A/N; Hiah Readers! Okay I lied, I didn't have time to upload until today, so please forgive me. Oh yeah! How was your valentines day, which was more than a week ago? Anything special happen? Or did you do something for someone else? Hope it worked out great! Please R&R, and before you read, what is your fantasy (or reality) on what the perfect Valentines day would be like? R&R
-Hermione-lilypotter1234
Chapter 10- Fellowship of the Phoenix- The First Journey
The next morning Lily was the first up as she usually was when she was excited about something. And she'd never been so excited in her life! She found all the things she needed and began to stack them in her trunk, trying her hardest not to wake Charlotte.
As soon as all her things were packed she silently crept out of the room, and climbed another set of stairs to the small tower where the owls stayed. She found Noelle sleeping, and gently nudged her awake, tricking her into her cage with some owl biscuits.
Finally as she came down the stairs she heard Elizabeth humming below, and a stirring of newspapers which meant Willam (Mr. Turner) was also awake. Charlotte had finally awoken also, and was getting changed when Lily entered.
"I see you've already packed, how'd you wake up so fast?"
Lily shrugged, "Just always been that way I guess, I don't usually sleep in that much, especially on the first day of school."
"I wonder what it'll be like? I mean today, the journey to the school, what the school itself will look like, don't you?"
Lily nodded slightly, "I've read a lot about it, but I've never seen any pictures."
"Really! What's goes on? What will we learn? What willit be like?"
Lily smiled at her friends' curiosity, "Well I don't know what 'it' will be like, but I've read that we get sorted or something, into our houses, like your family has. But I'm not sure how, and I'm not sure what goes on.
"Wow." Charlotte sighed in wonder and regret, "Sounds like a lot!"
"But we'll have each other." Lily wrapped her arm around her friend, and they proceeded to pack Charlotte's trunk.
Soon everyone was packed, and the car was set. The only thing that surprised Lily was that when she headed outside the car didn't look any different, and trunks weren't shooting out the back of the car like when Lily when camping with her family.
All the kids piled in, except Emmitt who had to stay one more year with his father. As the car drove away the two waved good-bye and eventually they were too small to see.
It seemed seconds before they got to Kings Cross Station. A placeLily had rarely ever been in her life.
Her question about the trunks was soon answered as a flicker of light appeared in the car and Elizabeth and Lydia began pulling a trunk onto a trolley. This process was repeated until everyone's trunk, and owl, had been unloaded.
Elizabeth led the group through the station until she stopped at a barrier with "Platform 10" and "Platform 9" above. She stepped between Lily and Charlotte.
"Now girls, the way you get to the school train is by running straight at that barrier between the two platforms 9 and 10. I'll have Anne and Lydia show you first." Elizabeth walked over to her eldest daughters, and nodded for Lydia to go through.
Lily watched as she ran straight at the barrier, and just as she should have crashed she was gone!
Lily rubbed her eyes quickly, as did Charlotte, and tried not to blink as Anne ran at the barrier, but to no avail. Anne had also disappeared.
"Scottie you next." And Scottie did the same, also vanishing through the brick barrier. "Now you two," Elizabeth began, "Who goes first?"
Charlotte quickly raised her hand, which was fine with Lily. What if the barrierdidn't let her through? She would surely crash, and then what would Elizabeth say? What would her friends say?
Charlotte raced at the barrier anxiously, like lightning and dissolved through the wall like her brother and sisters. And now it was Lily's turn.
"You can do it Lily." Elizabeth reassured her,
Lily gulped, "You promise?" She stated flatly.
"I promise." Elizabeth smiled, "Go on."
Lily forced a smile, and began a slow pace, which turned to a straight run, at the barrier.
That's it I'm dead! She thought, but the crash didn't come. She hadn't been stopped! She was indeed still alive, for her heart was pounding up in her throat, and facing her was the most beautiful steam engine Lily had ever seen.
Its coat was pure red, and steam issued from the engine. Lily stepped forward still grasping her trolley with tight hands, and read Platform 9 ¾ Hogwarts Station. She had made it.
