A/N- Wow, Its been a while… and once again, Im sick, this time with Mono and some strange stomach thing. Oh, and also I have a migraine! AHHHH! Any Whosels… here is another chapter, sorry if it's a bit short.

Aboard the Hogwarts Express

Lily found herself trying to pull from unwanted hugs. "Mum! Tell them to get off!"

Ginny giggled at the site of her children. "And how would I do that?" she asked making fun of her eldest child.

"I don't know! Bribe them or something," she struggled against her siblings. "Tell them that you'll take them to work with Uncle Ron? Maybe Uncle Charlie if he isnt doing anything dangerous today."

"You heard the girl," Ginny said, giving in. "We're going to visit Uncle Charlie today. Now get off your sister. She has to get on the train."

"Thank you," Lily said exasperated. "Bye, mum, love you!" She gave Ginny a kiss and ran off towards the scarlet engine of the Hogwarts Express.

On the train, she walked along the corridor, her trunk and basket with her new kitten in it followed her, floating in thin air. Lily looked into each compartment, looking for Ami, Brian, or an empty compartment. Not finding any of them, she settled on one occupied with a small blonde-haired girl, looking about Lily's year. She walked in.

"Hello, my name is Lily, and I was wondering if I could join you?" she asked in nearly one breath, not being very good about talking to strangers. The little girl looked up and smiled.

"Sure." She held out her hand. "I'm Kelly. Kelly Wood. I'm a first year this year, you?"

"Same. My friends might join us if they can find me on this huge train." Lily took a closer look at her new friend. The last name sounded familiar, from one of her father's stories.

Then it hit her, "Do you play quidditch?" she asked.

Kelly flinched, "I am sworn against quidditch. My father is a crazy lunatic about the sport. He drives me mad trying to get me to play, and when I do play he criticizes me for the next five days!" she ended her rant breathing heavily.

"I see, my dad used to be that way until my mother chased him with his broomstick around the yard when I was three," Lily reflected. "She was screaming 'WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU YELLING AT HER? SHE IS ONLY A CHILD AND YOUR TRYING TO TEACH HER A COMPLICATED SPORT!'"

"You are such a lucky child," Kelly giggled.

Then the compartment door slid open to reveal Ami and Brian carrying their bags. "So, this is where you have been hiding!" Ami squealed. "We almost missed the train looking for you until we ran into Tonks. She had just talked to your mum, and she told us you were on the train." Bumbling into the compartment she and Brian stacked their things onto the shelf above the seats.

Brian sat next to Lily. "We are sorry for this ones manners," he said nodding at Ami, "My name is Brian, and this is Ami." He held out his hand for Kelly to shake.

She took it, glad for more friends. "My name is Kelly."

"Oh, Lily, Aunt Mimi told me this morning that 'we are to behave and act like civil beings, or fear the wrath of Mimi,'" Ami said, quoting Hermione perfectly. "And, Uncle Ron said that 'whatever Hermione just said means that you are to do exactly the opposite because she does not have any control on how we behave at school.'"

Brian laughed now basically a part of the family. He had spent the rest of the summer with Lily, Ami, and the rest of the family. "Yes, she does. She is the History of Magic teacher. Mimi can give us as many detentions as she pleases." Ami slumped into the seat next to Kelly, a look of disappointment on her face.

"Wait," Kelly said, the rest coming to a halt and looking in her direction. "Your Aunt is one of the teachers?"

"Actually, our whole family like LIVES at Hogwarts." Ami started to brag about family. "And Lily's dad-"

"AMI!" Lily shrieked.

"What? I'm just filling people in on our family and who not to cross," Ami said innocently.

Lily looked at her sternly. "I would rather I tell her about my side of the family," Lily said rather harshly.

"Fine, but you do know that your family is just as much mine as yours," Ami spat.

"I meant my little family unit. Not the whole thing. Not even I know the whole family," Lily retorted.

Brian, who sat there putting up with their row, one they had almost every day, apologized to Kelly. "So how about you and your family, Kelly?"

"Well there's me, my dad Oliver, my little sister Caity, and my older brother Jacob," Kelly explained. "We just have a small group."

"I wish we had a small family," Ami said hanging her head.

Lily just looked at her, "Your family is smaller than mine! There's six children and my parents. You just have an older brother." Lily threw her a horrible look.

"If looks could kill," Brian mused.

"OH SHUT IT, YOU!" Lily and Ami said in unison. "Well, Kelly, would you like to accompany me to go find the Trolly Lady?" They got up and left the two in their heated argument.

"What is your problem?" Ami asked her cousin.

"I just don't want people to know that my father is famous, I am so sick of being 'Miss Lucy' or 'Miss Potter' I just want to be Lily in public."

"Well they are going to find out in the sorting ceremony," Ami pointed out. "Why not tell them anyway?"

"I don't know," Lily sighed. "I guess I should tell her."

"Yeah, that way you aren't fibbing, and you don't lose another friend," Ami snapped at her, reminding her of a horrible time in primary school. Another witch had attended and Lily never told her the truth about her family, until one day the girl found out that the whole "my family is boring, you don't want to meet them, they are just normal people" was a lie.

"Oh, no. Drea probably attends school here," Lily fretted. "What am I going to do?"

Ami sighed. "That was a while ago, Lils. She probably doesn't remember, and if she does, she might have finally forgiven you." Kelly and Brian entered the compartment again, snacks galore in their arms.

"You two done biting each others heads off?" Brian asked wittily. The girls gave him evil glares, but he never noticed, because the compartment door slid open.

There stood a girl with white-blonde hair and light blue eyes. Next to her were two beefy boys, one who was eating a cauldron cake as if his life depended on it, the other looked stupidly at the cake, as if he wanted it for himself.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Lucinda Potter. And, look boys, she's found people who can put up with her stupid lies," the girl said with a sneer. Lily looked at Ami with a glare. "So, this is your new posse? Lets see, Kelly Wood, Amanda Weasley, and Brian Dumbledore. All blood traitors, no wonder." She looked around saying everyones name as if she were the only one who knew them. "Im Andrea Malfoy, but I prefer to go by Drea. If any of you, besides the weasel and the Pot-head, find better comfort in true friends, I'm just down the hall." She turned of her heal and left, the two boys following her like puppy-dogs.

"And you said she wouldn't remember!" Lily screeched at Ami.

"How am I supposed to know? I'm not inside her evil little head!" Ami retorted.

"May I please stop this fight before it gets good?" Brian shouted. "Whatever that was about, must have been some old family feud. Her name was Malfoy, and its widely known that Malfoys and Potters don't get along. Same with the Malfoys and Weasleys. And it's a damn good thing your cousins, Tizz, Laura, and Emma aren't your age. They would be in for some hell."

"Why would they be in for it?" Ami asked.

"Because Hermione is muggleborn, and one of the most hated enemy's of Draco Malfoy," Brian said in a "as-a-matter-of-fact" voice.

"Where do you get all this information, when we are their family?" Lily asked harshly. "I know almost everything about my parents Hogwarts years, and there was nothing about this Draco Malfoy that you speak of."

Brian looked at her in surprise. "I guess they must not have told you about the War. They might not have becau-"

"Yes, I know about the stupid war. We were all alive during it. How can I not know? Being famous for something I didn't do. Yeah, I know!" Lily said even more harshly, how could she not know something? Her parents had told her everything she needed to know. Or, so she thought.

A/N Sorry it's been so long! PLEASE R&R! im desperate! Luv ya guys! See you in chapter 9! (which might take a while, seeing as I have so many funerals to attend, not fun! And im working really hard in school to get my grades up and crap like that. SIGH)