The Train Ride
Remus Lupin stood quietly on the platform of Station 9 ¾. He didn't know a single soul. His grandparents had left him there to find his own way, so he just grabbed his suitcase and walked onto the crimson train.
As he walked the narrow hallway, he looked desperately for an open compartment, and, to his delight, found one. He put his trunk away and pulled out the newest book that he was reading.
James Potter arrived to Station 9 ¾ just in time. The train would be leaving in a few moments. He told his parents good-bye quickly and then ran onto the smoking train.
He walked the corridors in search of an open compartment. To his dismay, he found none. He was about to find a compartment that had maybe a person he knew in it, when he ran into a black haired boy.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" the boy yelled.
"You were the one who wasn't watching!" James yelled back.
"How dare you speak to me like that!" the boy yelled at James.
"Do you want to fight me?" James asked dangerously.
"I wouldn't waste my time on you if I was being forced to," the boy quipped.
James lunged at the boy, punching him in the left eye as hard as he could. The boy shoved James off of him and then returned the punch. James punched him a few more times, and, in turn,received a few more shots to the face and chest.
They were going to kill each other.
Remus sat in his compartment quietly, waiting nervously to see if anybody would ask to sit in his compartment. He was shocked when a pretty girl with reddish hair knocked on the door of his compartment.
"Come in," he said.
"Hi, is this compartment empty?" she asked.
"Except for me, it is," Remus replied.
"Would you mind if I sat here with you?"
"Not at all. I'm Remus Lupin."
"I'm Lily Evans. Nice to meet you Remus," she said, sticking out a hand.
Remus shook it and smiled.
"So," he began, "where are you from?"
"London. I didn't even know I was a witch until I got that letter. It was really strange. My parents had no idea. I guess I always knew I was kind of weird, because I could sometimes make things happen."
"Really?" Remus asked, intrigued by her story.
"Yeah. Like this one time, my mum got me this horrible dress to wear on picture day at school…"
"Picture day?"
"Oh, it's when they take a picture of you to put in this book. Every one in the whole school has it done. So, my mum got me this absolutely horrid dress to wear. As you can imagine, I put up quite a fuss. But my mum had her way, and I was to wear it. And then, the day came, and I ruined it, except I don't quite know how I did it. All I know is that, I walked down the stairs, and the side caught on the banister. The whole dress ripped apart! But I looked and there was nothing there! My mum was furious but I got to wear the outfit I wanted! And there have just been other things that just happened. I guess I-"
Lily was interrupted by a loud crash as two boys fell against their compartment door. They both had jet black hair, and the one boy had round glasses.
Lily screamed when the boy with the glasses punched the other boy in the eye.
"What do they think they're doing!" she yelled.
"Just leave them alone. You don't want to get involved!" Remus ordered.
But Lily didn't listen. She slid the door open and somehow managed to pry the boy with the glasses off of the other boy.
"Stop it! Both of you!" she yelled.
They stood up. The one boy had a black eye and a bloody lip. The other boy's glasses were broken and he looked like he hada broken nose.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!" the boy with the black eye demanded.
"I'm trying to save your skin! Do you have any idea what they do to people like you?"
"What do you mean, people like us?" the glasses kid demanded.
"I mean people who get into fights. You could very well get expelled from Hogwarts before ever setting foot on the grounds!"
"Oh, please! Just let me kill the stupid git and get it over with!" theboy with a black eye yelled.
But Lily wouldn't move. And the boy with the broken glasses seemed reluctant for her to get involved.
"Come on, Lily," Remus said. "Just let them have at it."
"Yeah!" the boy with ablack eyeyelled. "Come on, four eyes! You want some of this?"
"You know what?" the glasses kid asked the other kid.
"What?"
"You're not worth it."
The broken glasses kid grabbed his trunk.
"Do you mind if I sit with you?" he asked.
"Of course not," Lily said.
"As long as you promise not to kill me," Remus joked.
"I promise."
They all took a seat in the compartment.
"I'm James Potter," broken glasses said.
"Hi. I'm Lily Evans."
"And I'm Remus Lupin."
"Nice to meet you two."
"So, what was that all about?" Lily asked James.
"Well, the stupid bloke walked right into me. Then he got all cocky and started to insult me. So, I punched him in the face." James replied.
"Well, it's not a good idea to go starting fights on the first day of the term. You could've been expelled!" Lily scolded.
"Right. Well, alls well that ends well, right?"
They were interrupted by another knock on the door of the compartment.
Two girls with chocolate colored hair and another girl with extremely curly, bright red hair were standing there.
The redhead spoke first.
"Do you mind if we sit in here? All the other compartments are taken."
"Sure. Have a seat." James invited politely.
"My name is Alice Bones. These are my friends Ellie and Rory Abercrombie. They're identical twins." she said.
"I can see that," James said. "I'm James Potter. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintances."
They giggled.
"I'm Lily Evans."
"I'm Remus Lupin."
"It's nice to meet you all," one of the twins said.
"Yeah. I was so scared to come here, even though I had Ellie and Alice. I was afraid of not meeting people." Rory said.
"Well, it's good to meet you three." Remus said.
They spent the rest of the train ride exchanging stories, talking, and getting to know each other.