A stifled screamblurted outfrom behind her, and Lily could see a small girl being pulled away by a group of older boys into the shadows.
"Help!" She gasped, in a desperate cry.
Lily shot her hand to her pant pocket where she had kept her wand, just in case something like this came up. When she pulled it out it was different, however, the white coat was gone and the jewel embedded handle had disappeared!In its place was a shorter wand of what seemed a little over 10 inches, instead of a foot, and the wood was no longer maple, but of a swishy willow wood. At first Lily thought it wasn't her wand, but a flicker of white happened to enter the wand for a simple second before changing back which swept away her reluctance.
She quickly stored her trolley in a corner, and raced towards where the girl had screamed. A girl in glasses with blonde hair and a scared dimpled face stared in horror at a boy who must have been 13 or 14 years old. His eyes were cold and dark. He had slick ghostly blonde white hair with a horribly piercing stare that could make your knees go weak with horror in a downright second, and a horde of cronies stood behind glaring maliciously.
"So, boys what you reckon we ought t' do with her? 'Ickle first years always love the leg locker curse." The boy said in a sing song voice, and he shot a blast of light at the girl.
The girlslegs were pulled from under her and bound as if a tight cord had enveloped her legs.
Another boy spoke up, "Yeah, then they won't have to get on the train, and don't have to be scared out of there wits when the giant picks them up by their waists and drags them through the lake to the school. 'Eh Malfoy?"
"Right Avery." Malfoy smirked.
"G-g-g-iant?" The girl whimpered,
"Or we could test a new curse, the one where you put someone in the next existence. My father's shown me how to do it." And he raised his wand ready and aiming for the innocent girl.
Lily had found the right moment and she jumped out of the shadows.
"I'll send you to the next existence, if you try anything funny!" Lily yelled, more bravely than she had intended to. She sort of scared herself.
The boys just laughed at her, "YOU? You're just a puny little first year, you don't know anything about spells!"
"Probably a stupid mudblood too. Should we curse her as well boys?" And they continued to laugh at her.
The girl gasped at the word.
Lily wasn't quite sure what mudblood meant, but she had a feeling it wasn't good, and it didn't sound all that pleasing either.
What these boys didn't know, was over the summer Lily had memorized the next three spell books for years two, three, and four, all the way up to their level. She had also been allowed to practice in the Turners spell room, which was an empty room for simply practicing spells. Something very valuable in the Wizarding world
As the boys jeered at Lily, she became angry. She undid the leg locker curse quickly then signaled the girl to go, and she shot a few spells.
Expelliarmus!
Ricercemptra!
Averte Status!
Petrificus Totalus!
Each boy fell over as her spells shot each one of them in turn, and the two girls ran off.
As soon as they had each reached their trolley's the girl hung her head, then looked up at Lily shyly.
"Thank you so much!" She hushed.
"Anything for a fellow student." Lily set her hand on the girl's shoulder and smiled affectionately. "What's your name anyway?"
"Robyn Thompson. And yours?"
"Lily, Lily Evans. It's nice to meet you Robyn. I heard you're a first year too, right?"
"Yes, my father dropped me off, but he had to leave, works for the Ministry, and if it hadn't been for a nice lady out there I would never have made it in here." She paused, "And if it weren't for you…well…I probably wouldn't be here at all! How did you know that spell? I thought only third and second years learned that one."
"Let's just say, I had some time on my hands...and I like to spend the day reading."
"I like reading too."
"Then that makes two of us." Lily smiled, and motioned for Robyn to follow, Charlotte, Maggie and Emma were waiting with their families, and the girls were beckoning them over.
"Isn't it beautiful Lily?" Maggie said running towards her, pointing at the Express to Hogwarts.
" It's gorgeous! Maggie, Charlotte, Emma, this is Robyn Thompson, she's a new student as well. Robyn this is Charlotte Turner, Emma Willams, and Maggie Potter."
"Hi." The three girls chorused together.
