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~The Legacy of Two Generations ~
Chapter 2 ~ Meeting on the Train
As Lily crossed the barrier she noticed that her friends Katie and Emma waited for her below the platform sign.
"There you are, what took you so long? We thought you were going to miss the train." Said Katie as she spied Lily looking for them. Katie was a petite, slim girl, hazel eyes and black hair, her skin was often described as milky white.
"I know, I thought the same thing, but you won't believe my parents. I swear, every year they get more weird." Said Lily as she joined her friends.
"What did they do now?" Asked Emma as they started to push their carts to the train and look for a compartment. Emma was a tall, slim girl, brown hair, tanned skin and gray eyes.
"Mum, starting going on about how I should have a boyfriend and not spend all my time behind my books. Really, is not like I actually spend all my time with my books. I mean, during the past two years as a prefect I had to deal with unruly students, and making sure first years were settled. It's not easy being in charge of many kids."
"But she is right, you know. Maybe you don't spend too much time with your books, at least not as much as you used to before you became prefect, but you don't anything else but read on your free time. Maybe you do need a boyfriend to take your mind away from your books." Said Emma as they started to get settled in an empty compartment near the back of the train.
"That's a good idea, let's see now, who are the available guys in our house?" Said Katie as they say on the benches."
"Oh, not you too!" Moaned Lily.
"Let's see, well the most popular are Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and, of course, James Potter." Said Katie.
"Oh please!"
"No Lily is too level headed for them." Responded Emma.
"Thank you!"
"Well what about Chris Lanthman? He's good looking and smart." Said Katie.
"And dull. Come on Katie, Lily can do better than that." Said Emma.
"Lily can choose on her own. Come on guys, I don't want to get a boyfriend, not now at least we have the whole year to think about this. Besides you're starting to sound like my mother. I just hope that when I go back for summer she doesn't have a line of boys lined up for me to meet." Said Lily in an exasperated tone.
"She just wants the best for you, and after all, we are leaving school this year, we do have to start thinking about our future. What do you want to do after school Lily?" Asked Emma.
"I don't know, I would like to become a teacher at Hogwarts, maybe I'll ask Dumbledore if I can stay as a Professor Assistant. The last one they had left last year, and they will need someone to work with the students who need help."
"You'll be good at that, after all you are good in class. I'm sure Dumbledore will let you stay. I have to go back home after school, after all I am being presented to wizard society on my eighteenth birthday." Said Katie.
"You'll have me for company. My mum has even started the preparations for my presentation ball." Said Emma.
"I suppose mum would like to do that but as she belongs to Muggle society I don't think she would feel comfortable doing a presentation ball for her witch daughter, after all I don't think she would like to disclose that I'm a witch." Said Lily in a cheerful tone.
"Don't underestimate your mother, if she wants to present you to society, muggle or wizard, she'll do so, I bet she's as stubborn as you." Said Emma.
"I'm not! But we'll see, she'll let me know before Christmas if she plans a presentation." Said Lily.
"How was your sister's presentation last year?" Asked a curious Katie.
"I told you about it last year. I didn't attend of course, but mother was ecstatic, she said it was a big success and that everybody who was anybody in the neighborhood attended. It didn't really matter, my sister got a new boyfriend this summer and he's not as high up as mother would wish. Vernon Dursley, his family is good I guess, he's a Business Major at the university. But mother says that as long as Petunia is happy, she'll accept him. He looks like a pig to me, I don't know what she sees in him, and in my opinion she could do a lot better." Said Lily.
"All mothers are like that, they expect great things for their children but at the end they always end up happy with their children's choice. I know mother won't mind if I choose a poor man over a wealthy man, as long as I'm happy. She would never say so of course she just says that I could do well in society. Personally, I don't want to become a socialite I would prefer to marry somebody who works hard and who will let me carry on with my art. As long as I can paint I'm happy." Said Katie.
"In my case, is father the one with the expectations. He wants me to marry someone from the Ministry, can you picture me taking tea with the Ministry wives and planning political parties? I think he's mad! I just want to marry somebody who loves me, anything else doesn't matter." Stated Emma with great conviction.
