The Compartment
James shoved his trunk into the storage area and sat down on the squishy seats. He opened the window and popped his head out, observing all the people rushing to get to the train in time.
After a few minutes the train's whistle blew and it gave an almighty lurch. James heard a thump outside of the compartment's door just before it was pulled open. A boy with black hair and deep brown eyes stepped into the compartment and sat across from James. James eyed him cynically and the boy stuck out his hand "I'm Sirius...err...White." He said hopefully.
James glanced at his hand, "don't you mean 'Black'?" he asked coldly. Sirius's face fell and he pulled his hand away. Just then the compartment door slid open again.
"Umm...is it ok if I sit in here?" A blonde haired boy asked.
Both James and Sirius shrugged.
"I'm Remus Lupin." He said sticking out his hand. Sirius grabbed it and shook it. "I'm Sirius... Black" he said again looking hopeful. Remus smiled and turned to James.
"I'm James Potter." He said ignoring the outstretched hand. Sirius's mouth dropped He was a Potter?!
Remus smiled and sat across from James.
After a few uncomfortable moments the door opened for the third time. A small mousy looking boy skipped in and sat nexd to Sirius. "hi I'm Peter Pettigrew!" he said in a high voice that was almost to fast to understand. "who are you?" In Sirius's opinion the boy never seemed to stop moving, but that could have been because he had such a hyped feeling about him. Peter reminded Remus of a rat.
"The names James potter."
"Remus Lupin"
"Sirius Black" peter scanned each person a goofy smile on his face, visibly flinching when he heard the last name. Sirius clenched his jaw and looked as if he was trying hard not to hit the kid.
The door once again slid open, just the tiniest bit, and two terrified eyes peeked in widened and pulled back out. There was a scared squeak and the eyes apparently decided it was safer inside the cart. Jet inched along the wall and jumped when Sirius tilted his head curiously. Suddenly, James stood up and clapped his hands, making Jet whimper. "You're a muggle." He declared.
Jet's eyes widened as both James and Sirius (who had never been this close to a muggle) stood to get a closer inspection. They both reached out tentative hands and toughed his shoulders then each others. "I'm touching to different species!" they exclaimed in unison, before glaring at each other, jerking their hands away and moving to sit down.
Remus rolled his eyes "Muggles are not a different species, they are just non-magical humans."
"Oh, ya? And how would you know?" James asked haughtily.
"My father was one."
"You're a mud-blood?" Sirius covered his mouth in horror. Had he truly said that? "I'm sorry! I just... That's what my mother... Oh, darn-it! never mind."
Remus looked slightly amused, James looked VERY amused, peter didn't seem to notice, and Jet was to busy cowering to care.
The door opened for a third time and a blonde haired girl with purple eyes stuck her head in. "Is this compartment empty?" she asked, noticed them and closed the door. A second later the door opened again and the same girl did the exact same thing, then the door opened the third time and the same girl did the same thing. All the guys in the compartment looked at each other, James quizzical, Sirius amused and Lupin stunned. Jet was to terrified to notice and no one was sure if Peter was still mentally with them.
"Did the same girl just stick her head in three different times?" James asked. Sirius burst into very un-evil laughter and Lupin smiled. The they heard the girl talking right outside.
"So where do we check next?"
"How about this one?"
"no, Cloud, we already checked that one."
"Well maybe we should just sit in there, they looked harmless enough."
"Tonks is right Dally. And anyways they weren't all that bad looking." James ran his head through his hair, and Sirius stifled his laughs, it sounded to him like this was a very Schizophrenic person.
"Ok. So we are going to sit in this one." The girl said. The door opened and in walked a beautiful blonde haired girl. All the boys, even jet, stared, She flipped her hair and placed her hands on her hips.
"We're gonna sit here, got that?" she said her high eleven year old voice as dignified as she could make it. The boys just sat there. "Well? Aren't you gonna move?" she asked haughtily. Lupin vaguely thought that this girl could give James's arrogance a run for its money. James ran his hand thru his hair, smiled and said smoothly. "You can sit right here." He moved away from the window just enough to let the girl squeeze in. She smiled and stuck her head out of the compartment door.
"See, I told you they'd let us sit in here." She said before pulling her head in and rolling her eyes. She sat next to James, pushed him over and reached into her bag. Two other girls who looked exactly like her walked in. One waved jauntily and sat down; pushing peter off the seat, the other surveyed the room and sat in the empty seat next to Lupin. All five boys looked at one another, James and Sirius pointedly ignoring each other.
"Found it!" the first girl yelled pulling out a miniature basket ball and a quill. She passed both to James. "I'm Tonks," she said. "now, if you would be so kind, please write your name, age and year on the ball." She smiled at him. The one in Peter's old spot was string at Jet, as If watching an animal in a zoo. "I'm Cloud. Are you ok?" Jet whimpered but managed to nod. Cloud blinked and smiled suddenly. "You're a muggle aren't you?" Jets blank stare answered her. She squealed in happiness and reached out a hand and touched his shoulder. The third one looked at each in turn and said "I'm Dally," Matter-of-factly.
