(A/N: this is from James's point of view)
Chapter 1

One day in July my friend Sirius black and I were playing that we had a
crucial part in the falling of a dark wizard when a tawny owl came
through the window and dropped a letter at my feet and one at Sirius's
feet. I picked up the letter and saw a very odd picture on it. I
dismissed the picture saying "whatever" and opened the envelope. I
screamed. Sirius opened his and he screamed too. My sister Joanna came in
with her wand raised and said, "What's the matter?" "I just got my letter
from Hogwarts!!" we shrieked simultaneously. "Gosh, whoda thought someone
would scream just because they got an acceptance letter."


Chapter 2
My sister Joanna took us to London two days later. We went into a funny
little shop that looked like it had just been crammed in the space
between a bookstore and a record shop. The toothless innkeeper greeted us
with "hello, Hogwarts students?" "Yes," Joanna answered hurriedly. It
seemed like she didn't want to talk to him. We walked out the back door
and came to a garbage can. My sister tapped on one of the bricks on the
wall above the garbage can and a hole opened. It got bigger and bigger
until we could walk through it. We walked through it into an alley with
shops all around it. But my sister hurried us past the shop to a big
marble building called Gringotts. It was the wizard bank guarded by
goblins. We went inside and Joanna pulled out two keys ("one for Sirius
and one for you," she told me.) She showed them to the teller and he
called another goblin to take us to our vaults. We got into a little cart
that went at least 6000 miles per hour. We went through a maze of turns
and got to a vault. "Potter" said the goblin. My sister and I went into
the vault and I looked around I couldn't see anything. But my sister took
her wand out of her pocket, muttered something, and we were surrounded
with coins of gold, silver and bronze. "Are we rich, Joanna?" I asked.
"Very," she replied. I ran around stuffing coins into a huge pillowcase
that my sister had given me. Then the goblin took us to Sirius's vault.
There were five silver sickles in it. he went in and picked up three of
them. "Are the Blacks poor?" I asked Joanna. "No, but a dark wizard
robbed them 4 years ago. The ministry caught the wizard but they haven't
found the gold yet. It happened on the day his parents disappeared. It
seems strange though, that he's taking money out I mean, because he lives
with us and we pay for his things." Sirius came back and we went back
through the maze into the entrance of Gringotts. We said thank you to the
goblin and went outside into the blinding sunlight. My sister took us to
a bookstore. She gave the little old man at the counter our lists and he
took us to a back room. I saw billions of books-small red books, big blue
books, books with bats, books with teeth, smoking books, everything.
While she was getting our books, Sirius and I read a book about Harryland
in Africa. It said that a man had a vision that a baby named Harry would
defeat the strongest dark wizard of all time escaping with only a scar.
This harry would be the son of two people with the initials J.P. and L.J.
As we were just getting into the book. My sister said "on to Madame
Malkin's (that's where you get your robes)" As we went down the alley I
saw two boys that looked extremely evil. They were begging their fathers
to let them go into Knockturn alley to buy "the scull of death". I hoped
they weren't going to be in my class or bunk. After we got everything
except for our wands, we went into an owl shop. I got a brown owl that I
named "Fuzzy" and Sirius got a tawny owl that he named "Ogo". Then we
went to Ollivanders-the wand shop. At first I thought it was empty. Then
I saw a mysterious old man with silver eyes. "Good afternoon, Joanna," he
said, "14 inches, oak, very stiff, wasn't it?" "It still is," she
answered, "anyway these two need wands. Sirius you go first." Sirius went
up to Mr. Ollivander, a scared expression on his face. Sirius tried six
wands before he got the right one. It was 13 inches, mahogany, with
phoenix tail feather in it. Then it was my turn. I had to try out every
wand in the shop before I found the right one. It was 15 inches, ebony,
with unicorn tail hair and phoenix feather in it. (A/N: you may be
wondering why this is a different wand than it says in the book Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It's because James had to get two wands.
But you won't know why until later.) After shopping all day Joanna
seemed to think we were tired, and she wanted to take us home. Finally,
after about half an hour of begging, she let us go to Florean's Ice Cream
Shoppe to get some ice cream, but she said that after that we were
leaving. After extremely good vanilla ice cream sundaes, Sirius, Joanna
and I stepped through the barrier, which brought us back to the Leaky
Cauldron and we left for home.


