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Chapter One: On to Hogwarts!

Sirius Black was waiting on platform nine and three quarters.

Alone

His parents didn't want to come see him off for his first year in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Good, he didn't want them to, he hated them.

Once the Hogwarts express arrived he got on as fast as possible, he hated waiting.

After some time searching, he finally found an empty compartment, well, near-empty anyway. There was one more person in the compartment, a very small, pale, way-too-thin, sick, tired looking boy with a think book in his lap.

'Hello, can I sit here?' Sirius asked opening the door, the boy look up, startled.

'Oh uh, yeah sure' Said the boy in a very small voice, Sirius almost didn't hear it, the boy shrugged then winced as though the slight movement of his shoulders hurt.

Sirius frowned, suspicious. Why would something like shrugging hurt? Unless there was something wrong the boy.

As Sirius sat he extended his hand to the boy 'Hi, I'm Sirius Black, and you are?'

The boy looked up from the book he was reading and shook Sirius's hand, as he did so the sleave of his patched, baggy jumper slid up his arm slightly to reveal scars, lots and lots of scars and a blood soaked bandage, Sirius frowned again, what the hell happened to this boy?

'I'm Remus, Remus Lupin' Remus's voice was still very small and nervous.

'Cool, whatcha reading?' Sirius asked, indicating to the think book on Remus's lap.

'Hogwarts: A History.' Remus said not taking his eyes off the book.

'Okay, cool. Why?' asked Sirius, cocking his head to the side.

'Because I find its best to know as much as possible about something or somewhere before you go there.' Remus said not taking his eyes off the book.

'Ah, guess makes sense.' Sirius scratched his head as he said this.

Remus moved his head, probably looking at the other side of the page, and Sirius suddenly noticed three long, thin, old-looking scars running along Remus's face. How Sirius missed them before, he didn't know.

'Hey, what happened to your face?' Sirius asked point-blank.

Remus looked very nervous and uncomfortable at the mention of the scars, 'I-uh-had an a-accident when I was younger.' Remus's voice was so small when he said this that it was a miracle that Sirius heard it at all.

'Really? What happened?' Sirius knew he was being nosey, but he didn't care.

'Oh-uh- just-just an accident.' Remus was fiddling in his seat, looking nervous.

'Mmmhhm.' Sirius knew that Remus was lying and it was probably more than just an 'accident' but didn't press the matter.

Sirius was about to question Remus more but the compartment door opened to revel a tall, thin-but-nowhere-near-as-thin-as-Remus boy with messy, black hair and round glasses and a short plump boy with sandy-blonde hair.

'Hey, can we sit here?' asked the tall boy with messy hair.

'Sure, I'm not stopping you.' Said Sirius, smiling, Remus just kept reading.

'Thanks. I'm James Potter, this is Peter Pettigrew.' Said the boy with glasses, James, indicating to the other boy, Peter, as they sat down.

'Hi, I'm Sirius Black, the bookworms Remus Lupin.' As Sirius said this he held out his hand in greeting.

James looked weary but shook Sirius's hand anyway, 'A Black, eh? Funny, you don't seem much like a black to me.'

'I'll take that as a complement' Sirius withdrew his hand after he shook James's hand and then shook Peter's, 'I've never liked my stupid family anyway. It just doesn't make sense to me to hate all Muggles, Muggle-borns, half-bloods and half-breeds.' No one saw Remus wince at the words "half-breeds."

'Cool,' said James throwing Sirius a thumbs-up, 'So what house do you think you'll be in?'

'Well, my entire family has been in Slytherin, but personally, I think I'll be in Gryffindor. And if I'm not, I'm leaving.' Sirius said matter-of-factly.

'Yeah same here, what about you Peter?' James turned to Peter, who hadn't said a word since they entered the compartment.

'Me? Oh I think I'll probably end up in Hufflepuff.' Peter said nervously.

'Cool. So what house do you think you'll be in Remmy?' Sirius said playfully poking Remus in the shoulder, noticing the wince and frowning.

'Ravenclaw, and don't call me 'Remmy.'' Remus said still not looking up from his book.

Sirius smirked and the compartment door opened, it was the trolley lady.

'Anything from the trolley dears?'

Sirius, James and Peter all bought large amounts of chocolate and candy of all sorts, while Remus bought nothing -it was clear that he wanted some, though-

'Why didn't you buy something, Remus?' Sirius asked around a mouthful of chocolate frog.

'No money.' Remus said blankly, he wasn't kidding either, with his badly patched, baggy jumper and too-big jeans; he looked like a picture of poverty.

'Oh I see, you want some of mine?' Sirius said as he held out a bunch of chocolate frogs.

'No thanks I'm fine.' Remus shook his head as he held up a hand to push Sirius's hand away gently.

'Okay if you sure.' Sirius was sure that Remus did want some. So why wouldn't he take some?

Soon all the boys were laughing like old friends, all except Remus, who hadn't smiled at all the whole trip.

It didn't take long for James to notice the scars and bandage on Remus's hands and face, and then point it out to Peter, both of them quickly started to question Remus, only to receive the same answers that Sirius had, so basically nothing.

'Come on! If it was just an accident then you could at least tell us what the accident was!' Said James franticly

'It was just-just an accident, that's all.' Remus really didn't want them to know.

James was just about to ask again when Peter said, 'Hey, guys. The trains stopped, let's go! We're here!'

James and Sirius smirked, stood up and shouted at the same time 'On to Hogwarts!'