily shook her head, entranced against her will with the tale.
"He set him free, that damn bastard set him free, he let him crawl to St Mungo's bruised and wounded, he was mortally injured of course, so it didn't matter that he had been set free, he was a 'messenger' to tell of the great dark wizard that had risen. God it hurt, seeing him lying there, he knew he was going to die, everyone knew, they didn't even try to save him, they knew that they couldn't, he died seven hours after he was put in intensive care" Amy stopped, and slowly looked up into the startled and startling green eyes of Lily.
She paused, seeing the disbelief in the other girls face. "Friends?" she managed to ask with a small smile through her tears, the other nodded again.
"Friends"
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When James Potter arrived at the carriage that the Lily girl was in, he found that she was talking to another girl in a seemingly encouraging fashion, he didn't really *mean* to listen, but he couldn't help himself, he knew that they would stop talking were he to just walk in, so, motioning to Sirius, they slipped the door open a crack and kneeling down listened to what the girls were saying.
". . . n't worry, my dad isn't all that great either; he goes out, he gets drunk, he comes back, he shouts at Aurora and me, if I'm awake that is, and once he hit her, I saw him, I was woken up and came down to see what was going on, he hit her, but I couldn't do anything, and she just sat there and took it, I was so mad, I wanted to kill him"
"What about your mother, is she nice?" there was a slight pause before Lily's voice answered.
"No, I don't think she is, I was six when she left, she was angry at my sister, I haven't seen her since" she frowned, the story, or part that she had heard, which she suspected was not really all that much, was still fresh in her mind and she had begun to feel dislike for the figure to whom they discussed.
"Oh, I'm sorry"
"No, like I said, I don't really think that she was all that nice, more of a horrible person, she wanted me to get into Slytherin, can you even imagine? Oh I think I'd go to a different school if I was sorted into Slytherin, maybe Beuaxtons, my sister told me about that school, I love French, I've been doing it since I was seven and I think I'm pretty good" Lily yawned, stretching her arms up over her head.
"Hey, you know what, I was trying to decide whether to tell you or not, but my mum, she got remarried" Lily's arms abruptly flew down, one of them landing on Scoop's cage. She scowled.
"Oww!"
"Well anyway, do you want to know who she married?" Amy did not feel particularly cheerful at all, but she was putting up the pretence, she wanted to see what Lily's reaction would be when she heard exactly who her mother had married, she thought rather flippantly it would be funny, Lily knew how much she hated the man, even if she didn't know he was her step- father.
"Who? I mean, not that I'll know them or anything, but still"
"The guy who wouldn't let the Aurors pull out, wonderful and holy, perfect and supposedly practical Minister Litchet"
"WHAT?!"
"Tell me about it, I may only eleven but I swear when I grow up I am going to kick his ugly ass out of that post and claim it for myself, when I'm done with that I think I might frame him for murder, even if I have to kill off my pet owl, then I'll have him chucked into Azkaban for as long as I can and we can all live happily ever after, without his snotty little face always poking into my buisiness!"
"Oh my god! That guy killed your dad! How can you live in the same house with it? How can you even talk to it, if I were you I'd - "
"Have no choice in the matter"
Lily sighed and nodded, Amy was right, she wouldn't have any choice, she'd be kicked around and it would be horrible, she would have to put up with all of her step-fathers snide comments and dirty remarks, she'd have absolutely no choice in the matter.
"Sorry, I - " she was interrupted by a cough coming from the direction of the door and corridor, a few choice swear words and a little scuffle, a loud yelp and shout and the distinct sound of two boys being cornered.
"What was that?" Amy exclaimed, looking at the door angrily "if they were listening to the conversation I will kill them!"
Lily stood up, closely followed by a very angry Amy and marched over to the door, looking out for a moment she didn't see the cause of the sounds, until her eyes fell upon James Potter and Sirius Black.
"YOU!" she snarled, her emerald eyes lighting up with anger, James whimpered slightly, and attempted to crawl backwards, he was stopped by Aurora's legs, that were firmly planted across the corridor, making it impossible for the boys to escape, unless they were prepared to crawl through her legs and that was not going to happen.
"YOU!" an equally angry shout came from Amy "WHAT ARE YOU DOING LISTENING TO OUR CONVERSATIONS! THEY ARE PRIVATE AND DO NOT INVOLVE YOU IN THE LEAST! JAMES POTTER YOU HAD BETTER NOT HAVE HEARD ANYTHING WE SAID!"
