A/N: Is hoping everyone liked the last chapter and will like the sorting hat song I made up as I wrote it.

DISCLAIMER: HA HA I OWN HARRY POTTER! I OWN HARRY POTTER! I OWN HARRY POTTER! I OWN- OH. I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER. JK ROWLING OWNS HARRY POTTER. NOT ME SADLY.

-CONVERSATION OF THE CHAPTER-

ME: Hi Hestia! It's nice to meet you!

HESTIA: Hi! It's nice to meet you to.

ME: So are you looking forwards to going to Hogwarts?

HESTIA: Very! I can't wait! It's going to be really exciting!

ME: I bet it's going to be! Do you have a particular house you want to be sorted into?

HESTIA: Well… I would like to be in Gryffindor…

ME: Ahh… good choice.

HESTIA: Ha ha yes it is.

ME: Everyone will be very nice to you in Gryffindor, there are some second year girls, Lily Evans, Marlene McKinnon, Mary McDonald, and Alice Bones who will be very nice to you and help you out. Oh! There's also Grace Prewett she might scare you a bit a first but don't worry she'll warm up to you quickly enough. If you're nice to her of course…

HESTIA: Oh. Well thanks for telling me that. I'll keep it in mind.

ME: You're welcome! Now, I think a certain train that you are on at the moment is about to pull into a certain station for you to get off and go to a certain school!

HESTIA: Yes! This is going to be awesome!

ME: Of course it is! Enjoy Hogwarts Hestia! Bye!

HESTIA: Bye! And thank you again!

*Hestia disappears*

ME: Ah… I hope she gets into Gryffindor. She seems like a nice girl. ON WITH THE STORY!

6

The rest of the train ride passed quickly without anymore stories from Gracie.

Most of it was spent in silence.

James was busy thinking about what Gracie had told them… Voldemort… The Ministry… Knockturn Alley flashed through his thoughts.

But had Gracie told them everything?

The Hogwarts Express pulled smoothly into the station, getting slower and slower until it completely stopped.

The loud sounds of their fellow students were heard throughout the train.

'Come on.' Remus was the first to stand, tucking under the new Defence Against the Dark Arts text book he had been reading for the last hours of the train ride.

James had noticed that Remus's eyes had not been moving and the pages hadn't been turned at all.

He had just staring at the same spot on the page with his face emotionless.

The rest of them followed suit, standing up and then making their way out of the compartment and joining the crowd of students on the platform.

'Where do we go?' James asked.

Last year they had travelled to the school on boats. But that had only been the 1st years.

How did the other students get to the school?

'Follow the crowd?' Sirius suggested.

That idea seemed good so they decided to do that.

The crowd seemed to sweep them up.

At the end of the platform, there were lots of carriages lined up. Some were already moving swiftly down the road in the direction of Hogwarts; they were getting pulled by an invisible force.

James guessed it was magic.

Students were climbing into the carriages and James, Remus, Sirius and Peter hurried over to one before it could be taken.

They climbed into the carriage and James noticed it sat 6 people.

Enough room for the 4 of them.

James sat next Sirius on the three seater cushion sofa like seats with Remus and Peter sitting opposite them.

The 4 of them had just gotten comfortable and were waiting for the carriage to start moving when the carriage door swung open again.

And to James's surprise, Lily Evans walked in followed by Gracie Prewett.

When Lily noticed them, she immediately turned around to leave.

Unfortunately for her, Gracie had walked in after her and was blocking her escape route.

'C'mon Grace, we don't want to be in company with them.' Lily sniffed.

Gracie arched an eyebrow.

'You mean you don't want to be in company with James.'

Sirius snorted.

Lily huffed.

'Still, we should look for Alice, Marlene and Mar-yyyyyyyyyyyyy.'

At that moment the carriage suddenly decided to start moving.

Lily, who was standing, fell forwards onto the floor; Gracie landed on top of her.

Sirius was the first to react and stated laughing; he scooped Gracie up, like she weighed nothing and placed her next to him.

James held out a hand offering it to Lily.

She glared at him and stood up by herself, ignoring his hand.

She dusted invisible dirt off her skirt and sat down next to Peter with her lips pursed.

'Gracie m'dear! How I've missed you so!' Sirius burst out breaking the uncomfortably silence that had settled upon them all.

Even though Sirius and Gracie had seen each other only a few hours ago, if that, Gracie to his amusement started going along with it.

'Sirius! I've missed you so so so much as well!' Gracie said, sounding like she was going to cry (not real tears of course).

Gracie launched herself unexpectedly at Sirius, wrapping her arms around him and kissing his cheek repeatedly.

Sirius with a dazed look on his face wrapped his arms around her.

Gracie pulled back, to Sirius's obvious disappointment and began talking to Lily about some first years they had met on the train.

Sirius eyes still wide, raised a hand and touched the cheek where Gracie had kissed him too many times to count.

'But there first years Lily! They're annoying!' Gracie whined.

'Gracie we were first years last year!' Lily pointed out.

'So?'

'We should help them! How nervous do you think they fell at the moment? I bet you were feeling the same last year!'

'Me? Nervous? Lily you're out of your mind!' Gracie grinned.

Lily sighed.

'Gracie,' Lily paused. 'There's no harm in helping them! Emmeline and Hestia are both really nice and I can already tell they need someone to look up to. We could be those people. I think they already look up to us.'

Gracie shrugged.

The carriage hit a bump and they all had to steady themselves.

'But Lily, what if they're not sorted into Gryffindor? What if they're secretly Slytherin spies? What if they don't look up to us? What if they're annoying? I don't have time to help little firsties.'

