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Disclaimer: If I owned any of these characters I would hug and squeeze James, Sirius, and Remus and stick Peter in a dumpster or corner full of evilness somewhere. That sounded rally evil.

Chapter 2: Letters from Hogwarts

It was a hot August day. James had recently celebrated his 11th birthday and was very anxiously awaiting his letter from Hogwarts. It was all he had been thinking about for two months before his birthday. James' parents were very proud that their son was so enthused at the thought of wizarding school. Of course, they didn't realize the hidden reasons for his anxiety. As James was going through all these thoughts in his mind, Sirius came through the fire.

"'Ello James," he greeted his friend cheerfully. "Whatcha thinking about?" he asked, noticing the "staring-into-space" look James had in his eyes.

"Just about Hogwarts. I wonder why my letter hasn't come yet," James said, coming out of his daze.

"Oh, James, not this again. Do I have to tell you every week? We will both be going to Hogwarts in September and our letters will come soon enough." Sirius slapped his friend on the back and looked at the writing on the table in front of him. "What's this?" he questioned, picking it up.

"Oh…just something I thought we might do to…er…announce our presence at the school," James said mischievously, trying to sensor the conversation a bit since his parents were in the next room.

"Hmm….this is quite good," Sirius commented seriously. "Though may I suggest replacing the Explosive Balloon with a Dungbomb."

"You're good." James smiled at his friend and made the correction on the parchment.

"That's why they call me the Master," Sirius said proudly, taking a seat on the couch.

"And who, may I ask, calls you that?" James mocked. Sirius was at a loss for an answer so they both resorted to laughing.

"So, what disturbance shall we cause in the magical world today?" Sirius asked, jumping off the couch.

Today was finally the day their Hogwarts letters would arrive. James almost leapt backwards onto the counter when he heard the family owl fly through the window. He was shaking so hard he nearly tore the letter while trying to open.

"Calm down before you wet yourself, James." He looked up to Sirius coming into the kitchen, letter in hand.

"Sirius! You're here! I got my letter!"

"Really now?" Sirius smirked sarcastically. "Do you need me to open that for you or do you think you can handle it yourself?"

James quickly opened and scanned the letter. In the envelope was also a list of everything they would need for their first year. "Hey, should we go get all of this now?" James asked anxiously.

"Well, school doesn't start for a week. But I suppose if we don't you might explode, so we'd better." Sirius chuckled.

"Great! I'll go get my mum!" James said apparently oblivious to the comment about him exploding, and rushed out of the room. Sirius could only sigh and roll his eyes at his friend.

"Where should we go first?" James asked, looking around at the shops as if he'd never been to Diagon Alley before.

"Well, there's Ollivander's Wand Shop, we can start there." Sirius said motioning to the store across the street.

The Potters had gone into work early today so they left James and Sirius to go on their "shopping adventure" alone, after a warning lecture of course.

They walked into the store to find several other soon-to-be first years. Among them was a scrawny boy with brown hair at the counter.

"Well this is a fine wand indeed Mr…what did you say your name was?" the owner of the shop asked the boy.

"Lupin, uh, Remus Lupin." the boy replied

"Well, here you are Mr. Lupin," the owner said, handing him a small bag.

James and Sirius watched the boy leave, noticing that he glanced between them and the ground several times. "Odd little bugger, ain't he?" Sirius commented. James nodded.

"I guess we should get our wands now."

They had chosen their wands, or rather had their wands choose them, and purchased most of their books without any incidents.

"Just one more stop," James stated, looking down the list.

"That's sort of depressing," Sirius said, looking sad.

"Why?" James asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Well, we've been shopping all day and we haven't caused any trouble at all." He sighed.

"Well, we can change that. Oh, here's the shop." James pointed ahead of them.

Once inside, they noticed two wizards standing next to each other, one with a very large nose and dark greasy hair and the other with long white-blonde hair. There was also a red-haired, very confused-looking witch. She couldn't seem to figure out exactly what she was looking for, so James and Sirius took it upon themselves to assist her.

"Hi, I'm James Potter and this is Sirius Black. Could we help you with something?" James asked sweetly.

"Oh, that'd be great. I'm Lily Evans, by the way. And I can't seem to figure out what this list means by 'a vial of Wigglevurm potion'," the red-headed girl replied.

"Ah, you're muggle-born then?" James asked, noticing her discomfort.

"Yeah, this is a lot different than muggle before-school shopping." She laughed.

When she laughed James felt funny and all… warm and fuzzy inside, as he later tried to explain to Sirius.

After James didn't continue the conversation, Sirius stepped in. "Would you like us to show you where that potion is now?" he asked hitting James on the shoulder and bringing them both back to reality.

"Yeah, yeah thanks." Lily replied and followed them out of the store. But this conversation had not been ignored by the two wizards that had also been standing in the shop. They followed the group all the way to the potions shop before saying anything. To the disappointment of the group, these wizards were Lucious Malfoy and Severus Snape.

"So Potter, Black, I see you've made yourselves a new mudblood friend," the blonde haired boy said, approaching them.

"None of your business, Malfoy!" James said threateningly. "And don't call her that again!"

"Aw, does Jamesie love the little mudblood?" the other boy cut in.

"He said shut up, Snape!" Sirius said, whipping out his new wand.

"Ha! He thinks he can take us, did you see that Lucious!" Snape laughed sarcastically.

"You know these idiots?" Lily looked at the four about to duel.

"Our fathers work together," James spat out still glaring at Malfoy, his wand aimed at his chest.

"I suggest you stand aside, mudblood, before we curse you into oblivion as well," Lucious threatened.

"Leave her alone, Lucious!" James moved closer, shoving his wand against the boy's throat.

"Come on, don't stoop to their level. Let's just go inside." Lily tried to drag them into the potions shop.

"Oh, whipped already, are we, Potter?" Severus mocked.

"That's it! This is over!" Sirius said, about to say a spell when he heard an oh-too-familiar voice behind him.

"Yes, it is!" Mr. Potter said, causing everyone to turn in his direction. "Sirius, lower your wand. We're going home."

"Oh, Daddy coming to save you, Potter?" Lucious snickered.

"I suggest you stop threating them before I tell your father what you've been up to, Malfoy." Mr. Potter warned.

"Come on James, Sirius," Mr. Potter called, turning to walk away.

"Coming Dad. Bye, Lily," James said.

"Bye, Lily," Sirius said walking toward James' father.

"Bye, thanks so much." Lily replied.

Malfoy and Snape sighed. "See you later, mudblood."

Lily just turned to them and glared.

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