"Well we certainly want different things don't we? We have to make a pact, that in 10 years we'll get together and see if our wishes came true. What do you say?" Said Lily.
"Deal, we'll meet in Diagon Alley at Wizard Paradise Restaurant on our tenth year graduation anniversary at 6 p.m. And we'll catch up on anything we might've missed." Said Katie.
"We'll be still in touch after school, I don't think that we might get separated after graduation. But I'll go, at least I can shop until I have to meet at the restaurant." Said Emma.
"Let's talk about something else. Do you think we'll have the Graduation Ball in May or June?" Asked an excited Katie.
"I think it will be in June, it usually is after we're done with exams." Said Lily.
"That's right, and Lily you'll be part of the planning committee, you have to make sure that there are a lot of slow dances, I plan to enjoy myself at the dance." Said Emma.
"Oh, what do you think we should wear?"
"Girls! We're getting ahead of ourselves, we still have 10 months to plan this, don't worry, when the time is right, we'll be ready." Said Lily in a soothing tone.
In that moment a witch opened the door.
"Anything off the cart dears?"
On the next compartment, four boys sat eating the sweets they had just bought.
"And then mothers starts this lecture on how I must be prepare to take on after father dies, which means that I have to start thinking on what kind of girl I will marry. Can you imagine me with a wife? No thank you, that will certainly take the fun out of life." Said a slim, tall boy, with messy black hair.
"Don't worry James, you'll see that by summer she has forgotten about all of it." Said the boy sitting across from him. He was very similar to James, they shared the black messy hair with Sirius wearing a longer hair style curling at the ends, sometimes people confused them and didn't know who was who.
"Sirius is right James, you knew that your mother would eventually nag you about getting a wife, but don't worry, your sister is pregnant again you said, your mother will probably be too busy for her to pay any attention to your social life for the next couple of years." Said the boy sitting next to James.
"You still have time to enjoy yourself, besides, your mum can't do anything while you're at school." Said another boy. He was different from his companions, they were tall and slim, he was short and portly.
"That's right Peter, we have the whole year to enjoy ourselves, and after all this is the year we have to leave our legacy behind." Said Sirius.
"Legacy? You're crazy Sirius." Replied Remus.
"Speaking of legacies, Peter I think you should transform now." Said James.
"Transform, why? And what does that have to do with legacies?" Asked a confused Peter.
"Just do it and you'll see." Said James.
"Oh very well." Peter disappeared and in his place a fat rat appeared.
"Now watch this." Said James as he picked Peter from the bench.
James carefully opened the door of their compartment and saw the witch with the candy cart leaving from the next compartment; he heard female voices, and chuckling he whispered to Peter. He then put Peter on the floor and saw him going into the compartment of the girls. Three female screams were heard from the compartment, Sirius and Remus stood behind James laughing and patting James on the back.
"Nice Prongs, I should've thought of that." Said a laughing Sirius.
"I think we should go and rescue Wormtail, the girls will kill him if we don't." Said a chuckling Remus.
"All right, let's go." Said James going to the next compartment.
The sight that met their eyes, made them laugh even harder. They saw Lily Evans, bookworm and Head Girl, kneeling on the bench searching for something on the floor. Emma Holmes, one of the most popular girls in the school was standing on one of the benches telling Lily to "Get it, get it." And Katie Bennet, the girl most guys in school wanted to date, standing on the other bench with an expression of fright.
"I assume our rat friend made his way in here." Said a laughing James.
"Potter, you better get that thing out of here or I'm going to turn you into a toad." Said an angry Lily.
"Really Evans, he's just a rat he isn't going to bite." Said Sirius as James kneeled looking for his friend.
"We don't care, just get it out." Said a nervous Emma, who really hated rats.
"Here Wormtail where are you?" Crooned James.
"Hurry!" Said a frightened Katie.
"There he is James, get him." Said Remus as he spied his rat friend just below Lily.
"Got him!" Said James triumphantly.
