Chapter Two

~The Adventures of James Potter~



"Shut up!"

"kay, kay sheesh"

James grinned as he watched Sirius carefully mutter a couple of words as he waved his wand.

"Are you done?" hissed Remus, his eyes wide open.

"Juss a lil' bit...yea, I think I'm done, let's get outta here"



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"Good morning Severus" said James as pleasantly as he could.

James paused as he watched Severus turn slowly away from a boy he was bullying.

"Potter"

"That's my name, don't wear it out"

Severus scowled and muttered something under his breath.

"So how was your day?" asked James, willing himself to be nice.

The greasy boy looked up at James mixed with both annoyance and suspicion.

"Why do you care?" Severus rose an eyebrow.

"Look Snape, what so wrong about caring for my fellow students?" innocently James widened his eyes, hoping, praying...

Snape made a slight noise of disbelief.

"Well, anyway, love to chat but, gotta go to the others before our joke-" James stopped abruptedly.

"Joke huh?" Severus's suspicion deepened, his dark eyes now glittering with curiosity.

James gulped.

"I have to go..bye" James ran, not to slow, not too fast...towards the abandoned classroom...

'C'mon, Snape ol' boy, follow me' thought James, hearing the soft sneaking footsteps following him, 'Snape'

"Sirius! Got the thing ready?" James bellowed loudly

"ARGHHHH!" a sudden yelp startled James.

James controlling his laughter, made his face as straight as possible. There before him layed Severus, his usual black hair was now neon green, 'very curly' noted James, while his whole Slytherin robes were covered with yellow paint, and (Sirius's creative idea) Severus's nails were all colored pink.

"Snape...what're you doing here,?" James lightly asked.

Severus looked around, and at himself, outraged and-

"POTTER!"

"Now, Remus!" Sirius hidden voice yelled out.

A bright flash.

Severus blinked furiously as he found Remus behind a door, holding a-

"GIVE ME THAT CAMERA OR I'LL-!" Severus roared, his face red and furious.

Laughter rang throughout the air. Sirius coming out from a closet, howled, his fists pounding on the floor.

James reckoned also that Remus was on the floor rolling. Wiping the tears from his eyes, James found himself face-to-face with a very ugly face.

"Potter, you will be so-"

"Nice hair Snape" another fresh howl of laughter cried out.

"What's all this about?" a familiar strict voice silenced the laughters.

Professor McGonagall.

"Hello dear professor, I do think that...Severus does have quite a taste for fashion." Sirius gasped pointing at the deeply flustered boy (Severus desperately trying to cover his nails).

The Transfiguration professor looked down at Severus. 'Don't laugh' James commanded himself.

The professor had gone as red as Severus, looking as if she should laugh or try not to.

"Well..uh, Severus...er-" completely lost for words, Professor McGonagall gaped at Severus.

"Sirius, would..you like to....fix this?" the professor weakly looked at Sirius.

Keeping a straight face, Sirius nodded.

'She's gonna burst laughing' smiled James, watching the professor.

"I.....have....to go...Severus, ...you will...er- meet me at my office after...the correction.." with that the professor ran out.

A second later...

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" James smiled hearing laughter fill outside the hall.

Another voice, sounded startled, "Er- Professor McGongall, what's so funny?" James heard, as Sirius and Remus sniggered silently, Severus face, pink.

Another roar of laughter. James looked at his friends, who laughed uncontrollably. Professor McGonagall was actually laughing! Her laughter filled the whole school while concerned voices tried to soothe her ("Professor...what's so funny?", "Professor, what's wrong?", "Professor"). She must've kept that serious face too long, James thought.

"She held all of that!" laughed Sirius.

"She tried to keep that in! Oh my god, you are a natural comedian Severus!" exclaimed James, his laughter still not ceasing.

"Shut UP! SHUT UP ALL OF YOU!" Severus ran out.

A very bad idea.

A roar of laughter rang, outside the hall.

And it turned out, the whole school (including Professor McGonagall) ended up laughing for the entire day.



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After recieving the week detentions and a little lecture from Professor McGonagall (still trying to clear her memory of that day), the little gang smiled.

"Wow, that was funny" Remus chuckled

"Yea, you should've seen the look of Professor McGonagall when she saw Snape for the second time!" Sirius grinned wickedly.

"You guys were great" a small timid voice piped.

Peter.

Peter was a small boy, who tagged along, after that er- incident. Peter, often bullied by Snape, looked up at Sirius and James. 'Peter must've had a good day, yesterday' James thought.

The chubby boy smiled shly at Sirius, "Are you going to stay at Hogwarts over the Christmas vacation?"

"Hell no!"

"What about you James?" Sirius questioned.

"I think I'm gonna go home" James stated.

Sirius looking disappointed turned to Remus, "Are you?"

Remus nodded, "I'm going home too"

Sirius sighed, "Fine, fine, I'll go home too during the vacation"

Peter sighed.

James, feeling a tiny bit sorry for him asked, "You going home?"

The timid boy shook his head.

"It's okay, I think I'm okay here by myself"



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"MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

"YOU TOO!"

"MERRY CHRIST-"

"SHUT UP JAMES POTTER, IT'W TWO A.M. AND YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE WAKING EVERYBODY UP!" James heard his sister yell. James nodded at both Sirius and Remus.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!" they all hollered.

thump, thump, thump

"Whoa, lookie who's here, Ms. Scary!!" Sirius yelped looking at the figure before him.

There was James's nine year old sister, Erica Potter. Erica's slim figure stood before the three, her dark thin hair was all over the place, her eyes were red and tired.

"Sorry Erica, but, look Sirius and Remus are here to wish you a-" James glanced at his friends.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" chorused they.

"James, remind me later to kill you" Erica frowned, she rubbed her eyes and slowly walked back to her room.

Two figures, then, appeared.

"Hey, mum, dad." James shouted.

"James, its two in the morning.." an identical, and older looking James wearily spoke.

"Yup and my friends came over too.." James smiled widely.

James's mother smiled, as she quietly welcomed Sirius and Remus.

"Well," a boyish face lit up the Mister Potter "you guys can stay here and have fun while we-"

"go to sleep" finished Mrs. Potter, tugging on Mr. Potter's night shirt.

"Right" agreed Mr. Potter.

With a wink, James's parents left the living room in an unusual hurry.



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"Merry Christmas, Sirius" James chucked a small wrapped gift at Sirius, who caught it with one hand.

"You too" Sirius threw a package at James.

"Here, Remus" , soon presents were given to each other through the air.

"Wow, thanks,-"

"Cool!-"

"Neat!"

"Wicked!"

Soon, the three, were bickering away...enjoying Christmas...

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Author's Note: Hi, people (Really sorry, this chapter is way too short, anyway..., after this chapter, I need to pace'n up the story so don't complain or anythin' okay?)

Because, I don't really want to write that much of James's first year and etc…

Kay bie~~~