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James Potter Chapter 9
by, Sirius87
At 4:45 on the 23rd I waited for Sirius, Remus, and Peter to come. They were all coming by floo powder so I was waiting by the fireplace. At about 5:10 Sirius appeared.
"Hi James!" he said.
"Hello!" I said. "Have some Every Flavored Beans." I shoved a bowl into his arms.
"Yum," he said eating some. "Is Remus coming?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't he?"
"Well it was a full moon on the 21st so I thought he might be sick or something."
"He told me he could come but he would feel kinda sick."
"Oh, I wish we could do something about that," Sirius said.
"I know it must stink being a werewolf," I said.
"What could we do to make him happy while he's a werewolf?"
"Werewolves are only a threat to people, right?" I asked.
"Yeah, I think."
"So if we could somehow not be people we could be with him and he wouldn't hurt us?"
"I think, why?"
"Do you know what an Animagus is?"
"Isn't that when you can turn into an animal whenever you want?" Sirius said.
"Yeah," I said grinning.
"But we couldn't do that, could we?"
"Well Lily gave me a Transfiguration book for my birthday and it has directions on how to become one."
"Don't you have to register with the ministry if you want to learn how to become one because it's so dangerous?"
"Sirius, we don't have to register. We just won't tell anyone," I said.
"Okay, but isn't it really hard and dangerous to become one?" Just then Remus appeared in the fireplace. He looked slightly ill but when he saw us he smiled.
"Hey, isn't Peter coming?" he asked.
"Yeah, I guess he's late," I said.
"Oh, what did I miss?"
"Well James had a crazy idea that I think is impossible," Sirius said.
"No, it isn't, we're the smartest people in our year we can figure it out."
"Yeah, but we could get hurt or something."
"What are you guys talking about?" Remus asked.
"Oh yeah, James thought that we should become Animagi."
"Woah, that's impossible!" Remus said.
"No it isn't, I have steps on how to become one in a book. We would do it for you, so we could be with you when you transform into a werewolf, you're only a threat to people, right?" I asked.
"Um, yes, but I don't want you to become Animagi just for me. I mean it's not that bad being a-"
"Yes it is, Remus," I said.
"Okay, so it hurts a little, but you shouldn't do something so dangerous just for me."
"Why not? It would be fun," I said.
"Not if something went wrong," Sirius said. "Can we at least wait a few months before we try?"
"Well we don't have to do it right away. I'm sure it'll take like a year until we'll be able to change back and forth regularly, probably a lot more than a year."
"Well maybe we'll consider it later," Sirius said. "Now can I try out your Shooting Star before it gets too dark?"
"Shouldn't we wait for Peter?" I said.
"Come on, can't I just try it now?" Sirius begged.
"No, we're waiting for Peter." After another long 15 minutes Peter appeared in the fireplace.
"What the heck took you so long?" Sirius asked annoyed.
"Came out in the wrong fireplace," Peter panted. "I was running from a big dog, he chased me around the house and then I ran back into the fireplace and luckily came here."
"Can I ride it now?" Sirius asked.
"Okay, come on everyone, Sirius wants to try out my Shooting Star. You can try it after him if ya want," I said. I grabbed my broom from my room and we went to my backyard. I gave Sirius it and he flew immediately flew into the air.
"This is so cool!" he yelled down to us. "I need to get on of these."
"Can I try?" Remus asked.
"I'm not done yet," Sirius flew around my yard for another 15 minutes and then I made him come down and Remus tried. He thought it was very fun. Peter was afraid of heights so he nearly fell off a few times. He also had trouble getting it to stop.
After Sirius flew for another 15 minutes we went up to my room and I showed them the directions on how to become an Animagus. I also explained my idea to Peter who looked scarred.
"What animal would you want to become?" I asked Sirius.
"Um, something big that can run fast and maybe black so I wouldn't be noticeable at night so I could sneak up on someone and knock em over. What would you be?"
"Probably something with horns or something so I could hurt anyone who annoyed me, but I'd want to be big and fast. How about you Peter?"
"Maybe something small so I could hide from people and sneak around the place without being seen."
***
The next morning the girls came over for breakfast. My dad rented seven Shooting Stars for the day so all played Quidditch.
"Who wants to be a captain?" I asked.
"I will," said Sirius.
"Me too," Lily said.
"You can pick first," Sirius told Lily.
"Okay, Hope."
"James."
"Kristina," Lily said.
"Remus," Sirius said.
"Don't pick Amber," I heard Hope whisper to Lily.
"Why not?"
"She really bad."
"Fine, Peter."
"Amber come with us," Sirius said.
"What positions do you want to play?" I asked. "Can I play Chaser?"
"Of course," said Sirius. "And I'm Beater."
"I want to be Seeker," Remus said.
"I guess I'm Keeper, then," Amber said.
Lily's team decided that Kris would play Seeker, Lily would play Chaser, Peter would play Beater, and Hope would be the Keeper.
We mounted our brooms and took off. I soon got the Quaffle and easily scored.
"10-0," Sirius screamed. Lily now had the Quaffle, I managed to get it from her and score again. After that Kris saw the Snitch and caught it.
"We win," she said. "150-20."
We played another couple of games, every game was the same, I scored a few points and then Kris caught the Snitch.
We went up to my room and had snacks next.
"Oh, James, did you find anything useful in the Transfiguration book I gave you?" Lily asked.
"Yeah," I said grinning at Sirius.
"Good, I wasn't sure if you'd like it."
"Oh, I liked it."