Tonks apparently decided that James had had the ball long enough. She poked James roughly in the side and pointed at the ball. "It's not gonna write itself you know." James blinked and started writing the requested information. "James Potter, 11, first year." She read over his shoulder. "So you're the infamous James Potter? The one who tricked Mad-Eye into thinking that a murderer was stalking him?" she smiled mischievously. "Very good, Potter, very good indeed." Cloud and Dally burst into fits of giggles and Tonks grabbed the ball from James and walked the short distance to Sirius. She shoved it under his nose and stood there expectantly. Cloud giggled and handed him a hot pink quill. Sirius took it uncertainly and wrote his name on the ball. "First year, 11, Sirius Black." This time it was cloud who was reading. When she read his name, she scrunched up her nose, Dally bounced up and clapped her hand over her mouth, and Tonks just stared. "Oh darn." dally groaned.
"Ya, he was cute." Tonks agreed. Sirius turned a deep crimson, And ran his hand self-consciously up and down his arm.
"Oh well. Mama always said that the Blacks and the LeStranges were a bad lot to be with."
"Yea, but it's a shame you know? I mean, look at him! He's adorable." Tonks grabbed two handful of his thick dark hair and tugged lightly. Sirius made a face and pushed her away, making it obvious that he was not interested in girls, yet.
Cloud, who had been listening intently to the conversation, suddenly spoke up "Does that mean we can't talk to our mother?" her eyes were wide and frightened.
"No cloud," dally consoled placing a hand on the other girl's shoulder.
Tonks rolled her eyes. "Mom isn't a LeStrange anymore, besides she barely had anything to do with them anyway."
Sirius' mouth was hanging open. "Your mother was a Black?"
"No," dally answered him. "She was a LeStrange. She's Bella's cousin on Bella's dad's side. So she is not a Black." (A/n: yes I know that that is wrong but deal with it)
Cloud stared at her blankly, and Tonks looked as if she was trying to figure out a very hard math problem. "So that means that Sirius is our umm, uh 1st cousins 3 times removed?"
"I dunno," Dally answered Tonks.
"No, that's not right." Cloud said surprising them all. "we aren't related to him at all since he isn't related thru blood to Bella's dad. So that means it's all thru marriage. Not blood." Everyone stared at her. She just shrugged and went back to looking completely clueless.
"I think that girl is smarter than she lets on" muttered Tonks under her breath. She rounded on Sirius. "Well, Mr. Black, since I haven't seen you do anything" she paused, "eeevil, yet, I will give you a chance, but one little mess up and I'm gonna tell the ministry of magic that I know what you did last summer." James stifled laughs and Dally and Cloud rolled their eyes. Dally snatched up the ball and handed it to Remus, taking his book.
"Write away, Mr. Over-achiever." She said, eyeing the school text-book she now held in her hand. Remus, looking scandalized, but wrote his name while all three girls looked over his shoulder. "Remus Lupin, 11, first year." Dally muttered. Tonks snatched both the Ball and the quill away from him.
"Remus isn't a good name for you." She said matter-of-factly, before scratching it out and writing Lupin above it. Lupin's scandalized look had changed to one of panic.
"And why is 'Remus' a bad name?" he asked licking his lips nervously.
"Because it sounds like you have a twin and are from Rome." Tonks explained. "And, anyway, Lupin sounds cooler." 'Lupin' just blinked.
Cloud grabbed the ball and handed it to Jet, who shrunk away from it.
"Goodness, silly. It's not gonna hurt you." She laughed. She offered the ball again and Jet took it in tentative hands. "Good boy." Cloud said ruffling his hair. Jet looked as if he was about to wet his pants but did his best to write Jet, First year, 11.
"Ok, so I guess that's everybody?" Tonks asked taking the ball. Peter squeaked and raised his hand. "I haven't signed it yet."
"Oh, well make it quick." Tonks said disdainfully tossing the ball, which he missed, before quickly picking it up. Dally shook her head and resumed her seat next to Lupin. Cloud blinked and sat in her vacated space. Tonks took back the ball, glanced at it and sat next to James again.
"So, why do you have this thing anyway?" James asked popping the ball out of Tonks' hands in an attempt at flirting, just because Sirius wasn't interested didn't mean he wasn't. Tonks huffed indignantly and grabbed it back, erasing any thoughts of potential girl-friend material from James's mind.
"So I can remember everyone's names."
"But there's no pictures or anything" Sirius pointed out.
"Yes but you see we can just go down the list until we get to the right name." Dally said smiling triumphantly.
Sirius and James looked at each other, a silent "these girls are crazy" passing between them, and then quickly looked away. They were supposed to hate each other!
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