Friendship Will Never Fade

As the eleven year old Sirius Black motioned towards the end carriage on the Hogwarts express, his trunk gave way and as he tried with all his strength he could not manage to lift it into the carriage. As he was beginning to get annoyed he felt a sharp tap on his shoulder and he looked around to see a boy with messy black hair and brown eyes. 'Need any help?'

'Yes please' said the agitated boy.

As both Sirius black and the boy he did not know tried to heave the heavy trunk into the carriage neither of them knew that this encounter would lead them to many years of close friendship.

In one big 1-2-3 they managed to throw the heavy trunk into the carriage with one ear-splitting slam and within seconds the messy haired boy shouted 'Now you have to help me with mine!' With that one sentence the boy with no name smiled one big ear to ear smile.

A mere ten minutes later both boys were sat comfortably in the Hogwarts express carriage with the annoying heavy trunks to the side.

'I'm James Potter pleased to meet you.' said the brown eyed boy.

'Sirius Black.'

Was it just him or did this kid Sirius Black seem to be upset with him thought James. He had only tried to help him with his trunk.

'Are you ok?' Said James trying to keep the air of concern out of this conversation he did not want Sirius to think he felt sorry for him – They had only known each other for about twenty minutes.

'Why do you ask?' Sirius spoke these words carefully not wanting to sound accusatory.

'You just look upset that's all.'

'Well that's not in your concern!' shouted Sirius.

'I'm sorry I was only wondering!' James Potter Shouted even louder.

'Hey – Hey – HEY!' shouted a young sandy haired boy with a fair few scars on his face and arms looking like he had been in a duel but he was far to young to pass the scars off as that.

'What's all the shouting for?'

'Keep your nose out!' said Sirius black with a note of venom in his voice.

'Don't talk to him like that! He only wanted to know!' said James. He was really beginning to dislike this boy.

'Sorry I just have something on my mind.'

'And what would that something be?'

'Oh it's just my mother.' Liking the way this boy seemed to care about him.

'Well we all know mothers can be annoying. I'm Remus Lupin by the way.' said the scarred boy.

'You should meet my mother she can't leave me for five minutes without shouting at me. Like the way she left me to come all the way to this platform on my own. If my cousin andromeda had not told me how to get onto platform 9 and ¾ I would probably be standing there still, trying to work it out!' said Sirius, he had been wanting to get this out of him for so long, he had never had any real friends. His family would only let him mix with relatives or 'pureblood' families which were very hard to find.

'Sorry I shouted at you Sirius.' James said happily. James was adamant that him, Sirius and Remus were going to be good friends. Then he felt a sudden jolt in his brain and a million questions started popping in. What if they weren't sorted in the same house? He was sure he would be in Gryffindor but what about Remus and Sirius. James tried to stop these questions entering his head. Then he managed to blurt out 'What houses do you think you will be in?' James asked. Hoping to hear the sound of Gryffindor.

'Well all of my family are in slytherin but I'm hoping to change and be placed in a different house I hate having to think about carrying on the tradition of going into slytherin.' said Sirius. His mum would absolutely kill him if he was put in Gryffindor but he could not explain the hope that he would be placed in red and gold.

'I've read about the houses I would hate to be in slytherin, hufflepuff doesn't seem that bad but it's between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor for Me.' said Lupin in a very professional voice.

James thought this answer was much revised and thought it was quite funny. James started chuckling and to his astonishment so did Sirius, after a few puzzling moments Remus joined in too.

As the three new friends charged away from the train they were shocked to see a giant man with bushy dark hair and beetle black eyes.

'I wonder who that is.'

'My dad told me he was the gamekeeper' replied James.

'Firs' years fir's years over here in the boats!' bellowed the man with the bushy hair and beetle black eyes.

'No we can't go in the boats!' whispered James.

'Why not?' said Remus still chuckling to himself from the joke James had told in the carriages.

'Because – because I can't tell you, you will laugh' said James with terror in his voice as they walked towards the boats.

'Oh I know what's wrong! You're scared of boats! Ha-ha!. There's nothing to be scared of mate!' laughed Sirius.

'It's not the boats you idiot! It's the water I've been scared of water ever since I went fishing with my dad and I fell in!' hissed James.

'I'll tell you what! Just don't look down to see the water!' said Remus in an I'm-so-clever voice.

'I'll have a go but if I fall in Sirius, I'll pull you in too. I'm scared of boats? Only an idiot would suggest that.' said James with a look of disgust.

'It was a joke' said Sirius in an unconvincing voice.

'Hey Sirius look at that cute red head over there' said James in a she-needs-me voice.

'James she so wrong for you – she nice looking' suddenly after Sirius mentioned this he burst into an extremely loud bark of laughter.

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