Tangled Surprise

It was a very cloudy September morning in England.
The buildings looked gray, the streets looked gloomy and so did the wizard community.

Their faces, They were a mixture between gloom, stress, sadness and tiredness as they continued with their usual life even if everything in it wasn't going as usual for anyone.

Everything was going just so wrong and so dreadfully, it had been so for the past two years since a powerful dark wizard started to gain power and supporters with the same beliefs that most dark wizard families had before, now and who knows if always.

They believed muggles (none magical people) were worthless, dirt and good for nothing, that they should therefore get rid of them all or at least get rid of all the wizard muggle-borns that lived between them and were, for their disgust, considered and treated like pure blood wizards, the same as those who had reserved their pureness on magic from their first ancestor to the youngest in the family.

This dark wizard and his supporters have been killing and doing dreadful things specially of course to muggles and muggle-borns, either because they were assigned to do so, or just to have some 'fun', this group of anonymous people were called among themselves and by everyone as death-eaters and them and their leader were day by day doing more and more illegal acts and murders, not even the cleverest aurors were able to track down these people though they were still on it, never giving up, as always doing their best.

None of these things ruined James Potter's day though. Not ever. He even thought of it dumb of adult people, they knew that worrying and stressing about the whole thing would certainly not help to solve any of the crazy world's problems. That was the only thing James Potter believed in. 'Don't worry be happy'

James was a pure-blood wizard and a clever boy with only 11 years of age, yet he was the kind that didn't care about anything going on around him and lived his life without worries and however he pleased, he had jet black hair, he was skinny and had round glasses just before a pair of innocent and lovely hazel eyes. The problem was, he wasn't anything near to innocent at all when mischief was the matter, he along with another 11 year old pure-blood boy, named Sirius Black, his best friend since his early years of childhood have been making every kind of malicious prank that their young and silly minds would come up with, they had already learned half of the spells they would be learning in their first year at Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry with all of the pranks they've done, which at least made them worthwhile for some other reason rather than just fun, they enjoyed their pranks as much as the death-eaters enjoyed killing.

The nearer you were to James Potter and Sirius Black, the nearer you were to trouble.

James Potter looked around the place for Sirius, he had a malicious glint in his eyes as he thought of a good prank when he arrived at the crowded King's Cross Station, but while his father was there he behaved.

His father had black hair as messy as his son's and warm brownish green eyes, he was a very tall good-looking man around his 30s and beyond that he was a very respected wizard since he Daniel Harold Potter worked in the Ministry of Magic in the department of mysteries and was the best unspeakable there has ever been.

All of the Potters are always very well known, since they have Merlin's own blood running through their veins and have a particular characteristic, they are always the best on everything they do.

Mr. Potter knealed low to his son's height level to give him some final instructions as people walked quickly on the opposite direction past them.

"Now James, remember you must behave this year"

"Yes sir" James replied dully

"And, I don't want to hear any complaints from Dumbledore the headmaster while you are away, do you understand?"

"Uh, huh." James managed to say as he was barely hearing what he was saying, he kept looking around for Sirius.

"You will do great in all of your subjects now would you?" Mr. Potter asked on his usual bright tone.

"Yes sir."

"Very well…" he said as he stared with his olive eyes in silence at James for a while.

"What's wrong?" James asked concerned as he at last noticed his father's suddenly saddened face.

"Nothing." Daniel Potter replied with a sigh and a weak smile "I need to go all right? Please remember what I said back in the house, take care of yourself and say hello to Sirius for me" Mr. Potter said and James nodded as his father dissaparated.

"Good! For Merlin's beard I thought he would never go. Hmm. Now, where the hell is Sirius?"

After a while it was almost 11 o'clock the time that the Hogwart's Express would be leaving so James had to give up on his prank of playing a trick on the muggle guard as he did not find Sirius.

He headed with his trunk to platform 9 and ¾ and stood now in front of the solid stone barrier the one he had to cross to get to the secret train that will take him to Hogwarts.

He looked around to make sure no one was watching, he closed his eyes and was about to break into a run through it when…

"James!" He recognized Sirius's voice as he jumped into him, knocking James down landing them both hard on the floor, the muggle guard shot them a threatening look.

"Sirius!" He laughed delighted to see Sirius again.

"Hello mate! Darn I missed you! Have you seen any cutie around?" Said Sirius, his gray eyes searching around to see if there was any pretty girl near by he could tease.

"Nope. You?"

"Nah! Only cute girls I've seen today are those over there, but they are like 15, they could be like… Dunno like my grandmothers or something" He said running his hand through his neck lengh, dark brown hair staring to 3 pretty 15 year old girls. James laughed again.

"Well, well let's just get through the freaking barrier shall we? We'll miss the train!" Sirius said cheerfully standing up. "Err… Where was the barrier again?" He asked

"I think it's that one in front of you, I was going to go through it just now, before you jumped on me and almost broke my ribs." James teased sarcastically.

"Err… Sorry?" Sirius said trying to be sarcastic too.

For a split second James' last comment had pained Sirius. He had jumped and knocked him to the floor not because he wanted to annoy him or break his ribs like he said, but because Sirius was just feeling so hyper and happy at the moment. He couldn't believe he was going to spend a whole pranking year at school with James his best friend, the only one who was always on his side no matter what, he was the only person he knew who could send freely his younger brother Regulus to hell when he bothered Sirius and accused him with Mrs. Black. He couldn't believe those days of torture with his family will be over soon for a whole year, no family to bother or critizise him, no stupid Black family rules like 'Muggles will always be filth' or such and certainly no trapped and boring days in that hell of a house in number 12 Grimmauld Place. Suddenly Sirius' thoughts were interrumpted as James finally spoke.

