CHAPTER: 3 -Journey

Lily and her mother stayed at the Leaky cauldron over night and went to Kings Cross station the following morning.

"What platform is it, dear?" asked Lily's mother.

Lily pulled the ticked out of her pocket. "Nine and three quarters?" she mumbled, looking up at her mother. Her mother looked at the ticket frowning. While Lily took in her surroundings.

"Mum! Mum! Look over there!" she pointed to a group of people, a man, a woman and a small girl with very tanned skin.

"Excuse me," Lily's mother said to the man.

"Yes?" the man had soft grey eyes and dark brown hair.

"My daughter, Lily, is...er...new this year and is having trouble finding the platform..."

The man smiled kindly at Lily, "Allysa's new as well." he gestured to the small girl who was twirling her dark brown hair around her finger. "Allysa."

The girl turned and looked up. "Mmm?"

"This is Lily...er..."

"Evans." Lily's mother helped.

"Lily Evans, she's a first year as well. Might be good if you showed her the barrier."

The girl nodded and smiled at Lily. "Follow me."

The girl, Allysa, began walking towards the barrier between platforms nine and ten. She faced the barrier and started running towards it and just when Lily thought she was going to crash the girl disappeared.

Lily blinked.

"Off you go." said Lily's mother. Lily hugged her mother goodbye and ran through the barrier. When she was centimeters away from the barrier she closed her eyes, anticipating the impact.

CRASH!

Instead of running into the barrier Lily had run into a boy with untidy black hair and chocolate coloured eyes.

She gasped. The man from her dreams, it was unmistakably a younger version of him. Luckily the boy didn't notice Lily's staring and just put his trunk and owl back on his trolley and walked away after yelling at her to watch where she's going. Lily picked herself up.

"That prat, James Potter." she heard Allysa mutter as she helped Lily place her trunk on back on her trolley.

"Pardon?" asked Lily.

"That prat, who you crashed into, was James Potter. He's parents are well known aurors and they're really rich. He's still a prat, though and then there's his best mate, Sirius Black...." she shook her head darkly. "Don't get me started on Black." she sighed. "Better look for a compartment then."

"Yeh." Lily nodded.

"Come on."

The two girls went in search for a compartment. The only one they could find held two identical twins speaking rapidly in french.

"Um...can we share this compartment with you?" Allysa asked.

"Wha- oh, I mean, yeh." one of the twins said as she looked at Allysa.

"My names Allysa by the way, and this is Lily" Allysa said brightly.

"Hi, I'm Jo and that's my sister, Miranda." Jo nodded in the direction of her sister.

"So, what house do you want to be in?" Allysa said making a wild stab at conversation.

"I dunno, maybe Gryffindor." Jo said absent mindedly.

"I want to be in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. What about you Lily?" Allysa asked.

"Ravenclaw I guess, but Gryffindor or Hufflepuff are fine by me." Lily said shyly.

"So where ab -" Allysa didn't get to finish her question because three girls suddenly burst into their compartment.

"Hey Lily!" Lucinda said brightly.

"Hello Lucinda." said Lily politely.

"It's Lucy." Lucy said in an undertone.

"Who are your friends?" Stephanie asked as she noticed the other people in the compartment.

"Allysa, Miranda and Jo."

"Hi!" Stephanie, Emirial and Lucy said in unison.

"Hi." the other girls muttered in reply.

"Mind if we stay? Everywhere else is full." said Lucy looking pleadingly up at them.

"Sure." said Allysa happily.

The rest of the journey was quite uneventful, with Allysa talking happily with Emirial, Stephanie and Lucy had gone off to find Lucy's sister, and Miranda and Jo speaking in french again. After about an hour, when Lucy and Steph had returned, a girl who looked about fifteen came into the compartment after about an hour os so into the journey.

"Hi Lucinda." Said the girl in a mock baby voice.

"Hello Sarah." Said Lucy exasperatedly.

"Just to let you know that you should all get changed into your robes now." and the girl didn't wait for an answer and left the compartment.

"My sister." said Lucy in an undertone. "She's in Hufflepuff, and unfortunately is a prefect." and the girls began to get changed.

When the train finally arrived at the station a bodiless voice told everyone to leave their trunks, owls and other large belongings on the train. The five girls got off the train and followed the crowd of first years. Someone behind Lily squealed and Lily looked around to see a frightened, very hurt Miranda and a very giggly Jo.

"Don't worry Miranda, I'll protect ya!" Jo began marching towards the giant-man in mock bravery, as Allysa and Emirial broke into a fit of giggles.

"Firs' years, over 'ere, firs' years, this way!" boomed the giant-man.

The frightened looking first years followed him to the edge of a huge lake that was dotted with small boats.

"No more then five to a boat!" boomed the man.

The six girls settled into a boat and when it jerked forwards Emirial nearly fell out but was caught by Lucy and Jo.

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