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Chapter Two
Over the next five years, James and I saw each other often at Ministry parties. That was what started us off on our friendship. But the thing that really sealed that bond was when we went to Hogwarts together when we were both eleven.
When we got on the train, the only compartment with enough room for both of us was one with only one other first year in it. She was a small redhead who seemed oblivious to the fact that there were other people there. For the most part, we ignored her, until her friend came in and they started talking.
My whole life, all my parents talked about was how I was going to be in Slytherin one day, and uphold the family tradition. The only problem was, I didn't want to be in Slytherin. I knew what my family was like; knew how all of those former Slytherins had turned out. And I didn't like it.
As a child, the impression I got of my parents and their friends was that they weren't very nice to other people. Mum got mad at me one day, when we were at a playground in muggle London, and I talked to a little muggle boy. That was the last time we ever went into muggle London together.
James and I totally ignored the other two people in the compartment, until the greasy-haired boy told the girl that she had better be in Slytherin. That was what really got our attention.
It was then that I finally admitted to James the kind of people my family really was.
It was then that we got in our first 'fight' with Snape.
And it was then that James first decided he liked Lily Evans.
Ah, Lily Evans…Where to begin with her?
Lily had a fiery temper that seemed to spark more than should be normal when James and I were around. She seemed to find fault with everything we ever did, even if it didn't concern her in the slightest.
After about our first month of school, it was a frequent sight in between classes for Lily to be yelling at us for doing something or other wrong.
And unfortunately for Lily, for a few years, that would be the many other times that James decided he really did like her.
That first initial meeting on the train helped get me where I am right now. Like I said before, right now, I'm standing next to James, as his best man, at his wedding…his wedding to Lily Evans.