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So, I haven't communicated with you guys yet! Anyway, the last chapter was just a little fill in. I know that I use a LOT of descriptions (that's what my English teachers have been telling me for years!) so if you think I should lie back on them let me know.

Expect a lot of chapters, but expect them to come pretty quick. I don't want to keep you guys waiting, and hey, I don't want to keep myself waiting. I want to write. 

Disclaimer: They released the release date of Deathly Hallows. One of my music teachers knew before me. If a middle-aged music teacher knew this before I DID, then I am so obviously not JK Rowling, and so I don't own any of her characters/story.

Lily was daydreaming until she moved her foot. She felt the packet containing a Pumpkin Pasty squish under her foot.

"Yurggg!" Lily pulled the unopened wrapper off of her shoe.

"Hey, you gonna eat that?" Paul asked her.

"Eww…here; take it!" Lily threw the Pumpkin Pasty at her cousin, hitting him squarely in the face.

"Look, it's starting to rain!" Sirius said as he glanced out of the window. Sure enough, darkness had descended over the mountains, and rain was obviously falling heavily outside because it was spattering the window. The lanterns began to flicker on in the corridors.

"We should change into our school robes, shouldn't we? I don't want to wait too long, because then we might get in trouble, and then that could—," Harriet's frantic worries were cut short by Ari.

"Don't worry so much! We can change into our robes right now, it won't be any problem."

And so everyone scrambled into his or her trunks to pull out their Hogwarts robes.

"WHAT on earth are THOSE?" Ari pointed to Lyla's robes. There were distressed rips and tears in her robes.

"Zees are ze new fashion! Reeped robes! I bought zees in Madam Malkin's shop, and believe you me, zey were very expensive!"

"We believe you," Thomas rolled his eyes.

"Why would you pay so much money for distressed robes when you can do them yourself?" Robby asked Lyla curiously.

"Because, zhat would defeat ze whole PURPOSE of zem!" Lyla responded in bewilderment, as if she couldn't fathom why anyone would question her fashion sense. "I would never do them myself! Zhat is…zhat is…RIDICULOUS!"

"Zhat, I mean, that way of thinking is ridiculous," Ari retorted.

Lyla sniffed and looked down her nose at Ari. "Well, I wouldn't expect you to know anytheeng about fashion. You dress so…plainly."

"We all dress the same!" Ari shot back. "Although, you most definitely stand out with your stupid torn robes. You look like you either fell through a garbage chute and came out through a nest of brambles, or you are just trying to encompass the 'Poor-Chic' look with your stupid looking rips!" Ari huffed; her face was red, and her eyes were shining.

I forgot that Lyla and Ari get along like Draco Jr. and I get along. Lily mused. Ari was very short-tempered, and couldn't handle Lyla's Lyla-nisms.

"Hey look, there's the castle!" Sirius hurriedly pointed out the window, obviously trying to distract the bickering Ari and Lyla, but to no avail.

"I can't wait to see Hagrid!" exclaimed Thomas. "I've missed him."

"Me too. I saw him over the holidays; he came and visited my dad," said Lily.

"Yeah, he brought his homemade rock cakes…" Sirius recalled, shuddering. Everyone except Erick, who had never experienced Hagrid's cooking, shuddered along with Sirius.

Kasey was staring outside. "Look! Eet is 'Agrid, and someone else is accompanying him!" he suddenly exclaimed.

Everyone rushed over to the window to look outside. The train was slowing down. Sure enough, Hagrid was standing on the train's platform, holding out a lantern. Next to him was a tall, thin hooded figure. The light from the lantern shone upon the silvery-blue cloaked figure.

"I wonder who that is," Ari said, straining to look outside at the cloaked person.

"No idear, love," chuckled Paul in a Cockney accent. Ari rolled her eyes and made her way out of the compartment.

"Well, come on then!" she called over her shoulder. Robby, Paul, Sirius, Kasey, Lyla, Harriet, Thomas, Erick, and Lily all jostled together to exit the compartment.

"Oy, that's my foot—,"

"OUCH!"

"Stupid git, watch your—,"

"Owwwww!"

"QUIET!" yelled Lily, scaring everyone. "Come on, its not that hard. We just wait, one at a time, to leave the compartment."

