HOW IT ALL BEGAN

CHAPTER 1

"Now you send us an owl when you get there and tell us how its going and how you're doing and..."

"Dear, he'll be just fine," said Jonathan Potter to his wife Elizabeth Potter who kept straightening her son's robes.

Eleven year old James Potter was on his way to his first year at Hogwarts. James had hazel eyes, very untidy messy black hair, and he was tall. Elizabeth had long black hair, icy crystal blue eyes, and she was also tall and Jonathan was a tall man with brown hair and hazel eyes.

"I'll be okay mother. I should go now. Bye mother, bye father," said James hugging each of his parents.

Both his parents said goodbye and James pushed the trolley towards the Hogwarts Express, glad that he would be able to create lots of mischief this year when he was pulled out of his thoughts by a woman's shrill voice, shouting.

"You both better get into Slytherin! It would be shameful to the family if you didn't!"

The woman looked quite horrible. She was shouting to two children. One girl and one boy. James knew who those people were. James' parents and that family never got along. That was the Black family. The boy was Sirius Black and the girl was his cousin, Bellatrix Black. Both were James' age but he had never met either of them. Once James put his luggage on the train he went to go look for a compartment when he crashed into someone.

"Watch where you're going mudblood!" a boy shouted rudely.

It was Sirius Black.

"For your information I'm a pureblood and if you ever let that foul name pass your lips again, I'll beat the crap out of you and send you to hell!" James shouted angrily, his eyes flashing with fire.

Sirius looked at him in shock and James pushed past him to board the train, but a voice behind him made him stop.

"Watch out! Sirius, don't let him through! Get out of our damn way!" Bellatrix Black shouted grabbing the back of James' robes and trying to pull him back, but James pushed against Bellatrix.

"Get your filthy hands off me! I don't want your Black filth on my robes! I'd watch yourself if I were you, Black! With an attitude like yours someone would be tempted to push you in front of a moving train!" James shouted to Bellatrix.

Bellatrix gaped in shock and slowly walked away to board the train some where else. James looked at Sirius who was still gaping at him.

"What's wrong with you?" James asked rudely.

"I'm Sirius Black," Sirius said who stopped gaping.

"James Potter and I know who you are."

"Potter eh? You're the blood traitor."

"For your information you're family is the blood traitor! You're family is the filthy blood traitor who thinks muggleborns and halfbloods are no good when they themselves don't even know what it means to be a pureblood or even a human being! If everyone in your family died no one would give a damn!

You're family thinks that Voldemort is god and ruler of the world! Look around you! Muggleborns are every where and they have done so well in the wizarding world! Also, here's a little heads up! You may end up in Slytherin like the rest of your good-for-nothing family but I'll be in Gryffindor! The best house in Hogwarts, not the darkest and the filthiest!" James was shouting so loud that everyone on the platform was listening intently to what James was saying.

Everyone clapped and cheered except a few people. James glared one last time at Sirius before getting on the train. Sirius was speechless. No one but his family dared yell at him or a member of his family.

Fifteen minutes after that incident, Sirius found James walking down the corridor. James had got distracted from finding a compartment because he was so busy talking to lots of people who he knew and also just met.

"So my family has been wrong this entire time?" Sirius asked as he followed him.

"So you finally figured it out, have you? Took you long enough," James said as he looked for an empty compartment.

Sirius then hurried in front of James to block his path.

"Look my whole family told me to believe in everything you just told me not to. But I see what you mean by all that stuff. Turns out my family has been lieing and I don't want to end up like them. So can we be friends?" asked Sirius holding his hand out.

"Well, that depends. Are you being serious, Sirius?" asked James after a moment of thought.

Both boys broke out grinning and they shook hands.

"Come on. Let's go find an empty compartment," James said and they walked down the train to find one.