Story: The Marauders: Through the Years
Chapter 1: The First Train Journey
A/N: This is my first fanfiction, so please be nice. My keyboard is not processing all the letters, so if you see anything that I missed, please let me know in a review. Oh yeah, this chapter won't be completely what it is in the books; I don't have the Deathly Hallows with me right now, to copy it down. Let's start the story…
Waving goodbye to his parents, James Potter walked to an empty compartment. Grinning, he sat down. He couldn't believe that he was finally going to Hogwarts. He'd waited eleven years for it, and sure enough, the letter had come, addressed to Mr J. Potter, the Second-Biggest Bedroom. He'd torn open the letter, ran screaming to his parents, and convinced them to take him to Diagon Alley at once.
Interrupting his memory flash-back, someone knocked on the compartment door. It slid open and a boy with slightly longer than average hair walked in. Grinning at James, he said,
"Hi. Is it alright if I sit here?"
"Of course," James said, grinning back. "I was getting lonely.
The boy walked further in and sat down opposite James.
"I'm Sirius" he said, introducing himself.
"Are you serious?" James said, laughing. Sirius rolled his eyes; he'd heard it a bit too many times.
"I'm serious, my name is Sirius. Now shut up." Sirius said, trying not to laugh as well.
"Well, I'm James. I have a normal name, unlike some people," he grinned, looking pointedly at Sirius.
"My mother has a worst name, Walburga!" he retorted. That took it.
James fell off his seat he laughed so much.
"As in the burger?" he snorted. Sirius nodded, and then he fell off the seat for the same reason. The two of them were laughing so hard neither of them noticed the compartment door open for the second time.
A girl with long, red hair walked in, and she seemed to have been crying.
"Is it alright if I s..sit here?"
The two boys stopped laughing, and stared at the girl, still on the floor.
"Of course," they both said together, getting up off the floor so she could get past.
"I'm James," he said, trying to be friendly.
"And I'm Sirius. Yes, I know, serious and all that. I've heard that too many times." Sirius said, a bit wearily. The girl tried to smile, and nodded.
"I'm Lily," and she walked to the corner of the compartment. Pressing herself against the window, her eyes seemed to go all watery. The two boys looked at each other, looking a bit worried.
"Hey, are you alright?" Sirius asked her. Lily nodded, and looked out of the window. Sirius shrugged, and the two boys carried on laughing and joking. Around five minutes later, the compartment door slid open for yet another time. This time, a boy with even longer hair entered. Completely ignoring the two boys, he walked over to Lily. She looked up, and said,
"I don't want to talk to you,"
"Why not?" the boy said.
"Tuney h..hates me. Because we saw that letter from Dumbledore."
" So what?" he replied. Lily shot him a look of deepest loathing.
"So she's my sister!"
"But this is it! We're off to Hogwarts!" he said, grinning nervously at Lily. She grinned back. The argument was over.
"You'd better be in Slytherin!" he said.
"Slytherin?" James entered the conversation for the first time. "Who wants to be in Slytherin? I'd think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" he said, addressing Sirius. He looked uncomfortable.
"My whole family have been in Slytherin." Sirius replied.
"Blimey!" James said, looking him up and down. "And I thought you seemed alright!"
Sirius grinned. "Maybe I'll break the tradition. Where are you heading, if you've got the choice?"
James stood up, and held an invisible sword.
"Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart! Like my dad."
The boy with the long hair made a disparaging noise.
"What?" James shot back. "Got a problem with that?"
"No," he sneered, but his tone said otherwise. "If you'd rather be brawny than brainy…."
"Where are you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?" Sirius interjected, causing James to roar with laughter. Lily stood up and glared at the two boys with dislike.
"Come on Severus, let's find another compartment." Sirius and James imitated her lofty voice.
"See ya, Snivellus!" James said, sticking out his legs to trip Severus up. The compartment door slammed shut, leaving the two (new) best friends. They looked at each other, and then fell on the floor for exactly the same reason as before. They were laughing too hard.
Finally, someone knocked on the door (again). This time it was an elderly witch.
"Anything from the trolley, dears?" she asked them. The two boys jumped up as once. Both of them bought some of everything, paid the witch ten galleons between them, and walked back to their compartment to have the feast of their lives.
All the food was gone in a surprisingly short time, leaving the two of them with full stomachs and a lot of chocolate frogs. Yawning –because of all of that eating had tired them out-, they decided to get changed into their Hogwarts uniform.
Only a few hours had gone by, so they still had three and a bit left. They decided to try out a few of the spells from the textbook. They couldn't do much, obviously, as they hadn't had any lessons. But it was clear to see that James would excel in Transfiguration, and Sirius in Charms. Both of them could do the basics, like Lumos, Nox, and Sirius could also do Wingardium Leviosa.
"My parents taught me a few spells like that," he confessed to James.
"But: isn't it illegal?" James said, confused.
"Well, yes, but the Ministry isn't going to argue with my family," Sirius replied.
"What's so special about your family?"
"We're the Black's." Sirius said, looking a bit nervous.
James blinked. Then laughed.
"Who'd have thought, that a Black and a Potter would be sitting in the same compartment, alive?"
Sirius laughed as well. "Are you a Potter, then?"
"Well, I'm not a Black, am I?" James said. "Surely you could have worked that out?"
The two friends, which should have been worst enemies, talked and laughed the rest of the train journey. No one else came in, and they were left alone. Finally, after seven hours, a woman's voice filled the train.
"We have arrived at Hogsmeade station. Please leave your belongings and luggage on the train".
The two boys jumped up immediately, both the most excited they'd even been in their lives, and probably ever would be. They were finally at Hogwarts!
Leaving the compartment and getting off the train, they followed a giant of a man called "Hagrid", who led them to the boats. They climbed into one, and were soon joined by two boys.
"I'm Remus Lupin," one of them said.
"I'm P..Peter P…Pettigrew," the other said.
A/N: Okay, I know this chapter is short, but I promise they will get longer. I don't know about updating, but the chances are I won't tomorrow. I'm going to my grandparents' house, and they don't have Internet connection. I probably will on Sunday. Oh yeah, please review!