New Friends

They found an empty compartment, slowly made their way into it before putting the suitcases up above them and then sitting down facing each other. Philip let Fen out of his robes whilst Fen started bouncing around the small compartment for a short while before promptly sitting on Philips lap and looking proud.

After a few minutes of talking, they noticed the train doors close and then a loud whistle going off, they knew that the train was about to leave and thus shuffled along closer to the compartments windows to try and find Fleamont and Euphemia's figures, outside were both Fleamont and Euphemia stood there waving with the brightest smiles they could both muster.

Harry and Philip felt a little sad when they realised that they wouldn't be able to see their grandparents for a year, and to them, it was a rather big thing. Having spent over 11 years of their lives with their grandparents, they naturally got very use to being in their presences. Even Philip had eventually warmed up to them and can now smile gently around them.

They both sent a smile with a wave back to their two grandparents before the train started moving along slowly. They kept staring out of the window at them until they had finally made it out of the train station.

Harry had a few tears rolling down his face which he didn't realise until Philip had mentioned it. After a short while, they went back to normal with Philip reading a book and Harry making conversation every once in a while.

It was a rather peaceful train journey, with mostly open fields or mountains that greeted their eyes. Philip would either be reading a book, playing with Fen whilst also partaking in the conversation with Harry as usual. Finally, a while in, they had a kind old woman stop by the compartment and offer them some snacks and drinks for the rest of the journey.

Harry looked like he wanted them but also looked at Philip first to know whether they should or not. Clearly Harry really wanted to see the sweets and chocolate to which Philip rolled his eyes at, but still accepted regardless. They decidedly got 2 of each and decided to test out the different flavours.

There was a few sweets and chocolate in which they hadn't seen before, which made for quite a change so it seemed as though it was worth the money. Aside from the old lady, they hadn't really had any visitors. There was a few people who would wave at them as they walked past but no one really engaged in a conversation between them.

It was then, when they were just finished on eating some snacks that they saw a girl skipping her way through the middle of the compartments, when she saw the compartment only had Harry and Philip in it, she came to a stop at the entrance of their compartment. She first looked at Fen acting all smugly as he played around, but then her eyes traveled up to Philip where they seemed to rest for quite a while.

Harry saw the girl at the compartment entrance staring at his brother and tried to make conversation since it seemed a little awkward and he knew his brother didn't like the attention he got too much,

"Um, hello there.. is there anything we can help you with?" Harry said as politely as possible to which he got no initial response, "Ummmm, excuse me? hello?" he said once more.

She still appeared to be in a stupor and hadn't noticed that he was talking to her. Finally, Philip's eyes lifted from the book he was reading as he gazed directly into the girls eyes, only then did she finally snap out of it.

"Ah, um.. I'm so sorry! was you saying something?" She said as she hurriedly looked away from Philip and trained her eyes to the boy that was trying to talk to her.

"I was just wondering if we could help you with anything" Harry said with a curt smile.

"Ah, ah, ummm if it's okay.. I mean, do you mind if I join you in this compartment..? the other compartments are full currently" The girl said whilst looking down at the floor and back at Harry.

Harry looked towards Philip once first before answering, "Ah, um, I'm sorry but"

"it's fine" Philip finished, he knew Harry was trying to give him some peace and quiet but they were all going to a school where people would literally be around every corner, he would have to talk to others eventually regardless of whether he liked it or not.

The girl had shoulder-length hazelnut brown hair with misty blue eyes, a slim face making for quite the beautiful appearance. She hurriedly sat down in the compartment next to Harry on the right side almost as though she was afraid the boys might change their minds. Philip looked back at his book once more whilst Harry decided to try and make the situation a little less awkward,

"Well, hello there.. my name is Harry P-, Nice to meet you." Harry said as he cut himself off and stuck out his hand towards the girl offering a handshake.

The girl snapped back to Harry looking a bit strange that the boy hadn't given his full name but thought nothing of it, "Ah, my name is Lilith Devonayrs, but you can just call me Lili for short. It's nice to meet you too" Lilith said whilst accepting Harry's handshake.

Lilith then turned towards Philip half-expectantly whilst Harry just gazed at Philip with a small smile.

"U, ummm it's nice to meet you too, ?" Lilith said trying to make conversation with Philip.

Philip gazed at her outstretched hand for a second, before resting his book on Fen's head and promptly receiving her handshake, "Philip... Philip Potter." Philip replied.

Lilith looked forth in shock, "B-but you can't possibly mean.. surely not? You're one of the boys who lived?" she asked in a curious voice to which Philip just gazed at her and nodded his head with no change in expression.

"But then, surely that'd mean you should have a twin brother..? ah! I see! Harry.. Potter! how could I not realise... you two are the twins that survived..!" Lilith said in a small fangirly voice. Harry and Philip replied with just small nods whilst Harry smiled bitterly.

Lilith realised she had spoken of the situation without realising that it must hurt the two boys to think about it, "I-I'm so sorry for not being tactful! Please forgive me!" Lilith said as she flew up whilst bowing her head slightly towards the two boys.

This made Harry flustered, after all, whilst it was a bitter to think about, it's not like he could actually really remember anything of what transpired and thus it wasn't all that bad.

"Please raise your head, it's fine honestly.. it was a long time ago now" Harry said to Lilith whilst raising her back to her feet.

Soon after Lilith sat back down, there was a small knock on the compartment door that seemed to be loud amongst the silent awkward situation. "Ah! so this is where you've been, Lili!" a rather loud girls voice rang out. Lilith knew who it was straight away from the voice, "Oh, Hermione! what took you so long?" Lilith said to the newcomer.

