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Family Ties

"Promise you'll write? Everyday" I asked, looking into mum's deep brown eyes. She nodded, her red hair swaying in the wind.

"I will Lily, Daddy and I promise." She whispered, leaning down to embrace me in a bear hug. It was going to be my first day at school, and I was scared. I hugged her back and started to cry silently.

"But what if they don't like me?" I sniffled, reaching behind her to wipe my eyes.

She pulled away and stared at me. "They will love you. You want to know why? Because you're kind, friendly, smart- and most of all, you're you. Only those ones who are truly blind to happiness will hate you. And they won't even hate you, they'll be jealous of you, of how happy you are. Want to know why you're so happy?"

I nodded, wiping away the rest of my tears.

"Because you don't care about what they say or think, you don't live you're life to please others. School will be just fine, I promise." She leaned down and kissed my forehead tenderly.

"Now whatever Albus or James gets up to, if it's wrong stop okay?" She laughed, her brown eyes crinkling, "I don't McGonagall telling me that there has been another disturbance in the Great Hall, okay?" I laughed and hugged her tightly.

She sniffled slightly, and I could see her eyes watering. "Aww Mum, I promise I'll write." She nodded, smiling.

"Now keep warm okay?" I nodded as she buttoned my cloak all the way up to my neck, fixed my scarf and straightened my beanie.

"It's nearly eleven, where is your dad?" She asked, checking her gold watch that dad had bought for her on their anniversary.

The air was cold, and King's Cross Station was crowded today. Cars were pulling in and out of the lot. Mum and I were just waiting for dad and the Weasley's.

"Mum, what if I'm late?" I asked her, staring at a passerby Muggle who was pushing a trolley towards their car.

"LILY!!!!" screamed a familiar voice from over the surrounding cars' engines. I sprung around and nearly got knocked over by Hugo. He knocked me into mum, and she chuckled.

"It's finally our turn to go to Hogwarts!! I can't wait! We're going to have so much fun!" He squealed, holding my hands and jumping up and down. We jumped up excitedly for a while, until my gold chain swung and hit me in the face.

His parents laughed as they came into sight. Hermione has fashioned a pretty purple ribbon into her hair and was followed by Ron and Dad. They were deeply immersed in Quidditch talk. "…Puddlemere United then lost to the Tornadoes!"

"Hey, it's going to be so fun now with all of us!" said Teddy happily from behind them. He was followed by James and Albus.

"Yeah, and then we can go and prank those stupid Slytherins ha-ha..."

"Come on Lily..." Ginny whispered, grabbing my hand, "or you'll be late, we don't want that now..."

We followed Dad and Ron through the Station, pulling our luggage behind us. Mum smiled at me encouragingly, "you want to try it by yourself?"

I nodded excitedly as we all stood by Platform 9 and three-quarters. Watching the Muggles walk past, I leaned against the barrier and just slid through.

Steam bellowed from the bright red train that faced me. Hmmph the engine as I walked past, waiting for Mum. The station was filled with chatter, and people wearing all sorts of funny hats and clothing were busy going this way and that.

"Wow," I said quietly, stepping back to take in the scene. It looked the same as it had looked for the last 2 years, except this time I was actually going to board it.

"Hey! Careful there!" a voice said from behind me, slightly cold. I swung around. He was a boy of about my age, pale and had white hair. His grey-green eyes analyzed mine for a while, we were both silent. He had a pointed chin, and had a… surprisingly perfect nose, I thought.

The way he was looking at me made me feel self conscious, like maybe I haven't done enough to make myself look presentable.

"Lily! There you are! We're boarding the train now!" Hugo suddenly appeared. He grabbed my hand and pulled me towards our parents. With one last look at the mysterious boy, I noticed that he was staring at our hands, encased over each other.

"Lily, what were you doing over there?" Teddy asked, nodding towards the boy. I turned and saw him with his parents. His mum was hugging him tightly and his dad was holding onto his hand. The resemblance between him and his dad was shocking.

"Lily can hang with whoever she wants," Dad said, smiling down at me. I smiled as he kissed my forehead lightly.

"But those are the Malfoy's" James said to Dad, looking over at them with distrust.

"Malfoy's, what does that mean?" I asked, confused.

"Never you mind the boys okay? Have fun at school darling." Mum said, smiling at me before turning to stare sternly at my brothers.

"If I hear one more complaint from any of the teachers about you two…"

Hugo and Rose laughed.

"Have fun at school!" Ron said, smiling at all of us.

"Write to us!" Dad said, pulling me, James, Albus and Teddy into a big bear hug.