"I didn't mean to!"
"Yes you did Jamsie! Don't lie, I saw you crouching outside their compartment listening at the door, you were there for a good few minutes, I wonder what you heard? I could hear there voices faintly, but you must have heard more, you had your ear against the door!"
"AURORA!"
"Sorry Jamsie, but she is my sister!"
"But I might be your brother one day! Show kindness!"
"Sorry Jamsie!"
"YOU DID HEAR! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU AND THEN REINCARNATE YOU AND THEN KILL YOU AND THEN REINCARNATE YOU AND THEN - "
"Let me have a go?"
"NO! I. AM. GOING. TO. KILL. HIM!"
Quite suddenly Sirius burst out into laughter, everyone in the room stared at him, then James began laughing too, in a few seconds both were on the floor almost crying from mirth.
"GET UP YOU IDIOTS!"
"I don't think that they can, my book says that it'll last for a while until I decide to take it off, the only problem being I don't know the counter curse"
For a moment they all looked confused, then Aurora too burst out into laughter.
"Lily why did you put it on Aurora too?"
"I didn't!"
"No, it's ok, she didn't, oh my god Lily, you are hilarious!"
"They seem to think so too Lils!"
"You know what? As a, err, lesson, I'm going to leave you to find out the counter curse, come on Sare!"
"Why didn't you learn the counter curse?"
"Hey! I only just got the book, I only just found out I have magic and i only just learned the curse, do you really expect me to know the counter curse?" Amy shrugged.
"Guess not"
"Leave 'em?"
"May as well, come back for them later when you *learn* the counter curse"
"*If* I learn the counter curse, I've had enough reading for today" they both turned to the boys "they deserve it, they heard everything we said about our parents, I bet they'll be put in Slytherin, creeping around and listening in on other peoples conversations, come on lets go"
"Wait! Hahahahahahaha"
"He's laughing at us"
"No, (laugh laugh laugh) I'm not (laugh laugh laugh) please! (laugh laugh laugh) Take it (laugh laugh laugh ) off! (laugh laugh laugh) Please! (Laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh!)
"But I don't know how to Sirius!"
"Yes you (laugh laugh laugh) do! (laugh laugh laugh) please!"
"Well I migh have some idea how to take it off, but you have to promise me that you'll be forever in my debt, never listen to conversations that you're not invisted to listen to, and completely ignore us until or unless I tell you not to, do you promise?"
"YES! (Laugh laugh laugh)"
"Finite incantantem! (Sp?)"
"I can talk! I can talk! I can talk! I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk!"
"Well go and take your talking someplace else!"
"FINE!" James and Sirius both turned and walked down the hallway, going into a carriage halfway down the train. The two girls giggled to each other.
"That was so funny!"
"I personally couldn't see the joke"
"Ha ha, well done Lils, I owe you!"
"What are friends for? Wait, don't answer that!"
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James and Sirius arrived at there carriage and went in, neither of them looked at all happy. James sighed and collapse onto the cushioned seat, much like Lily had before, while Sirius growled and sat down on the floor.
"Why are you sitting down there?"
"Who says I don't want to just sit here?"
"I don't particularly care who said you didn't want to sit there Sirius, but we have to get them back!"
"I agree!"
"God I hate Evans"
"Which one?"
"You know which one Sirius!"
"Betta not let your brother hear you say that, he might think that you're talking about Aurora"
"Hmm"
"But James"
"Yeah?"
"You have to admit"
"What?"
"She is sorta cute"
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A/N: Hello! That was a long chapter, for me anyway! Whooo! I got past the 4900 word chapter thing! YAY! Well my faithful little readerlets, keep on reading and the next chapter will be up soon! (Hopefully just as long and just as, um, good, I think, do you like it? Because if you do like it, then I hardly need to urge you; REVIEW!)
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Chapter 2 - A big red train
Lily Evans stood at the London train station. As far as she was aware that was all she stood at. She could see no mysterious looking wardrobes, no golden globes she had to walk through, no magic lolly pops she could lick and be transported to another world, there might have been some brick combination she could pat, but if there was she had no idea that it existed.
As of yet she was beginning to doubt the fact that the train to Hogwarts would just mysteriously 'appear' at one of the stations. She highly doubted that the muggles would find it at all normal; she also thought that the ministry of magic might have made a rule to stop such going ons.