'They're not annoying! We were with them for most of the train ride and they weren't annoying because you and I both know you would've kicked them out if they were! And they do look up to us! You should've seen the way they were looking at you admiringly Gracie! And they're not secretly Slytherin spies! You think everyone's nearly secretly Slytherin spies!' Lily said loudly.

James stared in shock at her outburst.

'Okay, so maybe they weren't annoying. And I didn't see 'the way they were looking at me admiringly'. I mean, what is there to admire about me? And I don't think everyone is secretly a Slytherin spies! You have to be in Slytherin to be a Slytherin spy or you could be in Slytherin or something similar!' Gracie said.

'There are lots of things to admire about you Gracie.' Sirius interrupted gently.

'For once I agree with him,' Lily nodded in Sirius's direction. 'And I give up about the 'Secretly a Slytherin spies' stuff. But please, just help them out everyone once in a while.' She said, just as the carriage stopped outside the school.

'Fine.' Gracie frowned, standing up and being the first to exit the carriage.

Everyone followed after her.

'It's good to be back.' James said looking at the huge castle he would call home for the next 10 months.

They made their way into The Great Hall from the Entrance Hall and separated.

Gracie muttered a quick 'see you later' and joined Marlene, Mary, Lily and Alice further down the table.

James, Sirius, Peter and Remus took a seat next to Frank who greeted them with a hello.

Not too long after, the door burst open and Professor McGonagall came in holding the Sorting Hat and leading a line of first years to in front of the staff table.

'I am the Sorting Hat,

I sort you into your houses,

I hope the choice I make is right,

The first choice is Gryffindor,

Where bravery is valued,

The next is Ravenclaw,

Where your intelligence is put to the test,

The third is Hufflepuff,

This is full of loyalty,

The last is Slytherin,

Where if you're cunning you'll be sorted to,

So put me on,

I'll dive inside your head,

I'll decide, where you'll reside,

Which house is best for you!'

The Sorting Hat's song ended. The Great Hall burst into applause and there was no doubt that the first years had relieved looks on their faces.

'Black, Regulus!' Professor McGonagall yelled.

James saw Sirius stiffed.

Regulus went up and sat on the stool with the sorting hat on his head and waited.

'SLYTHERIN!'

The Slytherin table burst into cheers and a sour look appeared on Sirius's face.

'Sorry.' James murmured as some kid called 'Crabbe' was sorted into Slytherin.

Sirius shrugged but his face read it all.

It's lucky no forks are around. James thought. Sirius got like this when Gracie received all those Valentine's cards last year…

'Fenwick, Benjy!'

Fenwick, Benjy strode up to the stool with confidence. Not even a minute later-

'GRYFFINDOR!' The hat yelled.

The Gryffindor table stood up and started clapping for their newcomer.

Benjy took a seat at the end of the table, only a few spaces from the 2nd year girls.

The cheers died down.

'Goyle, Edward!' was next.

'SLYTHERIN!'

'Horn, Henry!'

'Henry Horn, Horny Henry.' Sirius sniggered.

James chocked back his laughs; Remus gave Sirius a disapproving look.

'HUFFLEPUFF!'

'Johnson, Simon!'

'RAVENCLAW!'

'Jones, Hestia!'

That name sounded familiar…

Lily and Gracie! They were talking about her and some other girl named Emmeline…

'GRYFFINDOR!'

The fairly tall girl with black hair beamed and took a seat next to Gracie who shrunk back a bit nearer to Mary who was sitting on her other side.

'That's one of the girls Evans and Gracie were talking about.' James said.

'So its Evans again is it?' Sirius asked.

'It was always Evans.'

'Laneroad, Christina!'

'RAVENCLAW!'

'McSmith, Christopher!'

'HUFFLEPUFF!'

'I'm hungry.' Sirius whined his hands placed upon his stomach which was growling.

'It be done soon, we've passed half way.' Remus told him.

'Podmore, Sturgis!'

'GRYFFINDOR!'

They cheered along with their house, welcoming the small boy.

'I don't care if we've passed halfway. Why can't the sorting happen after we've all ate?' Sirius groaned; he stared wishfully at the empty plate before him.

'Rosier, Evan!'

'SLYTHERIN!'

'Where would the first years sit if they haven't already been sorted into a house?' Remus questioned smartly.

'I'm sure if we pushed that table along and moved that one forwards or better yet, we get rid of the Slytherins and they can sit there!'

James nodded excitedly.

'And where you the Slytherins sit?'

'Well, Remus they wouldn't sit anywhere because they wouldn't be invited to Hogwarts anymore.'

'That's not going to happen Sirius.' Remus shook his head.

'It will if I become Headmaster!' Sirius declared.

'You? You become Headmaster?' Peter stuttered.

Sirius sat up straighter.

'Yes, James how d'you fancy being my Deputy Head?' Sirius asked him.

'Fine with me! I'll put McGonagall out of business. Professor Potter I like it.' James mused happily.

'Great! Remus you can be the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher and Peter…' Sirius trailed off eyeing the short boy in front of him.

'How does being the Caretaker sound? Filch needs to go anyway.'

Peter shrugged.

'Awesome! So then I'll just hire some other teachers… Gracie might like a job… kick the Slytherins to the kerb and then we're set!' Sirius clapped.

'Vance, Emmeline!'

The other girl Lily and Gracie had been talking about placed the Sorting Hat on her head.

'GRYFFINDOR!'

The Gryffindor's clapped and cheered for Emmeline as she took a seat opposite Hestia and next to Lily.

'One problem mate.' Remus sighed.

'And what's that?' Sirius asked.

'Dumbledore's Headmaster.'

'Erh,' Sirius said. 'Me and Professor Dumbles are tight. (A/N: A Very Potter Musical! Go watch it!) I'm sure he'll let me have his job.'

'No Mr Black, you can't have my job.'