"Good, now get out!" Said Lily, pushing them out of the compartment.
"We're going. You know Evans you need to work in your manners, that is no way of treating a gentleman."
"The moment I meet a gentleman, Potter, I'll treat him as such. Now go!" And Lily closed the door on their faces.
"That was brilliant James." Said a grinning Sirius.
"That's easy for you to say, my ears are ringing from their screams." Complained Peter who had transformed back.
"It was funny, did you see their faces?" Said a chuckling Remus.
"Of course I did, it was priceless." Said James.
"And our friend Moony here couldn't keep his eyes from Emma, I know you wanted to go to her and calm her down." Teased Sirius.
"I did not, besides how could you notice anything when you were ogling Katie, I know you liked her mini skirt."
"Of course I liked her skirt, makes her legs look nice, and she does have nice legs."
"Oh just stop. It isn't news that Sirius likes Katie; he's been trying to date her since our fifth year. She has always said no though." Said James. Peter was trying to make his ears stop ringing.
"This year will be different, I'll get her to say yes."
"Dream on Padfoot. She won't date you"
"Yes she will Moony, you'll see."
"Do you want to bet on it?"
"You're on James. What shall we bet?"
"Argh! Can you believe them? I wager it was James the one who thought of it." Said a very angry Lily. Her face was flushed and her breathing fast.
"Calm down Lily, it's past. At least they didn't hex us or anything; I really hate it when they do that. I wonder where they got the rat?" Said Emma trying to soothe Lily's temper.
"Besides it's not like you were really scared by the rodent, it brought James in here and that certainly lighted up your whole countenance. You try to deny it but I know you fancy him." Teased Katie.
"I do not!"
"Do to!"
"Do not!"
"Do to!"
"I do not!"
"Do to!"
"Girls!" Screamed Emma. "You're acting like children. Katie really! She could tease you about Sirius if she puts her mind to it."
"I don't deny that I like Sirius."
"You're crazy for him!" Exclaimed Lily. "But you have to be a tease and say no every time he asks you out. Humph!"
"I'm not a tease, I just don't want to go out with him."
"Ha! You are dying to go out with him, you just want to play hard to get."
"Yeah, that's right! You've gone out with others, like that seventh year a couple of years ago, what was his name? ... Oh yeah, Patrick ... Patrick Flannery. You went out with him for two weeks before you dumped him."
"And after him it was Jacob Wood, remember him? He also lasted two weeks."
"Yeah I remember, and then it was..."
"Enough!" Exclaimed an exasperated Katie. "Are you going to make a list of all the boys I've dated?"
"We don't have that good a memory." Said Lily as Emma giggled.
"I don't see where this conversation is leading."
"The point is that you've dated a lot of guys, even some that you didn't particularly liked I might add, but the one you really want to go out with, you keep denying him."
"Exactly! What are you playing at? You know you want to go out with him."
"Yes, happy? I do want to go out with him."
"But?" Pressured Lily.
"But ... What if it doesn't work out and he breaks my heart? I've dated those other guys because I felt safe with them none put my heart in danger, but with Sirius is different, my emotions would be involved and I don't want to take any chances."
"But the point of dating is to take chances, that's how you fall in love and meet the boy you want to marry." Said the rational Emma.
"I don't know, I'll think about it."
"Fine, but don't wait too long, he might get tired of asking." Replied Emma.
"Who do you like Emma?" Asked a curious Lily.
"Oh she likes Remus." Giggled Katie, pay back time she thought. " How come you haven't gone out with him?"
"Because he hasn't asked, I wager he hasn't even noticed that I exist." Responded a sad Emma.
"Oh, he has noticed." Said an amused Katie.
"How do you know?" Questioned Emma.
"I know"
"But how?"
"I just know."
"But..."
"And," interrupted Lily, "if he has been too thick and stupid to notice, we can make him notice."
"Don't call him that!" Chided Emma, "do you think we can?" "Of course we can, after all we're the Hogwarts Sirens!" Said Katie while Emma and Lily giggled.
