Disclaimer: I am not doing this thingy nu uh no way *crosses arms defiantly* wacha gunna do about it? *looks at the lawyers who are grinning evilly* uh oh ok ok ok ok NOT MINE PROMISE this story is not mine and neither are the characters. *grin*

A/n this story is about Remus, James, and Sirius. I hate Peter WAY to much to include him in my story. You will be seeing glimpses of him but he will not be a marauder because I don't think he deserves to be. You will see how things come into play with him. Don't worry. For those of you who like peter.what is wrong with you?!?! Well now that I have gotten the rambling out of my system here is the story, oh and one more thing sorry. I am not used to writing American but I have Microsoft word which is an American program and changes my words to American. So for those of you who are American and you see words spelled differently such as humour or something like that I appologise it is not a spelling error. Well NOW on with my fic

Chapter 1

Remus Lupin had received his letter of acceptance into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in what seemed like only seconds ago and now he was standing on the platform of 9 ¾ with his very proud mum and dad. They were very proud of their son and were both grinning from ear to ear. Remus on the other hand was looking very tired and pale, looking as though he had just gotten over a very bad illness.

He sighed as he remembered the horrible incident of only three nights ago. He pushed that thought into the back of his mind. 'This should be the happiest moment of my life, so why am I dreading it?' He thought to himself 'because you are a werewolf' a little voice whispered from the back of his mind. He shuddered involuntarily and looked up at his proud parents. It was almost time for the train to leave and he hugged his parent's goodbye. His dad gave him a little bit of money to buy some food off of the food trolley.

"I will miss you mum and you too dad." He whispered to them one last time before boarding the Hogwarts Express.

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Sirius Black had received his letter of acceptance into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in what felt like ages ago. He wanted to get out of his house as fast as he could. Ever since that letter had come to his house from a very important looking owl from Hogwarts, his parents had given him nothing but grief. They already loathed their oldest son for many different reasons. He was good friends with his uncle Alphard, he got along very nicely with his cousin Andromeda, but the final reason was one they couldn't stand; they would have been ok with him being close to Alphard and Andromeda but they hated him for the fact that he associated with what they called "mudbloods".

Sirius was from a very old pure blood family, and he wasn't to forget that; his parents had told him that over and over. No more of this associating with mudbloods and ignoring his proper cousins such as Bellatrix. Oh and he wasn't to ignore the young Snape boy or the older Malfoy child either. His mother had warned him that if he was in anything other than Slytherin then he would be in a lot of trouble when he got back for the summer since they didn't want him home for Christmas or Easter.

How he hated his parents and was only too happy to get away from them. His mother had given him one last lecture before she had said goodbye to him at the platform leaving him to put his heavy trunk on the train by himself. He cursed his family. He hated being a Black.

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James Potter received his letter of acceptance into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in what felt like ages ago as well but it wasn't for the same reasons as Sirius. He was looking forward to the school and was ready to go but he loved his family very much and he knew he would miss them. His mother looked on the verge of tears and his father was beaming down at him proudly. His parents gave him a hug goodbye and as he was walking away and towards the train his mother pulled him back.

"James you see that young boy over there?" she said pointing towards Sirius, "That is young Sirius Black, why don't you go help him to put his trunk on the train."

James looked at his mother confused. His parents had told him that almost all of the members of the Black family were witches and wizards who were swayed towards the Dark Arts and evil. He didn't understand why his mother wanted him to help a dark wizard.

His mother obviously knew what was going on inside of her sons' young head because she said. "James not all the members of the Black family are bad. I know his Uncle Alphard and he is a good man who speaks very highly of Sirius. You remember Alphard right?" she smiled when James nodded his head vigorously. "I have also had the pleasure of meeting his cousin Andromeda I believe she is in her final year at Hogwarts this year, well anyways she is also a lovely young lady and I know that Sirius adores her. I want you to give Sirius a chance he is supposed to be a very good young man." She finished, smiling down at James who looked happy about helping Sirius out even is he was a Black.

