Authors notes: thanks tons to everyone who reviewed, sorry I took so long to write another chapter, I sort of forgot, please try not to be too mad at me.

The disclaimer at the start of the story counts for every chapter. It's too much bother doing it every timeI post

Big thanks to everyone who reveiwed, since there wasn't any questions in the review im not going to reply to them but I'm thanking you all as a part of a big group. If there's a questions or an idea in a reveiwI will reply to it but not if its just encouragment. SorryI didn't put in a sorting hat song or the actuall story,I just wanted the story to get out there.I might do it in a flashback or add it in later but probably not

Luv Katie

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"Should we go get a seat?" asked James, looking after Lily as per his mother's orders. He motioned towards the empty compartment next to them

"Yeah sure" Lily replied, trying to discreetly wipe tears from her eyes. James noticed, but didn't say anything. He felt the same way. He was very close to his mother, especially since his father was hardly around. Lily and James helped each other get their trunks into the compartment, and struggled to put them on the racks above their heads, then flopped down onto the seats below. They sat in silence for a few minutes, just thinking about what they were about to enter into, a whole new world. After a while their minds drifted to each other. They couldn't help but notice that each other was extremely attractive. James broke the awkward silence. " So you're muggle?" Lily drew back, offended, then she realised that he was just trying to be friendly and find out more about her.

" Yep, clean through. I didn't know anything about the wizarding world before I got my letter and Professor Dumbledore showed up and explained everything"

"He came and explained things? That explains…" James thought of what it did explain. How muggles knew that it wasn't just a prank. Why they didn't ask the obvious questions. " It explains a lot"

"Like what?" asked Lily? James explained it to her. " Oh, yes of course." Then they talked about their parents. James parents worked for the ministry of magic. Lily's were financial planners. That topic moved onto their families, Lily's small one with her and Petunia, James large one but he was an only child. As he was saying this, a strange look passed over his face. Lily noticed

"What's wrong James?" he shook his head at her

"Nothing. It doesn't matter." Lily was going to press the subject but decided against it. She knew when to quit, so she forgot about it and moved on. About 5 hours into their 6-hour trip they changed into their school uniforms and went to mingle with the crowd. Everyone seemed to know each other and have friends. When Lily mentioned it to James he told her not to worry and that she'd have friends in no time.

" And if you don't, you've still got me." That made her feel better. It was good to know she had a friend, even if they'd only known each other for less than 6 hours. They smiled at each other and made their way through the crowd to Hagrid, who was shouting for all the first years to go down a path and get into some little boats. Lily and James climbed into a boat already occupied with two boys. One was really pale, dressed in sort of shabby robes and looked quite shy. The other was a very attractive boy with dark black hair and black eyes. He wore new, expensive looking robes slightly different to school uniform when you looked closely. He didn't look like he would care if he was told off for it, but he had a fun spark to his eyes and a slight smile on his lips. When Lily and James sat down across from him and the other boy, he smiled at them and introduced himself

"Hi. I'm Sirius. Sirius Black. Spelt like the star not the mood." Lily smiled at his joke and introduced herself as well. So did James after a nudge from Lily but his smile didn't quite match the ones he had been using all day, and he seemed quieter than usual. Lily resolved to ask James what was wrong when they got out of the boat, when she noticed that Sirius had changed his mood at the mention of James last name. There was definitely something going on here. Lily overcame the awkward silence by asking the other boy what his name was

" Remus Lupin" he smiled shyly

" Well Remus Lupin tell us a bit about yourself" said Sirius, trying to get the conversation moving. Remus smiled reluctantly but replied

"I'm eleven, an only child, my father works for the ministry of magic in the experimental potions department and my mother doesn't work" He finished and looked at Lily, the next in the circle they were sitting in. She smiled – this was just like the first day of primary school where they said something about themselves – and replied

" Well my name's Lily Evans, I'm eleven, I have a sister named Petunia who is also one of my best friends, my my parents are both financial planners. Oh, and you've probably guessed this already, I'm muggle born."