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~The Legacy of Two Generations ~
Chapter 2 ~ Meeting on the Train
As Lily crossed the barrier she noticed that her friends Katie and Emma waited for her below the platform sign.
"There you are, what took you so long? We thought you were going to miss the train." Said Katie as she spied Lily looking for them. Katie was a petite, slim girl, hazel eyes and black hair, her skin was often described as milky white.
"I know, I thought the same thing, but you won't believe my parents. I swear, every year they get more weird." Said Lily as she joined her friends.
"What did they do now?" Asked Emma as they started to push their carts to the train and look for a compartment. Emma was a tall, slim girl, brown hair, tanned skin and gray eyes.
"Mum, starting going on about how I should have a boyfriend and not spend all my time behind my books. Really, is not like I actually spend all my time with my books. I mean, during the past two years as a prefect I had to deal with unruly students, and making sure first years were settled. It's not easy being in charge of many kids."
"But she is right, you know. Maybe you don't spend too much time with your books, at least not as much as you used to before you became prefect, but you don't anything else but read on your free time. Maybe you do need a boyfriend to take your mind away from your books." Said Emma as they started to get settled in an empty compartment near the back of the train.
"That's a good idea, let's see now, who are the available guys in our house?" Said Katie as they say on the benches."
"Oh, not you too!" Moaned Lily.
"Let's see, well the most popular are Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and, of course, James Potter." Said Katie.
"Oh please!"
"No Lily is too level headed for them." Responded Emma.
"Thank you!"
"Well what about Chris Lanthman? He's good looking and smart." Said Katie.
"And dull. Come on Katie, Lily can do better than that." Said Emma.
"Lily can choose on her own. Come on guys, I don't want to get a boyfriend, not now at least we have the whole year to think about this. Besides you're starting to sound like my mother. I just hope that when I go back for summer she doesn't have a line of boys lined up for me to meet." Said Lily in an exasperated tone.
"She just wants the best for you, and after all, we are leaving school this year, we do have to start thinking about our future. What do you want to do after school Lily?" Asked Emma.
"I don't know, I would like to become a teacher at Hogwarts, maybe I'll ask Dumbledore if I can stay as a Professor Assistant. The last one they had left last year, and they will need someone to work with the students who need help."
"You'll be good at that, after all you are good in class. I'm sure Dumbledore will let you stay. I have to go back home after school, after all I am being presented to wizard society on my eighteenth birthday." Said Katie.
"You'll have me for company. My mum has even started the preparations for my presentation ball." Said Emma.
"I suppose mum would like to do that but as she belongs to Muggle society I don't think she would feel comfortable doing a presentation ball for her witch daughter, after all I don't think she would like to disclose that I'm a witch." Said Lily in a cheerful tone.
"Don't underestimate your mother, if she wants to present you to society, muggle or wizard, she'll do so, I bet she's as stubborn as you." Said Emma.
"I'm not! But we'll see, she'll let me know before Christmas if she plans a presentation." Said Lily.
"How was your sister's presentation last year?" Asked a curious Katie.
"I told you about it last year. I didn't attend of course, but mother was ecstatic, she said it was a big success and that everybody who was anybody in the neighborhood attended. It didn't really matter, my sister got a new boyfriend this summer and he's not as high up as mother would wish. Vernon Dursley, his family is good I guess, he's a Business Major at the university. But mother says that as long as Petunia is happy, she'll accept him. He looks like a pig to me, I don't know what she sees in him, and in my opinion she could do a lot better." Said Lily.
"All mothers are like that, they expect great things for their children but at the end they always end up happy with their children's choice. I know mother won't mind if I choose a poor man over a wealthy man, as long as I'm happy. She would never say so of course she just says that I could do well in society. Personally, I don't want to become a socialite I would prefer to marry somebody who works hard and who will let me carry on with my art. As long as I can paint I'm happy." Said Katie.
"In my case, is father the one with the expectations. He wants me to marry someone from the Ministry, can you picture me taking tea with the Ministry wives and planning political parties? I think he's mad! I just want to marry somebody who loves me, anything else doesn't matter." Stated Emma with great conviction.
