Chapter 3
"Uhhh!" James groaned, moving his trunk through the pathway, trying to find an empty compartment.
Lily was ahead of him. She found a compartment with one person in it. "Bye, James," Lily said.
"Bye, Lily!" James replied. The compartment across from Lily's had one person in it also. What a great opportunity to make some new friends, or in this case, one friend. The boy in it gave James a strange look. James lifted his trunk, and stumbled. The boy in the compartment rushed over to his aid. He helped lift the trunk overhead to where the luggage goes. After the trunk was up there, James got a clear shot at the boy. The boy was a first year, like James, and he had long, messy, dark black hair with heavy eyebrows. The boy also had a pale look about him.
James said, "Thanks."
The boy gave James his hand and said, "Sirius. Sirius Black."
"James. James Potter," James replied.
"Excuse me, but were you just…talking to that girl? That…muggle born girl?"
"Wait a minute…how do you know she's muggle born?"
"She's clean…and a confused expressing about her face. I can just tell. It's a gift I inherited from my purebred family," Sirius replied, emphasizing the word pureblood. "You're a pureblood. If you end up going with her…"
"Hang on…who says anything about me going with her?"
"No one. I'm just saying that your kids will be half-blood. You don't want that hanging over your shoulders."
"Aren't we too young to talk about things like that? And besides, she's not my friend…she calls everybody James. James just happens to be the name my parents liked. My Great Grandfather is named James. Nothing's going on with anyone. We're only 11!"
"Alright, alright. You don't have to get testy with me." James's face was getting red, partly from embarrassment, partly from anger.
Lily was looking in James's compartment. James saw her looking and he shut the compartment doors. After that humiliation towards him, James can't risk it anymore, even though he likes Lily a lot. Pushing her away with be better for his social life. He has to make friends that won't think he's a weirdo. He can't live with that reputation.
"Anything from the trolley, dears?" James heard a voice from behind his compartment door. James opened the door. The lady was asking Lily and her new friend if they wanted a snack from the trolley. The lady had a bunch of sweets, anything from Bertie Botts every flavor bean to chocolate frogs, to even licorice wands. James eyes grew so big, that someone would think they'd catch his eye if it popped out.
How about you, dear? Anything from the trolley?"
"Yes!" James shouted, practically jumping from his feet. "I'll have 4 cauldron cakes…4 of everything!"
"That'll be…" calculating on the cash register with her want, "four gallons, nine sickles, and five knuts."
James gave her five gallons from inside his pocket. She gave his the rest of the change, which were one sickle and five knuts. James loaded the seats in the compartment with the candy. Sirius gawked at all the food that was there.
"Um…do you mind sharing?"
"Oh, I have plenty. Dig in!"
Sirius took a Bertie Botts every flavor bean and popped it in his mouth. "Uggggg! Kidney Bean!"
James looked to see what Lily was up to. She was chewing off a piece of licorice wand. She glanced at James, and then slam went his door. Lily did have a confused expressing on her face. But it's not being new to the world of wizardry. James took a look at Sirius, who was now saying that he has a prune flavored bean.
It was getting dark out. "I suppose we should be changing into our robes," Lily's voice was heard through James's compartment. "We should be getting close now."
James looked at Sirius. Sirius was asleep, with his mouth slightly opened. Wrappers of candy were everywhere. Hey, Sirius…HEY SIRIUS!" James shouted.
"Wha-," Sirius jumped from his seat and ended up with his butt on the floor, but his legs and feet on James's seat.
"I suppose we should be changing into our robes now. I suspect we should be arriving soon."
Sirius tried to get up, but he was stuck. He pushed off with his arms in his own seat and lifted himself back on to his own seat, then sliding his feet off from James's seat and putting them back on the floor.
"Come on, the train's slowing down." They quickly changed into their robes as the train went to a complete halt. "What do you think it'll be like?"
"Dunno…I suppose brilliant. Better than being at home."
"Why?"
"Parent expectations. They want me to become something I'm most certainly not."
"That sucks."
"Yeah…so help me with my trunk?"
"Sure." That both climbed out of their compartment and helped each other with their trunks. They dragged their things along the train, behind Lily. They went off the train and into the crowd of confused first years.
"First years, this way!" a giant shouted out, carrying a lantern. He is twice as tall as the average man and nearly five times as wide. He had brown very thick, very long and tangled hair and beard. He looked like he was into his fifties with strands of gray hair appearing into the silver illuminated light.
The first years followed the giant until they reached the Black Lake that had about eight gigantic canoes. "Four to a boat!" The giant boomed, getting into a boat all to himself. The twenty eight students climbed into a boat. James and Sirius climbed into one boat, and then Lily and a girl followed. Once all the students were in, the boats started moving. As the fog disappeared, a huge ancient castle appeared, with thousands of lights from the windows and spotlights illuminated the night.
"It's like a dream! Only except I'll never wake up from it!" a random boy from a different boat stammers, and gawks at the enchanting castle.
"Muggle born," Sirius murmurs.
When they approached the castle, they got out and filed along, lining up at the doors. The doors opened automatically to let the first years in.