***
Nothing too interesting happened during the rest of my party. Around the middle of August Sirius owled me saying he was getting his supplies on the 25th. I checked with my mom that that day was al right and I owled Sirius back saying I'd be there that day. Then I owled Remus and Peter.
***
On the 25th I met them all in Flourish and Blotts to get our books. We then got all our other stuff and wandered into Quality Quidditch Supplies. A new broom had just come out, the Lightning Bolt.
"Oh, look. It has the best acceleration yet!" Sirius said.
"Even better then the Shooting Stars?" Remus asked.
"Yeah," Sirius said.
"It's breaking isn't quite as good though, but it's turning is much better," I said.
"Woah, I wish I could get one of these," Sirius said. "But I don't think I want to know how much it costs."
***
Soon it was September 1. My parents took me to Platform nine and three-quarters. I saw Sirius, Remus, and Peter.
"James," Sirius called to me. He was with Remus and Peter.
"Bye Mom. Bye Dad. I gotta go see my friends," I said. They both kissed me good bye and I ran over to Sirius. "Hi," I said.
"Come on, let's get a compartment before they're all taken," he said running onto the train. We found an empty compartment and got in it.
"Soon we can finish the map," I said.
"Yeah I know. I can't wait till it's done, then we can sneak around and know where everyone is and it'll be so cool!" Sirius said.
"So are you guys actually gonna try to become Animagi?" Remus asked.
"Yeah," I said.
"James, it's so dangerous, we're not that good at magic yet," Sirius said.
"Well you don't have to become one if you don't want to, but I am," I said.
"Er, maybe I'll give it a try," Sirius said.
"Good, Peter?"
"Uh, I'll do whatever you guys are doing."
"Good, I finally convinced you. We should decide our animal soon and start soon too cause we'll have to get all the supplies and stuff." I got out the Transfiguration book and opened up to the pages on Animagi.
"What're the different animals you can become?" Sirius asked.
"Here," I said pointing. "Bird, cat, dog, fish, fly, frog, goat, rat, stag, and turtle."
"That's it?" Sirius asked.
"Those are the easiest ten. There's a lot of other ones, but these are the easiest so we should stick with them."
"I think I want to be a dog, but it would be cool to fly so maybe a bird or a fly," Sirius said.
"Make up your mind," I said.
"Okay, I guess I want to be a dog. A black lab if we can choose the kind."
"You can, but we'll worry about that later. Peter what do you want to be?"
"I think a rat."
"Okay, I think I'll be a stag."
***
We talked about becoming Animagi for the rest of the trip.
When we got to Hogwarts we took a horse-less carriage up to the castle. We sat down at the Gryffindor table and watched the sorting ceremony. After that Dumbledore spoke with us.
Welcome everyone, to Hogwarts! Over the summer many people were killed by Voldemort. Ten of them were students at Hogwarts and one of them was a teacher. The teacher was Professor Falie, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. The ten students that were killed are Gracie Trebens, John Turpin, William Weasley, Emma Johnson, Thomas Azabell, Martha Blythe, Gerald Harris, Robert Abe, Hannah Finch-Fletchley, and Clarence Junebug. Let's have a moment of silence for them and all the other people who were killed by Voldemort."
I was terrified by this, ten Hogwarts students were killed over the summer and one teacher. Three of the students were in my year, though none of them were in Gryffindor, they were Robert Abe (Hufflepuff), Hannah Finch-Fletchley (Hufflepuff), and Clarence Junebug (Ravenclaw).
"The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is Professor Knopfer. Just a reminder: the Forbidden Forest and the Whomping Willow are off limits. Now enjoy your meal."
Food appeared on the tables and we stuffed ourselves. After that we followed the prefects and head girl up to our common room.
***
The next day classes started. First we had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs. Professor Sprout taught us all about Mandrakes. Sirius thought they were really cool, but the rest of us weren't too thrilled about them.
After Herbology we had Defense Against the Dark Arts with Professor Knopfer. Remus earned Gryffindor ten points by answering his questions correctly. I liked Professor Knopfer a lot more than I had liked Professor Falie.
Next we had Charms and then lunch. By the end of the day we were tired and didn't feel like working on the map.
The next night we forced ourselves to work on it. Remus had taken out How to Make A Magical Map from the library again.
"Okay, we're gonna transfer it to James' insulting parchment right?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah," I said.
"Okay, transferrorasum!" Sirius yelled and the map instantly appeared on the insulting parchment and was no longer on the old parchment.
"We should make a password or something to hide that the map is there," Remus said.
"Yeah, we're gonna do that," I said.
"How 'bout if we say 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good,'"Sirius asked.
"Okay," I said.
"And when we're done we say 'mischief managed' and the map goes blank," Sirius added.
"Okay, let's see, Passwordo I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," I said. "Claraflo mischief managed."
"Okay, let's see if it works," Remus said. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," he taped his wand on the parchment and the map appeared.
"Mischief managed," Sirius said and the map disappeared.
"This is so cool!" I said.
***
In two weeks we had finished the map by making it show where people are. We all couldn't wait to try it out.
One day we were sitting in the common room talking to the girls.
"When are the Quidditch try outs?" I asked Kris.
"They should be soon," she said. She looked over at the clock and said, "Amber we gotta go now if we want to go to Hogsmeade."
"Oh, I didn't realize it was so late. Bye guys."
"We'll be back around dinner. See ya," Kris said. They walked out of the common room.
"I wish we could go to Hogsmeade," Lily said.