"Well we certainly want different things don't we? We have to make a pact, that in 10 years we'll get together and see if our wishes came true. What do you say?" Said Lily.
"Deal, we'll meet in Diagon Alley at Wizard Paradise Restaurant on our tenth year graduation anniversary at 6 p.m. And we'll catch up on anything we might've missed." Said Katie.
"We'll be still in touch after school, I don't think that we might get separated after graduation. But I'll go, at least I can shop until I have to meet at the restaurant." Said Emma.
"Let's talk about something else. Do you think we'll have the Graduation Ball in May or June?" Asked an excited Katie.
"I think it will be in June, it usually is after we're done with exams." Said Lily.
"That's right, and Lily you'll be part of the planning committee, you have to make sure that there are a lot of slow dances, I plan to enjoy myself at the dance." Said Emma.
"Oh, what do you think we should wear?"
"Girls! We're getting ahead of ourselves, we still have 10 months to plan this, don't worry, when the time is right, we'll be ready." Said Lily in a soothing tone.
In that moment a witch opened the door.
"Anything off the cart dears?"
On the next compartment, four boys sat eating the sweets they had just bought.
"And then mothers starts this lecture on how I must be prepare to take on after father dies, which means that I have to start thinking on what kind of girl I will marry. Can you imagine me with a wife? No thank you, that will certainly take the fun out of life." Said a slim, tall boy, with messy black hair.
"Don't worry James, you'll see that by summer she has forgotten about all of it." Said the boy sitting across from him. He was very similar to James, they shared the black messy hair with Sirius wearing a longer hair style curling at the ends, sometimes people confused them and didn't know who was who.
"Sirius is right James, you knew that your mother would eventually nag you about getting a wife, but don't worry, your sister is pregnant again you said, your mother will probably be too busy for her to pay any attention to your social life for the next couple of years." Said the boy sitting next to James.
"You still have time to enjoy yourself, besides, your mum can't do anything while you're at school." Said another boy. He was different from his companions, they were tall and slim, he was short and portly.
"That's right Peter, we have the whole year to enjoy ourselves, and after all this is the year we have to leave our legacy behind." Said Sirius.
"Legacy? You're crazy Sirius." Replied Remus.
"Speaking of legacies, Peter I think you should transform now." Said James.
"Transform, why? And what does that have to do with legacies?" Asked a confused Peter.
"Just do it and you'll see." Said James.
"Oh very well." Peter disappeared and in his place a fat rat appeared.
"Now watch this." Said James as he picked Peter from the bench.
James carefully opened the door of their compartment and saw the witch with the candy cart leaving from the next compartment; he heard female voices, and chuckling he whispered to Peter. He then put Peter on the floor and saw him going into the compartment of the girls. Three female screams were heard from the compartment, Sirius and Remus stood behind James laughing and patting James on the back.
"Nice Prongs, I should've thought of that." Said a laughing Sirius.
"I think we should go and rescue Wormtail, the girls will kill him if we don't." Said a chuckling Remus.
"All right, let's go." Said James going to the next compartment.
The sight that met their eyes, made them laugh even harder. They saw Lily Evans, bookworm and Head Girl, kneeling on the bench searching for something on the floor. Emma Holmes, one of the most popular girls in the school was standing on one of the benches telling Lily to "Get it, get it." And Katie Bennet, the girl most guys in school wanted to date, standing on the other bench with an expression of fright.
"I assume our rat friend made his way in here." Said a laughing James.
"Potter, you better get that thing out of here or I'm going to turn you into a toad." Said an angry Lily.
"Really Evans, he's just a rat he isn't going to bite." Said Sirius as James kneeled looking for his friend.
"We don't care, just get it out." Said a nervous Emma, who really hated rats.
"Here Wormtail where are you?" Crooned James.
"Hurry!" Said a frightened Katie.
"There he is James, get him." Said Remus as he spied his rat friend just below Lily.
"Got him!" Said James triumphantly.