Hard as it was, she sat patiently waiting for Aurora to turn up, she knew that her elder sister had gone somewhere, but had no idea where, she hoped that it had been somewhere where they sold food; she was starving.
"Lily! Come on! Hey I got you something to eat; you looked just a little famished as you were" Lily grinned at her sister, who winked back. Lily sat up and yawned, stretching her hands above her head. Grabbing her luggage and Scoop, she yawned again before setting off at a trot after her elder sister.
"So, oh wondrous sister of mine, how do we get onto this train? I've been looking around and so far have spotted no pubs that mysteriously appear when before no pubs have ever appeared before" she yawned again, not having got enough sleep the night before, the very idea of Hogwarts had kept her awake for quite a few nights.
Aurora gave her a slight frown as she waited for the other to catch up with her.
"Well, we have to go through this sort of wall, then when we're on the station, well we get on the train and go to Hogwarts, it's quite simple really" she stopped suddenly, noticing that her younger sister was not by her side. She turned around and faced the dazzling green eyes of Lily.
"What?"
"I'm really sorry Aurora" she paused, looking anything but sorry "but I just don't do the 'I can walk through walls thing' I'm just not going for the loony-house look, you know the 'I can see dead people' thing, you have to understand, I do have a reputation to keep up, Petunia you know?" She hid a smile behind her hand at the exasperated look that came over her sisters face.
"Poor you" Aurora grabbed Lily's wrist and proceeded to haul the struggling eleven year old through to platform nine and three quarters.
"I am warning you Rory! Don't ever, ever do that again! I could have run strait into that wall and do you know what I'd have then? I'd have a broken nose, among other injuries!" Lily glared at her smirking sister, evidently not the least bit pleased with her actions.
"Awww, I'm sowwy! Did I scare youuu little Lily? Did i? I'm sowwy!"
"Quit it already! You could have just asked me to walk through! No! Don't tell me; 'you did!'" Aurora Evans grinned at her younger sister and punched her shoulder lightly.
"Of course I did little Lily, and if I recall correctly, which I do, you stoutly refused to even consider walking through a wall, I might of course have tried to convince you, but I know you Lily, your just like a pig" she couldn't help snorting at the outraged look Lily had acquired "reason one, your stubborn, yes you are stubborn Lily, think about food, reason two, your stubborn about food"
"No fair! They're the same reason, you can't count that against me! Even if it is true" she smiled, she didn't really mind bad mouthing herself, just so long as the person she was talking to didn't play it out to much. She had picked the wrong opponent.
"Oooh! Finally admitting the truth are we, stubborn and food loving, you know, you almost remind me of Petunia, I SAID ALMOST!" she ducked as Scoops cage came flying towards her "you really should be careful of that cat! He's hardly a battering ram!"
"I dropped it!"
"Did not!"
"Dit too!"
"Did not!"
"Dit too!"
"Did not!"
"Dit too!"
"Did not!"
"Dit too!"
"Hey, um, sorry to disturb this wonderful argument and all, but do you think that it may be possible we could get on the train Rory, I mean we do have a meeting in the prefects carriage and it's usually best to get good seats. . ." the brunette trailed off, looking at Lily, "Hey, Rory, are you two related? You could almost pass for twins, almost mind you" she grinned at Lily who smiled shyly back at her, not quite sure what was going on.
"Yup, we're sisters, uncanny resemblance isn't it?" she laughed with her friend and Lily felt just a tiny bit left out as the two conversed about their summers.
"Um, I guess I'll just go and get a carriage then shall I? See you at Hogwarts Rory" she smiled at her elder sister, standing on tippy toes and kissing her sister on the cheek before turning to the red steam train.
"Oh no you don't! Come here Lily! Sorry for being so rude! This is my friend Sarah, she's in my year, a fellow prefect, but she's in Ravenclaw, rather sad really, we met on the train and we're still the best of friends, but anyway, Sare, this is my youngest sister Lily, she just got her letter!" Sarah smiled at Lily.
"I remember when I got my letter, I mean you must have expected yours, after all your mum was a witch and everything, but I was so surprised, at first I didn't even believe it, until I was walking in London the next day with my mum and dad and I saw the leaky cauldron and, well, it was so cool!" Sarah was still smiling at the memory, but neither Lily nor Aurora looked particularly happy.