"Yeah, that would be cool," Hope agreed.
"Maybe we can," I whispered to Sirius and he started grinning.
"We gotta go see something in our dormitory," Sirius said signaling for Remus and Peter to come too.
"Uh, okay. Bye," Lily said.
We ran up the stairs and I heard Lily say, "that was weird," as we disappeared.
"Why'd we have to come up here?" Remus asked.
"James had a marvelous idea to sneak into Hogsmeade," Sirius said.
"Oh, I get it. That'd be really cool!" Remus said.
"Are we all going under James' cloak?" Peter asked.
"I don't think we'll all fit," I said.
"Then we can't all go," Sirius said.
"I think three of us can fit, but then there'll be one person left alone here," I said. "Maybe only two of us should go. The other two can go next week."
"Um, it's a full moon next week so, um-"
"Remus and I'll go today. Next week when Remus is a werewolf us three can all go, okay?"
"Sure," Sirius said sounding slightly sad.
"Come on Remus," I said. I got the map and my cloak and covered us. We walked slowly down the stairs. Lily and Hope were still talking. We walked out of the common room. I took out my wand and whispered, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." The map appeared. The hallway that we were in was empty.
"Where do we go to get to Hogsmeade?" Remus asked. "We're not going through the Whomping Willow are we?"
"No, let's go through the statue of the one eyed witch." We walked to the third-floor corridor to the statue of the witch.
"It works!" Remus said. "There you are tapping your wand on the witch and saying dissendium."
"Yup," I said. I tapped the witch and said, "dissendium." The hump on the statue opened up. I wondered what was down there. We never used this passage before. I crawled into the hump and started sliding down and then landed and I couldn't see anything. Remus followed me with the cloak and the map.
"Lumos," I said and my wand lit up. Remus did the same.
"Mischief managed," he said and put the map in his robes.
We walked under the cloak for a very long time. Finally the passage rose and we soon came to some stone steps. We climbed to the trapdoor. I slowly lifted the door. We walked into a room full of crates and boxes. We could hear voices from above us. We quietly walked up the stairs and found ourselves behind a counter. I looked around and saw every kind of candy imaginable.
"Yum," Remus said. "Can we get some? I brought some money."
"Well I guess, but we can't let anyone know we're only second years, k?"
"Sure." I made sure no one was looking where we would soon appear and I took off the cloak.
After about 15 minutes we had paid for our many candies and gone out of the store (we saw the sign labeled Honeydukes when we walked out).
"Where do you want to go?" I asked.
"Um, I don't know," Remus said. looking around. "Oh, let's go there," he said pointing to Zonko's Joke Shop.
"Yeah, let's go." We walked inside and soon came out with tons of joke items and next we went to the Three Broomsticks. We sat down at the bar and soon a pretty young witch came over to us.
"Hello, can I get you boys something?"
"Um, yeah. I'll have a butterbeer, what do you want Remus?"
"I'll have a butterbeer too."
"Okay, two butterbeers." She came back shortly with our foaming butterbeers and we paid her.
"Shouldn't we sit in the back so no one can see us?" Remus asked.
"Yeah, I guess," I said and we walked to the back and found a small table next to a window and a fireplace. We silently drank the butterbeer enjoying every moment of the warm soothing drink. After we finished headed back to Hogwarts.
When we got to the portrait hole I took the cloak off us and hid the candy and joke items I had bought in my robes, Remus did the same. We walked into the common room and saw Sirius and Peter talking to Lily and Hope.
"...so they're still up- James, Remus, Sirius was just telling me that you two were in your dormitory studying for the Defense Against the Dark Arts test," Lily said.
"We were," Remus said quickly. "Um, we were just in the library looking something up."
"Yeah," I said.
"Oh really, than why didn't we see you walk out of the common room?" Lily asked annoyed.
"They walked out while you girls were in the bathroom," Sirius said.
"But that was over an hour ago," Hope said.
"Yeah, it took us a while to find a book that answered our question," Remus said.
"Why didn't Sirius say you guys were in the library? He said you were in your dormitory," Lily asked looking very mad.
"I, er, didn't think they'd want you to go looking for them in the library and disturbing their reference time," Sirius answered.
"Yeah, whatever. Why can't you guys just tell us the truth? We can keep a secret you know," Lily said and then stomped up the stairs to her dormitory.
"Sorry," Hope said. "If you don't want to tell us something it's okay. I'm not saying I don't believe you, but it just seems weird that Sirius said you were in your dormitory. He probably did just think you didn't want to be disturbed. Well, I better try and cheer Lily up. See you guys later." She then walked up the stairs to find Lily."
"Why'd you guys come in without the cloak on?" Sirius asked.
"I dunno, we weren't thinking," I said.
"Why can't we just tell Lily and Hope where we were?" Peter asked.
"Because then we'd have to tell them about the map and my invisibility cloak and they might tell Dumbledore or someone," I said.
"Yeah, and besides we should keep all our stuff a secret. We can't tell anyone when we become Animagi," Sirius said.
"Oh, I just thought that we could trust em," Peter said.
"We probably can," I said. "But I sorta like it better when it's our secret."
***
The next week Remus was a werewolf and I took Sirius and Peter to Hogsmeade. Sirius loved Zonko's and spent tons of money there. Peter was amazed by Honeydukes. When we got back to the common room we had my invisibility cloak on. Lily and Hope were in the common room talking and doing homework. We went upstairs, took off the cloak, and went downstairs to see them.
"Where were you all day?" Lily asked frowning.
