A/N: Well here is the next chapter of Time Turner. I can officially say that this story will never be discontinued because whether there is lack of interest or not, a full-story from year 1 to death is something I have wanted to accomplish with the Marauder characters, so this story will always go. My other Harry Potter one however has a possibility of being discontinued at any time if I decide so.

A/N2: I must apologize for not updating sooner, but it was something that was out of my control. For whatever reason, my computer would not show my stories, nor did my friends computer at a different house, but it did work at school. Now it is working at my home and I can update regularly again. I am so so sorry, but I will work extra hard and get two chapters for this story for next weekend to make up for it, maybe more if I can, but I do have 5 stories on the go so I may only get one chapter. Depending.

Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling, not me. Deal.

Time Turner

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Chapter Four: Platform 9 3/4

The few weeks remaining of summer holiday came and past, and Lily grew impatient. She knew she wasn't allowed to do magic outside of school... she had been told as much by Hagrid, after she had gotten her wand. Her sister became more and more aggravated with her, and Lily found that it was easier to just avoid her at all costs. That's why for the remainder of the holidays, she remained in her room with only her school books to keep her company. She would go downstairs only to eat, and rush back up the stairs to read her books.

Hogwarts four founders were Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin. Each of the four founders came up with a house to sort students. Godric Gryffindor took all of the brave, courageous students. Rowena Ravenclaw's house was filled with only the brightest of students, with talents in intelligence clear as day. Salazar Slytherin only accepted those whose blood was purest, and those who were also cunning, and sly. Helga Hufflepuff, the final of the four founders, took the rest, took those who were loyal. Lily read to herself. She just turned the page when her mother shouted up the stairs.

"Lily dear, dinner's ready!" Lily sighed and put a bookmark to mark her page in the book. Getting up, she saw that there was an owl outside of her window. Walking over towards it, she threw her window open and let the owl in. By now she knew that it was owls that carried mail, and clearly some witch or wizard was trying to contact her, although who, she didn't know.

"Thanks..." Lily replied softly, petting the bird before it flew off. She looked at the piece of parchment and flipped it over. It was from Hagrid.

"Lily," she read, "I fergot to tell yeh, that in order to get onto the platform, yeh have ter run straight into the platform between 9 and 10, otherwise yeh won't catch the train in time."

"LILY! COME DOWNSTAIRS! DINNER'S READY!" Her mother shouted up the stairs again. Sighing, Lily put the letter down on her desk and walked down the stairs. Petunia wasn't there for dinner again, as she was at a friends house. Lily didn't mind as much... her sister had taken to the habit of glaring in her direction now, and Lily enjoyed the break from that.

"There you are, what took you so long?" Mrs Evans asked, setting a plate down on the table before Lily. Lily poked at her vegetables, grossed out. She was pretty good usually when it came to eating her vegetables... but now when they looked like...

"Mom, is this the brain of some... green... thing?" Lily asked, picking up the green vegetable with her fork. Mrs Evans rolled her eyes.

"Don't change the subject, Lily. You've been staying cooped up in your room all this time, I barely ever get to see you anymore!" Mrs Evans replied. Lily's father, unfortunately, had called earlier to say that he would be working late and wouldn't make it home in time for dinner. Lily dropped the green vegetable and began cutting the slice of ham on her plate.

"Oh please, you get to see me now, don't you? And you've gotten to see me for 11 years, so for the past while I've been staying in my room, big deal! I've been reading, getting a head start on my school books. These are subjects that I have never, EVER studied before in my life! I need to get some basic knowledge. Mum, I'm a Muggle Born. Meaning that I have a disadvantage to start at this school." They ate the rest of their dinner in silence, and once Lily was done, she skipped dessert altogether and went straight back up to her room.

"LILY! Its time to get up! Get dressed, we're going to head out soon!" Mr Evans shouted. Lily groaned. Usually, she was a morning person. Get up bright and early in the morning, start the day right. The past little while, however, she had been staying up late reading her books. She was shocked at how much history only the school had, let alone the entire Wizarding world. She thought back to when she had believed in magic. She and her friends used to imagine that they could do magic, that they could do anything. Then the age came where magic wasn't cool anymore. Children were supposed to let that figment of their imagination die, as well as most of their imagination. They closed that part of them off, and now Lily was told that magic was real, and she could really do magic. She had yet to try... she knew the laws, as Hagrid had told her after she purchased her wand. So, her wand lay on the top of her clothes in her trunk, unused, untouched.

