Introductions

I looked across at the two girls who were smiling slightly at me. One was petite and had her blonde hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes were a light grey and looked like they could see though me. She looked quite shy yet from what Lily told over the summer when I had visited her she was very loud when you got to know her. I nodded my head at her whilst saying

"Your Alice? Right?" she nodded and grinned at me showing very white teeth. After returning her grin I looked at the girl next to her she was the opposite of Alice. She was tall and very slim. She had long brown hair and dark brown eyes. She definitely didn't seem shy as Alice was.

"And your Nora?" she also grinned widely and asked me

"That's right. Lucky guess?"

"Lily likes to describe in her letters." I said with a smile in Lily's direction. She responded by hitting me playfully on the arm and turned to the girls opposite us and said

"I showed her some pictures of us" They both nodded and smiled. There was I silence as we thought of what to say. Finally Nora said to me

"So…Violet. Do you play Quidditch?" I automatically answered

"Hell yeah!! Best sport ever invented except tree surfing and that is only fun when with the right people" I realised I'd rambled too much and blushed but the other girls laughed. I joined in glad that the tension had evaporated. Lily started asking Alice questions about homework they were given and Nora and I discussed Quidditch. This carried on for around ten minutes until the whistle blew and at that moment four boys crashed into the compartment. One collapsed on the floor, another sat on this boy, and one sat heavily down next to Nora and lay across her lap and the final boy sat gently next to lily and smile apologetically at her. I looked across at Nora and she was roughly pushing the boy on top of her off although she looked quite pleased that he was lying on her. I shrugged this off and turned to face Lily asking loud enough for all the boys to hear

"So these are the marauders. I was expecting people with better balance at least."

Remus, Lily's boyfriend and the boy sat next to her, and the girls all laughed but the other three boys looked up at me shocked. The boy who was now sat on the floor after being pushed off Nora's lap, he was very tall and had grey piercing eyes, looked at me and gave me a smile that presumably made every girl nearby swoon. He said

"Girls you have picked up a stray. Why don't we know her?" Remus rolled his eyes and said

"The rest of us know her. It's just the fact that James and Peter couldn't wait to get a room and you were lying on Nora to ask about her." He smiled at me and Lily, who was laughing at this point. Remus had light brown hair, almost blonde. He was thin and tall and nearly always looked ill when I saw him. Sirius was laughing on the floor and the two other boys on the floor were scowling. I took the chance to whisper, in Lily's ear,

"Which is which? One is James and one is Peter." She turned to them and pointed to the one underneath who had now started grunting

"That's Peter." And that obviously made the one on top, who now was sat on the seat beside me, James. I took the moment when everyone was silent to introduce myself to the marauders.

"Hey, I'm Violet. Violet Austin." I repeated the words I had used earlier and kept a smile on my face although at the moment I was a little overwhelmed.

Sirius decided it was time to start talking so spoke to James; he had black hair that looked messy and blue eyes, Sirius said

"So prongsy, been practising Quidditch over the summer have you?" James responded to this by saying

"Padfoot, you stayed at my house the whole of summer. Why the hell do you want to know something I've been forcing you to listen to for six weeks? And Moony, how come you know the new girl and we don't?" I was confused but I understood him not listening or valuing what I had to say. That was rude. So I thought I'd put him in his place. I said

"Lily why didn't you tell me my name had been changed to new girl?" she smiled apologetically James and Sirius looked like they were about to have a heart attack and Remus said

"James, the reason I know Violet is because she stayed at Lily's for the last three weeks of the summer except for a few days. I visited on a few occasions." He shuddered at the memory. Lily and me both muttered at the same time

"Tuney can be a little…abrupt." and we started giggling at the memory of Lily's sister shouting at Remus for being an idiot for dating a 'Dirty freak' like Lily.

Flashback

Remus and me had grabbed our wands as soon as we saw tears forming in Lily's eyes but she had asked us to stop. As soon as we had, regretfully, lowered our wands an owl flew in the window and had circled petunias head and caused her to scream in a pitch only dogs could hear. We had laughed so hard that even when the owl came to a halt landing on my shoulder we had still been giggling causing petunia, who was almost steaming, to storm out of the room in a huff.

The letter had been addressed to me and was from Albus. I opened it there and it read

Dear Violet (and probably Mr Lupin and Miss Evans)

I am sure that Petunia will have stormed off by this point and that my owl will be on it's way home. I hope I provided you a sufficient distraction from breaking the law and I am also glad that it was such an amusing 'prank' to you.

However that is not my purpose in writing. I am writing to inform you of the books you will need this year, also that your private quarters are available for this year however I suspect that you will prefer to stay with Miss Evans. I will meet you off the Hogwarts express and we will move your luggage with the assistance of Elena, who is now Hogwarts staff, to the Griffindor dormitory, however we may have to move it again as you must be sorted after the feast.

I have no more information for you. I wish you a very happy summer and to Mr Lupin and Miss Evans as well.

Until the first of September

Albus Dumbledore

End Flashback

James blushed and muttered something about being sorry. I smiled glad that he had apologised and continued my conversation about Quidditch with Nora. Sirius and James soon joined in and Lily, Remus and Alice talked about work or some spell they wanted to learn or what they wanted to gain this year. Peter just sat looking oblivious. Pretty soon we were all talking and laughing together. I had been thoroughly introduced and could sit back and listen to their conversations.