"I've a better idear, love!" Paul said, and flung out his wand.

"Engorgio!" he cried, and the door in the compartment widened enough to let the entire group, plus their luggage, exit the compartment. Onlookers in other compartments, who were also trying to exit, applauded the group.

"Gits," muttered Lily, though secretly she thought it was funny.

The group finally made it to the platform, where, in the distance, they could see the horseless carriages that would take them up to the school.

"Potters, Weaselys, Longbottoms, and Lupins!" exclaimed a gruff voice.

"Hagrid!" cried all of the Potters, Weaselys, the Longbottom, and the Lupin.

"How you all been?" Hagrid asked excitedly.

"Lovely, Hagrid, how are you?" Lily and Sirius responded. They were about to glare at each other, but then they burst out in laughter. They often times acted like twins without meaning to, even though they were two years apart.

"Fine, fine, I'm jus' fine. I been tendin' to me new hippogriff!"

"New hippogriff?" Robby asked in wonder.

"Yeah, I foun' a mate for Beaky! An' then they had their own hippogriff together! It's a healthy girl, named Featherbeak! Here's how I came up with the name. See, her mum was named Greyfeather, an' then—," Hagrid's rambling was cut short when the cloaked figure that the group had spotted from the train came up and placed their hand on Hagrid's shoulder.

"Oh…sorry 'bout that," Hagrid muttered. "You all best be gettin' to yer carriages."

"What, Hagrid…?"

"Jus' go, I'll come an' find you all later," Hagrid waved off the groups' protests.

Everyone looked quizzically at each other as Hagrid moved away from them. The cloaked figure stayed still and motionless a few feet away. Everyone looked at each other and shrugged, then went to the carriages.

Lily, Thomas, Ari, and Erick got into one carriage, while Sirius, Lyla, Kasey, Robby, and Paul got into the carriage behind them.

"Oy, see you up at the castle!" called Robby and Paul to Harriet, who was heading towards the lake with the other first years. Harriet shot them a frightful but excited look and turned away quickly, so as to keep up with Hagrid's long strides. The cloaked figure from the platform was gliding slowing behind the group, as if their feet were not touching the ground.

The carriages began to move, and everyone settled back into their seats.

"Wonder who that cloaked person is." Thomas said.

"Dunno, but they didn't seem friendly," Lily replied. Suddenly, a random thought occurred to Lily. "Hey, Erick. Aren't you supposed to go with the first years? How else are you going to be sorted?"

"Oh, didn't I tell you guys…no?" Erick looked around at Lily, Ari, and Thomas. "Well, I went, over the summer, to the school to get sorted. I got a special exception. Well, so did this other girl, who was waiting outside of the Headmistresses office, but I didn't see her for more than a second."

"There was someone else?" Ari asked, suddenly very interested.

"That's odd. I can see why you would get an exception, but it's pretty rare that someone transfers in after his or her first year. Even rarer to have two people transfer in," Lily remarked.

"So, what house did you get put into?" Thomas asked Erick.

Erick grinned as he said "Gryffindor!"

"Sweet!" Thomas clapped hands in the air with Erick.

Ari rolled her eyes, but Lily was still preoccupied with the mystery of the other new student. The problem was, she wouldn't be able to find out who this girl was unless she was put into Gryffindor. Hogwarts was so full of students that even though the student population was actually quite small compared to other schools it was still not out of the ordinary to come across someone who you had only seen once before. Lily liked a mystery, however, and wouldn't let a simple fact like that get in the way. And neither would Ari or Thomas. She would have talked to them about it, but Erick was in the carriage, and she did NOT want him overhearing about her, Ari, and Thomas' secret. Not just the new student secret, but also the other secret…

Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Who is the cloaked figure? And what is this OTHER secret that Lily, Ari, and Thomas have? A bit wordy, I know, but I need to get these little scenes out of the way, even though they are just as important.

And guys, please comment! I can't stress this enough. I now have a lot of hits…and still only two comments, one of them being from me. I would REALLY REALLY like some feedback! PLEASE!!! I just want to know what everyone thinks, and if they have any ideas. I'll appreciate anything…except flaming! 