A/N-hey everybody. Wow, that was a fast update. Anyway, yea well, I promised a longer chapter and this is certainly longer. Hope you enjoy it. Don't forget to review!

The station was crowded with people of all sorts. There were babies and parents. There were teenagers with owls like the snowy white one sitting on her cart. And there were…wait…teenagers…owls…they were students too! They had to be going to the same place she was going, but where were they going?

Lily said good bye to her parents and waved to Petunia, who said "See ya freak" in return. There were still more kids with owls going past. Lily looked at her ticket to see where she was supposed to go to catch the train. As she studied it carefully, she started to panic. The ticket said the train was waiting at platform 9 ¾, but there was no platform 9 ¾.

'The other kids.' Lily's mind was whispering to her. 'They know, ask them'.

"Fine" Lily told herself quietly. "Um…excuse me. Do you know how to get to platform 9 ¾?" Lily asked a girl about her own age. The girl had dark brown hair, unlike Lily's dark red hair. She also had electrifying blue eyes, while Lily had big, almond shaped, bright green eyes.

"Yeah, follow me; I'm on my way there too. My name is Hailey Williams. What's yours?

"Lily Evans. Nice too meet you Hailey."

"Same here"

"So…how do we get into platform 9 ¾?" Lily asked curiously.

"According to my mum, we go strait threw the barrier between platforms 9 and 10."

"Won't we get hurt? I mean, running into a solid wall isn't the smartest thing I've ever heard of."

"Of course we won't get hurt!" Hailey said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Wait… you're a muggle born aren't you!"

"What's a muggle" Lily was starting to get confused

"Someone non- magical. Well, here we are, at the barrier! You go first; just run strait threw the wall." "And don't worry, you'll be fine!" Hailey added hastily after seeing the look on Lily's face.

"Okay." Lily said uneasily. She took a deep breath, stood 3 feet in front of the wall, and started running. She was going to crash any minute now. She knew it. She closed her eyes and expected to feel a jolt … it must be coming soon… really soon… any minute…

"Ouch!" Lily snapped open her eyes to find that she did feel a jolt, but not from hitting the wall, from hitting a boy! She had run right threw the wall and her cart crashed into a boy on the other side.

"I am sooooo sorry!" Lily apologized as she felt the heat creeping up in her cheeks. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." The boy answered, though still holding his ankle. He had the shaggiest black hair she had ever seen. It stuck up messily in the back and it slightly covered his warm hazel eyes. "My name is James Potter, first year. How about you?"

"Lily Evans. I'm a first year too"

"It's a pleasure to meet you." James said curtly, taking Lily's hand and kissing the back of her knuckles.

"Hey James! Stop flirting and get over here! I need help with your stupid owl, it won't shut up!" Another boy with black hair called from a window on the train.

"I'll be there in a minute Sirius!" James called back, his cheeks reddening a bit. "I guess I'll be seeing you around then Lily. Have a nice trip!" James called to Lily over his shoulder as he set off towards the train.

"You've got lots to learn my friend" Said a voice behind Lily. Turning around, she found the voice belonged to Hailey. "Stay away from those two. I've never met a pair of egotistical boys who could even rival them." Hailey continued.

"Really?" Lily asked, not expecting this at all.

"Yeah. I've known them for a long time. They're purebloods, like me, and all purebloods know which family is pureblooded. I mean… there aren't that many of us left. Also, both of our parents work as aurors at the ministry of magic. " Hailey explained patiently.

"I see." Lily said, although she really had no idea what an auror was "Not to change the subject or anything, but we should get on the train. It's going to leave any minute now." Lily pointed out.

"Merlin, your right! Let's go." Hailey said in a voice that was half panicked, half surprised. The girls dragged their trunks onto the train and began the search for a compartment. Most were full. Scratch that all but few were full and absolutely none were empty. Finally the two friends reached a compartment with only one girl in it, staring out of the window.

"Hi! Can we join you? Everywhere else is full." Hailey asked nervously.

"Sure!" the girl replied happily. "My name is Kayla Burke." She had blonde hair that was set in two braided pigtails and shining, light brown eyes.

"My name is Lily Evans, and this is Hailey Williams."

"Hello" Hailey said waving politely

"This is so exciting. This will be my first day ever at Hogwarts." Kayla exclaimed.

"Our's too!" Hailey replied

BOOM

"What was that?" Lily asked

"Sounded like an explosion coming from the compartment across the hall." Kayla supplied.

"I'm gonna check it out. Be right back." Lily said to her friends

"Need back up?" Hailey asked protectively

"Nah, I can take care of myself."

"Whatever you say"

Lily walked out of her compartment and across the hall. She opened the door to the next apartment and was about to ask what was going on, but was stopped when she saw a ball of light bouncing around the compartment, then hit her on the head. It didn't hurt, but then she noticed her red hair turning slowly to light blue with green polka dots in her refection on the window.

"Nice one James. Now you turned Evans hair blue." Sirius said sarcastically to a familiar looking boy emerging from his hiding place under the seat.

"POTTER! GET MY HAIR BACK TO NORMAL THIS INSTANT OR I SWEAR YOU'LL REGRET YOU WERE BORN!" Lily roared at James.

"I am sooooo sorry, really, I meant to hit Sirius, and you walked in and it hit you and I just…" James blabbed on and on.

"I said NOW!"

Ok, ok. Here." James said as he muttered the counter course. As soon as her hair was red again, she stormed out of the room.

"Some temper on that girl, eh James! James…James? Earth to James Potter."

"What... Oh, yeah, right. James said as he snapped out of it. Sirius was smirking from ear to ear across from James.

"What are you grinning at?" James asked

"You like her." Sirius answered simply

"WHAT?" James asked incredulously

"I said you like her." Sirius answered

"I… I…fine, just a little though.

"James and Lily sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G." Sirius chanted to James, whose face was getting redder by the minute.

"Shhhhhh! Be quiet before she hears you" James said glancing at the door. Sirius just sang louder.

"Please! I'll do anything! Just shut up!" James begged Sirius. Sirius stopped immediately to think.

"Anything?" Sirius repeated

"Yes, anything!"

"Okay…ask her out or I'll start singing again, and this time I'll go and find her and sing it to her" Sirius said

"Wha…WHAT! But I can't, she'd never say yes, and besides, I'm only eleven! I won't ask her, I refuse.

"All right then buddy, you chose your own fate." Sirius said, thoroughly enjoying blackmailing his best friend. Sirius got up and started to walk out the compartment door, singing 'James and Lily sitting in a tree…' but James caught his arm and said

"I'll ask her tomorrow".