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At the 1st of September Samantha walked through the barrier onto the platform. She immediately started to look for her best friend. Luckily she was early and it was still calm. That way it didn't take long to find her. But Amelia always stood a bit out in the crowd.
"Hey!" Samantha said walking up to her. "How are you? How was Paris!"
"Hey!" Amelia said. "It was great! It was hot!" Together they entered the train while Amelia started to talk about Paris and what she had seen and the people she met. She seemed to have had a really good time because after they had found an empty compartment and the train had left the platform she was still talking about it.
"Anyway, then we went to the Louvre have you ever been there? It's so big that one part of the museum is enough for a day's walk. But it was nice. And I saw the Mona Lisa, only I don't think it's all the beautiful. Though it was cool the way she kept looking at you. Which is why she got famous in the first place. But that was the last day. So the next day we went home and the day after that it was today," she finished.
"Wow, you really had an amazing time," Samantha said grinning.
"Yes I did," Amelia said. "So what about you? What did you do while I was gone. Did you miss me crazily?"
"Of course I did!" Sam said. "But I got by. We moved three days after you left and guess in whose street I turned up?"
"Whose?" Amelia asked excitedly .
"Sirius Black," Sam said. "And I just spend my last days with him. It was alright."
"Nice," her friend said grinning. "Samantha got a boooyfriend."
"I do not," she said smiling. "Now what about that French guy you met?"
The rest of the train-ride they talked about boys and homework, things they had done together in the summer. What next school year would be like and things like that. At three they changed into their robes.
"Hey I'm going to see how some Hufflepuffs spend their summer ok?" Amelia said, putting her shoes back on.
"Sure, see you later," Samantha said. She didn't see the point in her looking for Gryffindors to ask about the summer. "Bye!"
"Bye!" Amelia said and disappeared. After a few minutes however, Samantha was bored so she got up and decided to walk around a bit to stretch her legs. She opened the door en looked left and right. Left there seemed to be going on something because a lot of kids stood there watching something. Samantha walked over there to see what it was, but before she reached it someone knocked her on her feet.
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At the 1st of September Sirius walked through the barrier onto the platform. He immediately started to look for his best friend. It was very late and very crowded with parents and children and animals so this was a very hard task. But suddenly he spotted a sandy-haired boy he knew.
"Moony!" he yelled "Moon!" Remus turned around and spotted him too.
"Hey!" he said. "How are you?"
"I'm great! You?" Sirius asked. "Hey have you seen James yet?"
"Me too, and no, I just arrived," Remus said looking around. "But he still has 5 minutes. So why don't we just get aboard?"
"Good idea," Sirius said and together they walked towards the big red train that stood waiting for them. "So how was your summer?"
"Great," Remus said while they heaved up their trunks in the train. "Yours?"
"Amazing," Sirius said. "I met this great girl, Samantha Silverstein. Too bad she's a muggle."
"You're kidding right?" Remus said grinning as he boarded the train and entered their compartment.
"What d'you mean I'm kidding?" Sirius asked totally confused.
"Samantha Silverstein goes to Hogwarts too, she's in the same year and house," Remus explained. "She's great at Astronomy and her best friend's Amelia Brown, the Hufflepuff. I've talked with her ones or twice."
"Really?" Sirius asked. "Damn, how come I didn't know this?"
"Because you're too busy with yourself and your pranks," Remus said.
"She looked familiar," Sirius said frowning and thinking about it. Suddenly the door burst open and a brown eyed, black messy haired boy stood in the doorway, covered in pumpkin juice.
"Serverus Snape is going to die," James said with fire in his eyes. "Today, now!"
"Hi James," Sirius said real perky. "How was your summer?"
"Sirius, Remus, get ready to kill that, that that... Rat," James said and opened his trunk to get some dry cloths.
"Let's do that later, just relax first ok?" Remus asked. "How was your summer?"
"It was alright," James said putting on a new shirt. "Yours?"
"It was great, hey, Sirius met a girl," Remus answered.
"Really?" James said calming down a bit. "So, tell me about her." They talked about girls and Quidditch. They bought way too many sweets and explained Remus some pranks they planned. At two thirty James went over to Lily and Remus and Sirius played some exploding Snap. However at two fifty James returned with fire in his eyes.
"Now Snape is a dead man," he said as he grabbed his wand. "He just..." they never found out what he did, but it had to be really bad because they had never seen James like this.
"D'you think he's serious?" Remus asked.
"This time?" Sirius said. "I think so, did you see his eyes?" Immediately both of them sprang up and ran after they friend. He had already reached the greasy haired boy and was raising his hand to hit. Sirius quickly grabbed it and stopped it.
"James, hi, remember our nice Transfusion professor?" Sirius said quickly. "Remember what she said before we left last school year?"
"No," James said, trying to get loose, not taking his eyes of Snape. "I don't care."
"Oh yes you do!" Sirius said holding him with all his might. "She said that... if we got in trouble... the first week... stop for a second! The first week... we'd be expelled, remember? And we don't want that, now do we?"
"I don't care James said, stop struggling so Sirius could let him go and faced him. "I just want that slime thing dead." And he turned to go after Snape.
"You'll regret it later, trust me," Sirius said. But James didn't listen and continued walking towards Snape and punched him in the face. "Hey, don't say I tried to stop you or warned you!" He watched his friend fight Snape, but also saw Snape cheat so he jumped in and helped his friend. Immediately ten other Slytherins joined them. Then they heard a loud voice that belonged to the Head Boy. He and James quickly ran through the people that stood watching. Why do I always get involved? Sirius wondered but didn't look where he was going and knocked over a girl.
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"Get of me!" Samantha said pushing the kid. He or she quickly got up and she saw then that it was Sirius. "Hi."
"Hi," he said offering her a hand. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, you just scared me," She said taking the hand and got up. Then they heard Serverus Snape yell something and bolt right at them. Still holding her hand Sirius pulled her with and ran after James. Luckily there were many people in the hallway so Snape had a hard time getting through. Sirius seemed to get through the mass easily enough. "Where are we going?" Sam asked.
"Right in here," he said and entered a compartment. In it sat Remus Lupin, Samantha had talked with him ones of twice, he seemed really nice. Next to him sat a fat boy with blond hair that sat eating a lot of food, Peter Pettigrew.
"Where's James?" Sirius asked.
"I don't know, I think he said something about going to Lily," Remus answered. "What happened? Where did you go?"
"I exidently knocked over Samantha," Sirius said sitting down.
"That would explain her being here," Remus said. "Sit down." Samantha sat down next to Sirius and in front of Peter, she looked how he stuffed three kinds of candy in his mouth and quickly looked away.
"So why were you running?" she asked Sirius. He explained the story together with helps of Remus because he seemed to like to alter the story or make it more like an adventure. She stayed there for an hour, by that time she figured Amelia was done and returned to her own compartment. Amelia wasn't done but came ten minutes after her.
"Did you hear about the fight?" she said as she entered. "I heard Snape's got a broken nose!"
"Really?" Sam said looking up from her book. "I did not know that, but yes I had heard from the fight." They continued to talk some more and play some games until they arrived at the small station. There they heard the usual loud voice from Hagrid, calling the first years. Together with two Ravenclaws they got aboard a carriage with no horses that brought them to the castle. As tired as Sam was she was still glad to be back.