Sirius was sat in the end compartment, reading the daily prophet, when a boy with messy black hair and glasses burst in.
'Hi',the boy said breathlessly,'I'm James Potter.'
'Sirius black', he replied,
'If anyone asks say I've been here the whole time', James said, throwing himself down on the seat opposite Sirius.
Sirius was about to ask what he meant when it became clear;
'JAMES POTTER', a loud female voice sounded from in the hallway, ' I AM GOING TO KILL YOU'
A minute later a girl with bright blue hair and a rather red face had appeared at the door,
'CHANGE IT BACK' She yelled, indicating to hair, 'CHANGE IT BACK RIGHT NOW'
'Change what back?', James asked in an innocent voice.
'MY HAIR' She screamed.
'Your hair?', James repeated,'oh, you decided to dye it blue'
'I didn't DECIDE anything,' she snarled, leaning into the compartment, 'you ran past and somehow managed to dye my whole compartments hair different colours.'
Just then 2 more girls appeared behind her, each sporting luminous green and yellow hair,
'How could I have done that, I've been in here since the train set off', James protested.
'Have you', said the yellow haired girl, 'can you prove it, because I think the new caretaker Argus Filch would be delighted to give out his first detention of the year'
James glanced at Sirius, wondering if he was going to cover for him. Sirius, who had been watching the argument like a tennis match so far, got the hint and decided to intervene,
'Yes he has', Sirius said, and all 3 girls looked at him in surprise, as if only just noticing he was there, 'we were just talking about the new law that would make muggle hunting leagal', Sirius indicated to the front page of his newspaper.
The blue haired girl looked furious, now she couldn't even prove it had been James, 'That law should be passed' she declared, and with one last glare at James, she flounced out if the compartment.
'Thanks mate' James breathed a sigh of relief.
'What did you DO',asked Sirius,
James grinned suddenly, 'It was a curse in a book that I got, you know 'CURSES AND COUNTER CURSES BY Professor Vindictus Viridian?'
Sirius nodded, he was going to buy that book but his parent wouldn't let him.
James took this as a sign to continue,'Well, it says to fire the curse 'Capillus versicoloris' at the ground, and 7 beams of light (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple and Pink) will bounce off in different directions, hitting the nearest person and dying there hair. The actual spell literally means 'hair of many colours', James said this very fast without taking a breath.
Sirius chuckled 'Why though, how could you have made enemies already, isn't this only your first year'
'Yeah it is my first year,' James said, 'but I know them from pureblood parties I was forced to go to, I hate them, really stuck-up and believe in that 'Pureblood superiority' crap.
Sirius heart sank a bit, he was glad his new friend wasn't as bigoted as his own family, but if James hated those type of people he would hate Sirius as well. Even in school his family was finding a way to ruin his life.
Even so he kept a cheery demeanour, 'So all seven people that you hate just happened to be sitting in the same compartment'
'No, not really', James said, looking a bit guilty now, ' I only recognised six of them, I didn't know the seventh' He shrugged 'Acceptable causalities, considering.'
'True, by the way, where's your trunk?' Sirius asked, it had taken him ages to even get HIS trunk to the compartment, and now it rested next to him, as he was to small to get it on the luggage racks above.
James smiled again, and pulled a miniature trunk out of the pocket in his robes, 'I asked my mum to shrink it', He explained, 'The time spent learning the 'engorgio' charm was worth it, I had to do this or I wouldn't have been able to pull of my prank.' With these words he threw the miniature trunk onto the racks above, pointed his want at the trunk and muttered 'engorgio'.
'Any chance you can do the shrinking one' Sirius said, indicating to his trunk.
'Sorry, no, took me about a week to do that one, no one was teaching me so I just had to guess with the wand movements,'James laughed.
The compartment doors opened for the third time, and a girl with flaming red hair stormed in, sat down and looked out of the window, her face pressed to the pane, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the compartment was already occupied.
James and Sirius exchanged a look, wondering if someone had put a disillusionment charm on them.
Hi, I'm James'
'Lily,' she said thickly, then turned back to the window.
The doors of the compartment were swung open again and a boy with black greasy hair and a large crooked nose burst in and sat down opposite Lily.
'I don't want to talk to you,' she said in a constricted voice.
'Why not?'
'Tuney h-hates me. Because we saw that letter from Dumbledore.'
'So what?'
She threw him a look of deep dislike.
'So she's my sister!'
'She's only a-'
Sirius was sure he was going to say 'muggle', but Lily didn't notice, she seemed to have buried her head into her robes, and was trying to wipe her eyes.
'But we're going!' The greasy haired boy said, and the exhilaration was clear in his voice. 'This is it! We're off to Hogwarts!'
Lily nodded, mopping her eyes, and half smiled.
'You'd better be in Slytherin,' said the boy, seemingly encouraged by the fact that Lily had smiled.
'Slytherin?' Said James, speaking up at last.
'Who wants to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you? James asked Sirius who had been watching the conversation with interest.
Sirius' heart sank a little more, and this time he could not bring himself to smile, 'My whole family have been in Slytherin,' he admitted, waiting for the disapproving glare from James to come.
But to his surprise James said, 'Blimey, and I thought you seemed all right'. Sirius could clearly hear the teasing tone in his voice that suggested he was joking.
Sirius grinned, 'Maybe I'll break the tradition.' I HOPE SO, Sirius thought, 'Where are you heading if you've got the choice?'
James mimed lifting a invisible sword, '"Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!" Like my dad.'
The greasy haired boy made a small disparaging noise. James turned on him.
'Got a problem with that?'
'No,' the boy protested, though his sneer said otherwise, 'If you'd rather be brawny than brainy-'
Sirius looked him up and down and interjected 'Where are you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?'
James burst out laughing and Sirius smiled inwardly at his laughter, though he wasn't sure why. Lily straightened up, her face the same shade as here hair and glared at Sirius and James.
'Come on, Severus, let's find another compartment.' Lily said, in a lofty voice.
'Oooooo ...' James and Sirius said in unison, imitating her voice.
As they left James tried to trip Severus on there way out.
He called out 'See ya, Snivellus!' and slammed the compartment door shut.
'Snivellus?' Sirius asked, with raised eyebrows,
'Its his name isn't it' James shrugged.
'I think it's "Severus"'
'Oh, well now he's "Snivellus"'
'Fair enough' agreed Sirius
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A/N longer chapter than usual to make up for the last one which was shorter. I know no-one reviewed, but I got my 4th follower of this story, so I figured it should have 4 chapter.
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