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Chapter 1- James Harry Potter
Mr. and Mrs. Potter of Number 7, Godric's Hollow, were pleased to say that they were anything but normal, thank you very much. Their lives may have looked normal from the outside, but anyone that knew them intimately was aware that they were so much more. The Potter's were very rich people and often perceived as 'snobbish' and 'rude'. However, their son, James Potter was the delight of the neighborhood even before James had turned 10 years old. Their daughter was considered the most beautiful girl in town at only 7 years old.
Now you may be wondering, what makes the Potters so special? Well, their whole family is made up of witches and wizards. They could trace their ancestry back to the days of the great Godric Gryffindor, one of the founders of Hogwarts, a school all Potters attend and achieve greatness. Their family used to be enormous, one of the largest in the wizarding community, but in the recent years their numbers have greatly diminished. Thanks to the work of Lord Voldemort, the most evil dark wizard to walk the earth, James saw his aunts, uncles, and cousins fall into death. Harry James Potter, his wife, Rose, and their family were the last of the Potters. James thought this made him extremely important.
As James grew up with everyone cooing and gawking at him, it had the effect of making him slightly egotistical. It didn't help that everything came easy to him; he learned quickly and was a very talented Quidditch player at the age of 7. James was rather scrawny, but had jet black hair that was always messy, the famous Potter hair as it was called. His hair always looked as if he had just come from a hard game of Quidditch. James glasses made him look sophisticated and his boyish face was quite handsome. He had also inherited his father's big brown eyes that always shone with intelligence. It was often remarked that James looked exactly like his father and would grow up to be just as handsome as him.
James Harry Potter's greatest ambition in life was to date the most popular girl at Hogwarts, no matter whom it may be, and attain Gryffindor Quidditch captain by his third year. James did not doubt that he would be in Gryffindor and play chaser on the house team if not in his first, the second at least. He also knew that his best friend, Sirius Black, would also be in Gryffindor and play beater on the house team eventually.
Sirius Black also came from a long line of purebloods. His parents fully supported Voldemort regardless of the fact that he had killed many of their friends. Mrs. Black felt that if the Potters were to stand up for Mudbloods and Muggles, the Potters deserved to die like all the rest. She never told Mrs. Potter this, of course, but she believed it all the same. Sirius had a strong build, even at the age of 10, and an extremely handsome countenance. He also had jet black hair and when he was around James, they were often mistaken for brothers. Sirius did not like his father very much; he was always away from home on some errand or another. Orion Black was Sirius's father, but as the boy never saw him he was more of stranger, the kind you don't like to associate with. He liked his mother even less. Hadia Black, Sirius's mother, had no maternal feelings for Sirius, but favored his little brother Rodolphus.
James's sister, Meghara Rose Potter or Meg, had inherited her mother's beautiful strawberry blonde hair and shocking grey eyes. She was a very pretentious child, but very loving. She hadn't yet gained the same sense of egotism of her older brother. She was extremely devoted to James and he to her. James may have been a spoiled brat, but whenever his sister need him, he would drop everything, no matter how important, to be at her side.
When we begin our story, Sirius and James were 10 years old. Their birthdays were fast approaching and that means so were their Hogwarts letters. Both had no doubt that they would be going to Hogwarts and would no doubt get offers from other Wizarding schools, but there was no place better than Hogwarts. Sirius and James were curious to see the place they had heard so much about from James' parents. They were also anxious to put their first pranks into action and thus establish themselves as Hogwarts' most loveable troublemakers.