It
was September 1st and them James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin
and Peter Pettigrew (aka the Marauders) were standing on Platform 9
3/4 waiting to board the train.
Sirius spotted Lily Evans. A smart
(and in both his and James' opinion), beautiful 7th year - who also
happened to be the new Head Girl at Hogwarts. Lily walked over and
greeted the Marauders.
"Hi." Lily said
"Hi."
James, Remus and answered. Peter squeaked a reply. Sirius said
nothing
Truth
was, Sirius adored Lily more than anything but the only thing that
was between him and the girl of his dreams was his best friend. No
girl was worth losing your best friend.
"Guess who was made
Head Boy." James laughed
"Who?" Lily
inquired
"Sirius!"
"You're kidding!" Lily
laughed. Her laugh made Sirius' heart skip a beat.
"Unfortunately
he's not." Sirius grimaced "Who's Head Girl anyway?"
"That
would be me." Lily answered
Both James' and Sirius' jaws
dropped. Neither could believe what they had just heard. There was a
silence, but that was soon broken by a girl yelling after
Sirius.
"Oi!" She yelled "Sirius!"
Sirius
cringed. It was his sister. Sirius heard her footsteps as she walked
over, praying silently that she would go away but then he realised.
She wouldn't. She was Remus' girlfriend.
"You were meant to
help me!" Hannah said to him, her blue eyes flashed with anger.
She turned to James and Remus.
"Hey James, hey Rem."
"I'm
sorry." Sirius muttered
"Hi." Lily said to Hannah
"Hey Lil." Hannah smiled. She was the only one there
who knew Lily liked Sirius but both of them knew she could never go
out with him. James was his best friend and was absolutely besotted
with her.
"So
how's your summer been?" Lily asked
"Boring." Peter
said whilst James and Remus answered "It was okay."
Sirius
glanced and Hannah. No one there knew she was his sister, it wasn't
something either of them found relevant/important information.
"Well
besides me getting made Head Boy." Sirius added, "Nothing
much really happened."
"What about you Hannah?"
Lily asked,
"I got stuck minding my little brother."
Hannah muttered "All summer!"
"Poor you." Lily
giggled,
"It's not funny." Hannah snapped
"Come
on, we best get on the train." Sirius said. "Don't want to
miss it do we?"
"Since when have you been so keen to get
to school?" The Marauders asked.
""He just wants to
get close to Lily."" Hannah thought ""It's so
obvious""
Lily, Hannah and Remus all knew Sirius liked
her but all knew Sirius would never sacrifice his friendship over a
relationship.
"I'd lose the glazed look if I were you bro."
Hannah whispered to Sirius.
"Is
it that obvious?" Sirius asked
Hannah nodded
"Oh look
who it is." James muttered as they boarded the train
"Snivellus."
"What have you got against him?"
Lily asked,
"You mean apart from the fact he is a total slime
ball and a Slytherin?" James retorted
Lily glared at him.
"Oh
come on Lily, it's true." Sirius said
Lily's glare turned to
Sirius but this time it wasn't a death glare like James' had
been.
"Are we going to sit down or what?" Peter asked,
his nose twitching.
"Why don't you find somewhere to sit!?"
Hannah snapped at him. It was no secret between everyone there that
she despised Peter almost as much as Lily despised James.
Peter
stormed off in a huff.
"Why do you hate him so much?"
The three remaining Marauders asked.
"Do you want a list?"
Hannah asked, "He creeps me out and he is THE most annoying
little twerp ever.
James snarled her. Lily secretly agreed
with her, there was something about Peter that just wasn't
right.
"You did not just snarl me!" Hannah fumed. Hannah
always felt like killing James, he was too bigheaded for his own
good.
"Cool it," Sirius said quickly before an argument
broke out "Just cool it will you, sis." the last bit just
slipped out.
"What did you just say?" Remus, James and
Lily asked. Hannah shot him a death glare.
"Nothing!"
Hannah and Sirius said quickly
"Yeah right." They
muttered, "You called her "sis."
Sirius
gnawed his lip.
"If you must know." He said, "She's
my half-sister."
"What?"
"We've got the
same dad!" They both answered
"This
has got to be a joke right?" James said
Hannah shook her
head.