James grinned at his mother; he had met Alphard once or twice and he had adored the man. If Alphard said Sirius was a good person then he must be. "I will mum, I will go help him right now."

James' mother and father smiled at their son as he went over to help young Sirius Black.

James walked right over to Sirius and offered to lend him a hand with his trunk and Sirius accepted his offer with gratitude.

"Thanks a lot, my mum left me here with barely a goodbye. I really appreciate your help with my trunk." Sirius said with a small smile on his face.

James grinned at Sirius "Hey no problem mate. I am James Potter by the way." James told him

Sirius looked away, 'this boy doesn't know who I am as soon as he finds out I am a Black he is going to stick his nose up and leave me alone.' Sirius thought to himself

He looked back at James and managed a weak smile. "I am Sirius Black, it's nice to meet you James." He started to walk away thinking that a Potter boy wouldn't want anything to do with him but to his surprise James called him back.

"Hey, Sirius, where are you going? Come on lets get on the train looks like we are the last to board." He said grinning and looked around noticing that they were in fact the last people left on the platform. "Come on mate before we miss the train! You do know we only have until eleven o'clock today right?!" he said joking

Sirius grinned happy that James didn't care who he was and both boys quickly ran on the train just before it blew its whistle and started to leave. They walked down the trains isles looking for an empty compartment or at least one with a few seats. As they passed one compartment four people walked out and shoved both Sirius and James to the ground.

"Well, well, well looky here, a Potter and a Black what an unusual friendship. I thought you knew that the Potters were no good Sirius, thought you knew that we are so much better." An older boy said taunting Sirius and James. Sirius looked very angry and answered before James could who was also looking very angry.

"Leave us alone Malfoy we didn't do anything to you! Besides I would much rather be friends with a Potter than any of you, you all disgust me. Your filthy, thinking your so much better than Muggle borns just because you are of pure blood." Sirius spat, getting to his feet and offering James a hand which he took. Sirius turned to James "come on lets go we can do better than a bunch of Slytherin creeps." He looked back at Malfoy who was glaring along with a few other kids.

"Oh you will come crawling back to us Black this is where you belong it is your destiny." Malfoy yelled as Sirius and James walked away.

"Not if I can help it." James her Sirius say softly so himself. Sirius turned to look at James "I am sorry, I understand if you don't want to associate with me because of whom I am but please, don't judge me by my family heritage." Sirius's eyes were pleading and it was obvious to James that his mother and father had been right. Sirius wasn't like the rest of his family he was a good young man and James knew that he would make an even better friend.

"Hey mate I know about the Blacks I have heard things but you told me your name before which gave me plenty of time to walk away. Besides you wouldn't have stuck up for me if you were like the rest of your family and I owe you for that." James said smiling at Sirius who had a look of pleasure on his face with the thought of a new friend.

"Thank you." He said barely above a whisper.

James laughed at Sirius "Come on mate lets go find a place to sit before our legs collapse from standing so long." James said with a grin and Sirius laughed.

"Okay.mate." Sirius replied with a happy grin on his face. 'My first true friend', he though, 'and a Potter nevertheless who would have thought.'

The boys continued on their way down the isle in search of two seats. They finally found a nearly empty compartment with only on occupant, a boy who seemed about their age.

James slid open the compartment door and smiled at the boy. "Do you mind if we sit here?" he asked

The boy looked up from his book and smiled "Go right ahead."

James and Sirius smiled at him and thanked him. "I am James Potter" James told the boy

"And I am Sirius Black." Sirius said with a grin

The small boy smiled at them, "I am Remus Lupin. What year are you two in? I am a first year."

The other two boys smiled told Remus that they were first years as well and were looking forward to going to Hogwarts. After long friendly conversation they changed out of Muggle clothing and into their school robes. As soon as they finished changing they arrived at Hogwarts and all three boys grinned at each other. They had finally arrived at the school all of them had been looking forward to their entire lives.

A/n so what did you all think? I don't think it turned out too bad actually. Well please review and tell me anything I have messed up on. *grin* I will update soon I promise.