Chapter
6: Making New Friends (and Enemies.)
James
Potter ran up to meet his friends, Sirius and Tempest Black. It had been a long time since he had last
seen them. A total of about one day,
and that was a very long time, especially for these three.
"I
have this great idea!" James exclaimed
to his friends as soon as he reached them.
"What
is it this time?" Tempest questioned
feigning exasperation. She knew that
not all of James's so called great ideas were actually great.
"Well
it actually wasn't my idea." James
confessed but continued on before they could say anything. "Jack and Joe were teasing me this morning
about the sorting. And Jennifer said
that some hat just sorts us, and that it's very boring. But then she mentioned that if we want to be
like Jack and Joe that we can try to take the longest time ever to get
sorted! Doesn't that sound like
fun? I wonder if we can get a detention
for that?"
"Why
would we want a detention for something like that?" Sirius interrogated.
"Why
for the detention race of course."
James said truly annoyed with the two of them and there so call act of
stupidity.
"What
detention race?" The said in unison, as
they perked up when they heard something actually worthwhile.
So
James started to tell them about the detention race that the Potter Twins had
told him about as they hopped onto the train and went in search for an empty
compartment.
*************
Lily
Evans stood at the entrance to Platform 9 ¾, as she watched in amazement at all
the wizards that stood before her. Just
as she was about to move somebody bumped into her with what seemed like all his
or her might. They fell with an almighty
crash into a heap of people and trunks and one very overexcited owl.
"Oh! Sorry about that." Came the voice of the boy that had ran into her.
"I
suppose it's alright. I really need to learn
everything about being a wizard, and I guess number one on that list would be
not to stop in front of the barrier."
Lily exclaimed.
The
boy gave a laugh and said "Yes, that is a very important thing, if you don't
want to get ran over again. We also
might want to move or it might happen again!"
So
the two of them quickly brushed themselves off and moved towards the train.
"Well
I guess we haven't been properly introduced then have we?" The boy asked Lily. Lily shook her head and the boy replied, as
he held out his hand, "Hi my name is
Remus Lupin, what is your name?"
Lily
took his hand and said, "Lily Evans,
nice to meet you. Is this your first
year at Hogwarts?"
"Yup,
ought to be quite interesting. My
parents have told me a lot about Hogwarts, I can't wait to get there!" Remus exclaimed. "From the way you acted when I crashed into you, I take it you
are a muggle-born right?"
"Yeah,"
said Lily gloomily, she had hoped it wouldn't have been that obvious.
Remus
looked at her thoughtfully then said, "Don't worry, I can show you the ropes
around here. There is not much to learn
about living in the wizarding world but I'll show you everything you need to
know."
Lily
looked up surprised; she had immediately taken to this boy because of his
friendliness. She was wondering if
everyone was this friendly when a voice as thick as oil came up behind her.
"Oh,
look! Another mudblood."
Several
people who had been standing near, including a group of two boys and a girl,
turned around at the word 'mudblood.'
They group quickly walked towards them, abandoning their trunks where
they were halfway up the stairs onto the train.
"What
did you say?" The boy with very messy
black hair asked.
"You
heard him, he called her a mudblood."
The boy answered who was standing next to the original one.
Two
other boys, and a girl, who looked remarkably like the younger boy with messy
hair were soon standing by Lily's side.
"Let
me guess." One of the boys said, as he
looked the kid up and down. "You're
part of the Snape Clan." He continued,
saying it more as a statement then a question,
"and you're a Malfoy. Nice to meet you, my father has told me, so much
about you guys and your families. I was
really hoping I wouldn't have to do this on the first day but, as my father
said it was alright, here you go." The
boy said this as he threw back his fist and brought it forward straight into
the face of the boy he had called Malfoy.
Snape
quickly came forward to help Malfoy but was thrown off course as the other boy
hit him square in the nose.
"Get
him, Jack!" Yelled the boy, who was
obviously the older boys' younger brother.
"Come
on, Joe." Yelled the two standing next
to the boy, they were obviously twins.
The
fight went on for several minutes as the kids, who were watching it, grouped
together closer to stop any adults from seeing. The fight stopped almost immediately when a couple of voices
came floating through the air.
"Jack
Potter! And Joe!! What do you think you're doing?" Said someone who remarkably got the effect
she wanted for their younger brother who was still cheering them on, and the
girl who still stood next to Lily, both went pale. Jack and Joe both stopped fighting.
Then
just as Snape was about to his Jack in the side of the head while he wasn't
looking another voice came through the air that had both Snape and Malfoy
turning around looking rather guilty.
"Severus
Snape, Lucius Malfoy, I can't believe you two are doing this. Disgracing your families so. What would your mothers say?" An oily voice asked. Snape and Malfoy looked down at their shoes,
but before they could say anything another voice came drifting through the air. A voice, that the guilty ones were overjoyed
to hear.
"
One minute before the Hogwarts Express leaves for Hogwarts!" The conductor yelled.
