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Hogwarts Second Years
Chapter One - On the Train
It was the end of summer and the weather was busy pelting rain and wind on everyone who ventured outside. It was a good way for the holidays to end with the sun sulking behind the clouds and one small boy couldn't be happier to go back to school. Sirius Black was tired of his family's constant abuse and was ready to finally see his friends again. He had not been allowed to write to his friends and his mother had refused to let him out the house. So for the majority of the summer Sirius had watched the sun from his darkened window. As the boy made his was through the barrier he rubbed at his head. Esmeralda Black was not going to let her son go without reminding him how angry she was with him. Not seeing any of his friends on the platform he made his way onto the train and sat in an empty compartment. Every time someone went past, Sirius looked to see if it was one of his friends. He saw the Moron twins, Amira and Jetta race past at break neck speed and laughed. Those girls did everything fast. Rubbing his head again Sirius leaned back against his seat and closed his eyes. His mother had said she would give him something he wouldn't forget in a hurry and he feared she was right.
James Potter had searched the station for his best friend Sirius Black and not finding him had progressed onto the train. He stopped in several compartment to ask if anyone had seen him. Getting no reply to any of his Owls, James had worried constantly about Sirius. He had seen both Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew during the holidays but it hadn't been as much fun without Sirius. James poked his head in a compartment full of 2nd year Gryffindor girls and asked them if they had seen Sirius. All replied with a firm shake of the head. So James continued on finding Remus and Peter on the way. Finally, after bumping into the Moron twins, they found him. Sirius looked pale and far too thin. He was leaning against the back of the seat holding a hand to his head. Quietly, James sat beside him while Remus and Peter took the opposite seats.
"Sirius, mate, are you all right?" asked James, worry evident in his voice. Sirius jumped a little at the voice and blinked stupidly at James trying to get him in focus.
"Huh?" he said finally resorting to squinting at his friend. James shot a worried look to Remus before turning to Sirius once more.
"Are you all right?" he repeated. Sirius rubbed his eyes, a frown forming on his face.
"Yeah, I'm fine James, I'm fine," mumbled the pale boy closing his eyes once more. James and Remus exchanged looks again and both got up intending to talk outside the compartment. Suddenly, Sirius's arm shot out and latched on to James.
"Don't go! Please don't go," cried Sirius. James sat back down and put an arm around Sirius.
"I won't go if you tell me what's wrong!" the twelve year old demanded.
"I, um, I think she did something to me," Sirius opened his eyes again but quickly shut them, "I can't see! My head hurts and I'm blind!" by now Sirius was panicking, his voice getting shriller by the second. Peter and Remus both went to join James next to Sirius. Peter studied Sirius carefully trying to figure out what he could do to help. He then went to sit back on his seat and got out a book on advanced healing. Remus and James smiled at the blond boy, if there was two things Peter was good at it was Healing and Herbology. Right now they needed his Healing skills. So while Peter researched spells and potions to make you go blind, Remus and James comforted their friend.
Jetta and Amira raced down the train laughing and giggling. They had followed their cousin to the prefect's compartment, annoying and teasing him about getting Head Boy until he had rounded on them shouting something about Owling their mother if they didn't leave him alone. So, laughing, they had raced off down the train, bumping into several people. They saw Sirius Black sitting by himself and bumped into James Potter and two other boys before reaching their compartment. Sitting down they tried to catch their breath. Lyam Mullet and Padriac Patil looked at each other then at the twins waiting for an explanation. Perhaps it was because they were twelve, but Lyam and Padriac maybe noticed how pretty the twins were. Both had long blond hair that was sleek and straight and both had bright blue eyes. Sometimes it was hard to tell them apart. Their other friend, Corey French had no trouble telling them apart, he had twin sisters himself and had known the Moron twins for longer, living next door to them since before he was born. Finally the twins calmed down enough to tell their friends what they had done.
"So Fredrick is Head Boy then," mused Padriac.
"Any idea who Head Girl is?" asked Corey coming in with two more Ravenclaw's, Marlene McKinnon and Emmiline Vance.
"Um, it's that Slytherin Prefect, something Tudor." Amira said with a frown for her sister.
"Yeah, Mary Tudor!" confirmed Jetta.
"Poor Fredrick then!" Marlene and Emmiline said with grimaces for Mary's name. The other Ravenclaw 2nd years laughed and when the final three members of their year, Darian Boot, Cadien Lovegood and Myra Winks entered they were told the whole story and they laughed some more before discussing their holidays.
In another section of the train, five 2nd year Hufflepuff girls were telling each other about their holidays while two were sneaking peaks next door to the five Hufflepuff boys. The fifth time they did that, Melody Applewhite stood up and walked towards the door.
"It you want to see them so much then let's go see them!" she said a sly smile playing around her lips. The other girls looked at her in shock. Though Melody was in Hufflepuff, she had a twin sister in Gryffindor and sometimes the wild streak in her won out against her common sense, a trait the other Hufflepuff girls had learnt to deal with and accept without questions.
"Go and see the boys?" asked Taryn Meadows nervously twirling her red hair between two fingers. She had an older sister in Ravenclaw and was maybe the brightest in the 2nd year Hufflepuff girls. The hat had placed her in Hufflepuff only because she was more loyal than anything else. Matilda Sprout laughed suddenly and jumped up to join Melody, brown hair whipping about her wildly.
"Come on you guys, it'll be fun!" she coaxed. Her aunt was the Herbology Professor at Hogwarts. Finally the last two girls agreed and the four bullied poor Taryn into joining them. Then they skipped next door to the boy's compartment.
"If it isn't Slimy Sevvie!" laughed Scarlett O'Hara and Severus Snape walked past their compartment. Severus ignored her and kept walking. Over the last year he a got used to Scarlett taunting him. As he kept walking he heard a kind voice call out to him. Stopping he allowed Taliyah Parkinson to catch up to him. Of all the Slytherin 2nd years she was the kindest.
"Hey Severus, never mind Scarlett, she's just mad cos Harrison was ignoring her!" Taliyah said with a rare laugh. Severus just nodded. He rarely showed any emotion. In his family it was better not to. Harrison Ford was another 2nd year and it was common knowledge that Scarlett liked him very much.
"Did you have a good summer?" asked Taliyah, "mine was lovely! We went over to France and met up with Jackson and Isabella's family while we were there! Their older sister, Erin, is in love with Quiditch!" Taliyah continued to talk and tell Severus about what she had done over the summer, not once minding that he didn't talk or act like he was interested. Then Bellatrix Black found them and informed them that Lucius Malfoy wanted to have a meeting with all the 2nd year Slytherin's. Taliyah shot a warning look at Severus but he didn't say anything so the two of them followed Bellatrix back to where Scarlett was seated. Giving a small sigh, Severus knew this train journey was going to be the longest yet.
"Did you see Taliyah walking with Snape!" cried Cortessa Boleyn as she ducked back into the compartment with the other Gryffindor girls and Frank Longbottom.
"Interesting isn't it!" grinned her best friend, Madelyn Queen taking a seat beside her. Lily Evans smiled at her friends as they continued to chat about what was going on between Taliyah and Severus. Next to Lily sat Alice Applewhite. She was talking to Frank about her summer. Lily and fellow 2nd year, Mackenzie Troy turned to each other and laughed. It seemed that once you entered your 2nd year boys became a tad more interesting. Mackenzie pulled out her charms book and she and Lily began to look through it for any good charms to use against the Slytherin's and Gryffindor boys. It was going to be a fun year!