Chapter 3
After returning home, Sirius and I ran to my mom (Lillian Potter) to
show her our purchases. After my mother "oooh" ing and "aaah" ing over
our "wonderful" packages, Sirius and I ran upstairs to play our dark
magic game once more.


(A/N: you may be wondering why Joanna is doing everything. James's
parents are way too busy and are away almost all the time [but we won't
know what their jobs are until the end of the story] and Sirius's parents
are missing)

Chapter 4
"Come on," yelled Joanna up the stairs, "We can't be late for the
train!" "What?" I asked groggily. "The train to Hogwarts!" she shrieked.
We were awake and dressed in a second. "Oh my gosh" we said. After a
quick breakfast of Cocoa puffs we got in the car and went to the station.
I stared around me. "I don't see anything unusual," I said. "Follow me"
Joanna said. We followed her at a run toward the barrier between
platforms 9 and 10. "Joanna," I yelled, "we'll crash!" But we just went
right through the barrier on to platform 9 3/4. "Hurry and get a
compartment" Joanna commanded us. So we got the first compartment we came
to. Then the whistle blew but we couldn't see Joanna so we settled in.
Soon enough three boys came into our compartment asking if they could sit
there. We let them. The redhead's name was Arthur Weasley, The black
haired one that looked like he should be Sirius's twin was named Remus
Lupin, and the blonde was peter p. he wouldn't tell his last name. I, who
had taken Latin in school, asked Remus, "Werewolf, are you?" He looked
very uneasy as he muttered "yes, I suppose." The redhead said "he is but
he hates the subject." "Oh" At that moment we heard a jingling sound
outside our compartment. "Candy dears?" said a cheery voice from outside.
I went outside and got four packages of everything. As we were eating our
food, we heard a knock outside our door. It was the two boys I had seen
in Diagon Alley. "We heard there's a Weasley in this compartment" said
the black haired one. His name was Snape. The other was named Malfoy.
"I'm Weasley," said Arthur in a very cold voice. "Should've known," said
Malfoy, "you've got the hair and the clothes. Speaking of which, where
did you get them? The city dump?" "Quit it, Malfoy," said Remus, "you
know you're just jealous of Arthur cause his father's the most respected
wizard judge ever." "Me? Jealous? I have everything I could ever want,"
he replied. "Come on Malfoy, you know you're power hungry and that your
father is one of the lowest wizards that is looked most down upon ever,"
said Remus. That must have got Malfoy cause he said, "Come on, let's go."
to Snape and they left.
(A/N: if you're wondering why they don't seem to know anything about the
magical world it's because they live in a muggle town) as we munched away
we had another visitor. It was a boy. "Longbottom," the small boy with
sandy hair and glasses said, "I'm looking for a Peter Pettigrew." "So
that's his last name," we said. "Pettigrew?!" exclaimed Arthur. Peter
looked embarrassed. He got up and the two boys left. "What's so weird
about Pettigrews?" I asked. "The Pettigrews are the Malfoys cousins. They
do anything the Malfoys ask them to. Most people hate them all, but I
think Peter's different. I guess that's why he didn't tell us his name.
He didn't want us to hate him. Seems strange though, me and Remus have
known him forever and he never even told us." "You have not known him for
one thousand, nine hundred and sixty eight years have you?" I asked him.
