A beautiful, red-haired girl, with striking emerald eyes,was thinking about how strange it was, to be going away from her family to some school called Hogwarts, riding the Hogwarts Express. She turned her head quickly when she heard her compartment door slide open.

"Hello. Do you mind if I sit with you?" A girl with jet-black hair and blue streaks was carrying a trunk bearing the initials "EK." She was wearing two, silver, delicate bracelts with bells hanging from them, and silver hoop earrings.

"No, not at all! I'm Lily Evans."

"Eponine Kim," she said, introducing herself. "I'm a first year. What year are you in?" She asked as she heaved her trunk onto the luggage rack before sitting down across from Lily.

"Yeah, me too; first year. It's really kinda strange for me. I had always thought that magic was only in fairy tales, and when I received my letter, I thought it was a joke." Lily looked at Eponine and blushed slightly, embarrassed.

"So you're a muggle-born, too? I thought it was a trick as well, but there was just something about it..." Eponine watched Lily's face brighten and smiled. She turned around to see another girl sliding open the compartment door. A tall girl, who looked asian, was standing in the doorway. She had brown eyes, dark brown shoulder-length hair, and was wearing earrings that looked to be made of dolls' shoes.

"Oh-uh... Can I join you?" She asked, fiddling with her left earring.

"Sure," Lily answered at once. "I'm Lily Evans, and thats Eponine Kim. We're both muggle-born, first years. Oh - sorry," she laughed as Eponine raised her eyebrows. "Well, it looks like I'm doing all the intoductions today." She added with a grin.

"I'm Sarah Liu - I'm muggle-born and a first year as well. I'm half Chinese - as you can tell by my name," Sarah laughed. She dragged in her trunk and shut the door. The moment she sat down, she took out her journal -that had pictures of coke cans (a muggle soda)from around the world -and started to write. After a few minutes, she put it away and joined in on Eponine and Lilys' conversation about the different houses.

"Oh, I'd be happy to be and ANY house but Slytherin! Well...maybe I wouldn't want to be in Hufflepuff, but that still leaves Ravenclaw and Gryffindor." Lily bounced up and down in her seat. "I'm soooo excited!" The girls heard shouting in the corridor. "Oh, nevermind them," she said when she saw the curious looks on her companions' faces. They nodded and continued. "Girls," she announced, "This is going to be a wonderful year."

The rest of the ride passed quickly while they talked about the houses, the muggle world, Diagon ally, pets, clothes, wands, and almost everything else. Eponine looked at her watch and said that they should change into their robes and get ready to go - they were going to Hogwarts!

"Hi! I'm James Potter!" A tall, handsome boy was sitting by the window in one of the compartments of the Hogwarts Express. He hadhazel eyes, and messy black hair.

"Er - Sirius Black." He was somewhat taken aback with Potter's friendly greeting, as he hadn't said a word. "Do you mind?"

"C'mon! Sit down."

"Thanks," Sirius said quickly before taking a seat. He, like James, was tall, and had black hair, but it wasn't nearly as messy.He and James looked at each other for a few moments when they heard shouting out in the corridor. They threw open their compartment door to see what was going on. As soon as Sirius saw the situation his carefree expression changed into one of loathing. A tall figure was abusing two boys who were desperately trying to hold their ground. "Malfoy," Sirius spat. "Why have you come to Hogwarts - I was certain that you would attend Durmstrang where you could bury youself in the dark arts." His eyes flashed.

"Black," he replied, with every bit of Sirius' distaste in his voice. He sneered, distorting his pale face. "Do you dare speak to me? You traitor," he added, looking over James with his cold, grey eyes," You are a disgrace to your family, hanging around with this kind of filth." As he whipped around, his long, almost white, blonde hair followed. He beconed for his companions - two large, wide, ugly boys, who if were not looked at carefully, might be mistaken for boulders in clothes - to follow. "Crabbe. Goyle. Let's leave this scum to his -" a pause " - friends," and he walked off, Crabbe and Goyle guffawing obnoxiously behind him. "SHUTUP!" He added with a wave of his hand, and turned into his compartment.

"A friend of yours?" James laughed jokingly with Sirius, noticing that Sirius had grey eyes, like Malfoy's, but were much more welcoming.

"Family friend," he muttered. His grin was starting spreading back over his face. He suddenly noticed one of the boys Malfoy had been abusing - the shorter one - was staring at Sirius. "Hello," he smiled, "I'm Sirius Black," at the sound of his voice, the boy jumped.

"Oh! I-I-I'm Pe-Peter. P-Peter Pettigrew," he stammered. He was chubby, had very ordinary looking brown eyes, and straw colored hair.

"I'm Remus Lupin, nice to meet you," the other boy said.His pale blue eyes were sparkling as he spoke. He was just a little shorter than Sirius, and had ashed colored hair, which, curiously enough, was already greying.

"Well, don't you want to sit down? I'm James Potter, by the way," he patted the seats next to him. "I can already tell, my friends." He draped his arms of Sirius and Remus.

"Tell what?" They both questioned.

"That this is going to be great. Great fun!" He let out a sigh of contentment and leaned back in his seat.

NOTE:

Eponine (EH-poh-NEEN)

Liu (lee-YUE)

Well, that was fun! How did I do? It's my first fic! Please review!

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