"In all of seven years, you failed to mention
this."
"It wasn't relevant!" Sirius
stuttered,
"Sure it wasn't." James coughed
"Maybe
they had a reason to keep it quiet." Lily suggested, "Did
you?"
"Well, yeah." Hannah said, "I hate the
fact that everyone compares us. Just because I ain't as smart
or as talented as Sirius. All I get is ""You should be more
like Sirius."" It makes my blood boil."
"Hello,
the ""You should take a leaf out of your sister's book, you
don't see her getting into trouble"" speech is just as
bad." Sirius muttered.
The other three looked totally lost in
the conversation. They had gotten lost approximately when they had
mentioned they were brother and sister.
"You still could have
told us." Remus said
"Well you know now."
"We
gonna sit down or what?" Lily said.
"You're sitting with
us?" James and Sirius asked.
Lily decided to ignore that
comment and sat down anyway. Secretly she couldn't wait till they got
to Hogwarts because then she could spend some time with Sirius and it
wasn't as if it would affect anything.
The
five of them sat down. Lily sat in the corner by the window, Hannah
snuggled up to Remus, James and Sirius sat opposite. Every so often
either Lily or Sirius would look up and steal a glance at the
other.
There was silence; it was broken when the lady with the
food cart came. They each bought something.
"Will someone
please say something?" Sirius muttered, "This silence is
unbearable!"
"How about we talk about a prank we can
play on Snivellus." James suggested,
"Cool." Sirius
and Remus said. Hannah and Lily rolled their eyes, neither agreed
with what they did to Snape, but it was fun to watch. Hannah was what
Sirius described as an "Honorary prankster" which basically
meant just because she didn't agree with what they did, she would
pull pranks sometimes just for the sake of it and when she did they
were brilliant.
"Oh
by the way Hannah." Lily said, "I love the hair!"
"You
mean the pink?" Hannah asked,
"Yeah, it's pretty
cool."
"It's only a bit of styling gel." Hannah
answered,
"It's unique." Sirius added "No other
girl has two different colours in their hair. Pink at the bottom and
chestnut at the top."
"How on earth do you know my hair
colour's chestnut? I don't even know that."
"Can you girls
leave?" James asked, "So we can change."
"Sure."
Hannah and Lily said and they left.
"I wish I knew what they
were saying." Lily said,
"Oh there is a way."
Hannah smirked "It's called my diary has a hidden microphone and
I know for a fact Sirius will try and read it."
Lily looked
bemused for a second, until Hannah pulled out something and flicked
the ON switch.
This is what they heard
"What's this?"
James asked, referring to the diary.
Sirius let out a hollow
laugh.
"Ooo I've been trying to get my hands on this for
years." He said, "Hannah's diary."
"How about
we read a bit!" James suggested
"Oh yes." Sirius
and Remus added
'James read aloud'
"August
5th.
Dear Diary, sometimes I wish I never had a brother or
brothers. I wish I was an only child. I'm sick of people treating me
inferior to Sirius. I'M MY OWN PERSON. I swear, he's turning into
James, A bigheaded ignorant idiot."
James stopped there.
"How
can you think Sirius is turning into James?" Lily asked.
"Not
everyone fancies him y'know and anyway you don't live with him every
single day of the year." Hannah replied "I'm going to get
my diary back before I cause some serious damage."
"I
think you may already have." Lily muttered.
Hannah stormed
through the door and screamed. Seeing her brother half naked was
something she hadn't counted on. The looks she got said it all. James
had never exactly liked her anyway, well not entirely anyway, he had
only really started to dislike her when she snubbed him when he asked
her out in second year, he just tried to hide the fact that he didn't
like her. Sirius at this present moment in time felt a sense of
loathing towards her as she had written that she wished she was an
only child. Remus didn't know what to think of her.
"Personally
I hope that teaches you never to read my diary again." Hannah
snapped and snatched it off him. "What is your problem?"
James asked, sneering at her
"My problem?" Hannah asked,
"I ain't the egotistical, self obsessed idiot."
The
Marauders stood there gobsmaked. Even Lily was amazed, she'd wanted
to say that to James for years.
