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Harry Potter
Fears and Friends
Chapter 2
Hogwarts Express
By: Sirius **Padfoot
July 5, 2003
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"You'd make a perfect Seeker son." Mr. Potter said then looked down at Remus. "And I'd say you'd be a pretty good beater if you got a good partner. Being a Beater revolves around you and your partner how good you work together." He said and smiled.
"I don't know if I could get any one to work with me there." Remus said sadly.
"Sure you can. It'll be easy. What do you say we tryout for the team in our second year together since we can't in our first." James said.
"Sure." Remus said happily.
"Good then here we are Madam Malkin's Robes. Come on hurry along inside." Mr. Potter said as he opened the door and for the boys to walk in then saw some thing of a nightmare from his days at Hogwarts.
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"Speak of the bloody devil literally. Stay over here you two." James' dad said to where only they could here. "Oh I hated that woman." He said quietly to his wife.
"Welcome to my shop boy's. Hogwarts first years no doubt. All way's pick up business about now with school start 'n back up." The young owner said. "All ready have a person but three can be done at once. Come don't bee shy." She said and ushered the boys up to beside first boy.
"Hey you're Sirius right. That's what your mum called you correct?" James asked as he stepped up beside the first boy.
"Yeah. Unfortunately Sirius Black is my name. Uhm are you two pure bloods?" Sirius asked quietly.
"I am. Are you Remus?" James said and turned to Remus who nodded.
"Good then my mum shouldn't care if I talk to you. She has a fit if the people I talk to aren't pure bloods but I don't see what the big deal is. We're all just wizards. I don't think pure or half should matter do you?" Sirius said hopeful that he didn't just insult them.
"Oh no man I think that pure blood stuff is just a bunch of hogs squash. It's just stupid if you ask me." James said and looked over at Remus who seemed happy to hear that.
"Yeah definitely why your mum like that?" Remus said.
"Yeah my whole family is pure blood fanatics. Big dummies." Sirius said as he kept glancing to see if his mum was listening to him.
"What house do you want to be in? We want to be in Gryffindor." James said and smiled.
"Mum and the rest of the family has been in Slytherin. But I can't stand those people. I hope I'm in Gryffindor. I can't stand all this family tradition stuff. It's drives me nuts." Sirius said then looked back at his mother who was coming over to him.
"Sirius Black I do hope you remember your place in society and are not talking to filthy Mudbloods." Mrs. Black said.
"We are Pure bloods Ma'am." James said and smiled seeing that Sirius wasn't going to say any thing.
"Well good seems some of my teachings haven't been in vain on you." His mother said then walked back over to her seat and sat down.
"No offense Sirius but I don't like her." James whispered.
"Me neither." Remus said.
"Yeah well that makes three of us. You should meat my stupid little brother he's just as bad as her." Sirius said
"Hey Sirius would your mum let you stay at some ones house until the beginning of school?" James asked and smiled
"Most likely she don't like me anyway. Why?" Sirius asked.
"Well I thought maybe you could stay at my house until the first of September. Get away from your mum and brother. Be nice wouldn't it. You too Remus." James said and looked back at his dad and smiled.
"Hey yeah. You wouldn't mind. I mean we just met." Sirius said.
"Na. My mum and dad wouldn't mind either. It's worth a shot." James said.
"I'd have to ask. But I doubt I can until some time in August." Remus said sadly.
"Oh that's fine. We'll just have the two of us then in August it'll be three. What do ya say?" James said and smiled.
"Yeah!" Sirius and Remus said at the same time.
"Good it'll be final when we get your parent's permission." James said happily and smiled at his parents.
"Oh no he's done something. Probably invited those two over for the rest of the summer." Mr. Potter said to his wife.
"Oh it won't be that bad look they get along really good. It'll be fun." Mrs. Potter said and smiled at her husband.
"I guess you're right." Mr. Potter said.
"See I told ya it would be all right with my parents." James said and nodded back to them.
