Here is Chapter 2 of my Harry Potter story 'A New Generation'. Sorry that I couldn't upload it earlier. I'll try get chapter 3 done quicker. thanks for reading and enjoy :)
August 31st (Day before school starts) Evening
"James, Here is your jumper, come try it on and make sure it fits" Ginny shouted. James came running into the living room where Ginny was sitting, getting school uniforms ready for Albus and James. Of Course Lily had already organized her uniform about a week ago. Lily was sitting up in her room trying to teach Tuffy new tricks and also repacking and making sure she had everything. After dinner everyone sat around in the living room together. They didn't really do anything; they just sat and talked to each other as a family. Then they went off to bed. James was secretly packing his pucking pastels which he hoped he would get to use one day in class this year. Albus double checked everything and went to sleep and Lily checked everything for the twentieth time that day and then got into bed but she couldn't sleep due to the excitement and the fact that this time tomorrow she would be falling asleep in Hogwarts as a Hogwarts student hopefully a Gryffindor student as well.
"Come on everyone up" Harry shouted from the kitchen. Lily was the first down stairs. Ginny was in the kitchen making the last family breakfast that they would have in a while. Lily couldn't stop talking about Hogwarts. Slowly Albus and James came into the kitchen, not as excited or as enthusiastic as Lily. They all sat down and ate together. Then Albus, James and Lily went back up to there rooms and got dressed. They weren't changed into there school cloak yet because they were planning to do that on the train. Lily was wearing her uniform though. She thought she would be to excited on the train to want to get changed. They bought there trunks down, lily bought Tuffy down in his cage, James bought his owl Hedwig II and Albus bought his owl Shadow down with him. It was ten o'clock when they left the house. They managed to fit all the trunks and animals in the back of the car. Harry drove, Ginny in the passenger seat and Albus, Lily and James in the back. They arrived at the train station at 10:45 am. They walked through the station trying to look as muggle like as they could although muggles don't usually where cloak as school uniform or have owls they managed not to attract themselves to many muggles.
"Ok here we are platforms 9 and 10" Ginny said. "Ok Harry you go first, and then James, Albus, lily and I will follow". Harry ran at the wall between platforms 9 and 10 and disappeared through the wall. James lined with trolley up with his trunks and Hedwig II on it and ran through the wall like Harry. Albus did the same thing. Lily lined her trolley up and took a deep breath.
"Ok Lily, nothing to worry about, just pretend the wall isn't there" said Ginny to Lily. Lily started running towards the wall and all of a sudden she found herself on platform 9 ¾. She couldn't believe that she actually did it. She made it to platform 9 ¾ . Ginny appeared just behind Lily. They caught up with Harry, Albus and James who were walking towards the train. They stood by the train like everyone else just waiting to be able to board the train.
"Hey Harry, ma mate" they heard from someone in the crowd. After a short period of time they realized it was Ron. He finally managed to make his way through the crowd. He pulled himself through the last lot of people, and then pulled his daughter Rose through, and then Hugo appeared with Hermione. Hugo was going to be in his first year as well. Rose was starting her third year with Albus.
"Oh hey Ron, How's it going" Harry asked.
"Not to bad. Kids are off so that's good huh... Party at mine tonight mate" Ron said and laughed. Hermione laughed sarcastically.
"Ha-ha yer right." Hermione said.
"All aboard" the train conductor called. Lily's heart started pounding. She was actually going to Hogwarts now. Hermione and Ginny started frantically hugging and kissing there children.
"Mum, ok, mum stop, please" James called.
"Oh James, just accept it. Goodbye my darling" Ginny was saying.
"Oh Good luck Lily and write to me when you get to Hogwarts tonight. Love you lots bye" said Ginny giving all three of her children one last hug and kiss. James, Albus, Rose, Lily and Hugo all walked onto the train together. James went and found his friends and sat with them. Albus and Rose were friends at school together and then they also found there group. Hugo and Lily decided they would sit together. They found an empty carriage; they went inside and tried to reach the overhead compartment. Hugo was smaller than Lily, so it was quite entertaining watching him trying to reach up there. Where as Lily could reach so she helped Hugo put his luggage up there. They sat down looking out the window, searching for there parents. They found them and waved goodbye as the train left the station. A tall boy walked into the carriage. He looked very nervous. He had short blonde hair and round glasses.
