The Marauders

The Hogwarts Express

1st September 1971

James Potter is not what you would call an average boy. Yes, he looked normal, black scruffy hair that looked like it hadn't been brushed in years, glasses that he had to push up his nose every once in a while as they were to big. But then main weird thing was, he was a wizard, like many others. In fact, he just ran through a wall in a train station to get to get to platform 9 and 3/4. He was going to wizard school - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

James wondered onto the platform alone, his parents didn't want to go with him. But James new what he was doing, he was a pure blood, both his parents had gone to Hogwarts and it all came to him just like magic... literally.

The scarlet red train was sitting here on the rails. "Wow" James muttered to himself. Without another word he got on board. He looked in all the compartments, trying to find an empty one, he spotted one that looked empty, but no, there was a boy who had very dark, long, greasy hair sitting with a pretty girl, James sighed and carried on walking down the train. When he found an empty compartment he sat there instantly.

Within 5 minutes of sitting down a tall, confident-looking boy walked up to James' compartment, "hey, can I sit here, I'm new too". He smiled, "yeah yeah, sure" James smiled. This was it, his first friend at the new school. "Sirius Black", said the boy sitting down, "excuse me?" James replied confused. "That's my name, what's yours?" he chucked. "Oh, yeah, James Potter" he smiled back. For the rest of the journey they sat, and talked.

"My entire family is Slytherin, I hate it, I want to be a Gryffindor! The brave and the bold!" said Sirius, over exaggerating. "My family are Gryffindor's, I don't blame you for hating Slytherin" said James smiling.

When they arrived there was excitement everywhere. "First years!" called over a hairy man, every first year went over to the river, Sirius started making fun of people and whispering names to James, "Greasy, Pretty girl who likes grease, nerd, goofy." The list went on and James couldn't hold back his laughter. They got on a boat, with the two that Sirius had called 'nerd' and 'goofy'. "H-hello" said goofy, "My names Peter..." he said a little nervous, "hello Peter, I'm Sirius, this is James." he said proudly. "Who are you?"James asked the nervous looking 'nerd', "Remus Lupin" he replied quietly. "Well would you look at this!" Sirius shouted, "we've formed a squad! We know each others names!" he cried sarcastically, which made them, and others in a few other boats laugh.