"Coming, dad!" Lily called down the stairs. She got dressed quickly and dragged her trunk down the stairs. She was shocked to see Petunia already awake, already dressed, hair put up, and wide awake. How long did I sleep in? Lily wondered. She glanced into the living room at the Grandfather clock, and saw that it was 10:00 in the morning. Quite late compared to her usual waking up standards.

"Witch finally woke up..." Petunia muttered under her breath. Mrs Evans turned on Petunia.

"Don't call your sister that," she replied sternly. Petunia rolled her eyes, but was inside hurt by her mothers quick defense for Lily.

"Well she is, isn't she? Aren't you, Lily?" Petunia asked. Lily, who had wanted to stay out of it entirely, nodded. She left the hallway and went to the kitchen to grab a muffin for the way. Hopefully, the train would have food as well, since she wouldn't have much chance to eat a very large breakfast. While she was heating it up in the microwave, Petunia was glaring from the doorway. Lily always gets the special treatment... she's barely younger than me, but SHE gets special treatment anyways! 10 months younger than me... a lousy 10 months. She gets chose to go to the best school ever, the school I always dreamed of getting accepted in... and she throws it away to go to some school to practice magic tricks. Yet another school I never got a chance at, and never will! Petunia turned around and left the house, deciding to wait in the car.

"Lily, what are you doing? Bring the muffin with you, we don't have too much time. We still don't know where this platform is... are you sure your ticket says platform 9 and 3/4?" Mrs Evans asked worriedly. Lily rolled her eyes, sighing. Grabbing her muffin from the microwave, she got into the car.

"Positive, mum. And the Platform is between 9 and 10. Only, its not there. There's a wall between the platforms, and you walk through that and it takes you to Platform 9 and 3/4..." Lily trailed off as her father slammed on the breaks.

"WHAT? How the f— "

"DARREN! Watch your mouth around the girls," Mrs Evans replied in a stern tone.

"Sorry... listen, I hate to break it to you Lily, sweetie, but I am really beginning to think that there is something fishy going on." Mr Evans started driving again, although he was no longer rushing. Lily giggled.

"Dad, we just passed a fish restaurant and they had a shipment..."

"You know what I mean, Lillian, don't pretend you don't." Mr Evans was still driving at a regular speed, but one look from his wife told him to get back to rushing so they wouldn't miss Lily's train.

"Dad, a pub that nobody other than us noticed was full of witches, wizards, hags and goodness knows what else! A giant man tapped a pink umbrella against a wall and it opened up! Why is this platform any different than that? Please, you both agreed to let me go to this school a year, and keep these things you thought were wrong about it to yourself for a year, long enough for me to decide if I actually wanted to continue. Please, can't we just stick with that? Can't you just... trust me?" Lily asked. Mr Evans didn't reply, but Lily took that as a silent agreement. She grabbed out a charms book and began reading about the different charms she would be learning that year. She couldn't fairly tell yet, but she had a feeling that Charms would be her favourite subject. Transfiguration seemed very interesting, but also very complicated and possibly dangerous. She yawned and curled up, leaning against the window.

"Lily, wake up, we're at the station." Mrs Evans poked at Lily through the door. Lily yawned and stretched her arms. She must have slept very badly the night before to feel so tired now.

"Okay... you know, you never did ask how I knew that we had to go between platforms 9 and 10." Lily replied, getting out of the car. Mr Evans had taken Petunia over to Platform 6, to put her on the train to her school, but he had promised to be back as soon as he could so that he could hopefully see Lily off.

"Oh... right... how did you know, dear?" Mrs Evans asked distractedly. Lily sighed, dragging her trunk behind her.

"The man who told me about the school, Hagrid, he sent me an owl and told me. Good thing to, might have been a tad awkward asking someone where a platform that to most didn't exist was." Lily added thoughtfully. She grabbed her charms book from the back seat and they headed over towards platforms 9 and 10. They only had 15 minutes to spare when her father appeared, rather red faced from running.

"Good, good, didn't miss you. Petunia was a bit sad to be off, but I think it went well overall. Shall we go through the platform, then?" Mr Evans asked. Lily nodded and taking a deep breath, she ran while pushing her cart that had her trunk and owl on it, headed straight for the pretty solid brick wall between platforms 9 and 10.

A/N: Well shorter than I hoped, but for the moment I just want to get a chapter out, since this week I didn't have much time to work on it. And my computer time has been cut back a LOT because well I failed Geography, boring class really, but I failed the exam so I failed the class, and my parents want me on the computer a bit less to get into a routine... I have issues with completing homework... hehe. Anyways, here's a quick chapter to tide you guys over, sorry for the wait but at least now you know why :)