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A new friendship

Sirius woke up with a smile on his face, ready for the day. He saw that Remus was already dressed and ready for breakfast.

"Good morning, Lupin. Sleep well?"

"Yes, thank you. And you?"

"Could not have been better. Hey, would you like to wait for me to get dress and go down together?"

"Sure."

"Thanks!" Sirius grabbed his clothes and run into the bathroom. In a few minutes was he back and ready.

"Wow, fast."

Remus and Sirius walked down to the great hall and sat down to eat. Andromeda walked over and sat down with them.

"So, how is my little cousin doing?"

"Fine thank you, just fine." Sirius smiled and took a bite of his boiled egg.

"You're staying here then? You are not transferring to another school?"

"No, I don't think so. I had a meeting with Dumbledore last night and he said that I could stay in Gryffindor."

"Great. It's nice to have you here, even if you're in Gryffindor. I'm almost jealous at you for it!" Andromeda laughed.

"You should be!" Sirius said with a smirk.

"Oh, yes, but I'm glad to be in the same house as my little sister."

Sirius could imagine that it was fun to have a sibling in the same school house; he hoped his little brother Regulus would follow him and go to Gryffindor.

Potter and Pettigrew entered the great hall, they gave them dark looks and sat down a couple of meters away.

"So you are a Gryffindor but you can't live without your Slytherin friends. By all do, invite them all over to the Gryffindor table." Potter spited out at Sirius. Andromeda raised a brow and rolled her eyes at Potter. "Gees, relax a little. I was just chattering with my cousin. We have all rights to sit and talk with other students then in our houses. It's not war you know."

"Isn't it? What will you call the thing that's going on outside of Hogwarts? That that dark wizard is just making his point by killing people?"

Sirius frowned. "Everything is not black and white, Potter. All Slytherins are not evil, just as all the Gryffindors aren't saints."

"Certainly not, since you are a Gryffindor!" Potter said and took his breakfast and sat somewhere else, Pettigrew after him. Remus who had only observed the conversation looked puzzled.

"What a..." Andromeda said and looked after Potter.

"I know, and he is our roommate." Sirius said. "Oh, I forgot to introduce you two. Andromeda this is Remus Lupin, Remus this is my cousin Andromeda Black."

"Nice to meet you Mr Lupin."

"You too" Remus said and shook her hand.

"It's good to see my little cousin has find a nice friend." Andromeda smiled heartily." I'm afraid I must say good bye for now. My class starts soon. See you later!" She left in a hurry.

Sirius and Remus went to the classroom for magical of history as that was their first lesson for the day. Lily Evans and her friends were already there. Sirius and Remus sat down with them. They started to chat a little. Professor Binns soon swept in and the class started. Potter stared at Sirius and Lily during the whole class. He looked puzzled. He could still not imagine how she, a muggleborn could be friend with a Black. He saw Lily's green eyes and his stomach started to hurt, he did not know why.

The rest of the month went by, Sirius and Remus talked and hang a bit. But Sirius felt an unease in Remus, he was quite hard to come really close. Potter and Sirius were after a week still like cat and dog.

Sirius took every opportunity to talk with his cousins, though they were pretty few. Lily Evans spent more and more time with her new friends and to study. The Prewetts were studying really hard for their O. so he didn't want to bother them. So Sirius felt lonely most of the time.

One Saturday evening was Sirius just wandering around in the castle, trying to find some hidden paths. He had so for found two shortcuts, one between the charms classroom and transfigurations classroom and one shortcut down the dungeons. Remus had gone home for a few days, his mother was ill and wanted her son on her side. Sirius hoped she would be ok and that Remus soon would be back.

Suddenly Sirius heard a bounce from the corridor beside him. He went over and saw James Potter trying to hex the armour standing in the side of the corridor. Potter looked up straight at Sirius; first like a deer in the spotlight then his eyes narrowed. They heard footsteps coming at their way. Sirius took out his wand.

"May I help you? You did the spell right but your move was not really accurate. Look." Sirius hexed the armour in front of him. Potter observed Sirius and did after him.

"I can't see that it worked" Potter said in disbelief. "Just wait and see." Sirius answered him as they both find a place to hide. A Slytherin prefect walked around the corner. The armour started to move towards him when he was just beside it, the prefect screamed in horror and run away, leaving the both pranksters alone. Sirius burst out a heartily laugh, Potter soon followed him. James liked Sirius' friendly laugh, it was not a cold and chilly laugh that he had expect from the young Black, but warm and friendly.

"Why did you help me?"

"Oh, I just love to make pranks. My family hates me for it; it's getting them on the nerves, specially my mother." Sirius continued to laugh.

"Thank you, Black."

"Please call me Sirius, that's who I'm." Potters eyes narrowed again then softened.

"Maybe we got it wrong the first time. My name is James Potter." He held out a hand to Sirius who took it.

"Happy to meet ya. I'm Sirius Black. And we didn't get it wrong the first time, for what I can recall did I act polite and right."

"Don't test me, Black!" Sirius burst out in laughter again out and laid a hand on James shoulder.

"I'm just kidding with you, you know that." Potters face softened again, maybe he could live with Black in his dormitory. But just maybe.

Peter Pettigrew got very surprised when James and Sirius rumbled in the bedroom chattering and laughing. Were they friends now? Just like that? He had nothing against that, as a matter of fact was he happy about it as it would give a more peaceful atmosphere in their bedroom.

"Peter! Guess what? I made a new friend today, let me introduce you to Sirius Black." Sirius laughed and jumped forward to Peter and shook his hand.

