A/N This is the first year of the Marauders as dictated by Sirius Black.

Year one. By Me (and for those of you who don't know me.I'm Sirius Black, the good looking one ;) I'm not much of a writer, so you're going to have to forgive me!!

Our first year at Hogwarts was average, we had countless detentions, James and I were even suspended for a week, Remus and Peter managed to get away with it. my parents weren't very pleased, nor were the Potters'. But Onya my sister, thought it was cool. Remus laughed at us when we got back and Dumbledore called us to his office, for a serious chat.didn't pay much attention, I have wish I did now, I am sure it was some good advice which I did not heed.

The other Gryfindors included Connell, Harry, Lily, Tamarisk, Danni, Sara and Kylie. Lily and Tamarisk were similar to us, they were fun to hang around with and sometimes joined in with our pranks, especially the ones against the Slytherins.

It was one day when James and I had been sent out of our potions lesson with Tamarisk for disrupting it, that we discovered the passage. Every so often the third years and above were allowed to go to Hogsmed, we thought this very unfair and were on the hunt for a passage out of the castle. We found it in the form of a witch.

We were walking down the corridor on the third floor, wondering aimlessly, laughing at Professor Harper.

"Someone's coming." Tamarisk cried.

"Quick behind the statue."

So we slipped in behind it.

"Lumos." Tamarisk whispered and out of the end of her wand sprang a bright light.

We followed the passage round the twists and turns, aware all the time that it may lead to a dead end. We ended up in a cellar in Honeydukes. We ran back down the passage, thrilled at our success, we blurted the whole story to Remus, Peter and Lily.

So the next time the third years went to Hogsmede, you can guess where we went.

We began to make a map of all the passages in Hogwarts and enchanted so we could see where everyone was. We have only just finished it in seventh year, but it was definitely worth seven hard years of research and effort.

We got a bit of help of Hagrid, though I am sure he would like his name to be omitted. In fact it was by accident that he told us of the Whomping Willow and the Shrieking Shack to where it led. We were going to investigate but Remus stopped us, we didn't find out why until much later on.

Of course we had several run ins with Snape. Several fights in the corridors between lessons, for which we lost house points and got detentions.

Snape was deep into the dark arts, he was a pure blood facist, he called Lily a mudblood, several times.

Then for Christmas James got a great present from his sister Jessica. Jessica was a wonderful person, she would be at Hogwarts in another year along with Onya and Keisha the following year.

She had sent him an invisibility cloak.

"That must have cost a bomb." I said.

James nodded. "More then I want to think about. I wonder where she bought it from, they are very rare after all."

Remus. "There are some places you can get them. Old manors and."

"And?" I asked.

"Well, Knockturn Alley."

"You can rule that out, Remus. My sister would not go down Knockturn Alley."

And so our adventures took another turn. We could sneak out at night without being seen, we could go to Hogsmede without having to crawl down the secret passage, we could find out where Remus went every full moon.

We noticed it in November, he had gone again and came back a few days later without any explanation, he gave the excuse of an ill relative, but it happened again in December and January. So we decided to follow him.

He went out into the ground with Madame Pomfrey and disappeared under the thrashing branches of the Whomping Willow. We heard horrible sounds from within and glanced up at the full moon above.

"Oh my gawd!" Tamarisk cried. "He's a werewolf!"

"What?" Peter exclaimed.

"Honestly, don't you know what a werewolf is?" she replied.

"Why didn't he tell us?" said James bitterly.

"James." Lily said quietly.

He shook his head.

"He wasn't sure how we would react." I said slowly.

James gave a hollow laugh. "He doesn't trust us!"

Tamarisk took a step towards the tree and a huge branch came down and delivered a heftly blow on her shoulder. She screamed in pain and I dived towards her as another branch was about to strike. I took the blow on my leg and crawled to safety pulling Tam with me.

Her cheek was pouring with blood and she looked faint.

Lily was crying. "We shall have to take her to medical, Madame Pomfrey never asks too many questions."

I nodded. James was still staring up at the branches.

"I'll take her." I said snapping him out of his trance. Lily put her arm around Tam and we led her to the hospital wing.

The others went back up to the common room to wait for us. Lily and I joined them not much later. Tam had to stay in over night.

She came out the next day her cheek was better but she had a tiny scar to the right of her eye, but it did not take away from her beauty. When Remus arrived back we stopped him and told him what we knew. Tam showed him her cheek and he broke down.

"I am so sorry, I did not mean for you to find out this way."

"You did not mean for us to find out at all." James said.

Lily put her hand on his shoulder. "James, 'tis not his fault."

Peter remained silent and Tam sat down beside Remus.

"No more secrets between friends, right?" she looked at everyone in turn.

We all nodded especially Remus who looked pleadingly at James. I elbowed James and he nodded and smiled.

When Tam and Lily had left and Remus was in the library, we formed a plan.

"Lets make the transformations better for Remus, he has suffered all his life, let us show him what true friends we are." James said.

Peter looked interested and I nodded.

"Why not become animigus?"

"Have you gone bonkers?" exclaimed Peter.

"I hate to say this James, but Peter is right. For a start it's illegal, it's dangerous only a few people actually succeed, you remember what Mcgonagall said."

"So what's your point?"

"I'm not sure, lets do it."

"What? Sirius."

"Peter." I said in the same squeaky voice.

And so we agreed. That day whilst they distracted Madame Pince, the librarian, I sneaked into the restricted section of the of the library and picked up a few books on becoming animigus. They were thick and heavy; a quick flick through at the pictures almost put me off. But we got the book out of the library and took them to the dormitory where we read them.

It was a very complicated process but we had to revise for our exams so didn't get a lot of chance to try it. But we knew what we were going to do in second year.

The exams came and went and then it was time to leave Hogwarts for summer.

It was a sad goodbye.