Disclaimer: Yes, it's true, while I was in Orlando, I bought the rights to Harry Potter from J. K. Rowling... yeah right! No, I still don't have enough money. :'(

A/N: Hey everyone! I'm back! This chapter, if I may say so myself, is very long and I'm pretty proud of it. Orlando was, as always, awesome! I went to Disney and I went to Universal. I got a hoodie with a Hogwarts crest on it, and it's my new favourite sweater! Hope you like this chapter!

Chapter 6: Best Friends

September 1, The Hogwarts Express

I flew out of the Pensieve and checked the time, it was 4:30. I figured I had enough time for another set of memories, so I looked through the box and found the vial that said Lily Evans' memories First Year (Sept-Oct). I poured it into the Pensieve and dove in.

Looking around, I managed to deduce that I was still on the Hogwarts Express. I found Lily looking for a compartment.

She managed to find an empty compartment fairly easily. After a few minutes of staring out of the window, two boys, one with brown hair and scars all over his face, and the other also had brown hair, and he was a bit chubby, came to the compartment and asked her if they could come in. I, having been raised properly, said yes, before realising that no one could see me. I turned to look at other Lily and, when she nodded her head, the boys walked in. Once the scar faced one closed the door, Lily continued looking out the window, but focusing more on her reflection, specifically her green eyes, That's where Al and Dad get their eyes from, Grandmum, searching them for answers on how to make it right with Petunia, I supposed. She sighed having found no answers and focused instead on the landscape. It was quite beautiful. Two more boys came in and asked if they could come in, but this time the question was directed towards the other two eleven year olds, not Lily. Both of the boys had a very arrogant walk. One of the boys had grey eyes, while the other had hazel eyes. Though they both had unruly black hair, their hair was completely different, the one with the grey eyes' hair was long and looked like it hadn't been cut in a long time, and the hazel eyes one's hair was short but messy. That's where James and Dad get their hair from… I'm guessing since that's how everyone describes it, I thought.

"I'm James Potter." said the one with the hazel eyes and short messy hair, and I was right. "And this is Sirius Black" he said gesturing to the one that had accompanied him into the compartment.

"I'm Remus Lupin," said the one with the scratches on his face Teddy's dad. "Remus was in a story I read once, he had a twin named Romulus and they were raised by wolves," I heard Lily think to herself. "Also, Lupin means 'wolf-like' in Latin. In school, we learned a little about Latin. Maybe he's a werewolf, the scratches, even the name works…" Hmm… Maybe you're not so unwise, Grandmum, I thought to myself.

"I'm Peter Pettigrew," The last one, the chubby one, said. In the windows' reflection, I could see Potter staring at Lily. Luckily, she had a hood up so she could pretend she wasn't awake. As the boys started to talk, well more like yell, she looked out the window and started to cry. Using all the self-control that she had, I'm guessing, she managed not to make a sound and to not sob and shake, so that they wouldn't notice.

Suddenly, the door slid open, and I could see Sev coming over. Lily evidently didn't want to talk to him, so she told him so. "I don't want to talk to you," she said in a constricted voice.

"Why not?" he asked, why do you think, idiot?

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

"So what?" I agree, I thought as Lily threw him one of her patented dirty looks.

"So she's my sister!" She answered. He said something else, but I don't think Lily caught it because she was trying to wipe her eyes without anyone noticing.

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

We're off to Hogwarts!" Lily nodded and though she was still wiping her eyes, she gave a little smile.

"You'd better be in Slytherin," Severus said.

"Slytherin?" said James. "Who wants to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" He asked Sirius as I thought to myself, Hey, Gramps! Not all Slytherins are bad. I just finished explaining this to Frank Longbottom. Your second grandson, the one that's not named after you, is there. Also, your Great niece, I guess, Rose likes a Slytherin, who just happens to be my brother's best friend… It's all very complicated.

"My whole family have been in Slytherin," replied Sirius.

"Blimey, and I thought that you seemed all right!" James said.

Sirius grinned, "Maybe I'll break the tradition. Where are you headed, if you've got the choice?" At this, Gramps lifted an invisible sword.

" 'Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!' Like my dad" Severus made a small, disparaging noise. "Got a problem with that?" James demanded.

"No, if you'd rather be brawny than brainy -" Severus started. We are not. Aunt Hermione was the brightest witch of her generation and she was in Gryffindor. In fact, so was my Gran, Lily Evans, yeah, that one, the one you're sitting right beside.

"Where're you going seeing as you're neither?" interjected Sirius. They both roared with laughter. Lily sat up looking at them both in great dislike.

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

"Oooooo…" they both started imitating her voice, Gramps even tried to trip Severus as he passed.

