A/N: First HP story ever. Just imagine Ben Barnes as Sirius, Aaron Johnson as James, Andrew Garfield as Remus, Karen Gillan as Lily, and of course Emma Watson as Hermione. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from the Harry Potter series, they all belong to J.K. Rowling.

September 1st, 1971

Hermione Granger looked through compartment after compartment, but they all seemed to be filled. That is, until she came unto one that only had two boys sitting in there; the light brown-haired one seemed to be trying to ignore the other boy, who had bonde hair. The boy with blonde hair was trying to start up a conversation, but the other boy just kept his nose in his book.

Hermione pulled the door open and stuck her head in. "Excuse me, can I sit here? Everywhere else is full."

The boy who was reading looked up at her, nodded, and returned to his book.

She grinned and took a seat beside him, ignoring the other one. "I'm Hermione Granger."

"Remus Lupin" The boy mumbled shyly taking her outstretched hand.

"I'm Peter Pettigrew!" The blonde one squeaked.

"Good to know" She said awkwardly, she bent her head doown to get a look of the title of the book that Remus was reading.

"Hogwarts: A History?! I've read that book since I had first gotten it. It's rather interesting, isn't it?" Hermione said excitedly.

The two soon gotten into a deep conversation about the book, both enjoying the company of each other now that they had some common interests.

The compartment door opened and in walked a girl and a boy; the girl had bright, almost flaming, red hair that went on down to her back, her striking green eyes must have usually been kind, but for now they were hard, and her face was set into a stony expression. The boy trailed after her, his greasy hair framing his face, covering his eyes slightly, his sallow skin making him look a bit peaky; as he sat down next to the girl, his hair jumped out of his face, showing black eyes, a rather large hooked nose, and very thin lips.

The boy Peter squeaked something about going to the loo, nobody paid any attention.

Hermione smiled at the new inhabitants, her buck teeth (that she oh so hated) showing. "Hermione Granger."

The red-head's stony face broke into a kind smile. She shook Hermione's hand brightly. "I'm Lily Evans, and this is my friend Severus."

Hermione kindly shook the other boy's hand, but this lasted a shorter amount of time than when she shook Lily's.

Remus, telling that she felt uncomfortable around the boy, decided to introduce himself.

"Hi, I'm Remus Lupin." He shook Lily's hand and then Severus'.

"Nice to meet you!" She said brightly.

"So," Hermione started.

"Which House would you pick, if you could choose I mean. I'm a bit more for Gryffindor, but Ravenclaw sounds lovely as well."

Lily's face became stony once more at the question, but relaxed slightly at Hermione's answer.

"I'll probably get thrown into Hufflepuff" murmured Remus.

"There's nothing wrong with Hufflepuff, Remus." Lily reassured.

"Which would you rather be in, if you could choose, Lily?"

"She'll probably be in Slytherin, I can see it." Severus muttered.

"I'd be fine in any of the Houses, thank you very much." Lily looked teasingly at her friend.

Hermione waved a goodbye to her new friend before following Remus, deciding to stick with him. She walked beside him, chatting about what classes they would have.

When they got to the boats, they saw one of the only ones that were left seated two boys. Both seemed to have dark hair, but one had glasses and messy hair while the other had hair that almost reached his chin.

"Um, can we sit here?" Remus asked.

The bespecled boy gave them a lopsided, arrogant grin and nodded.

The four of them sat in silence as the boats moved, edging closer to the large castle that was known as Hogwarts.

"I'm James by the way, James Potter." He pushed his glasses up his nose and stuck out his hand.

The two shook his hand nicely.

"Hermione Granger."

"Remus Lupin."

James gestured over to the other boy, "This is Sirius, my best-mate!" He threw an arm around the boy's shoulder as he shook their hands as well.

Sirius looked from James to his arm that remained around his shoulders. "Get off!" He shrugged the arm off, only to get full on hugged by James.

Hermione chuckled at the scene, her cheeks flushing when Sirius looked over at her.

"So, um- w-what House do you two hope to be in?" Remus stuttered.

"Hope?! I am going to be in Gryffindor, like my dad!" James snorted proudly.

"Gryffindor or Ravenclaw is fine with me."

Sirius just shrugged, "As long as its not Slytherin. But all I know is, I am definately not Hufflepuff material."

James burst out laughing at the idea of Sirius in Hufflepuff; he laughed so hard that their boat almost toppled over.

All of the First years were now grouped together in the Great Hall, waiting to be Sorted. The hall was filled with chattering, only quieting down when the Sorting Hat called out a House name.

"Black, Sirius." McGonagall called.

Suddenly, the whole of Great Hall went silent. All of the students knew of the Black family, including one Bellatrix Black (who terrified nearly the whole school), who was now staring as she watched her cousin approach the stool.

Sirius sat down and the Hat was placed on his head, barely covering his eyes.

It only took one minute.

"Gryffindor!"

The Great Hall was still silent, the whole student body stared (a glare from Bellatrix) as the boy jumped off the stool with a smug smile on his lips.

Sirius walked off proudly to the Gryffindor table and sat down in one of the empty spots that were left for the First years.

It was around 10 minutes later before Evans, Lily was called out.

She sat gingerly on the stool and kindly let the Sorting Hat cover her eyes.

It took around 5 minutes before the Hat declared her as a;

"Gryffindor!"

