"Hello...you're Jenna right?" she questioned. Jenna smiled and bowed "The one and only Jenna Prewitt. So, is it ok if I sit in here with you? All the other compartments are full and you are the only person that I know that I can stand." Jenna smiled and Lily motioned for her to sit down.
"So...you're from Muggle Surrey?" Jenna asked Lily as the red head gazed out the window.
"Oh...yeah.."Jenna had waken her from her daydreams again.
"You seem pretty intrested in the country side. I'm guessing you've never been out here before."
"Well, no," Lily said shyly. "I was born in Ireland, and I moved to Surrey when I was three or four, I've never really gotten to travel much, so this is, extrodinary for me." she explained. Jenna sat back and took one of her books out of her trunk, Lily continued to gaze out the window. The hills slowly turned to farm land and little sheep and cattle wandered in the distance. There was a gentle knock on the door and a lady with a food cart strolled by. Lily, not knowing what anything on the cart was politely declined, while Jenna bought the lot.
"Here, try this," suggested Jenna as she handed Lily a chocolate frog. Again, picking up Lily's unasked question Jenna responded with out hesitation. "No, they aren't really frogs, they have a jumping jinx on them, and like muggle chocolate, they are shaped. That's all." As the girls ate the choclate frogs, Jenna tried to explain the basics of the best sport in the world, Quidditch.
"It really isn't that diffucult, just stay on the broom and do what you have to do. I'm going to try out for the house team next year. It's a dumb rule that they one let first years on the team." Again, a raping at the door made the girls stop their conversation and look to the entrance. Lindsey stood there with a big smile and a smaller boy stood behind her. "Can we sit in here? Two boys thought that it would be terribly amusing to puch dungbombs under the compartment doors of random compartments. So, can we sit here?"
Lily smiled graciously and Jenna moved towards the window to allow them room to sit. "Lindsey, Cauldren, right? " asked Jenna. Lindsey smiled and then pointed to the boy next to her. "Yup and this is my cousin, Peter Pettigrew." Jenna smiled and the topic of discussion went to the sorting.
"So, how do they sort you any way?" asked Lindsey. "I don't know. I heard that it was something terribly hard." replied Jenna with a mischevious look in her eyes. "What do you mean by sorting?" asked Lily. She knew that there were four different houses, but it had never accourd to her how the students got placed.
"Every year the students get put into four different houses. Ravenclaw is for the smart one, Hufflepuff for the loyal, Gryffindor for the bravest. Those are the only one that normal good people get put into . The other one is for slimy, underhanded, decitful little berks. It's Slytherin." Jenna explained. "I'm going to be in Gryffindor."
"I'm probably going to be in Ravenclaw." said Lindsey. "Me too," agreed Lily. "It would be nive to get into Gryffindor though."
"I'm ging to be in Hufflepuff." replied Peter sadly. Lindsey looked at her and rooled her eyes. Why did he have to be her cousin? Why did her mom have to tell her to stay with him. Just WHY?
At the end of the train was a compartment with only one boy in it. He was reading a book, that some of the fifth years had read. He was basically relaxed, happy that it had passed and enjoying the ride into a new life. Suddenly, the door flew open and slammed shut and two boy were pressed up against it trying ot here out. One had long black hair and the other had glasses with hair that stuck out every which way. Neither seemed to notice the little boys siting in the corner.
"He couldn't have seen where we went in. HE isn't that smart. The slimey little git." said the boy with the longer hair. "Who knows, that git knows cursed not even the seventh years know. Plus, he's a tattling little prat, remember when we looked him in the shed." said the other boy.
Finally Remus Lupin spoke up. "Who are you talking about?" He asked. The other boys had been so involved in their prank that neither had reaslized he was there.
"Hello, who are you?" asked the first boy. "I wan't to know who you are talking about." said Remus. "And I want to know who you are." The frist boy replied. His hand twitched to his wand and so did Remus's. The second boy sensing the tension, broke it. "I'm James Potter, this is Sirius Black. We were taling about a boy we've known since before we can remeber. Now can we ask who you are?" Sirius glared at his friend. He hated not winning in an argument and he felt like James had just lost it for him. "I'm Remus Lupin. If you don't want him in here I could put a spell on the door so you can open it from the outside." Both boys smiled and quickly agreed. Remus stood up and did the charm. It wasn't hard, and the other two boys settled down quickly on the opposite side of Remus. "So, why did you want to hex him?" asked Remus cautiosly. James and Sirius told him the history of them and Severus Snape. The rest of the journey went well for the three boys and for the first time, Remus believed he would have friends.