" You're a mudblood?!" Sirius blurted out surprised. His family had told him all sorts of bad things about muggles. They were most unworthy of a wizards education according to his family, and he was most certainly not allowed to be friends with one. But then again, his family was stuck up and way to obsessed with 'purity of blood'. he had decided recently that he didn't like his family and the way they treated muggles. But it was hard to get rid of bad habits he had picked up from them, like refering to muggles as mudbloods, and thinking that muggles were monsters.But Lily seemed normal enough to be friends with. He didn't really care if his family disaprooved. He was sick of the whole lot of them. Sirius opened his mouth to apologise but was cut off by the boats hitting the other side of the lake. Lily climbed out closely followed by James, who glared at Sirius over his shoulder. Remus was looking quite shocked by what Sirius had said. Remus climbed out of the boat, shaking his head and went to join Lily and James.

"I still can't believe he called me a mudblood." Lily said sadly. She thought that everyone in the wizarding world was going to be nice like James and Remus but her hopes had been short lived.

" His whole family are like that. All the Blacks. Allot of so called 'pure bloods' are." James told her.

"You aren't."

" That's because my family doesn't believe in that sort of thing. We know that muggles are just like us but without powers. Just forget about Sirius. It'll probably happen allot here, the Slytherins all think that way. Just ignore it."
"Try to think of it positively" Remus suggested, quiet until that moment.
" What is there to be positive about? I'm going to get verbally bashed at least 3 times a week. That is not a good thing" Lily was starting to get worried. Remus laughed at her expression. She looked so worried it was comical.

"Lily, you'll be fine. The bright side is that you don't have to deal with the people like that very often, as most of them got sorted into Slytherin. Except for Sirius. He just had to get stuck in Gryffindor with us. But don't worry about him everyone will stick up for you over him if he keeps up that attitude." The three of them looked down the table covered in food at the object of their dislike. He was seated at the end of the table with some of the first year girls, flirting outrageously. Then he excused himself from them and walked along the table to the end where Lily, James and Remus were sitting. All three were hoping that he wasn't going to sit with them. He did.

Sirius excused himself from the group of girls, pretending he was going to get that bowl of chips. Where Lily was sitting. He walked over there, running over his apology in his head. He felt really bad about what he had said before, and wanted to make things right. When the sorting hat put him in Gryffindor, he had looked at the Slytherin table to see how his relatives reacted. The looks on their faces told Sirius he wasn't going to be very welcome at home anymore. He didn't care. He was sick of them and their pure blood crap. Arriving where Lily was he noticed that she was sitting with James and Remus. It was probably better if he made it ok with her in front of them, they hadn't looked to pleased with him and he had to spend the next seven years with them. He took a deep breath.

"What are you doing here." It wasn't a question and it came from James.

" I came to apologise. I know that sorry doesn't cut it but that's the way I feel. I wasn't calling you a… you know.. on purpose, that's just the way my family refers to muggles. I grew up hearing it like that. Over the past few years I had started to realise that muggles aren't the monsters that my family make them out to be. They're just like wizards but without magic powers." Sirius said apologeticly. James started. That was exactly what he had said a few minutes ago. Sirius continued. " And now I don't believe what my family does. I haven't since Christmas. What I said before just slipped out, I guess I was thinking about mother warning me to stay away from muggles, except she used a different word and I was just thinking about how I didn't care that she'd said that when you told me you were muggle born so it just slipped out. And now I'm in a different house from all of my relative and I won't be innfluenced by them anymore. Now I can have my own opinions and be my own person." Sirius took his gaze off his shoes and looked at Lily hopefully. She smiled. Sirius seemed to have a knack of making sentences last

" That was a pretty long speech. Apology accepted." Lily always way a believer in second chances, and this had just been a misunderstanding. She moved over and offered Sirius the seat next to her and across from Remus. He took the offered seat and smiled at his companions. They smiled back, all comfortable with his apology. Then Professor Dumbledore dismissed them and they walked back to their common room chattering the whole way. The boys separated from Lily and went up the staircase to their dormitories, while Lilly went to hers. Then they all fell asleep, content, with full stomaches and new friends.

Ok, I know the ending was bad and that it would have been better if there was a fight or something and Lily refused the apology but it was too complicated and I really wanted to get out another chapter and im so sorry I haven't updated for ages and if anyone wants to be a beta 4 me then please please let me know

That was a really long sentence wasn't it

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