Okay...I love this story more and more with each chapter I write! 3

I hope it stays this way!

so...please don't hate me but there is a little section I had to take straight from the book to get authenticity but t's really not a lot!

"The Train Ride"

"Hurry up dad! Mum!" Lily said excitedly as she pushed her cart through the crowd of people at King's Cross Station.

"Do you even know which platform?" Rose called.

"Of course I do!" Lily said "Platform Nine-and-three-quarters."

"There's no such platform Lily" Mark said.

"Then why would my ticket say it?" Lily asked and stopped at Platform 9 and 10.

She looked around, confused.

"Maybe this was all a joke and we were tricked into giving a old woman out money" Mark said.

"No it's not!" Lily said and desperately looked around before she heard the squawk of an owl.

She looked over to see a family of four; two parents, a son and a daughter. The son looked to be about Lily's age.

"I'll go first to make sure everyone gets on the other side okay" the father said and calmly walked into the wall and disappeared into the wall.

Lily blinked and shook her head.

"You next Penny" the mother said and the girl pushed her cart forward and disappeared as well.

Lily cleared her throat and approached the woman and her son.

"Excuse me" Lily said politely.

"Yes dear?" the mother smiled at Lily.

"Is that how you get onto Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters?" she asked.

"First year?" the woman smiled and Lily nodded "It was my daughter's first year as well. All you have to do is just walk into the wall. Don't stop. It's best to do it at a run if you're nervous."

"Thank you so much" Lily nodded.

"You're very welcome dear" the mother smiled warmly "now Amos you go through."

Her son, who had been looking at the younger girl, shook his head and jogged into the wall with his mother right behind him.

"The lady said you walk into the wall" Lily told her parents.

"Oh, well" Rose said softly "seems logical."

"I'll go first" Lily offered.

"Yes please" Rose said and Lily got her cart. She positioned herself in front of the barrier and took a deep breath. She started to jog as she pushed her cart. She shut her eyes, expecting to crash into the wall but she didn't. She broke through the wall and was greeted by the sound of a train whistle, numerous children greeting one another, and dozens of owls and cats calling out to each other.

"Wow" Lily whispered as she took in the view of the long scarlet train with children hanging out the window to bid their parents goodbye.

Lily smiled as she took it all in, finally able to feel like she found a place to ft in.

She turned just as her family came through the barrier.

"Lily!" Rose said and looked around until Lily came up to her.

"This is fantastic" Mark said in awe.

The family took it all before the whistle signaled any last riders to board immediately.

"Well" Lily said "I'm off."

She smiled and hugged her parents goodbye.

"I promise to write everyday" Lily said.

"We'll be sure to write back" Rose smiled with tears in her eyes "we love you so much Lily."

"I love you guys so much too" Lily whispered as she pulled away.

"Now be good and stay out of trouble" Rose wiped her eyes.

"I will" Lily nodded and went to put her bag on the train "I love you!"

"We love you!" her parents smiled softly as they watched her get on the train. Petunia looked less than thrilled to be there.

Lily saw Severus not too far away saying goodbye to his mother but Lily was too focused on her family.

Lily moved on to tell her sister goodbye but Petunia regarded her distastefully.

"Maybe once I'm there-no, listen Tuney! Maybe once I'm there I'll be able to go up to Professor Dumbledore and persuade him to change his mind about you coming to school!" Lily said desperately to her sister.

"I don't-want-to_go!" Petunia tried to rip her hand out of Lily's grasp "You think I want to go to some stupid castle and learn to be a-a-"

Petunia looked over the number of cats mewling in their owner's arms, over the owls fluttering and hooting at each other in cages, over the students, some already in their long black robes, loading trunks onto the scarlet engine or else greeting one another with glad cries after a summer apart.

"-you think I want to be a-a freak?"

Lily's eyes filled with tears as Petunia ripped her hand away from Lily.

"I'm not a freak" Lily said softly "that's a horrible thing to say."

"That's where you're going" Petunia spat "a special school for freaks! You and that Snape boy...weirdos, that's what you two are! It's good you're being separated from normal people. It's for our safety."

Petunia was being very rude to Lily and it really hurt her.

"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote to the headmaster and begged him to take you" Lily said angrily because she was hurt and her sister turned red with embarrassment.

"Beg? I didn't beg!" Petunia said defensively.

"I saw his reply" Lily said "It was very kind."

"You shouldn't have read-" Petunia whispered angrily "that was my private-how could you-?"

Lily guiltily glanced at Severus, who's mother was still fixing his collar on his raggedy shirt.