"Let's get through it now. I think no one's looking." He said as the pair got ready and ran through the barrier

"Wow, amazing! That's how ghosts should feel when they cross walls!" Said Sirius looking around.

"Yeah!"

"Look at all the people that goes to Hogwarts! This has to be the best of the bestest places to prank, don't you think?" Sirius asked but James didn't answer "James?" Sirius said when he noticed James had already gone inside. "James! Urgh hate it when he does that" Sirius complained as he got in the train too and spotted him.

"Hey mate! Hurry up!" James said as he miracously found two paralel empty compartments left at the middle of the train.

Sirius ran with his trunk across the corridor's floor covered with a long dark green carpet towards James almost knocking a 2nd year girl.

"Hey watch it silly boy!" Shouted the girl.

"I'd watch it if I were you babe" Sirius answered with a smirk as the girl rolled her eyes and kept on walking. "Women" Sirius whispered annoyed as he turned to James again who had his left eyebrow raised.

"You were saying?" Sirius asked inoccently "Oh yeah… What do we need two compartments for?" He asked confused.

"Does this say anything to you?" James asked with a smirk as a thin silver string came out from the tip of his wand, his plan was that each one will take hold of one end of the string and hide in the left and right compartments so that the people will trip over the almost invisible string as they pass by.

"Are my teeth dirty?"

"Huh?"

"Isn't that floss?"

"No!" James said rolling his eyes, he explained Sirius the prank.

"Ohhh" Sirius said as he understood.

"Well, ready?"

"Prank Time!" They both shouted as Sirius got hold of one end of the string, took his trunk and ran to the left compartment and James to the right one, leaving the string just across the corridor as they waited for someone to pass, fall down and at least get a nose bleed.

Suddenly when everyone was finally in their compartments, the train started to leave.

Not much seconds passed when they heard the voices of two girls talking cheerfully, Sirius nodded to James from the other side as they got ready and clossed the doors.

"I'm so nervous! Aren't you nervous Lily?"

"No way! Why should I?"

"This new weirdo school that teaches magic, it makes me feel uneasy."

"Come on Jess! I'm sure it will be fun! I felt nervous too untill we went to this Diagon Alley place. Remember? I saw all these people doing magic, then I got all these wonderful books, my wand and I tried some spells and its not hard at all!"

"Lily-" Jess tried to warn Lily as she stopped walking when she noticed just above the floor the silver string, but Lily kept on talking and walking very distracted

"It's just wonderful, it's amazing, I love this hidden magic world, I don't know how to explain it, I just feel like I belong somewhere at last."

"Lily be ca-!" But it was too late, Lily had fallen hard on the floor, face down, with her ankles tangled in the string.

Jess ran to where Lily layed, took her hand and helpped her sit down.

"Lily are you alright?"

"Ugh... No, it's my ankle... It hurts a lot." She said her eyes shut because of the pain clunching her right ankle.

Jess groaned as she heard laughter from both sides of the compartment, now she was really angry, she slammed the doors open of each of the compartments in turn, revealing the two boys sitting on the floor holding the string, they fell silent but smirked at Jess all the same.

"Well? What-do you think-you are doing?"

"Umm..." Sirius pretended to think hard.

"Having some fun?" James answered smiling sweetly at her.

"You two listen to me and you listen carefully" Jess said sternly, her hazel eyes staring dangerously to both boys who raised their eyebrows in surprise, Lily was still on the floor with her flaming red hair covering her face as she was still clunching her ankle, Some people had openned their compartment doors to see what was going on.

"I definitely did not came here to endure inmmature and stupid little boys behavior, I have definitely enough with my little brother at home, thank you, and sure enough I think it is very ungentleman like to have tangled and broke my friend's ankle, do you have any idea of what the word courtesy means?!"

"Well it's not our fault that your stupid friend did not see the string, we just thought we would have some fun with people tripping, what we did not think was that there were such stupid girls in the world to actually fall to the floor and break their bones." Sirius said calmly still with a smirk plastered on his face, James said nothing, instead he was concentrated on the other girl named Lily, her flaming red hair looked quiet familiar.

"Take a good look at my face you dummy" Jess said through gritted teeth "Do I look like an idiot to you?!" she said hitting Sirius around the head and his reaction was to automatically kiss her on the cheek, Jess blushed furiously as some of the boys and girls that were watching whistled and laughed at her.

"What did you do that for?" She asked angrily still blushing.

"Rule number 3 honey, if she hits you, you kiss her" He said as his gray eyes shinned innocently.

"Whatever! What I'm trying to say is that you had all of the intention of the world to harm the people that would come across your stupid string!"

"Jess that's not the point" Came Lily's voice at last. "Leave him alone, don't fall down to his childdish level, you know better, I'm alright, it just hurts a bit, I'm still able to stand up" She said and with a big effort was able to stand up in front of James hazel eyes, so he had his chance to look at her closely, the people who were listeninmg intently from other compartments burst into applause as Lily ended the argument.

Lily was very pretty, she had pale skin, startling beatiful emerald green eyes on an angelic face and had long wavy red hair, she was just a bit shortter than James and was wearing black shoes, a white skirt and a pretty dark green shirt.

James' heart was beating so hard that he could hear nothing else but its sound as he stared at Lily. Wasn't she the girl that... No... She couldn't possibly be.

James hadn't even noticed that the argument was over and that the boys and girls watching had gone back to their compartments when suddenly various things happened at once, Lily turnned around and she saw him, it started to rain heavily outside, water fell hard agains the windows, the wind could be heard, there was a lightning outside which iluminated Lily's face and a horrendous sound followed by it, their eyes locked and James felt his face glow as red as Lily's beautiful hair.

"What are you doing here?" Lily asked shocked with a frown on her thin red eyebrows, he was the last person she thought she would see today.

Well that's chapter one!

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