"Aww, you forgot us!" Rose complained loudly. Everyone laughed, and Dad tried to extend his arm out for both Rose and Hugo too, but there was just too much of us and we kncoked his galsses off.

Laughing, we pulled our luggage onto the train, waving to our parents along the way.

"Hey! That was my heel!" Rose screamed as Albus accidently rammed his luggage forwards.

Albus and Teddy were leading the group, followed by Rose, then me and James, who was too busy playing with his Weasley Self-Exploding Quill.

"Get out of the way Malfoy." James said from behind me. When I heard that name I turned instantly, as did everyone else on the carriage.

The crowds were silent. "Or what Potter?" came that all- to familiar voice. I peered from behind James and noticed that he was there, followed by more of his friends.

"You're invading my personal bubble- so get lost." James replied tightly. His fists were scrunched up, and I knew that wasn't a good sign.

"Hey!" I said loudly, weaving my way between my brother and him. Turning to James, I whispered "Let's go. Mum and Dad won't be too happy to know you got in another fight before we even got to school. Go now!"

He stared down at me and back at Malfoy. "Because my sister said so, but don't let me see your face again." He hissed before grabbing my hand gently and whispering "Come on, let's go and wave to Mum and Dad." But I swore I could see him glare at Malfoy one more time before walking away.

"Oh, she's your sister? Well that just makes her just as filthy as you."

James froze, but Albus had just weaved his way past Hugo and Rose. Pulling out his wand, he said-

"Shut you're trap, and don't let me hear you say anything else about my family in that way again."

Malfoy just stared down Albus with his grayish eyes. "Fine, go defend the blood traitors."

His eyes found mine for a minute, and his expression hardened. "Come on..." he said and the people behind him followed him into his compartment, all giving us death stares along the way.

"Let's go, don't hang around here." Rose urged, pulling James and Hugo by the hand, leaving me and Albus behind.

I stared at the closed door of his compartment. "What was all that?" I whispered to him. Albus shook his head and pulled me after Rose. By the time we found a compartment the train had already started to move. I ran to the window, but the station was only a speck in the distance.

Albus slumped down on a seat next to James and Hugo, and I just sat with Rose.

"You just couldn't control yourself could you?" Rose said angrily out of nowhere.

"You just had to go picking a fight on the first day!" Her eyes zoomed into James' and it turned ice cold.

"He was in my space!" He hissed back.

Rose and James were going to rip each others heads off soon; you could see it in their eyes.

"Stop it!" I yelled, and they all looked at me.

"Now what is going on?"I asked, and Hugo nodded.

"The Malfoy's have been calling our family Blood Traitors for just about forever, even when out parents went school." Rose said quietly, staring out the window, with a lone tear running down her face.

"…Blood Traitor?" I asked quietly, beginning to finally get the picture.

"Yep," Said James, "Wish you'd let me hex him though, Roxanne taught me some really good ones…" he trailed off.

"Speaking of Roxanne, where is she? And Lucy and Fred… haven't seen them since we got at King's Cross…"

But I stopped listening. So he was a Malfoy… The thought made me angry; he had no right to call my family filthy- stupid arrogant egghead.

We spent the rest of the train trip in silence. Rose was put out because of what happened before, Hugo was over excited and was bouncing on his chair, James' was still fuming about what had happened and I was too busy looking for my pendant- I've finally realised it was missing.

"Has anyone seen my pendant?" I asked desperately as the train neared its stop. James looked around the floor, but found nothing.

"What pendant was it?" he asked as we filed out the compartment slowly. The carriage was crowded with eager students, all bustling about noisily.

"It was the one mum bought me for Christmas; you know the locket with our picture? It's the only one I always wear.."

Last year for Christmas mum had bought us all surprises. James got a snowy owl, and he named it Hedwig, after dad's late owl. Albus got a new Firebolt series 2000 (he has great skills as a Seeker, dad was really proud of him) and I got a pure-made goblin gold pendant. It had a carved lily on the front of the locket, with the words Lily Potter, follow your heart, Love mum and dad. I had placed the family picture that was taken that year inside it.

"How could you have lost it?" asked Hugo over the bustle, "I saw you wearing it at King's Cross!"

I shrugged as James picked up my luggage, and holding onto my hand tightly, walked me off the Hogwarts Express. Everyone was walking in different directions, and people kept shoving against each other.

We quickly followed Rose and Albus over to where Teddy and the others were standing. "Hey!! First year, excited?" A pretty girl of about Teddy's age beamed upon me and Hugo.