"That boy found it!" Petunia said angrily "you and that boy have been sneaking around in my room!"

"No-not sneaking" Lily said defensively "Severus saw the envelope, and he couldn't believe a Muggle could have contacted Hogwarts, that's all! He says there must be wizards working undercover in the postal service who take care of —"

"Apparently Wizards poke their noses in everywhere!" Petunia cut Lily off "Freak!" she spatted and marched away to stand next to their parents.

Lily looked disheartened and bowed her head to get on the train as the parting whistle blew.

Lily got on and found an empty compartment where she sat on a seat and laid her head against the window, crying softly.

The door opened not long after and two boys came in and sat down across from each other.

The boys didn't say anything to Lily but instead started to be loud and obnoxious. They sounded familiar to Lily but only vaguely.

Then the door opened again and Severus came in.

He glanced at the two other boys, who went quiet when he came in, and sat in front of Lily.

"I don't want to talk to you" she said, her voice hoarse from crying.

"Why not?" Severus frowned at her.

"Tuney hates me because we saw that letter from Dumbledore" Lily said.

"So what?" Severus asked.

Lily glared at him with deep dislike.

"So she's my sister!" she said and wiped her eyes.

"But she's only a-" Severus stopped myself when he realized she wasn't listening to him anymore because she was wiping her eyes.

"But we're going!" Severus said excitedly "This is it! We're off to Hogwarts!"

Lily was still wiping her eyes but she half smiled at him, unable to deny that she was excited.

"You'd better be in Slytherin" Snape said and smiled at her.

"What's Slytherin?" Lily asked.

"Who wants to be in Slytherin?" one of the other two boys in the compartment asked and looked at Lily and Snape. Lily recognized him as the boy who knocked her over outside of Ollivanders and the boy recgnized her when she looked up but he didn't say anything "I think I'd leave, wouldn't you Sirius?"

"My whole family has been in Slytherin" the other boy, Sirius, said glumly as he lounged in his seat.

"Blimey," the first boy said "and I thought you were all right!"

Sirius smiled softly.

"Maybe I'll break tradition" Sirius sat up "where are you heading if you've got the choice James?"

James sat up, nice and tall, as he lifted an invisible sword.

"'Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart'" James said proudly "just like my dad."

Lily didn't know what any of those words, Gryffindor and Slytherin, meant but by the scoff Severus made at James's remark she assumed he didn't like the word Gryffindor or the fact that this boy wanted to be in Gryffindor.

"Do you have a problem with that?" James challenged him.

"No," Severus said with a sneer "if you'd rather be brawny than brainy-"

"Where are you going seeing as though you're neither?" Sirius interjected, standing against Severus with James.

James laughed and Lily stood up, annoyed at the boys' immature behavior.

"C'mon Severus" she said "let's find a different compartment."

She graciously walked out of the car as James and Sirius imitated her lofty voice in "oooooohs."

James tried to trip Severus as they walked out.

Lily decided right then that she disliked those two boys, especially when they called out "see ya later Snivellus!"

Lily found a compartment that only had one other girl in it, who was too engrossed in a book to acknowledge the two newcomers, and walked in.

"Can you believe the nerve of those two?" Lily asked, annoyed "what gives them the right?"

She sat down in a huff.

"They're just arrogant" Severus said.

"They act like they're so much better" she rolled her eyes then looked at Severus "what is a Gryffindor? If those two boys are one then I certainly don't!"

Severus smiled softly.

"Hogwarts is sorted into four Houses. First Years get sorted first day and you live with that house for the seven years you go to school" Severus explained.

"What are the Houses' names?" Lily asked.

"Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin" Severus said.

"Is it just random then?" Lily asked.

"No, it's based on certain traits" he said "you go to Gryffindor if you're brave, Hufflepuff if you're honest, Ravenclaw if you're smart and Slytherin if you're cunning."

"Well they all sound lovely!" Lily beamed.

"Well with each good trait there's a bad trait almost always associated with it" he said "Gryffindors tend to be arrogant, Hufflepuffs tend to be softies, Ravenclaws tend to be know-it-alls and Slytherins tend to be...well I don't know." he chuckled softly "I've only ever heard good stories of Slytherin."

Lily laughed. "Does it really matter what house we're in Severus?" Lily asked.

"Not unless you get Gryffindor" he said "Gryffindors and Slytheirns hate each other."

"That doesn't mean we have to hate each other" Lily said "you're my best friend Severus. I won't let something as silly as houses change that."

"Thank you Lily" Severus smiled and the rest of the train ride was spent with Severus telling Lily all kind of stories and rumors about the school.

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