Lily Evans stared down at the floor of the train. Her first day hadn't started well. A silent tear slid down her face, and she gave a heavy sigh.

She heard some-one else slip in beside her, but knowing who it was, she continued to stare intently out of the window. The loud boys with whom she was sharing the compartment with talked on, filling the space with noise.

'I don't want to talk to you,' Lily told Severus Snape, her best friend.

'Why not?' he asked.

'Tuney h-hates me. Because we saw that letter from Dumbledore,' she stuttered.

'So what?'

Lily gave him a look of contempt, before telling him huffily: 'So she's my sister!'

Lily raised her arm up to dry her eyes on her sleeve, not hearing her friend's words.

'But we're going! This is it! We're off to Hogwarts!' he told her, attempting to lift her spirits, also showing his excitement himself.

Lily gave a nod, smiling slightly from her friend.

'You'd better be in Slytherin,' he told her, smiling at her now.

'Slytherin?'

Lily heard a voice perk up from the other corner of the compartment. One of the loud boys was speaking. He was tall for the age of eleven, and had jet black hair and round rimmed glasses. The other loud boy had long, wavy brown hair, blue eyes which glinted mischievously. He gave off a laidback demeanor, but his casual smirk which he had before possessed had slipped off his face.

The black haired boy spoke again.

'Who wants to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you, Sirius?'

His friend, who seemed to be named Sirius, did not smile, though.

'My whole family have been in Slytherin,' he stated simply.

'Blimey, and I thought you seemed all right!' the other boy laughed.

Sirius cast him a grin.

'Maybe I'll break the tradition. Where are you heading, if you've got the choice, James?'

The other boy named James did not even take a moment to ponder his response, quickly saying: '"Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!"'

'Like my dad,' James added, grinning with pride.

Severus snorted, and everyone in the small compartment turned to stare at him, James frowning.

'Got a problem with that?' he asked threateningly.

'No,' Sev sneered, 'If you'd rather be brawny than brainy—'

'Where're you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?' the boy named Sirius remarked, and James creased over, his laughter echoing around the room.

Lily looked at them both with immense dislike, and a frown set onto her face.

'Come on, Severus, let's find another compartment.'

'Oooooo…' James and Sirius teased, earning them a sour look from Lily.

A leg shot out in front of Severus as an attempt to trip him.

'See ya, Snivellus!' James shouted, as Lily exited the compartment, her head held high, and arm linked through her best friend's.

'Ignore those arrogant toerags, Sev,' Lily told Severus, who was fuming over the incident. 'They're just stupid, silly little boys! I hope they're not in my house…'

And with that, Lily and Severus began to search for another compartment, Severus so riled up with dislike for the two loud boys in his old compartment, that he bumped into another boy who was clutching a book, and had 3 long, red scars coursing down his face, and he was heading to where Severus and Lily had just come from.