Lily smiled widely and hopped off the stool, smiled at her friends while passing by, and took a seat at the Gryffindor table, her back turned on Sirius.

It was not long before her name was called.

"Granger, Hermione."

The eleven-year-old took a deep breath beforewalking slowly up the steps. She climbed on the stool and waited for the Hat. Before the Hat could obscure her vision, Hermione saw Remus and Lily giving her encouraging smiles and Sirius watching her.

Aahh. (Hermione jumped slightly.) Here's a difficult one, oh yes. You're as loyal and hard-working as a Hufflepuff. Clever and cunning as a Slytherin. You've certainly have the wit and wisdom of a Ravenclaw. But your personality shows strong in Gryffindor.

The question is; where to put you?

Hmmm...

AH! (She jumped again) I know now.

Yes.

Yes, this seems to be the far better choice.

...

"Gryffindor!"

There were cheers and clapping from the Gryffindors as Hermione smiled and went to join her new House. She took the seat that Lily saved for her and hugged her.

"Yours took longer than mine did. Around 12 minutes it took!" Lily exclaimed.

Hermione felt a tap on her shoulder and she turned to see Sirius kneeling infront of her.

Lily looked at the young boy with disdain, "What do you want?"

He rolled his eyes at the red-head and held out his hand to her bushy-haired friend.

"I just wanted to say, welcome."

Hermione's cheeks tinged red as she shook his hand; the tinge turned into a full on flush when Sirius winked at her before going back to his seat.

"I wouldn't hang around with them if I were you." Lily warned.

"Why?"

"That Potter git and Black insulted Severus while on the train."

"They don't seem that bad."

Lily sighed, "Can't say I didn't warn you."

Their attention turned back to the Sorting as Lupin, Remus was called.

His Sorting took 2 minutes.

"Gryffindor!"

Hermione, Lily, and Sirius were probably the only ones that cheered the loudest. Remus dazedly sat next to Hermione (she saved a seat for him, just in case) and accepted the quick pat on the back from Sirius.

"I thought for sure that I would be Hufflepuff." He murmured.

"Well you were wrong!" Lily said brightly, hugging the shy boy.

Remus' face flushed for the first time that night and Hermione kept giggling at his face.

This went on for the next 10 Sortings until Remus told her to "shut it".

She just grinned and said "maybe."

"Pettigrew, Peter."

Hermione watched curiously, wondering what the small plump of a boy would get Sorted to.

It took maybe a minute.

"Slytherin!"

To be honest, Hermione was kind of surprised. He didn't seem like a Slytherin, more like a Hufflepuff. He did quite resemble a fat rat though, maybe that had something to do with it.

"Potter, James."

Hermione didn't have to wait long for James' Sorting.

The Sorting Hat had barely touched the boy's head when it called out;

"Gryffindor!"

Sirius cheered the loudest while Lily let out a whine and let her head drop onto the table.

Hermione giggled and moved the girl's long red hair away from the other students surrounding them.

James plopped down on the seat next to Sirius, who had saved him the seat in the first place, and smiled down the row at the other 3. Lily completely ignored him.

The last person to be Sorted was;

"Snape, Severus."

"More like Snivellus." James muttered and Sirius laughed.

Just like with James, the Sorting Hat had barely touched the boy's greasy hair before it called out;

"Slytherin!"

"It fits." Sirius whispered.

Lily looked slightly dissappointed but she soon cheered up when the Feast began.

All the First years followed the Prefect up to their common room. It seemed like all of them did not seem to know that the stairs moved (except for Remus and Hermione of course).

The Prefect made a stop infront of a large painting of a fat women in her dress robes. The Prefect turned to the First years to explain.

"This is the Fat Lady, all you need to do is to tell her the password and she'll let you in. But, be sure to pay attention, because she will change the passwords every now and then."

"Now, the password is: Beestinger Wazzy"

The Fat Lady's portrait flew open like a door and everyone climbed in through the hole in the wall.

The Gryffindor Commen Room proudly showed their colors. The whole room was almost filled with returning students chatting away about their summer.

The two Prefects split up; the boys with the Boy Prefect, and the girls with the Girl Prefect.

The Girl Prefect lead all the girls to the opposite end of the room, where it was opposite to the directions the boys were headed to.

"This is the Girls Dormitory, if you head up these stairs and take a left, you will see a set of doors. You will find your names, along with your dormmates, posted on the door. Your trunks are already in your dorms. The lavatories are on the opposite wall to your dorms, your names will be posted on there as well. I'll just leave you to it then,"

"Oh and, for future reference; boys are not allowed up here. It is impossible for them to anyway, if they try to climb the stairs, it'll turn into a slide. Goodnight girls."

The girls followed the instructions and soon found themselves searching for which dorm is who's.

"Hermione! You're my roommate!" Lily exclaimed, dragging her friend in by the wrist.

The two girls went to their trunks and started to unpack when there was a knock on the door. They looked up to see another First year.

This girl had a round, almost chubby face; short black hair curled in at her chin, and her wide blue eyes held a hint of innocence.

"H-hullo."

"Hello, I'm Lily and this is Hermione!"

"M-my name is Alice, Alice Fortescue."

"Nice to meet you Alice." Hermione said softly, shaking the girl's hand.

A/N: Well, there's Part one of the first chapter. Hoped you liked it. Favorite, follow, review, do whatever you want. :)