Lily woke up early one morning trying to figure out why she was so excited. Then it hit her, she would be attending Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and wizardry.

She remembered when she had gotten her letter two weeks ago, and yet it seemed like yesterday... she was eating her cereal when an owl flew in with a letter on its leg addressed to her, she opened the letter and it explained everything. Her parents were so happy and her sister very jealous, she still wouldn't talk to her.

Lily looked at the clock to see what time it was, she had 3 hours and 30 minutes till her train left for Hogwarts. She was trying to get dressed and after a while she finally realized she was trying to put her shirt on as pants. Lily finally got all her clothes on her properly and headed downstairs to make breakfast, she was in a cooking mood so she cooked bacon, eggs, biscuits, and gravy.

She was going to go get the muggle news paper and as soon as she stepped outside she heard a loud racket coming form her neighbor's house. James, she thought. James had jet black hair with deep blue eyes. Her and James had never got along since he moved in when she was 3. He had always made fun of her calling her name. His favorite was rats nest because she had beautiful long, curly, auburn, hair. She figured his second favorite name was making fun of her dazzling green eyes calling her puking putrid eyes, that brought her to tears in the 3rd grade. She couldn't stand James and deeply despised of him. The mere thought of him going to Hogwarts was sickening.

After she had gotten the paper she went back inside, sat on the couch, turned on the TV, and watched her morning shows till 7:45. She couldn't stand it anymore she had to wake the household.

"Mom! Dad! Wake up!"

"Honey it's 7:45 in the morning!" her parents gripped.

"I've been up since 5:30. We only have an hour and 15 minutes until the train leaves, and it takes 40 minutes to get there. What if we get caught in a traffic jam or something? We can't be late! I've already made coffee and fixed breakfast!"

"Alright already, oh by the way. We're giving James a ride to the train, don't give me that look. His parents had an important meeting to go to this morning. I don't want any complaints, or to hear you arguing. Understand?" her dad said in a end-of-conversation way. Why did he have to live next door to her. Why not some one else, maybe some one that she actually liked? Every one in muggle school just adores him, I don't see why, she thought hopelessly. He's a little brat!

After Lily's family ate and got dressed they packed up and loaded into the car.

"James!" Lily yelled after knocking on the door for the thousandth time. "Were leaving! You better hurry up!" Personally she would just love to leave James there.

"Hold your horses rats nest girl!" he yelled back opening the door. This was exactly why she hated him so much, he always called her names and irritated her.

The Evans family and James finally got packed up and loaded and left for the train to Hogwarts on Platform 9 3/4.

Petunia insisted to be in the middle, which was fine with Lily, because she absolutely adored James for two reasons. He didn't get along with Lily, she just seemed to like him more since her letter. The other reason was because she thought he was absolutely gorgeous.

Finally they were at the train station with the rain pouring down in buckets. The family said their goodbyes and the train left.

This is going to be great! I'll learn loads of stuff and meet new people, I just really hope James is not in my house and stays far away from me.

Lily found a compartment that was hopefully away from James. She was sitting there quietly when some one knocked on the door.

"Who is it?"

"Rachel Glading."

"Come in."

"Hi, can I sit with you? Every where else is full."

"Ya sure go ahead, I'm Lily by the way. Lily Evans."

"Cool, so what house do you want to be in? I'll probably be in Hufflepuff, my whole family has been going there for ages."

"I don't really know. My parents are both muggles, at least I think they are anyway."

"I have 7 siblings that have gone to Hogwarts, they've all gone to Hufflepuff."

"What houses are there?"

"Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryfindor, and Slytherin. My brothers said there wasn't a witch or wizard in Slytherin that hasn't gone bad."

"Really, I don't think I'll be put in Slytherin then."

"I don't think so, you seem nice. But we had better get into our robes, we're probably getting close to the school."

"Okay."

It was a quiet ride after that till 10 minutes before the train stopped. James and his friends came in.

"Hey sewage eyes, how's it been. Too bad you didn't get lost. Any way I want you to know who my friends are so you stay away from them. This is Sirius, Remus, and Peter." He said pointing at them. Sirius looked a lot like James but, was cute in a way, he had dark blue eyes with almost black, brown hair. Peter was very bad looking with coal eyes and messy sand blonde hair, and then there was Remus who had the cutes chocolate eyes and brown hair, very hot.

"Well I don't think you'll have to worry too much, I don't plan on getting with in 10 feet from you. Just stay away from me and leave me alone and I'll do the same." she snapped back.

"You can count on it. I wouldn't want any one to know that I, James Potter, would know riff raff like you." he said menacingly challenging back.

"Well if that's all you can leave now. Or you could stay on the train and catch a ride back to London, because if you haven't noticed we've arrived." she said getting really angry with James.

When they got off the train it was sill pouring down rain in buckets. An old frail man called out the first years and they all got into the boats and headed for the castle in the freezing rain.

Lily had met twins while she was in the boat who were both extremely snobby. Michelle and Stacie Rockly. They both had the same bunches of freckles with red straight hair, quite a bit chubby and they had the same boring brown eyes. Lily hoped they wouldn't be in her house, along with James.

They headed into the castle looking like they had just took a bath in the lake with all there clothes on, and to make it worse a rotten poltergeist started shoving people around making people fall into the domino effect while they were waiting to be lead inside the 'Great Hall'.

Finally when the teacher came back they were in the 'Great Hall, it was amazing looking with a ceiling that looked just like the pouring sky and 5 giant tables and candles floating in mid air.
They all lined up where the teacher named Professor Railn said,

"When I call your name, come up and sit on the stool. Then you will be sorted and you maybe go to your proper table."

She called a few people then, "Glading, Rachel ," she called out.

"Good luck," Lily whispered. Seconds passed by then,

"HUFFLEPUFF!" The hat shouted.
5 or 6 more people were sorted and finally

"Lily Evans," it was her big moment. She walked up to the stool and sat down, the hat was placed on her head.

"Hmm not a bad mind smart and wanting to learn, the will to stand up for herself there is bravery, you might be good in Ravenclaw. It better be