Sirius' POV: As excited as he was for his first year at Hogwarts Sirius Black could not get the declaration his mother made the past night out of his head "Sirius you can rebel as much as you want but, by tomorrow evening we will have another Slytherin to add to the Black line." Now roaming the Hogwarts Express for a compartment to sit in he couldn't help but think his mother was right. As he was coming to the conclusion that being sorted into Slytherin was inevitable he nearly collided with a boy. The boy had untidy black hair that had a piece sticking up in the back, a thin face, and hazel eyes."Sorry mate," said the boy "You looking for a place to sit too?" "Yes" answered Sirius being abnormally shy. Not seeming to notice or maybe not caring about Sirius' unobtrusiveness the boy punched him on the shoulder. Anger immediately swelled up inside Sirius, but he didn't let it phase him instead he swallowed his anger and let it go. However, he immediately started feeling a tinge of dislike for this boy who continued without noticing any of these emotions flowing through Sirius and said "Well, I'm James! There doesn't seem to be any empty compartments, but the last one at the end has some room." James started walking to the aforementioned compartment and Sirius was forced to follow not able to get a word in edgewise while James continued talking "However, the boys in there seem a little dull. One's asleep and the other one, who looks quite wormy, squealed when I asked if all the seats where taken. What was your name again?" "Sirius. Sirius Black." Sirius answered, quietly drifting off on his last name, always embarrassed by the connotations associated with it. As they entered the compartment Sirius sat down next to the sleeping boy, while James sat across from him ignoring the other boy who did look quite a lot like a worm, especially as he jumped out of his seat as the boys entered. At the mention of Sirius' name, James started staring at him moving his eyes up and down as if analyzing Sirius. Sirius' tinge of dislike quickly grew, James' demeanor had obviously changed at the mention of the dreaded last name. "I'm P-P-Peter Pettigrew." squeaked the worm boy. Completely ignoring Peter's existence James said in a new manner, "Black, I've heard of your family. Expect you'll be in Slytherin then." "No!" erupted Sirius, finally letting his anger over take him and subsequently causing the sleeping boy to wake up and Peter to squeal again, continuing more quietly "At least, I hope not." He suddenly felt very embarrassed at his outburst, he hated even slightly resembling the dreadful people the rest of his family was made up of. Sirius sat unsure of how to continue, so he didn't and focused his attention on his hands resting on his lap. Taking sporadic glances up Sirius noticed that James seemed to be uncomfortable in the silence finally introducing himself to the sleeping boy who was called Remus Lupin, but again there was silence and again Sirius, realizing he could easily read James, could see James becoming restless again. So James started a conversation about Quidditch with Remus and eventually Sirius joined in, hoping to erase his first impression, quite confident in his knowledge of the subject. They talked for a long time moving from topic to topic but eventually the topic fell to Houses. James proudly announced he was going to be in Gryffindor and Sirius said, "I wish I could say that." Which he truly meant. For as long as Sirius could remember he was different. While his family enjoyed dabbling in Dark magic, Sirius preferred to stay in his room and read about heroic Wizards who dueled the different evils of the past. By far Sirius' favorite hero was Godric Gryffindor. He had read every book he could find about the original Gryffindor and although he mainly hoped to avoid being sorted into Slytherin he desperately hoped to be put into Gryffindor. Still weary of letting his guard down, Sirius said none of this and let his dismal statement hang in the air. Remus said he expected to be in Ravenclaw and Peter quietly said he was lucky he got a letter from Hogwarts, at this the boys started laughing and continued talking. Before they knew it the train was slowing and Sirius felt as if he could tell these boys anything, not that he would just yet. As people started getting off Lupin and Peter left the compartment, as Sirius was about to follow James pulled him back and said, "Listen mate, my father told me that the Sorting Hat will let you choose if you are true in what you believe and personally I'd really like to have a mate with me in Gryffindor." Sirius didn't know what to say, so he just smiled. When his time came to be sorted he thought of what James said and not of his mother's discouraging statement from the previous night. When the hat was placed on his head, he was given a choice and without a thought chose Gryffindor.