Different Similarities
Chapter 2

Author Note: The sentences in '' are thought. Yay the second chappie!! Whoopee! Everyone dance! Ok people I know that Sirius' parents were evil but I choose to ignore that fact cuz its more fun this way! They're not evil but they are not that nice! Yippee! (Neigeux is the owl's name. It means snowy in French.)

"Mum! MUM! MUUUUUUUUUUUM!" James called. "Mum where are you?"

"I'm right here, James." Molly Potter replied as she walked through the door into her son James Potter's room.

"Where is Neigeux?" Asked James, "She was here a minute ago!"

"Honey, what are you doing to your poor owl?" Molly asked.

"Would I do anything to my owl, mumsie?" James asked innocently. James made an angelic face.

"What do you need her for?" Mrs. Potter asked. 'He looks more like a devil than an angel, with that messy black hair and those sharp blue eyes.' She laughed to herself.

"I want to send a letter to Sirius," James wined.

"I guess you'll just have to wait then." Molly Potter laughed as she exited the room muttering "Strange, strange boy."

'Our list of pranks isn't long enough. Well, at least we know who to try them on!' James smirked as he flopped onto his stomach and started reading "What you never knew about pranks."

~*~

"Get the stupid sun out of my eyes," James mumbled still half asleep "I want to go back to bed. It's too early in the morning."

"James," Roger Potter said, exasperated "It is 10:47"

"That's too early I wanna go back..." James mumbled incoherently for a while before falling promptly back to sleep.

His father waited for a second then yelled, "James wake up!" 'What's the matter with James? He's normally a morning person,' Roger thought.

"I'm up." James sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Is breakfast ready yet?"

"Are you always thinking of your stomach? Anyway, we saved some for you, because it took you so long to wake up."

"When do you think I'll get my letter?" James asked. "I'm going to go check for it now." James walked upstairs to the attic to find Neigeux to see what she had brought him. "Mum, Dad it's here! I have it!" James yelled as he ran downstairs into the kitchen "Oh, I wonder what it will be like. I hope I make friends. I wonder if Sirius has his letter yet? It says the train leaves on September first from Kings Cross Station at Platform 9 ¾. We need to go to Diagon alley to buy books. Can we ask Sirius to go with us to Diagon Alley tomorrow?"

"Okay we can go to Sirius's house after you eat breakfast and ask if he got his letter and ask him to go to Diagon Alley," Molly agreed.

"Yippee!" James shouted. He grabbed his mother and danced her around the room. Molly beamed at her son.
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"Sirius, Sirius, SIRIUS!" James had just rolled out of the fireplace at the Black's house. A boy with black hair and brown eyes that were twinkling with mischief ran down the stairs and bounced over to James.

"Jamesie-boy! How are you this lovely day?" He swept into a bow so deep it resulting in him falling over.

"Did you get your letter?" James managed to say between laughs at his friend's insanity.

"Yes! Mum and Dad were so glad! They want me in Slytherin," Sirius made a grotesque face. "But I wanna be in Gryffindor. Ravenclaw wouldn't be bad. Hufflepuff would be horrible! Hufflepuff is for the idiots." Sirius laughed.

"Want to come to Diagon Alley with me to get books and stuff?"

"Yes! Yeah! Of course! Yippee!" Sirius spouted excitedly. "When? Now? I'll get my cloak!"

After James convinced Sirius they could not go now ("But why not?" He asked) they agreed to meet the following day.

~*~

James watched a very sooty Sirius Black fall out of the fireplace with his eyes twinkling.

"Sirius Black!" laughed James, "What a pleasure!"

"Thank you, thank you, my good chap!" Sirius answered pompously.

"Come on lets go! Mum, Mum, MUM!" James called.

"Hold on James Andy Potter!" Molly Potter called from the top of the stairs. She hastily pulled on a sweater and tottered down the stairs. "Ok I'm ready to go! Sirius what did you do to your clothes!' Molly walked around Sirius making small noises and brushing the soot from his clothes.

"Mum he's fine!" wined James, "Lets go."

"Ok, ok. Come on." Molly walked to the fireplace and got out the floo power. The two boys followed her chatting and laughing.

~*~

A very sooty Molly Potter rolled out of the fireplace inside Flourish and Blots. She raised herself from the ground and brushed the soot off her clothes. She watched as two boys fell out of the fireplace consecutively. They were, of course, James Potter and Sirius Black.

"Come along boys. Time to get your books." Molly walked briskly to where the shopkeeper was standing. James and Sirius followed her.

"These two are Hogwarts students," Molly was saying to the shopkeeper. "Could you lead us towards their books please?"

"Of course. Right this way please," The shopkeeper replied. "Ah, 'ere we are. Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1), A History of Magic, Magical Theory, A Beginners Guide to Transfiguration, One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi, Magical Drafts and Potions, Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them, and The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection." He laid books into Molly Potter's arms as he named them. "And you'll be needin' two sets o' all those. There you are. Come righ' up to the counter to pay for them."

After they had purchased all the necessary books they went to get school robes.

"You two can go inside and get fitted for your robes. I'll wait out here," Molly told the two boys.

"Ok," Sirius said and he and James disappeared inside Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.

"Two for Hogwarts?" Madam Malkin asked as they walked inside.

"Yup!" James answered with a smile.

"This way please." They followed her down a hallway to a small room. There, she instructed them to stand on a stool while she fitted them. Not too long later a boy wearing robes of a deep green walked into the room. He had greasy black hair, dark, almost black, eyes, and a pointed nose.

"Well, well. It's the greasy-haired git himself. Severus Snape," Sirius spat at the newcomer.

"Sirius Black, the blood traitor." Snape shot an evil look at him. "And James Potter, everyone's favorite boy," Snape mocked.

"You're both done, dears," Madam Malkin interrupted. James and Sirius got down from their stools and walked past Snape shooting glares at him.

When they got back outside they went to Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC to purchase their wands. James' wand was Mahogany, eleven inches, pliable, powerful, and excellent for transfiguration. Sirius' was nine inches, made of oak, rather stiff, and excellent for charms.

"Not much else we can do except wait for September 1st!" James exclaimed as the two boys said goodbye.

"Yup! See you then!" Sirius walked away grinning.

~*~

Ok its midnight and my mom is making me go to bed! I'll try to get the next part up soon!

Disclaimer: Nothing is mine that was in the Harry Potter books. Everything else is mine but it is based on JKR's books!

James' middle name Andy is in honor of Andy Señior who plays Angel in Rent!

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