"We are already making plans to spend the rest of the summer together and I don't even know your names." Sirius said.
"Sirius Black this is Remus Lupin." James said.
"And this is James Potter." Remus said and the three laughed.
"Well there you go. Good thing I started on the three of you together. Now you can do every thing together. Now I'd suggest you ask you mum first Mr. Black she's always' been one to shoot down nice plans." The owner said and smiled at the three boys as they stepped back and looked at each other then ran over to Mrs. Black.
"Hey mum can I stay the rest of the summer with them. They said they'd take me to Kings crossing and make sure I got there on time. They're Pure Bloods too." Sirius said hopefully.
"Sure it gets you out of my hair. Here get the rest of your school stuff. I'm taking your brother home." Mrs. Black said and left as soon as she had handed Sirius the money.
"Hey Mum Sirius will be spending the rest of the summer with us. And Remus said he'd join us in August." James said happily.
"You're not like your mother are you?" Mr. Potter asked.
"Oh no sir. She gets on my nerves with all that Pure Blood stuff." Sirius said.
"Good we'll get along just fine then. Never did like that woman in school still don't." Mr. Potter said.
"She was in Slytherin I hope I'm in Gryffindor. Can't stand Slytherin's." Sirius said.
"Well put your new robs away and what next boys?" Mr. Potter said and smiled a the three as they put away there robs.
"Um…Books, Wands, or Cauldrons!" Remus asked.
"Wands!" Sirius and James both said at the same time then laughed at each other.
"All right Olivanders it is." Mr. Potter said. They got their wands with no problem at all then when to the other stores to get their books and cauldrons and other supplies and were back in the Leaky Cauldron before Remus' parents caught up.
"Well Mr. and Mrs. Lupin it seems as if these three boys have decided to spend the rest of the summer together. Well Remus said he wouldn't be able to stay until some time in August but that's just fine. We'll send and owl in August to give you directions to our house cause we live around a bunch of Muggle's so you can't just pop in. our fireplace is messed up too. Been trying to have that idiot come out and fix it but it's taking forever." Mr. Potter said and smiled.
"That's fine. We'll bring him over as soon as we have our plans done." Mrs. Lupin said and smiled.
"Good, good. Well nice meeting you again. Come on boy's I think it's about time for dinner. Don't you think so darling." Mr. Potter said and smiled at his wife.
"Oh yes. Definitely dinner time. See you again soon." Mrs. Potter said and waved as she led James and Sirius out of the pub.
"I like your parents much better them mine." Sirius said and looked up at James' parents.
"Why thank you Uhm…well we new the other boys name but I'm drawing a blank for you. I know James said your name." Mr. Potter said and frowned at himself.
"Sirius, Sirius Black sir." Sirius said politely then laughed at the look on Mr. Potters face when he said 'Black.'
James, Sirius, and Remus have spent a lot of time together at the Potters house. Now it's the first of September.
"Mum where is our platform?" James asked as he looked up at Platform 9 and 10.
"Just go threw the barrier and that's you're platform." Mrs. Potter said pushing James toward a wall between 9 and 10.
"You're crazy but OK!" James said and ran at the wall then went threw to see the Hogwarts Express he moved just in time to see Sirius then Remus come threw the wall right be hind him.
"Whoa. Cool!" Remus said as he looked at the train.
"Oh Leave us alone!" the three heard and looked to see two girls surrounded but a couple of guys.
"Hey mum we'll be right back." James said walking over to the group.
"Hey wait up James." Remus and Sirius said and ran after him.
"Hey they said to leave them alone." James said as he stopped in front of the guys.
"Point." A guy with long blond hair said. "Who are you idiots?" he asked.
"James Potter now leave 'em alone." James said.
"Sirius Black and I have to agree with James here." Sirius said.
"Remus Lupin I'd suggest you leave them alone now." Remus said.
"So what I'm Lucas Malfoy and this is Severus Snape. What if we don't want to leave them alone." Lucas said.
