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A/N: I'm so sorry for not updating yesterday, but I watched the movie 2012. I thought I would have a little time after the movie to add the last minute touches to this chapter and publish it, but it's two and a half hours long!

It's a good movie, but I find it a little bit unreasonable. People are dying left, right and centre, but no one seems to care!

Anyway, I won't be updating next week because I'm going to Florida! I might not update the week after too, but this time it's cause I'll probably have so much homework to catch up on. :(

So, here's the chapter:

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Chapter 5: Listen!

September 1, Cokeworth/Platform 9¾

I was really getting tired of these memories swirling around. Just like she said she would, Mrs Longbottom came at 9:30 with her son. His name was Frank, Professor Longbottom's father, and he wasn't like her at all. He was of course shy at first, but so was Lily. He and Lily were very quiet at first but I could tell that Lily was about to burst from wanted to know more about the Wizarding world, even though Sev had told her about it, I was sure she wanted a second opinion.

"So what's Hogwarts like?" She finally asked him.

"It's really fun and it's beautiful. I don't really know how else to describe it… It's sort of a have to see it yourself kind of place." he informed her.

"Oh, well what can you tell me about the Wizarding world?"

"Umm… well, you've been to Diagon Alley, so that rules that out…" he told her before she interrupted.

"That reminds me, yesterday when we went shopping, there were a couple stores that we didn't go to. Most of them I understood what they were, but one I just couldn't figure out. I forget the name but there were a whole bunch of boys a little older than me crowded around it, and I think the store was selling broomsticks. But I might just be imagining things. Do you know what store it is?" Lily questioned.

"That would most likely be the Quidditch supplies shop." he replied.

"What's Quidditch?" She inquired.

"It's a sport we play involving broomsticks," That's what she said!… Aunt Hermione makes us watch Muggle television sometimes, and it has four balls, was Frank trying to make the game sound perverted? I mean 'Broomsticks… four balls'… WOW!, "There is the Quaffle, which get thrown around by the three Chasers, two Bludgers, which the two Beaters try to launch at the other team, and the Golden Snitch, which the Seeker attempts to catch and therefore gaining your team another 150 points. I think that's all. Oh, and if you catch the Snitch, you end the game." he told her.

"Okay." She said, trying to soak it all in. That sounds so incredibly complicated, she thought to herself, but I was sure to get it eventually. "So, one Quaffle, three Chasers, two Bludgers, two Beaters, one Golden Snitch, and a Seeker. Quidditch sounds like a very interesting game, but, I'm not really into sports." She double-checked.

"Me neither, but my dad is so I'll go to a game every once and a while. Oh, and there's the Keeper, he guards the hoops, which are nets, I guess." he informed her.

"And the Keeper. Are there any other games like that? Anything else I should know about before I get to Hogwarts?" Lily asked.

"Umm…. I don't - Oh, I know, Some of the students will think they're better than you because they're pure bloods and you're Muggleborn but that means nothing." He informed her.

"Yeah I know, Sev told me." She said with a little distaste.

"Sev, who?" he asked.

"Severus Snape." Lily answered.

"How do you know him?" he asked.

"He lives near me and one day we, umm, met each other at the park."

"Oh, okay. But no, I don't think there's anything else." he said.

"What about school Houses? You know, like Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. I read about them in Hogwarts: a history." She asked.

"Well, in Hogwarts: a history, I'm pretty sure it makes it sound like all of the Houses are amazing and great to be in, but here's how it is in general. Ravenclaw," Rose's House, "Is for the smart ones; Gryffindor," James, a million other cousins and me, "Is for the brave, though some say the stupid, I personally disagree," You go Frank! "Slytherin," Albus and his best friend, who just so happens to be Roses' crush, Scorpius, "Is for the pure-blooded, evils," Not true, my brother Albus, even Scorpius, are incredibly, amazingly, awesome, people, plus James, Al and I are half-bloods… so that rules that out…, "I mean the ambitious people. Then there's Hufflepuff," Teddy, and his mum were, "they're kind of the extra House," not true, not true at all! Hufflepuffs are the most loyal people I know. Teddy is an amazingly awesome bro. "That's the just of it, but the technical terms are that Ravenclaws are witty and love to learn-" he said before Lily interrupted him.