"Hmm" was all Lily could think of to say to Sarah "Um, should we be getting on?" she changed the subject hastily with a quick look towards her older sister, who taking the lead grinned and nodded.
"Your first time on the Hogwarts express, boldly going where no Lily Evans has gone before!" Lily frowned at her sister teasingly, before creasing her brow in fake thoughtfulness.
"But, theoretically I can hardly call myself the first Evans on board now can I! Sometimes I just wish you didn't exist Rory, (A/N: Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true, I hear that far too often) so much trouble could be bypassed, I mean I could say that I was the first Evans on board but noo! You're here!" she grinned at her grinning sister as she dragged the two older students onto the red train and down the corridor.
"Yup, the one and only Aurora Evans, first ever Evans to step aboard the Hogwarts express!"
"You say that like you're proud mudblood, I certainly wouldn't be proud if I were scum like you" Lily looked up to meet the harsh and grey eyes of a blond haired boy. The first though the cross her mind was in all truth rather inappropriate; 'cute' wasn't the best way to think of someone who had just insulted your only loving family member.
Of course Aurora Evans didn't need Lily's hot words that she felt sure would emerge as soon as she understood what the Malfoy kid had said. She could handle the little twerp on her own.
"Detention Malfoy" she yawned at him, showing him just how impressed she was. He growled at her, and she saw his hand twitching, she almost laughed at the control he was putting into not grabbing his wand and trying to hex the living daylights out of her "try and remember not to insult a prefect four years older than yourself, it generally ends in dire consequences, and not for the prefect" his grey eyes seemed to be trying to kill her, she didn't doubt that if he was ever given the chance then he would do his best, she would just have to make sure he was never given that chance.
"You will pay for this Evans, for all the insults you ever chucked at me" He glared at her, completely ignoring both Sarah and Lily, Lily didn't like being ignored, less if the attention was being focused on Aurora, even negative attention seemed to annoy her.
"Which one? Right now there are two Evans standing in this compartment, me and Rory" she paused, trying to remember what Aurora had called the blond haired boy "Mal-foil was it?"
He snapped around, this time focusing his energies on her, she twitched under his intense gaze and he smiled at her, before turning away and sweeping down the corridor. Aurora bust into fits of giggles that both Sarah and Lily found hard to resist.
"Oh my god! He is twelve and he thinks he owns the world, oh my god, he's like 'I'm-the-best-in-the-world-come-kiss-my-arse' what a loser, I feel sorry for you Lils, you have to put up with him for six years" Lily rolled her eyes at her sister, quietly wrinkling her nose in disgust, ergg!
"Come on my dear red heads, Rory and I have to go to the prefets carriage, perhaps you would like to find a carriage and we'll come and join you later, all we have to do is patrol a couple of times and stuff, we won't be too long" she smiled sympathetically at the flash of fear that suddenly crossed Lily's features, before she nodded.
"Yeh, sure, um, see you guy's later, oh but Rory, if you happen to see that guy who ran into me before, do you think you could do me a favour?" she paused and turned pleading eyes up to her sister, who sighed in a resigned sort of fasion.
"What?"
"Give him a detention or two from me! See ya Rory, Sarah" grinning she puled her trunk off in search of an empty carriage.
"That sister of yours is defiantly a worry Rory, who's the guy she ran into?" Sarah asked Aurora as they themselves dragged their trunks up to the prefect carriage. Rory shook her head, a small smile appearing on her face.
"Who else but our very own James Potter"
"YOUR BOYFRIENDS LITTLE BROTHER?! Oh god that is a classic! I bet after years of feuding they fall passionately in love and have millions of children and live until a rip old age!" Sarah smirked at the look on Rory's face.
"That would be way too weird, I mean, think about it, if I marry Cameron, and I plan on marrying Cameron, then they'll be brother and sister and then if they married then, yuck, I don't even want to think about it" She shook her head "come on, better go in, see who the new heads are and all, oh do you remember Diggory? Oh I wanted to murder him sometimes! The rules he came up with!"
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Lily was having little luck with getting a carriage, she was getting sick of carrying her trunk down the corridor, she had already passed several occupied carriages, and was not enjoying the idea that perhaps there were none left. She sighed, it looked like she would have to go to the very end, she did not really feel like sharing any carriages.
Opening the very last carriage of the train with a groan she dumped her trunk on the racks and flopped down on to the cushioned seats that were provided. With a sigh she turned to look out the window, not really sure of what she would see, the last she remembered was the busy London streets, but she felt sure that they had long since passed them.