"Good, now get out!" Said Lily, pushing them out of the compartment.
"We're going. You know Evans you need to work in your manners, that is no way of treating a gentleman."
"The moment I meet a gentleman, Potter, I'll treat him as such. Now go!" And Lily closed the door on their faces.
"That was brilliant James." Said a grinning Sirius.
"That's easy for you to say, my ears are ringing from their screams." Complained Peter who had transformed back.
"It was funny, did you see their faces?" Said a chuckling Remus.
"Of course I did, it was priceless." Said James.
"And our friend Moony here couldn't keep his eyes from Emma, I know you wanted to go to her and calm her down." Teased Sirius.
"I did not, besides how could you notice anything when you were ogling Katie, I know you liked her mini skirt."
"Of course I liked her skirt, makes her legs look nice, and she does have nice legs."
"Oh just stop. It isn't news that Sirius likes Katie; he's been trying to date her since our fifth year. She has always said no though." Said James. Peter was trying to make his ears stop ringing.
"This year will be different, I'll get her to say yes."
"Dream on Padfoot. She won't date you"
"Yes she will Moony, you'll see."
"Do you want to bet on it?"
"You're on James. What shall we bet?"
"Argh! Can you believe them? I wager it was James the one who thought of it." Said a very angry Lily. Her face was flushed and her breathing fast.
"Calm down Lily, it's past. At least they didn't hex us or anything; I really hate it when they do that. I wonder where they got the rat?" Said Emma trying to soothe Lily's temper.
"Besides it's not like you were really scared by the rodent, it brought James in here and that certainly lighted up your whole countenance. You try to deny it but I know you fancy him." Teased Katie.
"I do not!"
"Do to!"
"Do not!"
"Do to!"
"I do not!"
"Do to!"
"Girls!" Screamed Emma. "You're acting like children. Katie really! She could tease you about Sirius if she puts her mind to it."
"I don't deny that I like Sirius."
"You're crazy for him!" Exclaimed Lily. "But you have to be a tease and say no every time he asks you out. Humph!"
"I'm not a tease, I just don't want to go out with him."
"Ha! You are dying to go out with him, you just want to play hard to get."
"Yeah, that's right! You've gone out with others, like that seventh year a couple of years ago, what was his name? ... Oh yeah, Patrick ... Patrick Flannery. You went out with him for two weeks before you dumped him."
"And after him it was Jacob Wood, remember him? He also lasted two weeks."
"Yeah I remember, and then it was..."
"Enough!" Exclaimed an exasperated Katie. "Are you going to make a list of all the boys I've dated?"
"We don't have that good a memory." Said Lily as Emma giggled.
"I don't see where this conversation is leading."
"The point is that you've dated a lot of guys, even some that you didn't particularly liked I might add, but the one you really want to go out with, you keep denying him."
"Exactly! What are you playing at? You know you want to go out with him."
"Yes, happy? I do want to go out with him."
"But?" Pressured Lily.
"But ... What if it doesn't work out and he breaks my heart? I've dated those other guys because I felt safe with them none put my heart in danger, but with Sirius is different, my emotions would be involved and I don't want to take any chances."
"But the point of dating is to take chances, that's how you fall in love and meet the boy you want to marry." Said the rational Emma.
"I don't know, I'll think about it."
"Fine, but don't wait too long, he might get tired of asking." Replied Emma.
"Who do you like Emma?" Asked a curious Lily.
"Oh she likes Remus." Giggled Katie, pay back time she thought. " How come you haven't gone out with him?"
"Because he hasn't asked, I wager he hasn't even noticed that I exist." Responded a sad Emma.
"Oh, he has noticed." Said an amused Katie.
"How do you know?" Questioned Emma.
"I know"
"But how?"
"I just know."
"But..."
"And," interrupted Lily, "if he has been too thick and stupid to notice, we can make him notice."
"Don't call him that!" Chided Emma, "do you think we can?" "Of course we can, after all we're the Hogwarts Sirens!" Said Katie while Emma and Lily giggled.
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