"I might belong there than." She stated.

"You like to learn?" he made an odd sort of face. "Anyway, then Gryffindors are courageous and chivalrous; Slytherins are ambitious and cunning; and Hufflepuffs are loyal and they are fair and patient." he told her.

"Well, I think I'm going to be in Ravenclaw, what are you in?" Lily asked him.

"I'm in Gryffindor." he said. "Since I told you about the Wizarding World, you have to tell me about the Muggle World."

"Sure, what do you want to know?" She asked him.

"What's a fellytone?" he questioned.

"Umm… I think you mean a telephone," Lily giggled, "and you, uhh, use it to talk to other people who aren't around you… I guess." She tried, and failed, to explain.

"Okay, now what's eckeltricity?"

"I think you mean electricity. For us Muggles it's what makes everything work, like television, which shows you things on a screen; telephone; clocks, which show time; radios, which you can hear things off of," Yeah, we know, we have the Wizarding Wireless "and a bunch of other things." Lily enlightened him.

"Okay, that's pretty cool. What about…" They continued this exchange for another twenty minutes with him asking questions about normal everyday things, before Petunia interrupted us saying that they were both dumb and they should just shut up. She said this, of course, out of the earshot of her and Lily's parents. Petunia, who had been forced by her parents to come here today to see Lily off, obviously had no wish to be here.

I thought to myself, Wow! She sounds like a real bitch! And I can say that since Mum can't hear me think! Muwhahahahaha! You can't hear me, nananananana!…

"We're here!" announced Mrs Longbottom.

"But this is just King's Cross Station, there are no Wizards here!" She exclaimed. Oh, my dear unwise grandmother! Who's younger than me in these memories… awkward! "What station is it out of? I doubt we wouldn't notice if there was a train going to a magical school that nobody's ever heard of. How do you conceal it?" Lily asked.

"It's on platform 9¾." Frank answered.

"Platform 9¾?" She demanded eagerly, who would've thought she could've gotten more excited than she already was.

"Platform 9¾ is a magical platform that holds the Hogwarts Express that brings students to Hogwarts." Frank explained.

"Oh, that's so cool!" Lily yelled. "You could have mentioned that Frank!"

"Sorry, I thought you knew!" he said. We got to the gateway to Platform 9¾, which looked completely solid, once again, oh, my unwise grandmother, and Mrs Longbottom instructed them to walk through the barrier between Platforms 9 and 10.

"I don't mean to be impolite Mrs Longbottom, but this a barrier, a completely solid barrier which will not move." Lily's father informed Mrs Longbottom.

"It only appears solid so that Muggles, like yourself, do not try to break through, when in reality, if you believe it is not solid, than it is not." Mrs Longbottom informed them.

"What a freak way of travelling!" I heard Petunia murmur. She's so mean! I would never have been so mean to my brothers if I was a Squib, though only Lily heard her.

"Can I go first?" Lily asked. Mrs Longbottom told us that they, Lily, her mum, her dad and Petunia could go first to say their goodbyes. Lily's parents thanked Mrs Longbottom for her kindness, and they left.

Lily's father, who refused to put any of his girls in danger, insisted that he go first. Personally, I think he just wanted to do it first, but who am I to judge? Once he vanished through the barrier, my Great Grandmum said that Lily could go next. I think she wanted to have a little talk with Tuney, so I followed my namesake. You could feel the nervous excitement that was radiating off Lily, though once she crashed through, she was evidently awed. Lily looked for her dad and found him gazing upwards in amazement. There, in the middle of Platform 9¾ was a beautiful scarlet train. On the side of it, I read the words Hogwarts Express.

This was going to be awesome, I heard Lily think.

