Hi, it's James. James Potter.

peace, joy and pancakes - year 1

"Bye Mum, bye Dad! Lily, Albus!", James waved out of the train that was starting to gain speed until they weren't to be seen anymore.

Then he leaned back inside and faced Dominique: "So let's search Luc and Leo, I haven't seen them at the platform."

"I only got a glimpse of Liz, but they're holding one of the compartments for sure.", Dominique said, throwing her long, blond hair back.

"Yeah, Leo is, I've come to search you.", Lucas appeared next to them, "Hey, mates! What's up, what've I missed?"

"Luc! Good to see you!", James said excitedly, "Lead us to the compartment then we can catch up."

Lucas nodded: "Good idea, it's way too loud here. Mini, give me your trunk, I can carry it."

He went down the gangway, passing several compartments until finally entering one.

James and Dominique followed him and saw Leo already sitting there with his owl Obi-Wan, eating a sandwich and occasionally feeding him a bit of it.

"Hi James, Mini!", he said between chewing and picked up the paper his sandwich had been wrapped in to make space.

"Tell me, how were your holidays.", James said, throwing himself on one of the seats.

"Troublesome. So. Troublesome.", Lucas sighed, sitting down next to James.

"What happened?", James snorted.

"You know Allie, my little sister, she broke her arm. At Easter Egg hunt. Because Georgie pushed her away to get to a pack of Chocolate Frogs."

"Georgie is your little brother, right?", Dominique asked.

"Yeah, he's the youngest one and is six years old. Anyway, he pushed Allie so hard she fell down a small slope and broke her arm plus got a concussion. She spent the rest of this and the next day at St. Mungo's and my Mum was going nuts.

My grandparents were watching Georgie and me, but Georgie felt so guilty and bad about everything he wanted to run away. And he did, before we noticed he was already out of town and was going through the forest. You can imagine the panic everyone was going through until we found him when it was already dark, sitting on a stone and crying.

And for the rest of the holidays, Allie let herself being served and pampered."

"Ouch.", James commented, and Dominique added a little bit more sensitive: "But she's alright, right?"

"Of course.", Lucas waved off, "You should've seen the way she could command everybody around until Dad got really angry the day before yesterday. But enough about that, anything interesting happening around you?"

"It was nice, we had a wild Easter Egg Hunt and we did this really great prank at Teddy's birthday.", James grinned.

"Get it out, what did you do?"

"Remember the Hair-Raising Potion we made in class?"

"You did not.", Lucas called out absolutely thrilled.

"We did. And how we did. So. Great. You should've seen everyone, the whole family was there and everyone had his hair raised up. It looked best with the long hair of the girls, we even made a picture. But I don't have it with me unfortunately. We didn't even get in trouble."

"Oh, how great it would've been to see that!", Lucas grinned wistfully.

The compartment door suddenly opened and Elizabeth stuck her head in.

"Hi, guys, is it okay if I join you?"

"Hop in, it's always okay.", Dominique smiled warmly and Elizabeth dragged her trunk in.