Chapter 1: Heart Attacks

The train whistle blew as I hurried on to Platform 9 ¾. This is the last time I'll be boarding the train... the last time at the place I've called home for the past six years. I thought.

I walked down the hall, trying to find an empty compartment, when I heard my name being called.

"Lily!... Lily wait!" I turned around to see one of my best friends running towards me.

"Hey Beth!" I waved.

"Oh my gosh, Lily!" she said hurriedly as she came up to me. "You won't believe what I heard! Oh! How was your summer? Mine was good. My family and I went to the Bahamas! And you won't believe who I saw there—"

"Beth!" I yelled (yelling was the only way to get her to stop talking). "Calm down!"

She took a deep breath. "So how was your summer?" she asked as we started walking to find a compartment.

"It was ok, kinda boring though. I'm just glad to be back."

"I can't believe it's our last year at Hogwarts."

"I know! The years have gone by so fast, but I know this year will be the best one yet."

"How do you know that?" Beth asked as we sat down in probably the last empty compartment on the train.

"I don't know exactly... I can just feel it. Wait, what time is it?" I asked.

"Umm..." she said as she looked at her watch. "About 11:15, why?"

"I'm suppose to be in the Head's compartment five minutes!"

"Oh my gosh! I totally forgot you're Head Girl! That reminds me... don't have a heart attack when you see who the Head Boy is."

"Why, who is it?" Came my muffled reply as I pulled on my school robes.

"You'll see." Came her childish reply as I pinned my Head Girl badge to my robe. I didn't have time to try to get it out of her when she obviously wasn't going to tell me without a fight.

"Bye!" I said as I hurried out of our compartment. I had less than a minute to get to the Head's compartment.

When I opened the door there was no one there, so I sat on one of the seats next to the window. Mountains passed by as I wondered about who the Head Boy could be. Beth said not to have a heart attack when I found out... why?

My thoughts slowly drifted to the school year. It was going to be a memorable one, that I was sure of. I just had this feeling. I'm really going to miss this school. I thought as I heard the trolley roll past. Where is he? It had to have been at least ten minutes since I had gotten to the compartment, that would make him at least ten minutes late. Not a good way to make a first impression... What if he's a incompetent jerk who won't help me do anything and just abuse his privileges? Now I was getting worried. Don't worry, Dumbledore knows what he's doing. But what if he's going senile? He is pretty old... My thoughts were interrupted by the door opening.

"Hey," he said.

Scratch what I said before, Dumbledore is DEFINITELY out of his mind.

"This is the Head's compartment. You're not suppose to be here." I replied acidly.

"Oh, I think I'm in the right place," he said, tapping the shiny badge pinned to his robes that read 'HB'.

I tried to follow Beth's advice, I really did. But Dumbledore must really be going senile, I was now totally convinced of that. I mean, how could he make James Potter Head Boy?!