The New Generation
Lily sat looking at the window of her compartment on the train. She was in a new world that until someone had turned up on her door step and told her about Hogwarts, there was a nock on her door and she turned to see a girl there. "Is this seat taken?" Tonks said motioning to the seat across from Lily. "No come on in" She said with a small smile. This girl had a strange look about her. "Thanks!" Tonks said sitting down. She looked at the girl in front of her for a second and then said. "My name is Tonks Lupin! Yours?" "Lily" She said playing with her raven hair. Tonks had a dark red almost brown hair, with blue eyes. She wasn't too tall but not to short either. She had her school robes on already and she was looking out the window as the train went past the mountains. "That is a pretty name. So, I am pure blood. What are you?" Tonks said trying to make small talk. "Umm... I don't know my dad was not a wizard and I think my mum wasn't ether if that's what you mean." Lily said confused. "So you are muggle born." Tonks said interested. "So what house do you think you will be sorted into?" Lily gave her a small smile. "I can say with confidence," she said pursuing there for dramatic effect, "I have no idea what you are talking about!" Tonks look a little puzzled. "You know like Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw?" Lily looked at the Tonks across from her through her green eyes; she was a little short and stouter then Tonks. "No. All I know is that I'm going to a school that is going to teach me to become a witch and that I need a wand and other items of the sorts. I'm going to be really behind aren't I?" "No, a lot of people are muggle born, don't worry about it!" Tonks said giving Lily a reassuring smile then looking out the window again. "So tell me about the houses" Lily said looking at Tonks sweetly. "Ok, there is Hufflepuff, for the friendly and sometimes dimwitted; Ravenclaw is the brains; Gryffindor is bravery; Slytherin is well, cunning. But sometime, most of the time the sorting hat tells you what house to go in based on your family line if you have a witch or wizard in your family." Tonks said enjoying knowing more than someone.
"Oh really?" Replied Lily, she didn't think putting you in a house based on your family was such a keen idea. "When has that happened?" "Well, with everyone of the same blood line, Like the Weasly's, they have all been in Gryffindor, every 9 of them! So fare." Tonks added enjoying herself. "Well then what about muggle born's do they all go in the same house?" Lily asked beginning not to like this sorting hat idea, it seemed a little bias. "No, it is your personality and stuff, if you are smart then you will go into Ravenclaw. So what is your last name, maybe you do have a witch or wizard I have heard of before!" Tonks said trying to be helpful. "I doubt that" Lily said with a disbelieving look. "Besides if I did have a magically relative it wouldn't help to tell you my sir name I've lived with my dad all my life trust me he has no magic in him. My mom might have though I never new her, Kanded was her maiden name." Lily said still giving Tonks a disbelieving look. "No, never heard of her. And why are you so reluctant to say your sir name?" Tonks said curiously. "My mum's was Tonks. She was in Gryffindor so was my dad." Tonks said proud of her family. "You were named after your mother's maiden name! That's cool." Lily gave a little laugh. "Mine would be weird though to have a name like Kanded. I was named after my dad's mother." Lily said looking past Tonks thinking about her family. "That's cool! You still haven't told you your sir name!" Tonks said giggling a little. "What's to hide?" Tonks said looking at Lily with a unique smile. "Why are you so interested?" She hadn't meant to conceal her last name but now was pretty fun to hold out not saying it as long as possible. "Because you are not telling me! Oh well, I will find out when you are sorted." Tonks said looking out the window when the trolley came. "May I interest you in anything?" The person on the trolley said. "Yes, I would like Bertie Botts, Chocolate Frogs, and the whole middle row!" Tonks said and started rummaging through her pockets looking for her money. "Would you like anything?" Tonks asked Lily after she found her money. "No thanks, I don't have and money, I spent it all on school supplies and things." Lily said looking down. "That's fine, I have some to spare, my dad gave me extra just so that I could spend it on the cart!" Tonks laughed a bit then pointed at the cart. "Well? Want anything?" "Err… The Every Flavor Beans are those like jelly beans?" Lily asked confused a little. "Yes!" Tonks turned to the trolley lady and she handed her the candy. "Here you go!" She said giving Lily her candy. "Thanks" She said with a smile and popped a blue one in her mouth, and then immediately spit it back out. "Uhh, that was disgusting!" "Ha, what flavor did you get?" Tonks said opening her chocolate frog and it jumped onto Lily "CATCH IT!" Tonks yelled. Lily grasped the chocolate and gave it back to Tonks pretty freaked out "uh, here you go, think it was like fish or something! I don't think I want anymore thanks I had a fish jelly bean and jumping chocolate! And you new that was going to happen too, and you didn't tell me" Lily gave her a judging look. "What was the cunning house again? Slytherin? I think you should go there!" "Umm...NO! Heck no, I would die if I ended up there. It is where all the dark wizards come from. Including the one that killed my parent's really good friends." Tonks said looking down at her legs. "I have heard so much of them I really feel that I new them." Lily was abashed and horrified by herself. "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry! I didn't mean anything by it!" Lily decided it was best to stop talking and stared out the window which had turned to night. Tonks didn't respond and looked out the window. "It is getting dark you should change into your school robes." Tonks said not taking her eyes off the window. Lily reached up into her trunk and grabbed her robes and left the room to change, cursing herself all the way. Tonks ate some of her candy then started thinking