"Umm excuse me, do you think I could sit with you, all the other carriages are pretty full" The boy asked.
"Sure, of course you can. The more the merrier right" Lily replied. The boy smiled, came into the carriage with his trunks and sat down. He put his trunks in the over head compartment. The three of them sat down.
"So what's your name?" Hugo asked.
"Tom, yours?" he replied.
"I'm Hugo and this is my cousin Lily" Hugo said. Another student walked into their carriage. She was short and had long, blonde hair. She wore a large pendant with a strange symbol on it.
"Hi, excuse me, but do you mind if I sit with you?" she asked with a high pitched voice.
"Sure, take a seat. What's your name?" Lily asked.
"Avoca, Avoca Longbottom" she replied. She put her luggage in the over head compartment and sat down next to Hugo.
"Longbottom? Your name sounds familiar. Well I'm Lily, this is my cousin Hugo and this is Tom" Lily said.
"Pleasure to meet you all. Well my father, Neville Longbottom is the herbology teacher at Hogwarts. You may have heard his name. He is a fantastic professor" Avoca replied.
"Neville is your father? Have you heard of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley?" Hugo asked.
"Yes. They were my father's friends. He is always telling me about the adventures they would have at Hogwarts" she replied.
"Oh ok. Well Ron is my father and Harry is Lily's" Hugo replied.
"Oh wow. That's cool. You will definitely have to introduce yourselves to my father then" Avoca said. She opened up a magazine entitled 'The quibbler'.
"I hope you don't mind me reading my magazine" said Avoca.
"No we don't mind at all." Lily replied. Avoca smiled and pulled the magazine up to her face. Lily, Hugo and Tom sat and talked about Hogwarts mainly.
An elderly lady opened the carriage door and stuck her head in.
"Anything sweet from the trolley dears?" she asked in a sweet voice.
"Oh wow, I've heard about this. Hmmm…" Hugo replied. He stood up, opened the carriage door right up and started searching the trolley. It was filled with all sorts of sweets. He picked up several things and paid for them. Lily got a liquorice wand and Tom got a pack of Bertie bott's every flavor beans.
Lily and Tom both closed the carriage door and sat back down.
About Half and hour past and they started to get more excited about Hogwarts. They knew that they would be arriving very soon. Everyone got changed into there cloak. The train pulled up at Hogwarts station. They were led off the train by prefects. They got into groups and got into a carriage which was being pulled by nothing. Lily, Hugo, Tom and Avoca were in one carriage as well as a small and quiet girl with red hair. She didn't talk at all.
"Oh I love Thestrals, I think they are so beautiful" Avoca said looking at the front of the carriage.
"Thestrals, What are they?" Lily asked.
"Thestrals are creatures that can only be seen by people who has witnessed death. If haven't witnessed death then they are invisible to you" Avoca said.
"So you have seen death?" asked Tom.
"Yes. My dear old owl called Remus died a couple of years ago. He wasn't killed, he was just very old." Avoca said in a happy tone. The other girl in the carriage was looking at Avoca and then at the front of the carriage.
"I can see them too." Said the girl.
"Really, you have witnessed death?" asked Tom.
"Well yes. My father was in a battle with Draco Malfoy and was killed. I was only three years old at the time but I still remember it like it was yesterday" she said.
"Oh I'm very sorry to here that. By the way what's your name? I'm Hugo" Hugo replied.
"Mary. Do you think I could hang out with you guys sometime? I haven't met any friends yet" Mary said.
"Yeah sure. I'm Lily, this is Avoca and this is Tom" Lily replied. "So what house are you hoping to get into?"
"Well I don't mind if it's Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Gryffindor just not Slytherin." Mary replied.
"Ha-ha yeah me too" Hugo said. They looked up and realized they were now very close to Hogwarts. They were all very excited now and couldn't wait to be sorted into there houses.