Disclaimer; I don't own this amazing series of books but, Rosie Hunter, Alison Potter, Anna Lee and James' uncle are all my Own Characters.

Chapter 1;

James stood on Platform 9 and 3/4 among the fog, grinning broadly. He'd gotten Head Boy, to his continued surprise. He was afraid he'd never get used to the esteemed title.

He watched the students and their families around him. Most of the first years looked like they couldn't choose between feeling overwhelmed, scared or excited. He supposed most of them would be feeling a mixture of all three. He scanned the fog again, trying to locate the members of the Order of the Phoenix who were escorting him and his adopted sister to Hogwarts. The Order members had come through to the platform before him with Alison.

His father had been captured and tortured during James's second year by Death Eaters to the point of insanity. His mother had gone crazy when she'd found out about her husband, and although it killed James to have lost his parents so early in his life, he had to admit that was love. His father had died during James's fourth year and his mother was still in St. Mungo's. James visited her every weekend but she never recognised him. James hated how much it hurt him that when he visited his mother he never saw the glint of recognition light up her eyes.

James finally located the Order members and his sister. One of the members, Anna Lee was her name, was dressed in a simple green dress and a tan overcoat, her bright red hair pulled back into a ponytail. Her luminous blue eyes glinted with amusement as she watched the little girl with auburn hair.

His father's brother and James both had the same slightly lanky but muscular build, and they both had the same black hair that usually stuck up at odd angels. He also had the glasses, which James had inherited. It felt like James was being stabbed repeatedly whenever he was around his uncle as he was his father's identical twin.

"Jamesy!" The little girl screamed in delight upon seeing him, her face alight with excitement.
He smiled at her broadly, before laughing softly as he picked her up and spun her around.
"Hey Ali! Have you gotten more excited since I last saw you, kiddo?" Alison, or Ali nodded, her eyes flickering all over the platform, taking in the organised chaos of students, trunks, animals and magic.

"Yep! I can't believe I'm finally going to Hogwarts!" She cast a look at the Order members and her big hazel eyes watered slightly, causing her to bite her bottom lip softly, so the tears didn't overflow.
James's arms instantly tightened around her, he hadn't wanted Ali to cry, not today.

"Ali, come on don't cry. You're going to Hogwarts!" Ali smiled weakly as James put her back on her feet and nudged her towards Anna Lee.

Anna Lee smiled at Alison warmly and pulled her into a loving embrace. Anna Lee had become a second mother to Alison and adored her more than anything else in the world.
"Sweetie, you'll have fun! And James will look after you, darling." James nodded at Alison and gave her a warm smile as he ruffled her hair.
Alison squeaked and jumped away from James's hands, trying to fix her beautiful hair as a whistle sounded.

James and his uncle laughed loudly at Alison's reaction, earning a glare from both Anna Lee and Alison.
Both of the boys turned on their heels and hurried to load Alison's trunk and her little tawny owl, Caramel, into the train.
As they loaded the trunk James' uncle looked at him, his eyes filled with a deep sadness that James had only seen cloud his uncle's face on rare occasions.

"You look just like him, you know." He paused briefly then continued, "You act just like him, James."
James's chest burnt, and he forced himself to focus on loading Alison's trunk into the train carriage.
"My brother's boys growing up. Head boy. Qudditch captain. Little Alison is finally going to Hogwarts. Everyone's growing up and showing just how much my brother's missed. James, he'd be so proud of you and Ali, so, so proud. Never forget that okay?"
James's eyes filled with tears and he smiled slightly at his uncle, glad to see that a glowing pride had replaced the gut wrenching sadness. Even though his uncle wasn't his father, he was as good as to James. His uncle did the best he could, still struggling with the death of his identical brother.

In the middle of finally sliding the annoying trunk into the train a flash of deep red hair caught James's attention. His hands moved as if they had a mind of their own and ruffled his hair, giving it a windswept look. Usually this manoeuvre did more, well for this statement, good than harm, but this time James had the trunk in his hands.
The trunk fell to the floor and landed on his foot. He cursed loudly and caught Anna Lee giving him a disapproving look as she covered Alison's ears.
He gave her a sheepish smile as his uncle used his wand to load the trunk in.
"Sorry Anna Lee."

Anna Lee shrugged and pulled him into a deep hug. She really was an amazing person. She took care of both Alison and James and loved them unconditionally even though they biologically weren't related to her.
"Be good. Take care of Alison! Be a good example! Don't forget you have to go to the prefects..." She trailed off and burst into tears, pulling away from James as she desperately wiped at her eyes.
"Hurry on now you two. We'll see you at Christmas!" James's uncle said quickly, ushering Alison and James towards the train so he could comfort Anna Lee.
Alison hugged them both quickly and gave them a tear filled smile before stepping onto the train, James a couple steps behind her.

"Prongsie!" Someone yelled as they came and hugged James, grinning broadly.
"Hey Padfoot." James said with a laugh as he de-tangled himself from his best mate.