"I'm going to miss you Lily-flower." he said, and I think there was even a tear in his eye.

"I'm gonna miss you too Daddy!" she said and there was a small quiver in my voice.

"Let's go find your mum and sister." he suggested. We found them in no time at all. Lily's mum took her to the side to talk to her for a while.

"I'm going to miss you so much Lily. I want you to write at least once a week, if you can, because otherwise Harry here," she gestured to Lily's new pet owl; I'd laugh if Dad got his name from an owl. "Would have been a waste of money, and you know how your father feels about wastes of money, he'll go on rants for hours on end. Though I love him dearly, I don't particularly love his speeches." I grinned, 'cause I knew that Dad could go on for hours, without even breathing it seemed, talking about how so and so wasted his money. Maybe that's where he got it from then, my Great Granddad, which is weird, seeing as we might be the richest family in the entire Wizarding World, what with Mom having played for the Harpies, and Dad being, well, you know, Harry Potter.

"Now go say goodbye to your sister, there isn't much time before you have to go, and I want to be able to get at least one more hug out of you." Great Grandmum instructed. She had somehow managed to convince Tuney to say goodbye to Lily, because Petunia came easily, though she was a little weary.

"Well, goodbye, sis!" She spat at Lily.

"Tuney, why are you being so mean to me?" She asked. I knew she would never tell Lily the truth, but I already had an idea about why she was being mean. She was jealous, I just knew it,I thought to myself.

"I'm not being mean to you." Petunia said. "I just don't like that stupid Snape boy you spend all your time with." She explained looking at Severus who was a little distance away.

"I'm sorry about what he did to you at the park yesterday but I can't do anything about it." Lily told her.

"Whatever. I'm just glad that you two are being sent off to a special school for people like you."

"At least I'm special, unlike you." Lily insulted her and Petunia actually looked a little hurt.

"I'm sorry, Tuney, I'm sorry!" I wouldn't be, she's a bitch! "I know you want to go there too. Listen -" Lily grabbed Petunia's hand and held it tightly, though she did try on numerous occasions 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!" Lily said with great difficulty as Petunia tried to pull away every couple of seconds.

"I don't - want - to - go!" Tuney said as she finally managed to drag her hand out of Lily's grasp.

"You think I want to go to some stupid castle and learn to be a - a - you think I want to be a - a freak?" She whispered as her eyes roamed over the platform.

Lily's eyes started tearing up as she said this. "I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."

"That's where you're going," she answered with relish, "A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy… weirdos, that's what you two are. It's good that you're being separated from normal people. It's for our own safety."

Lily looked at her Mum and Dad who were standing a little further away and who were still taking in the grandeur of the Hogwarts Express.

"You didn't think it was such a freak school when you wrote to the Headmaster and begged him to take you." Lily said pulling on her final straw knowing this was the last time she was going to see her sister in about four months, but Lily didn't care, she was just as stubborn as Petunia, but Lily concealed it better, because she could do it nicely. Once Lily said this, Petunia turned as scarlet as the Hogwarts Express itself.

"Beg? I didn't beg!" she insisted.

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

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

Lily kind of gave herself away by half-glancing towards Sev, she obviously didn't think it would be long enough for Petunia to notice, but she sure, as hell, noticed because she gasped.

"That boy found it! You and that boy have been sneaking in my room!" she accused.

"No - not sneaking - 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 -" Lily started before she interrupted.

"Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!" she said, pale now. "Freak!" she spat and flounced off to her Mum and Dad, while Lily stood still, almost in tears.

Lily managed to make her way over to her parents without letting a single tear fall, though there were obviously some welling up in her eyes. I can blame them on leaving so I only have to bother to hold them in a little bit, Lily soft voice said again. The bell signalling that it was time to leave rang.

"Goodbye sweetheart!" Lily's Mum said as she gave her a bone-crushing hug.

"Bye Mum!" She said. They helped her load her stuff onto the train then she was on her own.

She waved goodbye to them one final time as the train was leaving before going off to find a compartment.

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