"We'll make you that's what." Sirius said.
"My family has a lot of respect for the Black's so do prove them wrong Black back off." Malfoy said.
"If I have your respect then leave the girls alone dim wit." Sirius said.
"Don't push it Black." Malfoy said.
"Push what a dweeb like you. Wouldn't waist my time." Sirius said and smirked at Malfoy as he walked way with Snape.
"Thanks I'm Cathy Burk and this is Lily Evens." Cathy, a girl with shoulder length sandy brown hair and blue eyes, said and smiled.
"You're welcome." James said and smiled back at Lily.
"Did they do any thing to you?" Remus asked.
"No. You guys' stopped them before they could thanks Remus right." Cathy said and smiled.
"Yeah." Remus said.
"Well we'll walk with you so that those idiots don't try anything again." Sirius said.
"All right thanks." Lily said and smiled. The five walked back up to the Potters.
"Good job Boys." Mr. Potter said and smiled down at them.
"Are you three brother's or just friends?" Cathy asked.
"Friends." The three boys said, at the same time then started shoving each other.
"Boys." Lily said and the three stopped and looked at each other then turned a nice red color. Lily, Cathy, Mr. and Mrs. Potter just started laughing at the three.
"What did those guys want anyway?" Sirius asked.
"We're not pure blood. My parents are Muggle's and so are Lily's." Cathy said and looked down at the ground.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of." James said.
"Are you Muggle born?" Lily asked.
"No we come from Pure blood Wizarding family's." Sirius said looking away from the two girls.
"Oh sorry. Didn't mean to call you…" Lily said but was cut off by James.
"Don't worry about it. We don't think it's an insult. We think the Pure Bloods are insults. With their stupid believes." James said and smiled at her.
"Hear, hear. The dumbest belief I've ever heard." Sirius said.
"Yeah it's not going to be as horrible as we thought Lily. Not all of the Pure Bloods are jerks." Cathy said and smiled at the three boy's in front of her.
"Come on get on the train you five before it leaves you here." Mrs. Potter said and ushered the five kids onto the train as the whistle blew. "You can either come home for Christmas or stay at Hogwarts James. You four are welcome to come too." Mrs. Potter said as the train started to leave. Mr. and Mrs. Potter waved as the Train left.
"You're parents are nice James. They don't even know us and they just invited us over for Christmas." Cathy said.
"Tell me about it the first day I met him they invited me to stay at their house to get me away from my mum for the rest of the summer. She's a pure blood fanatic." Sirius said.
"OUCH!" Remus yelled cause he was now laying on the floor with a person on top of him.
"What the…Are you all right Remus?" James asked pulling the idiot off of Remus.
"I think so. What hit me the knight bus?" Remus asked and Sirius cracked up laughing.
"No it was a little butter ball. Who are you and what were you running for." Sirius said.
"Peter Pettigrew. And I was running from those two." Peter said and pointed behind the group.
"Man didn't we already make you leave two people alone. Stop picking on people." James said angrily.
"Why were they picking on you?" Sirius asked and saw that Cathy was helping Remus up.
"I'm not very smart about spells." Peter said.
"Are you a pure blood?" Remus asked.
"Yes. Why?" Peter said.
"Hum…guess they think you're just too stupid to be pure blood. Well anyway come on lets find a place to sit down before Remus gets hit by the knight bus again." Sirius said.
"Oh shut up Sirius." Remus said. Then they all started down the long train and finally found a compartment and all six of them sat down. Sirius, Remus, and James mainly talked for the next three hours bugging each other. The train stopped at Hogsmeade station and every one got off in their school robes.
"First Years follow me please." A tall shaggy man said.
"Who are you?" James asked walking up close to the abnormally tall man.
"Rubeus Hagrid, game keeper and keeper of keys at Hogwarts." Hagrid said and smiled down at James who had to look strait up to see his face. "First Years follow me please. Keep up." Hagrid said and the very long line of first years followed the giant.
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