There
were shouts of 'Got to go' to parents.
And a mad scramble made by everyone that was involved in the fight, as
they quickly tried to get on to the train with out any more ado.
*******
Peter
rushed onto the platform, knowing that if he didn't hurry he would be
late. It was10:59 a.m. at the moment
and he knew he would be late for his first year at Hogwarts.
Peter
ran up to the first open door on the train that he saw and quickly jumped
through it. Quintessa was right behind
him, and hurried off to go find the compartment that the Prefects were in.
Peter started walking up and down the corridor trying to find
a compartment he could sit in, he finally found a compartment that seemed empty
(because there was no noise coming from it) and opened the door to find that
there were five First Years sitting in the compartment.
"Hey" Peter said. "Is it alright if
I sit here with you guys?"
"Sure," said a girl, with auburn hair, who was playing
Exploding Snap with another boy who had sandy colored hair.
"Oh no it's Peter."
James muttered under his breath.
Lily looked at the new kid then towards James and the twins,
who were glaring at Peter. "Is there something I'm missing?" She asked.
"No nothing." Peter said
quickly. "I'll go find somewhere else
to sit." He then turned and walked out
the door.
"Who is that boy?"
Remus asked.
Tempest answered, "That's Peter Pettigrew, he is such a
goody-goody. For the small time that we let him hang out with us he was always
telling the adults on us. Anyways, we
never liked him much."
"Hey, Jamesy-Poo!"
James heard a voice yell, interrupting their conversation. He turned around to see whom it was to find
Jack, and Joe standing in the corridor.
"Not you again." James muttered, none to softly.
"Yup, it's us." Jack answered, grinning like a Cheshire cat.
"Hey, did we tell you kiddos about the sorting." Joe asked.
"No, and don't even start." Sirius said simply.
Jack and Joe looked at each other. Then said in unison, "Oh,
and why
ever not?"
Lily looked at the twins and asked, "Who are these people?"
"Just my totally insane brothers." James answered
matter-of-factly.
"Oh, I'm not surprised." Lily said looking at the
similarities between the three of them.
"Now really James, is that any way to introduce your own
blood and flesh?" Jack asked.
Tempest
looked at them, then answered for James, "'Course it is, and I still don't see
how you three are related. I mean the two of them are completely insane. James
is almost looks normal compared to these two."
Jack and Joe glared at Tempest, then Joe said; "Don't
say anymore on the matter because we know where you live, and where you will be
staying for the rest of the school year."
Sirius glared at the two of them. "Don't worry, we will be
well prepared for the two of you the first time you try an attack."
Jack turned to James, ignoring Sirius and Tempest as best he
could, "So, who are the new people?"
James turned around to see whom he meant. He had forgotten
that the rest of them were in there since he was just used to him, Sirius and
Tempest.
"Oh, that's Lily, and Remus." James said.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Jack and this is my brother Joe. We're
Jamesy's brothers." Jack said continuing before they had time to say anything.
"I'm sure James has told you all about us, and if he hasn't then we're
thirteen, which is two years older then you ickle firsties. Oh, and you will be
joining us in our detention race, won't you?"
"What detention race?" Remus said, interested in the prospect
of anything to do with detentions.
"Oh so he hasn't told you?" Joe said, and then turning
towards James, and said "I'm so disappointed in you. Not telling all your
friends about the detention race, how could you?"
James shrugged his shoulders. He didn't want his brothers
here. They would ruin everything. Telling them about the detention race? It was
more like how could they? It was supposed to be their (and Sirius's and
Tempest's) detention race.
Jack continued to tell them about the detention race while
Joe nodded his head and tried to look important.
"How many detentions do you have?" Remus asked.
"487." Joe said matter-of-factly.
"And how many detentions have the record?"
"717." Jack answered.
"Bet we can get more!" Remus said.
"Oh yeah? Well you're on." Joe said.
Jack turned to James and said, "I like this kid! Where'd you
find him?"
"That is absolutely none of your business. Don't you have
somebody else you can go bother?" James answered curtly.
"Good point." Joe said, then they headed out the door
yelling, "Yoohoo, Jennifer, where are you? Come out, come out wherever you
are!"
"Finally," James said, letting out a sigh of relief.
"Who's Jennifer?" Lily asked.
"His sister. Just as bad as those two." Tempest said.
"You've got to be kidding, a girl, being just as bad as those
two? That has to be impossible." Remus said.
"You want to bet." Sirius said. "She might even be worse."
"How many detentions does she have?" Asked Remus.
"557." James said glumly.
"Don't worry Jamesy-Poo. We'll beat those suckers. Betting
Remus like that, who do they think they are?
Do you really think that they will beat us?" Not waiting for an answer Sirius continued on "course not!"
"Don't call me that!" James yelled.
"Sheesh, someone's in a grumpy mood." Tempest muttered.
The five of them soon settled down again into a rather
entertaining game of exploding snap, which had quite a few dares involved.
And
they soon arrived at Hogwarts.