"Tosh you, "he said, "let's forget about it and talk about something
else. Like money." That gave me an idea. "Sirius," I said, "Let's find
your parents money this year!" "James, you know we'll never be able to.
the ministry's been looking for four years and they're trained wizards"
said Sirius. "So what? I had this dream and these 3 kids defeated this
REALLY bad guy who killed lots of people with this one spell and this kid
was the only one who EVER survived this spell and it killed the bad guy
instead. All these other trained wizards couldn't get the bad guy but the
kid could." "Yes, but you're forgetting that that was a dream and this is
real life." "Good point" I answered. "What on earth are you two talking
about?" asked Arthur. We explained about Sirius's parents and money. "Too
bad. Our family has 26 kids in it and 16 still aren't married and we only
have one working parent. "How many boys?" we asked. "16 boys, 10 girls.
10 people married." What are their names?" while he was telling us we
heard another knock at the door. "Arthur," said a bossy voice, "Edward
and Frank want to talk to you." "What? Why are they here? Oh come in you
two." Arthur answered. Two girls entered. They looked about 11 and they
looked just like Arthur. "James, Sirius, meet Jenny and Leila, my
sisters." "We're triplets," one of them said importantly. "Anyway,
Arthur," said the other, "Edward and Frank want to talk to you." "Can I
bring them?" he asked pointing to us. "I guess, if you must," said one.
"Come on guys" he said to us and we started off towards the teachers'
compartments led by jenny and Leila. "Why are they in the teachers'
compartments?" Arthur asked. "We don't know, ask them" answered Jenny. We
went into a compartment and we saw three people. Two guys that looked
exactly like Arthur but older and my sister Joanna. "What's she doing
here?" Sirius whispered to me. "No idea," I answered. One of Arthur's
brothers started talking about something. We couldn't understand it
because he talked in Gaelic. Arthur answered him. While they were having
their discussion we asked Joanna why she was there. She wouldn't tell us.
"you'll see" she kept saying whenever we asked her. Arthur and his
brothers finished their discussion and we left, the girls coming with us.
On the way to our compartment the girls stopped to pick up their friends
Lily Jones and Aurora Ogo. We went back to our compartment. It was
crowded because peter had come back with Tom Longbottom. We told everyone
that we had decided to find Sirius's gold. We also told them that
Sirius's owl's name was Ogo. Aurora wasn't too happy about that. Then we
asked Arthur what his conversation with his brothers had been about.
"they told us that strange dark things are happening," he said. "like
what?" "Like some guy, who's a graduate of Hogwarts by the way, named
Tom, decided to kill everyone except his gang. They've forbidden me to go
homefor the holidays. They say the only person Tom's afraid of is the
transfiguration teacher. But they say the real guy he's afraid of is on
holiday in France for 2 and ½ years. So it's not that transfiguration
teacher we're gonna have but the one on holiday. Anyway they said that
the headmaster isn't gonna let anyone go home for the holidays-too
dangerous." "how awful" we said, "that's one of the three times my
parents are home." "the train will arrive at Hogwarts in 5 minutes" said
a voice over the intercom. "we better change, girls get out." We changed
and then we were there.