"We were doing our homework in our dormitory," I said.
"Oh, well when I asked Anthony to go up to see if you were there he said you weren't there," Lily said.
"Oh, we were probably either in the library or having lunch then," Sirius said.
"Why can't you just tell me where you go?" Lily asked. "You don't trust me, that's it."
"We trust you, and we told you the truth," I said.
"Yeah right," Lily sobbed and ran up the stairs again.
"Lily," Hope called and ran after her.
"Great, now she's even more mad at us," I said.
"Can't we just tell her the truth?" Peter asked.
"No," Sirius said. "We have to keep it a secret."
"Well if we're gonna keep it a secret we should stop going to Hogsmeade," I said.
"What? We can't stop it's so cool there!" Sirius almost screamed.
"Quiet, people might hear us," I said. "We don't have to stop going completely, we should just maybe only go once a month or so."
"Fine," Sirius said.
"We should form a plan so that no one gets suspicious," I said.
"Yeah, hopefully Lily will stop being mad at us," Peter said.
***
Around the middle of October Quidditch try outs were held. Sirius and I tried out. A few days later we found out that we both made it. We were both so happy. Quidditch practices started being held were frequently so Sirius and I were very busy.
Lily wasn't getting along any better with us even though we hadn't gone to Hogsmeade recently. Remus and Peter became better friends and Sirius and I became better friends. Towards the end of October it was our first Quidditch match, we played Slytherin. I had to meet in the locker room early.
"Okay," our new captain, Thomas Wood, said. "James and Sirius this is your first game. The Slytherin team has good Chasers so watch out for them. Their Keeper is okay, their Beaters are pretty bad, and their Seeker sucks. I mean how the heck did Lucius Malfoy get on the team? All he does is cheat. Anyone could do better-"
"Thomas, you're starting to sound like Larry Jordan," Courtney Harvey said.
"Huh? Oh right, sorry. James, Sirius, you guys'll do fine. Just do as good as you did during practice. And Sirius, try to hit the Bludgers at the Chasers because they're our only threats. James, try to hold onto the Quaffle. Okay team let's go."
We ran out onto the field in our scarlet robes. The Gryffindors applauded. I looked around at the crowd, "this is great," I thought.
"Look," Sirius said pointing into the stands. I looked and saw Remus and Peter holding up a huge sign that read Go Gryffindors! There was also three players in red, it looked like Kris about to catch the Snitch, Sirius about to hit a Bludger, and me flying with the Quaffle.
Then the Slytherin team ran out to the field. Lucius and Thomas shook hands and then we mounted our brooms and on Madame Hooch's whistle we flew into the air.
"An they're off!" Larry Jordan said. "The Gryffindor team has two new members this year, James Potter and Sirius Black. Anyway, Slytherin is possession, Janet Vooders passes to Sarah McDaniel and she scores. 10-0, Slytherin."
I looked around the field, Janet had the Quaffle again. She was so far ahead of me, I couldn't get to her. I looked into the audience and saw the sign again. Then I saw Lance, what was he looking at? I followed his eyes and he appeared to be staring at Kris. She was flying high above everyone looking for the Snitch. He wasn't taking his eyes off her at all. "I guess he really does like her," I thought.
"James, watch out!" Sirius yelled. I turned around and saw a Bludger coming right at me. I quickly dodged it and Sirius hit it towards Kathryn Mellors, causing her to loose possession of the Quaffle. "Pay attention, James!" Sirius said and he flew away.
"An Kathryn Mellors looses possession of the Quaffle thanks to Sirius Black. Now Christopher Bell has possession for Gryffindor. He passes to James Potter and he scores. The score is 10-10. Slytherin in possession, Kathryn scores."
After another 20 minutes the score was 120-30, Slytherin. The Snitch hadn't been spotted at all yet. I had scored once again and Courtney scored once.
"Slytherin in possession again, Jordan Abarck sends the Bludger flying to Janet and she nearly falls off the broom. Gryffindor now in possession. Courtney Harvet has it, she passes to Christopher Bell, be careful, watch that Bludger. No! Christopher drops the Quaffle because of David Blyte's hit. Now Slytherin's back in possession, oh a nice save by Thomas Wood. Oh look, the Snitch has been spotted by Kristina Haubrich. She catches it! Gryffindor wins 180-120!"
Kris held the Snitch up over her head and flew to the ground. Sirius and I landed shortly after her and we all complemented each on our good plays. Soon Remus and Peter came into the field.
"You guys did great!" Remus said.
"Yeah, did you see our sign?" Peter asked.
"Yes we did. When did you make it?" I asked.
"We worked on it when you were at practices," Remus explained. I then saw Lance coming down into the field. He walked over to us.
"Hi," he said.
"Hello," Sirius said.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Um, I, er, just wanted to say that you guys did really good."
"Thanks," I said.
"Um, can I talk to Kristina alone?" Lance asked.
"No, we want to hear too," Sirius said. I punched him in the ribs and he then said, "just kidding, we'll go now." We walked away from them wondering what Lance wanted to say.
"Let's go to the common room," I said. "Kris can tell us what he said later."
***
That's all for now. Thanks for reading it all. Please review!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's what I plan on putting in future chapters: Lily will stay mad at James and everyone for a while. Around Christmas James, Sirius, and Peter will start working on becoming Animagi. There will be a few more deaths coming up soon. That's all I feel like telling you now. Oh, and please vote in your reviews if you want there to be an all star Quidditch game this year. Thanks a lot Sirius87.