of how the Order used to be together, Very few members where in it now. Lily came back in time to see all the students getting ready to leave and by the time she opened the door to her compartment the train had stopped and she was leaving again. Tonks fallowed Lily out of the compartment and walked forward to the boats. "Don't worry about your stuff they have it." Tonks said as she noticed Lily was worried about something. "Okay." She said more worried about intentionally insulting Tonks then her luggage. "Firs' yers o'er here, fris' yers o'er here" Said a gruff voice that came from a tall figure. "HAGRID!" Tonks said running over to him and hugging him "You look like your dad!" Hagrid said and then whispering "I can' really 'ell if ye look like ye mum can I?" Hagrid laughed a little. "Err...hi" Lily said a little bit intimidated but with the feeling of being rude if see said nothing. Besides she said to her self if Tonks knows him he must be okay. "Hey there!" Hagrid said looking at Lily. "OK ALL YE FIRS' YERS COME O'ER HERE!" Hagrid yelled one more time as Tonks let go of him and got in a line behind him. They all gather around him and walk to a lake where boats where docked. Tonks and Lily got in a boat with two other girls and they made there way up to the magnificent castle. "Wow it's really big." Lily said for lack of any other words. "Yeah, it is the biggest and best Wizarding School!" Tonks said looking at the castle. "Oh, yeah." A girl said from behind them. "My mum works here." She had red curly hair and pale skin. Tonks turned around "Emma?" Tonks said excitingly. "Yeah! Tonks that you?" Emma said looking at her the castle lights where behind Tonks so it was just shadow on her face. "Yeah! I have missed you, how are you?" Tonks said making small talk and was glad to meat an old friend. "Hi." Said Lily softly feeling out of place and turning around to look at the two girls behind her "I'm lily Black." "Ohh, so now you tell me your sir name." Tonks said eyeing Lily. "Wait, Black?" Tonks and Emma said in unison. "Any relation to Serious Black?" Tonks asked looking at Lily. "Uh...not that I know of." Lily sad in surprise she hadn't expected this reaction. "And I didn't tell you cause you were to curious and it was fun not to tell you." "Fine. Maybe your dad is related! What is his name?" Tonks said excited "Yeah!" Emma added. "I told you me dad is a muggle through and through." Said Lily irritated now "What's you name?" She asked the girl next to Emma. "Hello." Said the girl next to Emma. She had dirty brown hair and protuberant eyes. "My name is Star Longbottem." "Hello!" Tonks said excited to finally be at the school she had heard so much of. "Are you Nevil's daughter?" Tonks asked not really paying attention what was going on around her. The boat docked at the edge of the lack and Tonks and Lily toppled over the edge. "Yes." Said Star stepping out of the boat and walking past them not even realizing they were on the ground. "And my mother was Luna Lovegood. What about you?" "I know them!" Tonks said happily. "Mine are Tonks and Lupin, or Nymphidora and Remus." Tonks said looking around at the scenery instead of Star. Lily pulled her self up and brushed herself off, as Emma got out of the boat. They headed together to the large oak doors and where I lady with bush brown hair stood waiting for them. "That's my mum." Said Emma in an under tone to them. "Hi Hermione!" Tonks said softly so not to draw attention. "How are you?" Tonks asked and looked at Lily who had a weird face that said 'How do you know all of them?' "That is Professor Granger here, Miss Lupin." She said sternly but she was smiling at Tonks all the while. She led them inside and to another set of doors. "Wait here." She said. "All come and get you when it's time, and behave!" "Sorry, and I will Professor Granger." Tonks murmured to herself with a smile. "That is Hermione, right?" Star asked no one unparticular. "Yeah." Tonks and Emma said in unison. Lilly was starting to like this sorting thing less and less. "We get sorted in front of people? I thought we got sorted in private!" Lily said devastated. "No!" Said Tonks looking at her with a weird face. "Yes you get sorted in front of the whole school!" Tonks said laughing a little. "Yeah but what if the hat says something personal then what do you do?" Said Lily like this less and less the more she thought about it. "The most they will say is if you are thinking 'not Slytherin' then they would be like 'not Slytherin a'? So don't worry about it!" Tonks said waiting of Professor Granger to come back. Lily was about to object again when the door open and they were lead down the tables to the center of a large room with long tables that held kids who were watching them carefully in the middle of the room sat a old hat on a stool and when they halted it burst into song. Hermione was sitting up at the front next to the sorting hat with a long role of parchment. "Lethal Toadstool...Hufflepuff!" The Hufflepuff table yelled and clapped for her. Next called was Emma Granger who was put in Gryffindor the whole table cheered and clapped for Emma. "Tonks Lupin!" Professor Granger called out. Tonks walked up and sat on the stool. She could have sworn she heard talking among the staff but her concentration stopped when the hat hit her head. "Hmmm...This isn't hard at all Mrs. Lupin. Gryffindor!" Tonks let out a sigh and walked over to the screaming and clapping table and sat next to Emma. A few more names were called Star went to Ravenclaw and to people with the last name of Malfoy went to Slytherin, and then it was Lily's turn. When her name was called she walked up to the stool and put on the hat and heard a voice in her head "And she; the tradition continues, but what will you chose? Hum... what will it be Syltherin or Gryffindor?" Lily had no clue what the hat was talking about but decide it was best to lesson to it. "Err... I think I would like to be in Gryffindor." Lily said as the hat seemed to consider a second. "Yes, it said, I shall put you in Gryffindor." The hat said out load, and with cheering most of it from Emma and Tonks she set of for the table, and for the rest of the sorting pondered what the hat had said and meant.