James Sirius Potter, "Jaz", looked out the window of the Hogwarts Express suddenly nervous. His mum was standing there in Muggle clothing: a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt with a long sleeved lacy black shirt on over it. She was smiling and waving, her long black hair loose. His dad was standing next to her, his arm around her waist. Harry Potter looked proud to have his oldest son going to Hogwarts. He had little Lexie in one arm and Al was tight to their Mom's other side. He was waving wishing he could go this year.

Next to them stood his grandfather and grandmother, Sirius and Xenia Black, and his aunt Ghetrin, who was a Squibb. They were all waving too. He felt his sister, Ari's hand on his shoulder and he waved back trying to show them how nervous he really was. He smiled when his grandpa realized someone had forgotten their owl and the train was already leaving. He hurried to the train with it. His aunt Fin leaned out of the window taking the cage, "Sorry, Dad," she told him.

"Now you puppies be good!" He told them. "You hear me?"

"Yes, Dad!" Fin, Alphie, and Paddy said at the same time.

"Just as good as he was at Hogwarts," Alphie said grinning.

"Merlin help us," Ari said sighing.

"Are you going to tell on us?" Fin asked.

"I have more important things to do at Hogwarts than keep tabs on you lot. Just please, please don't get expelled. I mean how would it look if the siblings of the Headmistress of Lyanesse University were expelled from Hogwarts?"

"Like we had it coming," Alphie said.

"Pretty surprised Dad wasn't expelled during his time here." Paddy pointed out.

The red-headed triplets all nodded at the same time. Jaz grinned. A casual observer would think they were identical in every way. Sometimes they didn't even realize Fin was a girl. That would change in time though. All three of them were of average height with short red hair, slightly long for the boys. They had freckles sprinkled over their slightly upturned noses, full generous mouths, and dark violet colored eyes. Alphie had a spray of light blue around the pupil, Paddy green spikes that reached almost to the edge of the iris, and Fin's had orange almost like fire around hers.

Alphie (Alphard) was the relatively quiet, studious triplet. He liked reading and learning. He was also the one that forgot to pick up his clothes and barely noticed when things weren't neat and tidy around him. If he was off in a book or research it could take days for him to realize what was going on around. Unfortunately, he was also the ringleader and came up with all sorts of things for them to do together.

Paddy (Padraig) was the tinkerer. He loved taking things apart to see how they worked. He learned best by jumping in headfirst and figuring it out himself. He asked the most questions and always needed the answers to make sense. If not he would continue until they did. If he came across a question he couldn't answer down it went in the notebook he always carried with him. Where Alphie was quiet he was loud. They both had a quenching thirst for knowledge, but Alphie was the dreamer and Paddy was the realist. Alphie didn't need tangible evidence for something to be real. Paddy didn't believe it without concrete facts to back it up.

And then there was Fin (Phoenix). While Fin was every bit as capable in the intelligence department was her brothers, and had been known to crack a book, she wasn't as definable as they were. Both Sirius and Xenia kept saying she would develop at her own rate, give her time. For a long time they thought she might be a Squibb like Ghetrin. Fin just seemed ordinary. She wasn't the first and she wasn't the last meeting her developmental milestones. Paddy and Alphie and almost been in competition it seemed.

First to walk, talk, use magic…they were both still toddlers when they started making sparks or turning the cat blue…and, of course, all three were zooming around on their first broomsticks by their first birthday.

Sirius had been pretty sentimental this year and telling stories about Erin and Harry as babies. Sirius had gotten Harry his first broomstick for his first birthday. Erin sometimes used hers, but she had always been more interested in playing with Padfoot (the mangy black dog her dad changed into).

Jaz was a bit nervous. What if he couldn't play Quidditch as well as ds dad had at Hogwarts? He had been one of the best Seekers Hogwarts had ever had! They even let him play his first year because of it.

Really there was a lot her was nervous about. What could you do when you were the son of the most famous wizard of the this age?

Growing up had heard it a lot. Not just with his dad, but his Mum as well. Erin Black, like many women in the wizarding world used her maiden name for work purposes. She was the founder and Headmistress of the Lyanesse University. She was one of, if not THE brightest witch of her age. It was either her or Aunt Hermione, who was rumored to be in the running for the next Minister of Magic when Kingsley Shacklebolt stepped down. That probably would not be anytime soon though. He was one of the best Ministers they'd had in there in a very long time.

Jaz blinked realizing the door had opened and a large young man with close cropped brown hair was standing there uncertainly. "Luke!" Ari said smiling. "Come sit with us!"

Oh, right, this was their cousin Luke, their dad's cousin's son. Dudley Dursley had married a witch, much to his parents' horror. It wasn't until after the had "run away" that they were active in their grandchildren's lives. Dudley insisted that Becky didn't leave them of her own accord. She never would have.

The mumbled his thanks settling down and eyeing the triplets a little fearfully. They all smiled trying to let him know they were actually relatively harmless. "Luke, I'd like you to meet Fin, Alphie, and Paddy." Ari said. "They are our Mum's siblings. And this is Luke Dursley, our dads are cousins."

"Nice to meet you," Paddy told him.

"Don't worry," Fin said. "You'll be fine."

"That's right," Alphie said. "Many different kinds go to Hogwarts."

"Really?" Luke asked.

"Sure," Paddy said. "Take us for example. We're termed purebloods. Our sister, of course, is the Erin Black," they all giggled over that one. "We have another sister whose a Squibb, and we were born after our mum died and returned to life. At least that's the popular theory. And our Dad was in Azkaban, the wizard prison for 12 years. He also can turn into a dog and refers to all his kids and grandkids as puppies."

"What Paddy is trying to say," Ari interjected, "is that all wizards and witches are different. There are no two exactly alike, and no "normal" in the wizarding world."

"Thank Merlin for that," Alphie said from behind "Hogwarts: A History-The Revised Edition". It included the events up until the Battle of Hogwarts and talked about the restoration of the Round Table, of Avalon, and Lyanesse. It was Alphie's most fervent ambition to become a knight of the Round Table.

The Round Table was now the governing body of Hogwarts. (The Board of Governors used to be, but was disbanded right after the Battle of Hogwarts.) They worked closely with the Ministry and the governing heads of sentient creatures: Centaur, Goblin, House Elf, Veela, Moon Fairy, and Merfolk.

Hogwarts was a much different place now than when Harry Potter had walked its halls.