James Potter Chapter 9
by, Sirius87
At 4:45 on the 23rd I waited for Sirius, Remus, and Peter to come. They were all coming by floo powder so I was waiting by the fireplace. At about 5:10 Sirius appeared.
"Hi James!" he said.
"Hello!" I said. "Have some Every Flavored Beans." I shoved a bowl into his arms.
"Yum," he said eating some. "Is Remus coming?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't he?"
"Well it was a full moon on the 21st so I thought he might be sick or something."
"He told me he could come but he would feel kinda sick."
"Oh, I wish we could do something about that," Sirius said.
"I know it must stink being a werewolf," I said.
"What could we do to make him happy while he's a werewolf?"
"Werewolves are only a threat to people, right?" I asked.
"Yeah, I think."
"So if we could somehow not be people we could be with him and he wouldn't hurt us?"
"I think, why?"
"Do you know what an Animagus is?"
"Isn't that when you can turn into an animal whenever you want?" Sirius said.
"Yeah," I said grinning.
"But we couldn't do that, could we?"
"Well Lily gave me a Transfiguration book for my birthday and it has directions on how to become one."
"Don't you have to register with the ministry if you want to learn how to become one because it's so dangerous?"
"Sirius, we don't have to register. We just won't tell anyone," I said.
"Okay, but isn't it really hard and dangerous to become one?" Just then Remus appeared in the fireplace. He looked slightly ill but when he saw us he smiled.
"Hey, isn't Peter coming?" he asked.
"Yeah, I guess he's late," I said.
"Oh, what did I miss?"
"Well James had a crazy idea that I think is impossible," Sirius said.
"No, it isn't, we're the smartest people in our year we can figure it out."
"Yeah, but we could get hurt or something."
"What are you guys talking about?" Remus asked.
"Oh yeah, James thought that we should become Animagi."
"Woah, that's impossible!" Remus said.
"No it isn't, I have steps on how to become one in a book. We would do it for you, so we could be with you when you transform into a werewolf, you're only a threat to people, right?" I asked.
"Um, yes, but I don't want you to become Animagi just for me. I mean it's not that bad being a-"
"Yes it is, Remus," I said.
"Okay, so it hurts a little, but you shouldn't do something so dangerous just for me."
"Why not? It would be fun," I said.
"Not if something went wrong," Sirius said. "Can we at least wait a few months before we try?"
"Well we don't have to do it right away. I'm sure it'll take like a year until we'll be able to change back and forth regularly, probably a lot more than a year."
"Well maybe we'll consider it later," Sirius said. "Now can I try out your Shooting Star before it gets too dark?"
"Shouldn't we wait for Peter?" I said.
"Come on, can't I just try it now?" Sirius begged.
"No, we're waiting for Peter." After another long 15 minutes Peter appeared in the fireplace.
"What the heck took you so long?" Sirius asked annoyed.
"Came out in the wrong fireplace," Peter panted. "I was running from a big dog, he chased me around the house and then I ran back into the fireplace and luckily came here."
"Can I ride it now?" Sirius asked.
"Okay, come on everyone, Sirius wants to try out my Shooting Star. You can try it after him if ya want," I said. I grabbed my broom from my room and we went to my backyard. I gave Sirius it and he flew immediately flew into the air.
"This is so cool!" he yelled down to us. "I need to get on of these."
"Can I try?" Remus asked.
"I'm not done yet," Sirius flew around my yard for another 15 minutes and then I made him come down and Remus tried. He thought it was very fun. Peter was afraid of heights so he nearly fell off a few times. He also had trouble getting it to stop.
After Sirius flew for another 15 minutes we went up to my room and I showed them the directions on how to become an Animagus. I also explained my idea to Peter who looked scarred.
"What animal would you want to become?" I asked Sirius.
"Um, something big that can run fast and maybe black so I wouldn't be noticeable at night so I could sneak up on someone and knock em over. What would you be?"
"Probably something with horns or something so I could hurt anyone who annoyed me, but I'd want to be big and fast. How about you Peter?"
"Maybe something small so I could hide from people and sneak around the place without being seen."
***
The next morning the girls came over for breakfast. My dad rented seven Shooting Stars for the day so all played Quidditch.
"Who wants to be a captain?" I asked.
"I will," said Sirius.
"Me too," Lily said.
"You can pick first," Sirius told Lily.
"Okay, Hope."
"James."
"Kristina," Lily said.
"Remus," Sirius said.
"Don't pick Amber," I heard Hope whisper to Lily.
"Why not?"
"She really bad."
"Fine, Peter."
"Amber come with us," Sirius said.
"What positions do you want to play?" I asked. "Can I play Chaser?"
"Of course," said Sirius. "And I'm Beater."
"I want to be Seeker," Remus said.
"I guess I'm Keeper, then," Amber said.
Lily's team decided that Kris would play Seeker, Lily would play Chaser, Peter would play Beater, and Hope would be the Keeper.
We mounted our brooms and took off. I soon got the Quaffle and easily scored.
"10-0," Sirius screamed. Lily now had the Quaffle, I managed to get it from her and score again. After that Kris saw the Snitch and caught it.
"We win," she said. "150-20."
We played another couple of games, every game was the same, I scored a few points and then Kris caught the Snitch.
We went up to my room and had snacks next.
"Oh, James, did you find anything useful in the Transfiguration book I gave you?" Lily asked.
"Yeah," I said grinning at Sirius.
"Good, I wasn't sure if you'd like it."
"Oh, I liked it."
