I am not Afraid; a Remus Lupin love story

"ALL ABORD!!"

Charlotte's POV

The alarm blared for the fourth time in 10 minutes I moved my hand to snooze it when I caught the time; 7:30 AM SEP 1. "HOLY COW I need to get up!!!" I thought as I sprang out of bed and all but leaped to the closet. "CHAR!! we need to leave the house at 8, if we want to make it to the train on time!!" my mother yelled from downstairs. "I know, I know! I'm trying to hurry!" I yelled back. My eyes rapidly looked over my clothes, until I found the perfect thing! I quickly put on jeans, and a yellow puffy blouse and my sandals. I then ran in the bathroom to put on my make up and brushed my hair & teeth, before returning to my room to gather my things and run down the stairs. At this point it was 7:55, mom ran over a check list just to make sure I had everything (but at this point in the game what could we really do.) Promptly at 8:00 we were out the door.

Mom and I looked for the platform for about 10 minutes until we finally asked someone, who just looked at us like we were crazy. A girl over heard us and walked up and introduced her self "Hi, sorry. I don't mean to interrupt, but I overheard your conversation, I'm Lilly Evans and I can show you were the platform is." "Oh that would be just great!" I said "I'm Charlotte Maxwell and this is my mom."

"Alright, its nice to meet you both! Now if you will follow me please..." she walked over and stood between platforms 9 & 10 "...okay now all you have to do is go straight through this wall." Lilly said just as calm as ever, even though my mom and I were probably looking as her like she was crazy. "hahah okay no really, what do we do." I asked her, we never did anything like this in America. "Honestly it really is just that simple, here we can go together," she came and stood next to me, "now just run at the wall on three and close your eyes, Mrs.Maxwell you follow after us, Okay?" mom looked at her uneasy but nodded. "Ready?!" Lilly asked excitedly to me "As I'll ever be" I told her while thinking that only crazy people follow other crazy people into walls. "1...2...3!!" and we started running until I felt a gush of wind, then heard the sound of people. I opened my eyes and could not believe it. Right in front of me stood a gleaming Locomotive with red cars, the Hogwarts Express. "See, I'm not crazy after all, am I?" Lilly winked at me, "No, you're not" I said back still looking at the train. "Whoa..." I heard mom say behind me, just then a man leaned out the express and called "ALL ABORD!!" and right on que all the students ran onto the train. I turned to mom for a goodbye hug and kiss, and the quickly ran to the train with Lilly so we could get a seat.

Remus's POV

Peter, James, Sirius, and I sat in our same compartment that we always do on our way back to our favorite place, Hogwarts. James spoke up "Alright guys, this year I'm going to continue my friendship with Evans, and maybe that will make her miss me and decide that she actually has always loved me!" "HA! the first part sounds great prongs but the second part don't bet any money on it," Sirius told him while peter and I snickered. "Whatever you guys!" A whole 4 hours had passed, we'ed had about 15 Chocolate Frogs each and played at least 40 games of Exploding Snap and we still had an hour left. "I am full and ready to get off," Pete told us from the floor he was curenly laying on, "yeah, me too" agreed James, "well then let's go check out the train," Sirius said. As he said this he stood and walked out. We managed to find some of our other friends and kill another 30 minutes, then we put snaps under the seats in the bathroom and waited to hear the screams of the surprised first years. After all this, we headed back to our compartment and put on our robes. Finally, the supervisor came around and told us to get ready to get off the train, we gathered up our left over candy and sat as the Hogwards Express pulled into the station.

When we stepped off the train I felt once again the easy feeling of being home, James spotted a flash of red hair get into one of the carriages and practically ran to get in the same one. I followed him while Sirius and Peter had to find another one from the lack of room. My heart nearly jumped out of my chest as I realized that I was sitting in front of a brown haired blue-eyed girl I had recently met. I gulped and tried to kill the butterflies in my stomach, I told my self  would not get attached. "Hey Charlotte, how was the ride here for ya?" I asked her trying not to look directly at her without loosing my confidence. "You know, it wasn't that bad! Lilly introduced me to some of her friends and we really hit it off!" she responded, "Oh thats great, are you nervous for the sorting?" "YES! I do not want to be in a 'bad house'" "I'm sure it will be alright, it's just you probably don't want to be in Slytherin, that would suck.", "yeah", James bud in "that whole house sucks, at like everything." "That's very nice vocabulary, James" Lilly said sarcastically, but James just smiled at her like it was the greatest thing she could've told him. When we arrived to school and made it in Charlotte went with the first years to be sorted while the rest of us wished her luck and went to the great hall for the feast. I prayed real hard that she would be sorted into my house, but I never do get very lucky.