On September 1st Kings Cross was always full of strange people carrying owls in cages and funny trunks the conductor noticed after many years of working at the station. Although he never approached these people- that would be rude – he always wondered what exactly it was they were doing and what was so great happening between platforms 9 and 10. The conductor was dismissing these thoughts and climbing aboard his next train when he bumped into one of those funny people. This particular person had black hair that looked like it had never met a brush in its life; their glasses had dropped revealing their brown eyes.
James Potter had been running late when his glasses had slipped down and he ran into the conductor. "Sorry Sir." James muttered before continuing to his destination. When he approached the platforms 9 and 10 James Potter did a thing most unexpected. Instead of going to either one platform or the other James gave a quick glance around and ran straight at the pillar between the two, and if you thought this was strange what came next was even stranger; instead of crashing into the wall like one normally would James disappeared straight through it!
On the other side of the wall James arrived on another platform with a scarlet train waiting for boarding, families scattered everywhere wishing their goodbyes, a sign hung over the whole scene that read 'Platform 9 ¾"
On the train James made his way through the crowds of people nodding 'hello' as he went. He had made it half way through the train when he must have found what he was looking for because he stopped outside a compartment. The door flew open and a tall muscular figure with black hair effortlessly flicked around their face and grey eyes. Appeared. The smile on this new characters face grew when it saw James, "Sirius!" James exclaimed as he hi-fived the new character now named Sirius. "James!" Sirius' hand met James in the hi-five. The two of them stepped through the compartment door where two other boys lay inside reclined on the seats. One was tall with hair that was not yet brown and almost too dark for blonde, the other was short and lumpy and appeared to be out of place amongst the other boys. "Remus, Peter!" James beamed at his too friends, it had been a long summer and he was eager to catch up on lost valuable pranking time.
They boys settled, Remus had made prefect this year so he excused himself early and went to attend to those duties and Peter had gone on a trolley hunt, which just left the James and Sirius alone in the compartment, "Have you seen her yet" Sirius asked James. James just shook his head "No I was late to the train and didn't see her on my way here, do you think she's avoiding me?" James had a crush on a girl in their year with dark red hair and the greenest eyes you had ever seen. Lily Evans (the girl of James' affection) was also the top of every class, meaning she despised and often didn't have time for people like James who concentrated themselves more on disrupting class than learning from it. These types of feelings were beyond Sirius who just saw girls as a way to keep him amused and no more, but was kind of jealous of James having these feelings- even if it did drive him crazy hearing about it.
Remus waltzed back into the carriage. "Five minutes until we get to Hogwarts, you two might want two change." He said before walking before leaving them to themselves.