***
Nothing too interesting happened during the rest of my party. Around the middle of August Sirius owled me saying he was getting his supplies on the 25th. I checked with my mom that that day was al right and I owled Sirius back saying I'd be there that day. Then I owled Remus and Peter.
***
On the 25th I met them all in Flourish and Blotts to get our books. We then got all our other stuff and wandered into Quality Quidditch Supplies. A new broom had just come out, the Lightning Bolt.
"Oh, look. It has the best acceleration yet!" Sirius said.
"Even better then the Shooting Stars?" Remus asked.
"Yeah," Sirius said.
"It's breaking isn't quite as good though, but it's turning is much better," I said.
"Woah, I wish I could get one of these," Sirius said. "But I don't think I want to know how much it costs."
***
Soon it was September 1. My parents took me to Platform nine and three-quarters. I saw Sirius, Remus, and Peter.
"James," Sirius called to me. He was with Remus and Peter.
"Bye Mom. Bye Dad. I gotta go see my friends," I said. They both kissed me good bye and I ran over to Sirius. "Hi," I said.
"Come on, let's get a compartment before they're all taken," he said running onto the train. We found an empty compartment and got in it.
"Soon we can finish the map," I said.
"Yeah I know. I can't wait till it's done, then we can sneak around and know where everyone is and it'll be so cool!" Sirius said.
"So are you guys actually gonna try to become Animagi?" Remus asked.
"Yeah," I said.
"James, it's so dangerous, we're not that good at magic yet," Sirius said.
"Well you don't have to become one if you don't want to, but I am," I said.
"Er, maybe I'll give it a try," Sirius said.
"Good, Peter?"
"Uh, I'll do whatever you guys are doing."
"Good, I finally convinced you. We should decide our animal soon and start soon too cause we'll have to get all the supplies and stuff." I got out the Transfiguration book and opened up to the pages on Animagi.
"What're the different animals you can become?" Sirius asked.
"Here," I said pointing. "Bird, cat, dog, fish, fly, frog, goat, rat, stag, and turtle."
"That's it?" Sirius asked.
"Those are the easiest ten. There's a lot of other ones, but these are the easiest so we should stick with them."
"I think I want to be a dog, but it would be cool to fly so maybe a bird or a fly," Sirius said.
"Make up your mind," I said.
"Okay, I guess I want to be a dog. A black lab if we can choose the kind."
"You can, but we'll worry about that later. Peter what do you want to be?"
"I think a rat."
"Okay, I think I'll be a stag."
***
We talked about becoming Animagi for the rest of the trip.
When we got to Hogwarts we took a horse-less carriage up to the castle. We sat down at the Gryffindor table and watched the sorting ceremony. After that Dumbledore spoke with us.
Welcome everyone, to Hogwarts! Over the summer many people were killed by Voldemort. Ten of them were students at Hogwarts and one of them was a teacher. The teacher was Professor Falie, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. The ten students that were killed are Gracie Trebens, John Turpin, William Weasley, Emma Johnson, Thomas Azabell, Martha Blythe, Gerald Harris, Robert Abe, Hannah Finch-Fletchley, and Clarence Junebug. Let's have a moment of silence for them and all the other people who were killed by Voldemort."
I was terrified by this, ten Hogwarts students were killed over the summer and one teacher. Three of the students were in my year, though none of them were in Gryffindor, they were Robert Abe (Hufflepuff), Hannah Finch-Fletchley (Hufflepuff), and Clarence Junebug (Ravenclaw).
"The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is Professor Knopfer. Just a reminder: the Forbidden Forest and the Whomping Willow are off limits. Now enjoy your meal."
Food appeared on the tables and we stuffed ourselves. After that we followed the prefects and head girl up to our common room.
***
The next day classes started. First we had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs. Professor Sprout taught us all about Mandrakes. Sirius thought they were really cool, but the rest of us weren't too thrilled about them.
After Herbology we had Defense Against the Dark Arts with Professor Knopfer. Remus earned Gryffindor ten points by answering his questions correctly. I liked Professor Knopfer a lot more than I had liked Professor Falie.
Next we had Charms and then lunch. By the end of the day we were tired and didn't feel like working on the map.
The next night we forced ourselves to work on it. Remus had taken out How to Make A Magical Map from the library again.
"Okay, we're gonna transfer it to James' insulting parchment right?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah," I said.
"Okay, transferrorasum!" Sirius yelled and the map instantly appeared on the insulting parchment and was no longer on the old parchment.
"We should make a password or something to hide that the map is there," Remus said.
"Yeah, we're gonna do that," I said.
"How 'bout if we say 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good,'"Sirius asked.
"Okay," I said.
"And when we're done we say 'mischief managed' and the map goes blank," Sirius added.
"Okay, let's see, Passwordo I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," I said. "Claraflo mischief managed."
"Okay, let's see if it works," Remus said. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," he taped his wand on the parchment and the map appeared.
"Mischief managed," Sirius said and the map disappeared.
"This is so cool!" I said.
***
In two weeks we had finished the map by making it show where people are. We all couldn't wait to try it out.
One day we were sitting in the common room talking to the girls.
"When are the Quidditch try outs?" I asked Kris.
"They should be soon," she said. She looked over at the clock and said, "Amber we gotta go now if we want to go to Hogsmeade."
"Oh, I didn't realize it was so late. Bye guys."
"We'll be back around dinner. See ya," Kris said. They walked out of the common room.
"I wish we could go to Hogsmeade," Lily said.