"Yes Victoire! Oh hey guys!" I said, smiling at Fred, Dominique, Molly, Louis and Roxanne, "Where were you?"

"Oh, we were on the front carriage, all boring, we'd sit by the back next time with you guys." Dominique said, waving her hand carelessly.

"Well here comes Hagrid, see you later you little first years!" Teddy joked, and smiled just as a huge shadow loomed over us.

"Come on then! Bes' of get goin'" Hagrid laughed from behind us.

"Yay! Hagrid!" Hugo squealed, hugging him tightly as the rest of us laughed. The mist was clearing slightly, and through the fog, past Hagrid's silhouette, I saw six people, all in Slytherin robes. One of whom I knew instantly was Malfoy, and he was lookinh in our direction too.

Remembering what I heard on the train, I glared at him, and all of his friends glared back. His hard expression didn't falter though; he just simply looked at me, looked back at something that he was holding, and looked back once again at my company before turning around to leave.

Everyone noticed where I was looking. "Trouble with a Malfoy again?" Fred asked in a hard voice. James nodded, and he and Albus gave me a big warm hug.

"See you in the Sorting..." They whispered before leaving with the others, quickly followed by Rose who was hugging her brother and Victoire who was fixing up Dominique's sweater before kissing her on the forehead.

"Let's go," Hagrid said, waving us along towards the other first years. They were all huddled in a little bunch, all wearing their pointy wizard's hats.

He motioned for all of us to follow him towards the lake (which Albus has told me that there was a giant octopus occupying it). I said to him 'it can't be big enough to hold a giant octopus!'- But I was wrong; it was huge, filled to the top with dark ominous looking clear water.

Hagrid waved his arms once, and all of a sudden a huge boat appeared out of nowhere, waiting for us by the edge of the lake.

"Used to be lots of little row boats," Hagrid explained airily, "but we got so tired of little first years trying to tip each other into the lake- if you asked me, the boats were funner." His eyes found mine and crinkled slightly when he said 'little first years' and somehow I had a weird image of Albus or James tipping boats. It made my lips pull up at the corners.

We all filed into the boat and were shocked to know that there was exactly enough number of seats, no more, no less.

"It's magic," Dominique said simply as we took out seats by the edge of the boat. She sat by the edge, then it was Hugo and me. Another boy sat by my side. He had spiky brown-blonde hair and killer blue eyes. He smiled at me and turned to talk to the girl next to him. She was really pretty, Asian of some sort, had dark hair and deep dark blue eyes.

"Amelia Corner," she said as I shook her hand.

"Lily Potter…"

She smiled and looked pointedly at the boy next to me. When he didn't say anything, she nudged him.

"Liam Bysworth," he said, not looking at me as he shook his hand.

We were soon talking excitedly about Hogwarts and what we house we might be able to be Sorted into.

"My parent's were both Ravenclaw's; I guess I will be too…" Amelia said, shrugging.

Liam said, "I want to be in Griffindor… My parents were in it too."

He and Hugo were soon involved in Quidditch talk and I, Dominique and Amelia were talking about out classes.

"I'd love to do Transfiguration…"

"Nah, Herbology!"

Until we saw the castle- it was huge, it stood out like a star in the night sky, looming over us, with its many countless windows and storey's. Just as out bout neared it, the school's boat house gate opened up, revealing a wise looking old woman.

She was standing on the paved edge of the footpath, just waiting for us. As we stepped out, she gave a curt nod to Hagrid, and ordered us to follow her.

We walked through this tunnel at the end of the boat house; it was lighted by many candles, floating in mid air. Amelia and Liam stayed close by our side, scared and exited.

Soon the hallway came to and end and we entered a giant hall. It was empty but screamed of wisdom and life. Lighted by many chandeliers and decorated by many ancient paintings, it made us breathless. Suits of armor gleamed in the light, as we walked past it. At the other side of the hall was the biggest pair of doors you've ever seen. Standing many meters tall, and made of ancient wood, it loomed over us.

The teacher at the front cleared her throat impatiently as she waited for us to stand still. "My name is Professor McGonagall, and I've taught many of your parent's back in their days, so I'm sure you've all heard of me, and my rules. Break them and you'll face serious consequences." It was true, I had heard of her. Dad and mum seemed to like her just fine, but James hated her.

'She's always nagging!'

'Always around!'

'Always gives us homework!' he'd say.

She waited as she watched our reaction. One by one, we straightened up, and tried to groom ourselves. Liam and Hugo were busy tucking their shirts behind their robes and Amelia was pressing her hair down, watching McGonagall with fear.