Slowly, little bit by little bit, her eyelids shut and she floated of into the sleep that had eluded her for days.
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"Hey Jamsie! Look!"
"What?"
"Remember that girl that we knocked over at Diagon Alley before? Well she's in the last carriage"
"So?"
"Well, I was thinking - "
"What were you thinking?"
"Well, you know how she sort of looked like your brothers girlfriend, maybe she is"
"You are sick Sirius, she was eleven"
"Well, you know that potion, um, polyjuice or something? Well - "
"Sirius, get a life, she might be related to Aurora, but I highly doubt - "
"You never know James - "
"Sirius how do I get you to shut up?"
"You should know that by now James, I'm disappointed"
"Fine, we'll go and talk to her! But if we get into trouble or you do anything to her, it is all. Your. fault."
"Why would we get into trouble for trying to make new friends?"
"You can escape the words of rules Sirius, but they have a meaning"
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Amy had yet to find a seat, she had yet to sit down and eat chocolate frogs with the rest of the first years, she had yet to meet any first year she thought was worth knowing, they were all blond idiots. (No offence to blonds intended, I have a generalisation problem, sorry ^_^) Amy Gehlder was starting her first year at Hogwarts, she was the eldest child in her family, so had no sisters or brothers who had come to Hogwarts, but next year, her little brother would be, she had looked forward to going to the famed wizard school from the moment her mouth had been able to form the word 'magic', and now she was on her way.
Amy was a very wealthy pure blood witch, her mother was assistant minister and her father was *the* minister. She lived in a huge house, large enough to hold the whole of London, or so she told her father when she asked a friend to stay and received his routine answer of 'there's not enough room honey, and anyway, you don't have any friends'. She hated him for that. She hated him for even existing. She hated him so much, he was such a cruel person, of course he never spoke to her like that in front of her mother, but whenever he could, with out observation from her brother, maids or over protective mother, he was a total bastard.
Not that Amy had grown up without a loving family, not at all, her real father had died when she was seven, leaving behind a grieving widow, a lonely daughter and a six year old child. Her mother had withdrawn, her baby brother had been confused and she herself had been mad. At the man who had killed her father . . . in effect. If it had not been for the minister of magic, then her father would be alive, her father would be waving her off at the platform and her little brother joyfully asking him when he was going to Hogwarts.
But it wasn't that way, and it never could be. She cursed her step-father again, if he hadn't made the aurors stay. . . she wasn't going to think about it, right now she needed somewhere to sit.
Still burrowed in her thoughts she reached the end of the train, and realised that not one of the carriages had been empty, she sighed, and opened the door to the one in front of her, it didn't have many people in it, just one girl who looked like she was a first year to.
Lily looked up at the sound of the door being opened and smiled faintly at the brunette who entered, before going back to her textbook. Amy sat down across from the girl not bothering to put her trunk up on the racks, she sighed again and stared out the window.
"So, um, what's your name? I'm Amy Gehlder" she smiled at the other girl again, who was looking up owlishly from her transfiguration book. The other girl smiled shyly back at her.
"Lily Evans, nice to meet you Amy" she put down the transfiguration textbook and focused all of her energy on the person in front of her, Amy looked nice; she didn't have any makeup on (which made her superior to the other girls in Lily's eyes), she had dark brown hair that was tied up in a loose fitting pony tail, wisps of it hanging down and framing her tanned face, she a few freckles, not nearly as many as Lily, and bright, clear blue eyes. This surprised Lily; she had never seen a brown haired person with such light blue eyes, and she almost fell from her seat in shock when the girl grinned and laughed at her.
"I get it from my dad, his eyes were so light they were almost white, or so my mum tells me, I don't remember him all that much" she looked down, trying to picture her dads eyes, but she couldn't, slowly the memories were fading.
"I'm sorry for you, what happened to him?" she asked softly, seeing the hurt in the other girls eyes, not wanting to even think how horrible it would be to loose someone you loved.
"He died when I was seven, I remember him a bit, not much though" Lily nodded, it was the same with her mother, she could hardly remember the woman, and from Aurora's description, she wasn't sure that she wanted to.
"I'm sorry" she patted the other girl on the knee uncomfortably, not really wanting to pry, not really wanting to know.