"Yeah, that would be cool," Hope agreed.
"Maybe we can," I whispered to Sirius and he started grinning.
"We gotta go see something in our dormitory," Sirius said signaling for Remus and Peter to come too.
"Uh, okay. Bye," Lily said.
We ran up the stairs and I heard Lily say, "that was weird," as we disappeared.
"Why'd we have to come up here?" Remus asked.
"James had a marvelous idea to sneak into Hogsmeade," Sirius said.
"Oh, I get it. That'd be really cool!" Remus said.
"Are we all going under James' cloak?" Peter asked.
"I don't think we'll all fit," I said.
"Then we can't all go," Sirius said.
"I think three of us can fit, but then there'll be one person left alone here," I said. "Maybe only two of us should go. The other two can go next week."
"Um, it's a full moon next week so, um-"
"Remus and I'll go today. Next week when Remus is a werewolf us three can all go, okay?"
"Sure," Sirius said sounding slightly sad.
"Come on Remus," I said. I got the map and my cloak and covered us. We walked slowly down the stairs. Lily and Hope were still talking. We walked out of the common room. I took out my wand and whispered, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." The map appeared. The hallway that we were in was empty.
"Where do we go to get to Hogsmeade?" Remus asked. "We're not going through the Whomping Willow are we?"
"No, let's go through the statue of the one eyed witch." We walked to the third-floor corridor to the statue of the witch.
"It works!" Remus said. "There you are tapping your wand on the witch and saying dissendium."
"Yup," I said. I tapped the witch and said, "dissendium." The hump on the statue opened up. I wondered what was down there. We never used this passage before. I crawled into the hump and started sliding down and then landed and I couldn't see anything. Remus followed me with the cloak and the map.
"Lumos," I said and my wand lit up. Remus did the same.
"Mischief managed," he said and put the map in his robes.
We walked under the cloak for a very long time. Finally the passage rose and we soon came to some stone steps. We climbed to the trapdoor. I slowly lifted the door. We walked into a room full of crates and boxes. We could hear voices from above us. We quietly walked up the stairs and found ourselves behind a counter. I looked around and saw every kind of candy imaginable.
"Yum," Remus said. "Can we get some? I brought some money."
"Well I guess, but we can't let anyone know we're only second years, k?"
"Sure." I made sure no one was looking where we would soon appear and I took off the cloak.
After about 15 minutes we had paid for our many candies and gone out of the store (we saw the sign labeled Honeydukes when we walked out).
"Where do you want to go?" I asked.
"Um, I don't know," Remus said. looking around. "Oh, let's go there," he said pointing to Zonko's Joke Shop.
"Yeah, let's go." We walked inside and soon came out with tons of joke items and next we went to the Three Broomsticks. We sat down at the bar and soon a pretty young witch came over to us.
"Hello, can I get you boys something?"
"Um, yeah. I'll have a butterbeer, what do you want Remus?"
"I'll have a butterbeer too."
"Okay, two butterbeers." She came back shortly with our foaming butterbeers and we paid her.
"Shouldn't we sit in the back so no one can see us?" Remus asked.
"Yeah, I guess," I said and we walked to the back and found a small table next to a window and a fireplace. We silently drank the butterbeer enjoying every moment of the warm soothing drink. After we finished headed back to Hogwarts.
When we got to the portrait hole I took the cloak off us and hid the candy and joke items I had bought in my robes, Remus did the same. We walked into the common room and saw Sirius and Peter talking to Lily and Hope.
"...so they're still up- James, Remus, Sirius was just telling me that you two were in your dormitory studying for the Defense Against the Dark Arts test," Lily said.
"We were," Remus said quickly. "Um, we were just in the library looking something up."
"Yeah," I said.
"Oh really, than why didn't we see you walk out of the common room?" Lily asked annoyed.
"They walked out while you girls were in the bathroom," Sirius said.
"But that was over an hour ago," Hope said.
"Yeah, it took us a while to find a book that answered our question," Remus said.
"Why didn't Sirius say you guys were in the library? He said you were in your dormitory," Lily asked looking very mad.
"I, er, didn't think they'd want you to go looking for them in the library and disturbing their reference time," Sirius answered.
"Yeah, whatever. Why can't you guys just tell us the truth? We can keep a secret you know," Lily said and then stomped up the stairs to her dormitory.
"Sorry," Hope said. "If you don't want to tell us something it's okay. I'm not saying I don't believe you, but it just seems weird that Sirius said you were in your dormitory. He probably did just think you didn't want to be disturbed. Well, I better try and cheer Lily up. See you guys later." She then walked up the stairs to find Lily."
"Why'd you guys come in without the cloak on?" Sirius asked.
"I dunno, we weren't thinking," I said.
"Why can't we just tell Lily and Hope where we were?" Peter asked.
"Because then we'd have to tell them about the map and my invisibility cloak and they might tell Dumbledore or someone," I said.
"Yeah, and besides we should keep all our stuff a secret. We can't tell anyone when we become Animagi," Sirius said.
"Oh, I just thought that we could trust em," Peter said.
"We probably can," I said. "But I sorta like it better when it's our secret."
***
The next week Remus was a werewolf and I took Sirius and Peter to Hogsmeade. Sirius loved Zonko's and spent tons of money there. Peter was amazed by Honeydukes. When we got back to the common room we had my invisibility cloak on. Lily and Hope were in the common room talking and doing homework. We went upstairs, took off the cloak, and went downstairs to see them.
"Where were you all day?" Lily asked frowning.
