A/N: Another chapter because the last one was short. Enjoy!
CONGRA- AND PE- TULATIONS
"You're JOKING."
They had just boarded the train. It was still on Platform 9&3/4 and for once the Marauders were shut up in their compartment. Remus was gaping at him, Sirius was looking warily at them both and Peter was looking at James in awe.
"I'm NOT joking," James mumbled, unable to meet his friend's eyes. He pulled out the badge from within his trunk and showed it to them. There was complete and utter silence as the boys looked at it with wide and wary eyes.
After a minute, Remus said, "Well then, congratulations!"
James looked up, surprised to see him smiling. "You deserve it," Remus continued.
"What?!" yelled Sirius. "How in the name of Merlin's beard does he deserve this?"
Remus said in a calm voice, "Dumbledore had chosen him as the Head Boy, Padfoot, so obviously he deserves it."
James grinned at Remus and asked, "No hard feelings?"
"None," replied Remus smiling. "Actually I never had the feeling that I could be a Head Boy with all the things we do - look at what a poor Prefect I was." James laughed along with him, but Sirius just gaped and Peter was still looking at James in awe.
The train began to move.
James sighed and got up. "I'd better go up to the Prefects' compartment. My letter told me to be there as soon as we leave for Hogwarts."
"I could use the Cloak-" Sirius started but cut himself off at the sad smile on James' face. They had never travelled to Hogwarts in different compartments before. Clapping him on the back, James left his best friends and made his way toward the Prefects' compartment.
As the door shut behind him, Sirius pulled out a pack and retreated to a corner seat, puffing smoke as heavy as the unearthly silence in the compartment.
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