"Hello." Whispered Robyn.
Just then Mrs. Potter came over. "Girls if you don't hurry you'll never make the train with all your belongings."
As soon as all five girls' trunks and pets were put in the luggage compartment, they headed off with their robes to find a place to sit. Near the back was a free compartment, and the girls, decided it would do.
Soon the wheels began to churn forward, and they waved to their families as the train rode off for on the girls' first journey to their second home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
While the trip progressed the topic turned to the Hogwarts houses.
"So, Robyn, which house do you want to be in?" Maggie asked kindly.
Robyn hesitated slightly before answering quietly, "Well I've always loved the thought of being in Gryffindor, but I'm not that brave. My father was in Slytherin, so he's always telling me I shouldn't even dream of going near Gryfindor."
Emma spoke up, "My parents were in Slytherin too, they had always hoped my sister Kristine would be in Slytherin, she's kind of their favorite,and they even thought of switching schools when they found out she was put in Ravenclaw. She's Head Girl this year. My brother, Samuel, is the only reason we didn't switch. He's in Slytherin. Though I can't say I'm surprised." She sighed.
Maggie glanced at Lily. She hadn't said a word yet. She had just stared solemnly out the window at the passing trees and fields. As the other girls continued to talk, Maggie shifted over to across from Lily.
"Lily? Is something wrong?"
Lily sighed before asking, "Maggie? What does…mudblood mean."
Maggie had to pull back a gasp. Where had Lily even heard such a word? Surely it couldn't have been from anyone of Charlotte or Emma's family, and it couldn't possibly be from her own
"Lily," Maggie cleared her throat. "Where did you hear that word?"
Lily caught onto the surprised note Maggie was speaking in, "I'm sorry, I didn't know it was that bad, I was just curious I-"
"Lily where did you hear that word?" Maggie asked seriously.
Lily told Maggie what had happened. How she had gotten caught up in the situation with Robyn, and about the severe older boys that had threatened them. She also told her how one of the boys called her- "that word", since Maggie wouldn't let her say the real thing, and how she had cursed them.
"Lily you have to understand this. Mudbloood," she whispered, "Means someone with -er – how do I say this- it means a person with–um-" she hesitated, and lowered her voice even more, "It's a very rude way to say…muggleborn, someone who isn't of…magic decent. It's considered extremely bad when heard in a public- or really- in any conversation."
Lily nodded, she knew Maggie was trying to be as kind about this as possible, but Professor McGonagall had forewarned her, being a witch of a non-magic family wouldn't be easy. And she was up for the challenge.
As the journey came near its end the forests disappeared, replaced by complete countryside bathed in sunset rays. The girls had all changed into their robes.
They had just finished picking up the wrappers of a few sweets they'd brought, when the train came to a stop. The girls all clambered to the window to get a good look of Hogwarts, but it wasn't Hogwarts they saw. Outside a gruff voice could be heard, and a lantern glow could be seen from the window.
"Firs' years! Firs' years cum' on now, don't be shy. Firs' years…"
The girls exchanged glances, and raced out in ecstacy.
As they climbed timidly off the train with the help of some students Lily knew must be the prefects, they could see a large bulky figure. Were those boys right? Was there really a giant?
"Who is that?" Charlotte asked the others, and began running toward the large man.
Because they really didn't have a choice Lily, Maggie, Emma, and Robyn ran after her as quickly as they could around the groups of first years gathered around.
When they finally caught up to her the man and Charlotte were talking as if they were old friends, though Lily knew Charlotte enough that it was obvious she did the same to anyone she met.
"Hagrid," Charlotte said talking to the man, "These are my friends Maggie Potter, Emma Willams, Robyn Thompson, and Lily Evans. Guys, this is Hagrid, he's supposed to take us to the school."
"Speaking of which…" Hagrid smiled, "Cum' on first years to the boats!"
A/N:Thanks to all my anonymous reviewers, and of course my Signed Reviewers, you all earn a pat on the back!
-Hermione-lilypotter1234