"He was investigating a lead into a case at the ministry, he, and six others had been sent to some remote forest to look for some idiot called 'Voldemort' something like that anyway, but the guy's wizards knew they were coming and surrounded them, they tried to get out, but the minister wouldn't let them, even though they were outnumbered three to one, saying that 'they could still win if they tried'" she paused for a moment and sniffed "He killed all of the others, but not dad, dad had to stay and watched as he killed them, one, by one, then you know what he did?" she paused and looked up.
Lily shook her head, entranced against her will with the tale.
"He set him free, that damn bastard set him free, he let him crawl to St Mungo's bruised and wounded, he was mortally injured of course, so it didn't matter that he had been set free, he was a 'messenger' to tell of the great dark wizard that had risen. God it hurt, seeing him lying there, he knew he was going to die, everyone knew, they didn't even try to save him, they knew that they couldn't, he died seven hours after he was put in intensive care" Amy stopped, and slowly looked up into the startled and startling green eyes of Lily.
She paused, seeing the disbelief in the other girls face. "Friends?" she managed to ask with a small smile through her tears, the other nodded again.
"Friends"
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When James Potter arrived at the carriage that the Lily girl was in, he found that she was talking to another girl in a seemingly encouraging fashion, he didn't really *mean* to listen, but he couldn't help himself, he knew that they would stop talking were he to just walk in, so, motioning to Sirius, they slipped the door open a crack and kneeling down listened to what the girls were saying.
". . . n't worry, my dad isn't all that great either; he goes out, he gets drunk, he comes back, he shouts at Aurora and me, if I'm awake that is, and once he hit her, I saw him, I was woken up and came down to see what was going on, he hit her, but I couldn't do anything, and she just sat there and took it, I was so mad, I wanted to kill him"
"What about your mother, is she nice?" there was a slight pause before Lily's voice answered.
"No, I don't think she is, I was six when she left, she was angry at my sister, I haven't seen her since" she frowned, the story, or part that she had heard, which she suspected was not really all that much, was still fresh in her mind and she had begun to feel dislike for the figure to whom they discussed.
"Oh, I'm sorry"
"No, like I said, I don't really think that she was all that nice, more of a horrible person, she wanted me to get into Slytherin, can you even imagine? Oh I think I'd go to a different school if I was sorted into Slytherin, maybe Beuaxtons, my sister told me about that school, I love French, I've been doing it since I was seven and I think I'm pretty good" Lily yawned, stretching her arms up over her head.
"Hey, you know what, I was trying to decide whether to tell you or not, but my mum, she got remarried" Lily's arms abruptly flew down, one of them landing on Scoop's cage. She scowled.
"Oww!"
"Well anyway, do you want to know who she married?" Amy did not feel particularly cheerful at all, but she was putting up the pretence, she wanted to see what Lily's reaction would be when she heard exactly who her mother had married, she thought rather flippantly it would be funny, Lily knew how much she hated the man, even if she didn't know he was her step- father.
"Who? I mean, not that I'll know them or anything, but still"
"The guy who wouldn't let the Aurors pull out, wonderful and holy, perfect and supposedly practical Minister Litchet"
"WHAT?!"
"Tell me about it, I may only eleven but I swear when I grow up I am going to kick his ugly ass out of that post and claim it for myself, when I'm done with that I think I might frame him for murder, even if I have to kill off my pet owl, then I'll have him chucked into Azkaban for as long as I can and we can all live happily ever after, without his snotty little face always poking into my buisiness!"
"Oh my god! That guy killed your dad! How can you live in the same house with it? How can you even talk to it, if I were you I'd - "
"Have no choice in the matter"
Lily sighed and nodded, Amy was right, she wouldn't have any choice, she'd be kicked around and it would be horrible, she would have to put up with all of her step-fathers snide comments and dirty remarks, she'd have absolutely no choice in the matter.
"Sorry, I - " she was interrupted by a cough coming from the direction of the door and corridor, a few choice swear words and a little scuffle, a loud yelp and shout and the distinct sound of two boys being cornered.
"What was that?" Amy exclaimed, looking at the door angrily "if they were listening to the conversation I will kill them!"
Lily stood up, closely followed by a very angry Amy and marched over to the door, looking out for a moment she didn't see the cause of the sounds, until her eyes fell upon James Potter and Sirius Black.
