The Hogwarts Express

It had been a week since Lily was in Diagon Alley and she was quite relaxed when she realized it was August 31st. She went and made sure her parents were bringing her to Kings Cross Station the next day and then went back upstairs and crawled into bed.

Lily had a hard time sleeping as she was excited for the next day. So she got out of bed and got one of her schoolbooks. She decided to read until she would fall asleep.

It was September first and Lily was VERY excited. She would be leaving home in a few hours time. Lily paced in her room waiting for 10:00 to arrive. She checked her trunk to make sure she had packed everything at least 3 times. Finally it was 5 to 10:00. She carried her trunk down the stairs and brought it near the door. She then went to get her father from the living room where he was reading the paper. Then she went to get her mother in the kitchen. After that she put her trunk in the car and waited for her parents. Her parents came soon after, followed by Petunia. Petunia was only coming so she could go shopping in London.

A fifteen-minute drive later, they had arrived at Kings Cross Station. Lily got out of the car and got a trolley for her trunk. She pushed it into the train station and looked around. She saw a platform 9 and platform 10 but no platform 9 ¾. She then saw someone she recognized from Diagon Alley. It was the boy that insulted the boy that he called 'Snivellus'

She followed him and saw him stop at the wall that separated platforms 9 and 10. She paused a bit farther away and watched him. He ran towards the wall but to Lily's surprise, he didn't smash into the wall but went right through it. Lily beckoned for her parents to come over and they came.

'Mum, Dad I have to say goodbye now.' Lily said, you could tell she was very sad from the tone of her voice.

'Alright honey, we'll miss you.' Her father Henry said.

'Right us letters when you're there!' Iris Evans sadly said.

'I will mum' Lily said with a smile.

Lily then went through the barrier and disappeared from sight. When Lily opened her eyes, which had been closed. She saw a scarlet steam engine and a bunch of people that must be witches and wizards like she was. Lily quickly got all her things and pushed them onto the train. When she had successfully gotten all her luggage together she went to find a compartment.

She quickly found one that had 2 girls sitting there reading a magazine. She slowly opened the compartment door. The 2 girls looked up.

'Hi, can I sit here?' Lily timidly asked.

'Of course!' one of the girls said.

Lily smiled and sat down. She noted that the girls were reading a magazine that was entitled The Quibbler.

'So, what's your name?' the second girl asked Lily.

'Lily, Lily Evans.' Lily responded. 'And yours?' She asked.

'Alice Brown' Alice said.

'Stephanie Fawcett, or Steph' Stephanie said.

Lily nodded and the three girls started to chat about anything and everything. After a while a witch with a trolley came and asked if they wanted anything. Lily went and bought a few things, Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Chocolate Frogs and Pumpkin Pasties. She shared with Alice and Steph. It was only after they had finished eating the sweets that they realized that they should change into their robes.

After changing, Alice took out a pack of playing cards. She asked if they wanted to play "Exploding Snap". Stephanie nodded excitedly but Lily looked at them confused.

'You have to make a card castle before the cards explode.' Alice explained.

'Oh sure then.' Lily agreed to play.

Lily was having the time of her life playing Exploding Snap. The girls played 10 games of Exploding Snap before they got tired of it.

A bit later, while they were reading magazines a few boys knocked on their compartment door. Without waiting for someone to open the door, they came in.

'Black! You should know better than to just barge in here. You too Potter!' Alice said.

'Oh come on Alice, aren't we your friends?' Potter said with puppy eyes. Alice ignored this and went back to reading her magazine, Which Broomstick.

'Oh well, guess we'll leave now' the boy who's name was Black said. Alice just nodded.

'Who are they?' Lily asked curiously. She was muggle-born and didn't know much.

'Sirius Black and James Potter, they're trouble-makers. They turned my hair green when I was 8.' Alice told her.

'Oh…Ok.' Lily said and decided to drop the subject there. She decided to read a magazine since Stephanie was asleep and she didn't want to bother her.

The girls felt the train slowing down and quickly got their things together to get off the train. When the train stopped they were some of the first people to get off the train.

'First Years, this way!' a deep booming voice called out. Lily, Alice and Stephanie walked towards the voice. They saw that there was a really tall man holding a lamp that had been calling over all the first years.

He led them over to a couple of boats and instructed them to get in. Lily, Alice, Stephanie and another girl with blonde hair were in the same boat. It was a short boat ride, only 10 minutes. When they reached a big castle, which was of course, Hogwarts they got out of their boats and went inside.