2 January 1977, King's Cross Station

[lilium_evansiae]

Lily has always, in some ways, been happy to go back to Hogwarts when term begins again. She misses Hogwarts, misses her friends, misses magic, misses that whole ever-more-significant piece of her life.

And, this particular break, she has also missed James.

(Speaking of ever-more-significant pieces of her life.)

So, as much as she loves her parents, as much as she enjoys being home and spending time with them, it's with a certain amount of relief that Lily steps through the barrier, two steps ahead of her father, and onto Platform 9 3/4.

She might be standing up on her toes, just a bit, trying to get a better look at the crowd of students and parents waiting next to the Hogwarts Express.

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[alotofgood]

"James, what's the rush?"

"There's no rush," the boy in question replies, though he finds he has to put a deliberate slowness into each step just to remain with his father and a rather sullen-looking Sirius Black trailing some few paces behind.

Okay.

James may have spent most of the morning going on about how glad he is to see Lily again.

And that may have gotten a little on Sirius' nerves, if the murderous cutting of his pancakes is anything to go by.

But ... letters simply aren't good enough. And while break was brilliant, the new term will be even better.

Lily's mane of bright red hair is easy enough to spot amongst everything else. And it is the very sight of her that — corny as it sounds — stops him short, and catches his breath.

"Lily!" he calls loudly before he can stop himself.