Sirius looked exactly like he had when James had seen him over summer. His hair was long and shaggy, sitting in exactly the right position and he was as muscular as his best mate, maybe slightly more so.
Sirius looked at James with a slight frown, noticing the badge he'd shoved into the pocket of his jeans. It was barely visible but apparently Sirius had X-ray vision.
"Head Boy? You're head boy?" Sirius exclaimed in disbelief, momentarily forgetting that the second James had gotten the badge he'd sent his owl off to Sirius.

James nodded warily at Sirius and looked around quickly. "Have you seen Moony? And Wormtail? What about her?" James didn't need to elaborate on who her was, Sirius instantly knew he meant Lily Evans.

Sirius shook his head and towed James into their compartment where Remus and Peter were sitting. Remus already had his nose buried in a book so he missed the lightning fast look that flashed between Sirius and James.

Remus's face looked worn and tired, and he looked even skinnier than usual, so his clothes hung off him like they were multiple sizes too big. Then the pair's eyes fell on Peter. His eyes were the same, watery and beady, but he was smiling weakly. His sandy blonde hair had grown longer and he looked like he didn't share Remus's problem with his clothes being multiple sizes to big, quite the opposite actually.

When James and Sirius flopped down directly opposite Remus and Peter, Remus finally looked up from his book.

"Hey guys. Prongs shouldn't you be in the prefects carriage?" James slapped a hand to his forehead with a groan as he stood up, stretching out his long limbs.

As he ruffled his hair he looked at each of his friends in turn. "Can you make sure Alison is okay? I'm probably going to be stuck in a compartment with all those goodie two shoes most of the ride then I'll have to patrol the train so none of the gits do anything stupid…' James waved goodbye to his mates as he stepped out of the compartment. Lily Evans happened to step out of the compartment two from his, and he hurried and fell in step beside her.

"Hey Evans, can you believe I'm Head Boy?" James saw Lily signal to one of her friends, Rosie Hunter, who stepped out of Lily and her friend's compartments and joined his mates.

Rosie Hunter and Sirius were extremely close and had been since second year. During third year Sirius had tried to get the extremely gorgeous girl to go out with him to no avail. Rosie wasn't like most of the girls Sirius surrounded himself with. She was a mate through and through, amazing at Qudditch and quick to smile and laugh, but in no way was she interested in Sirius Black. Instead Rosie fended off her continuous stream of admirers and hardly dated. Her favourite pastime lately seemed to be making Sirius go nuts with desire for the girl, although she didn't seem to mean it. If Sirius thought he wanted that girl when she was a third year, he was positively crazy with desire now.

Rosie Hunter had always been a short girl, but she had exceedingly amazing curves. Walking down the halls you could usually hear someone or other comment on whether or not the Hunter girl was a fabulous snog or shag. If any guy touched her in an inappropriate place you were certain to either get an elbow to the face, or thrown to the floor. And that was just from Rosie. If Sirius was anywhere in the vicinity they'd be dead meat.

James had always liked Rosie Hunter, especially since she was trying to get Lily to go out with him, but also because she took most of the attention away from Lily.

Lily's voice snapped him out of his internal babble.

"No I can't, I still believe that you are trying to fool me into believing it." Lily shook her head and sent a glare back down to Rosie who was standing beside Sirius and laughing their arses off as they watched the proceeding pair.

Rosie nudged Sirius and loudly exclaimed. "Oh, our babies are growing up!" She then proceeded to pretend to dab at her eyes with her sleeve while Sirius called out. "You two better be good! If we hear you got into any trouble...straight to the naughty corner!"

James shot a glare at the two idiots and they fist pumped and disappeared back into their compartment, their laughter echoing around them in the hallway.

"Evans, I'm sorry, but I am Head Boy.' James was so sick of her doubting him and being continuously cruel.

When he'd found out he'd become Head Boy, he'd first sent his owl to Sirius and when he'd come back with the reply, he'd sent it to Remus with the news.

Remus proceeded to tell him Lily Evans had sent him a letter asking if Remus had gotten Head Boy, as she was Head Girl.

When James had heard that she was Head Girl his heart had leapt. He had a chance to prove her wrong, but she was being Lily Evans.

She was being bloody stubborn.

Lily snorted, and turned to face James, her finger coming to poke him in the chest.

"Listen here, Potter. This might be just a big joke to you, but it isn't to me." James looked at her with wide eyes at first before he grew angry, pushing her finger away from him with a little too much force, causing her to stumble away. He gently took her wrist to keep her from falling.

"When are you going to get over the fact that for the last few years, sure I've been a jerk and irresponsible but I did earn this title!?" Lily tried to squirm her wrist out of his grasp but he held on, not holding too tightly.

"When you prove me wrong, Potter." With one more powerful tug she snatched her wrist free from him and stalked off down to the prefects carriage, shooting a few glares over her shoulder at James.

James sighed and ran his hand through his hair. It was going to be a bloody long year.

Songs:

Back to Hogwarts ~ Starkid

You'll Be In My Heart ~Phil Collins

Had Enough~ Breaking Benjamin