"Is there anymore in there
that you wouldn't like us to read?" Sirius asked,
"Actually,
yeah there is." Hannah answered coolly "The rest of that
page."
Sirius dived at her and grabbed the diary.
"You
wouldn't!" Hannah yelled,
"Try me." Sirius said and
opened to where they had last read.
No offence to Sirius
but he is. James hates me anyway - it's so obvious. I don't think his
ego took that I found it so easy to turn him down.
I'm writing
this now whilst looking at my ring. I mean wow.
Sirius
stopped.
"You asked my sister out?" He asked James "And
what ring?"
"Yes." James muttered.
And Hannah
added
"This ring!" putting a diamond ring on her
finger.
"That looks like an engagement ring." Sirius
said slowly.
"That's because it is!" Hannah snapped
Sirius
looked like he was about to explode.
"WHAT?!"
"I'm
engaged." Hannah said "It ain't a crime you know."
"Who?"
Sirius asked, jaw dropping and then turned to Remus. "You?"
Remus
didn't say anything but he looked extremely uncomfortable. He didn't
need to say anything, Sirius had already guessed. James looked at him
with an ounce of jealousy, even though he disliked Hannah, part of
him still fancied her. Apart from Lily she was the only girl who had
turned him down.
"So what if he did!" Hannah said
"What's it to you?"
"You're my sister." Sirius
replied. "You could have told me!"
"I know I am."
Hannah glowered "But what have you got against me getting
engaged to him, and don't you dare say that you don't
trust him!"
Hannah
stalked out of the door, leaving Sirius biting his lip and Lily
trying not to giggle at the sight of Sirius.
"I'd finish
getting changed if I were you." She said through stifled
laughter and she walked out gracefully.
Sirius tried hard not to
blush but he couldn't help it.
'This has got to be one of the
most embarrassing moments ever' He thought.
The marauders
didn't sit with the girls after that for the rest of the journey.
This made a path for Peter to come and join them without having the
menacing glares or the knife-cutting comments. Part of Sirius was
glad to get to Hogwarts - partly because being Head Boy meant being
able to pull pranks on Snape and get away with it. It also meant two
other things: -
Detention giving for no reason
and
Lily.
When
they got to the station it was cold, wet and there was a howling wind
that whistled through the trees.
Sirius was beginning to feel
rather guilty about what had happened on the train. He knew he could
be annoying and he knew exactly how to wind Hannah up. He felt guilty
about the fact that he had actually READ her diary, the one thing he
swore he would never do. He may have wanted to find it and just make
her think he had read it but he would never have actually done it and
what made it worse was that she was now blanking him.
Lily on the
other hand was slightly angry with Sirius but she still loved him.
"This year" she thought "opposites will
collide" Not only were Lily and Sirius nearly 100 different
they both had different views when it came to dealing with
Slytherins. Lily would on the odd occasion give them the benefit of
the doubt but Sirius would curse them whenever possible.
"Earth
to Lily!" Hannah laughed, "Are you receiving?"
"What?"
Lily shook her head and came crashing back into reality - she had
been day-dreaming.
"We've got to get off the train."
Hannah said
"Oh."
"Sirius?" Hannah asked,
already knowing the answer
Lily nodded
"Why doesn't that
surprise me?" Hannah giggled.
"Help me find Hannah will ya." Sirius asked the
marauders.
"Why should we?" James asked
"Yeah,
why?" Peter squeaked
"Cause she's my sister."
Sirius answered "And that means something whether you believe it
or not."
"I'll help." Remus said
"Thank
you."
The
two of them didn't need to walk very far since the two girls walked
past the window opposite.
"Hannah!" Sirius yelled
"Lily!"
Hannah deliberately ignored him 'Sirius
isn't the only one who knows what buttons to press' Hannah
thought.
"Hannah, just answer him." Lily
whispered
Hannah still didn't say anything
"Look. I'm
sorry." Sirius confessed "Really sorry."
Hannah
knew he meant it. Sirius never said sorry to her unless he meant it.
She turned round and smiled slightly at him. She still felt
disappointed in him or reading her diary but he was still her brother
and no matter how much he wound her up and tormented her, she still
loved him.
"Are you gonna get off the train?" Hannah
asked