Pretty Girls

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On September 1st, Teenagers from all around England gathered at Kings Cross station. They all hung around platforms 9 and 10, waiting for their turn to walk straight through the barrier separating the platforms, into platform 9 and ¾.

I leaned against my trunk casually, trying not to draw attention to myself. I waited until I could go through the barrier. After about 5 minutes it was my turn. After looking around checking that there was no lost-looking muggle-born first years wondering around aimlessly, I casually walked into the barrier, pulling my trunk and cat (Teddy) with me.

As soon as I entered Platform 9 and ¾ a girl with bright red hair, pale skin and emerald eyes ran up to me screaming. Lily and I hugged. After being apart for the summer, it was good to see each other again.

"It's so good to see you! Where's Alice?" I asked once Lily and I broke apart. Alice Williams was another friend of ours. She was a Gryffindor, as were Lily and I, at our school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Beside us was a scarlet steam train, that was about to take us to Hogwarts in 10 minutes.

"With Frank Longbottom, apparently they live in the same town and got together over the summer. But she somehow forgot to mention it in her letters and when she came over to my house for a week. Honestly, I don't know why that girl doesn't tell us anything, we've been her best friends for 5 years." Lily said.

"Wow, I can't believe we're already in year 6, seems like just yesterday we were boarding this train for the first time" I mused.

"You say that every year."

We waited for our other friends in silence, every now and then saying hello to other students.

"Lily! Effie!" somebody said from behind us. I turned around to see a girl with shoulder length black hair and pale skin run up to us. A nervous looking boy trailed behind her. "It's so good to see you guys. Oh, this is Frank, in seventh year? You've met him right?" Alice was practically jumping up and down in excitement. "This is going to be such a good year. I can't wait to get back to Hogwarts!"

"Alice, I might go find some of my friends, I'll see you later." Frank kissed Alice on the cheek and left.

"Oh. My. God. Frank Longbottom is such a god!" Alice squealed

"Yeah, totally" I scoffed

"Whatever Effie, I don't see you with anyone. Just because I don't go for looks alone." Alice glared at me. Honestly, I loved Alice to death, and I'm sure she felt the same about me, but she's always so energetic, it gets tiring.

"Don't start guys. I'm so sick of your bickering." Lily sighed. She always had to make peace between Alice and me, even though they're not very serious fights.

We boarded the train, looking for an empty compartment. After searching for about 5 minutes, we finally found one and started to chat about school, boys and our OWL results. Everything was calm before four boys walked into our compartment and sat down. I sighed.

"Well hello ladies, how are you doing today?" A boy with jet black hair, lightly tanned skin and stormy grey eyes smirked.

"We were fine until you came Black" I glared at the boy. Sirius Black. Possibly the most arrogant boy I've ever met. I curse the day he was born, hey that's pretty good. I'll save it for later.

"What's your problem Effie? Haven't hooked up in the past minute?" Sirius smirked, again! That boy needs to find a new facial expression.

"Like you can talk" I retorted. Ok, it's true, I am known for dating a lot of boys, but it's not like I snog everything that moves, unlike somebody I know!

"Shut up you two." said another boy with the messiest black hair I have ever seen! He had warm hazel eyes and thin glasses. James Potter, my cousin.

The other two boys were called Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. Remus had light brown hair and was always look tired. He had a long, white scar from his mouth to his ear. Although he looked quite frightening with his scars, he was one of the kindest boys I've ever met. He's practically my brother and tells me all his secrets. Well, he only really has one secret, he's a werewolf. I was quite shocked at first, but I knew Remus to well to judge him. Peter was shorter than the other three, who were tall and muscular. He was a bit pudgy and had small, watery blue eyes.

The Marauders, as they liked to call themselves. The most popular boys in school and the biggest trouble makers I've ever met. I thought they were a bit of fun (besides Sirius, who was just plain annoying)but Lily hated rule-breakers and usually refused to be within 10 feet of James Potter, who was completely in love with her and did everything he could to impress her. Unfortunately, he also bullied some people mercilessly, including her old best friend Severus Snape. But last year Snape called Lily a Mudblood (a dirty word used to insult a muggle-born) after repeatedly making fun of her with his Slytherin friends and she stopped trying to be nice to him.

The Marauders were probably the hottest boys in school, everybody knew it and every girl, no matter what, had had a crush on at least one of them in their school life. Second year I had a bit of a crush on Remus, but I quickly realised he was just a friend to me.

"So, you girls surprise me. Obviously the prettiest girls in our year, no wait, the whole school! And not one of you has gone out with me, yet, besides you Effie, but I don't think sluts count" Sirius said, blowing his hair out of his eyes, waiting for my reaction. I went bright red and tried to cover my face.

"Give her a break Padfoot." James muttered to his friend angrily. James was very protective over me and even though he hated every single guy I dated because he "wasn't good enough for me", he also hated the way Sirius teased me.

"Why don't you guys leave now?" Lily shoved them out of the compartment door and slammed it shit, locking it this time. "Don't listen to him Effie, it's just because you're the first girl who's ever dumped him."

The girls started chatting again, talking about the upcoming year. They were all curious to where their other friend is.

"Maybe she's a prefect?" Alice pondered for a moment "Nah, who am I kidding. Not even Dumbledore would make Hazel a prefect"

"Effie Fraiser, Lily Evans and Alice Williams, didn't you wonder where I was?" Hazel Davies shouted through the door, while trying to pull it open.

"Speak of the devil!" Alice jumped up and unlocked the door to let Hazel in. "We were just wondering where you were."

"I, ladies and, er, ladies was in the prefects compartment. Do you want to know why? Because Dumbledore made me, ME, a prefect. Can you believe it?"

"Congratulations Hazel" Lily looked a little jealous, but happy at the same time.

Hazel Davies. Where to start. Her mother is from Italy and her father is English. She lived in Italy until she was 10, getting English lessons from her father. She can speak fluent Italian and English. Her mother is a goddess, and Hazel inherited her looks. She had dark olive skin, long, silky, think black hair, perfectly full lips, big, deep brown eyes and the most amazing body I have ever seen. She's absolutely crazy, I can't even count the number of tight spots she's got us in, in the past, although she is amazingly loyal and will always be there for you when it counts. As you can imagine boys pretty much fall at her feet.

"Anyway, guess who just asked me out?" Hazel gushed

"Who?" the other three girls chanted in unison, Hazel got over-excited for every boy who asked her out, although she was always disappointed because they weren't what she was expecting them to be, aka not perfect.

"Amos Diggory! He is such a sex god!" Hazel sighed. Her eyes glazed over as she thought of Amos. She was right, Amos was easy on the eyes, too bad his brain was mush.

The rest of the train ride passed easily. It pretty much consisted of Hazel telling us about an Italian boy she met while at her grandmothers and how sad she was that it had to end.

"She doesn't seem so sad one week later, she's already going out with another guy" I muttered to Lily, who snorted into her Pumpkin Pasty.

The train finally made it to Hogsmeade station, I grabbed Teddy, who didn't like cages and walked to the carriages waiting for us on a thin dirt road. After the short ride up to the castle, the delicious feast, Dumbledore's quirky speech and sitting around the fire with Lily, Hazel and Alice gossiping for about an hour, I was glad to finally be in my bed. This year is going to be awesome.

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