When we got out of the train, we walked over to a giant who was shouting for the first years to go to him. He told us to get into to groups of four, and climb into a boat. He said the boat would take us to Hogwarts. At first the ride was fun, but then after a while, it seemed to get tiring, so Sirius and I jumped out of the boat. We were swimming along the boat when a squid nibbled our toes! We quickly leaped back into the boat! Whew!

As soon as we got into the boat Hagrid shouted "Jus' around this
bend now" We passed under a ledge and there was a very loud ooooooh. we
saw a huge castle with many turrets and windows. after a while Hagrid
told the boats to stop and we walked up to the huge oak doors of the
castle. We could feel the magic in the air. Hagrid knocked three times on
the door.

*Chapter 5*
A tall man opened the door and whispered something to Hagrid. we
couldn't hear what he said. When he finished his short conversation he
told us to follow him and he took us to a side room. "you will be sorted
into your houses in 5 minutes. I suggest you make yourselves look smart."
All the girls started redoing their hair but the boys talked about what
it would be. "Max says that you have to defeat a Vaseline bottle that
bites. he says it's very violent." said Arthur. in a few minutes the tall
man came back and told us to get in a line and follow him. i was between
Arthur and Jenny. we went into a huge hall where we saw all the other
students at the school sitting at four tables. A little man brought out a
stool with a hat on it. "there are 4 houses, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff,
Ravenclaw, and Slytherin." said a tall old man with an eyeglass. the hat
broke into song. I was so nervous that I didn't hear it. then the little
man started calling names. the third name they called was Sirius's.
almost immediately the hat shouted "Gryffindor" Everyone else that was
my friend and was before me got into Gryffindor. "Polly... Pokky...
Potter, James!" I walked up very nervously and put on the hat.
"interesting.... smart, mischievous, truthful, brave.... where will I
put you?" said the hat in my ear. "Gryffindor" I thought. "oh but you
should be in Ravenclaw ... but if you insist you will be in GRYFFINDOR"
the last word the hat shouted. I went over to my friends. and waited for
the Weasleyus to be put with us. they were. I saw some gold dishes and
then I realized that I was REALLY hungry. the old man with the eyeglass
stood up and announced that all students were not to go in the forest.
then he said some weird words and food appeared on the tables. all sorts
of food. even some weird things that looked like stuffed cows but they
were moving around. as they moved people cut of parts of them. I took a
little of everything except the cows. I thought I was full but then
dessert came out-ice cream, cake, candy, everything in all flavors. I
took a little of everything pistachio, my favorite flavor. after the meal
was finished and the plates were clear the old man (the headmaster
Theodore Roosevelt) told us we w ere going to sing the school song. he
waved his wand and a string came out it and formed itself into words.
everyone picked their favorite tune and sang the school song. I think I
was asleep. then a boy who was about 15 led us to a dorm. the boys went
up the left staircase and the girls went up the right one. we went into a
room that had six red canopy beds in it. our trunks were already there.
I fell into the bed closest to the window and went immediately to sleep
with my clothes on.
*Chapter 6*
I had a very strange dream that night. a lady, with red hair, a boy with
black hair, a year old, A man, pale, white hair, with my wand, saying
something. me screaming at him, the lady killed, saying to hand over
something, me saying no, me killed, man saying a spell, boy has scar, man
vanished. I woke up sweating and panting. I wondered what it meant.


*Chapter 7*
At breakfast that morning, i told everyone about my dream. lily said it
especially scared her because she had had the same dream. Sirius had a
dream that he was chasing Peter along a muggle road shouting that peter
had killed Lily and i and then he saw himself in Azkaban. he said it
didn't look like him cuz it was a dog but he knew it was him. Everyne
else said that they didn't have a dream but something on Peter's face
told me that he was lying. when i asked him about it he said that he
didn't have a dream and to stop bothering him about it. Prof. Roosevelt
came over to us after we ate and told us that he wanted to see Sirius,
lily, Remus, Leila, Arthur, Tom, and i in his office. we went up to the
fifth floor to a gargoyle that looked like it was going to jump at me any
minute. the proffessor said 7up and the gargoyle sprang aside, revealing
a lot of moving stairs. we got on the one three from the right and it
took us to an office. as we went through the door i saw a red bird. it
was burning. I gasped. "pity you should see Harold on a burning day. but
don't worry about him. it's their cycle of life. he'll be reborn from the
ashes" said the proffesser. As he said this i saw a scrawny little bird
like thing emerge from the ashes. "anyway, you're probably wondering why
i brought you up here. you're here because it has come to my attention
that you've all had dreams last night" (Remu, Leila, Tom, and Arthur
looked sheepish) "i would like to know what they were." said Prof.
Roosevelt. i told him mine and lily's. Sirius told him his dream and we
waited to hear the others'. "i dreamed that me and Leila were chasing
snape, malfoy, crabbe, and goyle and a very pale man. we were trying to
freeze them but the pale man shouted a spell at us and we got amnesia."
Leila said she had the same dream. Arthur said he had a dream that his
son would help my son and a muggle girl defeat a pale man. Remus didn't
want to say his. Roosevelt made him. "i dreamed that i bit Jenny Weasley"
he said quietly. "all of you except Remus and James can go" said
Roosevelt.

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