“Get on
the train, it's about to leave,” Severus heard his mother say.
“Okay.
Bye, Mum,” Severus said. She smiled slightly and said “Goodbye,
Severus.”
Severus got
on the train and immediately changed out of his muggle clothing and
into his school robes. Then, he went looking for Lily. He peered into
every compartment until he saw her sitting next to the window. There
were two other boys in the compartment, but Severus slid the door in
and sat across from Lily. She glanced at him and then back out the
window. Her green eyes were rimmed with red and were puffy. She'd
been crying.
“I don't
want to talk to you,” she said in a pinched voice.
“Why
not?” He asked, raising an eyebrow and pushing his hair back.
“Tuney
h-hates me. Because we saw that letter from Dumbledore,” she
sniffed.
“So
what?” Severus asked, shrugging. He immediately regretted this when
Lily shot him a look of dislike and said “So she's my sister!”
“She's
only a—” Severus caught himself just in time, but thankfully,
Lily was trying to wipe her eyes without being noticed to notice much
of anything else.
“But
we're going!” He
said excitedly. “This is it! We're off to Hogwarts!”
Lily nodded
as she wiped her eyes. But despite of herself, she half smiled. He
looked at her, glad she was in a better mood and said “You'd better
be in Slytherin!”
“Slytherin?”
One of the other boys in the compartment with them suddenly turned.
He had black hair that stuck up in every direction and glasses. “Who
wants to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?”
“My whole
family have been in Slytherin,” said the other boy, not smiling.
“Blimey,
and I thought you seemed all right!” Said the first boy. The second
one smiled and said “Maybe I'll break the tradition. Where are you
heading, if you've got the choice?”
“'Gryffindor,
where dwell the brave at heart!' Like my dad,” the first boy said,
lifting an invisible sword.
Severus
snorted and the first boy turned to him. “Got a problem with that?”
“No,”
Severus sneered, though his voice suggested otherwise. “If you'd
rather be brawny than brainy—”
“Where
are you going, seeing as you're neither?” The second boy
interrupted. The first boy burst out laughing and Lily sat up, her
face crimson, and looked at the two boys in great dislike. “Come
on, Severus, let's find another compartment.”
Severus
followed Lily out of the compartment as the two boys said “Oooooo...”
“Let's
fine another compartment, Severus,” said the first boy, imitating
Lily's exalted voice.
“Come
on,” said the second boy, also imitating Lily. The first boy tried
to trip Severus as left and the second boy called “See ya,
Snivellus!”
“Can you
believe them?” Lily snarled as she slammed the compartment shut.
She grabbed Severus's hand and he felt himself blush a little. They
found an empty compartment and went in. Lily sighed and said “How
long do you think the trip will take?”
“I
dunno,” Severus said, sitting opposite to her and looking out the
window. “I suppose it'll take a while.
“Oh!
I didn't show you my wand!” Lily said, brightening. She pulled it
out and said “Ten and a quarter inches long, willow, unicorn tail
hair core!”
“Cool,”
Severus said, smiling.
“Mr.
Ollivander said it'll be good for charm work,” Lily said. “Have
you tried any magic?”
“Just
repairo,” said Severus. “It fixes things.”
“Oh,”
Lily said. She put her wand away and quickly changed into her school
robes. She smiled and said “Can you believe it, Sev? We met just
this year, and now we're off to Hogwarts!”
Severus
smiled. Lily smiled back and her smile faded. “Sev, we have to
promise, even if we're in different houses, we'll still be best
friends.”
“Of
course,” Severus said, taken aback. “Why would being in different
houses matter? It would just be easier if you were in Slytherin with
me.”
“Why
can't you just be in the same house as me instead?” Lily asked.
Severus hunched over a little and said “I dunno. It was the house
my mum was in.”
“Oh,”
said Lily and they dropped the subject and talked about classes the rest of the way.
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