Lily was walking through the train to find her friends. She found them in the same cabin as the Marauders. Marlene and Sirius were holding hands. Lily hadn't known about them until now. She managed a shy smile at James before sitting next to Mary and scribbling in one of her textbooks. Eventually, the Marauders snuck off to the far corner of the compartment and started talking. As much as they tried to hear what they were talking about, Lily and her friends only heard the words, Whomping Willow, two weeks, and Moony.

The train came to a stop and the Marauders jumped up before running out of the compartment. Once the door was closed, they heard footsteps that didn't sound like human ones leaving the compartment. But when they opened the door, there was nothing there except a rat and someone's dog. Lily thought she saw the tip of an antler sticking out into thin air, but decided in was her imagination.

Everyone rushed off of the train as the first years went to Hagrid and the others went to the carriages. James stopped and stroked one of the thestrals' snout before climbing into the carriage.

The Marauders, Lily, and her friends were in the same carriage.

"Who'd you see die?", asked Lily

James quickly averted his eyes, "Nobody"

Lily decided it was best to leave the subject alone. James stayed out of the conversation and stared at the castle. Lily could see tears streaming down his face.

"Whoops", she thought, "That triggered a bad memory"

When they arrived at the castle, James jumped out instantly and ran to the castle.

"What was that about?", asked Marlene

"We swore to James we wouldn't tell anyone", replied Remus, putting his copy of Hogwarts: A History into his bag.

When they got to the Great Hall, they found James sitting alone at the Gryffindor table. He had his head down, but he didn't seem to be crying anymore. The six of them waled over and sat next to him. As the Sorting started, James picked his head up, he still looked sad, but was no longer crying. When the feast started, James spoke for the first time, "My aunt, my cousin, and my uncle"

"Huh?", asked Lily

"That's why I can see thestrals, last year, my uncle, aunt, cousin, and I were attacked by Death Eaters. My uncle, cousin, and aunt were killed, I only got away because I said a spell wrong and I created a smoke screen and Disapparated with their bodies."

"I'm sorry James, I never knew"

"We should go see Dumbledore soon", said James, choking back tears

"I'm going to go now"

"I'll be there in a minute", said James, eating his last piece of steak and getting off of the bench.

When he started to walk out of the hall, he tripped over a stack of books. The initials on the cover told him they were Lily's. He flipped through it to see if he could find anything interesting. On one page, he saw the initials L.P.

"Lily Potter?", he thought to himself, as he walked out, smirking at what he'd just found