Chapter 4. Ladies and Gentleman, the Incredible James Potter

Isn't it funny, that even the most anti-school and education kids and adults, are at least semi excited about the first day of school? Then you come to the kids who absolutely adore school. Such kids include James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

These three boys didn't love school itself per say, but they loved being at school. They loved poking fun at their fellow classmates at their teachers. Most of all, they likes getting away from their parents and having fun with their buds.

James Potter had known Sirius Black since he was born, or at least that's how it seemed. Even now when they were fifteen, the two were still the best of friends. James trusted Sirius beyond all his other friends and even his strange family. Likewise was the same with Sirius. The two boys were often mistaken for brothers, both being about the same tall height and both having messy dark brown or black hair and mischievous blue eyes. (A/N Blue eyes, brown/black hair:: Drools::)

The two boys had known Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew since they ha stepped aboard the Hogwarts express. Actually with Remus, they had literally bumped into him when he was getting through the barrier separating the muggle and magical worlds. Remus' parents were muggle freaks, meaning they were crazy about anything having to do with muggles, not that they were muggles who were freaks. Remus had been raised as any muggle born had, except with the knowledge of magic, but in his early life, before the werewolf bit him, actually seen magic preformed. The minute Remus had run into them, they became friends. There was just something about Remus that you couldn't help liking.

They had met Peter later. On the train, the now three friends came across Malfoy beating up a kid. They stepped in and beat Malfoy at his own game. The kid, Peter, had been eternally grateful and acted like their servant for the first year. By the time Peter had stopped feeling the need to act humble around them, they had gotten so used to him hanging around that they had just accepted him.

"How much longer!" James whined. Sirius snickered.

"You just want to see Rose don't you?" Sirius asked. James blushed; he had had a crush on Rose for a while. He guessed it had been after his first and only girlfriend had dumped him.

"She's my friend! I can't like her! That would screw everything up!" James protested.

"Come on, the train will leave in half an hour. Mooney should be here soon. Should we tell him about the potion?"

"Nah, we shouldn't tell him until we accomplish it so we don't get his hopes up only to be broken. Besides, we still can't figure out that incantation. My strong point is Transfiguration, not Charms."

"Hey man, you know I'm only good at Astronomy."

"Not true."

"Whatever."

"Anyway, we're going to have to get help," James thought out loud to himself.

"We could ask Rose," Sirius suggested.

"Why Rose? We all know she almost flunked Charms last year. She's worse at it than Peter."

"I'm not talking about getting Rose to help. Didn't Rose mention last year that she has a sister who is extremely good at charms?"

"Rose has a sister?"

"James, you are so thickheaded. Rose talks about her sister Petunia all the time, though from the way she tells it Petunia isn't very nice and they aren't on the best of terms."

"Petunia," James snickered. "Who names their kid Petunia? Honestly." Sirius started cracking up also.

"Hey guys!" Remus shouted at them as he walked over. "What did I miss?" This only made Sirius and James laugh harder. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing Mooney, nothing," James finally managed. Remus shook his head at the two and got the two onto the train without too many stares.

"Honestly you two, one would think you were five years old with the way you act," Rose said coming up to them.

"I concur," Remus agreed. "So how's your summer been?"

"Just awful. First there was surviving Petunia, and then there was surviving Petunia's friends. What's so funny?" When Rose had uttered Petunia, James and Sirius had started laughing hysterically again; even Remus snickered.

"I'm serious!" Rose scolded them.

"I thought I was," Sirius pondered.

"That joke is really old, it was old when it was invented," James informed Sirius. "So what's so bad about your sister?"

"She has to be miss popular all the time. It's infuriating. She has absolutely no personality and she hates my guts. She would deny that I'm her sister if she could. I bet most of the people don't even know that I'm her sister," Rose drawled. James and Sirius exchanged looks. This couldn't be good.

"Sisters are annoying!" Sirius complained.

"Sirius, your sisters are five and three, how could you possibly hate them?" Remus asked. "You probably spent the whole summer at James' house anyway."

'Yes, but James' little sister is annoying also, and so is his brother."

"James, you have siblings?" Rose asked.

"Yeah, twins, little buggars. They're five. Quidditch fanatics, both of them. Always insisting I play with them," James complained.

"Imagine that," Rose put in. James blushed. "You're one to talk Mr." James was always making the group play Quidditch weekly, rain or shine." Rose shook her head and her long brown hair fell out of its ponytail. James just stared at it as Rose put it back up. "So what pranks are we going to do this year?"

"Don't know yet, but we're supplied," Sirius assured her and pulled out a trunk filled with dungbombs, fireworks and anything else a prankster would ever need. "James has another two trunks and I'm sure Remus brought one."

"Of course! What do you take me for? I even did one better, I brought three trunks," Remus said smugly, obviously please with himself for outdoing Sirius.

"Cheater," Sirius muttered under his breath. The four joked around and just had a good time. Peter eventually joined them just as the train pulled into the station. "Which one is your sister?" Sirius asked Rose as the mobs poured out of the train.

"That's her," Rose said pointing to a red-brown haired girl that was making her way through the crowd with a black haired girl. "Got to go guys, I'm going to say hi to Becca before she takes my head off, I promised I'd say hi and I forgot to on the train. Bye!" Rose ran off into the crowd.

"We should prank her," James told Remus and Sirius under his breath.

"Why?" Remus asked.
"Didn't you hear the way Rose was talking about her? Rose will thank us."

A/N I know a lot of people say that Lily was a fifth member of the Marauders, here, that's not true. Rose is. She likes them cause they're funny, they play pranks and get in trouble. She also thinks they're just cool and all. BTW, for all of you blind people, James likes Rose, and he's about to play a prank on Lily who he thinks in Petunia so Rose will like him.