"We were doing our homework in our dormitory," I said.
"Oh, well when I asked Anthony to go up to see if you were there he said you weren't there," Lily said.
"Oh, we were probably either in the library or having lunch then," Sirius said.
"Why can't you just tell me where you go?" Lily asked. "You don't trust me, that's it."
"We trust you, and we told you the truth," I said.
"Yeah right," Lily sobbed and ran up the stairs again.
"Lily," Hope called and ran after her.
"Great, now she's even more mad at us," I said.
"Can't we just tell her the truth?" Peter asked.
"No," Sirius said. "We have to keep it a secret."
"Well if we're gonna keep it a secret we should stop going to Hogsmeade," I said.
"What? We can't stop it's so cool there!" Sirius almost screamed.
"Quiet, people might hear us," I said. "We don't have to stop going completely, we should just maybe only go once a month or so."
"Fine," Sirius said.
"We should form a plan so that no one gets suspicious," I said.
"Yeah, hopefully Lily will stop being mad at us," Peter said.
***
Around the middle of October Quidditch try outs were held. Sirius and I tried out. A few days later we found out that we both made it. We were both so happy. Quidditch practices started being held were frequently so Sirius and I were very busy.
Lily wasn't getting along any better with us even though we hadn't gone to Hogsmeade recently. Remus and Peter became better friends and Sirius and I became better friends. Towards the end of October it was our first Quidditch match, we played Slytherin. I had to meet in the locker room early.
"Okay," our new captain, Thomas Wood, said. "James and Sirius this is your first game. The Slytherin team has good Chasers so watch out for them. Their Keeper is okay, their Beaters are pretty bad, and their Seeker sucks. I mean how the heck did Lucius Malfoy get on the team? All he does is cheat. Anyone could do better-"
"Thomas, you're starting to sound like Larry Jordan," Courtney Harvey said.
"Huh? Oh right, sorry. James, Sirius, you guys'll do fine. Just do as good as you did during practice. And Sirius, try to hit the Bludgers at the Chasers because they're our only threats. James, try to hold onto the Quaffle. Okay team let's go."
We ran out onto the field in our scarlet robes. The Gryffindors applauded. I looked around at the crowd, "this is great," I thought.
"Look," Sirius said pointing into the stands. I looked and saw Remus and Peter holding up a huge sign that read Go Gryffindors! There was also three players in red, it looked like Kris about to catch the Snitch, Sirius about to hit a Bludger, and me flying with the Quaffle.
Then the Slytherin team ran out to the field. Lucius and Thomas shook hands and then we mounted our brooms and on Madame Hooch's whistle we flew into the air.
"An they're off!" Larry Jordan said. "The Gryffindor team has two new members this year, James Potter and Sirius Black. Anyway, Slytherin is possession, Janet Vooders passes to Sarah McDaniel and she scores. 10-0, Slytherin."
I looked around the field, Janet had the Quaffle again. She was so far ahead of me, I couldn't get to her. I looked into the audience and saw the sign again. Then I saw Lance, what was he looking at? I followed his eyes and he appeared to be staring at Kris. She was flying high above everyone looking for the Snitch. He wasn't taking his eyes off her at all. "I guess he really does like her," I thought.
"James, watch out!" Sirius yelled. I turned around and saw a Bludger coming right at me. I quickly dodged it and Sirius hit it towards Kathryn Mellors, causing her to loose possession of the Quaffle. "Pay attention, James!" Sirius said and he flew away.
"An Kathryn Mellors looses possession of the Quaffle thanks to Sirius Black. Now Christopher Bell has possession for Gryffindor. He passes to James Potter and he scores. The score is 10-10. Slytherin in possession, Kathryn scores."
After another 20 minutes the score was 120-30, Slytherin. The Snitch hadn't been spotted at all yet. I had scored once again and Courtney scored once.
"Slytherin in possession again, Jordan Abarck sends the Bludger flying to Janet and she nearly falls off the broom. Gryffindor now in possession. Courtney Harvet has it, she passes to Christopher Bell, be careful, watch that Bludger. No! Christopher drops the Quaffle because of David Blyte's hit. Now Slytherin's back in possession, oh a nice save by Thomas Wood. Oh look, the Snitch has been spotted by Kristina Haubrich. She catches it! Gryffindor wins 180-120!"
Kris held the Snitch up over her head and flew to the ground. Sirius and I landed shortly after her and we all complemented each on our good plays. Soon Remus and Peter came into the field.
"You guys did great!" Remus said.
"Yeah, did you see our sign?" Peter asked.
"Yes we did. When did you make it?" I asked.
"We worked on it when you were at practices," Remus explained. I then saw Lance coming down into the field. He walked over to us.
"Hi," he said.
"Hello," Sirius said.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Um, I, er, just wanted to say that you guys did really good."
"Thanks," I said.
"Um, can I talk to Kristina alone?" Lance asked.
"No, we want to hear too," Sirius said. I punched him in the ribs and he then said, "just kidding, we'll go now." We walked away from them wondering what Lance wanted to say.
"Let's go to the common room," I said. "Kris can tell us what he said later."
***
That's all for now. Thanks for reading it all. Please review!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's what I plan on putting in future chapters: Lily will stay mad at James and everyone for a while. Around Christmas James, Sirius, and Peter will start working on becoming Animagi. There will be a few more deaths coming up soon. That's all I feel like telling you now. Oh, and please vote in your reviews if you want there to be an all star Quidditch game this year. Thanks a lot Sirius87.