Back at the house of Evans, a young girl awoke after a great night's sleep. It was 7 am. Young Lily awoke and got dressed before heading downstairs. Her train left at 11, and it took about 15 minutes to get there. Lily knew that this was going to be an amazing day, and she was so excited to get to school and learn all that she could. She had always been a very bright girl, from her intellect to her shining red hair. Lily moved from sitting on her bed, to the chair in the den, to the couch, to making a huge breakfast for her parents. At about 9:15 am, Lily screamed her 11-year old lungs out to the top of the stairs for her family to wake up and eat.

"Lily, dear, I know you're excited, but it's 9:15. We have 2 hours before your train leaves! You'll have plenty of time to…" Mr. Evans voice trailed off as he saw his young daughter serving a huge plate of bacon, ham, eggs, grits, pancakes, waffles, etc. to 4 different plates. She quickly scraped the contents of one plate to the other three, being that there was no way she'd be able to eat this morning. She was very peppy and jumpy, aware of everything that was going on.

Twenty minutes later, Petunia came downstairs looking scrawny next to her mother, and said, "Gosh, Lily. No one cares about your stupid school. You didn't have to wake up the entire neighborhood! If you embarrass me today, I swear…"

Lily gave her a huge smile and shoved a plate of delicious food in her face.

"Oh, honey! This looks marvelous! Thank you, dear!" Mrs. Evans started eating away while Lily and her father, who had finished by now, started packing Lily's trunk into the car, and making sure she didn't forget anything. Finally, when everyone was dressed and ready to go, they hopped in the car, Lily talking nonstop about what she had read in Hogwarts: A History, and Petunia pouting in the chair next to her. Lily jumped out of the car when they got to the train station, and looked around for someone that would look like her (robes, large trunk, maybe an owl?). Mr. and Mrs. Evans and Petunia followed after her.

"Well, honey, here are your things. What's the platform number again?" Mr. Evans called out to his quickly moving daughter.

"9¾ Dad! COME ON! Let's go!" Lily sprinted ahead to the area in between platforms 9 and 10. She looked at the solid barrier, took the stuff from her dad, and paused. She suddenly became very scared. What if this was all a trick? She would run straight into the solid wall and make a fool out of herself! Not to mention that she could hurt herself!

Suddenly, a very white-headed boy flew by her with all of his stuff calling out, "Move it or lose it MUDBLOOD!" Lily had no idea what that meant, but she suddenly had more confidence seeing that boy run through. She and her parents slipped through, leaving Petunia behind.

"Petunia! Just walk through!" Lily called to her sister. Because she didn't come, Lily ran back through and grabbed her sister. Her sister was incredibly embarrassed, and gave her sister the look of death. Lily brushed it off, and headed up to put her things away in the compartments. As she got off the train to say goodbye to her parents, she saw that same cute guy that she bumped into at Diagon Alley. He smiled at her and waved back at her as he was saying goodbye to his parents, and got on the train. Lily hastily went to say goodbye to her parents and Petunia before heading onto the train.

"Okay, Mom, Dad, I'm going now!" Lily said to her parents in a huge hug.

"We love you honey, have fun and do well! We can't wait to see you at Christmas and hear all about your new magic skills!" Her mother replied back. Lily hugged and kissed her parents one more time before facing her sister. Her sister had her arms crossed and looking around with a disgusted look on her face at all of the kids in cloaks and holding wands. Lily looked at her horrified sister with a look of sadness in her emerald green eyes.

"Well…umm…goodbye sis. I still love you." She gave her sister a hug goodbye, which was hardly returned. Lily gave her parents another flashy smile and headed to an empty compartment in the last section of the train.

Lily looked at the window and waved goodbye to her sister and parents, and then sat back down to read more from her schoolbooks. Suddenly, she heard her door open, and saw a girl her age standing in the doorway.

"Hey, umm, everywhere else is full. Do you mind if I sit with you?" the young girl asked. She had flaming blue eyes and curly ringlets of gorgeous blonde hair flowing down her back. Lily smiled, hoping that this would be her first friend, and motioned towards the chair.

"Thanks, I haven't been able to find a compartment. I went to one room, and this guy told me that only pure bloods could sit with them. I'm half and half, what are you?" She said all of this very quickly.

"Oh, well, umm, I don't know, what do you mean?" Lily was really confused.

"Oh you know, like are your parents a witch and wizard or are they muggles?"

"Oh! Sorry, yes, well, my parents are both muggles." Lily smiled back at the girl.

"Ooh, tough luck. Good luck with that blonde headed kid. He didn't seem very nice. Oh my! I'm sorry, I'm Skye Taylor, and hoping to be in Gryffindor, like my father. What about you?" Skye smiled up at her, and gave her a reassuring look that she was just as new as Lily was.

"My name's Lily. Lily Evans. I don't care where I am, as long as it's not Slytherin! I heard that's the worst group! Is that true?"

"Yeah, all of the Slytherins are supposed to be really mean –"

Suddenly, the door came open, and two new girls walked in.

"Hey Skye! How's it going? We've been looking for you! Can we sit here?" The brown haired girl looked from Skye to Lily and smiled wider.

"Oh my! Hi, I'm Ariel McKenzie. This is Emily. Emily Stradford. She's really quiet around people she doesn't know well," she added with a hush. Ariel was a brown eyed beauty with straight, chocolate brown hair. She was gorgeous, just like Skye. Emily was pale, with black hair and hazel eyes. She was a little chubby, but not enough to not get noticed. She wasn't as dazzling as the other two, Skye and Ariel.

"Well, sure come and sit. This is Lily," Skye said. "They're hoping to be in Gryffindor like me!" She told Lily.

"Well now that you all want to be in Gryffindor, I hope I am too! I don't want to be all alone! I probably won't do to well. I don't know anything about magic at all. Just what I've read in these books," she said, pointing to a pile of books in her bag.

"Oh, you'll do fine! Everyone starts new, this'll be so great!" Skye said with a smile to Lily. "Oh, did you guys see Amos? He's incredible!" Skye said with a squeal.

"No, no, no," replied Ariel, "Those four boys in the group? The ones on the platform? Now they were bee-you-tee-full!"

All of the girls laughed and had a great time talking and getting to know each other on the train. They bought treats from the trolley, and had a great time talking about classes and each other's backgrounds. Finally, when they got off the train, they headed into the boats, sailed across the lake, and went into the Great Hall to be sorted.