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Heather: Yeah, is it really that bad? We have at least another ten chapters to add... Is anyone even reading this? Later on, Orlin appears in her first starring role but that's all I can say for now...

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Chapter 3

The train pulled in to Hogsmeade station and everyone started to make their way out onto the platform.

"Are you three coming?" came an excited voice from the doorway.

"Hey Peter, where have you been?" asked Remus.

"Well I was next door with some Ravenclaws," explained Peter. "I didn't want to bother you."

"Well, let's go then," said Sirius. They walked out onto the platform to join their classmates.

"Firs' years, this way, c'mon, c'mon. This way," came the booming voice of Hagrid over the crowd.

"How do they get good weather to cross the lake? I mean when it was us there was a storm we got caught in…" Sirius said looking up at the clear night sky.

"Yeah but Padfoot where's the fun in a calm lake?" James asked laughing. "Don't you remember how much fun it was?"

"Fun for you maybe- you weren't thrown out of the boat in to the lake, were you?"

"Sirius, it wasn't that bad. You were fine once we got into the hall" Remus said looking back at his friend. "Are you to coming or are you going to stay and talk about past memories all night?"

They boarded one of the horseless carriages and began talking excitedly about the coming year.

James was looking aimlessly out of the window

"Are you ok?" Sirius said, drawing the attention away from himself for once… James didn't reply.

"Hello, are you ok?" he asked again, still no response.

"JAMES ARE YOU OK???" he yelled.

"Huh? Oh didn't hear you there Sirius, Yeah I'm ok, I was just thinking about summit Snivellus said," for the words 'how pathetic you are' had gotten to him, was he really pathetic?

"Erm, James, since when did Snape get to you?" asked Remus, looking confused.

"Well he didn't, of course he didn't," James said hurriedly before going back to looking out the window. Had Lily heard Snape say that and then stayed behind to agree with him?

"Oh just what I need," he said aloud, but before they could ask what he meant, the carriage stopped and James had jumped out. 'That was close,' he thought to himself.

They walked up the stone steps, through the oak front doors, across the Entrance Hall and into the Great Hall, where they took their usual seats at the Gryffindor table, to await the sorting.

The sorting took a good half hour, which ended in the thirty five new pupils sorted in to the right houses. Seven to Ravenclaw brave and smart, eleven to Hufflepuff kind of heard, nine to Slytherin cunning of most, eight to Gryffindor brave and true.

"Well that was fun, can we eat now?" Sirius whispered to James, who burst out laughing as Professor Dumbledore stood up at the front of the hall.

"I have some announcements for the start of the year," he started to say.

"Oh man, I wanted to eat," moaned Sirius.

Dumbledore continued. "This year I am pleased to inform you that Gryffindor have a new Quidditch captain."

"We do?" James said looking up. "Oh yeah, Colin Elwood left last year didn't he..."

"I wonder who it is?" Sirius pondered.

"James Potter." Dumbledore's voice drifted back to him and there was a huge cheer from their table.

"Well done Prongs!" cried Peter.

"Yeah, well done old chap," Remus said, grinning.

"Can we eat yet??" asked Sirius again. Remus and James started to laugh.

"Next I would like to say the Dark Forest is out of bounds from now on," Dumbledore paused and looked up at the Gryffindor table. Remus paled.

"Don't worry, Moony I'm sure its not that" Sirius reassured him.

"But last year it was me, and I nearly…you know," he trailed off with a significance glance.

"Yes I know, but you didn't. Maybe Hagrid got a dragon and that's why we're not allowed in." James nodded in agreement.

"And that's all for now," Dumbledore concluded. "Lets eat."

"FiNaLlY" Sirius said and was about to start when Professor Diggle came up to him.

"Mr Black, may I have a word." Sirius stood up and followed him from the hall.

"What is it Professor?" he asked, thinking longingly of the potatoes he had left on his over flowing plate.

"Well, it's your cat. We can't get her back in her cage." Professor Diggle said.

"Right," said Sirius. "Why was my cat out of her cage?"

"Well…she was dropped," replied the professor going red.

"WHAT?!" Sirius yelled.

"She's perfectly fine, she just won't go back in her cage."

"Where is she?" asked Sirius.

"She's there."

Sirius looked to where the Professor was pointing.

"Tubsie! Here, now!" Sirius called. The cat came running and Sirius closed her in the cage before speeding back to the great hall for his potatoes.

However, to his dismay when he got there the plates were empty apart from the odd crumb, and everyone was now turning and talking to their friends. Sirius couldn't believe it, and nor could his stomach, which let out a loud rumble of disappointment as he took a seat with his fellow marauders.

"Where did all the food go?" he exclaimed in distress. "I haven't eaten all day!"

The others looked up guiltily.

"I've got some chocolate frogs upstairs in my trunk…" Peter offered. "You can have some if you like."

Sirius nodded glumly. "Thanks Peter."

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That night, after his somewhat unsatisfactory meal of chocolate frogs, Sirius lay awake in bed, thinking of nothing in particular. He was about to whisper James' name when he heard a curious shuffling noise coming from the hallway.

He slipped silently from his bed and went to investigate. Poking his head round the door, he gasped in surprise as he saw several spindly creatures scurrying down the corridor.

They were about two feet tall, thin, grayish in colour and looked like tiny balls the size of a snitch atop eight long, pointed legs. As he stepped cautiously forward, he shifted his weight onto a squeaky floorboard which let out an ominous creak.

The spindly creatures stopped dead before scurrying down the nearest corridor. Knowing better than to follow them, Sirius turned and headed back to bed, making a mental note to ask Remus about them in the morning.

However, by the morning he had forgotten all about them.

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