Chapter 1
James POV
"Wake up! Wake up, Wake up, Mom!" I yelled to my parents.
"Wait a minute, James. We will go in a minute." My mom answered back rolling to her side facing away from me. I don't want to wait, I want to go now! I have waited over two weeks since I got a letter saying I have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Both my parents are wizards and I knew it was only time before I got my letter confirming I was in fact, a wizard. Now all I had to do before I was able to go to Hogwarts, a school where I was going to learn how to control my magic powers, was go and get my supplies for school. And there was only one place for that, Diagon Alley.
"James, why don't you go get ready" My father mumbled to me, slowly getting out of bed. I went back to my room and grabbed some clothes from my bureau, and walked to the bathroom. I set my clothes down and started the water for a shower, and I turned to look at myself in the mirror. I attempted to tame my untidy black hair that kept falling over my hazel eyes. I quickly gave up and took a quick shower.
Within half an hour I was standing in my living room with my dad waiting for my mom to come downstairs. "Come on Mom!" I yelled. She came down a few minutes after, and got down a jar from a shelf on the pantry that I could never reach. I looked in the jar to see grey powder. "Take a handful." My mother told me, looking back and forth between the jar and me. I hesitantly took some. "Now come over here," my dad lead me over to the fireplace. "Now stand right here." He said pulling me into the fireplace so I was standing on the old coals and ashes. "Okay, now this," he pointed to the powder in my hand, "is Floo Powder. What I need you to do is to throw it down on the coals, but first! You need to say 'Diagon Alley' very very clearly. Your mother and I will be right behind you." I nodded and took a deep breath. "Diagon, Alley" I said slowly making sure to annunciate. I watched my father mouth the words along with me. I let the powder drop from my hand, and suddenly, it all went dark.
After a couple seconds I slid out of fire place, stood up and brushed the ash off of my shirt. I looked around and saw some book shelves filled with books and a lady at the cash register. I looked for an indication saying where I was, then I spotted a sign saying: Flourish and Blotts is having a 20% off sale from now until September the 1st. So, I was at Flourish and Blotts, cool. I suddenly heard a "pop" and turned around to see both of my parents standing at the fire place brushing themselves off.
"You can go browse around while your father and I get your school books, James" my mother said to me, I shook my head in agreement.
I started to walk around looking down the aisles of books and the genres; " Spells", "Potions", "Transfiguration", "Astronomy", "History", and the one I was most interested in was "Jokester". I walked down the aisle and started looking at some books. After a few minutes I heard quick footsteps and then some voices at the front desk.
"If you see a boy with black shaggy hair, very curly, may go into the "Jokester" section, can you please tell him his mother is very angry and will be looking for him in five minutes at Ollivanders, thank you." Next I heard the bell go off informing that someone was leaving the shop. I heard the quick footsteps again and turned around. Right there in front of me was a boy with very shaggy, curly black hair. His eyes were hazel colored.
"You never saw me." The kid told me.
"Who are you anyways?" I asked the kid.
He straightened up and spoke. "My name is Sirius, Sirius Black, I'm a pure-blood." He told me.
"Oh, yeah. I have heard of the name Black, my dad says most of them are in Slytherin, I want to be in Gryffindor." I said to Sirius.
"What your dad tells you is correct, but I want to be in Gryffindor also, see I'm not at all like the rest of my family, it would be a disgrace on my family's name if I get into Gryffindor, I would do anything to make my mother's teeth grind." Sirius explained to me. Next thing I knew I heard my new best friend's mother calling for him and Sirius telling me to be quiet and going to hide in the book shelf. I did what he wanted me to do. I wanted to have a friend when I got to Hogwarts and I couldn't do that without being nice to Sirius. After his mother gave up with trying to find him and left the store and Sirius came out from hiding in the book shelf.
"You're weird, I like you." I said to Sirius and he laughed in reply. Sirius and I talked for the next couple minutes, he explained how he and his cousin ,Andromeda, were the only normal ones in his family. We started to walk out so we could go and get our wands. When I stepped out of the store far in the distance I saw a girl about the same age as me, running down the street, her face was away from me, all I could see was her fiery red hair swaying back and forth as she ran. For some odd reason I got this urge to find out who the girl with the fiery red hair was, like she would be someone important to me, someday.