"See ya, Snivellus!" called one of the boys. They never did find another compartment and Lily ended up telling Severus that she still wanted to be his friend but that if they were, he would have to accept the fact that Lily loved her sister. They had finished talking about serious things when one of Severus' other friends came up to him and told him to come to their compartment. Since she was now alone, Lily decided to go find a new compartment, one without "dumb, mean boys" as she had called the boys. She found one at the end of the hallway with three girls who looked about Lily's age. She opened the door and asked if she could join them.

"Sure," said one of them. The girl had medium length wavy black hair and violet eyes. "I'm Dorcas Meadowes, by the way." she added with a smile.

"I'm Lily Evans; you guys are in first year, right?" She asked, obviously worried that she might be talking to some girls who were much older than she was.

"Yeah, don't worry. I'm Mary MacDonald, it's nice to meet you." answered the girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes.

"I'm Mary MacDonald," said the girl with incredibly straight dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes that she was rolling at, uhh, the other Mary MacDonald. "And that's -"she started before being interrupted.

"Fine, fine, I'm Marlene McKinnon, at your service." Lily laughed for the first time in a long while.

"We were just talking about which house we were going to be in. Dorcas and I say that we'll be in Gryffindor," Marlene started as Lily took a seat by the window. "Mary says she'll be probably be in Hufflepuff. Which House do you think you belong in?" she asked.

"I think I'll either be in Ravenclaw or Gryffindor." Lily answered before thinking back and saying, "Never mind, I'll probably be in Ravenclaw by the end of the night." This made them laugh a little. They kept talking about trivial things until the trolley came around. Lily didn't have any wizard money with her, but Marls did. She bought two of each and they all shared them and laughed when it was time for the Chocolate Frogs. "They actually jump around like real frogs, oh my!" Lily thought to herself. Why yes they do Granny, I thought to myself. Lily ended up catching the first one and Dorcas caught the second one. After eating so much candy that they were sure they would explode, the girls decided it was about time to change into their school robes. They wandered around the Hogwarts Express for a while looking for the washroom, before Lily suggested that they ask an older student. The girls found lots of male older kids, who would obviously not know where the girls bathroom would be, they said to themselves, oh, again, my dear unwise, and surprisingly innocent, Grandmother and her friends. You would not believe what I did in the girls' washroom with two boys just a few hours ago. It's simple really, you just lock and sound proof the door. The first time I was in that washroom with those two boys was in first year. Then Dominique, who just so happened to be Head Girl, walked in and found us. We were in so much trouble, but thankfully she didn't tell anyone, I thought to myself. Eventually, they found a girl who looked about a year older than them. Ha ha, I just thought about what I thought a few seconds ago, and realised it could've been interpreted in the wrong sense. What I got up to in the girls washrooms, was that James, Fred and I planned a prank to pull on all the Weasleys during Weasley Christmas Dinner. It's gonna be epic! And so, that is how we started the first annual Fred, James and Lily, Weasley Christmas Dinner Prank during my first year. They needed a place to plan, I wanted in, so we went to the girls' lavatory. That's when Dom found us. She said she wouldn't tell anyone if she could help. Let's just say that year's prank was awful! She told them that her name was Alice, Professor Longbottom's Mum, and that she was a second year in Gryffindor. When Lily asked her if she knew Frank, she blushed a little and said that she did, in fact, know him. When the girls finally got to the lavatory, they only had ten minutes before they were to arrive at Hogwarts.

They hurried and got changed before rushing back to their compartment to grab their stuff. But when they got there, Lily remembered that her stuff was in her original compartment. She told the other girls this and they went back with her to get it.

Once they got there, Dorcas was the first one to the compartment, so she knocked.

"Who is it?" asked my old, well eleven year old Gramps.

"It is I, Dorcas Meadowes, come to get Lily Evans' stuff." Dork said as she threw open the door. The young boys gave each other quizzical looks while Mary, Marls and Lily burst into laughter.

"Who are-tith thou?" she asked them. This whole time, she managed to keep a straight face. Marls and Lily entered to grab Lily's trunk, while Dork grabbed Harry the owl, and Mary stood clutching her sides laughing in the hallway.

"I'm Sirius Black," said Sirius, then he introduced Pettigrew, Remus and James.

"That-ith is all-ith we have-ith time-ith for-ith. We will leave-ith thou now." Dorcas finished with a small smile. By the time they got back to their compartment, Mary was still giving the occasional giggle and she was complaining that her sides hurt.

"Well then stop laughing so much!" Lily suggested, rolling her eyes at one of her new best friends.

"We will be arriving at Hogsmeade station in five minutes." said a deep, husky masculine voice, who I was guessing was the conductor.

"Promise that even if we're in different Houses we'll still be best friends?" asked Marls.

"Promise." the rest of them answered at in unison.

A/N: Some of you may have found the ending a bit unreasonable, but I didn't know how else to finish off this chapter… so please no nasty comments… that reminds me, PLEASE REVIEW!