"Alright, now follow me and prepare to be Sorted!" she exclaimed as the Great Doors magically opened up, revealing an even bigger hall, all lighted with floating candles and packed to the rafters.

We were greeted by instant silence as everyone watched us walk in. Albus and James waved to me from the table by the far side, both smiling happily- probably because they were finally back at school.

In the middle of the row, in between the middle two tables, was a stool. And on that stool was a weathered old hat. It looked like it might have been burned away at some point, though I wouldn't know. They all watched us as we timidly approached the chair in a straight, single file.

"Now when I call out your name, you will proceed to the front and put on the Sorting Hat. It will then tell you what House you have been Sorted into. Ready? Abberheedy, Kyle!"

So Kyle Abberheedy was a Hufflepuff, and so on so forth. The more names that got called out, the nervous I got as I waited my turn.

"Bysworth, Liam!"

I clapped loudly as a pale looking Liam walked awkwardly over to the stool. Shaking, he lifted up the Hat, but before he even got it anywhere near his head, it screamed "Griffindor!" and the far side table clapped really loud as a relieved Liam joined them.

And then more names got called out.

"Corner, Amelia!"

Amelia, shaking from head to toe, sat on the stool with the Hat on her head for what seemed like minutes before it managed a "Griffindor!"

The far side table clapped again. Amelia was in complete shock, one of the Prefects actually had to stand up, run over and help her. She then sat next to Liam and smiled at me encouragingly.

"Potter, Lily!"

When my name got called out, the hall silenced immediately. People watched as I walked pass, whispering things.

The hat was weathered and huge and when I placed it onto my head, it fell and completely covered my eyes, all the way to the chin.

It didn't say anything. Dad said that the Hat talked to him, and so did Albus. Albus said it asked him what House he wanted to be in the most.

Sitting in silence for a while, the hat finally bellowed, "Griffindor!" and the far side table erupted into the loudest applause of the night.

They even started chanting "We got the Potter's, we got the Potter's"

Walking past Hugo and Rose, I smiled at them encouragingly. But I wasn't very relieved. I would've been, but I was really worried about the pendant. So worried that I had barely noticed that the table I was walking past was completely silent until I heard- "Blood Traitor!"

I stopped, turned around and glared at the female who said it. Typically it was a Slytherin. "What Potter?- it's true." A female with dark hair said, smirking at me. That was when I noticed who she was sitting next to.

With his usual haughty look, Malfoy stared at me coldly, as did his friends. I then noticed the chain he was holding.

"Hey!" I said loudly, and the whole hall went silent. "That's mine!" He stared down at the chain and smiled.

"I know, nice little photo you got there Potter!" he said before throwing the chain back at me. Catching it, I rounded on him.

"How did you get this?" I demanded, but then I remembered, back on the train, when I interrupted James and him, during the bustle I must of knocked it loose.

He smirked "You dropped it. On the floor, where it belonged."

That did it. Sliding my hand into my pocket, I grabbed my wand and pointed it at him.

"Shut your face Malfoy!"

But I couldn't do anything, because that was when James and Albus cut in. I didn't realize that the whole hall was watching, and that the Sorting was already over.

McGonagall was over here pretty fast too.

"What's going on?" She demanded, but James cut in.

"You leave her alone Scorpius, you little coward!"

Scorpius stood up so fast I didn't even see it happening.

"Take that back Potter!" He demanded, his green-grey eyes freezing cold.

"ENOUGH!" bellowed McGonagall.

"Now, you three- back to your tables. Mr. Malfoy, I suggest you sit down."

She watched us leaved before heading up the golden table at the front of the hall.

I was seething, gripping my chain tightly, I turned around and thrust another glare in his direction. All of his friends, excluding him were glaring at us. He was just glaring at his goblet of pumpkin juice. James and Albus each held one of my hands and half dragged me back to the table.

Who does he think he is? That Scorpius…. I was so angry I didn't even eat anything that night, even though I was starving. And when Amelia and Dominique have finished packing their clothes into our dormitory was when I realized it.

If he wanted to taunt me, then I will taunt back. Two will play at this game, and living in a family with two older brothers and a Teddy Lupin who practically lives with us, I'd know how to taunt back. You don't mess with a Potter.

Author's Note:

Please, please review! Even hints will do lol. A (I hated your story!) will also be accepted :P

If I don't get any reviews, then I'm gonna stop this story, so review!

Lol, so Chapter 1 might have been a but boring, but Chaper 2 will definately get juicy.

This was originally a HermioneXDraco fanfic, but I decided that there was already too much of that, :)

xx Kate