When We Were Kids

Two

After Dumbledore gave his speech and everyone ate, the houses were lead back to their respective common rooms. The Gryffindor prefects lead the first-years in front of the group. They explained to the students about the portrait, which was called 'The Fat Lady', that allowed entrance into the common room. One prefect told them about having to have a password and that it was currently 'dung tail', which caused most the first-years to break into laughter, the three boys included.

As they approached the portrait, excited whispering broke out. Everyone was stoked to see what the common room looked like and who they would dorm with. When the portrait swung open, everyone rushed through it. The three friends got pushed to the back, not at excited as everyone else, apparently.

"This is the common room. Everyone is allowed to be in here. There is no curfew in this room, but McGonagall prefers all students to be out by midnight. She won't discipline you if she finds you here later than that, though. The boy's dormitory is to the left and the girls is to the right. As you will soon find out, the stairs to the girl's dormitory are bewitched to turn into a slide if a boy tries to go up them. The boy's stairs have no such bewitching." The boy prefect winked, earning a slap from his girl counterpart.

"Boys, if you will follow me, we will head up to your dormitory. Dorm assignments are posted on the doors. You trunks have already been sent up." The boy prefect lead them up the stairs. When they got up, there was a long hallway lined with doors on either side. "Before I let you go, breakfast begins at 6 am tomorrow morning and ends at 10 am. You will get your schedules at breakfast tomorrow, so make sure you are there. You are not permitted to be anywhere outside of the Gryffindor tower after 11 pm. If anyone sees you, you will get into trouble. Don't be stupid. Now, have a good night!"

Sirius was the first to find the dorm he was assigned to, which was lucky for everyone else as they were all rooming together. James, Sirius, and Remus entered the room to find another boy already there. Four to a room it seemed.

"Good evening! My name is James. This is Sirius and Remus. What's your name?" James introduced themselves to the new boy. He smiled nervously at them from where he was sitting on his bed.

"My name is Peter. Nice to meet you. I see we're all roommates?" The boy told them, his voice very quiet.

"It seems like it!" Sirius agreed, jumping on one of the beds. "This one's mine!"

"This one's mine!" James mimicked, jumping on the bed to Sirius' left.

"I guess this one's mine, then." Remus laughed, sitting on the remaining bed. "It's nice to have a bed, I'm exhausted."

"Me too. But I'm too excited to sleep. This is awesome. I want to explore the castle!" James said, jumping up from the bed.

"You don't have long, it's already 10 o'clock." Remus reminded him, checking his watch.

"Oh ho ho. But I have a secret." James said, going over to his trunk and digging through it before pulling something out. It was like a cloak, but it was silver and flowy and looked bizarre.

"Is that an invisibility cloak?" Remus exclaimed, jumping up from his bed to examine the cloak.

"Indeed. So it doesn't matter how long I stay out if I have this little thing with me." James smiled from ear to ear, throwing the cloak around his shoulders. His body disappeared, so it looked like he was a floating head. The other three boys gasped.

"That's amazing! How many people fit under that thing?" Sirius asked, poking James' torso to make sure he was still there (he was).

"Two, if you wanna come. But only two. So you'll have to fight over it." James told them.