"Err, nice to meet you. I guess." Stuttered Peter.

"You guess? Now that not a good start." James rolled his eyes and smiled.

"I guess it's nice to meet you to Peter." Sirius laughed heartily and let Peters' hand go.

That night the new found friends chatted almost all night long about nothing and everything. James was curious how a Black could end up like this nice, but he did not ask anything about Sirius family. Maybe their friendship weren't ready for that topic yet.

Sirius, James and Peter enjoyed each other's company the hole next day. James told Sirius how much he loved Quidditch when they sat outside near the lake after lunch.

"It's such a freedom to fly, I love every second of it."

Sirius nodded. "Yes, I like flying a broomstick now and then too. Guess we don't need to go to madam Hooch flying lessons for newbies then."

"I have only flying a broomstick once and it didn't end well."

"Don't worry Peter, I'm sure madam Hooch will help you learn how to fly." Said Sirius with sympathy.

"Yes, and when she does, will you too feel the greatness in it." James said and smiled widely. They laughed.

"So you want to go for the tryouts for a place in the Gryffindor Quidditch team next year, James?" Sirius asked and lay down on the grass.

"Yep, wish I could do it this year though."

"What would you like to be in the team?" Asked Peter and looked out over the lake.

"I don't know really, anything. I like all positions."

Sirius raised a brow.

"Oh, do you really?"

James laughed.

"Oy, shut up you!" James also lay down in the ground.

"So Sirius, would you also like to be in the team?" Sirius thought.

"Yeah, I would like that. Though I'd rather be in the Gryffindors duelling club. But I guess you can be in both."

James looked puzzled. "I didn't even know there was such as duelling clubs! Did you Peter?"

"No."

"Well, you have to be a second year for that too." Sirius said and lay a hand over his eyes to see James better in the sunlight. James said "oh" and shut his eyes towards the sun.

"So you need to be a second year for almost everything, and a third year to go to Hogsmeade. What is there left for us first years then?" Peter said in disbelief.

Sirius sat up and looked at Peter. "You're right Peter! Absolutely right! What's left for us?"

"Study I suppose." James answered, eyes still shot. Sirius frowned.

"Sure it must be something more than that!" He got a smirk on his face, it made Peter nervous, for now he looked like a Black with a horrible plan.

"What do you have in mind?" Asked James and sat up. Sirius had still a big smile on his face and his gray eyes were sparkling with mischief.

"Exploring and make pranks."

James face also lightened up in a big smile.

"I never thought we would talk the same language, Black." Peter looked nervous but gave them a little smile.

A couple of hours later:

"Are you sure this is the right way?"

"How can I Peter if I haven't been here before?" Sirius said as they walked in a hidden corridor. Peter shrugged. "Maybe we should have taken the other turn."

"Maybe, maybe not. We don't know that right now. But soon I hope." Said James and looked at Peter with calming eyes.

Sirius laughed.

"And when we do, do we need to look where the other turn will lead us!"

James nodded. He must be a little crazy that Sirius, Peter thought for himself. The secret corridor led them down to the great hall; so they walked back to see where the other turn in the secret corridor went, to Peter's disbelief.

"Isn't it wicked we found s short cut to the great hall? Now we can sleep some more minutes on the mornings!" James said in eager. "Oh yes, I have notice that you're a sleepyhead, James." Sirius laughed out as they walked.

Suddenly Sirius fell down on the ground. "Bloody Merlins beard!"

"Sirius are you alright?!" James dived down to help Sirius up on his feet.

"Yes I'm ok, thanks James."

"You're welcome."

"I think that's the way out." Peter pointed ahead of them. Sirius felt his leg hurt when he walked, but he didn't say anything about it. Peter opened the door and checked it out, it was pretty dark and cool outside.

"I think we are in the dungeons." Said Peter and took a step out.

"It looks like we have found a shortcut to Professor Slughorn's office, look." James said and pointed at a door. Peter and Sirius nodded.

"Oh, great. A shortcut to his Slug Club parties." Sirius said in sarcasm. James and Peter turned to Sirius. "What's that?"

Sirius frowned. "I don't really know if I should be honest. It's some club that Professor Slughorn has, with some students and graduated students .

Don't ask me why, I haven't been on one of those "parties" yet."

The three boys went up to their bedrooms in the Gryffindor tower. As they run in saw they Remus lying on his bed reading a book. Remus looked up and smiled heartily at them.

"Look what the cat drag in!" He said to them with a smirk. Sirius who understood the true meaning of the sentence laughed.

"Yes, look Remus. I'm glad to see you're back. How is your mom?" Sirius sat down his bed, as did the other boys.

Remus thought. "Well, she could have been worse but she could have been better."

A typical Remus answer Sirius thought, always cryptic. Sirius looked at Remus as he lay down his book on the table, he was sure he saw a new scar on Remus arm. How can a boy like Remus get all those scars? The same way he got his own? Did his parents or family beat him to when he did something they didn't like?

Remus smiled at Sirius, his golden eyes meet Sirius greys.

"So, you're friend now?" Remus nodded at Potter who sat down his bed. "Yes we-"

"We have exploring the castle after hidden paths!" James cut in and lay down his bed.

Peter nodded. "Yes, we found a shortcut to the great hall and one to Professor Slughorns office."

"Wow, how did you manage that?"

"Well, we explored." Peter said and lay down on his bed. Sirius observed James and Peter and giggled, yes giggled as a happy child. As the happy child he was.