"YOU!" she snarled, her emerald eyes lighting up with anger, James whimpered slightly, and attempted to crawl backwards, he was stopped by Aurora's legs, that were firmly planted across the corridor, making it impossible for the boys to escape, unless they were prepared to crawl through her legs and that was not going to happen.
"YOU!" an equally angry shout came from Amy "WHAT ARE YOU DOING LISTENING TO OUR CONVERSATIONS! THEY ARE PRIVATE AND DO NOT INVOLVE YOU IN THE LEAST! JAMES POTTER YOU HAD BETTER NOT HAVE HEARD ANYTHING WE SAID!"
"I didn't mean to!"
"Yes you did Jamsie! Don't lie, I saw you crouching outside their compartment listening at the door, you were there for a good few minutes, I wonder what you heard? I could hear there voices faintly, but you must have heard more, you had your ear against the door!"
"AURORA!"
"Sorry Jamsie, but she is my sister!"
"But I might be your brother one day! Show kindness!"
"Sorry Jamsie!"
"YOU DID HEAR! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU AND THEN REINCARNATE YOU AND THEN KILL YOU AND THEN REINCARNATE YOU AND THEN - "
"Let me have a go?"
"NO! I. AM. GOING. TO. KILL. HIM!"
Quite suddenly Sirius burst out into laughter, everyone in the room stared at him, then James began laughing too, in a few seconds both were on the floor almost crying from mirth.
"GET UP YOU IDIOTS!"
"I don't think that they can, my book says that it'll last for a while until I decide to take it off, the only problem being I don't know the counter curse"
For a moment they all looked confused, then Aurora too burst out into laughter.
"Lily why did you put it on Aurora too?"
"I didn't!"
"No, it's ok, she didn't, oh my god Lily, you are hilarious!"
"They seem to think so too Lils!"
"You know what? As a, err, lesson, I'm going to leave you to find out the counter curse, come on Sare!"
"Why didn't you learn the counter curse?"
"Hey! I only just got the book, I only just found out I have magic and i only just learned the curse, do you really expect me to know the counter curse?" Amy shrugged.
"Guess not"
"Leave 'em?"
"May as well, come back for them later when you *learn* the counter curse"
"*If* I learn the counter curse, I've had enough reading for today" they both turned to the boys "they deserve it, they heard everything we said about our parents, I bet they'll be put in Slytherin, creeping around and listening in on other peoples conversations, come on lets go"
"Wait! Hahahahahahaha"
"He's laughing at us"
"No, (laugh laugh laugh) I'm not (laugh laugh laugh) please! (laugh laugh laugh) Take it (laugh laugh laugh ) off! (laugh laugh laugh) Please! (Laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh!)
"But I don't know how to Sirius!"
"Yes you (laugh laugh laugh) do! (laugh laugh laugh) please!"
"Well I migh have some idea how to take it off, but you have to promise me that you'll be forever in my debt, never listen to conversations that you're not invisted to listen to, and completely ignore us until or unless I tell you not to, do you promise?"
"YES! (Laugh laugh laugh)"
"Finite incantantem! (Sp?)"
"I can talk! I can talk! I can talk! I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk! I can talk I can talk! I can talk!"
"Well go and take your talking someplace else!"
"FINE!" James and Sirius both turned and walked down the hallway, going into a carriage halfway down the train. The two girls giggled to each other.
"That was so funny!"
"I personally couldn't see the joke"
"Ha ha, well done Lils, I owe you!"
"What are friends for? Wait, don't answer that!"
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James and Sirius arrived at there carriage and went in, neither of them looked at all happy. James sighed and collapse onto the cushioned seat, much like Lily had before, while Sirius growled and sat down on the floor.
"Why are you sitting down there?"
"Who says I don't want to just sit here?"
"I don't particularly care who said you didn't want to sit there Sirius, but we have to get them back!"
"I agree!"
"God I hate Evans"
"Which one?"
"You know which one Sirius!"
"Betta not let your brother hear you say that, he might think that you're talking about Aurora"
"Hmm"
"But James"
"Yeah?"
"You have to admit"
"What?"
"She is sorta cute"
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A/N: Hello! That was a long chapter, for me anyway! Whooo! I got past the 4900 word chapter thing! YAY! Well my faithful little readerlets, keep on reading and the next chapter will be up soon! (Hopefully just as long and just as, um, good, I think, do you like it? Because if you do like it, then I hardly need to urge you; REVIEW!)
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