I don't have much to say other than thanks a million thousand (it's totally a number) to Vanessa Fangirl for being a Beta for this story and putting up with the thousand mistakes I'm probably going to make. On to the story!

Disclaimer: If I was J. K. Rowling would this really be fanfiction?

Lily woke up early on September 1st completely and utterly filled with excitement. She was finally going to Hogwarts! Lily leapt out of bed and ran to her trunk. She checked yet again if she had everything she needed then went downstairs.

"Hey mom! When are leaving?" Lily asked.

Mrs. Evans replied with a smile: "We'll be leaving in about half an hour so make sure you are packed and have food for on the train."

Lily's mom handed her a bag with 2 sandwiches in it. Lily threw a questioning look at her. "One's for your friends if they sit with you on the train." her mom explained.

"Oh okay. Anything else?'

Her mom nodded "Remember that we love you, will miss you and remember to change into your robes on the train." Lily laughed at the randomness and started upstairs.

Lily knew she would sit with Severus on the train but who else? She had no idea how many students went to Hogwarts but if Diagon Alley was any hint she knew it probably pretty crowded. She also didn't know what house she wanted to be in either because she wanted to be with Severus but she didn't know that the house description fit her. Cunning? Sly? Come from dark families usually? She knew Sev fit all those descriptions but she didn't know if she did. She felt most Ravenclaw and Gryffindor but then again she wouldn't know until the Sorting.

"Are you guys coming? Hurry up Tuney and Lily!" their father chuckled as he said Tuney because he always thought the nickname Lily gave Petunia was ridiculous. "Coming!" The sisters yelled in unison as they stepped out of their respective rooms: Lily dragging a trunk and an owl cage with an owl in it, Petunia with a backpack slung over one shoulder. They went down together with Petunia at the front and Lily behind with her trunk going thunk at every step.

"Alright everyone in the car! We don't want to be late!" Mrs. Evans said as Mr. Evans lifted the heavy trunk into the back of the car. Mr. Evans got into the driver's seat and started driving. "Off to the magical world with you Lily!"

Lily giggled slightly and said "Careful Dad the window's open. People aren't supposed to know." She was only slightly joking. And the journey continued like this for another hour or so.

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***"I'm sorry, Tuney, I'm Sorry! Listen -" She caught her sister's hand and held tight to it even, though Petunia tried to pull it away. "Maybe once I'm there - no, listen, Tuney! Maybe once I'm there, I'll be able to go to Professor Dumbledore and persuade him to change his mind!"

"I don't - want - to - go!" said Petunia, and she dragged her hand back out of her sister's grasp. "You think I want to go to some stupid castle and learn to be a - a -"

Her pale eyes roved over the platform, over the cats mewling in their owners 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 train or else greeting one another with glad cries after a summer apart.

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

Lily's eyes filled with tears as Petunia succeeded in tugged her hand away.

"I'm not a freak," said Lily. "That's a horrible thing to say."

"That's where you're going," said Petunia with relish. "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."

Lily glanced toward her parents who were looking around the platform with an air of wholehearted enjoyment, drinking in the scene. Then she looked back at her sister, and her voice was low and fierce.

"You didn't think it was such a freaks school when you wrote to the headmaster and begged him to take you."

Petunia turned scarlet.

"Beg? I didn't beg!"

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

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

Lily gave herself away by half-glancing toward where Snape stood nearby. Petunia gasped.

"That boy found it! You and that boy have been sneaking into my room!"

"No - not sneaking -" Now Lily was on the defensive. "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!" said Petunia, now as pale as she had been flushed. "Freak!" she spat at her sister, and she flounced off to where her parents stood.***

Lily went to board the train struggling to hold in her tears at Petunia's mean words, knowing that they would be the last words Lily heard from any of her family. Lily made her way down the train now silently crying as part of her heart broke.

Lily stopped walking and stepped into an empty compartment. She tried to control her crying and got her tears to stop but she still occasionally sniffed.

Suddenly the compartment door slammed open heard 2 boys laughing.

"Can we sit here?" one of them asked.

Since Lily was still sad and getting more annoyed by the minute she snapped "I think you were going to anyways so why should I spoil the fun?" Lily got her first good look at them after she said that.

They both had a shocked look on their face after she said that but the most noticeable difference was their hair. One of the boys had raven black hair that didn't look like it had ever been combed. The other had long shaggy brown hair which had a sort of elegance that the other boys hair would never be able to do.

After she noticed she'd been staring for too long she started staring back out the window as the boys resumed talking, still occasionally sniffing.

***Snape slid open the compartment door and sat opposite Lily. She glanced at him and looked back out the window. She had been crying.

"I don't want to talk to you," she said in a constricted voice.

"Why not?"

"Tuney h-hates me. Because we saw that letter from Dumbledore."

"So what?"

She threw him a look of deep dislike.

"So she's my sister!"

"She's only a -" He caught himself quickly; Lily, too busy trying to wipe her eyes without being noticed, did not hear him.

"But we're going!" he said, unable to suppress the exhilaration in his voice. "This is it! We're off to Hogwarts!"

She nodded, mopping her eyes, but in spite of herself, she half smiled.

"You'd better be in Slytherin," said Snape, encouraged that she had brightened a little.

"Slytherin?"

One of the boys sharing the compartment, who had shown no interest at all in Lily or Snape until that point, looked around at the word.

"Who wants to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" James asked asked the boy lounging on the seats opposite him. Sirius did not smile.

"My whole family have been in Slytherin," he said.

"Blimey, and I thought you seemed all right!"

Sirius grinned.

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

James lifted an invisible sword.

"Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!' Like my dad."

Snape made a small disparaging noise. James turned on him.

"Got a problem with that?"

"No," said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. "If you'd rather be brawny than brainy -"

"Where're you hoping to go, seeing you're neither?" Sirius interjected.

James roared with laughter. Lily sat up rather flushed, and looked from James to Sirius in dislike.

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

"Oooooo…"

James and Sirius imitated her lofty voice; James tried to trip Snape as her passed.

"See ya, Snivellus!" a voiced called, as the compartment door slammed.***

Lily stepped into a compartment that only had a sandy haired boy in it. "Can we sit here?" The boy looked alarmed but said yes. "Come on Severus. We have a long ride ahead of us.."

Bit of a longer chapter but importantly anything in between the *** is owned by J. K. Rowling and was in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and I did not write it. Next chapter we will at long last be at Hogwarts so I can't wait for that! Reviews are always appreciated! Peace!