After Lily was quickly sent back home, James used Floo Powder to return home as well.
"James! How was the meeting with Headmaster Dumbledore?" his mother called out from the kitchen. James was a rich wizard who lived in a castle-like house, he had wonderful parents and received almost anything he wish for
"Lily fainted…I took a shower with the evergreen smelling soap and it was too strong for her when I walked in…so she blacked out." James heaved in one sentence. He flopped in a chair at the table and was about to nod off when his mother shook him. She held a plate of warm cookies (hand made) and set them by his arm.
"Come one dear, eat them while they're warm."
"I'm not five anymore mother, a plate of cookies are not going to make my troubles disappear."
"Will you eat them if I heat up some milk?" cooed his mother. James temptation could not be restrained any longer, the agreed and began munching on the chocolate filled cookies. Filling, delicious and tempting, as usual.
The rest of James' summer continued on like this, well, only for the next week hours that is. He heard a loud crack and suddenly his father and Sirius popped into the kitchen.
"Sirius! How have you been?" James called, shooting up from his chair to greet his best friend. Serius had that same tired expression he always had when he came from his family's house.
"Life's been hell I tell you." Serius groaned, "I smell cookies."
James laughed and led Serius' keen nose to the last cookie.
"Where's mum, James?" his father called, slightly aroused since his own son forgot to greet him as well.
"Oh! Hey dad! I think she's in the parlor reading…something like that." Replied James who was too busy listening to Serius describe how brutal and wretched his family was.
From then on, Serius lived in the Potter house. He slept and ate at the Potters and joined James' family on their little summer adventures which included hiking up the Magic Mountain and fishing at Bottom Lake.
"O, mum, I wish I didn't have to go back to school!" Lily whined at her mother the day before she returned to Hogwarts. Her summer had ended much unlike the beginning and she was in the happiest of moods. She had gone to the middle of London with her mother to go on a shopping escapade while her snooty sister was out on her weekend date with her fat husband. Also, she went out with friends, stayed up late watching movies, and had gone to a witch and wizard camp to sharpen up her skills.
"Really Lily? I think you can't wait. You love Hogforts…Hoglorts…er…what is the name dear?"
"Hogwarts, mum!" laughed Lily. She skipped up into her room, calm and relaxed because her sister was on another trip with her now-fiancé. Her large suitcase was packed to the max with necessities: clothes, extra clothes, and just a little more clothes, some make-up, hair supplies and books, lots of books.
"Alright, mum. I'm ready to go!" Lily called, lugging the huge case down the stairs to the bottom floor where her mom stood teary-eyed.
"What a great summer it's been!" her mother exclaimed wrapping Lily up in a tight hug.
"Well, just wait till' next summer and it'll be even better!"
"Alright, well, stay warm, eat right," advised her mother, checking Lily's hair with sad eyes, "And don't let that Potter boy get to you!" Lily's mother game her a peck on the cheek before rushing Lily out the door to the cab outside saying that she shouldn't be late for the train.
Before running into the car of an inpatient driver, Lily took one last glance at the house she loved so dearly.
"I'll be back." She whispered.
"Could you be any slower?" complained James as his driver brought Serius and himself to the train station.
"Contain yourselves! I'm almost there!" snapped the driver.
As James and Serius finally arrived after what felt a century, they gave the driver a tiny tip before ignoring the scowl they received and rushing to Platform Nine-and-three-quarter.
"Pst! James, it's Lily!" Serius hissed to James, but his best friend was already off at Lily.
"-closed!" Lily finished, James had missed her first few words and decided to wrap her up in a hug to make her squeal as she always did when he got between 10ft. of her.
She yelled out a scream and chomped hard into James' arm, not knowing it was him. He blurted out a few swear words before letting go and tending to his injured arm.
"For the love of-James!" she screeched, turning around.
"You bit him! You crazy lunatic!" Serius cried, finally huffing into the picture.
"He deserved it. Don't you take his side!" Lily warned.
"Why aren't you in the train already anyway?" James asked, ignoring his throbbing arm in order to look stronger then he really was.
"I already said, merlin! The gate's closed! I can't get through!" she angrily spat, kicking the still wall with her 3-inch heels.
"Oh-" Serius began, intending to curse, but Lily cut him off by kicking him in the shins with her shoe.
"Cripes! Don't get violent on me too!" he nervously said, giving her a glance. Lily was completely red from anger, frustration, and just pure disgust.
"How are we going to get to Hogwarts?" James questioned, feeling the wall.
"I have no idea…I guess we could call for Dumbledore and he could come get us by apparating." Suggested Lily, but her idea was quickly killed by Serius.
"No way, not in front of all these muggles! We'll have to think of another way…"
"Hey! Wait! I could apparate you guys! I've done it before!"
"Without a liscence," Serius asked bewildered and impressed, "Niceeeee." They laughed together and slapped a high-five.
"First of all, that's illegal," Lily stated shrewdly through gritted teeth, "and apparation is impossible within the Hogwarts grounds!"
"Do you have a better idea Ms. Know-It-All."
Lily took his insult as a sign to shut up and quickly did so, since she really didn't have a better idea.
"What if we just apparate outside the grounds and walk the rest?" James thought, he said it out loud, only to receive groans of discouragement from both sides.
"Walk all that way?" moaned Serius.
"Are you crazy? That's dangerous!" exclaimed Lily. James gave them an annoyed look and finally Serius and Lily agreed to the scandalous idea and clutched onto both sides of James arms as he concentrated on the place.
'Hogwarts. I want to go to Hogwarts.'