"Well, I was just helping some boy named Neville look for his toad.. but we couldn't find it so I gave up. I see you found an emptier compartment for us finally." The girl said as she made her way into the compartment and sat down next to Philip. Lilith sat back down whilst looking between the girl and Philip constantly.

This newcomer-girl had long bushy brown hair with a delicate face and dark brown, clear eyes.

The girl then turned to face Harry, "Holy cricket... you're Harry Potter. I'm Hermione Granger, it's a pleasure to meet you" She then turned to face Philip, "And you are?"

Philip gazed into Hermione's eyes, "Philip, Philip Potter. Pleasure to meet you." to which she looked slightly shocked when realising how good-looking the boy was making her slightly stutter,

"I-it's a pleasure to meet you too" Hermione replied as she hurriedly looked back towards Lilith.

Philip went back to reading his book whilst listening in on the conversation that the other three were having. It turned out that Hermione and Lilith knew each other from way back and were both from muggle families, they had been best friends since they were both around 5 years old. Philip let the two girls play with Fen because he kept feeling gazes locked on him, he just assumed it was that the girls wanted to play with Fen.

Although the girls were slightly disappointed, they still played with the dog, just as Fen did with them albeit slightly reluctantly both ways. Fen just wanted to be with Philip whilst the girls wanted him to be more proactive in the conversations.

Hermione had striked up a conversation a few times about the books he read and such to which Philip would reply happily, but when it came to normal conversations, he only usually spoke a few words here and there.

Like so, a few hours had passed. Suddenly, you could hear someone shouting down the corridor telling everyone to get into their robes as they was getting close to Hogwarts now.

"We'll go out and get ready first, and then we'll come back in so you two can go get changed." Hermione said to Harry and Philip which she got two nods in return.

Once all was said and done, they were dressed in their new robes leaving for a very small stupor in the eyes of both Hermione and Lilith when they saw Philip in his uniform, even Harry looked good in his whilst Philip looked more like a scholar than a student when he wore the uniform.

Shortly after, they were all called out of the compartment. Philip pulled out his wand and called down all their luggage with the Wingardium Leviosa spell leaving Hermione and Lilith a little stunned before both smiling slightly.

They all made their way off of the Hogwarts Express train and began to line up in order, with the group of four nearer to the front. When they looked ahead, they saw a rather large male with a lantern in his hand. He had a very long, frilly brown beard and ruff of hair atop his head, with a very large figure and muggle-like clothing.

The man was looking through the crowd before his eyes finally landed on Philip and Harry.

Harry was also looking at the man as he gazed between him and his brother whilst Philip still had his face down within a book.

The man gave a gentle smile before speaking out, "Hello again, Harry and Philip... I know you two probably don't remember me, but it's not our first time meeting" the man said whilst smiling towards Harry and Philip.

Philip looked up from his book whilst Harry was looking at the man too, both of them were trying to think if they ever met such a man, but nothing came to mind. The man quickly realised it wasn't the place for such things and decidedly changed the topic, they'd have time to catch up later after all.

"Right then, if all you first years would kindly follow me, we'd best start making our way to Hogwarts now" the man said as he turned around and started leading all of them away.

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Well, first... i'm going to have to get Hagrid's speech on lockdown cause I completely forgot that he speaks in a very old english manner with a strong accent lol.

Did you notice that this chapter has been almost twice the size as a usual one?.. well you'd be right, it's just around double the size of 1 usual chapter.. so enjoy! (It's just my excuse cause I had to try and fit it all in, after all, there's only these 2 chapters for the rest of the week and I said i'd try to get them to Hogwarts THIS week lmao.)

Do you like the new girl I added? I felt like it should make a subtle balance between the female to male ratio in terms on the entourage. This Doesn't mean I didn't take the poll into account! Ron is there with them, but not in the entourage any longer, if you're even more curious as to where he was instead... well you'll just have to wait and see ;)

But on another serious note, here is a picture of what Lilith/Lili should look like when she grows into her teen years, or rather, this is who I pictured her from: http://marieclaire.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Untitled-467x627.jpg hopefully you all think this is a suitable look for a girl that's a wizard, quite beautiful and also adds some more flavour and mystery to the scenes.

Now, I know what you may be thinking. And you're right for the most part, Philip is and will be a 'Prince Charming' to almost all girls in this, however, if I was to be frank, it doesn't mean they all want to sit on his d*ck okay! this won't be a harem.. we're at least trying to have some semblance of a 'realistic' wizardry world. Now, i'm not saying he'll possibly date one girl throughout the whole story and that is it, that no other girl will have a chance for him. I'm simply saying, when it comes towards the end, and he actually falls in love with a girl, it'll be One girl, not multiple.

I'm trying to think if I missed anything.. well, not that I can think of. Hmmm, well, actually, I guess now that I say that, I could give some form or reward for those who chose to read through all of this thus far. [Spoileeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbutnotreallytho] Harry and Philip won't be in the same Houses.

Enjoy :)

Oh, and last thing, if you're wondering why it's only 1 chapter today, it's because I decided to do one today and one tomorrow so it's spread out a little bit for you, otherwise you'd be waiting until monday for the next 2. Also! I need your help once more! (kinda), what house do you think Lilith should be placed in? Vote here!: https://www.strawpoll.me/17969794 This poll is a Short one, so it'll only be applicable for around 12 hours from this being posted~ (so I can actually get the next chapter up lol)